skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it doesn't matter that abusing a robot that looks and acts like an abused child is better than subjecting an actual child to it.

> the fact that we have the technical means to create an abusable child faximile, means that it's at all tolerable to allow anyone to actually use such a device

I am curious, do you think the same about people who kill children in a video game?
You might find this work and talks on liballocs by Stephen Kell interesting. The pitch is how to enable smalltalk like reflection for unix as it exists today. https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/#works-in-progress
I take it you're not familar with Prop 65? In California, you'll see that everywhere thanks to a well-intended but counterproductive ballot measure that introduced steep liability for anything that could possibly cause cancer at all, even if only egregiously mishandled. It's even on packages of food now!
> Nectar is a loyalty card scheme in the United Kingdom run by Nectar 360 Ltd, a company wholly owned by Sainsbury's. The scheme is the largest in the United Kingdom, and comprises a number of partner companies including Sainsbury's, Esso, eBay and British Airways.

(From Wikipedia)

In case anyone else wonders.
People won’t read ahead because they’re already too busy with other stuff.

I suspect this is why Amazon has adopted a policy of silent reading time at the start of a meeting. You can’t expect busy people to spend hours prepping.
Except my sister and her husband died in a plane crash 2 years ago. A lot of these ultra cautious safety requirements apply a lot more to bigger commercial airlines and less to small private chartered planes.
I look forward to giving user feedback when I’m able to signup.

> our Humane Spaced repeition system. Based off of the popular FSRS, our Spaced Repeition System will adapt to your review style. Take a few weeks off? No problem. Want to study ahead one day? No problem. Took a 2 year vacation? We're jealous, but we've got you covered.

I really resonate with this. I find that after a long break, I have forgotten a lot less than Anki’s algorithm believes.

Is there some reasonably scientific reference for this? I mean, I’d be interested to read someone’s study or theories here.
Many drivers like driving a familar route because they know what to expect. They know where the low bridges are, they know which roads are designated truck routes, where there are difficult turns, they know which exits have fuel/good food/shopping/parking or are a safe place to stop to get out and take a walk, etc.
If you know the suspect purchased a bag of funyuns, pack of marlboro lights, and a diet dr. pepper 1 liter, having the shopping history of every 7-11 customer for the last X years could give you a high probability of identifying exactly which customer it was, or eliminating exactly which customers it wasn't, from a list you compile from a large set of information sources.

Using metadata and tracked information of known individuals can illuminate the lives of people who aren't tracked through process of elimination and correlation, which is why privacy rights are so crucial to legislate correctly. Right now, the US justice system is not at all equipped to properly handle the scale and scope of private industry's panopticon providing more or less total global surveillance.

We need to see some legislation with teeth, big and sharp enough to completely kill any business, no matter how large, if privacy isn't respected. But hey, let's all enjoy being tracked, logged, monitored, and surveilled every second of every day in the meantime.
Zeno's """Paradox""" was nonsense even in it's own time. Easier now that we understand Newton's laws of motion but his contemporaries were able to sufficiently dispute his idea even without them.
~3 months after acquisition was complete.
There definitely were, but feature phone apps weren't great (for reasons involving hardware, app platforms, and carriers), and smartphone (Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian) app distribution was mostly decentralized. Apple's innovation in the mobile app space was the App Store ecosystem.
Why big teams are bad for building
What is the optimal team size in your eyes? Know it's highly project dependent but curious about your personal experiences.
> Should have considered how much time will be lost lubricating the keyholes

This is controlled time. The lost time in the article is about uncontrolled time, particularly when the consequences of a jammed lock are dire.
ChatGPT is violating Europe's privacy laws, Italian DPA tells OpenAI
Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack
I don't think a page which is basically not particularly compelling content built around an affiliate link deserves to be on HN.

Surely we're better than that :(
> (it also being primarily a vehicle for piracy certainly didn't help).

The piracy hacks never used OtherOS. The first piracy hack (the PSJailbreak dongle exploit) simply exploited the GameOS usb stack and wasn't released until after OtherOS had already been removed in a firmware update.

The only hack that ever targeted OtherOS was a complex memory glitching attack that was pretty hard to pull off. As far as I'm aware, that hack was only ever used by a few people for dumping memory, and those dumps were reverse engineered to find other exploits.

If anything, OtherOS might have slowed PS3 modding efforts down, as modders were wasted years banging their heads against the reasonably secure hypervisor. Turns out, GameOS had minimal security, and once you gained kernel access, you could boot backups without needing to touch the hypervisor.
Plenty, but from recent ones, this was so nice it got struck into my mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39072168
I would guess it depends on the environment you operate in, but it feels to me (emphasis on feels) that the top two are RHEL and Debian. Both are very stable, tested, and have tons of community support.

1. RHEL: Despite recent business/licensing shenanigans they still sponsor an enormous amount of work that benefits the whole open source community. Very big in enterprises, web hosting, and most cloud providers. Has multiple "cousin" distros like Fedora, CentOS Stream, Rocky, and Alma if you have no need or want to be a direct Red Hat customer.

2. Debian: Has a pretty old-school development process, which results in a very stable general purpose Linux-based OS with a (somewhat) predictable release cycle and very few frills or non-essential baggage. More popular among those who shy away from distros with commercial attachment because the Debian community leans toward Free Software (in the GNU sense). Quite popular in embedded and small systems (e.g. Raspberry Pi), cloud images, and containers. The upstream for a number of other quite popular distros.
SpaceX Faces Negligence Lawsuit over Injury That Left Worker in a Coma
> For one, ease up on the hyperbole if you want to be taken seriously.

I disagree that this is hyperbole. It's a huge problem among kids. Literacy rates are dropping. Listen to the stories you hear from teachers.
Sorry for your loss. I hope something was learned by others so it will not happen again.
I'd be curious to know how quickly they fill up capacity for customers on whatever size DO has deployed? (how hungry is the market for this offering?)
Wikipedia says a lot of things. Many of them are wrong.

Ask anyone who works professionally with machines and they'll tell you WD-40 is a temporary lubricant at best.
Hey, thanks so much for the kind words!

Our target audience is definitely polyglots/advanced learners at the moment - mostly just due to time. We'll definitely get to the point where everything is explained - the only thing we're lacking atm is time :)

We've got some ideas to remove the limit on languages at some point this year. In the meantime I wonder if it's possible to use Hindi or Kannada TTS with Bengali. I'd be happy to work with you to try and get it working! It's very important for us to eventually support all languages.
Yes, that’s how the rest of the world does credit card payments.

The US is the only country where it’s considered normal for the waiter to walk away with your credit card.
Where did you get 40%? The EV version of my car (Ford Focus) is 10-20% more than a typical Ford Focus (depending on trim).
I read through the post, and the way it was written, I was expecting it to be an extended analogy for something else. Does "Lubricate Your Keyholes" mean that you need to plan efficient ingress/egress strategies for your cloud services?

But no, this was not an extended analogy. This is really just about applying lubricant to physical keyholes.

While it is possible that this shaves off a couple of seconds every time you use your key, there are a few things it does not fully take into account.

Unless you already have the lubricant at your disposal and understand how to properly use it, you need to take into account the cost and time to acquire it and the time to research how to apply it properly and then actually do the task.

That time needs to be subtracted from the time you expect to save via the intervention. And the thing about time is that its value is not static. The author admits as much: "But some seconds are worth more than others, and some seconds have little worth at all." But the author gets the proportion wrong. In the vast majority of cases, you'll likely find that whether it takes you 1 second or 4 seconds to unlock a door, it makes no practical difference to you. Sure, in an emergency, ever second counts, but outside of that (hopefully rare) case, I don't see high ROI.
Remote workers 35% more likely to be laid off
> I can't tell exactly what pushed me over the edge

It was definitely snap for me.
I have a Tesco Clubcard (physical card) but not the Tesco app...
Digging... Development and evaluation of the mars pathfinder inflatable airbag landing system - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945...

> The Pathfinder gas generators are the product of a significant development effort performed by Thiokol Corp., and ILC Dover subcontractor. The assembly is housed in a double-cone shaped titanium shell. The unit burned its propellant in two stages: the main grain burned for at a high rate for airbag inflation, and the sustain grain burned for at a lower rate for gas make-up during the landing. The gas passed through a coolant chamber before discharge, where pellets of a ...

Which brings me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiokol

> Thiokol pioneered the short-burn rocket motors used in aircraft ejection seats. The company also produced a number of the earliest practical airbag systems, building the high-speed sodium azide exothermic gas generators used to inflate the bags. Thiokol bags were first used in U.S. military aircraft, before being adapted to space exploration (Mars Pathfinder bounced down on Mars on Thiokol airbags) and automotive airbags. Thiokol's generators form the core of more than 60% of airbags sold worldwide.

And the assembly can be seen on Wikipedia - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Jfader_p...

These are essentially air bags like the ones in a car... and scaled up. It is not Earth air, or even air but the exhaust of a particular high speed chemical reaction.
Probably because VR glasses are barely even a tiny drop in the bucket for Netflix. And the amount of people who are only watching Netflix on a VR glass (and thus would cancel their sub if it's not nicely viewable on the glasses) is tinier still.
But specific HTTP requests might. Like cookies, an accept header, or anything.
They trick, kill, and consume humanoids.
Finland purchased lots of military hardware from the Soviet Union. I'm sure Ukraine would have been willing to sign a deal that enabled/required them to buy lots of military hardware from Russia. That wasn't the deal on the table.

Austria, unlike Finland or Ukraine, has and had a much lower fear of a Russian invasion.
Waitrose it is then
You end up doing that, out of necessity. But it's worse in every way: people have to read and formulate questions under time pressure, rather than when it's comfortable for them. Anyone who did read (or helped write) the documents in question is sitting around wasting their time. And of course it doesn't make the meeting any shorter.
Watching Ads on Amazon Prime Video Is a Deal Breaker for Some
Unless you both a) Don't evaluate them at runtime, and b) import annotations from __future__, in which case it is generally safe to write them like this (and AFAIK all of the usual type-checking tools read them fine).
I was positive until the very end that this was just some tortured metaphor for finding a cloud provider with lower data egress fees, or something like that. And then the article just ended.
Are those folks going to suddenly find it appealing to strap on a headset with a battery pack for $3,500 but don't want to try that out today for $500?

The appeal of the laptop/tablet/phone veg is the speed at which you can plop and start watching. Futzing with VR headset is kinda not that.

The "personal home theater!" angle has been tried, and failed, so many times now. It doesn't seem like the Vision Pro changes anything to suddenly make it a motivating feature on its own. Which I think is the more telling thing about Netflix's response here. They've been pushing VR movie watching since day 1. And yet now they aren't doing so for the AVP. That seems less likely to be a snub of Apple and more likely to be an admission of "this just isn't something people do or want currently"
It reads like a satire but it doesn't look like it is.
Nothing surprising about it. $7.99 per person for everything was obviously unsustainable. It wasn't enough to fund the creation of the content that it was selling. Something was always going to give.
I think this makes a ton of sense for corporate customers and specialized, expensive software packages, but the model has trickled down to weather apps and text editors. Software that didn't/wouldn't cost more than ~$50 in an "up front purchase" model, but now requires an ongoing subscription to keep using. Many apps using a SaaS business model also don't like to let you manage your own data and insist or at least nudge you towards storing data in their cloud - which locks you in a lot more.
That's interesting, maybe that's it.

Hypothesis:

People want/need larger displays, and larger display would allow for full immersion experiences on whatever task it is they are doing.

And since 99% of people have never participated in full immersion digital experiences, they don't know they want/need it - until they try it.

That's possibility it.
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As Promised, Ford Reactivates Am Radio in 2023 Electric Vehicles
A single brand is not representative of the industry.
We need something like that to deal with the danger of genetically modified viruses causing pandemics. Covid may or may not have leaked from a lab in Wuhan but the investigation has been kind of shockingly bad with scientists in charge calling anyone suggesting that conspiracy theorists while privately saying a lab leak was "so friggin likely."

Just recently is was reported that Chinese scientists were experimenting with a new Covid-like virus where every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as 'surprisingly' quick. This time it's a Pangolin virus rather than a bat one though still on humanised mice. I think a rule that anyone doing such research would have to get say $100bn liability insurance first might make them more cautious. Covid cost $12.5
trillion + according to the IMF and with deaths ~100x all aviation accidents in history.

(Pangolin virus https://www.firstpost.com/world/china-experimenting-with-100...)
When you cherrypick your comparison options, you can come up with some crazy statistics. What vehicle do you drive, and would you honestly compare it with a Model X (a large SUV)?
The original iPhone though did come with the YouTube app built in and it’s major use cases were according to Jobs were - a phone, an internet device and an iPod.

The day the iPhone was introduced, the CEO of Google was on stage.

One of the major use cases for the Vision Pro is video and there ars no native apps for the two most popular video sites.

The day that the iPad was introduced. The CEO of Netflix was on stage.
Thank you for this link. It’s refreshing to see this issue approached with nuance and humanity. I’m a clinical social worker with ten years of experience and even I learned several things through this story.

throughout the story there’s a false dichotomy presented as if it is natural: meds or madness. Other options do exist. I know first hand through lived experience and also my professional work.

I work in a correctional facility and also an outpatient clinic. In both situations I see the profound impact of dietary choices, as well as exercise and avoidance of cannabis. For example, ketogenic diets are clinically proven as effective in the management of psychotic and episodic mood disorders, as well as autism and ADHD. If a pill were as effective in reducing severity of symptoms and impairment as strict ketogenesis it would be deemed a breakthrough therapy and covered by Medicaid immediately. Pharma reps wouldn’t even have to visit psych offices to drop off donuts and lattes.

See: https://youtu.be/Qcv_CPdPsPc?si=-LB2OEXtgeCptpPq

I’ve also worked in emergency psychiatric medicine as well as residential treatment facilities and a homeless shelter. So basically every part of the continuum of care with the exception of “rehab”, which is a money grab.
I often wonder how outcomes would differ if we didn’t adhere to the ideological fixation on medications. If we can sell people on adherence to a ketogenic diet in the brief period of lucidity after the intramuscular Haldol takes hold, how much wasted money and suffering could we avoid?
For minimum latency you want a recurrent model that works in the time domain. A Mamba-like model could do it.
Someone should buy libcurl.com and make it return the source code to generate a request to itself. Bonus points for setting the same headers and options as the triggering request.
It's just defence, same as what the humanoids are doing.
Show HN: CodeDiagram – VSCode extension for quickly making code flow diagrams
If we really want to get specific, phds are generally trained to be comprehensive in their discussions, rather than concise, which is a slightly different flavor of annoyingly verbose from the typical incompetent communicator or individual who was trained to be rewarded for volume of "participation" more than anything (the latter of which tends to creep into org structures anyway)
"Out of face, out of mind", basically.

Also, if a company has a fixed cost for their office space, then it makes sense to reduce costs in employees that do not require that fixed space's cost - so you can reduce cost via headcount and not have to worry about paying for unused floorspace in your fixed cost office.
An early spatial experience: Long before Apple Vision Pro there was QuickTime VR
Thanks !

BTW I find Apple/Meta's focus on meetings so fascinating. As a mere employee I can't imagine being excited to do meetings in a more immersive way, when we collectively agreed to disable cameras on most of our calls for stress reduction.

That would be better with family, I guess, but then $3500 of material and getting kids and elderlies in VR is quite an hurdle.

On AVP's performances, I fully agree. Currently, running the Quest as a PCVR headset, and thus aleviating the base computing part, still requires a pretty beefy PC to run the games at full quality. And even laptops have a hard time getting enough power and cooling to run at decent speeds for sustained periods.

While the AVP has an M2, I wonder how far that would go when it comes to games that actually push the envelope (or apps that are as underoptimized as VRChat ?).
I don't use GNOME :)
> You'll pay more for formula and baby vitamins when you need it the most.

... so when you have a baby? When else would you buy this?

I get the point you're trying to make, but this particular example seems somewhat strange.
> 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.

OK, well, let's not mince definitions. For the purposes of my thought process, a shortage is defined as "Number of people we want to do a job" minus "Number of people who do that job". The semantic difference between that and what you said is so small as to be negligible to me and doesn't preclude "increase wages" as a solution. I think that's fine for you to have a preferred solution or even a different preferred definition.
Perhaps worth considering that the Nintendo Switch is the best-selling game console of the last several console generations (#3 all-time!), and a core part of its appeal is that you don't have to take over the TV when you're using it. In fact, it really shines as a "people are watching TV, but I want to do something else" device.

(Particularly for kids, of course, which isn't a market that works well with the $4k price of the current Vision Pro. But a hypothetical cheaper future generation...)

I'll admit that some of my perspective here comes from being extremely not a TV-watcher, so "the social joy of watching a show" mostly fails to motivate me. :D
Disney hasn't been doing so well content wise so I don't think such a partnership would matter much. After the last Avengers movie and the unsuccessful star wars trilogy, no-one really cares about disney IP anymore.
Great irony coming from this AI generated non-content article in an era of peak corporate power imbalance, forced RTO decrees, cargo cult layoffs, and misguided bulk AI resourcing over human resourcing.
It was 2G. It was crappy everywhere. My dumb phone on Sprint had faster internet speeds
Yeah you have too many potential points of failure there, disable them then enable one by one to find the culprit.
There's a reason it doesn't. The last thing any pilot or controller would want is to have something sensationalized or misconstrued and then spewed all over social media.
I think you really picked up what I was trying to do with the score, glad it came through.

I had some feedback from a art curator about a previous piece of work that I was going to show (this one in fact https://www.vitling.xyz/welcome-to-tech-talk/ ), and she didn't really understand what was going on. After explaining what was happening and how it all works she told me "I love it now; but you're hiding all the interesting parts from the audience".

One of the interesting parts about generative art is that the "work" I do is really the ruleset/algorithm, rather than the audio or visuals that come out of it, so I always want to find a way to show what's happening 'inside the box' so to speak. Source code can be nice, but only for those who can read it, and the core idea often gets lost in boilerplate and technical weirdness. That's where I got to the idea of writing a score for it instead, which just lays out the basic premise of what's going on - enough to understand that what's being played is generative but not so much as to get lost in the detail.
> turning stories into language learning content

Great idea. It could be simple cloze deletion from the content pasted in, or are you thinking to use AI to create simplified expressions with similar semantics?
That leaves the question of why they pay 2x more, then?

Maybe fewer road incidents, reducing liability? Like, maybe people who can provide for and spend time with their family have 11.3% fewer crashes?

(Edit: number was made up, hypothesis purely speculative.)
Good point; another area we are currently looking into is predicting intention; often, when talking to someone, we have a good idea of what that person might say next. That would not only help with latency but also, allow us to give better answers, and load the right context.