skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK politics runs on copium.

This wont happen because no one wants to risk house prices in their area falling.

Besides if Brexit didn't kill the future of tech Startups in the UK the absurd extra regulations were bringing in like Online Safety Bill will.
Yeah and what gets funded will change. Ultimately higher interest rates mean that time to profitability should decrease in order to make it an attractive investment.

Honestly though, VC is such a tiny, tiny percentage of the investment world that maybe this won't happen (but the vast majority of funds are gonna fail to return their capital as they were funded in a ZIRP world and need to invest in a world with higher interest rates).
As a new self-funded founder, thank you for this.
Sony unveils portable Bluetooth speaker system for on-the-go surround sound
What does “good” mean?

You can get a high mileage out of learning how DP and greedy algorithms work and having wide array (hah) of data structures.
That touch was lost long ago for most of the “top of funnel” process
> Crimea and Donbas should be forfeited in a diplomatic matter to settle further tensions.

This vaguely reminds me of the appeasement of WW2. Why should Ukraine give up territories instead of Russia when pursuing for peace? Ukraine didn't invade Russia.

> It's also painfully ironic, that in early 2022 we accused russia of "war crimes" for using cluster munitions and this week just signed over hundreds of cluster munitions to ukraine...

Is Ukraine planning on using those munitions on Russian civilians? It's not like the US has a moral ground on war crimes but giving munitions to an ally is not the same thing as a war crime.

> If anything, this is a failure of American and Western geopolitics.

Yes, let's blame the US and western allies when Russia is conducting "special operations" in Ukraine. Why do you think Finland and Sweden joined and planned to join NATO, respectively when historically their populace was against joining NATO? Ukraine too, I might add.
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Try a few first, not everyone's eyes can manage long exposure to have a screen strapped to it. Kids under 11 are generally not allowed to use it for that reason
I no longer have the textbooks obviously, but it was just a regular gymnasium in a provincial town (Leeuwarden), we were using the standard government recommended VWO textbooks too, just under 20 years ago. I'm pretty sure it was in the textbook because the teacher was not the type to go off book and teach us something not needed for the tests.

We had those electronics circuit practice boards and you could hook multiple up together to make a half adder.

A group of students that were acing the tests and finishing their homework were spending a couple weeks of time in the back of the class assembling a full adder out of literally all of the practice boards the school owned. I wasn't acing any tests and wasn't finishing my homework on time but I joined them anyway because it was more fun. My contribution was realizing that we could use the relais as and and gates, doubling our resources enabling the completion of the full adder.
to some sort of educator of last resort.
This might be a private school that specialized in this, or a public school that can not refuse them and is therefore full of bad students.
My point is unrelated to the rules of operating on a particular platform, but about the broader claim that platforms aren’t needed at all, because anyone can start their own site if they want to.

A mall is unnecessary to open a store in an existing town, and may even be undesirable depending on the nature of my business. And many towns (thankfully) don’t have malls.

The point was that opening a store is very much reliant on people living nearby, and that the analogy “the Internet is the town square” is not a very good one.
Crazy. That's the power of marketing eh. Almost as soon as the DK1 was available, people were running desktop envs inside VR. 3D modelling, CAD, multiple floating desktops, watching movies videos in 3D or big fake theaters, panoramic photos... Google even had a 3D paintbrush program demo on their cardboard product half a decade or more ago. This is stuff all been explored before.
Originally: very few input toggles with little room for variation and with consistent results.

These days: Modern technology allows us to monitor the location of the sun 24/7.
I'm much more satisfied self-employed, despite the fact that I make less money than I did working for someone else.

The gender gap is big:

> Men make up 64% of the self-employed workforce, compared with 53% of workers overall.
There is still a design decision to be made on whether we go for TPMs for integrity only, or go for more recent solutions like Confidential GPUs with H100s, that have both confidentiality and integrity. The trust chain is also different, that is why we are not committing yet.

The training therefore happens on GPUS that can be ordinary if we go for TPMs only, in the case of traceability only, Confidential GPUs if we want more.

We will make the whole code source open source, which will include the base image of software, and the code to create the proofs using the secure hardware keys to sign that the hash of a specific model comes from a specific training procedure.

Of course it is not a silver bullet. But just like signed and audited closed source, we can have parties / software assess the trustworthiness of a piece of code, and if it passes, sign that it answers some security requirements.

We intend to do the same thing. It is not up to us to do this check, but we will let the ecosystem do it.

Here we focus more on providing tools that actually link the weights to a specific training / audit. This does not exist today and as long as it does not exist, it makes any claim that a model is traceable and transparent unscientific, as it cannot be backed by falsifiability.
Thank you for sharing your story! Have a couple of questions, if you don’t mind sharing a bit more:
1. How are you supporting yourself financially? Are you consulting or living off you savings?
2. Based on your friend’s story, do you have any tips on what not to do when trying to moonlight?
I'm rooting for the simula one because of this.
You also broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Someone else doing it worse doesn't make it ok for you to break the rules. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to them in the future—regardless of how anyone else is behaving—we'd appreciate it.
Are you saying it's better they don't try? But you tried... Not quite sure what to think.
I think the factor you're missing is that even the Vision Pro is still only about hitting the bare minimum to be able to comfortably do what you're looking for in terms of specs (and maybe not even then in terms of weight). It's 'overkill' in terms of pricing, but only because we're still years if not decades away from the tech advances needed for true standalone AR glasses.
Imagine capturing or controlling all the light rays in a plane (or a rectangle cut out of a plane) which ideally a light field display would do. A light ray intersects the plane at a point (2 dimensions) and is traveling in some direction (another 2 dimensions.). That adds up to 4.
Northerners wanted control of the new territories because of slavery. Because at that point it was something most northerners did not want expanded across the rest of the continent as, again, a moral concern borne of a recent moral awakening.
Those figures also do not account for selling all of the company's property with some profit and closing it down; the equivalent of an acquihire for small and medium companies is counted as failure. Running it successfully for a couple of years and changing your mind is counted as a failure too.

I don't have a link on hand, but I've seen studies from people that counted how many business actually closed due to money problems. The actual rate of non-problem business after 5 years is close to 80%.
So on the side of wanting easy access to American data -

- People in the gov who want to monitor the general populace for dissent
- Power hungry individuals and governments
- Governments wanting to learn about their foreign adversaries/allies
- People in the gov who want to monitor other gov agents for whatever reason
- Corporations wanting to learn about their adversaries
- Corporations wanting to maximize their profits
- Corporations wanting to learn about their users for whatever reasons
- And so on and on.

On the side of limiting access to user data -

- People wanting privacy

Don't want to sound too pessimistic but I can't help it.
Maybe for some of them just getting the VC funding is success. Pay yourself enough, last long enough, make good contacts... And if it fails, start over with the extra experience and contacts, or join an existing startup at a high level. Failure doesn't seem to hurt the careers of executives that much.
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You’ve go to know your unicorn. If it’s tiny, it’s tiny, and no use dreaming of a majestic stallion rampant when its natural environment is scuttling under the clover.
And they were worried it would be used to disenfranchise them and enrich the factory owners at the expense of themselves/laborers, and surprise! they weren't wrong.
Thank you for the book recommendation!
Because it has been the case for billions of years, and we adapted our assumptions as such. We have no strong reason to believe that we will figure out ways to indefinitely improve these chat bots. It may, but it may also not, at that point you are just fantasizing.
> You're arguing with economics here...

No, I'm arguing against die-hard monetarists who still buy Friedman's bullshit 25 years after the Asian financial crisis and 15 years after the subprimes crisis. Japan has had more than two decade of low interests with no inflation, and the rest of the world had one decade with the same result, but as these people are cultists, they don't care about facts and they never did.

Inflation isn't a money problem, it's a supply problem coupled with a market power one. (Nor is inflation a “diminution of the value of money” either).

> To get infinite runway on unsecured risk is a very different area of privilege than secured home loans

This is goalpost moving.
Yep. You left out the part where Palm ate Apple's lunch for 15 years, to the point that Apple was forced to abandon the Newton platform in order to compete. Spot-on recounting otherwise though.
Well it's position vs frequency, so a tradeoff is forced by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. I don't know if either system is actually reaching this limit though.
Because they are both statements about the future. Either humans can inductively reason about future events in a meaningful way, or they can’t. So both statements are equally meaningful in a logical sense. (Hume)

Models have been improving. By induction they’ll continue until we see them stop. There is no prevailing understanding of models that lets us predict a parameter and/or training set size after which they’ll plateau. So arguing “how do we know they’ll get better” is the same as arguing “how do we know the sun will rise tomorrow”… We don’t, technically, but experience shows it’s the likely outcome.
This will be helpful for you https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub
Open Twitter -> “you won’t believe this insane product that’s going to dethrone X” (the irony being that most of these clowns use X daily anyway)

Open Reddit -> Every single comment can be predicted ahead of time because Reddit loves Biden and all the garbage he comes with. “Facts? Facts are for losers, over here we value opinions!”

Open Instagram -> Endless stream of meaningless photos that people concentrated “in the moment” to farm dopamine/likes.

Open Facebook -> Pretty much dead for anything but conspiracy theories about the world.

Open Google -> Amazon, Forbes, Quora and Reddit on top of 5 ads take up 99% of the real estate above the fold.

It’s honestly pathetic.
Exactly! What's really cool though is that communities can have their hidden members-only groups on Caches but still interact with the public at large there too. Communities could have a hidden group, only for community members, and a public group to connect with the world. Of course you have your own personal profile to reach whoever you want also.
> Casting an integer to a pointer is implementation defined, not UB.

You're right, that was a bad example. Here's a better one:

int x, y;
ptrdiff_t diff = &x - &y;

This is Undefined Behavior, because &x and &y don't point to the same object.
Yeah this mirrors my thoughts as well. Individual training for endurance, speed, accuracy, power all have analogues in for intellectual work. So if you're optimizing for your own individual performance then this analogy makes a lot of sense.

But in a team setting, the goal is some external output that depends primarily on efficient collaboration. Individual capabilities still matter, but it's how they are applied in concert that delivers results. From this perspective, pacing the team isn't necessarily about preventing burnout, but more that it hits diminishing returns pretty quickly, and becomes counter-productive when the team gets stretched too thin to react to new inputs that inevitably come.
My nearest apple store is 3 hours away.
Thank you for mentioning that book - I'm very interested in how perl can replace awk and sed and even grep(!) - I use grep multiple times a day, awk maybe a few times a week, and sed very rarely. I think I'm in the target demographic for this :)
This naysaying reflexive contrarianism dooms us all to die in fire. Please stop.

The Eemian period was a brief spike of extreme heat amid cold glacial periods. It was a geological anomaly in the Pleistocene, an unstable relatively extreme.

If we want the last time earth was actually this hot & going to stay this hot it's 2.5 million years ago, in the Pliocene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#Ov...
AFAIK C's machine model is not that linear (see my other comment). On the other hand, what most CPUs offer as an abstraction (through their instruction set) is very much so.

There are couple of arguments like that floating around and it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The C model is in fact a usable abstraction (and easy enough to peel off when required), otherwise it wouldn't have stuck around for so long. No amount of "network effects" and "free beer" arguments can discuss this away.

There is an argument that instruction sets might have developped a linear address space abstraction because of C, but I doubt it. Binding the IR closer to a specific physical layout would be very bad for portability and longevity of the code.
That is interesting. Most HFT I hear uses C++. Why C?
How did you mitigate the attack?
I think understand where you're coming from - people can tell whatever they want, and the media definitely loves to run stories like this. These stories are both popular and the diplomatic risk is also low. And we also have the accounts of Yeonmi Park.

On the other hand, there's no reason to doubt the story too much. NyT's stories are generally highly factual, even though their primary bias is left-center. And we know that NK is a hellhole, not just from defectors, as the "Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul" video states, but from a myriad of other, independent sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park#Veracity_of_claims
I'm not interested in playing this semantics game. The compiler can't know whether a syscall has side effects. And some side effects can be benign and irrelevant, and you definitely left the variable in by mistake, but they're still side effects.
C just feels good to read and write. Every other language suffers from not being C.
People are confused about cybersecurity
The Moto 360 was out before the Apple watch. I know that for a fact because I got one on the release date. They were pretty hard to find when they came out.

Apple was late to the game with smartwatches and didn't do a single thing to convince people to wear them.
Why does this matter at all?
I mean you can't "port" something to its first CPU. You'd be writing it for that CPU initially
It depends on what you like. I do Linux kernel development, so I program in C and currently learning Rust.

The kernel has a lot of it's data structures and functions so my work revolves around using that instead of the built-ins.
Fredick Douglass owned and published a newspaper that was not censored - when you look at abolitionist articles or early drafts from the Seneca Falls Convention, you are not likely to find a bunch of scribble marks or other equivalents to the [deleted] tag that litters the internet today.
Merely anecdotal but my worst experiences over the last year have been with startupschool companies - not saying they’re all bad (maybe I’ve been meeting the statistical minority that aren’t great) but as a part of the community I really expected better
> Companies which receive VC funding are not profitable.

This is absolutely false. Company may be at a stage where they are profitable, but lack the capital to establish themselves as undisputed market leader before competition catch up.

Banks only allow you to leverage so far, thus VC makes the most sense for truly scaling globally.

I'll skip all the other things in the article, but there are plenty truism like this to watch out.

Also it tries so hard to not be just an opinion piece, drawing for own experience, but sample size and none of the other details are never mentioned again.
As someone non-technical grinding interview prep has been a game changer for me. So I would say yes, probably. Figure out what questions could be asked, then practice via study, mock interviews, and Anki. There’s only so many questions they can ask, and if you practice them all and are fluid then you will be in great shape.
I like the mainstream Lamborghinis today better than Countach. They’re just with the times and you like a classic Lamborghini.
> that they’ll continue to scale until we see evidence to the contrary

Just because there is no proof for the opposite yet doesn't mean the original hypothesis is true.
I'm very confused by Apple's strategy. As an owner of the original HTC Vive headset, its word-of-mouth power was off the charts. It was a blast at parties, and many of my friends bought their own $700+ devices after trying it.

Here's what won them over:

- Being able to try it themselves with little preparation ("put this on your head, tighten it here, and click these buttons on the controller"). You could even use it over glasses.

- Games that you play by grabbing things with your hands. The heavy hitters are Beat Saber and Half-Life: Alyx, but Climbey and UltraWings also got fans, and all the combat games where you punch cartoons or reload guns realistically.

(seriously, if you've never tried, the jump from mouse+keyboard to hand tracking is like going from arrow keys to mouse+keyboard)

Meanwhile, here's what Apple seems to be doing:

- Customized accessories, to the point that you need a face-scan and to send them your glasses prescriptions.

- Eyetracking and gesture-only interactions. I haven't seen a single demo where somebody picks a virtual object up.

How is that going to work? Do they expect to make up for all the lost word-of-mouth with marketing campaigns? Also, did they give up on VR games?
I think this is true. I'm sure there are practical reasons for a slow rollout, but this kind of exclusive rollout to flagship US stores will lead to a lot of coverage of people lining up get the device. It will generate worldwide demand for a product that many probably don't even know what they will do with it.

Very reminiscent of the rollout of Facebook which had an exclusive, Ivy league only presence, that eventually expanded out to everyone and their grandparents.

Another thing I just noticed in this release is how the device looks like ski goggles; an item already associated with 'coolness' and extreme sports but also wealth and exclusivity.
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Like much advice that is supposed to apply universally, this is false.

There are some kinds of startups so capital intensive that they came only built with massive external funding, notably hardware and biotech (and probably most deep tech).

In addition, products that face very slow sales cycles selling into enterprise or government can benefit from the time that external funding buys you.

What’s true is this: if you yourself are a builder and can run a very capital efficient software business in an industry you know well where you will not get lost in the idea maze, then you may not need VC funding.

In most cases, you will still need external capital from your savings, day job or friends/family.
Not just that, it also requires "native" decimal separator.

For example, if you installed English Excel on system with Russian calendar/numbers/currency, the formula can look like: =COUNTIF(B2:B6;">1,5") (syntax error otherwise).

English Excel in English environment: =COUNTIF(B2:B6;">1.5")

Russian Excel in Russian environment: =СЧЁТЕСЛИ(B2:B6;">1,5")

What will happen when you enter 1.5 into English Excel? Everyone knows it is 01.май. What happens if you enter 100.5? It is a string, Excel on this machine expects different separator.
They're separate companies, did you even go past the first sentence on wikipedia?
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Fair but I think that's more about you being one of today's lucky 10,000 [1], than anything to do with Apple or Vision Pro :)

1 : https://xkcd.com/1053/
This. I've tried different monitors, different monitor heights, keyboards, chairs etc and I would inevitably end up hunching over my keyboard to the point where I was worried I was getting the beginnings of kyphosis. AR glasses have eliminated that as the monitor now moves with me. If you get tired in one position, you can look up and the monitor is now on the ceiling, or look down and it is now on the floor. The split keyboard also helps a lot.

I was super sceptical about VR/AR until I tried them but they really are the perfect solution for people who are suffering from this. The only downside is that you have to trade some screen resolution as all the current offerings are 1080p but I think it will only be a couple of years until we get 1440p and then 3 years after that I think we'll get 4k.
“Determination of resolve” is will, and the “capacity for effect” is power (if it isn’t effective it isn’t powerful.)

Will is affected by many things, information one among them (information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty it is not information.)

The problem with the phantom of “choice” is many fold. Among which this persistent discussion of whether influences unseen or otherwise give the illusion of will or power.

That will may be influenced or fooled or influenced is a separate consideration (arguably will is a skill which may be developed and enhanced.)

That each individual has a feedback chamber which allows the interruption and override of determination in realtime is the glorious grail of will every individual being “should” covet.
Yup... I liked the old one much better.

My guess, over time, they will fix the issues, but that's the typical hickups of a framework that is still too immature.

It took Swift (the language) about 6-7 years to mature up. I think the language became 'mature' only around version 5.5. Whoever used it earlier, got to hit all kinds of weird issues and instabilities.

SwiftUI, will have a similar arch. My opinion is that it is about 2-3 years to be mature enough, to replace UIKit altogether.
We’ve seen models improve for years now too. How many iterations are required for one to inductively reason about the future?
> Bryn Mawr is a womens' school and admits only women. However, gender is not always fixed going through life.

Technically true of course, but >99% of the population will identify with a single gender throughout their life. The correlation is so strong that it's not even really a correlation anymore.