skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m surprised Apple is shipping Personas.

They do make it clear that it's in Beta so they know there is work to do.

But if you're having a Zoom meeting with a divorce lawyer or negotiating an M&A a Memoji is the last thing you want.
I don't wish to imply any insult to the reviewer but the Persona image seemed fairly well aligned with how she looked when she did the scan. The poor lighting may have contributed to her slightly pallid colouring in the Persona.

Presumably the main concern is the uncanny not-very-lifelike nature that's putting people off and the rest is self-consciousness. Maybe they need longer scanning to build a more accurate facial movement model?

I still find it very odd when the eyes the device displays to others have such a raised position compared to the true eye position. If I had one, I would rather something static went there or nothing, and maybe overlay that with a gaze direction indicator "spot" instead of faux eyes.
We should bear in mind that at the time it launched many early adopters were on the fence and kept a second phone around (most people around me did until basically the iPhone 4). We look back at it as a fun area, but it was in part because we accepted it was flawed and limited.

When trying to use the iPhone seriously, at some point it wouldn't receive calls anymore (just silently crash the deamon receiving it, you'd never know if not told by the caller afterwards), drop active calls when battery was too low (single digit), call quality could be horrible, stuff would crash from time to time.

Memory would leak like a sueve from everywhere so rebooting the phone every now and then was good hygiene. It's only after the 3GS that it stabilized, otherwise antennagate would have been just another tuesday IMO.

It was still a stellar device, but not a fully reliable device in any way shape or form.
I get most of my grocery shopping delivered, or I go to the supermarket in my cargo bike, dump it all in the front, and ride home. You really don't need a car for this stuff at all.
Climate change is causing a pothole plague. Are robots the solution?
And before that the iPod. CmdrTaco wrote: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." Couple of years later the Nomad was gone.
First iPod Touch was even worse: It had all of the limitations of the iPhone, plus it additionally lacked cellular connectivity, messaging, voice, Bluetooth, GPS, speaker, Bluetooth, and camera.
> I'm assuming it requires some sort of thousand-dollar subscription to an exploitative publishing house?

Assuming you are in the US, all case law is public domain (although documents used in cases aren't)

https://guides.loc.gov/case-law/databases-online-resources
Plan to Restore Giza Pyramid Draws Anger and Mockery from Archaeologists
Google does that "change in useful lives" shit constantly.
> she asked him to send out a dunning letter

Honestly, I think that about 1/3 of the value I get from my lawyer is the power of his letterhead.

The rest is explaining contracts to me, explaining risks and exposures of things I'm planning to do or that have been done to me, educating me about aspects of law I need to know on a daily basis, and such.

A tiny percentage is helping with large things like selling my business, negotiating major contracts, defending me against legal attacks, and that sort of thing.
Use the touted eye tracking feature and compress that particular applications stream inversely to how much the user is focusing on it within the Vision Pro.
Agile scales as poorly as does general efficiency of the development team within the same project
> Well I was hoping for something more scientific.

What is more scientific than testing the hypothesis yourself? That's science; that's its essential joy and spirit and nature.

Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead,
nor feed on the spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

Someone else doing it is just reading.

:)
If I were to guess, I'd say that this estimate is including hardware, cloud resources, software licenses, benefits, stock options, and probably more that I can't think of in addition to salary, but I too would like a more detailed explanation on how they came by that number.
Yeah but the Quest 3 doesn't have an Apple logo on it.
I'm reading this thread for only one purpose, which is to find the Joni Mitchell reference. Thank you.
$$$, more $$$. With $$$ you can hire the best of the best and as many GPUs as you wish.

Man I wish I could go back to the 70s when I wake up tomorrow. I'm willing to trade everything for that. Nowadays there is nothing like PCs of that era. Imagine you could go back and start working on the PCs and create programs for them!
Haha, this is both informative and deadpan. Thanks. :)
Money could be spent to aquire larger amounts of land on outskirts of cities ti create a larger park or forrested area.
The os was simple, it played music, that's it?
This is a severely limited and pedantic example. Generally, most algorithms don't operate like that and even so, their "creativity" was limited to highly technical areas of development.
Reinventing the eel: first lab-grown eel meat revealed
Taking the numbers from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192...

- Diesel has a peak efficiency of 40% but an average efficiency of 20-25% (depending on the type of driving)

- Gasoline has a peak of 35% and an average of 16%–20%

- Battery has a peak of 85% and an average of 80%
Is my passport information really that precious? It doesn’t contain much that isn’t on my birth certificate, apart from my ugly mug. And quite literally anyone can get an officially certified copy of my birth certificate, because that’s a matter of public record.
Impressive looking development board. It's beautiful even.

But a feature rich integrated development environment would be better. Especially if it, both a hardware accommodating and software accommodating development environment, operates on more than just something like the toy ARM Thumb instruction set and its ARM based microcontrollers.

After all, you don't need an architecture like ARM or even x86 to do some simple things that should be as accessible as alternating current mains electricity or sunlight from the Sun.

Computing is cheap, but only because it's easy to clear the low bar for having a Turing machine. Turing machines even occur naturally. Conway's Game of Life is Turing complete and subsequently you can build a computing machine with it. No ARM or x86 emulation or JTAG-ing necessary. Here, it's unnecessary to even summon a UART to USB adapter.

So, although computing is cheap, it's being locked behind some proprietary bars right now. I'm just looking for the keys to free some computers. Particularly I wanna free very teeny sized computers like microcontrollers.
rqlite: Now with Scheduled SQLite VACUUMs and JSONB Support
Sales: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39184136
The first step of any scientific study is a lit review, so reading is still science. :)
From your link:

Generally, one of the main problems with geopolymer binder is its poor workability: Alkali-activated fly ash has a much greater plastic viscosity than ordinary Portland cement[31] and is prone to fast setting. In a matter of minutes, it can produce “highly viscous, unmanageable concrete mixtures”.[32]

These problems were faced with Portland cement as well, leading to the development of mix designs and admixtures that increase workability; to a limited extent, those techniques can be applied to geopolymer binder.
Those Personas^TM are REALLY creepy.
I got the total employees for the past few years for a comparison:

2019: 118,899

2020: 135,301

2021: 156,500

2022: 190,234

2023: 182,502

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/numb...
Even as a receiver of checks, I don't care. It's easier to deposit than cash or PayPal. Zelle is nicer, but if I can't wait three days for the money, I already messed up in my financial management.
I once heard that a good attorney figures out how to do what you want to do, a poor one tells you what you can't do.
AirPods weren't a new product category, they were an iteration of the Apple EarPods which looked the same, had the same remote features, etc.
Maybe that’s okay though? It’s not like every team is supposed to exist forever. You could argue it’s ineffective or inefficient at this, perhaps.
This might depend on where you are. In my area, it's unusual to have to provide a retainer at all unless you're doing something big or the lawyer suspects you might have trouble paying your bill later.
Is (string & {}) semantically intuitive or is it kind of a hack? I don’t understand what it’s supposed to mean.
Companies aren't paying ransoms like they used to
The number of low-quality responses that basically go "you're misanthropic, you're depressed, you're nihilistic" (exact adjectives) on HN is gobsmacking to me. It is bonkers that this topic brings out those horrible, shallow emotions even in a (relatively speaking) shrewd and open-minded place like this. It really is like people's brains are short-circuited by even the vaguest "negative" (in the broadest possible sense of the word) opinion on having children, even if that opinion is quite tame and curiosity-minded, and isn't even in the same universe as something like an assertion that you, the reader, shouldn't have children.
Or Valve's Proton[0], a tool for playing Windows games on Linux.

[0]https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
A really big looming question is what will happen to all the .tv domains, which provide 95% of Tuvalu's GDP (similar to how .ai is for Anguilla). The island is getting warn away by rougher seas and the ocean level is rising thanks to climate change.

What happens when the island no longer exists? Does the country still exist? Should the .tv domain still exist?

When Yugoslavia broke up they shut down its TLD, but this would be .... different?
Thanks for letting us know. Technically it's not Apache Proton. The link is the Proton component in Apache Qpid. Maybe we should setup a list for awesome Proton(s)
A few people had it in Japan connected to docomo as a GSM phone. I suppose there were workarounds for other carriers as well.

I don't know how they did it, but "life finds a way" ?
> Windows remain anchored in place in the world around you. Set up a few windows, then stand up and walk away, and when you come back, those windows are exactly where you left them.

I wonder what the limits of that are. Presumably this works across sessions (meaning when you take off the AVP in between). Are the windows still there when you spend a weekend elsewhere? After a longer vacation? Are the windows still there in your vacation home when you return to it next year?

GPS presumably isn’t precise enough to “remember” specific walls in a house (if the AVP even has GPS). So how does this work?
Memojis work. They not be a style you like, I’m meh, but they work.

This seems alpha. I’m sure it’s a hard problem but I feel like waiting a bit longer would have done them a better service.
Marzipano – open-source 360° media viewer for the modern web
in modern day, at least stories I heard, criminals will be placed in temp holding sell (worst places), once max time in temp jail is expiring (legally allowed), they just add new charges, so effectively, you will be held in worst jail cell possible for weeks if not months, this is how I understood from stories of multiple life time criminals with 10+ years in jail time served.
A long time ago, I got a nastygram from Google, saying one of my domain names infringed on their trademark.

Fortunately, I didn't need the domain, since I didn't want this headache or expense. (The domain name was a pun on "Orkut", intended for a site critiquing the emerging ridiculous influencer behavior, and I'd guess it was protected speech, but I never got around to making the site.)

But the experience didn't seem very Googley to me, so I initiated a domain name transfer to the Stanford email address of one of their founders, then told the nastygram people, so maybe they could have a talk about "Don't Be Evil".
Stock prices are always pricing in the future, not the current.
Why aren’t they noticing output instead?
Uniform n is what drives a lot of the interesting properties here. Other distributions can behave differently. For example if balls were inserted into the urn with their colors determined independently by coin flips, then instead of n being uniform it would be binomial. In that case, observing the color of a previously drawn ball would tell you nothing about the next one.
Any podcast recommends?
According to the original poster on Twitter:

"One cool thing is that this probability doesn’t change if you replace 100 in the statement of the problem with some other number (as long as it’s at least 2), as these arguments show."

Source: https://x.com/littmath/status/1752167731682492522?s=46
And yet in practice most X traffic these days is bitmaps.
Very few people these days use checks, FWIW, and all checks are electronically checked (and instantly cleared) at the local store. You can still forge a check, but the account that backs it has to have funds and you'll also need to forge an ID.
Singular data point, but I don't think I've ever seen a company that I would take seriously use .xyz.
Wasn't his work based on Lilienthal's though?

edit:

"Chanute was too old to fly, so he partnered with younger experimenters, including Augustus M. Herring and William Avery. In 1896, Chanute, Herring, and Avery tested a design based on the work of German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, and of hang gliders of their own design. "

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Chanute

Looks like yes.
Nothing. This is an attempt to cash out before the RISC-V stuff makes them irrelevant.

It has been clear for years that Broadcom no longer cares about RPI. Without that subsidy, RPi is dead.
It did, but finding your song wasn't easy when you had 1000s on the device.

I would say the main function of an iPod OS is finding what you want to play, not actually playing it.
Unmaintained asphalt eventually reverts to gravel. No need to haul anything away.

Were I replacing parking lots, I'd prioritize any abandoned / under utilized lots. Just start mulching and planting.

Plant willows and maples to break up the surface. Or maybe mechanically break things up, if the best-available-science supports doing so, if you're impatient.

Bonus Points: Convert planters, meridians, etc into P-Patch style community gardens. People love to garden. In my city, the wait list to join a P-Patch is years long.
Not least, for the delightful characterization of that versatile word, "dynamic"!
It's clearly The Singularity.
From an "I own this land and want to make the most money off of it" standpoint that makes sense.

From an "I live here and want my community to be enjoyable and beautiful" standpoint it makes less sense.
They may be making a distinction between hard and difficult work.

Farming is hard work, as you noted. But most physically able people are capable of it.

Designing a rocket to put a man on the moon is difficult and a much smaller percentage is capable of that.
MCAS uses trim rather than elevator? That seems insane, though I suppose trim has more authority than elevator...but yeah...in the time it takes for the pilot to notice the trim has moved itself to some insane level, they've been nose down for so long that they couldn't possibly recover.
There may be. I recall a documentary where they were studying homing pigeons. Placing magnets on the pigeons would throw off their navigation, but only on a cloudy day, suggesting that any magnetic navigation they have is redundant with solar navigation.
Having friends in the board is fine. Using it for excessive compensation is not. The court argued that Elon effectively has a full control on the board and they failed to prove whether the package is fair, hence Elon effectively set the package himself. I don't know the technical details on the "fairness" so won't talk about this though.
Theres a big difference between not responding and proactively signing something.
Is the DOD buying these? I can see soldiers using these as enhanced night vision goggles. No need to look at a map with a flashlight or bring a computer.
I think they missed an opportunity by not making the surface of the battery a trackpad. I imagine that would be an added convenience for some use cases.
Using, eg. C, it's fairly simple to have minimal structure: you can have every .h and .c file in the top-level project directory if you want (and that used to be common in the 80s). Now, you'd normally have at least a "src", and maybe a separate "include" hierarchy, and maybe split things up further for different modules.

Java, OTOH, enforces a lot of directory structure. It's a bit of a nightmare to use without an IDE or a fuzzy-find for that reason.

A fuzzy-find system could be more-or-less viewed as a virtual filesystem?
If you commit two different crimes in the same jurisdiction you can get sentenced by the same judge twice. Imagine that. Being rich doesn't invalidate this concept...
Bugginess was to me the main criticism.

Albeit not from the computer nerds who knew what they were getting, but the general public who thought they were buying a phone on par with the Motorola, Nokia or Panasonic phones in term of reliability.
In practice, in my part of the US, it's incredibly rare for someone to write a check.
Oh, I'm sorry; perhaps I've gone on too many tangents. The original comment said something about it being "wild" that the vector operations perform bounds checks, and I explained why that's the most sensible thing to do in Java (indeed, we currently offer no standard API for any on- or off-heap operation without bounds checks; this isn't unique to vectors), and added that we're considering adding a bounds-checks-free MemorySegment for off-heap access that would turn them off (that would, of course, require opt-in because it would be unsafe, just as the "universal" MS you mentioned requires opt-in as it, too, is unsafe [1]).

Is there anything else you wanted to know and I didn't answer?

[1]: You may ask, why that universal MS doesn't disable bounds checking, and the answer is that it complicates the implementation, but a specialised MS could do it.
Is Your CTO Using a Vector Database?
I don't have a night vision system so haven't tried that on Markarian's chain. What is much easier for naked eye vision is the Andromeda galaxy, which is much closer. It is actually about 6 times the visual size of a full moon in the sky, though with naked eye in a dark enough place you can barely see the fuzzy blob of a core with off-center vision. You can see the core more clearly with binoculars. However it will look small because you are only looking at the core. The magnificant spiral arms are what extend around that core 6 times the size of a moon. You can easily see the spiral structure with a consumer full frame camera. A star tracker will produce a crystal clear image of it, but without a tracker, a short exposure and high ISO can still show its existence. Even a 50mm or 100mm lens is enough to make it out. At 500mm it will fill the whole frame almost corner-to-corner. It's huge.

Keep in mind galaxies are extremely low density on average. So even though Andromeda has about 1 trillion stars, it's still mostly vacuum with lightyears of distance between adjacent stars inside it. So it appears much, much, much dimmer than the individual stars in the sky from our own galaxy.
It really is location dependent. I find that Apple Maps has much better driving directions and a better UI that doesn't get in the way. Google Maps on the other hand typically has much more up-to-date information on businesses and restaurants. I am in the habit of using both if I am trying to find an unfamiliar business address.
It's quite possible for the engineers to work really hard in ways that even directly harm the company, either directly, or by increasing the political costs of making a better decision.

My favorite here is Bridgewater and their HR/Evaluation/Alignment system. There's books written about it. Developing it and running it took a high percentage of workers and contractors. Its implementation had all kinds of negative effects on everyone else, including the people doing the actual investment. But it took a pandemic, and the CEO being sidelined, for the whole thing to be basically thrown away.
The problem is that uninitialized memory really is subtle.
After initializing all members of a struct, the padding bytes of that struct are still uninitialized. Yet, it is valid to memcpy the whole struct somewhere else; even with a hand-written char*-based copying loop. (and indeed, this is a good reason for reading uninitialized memory!)
So reading uninitialized memory is not always undefined behavior; just most of the time.

The C standard text is barely sufficient for the purposes of compilers, but wholly insufficient for what a model checker would need to know.
> What is more scientific than testing the hypothesis yourself?

Professionals doing it? Who know how to do it properly better than laymen?
There are already more people who want an updated VR Netflix client than there are looking forward to a Netflix VR game.
Game Freak is the Pokemon's developer, not Nintendo
> The eye tracking driven input method which was seen as holy grail turns out to be annoying after a while because people don't naturally always look at what they want to click on.

I wrote a long comment [1] months ago when the Vision was first announced expressing my skepticism about the use of eye tracking based on my person experience with the tech. At the end I said, "maybe I'm wrong." Turns out I wasn't.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36220097
What was stopping someone from cutting and pasting the celebrity heads on the hardest-core, most shocking porno imaginable? I don't see the difference, but now you add "in space" or "as quaternions" to a prompt, potentially creating something accidentally great.
That's not how Apple advertises iPad Pro.
It's not just energy and CO2. Roads and spread out human development disrupts ecosystems and natural water flows. They result in the death of species, plants, animals, insects. Mining the material required to build cars and infrastructure also has significant ecological impact.

Please note that less than 18% (likely around 10%) of the world's population own cars [1]. 5-10x the number of the current cars in the world, even if they are EVs, will have more than a 5-10x impact on the environment since ecological systems are non-linear in nature.

[1] https://www.motorbiscuit.com/number-car-owners-world-less-th...
Is there a datasheet for these Soviet PDP-11 chips? I mean assuming I want to make something new with it now..
You’re taking it way too literally. The joke is that all this fancy-pants cryptography is meaningless when the nerds that employ it will mess their britches at the first whiff of real consequence.
I'm curious if regularly firing these cannons on a schedule actually works to scare the geese away. When reading about the accident of Ural Airlines Flight 178 [1], the airport had air cannons for scaring off birds, but they fired them on a regular schedule instead of in response to particular flocks, and the local birds just got used to it. I don't know if the circumstances are similar enough for that to apply with these farms and birds, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_Airlines_Flight_178. There's a good article about the accident at https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/russias-potemkin-miracle....
Spigen has already announced a case for $99. I expect there will be more in the weeks to come.