skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What to do with small units of time during the working day?
My company uses an internal build tool (like a set of bash scrips around docker) to orchestrate the various parts of the stack locally. There's no workaround for it; there's no other way to run the stack.

Starting this tool usually takes about 20 minutes on my M2 Mini. This isn't long enough to do any serious work but over the course of the day (and running this script a handful of times) adds up to 1-2 hours. Yes, it's completely ridiculous, I know.

What's an activity I could do with this time?
I would define it as a platform where the primary focus is for users post visual content of themselves.
While I applaud the return of physical menus instead of the digital hell of QR-codes, I'm again reminded at how the absurd tipping culture seems to be getting worse in the US.

"By the way, all prices are 20% more than what you say here" would be illegal in most of Europe.
What is meant by a Transform in this context? The author doesn't seem to give a definition.
Based on how today's courts operate, juries aren't offered the opportunity to interpret law. Lawyers will present a specific interpretation of laws they deem relevant to the case, they will provide facts and evidence of the charge, and ask juries to decide based solely on that.

Ultimately it is left to judges to interpret law. Meaning that if laws are passed with ambiguous definitions unelected judges get to decide how they think the blanks should be filled in. Our elected officials can then, if they choose, pass laws with the intent of leaving them ambiguous to allow unelected judges to effectively write laws completely unbeholden to the very voters that they are meant to serve.
It takes a lot of guts to write such a non-PC paper. However, the author has some valid points.

What I find most disturbing, however, are the many, many people that demanded the paper be retracted. They cannot stand that someone might describe ideas with which they disagree. That is a sad comment on modern academia.
Considering what they do with chipping their printer ink, I am hesitant to trust them with anything else.
Catharsis, most of the time.

If you a middle manager that's really, really good at upmanagement, they can make things a little better.
Really depends on the disposition of the person

I have successfully done it twice, including my current role.

I have also hired someone who I knew socially and it went terribly because he didn’t really perform.

If I thought it would get to the point of severely damaging a friendship that I value, I would simply resign. What I would be left with is some equity and I am happy cheering on a friend from the sidelines while having a piece of the upside.
> Can we not simply say a shortage is when there's not enough of something.

More or less, but "how much is needed" is dependent on price. You need an infinite number of truck drivers if they are driving for free. And you need no truck drivers if they are driving for $100,000,000,000 per day.

In a functioning market, price will rise until you have exactly the right number of truck drivers. Remember that the dreamers not willing to pay the price are simply not in the market. You don't have a shortage of Ferraris when 10 year old boys with Ferrari posters on their walls can't have the real thing.

However, if something stops the price from rising – such the government stepping in and saying: "It is now illegal to pay truck drivers more than $30,000 per year" – then you have a disconnect. The market wants more drivers and are willing to pay more to get them, but are not allowed to pay them more. That disconnect is what the shortage defines.
I wouldn't be surprised if none of the organizations involved had any kind of system in place for footage that enters public domain. It's all automated systems making claims, hardly ever with manual checking by a human, and there don't seem to be negative consequences for a false claim.
I think these things are linked. Either way, kids are having serious issues, so let's roll back the clock and see what innovation causes it. Kids were fine before social media, arguably better.
Yes
I think it even flows better to know that and then focus on discovering why.
Yet another AI that leverages and hurt all web sites without even asking permission. Lame.
The Quest 3 is pretty admirable for that purpose. The resolution of the Vision Pro will probably make the experience a little better, but not significantly so. You're still going to be bottlenecked by the quality of the content itself.
We can do that scary bit autonomously already: https://www.outrider.ai/

I'm not referring to "sim", I'm referring to remote piloting. Real time sensor and controls feedback from a truck that is only autonomous when it makes sense to be. We can pilot drones over 100s of yards in real time without a hitch. We just need a bit more range (few kms) via, say, the internet, and you can do this fairly easily. I don't see a research problem, I see a funding problem and an aversion to autonomous trucking b/c people think it's either completely infeasible, or completely solved by Aurora. I'm not sure of either.
It was my understanding that Apple bridged this gap with Apple Arcade. But maybe you aren’t in the gaming space?
Regulation worked remarkably well on smoking.
Re. your second bullet, these analyses tend to compare wealth at the same age. So that one variable should be eliminated.

Then it all comes down to your first bullet, about GDP.

There are two frames I can adopt.

One is to take GDP for granted as a proxy for quality of life and focus on technology and social organization. Maybe we're too focused on computation and not enough on energy production or something else. Maybe there are inefficiencies in social organization -- e.g., monopolies that kill off alternatives, or rent-seekers whose demands distract people from more productive or creative pursuits, or laws that paralyze activity in a sector (e.g. building codes' role in the housing crisis).

Another is to take a step back and question GDP -- which I mean not in some hippy "we need to measure happiness" sense (though maybe that's what it does come down to), but rather in true confusion about how it could measure real wealth. What it seems to measure is roughly aggregate price (which is some kind of monetary artifact), multiplied by the number of transactions that a person engaged in, in a year. How does that measure the value of what they've been able to accumulate?

I get your real point though, which is not really to insist on GDP per-se, but to say that somehow society needs to produce more real wealth, however that would be appropriately measured.
Ask HN: How do you get important news faster? Do you care about it?
How do you get news in the first place?
Do you filter a lot and only read small amount?
Do you care at all to get news asap or do you feel like if something is important to you then you’ll hear about it later anyway?
For a day lost? So its 31 days a month, this value muptiplied with 52..
161.200. 000$ - not good, not terrible.
“What fundamental problem/need is the Apple Vision Pro solving?”

Screens are too small especially portable ones.
Yes! People usually only know him for the moon landing, but those who know a bit more are well aware of this (and and many others) man's courage and life before that. He went through so many life-ending events and still persevered. Gemini 8 alone is very very scary to think about
It would be nice if "targeted interventions to help girls reframe negative experiences" worked, but I wonder whether this rumination tendency is simply baked in the cake, and thus hard to fix.
The collaborative-working-environment, potentially on the go (from your hotel room, not a dedicated space or something) stuff looks really cool, but also very niche (and is only cool if it actually works well, obviously).

They may find enough of a market to prove out and further-develop the tech. I'm pessimistic about AR in general until/unless the hardware develops a lot further, but it's possible they'll carve out enough of a market with this to use it as a testbed and proving ground for later, lower-priced (and/or far more capable) versions.

Decent PCs used to cost this much or more, inflation adjusted.
1. Make up a lie that people want to believe

2. Get the lie published in some sketchy media outlet that doesn't fact check

3. When challenged that your lie is a lie, cite the sketchy media outlet as your evidence

4. Mix in LLM hallucinations for more fun and profit!
There are some other warts also, like hard-to-grok errors if you're using typing syntax that's not yet supported in your version of python.

Like:

somevar: dict[int, int] = {0: 0, 1: 1}

Produces "TypeError: 'type' object is not subscriptable"
I wonder if one of the existing interpreted languages (python/javascript/ruby/whatever) could maintain a patch for llmv/gcc which did exactly that and in the process make the most incredible seamless integration ever between itself and C (and also C++ now with its ABI stabilizing!)
What is this good for?

And why is East Frisia a country?

> const int EAST_FRISIA = 13;

> Gender\Gender::EAST_FRISIA
The final scene of Dr. Strangelove is a powerful metaphor for the current state of Twitter
I don't agree with any type of "outright ban". However, having EXTREME restrictions on these social media sites for children seems so obvious. I'd prefer a complete restriction on any content outside of friends groups, any algorithm restriction, etc.
IANAL but my understanding is that they're generally not enforceable in California?
You do realize that billions of people wear glasses all day, right?
> Musicians aren’t competing to spread their genes

Says who?

Eric Clapton said that he learned guitar to meet girls and that was well before the thing with George Harrison.

There's probably a point of diminishing returns but ....
Also given how draconian Apple is around NDAs and app store terms, I wouldn't be surprised if the companies read the terms and decided "we will wait until the legal/business side of this is as simple as developing for iOS." Only getting one headset and being required to pay $3500 is annoying, but Apple also imposes a lot of soft costs for this kind of prelaunch hardware.
The apple watch is a health device masquerading as a watch with digital enhancements(Apple Pay, Notifications, Messaging/Phone calls, etc)

You may not remember(or been alive), but in the 90's there was a whole slew of these Life Alert type devices that would call 911 for you if you were an old person that fell and hurt themselves. The Apple Watch is basically the ultimate replacement for that, along with exercise/health features AND it happens to tell the time.

The first version you had to call 911 yourself, but they quickly figured out how to let the device just do it for you, which is where it sits today.

I don't know anything about the HomePod, so I won't comment on that, but Amazon seems to sell a bunch of those speaker devices, so someone must be using it for something?
Pair programming with GPT-4 and Isabelle
Do you have in references for the US involvement in Nikon's decision to drop EUV?
Read about different note-taking methods, try them, and decide which one you like best.
Depends on if the Vision Pro can record well enough to seem lifelike. If it can do both, it will absolutely take off.
Well we do. That's why automobiles have seatbelts and airbags, rear-view cameras, antilock brakes, traction control, and have to pass crash safety tests.
The iPhone was even worse, it launched without support for third party apps. Steve Jobs said that web apps would take their place. The original iPhone was also overpriced and underspecced in some areas and forced you on a crappy phone provider, but it had a significant price drop shortly after release and the iPhone 3G fixed most of the performance issues (mostly around the slow cell modem). Plus Apple released the app store and it was an enormous success, far more than the existing app stores on the Symbian phones.
I know you can use a Quest Link cable to play some things on the PC store and almost included it, but I didn't see Quest on the supported platforms for the store page and assumed it needed to be on there explicitly if it was going to work.

I'm now cross-referencing it with Lone Echo, which I know works on Quest 2 and 3 since I played it recently, and it also only says Rift and Rift S for supported platforms, so yeah Google Earth probably still works on Quest 3 via a Link cable, especially since it still has new reviews as of January 2024 on there. Haven't tried it myself though.
I made a multi tool with folding pliers and other attachments just by stacking 2D laser cut metal pieces and bolting them together.
email upkeep, bug queue maintenance, documentation
Niklaus Wirth: Computer Language Pioneer and Educator, 1934-2024
Amazon and iRobot Agree to Terminate Pending Acquisition
Today Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) announced that they have entered into a mutual agreement to terminate their previously announced acquisition agreement, originally signed on August 4, 2022, under which Amazon would have acquired iRobot for cash consideration. This deal would have allowed Amazon to invest in continued innovation by iRobot and support iRobot in lowering prices on products customers already love. The companies released the following statements today about the decision:
AI companies will need to start reporting safety tests to the US government
On your P.S.: I contemplated your point being “I can cope with this stuff and know when to correct it or give up on it, but what chance does a beginner have?” which I think is what you actually meant, but ended up deciding to write what I wrote anyway, because it ends up feeling fairly connected to me, though from a slightly different angle.

I’m in India at present, and a number of 18–25 year-olds ask me about learning to code (commonly because their college or University is teaching C/C++ and they have no idea). Somehow, they have more access to a computer than ever before, because most of them carry one on their person all day, and more information about this task than ever before, yet their computer, a phone, has been dumbed-down and locked-up in such a way that they can’t really use it to learn to code, because that’s something you do on Computers, and those are just on the campus or your laptop, Chris, or things like that.

Easier for the simple tasks, so that the more complex tasks that enough in a previous generation used to work for just don’t get reached, leaving over time perhaps a chasm, and fewer really skilled people in a society that may depend on them more than previously. The lower floor helps some who wouldn’t have got started before, but discourages others by making things too easy so they never find the challenge they seek.
A significant fraction of commuting by information workers stopped during COVID. Nothing like the whole world stopping, but yes, it would make a difference if the reduction in commuting could continue.
No, but I read the clickbait title.
This project is using Mistral, not Phi-2. However, it is clear from reading the README.MD that this runs locally, so your point still stands. That being said, it looks like all models have been optimized for TensorRT, so the Whisper component may not be as high-latency as you suggest.
It’s not a dead end, it’s a solvable problem but the issue is that no one wants to pay for infrastructure.
Wow that sounds awful.

I've had no trouble plugging in random PCIe or USB devices and getting <6ms buffers. Everything works fine. After some years deeply enjoying JACK's incredible flexibility & latency, I eventually switched to PulseAudio with mostly stock config but much reduced buffers.

Now a days PipeWire is the best of both worlds. It'd be interesting to see if the top post still had such issues as they do under PipeWire, although I'm unsure what about pipewires scheduling would have better mechanistic sympathy.

Plenty of distros do offer -rt kernels. But -rt has been a massive set of patches for a long long time, and it's a different operating mode, and it has tradeoffs. Extreme latency sensitivity is a niche need, and giving it to everyone would have negative impacts. That's why it's not the default. Good news though, -rt's longkng effort to upstream appears to be nearing a successful conclusion, so realtime may be a Kconfig away in the future. We just have to solve printk() first, ha! https://lwn.net/Articles/951337/
> There are lots of people living by themselves or at least spending a lot of time consuming content by themselves.

Is this great? It's a market, maybe, but it is it one we want to incentivize and grow?

Increasingly I feel like we, as an industry, lean too hard into providing lesser-resistance substitutes for mentally and socially healthier lifestyles, and that "we are not making the choice for them, the root problem has to be solved somewhere else" is a cop-out.

The massive amount of effort we spend on boyfriend/girlfriend replacement tech, meet-up-with-friends replacement tech, experience-interesting-places replacement tech is starting to worry me.
OTOH we dock manned spaceships to the ISS video game style
IMO you need to try it first. Headsets are too personal for a “one to rule them all” model.

The Quest Pro is one of the most comfortable headsets that I’ve ever used and it weighs 100g more than the Apple Vision Pro
Right, but that trust comes from somewhere. I don't check the credentials of the authors on every paper I read, nor demand professors show me all effect experimentally. We rely on our networks to assign trust appropriately, but often we don't even verify that! We're forced to take so much at each others word that the system may as well be predicated on our faith in humanity. You can see this go wrong as well, people who've lost a little faith start doubting more and more experimental evidence, particularly that which falls outside of their beliefs.

I don't mean the system's broken in any way, far from it, this is a healthy functional system of scientific discovery! I just think it's fascinating how much is predicated on good faith.
The company where I work is laying off in the US while growing in India and Central/Eastern Europe
Gee really? You mean generated code by some ML model means people get lazier and just cut/paste hallucinated code? Who would have thought?
The Sky is Rising [pdf]
Summarizing quote:

“Python type hints are a core part of the language, they even have standard library modules (typing), and yet they don’t do anything when used in that language without some external tooling.

That, to me, is a bit of an expectations mismatch.”

I.e. they’re complaining that a type checker like mypy isn’t run by default.
Yeah, I have a TD-3. It's by no means trivial to use for a novice, but there are some nice guides such as the one linked below. You have to get used to holding the internal state of the sequencer in your head during programming, as there is no display showing which step you are on etc.

And the time mode must be programmed separately, which on several occasions has left me scratching my head at why the thing makes no sound at all.

https://airainfo.org/files/TD-3-Programming.pdf
Already happened in Canada. We have a shockingly divisive government at the moment.

What happened was that the previous government increased retirement age by 2 years and like Obama made it such that retirement funds can reduce benefits if they arent financially solvent.

But you can look at other countries where younger generations cant afford to buy homes, certainly not on credit.

Or other countries where there's no more family. The older generation have to resort to silver crime or choose a new part time job.

That's the thing of why generational warfare literally never works out. The younger generation decides on how much engagement there is. The older generation always needs the younger generation. there can never be a forced enslavement of the younger generations.

But another reality, the people who vote are typically those who are old.

Some countries have alreadydecided, for example japan. They wont cut retirement, they've cut everything else. Thus their politicians have basically said their country will not fundamentally function in the near future.
Law is basically man made math. You have laws which can be seen as axioms and lawyers essentially use the existing axioms to prove to a judge a certain conclusion
Is that right? Man, did not recall that... funny how the state of apps today has colored my recollection.
You may be surprised to know that the open source Godot game engine has also been adopted by some developers as a GUI toolkit (See Standalone Tools and Applications Made with Godot GUI - https://alfredbaudisch.com/blog/gamedev/godot-engine/standal... ).
Kinda have to qualify "quality" by varied standards. Is it good enough for what the author needs? Then what matter is it that some measure of quality is not hit?
I don’t know where I saw this idea but instead of banning just force these companies to make their feed algorithms open source.

It would be much less heavy handed and would freedom increasing instead of decreasing.

It would work because There would be enough outrage over seeing nefarious topics being pushed that the companies would refrain.
I don't buy it.

The iPhone is one of the most expensive devices and it is not due to a "not made in China" premium. It has close to half of the smartphone market in the US.

Homeowners in the US are educated to "buy the most home they can get credit for", not "a home they can pay afford and pay off as quickly as possible."

Cars in the US are growing in size. Consumers prefer the (false) safety of SUVs and trucks over the economy and fuel efficiency of smaller vehicles.

I could go on. Americans are the richest people in the world, but also the most wasteful and least worried about the consequences of their consumerism.
Is this related to formants? I don’t actually know what that term means but I’ve heard it used in this context
I disagree that a more intricate world means more entertainment. With Game of Thrones I hardly knew whatever was happening where. Even in Elden Ring, which I loved, I could not keep up with all the side character stories, I would have had to compile a series of notes.
I played disco elysium so I know what that term means
Something I learned recently is that the film was not exactly singular:
Failsafe - a different movie about a Nuclear Incident was being developed at the same time. Stanley Kubrick and Columbia sued them reached a settlement to delay the release of the more serious movie starting Henry Fonda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(1964_film)#Lawsuit
I can afford a 75-80” home theater system, but I cannot afford an apartment in NYC large enough to justify buying such a system.

Most people who rent also move at least every few years, so having that large of a thing to move is a bit annoying. Not even mentioning people who travel for work and obviously cannot bring such a system with them.

It isn’t just all about the money when it comes to device purchases.
"> drivers leave the industry

is basically the same thing as

> there's a shortage"

No, it's not. It means the drivers are not being paid enough to stay, as they explicitly say is the reason they're leaving.

>If anyone wants to work on this problem with me

Sure, here's the solution: pay the drivers more. Problem solved.
What is an example of important news that I need to hear about same-day, or even same-week?

It's only when I'm about to get on a plane that I need to double-check that I'm not flying somewhere suddenly volatile.
Philips stops U.S. ventilator sales over faulty devices; Cut 7,600 jobs in 2023
The pharmaceuticals thing is unique to the US, but every country has seen a simultaneous rise in kids mental health issues, so that rules out pharmaceuticals.
GNU Binutils 2.42 Released – CFI, AArch64, RISC-V Intel, s390x improvements