skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small humanoid sibling species living in VR pods adapted physically initially for subterranean life but eventually artifically selected for sensory override VR pods. (Hence the large eyes, grey skin, no reproductive organs, absorbitve digestion, and so on.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh-pooh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_accomplishment
Living until 100, if not forever, in good health
> It doesn't look like they want us to have fun with it. It looks like it's something they hope to sell us.

Well, yeah; they (Disney Research) are a tech company, not a product company, and this is — essentially — a B2B presentation for those big partner companies of theirs who might want to license this technology. They're not talking to consumers; they're talking to businesses who could build this thing into a product of theirs that is then sold to consumers.

When this is in an actual product, they won't be talking about the tech of it at all. Disney Imagineering (the department that builds Disney's theme park rides) tries to make the tech as invisible to the experience as possible. A PR piece about a new Disney ride that used this system, likely wouldn't even mention the floor. It'd just mention that they have "high-fidelity VR immersion" or something like that — and would let guests explain what that entails in their reviews of it.
> You didn't have a TV in your pocket when you were 10

Actually I did. It was a birthday gift from Radio Shack back in the late 90s. I was totally that nerd kid, but yes it was a literal TV.

> Everyone else didn't and you weren't pressured by peers to have it

Everyone had gameboys though. I found Pokemon a bit boring so I was often excluded.

> The TV didn't track you and basically try to abuse you secretly

The adults had cell phones and/or PDAs with abusive bosses on the other end. Soon enough us kids had them too. Helicopter parenting found a new gear and sexting and group text bullying became a thing. That was around 20 years ago.
We were among the companies that switched from Slack to Teams. Slack was absolutely overflowing with work activity, side chats, a few random channels. Hundreds if not thousands a day.

Everyone hates Teams so much they only seem to use it as absolute last resort. I see about 10 total messages a day, if that. So yeah, it took us a long time to realize it was even down.
It absolutely is a mild climate, when compared to other continents. Netherlands is located roughly between the latitudes of Calgary and Edmonton.
IKEA's Founder Wrote the Timeless Manifesto for Leading with Humility
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Beyond furniture, Kamprad forged an philosophical framework for scalable yet soulful capitalism in an age of inequality and climate uncertainty. By revisiting his counterculture wisdom on simplicity, cost-conscious innovation, and servant leadership, we find surprising lessons for sustainable progress by focusing on community resilience versus positional power. Leaders today have much to learn from this quiet iconoclast who democratized design for the many not the few.
And, what people don't want to hear here, nuclear too.

Batteries with renewables are already cheaper than nuclear and it will only get cheaper while nuclear costs are ballooning.
US Aims to Announce Big Grants for Chip Plants by End of March
Apple dropped support for 32 bit binaries, then migrated from Intel to ARM architecture, breaking backwards compatibility in major way. This led to the inability to run the absolute majority of the existing library of games on the recent Apple hardware and OS.

Unlike the devs in the Apple ecosystem who are used to be on the constant treadmill of app updates to accommodate Apple constantly breaking and changing things with every release, this is incompatible with the gaming industry release model, where after the patch cycle the devs can move onto the next project and rely on the backwards compatibility to trust that their released games will keep running for years and decades into the future.

So when Apple broke this unspoken agreement, the game devs have simply left their existing games in whatever broken state they were, and decided against releasing their future projects on macOS, supporting which wasn't financially viable in the long term, given the time needed and the relatively small percentage of playerbase which uses it.
a few degrees is a lot, globally a few degrees less means ice age
I think we’re talking about vastly different things.
This seems like a wunderwaffen propaganda narrative, just like the Javelins that will end the war. Ukraine is failing. All of its major offensives have failed. It will continue to fail as the Gazan conflict has soaked up its primary source of armaments.

Russia is not a competent state. It's rife with corruption and skimming that will make the response to this heavily delayed. But what the article neglects to mention is that, in spite of this, Ust-Luga was repaired and reopened only a few days later, with Novatek resuming fuel loadings.
It might be my Radio Shack multimeter I bought in 2003. I recently got rid of my TI-89 calculator that I bought around 2000.
well, the knowledge that the first 5 or 6 years of the development of a child are the most important and affect everything that comes after is not new either.
That app is clearly connected to the os in ways that no other developer will ever be given access
I think there used to be a kebab place in Glasgow called bifteki.

It generally signalled the end of a night when you headed there.
Open source Pong game using React
Currently a work in progress, stay tuned to experience the excitement of the original digital sport, your contributions are welcome!
Link to game: https://pong-paddle-game.netlify.app/
Embarrassingly so. When we start complaining how cold it is because it went below freezing in winter, we really must look pathetic to Canadians, Finns, Russians etc.

We also start having people saying things (and writing articles) about how the remember how much worse it was in 1965(?).

Warm summers just lead to more moaning that gives a different lot of countries a chance to laugh at us.

I suppose I should be grateful there are not many people who can go on about their memories of the summer of 1911.
> Kevin Beaumont—a researcher and security professional with decades of experience, including a stint working for Microsoft—pointed out on Mastodon that the only way for an account to assign the all-powerful full_access_as_app role to an OAuth app is for the account to have administrator privileges. “Somebody,” he said, “made a pretty big config error in production.”

Without knowing details of the system: That would not seem to be the problem, and I'm surprised someone with expertise would say it is. There should be no way for someone to make that error. Whoever designed it and whoever administers it should have made it impossible; they would be responsible.

If you build and operate a factory with a button that electrocutes everyone inside, and someone mistakenly presses that button, it's clear where the problem is.
Humblest apologies. I stand corrected. :)
Atlassian's HipChat was pretty on par with Teams.
accurate, I work for a company that uses a bunch of Microsoft products. it’s apparently a good deal from a financial perspective and is popular in the public sector because of the easy integration for non-technical users. alas, you get what you pay for.
Apple's App Store Connect was also down on Friday and that was much more personally obnoxious. At least with Teams down I got a free afternoon of maker time!
Data Privacy Day 2024
Except it doesn't work on Firefox... or Safari.

(FD: it didn't work on either last I checked, which was 4 months ago because I migrated my org off Teams 4 months ago;; I'm not willing to check if thats changed, but not having support for years is equally unacceptable, I don't care if they've improved in your eyes now--- TL;DR: inb4 "IT WORKS NOW")
Why don’t other countries have huge programs to manufacture millions of drones? The coming war in the pacific will feature drone swarms.
It can be great, but I've noticed lag during screen sharing. Other colleagues have noticed it too.

Even so... it's better than slack for audio/video and my organization uses teams as primary for calls and slack for text communications(group chats, channels, dms)
If you can buy twice the capacity for the same price a cell cycles every second day, except on the rare days where you would have had a problem with the old solution.
Yeah—as consumers, it’s kind of invisible to us. When I buy something, the production is obscured by the whole distribution network between me and whoever produced it. When I watch a movie, I don’t know if the actors and stagehands were treated fairly or if they were worked to death. When I buy a diamond, I can’t just look at it and figure out whether it’s a blood diamond, a synthetic diamond, or something else.

That’s by design. The distributor benefits from this arrangement.

> The fact that these artists are there, still making new music, suggests to me that they are making it work one way or another.

We could say the same about, say, chickens laying eggs in factory farms.
Sleep isn't the metric to track here, there are much better things to analyze such as HRV. For reducing drinking you shouldn't be doing that because of your sleep, you should be doing it because of your overall health. If you care about future health, take blood tests, weigh yourself, evaluate your physical fitness.
What you don’t know that you don’t know can harm you badly. From time to time you learn something new and realize that, but it always has been there.
I wouldn't call people stupid just because they made a design decision you disagree with. In my view, it is a bad choice to add additional complexity to the language like compiled "if" when you can do something more simple and in-keeping with its other features. The problem isn't invented; they needed to implement conditionals, had two options for doing so, and they chose the simpler one. Do you have any concrete way that the Forth implementation with compile-only words is better? What are its benefits?

> What you need on a daily basis it to be able to reuse names so that you don't clutter your dictionary. But at the same time you do want your Forth to warn you when you define twice the same name, because that could lead to vicious bugs. So all you need to do is to hack your Forth so that e.g. names starting with underscores can be redefined and won't trigger a warning.

The problem is already solved. You just spit out a warning message when something is redefined instead of an error.
"I am fairly emotional about this but I don't think my comments are off-topic or unfair."

This one wasn't off-topic, but it didn't really add anything. One of your other ones was off-topic, switching from driver risks to cycling risks, which had nothing to do with the article or the preceeding comments.

"Imagine we had the technology to reduce childhood cancer rates by 50%, but chose not to use it."

This is literally the case with traffic deaths today. About 45% of traffic fatalities are due to not wearing a seat belt. The technology has existed for decades but people choose not to use it. This then overstates the risks in the high level stats for the people who do use seatbelts. The number of childhood fatalities not buckled in was about 30-35%, and childhood restraint misuse is between 80-90%. If we want to make improvements in child survivability, then we should start by utilizing the most effect safety systems for the biggest focused gains.

"Traffic accidents kill more children than cancer. And we have the technology to reduce them: GPS-based speed limiters, automatic breaking system, speed bumps, red light cameras."

There is resistance to this because of the overstated risks, feasibility of implementation, and questions of effectiveness. For example, red light cameras have been shown to increase accidents because of the funding contracts many use. It's odd that you leave off enhanced driver testing when this is one of the most universal benefits. That and stricter enforcement are some of the main causes for lower fatality rates in many European nations, even in unrestricted speed sections of roads.

"Yet we choose not to act because ... people think that would be too uptight?"

No, that's more of a strawman than reality.
There's the city of Ur, but there is also the prefix ur-, meaning primitive or original.

What programming language isn't built on an antecedent language? Why, the ur-language, of course! Arguably, this is FORTRAN.
Apple didn’t invent the smartphone, never had a the dominant share of phones sold globally. They didn’t even invent the first touchscreen phone.

Their innovation has always been marrying software and hardware. It is a high risk approach that they execute well.
I don't claim that I have an easy solution for this problem (at best, I have some fragmentary ideas). I just claim that patents (and copyright) are actually quite the opposite of free markets.
Can you link to a pic of such a room? The idea seems interesting
TempleOS will always be LoseThos to me. RIP
Except housing prices _did_ go down in areas that adopted zoning reform that allows for more apartments to be built at lower prices.
They do have a motivation since Apple requires apps to list data collection/privacy related things.
The whole thing is a tower of spaghetti bit hacks in the name of depth and speed. Embarassingly, it actually can't actually render zoom levels that aren't powers of two and I'm not sure how to change that.
Yeah, I fell into my usual security questionaire wording there.

I'm not even contradicting you there. You can go as fast as you can go. Even if every atom in the current estimation of the universe had a couple thousand computations available, we couldn't brute-force some passwords. Except, now customer security asks you "but what about millions of computations per atom? Checkmate!".

Being too concrete and absolute with these kinds of people ends up with so many stupid discussions.
Super cool but I'm guessing a long way to go. Notice that nobody lifts their feet when walking on this. I'm not sure if it's fear (those small careful steps conjure images of people ice skating for the first time) or if the tech doesn't work well in that scenario.
North Americans are used to more extreme climates... by their standards The Netherlands is very mild.
Beyond the VR thing. I keep thinking this could have more immediate impact on manufacturing and logistics. Imagine a delivery truck with this on the floor that could optimally organize packages dynamically.
I can't find it now, but wasn't there a story about microsoft using a 'dummy' url in some internal documents that later became real?
There’s over $120B in enterprise value of remote first enterprises. Feelings are fine, the data shows the model is effective. You can hire the best talent anywhere, talent that has options. That is a material competitive edge vs hiring a cohort that is willing to tolerate a non remote operating model.

My hot take: Don’t hire helpless people, and the people you do hire, make sure they are fully supported to know what they need to do their job (internal mentor/buddy, knowledge base, frequent check ins until they’re more autonomous, etc). In person onboarding can help, as can week long in person on sites every quarter or twice a year (team cohesion).
People are worried that AI will take everyone's jobs. We've been here before
This was definitely a tradecraft code word when two dudes passed a briefcase between each other in a cold park one day in Moscow.

Heavy, heavy pronunciation going on to near comical effect.
> time-dependent likelihood pathways

Future reward trajectories are THE core focus of multi-step MDP, see Sutton [1]

"Now we consider transitions from state-action pair to state-action pair, and learn the value of state-action pairs. Formally these cases are identical: they are both Markov chains with a reward process. The theorems assuring the convergence of state values under TD(0) also apply to the corresponding algorithm for action values: "

I wasn't going to differentiate in my original post between sub-types of "cycles" within increasingly complex MDP's for long sequence reward estimation:

[1]http://incompleteideas.net/book/ebook/node64.html
Was ok until they locked screen share recording behind office 365 settings. Haven’t been able to get it to work despite all the settings being correct.
Some Americans whom I've met (I think Midwest ones, but not sure), also pronounce the word "often" as oft-en (but without any pause). I don't know how the British pronounce it. In India (having learnt somewhat British English), we pronounce it as "ofen", sort of rhyming with oxen.

And of course there is the famous "shedule" vs "skedule" pronunciation for schedule.
there's that hilarious video where they boast the complete rewrite only takes 9 seconds to open and only 1.2 seconds to switch chats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7nnXej2K4

what is it even doing? both should be instant

mIRC opened instantly on a 1995 PC
A Plastic Rock Has Ominously Invaded 5 Continents
On the other hand “journalists” and UN workers aren’t disjoint from militants or terrorists. We just learned that UNRWA employees took part in Oct 7.
No one here is saying that. What so many are saying is that we're just not that interesting. Any highly advanced technological species that can build spaceships that can cross the vastness of space isn't going to take anything more than a passing interest, if even that, in a species that can't even get out of its own solar system.
This is something literally I and other jews I know have had to put up with for the last several months. The strongest plausible interpretation is the one I've lived through, which is that people decide to politically test their jewish friends and acquintances.

Please don't let people on hacker news say things like what questions should be asked of jewish people not in israel etc.
> We have evidence of it happening from FLIR Camera of an F/18, an E2 Hawkeye Radar Plane, the SPY-1 Radar from the USS Princeton, the Ballistic Missile Defense system from when they were above 80,000ft

We don’t. All we have is fuzzy videos and random statements about radars from ships operating in a naval test range right next door to San Clemente island, which is bristling with radars and antennas with a mission to develop countermeasures.

Not that that ever will raise an eyebrow in the conspiracy theory folks. 99.9% of them have never been curious to look.

> 99.9

If you don’t write code, ask a coder what they think when they see a number like that.

Capt. Obvious has left the building.
> I have a feeling the websites aren’t much help

Doesn’t surprise me. Who would periodically go to a website to check whether there are any pets missing in the neighborhood?

A targeted RSS feed or email service would IMO work better, but likely still not good.

Back to the pet posters: a large reason for them is to console the owner or their kids.
I really don’t grok all the random chats I get notified for. I was in a meeting two months ago, and there’s still a chat getting updates in my feed. So many random auto generated chat groups that linger that I have to prune and wonder “will I regret deleting this”.

I prefer the subscribed channel where I make an intentional choice, and everything else is ephemeral.
> red light cameras

I’m all for everything else on your list, and I’m all in favor of protecting the children, but I draw the line at increasing the surveillance state. Big Brother gets to watch enough of what we do, already. Let’s not give him even more eyes.
Still using my pebble (I have a PTR and PTS). I gully agree with what you say and would even go further. I am happy with just an eInk screen and some basic features that sync like once a week.
Except that CO2 emissions also causes acidification of bodies of water. Which cover two thirds of the planet.
And on top of that we are entering this era of developers stopping to give them the time of day at least on the mac platform. Historically developers used to build for mac without seemingly much fuss, that’s just how the industry seemed to work you’d have a native mac and pc app. These days it seems software decisions are made by bean counters more than ever, who look at the numbers at hand with how few today are on the mac platform (or how many people “game” on an ios device perhaps), and don’t bother continuing support. Even popular, seemingly more community supporting developers like Valve are dropping mac support after supporting the platform for over a decade even porting older games over like cs 1.6 in that time. Meanwhile at the apple press conference they are saying how these new macs support ray tracing and are a leap over the m1, seemingly with their heads in the sand at the fact you can probably count on one hand the number of large studios actively developing for their platform today, and that number is liable to shrink with the years if this trend is any indication.
> You can go as fast as you can go.

This is true, it's just that, with modern KDFs, that's still too slow to matter (unless someone broke them and we don't know). If you use a modern KDF, you basically don't have to worry about brute forcing at all, even for fairly weak passwords.
My phone is in a mount in my field of view - it requires less looking away than the built in touch screens new cars have in the center console. Car mode is safer:

* It reads out texts to me, and asks me if I want to reply by voice.
* car mode UIs means it takes less attention to skip songs or whatever.
* It turns off some distracting notifications etc.

They let you have these features when navigating, why not when you don't need navigation?
I enjoyed "Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning"[0]. It doesn't include anything about transformers though. Also, see Python's gymnasium[1] library for a lunar lander environment, it's the one I focused on most while I was learning and I've solved it a few different ways now. You can also look at my own notebook I used when implementing Soft Actor Critic with PyTorch not too long ago[2], it's not great for teaching, but maybe you can get something out of it.

[0]: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-deep-reinforcement-le...
[1]: https://gymnasium.farama.org/environments/box2d/
[2]: https://github.com/DevJac/learn-pytorch/blob/main/SAC.ipynb
Presumably if we're dealing with a non-human intelligence that does not want to be identified then we're in the challenging situation of this being closer to an adversarial war than a natural phenomena. So, while absence of evidence doesn't prove anything about that being the case, absence of evidence would be expected if it was: if human civilization developed ubiquitious high-res sensing tech, then you'd expect the adversary to respond in kind.

In other words, if they're real, and they're trying to hide, then the fact we all have iPhones hasn't yielded more evidence doesn't prove anything, because if it was us, we'd change our tactics to avoid being detected by those things. As we do in war. It's very important to notice I'm not saying this tells us that is what is going on - we have to build up our priors in other ways to decide if that's true - but what I'm saying is that the claim that we all have cameras and yet not more UFO videos has absolutely zero epistemological effect, since it's smuggling in the assumption these objects are behaving like a natural phenomenon that will maintain their visible presence in spite of our own technological advancement. That's obviously not what one would expect if it's actually non-human intelligence.