skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure it went the way you described here?

You can’t take control of devices after deleting the account, and notifications are send out per email for every little thing from logging in from a new device to changing trusted devices and phone numbers to changing the address on file.
> Apple is going to beat them to market with a mass market product

???

Meta already shipped 20M headsets. Apple won't get more than 400k of these in the field until 2025, and even then they will be so expensive barely anybody can afford it. Quite literally, whatever mass market there is, Meta owns it now and for the foreseeable future.
> Does anyone have ideas on what we should do?

How I see it is the main problem exists because the dog and pony show is allowed to persist. The reason it persists is because we humans like to believe things are simple. That we'll ignore any evidence of complexity to justify such simplicity. And that when complexity is added (such as in conspiracy theories) the basis is functionally equivalent to "wizards did it." The whole "if it weren't for <insert opposing tribe> then everything would be great." Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

The problem is that the simplicity of a lie is unbounded, but the simplicity of truth is. There is a minimum floor for critical thinking and knowledge required to understand truth. That the precision of the understanding of the truth is proportional to that floor (thankfully this usually asymptotically approaches full precision).

So what do we do? We don't let people sell us the snake oil of simplicity. We don't let non-experts wildly conjecture about things without demonstrating understanding (which would turn them into experts). We ourselves stop personally pulling things out of our asses and make assumptions. Especially when there is evidence to the contrary. We ourselves seek out possible counter arguments to our own predispositions rather than expecting others to do it for us. We ourselves stop being lazy.

I suspect this is a tall order. I suspect this is possibly one of the many great filters. I don't suspect that this is an impossible task. I do suspect such a notion can be codified into localized groups and propagate through the system due to no groups being adjoint to any other group (can be pockets, but I suspect quite rare). Accountability may only be possible at a local group level, but I see no reason this accountability can't propagate. It definitely should be possible within such parent-groups like Hacker News. I suspect that this tall order would resolve a lot of other issues as well.
Because it's not a solution. If we go down that road, we'll have no reason not to keep burning fossil fuels, pushing more and more CO2 into the atmosphere and acidifying the oceans.

And that's ignoring the fact that the global climate system is just too damned complicated for us to safely move from accidentally modifying it to trying to deliberately modify it.

If I believed it was a short-term stopgap while we get our shit together, I might be able to get onboard with the idea. But that ain't how humans work.
Right that's also a big problem for Meta - they can't capture the market at this price point. Who is paying that dollar level for hardware from the likes of Meta?

Apple, sure. Sony, Microsoft, could be.

But Meta, Google, Amazon.. lol. No.
YBCO is used in cutting edge Tokmak fusion reactors like SPARC. I'm not sure how an 18% increase in allowable temperature would change how much closer you could move the magnets to the plasma. Squinting at Figure 1 in [0], it seems possible you could get significant increased in Q from 18% increase in temperature.

[0]: Overview of the SPARC tokamak. Journal of Plasma Physics https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-ph...
> I've heard people say all of these things, but I don't think that saying these things has any bearing on whether those people disagree with programs that help people.

This is what I meant about "not truly benevolent," it certainly is the case that these are arguments that the social programs don't help people. All well and good, but my claim was that they were ideologically opposed to social programs, not anything about whether they were opposed to people being helped or something. I never said that at all.

> This is a judgement based on cost

But it isn't. It's a view about outcome, not cost. If we reduced the cost to zero somehow (obviously impossible but bare with me), their objection wouldn't disappear because it hadn't been addressed.

> I think this statement doesn't really fall into the category of things we're talking about. There's nothing about governments involvement in healthcare that means the program is better or worse or more/less benevolent. It would depend on the government and their involvement.

I'm not making a statement about being more out less benevolent, I'm saying this is an ideological statement, which it transparently is. "The government shouldn't have a say in healthcare/education" isn't any kind of factual claim. It's a claim about how the world ought to work.
I don't think it's just subjective in this case. The theoretical signal processing approach assumes that the signal is band-limited to frequencies less than two pixels wide, and it's not. There are lots of sharp edges that have higher frequency components than that.

Another way of looking it, more along the lines that you're talking about, is that it depends on your error model. The traditional way of measuring error is RMS pointwise in pixels. Doing some sort of interpolation on pixels gives a pretty good result for that. However, another way to look at it is that it may be better to have a positional error, i.e. a particular color or intensity level is in the wrong spot, than to have an intensity/color error, i.e. you have a pixel that has an intensity/color that's not present in the source signal.

This same basic issue was the basis of a big divide in font rendering for many years, where the Mac would render fonts with the exact geometry of the letters, but then anti-aliased, while Windows would use font hinting to make the shape snap to the pixel grid. Personally I thought that the Windows approach was a lot easier to read on a screen, but the Mac approach had the advantage that the geometry of the text would be exactly the same in print as it was on the screen, back when print was something that was important, especially for Mac users.
What Is Debt-to-Income Ratio
In India, it's advantage Tesla as Chinese automakers face heat
The concept of "bullshit jobs" is so hilarious. Honestly it like someone watched "Office Space" and thought it was straight up revolutionary philosophy.

Then decided to stake a huge chunk of their academic career on it.

I assume the creators of said concept regard their jobs as of the utmost importance and regard.

Lol. Lmao even.
>that content to be redistributed against your will

That is fine.

>If it makes me happy to write my name on the cover and pretend I wrote "Robert Frost's Poetry Collection" then so be it.

You can do whatever you want in your own house. No one is trying to dictate terms of what you do in your own private time in your own domicile. The problem occurs when you try to profit from my work, by pretending you did the work, and selling it to the public pretending to own and create the work which you have not.

>I can even sell that adulterated copy under the First Sale doctrine.

However, the idea of "You can add a chapter to this, call it your own, and sell it" and I won't legally come after you is absurd. and if the results of said legal pursuit result in you being bankrupt...what was the phrase you used, "then so be it."

---

Alternatively, you could write your own fictionalized work and sell it. But that requires more work than copying what I wrote, calling it yours, and selling it, doesn't it?
Yes but to be fair there haven't been a lot of ppc64 machines apart from Apple's G5 desktops.

And the same is true for Apple Silicon.

If you are basically the only one to use some piece of hardware (and you are the one who designed it) your software will be the most optimized out there almost by definition.

This is to say that the focus is on the decision to customize heavily your hardware. Once you decide that it's a pretty low bar to say that your software is the best there is for running on that hardware.
I think a great place to start is https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture...

Unlike the OP article, it does make use of the math formalism for Kalman filters, but it is a relatively gentle introduction that does a very good job visualizing and explaining the intuition of each term. I have gotten positive feedback (no pun intended!) from interns or junior hires using this resource to familiarize themselves with the topic.

If you are making a deeper study and are ready to dive into a textbook that more thoroughly explores theory and application, there is a book by Gibbs[1] that I have used in the past and is well-regarded in some segments of industry that rely on these techniques for state estimation and GNC.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97804708900...
> Is there any understanding as to why superconductivity breaks down at higher amperage?

This is a good read [1]

> As long as the induced magnetic field at the edges is less than the critical field, the material remains superconducting, but at higher currents, the field becomes too strong and the superconducting state is lost. This limit on current density has important practical implications in applications of superconducting materials – despite zero resistance they cannot carry unlimited quantities of electric power.

Tl;Dr (and probably wrong) as current flows through any conductor it creates a magnetic field. In superconductors when that magnetic field gets too strong it impedes current from being able to flow. A little like a traffic wave [2]. Everything works fine so long as there's enough space between cars to allow for them to speed up and slow down, but as the density of the cars increases if someone slows down that has a reverberating effect down the chain.

The magnetic field on a superconductor in turn induces a current on the conductor in the opposite direction.

Here's a video discussing some of the implications of this effect in a way that seems counter intuitive :) [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_field

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_wave

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0
Cackle – A code ACL checker for Rust
ChromeOS is still using the plain old monolithic mainline Linux kernel.
Clicked through all the vendor links from Raspberry Pi. No $35/$45 1/2GB v4 in stock, but available as much more expensive kits.
I don't disagree with you, but the statement you made was "But I don't want a government having any opinion on what people put into their own bodies."

I'm not shifting the goalposts, I'm pointing out that statement, as written, can be read a different way, and that actually you might want the government having opinions about what people put into their own bodies.

Government regulation has everything to do with what you're talking about. You're saying the government shouldn't regulate what people put in their bodies and I'm saying the government should regulate what people put in their bodies. It's not that different.
The entire point is that the judicial philisphy is obviously wrong.

The 4th ammendment gives individuals the protection from unreasonable siezure of property.
Yeah of course you wouldn’t in the cases where you’re using an Uber or taxi, at least I don’t, and the problem isn’t limited to just Teslas but potentially any car with an electronic door opening mechanism. I assumed we were considering people who own (or perhaps rent) cars and have the manuals for them.
Yes, I'm sure there are ways to reduce the hallucination, though I don't know that these would all be accessible via the Python bindings. I think I might also be sampling too much from the model which is leading to it making up more stuff than normal. It's certainly an area I want to focus on more.
From my time on the hiring side, I was looking for passion. Side projects, githubs, etc all showed passion and. It wasn't the github project itself, it was the passion. That's what made the hires.

So keep doing it and talking about if it's your passion. Don't do it if it's forced. It's the passion that stands out and humans can tell if someone is really passionate about something or not.
Well, ideally css which belongs to the component that is using it. CSS modules and other encapsulation techniques have been pretty beneficial. I'd like to keep that going vs. trying to manage the "cascading" part of stylesheets over multiple sites.
And we need to instate harsh penalties for the ones who continue to steal.
Why is that a scam?

My house has never burned down, but I pay homeowners insurance every year. My dad has never had a car accident, but pays every year. Both have deductibles awaiting us if we need them.

It’s insurance, not a prepaid debit card.
Fair. Outside of HN, I've not seen the same level of attention being paid to the paper elsewhere.
I meant a passenger.
There are gangs going door to door attempting to coerce and extort elderly people. My grandmother invites them in for tea. They try to sell her funeral insurance and extended car warranties or they tell her that her grandson whose name they can't say is in jail and this is their one and only chance to ever get bailed out or would she like to donate to their political campaign.
Yes the most fascinating part of this for me was the different ways that they each tried to reconcile their love of their country, of science, of the desire to further technological progress for its own sake, and the desire to do what’s “right” (with differing viewpoints about what “right” in this context actually meant).
The orb does a round of “liveness” checks before the retina imaging to ensure someone’s not trying to scan their dog / detached eyeball.
Great to see this and the other SEC Filing LLMs in the comments here. I run a freemium SEC Filings website at https://Last10K.com to help investors read 10K/Qs more efficiently. Earlier this year, we partnered with https://edgar-gpt.ai for summarizing 10K/Qs. The summaries[1] when clicked on, would then scroll to and display the actual verbiage in the SEC Filing.

This feature stayed on the site for a couple months but ultimately we mutually decided to remove it since the traction didn't meet the costs. I'm open to revisiting this topic all in the name of making verbose financial disclosures easier to understand for all of us.

[1] https://last10k.com/chatgpt.png
Munch is an unfortunate name
And the dataclass serves as documentation for the available attributes and type safety..

It's really the way to go, takes a minute or two to define and saves so much headaches in the long run.
NASA’s Voyager: The next generation (2022)
> showing off half-finished vaporware

They have videos of actual people using the actual built devices at the conference. They are letting conference attendees at SIGGRAPH put these on and try them out.

I get the need to downplay anything good that Meta does, but stick to "reality" - this is very different from half finished vapor ware. Or to put it another way, if this is vaporware, so is Apple Vision Pro at this point.
Reading online, it is looking more like there are royalty shares. And I'm not clear on how "produced by Audible" works factor in there. Seems silly that the narrator wouldn't also be entitled to a per sale value.

I will also ack that I'm all for better legislation to help creators in a lot of this. I just don't know that this all is as clean a picture as you are making it. For an easy example, did audible drop their payout from 70 down to 20ish at the same time they dropped the average price that they sold at? That would change the story more than a little bit, if so. Do they also cover some of the upfront costs of production for some audio books?
Can dataclasses be serialized just as easily?
Theoretically this is very possible using their techniques. They tokenize the audio and learn next tokens autoregressively. Instead of text tokens -> audio tokens as input, just tokenize a prior song and continue it.
Oculus is capped at the gamer market size, which is in the 10M units range.

Apple is targeting the wider compute market which is capped at Billions. They won't sell billions in 2025, or at the $3500 price point, but this is the market they are building towards capturing.

Think of Palm Pilot vs iPhone. It's a decade-scale play.

* edit: Let me just add that Apple TV hardware which is largely abandoned and afterthought product line considered unsuccessful, for example is a 13M/year item for Apple. 20M lifetime is not mass market.
I migrated some family email to Zoho the other day. There's a decent free tier and their email service alone is pretty cheap ($1/user/mo). For $1.25 you can get exchange activesync support as well.
Nobody (meaning very few) care for Web Components, React or not.

Even in frameworks that do support them, they're just not widely used.
Isn’t perfect but this is why I suddenly like voice mail again. I don’t answer any numbers I don’t recognize. If it’s important they will leave a voicemail.
For sure, I was more thinking, "people who may become trapped."
You now know one person who is doing this.

:)
As long as you can get tesseract to make similar text errors, the actual corruption doesn't matter though. You'd have to play with it but I'd guess the most important thing is to train the model to only guess the most likely words and avoid making anything up, as opposed to learning anything new about what words best fit a given corruption. So it may be enough even to try just randomly dropping letters from text and training with that. There's an interesting set of experiments there anyway.
Yes via pickle.

Or for JSON, dataclasses_json
and there is a third kind of people:

those that tried VR some time ago, enjoyed the gimmicky novelty back then, lost interest, increasingly don't bother with further gimmicky PR presenting tech demo videos so underwhelming and cliché ("VR bionic hand twiddling fingers" trope) they skip through them, and get reassured that VR providers still haven't managed to bring any sustainable use-case to the market despite this current VR cycle stretching for almost ten years by now.

Sorry Meta, you educated whole generations to have the attention span of a gold fish, why should anyone care for your latest world-changing prototype if the previous four or so haven't fulfilled their announced revolution either?
This is nice, and prompts a couple suggestions for all of us... regarding open source, open standards, and open platforms general.

Especially when we realize the HN appeal of titles about LLM things that mention "open source", "run locally", "uncensored", etc.

1. It'd be good to have the top of the `README.md` and other documentation to acknowledge at least the major components that go into the black box. For example, I see no mention in this GitHub README.md of `llama.cpp`.

2. Please strongly consider making open platforms the go-to default, when you build some open source thing. For example, for some "open source" work lately, I see Apple products being made the default go-to (such as for llama.ccp, which is understandable based on a motivation of seeing what Apple Silicon could do, but then it spread). During this latest industry disruption, that's practically force-feeding network effects to a proprietary platform. For example, if we make the easy path be to use Linux, that's going get more people using Linux, and reduce people already on Linux gravitating away because all the latest black box repos people found seemed to be pushing them to used GluedClosedBook 2000. And similarly with other open/closed facets of this space.

When we're making a consumer product that necessarily has to run on a closed platform due to the nature of the product (e.g., inferencing running on a smartphone), that's a different situation.

But by default -- including for stuff run in the cloud or data center, on development workstations, and for hobby purposes -- it'd really help the sustainable/surviable openness battle to do that in established open ways.
idk if you've used a chromeos device, but they have an infuriating update schedule where it seems like there are updates daily, and they _always_ require a full system reboot. they apparently can't be consolidated either, so half the time i'll reboot to apply one and immediately get a notification of another

this presumably allows them to ease that a bit and apply some updates with the system still running, with maybe a quicker browser-only restart
Getting a status 500 from Squid.

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20230802225102/http://mkweb.bcgs...
Why do they blur the keyboard in every photo? So strange
Nowhere in my comment did I say anything about healthcare systems. I specifically discussed being surveilled or otherwise controlled.
i wonder when dual lock fasteners will make it to clothing - velcro on steroids + used in aviation! :)
It’s the same reason we have 250 Marvel movies that all tell the same story. People want the same, but different. They don’t give a damn about human creativity for the most part.
No, Fedora is upstream. Nothing changes for Fedora. Original CentOS is discontinued, CentOS Stream is downstream of Fedora but upstream of RHEL. RH has taken measures to thwart clones of RHEL.
I don't think most people care.

Let this sink in; Facebook alone has more MAUs than YouTube in it's entirety. That's frankly bonkers. After YouTube, the 2 next most popular are, yep, Instagram and WhatsApp.

If you went up to the average person on the street and asked them how they felt about the Cambridge Analytica situation, they would probably ignore you and think it was some sports thing. "the public" clearly doesn't care and journalists are probably pretty happy with Facebook's performance given what they have to put up with on Twitter.

I'm not saying anyone is particularly right or wrong here. I just think that this site's obsession with "Facebook bad" doesn't really extend beyond the constituent of hackers with a healthy distrust of organized power.
Improving Government-Citizen Interactions with UX
Ask HN: What non-technical certifications do you have?
A while back, someone asked about useful certifications (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31874802), but I thought the most interesting part of the discussion was what certifications people had unrelated to software.

From language skills to trade skills to first aid to skills related to obscure hobbies, are there non-tech certifications that you had fun acquiring?
This is a pretty cool idea. One comment —the print representation should be entirely akin to a dict, just braces. No DotDict wrapper. That’d be cool.
> > The political backlash against ESG scores is so misplaced.

Rating agencies should rate the financial risk of stuff (mostly bonds they should try and do it well given that whole mess they created in 08)

They should not be involved in politics. When a rating agency goes beyond number crunching and they start looking at other stuff they are already out of their role. When they start looking at the number of women on the board that is preposterous.

Same is true for Fitch, Moodys, Bloomberg etc.

Everybody wants to be a politician and a virtue signaler these days...too bad that in a country full of politicians and virtue signalers nobody does any actual work.
However, Dell et al should absolutely make sure the major distros install on their machines. They could have had a customer. Never again.