skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure the author has sincere concerns. I found the sweeping generalisations tough to read:

> [Vision Pro is] an extremely alarming harbinger of how tech giants are going to know even more about our private lives and radically reshape our communities once again.

Given that the author appears to think of himself as a victim, utterly powerless to resist:

> Vision Pro isn't for creating content. It isn't for interacting with the world. It isn't even for walking around your own apartment. At best, at its core, it's yet another way for us to zone out and watch ever higher and higher definition TV and movies. I've never in my adult life vegged out as much as I did during my time with the Vision Pro.

Anecdotally, I find that negative reviews of Vision Pro have tended towards emphatic "this sucks for everyone" rhetoric. Positive reviews, including those from folks using the device as their daily driver now, acknowledge its limitations and rough edges.

> In the end, I followed the path of so many other Vision Pro early adopters and became an early returner.

Vision Pro return rates are estimated at 1%.[^1] It figures: this is an early adopter product. The author of this post had a bad time with it and seems to be desperately reaching to draw generalisable conclusions, rather than sticking to his own subjective experience.

Then again, his three bylines for Business Insider are: "My Apple Vision Pro Nightmare", "Weight wasn't the only thing I lost when I took a weight-loss drug", in which he cheerfully manages to find the L in "I've lost more than 40 pounds, started running again — finishing my first half marathon since Covid-19 started — and my cholesterol and blood pressure are the healthiest they've ever been. I've been freed from a growing list of medications doctors warned I might be shackled to for the rest of my life," and the feel-good hit of last summer, "The looming addiction crisis being fueled by AI".

I suspect the author would be far happier with a Linux machine he can gloat about not using very often. (Of course he tells us he doesn't have a TV in his apartment, lmao.)

[^1]: https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/vision-pro更新-美國市場需求已大幅放緩-全球發佈...
How is it misrepresenting? Amazon didn't just give the money with one hand, and take it back with the other. They bought a stake in Anthropic, although no-doubt the bulk of that money will also come back as AWS revenue! Sounds like a double win for Amazon. There should also be a lot of future AWS revenue from inference, not just training.

I'm jealous of these companies that are able to invest in Anthropic, especially at current $18B valuation. FTX just sold 2/3 of their 8% stake in Anthropic at the same valuation, with the bulk of that going to a Saudi wealth fund, and some to Fidelity funds.

In comparison to Anthropic's $18B valuation, latest investment rounds in OpenAI are at $100B.

I'm curious which of these anyone here would prefer to invest in, at these valuations, if they were given a chance ?!
Same! Just earlier today I was wanting to do this with "The Moral Animal" and "Guns, Germs, and Steel."

It's probably the AI thing I'm most excited about, and I suspect we're not far from that, although I'm betting the copyright battles are the primary obstacle to such a future at this point.
But the homogeneity of race is a social construct. Sure, there's cultural differences, but there's no hard biological obstacle to a high-trust multicultural society, just ingrained ideological opposition.

If we can consciously shuck this counterproductive flailing against integration, maybe we can actually get somewhere.
I believe https://aider.chat/ is working on RAG for codebase.
This also had a bigass HN discussion recently, for those interested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305452
I'd at least think that quadrature samples would be preferred as they offer instantaneous phase information. I dont think there is anything to be gained by forcing the model to derive this information from the time series data when the computation is so straightforward. Instead of a 48kHz stream of samples you feed it a 24KHz stream of I&Q samples; nothing to it.

I would draw an analogy here between NeRF and Gaussian Splatting -- like ok its great that we can get there with a NN but theres no reason to do that after you have figured out how to optimally compute the result you were after.

I also believe that granular synthesis is a deep well to draw from in this area of research.
Maple Syrup reserve?

I can't believe there's a maple syrup reserve hehe
Some NATO countries don't understand urgency of stopping Russia, says Swedish FM
If the credits displace other paying retail customers, they're worth retail.
Demonstrating you can do it yourself shows a level of investment and commitment to AI in your platform that integrating LLAMA does not.

And from a corporate perspective, it means that you have in-house capability to work at the cutting-edge of AI to be prepared for whatever comes next.
The Digitakt is calling to you...
There's a difference between laws and norms -- legally, yes, there's no responsibility but as a social norm there is. (This is how all open source works.)
What are the most popular / best sofware developer fonts today? Personally I am favour of Jetbrains Mono, but always interested to see if there is still typeface innovation going on after 500 years.
> Here it says they're going to use Amazon's chips for training and inference, but...Amazon doesn't have its own chips yet???

Amazon has had its own chips for years. They bought a company called Annapurna Labs in 2015, who made the chips[0].

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/trainium/

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna_Labs
That doesn't explain anything though.
4D Golf is making my brain melt away
From the affinity forum, posted by the CEO of Serif:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/201412-aff...

Cautiously optimistic.
This is silly but I will not use any Hashicorp product ever again, for two reasons: one is Terraform (it is a bad product with a bad DSL), the second is that I bought one service from them that advertised a clear 30-day money back guarantee, found a bug in one hour of running, a multiple-year old Github issue they had been ignoring, and to make it worse, they completely ghosted me when I went to ask for a refund. Both on Twitter and via email.

So, I don't really care to try out Nomad for my business, honestly.
> The exact definition of a word has nothing to do with it.

It has something to do with it. There will be scenarios where the definition of "copyrighted material" does matter, even if they come up relatively infrequently for Databricks' intended use cases. If I ask DBRX directly whether it was trained on copyrighted material, it's quite likely to (falsely) tell me that it was not. This seems suboptimal to me (though perhaps they A/B tested different prompts and this was indeed the best).
This exists (commercial)
https://subzero.cloud/
Believe it or not, our laws apply to children too! Other government programs that can affect children include schools, roads, libraries, healthcare, welfare... They're personally affected by a lot of political stuff.

While we're at it, why should adults be the ones deciding how the public school system works? It's been more than 10 years since I was in school, I doubt my experience is still relevant.
here is a quick blurb from someone on reddit which sums up the general advice in a way that matches my experience

"most mining algorithms targeted for CPUs require certain amount of L3 cache per thread (core), usually 1-4MB, so just divide your total amount of CPU L3 cache by this number and the result is how many threads can you run max on your cpu. For example if an algorithm requires 2MB of cache per thread and you have a 10-core 16MB L3 cache cpu, you can run at most 16/2=8 threads, 9 or 10 threads will result in worse performance as cores will be kicking out each other's data from the cache. "
https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/jurv6j/proces...

Below are two real world examples of monero mining I run myself

An example is my i9-10850K. exact same performance using 8 cores or 10 cores (16 threads or 20 threads).. in fact it slightly goes down performance wise at 20 threads.. Given that it has 20MB cache, it is an example of the bottom limit not being optimal. using this example i'd say minimum is around 1.12MB per thread, or 2.25MB per core

Another machine I have, the 5950x crunches away all day and night using all threads (32) on all cores (16) with 64MB cache no problem
this correlates to 4MB per core / 2MB per thread.. and it seems like more than what it needs because I can use the machine all day for daily tasks with no hiccups and while mining full out. If you have a desktop at work and need to kill it all day long, the 5950x will absolutely take anything and everything you throw at it.. samsung b-die ram helps monero mining as well. I run only 32GB but in 4 8GB b-die sticks.
One difference is that a lockfile doesn't apply transitively, while vendoring does.
You could potentially file a securities fraud suit if you own Amazon shares (standing) and can find a firm willing to run with it. Not joking, that is the only path to recourse if you take issue with how this is represented.

(not legal or securities law advice)
That's an unexpected position for me.

How do you define science? Could it be a science, according to you, or is there something fundamentally non-scientific about it?
I think ~2 MB (a bit more) is that ratio, at least as designed. It's possible that you can hyperthread Monero with 4-5 MB of cache per core.
Actually I could see this being very popular for wedding planning; something inherently collaborative, with clear categories, that people are actively trying to budget to a specific number. I mean yes, numerous spreadsheet templates exist for this, but you're basically selling a pleasant interface (it does look great!).

I have a harder time imagining this for business use cases, unless maybe you really focus on the approval/reimbursement flows.
Blended wing body jets have a number of disadvantages:

* Low ratio of window seats may not be acceptable to passengers

* Passengers seated at the edges will experience greater positive and negative g-forces when rolling

* Don't fit well into existing airports for parking, jet bridges, etc.

* More difficult to design for pressurization than a tube
> It happened slowly enough that other forms of life could evolve and thrive. We're changing things and killing off species too quickly for evolution.

That is quite definitely not how evolution works:

1. Other individual forms of life don't "evolve". Evolution only works by killing off large numbers of creatures, and only ones that have genes that differ by chance, and are more fit in whatever the new environment is, exist to pass their genes to the next generation.

2. There have been a number of significant extinction events that happened in the past that were much faster than whatever humans are doing now. I'm pretty sure the meteor that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs happened pretty quickly.
Mistral did what many startups are doing now, leveraging open-source to get traction and then doing a rug-pull. Hell, I've seen many startups be open-source, get contributions, get free press, get into YC and before you know it, the repo is gone.
Krebs notes that the recovery form does have some form of CAPTCHA on them, which mostly just goes to show that CAPTCHA systems are a poor and increasingly deficient rate limiter.

ETA: Also from a user experience even once a week between attempts is still enough to deeply annoy a user getting popups on their devices. This is one of those cases where rate limits probably still can't solve the user irritation.
Apparently not: the MDoT dispatcher: "I need one of you guys on the south side, one of you guys on the north side. Hold all traffic on the Key Bridge."

https://youtu.be/gafDs7sxJqg?si=hvLselyX9FQSczOH&t=98

MDoT == Maryland Department of Transportation. Note that the pilots in command of the ship were also employed by the Maryland state government.
Bezos actively advocates for riding the wave of trends in his Lex Fridman interview. I think if you can leverage external factors to get traction and act as a tailwind for your work, then why not take advantage of that?
I wouldn't have expected this much dependence on global state in erlang software. I thought erlang was all about encapsulation, but I guess some problems are basically universal to production software no matter what language you use, and global state is one of them
"Abused" chips are mostly a myth and Milan is not that old so these chips should have plenty of life left in them.
I believe Google Wave was a similar product.
Does he even have standing?
Is that a serious question?

There’s nothing illegal in terms of international law for the CIA to have had a small office in the WTC towers.
[Speculation]

At the B2B end of the market, it is pretty certain there are reliable actors motivated by ordinary interests in maintaining ongoing relationships with good clients.

At the B2C end, there probably reliable retail services but I suspect it is largely a market for lemons. https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_introduction-to-economic... And perhaps a non-trivial number of law enforcement operations as appears to be the case with hitmen.

Like any service, personal recommendations from assholes in your social network are probably your best bet. Good luck.
I've only watched a little bit of Huberman, but I can't take him seriously because:

a) he's obviously done a LOT of steroids or something, which aren't really great for you

b) At least half of what he says appears to be made up woo-woo nonsense
In Economy (not lay-flat) the best feature of having a window is about having a wall next to you for sleeping, not for sight-seeing.
> Bechtolsheim has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $923,740 for earning slightly more than half that for his illegal trades, and has also agreed to be barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for five years.

sadly, no deterrent effect here

the fine is adequate. but he should have a done a year at Club Fed and a lifetime ban on public boards.
(Elixir)
> The Copilot key is essentially a rebranding and takeover of the context menu key.

The...what?

I mean, I know what it is, but I haven't seen a keyboard with one in a while; my Microsoft ergonomic wireless keyboard has the Fn key where it would normally be, and my Alienware laptop has a windows-key-disabling-lock-key there, and my Dell Vostro sacrifices the space to make room for having both arrow keys and a numeric pad on a laptop.

So, in practice, I think this is going to be an extra key to fit in, not a repurposing, because you can't repurpose what doesn't exist.
Mosaic AI Training (https://www.databricks.com/product/machine-learning/mosaic-a...) as it's mentioned in the announcement blog (https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-dbrx-new-standard... - it's a bit less technical)
Yeah I've been thinking about this lately.

LLMs come and go.

Prompt engineering techniques come and go.

But eval / labelled dataset is always useful once you built it.
I posted links because I've had this conversation many times over. The short version is: yeah, I used to be a techno-utopian too, 20 years ago. But none of those magic technologies are realistic, we aren't on the path to them being widely deployed, the population and emissions and resource consumption are all worse, as summarized in the conclusions of the experts who put together the Earth Overshoot Day report. If you want to argue about it, take it up with them.

> the invention of fertilizer

Nitrogen-based fertilizers are made with hydrogen from natural gas. The agriculture industry, at its base, is like the rest of modern economy: based on drawing down a vast reservoir of non-renewal fossil fuels, with the unfortunate massive externality of altering the composition of our atmosphere and the global climate in a bad way.

While technology will play a role in how humans adapt to the changes we've brought on ourselves, it's important to take realistic stock of where we are and where our trajectory is. Human population peaking will happen--the question is whether it's gradual or whether it's sudden. You don't want the global equivalent of this: https://www.geo.arizona.edu/Antevs/nats104/00lect21reindeer....
> if you believe Barnett

I believe Barnett's claims should be treated seriously and scrutinized by experts in the industry (which is exactly what was happening when he died, by the way - it's not like people were ignoring what he had to say). I don't believe that he or anyone else is entitled to our faith just because he's saying things that confirm our worldview.
11 year old security bug in util-Linux (Leak user passwords on Ubuntu)
The article seems to be a set of ideas and opinions, strongly held, that simply use the Apple Vision Pro as a conduit to convey to the world. When that happens, it's often a poor review and unjustifiably critical.
Oh my God, does this explain Dutch cuisine?
Yep, now imagine you are visually or auditory impaired and need magnification or a screen reader.

Accessibility always ends up on people's "I'll think about that later" bucket, and it's terrible.
Wikipedia says NRO launches are $440m, so the price difference is really really big, which is the reason why this is the last launch - not even the US Government has that kinda cash for launches.

The other reason is there's a lag of several years between when a capability is established (Falcon Heavy) and when large customers can take advantage of it. For example, we really shouldn't expect Starship to make a dent in way satellites and telescopes are designed and built until the 2030s.
I get a DRM enable request when visiting that page
Site doesn't include code snippet with font as showcase :(

Looks quite wide from the font preview.
I'm not GP, but I use Logseq and also turn some pages into blog posts.

No it's unfortunately more complicated than that because of how logseq uses an outline style. I will typically use one bullet per paragraph and it can often copy/paste as rich text into various places such as the Google Docs, and from GDocs you can copy/paste into almost anything. I also often end up using Vim (for ex commands especially) to apply some changes like removing the `- ` from the beginning of each paragraph. It sounds worse than it is in practice when writing it out, but it's also not as simple as copy and paste.
I like Berkeley Mono [0].

[0] https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono
I can only use Ubuntu Mono. For some reason it is way more dense than any other monospace font I've found. I'd like to switch it up from time to time and try new fonts, but every time I've tried I lose a significant number of lines, or I have to set the font tiny and it looks rubbish.

Are there any other fonts that are as dense as Ubuntu Mono?
Why stop at your first billion?
Im being pretty thick here. I understand that each bucket is sorted. But what distinguishes the buckets? it talks about merging into slot 0, and then merging into slot 1...with what?

I know I could spend some time and read the code, but I'm hoping someone is kind enough to post a better explanation for the structure invariant and the insertion process
I used egui + wasm to whip together a really quick GUI to help me learn to play chords on the guitar, and would do it again in a heartbeat, it's just so easy to reason about, debug, and use.

I wouldn't use it for more serious apps, as I think the immediate mode paradigm makes battery killer websites on laptops and mobile, since unless you are really careful about not making the app re-render, it'll be running your loop at 60fps which isn't great when you leave your site on your phone or laptop.

Edit to plug https://github.com/emilk/eframe_template from the same author: it gets you a rust/wasm webapp hosted in github pages in minutes after cloning + changing a few things, with full CI/CD and everything.
Finally!

It's still not enough (and don't get me started on the incredibly cheap double-parking fines!)

Ride the bus, take the train. Don't make my city more smog filled, noisy and nasty.
I think this speaks to something in the OP that bothered me:

So much of the student-hostile elements of teaching come down to manufacturing efficient metrics for learning. They don't guard past solutions because they don't want you to study from them, but because they need to be able to report whether or not you learned the material, and writing an appropriate test question, especially at higher levels, is hard.

Likewise, you didn't view office hours as a tool to learn the material, it was a tool to game the metric they force on you to determine if you're learning in the first place.

Its very easy for the execution of modern education theory to slip into an ouroboros of perverse incentives.
https://archive.is/irMNh
I see what you mean.

As a minor addition: The major national / international journalism orgs, such as the NY Times, CNN, etc., still have them. The NY Times publishes a Chinese-language edition.

https://cn.nytimes.com/
Ah, that's good to know since it wasn't clear you were able to hire in Canada, as the peer comment says, I am not sure I would make it past a screening round :) (I don't currently do Rust - though I skimmed the tutorial and it looked doable), but working on a hypothetical web console written in Go has appeal.

The other project I'd be interested in working on (likely as an open source, separate project) would be bringing the dx/ux and tooling to home lab level gear.

Is there a Canadian subsidiary or is it a contract employee kind of relationship (if you can comment!)?
The point is not to find differences or similarities to when Israeli or Hamas operatives dress in civilian clothing while carrying out military action. Of course there will always be plenty of either. If that was my point, you could have simply accused me of whataboutism and left it at that.

The point is that this excuse is a Humanitarian camouflage and does not justify atrocities, war crimes, nor apartheid.

Francesca Albanese talks about this in detail in here report (Chapter VI, section A, paragraph 62; linked above):

> Significant numbers of Palestinian civilians are defined as human shields simply by being in “proximity to” potential Israeli targets. Israel has thus transformed Gaza into a “world without civilians” in which “everything from taking shelter in hospitals to fleeing for safety is declared a form of human shielding”. The accusation of using human shields has thus become a pretext, justifying the killing of civilians under a cloak of purported legality.

As well as section B of the same chapter appropriately titled Turning Gaza as a whole into a ‘military objective (paragraphs 63-67):

> Israel has misused this rule [of legitimate military targets] to “militarize” civilian objects and whatever surrounds them, justifying their indiscriminate destruction. According to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “many ostensibly civilian objects may become legitimate targets”, losing their protection under IHL [International Humanitarian Law] or become “collateral” damage as a result of Hamas’s choice.

> Protected civilian objects can lose their immunity from attacks if and for as long as they are used by combatants in hostilities. However, Israel considers any object that has allegedly been or might be used militarily as a legitimate target, so that entire neighbourhoods can be razed or demolished under fictions of legality.

> Israel has thus de facto abolished the distinction between civilian objects and military objectives.
this really isn't justifying the poo tracking app. sorry but johnny may end up getting away with some bathroom breaks or an administrator is going to have to.... administer
Assuming that Amazon got some shares based on the stated value, and if the value is misleading, they got more shares than they should.

It includes the profit-value, defined by Amazon itself, that Amazon is getting from running their own servers. Not the real, actual costs.