skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might find this counter at all interesting if not for:

A) it stands to reason that if phones are distracting so are billboards which are literally designed to get your attention

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

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

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/05/02/study-distracting-roa...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4411179/
I'm not sure about reading, but this was an interesting video on the topic linked elsewhere in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZzXidHVvJU
> So many boondoggles could be killed off before they spend money.

This is, in fact, precisely the issue with government contracting. But not in the way you think.

For all practical purposes, every single government contract can be cancelled without warning and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Consequently, every single government contract is executed with that in mind.

This leads to all the pathological behaviors that everybody bitches about.
And who can trust Meta anyway? No thanks.
Check out this on AWS's Q from Corey Quinn .

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-degenerative-ai-blund...

Generative AI is awesome but also crazily overhyped.

Remember when Siri / Alexa / Cortana / the Google thing were the big thing?

Now presumably there are more Alexas in cupboards than anywhere else.
Does this still require a Facebook account to use?
Seems like this may not have been an outage, but intentional while they worked on fixing a longstanding vulnerability. https://threadreaderapp.com/scrolly/1734802168723734764
> No VR company has ever catered for those with faulty vision.

For what it's worth, the HTC Vive Flow and XR Elite headsets have adjustable diopter lenses, and the Bigscreen Beyond headset can be bought with first-party made-to-order prescription lenses that attach to magnets built into it.
Q2 was priced for a fire sale until they hiked mid '22. Maybe Q2 has always been cheap, and product discovery is still a barrier.

This peripheral is obviously the future, and not apparently a CueCat situation.

It's gonna take doing to convince people it's not that TV screen they stick on your face at the dentist.
May be true, but that coffee table is still something I want.

Given it existed 16 years ago why did the concept just get culled? We are now just left with boring coffee tables, photo sharing, music selection, movie picking, event planning, all stuck in the same model for the last 15 years.

Where are my smart glasses and HUDs?

We all have gone back to being excited over talking with a chatbot via text. Personally I would rather have some mates over having fun with the above table.
Thank God. I’m excited for the re-segregation era to end.
I feel like someone could satisfy this issue with a little background removal AI in the pipeline. I also go through the same process, stitching together a few tools, and obviously it's possible... but it sure would be nice if it all fit together better. Something where "transparent background" was translated to "white background" or something and then it went through the background removal.
> just the current choices of focusing on health tracking right now seems limiting to me.

Anecdotally, my peer group uses it everyday to check how their last day was and use that info to regulate their activities today. Then discuss it with their peers everyday.
I think this is an expectation thing. People expect to be able to figure it out in time x. They expect they'd have to use y time to find the solution in the docs. And people will most often estimate that x <<< y, having been burned by bad documentation before. People will often be disappointed that their search through the docs didn't get them any answers and most people will have strong memories of "figuring it out eventually" by throwing spaghetti at the wall long enough.
> more-less the same as before

Not if you have no account and are not in US. Before, when I clicked on twitter link it worked 99.9% of the time. Now it is lottery. Sometimes it loads without comments, most of the time it does not load at all.
https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/15/2923/2022/amt-15-2923...
For Othello, picking the positionally best square (corners very good, adjacent to corners very bad, 2 squares from corner good, etc.) beats lookahead, likely because having unflippable pieces in good positions leads to large swings in score in the endgame that a short lookahead won't see.

I play almost purely positionally with no conscious lookahead and I beat it soundly every time, playing as both black and white, frequently with the AI having to pass because it had no legal moves.

A "don't yield a corner" heuristic to never move in the three squares around a corner unless there are no other legal moves would likely significantly strengthen its play.
It's a well known "secret" at this point what the next chip will be and it's a new Tegra. Nintendo is all in on DLSS 3.5
> I recall seeing stuff about this in California

People love to talk shit about California (I don't mean OP, but generally, and increasingly), but that state gets right as much as it gets wrong. And at least it fucking does something. It's expected to pass strict regulations tomorrow on the type of stonecutting that Australia is banning. That adds up because Australia is a country that likes to ban things and America is not. That holds true even in California, which is far more pro-commerce than people seem to pretend.

But the bigger point is that outside of Australia and California, a small but tragic number of working people will continue to die a rough and premature death because most states, countries, counties, whatever jurisdiction, don't have the basic competency and clear-sightedness to pass laws that cause no one true harm but save literal human lives.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11969381/california-regulators-to-...
I pay for things with credit card if they don't tack on a fee for it. I pay with a check if they do.
But can a Transformer run on the Apollo Guidance Computer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

Frequency 2.048 MHz

Memory 15-bit wordlength + 1-bit parity

2048 words RAM (magnetic-core memory)

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
No, they brought back email accounts a while ago.

https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/meta-accounts/
I've been making APIs in django for years and for each project, at some point the API behaviour needs to differ from the model. It is not clear from the README how would one handle that use case.
I struggled to get through the culturally aware section. Apparently the technology should define its responses in terms of what ever identity group the user has been lumped into. For some reason if it doesn't do this, it won't have the same reach.
I agree with you, autocomplete definitely isn't the only reason for static typing making a comeback and dynamic language popularity dying off (and the big legacy names like Javascript and Python have Typescript and mypy/pyright to transform them into a facsimile of one). I think a lot of it has to do with maturity, where a lot of "move fast and break things" devs who loved untyped Node/PHP/Python got burned by bugs and impossible to comprehend legacy codebases and slowly realized the value of static typing. But that type of understanding takes years. A novice programmer can see the value of autocomplete and not having to check the docs or stackoverflow for the name of a method pretty much instantly.
> It would be trivial to implement and make things much more secure…

If it were truly trivial, this would have been implemented long ago. This isn’t a pure engineering problem as much as it’s a “convincing people to do it” problem.
A deluded narcissist?
> or they straight up just offer prescription lenses for VR headsets themselves.

Ive never seen this. If I could of ordered my Index with my prescription it would be a whole different reality. I had to seek addition inserts from a 3rd party vendor.

I don't doubt vendors are working on the issue. But Meta, facebook caring for their customers with glasses on first approach? They should be able to sell the pair with my prescription for the same cost as those without. Why should I have to pay more when the process is no different in manufacture.

Maybe I'm just jealous as I would love to see the world without having to require an operation nor needing glasses. Having eye surgery to get my astigmatism fixed was difficult enough.

I just for-see "its supercool to wear glasses because I can X " yet when my experience of wearing glasses has been hell, doesn't make me happy. Maybe school was better for you wearing glasses but for me.. no.
"To inform people that they are being photographed, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses include a tiny LED light embedded in the right frame to indicate when the device is recording. When a photo is snapped, it flashes momentarily. When a video is recording, it is continuously illuminated."

"Albert Aydin, a Meta spokesman, said the company took privacy seriously and designed safety measures, including a tamper-detection technology, to prevent users from covering up the LED light with tape."

How long until someone figures out how to circumvent that?
Then it would be easy for you to provide multiple studies, saying that billboards are distracting.

Not just your opinion, but a lot of concrete evidence. We have had billboards for decades now. There's tonnes of data on where accidents happen. Yet no one seems to be able to provide data based backing to their opinions...
At the end of the day, it is data. It might get read out of 3 different underlying systems, enriched by some kind of computation (dynamic or computed attributes vs ones that are actually persisted to a db, etc) but it is data.

If you can think in data, as you say the underlying mechanisms for storing and retrieving that are less important. They are when it comes to performance and persistence guarantees, but if you abstract things correctly, that becomes easier.

To add to my initial comment... Two things that come to mind as vital to a healthy system: SOLID principles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID) and Clean Architecture (https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-a...), and Hexagonal Architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_architecture_(softwa...) come to mind.

Recently I saw a post here that clean architecture was dead. This is hilarious to me and not true. If you are writing a low-level script, sure you can avoid that and optimize ... but for larger systems (ie, anything that is outside of a single process), clean+hexagonal is the way to go.
This confirms that they don't really withhold access to other models because of "safety", but simply because those models are not as good as advertised.
Here are some additional tech predictions relevant to the HN community to compare and contrast:

Gartner tech trends: https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner-top-10-strategic...

Gartner AI predictions: https://www.cio.inc/future-ai-gartners-predictions-for-2024-...

Dell predictions: https://www.dell.com/en-us/perspectives/top-tech-predictions...

Deloitte predictions: https://www.deloitte.com/global/en/about/press-room/deloitte...

BDO predictions: https://www.bdo.com/insights/industries/technology/bdo-tech-...

NTT predictions: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ntt-announces-key-technology-...

Techopedia: https://www.techopedia.com/tech-layoffs-predictions

MIT Tech Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/23/1045416/10-break...
I mean take a page from cryptocurrencies [0] and allow multiple wallets. Then add on access control. Payroll is always going to want to be able to pull back from the “wallet”, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be some access control mechanism that says “only payroll can push to or pull from this wallet address”.

[0]: or whatever thing one wants to say is responsible for generating the idea of multiple electronic wallets. I get that some people think crypto is dumb. Take your pick on what was responsible for this idea.
Will the code be released, or an API endpoint? Otherwise it will be impossible for us to use it for anything.. since it's Google I assume it will just end up in a black hole like most of the research.. or five years later some AI researchers leave and finally create a startup.
Yeah, there is always the high-level view of these things and the low-level.

The way LLMs make stuff up is oft-remarked upon and is unclear whether it's a dealbreaker or not but it might be for any/all of this to come to pass.

Here's an Werner/AWS-specific LLM anecdote along those lines:

I went onto AWS's LLM Q for the first time today, a little chat icon nicely/helpfully linked from their documentation pages (when logged into my AWS account) and asked it a question which I was unable to find an answer in their docs or via Google/Bing/StackOverflow after 5-10 minutes of searching.

What Redshift SQL query can I write to tell whether the instance I am connected to is a Redshift Serverless or a Redshift Provisioned cluster?

(I have migrated Redshift clusters in Dev/Nonprod to Serverless to reduce cost, but featureset is not identical so some of our app code is sensitive to the differences and needs to detect which type of environment is present before executing. The release number, but not the instance type, can be found in Redshift SELECT VERSION();.)

AWS Q LLM replies:

To check if an Amazon Redshift cluster is provisioned or serverless, you can run the following SQL query:

SELECT cluster_type FROM svv_cluster_info;

The cluster_type will return either "provisioned" or "serverless".

You can only connect to and query Serverless clusters using the Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2. Provisioned clusters can be queried using either Query Editor v1 or v2.

[...+more text on the differences and a bulleted list of 3 weblinks/sources provided...]

Wow! Awesome! This answered my question perfectly! The response and code is formatted beautifully just like real documentation. There are a lot of SVV_ system views and I guess I just missed this one. I am at this point very impressed.

I go to actually try the above query on my serverless and provisioned clusters...

Serverless: SQL Error [42P01]: ERROR: relation "svv_cluster_info" does not exist
Provisioned: SQL Error [42P01]: ERROR: relation "svv_cluster_info" does not exist

Aww, man!

Another attempt answered similarly affirmatively, this time mentioning an imaginary "SVV_CLUSTER" view (which also didn't work.) So I don't think this is just some "unreleased future feature" leaked to the LLM via its training set of internal documentation (wouldn't that be nice! err, kinda...), since even the SVV_ view name isn't the same when you ask a similar question at different times.

Even as a chatbot, the most obvious use case, this is is not really meeting the mark.

I know it's brand new and rushed out of the door for re:Invent two weeks ago and I know it'll get better... but it was a bit hard to read Werner's article a few hours later and take it seriously. My first Bayesian prior is now a "err, no".
I'm getting the impression that some of the competitors haven't built anything to test yet. Based upon that, using the current performance of Starlink and comparing it to the hypothetical performance of others might not be fair. If Starlink is losing an award because of supposition, that's bad.

But I must admit that I haven't read all of the history here.
Just moving past all of that, isn't this just a priority queue, where friends share the same priority as you?
As long as AI is controlled by Silicon Valley, it will never become culturally aware, because the people controlling it are not the slightest culturally aware. They think diversity sits in the skin colour, and that's about as far as they are willing to think about it, because they are intellectually lazy and have dead souls, without any curiosity for the world.

They train their AI on some false assumptions that fits their political faith, and foreigners who need to use their AIs will have to learn about the biases and work around them. Just like it is today.
An all-you-can eat might ban you for getting more food but they won't pump your stomach to undo all the food they already gave you. Google already let him store that data, if they regret that they should ban him from storing more. Deleting his data after permitting him to store it is completely over the line. No buffet in the world runs like that, not even those owned by literal gangsters.
The biggest problem I see with design systems implementations is too much variation, which I think stems from the fact designers have not actually thought out what the User Experience is going to be and how the design system is suppose to facilitate that, for the whole product line

Yes, the whole product line. If you want consistency in a product, it has to start with deciding what UX modalities you want to adopt, and sticking to that. Less is more, usually. Don't add a new component until you have actually exhausted the ability to use the ones you started with, if you decide to pivot UX you need to pivot wholesale etc.

Getting people to stay on the rails as it were, is seemingly impossible, but when you can, it works very well.

I'm abridging a bit (its a iterative process, start with wireframes over full flesh designs and other things) however this does, in a nutshell, work and has a forcing function of actually focusing on the user and product rather than design in and of itself
I took a very quick glance at Jsonformer - it looks like the right tool here. If you are looking for a PR, I can help, but might take me a bit of time to get oriented.

I am considering using RΞASON for a side project so interested in it.
I wish the person I sold my fully-loaded 1/2 TB MicroSD Vita to a grand adventure with a pocketable gaming/homebrew/emulation/piracy machine. Nothing matches it in tis market given its capibilities. The Switch lite tried, but I ain't touching that crap without HDMI output and no mods available.
Hope this doesn't come as snarky, but does Google pressure researchers to do PR in their papers? This really is cool, but there is a lot of self-promotion in this paper and very little discussion of limitations (and the discussion of them is bookended by qualifications why they really aren't limitations).

It makes it harder for me to trust the paper if I feel like the paper is trying to persuade me of something rather than describe the complete findings.
As a non American, the idea of a bank account number being a kind of secret that is usable to pull money out of the account is the most curious thing to me. I guess something like this can only exist in a high trust environment.
> anyone will be able to make a brand new Taylor Swift

I was with you until this. I think music is actually informative for what we can expect in visual arts and generative models generally; synths, drum machines, and music production equipment and software share very similar qualities with this new stuff, yet we still have rockstars like Swift.
A second processor isn't that crazy of an idea for Nintendo given the 3DS had an ARM11, ARM9, and an ARM7!

Famously, the 3DS has complete GBA hardware inside of it that never got used outside of the Ambassador Program.
1. There is no <memory.h> in any version of ISO C, nor in POSIX.

2. This is not C89; at best GNU C 89, because a variable is declared after a statement:

{
if( msgLen == 0 )
msgLen = 1;
/* queueLen == 0 is an unbuffered channel, but we still need one slot to transport the message */
CspChan_t* c = (CspChan_t*)malloc(sizeof(CspChan_t) + queueLen*msgLen);

To help enforce that you're actually writing C89, you should set your compiler to C89 and turn on whatever additional diagnostics may be required like -pedantic.
Not much in the Python language is categorically worse than features within JS when it comes to JIT creation.

My thesis work was on AOT JS compilation, in it I refer to a bunch of experimental Python runtimes, Self,etc and the main issues in all these papers were basically the of same kind.

Heck, even PyPy exists and iirc when it comes to the core language is almost entirely compatible (except for code that relies on ref-counting semantics but that code should apparently big fixed anyhow).

https://www.pypy.org/compat.html

The real summary is:
CPython is a turd in many ways, the old C api holds it back and the community hasn't put the effort into using cross-implementation compatible C-bindings instead making PyPy or others a second class citizen.
> if she is required to be eyes open, looking forward, hands on wheel for autopilot to work

Once FSD switches on, the behavior I have gathered is that if it thinks you're looking away from the road for too large a percentage of the time (you're allowed some percentage of time to look at the mirrors etc.) or if you don't apply force to the steering wheel for a certain period of time, it classifies you as not attentive and starts warning you with a flashing blue gradient on the screen and a small-font text at the bottom saying "Please pay attention to the road" or similar.

The weird thing is, because my arm is too light for the force sensor to pick up, and the camera's judgement is easily obstructed by sun shade or by sunglasses, I have to pay attention to the screen to avoid missing the flashing blue gradient, and jerk the steering wheel as soon as I see the gradient. (Yeah, even if there are trucks on both sides, it requires you to jerk the wheel slightly to prove you're there or you get punished)

If you don't see the flashing blue gradient for several seconds, it beeps for about 2 seconds, turns fiery red, and punishes you with an FSD strike (5 strikes and your software is downgraded to a more dangerous version for a week) and not allowed to use self-driving until the next time you exit and re-enter the car.

Sometimes I'm often too distracted by the road to notice these stupid gradients on the screen and get a FSD strike.

But there are really no better cars on the market that serve my medical needs. Almost all the alternative cars' lane keep products are programmed to crash, not drive, if the driver loses consciousness. So while I hate Tesla's driver attentiveness implementation, it's still the only brand with a lane keep implementation that's designed to actually keep the driver alive.

> As for the capacitance sensing, wouldn't that not work with gloves?

Capacitive sensing can easily work with gloves. It's not required to be pixel-accurate like a mobile phone, it just needs to sense whether or not there's a hand there and that can easily be done through gloves.
The question was if Israel can control how much food can enter Gaza no? You said that they have a border with Egypt, as if Israel does not control what goes in and out there and they do not have an effective blockade. It clearly does not matter if Egypt allows them to do this or not.

In response to someone that basically said "say something nice about Israel or I wont talk to you".
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I agree with this. But we have to operate in the world that exists and not necessarily the one that we wish to exist.
I've not yet been interested in anything VR, but glad to see there's innovation and cheap entry points.
Nice insight.

I'd call it an affinity queue, or perhaps an associative priority queue.
Will Arms Treaty Hurt Privacy? (1998)
~6 years ago I got new countertops, and while they did the bulk of the cutting in their facility, they did do a few cuts in my front yard, creating a huge cloud of dust. The main parts of the counter arrived ready to assemble, but I think they cut a spanning piece for behind the stove, spanning the counters on either side.

My 8yo son came out to see what was going on, looked at the workers doing the cut without masks, and said "silicosis ain't no joke" and went back inside. I've taught him well.
Actually my focus was less on poor people and more on the incorrect assumption in the article that true check fraud was non existent.