skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're likely describing citizen science and engineering, which cannot really be considered for publication in Nature.

The work here represents many thousands if not millions of hours of accumulated scientific skill in building experiments that are likely to produce useful conclusions, rather than falsely rejecting the null hypothesis.

I've worked in citizen science and I have even done some exciting stuff in my garage, which attracted the world's leading researcher in my area of interest. The first thing I'd need to do with my tech is to bring it to his lab and reproduce it on science-grade equipment. then we would need to come up with good hypotheses we could test, and spend an enormous amount of time designing protocols, and debugging lab details. All of that comes before even thinking about writing a manuscript that would be accepted in nature, which is one of the most prestigious journals with enormous readership.

I don't want to discourage young folks who want to get into science, but the reality is that the vast majority of real science is dull work, such as requesting money, writing presentations to convince people you're right, and debugging experiments. I'm not defending this as the way it should be, but observing the reality of the situation. I have actually met a very small number of people who managed to turn citizen science into Big Science and get published, but they are a much smaller group than the folks who do bad citizen science in their garages and get attention on sites like Hackaday.
I remember listening to a panel discussing block chains in a user group meeting of a software company, decade or so ago. Mind you, this was not some cutting edge technology company it was boring accounting stuff.

All panelists had zero clue and were talking just general vague terms. Of course not giving too much, being politically correct etc put additional constraints over what you can say in such meetings.

So whatever evangelical zeal you see in these tech shows are not worth the time. I think most people know. They just play their role, nodding heads waiting for next coffee break.

But it's a very interesting article that will sure stir a lot of thought.. Usual high standards of this magazine.
Agreed 100%.

I would prefer a "kinda federated" model where the owner of a domain registers a private key with a Domain Registrar, and CAs send CSRs to Domain Registrars to validate, and when the CA issues a cert, the browser can validate the registrar signed it (and who the domain's registrar is). That avoids all 9 unique attacks on CA validation, and more importantly, actually cryptographically verifies if the CA should issue a cert, which does not happen at all today.
The common denominator in this demographic (affluent youth) is social media. In my generation you judged yourself against the people in your school. How you look, how good your grades are, how well you can perform etc. The small pond made it easier to garner and sustain self-esteem and to measure growth. With social media the best in the world in each category is available to see with no insight into the advantages that got them there, just the stark reality of how far away from them you are. Seeking validation on social media leaves most teens severely self conscious. My daughter has been hospitalized for suicidal ideation and how she was treated by peers in social media was the reason.

If we think of church as a safer alternative, try scaling Sunday mass up to the size of Instagram or TikTok and it would get this toxic too. Who has the beat clothes, who's the most devout, who's the best mom, who has the best kids... Virtue signalling is what church is all about and that's just as competitive. Our brains are not wired to understand the scale of the internet in general and less developed brains even less so. Compounding that with the competitive nature of late capitalism is a recipe for higher suicide rates.
I used DVK for a while and yes good chunk of that time was used to play Tetris ;)
He was a process engineer
The ETFs had net inflows of less than $1B. GBTC had significant outflows.
I think Apple's war to replaceable / serviceable batteries reached pathological levels: ok, for some technological limitations you have to use that unpractical umbellical-corded battery, for god sake, transform it in a feature, permitting the use of pluggable power banks, people can reuse those they have around without having to be "plugged into the wall with the 5-foot cord". Maybe they could add a little buffer battery with, let's say 5 minute autonomy, permitting "hot swap" features, hopefully user replaceable.
About the weight : is that (IMHO disturbing) external-eye-reproduction feature necessary ? I find it useless and I think a screen reproducing my eyes externally consumes an important amount of energy , that for a 2 hour autonomy device could be important. About the applications, reading this article I'm sure: the object lacks of any "killer app" and friends, cooking with the visor on make me laugh : it's like you are about to solder the food pretending it's carbon steel !
In my day-to-day tech needs, I have instead space for some good AR glasses, like the old Google glasses: for example, live translation, being in a foreign country could be valuable something able to translate at command what I have in front of me, being a biker, could be valuable be able to read data from motorbike without having to move the eye from the street, same for navigator directions, etc. Other ideas? An app that suggest me places around worth to visit. I use oscilloscopes and other lab equipment, could be priceless to have the data accessible without moving the sight from the PCB, etc, etc, etc.
Yes, you're right-- I mispoke in that I meant that they were both examples of getting information that should revise your world view, not that they were exact analogues.
In case you're new to this industry, let me illuminate this for you. All these rich guys and tech companies are trying to get richer and if that means supporting their competitors positions some of the time, they do it. Everyone wants the kind of control Apple stole from users with the App Store so everyone, including Apple competitors, are going to do what they can, including praising Apple, to get some of that sweet, sweet lock-in for themselves. This is not a difficult concept and I'm surprised to see HN commenters so oblivious and so obsequious.
I’m hoping that despite this, the changes they’re making make it easier for third party tools to do the same thing without changing your region
> just in case this VR stuff takes off

I think the last few years have pretty conclusively proven that there is no VR train to miss. It remains mainly a novelty (with some niche uses) and none of its fundamental issues have been resolved.
Are you so sure? Have you seen this video where Steve Jobs describes Vision Pro-like capability as inevitable and positive? https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1acubbl/steve_jo...
Absolutely ridiculous. No, Apple did not juice the M1 by giving it better cooling than x86. Quite the opposite, they took a big chunk of their design+process wins to the bank and exchanged them for even cooler and quieter operation because that's what they wanted all along. Cool and quiet was a deliverable.

It's absurd to point out that apple could have gotten higher perf from x86 at higher power as if it's some kind of win for intel. Yes, obviously they could have, that's true of every chip ever. They could take it even further and cool every macbook with liquid nitrogen and require lugging around a huge tank of the stuff just to read your email! They don't, because that's dumb. Apple goes even further than most laptop manufacturers and thinks that hissing fans and low battery life are dumb too. This leads them to low power as a design constraint and what matters is what performance a chip can deliver within that constraint. That's the perspective from which the M1 was designed and that's the perspective from which it delivered in spades.
Wow. A large chunk of the web just died. As if the echoes of millions of past websites cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened
I've had to use Google's cache maybe twice in the last year: the first time I was very surprised that they had hidden it one or two clicks deeper than it used to be; the second time was earlier today, and this time I couldn't find the button anywhere. I guess this confirms it's gone for real!
They extradite:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/montenegro-court-approv...
You don’t. It’s a regulated industry that regulated competition out
I write checks to my handyman, because he takes either check or Venmo. And Venmo refuses to validate my bank account. I never see the test deposit show up, and on the Venmo side it just says "try again later". So, checks it is. Say what you will about writing checks, but they are reliable in a way that digital payments aren't.
Once ordered this will take years to build. I don't see a figure, but would guess 5+ years...?
This is when you know the wealthy are too wealthy.
That is indeed interesting. I’ve used nginx with grpc (which uses http2) years ago and definitely did not see any such latency issues even at 50k qps
Fake Your Answers to Security Questions
Here's a guy that agrees with the other guy that taking authority away from users is lucrative and desirable. Wow. Shocking.
Please don't remember me of J2ME. I felt relieved getting back to develop EJBs with xdoclet after a short stint working in a J2ME project.
My wife runs a small business and I've been seriously considering buying a 1br apartment nearby to serve as our 'home office'. Mortgage would be ~1200 a month and there are plenty of them 5 minutes bike from our house to choose from.

Getting our place + 1 bedroom in the same area would cost way more because a lack of 3+ bedroom builds here.
Both depend on how hard it is to find the people you're looking for; there are no hard and fast rules. For a study I did with C-level executives at modestly sized companies, the incentive was US$500 for 45 minutes, and I believe the market research firm got at least US$300 for each qualified participant it recruited. For easy to find consumers, $50/hour each for the incentive and $100 each for recruiting might be plenty. For the incentive, you need to ask: what would a really well qualified participant expect to get in exchange for the time they're giving you? And different markets will have different costs; NYC will almost certainly be more expensive than Chattanooga for both incentives and recruiting.

Market research firms use a screening questionnaire to find participants with the right qualifications, and writing a good screener takes some experience. If you're new to this, you may want to reach out to someone who's done it before.
Yes, I'll probably do that once I'm finished with the new version of my algorithm.
To make it more explicit, the term comes from “castle moat” - a form of defense that makes it more difficult for others to attack your castle (or in this context, more difficult to compete with your product/company).
Well... that was their goal and congrats to them... I guess.

They found another way into management which is probably where they belong... for now until they're up and out. Easy come, easy go. Can you really imagine having to write code with people like that on your team long term?

Anyway the money isn't everything. I'm sure plenty of them are miserable because they're constantly under threat from more competent people. Sometimes the crown wears you.
So I am unclear on this. In Germany or the US, if you rob a bank, hide the money, get arrested, and serve a X year sentence, what happens when you are released? Could you use the money? You have already served for the crime. I suppose they could keep some criminal charges in reserve? If nothing else, eventually the statute of limitations would kick in where the money is fair game? Just be sure to declare it on your taxes, lest they get you like Capone.
It is pretty normal to consider the trading volume of a stock or asset when discussing valuation of huge lots.
Moto X was peak phone.
Perfect escape fantasy for the tech billionaire who grew up reading Jules Verne.
The difference is that in that review there were plenty of remarks like:

> Fortunately, we can report that on the whole, the touchscreen and software interface are easier to use than expected. What's more, we didn't miss a stylus in the least. Despite a lack of tactile feedback on the keypad, we had no trouble tapping our fingers to activate functions and interact with the main menu.

What I’m seeing in the reviews of AVP say the opposite about many aspects:

> There is a built-in virtual keyboard so you can type in thin air. But it will drive you mad for anything longer than a short message. And selecting smaller buttons with a pinch should be a carnival game. I started getting real work done once I paired the Vision Pro with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

I agree it’s still too early to tell, but the best thing that I see being mentioned is movie watching which is something all the other headsets already do as well. The AR aspect seems to be a unique aspect, but I wonder if there will be safety issues that prevent things like cooking and doing other tasks assisted with AR from truly taking off.
> massive extrapolations from 2020 and 2021 being completely off

They really did think that nobody would be going outside ever again...
“ok zoomer” - your old “friend” next month as you pay for your subscriptions through their payment processing.
Important and useful information, but uses repetition heavily. 19 minutes for what could be expressed in less than 1 minute.
RV - recreational vehicle
The eye-tracking thing doesn't surprise me at all, but I am surprised anyone thought this was a holy-grail sort of interface, in particular that Apple didn't rule it out themselves fairly quickly. Eye-tracking data is always a gigantic mess - it's why it's presented as gaze averages rather then direct replays.
It's never too late to go back to school.
Humanoid robot startup Figure AI in funding talks with Microsoft, OpenAI
Feel ya. Disposal is a pain, and if you mess up, it's a trip to home Depot to get some chemicals to clean your asphalt. That was fun when my apartment had me parking in a shared garage...

Oil is simple and easy enough that I just get it changed with my inspections. There are things that, even if you're competent enough to monitor and do yourself, is still better getting a second pair of eyes on. That said I wouldn't do jiffy lube or other stop and go oil shops... Too many noobs there where the chance of them effing it up is higher than myself. I once had a tire buldge when I was younger and broke AF, they replaced the wrong tire and I had to drive back to convince them they changed the wrong one (big old bubble in the sidewall), took a bit to convince them they changed the wrong one since they refused to admit fault. Thank God I took a picture before that was clear enough to place the bulb right on the text in the exact same spot.

I'm having similar concerns around my diy for some electrical and gas work. Yeah technically I can do it myself to code, but I'd rather inspect someone else's work and not deal with the liability of fucking it up myself. Just because I can do it doesn't mean I can do it to the level of a quality professional, and I'm now wealthy enough to actually get the pros and not just the journeymen. There's something about paying for quality work that just feels good. So long as you can respect the labor, it feels great and not so weird to hire others.

That said, I've had a few coding projects I've subcontracted in my home due to lack of time to those on roughly equal grounds as myself. It feels a bit weird, especially for tasks with unknown bounds but worth it for the time and schedule savings. I'd rather not wait another 6 months and spend my personal time when I have a laid off friend who just wants some bar cash.
The purpose of the code was to make it clearer what is happening here. If someone is confused by the direct calculation, then they can also look at the simulation and maybe things will become clearer. Also, you do need to have some actual insight into the problem to solve it directly with calculations, whereas you just have to model the situation to brute force a simulation and arrive at essentially the same answer (with a lot more compute used, but that's basically free now!).
This absolutely will happen and the only thing we can do about it is very rapidly adjust to the idea that we should afford a photo with no provenance the same regard as we afford some anonymous guy saying something. They are just not evidence of anything any more.
There’s heavy licensing when it comes to aviation. You can’t buy Boeing parts on ebay sold by chinese vendors and install it on aircraft. At least yet.
Apple Vision Pro a $3500 Headset with the Issues of Meta Quest 3 and More
put a faraday cage around your house lol
Redpanda Proton ClickHouse: A perfect match as a single-binary approach for a lightweight and high-performance data streaming processing and analytics in one compact box!
Surely, it is the year of RISC-V.
Not a good deal for consumer IMHO. Intel is floundering and AMD is now always a node behind. Seems very anti-competitive.
You still can’t change many things and that’s great.
> Java on android

You mean Kotlin?

Nah. Dart is ok. It doesn't perform as well as those peer languages. It's nice its FFI story is good, but the ecosystem is very weak even compared to Javascript.

As for the tooling. It's decent. I wouldn't call it amazing, unless you come from systems that were anemic to begin with, then it seems pretty amazing.

As for flutter. I recently installed it again. A test app with a single CupertinoTextField consumes 45% of an Intel core on a linux desktop (Wayland and X11 were similar). Like, goodbye.
Maybe if WORA means iOS and Android, fine, I get that is the common use case. But that is wishful thinking to false advertising as far as I care.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/125388

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/101591 (going on 2 years!)

I also believe Google will shit can both this and Fuchsia, because Google is CADT baked into its organizational structure.
I conducted a quick search and don't see:

Real world experience vs how it should work as per x for dummies type book ... coupled with the dangers of wrong things and myths that even really clever people get caught up with, gaining momentum in various echo chambers online.

I guess for me, online, the epitome came with the introduction of M$ XP and those few years the average user used to try old 98 boot disks to sort out their small problems landing with the inevitable - easily fixed before they talked to someone who knew XP backwards, screamed at any one suggesting the boot issue was dos (98 sys command execution meant that had to be sorted out first) related ... XP ONLY EMULATES ... oh boy, I watched so many hapless sods have the "expert" eventually suggest to reinstall XP clean - there was no explaining to the "experts" what happens with a sys command.
What do you value then? Testing for things that correlate with that would be a reasonable proposal. Also I'm not a "Kemosabe", not sure what that is. I said we because things like low rates of malpractice, success in grad schools, research seems fair to accept as a general trait to select for in admissions. If you have another proposal please explain. My view is that soft skills to get into test-less ivies are unlikely to select for something more valuable than the prior system.
MIGALOO luxury submarine? Those Chinese Amazon brands are really stepping up their game.
> What a great thing for the country.

Not necessarily. The risk with any kind of external subsidy is that it may not last forever. Imagine if that happened wherever you live. Once everyone's accustomed to $0 in property tax, what would happen if you suddenly had to put those taxes back in place? Would it stall the economy if the tax burden was high enough?

IMHO, the best way to deal with windfall money like that is to put it into a wealth fund or use it to build infrastructure. That way you don't become dependent on it and, if the money stops flowing after a while, you at least have some long term infrastructure to show for it.
The easiest way to make Emacs look nice is to install VSCode.
> You're likely describing citizen science and engineering

That's what you are describing. If you read my comments, I am not talking about that (though I don't object to it), and my main point is that science is not defined by the type of work that gets published in journals, or by whatever qualifies as 'citizen science'.
They ran it for max profit in an era when strategic investments needed to be made.

It's remarkably common and heavily incentivized.
Super confusing! Through different reasoning I get different answers:

1. More likely to be red because the urn has a greater chance of having more red balls

2. Equally likely by considering all remaining urn possibilities to be equally likely

3. More likely to be green because obviously there is one less red ball than before

I wrote a Python program to simulate the problem. It tells me that the correct answer is (2) - it's equally likely that the next ball is red or green.

I wonder if I've made a mistake, or if that's really the real answer!

#!/usr/bin/python
import random
from collections import Counter

def experiment():
urn = random.choices(["R", "G"], k=100)
if urn.pop() != "R":
return

return urn.pop()

results = (experiment() for i in range(1_000_000))
results = (result for result in results if result is not None)
print(Counter(results))

EDIT: I did make a mistake! The above produces a binomial distribution of urns with red/green. As in, the most common urn is one with an equal number of reds and greens, and the least common is all reds or all greens. Whereas they should have equal probability. To actually match the question:

#!/usr/bin/python
import random
from collections import Counter

def experiment():
num_red = random.randint(1, 100)
num_green = 100 - num_red
urn = ["R"] * num_red + ["G"] * num_green
random.shuffle(urn)
if urn.pop() != "R":
return

return urn.pop()

results = (experiment() for i in range(1_000_000))
results = (result for result in results if result is not None)
print(Counter(results))

The answer is indeed (1) More likely to be red.
> You’re gonna love this — Motorola was bought by Google in an attempt to jumpstart their hardware business but it turned out to be a failed acquisition.

I wouldn't call Motorola a failed acquisition - Google bought Motorola as a shield in an increasingly litigious environment: this was the age of Apple going "thermonuclear", Microsoft and patent trolls were wantonly shaking down Android vendors, and beginning to circle Google itself.

Motorola (under Google) had the best value-for-money smartphones - their midrange was solid, and reasonably priced while everyone else was continuously shifting to flagships, with each release priced higher than the last.

From the outside looking in, Google appeared to dispose Motorola to make Samsung happy - Samsung had been complaining loudly and widely about the Motorola acquisition, and openly flirted with other mobile platforms as a hedge.

Motorola shareholders got paid, Google got the patents it wanted, Samsung remained the 600 lb gorilla in Androidland, Lenovo got a good brand and keeps making ok phones to this day. So, not a failed acquisition by any reasonable measure
If you owe the bank $100K, you have a problem.

If you owe the bank $100M, the bank has a problem.

If you owe the bank $100B, nobody has a problem, because Uncle Sam will somehow magically take care of everything.

So, yeah, I'm not sure we took the right lessons away from the last time this sort of thing happened. Taxpayer-funded bailout for the commercial real estate sector coming in 3...2...1...
I don’t understand why anyone wants a hybrid. The payback on. Hybrid is somewhere near 100-200k miles. Most people don’t own cars for that long