skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity I looked for a relevant reference, apparently in WWII, civilian casualties to allied air raids were 0.6% of the total population and twice that for wounded, so around half the numbers you cite for Gaza (though IIUC you are including both civilian and militant deaths in your counts so not perfectly comparable). Given that Hamas seeks to maximize their civilian deaths I'm not sure how to take that comparison.

Looking at WWI is a bit more confusing, similar numbers of dead Germans due to malnutrition and disease (excluding the pandemic), but overall 1.1% civilian deaths due to military action for the Central Powers.

While personally I feel that the ideal number of civilian deaths is obviously 0 (on both sides), I do feel like counting the dead is not a particularly convincing metric when considering who (if any) is doing right since the relevant information is in the rightness of concrete actions taken rather than the results. Bombing a hospital is bad even if there are almost no civilian casualties. Bombing a military HQ is right even if it unintentionally involved civilian casualties (assuming you did act to minimize them). Bombing a military HQ that is directly under a hospital - ask me later please, but I don't think I'd judge solely on who is dead at the end.

I'm obviously a bit biased here, but just reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen... I can't see how Israel can stop the war as long as Hamas has any form of influence in the area. For now, except for Netanyahu which should be rotting in a jail cell, I'm reserving my judgement until we can see the final results.
Yeah, it's sometimes even hard to make code owners look at the complete feature PR to their codebase. There's 99.9% probability that 100% of 'geeking out' on github in public repositories will never be browsed by anybody.

I also find having some public activity on my gh to give me an ability to include it into the resume. It's a good conversation starter for many people from my experience.
This is downright beautiful.

It's fun to think that this is the closest we could ever come to time travel. I hope someday somebody actually gets to experience this.
Clients have/supply meaningful data. An ID isn't meaningful data.
Replace your "doomscrolling before bed" habit with something that doesn't involve screens or something that has a definitive ending so that you can actually go to bed once it ends.

I replaced it with reading comic books and it's been working very well. Watching a movie also kinda works. The goal is to get in the habit of doing it, and resisting the temptation to doomscroll.
Also commas are valid characters in an URL, so they should not be used as a separator for URLs.

If you want to support multiple input URLs just pass all of them in, one URL per element in sys.argv
> Instead you have to worry about the actual speed you are traveling at

That's the other big punchline in relativity: There's no one "actual speed" because that implies that there is a single "important" frame of reference wherein those atoms are floating around waiting to be hit by a spaceship.
Cortex was mentioned below. Weaveworks did a lot of work with scaling Prometheus with their tool Cortex [1]

1: https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex?tab=readme-ov-file
But is it $3500 nice?

I mean, there was a picture of a pair of guys wearing them out in public, eating food or something.

And, you know, that's almost $8000 (with tax) of equipment there in that cafe stuck on those heads.

Make no mistake, its not a criticism at all, I hope you enjoy your purchase.

Maybe those guys eating were watching Iron Man or something.
Syria attempted to invade Israel asking for a fight. It's tertitory is used by Hezbollah to launch attacks on Israel. It's quite a different situation from the war in Ukraine.
In fact if an implementation of std::sort has this bug, it's worse, because a fix in a template function requires recompiling all clients to go into effect, while qsort can be fixed in one shared library.
If they want mass adoption, they need to drop the price by a factor of 4.
Does anyone remember this start up from like 2016 that was LinkedIn/Glassdoor but for people. And you could rate people as in, is this person a nice person, did we have an amicable breakup, did they cut you off at a light, etc. And it was supposed to be some kind of social credentialing website that you could say, hey look how amazing and altruistic I am I have 4.9 out of five stars! That -0.1 was only from an Uber driver who thought that my tip wasn't big enough but it was 20%! I swear I'm not a jerk.

Anyways this made me think of that.
The top comment on there is a negative one. The archive.org link is relevant because it has a different comment ordering at that point.
Sure. That doesn't change that "a cornerstone of every aspect of the future of their business" isn't hyperbolic.

That said, the OP has clarified that they didn't mean that Rust was this thing, but that language development in general is.
I imagine a not-insignificant number of those who preordered will return it. Anecdotally, everyone I know who bought one plans on doing just that. Sales numbers have been higher than expected, but I do wonder where they net out after returns.
You can separately pair headphones to the Mac. Not ideal but works fine so far.
Not sure about your specific condition, but contact lenses should work. So ~20 bucks for cheap dailies?
Yea, one of my favorite things has actually been the ability to lay back on the sofa looking at the ceiling watching a movie on a massive screen.
My sense of it is that YC feels its strength is in having and growing a huge luck surface area, because their dollars are worth more to founders so they get to make lots of bets, and they have a systematized process that meets founders where they are and can do a lot with super-motivated teams that want an intensive engagement while not getting in the way of teams that are more fire-and-forget.

Which is to say: their investing is interesting but it doesn't have that much to do with long-term investing in startups. If you need plural millions to reach orbit, you're going to need to pitch a 9-figure company, because big-ticket investors have portfolio math that only works for those kinds of companies.

So, to me it doesn't make too much sense to talk about what a "traditional" VC will or won't touch. For most YC success stories, both kinds of VC are involved.
This assumes you're using a consumer Gmail account, I guess? If so, yeah, you're SOL. But I think as long as you have your owns domain you should be fine, even if you hook it up to Google Workspace for email, since you can always switch it to another provider. (And yeah, I realize this is not something civilians are likely to be able to figure out / do...)
> This seems like a cop-out by one of the largest companies in the world

I'm not affiliated with Google in any way.
Why is the title changed from "though" to "when," changing the meaning?

[edit to add] Also, a comma was added, so this resulted in a net loss of one character while also changing the meaning.
It's been a while since I caught up with the field, and this sounds exciting. I'd like to learn more about what exactly has expired (or will expire?). Is it just the reversible terminator patents, or is there more? Is this the main patent in question? https://patents.google.com/patent/US7541444B2/en or are there others?
The video game market doesn’t seem like a good market for raising venture capital - there is a ton of competition, and it seems that the folks who can raise money have a track record of previously successful games. With the 5% interest rate, you’ll very likely need to bootstrap your first game to break into the industry and then you could raise for a future game.
what a great point, never thought of it this way
It supports it, it's pretty hit-or-miss though.

You need to right-click on the feed in the web interface → "full text".

The library it uses is a port of Mozilla's "reader mode" (readability.js) feature in Firefox: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/pull/563
I built an iOS and macOS offline LLM app called Private LLM[1]. I don't have any visibility into what the users do with it, but from what I hear on the app's discord, people love to use it in their Apple Shortcuts workflows for text manipulation.

I initially built it using llama.cpp for offline LLM inference, but soon discovered mlc-llm and moved to using it, because the latter is way faster and flexible.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-llm/id6448106860
People aren't even widely adopting the $899 macbook air, this thing is totally doomed at $3500. You'd be developing for probably a few tens of thousands of active users worldwide.
They did it a little further down as well. If I had to guess it's kind of to humanize and demonstrate that potentially marginalized groups are being heavily affected. But when I read it I also went... "...ok?"
This is mostly correct but primary keys have to co-exist with the existing data infrastructure that is unlikely to be replaced for decades.

It is quite possible to do cluster-style indexing on UUIDs through disk on a single server at rates of tens of millions per second, I do it every day, just not with your typical ordered-tree architectures. Many popular database engines are not designed to make this particular scenario perform well.
I built https://eternalsouls.ai/ for a client recently.

You just export and upload a WhatsApp conversation and it will learn the personality AND voice of your conversation partner. You can send/receive text or voice messages; It was pretty damn spooky to actually have a voice conversation back and forth with an AI standing in for my "friend"
Imagine trying to find and get the spigot out of a shipping container.
I think:

"I get headaches from using it, and there isn't enough reason to be in VR" is probably the same reason oculus didn't really penetrate the Apple/tech/trendies.

The target the author sets for them trying it again is basically meta's roadmap.

the _hilarious_ thing is that meta cannot coherently deliver/demostrate baby steps to those targets, or explain through the medium of snootynosed PR/marketing hyperbole the potential of the oculus platform.

Put it this way, the reason the iPhone succeeded is because a lot of people gave apple the benefit of the doubt. It had two things: music and well engineered smooth scrolling. _Everything_ else was sub par. No 3g, terrible batterylife, no GPS, no apps, no sideloading and no flash. Fucking slow proc (but the interface was always given priority.)

If VR is going to succeed with apple, it will be because people gave them the benefit of the doubt for v1/v2. Most of the reviews are a lot of "It will be" "when x is delivered" and "when x makes content in y". Meta doesn't have that good will to draw on, they have to deliver first time They can't because the head of VR/AR is someone who ships features not releases coherent products.

You know the best fucking part? the quest pro could have been a 95% AVP. If they managed to ship the depth sensor, then passthrough would have worked. If they had planned their shell properly, not wasted many many people-years fucking porting react to VR, then they might have had time to design a coherent UX.

But thats the problem with most competitors, they shitout features, rather than release coherent experiences.

Apple: I want a VR headset that anyone can use, requires no hand controllers, and doesn't block out the world

Meta: Lets ship eyetracking and hand based controllers, but only release 4 pages of documentation on all of it. something something metaverse, something something playing poker in a room together.
There is also the question of how you get the lasers to your destination in the first place.
Last week I trained an LLM to auto-unrotate a Caeser cipher, without it knowing the rotation key. It turns out there are only a few possible ways this can be done, e.g. by analyzing letter frequencies. Of course, the LLM must use one of these algorithms! Determining this high-level algorithm would be "understanding" what it is "actually doing".

Through analysis, I proved it indeed counts each letter's frequency. It then combines the "overall" letter frequencies with another distribution of "first letter" frequencies. This increased its accuracy to nearly 100%.

To me, this description is much nicer than had I "followed the code" and described it as millions of multiplications and additions. (Much of this ends up being noise anyway.)
Project 1
— Source code: https://github.com/bingdai/summaryfeeds. The code is for Summary Feeds (https://www.summaryfeeds.com). It shows summaries of AI-related YouTube Channels.

****

Project 2
- I also built a YouTube summarizer for individual video called Summary Cat (https://www.summarycat.com). It is not open source for now. The stack is very similar to project 1.

****

And yes I like summarizing YouTube videos:)
Will there be a Six Degrees to Jack Welch site?
Unhelpful or not, it is factual. Food today is cheaper than in the 90s and 00s as a percentage of income. Those are the times people long for and are nostalgic about in terms of pricing.
The cost is more or less the standard price of admission for early adopter stuff. Not worth it for everybody clearly, but worth considering for those who like riding the wave as a platform matures from the start.

I don’t think I’d take it out in public, except maybe on a plane or in an airport lounge.
The word “perhaps” allows for alternate opinions :). But I must say, both Cleopatra and Napoleon existing in a pre social media world suggests their infamy did not spread as far, and neither Napoleon nor Cleopatra had the ability to expose leaders around the world from within their jail cells — thus the “at-risk”.

But I’m curious to hear who you would suggest instead. One of those two? Someone else?
Is calling free with the wrong address a safety issue or "you're holding it wrong."
I've just reached the learned helplessness point where it feels like it's not worth learning anything because it's going to change again by the time I use it. Right now I've got a service that starts every boot that I stop manually each time because I can't figure out how to disable it; even if older init was "worse", it was "just" a shell script so I could do stuff like commenting out lines without having to go into the details.
I think a lot of young hackers just don't have the breadth of experience to know what has come before them, or what is in common use. OP has reinvented synthesis, but poorly.
> Guess we could think of the Giza Pyramids as a counter-example. Plenty of religious monuments got built on the bones of slaves.

im not arguing it they died during construction. My point is that a lot of them were undoubtedly proud of the work they produced, not even all the workers on the pyramids were slaves so thats pretty telling imo. Also i am one of those "techies" and i have been involved in projects i didnt initially have passion for, and in all cases i ended up coming around because it was something i worked on daily. Thats what im saying happened with the workers in churches/pyramids, surely some of them.
How long before I can build my own, hook it to ChatGPT, make the national news and all the AI safety people go ballistic?
Codeberg takes donations last I checked.
They're only paying the surviving ones. Also they're conveniently delaying payments and benefits to the families of the deceased.
It’s a lot more varied. It’s driven by asshats and regular drivers alike. And it’s really common. So the inference only works one way I guess, see an asshat driver, it’s likely a Tesla. But the inverse (which was pretty strong for BMW) doesn’t quite hold as well.
I think we have learned not that you can’t think your way to happiness, but that for the sake of the consumer economy and worker productivity it’s best that you don’t.
This gives me hope that it's easier to ship wine now. Last time I tried to ship wine to my parents as a gift I literally couldn't find a courier who would accept it.

To a degree, I don't blame them... most people suck at packing, but there are products that are made for shipping wine bottles and they don't accept those from consumers either (although wineries use the same couriers and containers to ship wine to me). Hopefully this has changed.
"Shoot for the moon" seems like a reasonable strategy when you're making the investment.

However, certainly at some point while they were burning through that $36 million it became evident that "moon" was no longer a viable destination. Why wouldn't everyone be aligned with making the adjustments needed to get back to default alive? Something is clearly better than nothing.

Now if it got to the stage where the CEO no longer wanted to operate at the reduced scale (and nobody else would take the role) or the product couldn't support itself at the reduced scale, then closure may have been the only option. It's just that the "moon or bust" mentality doesn't seem like something that should be set in stone for the life of the company.
> But is it $3500 nice?

That's going to be entirely subjective and widely dependent on the wallet and finances of whomever you ask, and how badly they been wanting a VR/AR computer thingy.
First thing I did was relive a moment almost 10 years ago when I had a Show HN on the front page :-)
Python does
from x import y
though.
This looks really cool. I need to dig through some more examples before I'd take anything I say without a massive grain of salt. :)

Maybe I've been writing too much React and Android Compose UI lately, but instead of a declarative structure, have you considered a functional structure? That seems to be a create way to build composable components and add enough programmability (e.g. loops, conditionals) and keep a nice one-way flow down the line.

Something like

```
import {Resistor, Signal, Ohms, Float} ...

def VoltageDivider(totalR: Ohms, ratio: Float, signal1: Signal, signal2: Signal, signalOut: Signal) {
r1 = Resistor(totalR/ratio, signal1, signalOut)
r2 = Resistor(totalR(1-ratio),signal2,signalOut)
}

def MyBoard() {
s1 = Signal()
s2 = Signal()
s3 = Signal()
div1 = VoltageDivider(totalR: 100_000, ratio:.33, signal1: s1, signal2: s2, signalOut: s3)

}

It's similar to what you have but maybe a bit more of a programming language than a declarative format. The trade-off is that tooling support gets harder as you add some basic language features, but the upside is a more powerful language.
Thanks! Will add that
> if necessary I can write what I need.

I understand that this is probably an off-the-cuff comment (and no judgement for it), but it got me curious:

What sort of apps do you think you might need (or want) for this, and how much work do you think it would be to write them?

Like, I can see myself putting together a CLI or a web app to help organize and collate my work (and I have) but I don't see myself creating a word processor.

I'm curious to hear what you (and anyone else) would see as a useful app for this device :)
> Prior to the current ARM revolution, the entire world was on x86.

Hmm, that's kinda false.

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.

The world definitely was never fully on X86, and ARM was always among us.
Totally agree. And hello! Small world :)
I started working on a Rust based AI agent host with the goal of running locally. It has Rhai scripting built in which is what the agent function calling is based on. Very rough at the moment. Also on hold for me because I need to do more dirt cheap Upwork projects to scrape by this month.

I think what will be really powerful is to have a registry for plugins and agents that can be easily installed in the system. Sort of like WordPress in that way. Also similar to an open source GPT store.

https://github.com/runvnc/agenthost

I believe the are several variations of this type of idea out there.
The thing I find weird is how many of these reviews and experiences are coming from people who (1) genuinely believe Apple has an innovative product and market positioning, yet (2) seem never once to have purchased or used an Oculus or Meta product in the same space.

I mean, so many people are like "OMG Amazing Apple Demo" (or "This is the future" in the linked tweet) not realizing that the Rift was doing the same thing a decade ago. Is the Vision Pro better? I guess it must be given the price. But realistic 3D headsets are a long-solved problem.
New E. coli strain will accelerate evolution of the genes of your choice
You won't be able to perceive anything "3D" if you're aiming for accuracy.

Even though we can perceive the "depth" of the stars through motion in this simulation, every star is still going to look equally far away, because their positions won't change between the left and right eyes. The same way we can't perceive the sun as further away than the moon -- depth perception merely tells us they're both "max far away".

You could always introduce depth perception by faking your eyes to be light-years apart, but of course that's not how it would really be in the spaceship...
Microsoft Edge is not an OS. Firefox allows encrypting passwords under a "Master" password, that renders files written to disk unavailable for other apps. Yes, the OS can read from memory when you open it. Yes, the OS can have a keylogger, Trojan horse, and everything. That's beside the point. Security hardening could be and should be in place by vendors (Mozilla, Chrome). In some OSes it would work better than others, okay. We can live with that.
The movie experience is available on MUCH cheaper headsets though. Sure, it's cool...but what feature really makes it worth so much aside from it having been made by Apple?
Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them
I bet Apple will sell refurbs for much higher than $2500. My guess is more around the GameStop used game pricing structure of 10% off, maybe round up to 3250.
an ion thruster that shoots ions out at the speed of light probably won't affect Earth
Personally I'd be down if it got to 1700$ or so.
cool, i believe this is a scenario where targeted educational/univ. chats could help further enterprise trials (or early constructive feedback). would be great to chat more on discord/email!
We'll hopefully have a real alternative to these centralized platforms when Radicle[0] gets closer to core feature parity with GitHub. For many, this will be sometime this year, for others it might take another year or two.

It's really scary to have a single platform be able to take away what is essentially your portfolio, resume, social profile, webhost (github pages) and collaboration platform all in one go, with no explanation or recourse available. It shouldn't be that way.

We're inching towards a Radicle v1.0 release that will provide some stability and a basic feature-set for hosting and collaboration in a fully "sovereign" way. If you're interested in helping out or learning more, feel free to drop me an email: cloudhead@radicle.xyz or come by our Zulip[1].

[0]: https://radicle.xyz

[1]: https://radicle.zulipchat.com/
$200k for a better polymerase was definitely way too low a decade ago, when PacBio had an enzymology group with a multi-million $ budget running crystallography at SLAC to build a better polymerase.

On the other hand, $200k might be enough today if someone finds a way to apply AlphaFold and friends to this problem.

On the other other hand, I'm not convinced a better polymerase will solve their problems. Photobleaching might be their biggest problem, and I don't know that the polymerase itself can do much to protect against that.
I'm glad you have the financial stability to be able to take that (IMO admirable) principled stance, but I think it's unreasonable to expect that's the case for everyone, or even most people.
You're right, I should have added genetics and disease as well! The gist is if your urine is of a light color and you have no issues there is no need to worry or try to force yourself to drink.