skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reeks of projection that he thinks anyone who disagrees with him is a cultist, and not that maybe they just have a nuanced opinion.

Yes I understand the benefits of having more app stores, but there are benefits to the current setup too. Having all apps installed from a single place means I don't have to worry about sourcing different apps from different places. If my grandma wants to install an app I tell her to go to the App Store, not to install Facebook's app store so she can then install Instagram. It's simple.

This applies to almost every locked-down feature of Apple platforms. Having more browser rendering engines means more user freedom, but the current situation where every iPhone can only render web pages with Safari means web developers have to make sure their page works in something other than Chrome, and if something works on one browser on the iPhone it'll work on every browser on the iPhone.

I've just accepted that I don't really want to use my smartphone as a powerful computing machine, it's a convenient secondary device that does enough to get me by without using a real computer, so I'm fine with these tradeoffs. It doesn't mean I'm a "cultist"
I find it very useful. I made a tool similar to mcfly (before knowing it existed) and use this workflow (`--here`) constantly. Also hostname context and shell session can be useful at times, too, to reconstruct something in the past.

https://github.com/chipturner/pxhist
And we only do it once (I didn't kill the db, but I did kick off a process thinking I was in a test environment).
It would be legit but unfortunately I think it's very difficult to prove (to a court) that Apple knew and intentionally did nothing.
I would recommend godot to support a native "SPIR-V" shader to GLSL/HLSL, as we would run in much less driver compatibility issues since it is a low level language.
It's only a start, there may be better technologies when we actuallu do have TW-scale fusion plants. Like TW-scale heat pumps using nanopatterned laser emitters to get rid of the heat at super high temperatures (remember, that energy emitted is temperature^4 [0]). There already are technologies for this, but we don't need them yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law
Those are product names, not brands.
It's possible it's legitimate. I think the odds of that being the case are in the single digits, though.
This is an indictment on poor executive leadership, shareholders, headcount planning consultant hacks and internal comms. It's also an indictment on the law itself for allowing this style of layoffs, legal opinion and HR compliance risk assessment to fester at corporations in the US. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
When does a simple linear search become an issue? For example, a cos similarity function which runs even over a million of vectors is surprisingly fast. We can further shard vectors by user (i.e. if they can only search in their own data they uploaded), or even by document (for things like "chat with this PDF") then it's likely that most searches will happen over small ranges of vectors.

I suspect the main downsides would be increased CPU usage and having to load vectors to RAM all the time. However, for small projects with low RPS you could probably get away without a special database?

Does anyone know of any benchmarks where they compare vector databases to a plain linear search? How they scale in regards to increased vector count and RPS, etc.
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Firefox has been on a downward trend. Its usage is down from a high of around 30% to 3.5% generally, (7.6% on desktop). That’s not great. If that was just a fact of life, so it goes. But as I see it, the decline is due to a serious lack of focus and intention. Maybe Mozilla could use some unsolicited advice.
Also, they could dump the entire thing onto their existing team and just let them deal with it. If the pressure makes you crack then you just weren't up to snuff, right?
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Personally I think a big reason psychedelics are helpful to people is because of the process of an experience taking a full day, forcing you to integrate what youve experienced in a way that just wont ever be possible in a brief 20 minute experience. The trip is about the individual journey and not about some magical effect on the brain. This is just my opinion but I really think as we do more research we will find this to be the case
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it is easy to agree with this. however, the problem is most people just don't care and/or are lazy to do something more meaningful. and there is nothing inherently wrong with that.
There is a tragic flaw in your logic. There’s probably 10x engineers working on advertising then there is gaming (let alone VR). It’s not that big of an industry and doesn’t have the mass adoption attention destroying ad-driven social media does.

Statistically, the neurosurgeon is unwinding on TikTok and hating themselves for it.

Could VR become immersive and an ad-addled attention destroying mess? Yes we should probably stop that from happening. But otherwise this warning is too early.
42.7% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I translated the other text, it's a page-a-month style calender. maybe "no holiday confusion" and "phases of the moon" together triggered the "religious pov" warning.

edit doh! I translated the text snippet in the title field, "Christian LDS Temple Calendar". The picture of the LDS Temple might have been a clue

Month View - Each page has a large block of one week per line, highlighted weekends, and a notes field, allowing you to view one month. Generous size - 21.59 x 27.94cm when closed and expands to 43.18 x 27.94cm when opened. HIGH QUALITY PAPER - Printed on high quality paper that is resistant to ink stains. No holiday confusion - Comprehensive coverage of Japan's major holidays and phases of the moon. Extended Coverage - From January 2024 to December 2025, with an additional 6-month extension until 2026. FSC - Our products undergo a rigorous process and are FSC certified. ECO-FRIENDLY - Today's calendars are made from highly recycled paper. We attach great importance to environmental safety and social responsibility.
The Godot editor is a good example of a cross platform framework for desktop applications
I get how that can seem very jarring. On the other hand, VLC has single handedly solved the "how do I play all the world's weird ass video/audio files" for free with no gotcha's for years now.

I think they're more than entitled to try and advertise a little bit. It's not like they're doing anything evil asking for some money. You can still go download all the code yourself and build it manually for free if you want.
> they have far better coordination

I think LLMs are still underutilized, but to this point, it's been repeatedly shown that even the most state of the art LLMs are incapable of generalization, which is very necessary for coordinating large scale conspiracies against humanity.
> he works hard to avoid making them

He does so when he sees that there is a potential mistake to be made, yes. But he doesn't seem to me to work hard at all at questioning things that he appears to think are too obvious to need questioning. And yet those things are where he makes the egregious mistakes.

> forthright when he does

Yes, I agree with this: once he recognizes he's made a mistake, he's much better than most at acknowledging it.

> What you're missing in your example is that, in context, the state-sponsored violence he's talking about is "against one's own people"

I don't buy the hairsplitting distinction he's making there, but even leaving that aside, I already addressed this point in my post. The UK fought a war against its own people in the American Revolution. The US fought a war against its own people in the US Civil War. The US fought against Native Americans. The UK fought against Ireland. And so on.

> I think there's a difference of kind

I think this is even more of a hairsplitting distinction that I don't buy. But again, leaving that aside, if Scott wanted to make an argument for such a difference in kind, he should have made one. Just taking it as so obvious as not to need any argument is not justified. And the need for making such an argument doesn't even seem to be on Scott's radar. I find that either astoundingly obtuse, or astoundingly disingenuous.
Not that common yet
That's my take. I like animals, so I decided to not own any of them. I wonder how people manage to love their animals and remove them from their natural environment.

I know that we've come a long way and pets have had humans around them for ages, but to me it still feels like we're doing them harm. I know that nature is even harder, but it's not like pets decided to live that way.

It's also hard to understand why people love one species, but also breed others on an industrial level, so they can eat them more easily.

Probably going to get a few downvotes for this.
Working on my own kind of metaverse I've grappled with this issue, and that is why I hope to use it to improve physical space endeavors as opposed to replacing them. This really started for me in two places: the newer one was when I pitched to the department of education for a grant program a software I called Meta-Education Environment for Simulation and Gaming (MEESG), aimed particularly at assisting in training of high-risk vocations (such as high voltage-systems repair)... but after I thought about it, I realized that the earlier inspiration was the VBS simulation I trained in the military and how I noticed the benefits directly (later leading to many hours of Arma2/Arma3 playtime, the civilian version of VBS).

So the main fight I see in the future is those who think (similar to the article) all this immersion effort is vapid and superficial. I don't think it is, and for more than just training, but also for rapid iteration in a simulated physical space that doesn't waste actual physical resources until a better product is developed. Ergo, I feel there is hidden value in the virtual space yet untapped in the wider market for combining fun and relaxation with teaching valuable things about the real world.

Just for example, I have been adding my local flora/fauna and edibility properties and medicial properties to one of my gameworlds recently, which could help me accelerate my learning of that particular real world thing but also make the gameworld more fun and interactive.
83b seems like one of the most esoteric and user unfriendly IRS mechanisms ever. There's no official form. There's no way to file it online. The recommended approach is to use certified mail return receipt which for most people requires a trip to the post office, and in my experience the IRS fails to return them regularly, in which case you are relying on your own records and your copy of the receipt for a potential tax audit many years down the line.

You'd be hard pressed to design a more taxpayer unfriendly process. I thought it was great when Carta automated these because it's always been a friction point for myself and founders I've worked with.
Btw, I noticed another egregious error: "France, where a reign of terror five years after the Bourbon monarchy is clearly contrasted with a hundred fifty terror-free years since it became democratic in 1870." Um, what? France is now on its Fifth republic, and the transitions haven't always been peaceful. Not to mention Indochina, Algeria (France's own leaders explicitly described what the French did to subdue Algeria as "terrorism"), etc. And many of the people who were terrorized in Algeria were French citizens.
As an academic, nothing infuriates me more than the promise of code and/or data. There are valid reasons this happens, but the reality is such promise is quickly forgotten.

Even provided code is poorly documented and rarely works on a machine other than the author's.

One common phrase is.

"Data is available from the authors upon reasonable request"

Try doing that for any paper older than 18 months.

All it does it contribute to the replication crisis.
Symbiotic relationships are, in fact, a completely natural phenomena that is observed in non-human animal behaviour.
100% why is that perspective so rare?
I would love for trains to get more attention in the US. ...
Thanks for the correction. BTW when I mention housing, I meant hotels :) Of course chargers at hotels are common, but, again, one more thing to worry about (especially if it's pay-per-use and requires some app/membership situation).
Photorealism does not equal immersion. Immersion happens in the mind, not the eyes. The games I've been most immersed in were made in the 90s, when the graphics were not as good but the gameplay was better.
As a descriptive matter people do support a lot of species preservation efforts. But we have strong reasons to increase our care for birds and other sentient animals as individuals, with their own subjective experiences and the suffering and harms they endure. After all we already take that view when it comes to companion dogs. We know they can feel a range of emotions and we have as individuals and as society taken some steps to limit harms to dogs and promote their wellbeing. Caring for birds as individuals can be expressed in many actions, individual and political, but a powerful step many can take right now is to stop buying eggs and chicken meat and choose plant based alternatives instead.
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All jobs have a repetitive aspect, exactly because we want experts in those jobs to do the job. But for the experts the work may often be boring and repetitive.

I am pretty sure most of a surgeon's surgeries are NOT exhilarating experiences for them, but rather routine activities. Similarly for lawyers drafting contracts, software engineers developing web backends, construction workers building houses, or singers singing their repertoire.

Not all of these jobs can be automated, so some routine will always exist.
> So it doesn't matter if it makes up 10% of the mass consumed - what matters is how much impulse it provides.

Minimizing the final dry mass at the end of the burn is also very important to maximize delta-v, according to the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation. So it's not just about the impulse provided by the fuel.
The deeper I explore societal history, it's all just an incredibly-jumbled series of loopholes.
Innovation, at least in our sector, requires capital investment. Hardly any startup can bootstrap. At high interest rates, and with people retiring and moving their money into safe assets, there will be little appetite to fund startups in the coming years. At least that's the theory that Peter Zeihan is presenting on his youtube channel.
Count me in as someone who thinks the cult was a lot more significant back in the days when Apples products really kind of sucked (late 90s especially). If the iPhone is a cult it's bigger than Catholicism and almost as big as Islam. Most definitions of cult include that it's a relatively small group with a charismatic leader. Maybe in computer terms they were small and led by a charismatic leader (Jobs) back in the day, but when it's more like 1.5B people small doesn't really fit, and does Cook or anyone else really count as charismatic in the way Jobs was?

Also funny from Doctorow, he always seems so into himself that you'd think he'd have been one of the mac cultists back in the day.
Do you mean using brute force (exact search) and not approximate nearest neighbor search? From my unscientific benchmarks, doing an exact search with 100k vectors takes about 1 second. Usually chatbots take much longer to generate the text, so that's still an acceptable time for doing exact search, which also means you will always find the best matches.
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>> If the claim masks don't work didn't come from the same people who said isolating didn't work, I might take them seriously.

It didn't. The claim came from Cochrane group.

So, are you taking it seriously now?
It is just market correction from the crazy times of 2021/2022 where everyone and their mother were hiring in bulk because hey, free money (0 interest rates). Now that it has dried up, this was bound to happen.
Those 10 sorts of industries you cited aren't exactly models of self regulation. Well, they are, in the sense of how to abuse regulatory capture to maximize returns, but not in the sort of sense most people think of regulation which is limiting harm to consumers.
Walmart, cosco, and a hundred other stores sell a wide range of stuff too. (on their websites, even if it is available direct from the manufacturer's website or other websites).

Is the problem "registered in China"?
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Maybe we should not use so much water (for agriculture) in a desert area at the first place. Feels like we are putting fixes on top of fixes.

"A Saudi Arabian company grows alfalfa on farmland in Arizona and California and sends it overseas to feed the country's cows. These legal farming operations extract groundwater in Arizona and water from the Colorado River across the border in California, experts say." source: https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/article/koch-discusses-saud...

Maybe if we stop exporting Colorado water packed in alfalfa and other agri-products, we would have enough water ?

Exporting water through alfalfa to Saudi Arabia who indeed banned alfalfa fields in their country because it was consuming just too much water, is one of the problem we should fix before installing PV and batteries in the desert, and dump concentrated brine somewhere.
Is this… from the Fifth Element?
They would also need a court to agree with the ruling, and the fact that the person had no reasonable way to properly sign the document is likely to hold a lot of sway in court.
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Amazon employees have entered the chat... :)

Here's an example of the products listed:

https://imgur.com/Dc1GvI5
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This is actually a really good parallel.

Understanding the output of an LLM is similar to the output of a translater.

If the recepient doesn't/can't understand it, all bets are off.

Say you don't understand python but have an LLM write some for you, but you have no way of knowing what it's doing.

What if you have a malicious LLM hosted somewhere and it writes malware insatead of what you asked for.

If you don't understand the output you end up with, you run it and it pwns your network.
lol I guess you can be pretty sure that people who work for Amazon are browsing the comments of most frontpage HN posts

I certainly was, when I worked there.
Nothing in medicine has had a 'scientific basis' since the Bradford Hill criteria were pushed as part of a PR campaign to sell benzos. Of course, the facade was the ban of cigarettes.

Nicotine is a natural anxiety suppressant used in traditional medicine for thousands of years... but of course you can't have that when we have highly overpriced synthetic chemical which has a lot of side effects (and hence is much better for business) needed a PR campaign.
>> That's one paper out of dozens, feel free to pick another.

It is not. It is the review of all available evidence (studies).
I struggle so hard to follow anything about COVID. I basically just lived my everyday life, and wore masks and got vaccinated when it was required in my life. Is there a good reading (or someone want to provide an explanation) that's a true neutral look at who was lying and who wasn't about COVID and the protocols that followed?
You're telling me that Glömpïg isn't a Swedish word? Next you'll tell me the Swedish Chef is also not real.
> I don't get why people in this thread are conflating Flatpak with different ways to do desktop UI.

Flatpak is often used as a solution for creating OS-agnostic distribution packages for applications, by bundling dependencies. This is an example of a solution that provides a standalone binary, obviating the need for the extra complexity of Flatpak.

> Sandboxing, permissions management, separation from system (needed on 'immutable' and image-based distributions), unified package format (don't need to create deb, rpm, etc. for a simple GUI app), and many other Flatpak's features can benefit the devs and the users alike.

These all point out the problems with Flatpak.

Runtime sandboxing is unrelated to packaging and distribution, and having Flatpak do both of these things amounts to poor separation of concerns: how do I use a Flatpak package when I don't want sandboxing, and how do I sandbox a non-Flatpak app? The combinatorics of the use cases involved require multiple simultaneous solutions to both package management and sandboxing, which undermines Flatpak's aspiration to be a universal solution.

The attempt to unify the package format, apart from being a prime example of XKCD 927, also highlights the complexity of package management as a concept. If you're going to bundle dependencies anyway, why bother with building a packaging solution to include dynamically linked libraries? Why not release static builds that minimize the need for packaging in the first place?

The idea of Flatpak being easier on developers masks the attempt to shift packaging responsibility to app devs in the first place -- the traditional approach is that developers just work on their app, and the distro maintainers are the ones who package and distribute it. So this approach is actually extra work for devs.

> That has not much to do with what you use to write UI.

It's less about the UI and more about the self-contained nature of the executables generated by the engine.
If anyone is interested in this field, we need your help with real-time reconstruction.

Currently a huge challenge is in real-time reconstruction. Approaches involve estimating point clouds from images then optimizing splats on those. Other approaches are using SLAM like LiDAR to have distance of points to the camera but then still optimizing on that.

Optimization is producing good results but takes iterations that are not suitable for real-time.

Pixel-wise splat estimation with iPhone LiDAR could produce good results but need help and expertise
I think it is almost impossible to differentiate between liking something as a pleb filter and merely liking something most don’t. When you position your opinions as superior to another's, whether they are opinions on widely liked or disliked things, that is always in bad taste
Yes I was absolutely not expecting a hot glue gun with a jet of flame coming out of the nozzle instead of hot glue, but that’s essentially what it looked like.
Seems like an empty threat. The obviously best position for gov is to always have the "you all messed up don't make us come regulate" line available to them. It sounds good. The moment they start regulating, all the mess-ups are mud on their face. Who wants that?
You can try to frame it in whatever way you want, but that does not change the fact, that you have zero idea, whether or how much I support creators that I like. It would do you good to not just assume things on the basis of someone's browsing and ad blocking habits.