skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

This reasoning, taken to its logical extent, would mean completely defunding all medical research and instead redeploying all research to best utilizing our current technology.

That is, hopefully, an obviously faulty decision.

We must balance research with using current findings to help people. Stopping all drug development and telling people with currently untreatable diseases "haha, too bad, we aren't even going to try", is cruel.

The ultimate goal of many technology utopians is the end of all death. We have examples from the natural world of incredibly long lived higher life forms, and simple life forms that are immortal, so it isn't scientifically impossible. The number of lives saved is literally, infinite. It is really hard to argue with "infinite upside".

(The absolute societal shit show that such a technology would bring about is a rather important question...)

> "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.

For many future inventions, of course estimates can be made of the number of lives saved.

The more pie in the sky research is, the larger those error bars become. "LLMs may one day help us sift through research and cure all forms of cancer" is, technically true, but the error bars on it are so high that you don't want to devote all the world's resources to LLMs just on the hopes of eliminating all forms of cancer 50+ years from now.

"This company is working on AI Vision+Robotics technology so people don't have to do this super hazardous job that claims a bunch of lives. They are an estimated 5 years from productizing and they already have purchase contracts in place" is a much different statement.
Using DuckDB-WASM for In-Browser Data Engineering
> "error, can't take square root of -4"

That has nothing to do whether the user knows better than to trust such a answer; it's because they (likely implicitly, which is admittedly unfortunate) asked for a real-valued result, which indeed can't be done. Eg, in python:

>>> import math,cmath
>>> math.sqrt(-4)
ValueError: math domain error
>>> cmath.sqrt(-4)
2j
I think number of such machines in developing countries is much larger then in developed.

In 80s, people said "it is good, that we don't have western infrastructure, because when become democracy and need it, will build all new from zero".

What really happened then, few waves of upgrades at West, when obsolete systems exported to developing countries very cheap.

But this is not whole picture. As First World is just about Billion humans (from more than 6 Billion at about Y2K) and have very limited land, number of obsolete systems exported to developing countries is just not enough for their size, so developing countries could not build whole infrastructure from just obsolete systems from West, but have to do (or to buy) something other.

So now, developing countries usually have mixed infrastructure, partially already obsoleted when imported systems, partially modern systems (many made in China), and partially some custom, even literally hand-made or garage-production.
Everyone is looking for the "killer app" so they have something to anchor the concept. Put simply, the Web fits the bill. Apple has invested in the space because they can't afford not to. Their App Store model starts to show its limitations when you stop staring at the screen and start looking through it.

WebGPU and WebXR are the two big enablers going forward. With WebGPU, developers have a common way to access hardware and that's a big deal across all your devices. A common way to access the hardware that gets you real-time 3D graphics, machine learning, crypto, etc. that works on your phone, tablet, laptop, headset, whatever is a big deal. And it's not just for anyone with Apple gear, but anyone with a compatible browser. Think generative AI/ML streaming Gaussian splats to your retinas via a browser. That's where we're headed.

Need an OR to explore a phobia of surgery? Sketchfab has you covered:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/charite-university-hospital-...
you take a lower paying job?
Any reports on fatigue, neck strain, etc? I can't stand more than an hour or so in VR before I have to get out. It's warisome for long periods. I'd hate to have to work in one.

I'm holding out for a true "retina" display.
A standalone lab can be good to have.

You wouldn't want it to function the same way as a modern corporate lab. Those are already making as much progress as they can by now.

Something worthwhile to do in a smaller organization is things that bigger labs need but don't do.

If you do it "right" a single-handed individual can make more promising creative progress than a whole team of corporate researchers can often end up with, but you need some pretty good breadth of innovation.

If you look carefully at the historical illustration, you may notice a pipe organ is the central device in the picture.

In the natural science lab I always liked to have different instruments that attract the attention of different types of visitors at different times.

And some instruments that are only developed or used in the presence of no visitors at all.
I've driven part way up Mt Washington in my car. It was pretty neat seeing the landscape change so dramatically. Unfortunately they closed the top part due to bad weather.

For anyone interested in this train, this is a decent video about the experience
https://youtu.be/hnYBct42WS0?si=sN3bXbGcy6T43ulp
I live in Ballard, so maybe I just got used to everything up here. We don't usually need to drive unless we go somewhere far away (if anything downtown, just take the D line).
Apple Watch, HomePod, AppleTV+, Apple News+, AirPods.

And I would argue the M-series CPU are pretty major as well.
> The first iPhone was pretty terrible.

I definitely do not think that opinion was widespread. If anything I think that the biggest discussed shortcoming of the first iPhone was that it was only available on AT&T.
Dupe from the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190947
Yeah that's a bit much.
This is definitely out of scope for web browsers. The security implications of allowing arbitrary sockets are prohibitive.

To do something like that then you’re going to need a different environment with a different set of security guarantees and expectations, more like a shell where the user is responsible for vouching for the code’s trustworthiness.
My launch day Apple Watch was unbelievably bad. Not even good for telling time as the raise-to-wake feature was so flaky. So by the sound of it, the Vision Pro might be starting in a better position than the watch.
May I add: 6) Any anti-AIcorp legislation (that the current incumbents may encourage, which does not affect themselves) - legislative barriers to entry?

I am not convinced they have truly managed this yet - It is a concern of mine though.
> Its not comparable. At that time, phone was already a necessity for most folks and most had one.

A cell phone was necessary, but a smart phone was not. At the time, most people were still using non-smart cell phones. It’s still a valid comparison.

> Still 90% of folks around me (doctors, IT, rest of reality) think whole concept of VR/AR is for kids

This is exactly why Apple insists on only using the term “spatial computing” in order to fight the strange bias people have for something they haven’t even tried yet

> But if they persist, which all reviews seem to hang their overall positive rating on, magic we all hope for might eventually happen

Yes, it mirrors the reviews for the original iPhone
They renamed it from knowts to wren 3 days ago

https://github.com/bjesus/wren/commit/d04f619f8efc6ae2c0831f...
Current state is the best, but it's still not immediately obvious unless you say "current: on" and "Click to turn off" in the hover.

At least sliders generally have right for on, as opposed to pure text toggle buttons which are just awful.
Soon you’ll have to pay a dollar and a half just to see the parking lots in the parking lot museum.
Currently you can’t use Quest/Vision Pro in any moving vehicle, as they rely on accelerometers to capture head movements.
A windfall for a leeward (wind) island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeward_Islands
Study finds Montanans are increasingly OK with wolves
Uhhh no I’m pretty sure they’re illegally smuggling sand to become legitimately powerful crime lords. That was their pivot away from going legit.
To each their own perspective! As for me, as a user at the time of fairly cutting-edge cell phones from other manufacturers, my first hands-on with the first iPhone was one of the most memorable technological experiences of my life. Just using the Maps application with multi-touch was magical. Yes, it was slow, limited, etc., but it felt like an entirely different class of device, and that proved to be true.
Every hit from Apple had lots of initial (VALID) gripes, but the experience was worth it to advance the core product and eventually eliminate or accept those limitations.

iPod was the size of a beefy wallet, but was good enough.

iPhone was glorified plastic and websites looked like crap, no app store. But hey, it worked well enough.

That said... this isn't accessibly priced and what's the hook? Like if this launched the same time as Pokemon Go or WoW were taking off alongside it it'd get the social momentum all the other options had.

Also it's better than the competition in key was, but differentiable ways...? AR/VR could very well take off but it's not this year.
You have solid numbers behind your claim?

By the way people are asking chatgpt or copilot what they used to Google. Not everything but a lot. I most certainly do and I think I'm not alone.
Assuming those SWEs produced absolutely zero value to Google, which I bet is not true
Only some kinds do (mostly cosmetics). If you go through the purchase process there's a questionnaire on if you actually need the inserts.

Also, I don't think people with only near/far vision issues or prism correction know how this interacts with VR. IIRC in general you always use your far prescription and there is no support for prism.
> I'm not sure a social media without censorship is viable on large scale

Right, it absolutely isn't. Some form of censorship is vital. This claim becomes more agreeable when substituting "censorship" with the almost-synonymous word "moderation".
The "killer app" here is to have an infinity-sized 'screen' for anything the average user was already going to do with an iPad or Apple TV. The hardware's just not good enough yet, in terms of lightness and comfort, for the average user to put up with as more than a novelty.
Ukrain army will just have to check the bold are correcty titened...
That theory doesn't make any sense. Both measures are moving in the same direction (i.e. both units are becoming more profitable). If it was some kind of revenue shifting trick, the numbers would be moving in opposite directions.
I'm usually pretty quick to criticize Apple (and Gruber's unapologetic fanyboy tendencies) when warranted, but this is a bit much. You basically just reproduced the things Gruber acknowledges as negatives, and ignored all the positives. Not really a useful -- or honest -- take.
I personally define AGI as a technology capable of improving itself exponentially.

But I realize my definition is in the minority. :/

Of course if we ever manage to make a 1:1 cybernetic brain that works exactly like a human's brain, and is also a complete black box, we'll have achieved AGI. I'm not sure how useful that will be, but I'll have to admit it is AGI.

So maybe I should say, "interesting AGI" is technology that can improve itself exponentially. :-D
I mean, I get why they would not understand it when the government micromanages companies by targeted tax breaks (called “tax loopholes”): they just hate companies and markets, and so they blame them for doing the exact thing the government wants them to do. But how can you not understand that the purpose of EV tax credits is to make people buy more EVs? That’s the whole point!
Reflecting on a Decade of Transparent Salaries at Buffer
They've been testing in snow markets in winter at least occasionally for many years.

It makes sense to start with easier markets to a certain extent...though SF is definitely not an easy market in terms of urban design/clutter. It would've been way easier for them to follow up Phoenix with Vegas.

If they can handle SF, then aside from weather they can probably handle just about any other city in the US.
Missing 0.5% of your core business revenue is a bad sign for long term.
If I was a hiring manager who set up a hiring process to evaluate candidates, and someone did poorly on it but the CEO came and said "no no, hire this person anyway, I know they failed but it's fine" I would quit.
Apple Watch began before he became CEO, it wasn't under his direction. He just continued the existing initiative.

Wikipedia's citation that the Watch began in 2011 after Steve's death is incorrect. It began in 2010 under Steve's direction after the acquisition of Bob Messerschmidt's Rare Light, which brought hearth rate monitoring tech to Apple. Messerschmidt was assigned a team by Steve. Don't blindly trust Wikipedia, folks...

As for the others I just meant platform products, none of those have their own OS until homeOS later this year. None of them defined new product categories for Apple - for instance the AirPods were an iteration on EarPods, not a new product category. Apple was already shipping a home speaker product before HomePod, which was an iterative product without its own software platform for developers. M-series is iterative tech, not a new product category. The Motorola ROKR wasn't an Apple product. But sure HomePod is perhaps Tim Apple's one original new product category before Vision if the 2006 Apple Hi-Fi counts as a distinct product category.
Cool! What about paypal integration?
That's what we have in the EU.
> SMT cannot solve cases where it simply cannot know what the length of an array is.

Sure it can. It sets the array length to a non-deterministic unsigned integer, and then finds a counter-example where this array length is invalid. CBMC will also make the array pointer itself non-deterministic if you haven't refined it. So, the pointer could be NULL, could be pointing to invalid memory, etc.

Don't think of values as fixed numbers, but rather as functions shaping a non-deterministic value. The range check made upstream becomes part of this function. The goal of the SMT solver is to find a counter-example that crashes the machine model. If you want a rather leaky abstraction, imagine that by transforming the source code into an SMT equation, it's effectively turning it inside out and transforming it into a logic equation with modulo math.

I agree with you that it would be nice if bounds were included in C arrays. But, we have to work with what we have. Unfortunately, especially in firmware that requires a commercial C compiler, we are stuck with C. In those cases, if we want safer software, we need tooling like this.
In general, if you don't like how a piece of property is being used, you should buy it and then use it the way you see fit.
I find them exceptional for a somewhat narrow range of activities (I love going on a run or hike navigating by my Apple Watch while streaming whatever music I want in the world to my AirPods - no phone, nothing to carry), and only slightly useful for a broad range of other things (notifications, weather, etc - conveniences).
Systime, a UK based DEC var and terminal maker was busted copying VAX boards to on-sell to the SU when DEC couldn't under ITAR restrictions. They sold clones with DEC boards and decided to up the profit by cloning the DEC boards.

Systime was doing fine selling VT100 compatible terminals but went seeking bigger bucks. I think the VAX was a sweetspot for them while it lasted. They went bust in the end.

Their headquarters in Leeds was a futuristic (for the 1980s) building with magstripe guided parts moving robots, a fantastic works cafeteria, the owners helicopter parked outside, and featured in a nuclear missile thriller TV series called "edge of darkness" -I worked at Leeds Uni on a systime funded research project and spent time there. Nice people in the research labs, smart, motivated.
I'm sure they'll license it out eventually, but if it only works in a few metros then it's too early. They need it working in more places for it to be worth it to license probably.
Thank you for this. I instinctively avoided the link due to same expectations of illegible jargon. After I read your comment, I read the court opinion and found it almost too informal!
Google revenues come from ~90% ads. It's an ad company.

The company gives guidance, so the estimates are not pulled out of thin air. Google should know their ad business very well at this point.

People selling after an ad miss is medium/long term thinking. They could be wrong, but was the miss caused by a wider economic slowdown (see UPS earnings) or was it Google specific? Either way, it could be sign of Google slowing down or the economy as whole.
> Is this true? Layoffs make the headlines, but the unemployment rate for software engineers seems to be low, at least in the most recent numbers I can find.

Absolutely true. It's the worst I've seen. I'm looking to fill 5 positions at our place and the scene is just sad. People out of work since feb-june of last year, highly senior engineers unable to land interviews because they want fully remote, leads having their work outsourced, heads unable to find head positions and having to settle for senior roles.

The worst ones hit are the ones that have spent a decade working in ibm/oracle/vmware stacks, now, due to layoffs, entering this new k8s dominated ecosystem, where they're finding their skillset to be undesired, even by big institutions as those have too begun migrating to k8s/cloud.
The referenced article does not mention git-ssb, which was actually used for some time to develop the Patchbay and Decent clients for Secure Scuttlebutt!

https://scuttlebot.io/apis/community/git-ssb.html

Git-ssb went far beyond just sending and receiving patches. You could actually clone, pull, and push a repo between your friends and your friends friends.
Why not just have separate play/pause buttons and highlight the active one?
Got mine done last year (merc e). The 'do not drive' thing seems a bit excessive. There wasn't any of that from Mercedes. Apparently about 30 Merc drivers died from faulty bags, more due to them just not protecting people in the crash than the hand grenade effect.
Where I saw this, households would generally pay for a 2hr guest permit (maximum one per household, or maybe two) that they lend visitors to display in their windshield, and if someone needs to stay longer, then you pay for a temporary two-day guest permit at the parking office. Either way, the permit is used for street parking. Finding a spot can be a minor adventure but is usually doable. You may have to walk a block. If someone is visiting for longer then they probably need to pay for a spot in a parking garage, or just -- fly in and leave the car at home.
Watch v1 was just awful. Those laptops with butterfly keyboards and the first gen Air were also completely broken in their own ways. If Apple manages to keep iterating on this device, they might eventually have a winner

Or maybe it’ll be another homepod
It's going to be a great, sneaky way of installing an ad blocker onto wetware - users will train themselves to not even gaze at anything resembling an ad, lest they look at it long enough for the headset to register it as a click.
same, in england - they fired a 303 and a 5.56 caliber blank round at around 10cm range into an empty soda can, it basically ripped it in two
The digital markets act allows for fines of up to 20% annual turnover for repeat offenders.
Hard disagree

Real income inequality comes from wealthy 0.01% bribing politicians.

Not 0.1% VC giving some money to 10% developers so that we can get some innovations every once and then.

Getting rid of VC money will just slow down innovation, entrenching existing players in their current positions and allowing even more capital to flow into bribing politicians.

Politicians in turn will need to steal even more, through inflation and taxes the really wealthy can avoid, from the middle class.

We'll shrink the middle class even more.
Almost nobody will be able to afford a house.
Homeless will just die.

One step closer to current South America, which I reckon is some 20 years away for the USA and maybe even for Europe.
Waymo seems like it'll go the distance. Clear market leader in the US, and it doesn't seem particularly close, even if it's taken them (and everyone else) longer than expected to start scaling.

Cruise attempted to just start launching before the tech was really finished and it backfired horribly. Tesla is still doing Elon things, looks like the tech is mostly spinning its wheels as they work on yet another hardware revision that'll definitely handle self-driving this time.
I feel like the killer combination here would be a Virtual Desktop-like app for visionOS where the desktop VR passes through as an environment, but full local app layering is still available in the foreground.
Use pylint.

Note: Still need to do a string search for "pylint: disable=protected-access" to find instances of disabled pylint warnings. There are valid reasons/instances for disabling associated protected-access messages.
The above makes me think we're overestimating how much damage to infrastructure and human life is really being caused. As much as I wish you were right, the solutions are nearly free and they are right in front of our faces and being actively selected against by municipalities across the country. I'd love to hear the explanation for that.
Same thing in The Netherlands, it has the same meaning. There was a popular travel blog service named waarbenjij.nu, (meaning whereareyou now)
I disagree with your myopic depressed outlook except for the first part: how do you motivate yourself to take on the insane roller coaster ride of having kids? You don't, and nobody is.

That's why the future is transhuman clones grown in pods by the state.
> Isn't the solution to just shuffle people to more useful projects instead of firing them?

Yes. However how do you find those less useful positions? And identify whether it's the developer who is less productive or the position?

For top management the easiest way is to fire people broadly and assign it all over equally by pushing the decision down the management chain. Medium managers know their teams a tiny bit (but often not much ...) than too management and identify the least troublesome positions.

And then you let them bring up cases to keep their headcount or hiring new.

Works, after a short bump in productivity, if it's just (human) resources and numbers in a sheet. (Similar to other budget cuts, where you give a Mandate to reduce cost by X% everywhere and then see who cries the loudest and who adapts) Of course has impact on trust etc. which has an invisible cost.
The problem with asking "when Judaism started", is that the religion of the Mishnah and Talmud is (very likely) so different from the religion of David and Solomon that they are arguably two different religions, even though one is a descendant of the other.

Possibly, Samaritanism is closer to the religion of the ancient Israelites than contemporary Rabbinic (or even Karaite) Judaism is.