skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The screen real-estate is the same as for a 1440p screen. From The Verge’s review:

“There is a lot of very complicated display scaling going on behind the scenes here, but the easiest way to think about it is that you’re basically getting a 27-inch Retina display, like you’d find on an iMac or Studio Display. Your Mac thinks it’s connected to a 5K display with a resolution of 5120 x 2880, and it runs macOS at a 2:1 logical resolution of 2560 x 1440, just like a 5K display. (You can pick other resolutions, but the device warns you that they’ll be lower quality.) That virtual display is then streamed as a 4K 3560 x 2880 video to the Vision Pro, where you can just make it as big as you want. The upshot of all of this is that 4K content runs at a native 4K resolution — it has all the pixels to do it, just like an iMac — but you have a grand total of 2560 x 1440 to place windows in, regardless of how big you make the Mac display in space, and you’re not seeing a pixel-perfect 5K image.”
At least Linux does this, and it is not a security hole because it only reuses pages with memory of the current process (as in the worst case you end up reading data from some other part of your program, but not other programs).

And yes, it does happen in practice, most famously it has been mentioned in the "The strange details of std::string at Facebook" talk at CppCon 2016 https://youtu.be/kPR8h4-qZdk?t=1150&si=2R358wniZfxTJLmc
Marine biologist finds unexpected biodiversity on the ocean floor
I personally think MSFS 2020 and Automobilista 2 are killer VR apps. All (wannabe or pro) pilots could learn how to operate any given aircraft in MSFS and relive past glorious racing in A2 on current or historic tracks/cars. Senua and Alyx showed what is possible in gaming as well and why it's so much better than 2D. Elder Scrolls looks great in VR just the controllers make it a joke when fighting (too easy and weird). I still think 4k is too low and 8k will be needed to feel like a 1080p phone.
I wish TLDs were decentralized so that goofy stuff like this would never happen. It (having companies and entities own and control TLDs) never should have happened in the first place.
I'm still reading this book, but so far it's been one of the few books I'd recommend to anyone. I try to be as stoic as possible, but contents of this book has managed to actually anger me. It makes it so clear that how much corruption and bad policies impact our lives.
... with 16 pins and two carrying handles!
No, iPads have been around for more than a decade.
A couple with a house not large enough to support a child the way they want does add to the housing demand, or they skip the kid.
> Living room a stress-inducing mess? Go full virtual reality

Or, I dunno. Clean the living room? You can even watch a movie while you do that!
meta: could we fix the link so it doesnt drop you halfway through the page?
This is from March 2023. If someone was going to litigate over it, they'd likely have done it by now. I haven't been paying attention, so maybe something like that has happened. I wonder how it went.
The XR-4 is already 665g as a tethered headset. I imagine it would be (literally) painfully heavy as a standalone device.
The question is - can you run Linux on it?
Can we finally talk about this site, and how it relates to these cults? There's a number of lesswrong, e/acc, and other pseudo "rationalist" blogs that get shared and upvoted on this site. Most of their assumptions go unchallenged. Not saying they shouldn't be read, or debated. But their writing should be viewed in context - it's fringe stuff, written by people from a peculiar subculture with values out-of-whack with most people.

I'd like to make some modest assertions, to push back on fringe ideas I've seen repeated here:

1. For "the singularity" to happen, we probably need something more to happen than just chatGPT to ingest more data or use more processing power.

2. Even if, somehow, chatGPT turned into skynet, we'd hopefully be able to unplug the computer.

3. If you want to save lives, it's probably more useful to think about lives saved today than hypothetical lives you could save 100 years from now. Not that you shouldn't consider the long term, but your ability to predict the future gets worse and worse the farther you project out.

4. If you want to save lives, it's probably more useful to save actual lives, than say, hypothetical simulated lives that exist inside of a computer.

5. The argument that "we're killing more people by delaying time inventing the hypothetical life saving technology" is not very useful either, because you can't actually say how many lives would be saved versus harmed. And mostly it just sounds like a front for "give me more money and less regulations".

6. Reading a bunch of science fiction and getting into fights on an internet forum is not a substitute for education and experience. Unless you've spent a good time studying viruses, you are not a virologist, and while the consensus among virologists can be wrong, you should have the intellectual humility to realize that you are probably not equipped to tell, unless you have expertise in the field.

7. Anything that smacks of eugenics is most likely pseudoscience.

8. If someone talks like a racist / sexist / nazi, or acts like a racist / sexist / nazi, they probably are one. It's probably not a joke, or a test.
"They’ve eliminated property taxes on residential buildings."

What a great thing for the country.
Math checks out. Imagine what happens when they lay off 800k!
Sounds like only if you don't also need readers for close focus.
If only we had an API to tell us when a fork happened. We could place it into the usual library for threading stuff: pthread, and could call it, oh I don't know, maybe pthread_atfork()

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_atfork.3.html
I've worked in many research scientist/MLE roles over the years and I haven't met any IC who has this much of a fixation on AI being a moral evil/good. The ones who do are inevitably nontechnical hucksters, usually just trying to get money or self-promote.
Something like this, maybe?

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/C4TwDgpgBAkgIlAvFA...

Alternatively, with generics: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/JYOwLgpgTgZghgYwgA...

I don't think these are better, to be honest. The string types suffice and are easier to exchange with servers and other APIs.
> Did you mean common ones?

Yeah, probably. I guess I am mostly happy to see that there is some hope for technical solutions for artists.

> I find it bizarre that the SD attack transferred to DF because DF essentially uses a frozen LLM vs the CLIP model and are nothing alike.

Do you think that the idea of AI poisoning generalizes, though (even if it would require very different algorithms), or do you think that some models may be "safe"?
We're taking a haircut on our space. We just don't need the same amount of space now that 50% of our staff are primarily remote. We're keeping 75% of the square footage, but the "overflow" just isn't necessary anymore.
Depends on how you define "embrace". Services like Ubicloud violate the GitHub Terms of Service.
There are no major highways through Manhattan. The city is better for it.

Drive around the lake if you need to get past the city.
I think the market assumes that since everyone is exposed, no one is exposed (there will be bailouts).
Bitcoin uses secp256k1, Nostr uses secp256k1. I was surprised as anyone to learn that when you exchange money using Nostr clients it is not directed at the private key that you use to sign Nostr messages.
The map that saved the London Underground (2014)
Take all the trees, put em in a tree museum.

Charge the people, a dollar and half just to see em.
You don't need to worry with most headsets (don't know about AVP). I've been sweating in VR headsets for years and it never did any harm. I saw in the AVP reviews that it has a removable and swappable facial interface, so it should be easy to clean; the same is true of other modern headsets, and before that you had third party face covers or disposable absorbant stickers you could put on the facial interface to keep the sweat away.
honestly we are basically there already. I could take anyone's face and use stable diffusion (maybe combined with roop) to generate a naked body in about a min. Most of those steps could be simplified with a task specific UI where you just give it a face and it gives you porn.

As for legality, it's hard to say, I want to say it would bump into trademark laws of a person's identity use, but those laws are similar to libel laws that are hard to prove I think.
Did you know the IBM cloud is the biggest in the world?

Public companies can structure their business however they prefer. If the story needs to be that Cloud is growing and profitable on a numbers sheet, you need no more than the finance geeks to make it happen.
A number here, a number there, before you know it, it is a lot.

If we're going to add all sorts of dross to the vdso, like getpid(), who knows what else will end up there?
A Talisman in a world of AI authors
A lot of those are going to be contractors employed by agencies.
It is also convenient to use a unique symbol for the brand (declare const brand: unique symbol). Then we can combine multiple brands in the same type and if we don't export that symbol type, we simply dont have a way to access the brand property at runtime.
Then switch to a different one, the point of a federated network is that anyone is able to talk to anyone, not that they have to.
They've also shipped memojis.

Facebook has also shipped meta.

All the money in the world can't buy you an understanding of your market.
Sure you can create a separate account on your company Mac. But there's no assurance that whatever work resources needed would be available on that second separate account.

If your work is on the traditional model of perimeter protection and trusted intranet, a non-work device can't join the network as you have correctly pointed out. If your work is on the newer BeyondCorp style model, switching to a second account on your computer is going to invalidate the device trust needed to access work resources.
Where I’ve lived it’s usually been solved by letting anyone park there for a higher fee. Residents get to park at a big discount or for free.

Or you can hand out guest passes to residents.
Visiting a certain urban area on the east coast, dm me on X if possible to meet up
I added a calendar event on my cal for jan 29, 2026 to check on this. my contact info will remain in my profile.
I could see this taking the place of a TV screen in some households, (smaller ones of course unless you want to spend $15k for the whole family to all watch TV in a living room!). I think a killer feature for this is to pair it with a treadmill and project trails and famous city scapes while you run. That last bit for me might be a reason to buy it as if its winter and icy where you live running on the thread mill is a forced indoor exercise.
Also for values that aren't strings at all.
I think you've got it backwards. There are plenty of reasons you'd want to put on a VR headset if it weighed as much as a pair of glasses, had a 180 degree field of view and like 5x the resolution of current headsets.

The reason the software doesn't exist is because compelling hardware doesn't exist for it to run on, so nobody bothers to write it.

Apple is imagining this device will be used for productivity but it's still painful to actually wear for long periods. We're a long way from being limited by software instead of hardware.
The distros I use (debian, arch) have a kitty-terminfo package. First thing I install when I ssh into a machine. My terminal settings just work and I don't have to do archeology on decades of obscure terminal escape sequences.
Same here. If there's some breakthrough they're not going to ignore it, but I would bet anything that current Apple far-forecasting plans for the "Vision 10" amount to current Vision Pro functionality in oversized wraparound shades, relying entirely on the camera passthrough for vision.
2 days later 1000 people would be subscribed to r/C&Dfarming
Driving 101 through the peninsula, it's shocking how many billboards are advertising AI <something>. I think the article correctly diagnoses it as a desperate attempt to tap VC money that's getting scarcer and scarcer.
For some definition of country/state that includes .eu and such...
"Kurian joined Oracle in 1996, initially holding various product management and development positions. His first executive role was as Vice President of Oracle's e-Business division."
> That's not a sign of a good internship program.

I don't think you're wrong, but my situation appears to be the norm when talking with others[0]. All but one internship I've had is like this and honestly I don't think I can adequately say I've gotten training, be it internship (excluding the one) or job (I worked prior to grad school). I've simply concluded that training is a thing of the past, or it is expected to be self-driven, and performed outside work. (Personally I do not think this is an intelligent move, but these companies are quite successful and I'm not even a millionaire, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

> How are you doing compared to peers or other interns, etc.

Hard to say, as I'm not sure who would be an adequate peer. If you are to ask me personally compared to my expectations, I would say below expectations. In part there is a lack of the adequate resources I need to do the job (I work in generative ML but I'm trying to not dox myself so I can be honest and I want to hear your advice), there is more complexity than I expected and no one to really bounce ideas off of or whom can offer advice, and I'll be honest that my motivation is nowhere near where it was when I started, so I'll admit that I could do better. But I do want to say that I am still learning a lot during this time, getting work done (my manager seems happy, I've had no complaints, and its the second job I've had where someone says "well done" more than once in a blue moon. It's been extended twice now, so its a decent signal that they're happy with my work), and having a reasonable wage does reduce a significant amount of stress. So I don't want this to come off as depressed doom and gloom, it's more that the conversation is around critiques rather than highlighting the good or benefits. I'm generally happy about the opportunity but it is clear that my experience(s) does not fit the common expectation of this title and that there is room for improvement (both me and them). But if critiques aren't acknowledged, how then can I improve? (I am looking for other teams who may offer a better fit, as that might just be it)

[0] There is a gap that I do notice though. It appears that this is not the norm for those who obtain internships that are more prestigious or the highly sought after ones. But I am not at a top 10 school and that appears to be one of the stronger variables of correlation (more so than understanding, as I do talk and collaborate with people from those institutions so I think I have a decent gauge on at least intellectual capabilities. There are, of course, people who stand out, but most seem no different). Connections appear to be a key part of getting internships and undoubtedly this is an opportunity feedback system. You take what you can get. I'm a bit surprised others do not exploit this, as it reasons that you could get top talent by creating top talent, but that's an entirely different conversation.
A Google SWE costs the company around $750k average, fully loaded cost. So if those were all SWEs, $6B/yr isn't an unreasonable estimate.
It seems to be the perfect personal entertainment device, if your lounging or laying on a bed, otherwise it has significant compromises for any other use case. Much like the original iPhone.

Maybe the equivalent of a Vision Pro '3GS' can resolve those issues?

An interesting quirk is that the user's head size and shape, relative positioning of their eyes, etc., really affect the perceived comfort and value. In that sense it's the first major truly 'personal' device out of Apple.
The only reason the guest mode exists is to incite the “guest” to also purchase an AVP after having experienced it.
Yes, please do what Depot does and put fast persistent disks close to builds to cache docker layers. Github action runners and circleci and all the others adding expensive network calls to manually cache layers has always been such a time sink and I think moves lots of people to remove caching entirely.
The absolute performance isn't very important for the stock price. What matters way more is the performance vis-a-vis market expectations. So in this case, the market was expecting something better (or there was some other guidance in the report that spooked investors).
I don't think it's a bad thing that a country has control over it's TLD. Using `.ai` is overloading the proper use case for that TLD.
Or both! ;)
Pass. I dont need to stress over min/max'ing my free time.
love the idea, I guess it needs more examples
These are offices for 10 to 20 people (1200 to 2000 sq/ft) if your company isn't flush with cash an office is becoming a luxury rather than a necessity. Especially in a major city where a small office can be 100k a year.

The trend is going to continue over the coming years, especially with bigger offices that are paying millions each year.
ooooooh. link?

What do you mean by standardizing on hardware and toolchain? I am currently choosing ghidra and cbmc, and it seems like the approach is applicable to any compiler or arch that ghidra supports without too much change. I have only been doing x86-64 and gcc so far though
IntelliJ, GoLand etc are Java apps.

Windows, BeOS and Commodore 64 apps also don't run natively on the iPad or Vision Pro.
You've got it backwards.

The real world has always been this way. Minecraft is getting better and better at making dull real world activities fun.
> sure about the intricacies of the Canadian system.

It's not as bad as what I believe China might do if worst comes to worst.

But from what I have heard the Canadian system has issues, with cases of especially permanent sick+poor people being in some cases constantly "nudged" to say good by even if they still have a strong will to live. Through I'm not sure how wide spread such issues had been and if they where fixed.

The reason I mention it is because china would also claim it's fully free choice, then if that isn't enough start nudging and then if that isn't enough go further.

Lets just hope it won't happen.
I’m looking forward to learning about geography from a huge atlas
Domain registration used to be free until like 1995 or so. Crazy what it has become.
I don't understand why they are paying the royalties for an arm core?

I thought CPU transition was acted. We would still tolerate a HDMI block instead of/with a displayport block and a h26[45] codec block instead of/with a AV1 codec block.

I would favor the milk-v duo with the cv1800 SOC instead (free from arm cores and with a 64bits risc-v mcu).
2021: Yay! Crazy hiring!

2023: What?!?! Laying off a fraction of recent hires? The world is ending!!

Obviously this sucks for the laid-off, but…you don’t need a very long memory to put this in perspective.
Apple failed to make a compelling argument for purchasing their device. Where's the "killer app"? The original iPhone was a better phone, and a general computing device with a web browser to boot.

Is it to watch movies on a 100" screen on an airplane? The xReal weighs 75 grams and does that for four hundred dollars. It has a HDMI port too, so I can play my steam deck or switch.

Where are the cool AR apps? Where is the contextual data popping up as I drive my car? None of that exists!
The weight would be a major problem there, and needs to be improved before they can honestly pitch cardio with it on.
Building a Customer Community Through the Power of AI-Generated Video
Sorbet is a really interesting point in this space, because in addition to its static type checker, it has a runtime component which can do runtime type checking.

It installs shims around all your methods which type check arguments on the way in, and results on the way out. Of course this comes with a performance penalty, so it’s often enabled for development and testing, but disabled in production.
FDIC bailouts or failure managements of smaller non GSIB banks who are overexposed. Haven't dived into which banks are most at risk, potential investment opportunity if their equity is publicly traded (not investing advice).

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/banks/us-regional-smal...

https://www.fsb.org/2023/11/2023-list-of-global-systemically...

Related: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/billionai... | https://archive.today/isGFU ("Billionaire Barry Sternlicht sees more than $1 trillion of losses for office real estate, calling the properties “one asset class that never recovered” from the pandemic.")
Oh wow, thanks for this story! Would love to hear more if you have time :) Good luck with testing it out.

Note that we found an issue w/ emitting an InsecureRequestWarning by default. The request is perfectly secure, it's just we aren't telling the ConnectionPool that information (see: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3331)
I live on the border of an urban forest.

I’ve come to realize that urban forests double as homeless camps. My homeless camp has is rife with crime, drug over doses, violence and fire. Last month I’ve had a leaf blower stolen, my car window broken, and an explosion due to them throwing a propane tank into a camp fire.

Since they’re tucked into a forest - the city won’t take any action. The city does take action on homeless camps that are more visible. I don’t mean to conflate urban forests with homelessness. However that’s very much the case here in Austin, Tx.
I think we are now at a stage where VR hardware has surpassed software.

How about enabling AIs to create layouts of information on behalf of the user? Like, what if an AI could arrange all of your information for you in a scheme derived from Archy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software)
If only 75% of spaces are empty, while sad, that seems shockingly efficient. If you have a car you need at least one place to park for each location you will ever visit with it. That means most people are only driving their cars to 4 places. Home, work, school and the grocery store? Hopefully for store owners, not all at the same time. I would have expected a lot more unused spaces in parking lots. If we have cars we should be expecting a hell of a lot of empty parking lots. Maybe cities should just require some minimum amount of plant life in the lots themselves. I'm sure customers would approve.

Also any expectation of "the demise of malls and the decline of brick-and-mortar retail" is hasty. Globally, during the pandemic, 80%+ of retail was brick and mortar [1], and it actually increased in 2021, though it appears to be correcting. Research shows consumers don't trust stores with an online only presence [2]. I think banking on that will be too little too late. We need better solutions sooner.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ECOMPCTSA/

[2] https://www.kbbreview.com/6657/news/consumers-lack-trust-onl...
You don't just multiply employees x time = revenue. Google develops IP, systems, and processes over the course of years which pay out on long time scales. You would probably start feeling the financial effects of these layoffs in a couple years, and continue feeling them basically forever.
Sometimes you arrive at your intended solution in a roundabout way