skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I no longer work much in the ruby world, but when I did I would run into libraries by @ankane on almost a weekly basis. Prolific, and covering a bunch of academic fields and languages. It felt a bit like every area I became interested in, he was already out on the edge.

https://github.com/ankane?tab=repositories&type=source
I understand, but it seems trivial to add HDMI input here.

Technically you can just remote desktop into a computer from your VR headset, but that won't work in every scenario.
Exactly. When I read stuff like this, I'm always wondering "Have you actually used ChatGPT?" Both of the following can be true, and it's annoying when folks pretend it's either/or:

1. At present, AI can be massively overhyped, especially by salespeople who have an incentive to overhype it.

2. Current generative AI has made leaps and bounds improvements in the past few years, and it's present capabilities provide an enormous productivity tool for those who use it intelligently.

I mean, no, I don't think GPT 4 is AGI, nor do I really think it's that close. That said, every time I use it I'm amazed at how uncannily good it is, and it is able to save me a ton of time.
I would really love to see proper educational content from Meta but i bet this is not were the 'next money thing' is.

Imagine a catalog of proper real life skills you can actually train reasonable good:

- cooking
- soldering
- welding
- Tons of woodworking things
- ...

You could also go to a lot of makers of tools and offer them to digitalize their products for them so someone can actually exercise with a cheap to super high end machine like specific CNCs or table saws etc.
So basically a real world Gilfoyle.

I do not doubt that 100x exist but I anecdotally I've seen that 10x do exist.

This 10x was actually married which I've found the most incredible part.
2E = Gummy Bears, Lockpicking and Aerospace with Teens
Zero chance Google actually supplies Samsung with a real operating system they can use. Samsung will for sure release a headset with Meta’s Horizon OS before anything from Google.
An easy way to see how well you are listening is to try and have conversations where you speak less than 50% of the total time.

You don't have to time yourself with a stopwatch (although that would be more accurate), but you can look back on conversations and easily see where you said far more than you heard.
> You're on a ship going between destinations, but there's no light-speed shortcut, or jump-cut to the destination. Instead, you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the journey.

Neptune's Pride [0] is a fantastic real-time strategy game that has this feature without the maintenance part. You play the game over the course of days instead of minutes or hours. And it may take hours for your ships to reach their destinations. A ton of fun with friends.

[0] https://np.ironhelmet.com/#landing
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MS did the entire VR headset partnership thing, got some very good headsets out (for the time), and then just dropped the project and put it into maintenance mode. If they had kept working on it, it would've done well, as it wasn't falling flat on its face, it was just getting going when they dropped it.

They made the weird business decision to drop the products they had third party cooperation and an enthusiastic userbase for, in favor of an experimental product (Hololens) that ended up only being affordable to businesses and which afaik has never really taken off in the same way as WMR had been.
"Please write the first couple sections for an article based exclusively on the content below. Be direct and concise, but dive into details. Use a personal tone with “you” language. Write in the style of blogger Brian Dean. Use short paragraphs for easy readability. Change the wording so we don’t plagiarize the source material. Make the headlines somewhat catchy and intriguing while still concisely communicating what each section is about.

- AI, also known as artificial intelligence, is overhyped
- AI will never be able to replicate what a human can do
- AI will never replace humans
- AI is a trend that will die out
- AI is not really artificial intelligence, just a trick"
But in this very thread people are saying things like

"It should not be considered okay for there to be jobs that cannot earn a decent wage ... since we ... see people working these jobs full time."

"...for most people, these "gigs" are actually jobs. Qualifying them as "gigs" and saying that people shouldn't depend on them just allows you to feel better about not paying the true cost for the goods/services you are consuming."

and "...the gig economy model ... can be fixed by simply reclassifying these workers as employees."

We can redefine the set of "we" all we want, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a not-uncommon viewpoint amongst more than just delivery drivers.

Unfortunately the truth of the matter is that the service provided by these jobs is simply not worth enough to support a living wage and the pool of competing candidates willing to do the job is high. The only way to have "our" cake and eat it too requires perpetually subsidizing this line of work with either public funds or funds from increasingly disgruntled investors.

I haven't ordered food from an app in years since the sub-par experience of waiting over an hour for some cold and congealing phad thai is simply not worth the premium when I can order directly from the restaurant, pick it up myself and achieve a better overall experience.
I'm not sure if it replaces the video.

It can be an invitation to the entire video because a summary may not cover all the details.

Maybe you are noticing some of the summaries might be better than the videos themselves writing wise?

The folks taking relatively simple videos and extending it out into a video script to milk watch time probably just need to make better scripts.
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Babylon would have been a perfectly good choice to build this experience, but we have a preference for the three.js API.
Meta playing 3d chess here. Opening up the OS to other hardware providers is a great strategic move imo. Excited to see what innovations other hardware manufactures add.
I did that with PalmOS - a card that you insert into the original Pilot (16MHz 68k) and it takes over, runs PalmOS5 on a 200MHz ARM chip, using the pilot as a display and touch panel. Also did it using memory stick IO protocol too (Ctrl+F for "MSIO")

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm
I'm just kinda sad at how cynical so many of us have become. I mean, I see tons of comments "But it hallucinates!!!!!" Yeah, no shit. At the same time, you're having a perfectly grammatically correct, natural, sensical conversation with a computer. Just a couple years ago that was purely the realm of Star Trek.
You think his dad really did it to draw attention to the plight of delivery workers, and not out of desire to be clever, "beat the system" and get a free pizza?
I’ve yet to find its programming help useful. ChatGPT and Copilot routinely offer bad or outright incorrect advice.
> I had this same experience being taught physics and maths. Just a bunch of what feel like pretty dull experiments which ends with a gold leaf moving...

> But the STORY of physics is fascinating.

There’s a college some of my kids have been considering that takes a similar approach to their math (and sciences) curricula, starting math out with Euclid and progressing through Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler (maybe Leibniz / Newton? Not sure), at each point motivating the development of astronomy and mathematics by showing how each person developed our understanding of the natural universe.

In comparison, in my college math courses, which were oriented towards engineering majors, I felt at the time like concepts were coming out of nowhere without justification, with no sense of how they fit in with anything else, other than the certainty that I had to keep up or I would be lost a week later.
Thanks. Seems a great project
Best way to stay in shape in my opinion is to play a sport, especially in some sort of league/club.

If you genuinely enjoy playing, it doesn't feel like a chore! Now into my mid 30s, I do not regularly go to the gym, I do not have any special dietary habits, and I weigh the same as 18.
I'm on a 14" M1 Max from 12/2021 and my AC+ expires in 2025. I'm pretty sure you can buy it right before your warranty expires to extend it. But maybe you bought 1 year of AC+ and can't extend it after?

This was my first AC+ purchase.

Also my battery has been at 79% Service Battery health for about a year. I forgot to use AlDente to limit the battery to 80% but do it now and it hasn't gone down.

edit: Jesus I just realized 2025 is next year. Totally thought I had like 3 years left.. nevermind..
My opinion shifts every other day it seems, recently, Roon, the "famous" anon X account that works at OpenAI, and presumably has access to some unreleased info, said, in response to "are we plateauing soon", "not even close". I honestly don't know what to think.
yes, exactly. There will be a lot of these types of articles in the next few years, some disappointments along the way, but deep and longlasting change in the tech sector and beyond is coming.
The site is meaning to keep people on the site, not send everyone to youtube. It's a different form to consume and narrow down what to watch instead of investing less time in videos that don't have the information you might be after.

Many genres of videos dont really matter as much for a summary, so I'm not sure if this is super ubiquitious
How many times can one's order be 'stolen' like this before a pattern emerges and the account is banned? This is also fraud and because it requires using the internet, it's going to lead to felony charges.
Luckily I don't think this is trending worse, HN has always been like this.

If anything, it was worse a few years ago - especially during peak pandemic and the reddit issues. Nowadays people seem more positive.
had my vote at the landing page
AI Regulation Is Unsafe
The margin of error when using a random sample of 2000 people out of a population of 260M is less than 2.19% with a 95% confidence level.

You are probably making the common mistake of thinking that the larger the population the bigger a sample needs to be to accurately poll. That is true for lower populations but the "sample needed vs. population size" curve is asymptotic.

For example, suppose we want to determine what percent of people believe X, with a 5% margin of error and a 95% confidence level. Here's a table of the random sample size needed for various populations:

Sample Population
80 100
278 1 000
370 10 000
383 100 000
385 1 000 000
385 10 000 000
... ...
385 ∞
You don't strictly need to learn Emacs, but you should probably just join the cult. I bit the bullet and did it about 20 years ago now, and it's been a good thing. Heck, I've got a non-programming dayjob now, but I've still got a keyboard that puts the control key under my thumb: https://x-bows.com.
I'm in the same boat. I just don't care about EMACS, don't like it, and there's little incentive when I'm just playing around. It's a shame because Lisp is really fun and interesting. I just don't want to spend so much time dicking around with an editor just so I can write some code.
The DSM isn't necessarily a list of definitions of mental disorders, though. It was barely written in an age when people had smartphones in their pockets, and it's an example of scientific literature that has absolutely evolved over the last 50 years. It's a Procrustean tool for defining addictive habits.
> OS by Horizon by Meta Horizon OS by Meta.

Why not just call it Horizon OS?
Yeah! Thanks :)
Why wasn't there a PAM solution in place that logged all the mainframe user level activities and commands? Maybe cyberark or such? Would have help to trace the issues and even control such commands from being run by a novice.
Played on Chrome on my Android phone in portrait mode, and the whole game I felt it was too zoomed in.

I was suspicious of that AI the whole time. Like, did it get sent into this asteroid field on purpose to destroy it because it was a threat? Were there other unconscious passengers locked in those rooms and if I died following some risky instruction would it simply wake the next one up? How could it practically see through my eyes and would I turn out to be an automated drone?

Would have liked a bit more subplot to explore. Eg. Fix the spinning satellite to utilize the Comms station. Gain access to the third floor in the lift. Poke around the AI control room to uncover sabotage.

Maybe I just missed some discoveries on my playthrough.
Simply using rlwrap with sbcl is workable.
I suppose it kind of is, or an 'appeal to authority', I just don't see that as necessarily bad, it's just like 'don't take my word for it, someone you might actually have heard of or in an important position said blah'.

Proper journalists and newspapers spend plenty of time quoting politicians and senior employees making obvious or previously said remarks too.
It's really interesting how some folks don't see this as an additional way to drive traffic to the video, when so many channels have a website of their videos.

This type of tool could help create much more meaningful blog or website type content to build a mailing list around the community.
I think this is a great idea. Consider timing it when hubspot officially changes their pricing to be seat based (I believe that would be mid June), as that will cost them a loss in their smaller startup accounts.

What will the commercial offering be, just wondering. You need to make sure you have enough left over to sell.
In addition to what's already described, ActivityPub allows for access control. It's completely possible to have feeds for paid readers, personalized feeds, etc, in a way that RSS doesn't really support.
> And if they don't want it and then we can donate books to a library or a school.

Do this while you're still alive. Don't make it your kids' duty to deal with your stuff after you're dead.

I told my dad that anything he values he needs to give away because I'm junking it. I live in a tiny apartment and have no interest/room to store a collection of stuff that I don't care about.
We already live in the world of fragmented, semi-working, partially compatible platforms. The openness did not make this better. Take one look at what is going on in the risc-v world with nearly every soc having its own fork of the linux kernel, hacked up for specifically their board. ARM has the same issue to a lesser extent. You want to try bcachefs on your ARM NAS board? good luck.
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Indeed. This may drive a few species extinct, and maybe Homo Sapiens is one of them, but really, plants will adapt and the planet will recover after a while.
I'm playing with this a little bit.

Can this deal with varied styles of inline citations within a single text? For example, APA lets you say both "This study found X (Shmoe, 2021)" as well as "Shmoe (2021) found X." There are other ways you might vary it as well. For instance, you might say "Shmoe (2021) found X (p.191)."

This kind of variation is used all the time in papers, but I don't see how I could do that in Monster.

I feel like it would be nice to be able to insert a citation and then tell it how to format that. You should be able to type in in yourself. For instance, I don't expect Monster to have a dropdown for "Shmoe and colleagues (2021) found X," but I should be able to hit "insert a citation," connect it to the article, and then hand-type "Shmoe and colleagues (2021)" so that the whole thing is associated with the reference.

Another random thought after playing with this for a few minutes: It should be easier to just drag in an image, without needing to go to insert-image and then drag in the image.
Germany arrests trio accused of trying to smuggle naval military tech to China
Do you mind explaining further ?
> a bombshell scientific paper recently cast serious doubt on AI developers’ ability to continue to dramatically improve their models’ performance.

This is the problem with this type of (AI isn't real, I promise!) writing. Each and every single time. This bombshell scientific result that he links to? Is Gary Marcus lamenting about a single paper, specific to a single architecture, which primarily shows how quickly algorithmic improvements are bringing down energy costs[0].

We get it. You don't like AI. But you don't have to lie about it, unless of course you are Gary Marcus and this is how you talk your book and earn your speaking fees.

[0]: Algorithmic progress in language models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05812
I know his real identity and I doubt there is some key insider info there although he does work at OAI
Whisper is a different company than Youtube (Google). Youtube's transcription existed before Whisper too so I'd suspect Google has their own for some time.

Whisper's is supposed to be better in some cases, but Google's probably works very well at scale.
It is if credible evidence of such a threat could be provided. The FTC investigated and fined Facebook $5bn for its breaches. The DOJ investigated and fined Binance $4bn and cut off its USD off-ramps, effectively banning it for US residents.

Why should TikTok not be investigated similarly?

What Congress is proposing is banning an app without first providing any evidence that the app conducts activities that are illegal under US law.

FTC v Facebook: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...

DOJ v Binance: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/binance-and-ceo-plead-guilty-...
The reality is that your average engineer should not be considered an expert in security. You need dedicated security people with the authority to reject commits or code changes.
> If a US citizen needs to be spied on by the US government, the FBI is supposed to do that.

Semi-autonomous collections systems generally aren't capable of determining citizenship.

Once the data is at rest, much of it is made available to a surprisingly large number of federal and state agencies - and even local agencies via fusion centers, etc.

The system is built for dissemination. Within that, some checks on citizenship could be possible for some data. But even then, once a foreign person is part of the data/comms transaction, all the related data is available - citizenship of the other participants is no barrier.
It's fairly trivial to add a HDMI/DP input which directly drives the panels in the headset through a mux (e.g. the Pico Neo3 Link could run standalone or from DP input), but that's probably not what you want, because in that case the HDMI source has to perform all of the 3D rendering and lens correction, using software that probably only supports Windows. If you want to be able to plug in any random HDMI source and have that rendered on a virtual screen then the headset needs a SoC with a low-latency HDMI receiver built in, so it can ingest the video and process it onboard before displaying it, and HDMI input isn't very common on these mobile SoCs.

Maybe you could convert the HDMI input into MIPI and feed that into the SoCs camera interface, but I think headsets like the Quest are already pretty much maxing out the SoCs camera capabilities just to read in all the actual cameras used for inside-out tracking. There's no bandwidth left to shove an extra HD video feed in as well.

tl;dr HDMI input that turns the device into a dumb PCVR headset: easy. HDMI input that mirrors arbitrary video: hard.
Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations. (2022)
I think this is at least better than nothing for companies who want to build standalone headsets and not just headsets that are dependent on PCs. Up until now everyone's had to make their own OS and store and hope that people care enough to port over apps and games.

At the very least, this could lead to more high-end standalone headsets being available. Not every 3rd party headset has to be competing with the Quest line of headsets, so the lack of revenue from the store might not matter to some companies.
Thats something I really need for my next startup. I am having a hard-time trying to raise
It's actually worse because you still have to go through the normal security check, you just get to skip the line. This may be dependent on the airport though.
There's a data sharing system, it isn't clear if it is entirely functionally equivalent to a centralized database, but it certainly goes in that direction if you compare it to not having a sharing system.
Yeah, random lobbies are absolutely unplayable. Lobbies that are coordinated in some public Discord server tend to be a coinflip if they're going to be passable or not. But the game really shines when you have a core group of people to play with that all engage with it in good faith.

Of course, all those groups burnt out on the game after playing way too much of it over the pandemic, so it is what it is.
I know at least a dozen artists, and not one of them has found a side hustle that lucrative.

Instead, they get a Master's degree, and use it teach at 2 universities, and work a third job part time so they can afford rent.
So true, you're after a few seconds buried in the video.

Giving the 15 seconds up front and then explaining it in more and more detail can also be appreciated by users.
Where would that fit in between watching others do it on YouTube for entertainment, and doing it for real where you can hold (or eat) the result at the end?
Great talk and I have been enjoying your work. Keep it up!
I know reddit isn't universally liked here on HN but there's the community r/orphancrushingmachine which is exactly this. "Class gets together and makes donation to save orphan from orphan crushing machine!"

"But why does the machine even exist?"
SMB3 is 3 Megabits in size, aka 384 KiB. You're likely thinking of the original Super Mario Bros which is just 40 KiB.
>I've seen some interesting analysis the last few years about how Buffett is a classic "monopolist" invester.

I've done IT work for people who literally do the monopoly thing. Buy 4 greenhouses, growing mainly tomatos and cukes. Later buy a hotel for where they wish to retire.

Ive done IT work for people who secretly own vertical businesses or for that matter an industry they've corners secretly. Even the top end managers in an individual business dont realize the owner has done this.

>No, I mean, right from the outset, he couldn't exist because the way in which he created his business is through creating an insurance conglomerate and using the payments for these large investments. And now he just makes money because he has money. When Warren Buffett goes into a stock, the stock moves and, following Buffett is a legit investment strategy that other people have. Buffett is largely untaxed on a lot of this stuff because he doesn't sell very often.

Like he's very public with his strategy. His big problem today is his scale.

Could someone today be an investor and become a lawful billionaire? Sure, lots of examples. fundamentally the trick is not try to 'get rich quick' or bet against something. It's to be optimistic betting that your investments bring legitimate value to the economy.

What buffet is essentially doing is being a high level manager of essential/important services/products.

I would even go further. Poor people invest in low/no risk bonds because they have a pessimistic world view which doesnt hold up to scrutiny. Whereas the rick invest in high risk stocks because they have an optimistic view.
CCP doesn't control any of those, so they aren't national security issues.

Edit: And in non American countries where US influence is a national security issue they are already adding similar laws or putting in similar pressure to ensure USA can't influence their people as much.