skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are two types of people: Those who think VR will change the world—and those who haven’t tried it yet.

I don't trust any argument that doesn't recognize my personhood.

VR was interesting, but the Meta Quest felt uncomfortable on my head, I felt every so vaguely nauseous, they didn't add anything to any of the games I was playing, they weren't comfortable to wear after a long day of work, they made me feel weirdly disconnected from the outside world.

"Technology can overcome any obstacles" is just what you tell the investors. Most of the time, obstacles stop emerging technologies from going anywhere.

And I suppose VR may become viable some day, but I just don't feel it's that day yet.
Commercial vs Noncommercial use is well established in copyright law - in everything from Final Rule Regarding the Noncommercial Use Exception to Unauthorized Uses of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings https://www.copyright.gov/rulemaking/pre1972-soundrecordings... to Noncommercial webcasters https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/114#f_4 to Fair Use.

Noncommercial licenses are taken up in "GREAT MINDS v. FEDEX OFFICE AND PRINT SERVICES, INC 886 F.3d 91 (2nd Cir. 2018). Thé court explains they are enforceable and are basically just a category of contract. So, as long as the contract is clear, it’s probably enforceable.
The campaign of Covid fear was completely unnecessary and, at worst, manipulative in order to get people to take untested pharmaceutical products for almost no reason besides Big Pharma profit. And if we questioned whether the virus really did come from a Chinese lab funded by American tax dollars, the White House petitioned a former CIA officer (head of "misinfo" at Facebook) to remove the content: [1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1684957664265031681
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/

However, the therapy is in Phase I clinical trials (only really looking at safety and maximum tolerated dose). Not a randomized control trial and unlikely to show efficacy unless it has near magical properties.
Wow. archive.is proposed a perfectly good solution and CF shot it down.
So the UK was a dominant power 90 years ago and now it's a minor player, meanwhile the US is dominating... but yeah, it's the US that's got capitalism wrong. Okay.

Perhaps it's your socialized medicine that is causing doctors to be commoditized and undervalued.
Maybe Tesla should have the drivetrain battery recharge the 12V enough to power the doors or just enough for the passengers to get out of the car.
Thank you for this! I’m enjoying the Chinese so far.

I’m unable to sign up, though. On mobile, I’m trying to hit the sign up button after filling out the form, but it’s not doing anything or giving me an error.
You mean if there was a consistent problem where huge cucumber eating communities would harass me, and I would block everyone who has visited the relevant threads on the cucumber eating communities, and the block was very easy to circumvent?

I'm sure some of these participants in those threads in those cucumber eating communities would be angry, but I don't think there would be anything wrong with it, and I don't think they would have much to be offended over.
I default to podcasts or essays from youtube in that case because if I miss something it's not the end of the world.
There's a difference between a NEET stay-at-home-mom and a NEET 24 year old male who lives with his parents
There was that Apple wireless charging pad that never came out because they couldn’t get it to work.
Health insurance companies have weird incentives. For one thing, they are not permitted to charge more in premiums than what they pay out times a small multiplier. So health care being expensive is good for insurers.
I feel Meta is proud of showing off these prototypes but I think it just shows how amateur they’re at developing hardwares.
Charging at home easily wins, especially if you have built out your solar accordingly. Many states like CA require a limit of 150% current use as the max for what you can build, but it's just as easy to get the car first. On top of that, the article doesn't mention maintenance. That may not be as much of an issue with a mid-market car like a Toyota, but cars like Tesla have far lower maintenance bills that up-market brands like Lexus, Audi, Mercedes, etc. It's easy to spend $2k/year on maintenance for luxury cars- sometimes far more than that.
I was under the impression that if there were any aliens in universal paperclips that they were so inconsequential as to be classified as "matter". The adversarial "drifters" are drones from your swarm that have had their values drift since they themselves, of course, are hyper intelligent optimal energy matter converters.
San Francisco Landlords may lose everything [video]
Show HN: Fine-tuning Llama 2 to build a Tiny Webdev LLM
You've written a lot of words yet I don't see a compelling reason to believe a single one of them.
Several points to consider:

1. While much has been made of the theoretical physical effort at Los Alamos, without the Oak Ridge, TN and Hanford, WA chemical-physical production lines for uranium-235 and plutonium, bomb production would not have been possible.

2. These efforts required vast inputs of energy, mostly provided by hydroelectric projects such as TVA for the Oak Ridge uranium effort. It's highly implausible that such efforts would have succeeded in wartime Germany no matter how many resources were diverted to them. One bombing run would have wiped out the whole enterprise - and of course, neither Oak Ridge nor Hanford were subjected to aerial bombardment.

3. The Germans apparently were more interested in a nuclear rocket engine or some such than a nuclear bomb, by most accounts I've read. Also, their heavy water project in Norway was effectively sabotaged.

Note also, many scientists involved with the bomb project quit as soon as they learned Germany was defeated and so the rationale of beating the Germans to the bomb no longer made any sense.

FDR, if he hadn't died early, would almost certainly have rejected the use of the bomb against Japan, for the same reasons that he rejected the use of poison gas against the Japanese holdouts on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. If the Japanese had simply been given the option to retain their figurehead Emperor, they'd have certainly surrendered rather than accept the occupation of northern Japan by Russian forces in a replay of East Germany.

Isn't history fun?
The only times I ever ride in a Tesla is when I take an Uber.

Until I'm matched with a driver, I don't know what car I will be riding in. Do you suggest I read the manual for each car I may possibly Uber in?

(I don't carry a window breaker/seatbelt cutter but it is a reasonable suggestion for everyone I think.)
The history of the laser makes for fascinating reading. Moreso because the longer they looked the harder it was to find things that were candidates that they couldn't get to exhibit the effect given the right conditions, but some of those were so extreme that they would have been discarded outright in the early days.

The idea originated with Einstein in the middle of WWI, and it took until 1960 for the first working device to be made with lots of incremental progress in the middle. After that it's been a non-stop series of inventions each of which gave rise to new practical applications and new avenues of search. Originally described as 'a solution looking for a problem' it turned out that indeed, it was the solution to a lot of problems, we just didn't realize how applicable this tech would be.
The main reason is that they're too low-level to use directly.

They do a lot, but stop just short of being useful without something of a framework on top. I tried hard to use them directly, but found that it was untenable without sensible template interpolation, and without helpers for event binding.

Here's my shot at the smallest possible "framework" atop Web Components that make them workable (and even enjoyable) as an application developer:

https://github.com/dchester/yhtml

It's just ~10 SLOC, admittedly dense, but which make a world of difference in terms of usability. With that in place, now you can write markup in a style not too dissimilar from React or Vue, like...

<button @click="increment">${this.count}</button>

Whereas without, you need to bind your own events and manage your own template interpolation with sanitizing, handling conditionals, loops, and all the rest.

If we could get something in this direction adopted into the spec, it would open up a lot of use cases for Web Components that it just can't address as-is.
It's hard to know what you find spurious. Much of religious apologetics involves dismissing every criticism as spurious. Given that multiple authors over long periods of time wrote these religious texts, contradictions do arise, or at least conflicting themes.

I can think of counter examples to the attributes you gave earlier, but if you've read the texts and have not found them yourself, it is unlikely any logical or philosophical analysis would be persuasive.
I'm able to do everything in your hypothetical scenario besides illegally copy and redistribute the original content. 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. Truly, if I want to say "fuck the original artists" in the comfort of my home or margins of the pages, I can do so. I can even sell that adulterated copy under the First Sale doctrine.

> I've been seeing a plethora of "your rights don't matter, you own nothing" bs spreading around.

It's not a new sentiment. Plenty of countries worldwide ignore US copyright, if they all got sanctioned then America wouldn't have have electricity.

If you author a copy of your content in a digital medium, you should be prepared for that content to be redistributed against your will, infinitely. It's not the nature of humanity, it's the nature of the digital format.
Vulnerability in Salesforce email services used to phish Facebook accounts
Good thing no new technology ever caused anything bad thanks to us not anthropomorphising it.
Quite encouraging, hopefully will get some good results in the spring of 2024.
I wonder why the PR now: this phase I clinical trial started in 2021.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trial...
Trying to claim that someone else’s personal experience is factually wrong? The internet teaches everyone great arguing quips, sure. But “outright false” actually MEANS something. Your comment is all emotion.
Neat, but I opted for the Beepy: https://beepy.sqfmi.com/
Men define themselves by their capacity to support others. They need to be a provider or contribute in some way or they feel useless. These days, there does not seem to be many meaningful ways for men to be able to do that. Additionally, women are putting off having children (or choosing not to entirely) in lieu of a career. Without a wife and kids, men don't tend to see much point in living
It's less about not knowing the intentions and more that it has no reason to care about anything other than the goal you gave it
This is literally Vercel for Python, and Vercel as a company has performed extremely well so far.

It's not really much of a stretch to understand why they got funding.
I've emulated Oppenheimer so he could comment “Oppenheimer”
With ElevenLabs, GPT4 and Pinecone
Example of the original: https://youtu.be/6DrdoBVMd9w
Telegram Bot: https://twitter.com/CarneEsperta/status/1686872156590821376
Is this completely useless? Or an alternative for the cryopreservation craze?
How does PRISM factor into this ? (You know, due to which the GAFAMs are effectively, though still theoretically banned in the EU since 2015, because it makes the US a rogue state ?)
But that’s sort of what I mean: announced, never any mention again. Just cancelled. No additional “here’s that thing but it’s half built”, just… dropped

And it’s a pretty rare thing to have that mode of failure for them.
Glad to hear it! Do you have any preference on traditional Mandarin vs. simplified? It's simplified at the moment.

That's weird. Any chance you could ping me an email with the email you're using to sign up and I'll work out what's going wrong? chris@prettypolly.app. Thanks again.
My general rule is, if I have a dict with a fixed set of keys, it should be a dataclass. Problem solved!

Then if I need to send or receive it, it's an easy conversion to a Pydantic BaseModel.
I had looked at the GIS maps of some of these service areas around me, and it looked like the submission of these bids was from an automated system, that no human had reviewed. There were all sorts of little carve outs by some company on the east coast. I seem to recall some were in parks or wildlife areas inside the city, some were tiny 2 or 3 house areas. Not surprised they are concerned about the costs of serving some of these areas, serving a couple houses in the middle of town is going to be astronomical.
Examples like this bug me. The React example is using a high level abstraction, the web component is directly using the API. A more accurate example would show how those React calls eventually boil down to document.createElement()

I don’t think the Web Components API was meant to be used directly all the time. You can use a framework like StencilJS:

https://stenciljs.com/

When you consider the 100KB of bulk the React example brings with it the web component example is actually pretty impressive.
There’s nothing baffling about it. An Enemy of my enemy is my ally. But when the business is done… keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
There’s no system quite as flexible as anarchy ;)

In all seriousness, the contextually relevant factors tend to be local details. Anarchy embraces the idea that people closest to and most impacted by the issues should be more involved in determining how those issues are dealt with
Cardboard is nothing like a quest2 let alone this next generation.
What is going to happen to the ozone with aerial dispersants?
I feel I'm very pro-technology and pro-innovation but most of what tech has been creating recently had been total crap, and I'm tired of the disconnect.
https://archive.is/hpKIB
I also want to add that I'm not anti-ubuntu. I've been using Linux on and off for the past 10 years. As someone who isnt well versed with linux internals, I greatly appreciate all they've done to improve the end user experience.
[dupe]

Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36960895
*MS not MA
4 hours later I read this. Can confirm that my whole evening+night disappeared into the paperclip universe. There's so much to do. Work the quantum computer. Find best deal for wire. Train the machine. Fine tune pricing. My god what a game!
> Apple is Product Vision & UX focused, Meta (and most other companies) are Product Delivery & User Consumption focused.

Great insight
Web components are really only useful for stuff that's dynamic, like a sortable table that fetches data from an AJAX request. They require javascript and have no fallback or graceful degradation in functionality at all, which means using web components for all your bog standard buttons, text content, headers, etc. could be a very bad idea (not to mention it would trash the SEO and potentially accessibility of your site).

IMHO you probably want to look at design tokens or other ways to centralize your visual styles--it's really more of a workflow problem and not just something to throw more javascript at with web components.
I compare it more to a zero sum game competing against a handful of countries dealing with a variety of often similar issues.
I have a lathe and a mill at home. Quit my job in the city 1.5 hours away during covid and now run a business from home / get to be a parent. It’s the best. I gave up $190k salary to barely make my mortgage, best decision I ever made!
All you have to do is add "... in rats" to most headlines of this nature, and it will tell you all you need to know, at least for the moment.
Just temper your expectations a bit and don't get hyped up by people on the internet. All of these are exciting developments, but no one is going to know the truth of it until you have multiple independent confirmations in one direction or another. No single piece of evidence is going to be convincing unless it comes from one of the big labs, and they're unlikely to publish quickly because they're going to wait until they have to k solid proof.

As someone with experience working on superconductors, the DFT results and this paper are exciting because they show that at the very least this is likely a new class of superconducting materials at least as good as the current industrial ones. Knowing that the authors are on to something and that the initial claims aren't totally nuts is exciting and fun to post about, but it'll take time to be sure about any of this.
My intuition tells me that the theory here will be more interesting than the current application, LK99. If it pans out then thousands of brilliant minds will iterate on the theory to expand it and to refine applications of it.
I'd expect DuPont, BASF, Apple, Google, Intel, IBM, GE, Kodak if any of their labs remain, any number of biotech labs like Genentech might have that are sufficiently mat-sci adjacent, all of the major of universities; MIT, Harvard, etc. Any of the national labs. Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, whichever are appropriate. It's just that whole DEA and red phosphorus being a meth precursor making it difficult. Yay, war on drugs.
I've been using web components now for years and I will do everything I can to never write frontends in anything else. I totally agree with point 2 though: the Polymer phase was very weird, but, as mentioned, https://lit.dev is great and, imo, the perfect abstraction.
Some people like cruises. Some don't. It has a strong coupling to the cost/benefit equation. If you like having drug fuelled sex with random strangers and risk of dying from GABA, a cheap 4 berth stowage room is pretty good if you know how to send the right signals (and don't mind dying, as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Dianne_Brimble discussed)

If you like Port Out Starboard Home and have a high net worth, then the fact there's a queue for the helicopter is a minor irritation: you can always order your own, from shore when needed.

I knew an octegenarian who enjoyed cruises very much. Old men are in short supply and old-people-nookie was his dream day in and day out. A different girl by every port. Everyone knew, nobody cared.

The Rhine is good for wine and food lovers but the boats can wind up beached, when the water is low. So it becomes a bus holiday instead.

If you are somewhere in the middle, it's possible you will enjoy a cruise. I know people who do, very much. I also know people (like me) who think "hell is other people" and who don't. I don't like the buffet and I don't like norovirus.

That said, the Viking line run from Stockholm to Helsinki is fantastic. And, they (or somebody comparable) do one which goes from Scotland, through the Orkneys and Shetland Islands, Via Iceland to Norway and that could be fun. I'll just try and avoid the buffet when the mob are chasing lobster claws.

David Foster Wallace was a creative writer. AA Gill was also prone to romancing, but people trust him more. Eric Newby romanced hard, but it was entertainingly terse. Everyone knows Paul Theroux kinda made shit up. The book demands it.
I've been using Asahi based on Arch as my daily driver for over a year (https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/ultimate-linux-arm64-wo...) and should mention that the experience has been stellar overall. This is mainly because I've used it on a desktop (Mac Mini, later Mac Studio), where hardware support came faster and is practically complete for M1 models.

That being said, I fully plan on moving entirely to Asahi Fedora at the end of August when it's fully released. Fedora has a stronger team and less issues as noted by Hector Martin: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109971521711413167
I also created an alternative to this, a while back:

https://pypi.org/project/jsane/

Its syntax is a bit uglier, though.
Lit framework provides a bunch of sugar that brings the dev experience closer to JSX

https://lit.dev/
I don’t see why not — it’d be something you lawfully owned.
Are you all quite sure that "How does anyone in our government allow this nonsense?" does not refer to the government's safety regulators and their alleged duty to keep cars reasonably safe?
Open source enough that you can use it privately
If you need the public to help you develop something, it's an indicator you don't have the wisdom to build the right thing.

I guess you missed the last 20 years of crowdsourcing fueling half the tech economy.
interesting aside: "wiseacre", a word in English which I heard when I was a kid, don't hear it so much any more:

wiseacre means "one who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart." If you made a joke somebody might say "oh, a real wiseacre, eh?"

seeing Weizsäcker's name I was struck by the similarity so I thought I'd look it up, and turns out the two words have the same etymology: soothsayer, wise man

wiktionary From Middle Dutch wijssegger (“soothsayer”), from Old High German wīzzago, wīzago (“wise man, prophet, soothsayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītagō (“wise one; prophet”). Cognate with Old English wītga (“wise man, prophet”). See also German Weissager (“soothsayer, seer”).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wiseacre
The vocal minority are those that have bought the power.

I choose not to take part.

I'll do what I have to to not get terrorised by these people but otherwise I'm done. My family and I will explore our lives with the rest of humanity but no more am I taking serious the dictates of these power structures.

Amd democracy is not necessarily the best that is, like everything else, nothing more than propaganda.
It's meaningfully different because once the access is confirmed, it respects you. You can easily save a copy forever. You could even copy/paste from it. DRM specifically makes it impossible for you to do that. It just doesn't just verify that you paid, it blocks and interferes what you can do with the content.

It doesn't become DRM just because some people choose not to make a backup copy. That would be like saying everything I can see with my eyes but choose not to photograph has DRM on it (or effectively is DRM). That's clearly not true, as I could at any time decide to photograph my surroundings and the objects I'm photographing aren't going to restrict my camera.
Yeah, like when clients ask me if something is possible. Happens incredibly frequently. What they actually mean to ask is how much would it cost to do. So I usually answer in those terms.
I think the difference is what's considered "average". I'm pretty sure the average rural life has always been somewhat unexciting and hard, and that hasn't changed. Now you can compare your life to the urban/modern folks more easily due to social media and other wonders of the modern age. The definition of "average" has shifted to include things that are out of your reach.

But if you're right and it's all about the availability of jobs, then the rise of remote work should soon revive these rural areas.
Maybe a digital/mechanical button combo would help.

Light press: door opens electronically.

Hard press: door opens mechanically.
I once had a series of spam calls that reported their number as being my own phone number.

Made it really easy to spot them, and was very funny.
you overlook that those weapons were supplied at critical times, when the Soviet war machine had not ramped up yet. entire offensives were led with nearly only lend-lease kit.
And that he doesn't know what went wrong but comes up with a hypothesis and tests it and it works.
Varifocal sounds amazing. And if it has true retina quality, that might make it an actual great desktop replacement. I remain wanting to be convinced.
Surely, outside of niche applications, people don't think this is a viable mass product?