skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious: Do you go grocery-shopping yourself? If yes, do you use a self-checkout option? And if yes, does it support paying with cash?

In my case, the answer to all the above is "yes", and I found paying with cash is a good way of getting rid of the change that I've built up. Every self-checkout I've come across that supports cash will also support splitting payments, allowing me to pay the rest with credit card.
OpenBSD on Zenbleed
This is why folks like gwern have their own research published this way, i.e. his analysis of GPT-3: https://gwern.net/gpt-3

We call him an "independent AI researcher" because his google scholar is "bland" compared to many academics who play the academia game - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yk1QMowAAAAJ&hl=en
Twitter is already gone on desktop. Mobile will shortly follow one they get through app review (funny that they didn't do this beforehand).
For all its recent problems, the Boston subway isn't too bad. I certainly don't check schedules.

But the commuter rail out to me only runs about once an hour. I can deal with that for a "9 to 5" work thing where driving would have to deal with horrific traffic anyway. But it's a total non-starter for an evening event where I would have to time my return including possibly dealing with subway variance to a commuter rail station. (And it takes significantly longer than driving at that time of day anyway.)
That is a good point. I don't pretend to understand the nuances here (such as just how representative Isreal's legislature actually is) and I cannot say whether this represents a positive change regarding their representative government or not.
Higher than zero, its market share is much lower than Android.
M:I:DR has some very weird editing in the train sequence as a consequence of the production wildly over-scoping it originally, so I'm not surprised some people would end up with their sense of how much more movie is left totally thrown off.
A reverse image search where I look for similar images by transforming images to a dense vector set by a finetuned triplet loss model.
It's analogous to the MS/IE/Netscape situation 20 years ago. They would lose/have to settle on similar grounds, I suppose.
Google Owes $338.7M in Chromecast Patent Case, US Jury Says
I'm quite surprised--I expected pure Rs on this.
Thanks for this comment, yes this title is wrong and should be changed. The article's conclusion is:

> It seems likely to me that individual attention spans have declined (I’d give it ~70%), but I wouldn’t be surprised if the decline was relatively small, noisy & dependent on specific tests.
yeah you can't knock him for making stuff, and that its having an impact. tesla QA on the cars is still not great but getting there, and spacex actually launches stuff.

someone else posted a howard hughes comparison and i think that is quite apt, including the dating of movie or music stars, and the inevitable mental health issues
You won't be able to move more than 1 meter with this device.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

If a person moves more than about a meter, the system automatically makes all displayed content translucent to help them navigate their surroundings.

When a fully immersive experience starts, the system defines an invisible zone that extends 1.5 meters from the initial position of the wearer’s head. If their head moves outside of that zone, the experience automatically stops and passthrough returns to help people avoid colliding with objects in their physical surroundings.

The system can stop an immersive experience when people get too close to a physical object or when they move too quickly.
Yup. And frankly, learning enough to have a chance of figuring out if it's bullshit or not just... results in you spending a lot of time and effort, and then spending more on locks? Which maybe helps, but realistically doesn't unless you're doing some other odd things.

Most people don't have anything worth stealing by anyone who has something to lose. And anyone who doesn't have anything to lose might as well just mug you outside your front door or bash a window in anyway.
For me, the real-world need for such a thing in the first place. It's not often I dismiss something as a solution in search of a problem, but I think that's what this is.
Sounds like a neat application of the technology. This use case isn't a tipping point for someone to spend $3500 on a device to imagine their space. If someone has that level of disposable money they are probably hiring an interior designer to redecorate.
They're just bad now. You never get bored in Die Hard or a Jackie Chan flick.
There's an animation of the landing here https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-mathematical-miracle-t...
The fine article states that simply turning off SMT doesn't help with this particular exploit.
Some feedback:

- I filled in a bunch of data. I closed the window. I then went back to the website, it tells me that it has recovered my previous session, and it gives me the option to either "Remove data" or "Upgrade now". I want to use the recovered session. I guess that's not allowed? It's really jarring to put it on the user to actively click a button that deletes the data that they have painstakingly entered just a few minutes before. Psychologically, it feels like an AH move: "I have your data, but you can't get it." TBH, it would be better to pretend the data wasn't recovered at all. If you really don't want a user to recover their data without paying, I suggest that you put an expiration timer on it: you can recover without paying if you do so within, say, a day, but not after that.

- It's unclear what's expected when entering RSU grants.

- 401k can have a before-tax and an after-tax part. Due to mega-backdoor Roth 401k conversion, I expect a major part of my 401k withdrawals to be tax-free. Is there a way to model that?

- Cash flow: the destination of excess money is not very clear. I can see how excess money is going into savings, but it's not obvious how to tune this. You can say that RSU grants are going to a certain investment account, but that's not how things work in the real world: cash comes in from various sources into a single put (the checking account). Investments are made based on allocation. E.g. Every month, $XXXX goes to an investment account from that checking account. I don't think you can set things up this way?

- Is there a way to way to model a rental investment, where expenses (property tax, insurance, interest, etc.) can be subtracted from rental income and only the difference is added as taxable income?

- After retirement, I see my effective tax rate going up quickly, peaking out at 60%. I have no idea where that's coming from. If that needs debugging, I can, unfortunately, not share the data because I couldn't recover it. ;-)

- For me, the future projections are way lower than other retirement calculators. I find it hard to judge where the discrepancy is coming from, but I assume that the effective tax rate thing is a major contributor. There might just be too many knobs to play with and I probably have some things set up incorrectly.

- Personally, I would no pay $9/month for this. It's a very nice tool, but retirement planning is not a monthly on-going thing, and I already have way too many recurring services that I don't use a whole lot. For me, it would make more sense to be able to enter my info and save it under an account, have limited free functionality, and offer a way to pay for more. Ideally, in a non-recurring way. E.g. I'd be totally fine paying $10 for a day planning. And I might use that once per year. That's obviously much less than paying $9 per month, but at least you'd get something instead of nothing at all? I have no idea how this would change conversion and how many people are in my boat.
It's also been an issue during wartime: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/14/johnezard
The training is not the issue. It’s the reproduction. I expect long term the models will still be trained on copyrighted material, but it will refuse to recite any of it.
They'd have to have a Microsoft-esque monopoly first.

Apple doesn't currently have one in computers, mobile devices, or VR.
> that is, although, for example, chemistry is subject to the laws of physics, we cannot infer the field of chemistry from our knowledge of physics

I mean we could, with infinite computing power and enough time to look into every interesting phenomenon (and to evaluate the corresponding multi-particle Schrödinger equation numerically) but there are simply too many such phenomena, Schrödinger equations are tough to solve, and quantum mechanics is also not a great level of abstraction for the reason you mentioned.
I just want to drop in and say thank you. I almost never see comments like this on the internet. It's a refreshing thing to see.
Yeah, I agree that saying "no games" is inaccurate, but I do think that Apple does not intend to prioritize "serious" games on this device.

The way I read the keynote is that they intentionally left out any spectacular gaming content because they very much do not want people to treat the Vision Pro as a gaming device like the Oculus. It's intended to for a very different set of use cases, and they tried very hard to communicate that with the emphasis on passthrough and productivity.

So while that doesn't suggest that there will be no games, it does suggest to me that the hardware and software will lend themselves much more to the casual games that are already prevalent on Apple's devices, rather than appealing to the PC or console gaming audience.
> I'm sure (though not certain) that people already understand that and wouldn't bother being pedantic about it.

It doesn't make sense to use it this way given the context of the discussion, though, that's my point.
"Short and superficial" is appropriate for a book that discusses shortened attention spans! ;-)
> The Twitter thing, though, isn't fun: it's tipping the scales for Erdogan, it's kowtowing to the Chinese government preemptively, elevating literal neo-nazis to prominence, personally promoting anti-semitism. And that's just some of the damage.

the fact that one single app has that much influence means it ought to be destroyed. I was hoping Musk would walk into Twitter, pull the plug, and go home. Now I hope, maybe, he'll just grind it to dust.
Serious question, how are names ever supposed to evolve or change if they are limited by the state? Or are there exceptions for "good" newly created names? Having a weird first name isn't even a hindrance given how frequently people go by nicknames or middle names and ironically they often do that to avoid being called by a more traditional name like Hubert or Mirabel. You can also just change your name if you don't like it.
The nose gear, however, dangled limply from its housing.... In addition, had it not been for the drag created by the collapsed front gear, the powerless plane would have plunged into the crowd of spectators, sowing destruction and death in its wake.

So a product defect that saved lives. I wonder if there other examples
Usefulness can be a very subjective thing. Plenty of string theorists find it useful. Some like to go on about how the math is all so usefully aesthetic compared to alternatives. It looks nice so it feels nice to work with, there's a usefulness there. Others talk about how String Theory has been very useful in finding new questions. Sure, it has been having a rough go at finding testable, predictable answers to all the new questions, but sometimes it is still very useful just to have interesting questions to ask the next theory, because maybe that will have useful answers. (The scientific process starts from questions, hypotheses, of course.)

I won't defend astrology's usefulness, but there's certainly centuries of subjective feelings about the subject to find in many libraries, if you care to. Usefulness as a subjective quality is orthogonal to any objective criticisms about the usefulness as a model.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a probability attached to that statement.
I received a response from Dr. Rosenberg:

> Yes, I was involved, 35 years ago! I believe it was an internal CCA paper. I don't have a copy and I have no idea how to get it. Sorry about that. It does seem to be the earliest reference to "shard" in the DB context. (The other early reference pointed to in Wikipedia is from much later, 1997.)

> Fortunately, you need not go back 35 years to read about sharding; it's easy to get current info. Cheers.

I've now sent a message to Andy Youniss, CEO of Rocket Software to see if he can help.
Oh man. I wish more directors knew this. I remember watching one of the fast and the furious movies. It had like a 30 minute long action sequence. That is long enough for the adrenaline to wear off and now it’s all just tedious. I think i literally yawned during what should be edge of the seat action. I’m convinced what it needed was more breaks in the action, or at least more changes in tempo.
Oh yeah, in a past life I was a CPU logic designer for walk-in, refrigerated mainframes. I was always amused by youngsters thinking they had invented things like pipelines and branch prediction. Seymour Cray and Gene Amdahl were prolific inventors.
That was my take as well... when I was younger and paid for nearly everything in cash... I'd literally see the amount in my wallet go down, and have to think twice on everything. I was so much more aware of the fuel I was buying, how much I would or wouldn't spend eating out, grocery shopping etc. Now it feels like sticker shock each month when I pay everything off... "how did I spend that much." I think the article makes a lot of conclusions that my own experience would indicate the opposite.
my attention span is extremely short, can't even sit through a 5s short video, but I think it benefited my ability to improvise music (which is the only thing i care about now), it forces me to jump from ideas to ideas keys to keys quickly and kinda formed my style.
I have to say, that's a surprisingly well maintained and curated site. As a former motorcyclist, I also personally approve of their comments regarding safety gear rating and finding good vendors.
I'm not sure. There was a short period when you could register one letter dotcoms before about 1994. He's owned it since forever that I know of. His first company was called X, which became PayPal.

I spent a long time in the mid-90s trying to persuade INTERNIC to let me register b.com.
This starts to enter philosophical question of where consciousness comes from [0] and if P-Zombies [1] exist.

It is indeed a hard question. Like, I can accept the theory that chemical interactions produced organic compounds that over the course of a billion years happened to eventually become self-replicating and eventually basic single-celled life that over another billion years became multi-cellular life and eventually became the advanced life forms we see today.

But at its basis, it's still just chemical reactions. To an external observer, it's just chemical reactions. Yet, if you assume P-Zombies don't exist, then every individual human on Earth is conscious.

Or are they? If P-Zombies exist, then it's possible everyone is a P-Zombie and I'm the only conscious human. Unlikely, or is it?

It's a fascinating topic, but one that I don't think is possible to make any proofs about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
I mean, there is a somewhat unique value proposition of a multimodal framework like this meta transfirmer. Its goal isn't necessarily to beat expert models in their own game, but to provide a unified framework for processing diverse modalities of data.

I think it aims to leverage the cross-modal relationships and unified learning, which might not be possible with expert models designed for only a single modality.

Even if it performs slightly worse on some tasks, the ability to handle multiple modalities within a single framework is an pretty sweet advantage in scenarios where data from various sources need to be processed simultaneously, and patterns across modalities need to be captured somehow.

A general-purpose model could also be a more cost-effective solution in some cases, ensemble experts are difficult to scale and parallelize.
Why is it so difficult to do the layout yourself and generate SVG directly?
> Typical office workers (not developers/engineers like on here) are given a bare bones budget PC to do their job, like total spend of $500.

The market here isn't typical office workers, it's execs and high-value workers like software devs. They won't even have the production at a scale large enough that it could be available to typical office workers en masse for years at a minimum.
I am wondering as to why you think it is especially boys? Do girls who are completely surrounded by basically nude females with perfect bodies 24/7 not experience the same level of influence?

If anything I would think it would be the opposite, that girls have it the hardest as boys expect all females to look exactly like they do in movies, billboards, porn, etc. Versus males which tend to be not great, but not nearly as bad.

Anyways onto Apple Vision Pro... I do think that porn is an interesting question, I doubt Apple will do it. But whoever does will probably do WAY better purely because porn has been the reason for so many media format wins over the past century.
This!

This is why I have a problem with Supermicro. They used to have IMPI that automatically shared the motherboard's primary ethernet when nothing was plugged in to the IPMI port.

You can't disable that in the BIOS. You can't disable IPMI in general, and you can't modify any of the IPMI's settings aside from IP, nor any credentials. They expect you to have an old Windows installation with Java installed in an old version of Internet Explorer to configure the IPMI so that you won't get owned.

Ok. That's bad, but it gets worse. There's no way to disable it via jumper or in hardware in general. In essence, if the battery dies or the BIOS gets reset and nothing is plugged in to IPMI, your machine is basically completely insecure to anyone on the same network.

They said this wasn't a security issue and they wouldn't fix this. Their reaction really turned me off to Supermicro. I ended up buying loopback plugs and installed them in every server I administer to avoid this.

So what do I do now? I run serial consoles on my servers and connect a small SBC, like a Nano Pi or Raspberry Pi that's only configured with ssh keys on IPv6. Since most UEFI implementations support serial consoles, you can do almost as much as we could do with real Unix servers of the past.
I know 𝟙_X as the indicator function (also called characteristic function) of X in measure theory and probability theory, but I’ve also seen 1_X or χ_X.

ⅈ and ⅉ can be basis vectors or imaginary units although I’ve never seen them in blackboard bold in my lectures.
And Bob Barton deserves mention for being extremely far-sighted.
(As a fly on the wall, I’m sorry you had to experience this side of HN. There are better threads. Keep remembering that.)
I'm in the same boat in that I have 1k followers and my tweets generally only get 10-30 views, which is pretty pathetic and seems oddly low. But maybe my content just sucks, idk. In any case being a Twitter influencer is not so important to me.
What valuable secrets do people have on their PS5/Xbox? You also need a way to deploy the malicious payload on those platforms which, due to their closed nature, is very difficult to do.
I'm pretty agnostic on the existing account linking/aggregator services out there, but I know some folks prefer not to use them, and I wanted to build a tool that gives the user direct control of their data and how/where it's stored.

If a (strictly optional) account linking feature is something you'd like to see added though, there's an item on the public roadmap for it that you might like to upvote. It’s currently still in the Suggestions category because it’s a bit of a contentious topic within the PL community, and we’ve had a few discussion threads about that on the discord.

In the past, I’ve tried account linking in some other tools, but always ran into syncing issues (especially on 2FA accounts). From what I understand, that’s still somewhat common even with solutions like Plaid.

With PL, I also wanted to initially steer clear of that support/maintenance tar pit (especially since I’m a solo dev), and design a tool where the focus is more on long-term projection rather than fixating on the latest daily stock price fluctuations.
We are on a tech site with highly intelligent individuals who have been programming computers since we've been in diapers.

If you don't believe the text then how would you believe the video? Anything can be done in devtools beforehand and I can think of a million different ways to fake the video.

Personally, if I didn't trust the text then an easily faked video wouldn't placate me either.
When the true cost of being "on your own schedule" costs tens of thousands more per year.
> If a person's logic and epistemology lead to him believing in astrology,

I don't think this happens to anyone, in this day and age. Belief in astrology is driven by aesthetics, romanticism, and maybe an initially detached engagement with the practice that yields positive results. But people who take astrology seriously don't reason their way into it.

Probably everyone adopts unreasoned beliefs, of course. We don't explicitly think through every single idea that is or seems to be operative in our behavior. But in my experience, extremely intuitive people (who also tend to be spiritual, religious, of into some other form of woo) also tend not to filter or sanity check their intuitions by thinking them through explicitly. (Obviously anyone can do that, and everyone does sometimes. Some people just do it less often.) And they're also more likely to (explicitly) hold onto beliefs that they can logically acknowledge they have good reasons to doubt. They know they're something wrong with the belief, but their thought which identifies something wrong with it is subordinate to the feeling that something is essentially right about it. That feeling can and will shift, but usually in response to processes that are mostly invisible, or in response to direct experience.

People like this aren't stupid, imo, even though being close to them definitely involves moments where 'they're so stupid!' feels like the easiest way to write off frustrating behavior or communication problems. Generally, intuition-forward people do manage to live reasonably coherent lives and don't do dangerously irrational things. They're just extremely frustrating to communicate with for people on the opposite end of the spectrum, and not often directly responsive to rational appeals.

I have a few people like this in my life and they all have a lot of wonderful qualities. I'm glad they're in my life. But like you, I'm pretty confident that people like that would be bad fits for me as life partners, or even roommates.
So don't read those ones. Read books about things that can't be replicated by video, like Joyce's wordplay. It's like how photography liberates painting from realism.

And I fully empathize with your difficulty in appreciating such works of fiction. Maybe I ought to try reading one this summer myself...
The unfortunate reality is it is also not 100% up to Apple to fix the issue.

Windows has a very strong grip on gaming and you have to convince consumers and developers that it's worth it.

The Steam Deck kinda got around that with Proton but it also means that if that becomes the norm for anything other than Windows, it is only fixing one of those problems while developers still continue to target and optimize for the main platform (Windows)
I'd like to believe it is reversible. It's not a genetic problem so it is a problem of environment. If you tech detoxed for a whole year living in the woods or something then tried to read Moby Dick it would likely be very tolerable again.

You could study some people who have gone to prison and have little opportunity for endless media consumption.