skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because it's the highest PPD doesn't mean the resolution is actually all that high.

Resolution has always been my main complaint about VR headsets and they are nowhere near the PPD needed to simulate watching high resolution content on a high resolution screen in front of you yet.

The Vision Pro is supposed to have 23MP, and an aspect ratio of 1.165:1 which suggests 3660 pixels across each eye.

However, what most people fail to think about is the FOV. The headset's entire FOV is about 100 degrees horizontally. THX standards recommend around 35 degrees for video horizontal FOV, but if people like a really immersive FOV for their video I think it's safe to push this up to around 50 degrees.

This means that a virtual theater screen within your FOV on the headset has only half the headset's resolution to work with. So that makes the width of a virtual 50 FOV horizontal screen 1830 pixels wide, which is less than even 1080p video at 1920 pixels wide.

And this is probably a bit high too as there is typically some amount of pixels you can't even see through the lens of a VR headset because you don't normally want to be able to see the edge of the panel inside the headset. Rather you see the edge of the optics. So that 3660 panel width is probably more like 3460, then divide that in half to 1730 pixels wide for your virtual screen. And that's if you like a 50 FOV wide virtual screen. That would be like sitting 5 feet away from a 65" TV which is arguably closer than the vast majority of people sit.

So if you are watching video at a pretty immersive 50 degree FOV, in an Apple Vision Pro, the native resolution of the video needs to only be about 1730x973 (assuming 16:9 video) at most to max out the PPD of the headset for reasonably sized virtual video screens.
Fifty families' "politician doing their job" is one man's "strangling innovation with bureaucratic red tape", and even that one man knows he's full of shit.

But when that one man represent a hundred-billion dollar company, attorneys general seem to get very confused as to where their loyalty lies. It's unfortunate for the fifty families (and quite lucrative for the AGs and GGLs).
Maybe it is written by the model itself.
Those notices are bullshit, but https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/#dispute-reso... says emailing an opt-out is correct in this case.

> 30 Day Right to Opt-Out. You have the right to opt-out and not be bound by the arbitration and class action waiver provisions set forth above by sending written notice of your decision to opt-out by emailing us at arbitrationoptout@23andme.com. The notice must be sent within thirty (30) days of your first use of the Service, or the effective date of the first set of Terms containing an Arbitration and Class Action and Class Arbitration Waiver section otherwise you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of those sections. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, we also will not be bound by them.
Your app seems nice. I’d love more control over Bluetooth on my Macs. Is this device able to wake this Mac from sleep? If both these headphones are connected, what heuristic should be used to select the input/output?
Forget spaceships, I just want my music [video]
The author sort of hints at this in a roundabout way, but the problem for education - until the systems stop lying about things they don't actually know, or using "facts" that are wildly inaccurate or out-of-date, they are not reputable/reliable enough to use at all.

Right now it's like we're in 2001-2005 for wikipedia. It's probably a good tool for basic, basic, basic beginnings of your work in the classroom, but you're going to get things wrong in surprising ways if you use it without verifying.
I hate Google a lot but I am really not a fan of Europe and Canada's rent seeking bullshit either. They pretend to fight for the people or privacy or something else, etc but really they just want a percentage of Google (or Apple or Msft, etc) revenue. Which always flows to the government or political operators or those they lobby on behalf of.
The difference here being that 23 and me has communicated a specific opt-out process. This isn’t some sovereign citizen nonsense the person you’re replying to came up with on their own. It’s the official method you’re suppose to use.
I've had mostly the same success, but it's disconcerting that I even have to block those guys to begin with.

Also, at this point the suggestion algorithm seems close to worthless. My Youtube suggestion feed is either channels that I already follow, or whose videos I've watched recently, or complete garbage. Any worthwhile new channels or videos, I've have to seek out for myself.
For sure -- and I'd further emphasize that its a particular environment where the "downsides" of this approach would be strengths. For instance, a nearby school had a dozen quests for sporadic activities, but the fact that you can't easily peak at what the students were engaged in was a problem... well, with this, you can certainly do that! It's a space where I suspect the cost/ease/simplicity to fidelity tradeoff will be especially welcomed. Good luck with the product!
Herman Cain ran one! And it is hilarious. Recommended.
Any world that includes a scarcity of a necessity will have people trying to outcompete their peers for said necessities. Right now that's housing, for the most part, and sometimes health care. Sure you could ask for a 4 day week, but someone else will work 5 so they can outbid you on a house.
"And the principle of really existing free market theory is: free markets are fine for you, but not for me. That’s, again, near a universal. So you — whoever you may be — you have to learn responsibility, and be subjected to market discipline, it’s good for your character, it’s tough love, and so on, and so forth. But me, I need the nanny State, to protect me from market discipline, so that I’ll be able to rant and rave about the marvels of the free market, while I’m getting properly subsidized and defended by everyone else, through the nanny State."

Chomsky, "Free Market Fantasies"
The FBI director straight up admits that they violate the 4th amendment routinely, and then begs Congress to not ruin their precious workaround. And yet they will face no punishment whatsoever.

Like another commenter said, many people were probably unconstitutionally charged via parallel construction thanks to this crap.
Honestly, when they take the 3.5mm sockets off the MBPs, I'll know I'm done with them.

(Oh, and: printers. I bet you hate printers more).
I've been on a bit of an Apollo kick lately, and reading some of the history of the American space program in the 1960s and 1970s was depressing. Those people were tapped into something bordering on divine.

It was depressing until I realized: SpaceX is absolutely carrying that spirit.

Remember when all the experts said it was impossible to ever land their first stage? And then that it was impossible to ever make that economical? And then remember when Elon teased Starship (back then it was called BFR) and all the naysaying that went along with that?

They've just kept going. Just an absolutely break-neck pace. Falcon heavy was barely supposed to even work, and now it's not even news when they launch one.

edit: ha! I think there's actually a falcon heavy launch tonight!
That's basically how Rust is being treated by those companies.

But it's not going to be "drop-in", lots of stuff will have to be refactored to work with Rust's memory model.

See, memory management is a hard problem and the complexity involved in solving it has to live somewhere.

In C and C++, that complexity lives in the programmer's head.

In Java, Python, Go, etc. that complexity lives in the program's runtime in the form of garbage collection.

In Rust, that complexity lives in the compiler - with some caveats, Rust code is safe as long as it compiles and passes the borrow checker.

However, the ownership-based memory model of Rust is not always trivial to port other code to. Modern, idiomatic C++ written with RAII and smart pointers should be relatively easy to port to Rust, but most of the critical systems code out there is not like that at all. Most of the critical systems code out there is written in C or old-style C++ with C-style strings & arrays and raw pointers to heap memory all over the place.

So regardless of what your C/C++ language replacement looks like, it will take some serious effort to replace that kind of code.
They'll be doing VBR encodes to DASH, HLS & (I guess still) MSS which covers the resolutions & formats... DRM will be what prevents high res content from working on some "less-trusted" platforms so the same encodes should work.

(Plus a couple more "legacy" encodes with PIFF instead of CENC for ancient devices, probably.)

New tech advances, sure, they probably do re-encode everything sometimes - even knocking a few MB off the size of a movie saves a measurable amount of $$ at that scale. But are there frequent enough tech advances to do that more than a couple of times a year..? The amount of difficult testing (every TV model group from the past 10 years, or something) required for an encode change is horrible. I'm sure they have better automation than anyone else, but I'm guessing it's still somewhat of a nightmare.

Youtube, OTOH, I really can imagine having thousands of concurrent ffmpeg processes.
There are categories of software for which C++ is still the clear best choice due to its superior expressiveness as a systems language. There are also other types of safety beyond memory safety that are better supported in C++ than other systems languages. As a practical matter I haven't seen a pointer issue in years, working from a C++17 foundation, so the expressiveness and other safety benefits are more valuable than a lack of a borrow checker or garbage collector.

I use safer languages when appropriate but there are cases where they would introduce more bugs than they address.
this could just as easily been pirate, or legitimate broadcast.
that would be a new take on scams, to use SDR to spoof a station, and broadcast scam materials as the big end of the funnel to a scam url.
Interestingly the effect of location is also visible when you compare LMQL and Guidance for constrained generation. LMQL seems to be a great option but has received much less attention compared to Guidance, maybe partly due to the fact that it comes from Europe not the US.
I am a security engineer. When I signed up for 23andme, I assumed with certainty that it would be hacked and all data leaked at some point. I balanced that with the value of knowing potentially important health/genetic bio markers.

In the end, I valued knowing these bio markers above the privacy of my genome. The former is actionable and I can use it to optimize my health and longevity; the latter is of vague value and not terribly exploitable outside of edge-case threat models.
In the US, it's mostly limited to knowingly publishing errors of fact with the bar even being higher if the subject is a public figure. But, yes, as I understand it, libel is quite difficult to get a judgement against in the US.
Perhaps it's time to upload it to libgen or something?
I can attest to part of this. I spent several months in a halfway house earlier this year for those coming out of prison. Putting (mostly) addicts together in one building was total and utter chaos. They all fed off each other. The few that were trying to stay sober and get employment had an insane challenge because everyone around them was using and stealing their stuff to sell for drugs. It was crazy.

It is also mind-blowing that you would release addicts with essentially zero support. They don't even get ID coming out of prison in Illinois, so they can't access any support services at all.

Again, I don't know what the solution is, but I know some things that don't work :(
Got a link to the ads?
I'm surprised to hear that-- got a cite?

My parents smoked when I was a child. The memory of being in the car with the windows up makes me anxious even though it's been probably 30 years since I've been in a car with a smoker. I experience acute irritation when exposed to anyone smoking, and much more widespread smoking is one of the major reasons I dislike visiting Europe. I know that I'm far from alone in feeling this way.
Scaling transformer neural networks for medium-range weather forecasting
The paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03876
Their website looks like buzzword bingo from the crypto days with no substance whitepapers and a big group of "researchers" + lots and lots of cool graphics and a huge money making "platform" before they have a product. "Book a demo" lmao.

The literal opposite of Mistral's "no marketing" just a torrent with the data.

Off course it may be actual new work but colour me very sceptical with this extreme confidence and marketingspeak.
As mentioned in the article, there was a big one in the US (it went to the Supreme Court!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Moldea
> then I can give you a single file which can be executed on Linux, BSD, Mac, or Windows.

Using what libraries & syscalls? A portable IR and a portable executable are very different things, yet the WASM crowd loves to conflate them. WASM is only a portable IR, it doesn't get you portable programs at least not if you want your program to do anything beyond a trivial hello world.
Just as your human intelligence lead to you writing the same darn comment as another human above you, AI can often write the same code as a human would, without having to even bring creativity into it! For those of us who write code, this can be useful!
I can see why that would sometimes work, but the better preconfigured vim installations have a long-press of the power button remapped to a 911 call, in case the user has fallen unconscious onto the keyboard and needs medical attention.
> I've never taken part in such a setting so maybe I just don't get it yet, but it seems very limiting.

Yeah, that's how it strike me, too. I suppose it depends on the purpose of the conversation. If it's for enjoyment, constraining it to a single topic sounds awful. Most of the joy of good conversation is in how it rambles across topics according to the mood of the participants and serendipity.

But if it's a focus group of some sort, then limiting to a single topic is desirable.
I believe ffmpeg can be compiled to support the GPU, if your laptop has one. It works at least for CUDA-enabled GPUs (https://docs.nvidia.com/video-technologies/video-codec-sdk/1...)

Talk with ChatGPT about it and see if you can do it.
Or just S01E02.
Ukraine mobile network Kyivstar hit by 'cyber-attack'
~87% of purchases are financed. Back then it was probably higher. Interest rates were >13% when my boomer next-door neighbor bought her house 30+ years ago. Payments weren't much different in tax-adjusted terms than then just a few years ago.

~87% of people are buying a mortgage payment - not the sticker price on the home.

Mortgage payments are VERY high right now with respect to interest rates. Not long ago, at the beginning of the pandemic - they were quite low.

Either prices will come down - or much more likely - interest rates will go back down or - less likely - incomes will go up (or a combination of the 3).

Kids 30 years from now will be complaining. Song as old as time.
One thing to note is that usually most of the door itself is usually manufactured by some external supplier and the parallel assembly line in the final assembly only mates a subassembly that contains all the complexity of the door (interior paneling, speakers, buttons, DCU, airbags, locking mechanism...) to the outer door body panel.

The space of the options for that "door module" is large enough that it usually gets ordered from the manufacturer some time after the car body gets assigned to particular order (near the start of the painting step) and these modules have to reach the final assembly line in particular time and in particular order. All is well when the whole manufacturing and logistics chain works in the same order that the car orders entered the production. But in practice there is a lot of things that can cause the ordering to become desynchronized, which leads to interesting logistical challenges (especially because if there is a need to do something out of order the order discontinuity is essentially never neatly aligned to size of the containers that the subassemblies are stored and transported in).

The same thing also applies to other subassemblies that have large option spaces, but probably the only other thing with somewhat huge option space that is not manufactured directly by the automaker are completed dashboard modules.

Also, in the traditional approach the rolling chasis and the body tend to be manufactured by separate assembly lines and then "married toggether" pretty late in the whole process. But this is usually done in the same plant, so there is less of an possibility of things getting desynchronized.
Puppeteer Support for the Cross-Browser WebDriver BiDi Standard
I popped in here to post this. The aggregate audio device setup in the Midi setup assistant works really well for me. There is some loss in quality still, but definitely not as bad as before.

It also solved a problem I was having where the input volume would progressively get quieter as I was speaking making it so no one could hear me on calls.
There is no option to opt-out of paying taxes and voluntarily live in the woods.

You have to pay taxes. In fact, you have to pay taxes even if you're living in another country for multiple years.

These claims are ridiculous and border delusional.
CES will continue to exist for as long as it's booked on back to back weeks with AVN AEE.

The show did much better when they were run concurrently though.
> This deal, given to Google, once again shows how these laws reward large corporations, and hurt small start-ups who can not broker or afford such exemptions.

Can you explain how this hurts small start-ups?
DeciLM-7B-instruct is the finetuned model, not DeciLM-7B.
There's also hazumi.news that I made which doesn't go down when HN goes down, here's this post on there: https://www.hazumi.news/posts/38610912
I feel like this has gotten worse with Windows 11. Now even with the headset microphone disabled in the new Windows Settings screens (I use a separate USB mic) some apps (mostly games) still insist on activating the "headset" profile and switching things into 1800s telephone mode.
Hmm, I was thinking small flywheel / gyro units in the plane fuselage itself similar to active roll damping in boats. I guess active control surfaces make more sense for airplanes, without knowing much about how turbulence affects felt vibration in the fuselage.
NYC Movers Convicted in Fraud Scheme Charging Fees to Unload Goods
Google would respond by removing your country from using YouTube.

Then it would be up to your country to call their bluff. Who know whether they would or not. Google held out for longer than I thought they would on the Canada link laws. Ultimately, Google would give in and reopen YouTube, but how long would it take and would people give up YouTube for several months while wait for governments to battle Google facilitating fraud?
Agree that's where the real commercial opportunity is. At cruise, the autopilot is ~continuously applying changes to control surfaces to maintain.

If this can achieve more fuel-efficient adjustments, it'll be extremely valuable.
Yes, you can get paid to move to West Virginia
It will be rewritten by generative ai soon.
A new old kind of R&D lab
Large broadband providers in the US are allergic to policy and price transparency. They preposterously told the FCC they would not be able to list taxes and fees on proposed consumer broadband labels![1][2]

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/isps-to-fcc-listing-every-governm...
Not to mention, all these "van life" people often have converted vans worth up to $100k.
Notably, while SBC is ubiquitous and sounds quite ok for A2DP/"music mode", there's are two possible codecs for HFP:

- Uncompressed 8-bit, 8-kHz PCM: Potato quality, equivalent to a legacy digital phone line)

- mSBC: A latency optimized version of SBC, offering at least 16 kHz thanks to some level of compression. (Sweet potato quality?)

Make sure that your headset supports at least the latter to make HFP mode slightly less unbearable!
When the Irish Tánaiste (US VP equivalent) and former Taoiseach (President equivalent) has to go to court and looses when he tries to find out from google who is advertising using his identity you know the whole think is a sham that has to be protected at all costs, https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/12/06/tanai...
Fear of the unknown about your own body. Think of how many people would sign up if you sold a service that scoured secret files to "find out what people are saying about you". Forget whether such a service could ever work, just the combination of "unknown" + "about you" is irresistible to a large segment of the population. It's the mother-of-all-clickbait.
It's kind of odd actually. Any time the topic is on corporate crap, HN is suddenly overwhelmingly pro-business. Whenever the topic is government-related, the demographic shifts hard left. That's been my experience at least. Maybe business threads get more economic-right people commenting, and government threads get more left people commenting.
But didn't we discover way back with Snowden that it was not as shallow as we thought? Has it decreased in depth since then?
There's a difference between "chamber a round, remove the safety, aim at the foot, shoot" and "open the kitchen faucet, leg gets blown off".
If (security) training worked, we wouldn’t have these issues.

Even in highly regulated, controlled environments memory safety is still an issue. I have seen bugs in these environments where I know for a fact that the developer has had 40-80 hours of training on memory safety and they still pop up.

If these people have occasional issues, the rest of the world has no effin chance.
AI Summarized (kagi) since it is a longer read.

* Senators Hawley and Blumenthal introduced a bill that would exempt AI from Section 230 protections. There is debate around whether Section 230 currently protects AI output.

* The bill's definition of "generative AI" is extremely broad and could apply to technologies like autocomplete, spellcheck, and grammar check.

* By exempting all conduct involving the use or provision of AI, the bill would effectively eliminate Section 230 protections for most internet companies that utilize any form of AI.

* Plaintiffs could claim that content had some AI component to avoid Section 230 dismissal and drag out cases.

* Companies using AI could lose protections even if they were just following user instructions with their systems.

* The bill creates a loophole for problematic state laws regarding AI and internet liability.

* Removing Section 230 protections would discourage companies from hosting user content with any algorithmic elements and chill innovation.

* Spamming defamatory content combined with unrelated AI could remove protections for the platforms.

* The bill is a "poorly drafted sledgehammer" that would undermine the open internet and hand competitive advantages to other countries.

* While reform may be needed, this is not a narrowly targeted approach and would have significant unintended consequences.
SpaceX's Raptors cost about $250k each according to some leaked sources. Given there are 33 engines in the booster, you get 8,250,000 just in engine costs. I would say it's safe to assume around 30% of the cost of flight is in engines, so probably around another 5,775,000 for the rest of the craft bring it in at around $14M for just the booster hard costs. That's not accounting for the $100m crane they've built, labor, propellant, nor the Starship itself which has another 9 engines.

Keep in mind that the RS-25's cost $100m each. If it was atlas, the engines alone would cost $3.6B.