skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite all of the scary casting, there is fairly little you need to know about C to understand what's going on.
I remember some visions of the future from Microsoft from the early 2000s. They even demoed some cool gear with the Kinect and I even managed to try out the table at their campus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VfpVYYQzHs

That and this vision too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wraF2DjALls

Now I speak to others SWEs in tech from semis to hyperscalers and it feels so bleak. All ethereal bollocks with crypto and AI. All designed to make someone else money. Where is the cool wearable, IoT, actual human interaction tech.

We should be having magic mirrors, that style of coffee table... Heck I would settle on smarter green tech.

Everything honestly seemed more fun back then from the state of the web, gaming.

I have never been so bored with the state of tech.
hey dropbox, get me that pdf about dinosaurs that I last accessed about 6 months ago
I'm in the U.S. and don't see it on my free account either. I also don't have early access features turned on, so I wonder if it could be related to that. [Or, as is mentioned in some other comments, maybe free accounts don't have the option because they can't access AI powered features.]
By the way, Particular Vehicles have been safely serving Particular Areas for decades: airport driverless shuttles. Slowly expanding from there is the right way to go, not "New York to Palo Alto by 2017", as Musk promised.
Because everybody knows that the Ether doesn't move. So Ethereal waves travel at the same speed in all directions.
Can you even tell if a call is coming from verizon? AIUI, in the US, mobile numbers look like any other phone number. (here, each mobile carrier got an 08X prefix where the X was exclusive to them. But you can port numbers instantly, so that only tells you where they started.)
In software, "A Philosophy of Software Design" is a must read imo. Otherwise Rich Hickey's talks are always very insightful.
It's a mixed bag. Only sheer scale allowed Apple to pour in a huge amount of money into their M chips, probably the most important consumer-facing innovation on desktops in the past 5 years.
I mean, it's published, 跳べない蛙, you can buy it on Amazon or wherever. But in Japanese.
Private companies and mom & pop shops.
Lab Grown Brains + AI = ??
Is even a single one of these concrete enough to be verifiable? Is this what passes for hypotheses in our business?

If you make predictions, please make them concrete enough (actual numbers!) that we can tell in hindsight whether you were right or wrong. Without being able to judge someone's prediction track record, it's all useless for informing any real decision.
This seems like quite a big deal. The article doesn't state the likely cost, but that may be less important than the substantial loss of face for Tesla given all the claims that have been made for autopilot.
The state of merging technology
Not necessarily -- we can have AGI, but it might be too resource-intensive to put in a mobile platform like a car.
Thank you for sharing this data. I've just been debating between M2 Mac Studio Max and a 64GB i9 10900x with RTX 3090 for personal ML use. Glad I chose the 3090! Would love to learn more about your setup.
Does it potentially solve the problem of anti viruses false-flagging the runtime? Pyinstaller was giving me huge headaches with this
I have various folders mapped to RAM, like e.g. /var/tmp.

This has many uses, as you said. E.g. sometimes even just downloading a video stream to disc creates a temporary file in the destination folder for every fragment. I just d/l those into /var/tmp first and then mv the finished video to where it's supposed to live. I'm sure both my SSD and HDD are grateful! =)
I've used RHEL support too, believe it or not, while working as a DevOps engineer at Red Hat on www.redhat.com. And the support specialist assigned to my issue was very sharp and solved the issue quickly. Easy in hindsight but I was stuck so I reached out, and I was glad I did. It involved a segfault and grabbing a core dump and analyzing it. ++Red Hat Support
This story reminds me that education is a privilege and I'm probably not enjoying it as much as I should.
Get this on a VR headset and you have a game changer literally.
Meta is working on some of that stuff. But in the current economic era of profit over innovation / growth, those sentiments you miss are going to be dormant for a while.
> You absolutely can't see them in the earth's penumbra

I have seen them with my own eyes and they've been filmed. It's just not correct. It's particularly visible when the sun is hitting them. You can find several photos and videos of them from the ground.
I actually don't know the details of the landlord's obligations (besides putting info into forms, then having tenant sign the forms) but a guest is supposed to stay only a limited number of nights per year.
I hate the article is using DRM as explanation. It has nothing to do with DRM or anything with preventing software from being tampered with.

It was parts of software included by producer to make 3rd party shops look incapable of servicing. Placed there in a sneaky way.

DRM makes it look like official documented tampering prevention - article itself is good. Use of DRM in title and in article is just wrong.
> Where is the cool wearable, IoT, actual human interaction tech

You should look into wearable devices like whoop which are steadily carving out the future of useful health-related wearable tech.
I won’t hangout with people wearing this shit.
Omg thank you! I didn’t know I needed this in my life haha
If trying to get someone’s attention is dirty, what moneymaking enterprise is clean?
Show HN: Django Ninja CRUD – Rethinking CRUD Operations in Django
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I upgraded from a day1 vive to the quest 3 last week, boy what an insane progress (and for half the 2016 price!), except for tracking, can't beat lasers I guess, but it's good enough.
So my analogy is false huh? Then say a true one!

The point is that "deployed to a limited area" is not what people are thinking when they talk about a "self driving car." Of course ParkShuttle isn't the same as Waymo (or any other modern self-driving car) - but the question is how far we've come!

Are you claiming Waymo is ready to drive anywhere in the world? I do not think that's Waymo's position. So where are we? Cut through the rhetoric and tell it like it is - or join the rest of us who are speculating from the sidelines with incomplete information.
SD can’t give indemnification the way Google and Microsoft can.
I made an automated DJ at https://cappinkirk.com because I like listening to hip-hop instrumental music in this style with on key mashups but I can't do it as perfectly as software can, also it has way more variety of combinations than I would be capable of.
I think it's like designing an API. Create the wireframe components you need and use them for a while before codifying them into a design system (API).

In other words, observe the function in order to allow form to follow it.
This is also a good read and the researcher has good talks on youtube:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493566/ "Cancer as a mitochondrial metabolic disease"
The beneficiaries of road alternatives include road users as well. Since it benefits road users, it also benefits everyone you just listed.
The webpage says: Data transfers into Amazon S3 are free.
Looking good! The AI player is just a simple 2-ply lookahead,
so should be beatable by the better Othello players (not me).
Read. My. Comments. I am not claiming that WASM has been misleadingly marketed. pjmlp is. Ask him to link to what he's referring to.
How long until you can stitch Street View into a seamless streaming NeRF of every street in the world? I hope that's the goal you're working towards!
The killer app for smart glasses. I want this so much.
We have updated article https://tech.instacart.com/zero-downtime-postgresql-cutovers...
Supabase Realtime: Architecture
This is very hyperbolic and inaccurate.

In 2023 it's not a 1-2% performance penalty anymore and certainly not for most use cases. Only if the 15th register is critical for performance on an x86_64 CPU.

Certain workloads might suffer more, but most will certainly suffer less than a 1-2% hit.
As Media Reckons with AI Giants, Another Major Publisher Takes the Money
I know the hugging face leaderboard isn't wildly accurate.

But the top models right now are almost all under 70B. Most are 7B, and the top is 10B. If the benchmarks are even remotely accurate then this is rather wild.

Apparently multiple groups found different "secret sauces", names upstage and whatever UNA is?
You are prematurely optimizing.

"can make use of this improved debugging information to diagnose and target performance issues that are orders of magnitude more impactful than the 1-2% upfront cost."

Also, can't you get reliable stack dumps when something goes wrong too?
This is a good point. So long as you define “government money” as “something other than money from the government”, SpaceX does not rely on government money.

You can see that this is true with other businesses as well, no business relies on getting “customer money” because “customer money” means when customers donate to you in exchange for nothing, not money that they pay in exchange for goods or services.
This group is called "adfree cities", and yet, looking at their websites, it looks like they are heavily into ads themselves.

Sure, their ads are more ethical, I guess, calling to action against fossil fuels is better than advertising for fossil fuels, I guess. But ethical ads are still ads, they clutter the landscape, they call for attention and are an attempt to influence people.

I understand that even anti-ad groups need to advertise themselves, but really, I would have preferred if they could show more actual ad removal and less ad replacement.
I would like to know the same.

It shouldn’t be so hard since many apps have this. But what is the most reliable way right now?
Zillow is for US. These bookies were in Europe.
Given that the word "hacker" originated in the model railway world, I think its the perfect name here.
All they have to do is an OTA update though. It's like a bug fix basically.
Even without the bank giving the check writer the privilege of overdrafting, either the bank or the check recipient has to absorb the loss if they accept a check for which the check writer has insufficient funds (unless the bank goes after the check writer). By contrast, with a debit card, the credit risk is much less (since the bank knows before the transaction whether sufficient funds are available).
> It was my understanding that a deal with Saudi Arabia would have pushed Israel to a more peaceful solution (see https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141302 and others. note the date) like abandoning settlements and such. Hamas would loose it's foothold with some Palestinians in that case.

My impression was that the Palestinian issue was not at all at the heart of anyone's objectives, that some outside powers mentioned it in passing, and that Israel said nothing about it. I read that the Palestinians were very concerned about being abandoned by the world (they already see it that way, but thought the deal would be the final nail), and after the attacks I read that Hamas said that was an impetus for the attack.

> Hamas uses civilians as protective shields, hides under hospitals etc. to generate outrage. And you can see it working pretty well. Or shooting rockets from the rooftops of civilian's houses. I don't envy Israel: either shoot civilians or loose your own in rocket attacks.

That's Israel's argument and I expect it's at least somewhat true, but it's one of those things repeated often but that I haven't seen much factual support for. I don't expect much factual support: Who has access to Hamas planning, witnesses enough attacks, etc. to provide some objective verification? So that doesn't make it true or false, but I still have questions: In densely-populated Gaza, does Hamas have a non-civilian place from which to operate? And Hamas is an insurgency; they can't operate openly (have bases, open formations, etc.) - they would just be target practice for the Israeli bombs. I'd like to see a military expert talk about it.

Israeli partisans like to frame the issue with the last sentence quoted, but they have many other options of kind and degree, and they've had other options for many years. Israel has chosen in the recent past (~ last 20 years) indefinite low-level warfare, which is a self-defeating choice.

I'm mostly objecting to these points. I don't think they represent Israel's real position and needs well, but undermine it.

> Talking about history, I don't understand the whole fuzz about this anyway. Jews have been there for thousands of years.

I'm not sure what fuzz you're referring to here?

Length of tenure doesn't entitle anyone to real estate or the world would be really screwed up: every square meter has had many occupants, especially the Holy Land. It is a popular way aggressors justify themselves - 'it is our ancestral land!' Putin, for example, uses that for Ukraine.
Quality contribution; thanks for commenting.
One of the most beautiful s.f. books of all times.
I got a good answer for you, but it's long winded. It all started with the first chemical self-replicator. These replicators consume and compete for resources so they evolve. The will to survive is encoded in their reward systems, their senses and body is adapted to their niche, they all come from evolution. Humans have these basic instincts as well, and we don't need anyone to prompt us, we already got an in-built goal. AIs so far have been created at the will of humans, but the same instincts can emerge if AI can be a self replicator.
I wrote my own version of the quickbooks pro timer app since the old one doesn't work on modern windows but I need it to track time to bill clients and I didn't want to use one of the subscription-based timers. Wrote it in Avalon so it works on PC and MacOS.

I wrote https://gardenate.com for my own use so I could get reminders for when to plant vegetables - it's expanded a bit since then.
Damn, I wanted to read more. Felt like the article received a brutal snip from the editor there.
Again, this doesn't necessarily apply in the case of a sufficiently used service like Signal:

- Alice sends message to Bob at 12:01PM
- Bob receives generic "check me" notification at 12:02PM

The key point with line #2 is that Bob is not the only user at 12:02PM who received that generic notification, and is likely in more chat than one. Pinning the specific notification to Bob is a needle in a haystack. It's not perfect, but it's not the slam dunk people are making it out to be.

And before that's even a concept, you have to contend with the fact that it's very hard to use an Apple device anonymously. The government doesn't need to correlate message timings, because if they have the APNS token for the device, all they have to do is ask Apple who the hell owns the device.

Anonymity and privacy are two different, albeit related, concepts.
Yah, without any evidence to back it up my personal suspicion is that we'll arrive at a local maxima of "full self driving on highways and instrumented roads" in ~20 years. I think the area has a lot of potential, but so much of the hype (and stock price) is tied up with "a car that can drive better than a human everywhere" which seems impossible for anyone to produce.

Just like with IoT we'll eventually arrive at a boring, useful state...it will just take a while.
Again, you rely on the utterly false notion of a "zero-sum" economy, when in fact it may only be possible to pull everyone out of poverty if we allow people to be proportionately rewarded for their contributions.
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This is really smooth and polished. My othello skills are bottom of barrel so I got whooped by the AI, but had fun anyway.

Does anyone know of something similar for go?
But that wild stuff will become bland after the gold rush I think. You still need to do something different with the same AI that all the other artists / authors have.
I was wondering why this material is so bad, it seems to be because it is mostly silica crystals. Without the resin holding it in place such a material wouldn't be possible.

90–93%: 99.9% pure silica in grits and powder form constitutes;
7–10%: Matrix of unsaturated polyester resin with catalysts to help with ambient temperature curing, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_stone

Technically you can safely handle it, just like technically you can have lead or even asbestos in a lot of places. But some poorly paid worker ends up with ruined health in the end, so I can totally understand the ban.
The Apple 1 could run either the 6502 or 6800! Probably experience with that dictated that people wanted the 6502. Apple also gained enough pull with MOS that at some point they got some say in the feature set of the 6522 VIA.
Navigating Attention-Driving Algorithms
should use FUSE!
Very nice! I like how the state of the game is directly available in the URL - I could send a game directly to another person and have them see the history of the moves I've played, if I understand that correctly.

That said, when I want to go back to the previous page, I now need to click back through the game's history to get there - using `replaceState` from the History API would allow you to keep on using the URL as state, but without clobbering the user's browser history.
I primarily bought my Q3 as a holdover to the Visor. I use the Immersed app and AR definitely is a great feature when using a virtual desktop setup, for drinking coffee and using a real keyboard. I secondarily bought it as a Q1 upgrade for entertainment.

That being said, the AR features still don't hold a candle to the Hololens 2 experience. The hand and environment recognition are still behind, even after 3+ years, and passthrough will never compare to real view. There are tons of visual distortions in the Q3 passthrough to make it usable like the early videos people put out, but for desk work it's fine. Then main issue with Q3 for virtual screens is the uneven pixel density. Words are blurry if not at the center, where you would normally use your eyes to look IRL. This is not peripheral distance, but quick eye glance distance. My understanding is Visor is designing their displays and lenses so this is not an issue.
I use a synology NAS on my home network with syncthing over a wireguard tunnel for dropbox-esque functionality from anywhere (only problem is poor iOS support). Nightly snapshotting to backblaze.
Are you suggesting Reddit is ad-free? It is not, at all. Using the official app or the website that is not located at old.reddit shows a promoted post every 5 or so posts for me. Yes, you can use old.reddit and not get those ads, but then of the content, I'd estimate about 1 in 10 or so posts on r/popular are native advertising.

Reddit is one of the worst and covered in commercial, paid content. Some of it is labeled as an ad, much of it is not.
Delphi: Clone Yourself
Just look at this page! Lots of people doing those things (except the NSA job, which seems a little over the top).
Also, apparently Intel is planning to extend x86_64 to 32 GPRs, with an extension called... sigh[0]... Intel APX[1]. So the overhead of frame pointers will be even lower in the future.

[0] Intel APX is extremely confusable with the iAPX 432, a failed non-x86 architecture Intel made that's completely unrelated to doubling the size of the x64 register file.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
> Or Musk could cut off Ukraine's capacity, which the US military admits is consuming hundreds of millions in Starlink capacity that could be allocated to US consumers to speed up their internet

That doesn’t sound right. Satellites over Ukraine cannot be reached anywhere from the US and they also wouldn’t use the same gateways. So I could see the use of starlink in Ukraine possibly slowing service in Europe. But I cannot see how it would affect customers in the US.
How is the spam? Does fastmail has good filters?
And further, what if there are messages still in the closed channel? Do they just go "poof"? It's fine if they do, but that should be documented.
In some places the lights work like this, but you need to install relatively expensive sensors

The sensors help gather high quality data for traffic models though. That should help traffic engineers to do their job
Don't forget satellites and SIGINT (which just might involve crazy submarines and big "scientific" radio astronomy dishes). Or cover stories about ships and manganese extraction worthy of James Bond.
This author is also living in South Korea which by law bans you to speak positively about North Korea. Not to say NK isn’t bad, but you are unable to have an honest and balanced discussion about it in the media while you live in SK.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_(South...
I kind of want tech to become invisible and just do things without my explicit order. So, AI progress would be exciting. But it feels like 95% is gimmicky. Which is fair, people trying to find a way to extract real value from tech advancements.
What causes a neuron to perform its functions if it isn't some brain? The answer would likely be physics, and I would say that first-person experience is fundamental in the physics if it exists at all.
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Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Liquid Metal
I learned 8080/8085 assembly before looking at x86, and while I can figure out x86 well enough it's still a mess! I don't know that prior experience necessarily makes x86 look any less ugly :P
Innovation isn't just testing something new, it is a new thing that improves something or is valuable in some way. So doing random combinations of things isn't innovation, it is just noise.
On the other hand, I liked that I could back out of a mistake with my browser back button!
I was a horrible college student when I was younger. For a variety of reasons. I quit school, got lucky, and fell into a good tech career.

Many many years later after age 40 I was laid off, wanted a new career path / job, I took a few classes and eventually a bootcamp and changed careers. I was really nervous as far as how it would all play out knowing how terrible I was previously.

It was completely different. The idea that I would go into a room each day and someone would drop some knowledge on me was thrilling. A few other older students like me felt the same way. We were always up front if possible, active, it was a JOY to go to class each day.

Meanwhile I was surrounded by younger folks who reminded me of me as far as being perfectly capable, but low enthusiasm, effort, attention and interest level.

Education, and youth is sometimes wasted on the young. I only wish I could have gone back to school more.

I go to the local university now and then. Despite all the challenges, those folks don't seem to know how good they have it, but I can't judge, neither did I.
For anyone reading, if you care about your work, dysfunctional org situations like that will kill you with stress. Either fix the situation or get away, sooner rather than later. Almost nothing is worth that.
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