skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a person who uses the AR-capable cameras on an iPad Pro. You are wrong.
But that was when our labor was needed to generate wealth and power for those people. The churches wanted of to work to provide tithes and offerings, the markets want us to work to buy and produce goods.

What happens when that labor isn't as valuable? It seems like someone in power would either want to pacify us or eliminate us.
A better model is "The daycare was supply-constrained and never expanded at the same rate as Google's employee base, so it ended up having little influence on the overall population." That resolves the contradiction while still being an accurate representation of reality.

It's the same phenomena as the housing market or California's population today. Both are super expensive and not growing. The reason they are super expensive is that they are not growing, while the pool of potential buyers is.
> better go for the next big thing. whether AI, VR or something.

The people on the edge create the next big thing
It also looked like it went below 0 altitude? I had it muted so not sure if that was expected or not, but seemed like it might have touched down too fast.
Facts like that would be more likely to be a T&C issue than a copyright one. Unless you scraped the data as screenshots that you presented directly to the user, or something nutty like that.

Of course, if Google decided to fight it as a copyright issue you’d still probably be screwed, even if you were in the right.
> you've constructed to make it sound more okay to be offended if you feel you hold the more traditional position

You're incorrect. I didn't construct it to do that.

> "Taking offence" is what happens to you when something transgresses against your belief system, it's not just what the bad people do.

All the rest of your comment isn't really to do with what I was saying, although it does illustrate it. I was saying it's silly to change something and then call any pushback "offence", rather than a wide range of things it might be (unnecessary; harder to understand; unfamiliar; yet another change of a bazillion and it'll change again soon).
Looks like it may have failed.
Oh shit just realized you are the htmx guy. I love you, my website uses htmx right now :P sending lots of kisses
Ambiguous landing

The tiny LEV2 spherical rover looks cool, hope it made it https://global.jaxa.jp/activity/pr/jaxas/no088/03.html
I believe that's the functionality added by the "Beam" adapter (which I haven't tried).

The glasses on their own just display a static "dumb" display that doesn't respond to one's movement.
Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud
Most ballpoints aren’t very good at delivering variable stroke darkness, either.
Most truck drivers aren't, to judge from the trucks I see on the road :)
Imagine the rennessaince in shorthand if this became a thing. It feels like the best of both worlds (writing and typing).
Given that at least 2 companies (including Microsoft) were already shipping mice for IBM PCs by 1984, and there were various pointing devices on engineering workstations, it seems like Dvorak was mostly just in his controversial mode.
http://archive.today/xtM4y
If I'm reading this correctly, this would more accurately be a graphene wafer, right? There are no circuits on this thing, it's just a sheet of graphene, right? Still remarkable if so, just not what I would call a "functioning chip".
Python CVEs
San Francisco Safeway to close its doors after 40 years
The intent of congress should be clear from the laws they write. If laws are ambiguous the doctrine of contra proferentem should be preferred as it is in contract law.

In the constitution, congress is tasked with making laws, not "experts" if there is such a thing. If congress wants expert opinion they can invite them to testify and then write the law instead of this end run around legislating.
It's naive not to. Believing that Facebook's purpose is what it intends to do is like believing that North Korea is a democratic people's republic.

I can rephrase it in terms of intentionality if you wish:
Meta has a choice every day to exist or not and the not. When choice to exist results in the sexual harassment of children then transitively Meta is choosing that consequence.

To address your knife analogy, a knife alone is not a system. A knife plus a human plus another human being stabbed by the knife is. In that scenario, the person creating the system, the knife-wielder, should(like Meta), choose to dissolve the system. I think, at least for the knife+human+human stabbing system, that's quite easy to agree with.
So true lmao. One of the things that I noticed after moving from Mac OS to Linux is that like, yes, sometimes things don't work perfectly on Linux, and sometimes the Linux user experience is more awkward or arcane, but you can always, always figure out how to fix it or get it to work the way you want with like an hour of Googling tops and a little simple modification of configuration files or running a few terminal commands. There's no point at which something is so far gone that you can't just fix it yourself if you want to, so the choice is always there, it's just a matter of what's worth the effort for you. Meanwhile, with Mac OS, the last time I used it for a couple years I couldn't get it to consistently connect to external monitors correctly, and it was just an endless pain in the ass and there was nothing I could do about it.
Curious on your Android would be dead without Samsung comment.

I know the US is skewed towards iOS, but Android is the #1 mobile OS, presumably due to cheap devices.

Is there a stat showing Samsung is largest manufacturer? I found this, but company market cap != number of devices obviously

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/16-biggest-smartphone-compani...

It looks like there are 20+ manufacturers in the Open Handset Alliance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance
For pure legibility, abandon cursive and shorthand of all forms. Learn technical lettering, and then relax it a little.
Your comment isn’t very relevant.
I think this is really the issue. When I was in graduate school, I was in a group for some project. Before class had started, I was showing off another group member some little personal thing I had worked on over the weekend, some game or demo or something. The third group member, having seen this, was shocked that I was spending my spare time programming things for fun. I recall being perplexed by this, as it was pretty much the whole reason I was in the degree. She responded she was only interested in software engineering for the money.

It's not necessarily a bad thing to structure your career around financial success, but I met many people like her who were attempting to get jobs at Google or Amazon just to cash in as much as they could for a few years, then bounce. At some point your company is bound to become filled with people like this.
Chatham House
Which email clients support sending the input password as: pwd+top code?
The "if you are lucky and get a good text" is carrying a lot of weight here. My school identified certain young students as having high mathematical aptitude. While other students were learning the basics of addition and multiplication, the advanced students spent hours practicing multiplying nine digit numbers by hand.

The school was then always disappointed by by their performance in mathematics competitions. After all, the other teams were "wasting" their times unimportant reading about algebra, geometry, and combinatorics while our team was "practicing" math with hours of manual long division nightly.

The practice is certainly vital, but it's useless without a good text to guide you. Unless you're lucky and grab a good one on the first go, you'll need to read a few texts to find the good one.

I'd say that reading is as important to learning mathematics as breathing. You'll be a lousy mathematician if you spend all your time focused on your breathing, but you'll be worse one if you skip breathing entirely.
You may be dont see it. But they are Nazis. It's not like "all the voters for them are Nazis" or "all the party members are Nazis", but they are. Who supports the basic ideas of "Germans should be Germans first and the state is German and all the Germans should be on they own" is a Nazi. It's easy like that.

We have a lot right wing parties and organizations in Germany. Look up Wikipedia for that .. In former times, for example, THE REPS (die Republikaner) attracted a lot of Nazis and Patriots and right wing thinking. BUT!
they did not have a chance to get into the legislation, nor, the opposition. Luckily, not enough voters for that.

So. What to do?

There is a new party founded called the alternative for Germany. The thinking there is conservative. A lot of people are conservative and the other parties in legislation offer not "enough of conservatism".
So basically, alternative for Germany is the proper party for such people. But still, it's not enough to be voted in to legislation.

The problem with that, each one and each member knows it - if you want to get in to legislation, you need more voters. You can't get more people to think conservative within the population, so you have to form an alliance with other extreme thinking conservatives. And so, you'll put the right wing ideas into your program to attract such.
"Together we're strong!" - it's an unspoken secret.

Also, if you look at the history of that party, it's scandals and it's inner fights for power and positioning and who left, who joined, who's is leading where - you will come into conclusions, they are Nazis.

And maybe, it needs a definition from my side, it's not that ones Nazis meant, which has been fought by the alliance of the West and East. They should be extincted by now. But they awful ideas prosper furthermore and always find some poor one to think they are a solution to his own problems. I use Nazi as a term for patriots, for the ones who say "we first".
My cousin - RIP - who was former Air Force, flew for FedEx. He said he preferred flying freight to passengers because you didn't have to worry about being has gradual on the climb out or smooth on the approach and landing and he didn't have to deal with annoying passengers. ;)
code.org has a game builder and a course. Might be too much for a 9 year old, but if you learn it, you could have him tell you want to do. Theres even an art and animation tab.
There's very little point in talking about ability to survive "extinction level events" in the abstract—the question is which extinction level events a given species is poised to survive, and was it unlucky enough to encounter one that it wasn't. The dinosaurs as a whole survived hundreds of millions of years, through many extinctions, until they eventually met their match.

Humans can deflect asteroids, so we've (probably) dodged that extinction, but that doesn't mean we're immune to others.
> the suffix ‘tron’ became associated with technological supremacy

I couldn't agree more.
It’s an advantage for passive entertainment but means the device isn’t a real contender for a lot of games.
Would you be willing to bet a token amount, say the current base cost of a Vision Pro ($3500), that in 48 months (giving you some buffer here) Apple has fully withdrawn support for the Vision line and does not release a new model? That’s the real test of confidence. I personally think you’re way off the mark and am willing to put money on the line. Are you?
Study reveals a universal pattern of brain wave frequencies
Except that wouldn't be a first-gen product and doesn't have the same capabilities so no... that wouldn't be a better comparison. Does a Quest Dev Kit even exist in 2024? I thought you just buy the headset now?
The quote from the article that contradicts the headline:

> The Highway Loss Data Institute, a US-based organization funded by the insurance industry, has not found higher crash rates for Tesla vehicles or other EVs more broadly based on overall insurance claims.

The actual thing the headline is misrepresenting is that people who switch cars apparently crash more when they are getting used to the new model, and that increase seems slightly higher when switching from ICE to EV.
This is AWESOME. I set out to do exactly this like a decade ago and couldn't figure out how. I still have the two SNES controllers in my electronics box and dozens of Arduinos. Looks like I'll be making some USB SNES controllers this weekend.
To be honest our real-time RT works only because we're "cheating" with denoisers working in spatial and temporal domain.
>it's either useful and I'm better off remembering it, or it's useless and I don't even need to write that down

No, that's obviously not how the universe and information work. Pareto principle here at play as well.

> Why aren't our brains better places for this

Because they aren't. That's a strange question. Reality is reality.,
Our brains are not made for remembering (rote memorization; a mere 3-7 items can be short-term remembered and juggled with at one time), but for thinking and making connections.

Computers are amazing at storing information, but can't think.

If one is smart, he utilizes the strengths of tools/opportunities that are available to him instead of using them inefficiently.
I've definitely wondered about doing similar things with renewable methane generation, which has the advantage of being able to also reuse existing natural gas infrastructure (and therefore lets people keep their precious gas stoves, among other things).

Methane does have the downside though of exacerbating climate change if it leaks into the atmosphere, and it takes a lot of energy to cool it down to a liquid, so I can definitely see how methanol might have the edge for grid-scale storage like this.
>The point is that on-site daycare isn't a competitive advantage for Google, because it is understood that the perk is rarely available/convenient.

Except for the people who filled up all of the slots of the daycare, right? Surely it was seen as an advantage to those people, it was available, and it was convenient.

Which I think was the point of the original poster. Implying that dry cleaning and daycare have the same level of importance is just kind of silly.

However, nostrademons worded it in a way (on another comment here) that my smooth brain was able to parse better, and makes sense/resolves the contradiction I was pointing out.
> as demands on the platform team grow it can take longer to wait for your change requests to be deployed

That sounds like an ops or deployment team, not a platform team. A key feature of a platform should be that the developers choose when a deployment happens.
The ATF examples are egregious, they issue letters of determination that pistol braces are permissible for a decade, then rescind and overnight make all buyers felons.

But they are not the only agency that is evil, the CDC asserting the right over all housing in the US to prevent evictions was insane. The FDA not allowing terminal patients who have exhausted all other treatment options to try anything experimental. The list goes on.
Did some googling. Are you talking about MPTP?

>The neurotoxicity of MPTP was hinted at in 1976 after Barry Kidston, a 23-year-old chemistry graduate student in Maryland, US, synthesized MPPP with MPTP as a major impurity and self-injected the result. Within three days he began exhibiting symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The National Institute of Mental Health found traces of MPTP and other pethidine analogs in his lab. They tested the substances on rats, but due to rodents' tolerance for this type of neurotoxin, nothing was observed. Kidston's Parkinsonism was treated with levodopa but he died 18 months later from a cocaine overdose. Upon autopsy, Lewy bodies and destruction of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra were discovered.

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

Seems you were mostly right, with a few caveats:

1. The toxin was an impurity in his synthesis of MPPP, which is a synthetic opioid.

2. He was diagnosed with parkinsonism and treated, but died from a cocaine OD(one wonders whether the cocaine was an attempt at self-medication, or a deliberate suicide attempt).

According to the article this case of MPTP-induced parkinsonism has happened again in the 80s, again with tainted batches of MPPP.

I'd say this young chemist was more similar to Shulgin than most psychonauts, but he was also skipping steps and clearly had issues with addiction.

This would likely be avoided by Shulgin because he'd probably get the chemistry right in the first place.

Shulgin also had a lot of pharmacology understanding that allowed him to make educated guesses about what kind of structures might be very dangerous.

But he definitely was the first to both synthesise and ingest a lot of these more obscure psychedelic compounds. But he was extremely careful, which is why he lived well into his 80s.
Thanks for sharing that link. Today I learned of the “Post Office Rifles”, which sound like something from a Terry Pratchett novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Rifles

The fact they’re commemorated in the Wiltshire chalk makes it even more Pratchettian.

Also the “Bulford Kiwi” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulford_Kiwi “one of the few hill figures in Wiltshire to be neither a white horse nor a military badge”
I was waiting on the live stream to start, mind sharing your source? That’s a bummer if it did fail :(
"I loved every minute" - Andrew Wiles on solving Fermat's Last Theorem [video]
I had one project where there were about 10 people working on it. Shipped about 10k units. Doing decent but not hockey stick money. Until we hired one guy. We went from a 10 man team to 2. He could not get along with any one. No one could approach his amazingness. He would triangulate people and get them kicked out of the group. Soon those 10k units and 5 customers were getting rather pissed off as nothing was getting done other than giant presentations. He really wanted to be a manager in 6 months.

Before he could infect another group with his special touch I politically maneuvered him into the most boring of tasks that no one wanted to do. He had run the one project into the ground. At the right moment I used his own triangulation manipulation bits on him. I had to become that which I despised to basically take him out before he did too much damage. I had him shunted off to a task that if it was done no one cared. It was a pity too as he was a competent programmer. But had too much of an ego to listen to the other decent programmers around him.

Moral of that story? There are jerks out there that will take out a well functioning team and not even see they are doing it. Beware of them. The world is not broken. But there are those who start fires because they like to make messes.
It is sad. A minority of people in SF had been saying for years that the situation was getting out of hand -but the other side would scoff and accuse critics of being of all things Republicans, not progressive, anti-whatever they could come up with.

Willie Brown may have been corrupt, but SF would never have spiraled like it did under his leadership. Towards the end of Newsom's tenure we saw cracks --there was always the homeless who no matter what they did, it was never their fault, the drug addicted kids in the Haight too.

I remember having cops investigate if I was stopped on the wrong side of the street (parked facing the wrong way), or I was stopped in an area too long. It was annoying, sure. But it kept crime down.

It took many years to get to the nadir, and it will take years to recover as well.
> It also looked like it went below 0 altitude?

"Lithobraking"[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking
Mayank and Matt at Roundtable are two of the most special people I’ve met. No telling what RT looks like in 3 years.
I was happy to assume it was good faith until Altman started trying to engage in regulatory capture to protect his competitive moat. You are correct in saying we should pursue lawfare against OpenAI to make sure such blatant and widescale theft can't happen again. I believe you are incorrect in saying it's a bad idea to produce more models. We should do our best to destroy their extralegal competitive moat via extralegal means, then also do our best to ensure such a moat can not be legally constructed again.
Yes. I wear contacts and the fit process during the pre-order confirmed that I do not need anything special to use the Vision Pro with contact lenses.
May you please do me (and others) a favor:

What value does an LLM hold intrinsically.

Lets say "brought an LLM from today"

Does that mean just a multi gig file? What is INSIDE the LLM that would be of value? How does one speak to an LLM WRT 80's tech, and what could one glean from it....

ELI5 an LLM;

BARD: https://i.imgur.com/ahRVECz.png

OpenAI: https://i.imgur.com/Rbk5BD6.png

Bing: https://i.imgur.com/zVJ1tu6.png

--

So, how would one explain 80s folks what even an LLM is when we cant even ELI5 2024?
> LSD is a pretty darn safe compound

It can cause permanent damage to vision or sanity. Sure, it's not addictive, and you practically can't overdose -- but it makes you temporarily insane and blind, and both of these can persist without there being a cure. And just, a general point: [CITATION NEEDED]. Unlike you, I'll provide my own citation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2017.0024...

> And there are a lot of similarly safe compounds with "smoother" psychological effects.

If you mean the party drug 2C-B, it has some similar risks.
I was wondering, but etymonline had many many pejorative meanings for "dire" so I assumed dinosaurs too. But wikipedia says like you.
From the top comment by scoutee, can't verify how accurate it is:

"For context: this is Andrew Wiles. He solved a problem called Fermat's Last Theorem. Imagine it this way: You know the famous Pythagorean theorem, right? It says that in a right triangle, the square of the longest side (the hypotenuse) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. In numbers, it's like (a^2 + b^2 = c^2) for a triangle with sides a, b, and c.Fermat's Last Theorem is a bit like a twist on this. It says that if you try to use powers higher than 2 (like cubes, fourth powers, etc.), there are no whole numbers a, b, and c that can make the equation true. So, for any power higher than 2, there's no equivalent to the Pythagorean theorem. Fermat claimed he had a proof for this, but no one found it. Wiles worked on this problem for years in secret. In 1994, he finally presented a proof, and it was a big deal because the problem was unsolved for over 300 years! His solution involved deep concepts from mathematics, linking together different areas in a way no one had before. It was like solving a centuries-old puzzle that many thought might be impossible."
There was a comment on .. slashdot or similar, where someone explained that the massive L0 cache of the CRAY (8MB ?) meant it could sustain it's "limited" throughput, whereas an intel quad core would peak above then plummet due to spilling.
Reminds me of the classic BIOS error message:

"Keyboard not found.
Press F1 to continue"
GPU Reshape – shader instrumentation for everyone
Interview with Hoffman in which he explains why humans are detached from reality and why spacetime has run its course in physics: https://youtu.be/nM_FOUCpJ3I?si=Mfhtshir-7V4fudt