skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is amazing, sci-fi-like-reality. I wonder if they pull off an auto-segmentation breakthrough if the techniques might apply in other areas, like automating neuron mapping (eg. see EyeWire).
The Autism Horseshoe
Realize that AND acknowledge that it's been three years, and the tech has failed to take off, especially the way phones have. This could still be a V1 iPod or V1 iPhone thing, but between these initial responses, the history of the market and (the biggest) a missing Steve Jobs to do his Steve Jobs thing on it, I'm just not buying it. Cook is his own brand of genius, but they haven't disrupted much since Jobs passed on.
You generally cannot downvote old posts (24 hrs and above I think, but not sure), but can upvote for months (maybe forever). Was the post you checked with no downvote arrows older than 24 hrs?
Which they rarely do now because the number of people able and willing to count a 7 deck shoe with a random cutoff is extremely small and it benefits them to let people try.
There is no way for all 3.7 million high school graduates in the US to write a test in the same conditions. But the SAT and ACT are much better w/r/t similar conditions than grades.

> state ran standardized tests

The US is the land of capitalism, so it delegates standardised testing to private for-profit corporations. Many European countries have a nation-wide or state-wide standardised testing system.

> Then there is this idea of the extra tutoring people are paying for outside of the school curriculum basically amounting to something akin to paying for the right to use steroids in sports.

I wouldn’t compare tutoring to steroids. In sports, some athletes can afford to spend more time in the gym and to get a better coach, while some can’t, and that might affect their test results.
Dynamic linking is something that I would personally like to see in Rustland too.

But parent's point is that some issues that count as a CVE for Rust do not count as such for C/C++ because the boundaries of undefined behavior are drawn elsewhere. This means that there are many fixes that are simply never made for C/C++, even though dynamic linking would make such a counterfactual fix easier to deploy.
You can watch whatever you want on a Quest, even my old Windows Mixed Reality works for such a purpose. I don't think porn availability is going to change much since it hasn't already.
My mind initially goes to the Apple Vision Pro. A lot of people spend time pointing out what the first generation of the product doesn't do (yet), and while they appreciate all the good things it has that are true next-gen capabilities, they give nearly equal time to the things it doesn't do well yet.

I find that this is really common in putting something new out there, that if it's new enough the majority of the focus is on the pieces that seem scary, don't work as well as we think it should work, or is missing something that can be added on later. We assess new ideas and products of a new generation against our understanding of often lesser products of a former generation, and are all too quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

As the article states, it's rare that folks can look past critical appraisals of new things and understand that with continued work on the product, feature, app, etc. it can turn into something special.
Works fine, this has the fastest eink screen available.
Of course, if were we in a time when those policies I would be arguing that they are immoral and regressive, but of course you are correct.
I would investigate dehydration from caffeine, caffeine intoxication, or antinutrients or adulterants from the bergamot.
Obligatory link to the Lego version: https://stickyhat.com/tensegrity-lego-moc/
And it's not just the models. E.g., the Assistants API is not available yet in Azure, and there is no expected ship date for it. But I'm confident it's coming.
Wow, thanks for letting me know! I've just fixed the problem thanks to your bug report.
Ah, so that's why they never warp near planets in Star Trek :)
David W. Packard (HP heir) has been trying to throw money at doing this for years, so the money isn't as much of an issue as you'd think. The larger issue is that the locals don't want digging underneath their buildings, no matter how careful the excavators are. Also, all the money that would be necessary to excavate has made the project a target for the mafia who wants to get their share.
I've seen this episode of Black Mirror.
They score very slightly better, not really meaningfully.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/sat-prep-courses-do-the...
Uses of the Apple Vision Pro: some of the early standout experiences
People like the weave network policy controller too.. at least in the earlier days of kubernetes, their cni was pretty popular for awhile.
We're building a GPT for managing your finances.

https://candle.fi/gpt

Our backend stack:
- AWS
- SST
- TypeScript

Our clients:

- Next (web)
- Vanilla React Native (mobile)

OpenAI's App Store announcement is what got us interested in building w/ LLMs.
I don't know how Kagi does it, but it behaves exactly like old Google did before it got SEO-ed and now AI-ed to death. High quality search results, extremely user-oriented, and they treat every bug report seriously. It is absolutely fantastic and well worth the money.
Holy cow! I just read the energy requirements of that third mission. Total electricity generation capacity of the entire world is about 12TW today [1], whereas that 3rd mission would require a "formidable" - as the author admits - 45,000TW at least. A mere three orders of magnitude more :)

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267358/world-installed-p...
I'm not an expert in the IP, but this 2021 summary is better than my best understanding

https://41j.com/blog/2021/05/the-next-few-years-in-dna-seque...
You should’ve kept reading.
I re-read this book recently

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

which has to be one of the most epic sci-fi novels ever since it is about a starship that gets its brakes damaged in a crash so their answer to every problem they face is to go faster!
Show HN: Running any type of tests in Kubernetes with Testkube
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Since we are Kubernetes native, we allow you to use k8s features to your advantage when running tests. Allocating resources, executing tests in parallel, triggering tests and test suites based on different Kubernetes events, etc.

Very recently, we introduced Status Pages, which let you create a monitoring panel for your services based on real time test results. This is what they look like: https://app.testkube.io/status/testkube

We would love for you to check Testkube out and let us know what you think!
I think some of us (like me) were too immature at 18-22 to make good use of college. I'm not sure the amount of skin in the game would have made much difference, but I wouldn't have been able to pay for it myself, so that's a benefit. When I went back and got high grades, I also had manna-money from Direct loans. I just had a lot more life experience and maturity.
Some authors discover a character and have no idea of plot or ending. It’s every which way you can imagine…
Will mirror this as someone who uses a Quest 2 somewhere around 10-12 hours per week. In terms of hardware the Vision Pro is much better, which already shows and will only become more evident as intense apps make obvious the difference in CPU+GPU horsepower between the two headsets.
The last vestige of old space architectural thinking – SpaceNews
>Hmm, that's kinda false.

> The world definitely was never fully on X86, and ARM was always among us.

The "entire world" there wasn't meant to be absolutely literal. The point I refuting was that because of China's size, they cannot focus on a single architecture. That makes no sense. China overwhelmingly utilizes x86 now.

> Let's go back ~20 years. Workstation and datacenters were on Sparc or PowerPC. ARM was in every phone, MP3 player, digital camera or any other portable device. Gaming consoles and set top boxes and the like were on MIPS or the new Cell processor which was also PowerPC based.

That's all great and good, and while I never discounted a heterogenous world, this is both Intel and AMD's marketshare: https://www.statista.com/statistics/735904/worldwide-x86-int...

The world is on x86.
> If the anecdotes are accurate

> It's also certainly not clear that Elon has an engineering-first mindset

If A, then B.

Struggle with definitions all we want, Boeing needs a dose of Musk's attitude towards engineering and manufacturing. It is the most important thing they do, and I don't think the C-suite understands that. That's the most distilled version of what I'm saying. Musk is the best recent example of this attitude, but Henry Ford is an excellent older example.
> It has no market.

You don't know that, it's way too early to tell.

> Sales will peter out to nothing after the hype because there just aren't a lot of customers out there who can drop that kind of dosh on a computer at all, let alone something that isn't nearly as capable as a computer like a headset

But A) There are people who do spend that much on a computer and tech in general and B) Just because it may lose momentum after the hype doesn't mean it's a failure. If you want such a product to succeed, you are going to have to bankroll it and invest on it for a few year for it to get a legitimate chance.

> Mac studio sales for example are 1% of their mac sales

And the places that have them, wouldn't have any other product. They work with Macs and they will continue to buy these premium Macs until the end of time. It's a small market but it's a loyal market, especially when entire industries (like film post production, the recording industry, pro photography, graphic design) are all Mac-based.

So this just seems like a generic anti-Apple rant.
You need to get around the rocket equation.

> we estimate the neutral hydrogen density in the unperturbed local interstellar medium of 0.195 ± 0.033 cm−3 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abb80a

You need a hydrogen 'scoop' and fusion. If you can accelerate to 0.01c, you can collect enough hydrogen for 1000 MW fusion power from 32 km2 (6 km diameter) scoop area. Faster you fly, more you get. You can accelerate until interstellar particles start to do real damage.
Also if they throw you under the bus because you refused to break company policy, you can sue them for wrongful termination.
Then why not sell it as a viable business? Or would it be too costly to trim it back and execute the sale?
BrowserEngineKit
An interesting one I made recently is related to a game published a couple of days ago here in HN called "infinite craft" https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

The game does not have any save mechanism, so I made a bookmarklet that loads and autosaves to localStorage

```

javascript:(function(){
const exportState = () => JSON.stringify({
discoveries: window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data.discoveries,
elements: window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data.elements
});

const importState = (state) => {
const { discoveries, elements } = JSON.parse(state);
const gameInstance = window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data;
gameInstance.discoveries = discoveries;
gameInstance.elements = elements;
};

/* Set up a MutationObserver to listen for changes in the DOM and automatically export the current state. */
const observer = new MutationObserver((mutations) => {
const state = exportState();
localStorage.setItem('gameState', state);
});

/* Start observing DOM changes to auto-save the game state. */
const startObserving = () => {
const targetNode = document.querySelector('.sidebar');
observer.observe(targetNode, { childList: true, subtree: true });
};

/* Check for a saved state in localStorage and import it if available. */
const savedState = localStorage.getItem('gameState');
if (savedState) importState(savedState);
else localStorage.setItem('gameState', exportState() );

startObserving();

})();

```
The Apple stores have a machine to test your eyeglasses and match them (if possible) with the set of lenses they have in-house for testing. Lots of people were demo-ing that way when I visited on Saturday.
Another great thing is when you search for something they don't have, they refuse to say they don't have it. They just try to convince you to watch some off-brand equivalent, or genre-adjacent movie instead.

I've recently been watching through the Terminator movies with my son. Netflix had the first film, and then has Genisys. Prime has Terminator 2. Disney Plus has Dark Fate. Terminator 3 and Salvation are on Binge (which we'd just cancelled) and Stan.
Nonsense, there is clear evidence that EVs are just a fading fad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39150849
/s
>The entrepreneur pointed out this is not the first time Meta has done something like this.

>“A number of years ago [Meta] abruptly ended their Events API, with zero notice,” Burge says. “We just came in one day and everything was broken, we had thousands of support requests open from our customers and it almost destroyed our business that time as well.”

I sure hope their business has diversified a bit, because if Meta did it before they'll do it again.
Not a physicist, but my impression is that you're always going 0 percent of the speed of light (in all directions) from your own frame of reference. All you notice is that our solar system is moving away, faster.

I guess you'd notice a change in light frequency based on the light in front/behind. Redder behind, bluer in front.

Edit: supposedly we can measure our speed compared to the cosmic microwave background which is fairly uniform, which gives us a value of 400 to 800km/s relative to the CMB:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_we_practically_mea...
Working at Google wasn't a great experience (my time there was very short), but being able to ask Larry, Sergei and the rest of the SL team hard-hitting questions and get answers back was extremely cool. It's a shame that it turned into just another corporate all-hands.
Thanks for the kind words and wishes friend!
An improved chkstk function on Windows
The world has warmed 1.5 °C, according to 300-year-old sponges
Oh hey I just watched that pokedex video. It was so impressive! Deserves way more attention
I don't know about the etymology for the company, but Kobold is a German word for a kind of sprite from folklore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold

If I remember my folklore correctly some variants of them are associated with resource deposits. Maybe that's the connection?
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone documentary by Adam Curtis [video]
One other thing that was required: the patience not to ruin it.

So much has been lost to well-meaning archaeologists who dug up and threw away things that they didn't think were important. They tried cleaning and preservation techniques on artifacts without testing, sometimes ruining them in the process. They ripped things out of context, and "restored" them based on guesses that were sometimes flagrantly wrong.

Of course they couldn't be expected to know everything that would come in the future, so blame can sometimes perhaps be muted. But it's especially positive that they extricated these particular objects very carefully and just waited for a way to extract information that they could hardly have hoped for.
At best, and most forgiving, the AVP is trying to not be a VR headset. I guess it's pretty "resolutionary" to not be the thing that you obviously are.
It's probably exceptionally tiny, I managed FB's web proxy for chat, and I was upgrading the protocol and discovered two people who wrote their own clients. I had to cut them off just they were not polluting the data I was gathering for reliability.
There is certainly some psychological component at play. One of my favorite childhood memories is of me and my cousin digging tunnels for our hotwheels cars in a 10' mound of dirt my grandpa had hauled in. I recently tried this new Enshrouded game with another friend and we dug a tunnel for our base (for no reason). I just find it... cozy?

I think ancestral cave dwelling may for sure be a factor here, wrt evolutionary psychology (a scientific domain I wish was not as primitive)
If academic education is not their top priority, it would be beneficial to separate research facilities from universities and let universities be glorified fraternities. It's a waste to spend resources of top professors on "formation of a person's character" when they can help build the next generation of elite scientists and engineers.
It's not viable to use it to visit the galactic center during a lifetime, but it still flies, if I understand that correctly?
That doesn't sound likely. They can wait for existing planes to age out and then buy a competitor's planes. For many reasons including fuel efficiency, when an airline retires a plane they are not going to replace it with the exact same plane. So some levels of pilot retraining is expected.
Redshifted below perception, like the glow from the Big Bang.
> AIOHTTP: The Python int constructor is used to parse Content-Lengths and chunk-sizes, so _, +, and - are misinterpreted.

Fun. I believe the fix is incomplete here[1]. Python's int() constructor (and related methods) accepts integers comprised of any unicode numeral, for example, int("٦٦٦") == 666, and "٦٦٦".isdecimal() == True.

NB: I haven't tested this more thoroughly and I'm not sure I'm actually looking at the right diff for the fix.

[1] https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/pull/7663/files#diff-197...
Looks quite neat, but as other have pointed out I do not really see how this is different from traditional HDL languages such as verilog and VHDL. I say this because by looking a bit into atopile examples I only saw easy "digital" circuit stuff with GPIO and resistors, which are all things that can be implemented using FPGAs. However the most difficult things when designing advanced PCBs are EMC / EMI [1] problems with advanced subsystems such as an USB hub or analog filters. BOM generation and modular abstraction are already solved problems in industry (even though I hated every minute of working with Xilix Vivado) and tools like F4PGA [2] are slowling catching up.

If I may add my two cents, I think you should concentrate on making it possible to go beyond lumped element models (which can already be simulated using SPICE, etc) and simple abstraction (solved by VHDL & co) and focus on being able to offer advanced subsystems to less experienced PCB EDA users. Basically, to go for the Altium path, but without Altium. For example, it would be a killer feature if it were possible to import an FTDI USB chip module and a switching power supply module, and obtain a PCB that has a guarantees (up to a degree) that the two will not interfere with each other. Or say, have it automatically optimize a design to guarantee a certain SWR [3].

[1]: https://www.analog.com/media/en/training-seminars/tutorials/...

[2]: https://f4pga.org/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_wave_ratio
You are correct. They are in fact named after the Kobolds in Dwarf Fortress.
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Kobold
Sounds like his primary customer might be female influencers.
This is fairly well done, good job!

The layout is clean, and it's fast. The summaries are solid as well.
Some companies whole business model is just that. See buffer.com. That being said, a lot of the stuff they do is now offered by Meta directly (e.g: scheduling post, responding to comments at scale)
Hopefully it's clear that I agree with you - many critics are quick to make well-ackshually comments about this type of warmup content, and it misses the point.
Yes, there is a a rewind feature in the MAME debugger -- I haven't used openMSX so I don't know how similar the feature works.
Might want to put on a pair of gloves and a respirator if you find that Aristotle volume. Some people were pretty offended by it, I understand.
Los Angeles County Realtime Precipitation Map
It's fairly fundamental capitalism, right?

The world is not overflowing with people who can even theoretically lead a $77bn company and will be acceptable candidates in the eyes of the board/shareholders. So you will need to pay accordingly if you want one.

It's like wondering why pro sports teams give megabucks guaranteed contracts to superstars. There aren't a lot of them and there is a lot of money at stake when it comes to running a successful pro sports team. So they cost a lot of money to acquire.

I am by no means defending this. Whether or not one thinks there are better alternatives to capitalism, it's hard to deny that capitalism produces some pretty crap outcomes.
> Anyway, back on topic, this video feels like justifying the purchase with flashy multi window gimmicks instead of showing actual ergonomic improvements. The proof will be in the pudding. Will the author stick to that sprawling neck twisting setup long term, or will he switch back to a more conventional setup once the novelty of his new toy wears off and his video got enough views?

I feel like this is the 2024 equivalent of Compiz[0] first showing up some 20 years ago.

So many people were blinging out their desktops with these wild effects. Windows burn away when you close them! When you change desktops, there's some huge rotating cube!

But the novelty of this stuff just wears off. For a couple of months you can impress people with the "gee whiz" factor, but at the end of the day it doesn't do anything to actually make your work easier.

If I want something for "real work," low latency is a killer feature. Having to rummage through some virtual junk drawer to do the equivalent of alt-tab or meta-scrollwheel is always going to be weirdly indirect and slower for me.

There do exist practical, non-gaming use cases for VR/AR goggles (e.g. simulators and training software), but these are niche. I certainly don't buy the idea that "desktop computing" writ large is somehow going to be enhanced by this experience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz
The difference between COVID and this is that you can put this device on and be wherever you want to be while, theoretically, "interacting" with whoever you want.
To be brutally honest, some huge percentage of people who get to the "plea" option are actually and truly guilty - this causes all sorts of issues.

(One of the strange side-effects of mandatory sentencing is removing plea deals because if they HAVE to charge you with X, and guilty or plead on X is Y years in jail, then there is no reason not to go to a jury trial, because the worst case is you get Y years anyway, which you get when you plea out.)

If criminals really were organized and forced everything to jury trials, the United States would collapse.
Visitors here also means Parisians outside their neighborhood.
> a risk-free place to learn

That's turning out to be a valuable feature of LLMs in many areas. You can practice complex interactions with them without worrying about boring or annoying them. Even the most patient human teacher gets tired eventually. LLMs don't.
How many hours of screen-on time do you get in those three days?
VR pegboard test shows performance does not always match user preference
> Something is clearly better than nothing.

That's not a major component of venture backed startups. For a company that has already been written off as a failure, often the board members that represent the VC would rather not have to stay involved and keep showing up for meetings -- they could be elsewhere; there's an opportunity cost.
The growing inadequacy of Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in a warming world
Did you see the tone the poster was responding to?

Let me refresh your memory: “Tickets, oh what do you do with those? Close them with a 'RTFM, noob'?”

True story.