skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being able to beat an rx570 isn't something to brag about. Those cards go used for under 50usd in the market and can be undervolted pretty easily.
Just having a hard time figuring out why someone wouldn't just go with a 7700.
Really Numba will speed up numpy and some scipy (there's partial API coverage) and math based pure python. I think it is unlikely it'd be used away from math problems.
As another commenter mentioned it can be used to accelerate numpy-array based Pandas (but not the newer Arrow based arrays), and again that's for numeric work.
It’s an incredibly popular use for the quest, Amazon and Netflix just don’t own the market, people are watching content elsewhere like big screen/vrchat/various vr players.

Almost NOBODY uses the Netflix app because it’s terrible, terrible software.
Not necessarily true I don't think. It's possible they will freak out over the upcoming years. There's a lot riding on commercial real estate. It isn't easy to convert to living space either.
Pretty much sums up the problem imho.
Drivers can't be, but road designers and car manufacturers can and should be.

It should be unacceptable to design roads or cars in a way that increases the likelihood of injury or death and every serious injury or death should be investigated to determine if the road or car contributed to the accident.
Ok, but unlike the person I was replying to you seem to be arguing against giving people the benefit of the doubt.
Can you use Vision Pro with contact lenses?
Its not comparable. At that time, phone was already a necessity for most folks and most had one. VR (they are not AR from outside)? Still 90% of folks around me (doctors, IT, rest of reality) think whole concept of VR/AR is for kids and... big old kids lets say.

Also it costs 10x as much with huge drawback above. Inflation makes this a smaller number but the difference is still massive, for a plastic toy soon to be obsolete looking like kids ski googles.

But if they persist, which all reviews seem to hang their overall positive rating on, magic we all hope for might eventually happen
Transactions that aren't on an exchange still affect the market.
Constitutional AI, Law and Freedom
Makers of Twitterrific want to defragment online media with Project Tapestry
I don't see how farmers can afford to not use this tech, but I also don't understand how they can afford them. We constantly told about the thin margins farmers work with, which seems like the math to afford the payments on these machines ever work out.

It also seems like this is one of those things that buying the base model is never enough. There were two different types of row cleaners in the front of the towed unit. There were devices at the back of each row that also seem like an add-on. The thing that presses the seeds down, and then the smart version that detected soil moisture and other info. Of course that's one of those 'for a small nominal fee' type of add-ons. John Deere seems to figure out how to keep his hand in the farmer's pocket eternally
>There's not really any need.

No, there is a need.

We know what happened and why.

We also need to know who all these people were, because all of them failed at their jobs.

The last person in the chain using a shitty tool doesn't excuse anyone else. The store employee could've consulted astrological charts FFS, the use astrology wouldn't be the problem in this scenario.
.it (Italy) for "IT/Information Technology"

IIRC it sort of has a residency requirement, but there are companies that will proxy your registration for you. More trouble than its worth to just not abuse the TLDs in this manner.
now the question is: what is the most complex* object that it is not turing complete?

* let's say you have n distinct rules acting against a set S, the complexity is n.

p.s. probably something trivial exists such that you can take n as large as we wish to, so probably my definitions are not interesting.
Right now. As the supply dwindles, the ability to supply that demand will decrease dramatically. If you got it for free in a seizure, there's zero downside to just hold it and forget it until later (when, ironically, the government sends your own fiat currency into a hyper-inflation event).
Malware campaign using Ars Technica had novel attack to fly under the radar
Fine weathered sand is great for drilling/fracking though.

And sandboxes for kids.
We have to think what the alternative is... Either not build things with concrete... Or buy sand from other places which probably have corrupt officials willing to issue sand extraction permits without much thought.

Also... Sand is expensive (in money and in environmental impact) to transport.
German police want to scare bitcoin investors just before the halving event...
There are plenty of use cases for Bitcoin, this is just FUD.
I can see that you’re trying to move the goal posts and turn this into an emotional argument but the issue at hand is still is “forensic architecture” and non biases and purely technically objective source? and the answer to that is overwhelmingly no.
Apple Vision Pro Review by Mkbhd [video]
Honestly, having lived in Vancouver as well as many cities that _do_ have highways running right through town, I didn't miss that in Vancouver at all. Traffic will suck both ways, and at least Vancouver avoids having ugly, loud highways along its waterfront and through most of its downtown.

Definitely, the best case for cars is to have fast highways that bypass the city, but there isn't a lot of room with that given Vancouver's geography, so it's a lesser-of-two-evils. Beyond cars, public transit and cycling provide a better solution in my opinion anyway.

Regardless... the biggest traffic pain point in downtown Vancouver is the 3-lane (total) Lions Gate bridge.
Tax related.

On https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/ it says €96.49. At the very bottom of the page, the last three words are "Prices excl. VAT"

When logged in, on the console.hetzner.cloud when I select CCX43 I see €114.23 and below it says "All prices incl. 19 % VAT"

€96.49 * 1.19 = 114.8231
What's the name of the tool where you can specify the structure of the song?
I see Sinofsky's defense split into these

a) Defending the industry's interests b) Defending US interests c) Defending capitalism

I'd say (c) is the highest calling for someone like Sinofsky. His worldview is that companies like Microsoft should be free to do what they want, as long as they play by (weakly regulated) US rules.

Europe's DMA, like China's Great Firewall, changes the fundamental rules of the playground and put in question the ascendancy of capitalist views and US interests.
it surprises me a bit that said companies haven't opened offices over the border. Easy enough to come over to the main offices for meetings when needed.
Add repairability to that excellent list.

I have too many friends with a story about waiting months for Tesla service. Even the ones that rave about how good they are in every other way admit that if something big goes wrong, it’s going to take too long. And the people I’m thinking of LOVE their Teslas.

Low cost repairs and easy parts availability for third party repairs is a deal killer for Tesla. They need to be more focused on it.

I had to replace parts on my Toyota recently. Walked into the dealership unannounced, chatted with the parts people, and they ordered my parts. They also told me about some fasteners I would need and made sure I understood how to fix it. Three days later the parts arrived, with fasteners, and it was done.

I really think Tesla is missing the mark on parts and repeatability.
OK I know this sounds kind of shitty but hear me out for the sake of argument.

If there is some political issue and say .ai domains are taken over, what's stopping IANA from just taking over that TLD and moving the zone to some other entity? Most domains there are owned by international business and some IANA members might want to keep them running.
When courts started requiring it.
Because that "useless tchotchke" is going to be a life preserver for their government when the boat they've been shotgunning holes into the side of (their own currency) for 60 years finally sinks.
we actually used an .ai domain and one night, round 11pm it stopped pointing to us. To add a record, the registrar at AI literally had a spreadsheet which upserts all the records when they upload it, and someone fat-fingered the row with our domain. It took the whole night to get a hold of the one person on that island who could fix it. This was about 5 years ago, maybe they've gotten better.
is that page supposed to scroll or have clickable links or basically anything?
Show HN: Sankofa – Browser extension to semantically search your history
Hey there HN!

I lead Product at Vectara. Some of us read a lot of articles on the web (like those on HN) and we were desperately trying to recall the text we read -- using semantic search because we might not have remembered the exact text we read. (Or ask questions about the content -- ChatGPT style.)

Sankofa is a new browser extension that can automatically index web pages you visit and let you search / ask questions about that content. We built it using Vectara's retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) platform and hope this is useful to folks.

This is an initial release: we would love to hear any feedback and suggestions!
Can you explain about the new grads born with smartphones? I'm not sure what's the implication.

I'm soon to graduate and constantly worry about the future of my career.

I was lucky to get some experience while studying, and I also have something to work on right after graduating, but the future just sounds scary to me.
Further, I wish they added support to make multiple virtual monitors from macOS Workspaces, like what happens today when you attach another monitor. Switching workspaces can be bound to keys in the Keyboard Settings. Moving windows to other workspaces is easy to do with third-party apps like Amethyst.

It feels like the Vision Pro would definitely be a great replacement for people who (want to) buy multiple expensive monitors, but it doesn't fully reach that potential today, and mostly because of software? Although rendering 3 or 4 virtual workspaces through ad-hoc Wifi at 4K 60fps+ low-latency would certainly be a huge challenge.
Yeh I just can’t see it working well. Surely it would be so uncomfortable to work up even a minor sweat with this thing strapped to your face.
There is always an idea what one needs, the idea itself is perfect, flawless. Then there is reality. Those never meet, good luck with getting them at least close
I’ve thought origami was the way to prove p!=np for a while. Just waited for Erik Demaine to prove it though cause he’s like a billion times smarter than I am.
`ls` actually supports 24 bit color if you put the sequences in DIRCOLORS
typo in headline "windfallf" @dang
I haven’t heard much about motion sickness yet, how long can we expect to be in AR before this happens?
Ask HN: Onboarding of new graduates in a remote workplace
I'm curious how companies are handling onboarding of new graduates when their workplace has gone remote. I haven't had to do any onboarding since COVID, and have never done onboarding of any talent into a remote workplace, but it seems fraught with pitfalls. I'd love to hear people's best practices and avoid any mistakes.
Imagine the new holder of the private key not immediately transferring to a new address where only they have the private key.
Nilay's video review is just fantastic-one of the best consumer technology reviews in written or multmedia form ever. Walt would be proud.
Yeah, we received one about having t-shirts that said "network ninja" for instance. We held a small party that afternoon celebrating that someone actually noticed our marketing.
Ahh, Germany.
I’d be too worried about sweat damage to use it for serious exercise.
I mostly played poker, where you can have an advantage over other players that is greater than the rake the casino takes. But I also found all sorts of random opportunities here and there where I had an edge. Where a casino comp system gives you more in rewards than the game takes from you for instance. (That’s both common and legal but they will cut you off because you are essentially taking the comps they want to go to the people they make more off of so it’s a lot harder to make a lot at than it used to be.)

Or when an online casino is not careful enough about how you earn the bonuses they give you. Things of that nature. There are people also who can do it at things like horse, racing or sports betting, but I never knew enough about either of those or wanted to learn.

My Predictit wagering has mostly been on the theory that exactly what this article says is true: people are betting who they like and the polling aggregators are better. I really just look for arbitrage opportunities or discrepancies between the market and 538 that are large enough to overcome the fees.

The fees are high enough to make it not happen a ton, but it does happen.
Absolutely. The enemy of rural is suburbia, not urban development. Build moderate density city centers, ideally in the form of several small self-contained villages that happen to abut each other, and leave the surrounding area as legitimately rural as possible.
Here's a link to Inside the AS/400 by Frank Soltis, one of the lead designers.

It's an interesting introduction to the AS/400, up to the POWER transition.

There's also Fortress Rochester by the same author that goes into the iSeries / POWER4, but I haven't found a copy on line.

https://archive.org/details/insideas4000000solt/
Fair point. I don't have an iPad with cellular. Honestly not sure when/if I'll get a new iPad--it's about 6 years old--and I have a long recreational international trip coming up; haven't decided if I'll bring a laptop or not.
This is one reason why I explored model checking machine code output, since at this point, the behavior is very much defined, even if it differs from implied source behavior. But, this gets complicated for other reasons.
> Having a house cleaner come in for the first time was fucking weird. Still is, really. I can't relax, feel like I ought to be helping.

A long time ago, I had a house cleaner come in once per week to do deep cleaning stuff. It was quite a luxury! However, I always spent a couple of hours cleaning the house in preparation for their arrival.

What I've noticed is a shift with age and wealth. When I was young and poor, I had time and energy in abundance and never hired people to do anything for me (excepting for specialized things like medical care). Now that I'm old and more comfortable, I don't have any issue hiring people to do things I can technically do myself.

I look at it this way: whether you hire someone or DIY it, you're paying something to get it done. If not money, then time and effort. I just pay in the manner that, big picture, costs me the least. When young and poor, my time and effort was worth less than actual money. Now, money is often worth less than my time and effort.

Is it worth paying $50 to have the neighborhood kid mow my lawn for me? Younger me would say absolutely not. Current me says absolutely.
The hand tracking system is among the faults in the review. I'm not sure whether this will be addressed by having a real keyboard and mouse. The reviewer never tried the device with a real mouse. Do you know how the experience will be when using a mouse rather than the hand-tracking system?

Anyways this sounds infuriating:

> you have to be looking at something in order to click on it, and that means you are constantly taking your attention away from whatever you’re working on to specifically look at the button you need to press next. I spent some time playing a lovely little game called Stitch that quickly became maddening because I kept looking away from the piece I wanted to move to the place I wanted to move it, which meant I wasn’t picking it up when I tapped my fingers.

And also:

> I talk through writing video scripts to make sure things flow, and I talk with my hands. So as I was writing the video script for this review in the Vision Pro, the system kept catching my hands moving and started scrolling and clicking on things by accident. I cracked up the first time I realized what was happening. But eventually, it meant that I took the Vision Pro off and wrote the rest of the script on my Mac, which only does things when I actually want it to.
Platforms with so few noteworthy games in the past 6 years are a red flag of the health of it. Nothing wrong with that, but plenty of folks argue that VR gaming is great.

HL:A, as I said in another comment, is just a case study on why VR won't work. With no disrespect to the devs because I think they really did do a good job with what they had, but it still sucks if you dare to peek under the hood. It coddles you (because it needs to).
Not really bias is a neutral term, so biased is biased regardless of your views. If you can’t see that then your judgment is clouded and you’re about as far from being astute as you can be.
Incredible! Two years ago I was experimenting in porting some code at the company I was at to python in the browser (instead of QT desktop apps) and this was the biggest thing I had to work around! I had to manually monkey patch or proxy a few libraries to make them work, but I'll have to test out this update and see if everything magically works
The way I see it, say if someone smokes cigarettes... And one day they are confronted with irrefutable evidence that what they are doing is bad/wrong/dangerous - their mind is then uncomfortably split between two conflicting ideas:

1. "I'm an OK person, I'm not particularly bad, I try and do the right thing"

2. "How can #1 be true if there is strong evidence to the contrary?"

I think you're right, hackit2, this is usually not verbally articulated, but FELT as discomfort.

This internal discomfort can be resolved either by:

1. Facing up to the facts around cigarettes - This is hard, this sucks. If you're smart you have to face up to all sorts of uncomfortable stuff, from governmental benefits of addiction to your own mistakes.

2. NOT facing up to what is real. But siding with a group/ideology/thinking mode which is working on the front of modifying reality. Investing time in trying to change reality through narrative or rhetoric or disproving.

I think this framework happens to us all on some fronts... I think the catholic church might have hit up against some of this stuff when the earth ceased being the centre of the universe. I think they may have chosen path #2, cause they had a lot to lose.
I think underground metros, while expensive to build, solve this, because they are always more convenient compared to any traffic-ridden area. A bus can get stuck in the same traffic as the cars, and bikes taking over any significant portion of American commuting in the near-term feels laughable to me — we are quite culturally different from the Dutch :P
Geopolymer Cement
My experience is that government / military contracts are difficult to deal with / get if you're not established and those synergies like "engineer has some at home" are non existent.
I did not know that! That was well after the decade where I qualified.
I guess a significant number of employees are just working really hard on things that don't matter. When every single thing that needs working on is already being worked on, a lot of people are going to be doing busy work. There was a post by Stevie Yeggie where he talked about working at google. he looked really hard to find a new project to lead but absolutely everything was already being worked on, he found. eventually he just couldn't see himself leading or doing meaningful work there and quit.

the lesson here, i think is that there are limits to how much can be done, without moving into new industries and spreading horizontally.
I'm not sure it's just that, some of their latest offerings are just really, really, really low quality. The original Pokemon games might not have been high brow adult media but they were well crafted enough that anyone could enjoy them.
Google missing on ad revenue is like Apple missing on iPhone revenue. It's even worse for Google because it's a larger part of their business. Is the miss a blip or a signal of a slowing ad market or are LLMs eating into their business? Hard to know, but that's the concern.
Ask HN: What is a 2024-2030 moat for AI
What are the key moats and competitive advantage in the AI industry(specifically if one is working in the Generative AI space) for the next 6 years? Some simple examples, you are building on powerful technologies: AI forecasting based on graphcast, or an assistant based on GPT or computer vision based on Roboflow and Scale API. Products like Perplexity is built on GPT and others and Rabbit is built on Perplexity.

Looking ahead to the years 2024 to 2030, it becomes increasingly crucial to identify the moats that can help AI companies maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Some say this is users, data or compute. But what makes sense for 1-3 person team.
> I'd like to see more brilliant minds from tech explore other industries, especially the trades. It is incredibly difficult to find competent and trustworthy tradespeople at a reasonable price today.

Ok so your pitch is that other people (not you) should go into "the trades" and charge less than the people who are there now?

Wanna give us an example of what a "trade" is, what you're being charged for it, and how much you'd like to pay?
Will FreeBSD be supported in the future?
It's $14 billion a year for San Diego County, that's not chicken feed.
The complexity of our systems has increased a lot, and I dont think the tooling has caught up yet.

Its sad that the fastest thing we have now is log.Printf("asdasdf") and grep the logs on the pod :)

Debugging multithreaded application is as difficult as it was 50 years ago, maybe VR debuggers will allow us to debug complex interconnected systems or models in a more intuitive environment.

Also I think having hundreds of chats with some llms to investigate specific part of the code/docs fits very nicely with infinite screen space, and using your eyes to focus instead of alt+tabbing

I have my fingers crossed for some insane tooling advancements in the next years.

Does anyone know of any re-inventing the IDE in VR projects that are worth following?
I call shenanigans on the 5x price increase.

Marginal increases in commodity price can greatly increase supply as previously uneconomic deposits/production methods suddenly become very viable.

And while some processes critically depend on concrete, others will get pushed to other non-concrete methods if price goes up.
Speaking of brownfield, you may (more likely not) be surprised to know that golf courses are pretty nasty places themselves. You can find soils contaminated with arsenic, mercury, and cadmium from fungicides.

So those rolling green links might not be the cheapest places to establish new housing when you include the remediation.
I've been a skeptic of VR/AR since Occulus launched. I'm still skeptical after reading the reviews.
they 100% do. what company or government agency have you ever seen running on desktops that isnt the DMV?
The application doesn't care if it's "just a transport" or "part of an elaborate spec". Functionally there is no difference between an HTTP transaction and a message queue transaction, for a specific kind of message queue. You implement them literally the same way in an application; open socket, connect, send, receive, optional loop, close.

The point is that a message queue is just a concept. It can exist in many forms for many different use cases. You evaluate the type of queue and implement something that provides for its requirements. HTTP does that inherently for certain message queue types, and for others it requires more code.

Another example is the perennial meme of "PostgreSQL queue". A database isn't a message queue, it's a database! Yet people throw some crap into the DB and call it a queue. Because the application doesn't care how you implement the logical concept. HTTP, RDBMS, MQTT broker, whatever.