skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No way will this tech destroy phones as you know them today. What is going to destroy phones is natural language. Maybe, maybe in the distant future this tech will be mature enough to provide the visual support to a natural language first device.

xBox addressed a very well defined product sector with a couple of big players doing stuff that is well understood. xBox wasn't a toe in the water, they planned a whole strategy around it using known facts about the industry, how people play, what kind of games work, they didn't break much new ground with the xBox. All they had to do was make a compelling, affordable gaming device that had amazing games on it. The rest takes care of itself. Apple Vision Pro is nothing like that. There is no existing market to put your toe in, there are no real competitors, we haven't even found a killer use case for these devices.

No one really knows how these AR/VR devices can fit into everyday life. Currently Apple is working on finding the water to put their toe in. Right now they are at an exclusive oasis when they really need an ocean.
I don't know about that. MacOS remains a general-purpose computing experience in a way that iOS simply hasn't ever.
So 8700G's GPU is at the level of GTX1070? Not bad... M3 Max is about 2x faster (2080Ti level)
I got a Hololens 1 that turned out to be a white elephant and I read a lot of stories about people buying VR headsets and abandoning them so when I got an MQ3 I was quite deliberate about getting a variety of games and apps and spending enough time with VR to succeed at it.
Yes it's a thing. That they disagree on implementation details doesn't mean they aren't part of the same apparatus. "Anti-woke" and "DEI" maximalist at tech companies both believe in the power and autonomy of the companies as an end, they just disagree about the representation among those holding power within them.

AI doomers and e/acc I'm less clear on. E/acc is just straightforwardly very fascist. AI doomers seem to have much broader ideological underpinnings, but still seem overall aligned with the more moderate strain of the "technoauthoritarianism" we're talking about.

So sure, not everything fits into it, it's not all-pervasive. But that doesn't mean we can't talk about trends and inclinations.
Decent review, but it is Nilay Patel, who sees himself as a kingmaker. I’m interested to read reviews from people just focusing on how it is to use the device.
I don’t know, which is why I’m asking. I can see it not charging as fast as it’s being used.
cf. https://github.com/emacsmirror/gcmh (the author's [=Andrea Corallo's] Emacs package "GCMH - the Garbage Collector Magic Hack")
Who knows what Apple would charge but the BOM for a bluetooth controller with LEDs is not a lot when they already have good-enough hand tracking.
I was indeed referring to NL but also PT and ES that I know of.
> You seem to be quoting their reasoning but either not reading or accepting it,

I'm not accepting it, no. Because it's a self-contained contradiction. People are wrong all the time. I don't find it as baffling as you seem to.

If someone goes on a long tirade, in English, about how they can't speak English, and answers followup questions about it, then no I don't take them at their word. It'll be clear very quickly (in interactive questions) whether or not this is merely memorized sounds.

I've had a guy (on drugs) get afraid and argued to try to convince me that he did not have a pulse. I didn't need to check for a pulse to know he had one. He finally accepted my argument that "if you did not have a pulse then you would not be sitting here talking to me".
> Apple is so incredibly capable, stocked with talent, and loaded with resources that the company simply went out and engineered the hell out of the hardest problems it could think of in order to find a challenge. That’s good!

I think they knew before halfway through that it was not possible to build a practical product, but Apple thinks it's important to stay relevant and appear innovative, so they went along and built it anyway. Maybe that was the intention from the start.

I'm not sure why they created and marketed so many dystopian features though. The part of the demo where the dad played with his kids while wearing the Vision Pro and then watched the playback alone later was disturbing. Same with people talking using the EyeSight feature instead of taking of the goggles and making real eye contact.
This is great. I've been using ChatGPT 3.5 for something similar, but the corrections and grammar explanations in this are much better!
I've started joining design meetings for a new streamlined way for nurses to do their tasks in the EHR. Multiple times now we've got stuck in a little back and forth about how to do something, and someone suggests a setting to allow either option. And each time I try to interject "no settings!". It's a pain for support and code maintenance, increases potential bugs, and means that some organizations could get left behind on new features that aren't compatible with niche settings that they refuse to change.
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I think many people would take issue with the claim that most information is given voluntarily. How many people even know that their car connects to cell towers, which allows for location tracking, let alone who actually volunteered for it?
Indeed: better to let them think you're viewing pornography, than to remove all doubt.
Thanks, I’ll probably try all of them out then haha
I don't think this is true for most cases. I have not volunteered or given consent for the collection of most of the data about me on these markets.
That doesn't mean that code pages couldn't be shared. The data that differs per process is a single number in this case.

Having said that I agree that it's probably not worth it to put getpid() into vDSO.
Reaction, after skimming the article... "Technoauthoritarianism" is just click-bait. And/or a sign that The Atlantic utterly clueless about history. Or at least they want to keep their readers utterly clueless about history.

Whether you're looking at today's FAANG's, or the United Fruit Company of the earlier 1900's, or the businesses (Standard Oil, etc.) broken up via the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, or the British East India Company, or ..., or tax farming back in Ancient Rome, or ... - the stories are extremely similar.
CPU mark scores are 32k and 39k respectively. It's at least twice as efficient
> Phones off during the day and on during evening hours would describe the behaviors of NSA employees

He did say they were looking for criminals, no?
another thing that should also be illegal. You shouldn't be able to use a 3rd party (company) to break the law (4th amendment)
And that's my point, it's such a tiny niche usage window, why bother to bring it?
Feelings are part of what makes us human. We love our parents, enjoy the company of our friends, like listening to music and so much more.

Not everything in life is logical.
I doubt it. The data collected by brokers is going to all be indemnified by whoever collected the data. If they have all have posted privacy policies that include data collection and dissemination then it's fair game. I'm not sure the policies would even need to be airtight so long as the NSA and data brokers acted in good faith that they believed the policies were sound.
Yes I am. More people need to know secrets managers exist. Doesn't have to be Doppler - but they should be used more often.
The Steam deck or Nintendo switch are even better than either. You can get good headphones and play real games for 16 hours. And when you need to move they are easy to stow away
The problem is “something odd is going on” requires precisely the “scene understanding” that is currently absent from all AVs.

The reality is that nearly all sensory input is novel in some way and a large part of the work the human brain does is quietly filtering out a massive amount of irrelevant input in a way that is computationally infeasible with current technology.
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I'm so bummed that this is what they came out with. If it was some insane res better than pancake lense with no screen door effect or color wash out at all and had some amazingly well researched controllers that finally rocket shipped VR AND AR they'd have much more of a market and I'd consider one.

But maybe in my 5 years these will be in every single hospital, school, etc. Who knows.
I wasn't speaking French, I was speaking English, in which virgule means slash.
Reporting the clock frequency of a core requires running a bit of code on it which necessarily means the core is in an active state while you take the reading, so you will always read something like "2.5 GHz" even if the core does not execute anywhere near 2.5 billion cycles while you do that. Some tools can report metrics like "average effective clock" which count time spent in inactive power states as zero clock.
There is a post-mortem on this incident now available on the blog:

https://linear.app/blog/linear-incident-on-jan-24th-2024
> Credit report crashes 400pts due to them finding what you said on a forum when you were 14

> no judge, jury or trial

> try to live in America

I'd argue corporations persecute people far more often than the government does. e.g. when credit bureaus find out you have cancer your credit score drops at least 100pts.
Some of these popped up on Hacker New recently;

- Learn and Test DMARC[1] does a visual breakdown of how email servers communicate, giving you a better understanding of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and how they work together.

- Mail-Tester[2] - test the spammyness of your emails.

- MECSA[3] is an online tool developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC)[4] to assess the security of email communication between providers.

1. https://www.learndmarc.com

2. https://www.mail-tester.com

3. https://mecsa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/en/

4. https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
> Disability, illness, a layoff

I've faced all these (disability from a young age even) and as a result, I don't think there's any way I could raise children. Both because of my own issues make it seem challenging beyond possibility, but also because I wouldn't want to force a child to face the same problems I did. I very much believe to each their own on this particular subject, but if global fertility is "collapsing", then it seems like more people are coming to the same conclusion for one reason or another.
If you have to take a lot of trans Pacifics in economy, you get desperate quickly. This is only the price of one discounted business class ticket.
We don't live in an ideal world where we can all find perfect jobs that give us the agency to deliver the quality we want.

I'll happily compromise on quality if it means I can comfortably afford medical care for chronic conditions that limit my employability.
Because the government is doing this specifically to evade controls that are supposed to help keep us safe from governmental abuse.

But I do agree with your premise: it's a travesty that this data is collected and made commercially available without informed consent in the first place.
You not being aware of it doesn't mean it doesnt exist.

> Five states – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas – force prisoners to work without pay.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loop...
This is not new. As an example, the US Department of Homeland Security has been known to use Web of Science to help them identify foreign born researchers working in the US tied to their home country militaries.
And, should you check such a file into a git repo, you won't be able to clone it on Windows. With that in mind I would encourage never doing so (and makes me wish git had a filter to prevent it in the first place or at least provide a stern warning.)
Yeah, I hate this. My time has tons of value when I do stuff I don't want to do. Hacking RP2040s into a UART controller so I can talk to my soldering iron? I'd pay for that.
I think that's the benchmarks I allude to in the GP post.

Table 1 on page 3 is absolute gold, it quantifies the indirect costs by listing the number of cache lines and TLB entries evicted. The numbers are much larger than I remembered.

According to the table, the simplest syscall tested (stat) will evict 32 icache lines (L1), a few hundred dcache lines (L1), hundreds of L2 lines and thousands of L3 lines, and about twenty TLB entries.

After returning from said syscalls, you'll pay a cache miss for every line evicted.

Also worth noting that inside the syscall, the instructions per clock (IPC) is less than 0.5. When the CPU is happy, you generally see IPC figures around 2 to 3.
FediBlackBook is the Juridical Blocklist for the Fediverse on ActivityPub
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> "But in general, this is Cruise learning what traditional car companies already knew - you need to act with integrity"

Agreed - but also a key mantra in political and crisis communications: the coverup is what kills you. The coverup (or just the appearance of it) is far more damaging than the acute crisis itself.
Just curious, but why opt for an apu in a server config? They tend to be marketed towards gamers on a budget so not including ecc support isnt that big of a deal.
I feel like there is no good way to market the fact that some school districts are banning the dictionary to comply with all the "word" and "thought" ban laws.

Like how do you spin that so it's a good thing that some teachers can't even have books in their classrooms to avoid running afoul of the law?

How do you spin book bans as a good thing in any circumstance?

How do you spin the laws that remove parents rights to make medical decisions for their children when the medical decisions conform with the current state of the art and evidence based treatments?

Other than that, I think most people just treat Florida as a meme thanks to the Florida man stereotype.
We are talking about an application for moving furniture around a room, not designing mechanisms!
Science-Totalitarianism Now Threatens Liberalism
"In the second instance, allowing science to enclose swathes of policy debate gives scientists (and other expertly people) a great deal of political and moral power over our lives. To reiterate, “enclosing” does not imply that a specific group of scientific individuals are put in charge of policy. SAGE is – and was – principally an advisory body. Rather, it means that working within a particular scientific cosmology is the price of entry to serious policy discussion.

However, in practice, this means that scientists and credentialed people de facto enjoy greater influence over the shape of policy than laymen, thus giving the former a hierarchical power over the latter that threatens the strictures of robustness. Laymen will never find it as easy as credentialed scientists to position themselves within a scientific cosmology and so will never be taken as seriously in enclosed policy debates. "
> I have racked up hours upon hours of actual, productive work in my Quest 2 and 3

I have a lot of questions. Would you recommend them? Do you work primarily in VR? I haven't tried VR but the use-case I envision is to put on a VR headset and be "at work".
> will be naturally usable all day

What do you imagine that device to look like, and cost?
> The government is much less accountable than corporations for malicious behavior

I disagree with this assessment. I think it's the other way around -- corporations are held much less accountable than the government.

But neither are being good actors here.
I feel like this one is impossible to do right. On one side, it's people like you saying: 'government oversight is hurting our innovation'. Directly opposed is: 'AI Companies are growing too fast and something bad will happen if oversight doesn't come soon.'

I agree with both and really don't have a clue what's the wise thing to do. I think it's probably the oversight thing, but since other countries will definitely compete without this oversight, someone will eventually release SkyNet. But do we want to be the first?

I don't know...
I like Bezos's argument for this. He always talks about "1000 Mozarts and 1000 Einsteins". If you consider that for every million born 1 will be a genius, and that having more geniuses is better than not, then it makes sense to max out your population.
Covid Test Data Breach: 1.3M Patient Records Exposed Online
Kind of odd to see the guy who provided proof of the coordinated censorship that everyone knew was happening, being held out as the one named example of unregulated tech companies becoming more illiberal.

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> Technocrats are right that technology is a key to making the world better. But first we must describe the world as we wish it to be—the problems we wish to solve in the public interest, and in accordance with the values and rights that advance human dignity, equality, freedom, privacy, health, and happiness. And we must insist that the leaders of institutions that represent us—large and small—use technology in ways that reflect what is good for individuals and society, and not just what enriches technocrats.

Restricting innovation to only things approved by people with the right values and goals has quite a track record of backfiring spectacularly.
> Which, in my view, is worse than if it were just the government.

Consider that no matter how evil the corporation, they can't seize your property or freedom. Be careful who you empower.
> Not using Facebook, using Crypto currency, having multiple phones, unexplained income

Every mobile developer (with test phones) who owns some crypto with a wife who runs an Etsy shop is sweating now.
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I gave a look in the past, but never took the time to learn it. Can I have a template (think Dockerfile, entrypoint.sh, app.py) which share the same configs, and create new projects based on that? and, changing the template, can Ansible reproduce the changes across the apps? that would be awesome.
> personally, i'd go as far as banning private car ownership. instead replace that with better public transport, and smaller mobility devices and taxis for the last mile.

This stance intrigues me. I'm curious how much it would cost--economically--to provide every citizen in the US (or even just a single state) with public transport. I'm not so sure it would be more beneficial--macroeconomically--than letting everyone own their own car.

The biggest problem being that, unless you live in a densely-populated area that was planned with public transport in mind, you're going to have a whole lot of people spending a ton of time waiting (e.g. for the bus). And all that time spent waiting is going to have negative economic side effects similar to the negative consequences of people being stuck in traffic.

Something like a free or low-cost, government-run taxi service might work if carpooling was implemented via a decent traveling salesman algorithm but I've never heard of anyone even proposing such a thing. It certainly would make a lot of sense with self-driving, electric vehicles though.
For once, a pivot to AI is a bit of a relief...
While I haven't worked with EMR systems directly, I have some experience working with care giver organisations, from the perspective of trying to use their digital records for analysis and prediction. My impression was that this is something nobody has time for, and therefore nobody is doing it, or even really interested in it. It would seem quite wasteful to have this big expensive machinery for producing data that nobody has time to look at. After all it's one of the big reasons to make it digital in the first place; being able to "crunch the numbers".

On the other hand, as soon as you get those numbers someone will turn them into "performance indicators" and use them for optimization, and we all know where that tends to lead... I can understand the feeling of being forced to work with a system designed to get rid of you.
I'm thinking of fatherhood & terrified at how much children would outsource my motivation. Taking my own purpose & goals & meaning, and throwing them in the garbage to commit myself to doing whatever the kid needs, endlessly.

It's horrifying & I hate hate hate how here in the US at least parents get no support, how impossible and expensive childcare is to manage. Being a parent feels like a huge overwhelming full time commitment.

And it terrifies me how many good interesting do-er adults the world loses to parenthood. Adults that would find interesting satisfaction & growth, that would bring meaning to the world, are wrapped up in miserable jobs they can't quit and running their child around.

Yes, it has huge personal meaning. And it's important in a macro sense for the species. But I feel like so much of the interestingness & possibility of the world is also lost to parenthood, that being a parent very quickly strangles out other transcendental journeys & questings that tend to be the best most inspiring parts of humanity.
> I won't fall for the nationalist trap that, "my people being born on soil is magically better than people from over seas".

It's not a matter of "better" so much as assimilated vs. not. A country is shaped by the voters. If you change voter demographics too quickly, the new voter base won't have any innate familiarity or respect for the laws that make your country work. It's a basic system stability problem.

Consider this oversimplified scenario: the US has 300m people, do you agree or disagree that bringing in 200m Taliban would be a problem?

If you disagree, then you're living in a dream world. Otherwise you too agree that there's some limit to the rate of immigration that can ensure the stability of the country, we may simply disagree on exactly what that number might be. People who have much lower thresholds just think there are undesirable second and third order effects that push that number lower.
> NTSB doesn't let airline take custody of plane immediately.

Presumably that happens because the NTSB want to examine the airplane.
In this case there was no equivalent organization to the NTSB run by the Police and nothing about the car that needed to be examined by the Police to establish what had happened.
I guess you're conceding and admit that yes, indeed, what I quoted has not happened.

> I could continue if I wanted, but I'll stop there

Conveniently stopping before most of your claims were addressed of course
Some feedback:

When you start the intro, and it says "Hi, what language do you want to learn" the button should be labeled "Select..." not a default language. It was unclear I had to click it to select a different language.

The languages in the app, and on your FAQ about which languages are available, aren't in sync.
thanks for this, it was a great read
Art and Fear: The ceramics class and quantity before quality
That'd be fitting. Maybe the charging port is inside of it right between your eyes so you have to charge it like their old mouse you had to flip over dead.
> To be fair, everyone who is into MCUs has a USB serial converter lying around, if not several.

I can understand why you would think that, but I can also tell you that I didn't buy a serial connector until years after I started playing with microcontrollers.
And for SVG?

Having features is nice, but not if they are not really necessary and come at the cost of the core feature (performant screen renderer).
It depends on who you are trying to be anonymous from. I don’t spend much time trying to hide from the NSA. I care more about being targeted for advertisement or having my insurance premiums raised because of some naughty behavior. These are more impactful on my day to day life.
Problem is if they make it illegal now you would pretty much have to release at least 2 horrible prolific serial killers