skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feedback on doing an assessment:

1) The assessment felt a little long.

2) There were many transcription errors which really was not a good experience. Are you using a quality transcription like insanely-fast-whisper?

2a) Why do I need to see my speech transcribed in real-time? It's distracting and leads to worse quality transcription.

3) It would be great to have accent coaching. From a transcription you should be able to figure out tone, inflection, and phonemes, and find the grossest errors to point out.
Typically, people who’ve had a good time with a product don’t write about it as much as people who’ve had a bad time. Anger motivates venting whereas being satisfied with the product doesn’t create emotions that compel people as strongly to share. For this reason, I believe samples of feedback such as this online forum are often poor indicators of the general experience, as is true with many forms of feedback. In fact, I have a generally positive impression of Teams, and I wasn’t planning to write anything until I saw your comment.
In the name of efficiency I'd say we should cut out the middleman here and set an appropriate tax rate for potential customers of the mega yacht submersible.
I increasingly see less distinction between the various forms of economic rent and organised crime.
It is possible that Alzheimer's is purely a matter of aberrant proteins. That would be valid conclusion if the evidence turned out to support it. But it is not a valid assumption under any circumstance.
The point in both cases is that this is normal liability, so normal that it's inescapable.
> Talking to some Googler friends, it also seems like everyone there think they are "leaders".

I guess we have different friends, but that doesn't match my experience. Of course, pumping yourself up and making yourself look more impressive for perf/promo is a huge thing, and accounts for a lot of pointless stuff being done just so you can say you "launched"/"landed" something. But the flip side of that is the recurrent memes about stuff like so-and-so over in that other division solved some incredibly hard technical problem, and "I'm just here copying protos around." Lots of Googlers realize they are just worker drones.
Named after a white whale... what could possibly go wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migaloo
Yeah it's been pretty bad ever since then. You can see the massive rise in registrations from 2020.

https://redbus2us.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/H1B-Visa-Re...
Varasano's Pizzeria Staff Training Videos
"3/29/18 I'm releasing a huge Library of Video, These were recorded in 2011, but I've only release for staff training, until now! "
I think the problem is the same given "waterfall" or "agile." Waterfall, if you step back and think about it rationally is a perfectly valid approach. In fact, I see only slight differences between them...mostly cosmetic.
Incredible.

This is one of the most accurate TTS voice cloning software to date. No competition.

Elevenlabs looks overvalued compared to this, whoever made this great job!
The fatigue will morph into buyer's fatigue.
This is headset, app and person dependent. I've done 8 hours in Elite: Dangerous (sat down, can't remember the headset) and well over 4 hours in Fallout 4 VR (stood up and moving around, Valve Index).

Having demoed VR at my old office I can tell you that the range of reactions varies from an immediate "nope" and having to take the headset off to being able to stay in it for a significant amount of time with no discomfort.
But isn't that exactly how it is worded? Just showing it a bit?
>But why would the law be vague about this?

Because the real world is vague too. The law is dynamic, not static, any specifics are taken into account by judges and prosecutors, non specifics are speculated, intent and malice is considered, and so on.

>In fact, what if I link to something and it is changed to a copyrighted work silently?

Then you'll 99.99999% just get away with it, as nobody cares for some lowly link.

If (and it's a big if) it attracts attention for some reason (perhaps it gains tons of traffic and suddenly some music/movie label is calling for your prosecution), then you might be prosecuted.

In which case your prosecutor will assume your guilt, your lawyer will argue that you are innocent and somebody switched your original link, and the court will try to find what really went on, after hearing all of them, and checking any evidence, looking into whether there was intent and malice involved, and so on.

Same as if you stayed in a hotel with a friend, and the other day you were found sleeping, and the friend murdered. The law doesn't have a special provision for "but what if somebody else came in the room with a spare key and murdered my friend" either.
iphone by far did not have a better UX. It looked nice, but it had no more functionality than other devices at the time.

In general, UX design is the argument people used to (and still do sometimes) run to "prove" that the device was better when it was clearly not. Fancy icons dont make a good UX, functionality does. You dont say copy and paste is good UX, you say its a feature.
> Its only appeal was the full touchscreen, which of course sucked to type on, but looked cool

and motion controls. Between the Nintendo Wii and the first iPhone people were obsessed with motion controls for some reason.
On censys.io you can search by domain for example. Some internet facing appliances generate certificate automatically with letsencrypt but use a central DNS server, meaning every one of these appliances is on the same domain, using random Subdomains.

Once you figured out what the domain is, you can easily build a list of IPs out of the cert transparency log and if there is ever an exploit for this specific type of appliances, attackers now have a bespoke list of IPs to hack, a dream come true.

I don't see a solution for this particular use case, I would argue self signed certs would be more secure in this case.
You don’t want this type of sub for drug smuggling, I chased the smugglers and this massive monster will definitely be harder to operate and disguise than what they use currently.
This reminds me of the situation at Boeing, albeit w/ less fatal consequences. For a long time, it's been a company that has focused on maximizing profits through "innovative" business practices, first and foremost, rather than innovative R&D. It's completely unsurprising that Intel has been struggling lately against its genuinely inventive competition.
Is this a Dahir Insaat subsidiary?
very clickbait post, it is in alpha and will take many many months to stabilize.
How is "more likely"I'll defined? They are two options red or green. Are you more likely to draw red or are you more likely to draw green.. how is it poorly worded?
Well, it is another billionare's sub after all. They need to make sure the contracts are all paid out and the PS4 controller is in place before it goes under.
If I'm paying them in person and a check is a problem I expect them to tell me and I'll pay them in cash is that's reasonable such as for already-completed work. But I'm not mailing cash or diddling around with other random payment mechanisms.
In what way is he awesome? His primary job was to improve Google Cloud's market share and it isn't any better as far as I can see, perhaps worse as Azure has increased the lead.
Uncle Sam just spreads the problem around. Your 100B debt is now everybody else's problem and they get to pay interest on your debt.
They still dominate PC’s and the server market.
Scaled agility. Such a sultry phrase for the target audience.
4 weeks underwater endurance, I wonder what they intend to power this with?
Judge blocks 'unfathomable' $56B Tesla pay deal
It was Apple's decision to put an 8-core i9 in an MBP chassis that was utterly incapable of dealing with the heat. Yes, the M1 is far more efficient and Apple deserves a lot of credit for it, but their last Intel laptops were much worse than they needed to be.
I think this product will be a slow burn. They are getting developers engaged now and subsequent generations will bring broader appeal while the software will get more refined and apps will expand in availability. I don’t think it will be a flop it will just take a while to get going. And they must absolutely know this given the current pricing.
> Absolutely ridiculous. No, Apple did not juice the M1 by giving it better cooling than x86.

This is such an uncharitable and adversarial interpretation of parent. Sandbagging intel =/= juicing M1.
Some places do A/B testing with prices too, but they have to do it in a way that the prices won't change every time. Try using a VPN to get cheaper prices?

Also some will price based around the user agent - coming in on an Apple device might cost more.
The boats they use for this smuggling are the least seaworthy vessels I think I’ve had the pleasure to experience. We caught one go-fast because all four engines died and it was sinking, so they radioed for our help since we were already chasing them. These were very unsafe boats. The dudes onboard are not very important, their qualifications were they had been fishermen before and had families to hold over them to ensure the drugs got to the destination.
I just said "what" to CodeLlama
Musk to staff: "Work harder! Forget that I keep saying things that kill traffic to the site."
Reclaimed batteries from those disposable vapes
Intel’s problem was the cultural and structural issues in their organization, plus their decision to bet on strong OEM partner relationships to beat competition. This weakness would prevent them from being ready for any serious threat and is what they should’ve seen coming.
Multiple devs are fine. Its the “management” that kills things.
SAFe is exactly what the name sounds like.

"Agile" in a form that large corporations feel that it's safe to adopt "Agile" in. About 15 to 20 years late at that. It's really just the old big Corp consulting gigs but for Agile.

Don't get me wrong, SAFe does have agile concepts in it that make sense overall. But the whole "let's do a strict process and let's do it wrong and let's enforce it rigorously without thinking" is just corporate BS all over but this time with "Agile" written at the top instead of "Rational Unified Process" or whatever else your corporation might have paid consultants for before.
I would find it funny if a country managed to bootstrap its way into high tech manufacturing like that. It sounds like the Columbian jungle would have a lot of demand for good engineering and machining know-how and if they are building disposable subs they'd have a lot of incentive to perfect cheap manufacturing technique.

If the drug trade doesn't work, they probably have the expertise to get involved in navel drones.
Agreed. My foray into threads was pretty much just rage bait.
> That doesn't help, coding newbies can't be expected to write comprehensive unit tests to keep an LLM's implementation on the rails

Of course it helps, writing acceptance tests based on a spec is a lot easier than writing an implementation that passes those tests.
I think if you talked to someone working on Meta Quest they would say this is going to blow the competitors away. If you talk to a reviewer for a tech magazine they’re going to complain about any detail they can find in the 1.0 launch of a new product line as if it’s a colossal failure (aka PoC).
If it was the same guy, why wouldn't he have constant connectivity problems if he has any problems? I know with my home Internet, when it's flaky, it's often flaky for days or weeks at a time. (The real question of course is why the video conferencing software was willing to drop video, why it wasn't uploaded as a file to a cloud server, why he didn't confirm they'd seen everything, and so on and so forth - but glitchy home connections are, and always have been, a fact of life.)
Its not gonna flop, for the same reason that Apple desktops dont flop. Anyone educated in basic modern technology can easily see that for the price, you can build a custom desktop that blows any Mac one out the water, but people still buy them because of 2 things: styling and ecosystem.

Vision has both of those. People will conveniently ignore all the downsides of it, like they do with current Apple products.
I don't know if you are being willfully obtuse but coercion doesn't have to be physical. Feel free to consult any dictionary.
There's a meta comic concept in here. I'm pretty sure most HN users know xkcd, but would enough xkcd users know HN to get an "Ask Orange Site:" joke?
> Was ARM really competitive until recently? Nope. Intel crushed them.

Intel never "crushed" ARM. Intel completely failed to develop a mobile processor and ARM has a massive marketshare there.

ARM has always beaten the crap out of Intel at performance per watt, which turned out to be extremely important both in mobile and data center scale.
Parent didn't deserve any charity--Apple didn't sandbag anyone. They made the laptop they felt was the future based off a processor roadmap Intel failed to deliver on.

The fact that the exact same laptop designs absolutely soared when an M1 was put in them with no changes tells you everything you need to know about how Intel dropped the ball.
Nice.

But this is not a 13th gen AMD. There are 13th gen Intel core cpus, and there are AMD's byzantine naming schemes for Ryzens, which defeats generation counting.

But nice review anyway.
Reminds me of that old star wars ascii site.

https://www.asciimation.co.nz
Certainly. Please DM me and I'll tell you all about it.
Yeah billionaires will never actually effectively spend all of their money. Rather than try to entice them into buying increasingly ridiculous things, we should just make being a multibillionaire financially unviable so that the money is distributed better to begin with.

Perhaps if the tax rate truly rose to somewhere near 99% as individuals reach the billionaire mark, we'd see whether these folks truly are philanthropists or if they just play them on TV.
Flutter is like Qt where they implement their own windows themselves. But instead of C++ and OpenGL, they use ... Dart and CSS? All the ease-of-use and ergonomics of C++, and the raw bare metal performance of Python. /s

I try to give it the benefit of the doubt, so I found a demo site. Here is the first example I opened: https://flutter.github.io/samples/web/material_3_demo/

I click play on the progress indicator. My CPU usage goes up 5%. This is on a Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Compare to Unreal Tournament 2004 at max settings running at 240fps, which uses 6% cpu.

I just can't take Flutter seriously. I don't care how good the developer experience might be. It's absolutely terrible for the user.
I remember the first time I ever used Python, the very first thing I did was type that exact thing. When I saw that error I immediately deleted Python, wiped my hard drive and drop-kicked my Dell Vostro computer all the way into the sun. It was so infuriating to me that that any programming language lie to people about basic math, deliberately keeping them ignorant and stupid, and actively preventing them from understanding the simple beauty of complex numbers.
1. This problem has already been solved on the Meta Quest by a 3rd party app called Big Screen. I would imagine that they or someone else will attempt to do the same for VisionOS. Otherwise, I can see Apple fixing this later.

2. 52% of media viewing in the US is done alone.
Microsoft's gaming revenues overtake Windows thanks to Activision Blizzard
The dart ecosystem is way richer than I expected it to be. So far I've found good options for everything I need and in more than a few cases the libraries are better designed than the JS equivalents.

I can't speak to Linux desktop performance but on the Mac my Flutter app sips CPU and memory.

Google abandoning it is a real risk. If they continue to support it I think Flutter has a great future.
Yeah, I generally agree with that framing. That’s a good detail about samsung that I was not aware of. But I will say that from an ex-insider perspective — what you describe is mostly a failure.

Google was searching desperately for revenue diversity and was acquiring pretty hard at the time. I think the intent with Moto was to acquire a hardware shop and establish a market leading brand to compete directly with Apple. They eventually arrived at Pixel by building it entirely in-house. That Moto got raided for IP and spun out to Lenovo did not meet those (high) expectations. There was no need for anyone to take a loss but I think Google wanted to make a whole lot of money and did not.
> I wouldn't call what Apple did innovation - they followed predictable development trajectories - more integration

By this yardstick, nobody in semiconductors has ever innovated.
> So the acceptance rate is already that based on the distribution of applicants.

Currently it's a lottery which you can at least argue is fair in the sense that every applicant has an equal chance. If they made it so that only the highest paid were accepted, that would skew the distribution much further.
Does foveated rendering work with the extra latency of a round trip over WiFi? I can certainly see this working fine on a head tracking scale, but I'm less sure about eye tracking. I also wonder if existing video compression hardware can actually make use of such outside feedback to adapt bitrate and quality with the necessary flexibility.
The word "need" does not appear in the quote :') I think the author is just describing how it typically works rather than how it needs to work.
> I wonder what Jobs would have done.

I think every "new paradigm" Apple product had similar growing pains. The Mac launched with only 128kb RAM, the iPhone lacked basic functionality and ditched physical keyboards, and the iPad was "just a big iPod". Also, in all cases, there was no software for them at launch.

Every time, we seem to ask "What is this good for?" or "How will this ever be good when it has these fundamental limitations?" But then, a few years down, it's suddenly commonplace, even indispensable.

I think that like the new paradigms before it, it's hard to imagine a clear future for this product. But they always seem to find their way after Apple gets them out the door. Not saying I'm convinced there will be a headset in every home, but I think the "spatial computing" paradigm is far more likely to find a path forward than it is to die.
One small detail I enjoyed: the phone number on that page starts 0043, which is the country code for Austria - a landlocked country.
That's understandable, and I would suggest reaching out to the CBMC developers. It shouldn't be difficult to add an uninitialized variable pass to the solver.

Practically speaking, -Wall -Werror should catch this. Any use of a tool like CBMC should be part of a defense in depth strategy for code safety.

It does in clang.

$ cc -Wall -Werror bar.c
bar.c:5:11: error: variable 'x' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
if (x <= 42){
^
bar.c:4:12: note: initialize the variable 'x' to silence this warning
int x;
^
= 0

$ cc --version
clang version 16.0.6

It also does in gcc.

$ gcc -Wall -Werror bar.c
bar.c: In function 'main':
bar.c:5:10: error: 'x' is used uninitialized [-Werror=uninitialized]
5 | if (x <= 42){
| ^
bar.c:4:11: note: 'x' was declared here
4 | int x;
| ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

$ gcc --version
gcc 12.2.0
Who is downloading threads? Haven't read or heard any talk on it in months. To be fair, I am far removed from the meta ecosystem.
Indeed. "Please pay us 100 rubles for house tax." "But house tax was abolished last year thanks to the AI revenues!" "Er..."

> The removal of taxes is good because the country can't properly collect taxes in the first place?

Sure. Look at Russia's infamous 'tax audits'. ("For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.") And then deadweight losses, overhead from dodging it, stuff being driven in to blackmarkets, manipulation of tax regs (the more complicated the better) to subsidize connected oligarchs... The more nominally powerful but incompetent a government is, the worse.
Yeah but why is it a saying and "security by anything-else is not good" isn't a saying.

What layer of security is sufficient on its own? None. Why is "obscurity" being singled out?

It always feels a little condescendant, like "oh I got a cool saying that applies to most noobs in security, let's use it", implying one is assuming the other party in the conversation knows less.
5 clicks of the power button.
Elon Musk needs trade barriers to remain in place. And he needs trade barriers for space and robotics.

Buying Twitter, the primary location for political disagreements and communications, is a sort of cover bet to negotiate later.

Interesting to note Trump staying away from Twitter altogether. He likely doesn’t want to give anyone, including Musk, and leverage or perceived leverage over him.

What is interesting is he has likely secured the nomination and may be able to win without Twitter, which would be a major signal that he is uncontrollable
I know there is no confidence in Broadcom "doing anything right with an acquisition", but I would _LOVE_ to see the metrics that are pushing them to rathole this whole business/channel/ecosystem in such a hurry.
It sounds like Apple just wanted to vertically integrate, to me. Which is a fine reason to do something. But doesn't require misrepresenting competitors or constructing a past which never happened. You do you though.
DrumWave – The Stellar Economy
As we stand on the brink of a new era defined by advancements in data sciences, automation, and sustainable practices, a fundamental question arises: Should we aim for space exploration or focus on resolving pressing issues here on Earth?

By 2030, a seismic shift in global GDP is anticipated, largely attributed to the formal recognition of Data Ownership as a human right. A revolutionary concept with far-reaching implications: a more equitable distribution of data could spur sustainable development on Earth and generate enough financial momentum to make projects like Mars colonization a feasible reality.

Automation, a crucial element of modern economies, has the potential to free human labor from repetitive, mundane tasks. This liberation could open the door to more meaningful work, including projects aimed at Earth's restoration and the exploration of outer space.

Financial prosperity must be tethered to planetary health. Before venturing to Mars or beyond, efforts must intensify to reverse ecological degradation on Earth. As automation replaces human labor in resource-intensive tasks, the emphasis will shift from consumption to regeneration.

The new social license forming around Data Ownership rights is a paradigm shift in societal values. The transformation of these norms is creating a trust architecture that places individuals (not corporations) at the center of data ecosystems.

The notion of extending human civilization beyond Earth becomes less of sci-fi and more of a calculated possibility, given the exponential GDP growth driven by Data Ownership. Yet, this bold leap comes with a caveat: our capability to sustain life on another planet hinges on our performance as responsible Earth dwellers.

Earth stewardship serves as the cornerstone for any celestial ambitions. Through a multifaceted lens of economic growth and ecological accountability, we either confine ourselves to this planet or earn our ticket to become a type-1 civilization.
While migrants can’t vote in national elections, they are counted in the census (California has an additional four or five seats in congress just from illegal immigration, for example).

Secondly, the children of illegal immigrants are citizens and can vote. It takes decades for this strategy to pan out obviously. It can be sped up by family unification policies once an immigrant has a child citizen.