skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels like the opposite of a case where VR can be a game changer.

TV coverage already has better viewing angles than going to the game. People go to the game for a day out, to actually be there when it happens, to make noise the players hear and to celebrate with tens of thousands of other people. You don't get that with a headset.
Plastic bags are banned here in Australia.

I too use plastic bags as rubbish bags.

I can say that despite the ban on plastic shopping bags there is never any shortage of plastic bags.

Admittedly I use small plastic bags but it's virtually impossible to buy food that doesn't use plastic bags - I use them.
This is funny but GEB is also good so you wouldn't want it to go much further than this. Congratulations for getting there, now it would be great if you could focus that same energy on shooting down people trying to build upon or me-too this snark.
Remember that the gravity is higher. Your mountains are more dense and your oceans have more pressure. You're not living on a world with 14psi. You're not living in a world with the same ground, air, or ocean composition. All these change. So all your drills have to be thicker and harder. All your cables need to be stronger.
Edge is really nice. Power users can use enterprise policy management to disable the data exfiltration. Certainly would be nice for regular users not to get their data stolen to be mined for commercial purposes, too. But if you use Windows, there really cannot be an argument against Edge (with telemetry turned off), since you already trust Windows, the OS. Trusting the browser is not a leap of trust that one should scrutunize.
>Solutions must benefit all parties.

but solutions never benefit all parties. Laws tend to tell some group what not to do, so most laws will inconvinience someone. You just need to figure out who the law and targeting (and REALLY targeting, not just what PR says) and then follow the money from there.
He also knew how to deliberately be a jackass for effect, which is a survival skill in commercial kitchens when paired with a thick skin. Fundamental emotional issues aside, I do know that his outward-facing persona was prone to being rather flamboyant well before he was a celebrity-- which he implied in his books. One of my teachers in culinary school was a cook in P-town while Bourdain was a teenager working his first kitchen jobs, and even then, pretty much everybody in the local industry knew who he was. Generally well liked but known as a serious party animal. P-town does have a heck of a party culture and I imagine I'd have taken a very different, and much more substance-focused path had I worked summers there as a teen line cook.
> I had a secondary goal in the back of my head... if you have a copy of GEB on your shelf collecting dust and you've never read more than a chapter or two, dust it off and see how it goes this time.

Dusted it off and after only a few pages, it's already a completely different read to when I read (a fraction of) it a decade or so ago.
> Most animals on the other hand, don’t try to deceive or control their communication methods in order to hide what they are really thinking.

I'd challenge that assertion. It may be literally true if you allow "all animals" to be skewed by masses of beetles, but then it doesn't seem very relevant to the subject of human cognition.

Conversely, animals that are related to us--or which have traits we consider intelligent--are often capable of deceiving others of the same species.

Probably far more than we know of, given that to detect their deception, we'd first need to understand animal communication. Consider cuttlefish that communicate by skin coloration. They may lie by simultaneously sending contradictory messages on each side of their body towards different recipients.
Yeah, it’s really great that compiling C is a straightforward endeavor that doesn’t require any tools, and definitely doesn’t depend on executables that generate or parse configuration files. I’m confident that no C developers have ever spent time on tool setup just to program.
Labor Leverage Ratio
For templating/generating YAML it's worth a look at https://yglu.io/ and ingy's latest piece of madness, https://yamlscript.org/

I make no claim that anybody who does look will like either of them, but I do claim they're worth a look even if it turns out that you don't.
> leading to resentment and rejection of environmentalism as a whole

I think people like this because it explains why the "other side" doesn't just listen to their arguments and follow their prescriptions on how to live exactly.

Meanwhile, these other people live _in_ the environment, and so they're obviously concerned about it at some level.

My read is that "environmentalism" is used as a "bully plank" and people are rather tired of being manipulated for the ends of elites without any accountability for their policy failures and so generally tend to react quite negatively when it is naively brought into any conversation.
(non-Rust user; dum question warning...)

I think the article makes an excellent point. But it begs the question:

Are there compiler flags to disable the 'tests'? If not, it would sure be nice to have them to get the fastest 'make a change -> run test' loop. It would be the best of both worlds. (Unless the developer forgets to run the tests once in a while...)
> Compiling proves correctness properties for all executions and all inputs

Compiling does not prove correctness for any program inputs.

Folks could list (1) compilation errors, and (2) test errors/failures in junit XML or W3C EARL. But typically if code fails to compile, the "test suite" isn't run.

Type checking is not property testing is not fuzzing.
Perhaps it would be more useful to unban plastic straws, and then ban unsolicited straws.

It's rather tedious to take a straw out of a drink, dry it off, and find somewhere to put it.
Why not digistopia? (digi-topia to me really sounds like digital utopia, which I'm all for... erm, actually I think a real utopia needs to acknowledge the real world, so it can't be fully digital)
Keep some large blue Ikea bags in your car instead.
I don't have my copy with me right now, so perhaps I'm misremembering, but I recall Hofstadter explaining in the preface of my copy that the point of his book was how the mind - consciousness - could arise from the brain (or something like that). I myself failed to get past the ~100 page mark (he went in depth explaining topics that I was already familiar with from other sources, which bored me. And I didn't really find the connections to art and music that insightful or interesting - but maybe I'm just too uptight). My understanding from skimming the book and reading some of Hofstadter's other works (including his response to Searle's "Minds, brains and programs" article) is that the book is trying to establish how complexity can emerge in systems with many simple moving parts via recursion (or something like that) in different scenarios, suggesting that this is how consciousness emerges from a complex web of neurons (the brain).

This seems a little wishy-washy to me. I don't see this as a good counterargument against Searle's argument that syntaxx alone is not enough to give rise to semantics. (I find Dennett's argument about intuition pumps a more convincing counterargument.) Maybe my understanding of Hofstadter's argument is too simplistic - I'm happy to be educated (I wasn't able to make it through even half of GEB after all).

And of course, that's not to say that GEB isn't a valuable book - it seems like most readers really enjoy it and learn a lot, even if they don't much care for the ultimate cognitive science/philosophy of mind position Hofstadter is trying to defend.
Low supply, high demand
This seems less about should it be open source, and acknowledging the scripting language as an increasingly desired user interface
I must say, I am very happy with my 16" M3 MacBook and iPhone 13. The new 16" MacBooks are the nicest laptops I've used since the old 17" MacBooks. I guess enjoying quality products makes me an idiot to some people. I'm not easily offended. :). The M3 Mac is a real beast of a machine and the iPhone does exactly what I want it to.

I originally bought a MacBook after years of using Linux desktops because I wanted a stable POSIX compliant OS (with a complete nix user land) AND a nice desktop environment that "just worked". And that's what I got.

I have about 30 years of development and sysadmin experience on nix systems, so, I feel a bit neutered on Windows. No doubt Windows guys feel the same way in *nix environments.

Unfortunately the "year of the Linux Desktop" still seems years away. Yes, Linux as a Desktop Environment is feasible (and I do use it often), but, it's still an inconsistent pain in the ass.
Absolutely, but the short and long terms risk posed to most by installing random browser extensions willy-nilly is still almost certainly higher than that of instead opting for vetted desktop apps, especially if using PWAs in place of Electron apps where possible (which I do).
That should be illegal. It removes a huge part of your field of vision.
> And any sort of voting system is an inherent collaboration because you are basically seeing what's 'trending' by definition

Massively aggravated by "sorting by top" defaults for both original posts and separately for the comments on those posts.
maybe it feels different when you own the corporation
Personally, I believe that the distinction between "unnecessary detail" and "the point" is mostly subjective and in the mind of the reader.

The point of a book is to get the reader to reach a certain understanding. Every brain is different and while one literary path might get some readers to that destination, other paths may be required for others. But there is no singular point of understanding that exists solely at the end of that path. The path itself is what builds that understanding.

Part of the art of writing is covering a large enough space of multiple paths to get most readers there without too many of them getting lost.
Other countries are known for a culture of nothing ever happening without a piece of paper carrying an official-looking stamp. Those are laughably insecure, but the culture could easily be ported to public key signature. "Boss voice is only boss voice when it comes with a digitally signed transcript" shouldn't be too hard to introduce in "don't ever question your boss" cultures I think? Bosses might even enjoy the grandeur of showing off their status with an insignia-device. "Orders without proof of identity are irresponsibly bad form" could be surprisingly easy to establish.
This article frames the situation as if Quora once took off, and was once good, which I very much disagree with. Quora never "took off" by way of being good/helpful. It was all just forced SEO. Quora was dead on arrival to me
Does it maybe feel larger because there is half as many people?
You can't think of a single vegetarian dish in western cuisine that's non-disappointing? Wow.
Frankly if a user can run the docker command he is basically root anyways. That's why you do not add random users to the docker group.
Yeah, I have wondered about that. Can browser extensions read or hijack data from other extensions? or are browser extensions sandboxed?
Such a nice and selfless friend! Will you also pay the same amount of money into the developer's bank account as Apple does for top selling apps?
Why not? The headset experience can imitate being at the game, allowing you to interact with other headset viewers and experience the roar of the crowd. I think it would be very different from watching on TV if executed correctly. Watching on TV is inherently a bit of a lonely experience unless youre at bar or the like, but a headset does not have to be at all.
It's unfortunate that the author used the word "testing" because I think the underlying point is correct: By the time you've compiled Rust, there's been a significant number of automated checks against your code, which less true of a language like Python.

It's also unfortunate the author describes features of static typing as "unit tests" when there's already confusion over the term. I think it works as an analogy, but I think this is a place where not being clear it's an analogy invites confusion.
IndieWeb Carnival: Digital Relationships
Consumption of energy drinks by children and young people: a systematic review
gcc main.c

Of course tinkerers made some tools you can tinker with as time went on, but you don’t have to let those interfere with velocity, just like I will not be using configuration languages.
Time for the weekly LLM explainer.
How does that reduce effectiveness of a Phalanx against a drone? With all that metal flying, the pinpoint accuracy problem seems solved.
This is my impression as well. Kinda similar in its "bragging rights" to The Art of Computer Programming.

GEB was a frustrating read. I mean, it's interesting in places, but it's just all over the place, jumping between many different topics. The central theme is meant to be the strange loops, but it's IMHO not very interesting concept and his application on the cognition is just author's personal conjecture.
There's a point in the middle where he's building a foundation of formal systems that's a real slog. If you push through that, it gets progressively more interesting.
My experience at DuckCon #4 (DuckDB)
>I have not seen any software capable of fooling me

That belief is a catch-22, though. By definition, each time one fooled you, you didn't note anything other than a run-of-the-mill normal video. A lot of tiktok accounts lately are dedicated to deepfaking celebrities. For example, if I hadn't already told you and you just casually scrolled by it, would you immediately suspect this isn't Jenna Ortega https://www.tiktok.com/@fake_ortegafan/video/732425793067973... ? I didn't look for the best example, that was just the very first that came up.

>Is this an already existing product

Usually cutting edge ML has to be done with a github repo last updated a few days ago using Tensorflow/Pytorch and installing a bazillion dependancies. And then months later you might see it packaged up as a polished product startup website. I've seen this repo a lot https://github.com/chervonij/DFL-Colab
> Being near the sea is dangerous and requires respect and understanding.

Very much so. In the Pacific North West, it's sneaker waves. I got caught by one of those with my 9 or 10 year old at the time step daughter. We were walking along a rocky outcrop several feet above the wave line, and then there's just this ... surge. I found the surest footing I could, she jumped up and clung on to me, and I put one arm around her, and the other locked on to a rock so hard it made my fingers bleed. The water kept coming up, and up, and up, eventually slowing at my belt line.

That... was terrifying.

And then you have the Artic Circle. Maybe no sneaker waves, but the water temperature is around 28-29F. Immerse in that, and you're dealing with hypothermia very quickly, especially as a toddler, young child.
So turn the general purpose language into a non-general purpose language by creating a compiler for a subset of it. That might be what we'd call a configuration language then since it's no longer actually the original language (in full). Like JSON and others.
This is just not my experience. People don't complain and carrier bags as street rubbish, littering everything from urban trees to the countryside, just disappears. Charging is enough; bans aren't necessary, but sure, add them, no problem.
NASA's X-34 Space Planes Ended Up Rotting in Someone's Backyard (2023)
Just adding a cost to plastic bags here (UK) has cut down on the number of plastic bags I see caught in trees or bushes by an incredible amount.
Only time I check a licence on a project I'm using (besides checking for AGPL at work) is if I'm thinking of contributing somehow.

If it's any kind of "open core" or "source available" corporate one, then unless it's an egregious bug that's affecting me and others, I won't bother, as I'm quite reluctant to do free work for a corporation's benefit.
Databases are a funny example. One of the most popular database libraries in rust is sqlx, which will typecheck your SQL against a running database. Of course it can't prove that your SQL does what you want it to, but it goes very far in ensuring that the database won't outright reject your queries and that types are respected.
It is, as of 15 November 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Eight_Billion
I'm doing most of my work in here now, so I'd say much more than a toy.

It's incredibly helpful being able to travel to wherever and sit in any random room and have multiple screens and an expansive setup to accompany the Mac, in such a small form factor.

Hell, the tiers are:

- With the Mac, incredibly productive.

- With just a small external keyboard, very productive.

- With no keyboard, still way more productive than with a phone.
This is like saying your Toyota is superior to a Lamborghini because Lamborghini's suck for road trips. After all, they're cramped, run out of gas too quickly, don't have enough cupholders, and it's hard to find repair shops on the road.

Yet if you made that argument people would look at you funny, and rightly so because when you're comparing Lamborghini's to other cars you usually talk about things like car performance, air drag, etc.

Likewise, on a technical level the Vision Pro is superior in pretty much every way except the FOV is slightly smaller and it has an external battery pack. The last of which is debatable because being external makes it swappable and upgradeable.

Otherwise, the vision pro is an incredible piece of tech. Better lens technology, better eye tracking and foveated rendering, better passthrough, superior display quality, far higher pixel density, superior hand tracking, real-time environment mapping with LIDAR, higher quality build materials, etc.

All of those things add up and push the boundaries of AR/VR tech. Is it pricy? Obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised if the build cost is significantly higher.
How are you supposed to know when the headset is going to fail though??? I guess in some failure modes you might anticipate it failing, but surely not all…
(/s)
We are at a point in society where we can't simply keep doing what those before us did. We are killing the planet, and every plant and animal on it, including ourselves.

Yes, life is about to get less convenient and we have to give up some luxuries.

It doesn't matter if you don't like it, it a fact.
1. A quick research would have shown that Apple don't support sideloaded software on iOS

2. I see that Photos on iOS has an "Export Unmodified Original" on the share sheet that send the picture to Files. So you could probably connect to SMB share and export that way.

I agree that Apple products are not for you. But Apple has always specify a Right Way (tm) to use their products. You either like it or not. Anything else will be an hack.
Not just games, iOS App Store revenue is far higher in pretty much all categories vs Android.
But walking with your headset on can be a part of the value proposition, by adding some metadata to what you see. Imagine being shown directions in an unfamiliar place. Or seeing a distant bus and being told that this is the bus you're trying to catch. Once the technology becomes popular people will find a lot of reasons to walk with their headsets on.
Banning Private Jets and Going to a 4-Day Work Week Are Radical – and Popular
I like rust as much as the next guy but this is just hilarious Rust apologia. Insisting that your long compile times are ackchually tests is comedy gold.

And yes, I read the article, I know that they literally work on the Rust compiler.
> I can't imagine any scenario in which a mixed population of laypeople and academics/experts would converge towards the same (vote average) findings as a sample of a handful of experts/academics.

Then you get crap where the experts, even when they agree, "dumb it down" for the crowds. This leads the masses who actually do pay attention to experts to think the wrong ideas are truth.

> After all, what has been more important to a human — evolutionarily: the truth or social access?

I don't think this is required for people to be very wrong. Caring about the truth can easily lead to assuming other people who speak authoritatively know what they're talking about, or to speaking authoritatively yourself when you think you're right.
In chess, the two players only are touching the pieces for maybe 100 seconds a game that can go on for hours too.

So what makes chess fun to watch?

It's what happens between those periods of movements.

Football is a game of strategy played out by two coaches. The players are their pawns.

Half the game is coming up with a plan and strategy. The other half is trying to perform that strategy.

You are only paying attention to the latter half.

For jocks and athletic people the latter half is interesting; I'm surprised the strategy and planning aspect isn't more acknowledged and appreciated by us nerdy types.

Maybe there is a reason most of the game is not live play.
I found this book dull, uninteresting and pretentious. Whatever it tried to say in what 1000 pages could have been said in 200. People will probably recommend it highly in this thread, but here is a vote to just leave it alone. It's just not good if you like pop sci but don't like pretentious fluff around it. It's the least inspiring and mind-blowing book I ever read. This could be related to having read a lot on the topics in the past so the subject matter was familiar, and having zero tolerance for the type of writing in it.
I feel you, I had to jump through many hoops to get diagnosed and medicated. It's not an official diagnosis where I live. If it's in any way realistic for you, it's really worth it. It changed my life, I wanted to sing songs about the pills for months.
This is how a lot of big companies work. They self-insure. They set the rules, pay all the bills, and the insurance company just administers things.

If you work for a company that does this, be aware that the things you dislike about your insurance coverage may well have been designed that way by your employer, not the insurance company. Don't curse the insurance company when you don't like the benefits. Ask your manager and HR department why your employer chose that rule or limit.
Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine
A Scalable RISC-V Vector Processor Enabling Efficient Multi-Precision Inference
I know people with PHD's who can run rings around you on "their topic" and can't cross the street without support.

I know teachers who are smart, and phenomenal at their job who I had to arm twist to go play with chat GPT cause it's not in their wheelhouse/on their radar.

The not so bright person, who is stressed out is likely a user of your app. The same as the absent minded PHD or the teacher who is too over worked to care about your new tech widget.

These are real people. And there are a LOT OF THEM (for there to be an average 100 intelligence there are a fair number of people UNDER IT). You can go look on FB/YouTube/Ticktok and find them. "Stupid" people exist, there are a lot of them. Making sure your app works for them is good for them, for your company, for your customer support costs... The whole point of usability is to get average, less technical people in and get them testing your app.

To put a fine and final point on it, after 90 IQ, the author went on to talk about blind people. Candidly your app working for everyone with a disadvantage is just good business and shows a LOT Of empathy. A point you seem to have missed in your indignation.