skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nice, and well done getting all the way to production!

As you point out in one of your posts, the meaning conveyed by the same battery level differs between extroverts and introverts.

For me, low social battery would mean "please leave me alone", whereas for others it would mean "please talk to me".

I wonder how that could be conveyed, of if there is another analogy other than battery level? Maybe a "talk to me traffic light"?!
Surgeons don't wear masks to prevent the spread of airborne diseases. They wear them to prevent spittle going into an open wound and to protect themselves from blood splatter.

If they wore masks to prevent airborne diseases, they would wear them when meeting patients, not just during the operation.
I think they are hinting at parity with the resolution of the eye.

however pixels is kinda misleading unit of resolution as it depends how far away you are from the display, and how wide the display is.

for example a 1k square with a field of view of 3 degrees would have a better "resolution" than a 4k square over 75 degrees. You also now have to contend with focus as well,
as another commenter has pointed out, physical entropy sources can be provided to vms, but sadly the other implied premise of your syllogism is also false: use of insecure cryptography is in fact widespread
Whatever Milton's intentions, it's undeniable that Satan is the most charismatic character. Everyone on Heaven's side is wooden and unlikeable.
Science/Tech

- Kurzgesagt (oversimplified science with great graphics): https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt

- Styropyro (science maniac who builds sketchy things): https://www.youtube.com/@styropyro

- AI Explained (weekly AI deep dives): https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official

- Fireship (programming-related fast paced): https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship

Entertainment:

- Corridor Crew (nerds break down VFX + stuff): https://www.youtube.com/@CorridorCrew
Apple iPhone sales in China fell more than 30% during first week of 2024
I want this to be successful, but even as an iOS / macOS dev, I haven't seen enough really strong differentiation in Apple's dev offering so far that would make it so that someone would absolutely want to use VR for a non-gaming app compared to an app on iOS.

There's some pretty great innovations there like how Spaces and gestures work, but they're more incremental improvements rather than anything that would really get the general public very willing to adopt AR/VR for daily use outside of games.
It's really the opposite. The EU in particular is seeking to curb the power of monopolistic big tech. The fines are in responsive to anti-competitive behaviour. Smaller companies should be happy.
Will be funny if AI hype slashes more IT jobs.
Not true, you can, but you have to approve them from the system preferences panel.
It may be unfair, but no one thinks 'great hardware' when they think of Meta/Facebook. At best they think neutral, at worst they think about no leg avatars and online toxicity.
OTOH, revenue can be made as large as possible to a limit.

IRS rules for capital expenditure can be followed and split over many years.
The thing I'm most excited about here is Sony's microled display. If this product is successful it could jump-start the micorled supply chain for mass production. Microled would be great for smartphones not just for definition but also for battery life.

Edit: its micro-Oled/OLEDoS not micro-led. Not sure what the battery performance is like.
This is something that could very easily be run locally, if it were a library. Libraries do the "heavy lifting" in most software. The only reason this is an api is so that you can charge people for each single use. While requiring an internet connection to work, and sending a copy of the file to your servers (unfortunately we live in a world where I cannot possibly trust any claims that data will be deleted within any timeframe). There is no conceivable reason for this to be a web api, imo.
Ask HN: What alternatives exist to a Mac mini but for Windows?
Hey HN,

As the title already states I am currently looking at some hardware alternatives that could replace my current, and very outdated, Windows PC with the same form factor as Mac minis.

I already own several Mac devices (phones, MBPs M1/M2), and mostly kept a Windows PC for so long for:

- Gaming (mostly old games from my Steam library and ISOs).

- Pictures & videos.

- NTFS HDD and USB keys (ex-FAT and other formats do not always work reliably).

With these current usages, my ultimate goal is to find something as powerful as what I have right now (GTX 260 SLI over 13 years old, 10 years old Intel core i5, 16GB DDR3, and an SSD), which shouldn't be that hard, but have it as small as possible, and within the same price point as the Mac minis.

The closest thing I've found so far is a brand called GEEKOM which seems to produce exactly what I need, but I do not have the impression to find genuine feedback on the hardware capacity and quality.

EDIT: I live in Europe if that matters for availability and shipping.
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> an intentional anachronism

Worth adding that Milton was a fan of Galileo who visited him in his house arrest.

I remember finding this bit of the poem interesting though I've forgotten pretty much everything about it.
The miniscule amounts of money fined from companies are not going to affect the EU budget. It is interesting that, whenever a post about the EU comes up, (a small minority of) Americans will act like they are tyrants trodding over the poor billion dollar corporations as if they shouldn't have to follow European laws despite doing business there. If a tourist commits a crime, they're deported. The EU is being incredibly lenient with their fines.

In addition, why give them the benefit of the doubt? Seriously, they have violated multiple laws every damn year, sometimes the same laws repeatedly. Why give them any doubt? They obviously do not act in good faith.
Serious question: why do you expect VR to take off with the general public? A decade into VR experiments, and nobody has come up with good non-gaming applications better than cartoony chat apps. It’s got a worse track record than blockchain.
Sugar is a basic building block of human life, we need carbs as an energy source.

Amphetamines are a proven treatment for ADHD that are known to be safe for long term controlled dosage prescription use.

Porn is a depiction of sexual activity, which is necessary for our species’ survival.

So you think you made a really profound point here but all you’re doing is reinforcing the point I made about basic self control and moderation. People are addicted to all kinds of things that are not particularly unhealthy in moderation.
Apple “pro” stuff has meant “pro-sumer” for awhile now - nice stuff, for some, but nothing to do with “professionals” per se.
Apple has been trading down the last six months. Their iPhone sales in china keep dropping. You can’t exist like that in the current MBA driven stock market.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/01/08/apple-iphone-sales-in-ch...
Companies and institutions will be a big customer
Progress can go backwards too. Part of a file transfer might be determined to be corrupt, or it might refer to my career progress which frequently goes backwards.
But they can't do that to us, we went to uni and refused to unionise!
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> fines are no longer consequential

I don't see how this can possibly be true. Any corp has finite money, and operating costs; If the fines are high enough, they will be consequential.

> to span multiple countries

you can't really evade US fines/sanction and continue to operate in the west.
They have presented consuming home-made 3D photos and videos as one of the headlining features and they are already shipping 3D cameras in some of the new iPhones.
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> I trust Apple-made lenses a lot more than any strip-mall optician.

Who said anything about strip mall opticians?

At least they let you swap the lenses. Will they do the unthinkable and let the iPad be multiuser as well?
For me, it's visionOS that I find interesting. I don't know if it's going to be any good, but I'm intrigued by the idea of a full-on general-purpose OS on a headset.
Non-enforcement is a different issue to fines being too low.
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I was an early adopter with the original PlayStation VR. The screen door effect was an issue but the biggest one is that I couldn’t last more than 30 minutes before getting nauseous. Granted I get seasick and likely susceptible more than most but I really hope Apple have solved it for people like me. Either way Im pre-ordering as well.
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That's how the article above does it for some reason, so it is consistent but I agree it makes no sense.
Apple wants to keep in control with the app store. PWAs threaten that control. So much so apple doesn't allow other browsers.
> Which roles in your org could you lay off to increase productivity?

Human Resources

> I wouldn't matter which 50% because the other 50% would learn and adapt.

This might work in some professions, but seems pretty silly in tech where some people are ridiculously productive in key areas compared to others.
I have a tiny NY apartment with ancient wiring, no 240v plugs. Upgrading would be a massive operation requiring cooperation from all the units below mine down to the basement - plus probably $50k or more.

So compared to that, $5500 for an induction stove that also had 3x the performance of the average induction stove and 5x the performance of most gas stoves looks like a really good deal.
Their API and developer support is atrocious. Their dev team has been like two people for the last 5 years.
How could you possibly think this unironically?
If this is still an issue for you I believe you can convert/import docx files into ebooks via calibre, from there you can just use calibre's ebook editor to fix things up
Huh. After a tumultuous 2023, I'd totally forgotten about this. Feels like _years_ ago.
The battery isn't the only interesting thing here, either. Thermocouples in the burners and magnetically attached physical knobs are both big quality of life improvements that probably don't have a huge impact on cost.
"Final assembly in..."
On the topic of errors in LLM outputs (and on-device/local LLMs):

You can also reexpress such an LLM model with a classification verifier to get a probability estimate...entirely on your local Mac: https://re.express/

This is a case where the advance/breakthrough actually came to the local setting before the cloud/API services.
please see other responses - the U.S model of copyright is not the only one in the world and many other places do not believe the purpose of copyright is to foster human progress.

>Moreover, while your entire story has proved a complete and utter failure

I'm thinking you probably don't know anything about the pricing of short stories?

At any rate in the example given I supposed that a short story can earn higher rates than normal rates for short story publication which might, if you are lucky, be somewhere around a few thousand dollars at publication in magazine form, some more thousands at winning an award, and then in a collection of short stories where it might reliably earn 10000 dollars a year (for its share of the whole collection length of something), note - that would be an extremely successful short story as far as short stories go (without selling media rights)

Obviously this varies depending on where you sell your stuff, and if you earn money for awards.

Let's say you sell to the New Yorker
http://quick-brown-fox-canada.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-new-y...
so you earn about 7,500 for the short story.

The award that has paid out the most for a short story ever evidently paid 30 thousand pounds https://lithub.com/read-the-story-that-just-won-the-biggest-...

You may not know this but very few stories win awards, awards being structured to be relatively rare. Obviously if someone has not one an award for their short story you may consider that their work has been a complete and utter failure, but even so...

let us consider if someone sold to the New Yorker, which hopefully you will agree is likely to be one of the better paying markets and evidently by your calculation one of the short story markets that publishes things that are not complete and utter failures (because it pays more than others right?), and if they then won the highest paying award ever they would have another 30,000, now assuming this short story is part of a collection of short stories and the author is really popular I think we can say this short story in the collection makes about 10,000 per year.

in 16 years that is - for one of the most successful short stories in the world - 197,500 dollars.

on edit: I really find it amusing that HN of all places really wants to limit how people can make money on what is an entrepreneurial activity - sitting down and writing a story and then trying to sell it.
> only capacitive touch screen phone in 2007

thanks to acquiring fingerworks in 2005. ...Now this, this is just shelfware VR googles with a face scanner gimmick.
That is probably scarily true. How did it come to this.
Well, sure, I think thats part of the problem with it.

I dont think either of them have to be turing complete though.
> This won't be successful, the $3500 price tag alone assures it. It will hopefully lead to something that's actually meant for end users, though.

How can you be so sure about a company that makes a monitor stand that sells for $1000?

Don’t forget Steve Ballmer famously mocked Apple because he thought iPhones were too expensive at $500 a pop.

Today, Apple sells $1000+ iPhones.
But even more strangely, he did have this:

> He was born with a parasitic twin growing out of his back, which was incompletely formed and surgically removed
What we said about the transputer (in 1985) was:

1. each transputer CPU is fast, with on chip memory and links

2. you can easily wire them up in parallel to get (10,100,1000x) speed up

3. with the Occam language, you can write code in a parallel way

What people heard was:

1. a 10MIPS T414 transputer is a heavily microcoded CISC architecture and thus slower than a comparable RISC CPU. Clocked at 20MHz a MIPS, SPARC CPU will deliver 20MIPS ... but of much more powerful instructions. [various other limitations such as stack of only 3 registers v.s eg MIPS has 32 registers; flat memory model vs. data/instruction caching; log shifter vs. barrel shifter in ALU; microcoded FPU] --- so you already need 1.5-2x transputers to match the competition is speed is your aim
... I think that this was pretty fair - rather an apples vs oranges comparison

2. this device is for teams that building a computing platform (e.g. workstation, graphics machine, supercomputer, etc.) and you have software that is amenable to parallelization
... I think that this was pretty fair too

3. you can't use any existing software since there is no C/Pascal/FORTRAN compiler and Inmos will not support this (so forget UNIX, libraries, drivers, benchmarks, apps) - there was never a path such as a C compiler with Occam-style Channels in a library
... you and your customers will have to rewrite all your code in Occam

In hindsight, it was probably unlucky that the transputer and parallel architectures were launched into the teeth of the CISC vs RISC revolution since it was harder to keep the focus on point (2). Even more telling was that there was no substantive market demand for this (any) parallel microprocessor (a couple of niche systems players like nCube who didn't fancy being hostage to Inmos IP). So we ended up trying to create a market from scratch.

My model for the ultimate failure is that there was an internal battle between the pragmatists who said "we need to have a C compiler and port in a standard OS" (Pete) and the purists who said "any dilution of Occam will make it too hard for users to successfully parallelize their code" (David & Colin). The purists had the CEO's (Iain's) ear - they won the battle and lost the war.

Disclosure: I was US junior product manager for the Transputer launch in 1985
High beams definitely do not get 100 meters of usable distance in fog, and in fact will reduce the visibility further.

https://www.weather.gov/safety/fog-driving says:

“

• Use fog lights if you have them.
• Never use your high-beam lights. Using high beam lights causes
glare, making it more difficult for you to see what’s ahead of
you on the road.

”
Its a commercial vehicle. They are utilitarian. They look better than all of the other 20 varieties of box van that are ubiquitous.
It's a valid argument. We got VHS over Betamax because of porn. The VR headset that best supports it is going to win. Since this is Apple, probably not this.
Thanks for the corrections. I didn't realize how behind/mistaken I was on this tech
I'm still using a 32" 1368x768 TV, LG G8 phone from 2019, and my main driver is a 10.5" Surface Go 3 that I picked up used. Wired earphones are JVC HA-FXD80 (discontinued or I'd buy another pair) works great with the Quad-DAC in the G8.

I do have a desktop PC with a 2-core Intel CPU and a Radeon of some kind that's liquid cooled in a bland black PC case. Just enough to run StarCraft 2 well.
I could never understand what “social batteries” ever mean. If you are low on “social”, that seems… bad? Does it mean I should approach to talk and cheer/charge you up with some “social”? I guess if I can see you then you could be in public on purpose. However, why is it red? Red is generally not a friendly color…

People with lacking social skills (hi) are probably least likely to understand such a mixed signal.

To anyone planning to make another one of those: be clear and call it simply “sociability”. Then it’s quite obvious, red means stay away and green means I can talk. That said, it’d eliminate the fun “my social battery is out of battery” failure mode…
The Quest 3 cannot do that, its depth sensor is far too low resolution to scan a face with a good fidelity level.

Unfortunately, it also means the quest 3 probably will probably never be very good at dynamic occlusion in mixed reality (ie: hiding partially virtual objects that are behind real life objects).
They do look a bit goofy, but I think that's part of their charm; kind of like a delivery van version of the Fiat 500e.

Personally, I'd say it looks much nicer than almost every SUV and/or pickup truck on the market (I know it's not even the same category, though the same frame is also used for their pickup truck).

It just saddens me to see the distance from bumper to front seat (for visibility reasons), though that could just be due to me not being American.
Sure, but I'm pretty productive with my MacBook too, so I can certainly see myself utilizing the features I described to help out with some struggles of using a single display laptop.

The entertainment aspect is a massive draw too—I don't want to downplay it by any means, but people were asking for some of the reasons that I want one, so I was genuinely answering with some of the features I envision using and how.
Thanks for your feedback.
Yes. You're right.
But on the one hand saying that Google is evil and on the other hand making a product which is based on Google?!
Wow.

Heck. I bought one induction cooker on Amazon for inr 1300 or US $ 15.
Accounting confuses me. I thought both of those would only be asset transfers and not hit income statement

I guess the EPS line would be impacted in a stock buy back, and that is on the income statement.

I know companies play games with good will write-downs in the years after a merger.
> According to Vernor Vinge, real long term tech unemployment could be a signal of the singularity approaching; so we’ll have that going for us (if the job market doesn’t come back).

That would mean the messy parts are starting. Not great!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/integrating-c-header-...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/integrating-c-header-...

Key takeway

"Fortunately, we were able to show a build performance improvement great enough that the team agreed to adopt header units into the Office production build system alongside msvc 17.6.6!"

Unfortunely the performance findings blogpost is still WIP.
They don't look very aerodynamic. But that snubby front end could give them excellent visibility, if done correctly.
Also from the dev side the platform (which is Android with some AR bits bolted on) isn’t compelling enough to be locked into, even if the hardware is decent. If Facebook were to make a play to make their Android variant the Windows of AR and license it out to other manufacturers, that might work but nobody is interested in them trying to be Apple with Oculus stuff.
Can't believe that that song is already almost of legal drinking age (in the US)
Great point.

> Apple says that "not all prescriptions are supported."
Links like https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf is the one we can actually read though, relying on a third party to put this critical piece of information seems suboptimal, rather than make the paper self-contained.

I noticed that arxiv at least puts the dates in vertical on the left side of the PDFs there, but it seems that too is something arxiv puts there, not the paper itself.

If it's about subtleties like "what is exact publication date", at least put some date, at least let us know it's from the 2020's or the 2000's, it's not guaranteed to be easy to tell. It should be possible to put a year during which the text is being typed there.
Not next to nothing. Life on earth emits detectable signatures light years away. Not just electromagnetic I'm talking composition of our atmosphere. And primarily not human activity but algae.
You... can, you know. Do you actually use MacOS, or is this just something you heard on the internet? If you're using MacOS, and have somehow not found this yet, right-click on the offending app, click open, accept the "this may eat your computer" warning dialog. You'll only have to do this once per app.
funny?
NASA Science Heads to Moon on First US Private Robotic Artemis Flight
Thread cancellation works fine in C++.

You just need to make sure cancellable syscalls do not happen in destructors. (Which you probably want to do anyways, since cancellable syscalls can cause errors that are difficult to handle in destructors.)

Good practice is to move destructed objects to a "garbage collection" thread which calls the real destructors and cannot be cancelled.