skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am personally a fan of using the .dev TLD. Any alternatives/ issues with it I should be aware of?
Heavily disagree. Just like running outside is generally more enjoyable than on the treadmil, so is rowing. VR rowing would allow you to row through basically every major city on earth, over Niagara falls, and all sorts of other scenic spots.
If the author sees this: the tutorial is great, but the language is a bit stilted and has many small grammar errors.

I suggest running it through something like GPT4, asking it to fix the typos and grammar.

It’s not only surprisingly good at this, it can also explain the logic behind the corrections, which is educational all by itself!
A look inside Intel's 1985 386 processor chip
Show HN: InsDownloader – an Instagram video/photo downloader
I am recently learning and practicing webscraping skills by making a downloader website for instagram.

The website allows downloading videos/reels/photos of an instagram post (stories is not supported yet).

The website is currently in Japanese language only. Might add other languages later.
And there's this moth outside my kitchen door
She's bonkers for that bare bulb
Flying round in circles
Bashing in her exoskull
And out in the woods she navigates fine by the moon
But get her around a light bulb and she's doomed

She is trying to evolve
She's just trying to evolve

Gunnin for high score in the land of dreams
Morbid bluish-white consumers ogling luminous screens
On the trail of forgetting
Cruising without a care
The jet set won't abide by that pesky jet lag
And our lives boil down to an hour or two
When someone pulls a camera out of a bag

And i am trying to evolve
Trying to evolve
> It being illegal seems like a pretty big barrier to me.

That speaks volumes about your integrity. Good on you!

But it is not true.
Yeah, if you could input data set X with quality Q(X) and output data set Y of the same size with Q(Y) > Q(X), you'd really be on to something. But I don't think such a system exists yet, or even close. Inputting the internet, outputting a sea of garbage with a handful of diamonds that people have to spelunk through the garbage for seems the best so far. Madlibs is a pretty equivalent activity, and while fun, certainly not anything one would consider AGI. We need a revolutionary improvement on automated spelunking to get anywhere. Maybe we'll get a good spam filter as a side effect!

But even if you had a system, there's still the resource cost to run the algorithm (needs to be bounded or else you've just made a finite jump) and the gains you make need to not decay (or again you've just made a finite jump).

And all this needs to be compared against investing in humans - which seem pretty clearly to have AGI properties (but with some really bad constant factors. 20 year training time - ridiculous!)

To me it seems things are a long way off and least a couple of major innovations away. But at least there's some ideas of the problems to tackle, which is a big step up!
I didn't realize Numba supported CUDA:

https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cuda/index.html
Sometimes you just need a plain old "for" over your pandas dataframe, to do a more complicated aggregation (variable window size, conditionals, ...)

You can try twisting numpy/pandas into a solution, but it might be much simpler to just write a dumb numba function which will be easier to maintain since the logic will be very clear.
No, but I bet a dollar that NSA isn't just going to collectively fold hands and say "These schemes and implementations are too good and too secure for us to break. We'll ignore the meta data, network analysis, side channels and our data centers that can store 2 days worth of internet traffic; we'll give up and focus on defensive security only"
Proton does support stateful streaming processing and has fault toleratance.

Proton save the state in memory and local file system.

The cluster and HA features are in Timeplus Platform which build on top of Proton
Discounting genuinely new products because Apple made them nearly 20 years ago seems a bit ridiculous.

No one would call the iPhone an existing product just because Apple shipped the iTunes collaboration phone with Motorola.
When recycling names that already exist and have traction can we append some context to the end, i.e. proton-stream? I was expecting steams Proton.
I see your point regarding wanted posters and providing bounties for info on criminals. What’s going on with the intelligence agencies buying data from data brokers is definitely similar. However, it seems to me that the scale of what is going on at present is much larger; it is likely akin to having a wanted poster and providing bounties for any info on all people, criminal or otherwise. The vast majority of people whose data is being provided are probably innocent and not suspected of any crimes at all, nor will they ever be. And, as you say, the fourth amendment is a “government can’t bust down your door for no reason” rule. It seems where we differ is that I interpret (as does the U.S. Supreme Court since Katz v. United States) the “bust down your door” part to mean much more than my physical door, which is why I find that it violates the “spirit” of the fourth amendment: in my mind, an amount of privacy that it is reasonable to expect (e.g. what entities a person is communicating with over their own internet connection) is being denied by the government to perhaps all citizens using the Internet.

It sounds like we agree that the amount of data being collected on people via the internet is way too much and should be restricted. I think that regardless of whether or not stopping the government and its agencies from purchasing such data is or is not in keeping with the spirit of the fourth amendment, we will need legislation to protect the privacy we want from the government, and definitely from corporations. Let’s work toward that end.
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592654 128 comments
I mean, sure, there can be healthy debate around what is the best use for a specific piece of land. But surely anything is better than a free parking lot, right?
Where did you get the $750K figure? I'm in the Bay Area, Sr Engineer, on the higher end of the pay scale, and no-where close to that figure.
Google Glass did no meaningful AR. It just gave you a screen.
A new brand of lunacy for sale (1985)
I think GP's point was that it normalizes having cameras pointed at other people at all times while you're wearing it or similar devices.

I see a much bigger issue in this regard with the meta ray ban sunglasses, since those will actually be worn by people outside. We already have cameras pointed all around public spaces, but this device category will increase that coverage to near ubiquity long-term.

When you are in the presence of someone wearing this, you're being captures by 4 or more high-res cameras, in 3d, whether you want it or not.
> I've never gotten in a car without having decided my destination first.

Not yet...

> If letting your rideshare company decide your destination was really a thing, why wouldn't Uber be doing it already be doing it with human drivers?

Because Uber isn't an advertising company. They're still chasing fares like scrubs
Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints
Baltimore resident. I went to that staples for the first time a week ago and thought the parking lot was strangely huge. I don’t think an urban forest makes sense there tho.

Baltimore actually has a decent amount of forest and park per capita. The Roland park country club is becoming a public/private thing.

Getting around town without a car sucks though. There’s no growth to incentivize bigger transit projects. More busses would be nice.

I don’t think Baltimore and other hollowed out blue collar cities need trees as much as they need to enable entirely different industries. And I don’t know what those industries are! But there’s a lot of talented craftspeople here, and not enough capital to pay them.

Or we go anarcho-collectivism.
> When is the last time they launched a "so so" product?

All of them! The first version of the iPhone, iPad, iPod, watch, AirPods...

They all had similar reviews. "Seems like a tech preview, not really ready for general use, too expensive", etc.
Does that count as a "Youtube alternative"? It's just a different frontend.
Because they actually provide updates and support to the platform.

All the Chinese boards release a single OS, Linux packages maintained on some strange .cn domain. Something is wrong with the wifi chip driver but they don't care, they've moved on to the next iteration.
I just want to point out that the huge expansion of TLDs has really affected the prices of domains in the aftermarket. This wasn't true immediately, but average users are used to them now, so if your domain ends with .tech or .plus or .cool or whatever, it doesn't have any sort of non-professional stigma it once had. And there are still plenty of good 'ol .com names still available.

You can have an AI company with any sort of domain now. No one really cares. I bet much of the .ai surge is due to domain squatters hoping for a windfall. It's not going to happen.

I have a one-word, relevant .ai domain that I'm hoping to do something with, but I'd also be open to any sort of offer as I'm short of money right now. So I posted it for sale on various sites and gotten zero interest in it.

The days of rare, in-demand domains like sales.com or something are long gone. In fact, most serious companies want a unique name to build a brand. Which is a better long-term name, intelligent.ai or logique.com?
the price is quite different though
I'm confused. Weren't they sort of started as an educational/charity/open sort of organization?

It seems to me like if Richard Stallman announced an IPO.

I think this will affect users of the raspberry pi. When it becomes for-profit, we will see prices go up, "open" disappear, decisions become more self-serving.
True, but the Vision Pro also outboards the heftiest part of the standalone support components, the battery.
Bribing politicians to do what?

Keeping interest rates low, that's what. At least, that's what some of the bribes are from some people.
Findings:

- ~4% (20M of 500M companies) have shell-company indicators

- Indicators are limited to patently obvious: most-commonly bulk registrations and "atypical directorships" - because it's easy to register (in the UK), but hard to make up people (hence getting pseudo-directors)

- Most are in the US (unclear if percentage-shell is higher)

Reflections:

- 500M companies for 6B people is ~1 company per 12 humans. Very high!

- Post-Panama-Papers drop in prevalence is likely just improvement in shell quality to avoid obvious indicators

- Still, 4% or even 10% could be manageable, but effective management would drive a jurisdictional race to the bottom

- Unclear to me: are private data brokers ahead of the government in making actionable analysis available to investors?

Has anyone (in academia) come up with an ownership/governance model that's traceable but privacy-preserving for different applications (market monitoring and investment due-diligence; criminal, civil, or tax investigations)?
Not to forget energy costs.
I'm still surprised how much people think that big tech is anyhow than by product itself different from companies presented like evil. For example weapons or oil companies.
> the ability to walk around the room and place different open Safari windows and apps around my physical space as I think and study some new topic

This seems like a perfectly reasonable task and why it is useful.
Another day and another reminder that corporations are necessary evil. To be more precise "harmful necessit".
A note on the sharing part: the number of people living alone is double digits percentage [0] in the markets Apple care about.

That might not be their primary goal, but the device could appeal to that demographic either way if the other features are appealing enough.

[0]
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4085828-a-record-share...
I've still yet to see any in Montana, despite lots of traipsing around. Grizzly bears are still a more common site, here. They've definitely had an impact on the deer and elk populations, though, and one great thing about wolves is that they can pressure herds even when they're on private land.
I gave Apple Map a second chance after hearing good things about it recently.

But it gave me a route where I need to turn left right after taking a right-turn ramp, except that the left turning line are separated by road dividers before the exit of the ramp. So I would need to either go wrong direction and do a 180, or bulldoze the dividers. As a comparison, Google Map never gave me that route in the past.

This happened in a moderately sized town so I guess I will still stick to Google Map for now.
Just another data point: I never played or watched any pokemon but thought Palworld was neat. Just got into it because I like automation games and thought this would be that, plus pets. Stopped playing cuz the AI kept getting stuck on roofs and ignoring their assigned tasks.

Don't know anything about pokemon aside from some yellow lighting bunny and an egg that you capture him in.
It's mostly dark matter. Apparently galaxies wouldn't be able to hold those shapes if they were merely made of the dust, gas, and stars we can see.
Yeah, but wintry places are mostly useless. The Bay Area and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area see some $2 trillion in GDP. That's more than 15 states put together. New York City and Chicago are big economic centers, of course, but they have good public transit.

So you can make a pretty big business just pretending winter doesn't exist.
I really hope Waymo succeeds, or at the very least survives in its current markets. It is so much more comfortable, convenient, and safe than traditional ride share.

I switched to more or less only using Waymo for ride-share in SF after I got into the beta last year, and almost without exception every Uber or Lyft ride I have had to take since then for timing, availability, or route reasons has been some kind of debacle. Ranging from just an unclean and odd-smelling car to a ride my partner and I had to end early with the "pull over now" button when the clearly intoxicated driver missed multiple exits and slid on and off the highway median figuring out what to do.

By the way, that driver was a "Platinum" tier driver per the Uber app. I reported what happened in detail in a message to support, specifically using the safety issue area of the app, and got back an automated message explaining to me that my credit card charge differed from the amount shown onscreen because the ride ended early. I have previously ranted at length on HN about the nasty dark patterns Lyft uses to attempt to trick you into using their "priority pickup", which is always slower than promised and condescends to you with fake "just a few more seconds" messages while it waits for a driver. Recently, my Uber app has begun auto-selecting Black cars for no conceivable reason, except that it does this after 10pm on the weekends when it's more likely I'm in a rush and/or sleepy and/or intoxicated.

The user experience of Uber and Lyft has gotten so poor it feels like outright hostility from these apps towards the users. I've certainly had multiple drivers who behaved outright hostile to their customers. By comparison, the Waymo experience is perfect.
Not really. A heat pump would use less energy for the same amount of heat.
Here is Why You Must be INSANE to buy an RV These Days
Follow up question:

> You are given an urn containing 100 balls; n of them are red, and 100-n are green, where n is chosen uniformly at random in [0, 100]. You select 99 balls at random and find that they are all red. What is the probability the last ball is red?
Algotrading has two parts - analyzing data to find strategies and executing the strategies.

Numba is for the first part, where you might need to process billions of messages to extract signals.
You know what's funny. A German source (heise.de) says that the ad was likely an AI hallucination. We got played. ...we are all monkeys.
Interesting. I sometimes wonder how they end up near the lights: there wouldn't seem to be a light source at night for most of their evolution. Maybe they used the moon in the background.

But is it correct to assume that, if something is naturally possible (e.g., bioluminescence), and provides significant evolutionary advantage, the species will evolve it?

If so, why are we the only intelligent ones (so far)? Why didn't chimpanzees, sharing a common ancestor with us 7 million years ago, evolve intelligence?
The lack of Flash support was mentioned a lot of times.
Decentralization/federation is not about "potential user base". It's about diffusion of control. People need to learn to fish because the SaaS model is a precarious foundation to build a culture on.

We are having this conversation in a more mainstream way now because more people found out how precarious their online cultural foundations are. Your Facebooks and Reddits and Twitters will get ruined by changes of ownership or on the whim of billionaires. You data will be sold out from under you. You will be squeezed for every penny.

The point is to either host your own instance, or use the instance of someone you trust and/or whose moderation policy you align with. It's not to amass a large user base and watch your charts go up.
yes, it's more an alternative to FlinkSQL. SQL is the main interface, and you can also build User-Defined Function with JavaScript, running in sandbox with V8.

While Flink DataStream or Table API are powerful and flexible, you can easily setup Proton to learn or use streaming SQL, or query historical data. Thousands of ClickHouse functions are available to use. If you like ClickHouse or Redpanda, probably you will like Proton too.
For a lot of people, the occasional check works pretty well. My housekeeper comes next week. I'll leave a check for her. I'll stick the occasional check in an envelope, but mostly I just fill in some bill pay numbers with my bank and it's transparent to me if it's ACH or a check is mailed. It's just not a problem for me or for the people receiving.

Of course, I don't try to pay by check in a store. (Though I did write about a $30K check when I bought my last car and that wasn't a problem either--assume they have back-end systems to verify.) Getting rid of checks just isn't a problem I care about or want to devote any mental bandwidth to.
And homelessness is out of control in Sacramento, arguably worse than SF. But, I'm sure that has nothing to do with the influx of people and rising housing costs
The positives are either very subjective, or vague, or promises that in the future it will be better, whereas the negatives are deal-breakers.
1. binary and memory consumption are two different concepts
2. if you compared the size of docker image of Flink and Proton, you will get a better understanding here, flink docker image is 500M after compression and proton is 170M. compare to Flink it is much more lightweighted.
What about the color? I know it is slightly orthogonal, but the article says: "This is true even at night, especially at short wavelengths (<450 nm)".

I always wondered: isn't there a light color that we human see and that minimizes the impact on the insects? Say if we only used red light in the cities, would it help?
I was thinking proton as far as particles go isn't lightweight. Neither is Electron web app packaging.
The iPhone was subsidized by mobile carriers and/or interest free payment plans. I don't see that same path for this VR device, but maybe I am missing something.
> It's giving up on the idea of "small enough to be unnoticeable" pauses

If emacs already had this, then none of these GC hacks would be needed?
> The decision says that Musk was close friends with many members of the board so he effectively controlled it. That's the case for many, if not most public companies.

In Eastern Europe we were calling this tunneling of a company - create a tunnel with help from inside to get riches out and leave the shell to its own demise.
I guess the counterpoint to this is as the number of balls goes from 100 to infinite, it becomes increasingly harder to predict, correct?
First iPod and iPad were fine.
It's odd ISO has such a control to effect an countries income just by choosing a good abbreviation. I doubt the creators of the DNS system had any idea that domains would arbitrarily give some countries an extra form of income, profiting from people who could care less about the country it was created for. Why didn't ISO just charge a flat fee for any string to resolve to an IP?
I only seem to see .xyz in the crypto space (and alphabet inc). Generally it's a crypto scam pushed at me in a twitter/x ad. What are some other players on the .xyz tld?
Dating files in the filesystem would be the primary concern for most.
Everyone I know even those who are into VR and even those who WORK in VR have zero interest in working with a headset of any kind on.

And those who work in VR report their coworkers and just about everyone they talk to customer wise feels the same way.

I know there are people who really want to, or think they do, but most would rather just use screens until maybe such a time the form factor becomes a pair of eye glasses.
What do you mean, it can't run multiple monitors? I thought it lets you pop out windows free standing, no concept of monitor at all.
I'ld say the Wright Flyer was a more direct descendent of Octave Chanute's work.

Lilienthal's glider I think was a beautiful, art-nouveau-esque flying sculpture. What a tragic loss when he died.
Both: develop and consume.

I don't reject Electron apps, but where there's a native equivalent, all other things being equal, I'll almost always prefer it.

It's perfectly possible to write a horrible native app, which demonstrates no elegance whatsoever. It's also possible to write an Electron app with a focus on elegance in UI, UX, and functionality. And of those two choices, I'd almost certainly choose the Electron app.

But trying to do elegance in Electron is handicapping yourself: you're basically fighting against the system to do something that would end up being easier to do with the native toolkit.
Symbolic Computing Architectures (1988) [pdf]
> The telemetry would be coming from Cruise, who is not a trustworthy source

Right, but they didn’t know that then.
Interesting that they combine assumptions from highly idealized abstractions (universal Turing machines, Solomonoff induction) with realistic neural network architectures.
That is incorrect, or rather, misleading - maybe Ive didn't join the project until 2011, sure, but it began in 2010. Ive didn't lead all design work yet in 2011, he was still just a VP.
An important other aspect though is how much is visible. With foveated rendering does it matter if I have 50 4k monitors? As long as they aren't all in-focus and in-view at the same time?

I'm not sure where the limitation is right now (if it's purely a software limitation) but my MBP runs 4 monitors right now and I'd put up with a cord (or two) plugged from my MBP to my AVP if I could have all my monitors in VR. I believe they are using AirPlay to give you the virtual desktop but 3-4 AP streams doesn't seem too crazy, but I don't know much about that.