skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't doubt vendors are working on the issue

It isn’t the vendors, it is first party (well, Meta partnered with Zenni for that). As in, you can get prescription lenses when ordering the headset directly from Meta/Apple[0][1] (yet to be seen for Apple due to the headset not being released yet, but i doubt they would announce it with all the details about their prescription offerings and then cancel right before the release).

> They should be able to sell the pair with my prescription for the same cost as those without.

Given it doesn’t work this way for any type of glasses that offer a prescription lens option (including sunglasses and regular clear lenses), I don’t see why there is such an expectation for AR/VR headsets. As long as the price isn’t gouged up, I believe it is reasonable. For context, a pair of the official prescription lenses for Meta Quest 3 costs only $49, which is extremely fair imo and comes with a carrying/storage case for them as well (for context, their non-prescription replacement lenses cost $29 for a pair).

> Maybe school was better for you wearing glasses

I think that’s the main thing here, and I genuinely feel sorry for whatever you experienced in school due to wearing glasses. Kids can be cruel to those entirely undeserving of such treatment, indeed.

For me, glasses only ever caused personal physical discomfort type of issues (e.g., fogging up during rain or cold weather or when riding a motorcycle, having to be careful not to let them fall, swimming pools, etc.), but never social (aside from some distant relatives teasing me about it, as they have that whole anti-intellectual vibe going on).

In school? I went to a high school in semi-rural Georgia (the US state, not the country), and it didn’t have the most academic-minded environment. Not that many people wore glasses at all either. But absolutely no one cared if you did.

I guess times are just different these days, as you are unlikely to get bullied in school for being as nerdy as being into marvel or comic books in general. Famous NBA athletes rave about Fortnite, Dota2, and their favorite anime during interviews. The world is just different now. And while I feel compassion for those that came before us who didn’t get to experience this level of acceptance, I believe the world is a better off place for everyone involved, with all of this trickling into the mainstream acceptance.

0. https://www.meta.com/quest/accessories/quest-3-zenni-vr-pres...

1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/first-look-heres-what-apples-v...
This has been my favorite book in over a decade. To me it felt like reading newton's laws for software development.

Had a major impact on how I build software
Really, I always considered it as one of the easiest if not easiest.
>can't mount towers everywhere

How are you getting phone/power?
Jimmy didn't do any of those things. The claim was that Jimmy can't produce value, but he did.

And even so, the work the people making the pencils for Jimmy would not exist without Jimmy. Jimmy, in yet another way, provides value. Jimmy figured out to put the wood with the graphite, not them. Who actually does it is irrelevant; or are you suggesting that if Jimmy kept his operation entirely mechanical, that'd be better?
> If we've done it before, we can do it again.

But nobody has done it before. Even the very first computer mouse used off-the-shelf mechanical and electrical components, each of those involved at least one type of technology that took a scientist or engineer's entire lifetime to develop.

> The key is navigable access to the right information which is sadly dependent on A) willingness to document, and B) structuring of the set of data for navigable retrieval.

Now you mention the importance of documentation, it reminds me of Vannevar Bush's Memex and Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu. So it seems that there's a mutual misunderstanding of the actual topic in this debate. We understood the debate as:

* The all-knowing engineer: Whether it's possible for a single individual to learn and understand a technology entirely, down to its every aspect and detail.

Meanwhile, you're in fact debating about different problem, which is:

* The Engineering Library of Alexandria: Whether we can create sufficient documentation of all technical knowledge, the documentation is so complete about every aspect and detail that in principle, it would allow someone to open the "blackboxes" behind every technology for understanding or replication if they really want and need to. Whether or not it can be done in practice by a single physical person is unimportant, perhaps only one or a few blackboxes are opened at a time, not all simultaneously. The question is whether the preserved information is sufficient to allow that in theory. This is similar to the definition of falsifiability in science - impractical experiments still count.

If you're really arguing the second point rather than the first point, I would then say that I can finally understand some of your arguments. So much unproductive conversions can be avoided if you've expressed your points more clearly.
Wonder if someone will pick this up and publish it in English.
If you’re the sort of writer who finds infelicitous historical reasons charming, you might find historical words like “infelicity” charming too.
Thankfully you didn't bet more.
A friend of mine dropped out of Caltech due to bad grades. I ran into him a decade later, and he said he'd recently graduated from Caltech, having gone back and gotten A's.

I asked him what changed, did you get smarter?

He laughed, and said no, this time I was willing to work.
Specs schmecks,

which one provides more comprehensive and constant surveillance and streams the highest resolution highest quality biometric data to select partners who may have exiting opportunities to offer me or a business interest in knowing my business!?
Cancer is when a cell disconnects from the body and starts behaving like an independent organism https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K5VI0u5_12k&pp=ygUUbWljaGFlbCB...
I don't think my comment landed as intended - I was being sarcastic and trying to highlight how the original commentor was seemingly saying NK society is basically like every other country, when in fact it is incredibly different and not desirable at all

Guess I should include a "/s" next time lol
Very cool. I hope you build it for Safari, but understand if you’re not able.
Thank you very much for linking the FCC letter! It really improves the discussion to have it available.
Do you have an example with the RDOF of a "large traditional company" doing whatever the hell they want and getting subsidies? It's a bit complciated since it's still under review.

This happened in the past all the time, particularly in Ajit Pai's version of the FCC. But the RDOF process seems different. In particular the FCC is actually measuring performance, not just relying on ISP's self-reported numbers. AT&T was really good at strategically lying about those in the past.
Even though the article used a trope as a line to set up the story, it doesn't propagate that trope.
We marched right in to the Matrix ourselves, because it's fantastic at giving dopamine.
When are these boffins going to build a transformer that approximates physics for fast physics engines?
In the UK it's highly unusual to pay for anything by cheque these days. The vast majority of banks will now charge for cheque deposits for business accounts (perhaps even personal accounts, it's probably been nearly half a decade since I've had a cheque).
"Prove conclusively" is not how any of this works.
I know what LiDAR is (wrt ‘Apps can do 3D scans’) but I would like to see references for the parents claim. Or to its use in videos, portrait mode and background removal. There is a lot of misconceptions about it.
The issue is that "their store" is the only way to install things on your phone. You're trying to set up a catch 22 where the only way to install a competing store is from an existing store, theirs is the only existing store and competing stores aren't allowed in it.

It is anti-competitive to prevent competing stores. How you do it is irrelevant.
Thanks for the link, but I didn't see that first instance and this seems like big enough news to keep on the front page. Just my 2 cents
Shhh no on tell the GOP
It's not my opinion, it's the only rational conclusion.
I bet the Quest will actually get a bump once the Vision Pro is out. Apple will market the ideal and Quest will look like an attainable alternative.
Justine may have addressed unreliable output by using `--temp 0` [0]. I'd agree that while it may be deterministic, there are other definitions or axes of reliability that may still make it poorly suited for pipes.

[0]
> Notice how I'm using the --temp 0 flag again? That's so output is deterministic and reproducible. If you don't use that flag, then llamafile will use a randomness level of 0.8 so you're certain to receive unique answers each time. I personally don't like that, since I'd rather have clean reproducible insights into training knowledge.
Thought about doing this as I'm fed up with Linkedin and the other crap out there. Would also love to know how this is done (where to get the job data).
> considering we cannot even get all humans to stop making other humans slaves

Slavery is like an old disease such as Polio: it still exists in some part of the world, but we're progressively eradicating it.

Looking at how societies trended away from slavery, it might just have been a local optimum at some point in time, but only by accident: autonomous agents seem to deliver more output by having more creativity when they're free to explore the alternatives

Even leaving aside the benevolence that sentient being may have for other sentient beings (because having more friends is having more fun!), whether it's humans or AI deciding, I don't think there's a good case in the long run for one putting the other into slavery.
Every time I listen to this lecture it hits me in the gut.

https://vimeo.com/45097801

Eliot Rausch edited a beautiful short video with clips from this speech:
‘ I struggled with this point at Meta, where everyone involved in any strategic decision had, as far as most consumers go, “infinite money”. ‘

That reminds me of the time a Y Combinator start up did a $500 shower head.
My passport says something like "to alter this instrument, or to utter it so altered, is an offence". This always read strangely to me - it's an offence to have a real passport, but claim it's a fake? But this definition of "utter" makes it work - it's a crime both to falsify the passport, and to attempt to travel with one that has been falsified.
Objectively, probably not, but I'm only asking about perception, so ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
Another piece of advice: at least do a web search on any name you are considering[1]. In part to find out if someone else is using a name that's too similar, but also to find out if the name you're considering has some sort of adverse implication that you're unaware of.

[1] My business attorney insists on also doing a trademark search.
Because it is so universally put down. There is a tendency to examine any totalistic claim more strongly, look for ways in which it is wrong similar to the "hipster" drive. I haven't defended NK here (although I have seriously looked into visiting it one day) but I'm sympathetic to the mindset that causes that reaction
Convincing someone to pay $100 million for 10% of a business is quite a feat. Not for average joes.
His proclivity for sesquipedalianism, manifested in the substitution of "infelicity" for the more pedestrian "misfortune," may have been an artifice to inveigle the reader into a divergent mode of cogitation.
Nice implementation! I did one of these many years ago here: https://hewgill.com/othello/

The playing engine is based on a tiny C engine which I de-obfuscated and translated to Javascript.
Since when accessible tools are prerequisite for quality? Everybody can buy a pen or brushes.

As an artist, designer and developer, I am more aware of generative AI than the average "prompter" who the startups are using for fine-tuning of the models and pays a hefty price for the "privilege".

A good illustrator with AI and knowledge of composition, color, anatomy and real drawing skills will kick the B out of "everyone" who is prompting aspect ratios and the names of artists which work is represented/stolen in the data set.

The big names in the business will jump to this "novelty" out of hype and cost optimization, only to realize that the results are limited by the dataset and the shiny average of styles actually cannot give serious brand differentiation.

But hey, keep prompting, sorry, creating. You are not a part of the biggest Dunning-Kruger experiment to date. You are an artist, designer, composer, programmer and business owner. Good Luck.:)
Can you explain from a high level why I’d want to use Django Ninja over DRF?

There’s a vibe, or assumption around Ninja that it’s “newer”, or “like FastAPI”, or “the way forward”, none of which are objective benefits per se.

I wouldn’t even say I’m an advanced DRF user, but with a handful of small functions to create ModelSerializer subclasses and ModelViewSet subclasses, I have basically auto-CRUD for any Django model in DRF, and Ninja always seemed verbose by comparison.

Maybe I just have really simple use cases that work with this approach. Like, are there examples you can share that would be painful in DRF that are easier to navigate in Ninja? Or is it just personal preference of liking the more freeform style of FastAPI?
Still they pay $500/month salary for "lead security engineer": https://www.superjob.ru/vakansii/veduschij-inzhener-programm...
As an American, I am perplexed by the fill-now-pay-after European gas pumps.

I suppose something like that can only exist in a high trust environment.
With approval (eg - PIN or password) you might be able to withdrawal funds.

But, can't you say the same thing about a credit card? Heck, you don't even need a password for that; everything you need is right on the card.

Or, your mobile device (if you pay through near-field tech)?
How? There are generations born in Israel, people who have nothing to do with occupation, they were born into this situation same like Palestinians. Why would they leave?

My father is Belorussian jew, mother Dagestanian Ukrainian, I was born in Russia. I'm Israely. Where exactly do you want me to pack up my bags and leave? Because I WILL fight you if you'll try to deport me to Russia...

I consider calls "to end the occupation" a sign of lack of understanding of the other side, we have nowhere to go.
OP clearly means "technically trivial"
That capability exists today, courtesy of Toyota Research Institute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-CGSQAO5-Q

You can probably collect your $100 now.
As Ars mentions, Google maintains that these apps are not properly checking the context of the autofill. Android's digital asset links is a secure way to verify that an app is associated with a specific web domain. As a password manager, you need to use these links to validate that the Android app you're autofilling into matches the domain that you're autofilling into.

If they don't do that, they are effectively leaking your credentials through negligence. Recommend staying far away from the ones that dismissed this issue as wontfix.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/auto...
No worries, I don't have an opinion one way or the other, just trying to be helpful. Cheers.
How do I put this?

Assuming that a given LLM was trained on N percent of the Internet, then exposing your kid to that LLM is, given sufficient time and API spend, exposing them to everything in that N percent.

So, I leave it to you to determine how comfortable you are allowing your child to more or less freely experience N percent of the Internet.
Wiki link says that was published in 2010, a lot has happened in the field in 13 years. That predates whole classes of immuno-theraputics like grafting B-Cell (cells that produce antibodies) receptors onto CD8+ T cells (cells that kill infected cells), which I forget the name of.
If humans are processing the output, I agree with you.

But for an AI (or a script running commands), a bunch of floating point numbers in a table will get you more reliability and better results.
Therapeutic Nationalism and Other Opportunistic Decouplings
This is the reason why I went with a Pico 4 for now.

It has flexible IPD and a better screen than the Quest 2, and only cost me 200€.

The ecosystem is worse with less apps, but for getting my feet wet it’s ample.
Brilliant. Thank you so much!
>it stands to reason that if phones are distracting

The action of using your phone is distracting, not that phones are distracting. You can absolutely use your phone as a GPS. The process of interaction is the distracting part.

>literally designed to get your attention

The NIH article actually says literally the opposite, of what you're saying. Billboards aren't distracting enough to completely draw your attention.

>a simple internet search yields all sorts of research into this topic supporting the common sense expectation.

No... No it doesn't. As evidenced by the results you provided. One talks about safety billboards and the other literally says the opposite of your claim.

And I quote: "Generally, billboard-related distraction appeared to be minor and regulated by drivers as the demands of the driving task changed."

>As a community, we should strive for higher information commentary maybe?

Yes. You definitely should note just make un-appealable claim without knowing the reasons for it. Your argument that billboards are a safety hazard is just your opinion, that has more evidence against than for.
> The lying is clearly aimed at gaining investment money and preorders, though, not at some bizarre attempt at motivating engineers.

It would be dumb to be caught "lying" over and over and Musk is not know to be dumb. Consider the possibility Musk is using reflexivity to accelerate progress. When people become convinced something is possible and work towards that goal their strong belief changes reality because there is a feedback loop between reality and beliefs.
Thank you for posting this. More proof of what I said. He did not say that they would definitively do it, he said exactly at the timestamp that you gave: "Our goal is".

So clearly didn't say that it would happen for certain
I argue this already happened. Facebook Inc (therefore Zuck personally) in 2015 effectively wielded total control of the world. Adjusting weights in ML systems there could determine who would be President of the United States.

Only when that power became clear to the common man, and to Congress, did any effort to rein it in take place. That fear is why their Stablecoin effort was completely destroyed by the US Government. Too much power concentration. It's why Jack Ma was pulled away to some black site and presumably beaten with reeds for a few months.
I tested the prompts with dalle-3 (through the API)

The flying squirrel one, was spot on, it showed an image of the trees, and a squirrel with wings, which kind of looned like bat wings.

The 3 girls hugging each other however worked fairly well, it always created 3 different types of persons, but they never hugged each other. Either two of these 3 hugged each other, or no one hugged someone.
The Kubernetes 1.29 release interview
I think everyone is also burying the HUGE wrench in the whole idea of storage preservation:

>And, yes, some people have asked why Tim doesn’t have other backups around, but (again) the FBI took all of his shit. And finding (and paying for) multiple backup services that can handle 250 TBs of data is likely pretty cost prohibitive.

This was a pretty big story back then: https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2023/08/10/tim-burke-fbi...

though the names in that URL probably gives the real reason behind this "investigation". Rich people got caught with their pants down and we know laws don't apply to them
Viewport to the graphic cube got crowded out by the menus of sliders and switches.

Saw nothing.

Latest Firefox, Apple latest iPhone/latest iOS.
Q2 owner, decided not to upgrade to the Q3 because I want a mid range headset with a DisplayPort connection.

As much as I appreciate wireless PCVR - I am excited for its future but it doesn't do it for me at this stage.

People say that the latency and fidelity are indistinguishable from wired PCVR - that has not been my experience. I have a high end WiFi 6 router where the Q2 is the only device connected in line of sight of the router via 5ghz and my PC is connected via gigabit ethernet. I have also tweaked all the settings, purchased Virtual Desktop and done my best.

It's _fine_ but certainly not delivering anywhere close to what the headset hardware can offer in terms of fidelity.

The worst part is that, though better than wireless, even PCVR over the link cable is kinda rubbish.

Previously to the Q2 I had an HP Reverb G2 and the visual quality was mind blowing - however the controller tracking and software was a disaster. Prior to that I had a Rift 2 and prior to that Lenovo Explorer.

The Quest 2 feels about as good as the Rift 2 - though I think I preferred the Rift 2 because it had little-to-no setup and felt more responsive in games like BeatSaber.

The reviews for the Q3 sing its praises but I have been here before. I have tried the Pico 4 and I know the Q3 is around that level of quality - however the lack of uncompressed, responsive PCVR keeps me away.

If Meta released a Rift 3 - which was just a lighter/thinner Q3 without the battery/SoC - I'd be all over it. I'd love to see them improve the PCVR software, incorporate hand tracking and other such improvements.

Even for productivity, a wired PCVR headset makes more sense as it would be lighter, thinner, have unlimited run time and better latency/quality for work that doesn't suit lossy compression.

The bigscreen beyond basically proves that point - if only it wasn't like $4000 AUD excluding the base stations and controllers haha.

So yeah, I'm sticking to my Q2 until someone somewhere releases a decent mid ranged PCVR headset.
> There was no Palestinian identity prior to 1960. One can easily confirm this for themselves

How so? When I search for the history of the Palestinian identity I can easily find something called Dux Palestinae on Roman maps from 400 CE on both banks of the Jordan river[1], a map of Palestine in 1482 version of Claudius Ptolemy's Cosmographia [1], a British issued passport and coins from the 1920s[1], a letter from Albert Einstein to the editors of The New York Times about happenings in Palestine and Palestine Jewish communities[2], etc.

The problem with looking for a Palestinian identity prior to 1960s is (a) there are historic artifacts, written records, etc. of one existing as early as the 1920s[*], and (b) the notion of the nation state didn’t exist (or was rather rare) prior to world war 1, and not every nation was given a state when nation states proliferated. So just because the nation state of Palestine didn’t exist before the 1920s, that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about the Palestinian people before that period, even if they never called them selves such on written records[†]. Talking about national identity in modern terms prior to the proliferation of nation states is kind of nonsensical.

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* The same applies to the Nakba, however I choice not to engage in a debate about conspiracy theories which deny the history of very real horrors experienced by very real people, of whom many are still alive.

† This reminds me of a Monty Python sketch from The Holy Grail when King Arthur refers to him self as the “King of the Britons” to the peasantry, to which the peasantry promptly reply: “The king of the who?” and “Who are the Britons?”[3]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine

2: https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYork...

3: http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Holy_Grail/Scene3.htm