skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or if you're both into the big screen VR experience, you can both wear headsets.

For the low low price of 7000$, vs 1000$ for a TV.
> Intelligent spiders prevent expansion into Mirkwood.

How is that evil?
The 1st iRobot vacuum on my local Amazon top sellers list is at the 16 position, the previous spots are Chinese or other brands.

I don’t really know why this deal was blocked, the competition seems to be doing pretty good.
bad meeting prep isnt obviously productizable
As a SQL-head, I enjoyed following along with Robin Moffatt's blog on doing the challenge with DuckDB. I got slightly slower numbers than he did (I have different hardware), but definitely in the same order of magnitude. He got 28 seconds to ingest the CSV, then 6 seconds to aggregate and calculate.

Maybe 2 hours of coding, tops

https://rmoff.net/2024/01/03/1%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3%EF%B8%8F-1b...
Dry graphite powder is messy. I would recommend a teflon-based product like “DuPont Easy Entry Lock Lubricant”
I am curious to see the image quality of the VP, because the Quest 3 already does a pretty good job as a home theater replacement for $500.
> (2) If you're thinking about buying an AVP and not thinking about buying an MQ3 at 1/7 the price you're not thinking or at least you're not an technology enthusiast you're an Apple enthusiast.

It depends on the use-case. For productivity, Quest 3 doesn't have the pixels per degree so it is "almost usable" as a desktop replacement, but not quite there.

A better comparison is a Varjo headset for $4k - $12k which has similar capabilities.
I imagine it relates to the Penguin logo of Linux, and him being the creator of it. Not 100% but that’s my best guess.
This comment applies to basically every category of people.
Should reference https://m.xkcd.com/1205. .
> Warning: This product is a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer.
Yes, California and Illinois don't enforce non-solicits.

Everywhere else in the US does. Sometimes limited, e.g. to a year.
I can tell you that support for this went all the way up to Ken Kutaragi. I discussed it with him. He was also responsible for the Ethernet port. He had real vision for the platform.

It was more than a tax dodge.
Is there any actual identity connected to these? A way to find the person and get the money back?
Sorta? The function does return a union type, in isolation. At most callsites, you would know which of the two you are getting. This is much closer to generic invocation, if I remember the name correctly. Was very common in a lot of older dynamic languages.

In fact, in a lot of languages, you can't tell this is a float, statically. It would work with whatever type was passed in that supports multiplication. And return the appropriate type. Right?
Yep, I use Arch Wiki as a starting point even for NixOS issues, when they're not strictly Nix-specific. Before then, Gentoo wiki was the go-to, but Arch Wiki has surpassed it by this point.

I also think that the AUR is a great source of information too, since PKGBUILDs are really easy to understand and useful for determining how a program can be built and packaged, and you can go and use this to make other kinds of packages for a given program.
Yeah, "webapps are all you need" is the one time I can recall Steve Jobs getting booed on stage.
Microsoft cancels Blizzard survival game, lays off 1,900
This isn't a $20B project paid for by a corrupt government and poorly educated population like what NASA deals with, where indeed they cannot go without a measure for every contingency and without promising to burn billions of dollars buying votes, because otherwise they won't get funding at all. This had a total cost of $121M.

Like any sane engineering project, it did accept some risk and chance of failure as part of the tradeoffs. Part of that was potentially landing in a bad orientation.
> I think it's just really hard to shake old habits

Excellently explained in this article: The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor (January 19, 2012) <https://web.archive.org/web/20220607063905/https://www.crack...>
It's not the weight, it's the balance. The MQ3 plus the elite strap weighs more than the AVP by quite a bit and I did some 5+ hours days playing Asgard's Wrath 2 over the Christmas break easily though I did take breaks to recharge myself and the headset.
Hmmm we assumed that the translations for the Paul Graham essays would have been properly translated. Someone else pointed out a French issue earlier, both the French and Spanish examples were taken from their 'official' translation. Now I'm questioning everything. Unless we seriously messed up a copy and paste, it's possible we just used a bad source.

It is a bring-your-own materials type of app, so if you bring an authentically translated work, you avoid this problem. We try not to do any translation ourselves (although we of course allow it for convenience if you choose it)
Imagine how much time you can save by not locking the doors.
> someone needs to call out BS claims like this as they probably have enough "yes men" tooting their horn.

Do they, though? Does it have any effect at all, other than potentially demotivating volunteer contributors? And if so, do those effects outweigh the negative effects?
For the transcription part, we are looking into W2v-BERT 2.0 as well and will make it available in a live-streaming context. That said, Whisper, especially small (<50ms), is not as compute-heavy; right now, most of the compute is consumed by the LLM.
I thought of running one on synology, but then thought if my static ip gets blacklisted for some stupid reason it can cause all sorts of problems, so I just started using purelymail.com
> But let's not pretend that Google and Facebook have not made Privacy invasion part of their business model and removed the ability for me to consent to my data being consumed by them regardless of how much effort I make to remove both from my life.

I don't. I also don't pretend that Apple is better, though it seems to me that you do :-).

> normal day to day operations like what Google and Facebook are doing here.

I don't think that Google or Facebook extracting everything that appears on your screen (including e.g. Signal messages) to their servers would count as "normal day to day operations", though. I would guess that it would even be illegal. However they can probably do stuff with the data that you send to their servers unencrypted (iCloud too), which is where E2EE is interesting. But then again, using Signal with a recipient on Android or iMessage with iOS won't make a big difference, I would say.
and they weren't crappy everywhere, though admittedly they were extremely bad in Silicon Valley until iPhone opened up to other providers, so they get that reputation among tech enthusiasts from sites like HN that are SV-centric
Sure, but that was at a time when there weren't really apps
I can't. That's why said "I personally strongly suspect" rather than presenting my partially-informed intuitions as facts.
You could use mypy in pre-commit so code is always checked. Sad there's no per-file switch to tell the interpreter 'this has to be checked'.
You can do that as a docstring inside the function. There are even some basic rules like...

def extract_coordiates(
unreseted_idx_from_df, json_data: dict, notna_idxs: list, na_idxs: list
) -> list:

"""
Extracting coordinates from the json_data['data'] and returning the 4
positions of those as an array

Parameters
----------
json_data: json
Data extracted from tabula.read_pdf and using output_format='json'
notna_idxs: list
List of id's from the dataframe that ha no na values.
na_idxs: list
List of id's from the dataframe with na

Returns
-------
List of tuple coordinates:
[(1, 2), (2, 2), (4, 3), (1, 4)]
"""

Thing is, that you may want to get fast information in the linter with this type hinting. If you need to read the documentation on big functions over and over, that means that's not clear at all, and having basic type hinting while typing the atributes is going to be clearer.

You are right, that some docstrings are necesary. But that does not mean that is the best practice. The best practice is use both, type hinting and docstrings.
It wasn't intended to be a lubricant. When it "dries" it gets gummy. Quoting Wikipedia[1]

The spray, composed of various hydrocarbons, was originally designed to be used by Convair to protect the outer skin of the Atlas missile from rust and corrosion.[11][12] This outer skin also functioned as the outer wall of the missile's delicate balloon tanks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40
Amazon abandons $1.4B iRobot acquisition after EU veto threat
Avid readers of practical betterments should note: here I refer to the classical meaning of the word keyhole: a hole you put your key in and not my own definition a hole you put in your key.

If some of the lubricant gets around the pins, then one is lubricating the hole in the hole you put your key in.
I lolled at the "egress optimization" tag, then followed it and found this other gem:

https://practicalbetterments.com/drill-holes-in-your-keys/

Makes sense in an XKCD kinda way.
>As it turns out, I haven't had a single customer come to me via my website, have still not printed a single business card and have more work than I can handle.

Any chance you could expand a bit on where/how you get work? Is it small jobs from multiple clients? very large jobs from few clients?
> If you've ever paid by credit or debit card, they can associate the name on the card with your Tesco Clubcard account.

If you're shopping in-store in the UK, the supermarket can't profile you based on your bank card without express consent, as it falls under personally identifiable information.
Consider the Hilbert L^2([0,1]) associated with a physical particle that has position somewhere between 0 and 1, the corresponding multiplication operator X which takes a wavefunction f and maps it to Xf where (Xf)(x) = x f(x). Then X is a bounded self-adjoint operator. It doesn't have any eigenvalues or eigenvectors but it's spectrum is exactly the set of numbers [0,1] as you'd expect (prefect measurements of position return real numbers in [0,1]).

The spectral theorem, rather than decomposing X in terms of a sum of eigenvectors & eigenvalues instead decomposes it as an integral over the spectrum with respect to the (spectral) projection-valued measure.

Now it is fair to question whether this "observable" is really observable, but it certainly works out mathematically consistently in the normal way we do things in quantum mechanics.
A few weeks ago when a lot of people complained about this, it turned out to be a bug in AdBlock. Try switching to uBlock Origin for a while and see if that helps?
I'd love it if instead of saying "The following story is based on true events", they were obligated to say "The following story is based on true events, and has been modified for your entertainment".
Harvard Medical affiliate retracts, corrects research after sleuthing by blogger
In a home setting not much but it’s electrically conducting so one must be careful if that’d be an issue.
They could at least introduce a new language construct like
await synchronizedAsync(lock) {
// some code
}

C# introduced:

await foreach (int item in RangeAsync(10, 3))

Console.Write(item + " "); // Prints 10 11 12

So you dont have to type:

IAsyncEnumerator<int> e = RangeAsync(10, 3).GetAsyncEnumerator();

try {

while (await e.MoveNextAsync()) Console.Write(e.Current + " ");

} finally {

if (e != null) await e.DisposeAsync();

}
Don't you worry that the ways of language acquisition that work for ultra-polyglots would necessarily work for regular people?
Netflix hasn't updated the Meta Quest's app in a while. The video quality is awful. Netflix is ignoring this market completely, it's not specific to the VP.
I like this summary of Lie theory in the context of robotics: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.01537.pdf
Lox.ts – A Lox Implementation in TypeScript
I have been interested in reading about compilers and interpreters, coming from a web background. I found Nystorm's Crafting Interpreter book freely online and I am implementing the Lox Interpreter in Typescript.
Show HN: TROT KIT – Always stay in the right neighborhood
The problem: when moving to a new city you end up spending hours comparing possible new addresses. This is especially time-consuming when you move a lot.

Much of that time is spent researching the best areas and making sure that the right services are nearby.

Solution: one place to check areas and compare addresses based on nearby services.

Workflow:

1. Check the best areas recommended based on the density of highly rated businesses.

2. Compare addresses based on proximity to businesses.

Right now, the best way to check product functionality is to see the demo on the landing page.

Feedback and questions are welcome.

I appreciate your attention.
This is not a "tech bro" thing. It's not particular to tech nor bros.
This a business thing.
Phillip Morris weren't "tech bros".
It provides immersion. Your brain eventually filters out what little bit of screen door effect there is when watching a movie. Sometimes when I go to the movie theater I forget to bring my glasses, but I still have a good time.

I'd be surprised if anyone thought the Quest 3 didn't render sharp text. I find everything very readable.
https://www.ilo.org/dyn/icsc/showcard.display?p_lang=en&p_ca...

Inhalation is not recommended, particularly if it happens often.
A play on words of "emperor penguin" and the person in charge of Linux kernel dev.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_penguin
Ballistol is your friend here.
I just shop at places that don't do this.
The CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) are doing a review: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-sets-out-autumn-updat...
Enigma caused the U-boot campaign to fail. Many U-boot commanders were convinced that Enigma was compromised, as the circumstances of the losses were too coincidental. But Admiral Doenitz doggedly refused to believe that. All the Kriegsmarine needed to do was layer on a one-time pad - a simple and effective technique. But nope.

The failure of Enigma also caused Rommel to lose the Afrika campaign. The Allies knew when and where his supply ships were coming, and sank them one after the other. Rommel knew that these losses were only explainable by espionage, but believed the Allied disinformation and misdirection as to the cause.
Possibly, but it wouldn't be the first time that the first category of devs feel like they're the target of such comments. And it's a well-known phenomenon that negative comments outweigh ten positive ones.

So from where I sit, one might as well not make them. (And I'm pushing back a bit to hopefully support the contributors who I'm grateful to.)
Porting a Unity game is way harder than you think, especially on a VR headset where Netflix would have had to tune things to specific hardware to get video frames syncing properly. The entire UX has to be redesigned. Not to mention that Unity apps are second class citizens until they're rewritten as "immersive apps."

It's not trivial.
Hence why you post it to social media so PR who is empowered has to deal with it, rather that CS which is not.
Developers who wanted to get in early could have snagged a Hololens 2 or a Meta Quest 2 and gain a whole year over the AVP. (I did get a Hololens 1 real cheap and found the software story was absymal, when MQ3 came out and got really good reviews but startling little buzz I concluded I couldn't afford not to get an MQ3)
Giftcards are not cash either!

Unless there is an obvious incentive to purchase a giftcard -- critically for a store/vendor which you already have near-term plans to spend money at -- then avoid them. Eg. I recently purchased one which had an effective 20% savings due to some holiday promotion and will be done spending the balance some time next week. Even then I barely decided to do so.

I don't know how we got conned into trading our money for giftcard balances at par.
The first czar was crowned in 1547 (104 years after the end of the Eastern Empire), so I'm not sure that it's a "continuation" in any real way. It may be a continuation in peoples' minds, but it's not a continuation in the way the Eastern Empire was.
Native is such an abused word.
As if the world needed more unsafe C code connected to the internet.

Rust-evangelism aside, I guess one can run the program under ltrace to achieve almost the same result.
> Code isn't flexible or self-correcting

Code isn't, yes, but LLMs are. That's part of the key here, coding can in some sense now be done at the prompt level along with an acceptance test suite, so rather than coding solution and test suite, you can hypothetically just write the test suite and have the LLM generated the code part.
The price will come down. This version is for wealthy early adopters.
Nope, it can get anywhere in the western musical system.

A triad 1 3 5 can become 7 3 5, then 7 2 5, which is a 5th. Once you can move a 5th you can move anywhere because it's a move of 7 in the integers modulo 12 (numbering all the notes chromatically) which will get you back round to 0 in 12 moves.

Maj -> Min is only one note change, as is moving inversions or adding or removing a 4th note.
The first casualty of war is the truth. Many of the atrocious events by Hamas are not as clear cut as originally reported. It looks like the primary goal of Hamas was to capture hostages for a large scale prisoner exchange. The IDF over reacted and to suppress the capture of hostages, killing both Hamas fighters and Israeli citizens. I am describing the situation, not absolving anything or anyone.

Look for the analysis by Scott Ritter on Youtube.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hannibal+protocol+haaretz

I do not think outright murder of civilians was the goal of the October 7th attack.
There would be CCTV and maybe more if they used a payment card for the purchase. Whether Sainsburys would lift a finger to investigate a small loss is another matter.
Because there's no problem. There's not "shortage", it's not that there just aren't enough people to be drivers. There are plenty, employers just don't want to pay enough to attract them.

>We can argue over the solutions

No, we can't, because there's no solution needed to this non-problem artificially created by employers unwilling to pay enough to attract and retain employees.

Your ideas aren't needed except by the employers trying to perpetuate their false self-made "shortage", all to avoid just paying employees more.

The only actual problem is uncritically accepting the narrative of the employers as you are doing here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

I had to look that up. I've heard the expression but didn't realize it was that much of a thing.

Exactly. "No one but a chump believed in FTX."

If you were a chump, you keep quiet and hope no one remembers and throws it back at you.
Arguably, the "\n\nAGAIN." veers towards personal. It's over the line of what I'd give as feedback; the rest I think is fine.
The Web Component Success Story
I suspect that Gisin has a very clear idea of what he means by "information" in this context, having worked for over 40 years at the forefront of theoretical physics with a specialisation in quantum information theory.
Hang on I thought Ph.Ds were socially awkward people who were passive and silent in meetings only occasionally asking brief questions with no follow up, and seem like they would prefer to just do the whole meeting in 2 or 3 emails. I am not sure which stereotype to believe anymore.
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Why not dedicate half of the meeting to giving people time to read documents or watch demo videos? Then submit questions that can be addressed while the content is fresh in everyone’s mind.
Ah, so it is. I got confused by the video, where the assistant responses are labeled as phi-2.
Why? Everyone acquires language the same way.
You can have a mediocre product and succeed by executing well.
I wish someday we could take our camera to the moon as easily as our replying ;)
Earthsea is so interesting!

Ursula K. Le Guin made the bulk of her characters brown, and it’s possible to read it thinking about (unwritten?) fantasy written from the perspective of the Austronesian expansion into the island belts of south-east Asia, or indeed of the Melanesian or Polynesian island societies, or even pre-Mycenaean-collapse Aegean peoples. Their world centred on their island towns and the sea. Magic as self-evident and critical for seafarers and farmers.

Reading now about the archeological analysis of the settlement of New Zealand from Hawaiki, how the colonisation effort spanned many islands, and how the failure of pandanus plants - in the cooler climate - for sailcloth, meant that for most of the colonists and all of their descendants until modern times, it was a one way journey. So many questions and so much fantastic world-building material there…
I didn't say that court said, "There is a Zionist genocide of Palestinians going on right now in Gaza." I did.

My comment was asking you to read the original sources, you are twisting my words.
> But pi is has infinite information

It does not, according to any sane way of defining its information content. For example the Kolomogrov complexity of pi is clearly finite - I can write down a program for a Turing machine which will run (forever) and keep writing down digits of pi as it does so.
You are right. I added some feedback for OP about where I got stuck.
This wouldn't stop your kid from wanting a phone. They'll all still want phones for games, chatting, cameras, videos, comment sections, forums. Of course many parents won't care if their kids sign up to social media sites through some workaround, so the pressure will still be there to join social media sites.
Congrats on the launch! As of now it feels like your target audience, or at least those that would understand what this might be, are people that probably have already spent a lot of time in language learning communities and understand some of what you're going for. For instance, I see "Shadowing" on one of the pages as a feature, which, if I wasn't aware of Alexander Arguelles' work, I'd have no idea what this was. Same with a lot of this parallel text stuff, if I didn't own Assimil courses I might not know that having parallel texts is a powerful way of learning. I think it could be helpful to break down how this would work more clearly for people that might not have much background in these sorts of methods.

I'd be really interested in trying this out if you had Bengali as a language option. It's a notoriously underrepresented language by language learning publishers, despite being the 6th most spoken language in the world [1] with a very rich, 1000+ year history of poetry and a people that literally fought a war in some part for their language [2].

Again, congrats on the launch -- now comes the hard part!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language_movement
I can say that, at least back in the year 2003, it was quite popular in Japan to wear MIT branded sweatshirts. Even for people who did not watch anime. I'm not sure if that's just a trend or a persistent style.