skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be a common argument every time society gets interrupted by technology, especially when the technology advancement has moral grey areas (and they always do).

It turns out there is an entire line of research that parallels the “technology adoption” ethos we all know called, appropriately enough, “Technology Rejection.”

> A fundamental question is whether the field of technology rejection requires investigation at all, considering the wealth of research available in technology adoption. Are they distinct phenomena? Or is knowledge on technology rejection merely a by-product and subset of knowledge on technology adoption?

> “Rejection of technology” may be expressed as a phenomenon wherein a society, ranging from individual users, community groups, through states (nations), capable of availing the service of a particular technology, deliberately chooses to refrain from its use, in full or part. Consequently, some technologies get increasingly used while the use of others tends to ebb. Conventionally, the debate surrounding the divide between technological “haves” and “have nots” has simply quarantined the latter as individual deficits (Selwyn, 2003), typically of a financial nature. However, a consensus is recently emerging within the arena of sociology of technology that conceptualizing nonusers of technology as purely technology “have nots” is too crude an analysis (Selwyn, 2003). As Bauer (1995) highlights, nonuse or resistance to technology has largely been treated with a negative connotation, placing the nonusers at fault. Bruland (1995) states that such resistance to technology is by no means irrational or conservative. Rejecters must thus be dealt with as deliberate rational nonusers.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2158244013485248?ic...

The field of research that is technological rejection is fascinating. That paper lays out rejection at the individual, group and national level as the basis for study, with the original poster’s article being a prime example of individual technology rejection, including the reasons for doing so, and it’s posting to the Internet and hacker news actually an interesting attempt to “find the community” of people who feel similarly.

We’ve seen this before with radio, television and especially the Internet. There were so many people who out-and-out rejected the need for the Internet when it was coming of age in the 90s, and many who still do even as the world has moved on. The joke about the boss who printed every email wasn’t a joke: I knew several of them and still know one who does this very thing.

So what causes rejection of technology and is this a distinct field of research we should be looking at?

Aside: further reading and an example worth looking at.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_some_people_reject_new...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/19/life-w...
Everyone reacts differently to VR sickness, but there are a few things you could try.

First of all, you should always stop the moment you feel any motion sickness. You more you try to power through, the worse it gets.

Don’t do anything with artificial locomotion. (Where your VR movement does not match up to your real life movement.) Many games have teleport options and snap turning instead of smooth. There are also some great roomscale games such as Superhot, elevent table tennis or Walkabout mini golf. You will eventually acclimate and be able to do smooth locomotion.

Some games have framerate options, put it to 90 or 120hz

Set up a fan and have it blow on you.

For me, I took about a month to acclimate, but after that can you play any kind of game and not get sick.

I have heard reports that Vision Pro also causes motion sickness for new VR users.
I too select the lines that I read. However, I never select the entire page, unless I intend to copy it.
It has been confirmed by the Mistral CEO:

> To quickly start working with a few selected customers, we retrained this model from Llama 2 the minute we got access to our entire cluster — the pretraining finished on the day of Mistral 7B release.
Thank you to everyone for your support!
Exactly. Additionally, a major symptom of Meniere’s is a tinnitus, something the OP had issues with.

It's funny that someone would call pseudoscience without doing a lick of research, which is... well, not very scientific ;)
>Do they see it some other way? As exploitation? But you are the one who put the content out there! If you didn't want others to see and use and learn from your content,

The point is that "others" learning from things is fine. The problem starts when it's a machine acting on behalf of a faceless mega-corporation. It's like the tragedy of the commons, except instead of originating from an invisible mass of takers, it mostly comes from a small amount of known actors like Microsoft and Google. No shit that people will rally against those.

> First time I've heard this one. Who doesn't want the tools to improve?

The reasoning is also given: improving machine learning has an environmental cost. It's also used to deskill jobs (which I don't think is a great argument, although it's not implausible for inequality to massively increase due to deployment of ML). The author also says AI is used to muddy public discourse, which is an understandable fear given that text generation can be used to fake e.g. some grassroots movement.
Cotton is a dumbfuck demagogue. All of the GOP senators are. They're looking for Fox News hits; they don't care about the actual issues in a hearing like this.
That's a bold claim. In order for that to be true there would have to be some fundamental limitation preventing AI from ever thinking on the level of a human.
The clinicians themselves can be pretty dreadful. The uses being explored are to give coaching to them ahead of delivering news to help boost empathy and increase understanding. “It looks like you had a subdural hematoma cause a status epilepticus seizure” vs “that fall you took broke some blood vessels in your head which caused a longer seizure than we like to see”.
The strange case of origami Yoda

Batman vs. Prince of space sushi vampires

Darth Paper Strikes Back + Vampire
I like this dev
Previously

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11077222

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9140249

and other instances without comments.
Sure, they can search it live but you have to assess if they understand what they found. Usually, if they really know their stuff, whatever they find is just gently pushing their working memory to connect the dots and give a decent answer. Otherwise it's pretty easy to ask a follow up question and see a candidate struggle.

It's like in college when you're allowed to take textbooks to an exam. You can bet the professor spent more time crafting questions that you can't answer blindly.

That being said, I think both types of questions have their place in an interview process. You can start with the no searching allowed questions in the beginning to assess real basic knowledge and, once you determine the candidate has some knowledge, you start probing more to see if they can connect the dots, maybe it's architecture decisions and their consequences, maybe it's an unexpected requirement and how they would react, etc.
My favorite: https://cdn.sanity.io/images/vgvol637/production/4b1d3f9eddb...
When I was 11 I took a live assessment to get into the gifted program at school. I thought I didn't do very well because about 20% of the questions I answered "I don't know".

At the end the assessor told me that I passed specifically because I said "I don't know". They purposely put questions on the test they didn't expect you to answer to see what you do when faced with an unanswerable question.

I've used that in my own life since -- I much prefer working with (and have a much more positive view of) people who are willing to say "I don't know".
> homo matrixens

I think that's more of Meta's approach. Apple seems to be aiming for something a bit more like Dennou Coil, where the virtual coexists with real things rather than being an either/or.
Meanwhile, fly.io is not open source. Some of their software is, but not all of it. Same likely holds for the SaaS you're thinking of starting.
Excellent work. Reminded me of the description in Neal Stephenson's REAMDE about the world generation code that forms the basis of the game:

```
And so, basically as a protest action —almost like an act of civil disobedience against the entire video-game industry — Pluto had put up a website showing off the results of some algorithms that he had coded up for generating imaginary landforms that were up to his standards of realism. Which meant that every nuance of the terrain encoded a 4.5-billion-year simulated history of plate tectonics, atmospheric chemistry, biogenic effects, and erosion.
```
You can't only ask those questions, because some people are extremely good at bullshitting.

I always start interviews by asking them to explain their own projects. However, sometimes I'll find someone who's great at explaining projects they supposedly worked on in great detail, but then when given a simple coding problem they can't even write a for loop in their own top language.
What struck me is the "pain in the ass" part. Normally, when interacting with hardware or software UI, where you look is relatively decoupled from where or when you press or click or tap. With the Vision Pro UI, you necessarily have to focus on the exact spot you want to actuate at the precise moment you pinch your fingers, for every single action. While seemingly intuitive at first glance, this kind of eye-hand synchronization is actually rather unnatural. I can imagine that it will remain tedious to some degree, and will prove to not be a very convenient interaction method in the long run.
> Interviewing as a process sucks enough as it is.

It truly does, and it sucks just as much for the employer as for the applicants. That's why I suspect that more interviews will be required to be in person: if it's too easy for someone to cheat, that makes everything suck even more for the employer and the employer is likely to adjust the process to minimize that suckage.

> Technical interviews are lame and filter for people that are good at technical interviews, not people that are good at the job.

Not automatically, but yes, bad technical interviews filter for people who are good at technical interviews. And too many interviews (technical or otherwise) are bad.
Can anyone comment on the practical use of a model like this versus traditional libraries for OCR?

I’m specifically interested in processing smartphone photos of pages from an out of print book.
You probably should because this is a person demonstrating that they can and will hack metrics rather than consider what you're proxying.
Gnuplotlib: A gnuplot-based plotting backend for NumPy
Google has fallen so far. Both Inception and Mobilenet were released openly and changed the entire AI world.

Nowadays we just get blog posts about results that were supposedly achieved, an accompanying paper that can’t be reproduced (because of Google’s magical “private datasets”), and some screencaps of a cool application of the tech that is virtually guaranteed to never make it to product.
Look cool. What can you get out of this kind of visual analysis?
Fight For Freelancers USA – professionals fighting to remain our own bosses
Early to the AI hype, Sega was truly ahead of current times.
Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cell
Stop KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act)
Check your menu bar - it added a status menu for me on the right.
^space is the hotkey.
Wine + water = holy water
I am so glad his website is still up and running.
Really well done, this is so fun to play with.
That does not confirm that it is not Mistral Medium. It is written to give that impression, but if it weren’t Mistral Medium, I would expect them to explicitly say so.
I have encountered a few real benefits for VR.

It’s way more active than a game console. You stand, kneel, punch, swing your arms and break a sweat. It may not be a gym workout, but it’s not half bad if you were otherwise going to be on the couch.

Social experiences are person to person instead of broadcast. You talk with real embodied individuals instead of massive threads with thousands. It’s way more human than even a group chat. I can see it eventually surpassing FaceTime.
Using chatgpt to generate work email is an amazing opportunity.

It decreases that thought that goes into writing the message and increases the effort on the part of everyone who reads it. It's a 1:N overhead increase.

If people use chatgpt to summarise before reading, the transform will be lossy and the baseline sketchy communication via text picks up a higher error rate. That's also overhead.

Finally because it's easy to create this stuff more will be sent out.

We have an unprecedented increase in operational overhead of corporations that go down this path. Merely by not doing this nonsense you gain a competitive advantage.
Yes! I always write it like that on shopping lists now

https://twitter.com/jamiesmart/status/1691482826472828928
I somehow made Ryan. I do not remember how other than it's ______ + wind. Who is Ryan?!? lol
If only there were some way to remove the headset...
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/lord-we-thank-thee-the-far-...
Yeah, either that or "architecting something new looks better on my resume than using an existing solution."
I just selected your reply here while reading. Some people use mouse selection as a visual aid to keep track of where they're reading. It's there, and it's handy!

(I also just select randomly sometimes. Not even quite sure why.)
>Sega's AI machine uses a run-time Prolog-language interpreter residing in 128-K bytes of read-only memory.

I really want to know more about this less than 128K Prolog interpreter (it shares the ROM with the OS) running at only 5 MHz.

Which language features does it support?

How does it work?

Writing a useful Prolog interpreter for such limited hardware is quite a feat.

I kinda hope someone will extract the interpreter from the ROM and convert the machine code to readable ASM.
Feels like apple could overlay the actual contents of the iPhone screen onto any pass through iPhone to let you interact with it more naturally.
I call these comments "Elephant Avoidance Maneuvers"
sigh This is lovely but ...

I used to sit down with a sheet of A3 or A2 and a set of technical drawing pens and a set of writing pens, not to mention the board (Staedtler, with horiz rule and adjustable right angled protractor thingie), French curves, angles, protractor, rulers, compass, flexi curve and the rest.

Obviously, I'd go in with a full set of pencils too. A softly applied, thinly carved 2B to sketch out features first. (etc)

Nowadays I can barely scrawl my name with a Biro, thanks to IT!
Holy water + Dandelion = weed
Consider a situation where you’re applying for a job that you’re 50% qualified for and then using chatgpt to cheat on the interview. Would be much more difficult to catch is my guess.
They could switch your A records and still MitM your whole site. Granted I’m sure that would only happen if their CEO was really mad, but it just requires too much trust for my comfort.
Reminds me of this Dilbert strip: http://i.pinimg.com/originals/2d/90/38/2d90385bced70b3029ef0...
You can do it. The basic problem is that you are hiring somebody to do something you don't know how to do yourself. Here's my approach for lawyers or tax accountants, another gloriously arcane field.

1. Get recommendations from people you trust. Talk to at least three people.

2. Pose your problem and ask them what they recommend doing. Do they listen carefully? Have they dealt with similar problems before? Do they present options in clearly understandable language that allow you to make choices? Do they respond to your questions and concerns?

3. Check their rates and ask for an upfront estimate of the hours to solve your problem. Get the best person you can afford. (Think about how much it's worth to you.)

4. Check references.

5. Switch if things don't work out.

#2 is a big deal. Don't be intimidated. This person is your interpreter of the law. If they can't explain it clearly that's their problem, not yours. Keep looking until you find the right person.
Ultimately, of course, it doesn't really matter as long as the person selling them knows what you're asking for. Which they will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcHeO43kgE
I still use that. I find it to be excellent for giant phones.
I loathe Zuck, but warhawk Lindsey Graham telling him "he has blood on his hands?" That's beyond the pale.
I've been a pain in the ass in quite a few feedback sessions when people brought up a candidate not making "enough" eye contact. Usually I mention that they could be treading into infringing on a protected class and they shut up.
There is, but I see it's not visible on smaller resolutions - I should fix that. The default color scheme just classifies bytes into black (0x00), white (0xff), blue (ascii), and low (green) and high (red).
No one ever filed multimillion dollar lawsuits over Inception and MobileNet.

The calculus is different now.
Those are not mutually exclusive in my experience.
But in this case it wasn't your fault that the cat was stolen, it is however completely your fault to continue to operate an illegal vehicle no matter how the vehicle came into that condition.
This is a bad take, chief. You're not a smol bean. If someone is telling you that the technology you are using is harmful to many people and to society as a whole the least you could do is to make an argument that either those harms are not what is being claimed or that there are significant benefits that outweigh the harms. "Don't say it's bad, that makes me feel bad so we shouldn't talk about it" is both a weak and useless position.
groan thank you - completely missed this
For those with more experience- how do these prices strike you for out of prime market ?
Do you use other vendors you are happy with to do something similar?
I’m interested in engaging freelancers but it seems fraught with issues.
> Either way you need to have a kind of central authority, or at least trusted third parties.

You lost me here. Couldn't the local user ('s process) reference the same block chain instead of another trusted party?
That has never been an issue. You only seed what you choose to. It's basically the same model as BitTorrent but with about 15 fewer years of R&D behind it and much less organic user adoption.
A farmer on the path home from the chicken coop with a basket of eggs meets a hen carrying a baby.
...or late, 1986 was deep into the first AI winter.
I would say I am more shocked by the lack of seeing AI being used.

Given the LLM hype and over a year in, I was expecting there would be all these "why didn't I think of that" uses by now.

I can't think of a single example. A chat bot no one is going to use seems to be the main use case.
Doodle God was also a very popular one.
That's probably fair. It's much less part and parcel of the 60s/70s than a number of other strips are.
Well it's at least probably not impossible? I think they can avoid using a screen at all by instead using multiple low-power lasers embedded in the goggle frames to directly image on the wearer's retinas. Then the main lenses only have to act as selective shutters to block out parts of the real world. But as of today this concept is mostly science fiction; several major breakthroughs would be needed.
I have a Wombat or two and can recommend them highly. Go Steve!
Also, the Wombat goes both directions (to use an ADB keyboard on a modern USB machine, OR to use a modern USB keyboard on an ADB Mac/Apple IIgs/Next).
I guess you are missing the point. Every great work is an outlier.

Now, the GP is hyperbolic, of course, but statistically safe content isn't great content.
Yakity Yak Yak Yak!

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/500532946070783132/
They applied for and received a Search Warrant (5018) to cover all activity described in the article:

>The FBI will identify a list of U.S.-based routers infected with the malware, as described in Attachment A.

>The FBI seeks authorization under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(b)(6)(B) to remotely search those routers and seize the evidence and instrumentalities of the hackers' criminal offenses, as described in Attachment B.

>As part of this search and seizure, the FBI will remove the malware from the infected routers and take limited, reversible steps to prevent re-infection.

To GP’s questions, the scenarios would be handled as in any other search warrant. Though I’d presume this is rather unusual and to increase the likelihood of future approval, the agent would try to avoid stumbling into having to decide if some completely unrelated crime needs to be prosecuted.

Aside from this, it’s intriguing that they state the changes they planned to make to the routers would be reversible.

I wonder how practical this might be if needed, given potential shift in IP. Also, when, if ever the owners will be notified of the activity. This may be covered in one of the filings.
Yep, Screamer is the "enterprise" quality of nondeterministic programming - think efficient and optimized Prolog-esque primitives, but in Lisp.

My implementation of AMB is purposefully small (70 LOC, not counting docstrings and tests and system definition), so that it can fit on a page of paper and be easily understood.
Show HN: Matrix Multiplication with Half the Multiplications
If you've ever seen an "eye tracker challenge" video you'll know how difficult it is to completely control where you're looking, we are hard-wired to automatically glance at potential points of interest. Having to fight that lizard-brain response at all times doesn't sound fun.
This was my takeaway as well. What a cool job. Being government, I wonder if it's a super crusty/stuffy work enviroment with loads of paperwork and little autonomy or if this part of the org has a bit more of a laid back vibe.
Their track record in other places has shown a significant decline (perhaps related to DoubleClick completing their reverse-acquisition of them).
One red flag for me is when the interviewee gives "cork" answers -- the metaphor is that of a cork bobbing in the water. If you ask superficial questions about work they've done, the answer it convincingly. But the further down you go into the details the more resistance you get and the cork keeps bobbing up to the surface level.
I got Trump Tower + Orange = Trump
It used the 'pile of poo' emoji for Trump!! I love it.
What the world can learn from Copenhagen's cycling revolution
A number of our fondest cartoonists checked out relatively early.

Doing this kind of work day-after-day must be pretty draining. (And is, based one a couple of political cartoonists I knew.)
Please, nobody tell Randall Munroe!

Because I would literally spend days worth of time scrolling.
While the Germany PDF actually scrolls pretty quickly at 100% zoom (makes one realize just how much text is read in a day), the Universe one is pretty fun, Firefox's PDF reader at 100% zoom obviously doesn't budge the scrollbar at all.
I would interpret it as "expect to see this powering some features in the next-generation Pixel".
While AI makes up things that are sure to make you find them interesting
Load Common Lisp, Emacs books into ChatGPT
Microsoft LASERs away LLM inaccuracies
To be fair, you were likely already getting out competed by people with better connections or social skills anyway. Years in corporate leadership has cleansed me of the notion that merit is required to be a major factor in hiring decisions.
This actually looks good. It's refreshing
I did this about five years ago, but for a space game I was working on. I wanted to generate solar systems, but I wanted realistic ones. I went down this rabbit hole of learning how solar systems were generated and learned a lot about how statistically speaking solar system formation like ours should be fairly common given the distribution of elements.

Gave up on the game, but this part of the process stuck with me.