skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The whole point of Vision Pro like devices is you wear your computer on your face always with you and the only peripherals you need are your eyes and hands also always on you.

Clearly not, as the Magic Keyboard and Trackpad are well integrated (as is just using your laptop trackpad and keyboard). It's akin to using a keyboard folio with an iPad. It's a fully usable product without it and tons go without, but the keyboard folio definitely unlocks additional potential.

The Ibiza-appeal would be that you can have a small backpack of stuff that lets you reach full productivity on the beach. I can't carry monitors the size I'm able to pop in on the AVP. To answer your question downwind, is it the same as like, an ergonomic desk set up? Nah. But it's pretty cool and surprisingly usable in many cases (this tricky spreadsheet is notable for not).
I think what’s happening here is that the EU mandated browser choice, but Apple hasn’t had enough time to implement APIs for other browsers to handle launching PWAs. So to make things fair and equal between Safari and the other browsers and to ensure that your default browser choice is respected, they disabled the Safari frameless PWA mode. It’s EU mandated browser choice, and hopefully they’ll figure out hooks so you can have eg frameless Firefox launch when tapping a homescreen browser bookmark.
I'm thinking optimistically about this as well, however, it's also true that someone who does well in a large corporate environment and who only knows large corporate operating procedures could struggle to adapt to the needs of startup in a timely manner. A Google or Meta staff-level engineer is a pretty useless skillset I'd say for a company with only a few people. Plus, those folks likely also have the personal networks and charisma to bounce to another high paying position elsewhere that needs those skills and is willing to continue paying for them.

Though, I am hearing of a few who struggled to find a comparable job with comparable benefits ended up starting something while they update their skills. I guess the question is, do they have the network and reach to turn it into a business?! Having serious downtime to decompress is a major catalyst for any of us drained of our creativity. So, at the very least, once VC money starts flowing again, and that VC money is not just obsessed with chasing LLM + X idea, then we might see this new wave of startups.
Yes. So how is this irrelevant for qualifying as GM-level play then? Being able to play these positions is a clear prerequisite for even being in the ballpark of GM strength. If you regularly choke in completely winning endgames, you'll never get there.

This is cheating, plain and simple. It would never fly in human play or competitive computer play. And it's most definitely disingenuous research. They made an engine, it plays a certain level, and then they augment it with preexisting software they didn't even write themselves to beef up their claims about it.
>Can you give me a single example where a pie chart would better convey information than a table?

there's a specific type of pie chart that's good: a "clock chart".

this is when you're depicting how long some contiguous sequence of events took as a fraction of a whole duration. you map the start and end to the 12 o'clock position, and the intervening ones wrap around clockwise.

e.g. the history of the universe with the big bang at the top, then formation of stars, galaxies, planet earth, dinoaurs etc as you go around clockwise. then human history is a tiny slice at like 30 seconds to midnight or whatever it is.

this works because it piggybacks on people's existing strong spatio-temporal intuition for clock faces. time is a flat circle.
For anyone unclear about the title: It is about the foveated rendering looking weird, not the tracking itself breaking.
I didn't realize it was a typo. I thought it was a deliberate misspelling!
Was there an answer in there somewhere?
Infants do have a "diving reflex" but that is very different from knowing how to swim. If you throw a baby in a pool, the baby will drown and die.

There are undoubtedly similar reflexes that assist fulmars in learning to fly quickly, but that doesn't mean that rapid learning isn't also required.
My guy, a heat pump is effectively an air conditioner with some added reversing valves.
Its a bit icky but LLMs / copilot can speed up the creation of openapi specs a lot.

Agree it doesn't fix the "root" problem that the overall syntax is not ergonomic.
Humbler for Minecraft – Embarrass friends via Discord when they die in game
After a few hilarious deaths and some "I wish I was there for that!" in our Minecraft session, I decided to bring the fun to the entire group by writing a Python script that will send messages via webhook when someone dies in game!

Enjoy!
>I can't carry monitors the size I'm able to pop in on the AVP.

But will you also bring a mouse and keyboard with you to the beach with your AVP for work on the soun lounger? I'd love to see that. Hell I'd actually pay good money to see that.

"Ladies and gentleman, come to see our latest attraction, today for your eyes only, feast your eyes on the 'techbro at the beach'. Please, no flash photography and no knocking on the glass."
I had this same issue when working with Jupyter notebooks during my data science days, but after getting used to using GitHub on a team, all my code is just neatly organized in separate folders/repositories and every update is committed. It's fairly effortless now.
I think I kinda disagree? This is hard (and likely the reason it's not happened) but I think we need, in some ways more code. We need the right code. (And there-in is the rub.)

For example, today I was trying to … put a link into Slack. And it is very clear, as a user of Slack, that Slack utterly lacks a parser and is almost without a doubt simply tossing some regexes at the problem. A parser might be "more code" … but it would simply work, whereas I often find valid markdown getting mangled by … whatever is attempting to "parse" it, but probably isn't.

We have a script that renews certs with certbot. If I get enough free time, I'm going to be replacing it with a Rust program, as certbot is just too difficult to get automated. It wants to prompt users with questions (do you want to upgrade to EC? No, no, I just want to renew) and regularly fails (it attempts to wait for DNS propagation, but it does so too simplistically; this is made doubly hard on its part that Cloudflare will gladly ack a write in their API … but their DNS is apparently not read-your-writes.)

Even the Rust replacement, which is in a prototype, has to re-implement part of ACME, as the ACME library doesn't expose the part I need. I'd rather not … but missing code.

I want to parse .deb files to walk their dependency tree, but .deb files use an artisanal format. They're old, so I sort of get it, but it's nonetheless annoying.

Read-your-writes is the single biggest reason I have to do inane amounts of retry logic around APIs that ack writes and then gaslight me on subsequent requests dependent on that write.

I've hacked around Cython failing to accurately transpile Python. I've hacked around Azure APIs just … not doing what they're paid to do. I've written scripts to make Docker API calls that … could have been exposed in a CLI tool, but just weren't, because tough cookies.

The WASM people were fighting about whether strings should be forced to be valid, or not. Think about it: every future WASM program might have to deal with SomeNotQuiteAStringType, for the rest of time, all just to make interop with JavaScript "easier". Hopefully, in Rust, we'll get a WasmString with a `.to_string() -> Result<String, Ffs>`, but that's still an fallible path that didn't need to be.

People still think CSV is a decent format.

left-pad, widely derided as "one of those dependencies that is so simple you don't need it", failed to correctly implement the function! Then when the ragefest about it broke out the broken function was standardized.

Go for the longest time didn't have a round function, and the bug report where it was requested got a "it's so simple just implement it yourself" and it took commenters like 6 or 7 attempts to get it right. round()! (Thankfully, Go saw the light and eventually added it to the stdlib.)

In many ways, quality engineers who know what they're doing and write good, high quality systems would go a long ways. But SWE companies are, AFAICT, penny wise and pound foolish in that department, and have traded paying devs for quality with devs dealing with low-quality systems for all of eternity.
"I went home, told my wife that I would be deeply ignoring her and our baby for the week, and spent twelve hours a day in the headset for four straight days."

Father of the year right here.
You didn't read my comment thoroughly enough. I'll reiterate.

It is not rude for kids to yell and laugh while playing.

It is rude to let them keep screaming as if they're being hurt, in pain, or facing danger.

It is rude if they're screaming for hours.
I had the exact same thought but you beat me to the share.
It was typo ^_^'
another example is when reading from a file using io.Reader. EOF is returned as an error, but you still need to check the slice for any new bytes that we read before the EOF. A lot of errors are actually good to have, and still return critical data despite being an "error".
It depends what quad you are after, fpv, normal, something else? But they are all have some essential components and other extra ones, I am planning to make a full course soon including the software that will enable it to fly over the internet (cellular like LTE/5G).
Nvidia, sure. But you’ve got deep pockets companies like Amazon, Google, and Meta that don’t have a current hardware income stream to protect and have a valid business outcome that would justify the eye-watering investment that is required. Said companies have a good talent pipeline and enough prestige that they can spin up an entire business unit to work on it.
> one can already churn out high quality output with custom models

In what domain exactly? Be precise with your claims.

I've yet to see an LLM-produced insight on... anything. The ability of these models to manipulate (and, yes, seemingly understand) language is freakishly good. Utterly scarily good, in fact. But keep probing and (if you yourself have sufficiently deep knowledge of the topic to allow good enough questions to be asked) you'll quickly find it lacking and come to the conclusion that the words are all there is — they're not a serialisation of the model's abstract free-floating conceptualised understanding; they are the understanding.

I suspect, though this may sound arrogant, that the vast majority of those making such grandiose claims about 'AI' are not subject matter experts in anything. They're the same people who think being able to pump out endless Python scripts to solve various canned problems means a system can 'code', or that cranking out (perhaps even very relevant!) rhyming sentences means it 'understands poetry'... and I say this as someone who is neither a programmer nor a poet and so has no skin in the game.

Again: I'm happy to be proven wrong. But I'm not expecting much.
The exploded view [0] showcases them placing a very small MicroOLED panel at the top of the frame, whose light then appears to get projected into your eye using something they call an "AR Lens".

In principle, this is roughly comparable with the approach Viture, XREAL, Nreal, etc. have taken. Each places a 1080p MicroOLED panel at the top of a prism that bounces the image into your eye, covering the top third of your vision. That's one of their main disadvantages and more than likely why neither Meta nor Apple utilize this tech, it really works best if you combine very tall nose bridges and then push it as far forward towards the nostriles as you can, in hopes of getting the top section with that prism roughly at eye level. Again, Brilliant Labs claim an incredibly wide-range of FOV and nearly full lens coverage from the center, not the top.

Also, the prisms used be the competition require far more phisical depth and the MicroOLED panels in those seem (very rough estimate using the exploded view rendering as a reference) two times larger in area size, so I have a hard time understanding how Brilliant Labs could manage such full screen coverage at such high quality, with such a thin "AR Lens" and what likely would be a lower resolution panel. In fact, the panel size looks incredibly close to the panel size in the render of their Monocle [1], which is 640x480 and projected using a similar prism solution into the lower third, not across the entire lens, which would be far more realistic and believable.

I'd be a bit more trusting if their images, representing what the display is supposed to look like, leaned towards the North Focal direction of very simple, low-res graphics. That would indicate a massive success in designing their lens solution and would make sense with a smaller MicroOLED panel. But high-resolution, full lens coverage using something fairly slim; that's a lot of sudden innovation that may deserve a more in-depth presentation, ideally with some independent journalists to verify.

Again, I'm mainly skeptical because I'd really love for this to be real.

[0] https://imgur.com/MnOW2Rr

[1] https://docs.brilliant.xyz/monocle/images/monocle-exploded-v...
> Like, a new power pole costs (say) $1000 regardless of how many watts are going through the wires attached to it. Someone has to pay the person that cut down the tree and hauled it to its final location money.

That pole is carrying the power for, say, 100 people.

Half of them use a below-average amount of electricity. If you stick them with a $100/month fixed fee, they don't need a large solar/battery system to get off the grid entirely, so you've made that economical and that's what they do.

Now you have the same number of poles and half as many customers, so the fixed fee rises to $200/month, and more customers do the same thing. This is not going to a great place.

Meanwhile there is a rural road somewhere that only has two things on it. One is a large commercial operation and the other is somebody's house. Putting up poles along that road is going to cost $100,000, but the commercial operation is content to pay the entire amount because their alternative is buying land somewhere that it costs significantly more than $100,000 more. The house on the same road is not content to pay half of that and will just use their $50,000 to install a solar/battery system and have quite a bit left over, even though a model where they only pay for usage would get them to sign up, and the power company is installing the poles either way.

The problem we're looking at is that if you charge a fixed fee for a grid connection, low users opt out of the grid, and then the fixed fee goes up and creates a new set of low users. But if you charge for distribution per kWh, everybody installs local solar generation because it's cheaper than any generation method that has a significant distribution fee as part of the cost per kWh, which in turn raises the distribution component of the price per kWh even more. Under the first option, a large proportion of rural and suburban customers aren't going to want a grid connection at all. Under the second option, they'll take the grid connection but then only use it if local generation isn't available (i.e. it's cloudy) and the grid price per kWh at those times will be quite high. But that's plausibly the better of the two alternatives, because a grid connection with a high price per kWh will generally be better than losing power at those times, or having enough local storage/generation to prevent that from ever happening even in rare circumstances.

A third option is to charge everyone the fixed fee for the power grid and force them to take a grid connection even if that isn't economical, but that's even worse. You've essentially created a head tax with no way to avoid it even if you can't afford it, because you can't cancel your service and you can't pay less by reducing consumption.
The cheap homebuilders around here (midwest) are still putting standard 80% efficiency gas furnaces which draw interior air in brand new homes.
15 SEER relates to cooling efficiency, what is its HSPF rating?
I think we all have to face the reality that much of the content we love could disappear tomorrow. Many of my favorite videos and music tracks, almost entirely made by independent no-name artists, have disappeared over the last 2 decades from the internet, either due to link/content rot or artists that wanted their content to disappear. It is deeply sad to me, but I've learned to accept it and move on.

Archival tools are great for preventing link/content rot, but it feels disrespectful to use them for people who want their content deleted. Should we strive to always try to do the right thing? What do you think?
Millions just get on with it, without a fear. If one streaming site goes bust, they'll switch. If all streaming sites go bust, the world will be united in finding solutions. It'll be fine.

But fair enough to those that want to curate their own local collection.

Full disclosure: I rely solely on my local collection, but I also think the loss of streaming is not a worry people should have.
Some years ago, I bought a nice electronics set from Amazon that essentially taught a basic electronics course. I was looking for one yesterday, but couldn't find one. All of them were centered around interfacing to an Arduino.

I had to go to ebay to find a used one.
Yeah my thoughts exactly, but you know how it goes in robotics, the buzzier the word the better!
> kids are always going to yell.

Your kids, maybe. This isn't a ubiquitous perspective. But, some people don't tell their kids "no" about anything, so...

I'll teach mine to mostly yell in big open spaces, while biking, on a playground, during sports.
Though Loopt was not a smashing success, it was moderately successful for a time.
Sam then advised start-ups and was president of YC.

He has been a key figure in OpenAI since it's inception, and based on the response from the employees when he was booted, I'd say they have a great respect for his leadership.

When Sama left YC for OpenAI, it was still 2.5-3 years from launching a product (I could be wrong on that). So he has lead the release of the fastest growing company.

So, I'd say yes, he has done some very significant things, and will likely continue to do them.

However, I also would be cautious of conflating founder with investor, which I see quite often. Sam is involved with a fusion company (I don't know which one), and I hear it spoken as if that is his company, but I believe he is just the investor. Maybe an active investor, but I agree, let's give credit to the people on the field, not those who buy the box seats.
It's fascinating to me that after waging a war on Napster, the labels' strategy now is to make all of their music available for free on YouTube. They replaced Napster with "Napster, but all of the files are official".
That's what I would propose, at least, yes.
> You can reproduce my results by grabbing simdjson and running bench_ondemand.

Can someone ELI5 how I can run these benchmarks?

I cloned the repository, and tried to compile the bench_ondemand file, but it complains about missing header files, which are in the repository, but under the include/ directory. And I couldn't find any documentation about this

EDIT: okay found some instructions for an old version, but these still work. if someone is interested:

https://openbenchmarking.org/innhold/a192889420a87740daf3c7c...
Indeed so. The highest-paid devs I personally know earn their living working with old COBOL code. It's highly paid simply because there aren't that many expert COBOL programmers around anymore.

In a prior job I had, we developed enterprise software aimed at large corporations. We had to support several old mainframes that don't actually exist anymore outside of museums -- but these companies ran emulators of the mainframes solely to continue to use the software they'd been using for decades. Nobody at those companies even has the source for that software, let alone know how it really works. It just works and they can't justify the expense of reworking their entire system just to get rid of it.
I’m in Montreal area and I don’t know anyone with natural gas.
There's a general IBM theme of "whatever tech we come up with", IBM did it first, a very long time ago, they have their own name for it, and everyone else "discovers" it years or decades later.
Yeah, I do accept it.
It's definitely a work in progress - but something that active development is being focused around.
The way this is being handled in an upcoming update involves a few things - an OCR tool identifies math formulas, applies a bounding box and takes an image. That image gets sent to a multimodal-LLM which attempts to "describe" the formula reasonably.
While not yet perfect, this is something I anticipate to improve quite a bit soon.
The same approach is going to be applied to tables, graphs, figures, and images.
Let's say someone posted explicit nude photos of Magpie on the Internet without her consent. Because CBC just did exactly that (see the link, if you're into revenge porn).

What do think will happen? The answer is nothing, because ain't nobody taking this law declaring Magpie a person seriously. You can create all the laws you want, but they don't mean anything if nobody else is willing to recognize them. Government isn't something off to the side. It's just the people.
I'll test that out and get back to you /s

I can't say what the extent of those swimming reflexes really is, but water births are not unheard of. Besides there's literally countless examples of this sort of thing, most prey animals can walk or even run mere moments after being born, cetaceans and ram ventilator sharks all know how to swim immediately or they would literally drown, insects can fly as soon as they hatch, etc.
I like 2 slice pie charts for data where those 2 pieces encompass the whole. Bar charts are superior in every other way (3+ segments, easier to compare, etc.), but are not as good at conveying you're looking at the total.
I really like the “Department of Psychoceramics” part.
I'm firmly of the belief that all users should wipe their post/comment history & delete their accounts before this happens. User-content is what provides reddit their value, but once they go public it's (almost) guaranteed to become steadily worse & less useful as shareholders squeeze the life out of it.
Learning to live with musk oxen
Huh, I guess memory safety is now the sexy security vulnerability.

What was it before? SQL injection?
you don't need unsafe to sneak in a cryptominer
Yes, but by that same logic, safe programs can also be written C.

However, I do believe Rust gets a whole lot of things right.

I sincerely hope that unnecessary use of unsafe code is avoided.
History of the Chapter
> the Rc type does not support being sent between threads

So why even have such a thing in a language designed for concurrent programming from the ground up?

Arc should be called Rc, and that's it.
The video in this blog post is titled "My work day in a vision pro" but I didn't see a single productive moment. This version of AR is not for me I suppose.
Thanks =]

I think they wanted to include "Models" to reach the 3 older people adjacent to the industry not colloquially familiar with "LLM" yet.
It's not. Fiat money drives inflation.

The adoption of fiat currency by many countries, from the 18th century onwards, made much larger variations in the supply of money possible. Since then, huge increases in the supply of paper money have occurred in a number of countries, producing hyperinflations – episodes of extreme inflation rates much greater than those observed during earlier periods of commodity money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Trying to run it longer means it gets downright frigid and wastes electricity. Currently we just run a couple of dehumidifiers. Not ideal, looking into other solutions but it is cheapest and most practical.
A nuclear weapons lab helped crack a serial-killer case