skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Attia's OUTLIVE is massively interesting.

Two key indicators he tracks are grip strength and VO² max. They are the product of (most typically) structured weights and cardio training respectively.

Another key thing he addresses is to actually plan for old age, i.e. to factor in how the body will lose muscle mass/ conditioning as we get older - and set eg strength targets for activities to do later in life (i.e. be able to lift grandson) and work back from there.

In other words, this means that building a solid reserve in younger years and then maintaining as well as possible is the way to go.

(To lift grandson at 85, need to be able to lift a helluva lot more at 50).

Read the book/get his audiobook would be my recommendation; I'm listening to his Audible and finding it kind of life changing.
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024
I wonder why they use "'scope" instead of telescope throughout the headline and article?
My country is currently handing out universal income, which I am vehemently against.

Taking money out of the pockets of taxpayers and handing it over to those too lazy to work, additionally disincentivizing them to work, is one of the worst violations of public fairness of our times.

There is zero control over how the money is spent, and we witnessed many cases of people perceiving it with no right to, universal income harvesting, corruption, and so on.

At least regulate how the money is spent and double, triple check the requests to perceive universal income.
I'd love to see public transit that can go from arbitrary-point to arbitrary-point door to door in the same amount of time as a hailed EV could. I genuinely really would. I've never seen a proposal for such a system, only proposals that are less time-efficient than that.
Huh cool, thank you! I had no idea this existed. And I actually have had a Rift since the start (I was an original Oculus Kickstarter backer so I got one for free). But to be honest I never really used it for productivity as the Rift's resolution was too low anyway. Even with the Quest 2 I didn't think it was high enough to use comfortably. But now with the Quest 3 it might be worth it.

But I'll give it a try, thanks!

And yeah Apple would need to do some changes to macOS to make this work well, but as you say they control it. If they really view this as the future of computing they should really make it work.

The idea of SimulaVR is that it replaces your window manager so they avoid some of these issues by taking direct control. But that's something that only works on Linux.
Actually Android is all about Java, Kotlin and C++, with a bit of Rust on the side.

All languages that have more use cases than being bound to a GUI framework, which is the problem with Dart.
8/11 = 73% not 85%. so should be a lot more comfortable distance than 15cm/5.9 inches.
Paper is not free speech. Writing is. Government can't stop you from writing things down but it can tell you what trees you cannot cut down.

An llm as is is simply a tree. It cannot produce speech by itself, and even if it did modern robotics are not considered citizens (we can deal with that when it comes).
Ask HN: Modern Alternatives for Skype
Are there any alternatives for Skype to do landline calls to foreign countries? Namely to deal with agencies like government that only want to hear you over a phone line.

Skype was good, but I'd rather have an alternative for this specific task that's not a bloated Microsoft spyware with 1000 features I do not need to make a call.
> They definitely are "ruling that even the mega-rich should still have to follow the law" (...)

What are you talking about? That's the foundation of a legal system in a free and open society: equality before the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_before_the_law

> (...) which to some might be interpreted as being controversial and "pushing the limits".

Who are these "some"? And what basis is there to even suggest any sort of discrimination?

This line of insinuation is absurd, and suggests some despair in finding anything to grab onto.
Even OpenAI's plugins are unreliable. They recently removed some capabilities from Data Analyst without a word of warning.
The Pentagon tried to hide that it bought Americans' data without a warrant
I am sorry. I was not aware that USA is now only Alaska and Russia is only Sibera. Should have checked the news.
Yeah, saw the WSJ review with that video, but in all fairness, I think only someone who doesn't cook would think that cooking with this thing on your head might be a good idea.
Yeah that's why I never used the whole desktop either, only if I need to change a setting during VR gaming like the audio output device that doesn't always auto-switch to the Oculus Audio output. I never noticed you could show apps separately like this, cool!
Sadly we'll never know how many of those civilians were killed by Israeli attack helicopters and tanks firing on their own people. Wouldn't surprise me if it was at least half of them. In which case maybe the US can also stop funding Israel and the conflict will soon come to an end as the region finds a new balance.
> In the next 20-25, I would not be surprised if it becomes no more than contact lenses.

I can see the current XR headsets shrinking down to the size of a pair of glasses within a couple decades, but contact lenses would require a giant leap forward in technology.

You'd need displays, electronics, sensors and batteries that can all fit together inside a paper-thin plane, and also, somehow, be invisible. Not saying it will never happen but we are really talking sci-fi tech at this point.
An update on our work to tackle Child Sexual Exploitation on X
Show HN: ListenBrainz Music Neighborhood
Use this arcane technology to find your favourite artist and explore their related artists. Watch the pretty colours. Listen to the music. Race your friends from Napalm Death to Britney Spears. Increase the web size and gasp as the artists jiggle into each other. Or simplify your life by exploring a web size of 0.
if that was a private project at some company, it would still probably be there. In the long run openness always win for reviews. That's what inevitably happens in a world where the knowledge is accessible to anybody. The only way to go against that is pour some tremendous amount of money and the result isn't even guaranteed.
Well, Flutter is primarily for apps that work cross platform, if you use Kotlin then you can only run it on Android (yes, Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose Multiplatform exist but they're even less mature than Flutter).

For JS/TS, you could use React Native but you also wouldn't get the full spread of platforms as RN is primarily for mobile and the web and desktop implementations are based on third-party support, plus the developer experience is inferior to Flutter.

So, if you want to make multiplatform apps, use Flutter, but if you only need to make Android or RN apps, use those respective platform tools.
On top of that, it was AdWords team that kept Dart 1.0 alive, while Flutter made Dart 2.0 happen.

It isn't much beyond Flutter making Dart relevant, other than the folks that decided to rewrite Sass into Dart I guess (I wonder when A RIIR will happen, like most JS tooling nowadays).
I also have a cargo bike I use to get all sorts of things - from a full shopping cart to a large IKEA haul. Kids go in the trailer while the groceries are loaded in the cargo bike.

I live in Parisian suburbs and stores are all less than 10km away, I have never had trouble getting anything.

If I need something larger / heavier (say, cinder blocks and cement) I just rent a truck for two hours and get all the heavy shopping done in the time frame.
But that's what's being sold. And yes there is talks about using it as a lawyer or a prescriber of medicine.

If you want to overextend that much you better be ready to deal with thr regulations. We don't want another Boeing in our hands.
It's a public company, not Musk's piggybank. This is a common fraud of senior management with too much control. The CEO, major shareholders and the board cannot tunnel assets out of a business due to improper relationships and defraud minor shareholders.

Note that board has always been given compensation way out of line with any business ever before and it has been notably spineless through Musk's fraud convictions, impregnation of co-workers, pedo-gate abuse, open racism, drug use, erratic behaviour and that he is clearly absent from the business from the business 80%+ of the time and the product pipeline has been dead for years.

The man already owned a ton of shares which gave him huge upside on success aka "incentive" and said he wasn't leaving so what were the shareholders paying for? The board had a fiduciary duty to negotiate the best deal and instead they gave him what he asked for - a package many orders of magnitude greater than any CEO compensation ever before. What would the no. 2 CEO pick have cost?

No small issue is that we will likely see how temporary these "achievements" are as Tesla will, someday, be priced like a car company and Tesla's books have had red flags over them for a decade.
Many of my friends even went as far as using that as a method to handle their personal finance as students.

Transfer most of the money to the savings account and then when getting declined buying food top up the card account and rely on it instantly being available. Having negative trigger each time going above the pre-planned spending for the month.

Hell, I still do it. I have one card for groceries which gives me a mental picture of how much I have spent on food given what day it is when it gets declined each month.

I would presume this comes from being the generation that grew up only knowing about debit cards. Most got a personal one at the age of 13 or so and never really used cash. Guessing it is even earlier today.

Didn't get a credit card until first time I was planning to rent a car when travelling knowing how much easier it would be.
Anchorage sets a record for the earliest arrival of 100 inches of snow
people carry 20 liters of water buckets on their head so we will be fine
Yes, he delivered a 10x return to those shareholders that approved. If they choose to stay invested now and lose money, that’s all on them. They know everything you do, including your expert “0%” analysis.
The Map Men did a video on the history of internet country codes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD4hxKkqR4E
for those who don't know: FPV = first person view. Used for drone racing and things like that.
Nope.

0.85*0.85 => 0.73
I actually interviewed for a position on this project xD

But the science knowledge on my side was way too lacking and I didn't want to slow things down.
Don't suppose you have links to the work they have been doing towards this?
Still need video output to set up the system and for occasional maintenance. Additionally, I host a media server that needs to transcode videos. The GPU in the APU is perfect for these tasks since it both costs less and draws less power than a discrete card.
Yeah, new things will look weird until culturally appropriated. Two things that seem to differentiate AR/VR stuff from previous tech

1. They are more "worn" than "used"

2. They conceal your face while wearing

So maybe cultural acceptance might take a while...

EDIT: typos
> This is a story about entrepreneurship, not a recognition of manual skill, or an expose of underpaid academics.

It can be all three. A story doesn't need to be about just one thing.
This is what bothers me the most with the car-centric mindset so many people have. You have to choose in-between being car free in a very dense area or car dependent in a rural area. In reality small towns can be just compact enough to allow many small businesses to thrive, as it's the case in other developed countries. Malls are the main source of problems...
> Dart has a first-class mobile story, unlike Rust + Go

Not really, the Android team doesn't even list it as supported language, a team that belongs to the same employeer.

The same team not only lists Rust, it has official documentation on the Android site for OEMs, on how to use Rust.
Well, yeah. In a post scarcity society with UBI I don't care how much AI is used as long as I have options. As it is, the economy is on the fall and everything is becoming more expensive.

How am I supposed to sympathize with technology that is so far aimed at replacing jobs and having the robber barons on top gain even more money? They've long since burned their goodwill so those benefits aren't coming back to the working (or former working) class.
It is mentioned in the glibc bug tracker entry as a replacement to the polling. systemd didn't use it because they thought it would be impossible for a library using to be dlclose'd as there is no way to unregister the callback. But apparently glibc has (undocumented) magic under the hood to take care of it.
Didn't hear about the @ sign that sounds indeed very useful. Also, you're examples agree with my experience. The important thing is to make the tasks as small as possible while still being useful being able to quickly combine gpts with @ makes that much much easier.
>this is all based off estimates and extrapolations

This is not exactly rocket science. The supply is largely fixed (a few thousand a year), and the pending inventory is ~1M (based on published data). Barring legislative change, the extrapolation, even if off by several factors, moves the dates in the range of years or decades. There is no meaningful difference once you are past a few decades. At that point, the worker is at the end of the career and unless (s)he gets residency through some other path, the original work path is moot.

>wait times of between about 8 and 12 years since 2014

This is not a fixed delta. It was close to 10 years for someone in 2010; it's not 10 years if you file today - it is several decades. Demand has vastly outpaced supply.
We just dug a pit. it needs to be deeper than you think though (or well drained) or you get wet feet in the winter!
Low App Prices Are Preemptive Excuses
In what ways is the architecture similar? As far as I can tell, the only similarity to Bitcoin is that it is a "permissionless" protocol. Any relay can participate in Nostr, just like any node can participate in Bitcoin.
I think that Itanium had zero impact on anything (besides draining Intel for money) due to high cost and low performance.

It could not run x86 apps faster than x86 cpus, so it didn't compete in the MS Windows world. Itanium was a headache for compiler writers as it was very difficult to optimize for, so it was difficult to get good performance out of Itanium and difficult to emulate x86.

Itanium was introduced after the dot-com crash, so the marked was flooded with cheap slightly used SPARC systems, putting even more pressure on price.

This is unlike when Apple introduced Macs with PowerPC cpus: they had much higher performance than the 68040 cpu they replaced. PowerPC was price competetive and easy to write optimizing compilers for.
Right in your own quote, options were excluded so this doesn’t alter that.
There's no USB-C port on the device.
Separation of Concerns in Cross-Compilation
You might find the following two reddit threads enlightening, as they talk about Flutter's verbosity:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/s/kKVzkvpnlj

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/s/RyBQaLBeuS

Tldr, it's a different philosophy between Flutter and Swift, of explicit being more useful that implicit, and of performance optimizations that can be made due to that. The second thread has the tech lead of Flutter responding to the claims.
What I worry about with Intel is that they have gotten too much into politics; relying on CHIPS act and other subsidies, encouraging sanctions on Chinese competitors while relying on full access to the Chinese market for sales.

It is not a good long term strategy: The winds of politics may change, politicians may set more terms (labour and environment), foreign market access may become politicized too (US politicians will have to sell chips like they sell airplanes on foreign trips).

So Intel will end up like the old US car makers or Boeing - no longer driven by technological innovation but instead by its relationship to Washington.
Some late thoughts on this (I've been AFK for a few days):

1. xkcd 386: Someone is wrong on the Internet: <https://xkcd.com/386/>

2. Woozle's Epistemic Paradox: as epistemic systems become more prominently and widely used, they also become more attractive targets to those who would choose to manipulate them. See: <https://web.archive.org/web/20230606193813/https://old.reddi...>

3. More generally, all informational channels become battlegrounds, as noted by von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, numerous evolutionary biologists, and others. I've been slowly making my way through Jeremy Campbell's The Liar's Tale which is a big-picture look at this.

4. HN really isn't optimised around truth but conversation, and more specifically sustainable conversation, grounded in intellectual curiosity. There are numerous topics on which HN really is unable to have meaningful discussion (perennial ethnic conflicts are amongst these, as are other political hot topics), and its general tone-policing and penalisation of high-tension topics tends strongly to a status quo bias. (I've criticised HN for this often, despite an increasing awareness and appreciation of why those rules exist, see e.g., thread here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39023516>.)

5. Reporting blatant trolling and suspect motivations to HN mods does often work. Email to hn@ycombinator.com and link directly to the offending content and/or user, with a clear but succinct description of the problem.

6. Voting (up or down) and flagging also have their place. For sufficiently contentious threads this may well lead to something of a high-attrition zone, but often the really egregious crud does sink to the bottom. I find that higher-rated comments tend to be more anodyne than insightful, though occasionally truth does out.

7. I've found that rather than direct engagement, either supporting a counterthread, or writing your own well-reasoned and well-supported counter-thread, is often suprisingly effective. Remember that yours is always the last comment when you write it, though a thread may well have additional life. Sometimes my late efforts prove far more successful than I'd expected, and often I'll see that others have succeeded where I've either failed or failed to try. And again, supporting others' salient and productive engagement even where you don't have time or energy to contribute is highly underappreciated.

8. You don't have to attend every fight you're invited to.

9. Truth is not a popularity contest. Voting systems ultimately don't select for truth or importance, and expecting that from sites such as HN or Reddit will prove disappointing.

10. The meaningful audience is typically not who you're responding to directly, but the overwhelmingly silent majority reading rather than contributing to discussion.
That's great when it works. But it often does not work with the kind of people who fail to do prep work outside of meetings. Playing chicken with them over who will fail to get things done the longest before calling a meeting to force the issue is no fun.
How much is that elite independent of Xi? A relatively independent elite is probably a more stable system. But a completely subservient elite to the fearless leader is however much more dangerous.
Those screens don't show 3D movies though.
Isn't the current GPU-based stack which drives the progress of AI an early stage architecture which will become sub-optimal and obsolete in a longer term?

Having separate processors with separate memory and separate software stack to do matrix operations works, but it would be much more convenient and productive to have a system with one RAM and CPUs that can efficiently do matrix operations and would not require the programmer to delegate these operations to a separate stack. Event the name 'Graphics Processing Unit' suggest that the current approach for AI is rather hacky.

Because of this, in a long run there can an opportunity for Intel and other CPU manufacturers to regain the lucrative market from NVIDIA.
Wtf do you mean "suddenly"? The lawsuit was filed almost immediately after the pay package was approved.

Also wtf do you mean everyone believed? The company's own plan has then easily hitting like 80% of the goals in just two years. We're they lying about that? Hell, maybe that's just as bad or worse.
It's not just 32 vs. 64 bit. There are many other reasons that require separation. Stability, performance, different dependencies from the IDE process, ...
Not turbulence, air density. Oxygen molecules, dust/pollution, weather.... all of that attenuates light and RF.
Emmanuel Katto is also defined by his sincere dedication to his family and his desire to make a meaningful impact on the world. This commitment has led him to establish a Foundation dedicated to serving underprivileged communities in Uganda and Kenya. The Emka Foundation embodies his philanthropic values and manages most of his charitable endeavors.
Re 1. It would but it has a fatal flaw for this use case - only you see the content, so it only works when solo watching. In the review they note that the experience is “lonely”, even if you and your spouse both had Vision Pro you would still watch content separately as there is no way (at least right now) to sync your experience. This most probably will be addressed in a software update, but the first point still stands - you will need to buy as many headsets as you have people in your house that want to watch content together.
L1 orbit is unstable. A "thing" put there would need fuel just to stay in place even if no other forces act upon it.

Arguably, a "smart" adjustable sail could use the solar light&wind to stay in place just a little bit closer to the sun, in front of the actual L1 point, where it has a tendency to fall to the sun, but the solar wind pushes it back.
Video game market already shows this future. Marketplaces become flooded with titles, developers spend more time marketing than making art. They get out gunned by the AAA studios and the remainders fight for scraps, with maybe 1-2 indie titles a year becoming breakout hits, and a dozen (out of thousands of titles) maybe getting a decent cult following. Success is controlled by algorithms and you need to minmax your SEO to even be noticed.

It's not a future that benefits small entrepreneurs. And I think the last thing Music needs is even more artists putting out more generated much into the store.
Baidu Apollo: open-source autonomous car infrastructure
> You can query databases, trigger events and handle the results smartly.

A few posts in this discussion are pointing out the fact that these custom GPTs are unusable and unreliable.

It's fair to talk about potential, but it's hard to accuse others of failing to see the value when you're not addressing the complains that those who assessed the value are pointing out that instead they are unusale.
Welding is incredibly important in modern construction. All steel-framed buildings are held together by welding pretty much. Not surprisingly it is quite highly paid (at least in my country).
This only works with two major assumptions, neither of which is true for the VisionPro:

1. The receiving side has to have at least as much rendering power as the original side, since it will be the one actually having to render things on screen. This is always going to be the opposite case with any kind of glasses, where you'll always want to put as little compute as possible for weight and warmth reasons.

2. Each application actually has to send draw instructions instead of displaying photos or directly taking on control of the graphics hardware themselves. No or very few modern applications work like this for any significant part of their UI.
I don't see the strong alternative there.
For what it's worth, I have found this source [0]: "The deal with a US firm called DotTV effectively trebled Tuvalu's national income."

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/10/business....