skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of them are basically iterations on current customer devices, with main advantages coming mostly from:
1. Apple willing to attach mind boggling price tag to it. You can engineer much more things if price tag is 10x of industry leader (oculus 2).
2. Apple is taking a big shortcuts with external battery, that gives you a lot of extra power, space and thermal leeway.

I’m not saying that they didn’t make something great - it does seem great. And given it’s Apple, they’ll likely have great polish and attention to detail, that make a HUGE difference.

But it’s not a best thing since sliced bread. It’s not a technological breakthrough. It’s “just” a new generation of customer electronic device, that’s better than previous one.
Could it be that you don’t understand Instagram? My circle of friends all rely on Instagram for announcements (mostly local) in addition to seeing updates/photos/etc. Twitter just underserved this market, and Meta realized that Instagram does serve this market, badly. Right now my local politicians have to put their text posts in a square image on a story, but it would be more convenient for them and me if they could post in a text format to their existing Instagram audience.

What I expect to happen is for Instagram to expose how bad Twitter was at converting potential users, rather than for Twitter to expose that Instagram users have no overlap with their use case.
There are plenty of business websites that rank on search engines and don't use GA.
This may be a bit on the theoretical side, but it's the best reference for quickly getting up to speed on how quantum computing and entanglement works that I know of: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~watrous/QC-notes/QC-notes.pdf

As for how actual physical qubits are maintained, that topic is tough to find a good explainer for, since every group has a different approach. Some groups use trapped ions, some use two-dimensional quasiparticles, some use spin states of photons... and no one has a clue which approach will be most practical in the end. It's analogous to not knowing whether clockwork or vacuum tubes will be the better way to implement a Turing machine.
We've learned that ChatGPT's “Browse” can display content in ways we don't want
QNX 4.5

We ran our POS systems on it (server-thin dumb client) - the server was a 64MB 486 and the POS terminals ran a simple client program that emulated an NCR1255 POS terminal.

It just sent keystrokes or print a line on a receipt printer or display a message.

The server was a C program with a giant state machine of up to 64 POS terminals and it hardly broke out in a sweat and used shared memory to talk to other programs that did the card payments and data storage.

Good times.
> But Rumelhart, Hinton, Williams 1986 is very improtant. A lot of the foundational work is collected in the PDP report.

Thanks!

OK, so this is basically a connectionist model of mind approach?

I can definitely see this as an ancestor of current neural network approaches, and I now have some idea of what you mean by distributed representations.

I mean no disrespect here, but this has not contributed to our understanding of intelligence at all. It's proved useful in getting large datasets to perform certain actions (like vision and speech), but those are not necessarily the same thing at all.

It's a massive, massive advancement in the field of statistics and learning from data, but doesn't seem to map to my conception of intelligence at all.

(as you may have guessed, I'm sceptical that statistical learning approaches will lead to human-level intelligence).
google or other providers could mitigate this by Allowing the Analytics subscriber to configure which fields to "exclude" or "include" when logging requests.

Regulators are only going to get tougher with service providers, it's wise to prepare.
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The only reason I have a smartphone is because many services (especially government services, like tax and the NHS) require a mobile phone so you can receive SMS. It's like how the government used to produce documents as MS Office files; they were forcing the public to go along with their choice of software company.

Most government docs are now PDFs, happily. But forcing people to choose between Android and iPhone (or forgoing service) is pretty nasty - these devices are expensive.
I’m not sure concrete buildings are natural, and these ads were not found primarily in national parks so I don’t see the relevance.

Ironically most of the arguments against ads also apply to housing which is why there’s a global housing crisis. A lack of nuanced thinking about trade offs
Nice work! Have you considering combining ARRAY_ALG_TYPE and ARRAY_ALG_PREFIX into a single function-like macro? ARRAY_ALG_TYPE_PREFIX(int, intv_), for example, can set up all the other macros. I would also recommend adding a ARRAY_ALG_ prefix to the NAME1, NAME2, NS, and T macros so that you don't redefine any previous macros with these names.
> I can't imagine a scenario where a company heavily utilizes advanced Excel, and then decides they want to use Google Sheets instead.

I can't imagine a company that has built it's foundations on AWS migrating off of AWS. Such an endeavour would be more painful than transitioning spreadsheet tool by at least multiple orders of magnitude on basically every metric you can come up with.

That's also a broad definition of programmer. Most people (even programmers) come in a few categories:

1) People just solving a problem, tinkerers and explorers, people who are not really programmers first but it solves a need to get further work done.

2) People who just want a job that pays; lots of these, bootcamp folks mostly though I don't mean to make it sound negative -- nothing wrong with people that just want a decent paying job.

3) People who learned enough skills as teenagers to be well paid and are coasting or specialising in that area. I know lots of people like this, I believe on some level that even I am like this, though generally curious I tend to mainly focus on my area and only expand slighty around it and slowly. If you swapped out Linux for VAX I would be terribly displeased. See also: SystemD

4) People who love to learn about computers and how they work. This is probably the rarest person, and I was this person in my teenage years. It doesn't matter to this kind of person the economic viability of a project: the only thing that matters is that they do something. This is the people who make GameBoy Colour games in 2023. Or the people writing console emulators or doing DemoScene.

The majority of people don't keep learning, they learn their area and improve upon it.

I firmly believe that an AWS Cloud Engineer (or AWS programmer) would strongly prefer to move to another AWS shop.
Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elegans After 10 Years

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brai...
Reproduction steps:

1. Install Chrome for Windows from the Google website. As of today, that version is 114.0.5735.199 (Official Build) (64-bit). I am testing on Windows 11 and I used a fresh install of Chrome on a machine that has never had Chrome before. This machine has a standard 60Hz display which may matter for my theory at the end.

2. Go to qbix.com.

3. Hover the mouse over "Communities". Now hover over its submenu items. Observe that they do not highlight on rollover like they're supposed to, and clicking on them does not do anything.

4. Now quickly move the mouse outside of the menu. Observe that the mouse escapes the menu, and the menu does not close. Move the mouse around the rest of the page. Observe that the menu continues to stay open. Observe that you can't scroll the page. In this state, the site is unusable.

5. Move the mouse back inside the menu, then slowly move the mouse across the edge of the menu. Observe that now the menu closes.

I have reproduced the same in Edge and Vivaldi; the issues appear to manifest in Chromium-based browsers on Windows. I tested on macOS and iOS and the issue does not show up there. I can provide a screen capture if needed. Without looking deeper, I wonder if this page is trying to use JavaScript to close the menu based on a mouse event that it misses when you move the mouse too fast. I wonder if the entire navbar is implemented in JavaScript instead of a modern CSS-only technique with regular links.
Meta said that Threads is hosted on the decentralized network ActivityPub
Whoa, I’ve never come across Mechanism Design specifically, though I did dabble in some research (and application in pharmaceutical R&D software) of market/auction design. I found that stuff to be profoundly useful, so I’ll definitely dive into mechanism design.

Have you found any particularly good resources/books on this?

FWIW I loved Alvin Roth’s “Who gets what and why” which is about market design mostly.
Correction,

pjmlp is a security fan who consistently criticizes C.
Looks like tourism is 20% of Maine's economy, and keeping your landscape beautiful is an important part of attracting tourists. Billboards are eyesores that reduce the beauty of your surroundings, so it's natural to ban them.
The first 7 potential “Gatekeepers” under the EU Digital Markets Act
Wide-ranging expansion of counter-espionage law goes into effect in China
Ask HN: Is the Age of Leetcoding Dying?
I noticed from my peers network that more and more people land jobs in FANGs without knowing how to leetcode.

This is mostly happening thanks to the "Frontend Hiring Route" where engineers typically just need to show they know how to use React (eg. FB, Apple) - but I've heard (mind you, a few years ago) of people squeezing in Google Deepmind just by knowing the topic they're supposed to work on (shocking!) instead of having to spend months practicing puzzles.

I suspect we'll see this trend getting stronger with AI and companies requiring a lower number of developers with more specialised knowledge

Am I seeing things / too hopeful?
“Images generated with our code use the invisible-watermark library to embed an invisible watermark into the model output. We also provide a script to easily detect that watermark.”

Interesting - if it can be detected then it can be removed, right?
This is awesome, maybe we can get more user feedback for devices on hw video decoding.

HW video decode on Linux (just for browsers) has dragged at a snail's pace for the longest time. Firefox seems to take the lead in this regard but Chromium is just terrible.

Chromium devs create flags that break hw video every few months or so (and when the flags break you are forced to go on a random easter egg hunt to find out how to make hw video work again) and currently has a bug that leads to a memory leak. Sigh.
If it's true, I'd love to hear how many devs their marketing people say you'd have to hire to replace the functionality.
Longevity factor klotho enhances cognition in aged nonhuman primates
yeah same experience for me, my wife bought me one kinda randomly as a gift and while I'm not a huge gamer I've kinda fallen in love with the Steam Deck. It works well with my lifestyle since I can just kinda pick it up wherever play for a bit and then do something else, also it runs emulators very well so I've had a chance to catch up on some classics as well.
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Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36577626
I saw mention of it in the emscripten docs but haven't experimented yet:

https://emscripten.org/docs/porting/simd.html
Sophia: A Scalable Stochastic Optimizer for Language Model Pre-Training
It's open source. It can be removed directly from the code.
Yes, that's what it is for many people today.

Through to be more precise "Rented proxy which uses an opaque encrypted tunnel and can be setup in a system wide transparent manner which avoid all the pain traditional web proxies tend to introduce. Also a proxy which at least pretends to keeps your side of the connection private and might provide (or pretend to provide) some additional security benefits compared to a traditional web proxy.".

> So who are you hiding from and are you really hidden?

Your ISP, in most countries ISPs will analyze network data and sell some aggregated statistics, but in some countries they can go far beyond this in ways which can have noticeable negative effects on your life.

In case of using anything with a P2P connection to untrusted 3rd parties which seems fine initially but turn out to be fanatics, extremists, or crazy (in a negative/dangerous way) . E.g. if you play online in a game which uses P2P someone might use this to trace you down, maybe try to hack you and especially in combination with ISPs selling to private infos might be able to easily find out where you life. This can put your life in danger, even if you aren't a streamer or parts of a frequently harassed minority.

Overreaching not person specific state surveillance, not that you have anything to hide but you shouldn't tolerate it anyway. I mean just because you don't have anything to hide today doesn't mean you don't have tomorrow, potentially in retrospective. I mean for an extrema example I don't think most Jews in 1938 did expect they have to hide for their live in Germany just a few years down the line. And who knows what will happen in the future.
maybe I wasn't very clear in my point. I'm not saying matte doesn't attenuate glare. I'm saying that it does some, mainly by diffusing it and spreading it around and I personally can't stand any amount of it. It's binary for me: If I get any amount of glare I tilt my screen away until there's none.

Another issue is the nature of the reflection. In a glossy screen, the reflection often is a mirror effect that, at least for me, is easier to ignore. Reflections in matte shine up the surface's tiny individual indentations and that blocks more of the screen under it.

And what about screen protectors? You can make a glossy screen matte with one, but not the other way around.
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> If there were no ads, the web, and this site, wouldn't exist.

This is quite untrue. There was a useful web long before advertisers got their grubby hooks in it.
If most people can live forever, they’ll rebel against the conditions they live in. I suspect the rich would actually perish.

A lot of life now is ordained on the idea that we don’t live forever and we can’t see change in our lifetimes… but if the lifetime is forever - well, I’m gonna fight to make it better immediately cause then I have forever to enjoy it.
There is no net positive to advertising. Period.

Let me convince you that my product is better than the others by spending money to keep the information abundant and flowing.
SEEKING WORK | East Asia | Remote

I'm looking for computer vision work. I'm specifically interested in multi-view stereo projects: camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulation, 3D multi-object tracking. I mostly work in Python and C++, but the stack is not super important to me.

I have 13 years of experience as a software engineer, several doing computer vision. I'm a US citizen and have references available upon request.

Email work at zacstewart dot com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zac-stewart-79b2a5a6/
Story of a Failed Pentest
Key Takeaways as China Urges Solidarity with Russia
Aren’t a litany of those reviews fake and written by competitors?

How do you trust a single 1 star review as validation?
Far less offensive but the DC metro got screen ads & it just so cheapens the experience. Used to be a kind of impressive semi-brutalist feeling, which isn't super fancy or anything. But now just tacky.
You might have attended in a different era as well.

I attended a very affluent Bay Area HS (there kind where the VPs and C-Suites of tech and biotech companies sent their kids) and they overwhelmingly sent their kids to top public schools (they were targeting top STEM programs, which by default skewed public excluding Stanford/MIT/CMU/Cornell). A couple of their kids attended CS@UW Madison and most of us applied there as a backup in case we didn't get into one of the T10 CS programs.

This was the early-mid 2010s.

The key thing is going to an elite program. Doing CS at a school like UDub or UIUC means you open the door to VCs, IBs, and Founders who all also attended that elite program (as well as their equally elite parents). You might not get that network majoring in English or Horticulture at either college, but you definetly will if you're in a top program.

In addition, Asian (India, China, SK) Elites target colleges based on how the specific major they are targeting ranks. As this overwhelmingly skews STEM and Business, you end up getting a massive cohort of foreign elites at Public schools.

A lot of this is also because of targeted branding by public unis and regional private schools to undercut the more established private unis like Harvard.

For example, within India Harvard has a weaker pop culture branding and alumni network than a top CS program like Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UIUC, or UC Berkeley.
That's part of the impetus behind their Cody product. It uses the code search system as a semantic index. It actually works very well in my experience.
All the argument is "do not judge people by their politics", and then it dedicates a lot of words to judge people by their politics. It is not just ironic but nonsensical.

A political biased piece that tries to hide behind a wall of very faulty reasoning.
I had some sort of gnat living in the soil of my plants. After I subjectively tried every chemical known to mankind, I got rid of them by ordering a package of egg- or larvae-eating nematodes over the net, mixing them with water and sprinkling them in. Instant success.
If I am right, in C, it is not possible to implement fast type-safe generic algorithms without stuffing everything in headers. libc's qsort can be implemented in a separate .c file but it is a lot slower than std::sort as a result.
Occupational lock-in was a theme explored repeatedly and with nuance in The Sopranos.
I suspect that environment has a lot more to do with that than innate capability.

A two-year-old lives in a full immersion environment where the only language they can communicate in is the one they are learning and where a large portion of the people they interact with are going out of their way to help them practice. They also have no responsibilities other than learning language and a few other skills.

Put an adult in an environment like that and they will make extremely rapid progress.
Can you provide a citation for that?

I can see hundreds of wind turbines from where I live (all the red lights flash in sync on the horizon, it's kinda creepy). There's definitely more wind during the day than at night here.
It’s an overnight success that was years in the making!
The report does not detail hardware -- though it states that SDXL has 2.6B parameters in its UNet component, compared to SD 1.4/1.5 with 860M and SD 2.0/2.1 with 865M. So SDXL has roughly 3x more UNet parameters.
In January, MosaicML claimed a model comparable to Stable Diffusion V2 could be trained with 79,000 A100-hours in 13 days.
Some sort of inference can be made from this information, would be interested to hear someone with more insight here provide more perspective.
>It's definitely not legal for me to take pictures of that topless woman with my phone and post them on the internet.

This is legal. You can take pictures of anyone, nude or not in a public setting and post them anywhere.

>It's legal for me to transcribe what I heard and post it online.

This is murky. It's legal to take notes of what you've heard but that comes with all the pitfalls of hearsay. Legally, it's not treated as the human equivalent of recording because humans have no such equivalent.
The person's top quote is:

> I've seen many instances of users needing to yell at, abuse, or manipulate ChatGPT to get the desired answers.

I would like some examples of the filters getting in the way of 'desired answers'.
Calling it now, none of this will happen. Meta doesn't understand how to support the kind of community that people on Twitter want.

RIP Threads, 2023-2024 (generously).
Couldn't they just use pressurized air?
I've been using pandoc + rst + beamer for producing very large (1000's) training slide decks, and pdf2latex is so slow that using a CI to generate the 10's of decks configurations in parallel makes for a very valid use case, so I implemented just that... I don't know what I'm getting at with this little story of mine, but if you actually scratch that urge at some point I'd be interested in seeing the result, especially regarding distribution, which I didn't set out to implement.
> easier to grog than a large and seemingly opaque DB server.

Not really, with this solution now you need to manage a non-replicated, non-high-availability mock of Postgres where every user is 'postgres', dealing with the usual remote RPC call issues and latency.

If you need to manage a RDBMS anyways, you probably can manage Postgres; if you can't manage Postgres then it's unlikely that you will be able to manage this solution as well.
Unfortunately a lot of that is ad filled P2W shovelware
All personal data collection should be opt-in only

So if you have data on someone that is attributable to their person, then the only legal way to store that is with the approval and consent of the individual who created it for the explicit and narrow purposes the data is being used for.

So for example if you use any personal data for scoring in recommendation systems, then that specific use case must be agreed to by the user. If you use personal data to cluster people into affinity groups that are then shown different content than other groups, that explicit use case must be agreed to by the user. etc...

The enforcement mechanism is simple: Attributable personal data that is found to be stored without consent must be:

1. Immediately deleted
2. All previous revenues derived from the data will be transferred to the user in question

That rule + enforcement mechanism should put concrete boots on everyone collecting data.
Reviews from where?

All I’m getting are hallucinations
i look for the same things and i get that out of twitter, its pretty satisfying

you have to engage with what you want to see, if you join in arguments or constantly like posts of a political viewpoint then you'll never find peace

ie, look inward
Is there still an "enterprise" niche that doesn't use GitHub's cloud version? (Or GitLab, etc.)

My understanding is that GitHub's on premises version doesn't have any plans to include the new code search functionality.
Ode to the Quick Computer
The Horrors of Pompeii
AI is already linked to layoffs in the industry that created it
Software decoding is generally more customizable and better quality, also better stability depending on the circumstances.
Did you forget you’re a speed reader when asserting how long it should take to read the whole article?
I use the hashtags to discover new accounts to then follow / add to lists. It is not the same stage of research.
Full-building graphite are one of the hallmarks of downtown Belo Horizonte. I remember as a kid seeing some of those impressive, surrealistic images. They made a big impression on me, I wish I knew who the artist(s) was/were.
I see your point to a certain...eh point. During my studies we also had our ERP course accompanied with some specific tasks on one tool (don't ask me for the name now, its been some time). BUT it was accompanied only, we usually had the concepts presented beforehand.
If you want to go a step further...show an alternative from time to time.

But I don't agree with the python comparison. Python is only a language and even Numpy/Pandas still need you to know the concepts and knowledge attained using them are definitely transferable.