skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, functionally, you have a point, but they wouldn’t sell nearly as many if it looked like a helmet. The devices have to be cool to sell, and headsets are uncool enough as it is.

These companies want a mass market product, not a niche product that only tech enthusiasts can appreciate.
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Remember, horses were the common mode of transportation then.
OK I am hosting the instruct model on the horde now. I will throw up the raw base model too:

https://lite.koboldai.net/#

Note that you must switch to instruct mode in the UI, and use the "LLama 2 chat" preset, but you also need a 
 token in the instruction (memory) tab:

https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1#in...
The point of htmx is to be able to do the interactivity on the server, so using it with your existing, general API isn't really the point - the backend (or, well, frontend backend?) just serves the needed data directly in the markup.
This isn't really ideal if you think of your site as a separate frontend/backend, but it makes sense if you already have a backend and don't want to make an API just to then write JS that consumes the API and shows you stuff.
Granted, this doesn't really work well with offline-first apps, but it's nice if you need to actually poke the server whenever you need to do something.
Did you go with D7 visa or golden visa?
A simple example: if I found a bug in the Linux kernel, fixed it and get the code merged, I would 100% put it on my resume and LinkedIn which could be a big plus when looking for my next job.
I can’t imagine living like that. But if it works for you, I guess it works.

Out of curiosity, how old are you, and how long have you been married?
That's not the case at all, have a look at the docs. The thing is pretty powerful.
I don't think it moves the needle much at all. At the end of the day the scaling bottleneck is access to gullible or ideologically motivated eyeballs. The internet is already over-saturated with more propaganda than any individual can consume, adding more shit to the pile isn't going to suddenly convince a reasonable person that vaccines have microchips inside.
Get the Elite Strap with a battery. It makes the headset much more balanced, as well as doubling the play time.
I don't know, I do this exact thing right now in my current employment. I've got kids and spouse at home, fully invested in their lives, and still trying to grow my career. This situation works very well for me, since I live in the boonies outside a tech metro hotspot (not SV). I don't think it's necessarily just for "young single" types.
I'm not sure if we watched the same video, but I saw a robot fumble though a few mechanical motions with dexterity and speed of a toddler to achieve a few isolated, best-case tasks where all the hard parts were taken care of by a human.

Cool demo, I suppose, but nobody is going to buy this as anything other than a toy.
It’s especially interesting because the secret sauce of GPT-4 seems to be delegation into submodels that are best fit for the requested knowledge. This should in turn lower the bar somewhat for open models. Of course, still a huge model but not as bad as it could have been.
The novelty wears off after a bit and then it’s mostly just a less convenient version of a game console (the limited software really hurts any other use)
Meta imo has one of the best ai teams IMO even better than google and open ai. Interesting to see how good are these models
that suggests this trash is distinct from that trash. it's just all the same trash continent to me, dude.
> It just makes me wonder what is the correct way to legislate opioids?

Is legislation the primary problem with these addicts? Or are there other social factors involved? If so, then perhaps the legislation itself is the least important part of the puzzle.

> Also, obviously, we shouldn't criminalize addiction to opioids.

We don't.. it's just possession and sales that are criminalized.

> can legally maintain an addiction

What social interest is there in promoting that?

> a recreational heroin user can get a prescription, and if someone accidentally becomes addicted to painkillers that were prescribed for medical reasons, they can legally continue that addiction as long as they want to?

There's a real fantasy on Hacker News about what the debonair lifestyles of heroin addicts actually are and zero apparent understanding of the long term consequences of the same.
I don't think it is possible to allow people to legally continue the addiction because of growing tolerances to the drugs that require people to find stronger and stronger drugs or dosages.

Watching first hand how opioids impact people in SF. I think forced treatments have to start becoming an option. It isn't humane to let people rot on the streets.
The Quest Pro had eye tracking, but it was likely excluded for cost reason here. The performance increase from Foveated Rendering was minor on the Quest Pro because of the overhead needed to do high accuracy, low latency eye tracking.

Eye tracking will probably make it to the Quest 4, especially if Apple proves it out as a control input. Big If there IMHO.
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I don't use social media, so I don't think this applies. I also think the corporate-mediated friendship model is toxic and disgusting. I'm not on IG or FB and my IRL friends from "back home" I connected with first on interest-based email mailing lists before we ever met in person.
I always hear good things about PlayStation VR. It seems a real shame that the only company in VR with any experience making wearable devices is using a proprietary platform.

At this point the optics seem… I dunno, pretty well worked out? So, I’d rather have Sennheiser VR than Facebook. Sennheiser knows how to balance a heavy thing on my head for hours.
Study finds dopamine regulates how quickly and accurately decisions are made
This isn't trying to replace human volunteers, but complement them.

I know blind people who are making just as many human Be My Eyes calls as they were before, but they're using Be My AI even more, for things where they wouldn't have even bothered to use the service at all before - because the AI is so fast and convenient.
Meanwhile, most respondents to this post use a keyboard daily for 8+ hours to do work that's valued extremely highly.

Have you seen an auto mechanic's toolbox, or carpenter's tool crib?

Using the wrong tool, or even one which is only a few percent less efficient than optimal, is a mistake.
I can relate with this. I only socialize for sex and/or money (e.g. networking). I have zero interest in anything else.

From my point of view everyone does the same, but can't deal with the isolating nature of it all and need to decorate it with friendships and similar unwritten rules and then act surprised when they don't work
Same. I didn’t bring my parents to my interview for a job at the movie theater when I was 16 years old and I had very involved parents. I guess maybe some kids are just different these days but I still can’t imagine it.
Well, it is in a way, but with a story. People can raise funds for something, very often very important like paying rent or mortgage so it's not just work-money exchange between them. It's more, when a person buys a service, they also did something good, they helped someone.
And the stories he tells about the origin of knots and people he learned them from are great.
That's good for gardeners. Maybe also a communal board game space, a communal maker space, a communal basketball court, and so on? We can perhaps put them together into a "community centre".
>So what’s the killer app?

I feel like the answer to that question will come next year, when Apple's Vision Pro is out.
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Being friends with someone or generally getting along with them doesn't mean you have to "conform" with their views or lifestyle. That is something we seem to have lost as a culture in today's political environment.

99% of people out there aren't looking to get into a fight with you no matter how different you are. They aren't looking to change your views on things or have their own views changed. The sooner you accept that, the easier building new relations with them will be.
Nothing can beat ASHAMED. (Yes, really.)
How successful are those virtual girlfriend apps?
And if there's something humans love doing, it's betting the farm on dreams and unproven ideas rather than inconvenience themselves and change.
Know knots or tie lots!

Knowing a few different knots for a variety of situations comes in handy. The right knot holds properly and can usually be undone when needed without having to cut it out.

If you're starting out then the square knot, two half hitches, taught line hitch, clove hitch, and bowline cover most use cases. And, yes, those are among the basic ones taught to Scouts.
I'd argue that the partying you're referring to is a facet of the biggest value-add of going to the best school you can get into and afford: meeting people of similar or higher social status. Private schools know this: you create a high barrier of entry via tuition, use that glut of cash to create an attractive environment, then use the excess from the rich kids to subsidize the smart kids. Now you've got a breeding ground where future founders can meet future investors. It's a win-win for everyone involved.
If all the recent LLM stuff is any indication, I can't imagine they'll be very good. I think we've got a few decades to go before that can be anything other than a novelty.
The men working there are already under the authoritarian command of their CEO and board. They might be forced by them not to offer side loading, in fact.

You keep talking about coercion, but completely ignore the coercive nature of capitalism. It makes your points ring hollow and insencere.
They're not getting rid of that! This is a complementary service, there are still plenty of scenarios where a human makes more sense.
Which is great until Prettier, in its infinite wisdom, decides it's better to stick four of these function invocations on one line and two on the next, so you have an obnoxious mishmash of tokens!
> but I'm still seeing nothing to indicate anything more than "overpriced, non-essential toy."

I saw a reviewer mention that VR is like "having your favorite amusement park ride at home": it's awesome, but at the same time you're not going to ride a roller coaster for 3 hours everyday.

VR can be loads of fun, but I still find it exhausting, and very focus demanding. It will, for me, always remain a nice plus, but never as essential as something I can easily pause and put down.
Tesla is free to go for L3 approval, if Musk is to believed they have best AI/FSD/snake_oil stack on market
As long as ChatGPT offers few or no financial incentives to creators of media, this percentage will increase.

As they are at the moment, OpenAI are parasites.
This is not totally true. It was very common to have markets right next or even under train stations. It was also common for trains to do milk delivery with stores close to rail stations. You also had trains going threw cities on street levels to unload.

But this isn't really the right debate. Sure you need some last mile in many cases, but that's also often true with large trucks.

The simple fact is a far, far, far larger amount of transport could be handled by train if society put the right insensitive in place, rather then the completely backwards intensives that exist now.

In Switzerland its quite common for example to have even fresh food transported by train, the largest retailer works closely with the rail company and delivers to a number of regional depots where smaller (sometimes small or medium) trucks then take it to individual stores. We don't have these Wallmarkt supper stores that Americans (unfortunately for them prefer).

Its very common that larger stores, like Ikea actually are directly connected by the train network.

There could actually also be a lot more done to do cargo delivery by tram. This has started in a number of European cities. In Zürich the Cargo tram is currently mostly used for extraction of waste (like e-waste), not yet delivery, but it has potential.
Early in my career, I just moved the mouse to my left hand and kept everything else the same. It was super easy to get used to and easy to replicate whenever I have to use some shared workstation.
Just looked at the examples. To me every one of them makes the original code less readable. I would also encourage people to not get used to this style because now you are stuck on some weird JS style and will have trouble reading code in other languages.
Complete nonsense.

Check: North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE)

See:

https://electrek.co/2023/09/12/tesla-semi-proves-itself-fasc...

Not all data is out yet but the idea that electric trucks can drive useful range without anything but chips is complete nonsense.

The gigantic of track transports are blow 300 miles and a Tesla Semi can handle that under full load and difficult circumstances.
This is amazing syntax. If you are looking for a self-hostable version of this, that can run deno but also python, go, and bash, with primitives similar to airflow and more (retries, cache, suspend, approval steps), check out windmill: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
Yeah, gotta setup miniconda to keep things manageable. Basically a generic virtual env manager that is trivial to use. This way you can ensure each one of these LLM projects that want different versions of different libs will get them without stepping on each other or polluting your system.
If that’s the killer app for VR, then all I can say is god help VR.
Jade: An experimental note-taking canvas for developing ideas
Author here. Since I've moved on to a project, tableOS (https://tableos.substack.com/p/alpha), I want to share the code of Jade for anyone interested in canvas interfaces to study:
https://github.com/dragonman225/jade
The day my Arch Linux install starts showing me ads is the day my laptop gets world record air time while flying out the window.
Omg how after all this time are people still fucking repeating this 'not license-compatible' nonsense. This is one of this myths that at some point has infected the OpenSource community and its so totally wrong and damaging.

Its not license incompatible, many, many, many organizations have shipped ZFS as part of the distribution and absolutely nobody ever sued or even threatened sue over the license.

Linus didn't want to merge it because of some vague fear of Oracle and how they sued over Java, but that was about API not license.

What Linus should have done is to simple upstream it. If some big company (IBM or whoever) wants to not 'risk' ZFS then they should damn well do their own work and remove it. There is no reason that the waste majority of the Linux community should be denied great features (ZFS, DTrace and friends) over some vague fear of Oracle.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37653848
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I would love to sit down with any number of 10 random website owners / managers from this list and ask them the following questions:

- Why did you block GPTBot?

- Are you aware that your content is scraped, directly copied and otherwise repurposed by other website that don't block GPTBot?

- What are your plans if in future iterations of the GPT model you're going to see that the GPT model has information that you wrote or produced? Are you going to fight it, and if so - how are you going to do that?

I think these are legitimate questions and they are the ones that I would love to hear answers to because I would love nothing more than OpenAI being hamstrung based on the bullshit that they pulled last year with ChatGPT.

Never forget that OpenAI stole the web and has had $11.3B in funding[0] and is seeking another round to place it at a $80-90 billion valuation[1].

[0]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai/company_finan...

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/openai-is-reportedly-raisi...
Right, noted. But I've multiple uses. I'm sick of the junk KBs I have now so I need to replace them, so it's all useful info. And for my PCs I want heavy KBs (I used to own one of the heavy IBM XT/AT ones and loved it).

The Bluetooth/Android aspect is only a subset matter that arose here as a result of the other HN story re horrible text entry on phones. Thanks again.
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For what it's worth, in Rust, this pretty much translates to

some_operation(&arg)
.with_context(|| format!("Some operation failed: {arg}"))?;

or, in most cases, the shorter

some_operation(&arg)
.context("Some operation failed")?;

If you forgot to call `with_context` and simply write

some_operation(&arg)?;

the error is still propagated, it's just missing whatever context you wanted to add.

Whether that's better or worse than the Go snippet is something I'll let the reader decide.
Absolutely. The decision gets worse and worse as you progress, as well. We spec'ed out living in a city, just about any city, and economically it is such a hit for a family, on top of safety concerns (not just from crime but also just traffic in cities is atrocious in the US), school quality concerns, etc.

I'd love to live somewhere walkable but I just don't have the budget to do it without putting our family on a knife edge monetarily.
It's easier to try and become friend with the people who live near you.
Also worthless for evolution of solutions. If I can't evaluate the solution I can't manually improve it. It's just more magical thinking hiding behind a veneer of rationalism.
I'm similar, but I think I'm going to replace Python and Go with Lisp and leave Go for CLI utilities that don't require heavy text parsing and concurrent but not CPU-bound (distributed) apps. Rust for low level or latency/performance sensitive things, which is most of what I do these days.
It's that rooms, especially sunny ones, contain incredible amounts of variation in intensity, and that failing to capture/display that is at least as big a problem as not enough pixels per inch.

It also helps dramatically if the captured HDR surroundings can be fed on to an envmap for use in the 3D rendering phase.
This is a great example of why so few people want to be a Linux kernel maintainer. Not only is it largely a thankless "job" where you get blamed for issues you didn't cause and are expected to do much of the work on your own time, but you can potentially get a misleading hit piece published about you and posted to Hacker News just for doing your job.

IMO, what the maintainer did (taking authorship and crediting the original author/reporter via Reported-by, after rewriting the entire patch including the commit message) was in line with kernel conventions. The lines are a bit blurry, and I think keeping the original author/reporter as at least a Co-developer would also have been acceptable. Still, people sometimes complain if they are kept as the author or co-developer if their patch is rewritten, as they don't want to "own" that rewritten patch and take blame for any issues in it. So pick your poison.

Ideally, more time would have been taken to work with the original author/reporter to get their patch in shape. Unfortunately, there isn't always time for that. In this case, the bug was reported to security@kernel.org as a security vulnerability, so that throws much of the usual process out the window; it needed to be fixed quickly. The maintainer went out of their way to get it fixed quickly, in a better way, and even added unit tests for it later. The original author/reporter was credited in both the fix commit and the pull request merge commit. Also note that the maintainer's commit is dated June 7 and was merged into mainline on June 9. So AFAICS, it predated the original author/reporter sending a revised patch; it postdated only the first patch.
gpt5 6 11 90 will exist regardless.

The option where they don't exist doesn't exist, and so it is utterly pointless to spend one second fretting about how you don't like that or why one should not like that. A nova could go off 50 light years from here, and that would kill every cell on the planet. That is even worse than child porn. And there is nothing anyone can do about that except work towards the eventual day we aren't limited to this planet, rather than against that day. It's the same with any tech that empowers. It WILL empower the bad as well as the good equally, and it WILL exist. So being scared of it's mere existense, or it's being in the hands of people you don't approve of, is pointless. Both of those things can not be avoided. Might as well be scared of that nova.

There isn't even a choice about who gets to use it. It will be available one way or another to both good and bad actors for any purpose they want.

The only choices available to make, are who gets a few different kinds of advantage, who gets their thumb on the scale, who gets official blessing, who gets to operate in secrecy without oversight or auditing or public approval.

When you try to pretend that something uncontrollable is controlled, all it does is put the general populations guard down and make them blind and open to be manipulated, and gives the bad actors the cover of secrecy. The government can use it on it's own citizens without them objecting, and other bad guys aren't affected at all, but honest people are inhibited from countering any of these bad users.

Which is a shame because honest or at least reasonably so outnumber the really bad. The only long term way to oppose the bad is to empower everyone equally as much as possible, so that the empowered good outnumber the empowered bad.
>but I'm still seeing nothing to indicate anything more than "overpriced, non-essential toy."

This seems like a semi common sentiment. To those who used both a Valve Index and a Quest 1 or 2, is this also true for the Index?
This might be more convenient than braille in a few circumstances, like replacing a braille menu in a restaurant - but it definitely doesn't make braille obsolete.

Also, note that many blind users access Be My Eyes using a refreshable braille display.
I'm imagining a non-code-oriented screen reader saying:

colon newline, space space space space space space space space if x equal equal 5 colon newline, ...
Absolutely.

I LOVE "Pistol Whip," but I'm in my 40s. I literally can only do about 2 or 3 rounds of that in one day :)
Hah, and go figure:

> Later Michels migrated to Italy and joined Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party, as he believed this was the next legitimate step of modern societies.

"Iron law" isn't a law in any real sense here, other that it was one fascist guy calling it that. Still, there's a valid point:

> By controlling who has access to information, those in power can centralize their power successfully, often with little accountability, due to the apathy, indifference and non-participation most rank-and-file members have in relation to their organization's decision-making processes

This really shines a light on the innovative system that Australia uses[1], which I think helps mitigate the non-participation factor: voting in Australia is compulsory. It's your civic duty to participate in elections and everyone is automatically registered when they reach the age of 18.

Overall I think that it's hard to make any 'iron laws' in modern times, because these laws were based on looking back rather than forward. A lot of these are based on assumptions that technology wouldn't change, but that's not the case - modern telecommunications have moved us past the age where information only traveled as fast as a horse could carry you. For 99.99% of human history it was totally impossible for a direct democracy to function, but with instant, global communications and information access that's no longer a safe assumption.

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