skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The regulatory capture conspiracy is myopic, ignorant, and "cope" as the kids say these days. People act as if Altman had never said spoken about AI dangers until ChatGPT took off, when in reality Altman has written about the dangers of AI before OpenAI even existed. The US government already added GPU dual-use export control restrictions a year ago due to their potential for weaponization, so he is not alone in recognizing the inherent dangers.
> it appears they are using a virtual screen that is far larger than what most people likely have. meaning the text will be larger

I mean it's just a concept marketing photo - the screen doesn't actually project out to be seen by anyone else. The projection is made for friggin' ants (kinda literally).
I would guess only a small fraction of students will do something in real life where they need linear algebra beyond the simple stuff taught in an Algebra 2 course.
The problem is they don’t make full-sized cars anymore (the “land yachts”). To get a comfortable car, you need to buy a truck or essentially a truck (SUV).
Any good way to implement global payment network (mobile or not) that is not subject to government whims?
Glad that you like it! We do support follow-up questions. Implementing a chat-style interaction should be very straightforward :) (see our Python client for examples https://pypi.org/project/medisearch-client/).
All fair points. But there's no reason that these things, like ARIA standard, aren't added. That is independent of WebAssembly standard. I did not mention "Google Web" for no reason. The "promise of Web 1.0" in terms of being open is near dead with Google DRM's and the browser oligopoly and all that jazz.

Also mentioned Web 2.0 for a reason. The "cram full-blown app into browsers" web, that uses Rube Goldberg machines behind the scenes. Joking aside, these (btw, also opaque) dynamic applications can hugely benefit from a new paradigm. While the Web itself can go back more to its original 1.0 roots of hypermedia, and allowing more and simpler browsers to wield its content.
It would come down to devaluation by whom right? If everybody wants the war to end and both sides see you as somebody that is working towards a reasonable plan of ending it, then I expect your tokens would go pretty far.

And even if you're not the magical mediator who ends the war, what matters is not some global market evaluation, what matters is your tokens' evaluation by the people who grow the food that you eat and your evaluation of their tokens as well. Reciprocal exchange and utility, not market value.
The main issue for me has been the daft L shaped enter key.

Having started with computers and terminals using a simple horizontal bar enter, hence I generally prefer to get a US geometry keyboard when possible.

Stuff like the split pseudo-L of say the Framework keyword is acceptable, since there is still a horizontal enter.

Others at work tend to get confused by the (UK geometry) keyboard on my desk operating with a US keyboard map, simply because there are 2-3 key caps in the "wrong position"...
You know, that's a great point. I was trying to stick to what I thought was the spirit of the comparison by just grabbing the cheapest laptop I could find, but $270 is well within the "cheap" range, and the instructions per watt are significantly higher on that 8265U.
>In the perennial battle between mapping services, there are two main competitors: Google Maps and Apple Maps

Wow, straight out of the gate they're jumping to conclusions. I can think of a dozen "mapping services" that are free for personal use. Each has a particular strength and use-case.
70B llama.cpp works now. You need the temporary `-gqa 8` flag for 70B.

You can even extend context with RoPE!
God forbid we could be accurate with the terms we use.
I highly doubt a 2014 Mazda infotainment system has any access to the Internet.
That's the beautiful part. No work necessary.
I have done projects pretty much all my adult life. Woodworking, electronics...

This minimalist "speaker table" has integrated full-range drivers and subwoofer:

https://imgur.com/RIVRfea

A Raspberry Pi running a Mac emulator:

https://imgur.com/XgnGYH9
> Do you think there are better global scale UBI projects and ideas out there, or do you think we should just stop trying to solve this problem?

To the degree Worldcoin is doing anything to UBI, it's in tarnishing its brand. (Identity verification is not what's holding it back.)

If they were serious about this as anything but another crypto pump-and-dump, they'd focus on direct foreign aid.
Say what you really mean.

> before it can take action on homelessness

Building the shelters is taking action. Without the shelters what exactly are you proposing to do? If there literally are no beds available, where are the homeless supposed to go in your system?

That's what the supreme court pointed out. They said that if there is no place for the homeless to go, if the city hasn't done it's job, then it has no right to tell people they can't sleep on public spaces.

What action would you take?
Why wouldn't a minivan fit this purpose?
Okay, so what's the attack scenario here?

Imagine we live in a future where Worldcoin is ubiquitous, all the hardware/software is open source. Several orb operators exist in every city in the world, and operators have a non-trivial amount of WLD tokens staked to ensure good behavior. Misbehaving orbs have their keys and subkeys revoked at the first sign of illicit usage.

Maybe a criminal kidnaps 10 people, then steals an orb, and uses those 10 iriscodes to register 10 new credentials on the network. How much profit would you expect to come to the criminal before their credentials are revoked?

Is there another attack you're thinking of?
Fallocate vs. dd for swap file creation
Making an (archery) bow is one of the most challenging woodworking projects of all --- removing 1/1000 of an inch of thickness from the back (evenly) will change the draw weight by 1 pound, and when the stave is first roughed out, there is a single point in the structure which is the weakest which defines the maximum possible draw weight for that bow --- that is, until one tries making arrows, as the old saw goes:

>Any stick will do for a bow, but an arrow must be perfect.

I've made a couple --- one of my most successful was a Decurve-reflex hickory-backed hickory Flatbow:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/paleoplanet69529/decurve-ref...
Next.js Commerce 2.0
it's a social problem, and the only way i believe we can ultimately solve it is by teaching everyone to be better people. until we do that there will always be people who will try to take advantage and become a bad actor.

teaching people to be better is the only way to avoid oppressive technical measures. because most technical measures will end up being oppresive at least for some minority or corner cases that don't fit the expectations.

i also fear that technical measures have a tendency to get in the way of diversity as they force the same behavior on everyone and punish or prevent people doing things differently.
It really depends on what all is done "in the driver," though? Since, per the application, the data may have been passed off to the driver with a successful message pass. And if I have to have secrets in the driver for it to be able to connect to access points and such, it seems dubious how protected from all of my secrets the system can be between all parties.

MIDI is actually an easy example, all told. If I unplug and replug a keyboard in, I expect it to probably not handle any persistent state of the keyboard correctly. (For fun, it is common for the "at rest" value of peddles to be discovered at connect time. Good luck with that if the driver crashes.)
People spec their cars for the biggest usage case they can imagine, not their average trip.

Cities could combat this by setting up a rent a big f off truck for 24hrs program I suspect. For that one time in the year when you have to haul some lumber.

The male ego part is a little harder to solve.
I have no interest in seeing someone use a Meta Quest Pro to debunk the viability of an Apple Vision Pro.
Well this, plus also cities that are designed for cars first.

I would love to see more cities design for people/pedestrians first, with denser multi-zone areas. I wish more people could walk to a neighborhood grocery, bar, library, etc.
I don't even think it's a cognitive overload thing, it's a "oh shit, you're right, this is hard, skirrrrt" sort of thing.

Like telling someone they will do badly on a test and comparing them with a control group that isn't told that. Reverse placebo effect.
I'm a sucker for old games and good pixel art and I've built a pixel art frame powered by a LED matrix. It is not the most impressive thing I've built, but it is the one that brings me the most joy.

Videos:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stanko/retro-frame/dev/ret...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stanko/retro-frame/dev/ret...

I wanted something that has a feel of an art object and sits on the shelf, rather than being a smart object that you can control with an app.

The whole thing is open source and you can make it yourself:

https://github.com/Stanko/retro-frame

Disclaimer - This was my first ever python project and I just made it work. ATM a friend of mine is helping me refactor everything. Repo also needs images of a new wooden frame I made.

Edit: Formatting.
How many are usually on your calls? Signal or WhatsApp might be good enough for you.
Yeah but should we punish the homeless people, who are a completely different population than the people who caused the housing shortage?
Sounds really Platonic — like, a loop invariant maintains the Platonic form of a loop?
Are we really out of news cycles right now and large cars is where we landed? Can we focus the hype train on literally any other problem that has actual consequences?

Treat the disease, not the symptoms. Large cars are a symptom of overcrowded cities and unsafe, unclean transportation. Replacing them the 3x small cars isn’t going to fix anything.
What would constitute a full-sized, comfortable car?
I purchased a Vive pro 2 to try it as a monitor replacement for my CHG90, which is a 49in 3840 x 1080 display.

The vive 2 is 2448×2448 per eye, or 4896×4896 total.

It’s completely unusable for the purpose. Text is blurry and unreadable. The lenses are garbage. It’s sitting on a shelf now.

The vision pro is probably somewhere in the range of 3,391 x 3,391 per eye, although one guy calculated it to likely be 3660 x 3142.

That’s not that big of an improvement over the pro 2, and I doubt it would actually give enough clarity to use it as a high res display replacement.

I picked up the pro 2 for $350, and I feel like I may have even overpaid a bit for what I got. Unless the vision pro is a quantum leap in display quality over it, it’s going to be a non-starter at the 3,500 price point.
The digital speedometer on my vehicle is surrounded by an "analog" speedometer. I'm not sure why anyone would need it to determine whether they are accelerating or decelerating, but it's there.
That's a good point. I was thinking more about from GCE/AWS side, they'll keep these old machines running because they can shuffle off low priority/power loads to them. But it makes sense from the customer side they're just configuring by rote rather than looking for the best price-performance.
Typst 0.7: floating content, improved SVG support and better math layout
A new version of Typst has been released with a bunch of improvements. This is really getting closer and closer to being a definite replacement for Latex. There is still a lot to do for that, but it is a really nice project. I have been a Latex user for many years, and have done many templates, but doing templates with Typst is just very fun (and I actually understand what I am doing :P).
WarpStream relies on a proprietary metadata store hosted within their internal network to operate, so it's pretty unlikely that Jepsen tests could cover that.

If you're ok with the externally hosted metadata stores as well as the high per-request latencies (p99 of 400ms, according to WarpStream), it's highly likely that things like liveness and safety properties are pretty far from your mind. So, I wouldn't bank on them submitting to a Jepsen test. :)
But then you’d have to drive a minivan
I built a few custom scientific measurement equipment over the years during my Postdoc and at a biotech startup.

System to monitor crystallization/freezing of ice in 2-5nm diameter pores within silica (coated on molybdenum mirror) by infrared absorption (https://lylegordon.ca/researchoverview.jpg).

Micro-rheometer to measure viscosity of samples as small of 3uL of liquid (this was an improvement on a NIST design that didn't require calibration of capillary diameter)

Porosimeter to measure active (flow through) pore size (5-50nm) in tiny membranes that only flow a few microliters per minute of helium (gas).

Custom time-resolved pycnometer to measure flow rates of membranes attached to a closed volume, detect leaks, and measure the internal volume.
I'm assuming you already have read what I said earlier:

"and tried many others and deleted my account(s) on the other alternatives."

So given that was said, why ask this in the first place?
I'm 201 cms, there are no comfortable small cars (~VW Golf). In most cars you can only lower the driving seat and pull back the front seats. But once I'm not in the driving seat I'm so cramped it's not fun. Literally hit the ceiling with my head.

My partner has an Opel Combo which is comfy but it's a family car, personally I'd not buy anything like that.
Store Git LFS files on any service with an S3 API
A vision for the AI web: the real web 3.0
The stigma attached to minivans.
Of course all speculation, but:

> Not if the species was unknown to science. What would they reference?

Perhaps a novel bacterium they found in a known disease carrying parasite in their back yard. Doesn't seem remotely outlandish. If I was looking for a stealth bioweapon, I would try that avenue as well. And there is precedent for significant discoveries being kept under wraps for extended periods before being independently discovered and released to the public. See public key cryptography, which was discovered secretly at GCHQ and only became public 6 years later with Diffie-Hellman.

> Well, where is this weaponized strain? It’s not as though variability in the impact of a bacterial disease is a sign of bio-weaponization.

I suppose in the wild in the northeast, and presumed to be a natural variant?

> Is there really any argument that this plot (which was not executed) suggests anything about their general bio weapon approach? The reality is, Lyme isn’t a good bioweapon… it’s slow, weak and easily treated with cheap and common antibiotics.

Moving goalposts. Different weapons have different characteristics which make them useful for different things. The fact that a biological agent would not be good for "bioweapon use-case A" is not an argument that it isn't a bioweapon. The anecdote is proof positive that the US has planned to use biological agents with similar attributes to this hypothetical biological agent as a weapon.

The whole argument here amounts to saying "The army would never use knives as weapons, they are so ineffective. You have to be close range, and you can't kill that many people effectively with them!" And when I point out that they do, in fact, use knives as weapons, you just reiterate the same line?

> (which was not executed)

(stated reason: because the would-be assassin had already given Castro a dive suit, and another would arouse suspicion)
I take frugal to mean being smart or conservative with spending. However, optimizing to the extent some people are talking about here would redefine the term to mean "irrational" for me.

In the context of a business, nearly any piece of software is a trivial cost compared to hiring a human (or yourself) to do a task.
A house costs $x dollars. You save up money and take time off to do it, or you do it in the evenings.

Here's a good YouTube channel with a father/son (experienced) team doing just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiOwwhoiKug

Note that they're doing a rebuild of an existing house, but the general idea is the same - live in a trailer/old house while you build a garage with an apartment above it, and then move into that apartment and build the main house. This is quite common in more rural areas, such that you can see it even 40 years later; the garage will have an apartment above it, or the barn will have some rooms.
Wonder how much of this is just due to how massive the us is and how far we drive. I have kids so drive a minivan. It's got 3 rows of seats and storage behind. I genuinely use all the rows fairly often or if not in use I fold them down for larger space in the back. Space I often use.

Not saying I couldn't make due with a smaller car but it would definitely make things more complicated.
> devaluation by whom right

This isn't how currencies lose value in wars. If the amount of money doesn't change, but half the factories are bombed, the output of the remaining factories rises in value relative to that currency. (Ceteris paribus.) The only way around this is to backstop production with unbombed factories. Something a blockchain does jack squat about.
I realize that it doesn't project out, but for every reason that matters it does for the person that is wearing the headset.

https://i0.wp.com/kguttag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AVP... look at that image. Judging by the guy in front that middle virtual monitor is probably 3 times the size of my current monitor which is 32". If I want more than 1 monitor (I have 3) I can't imagine actually having anything larger than that in a physical space. But in virtual? Why not. And that is what apple is showing with these images.
This is so beautiful, thank you for sharing. My favorite HN comment of the year
If you want to become a power user, then using something as relatively bloated and dumbed down/obscuring as Ubuntu is not a good pick.
Peter Thiel has quietly become mainly focused on biotech. Most of his board seats are biotech companies, including a few he supported through going public. This investment makes more sense in the context of Peter as pre IPO biotech specialist.
The primary difference is that "Venetian plaster" process is specifically intended to mimic the look of marble or stone and so the method doesn't really veer too far outside of that for materials or process.

These kind of artists seem to only use quartz or other "smooth" acrylic plasters and pigments that don't have the same structure and are generally thin and temporary (less than 20 years expected age) - so not limestone the same kind of lime aggregates like tadelakt which is what I use.

I'm attempting to make something that can last 2000+ years - somewhere between an oil painting and a marble sculpture.
Please link to the original source:

https://mastodon.social/@davidzipper/110843841107933007
Fair point. I alluded to what you are saying in my last sentence, and agree.
The British / Irish layout is ISO and has ` in the corner.
Thanks, that must be what the op was referencing; and also thanks for affirming the sibling comment. The tools for humanity and the worldcoin foundation sites don't have much info on them from what I can tell. I wonder at how they go about preventing volatility and how they eventually plan on doing that in US. Sounds dodgy if they are avoiding our jurisdiction.
This is awesome, and am so tempted to try.... one question, how long did it take to physically complete this! Also I know you had to "repair" the string a few times, but is this a 2mi single thread?
They do, they just don't sell them in the US
Link should probably be replaced with the direct link: https://mastodon.social/@davidzipper/110843841107933007
"Open access"?
My mid-size sedan is plenty comfortable...?
type name ....is better, any other arrangement including adding stupid symbols like : ...is just retarded alot of retarded people around these days alot of them took the vax.. because they are retarded.
Behaving badly can range from 'have fun with groupies who willingly join the party' to 'rape'. So what exactly happened matters
I seriously think the long term future of computing is massive scale time series correlation with analog hardware that doesn't do discrete processing with I/O and on/off transitors

It's funny you say that. Over the past few months I've ordered copies of almost every book on analog computing that Amazon has, planning to do a deep dive into the "current" state of that, with an eye towards figuring out if there's some "there, there" to explore. I say "current" in scare quotes because there aren't a lot of recent books on the topic, given that analog computing mostly died out decades ago. There does seem to be a bit of a limited resurgence of interest recently though.

Transformers IMO are basically pointing towards time series predictions as being the root of epistemological grounding for "intelligence"

I've also been spending some time studying neuroscience and the literature on "spiking neural networks" based on a vague hunch that that and the analog stuff might tie together into something interesting.

All of that said, I do think that it makes sense to think about hybrid analog/digital systems since digital has so many advantages, especially in terms of flexibility and programmability. The question then, is something like "what's the best architecture that lets you best take advantage of both analog and digital styles of computation"? I won't pretend to say I know the answer to that, but that's a path I'm trying to explore a bit.
So many issues in society can be quickly, intuitively, and uncontroversially identified as a “tragedy of the commons” situation. But it’s a hard sell to give up a personal advantage for a collective betterment.
What are your reasons to avoid Arch, out of curiosity? For me it would only be System D, really, that and that I like Void and Alpine more.
You can accomplish this with most VR hardware now but it's not very good. The issue is that text is hard to work with in VR (for the complex reasons the article describes). The eyestrain is also incredible.
It is an arms race.

There is a video floating around of a pickup truck who needs to use his front camera to see a Miata in front of him
After leaving my old job, I realized that I loved the device design work I had been doing, I just didn't like the work environment... So I started my own company and designed my own fine pointing device, sensors, controller and software.

The company didn't go anywhere because it turns out that business is hard when you don't like to self promote, but I am incredibly proud of the end result. It has high bandwidth, <100nm RMS jitter, a nice network interface, and incorporates reinforcement learning-based controller tuning

Check it out here if you'd like: https://www.rockymountainservo.com
> So there's really nothing one can do

This is a cop-out. There's always something you can do. The problem is that it's often very complex, or requires more experience, or more influence, etc. Meaning that before you can noticeably move the needle, you need to get 10 years of prep work behind you. But the fact that it's difficult or time-consuming is a completely different story than it being "impossible."

Sorry, but I get tired of people throwing up their hands and saying "I can't do anything about this situation" when they really mean "this situation is so difficult that I'd rather go take a nap than deal with it."
The housing crisis.
With MS, you'd usually pay for an MSDN subscription to license server OSes to test software during development, though.
I'm not sure a minivan even counts as a huge car any longer. :)
I might be misnaming it, but basically top-level responses are in a random order and child comments are auto-hidden (but can still be expanded). I'm sure there would be some tweaks necessary to make it work for HN, and maybe it includes voting or doesn't.
Remember Station Wagons?