skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would really like to know what the whole tech stack was to produce this: Which camera system was used to record these images and what platform they used for building the 3D experience?

The pictures must be of insane resolution, as you can zoom in to read even the smallprint on all the posters clearly (imagine Google StreetView like this). And I didn't really notice any stitching, tripods etc.

Also they have cleverly embedded video animations in some of the rooms 360 degree images. These were clearly recorded separately but I still haven't fully figured out how they added them.
Very well done and indeed probably almost as good as being there in person.
Nobody cares outside the enthusiast market - all they just care about price, that it runs Windows, the latest CPU, availability and the name recognition of Intel and the maker like Dell,Acer or Lenovo.

Office, Youtube and WWW.
Because this is a Hacker's forum -- I hope Eric S. Raymond would not mind me quoting an old comment he made in the Slate Star Codex blog [1]:

"I have a habit of meditation and mysticism going back to the 1970s. The most basic skill for any meditator is to notice when your mind is wandering away from the sensation or thought you are trying to focus on and make it stop – pull your mind back to focus. Also you have to learn to shut up the drunken monkey – suppress (or at least not attend to) the ceaseless babble of random associations and imagery your mind constantly generates when you quiet down your normal conscious thoughts enough to notice it.

I believe, though it’s not something I can measure exactly, that relative to most people my mind is exceptionally disciplined. That is, I can concentrate for longer periods of time, am less easily distracted, can exert more cognitive effort without needing a break from it. This has very practical consequences; given a topic and a tight deadline, I can reliably belt out a couple Kwords of clean copy at continuous high speed until it’s done. Or, in a time crunch on a software project, I can often sit down and write good code until that’s done. (That is less reliable; software is harder.)

I believe I achieved that discipline through meditative practice. It strengthens the concentration muscle – if you do it long enough, even your normal mentation becomes quieter, more single-pointed.

That’s a pretty good “Why do this?”, I think. Of course it’s possible, almost inevitable, that there’s feedback in the other direction; the more single-pointed your normal consciousness is, the easier achieving meditative states is. It’s probably a virtuous circle.

Considering how rare they are in the general population, I know a surprising number of people as bright as I am or brighter. But most seem to get less done than I do. I don’t entirely understand why. At least part of it is that I’m very low in what Big Five psychometry calls neuroticism. But more of it, I think, is the concentration. I sink my teeth into cognitive tasks hard and I don’t let go.

I don’t think that’s accident or genetic lottery. I think it can be learned, and that quieting your drunken monkey is at least one way to learn it. I think I remember getting some vague sense of this in my early teens and exploring mysticism harder because of it. But that was a long time ago; I’m not sure, I could be back-projecting what I learned later."

1: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/18/book-review-mastering-... (Actually, the whole comments thread is interesting -- as is the book review, and the book itself, which I got 3/4 through this spring -- heavy, honest, mildly scary stuff!)
When people believed the internet was a series of tubes
I thought it would be obvious that in large codebases you only lint changed files in CI
As if those were the only options.
The chip industry is sure. But are the customers? The customers who cared are jaded by nearly 15 years of intel and amd utterly failing to make a compelling alternative and likely have a large existing investment in CUDA based GPUs.
Inductive program synthesis stood still for decades because the space is far too large to get anything beyond absolutely trivial programs; LLMs vastly trim (in many wrong ways too of course) the search space and then you can apply ips to finetune and test. You cannot do this (not in any way we know of) without LLMs because it just tests billions of programs that make absolutely no sense even for trivial cases.
Then this game needs more tooltips. I want the game to tell me what the effect of changing this parameter is not compile something, run something, and watch numbers scroll past trying to intuit if it is better or worse.

One other comment said a game was overcoming deliberately placed restrictions and that definitely what this is. Why can't I just dump packets onto the network at link speeds rather than trying to transmit at a constant rate? Fuck the specs, burst now!
Asking the Ethernet Billionaire If It Was Worth It
Are you sure? https://twitter.com/fredberinger/status/492863743030591489?t...

The original post was deleted but the replies match the screenshots 1:1.

This doesn’t appear fake news, specially given the otherwise very clear stance of the Twitter handle in question.
And it would probably turn out as badly as Google selling its own phone.

From the best estimates I can find Google sold around 10 million phones a year. That’s about how many phones that Apple sells in 15 days.

To a first approximation, everyone would still switch to Google if Apple made a search engine.
Learn C++, use UE5++ for rendering, all problems solved (and those that are not solved are solvable). People use all kinds of garbage like C# and Blueprint to do their scripting (and more) and then they're wondering how is it possible that the performance of their game is hot garbage. Bring back higher barriers to entry in game programming!
Key word is "was."
Good Developers Are Always in Demand
Could we defend Earth against a 'rubble pile' asteroid?
Disagree with 1. Most large JS projects I’ve worked on have been relatively high in necessary complexity; probably because many JS projects are relatively simple applications and relatively new (by the standards of enterprise software).

There is also abundant complexity analysis tooling for JS too. When I worked as an architect at a large telco we had this tooling in CI. It revealed some code smells and areas needing refactoring but didn’t really signal anything especially terrible.

Software tooling is more productive than ever and product requirements have grown to use that capacity. It’s definitely not a load of tech debt.
Ask HN: Best way to get Cruise back in San Francisco?
I legit think Cruise & Waymo are better than Lyft or Uber, not just on price but also privacy and personal conversations. Im medium connected to SF “known” people. I think robot taxis are a good experience because they let you talk about anything without worrying about judgement and they always arrive, even if slower. How do I get Cruise reinstated so Waymo does not have a monopoly?
I had a friend who worked in the Treasury Department and got access to government decisions and statistics releases before the general public did. He and his team would often make paper trades to try to guess the effect of these decisions. They were surprised how often they lost money.

I suspect in the upcoming election, deepfaking the candidates doing something out-of-character would have a similar surprising effect.
I have a Informatics Engineering degree with major in compiler design and systems programming, thanks for the lesson regarding how languages are supposed to be.
Thanks for the info, going to have to check out Ansel. Do you know if its still compatible with the Darktable formats?
Isn't "false vacuum state" equivalent to a non-zero vacuum energy ? Which we know is the case, because virtual particle pairs blinking into and out of existence ? Did I leave something important out ?
neat idea, but attempts at replicating it have failed, and manager's notes + participant testimony have shown that they were, at best, pushing to an outcome, and at worst demanding one. it's basically bunk.

deep dive as to why it's dubious: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...
We have a large box of duplos but my three-year-old isn't interested at all, maybe showed some interest a while ago, but mostly to build the tallest tower. Now it's time for the real legos, but I'm not sure if we'll even get any if she won't play with them.
you don’t need papers, Arxiv are self aggrandizement from some meme in East Asia

just join communities on discord or locallama on reddit
Qt also puts a lot of money into paying developers to make it good. Developers are expensive.
The signalling system is designed so there's no possibility of an oncoming (or path-crossing) train. On a modern system this is done with formal proof of the software, on an old system with mechanical interlocks.
Yes. Although I would disagree with the statement "it would be a huge security risk for anything on those machines"

Older TLS protocols have vulnerabilities yes, but most of them require a very motivated attacker with the ability to do a MITM.

I wrote a blog post about why I have decided to support older protocols, https://blog.nyman.re/2021/02/07/usability-security.html , the tl.dr. is that only allowing new TLS just means more forced obsoletion. For Banks and other sensitive things, yes it makes sense, for your personal blog, not so much.

I mean... Google still allows TLS 1.0 , if it was a "huge security risk", do you think they would?

The updating OpenSSL/breaking symlinks sounds interesting, do you have more info?

Personally I have a old iPhone 5S running iOS6 which I use for listening to podcasts. I ran in the the TLS issue there and my solution was to use a proxy https://bitbucket.org/ValdikSS/oldssl-proxy

Works well, and until maybe a year ago or I could even browse Apple's Podcast Store, but at some point that stopped working so now I'm stuck with the ones I have there.

(Cydia still works though... Thanks Saurik)
Not op, but here you go

https://www.python.org/downloads/

Keep in mind that you don't have to play the first two games, you can dive into 3 right away! Even though some nostalgics still swear by the second one...
Maybe it's a balance thing? Hyper-focus on commercialization and maximizing shareholder value might make other aspects of society worse, and some countries rather not make those tradeoffs while the US at large is willing to make those tradeoffs.

Even if "innovation commercialization" sucks in Europe, the EU is still the second largest consumer market in the world, so some of the things they're doing works, even if you're only focused on increasing capitalistic metrics.
1. There were many very good reasons to get rid of X.

2. But Wayland made some very dubious choices, like 'multiple implementations' which will lead to very difficult to diagnose bugs. I strongly suspect the motivation was economical rather than technical.

3. Or the security model without adequate protocol support. Where the extensions aren't always compatible (see 2).
Show HN: reflect-cpp – field name retrieval from structs and enums in C++-20
If you live in a small space, then gyms are more effective.
75 minutes to generate a bunch of mostly irrelevant nitpicks.

What a colossal waste of compute resources. (1)

IME if you’re using TypeScript then ESlint’s real value mostly approaches zero. For pure JS projects it’s useful for finding nullref type bugs.

(1)
> Our previous linting setup took 75 minutes to run, so we were fanning it out across 40+ workers in CI

This. Is. Insane.
If there’s an E at the end of the name of the language, it needs to be in the title as well…
QT uses the GPL where it makes sense. However widgets on any platform mostly do not make sense to run on the GPU.
Ask HN: Would url submissions work better if an initial comment were required?
Recently I've been heading to the 'new' section of HackerNews to try find interesting topics on HN. But I've noticed a large number of submissions with 0 comments. Would it not be more useful to require the poster of the url add a comment to kick off the discussion?

I mean, if someone took the time to post a url on HN, surely a discussion on the topic is the reason? Why not kick off the discussion with your own comment and reason for posting? For me, this is the greater value of HN.
ohhh, that's why there are "indent 4". it just never clicked for me I guess. I thought it was just some dark magic incantations.
Really? Since about c++14, the number of memory errors I've experienced in practice is asymptomatically trending towards 0. When they do come up, it's usually in some awkward C library that has been badly wrapped, and would likely necessitate unsafe in rust anyway. I genuinely can't remember the last time I introduced a memory stomp, use after free, double delete or slicing issue in a modern c++ Codebase.
For me, this is the only right way for LLMs to go. Use them to trim search space for robustly designed logical programs/algo's we then use to do things. Part of the chain, not the end 'solution' of the chain.
>commercializing innovation.

That's your take?

I see a different take. Europe has done more work than in the US in fighting the robbing of the middle and lower classes by the wealthy. Sure it still is a problem but wealth inequality is a huge deal.

Apple exists because of rampant cut throat capitalism that comes at a cost to everyone.
My parents live in another country, and I want to set up some network equipment at their house so that I can coordinate their network if they get into trouble, and to support cameras as one of them has become high-care. My dad also has some complex data. I intend to install a rackmount server for him so that I can help him with data problems from time to time.

For network equipment, I have a fair bit of experience with datacentre grade equipment, but none in the consumer space. I think I want this,
1. Good quality.
2. Fanless
3. Drives multi-node wifi APs
4. Control cameras
5. Web interface that parents can use.
6. Cisco-like CLI that I can use.
7. No cloud.

The unifi equipment seems to fit all criteria above except the last two points. Seems you cannot make permanent changes from the console, and their offering is oriented towards cloud configuration. Would someone who knows the segment be happy to offer advice? (thanks in advance)
If only "SUV factor" rolled of the tongue better, I'd switch in a heartbeat.

I hope you came out with more of a scare than anything else?
"Broiler" chicken breeds exist that grow to full, slaughter size in 12-16 weeks; delivering 1/3rd+ of the weight of what you fed them as tasty meat.

The feed inputs need not be highly processed; either.
I like this analogy. They're full of shit and you only use them if you have absolutely no alternatives.
The rewrites mostly are for tools that run for a short amount of time and do lots of AST processing.

Javscript is just inherently suboptimal for this.

* The JIT needs to warm up

* AST data structures can be implemented much more efficiently with better control over memory layout
> cargo cutting

Cargo culting. Though cargo cutting would be interesting to watch :-)
Side note, have you seen Magna-Tiles? My 4yo son loves them. They have magnets along the edges so you can easily stick pieces together and build structures. They are bigger than regular LEGOs, more along the lines of Duplo. And they can be pricey, but they are tons of fun for little ones! Especially when their favorite thing is to knock down whatever you build.
Pre-rewrite FF for Android supported about:config. Actually, Fennec F-Droid and the Beta version of Firefox support it just fine, too. It exists in stable FF but is cordoned off for some reason.
'Squid Game' Video Game by Netflix, 2024 Slate Includes Sonic Mania Plus
At the Twitter section at the bottom there is usually good papers
https://news.mioses.com
It's a trick. His example for cosine interpolation is misleading in the sense that the sequence of points' heights is oscillating.

The cosine interpolation simply ensures that the interpolated-function derivative is 0 at the control points. If anywhere in the sequence there was a point that is lower / higher than both its predecessors the downsides of this technique would become obvious.
I wish they would define some of their terms.

> to align future superhuman AI systems to be safe has never been more important.

Align to who? Align to US citizens, OpenAI shareholders, align to what values?

What does safe mean? Pornography? Saying “fuck”, racial bias, access to private data?

I can understand OpenAI erring on the side of not rattling bells and training their LLMs to say “As an AI model I cannot answer that” but it’s horseshit to say that it is super aligned.

All alignment is alignment to X values but your X could be detrimental to me.

What is superalignment supposed to mean?
News organizations across the board have gotten into this bizarre arms race with "interactive" multimedia... and I genuinely have no idea why they think readers want it! The Verge in particular always has dozens of comments complaining about how distracting and unreadable some of their UI choices are.

I suspect part of the answer is similar to Facebook's "pivot to video" - some unscrupulous company has gaslit news executives into thinking that "interactive content" is the future of journalism, and are selling frameworks / consulting services / etc. (Though part of the problem with The Verge is Nilay Patel himself. Nilay seems like a good egg, but he has been obstinate and arrogant about The Verge's UI changes. Can't argue with taste...)
This is how I understand the collusion argument made in the article:

The Ivy's could collude on managing their endowments. Having a large pile of money to invest is a form of power, you may have some limitations on how you invest the money, but you can favor one player over another (as Bill Gates does). Gifts to universities often come with strings attached, requiring they be used for specific purposes. This is a pure exercise of power, unrelated to the academic mission of the schools. In some sense the school becomes a front for the power exercised through the endowments. The collusion also does not have to be explicit, they can collude by watching what the others do and doing the same.

I once asked my boss when I worked at an Ivy League school why didn't they admit more students when there were so many applicants? They'd have to build more dorms, but they were already building an enormous number of structures and they owned lots of land. He said those students could just go to school elsewhere, go to a state college, the school had no obligation to teach them. So by keeping the school elite-oriented and limiting enrollment, essentially the mission to teach was lost. The school wasn't there to teach people who wanted to learn, they were there to teach only the best of the best. Combine that with admissions driven by donations. Their mission becomes propagating the elite, not building a better world through education. They don't want to expand their capacity to teach, they want to increase their ability to control power.
Not particularly true especially in this case. You can get a rust binary and run it anywhere regardless of libc or having cargo installed on the users machine. A Javascript CLI requires nodejs and npm to be installed before running it.
For a desktop application widgets are better than QML. QML brings things to your UI that a desktop application shouldn't use. QML is the right way to do phone applications, but there are good user interface reasons to not use most of the features QML gives you on desktop applications, but to use those features on phone applications.

Not that you cannot build good desktop applications with QML, but there will be a lot more work for questionable gain.
Bombe is something else. It has the Z3 solver built in…
Adding epicycles to the circular orbits - an example before Fourier!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle
Nah it's just the usual cynical HN comment.
Oh I actually have played this one already.

The tz level was very frustrating and the Arrow DLC really didn't help things. ; )
So the future of computing will be one where any result is suspect and includes the possibility of being fantasy?

And this is progress?

My prediction --- these attempts to monetize AI before it's time will do more to impede rather than promote it. The end result will be to associate AI with "marketing scam" in the public's perception.

In other words, the only real progress will be mostly recorded in the bank accounts of several large corporations.
According to the Wikipedia page for eszett [0] it evolved from "sz", as the name "eszett" suggests. (I only realized the link with "z" when I saw "tz" ligatures on street signs in Berlin.) Given that its typographic origin is sz, and given that its name literally says sz, I wish the spelling reformists had gone for sz rather than ss!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F
For those a bit late (like me) someone posted it on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/links-awakening-dx-hd
I read the article and am not sure if this will be implemented in Windows 10 or not. I still use a 20 year old HP laserjet via Vista drivers that install OK for now, will I be forced to get a new printer?
Show HN: Zapier for Video Image AI Models
Any bingo card with Yoko would have alien royalties be the *least* crazy square.
It gives you an advantage, so does being tall, having a deep voice, being confident, etc.

The entire point is that if you're successful without these advantages you're probably better than someone perceived to be as good but with the advantages.

We've all worked for and with unattractive people.
Enjoyable Game Architecture
I wish the nix programming language wasn't so rough because it can be pretty great at this problem. Being able to compile from source while just listing out package dependencies is powerful.
Product pages that require 50 revolutions of the mouse wheel to reach the spec sheet due to some embedded animation is the most frustrating web experience.
If you think adults prefer the “roofline” of the sedan you have to explain cratering sales and discontinuations somehow.

Hybrids aren’t even complex…they’re actually extremely simple and Toyota’s platform is proven rock solid.

If you think people aren’t buying them you should look at the wait times on the RAV4 Prime.

If the Crown Vic was the backbone of taxi fleets it’s easy to argue that the Prius and other Toyota hybrids are the new backbone of taxis and Ubers.

Classic cars…the ones that are unreliable death traps and notorious money pits.
sure it feels true... but are we sure that's not just a US or Western thing? is that just a low-level, client-facing role thing?

plus it's role-playing a prison, where legit, actually-murdered-a-bunch-of-people are locked up in real life, and they play real games -- and guards play them back. Tell people to roleplay a group of people who are violently anti-social, and another group to role play the people who have to keep them in line (also violently) and the participants fall back on what they think the roles do and how they act.

just like with Freud, there may be some slivers of truth, but there is too much untestable, non-transferable bunk that comes with it; you can't call that science.
I am not. Seriously! Outlaw that fucking device which is only good for corporate and government surveillance.
that's exactly what was being described, moat building. It's political rather than effective.
Half-Male, Half-Female Bird Captured on Film in Colombia
programs are simulations*
An abundance of laws is little help against the evil intentions of the human heart.
There’s a psychology concept called “self-efficacy” that I think integrates really well here, we have to summon the belief that we are capable of performing a task, and that has both positive and negative feedbacks. It’s a powerful idea: if your belief in your ability to do something gets eroded, your actual capacity is almost irrelevant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy