skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think of it as a single killer app but almost all my clients do is inspect and measure different things in places then managers click on a point on a map related to their measurement to compile reports. They certainly want multiple reports viewable in space in front of them pointing to where in the map they connect to.

When I think of the AVP as an expensive, overqualified dev kit for prototyping those types of cases it makes a perfect sense to me. Now when something wearable for normal people comes around those types of apps will already exist.

It's a longshot but if it were also ruggedized I think it would greatly improve the data collection part too. Not too difficult to think of indoor data collection and form completion an AVP could aid.

How most of the marketing hasnt emphasized games is refreshing. I've played a lot of VR games and very few feel like toys in the way I like video games to feel. I agree that I don't really look for full world immersion but I use my AVP all the time beyond a dev kit just for a big screen while working on the weekend in my living room etc. Really only use immersive environments partially to put a background behind my work screen.
Ah, I wasn't aware of the India ban or how it was handled.

I guess I assumed TikTok might try to keep operating in the US out of defiance.
Because there is no evidence to the contrary?
Because it understands what it's looking at. No clearer way to put it.

If you compare scanning random garbage text, it will likely be as bad as the others, including humans.
An attempted tldr of the letter if it is too long for your taste.

Some of the main points of the letter are:

- edolstra, who started Nix, acts like a BFDL, without oversight or responsibility, making unilaterally circumventing or disregarding decisions made by working groups, he chose not take part in.

- he has significant conflicts of interests between his actions as effective leader of the Nix project and his employer

- he is not transparent about his conflicts of interest, nor willing to recuse himself in such situations

- edolstra is not acting as an effective leader. Nixcpp is not well-maintained recent releases have been so buggy, that they are not used. Neither doing the necessary work to maintain Nixcpp and the Nix infra, but also not delegating (effectively or at all), not allowing teams to grow or giving them authority to act without his explicit review or arbitrary veto.

All these are significant concerns for there being a future for Nix as something besides a branch of Determinate Systems, dependent on the moods and business needs of a single company, unable to act independently or maintain a community

There are further ethical concerns you might not share, which are important to significant portions of the community, which they expect not to dodged, and at least to provides clear answers to

- Publicly endorsing a company that builds autonomous weapons systems and systems that are, in the opinion of many, built with the explicit purpose of aiding with human rights abuses

- That opposing fascism is a controversial statement

- Failing to achieve any effective moderation policy inside the project

They hope for reconciliation with the project and leadership, with edolstra stepping back from his BFDL position, allowing the institutions of the project to develop and act under their own authority with a mandate from the community

i would recommend you read the full letter and argue against the authors arguments instead of this post's

An additional comment:
Forking is an option, but forking is not democratic event some seem to propose( one person one vote). Because even if the ones who fork are the clear majority, they have a much higher cost to bear, since domains, infrastructure, trademarks and mindshare stay with the original project
This classification seems somewhat Rust-centrict. The terminology I'm more used to seeing for coroutines is this:

Symmetric vs assymetric coroutines: symmetric coroutines are the original style, where the currently executing coroutine decides who to transfer control to. Assymetric coroutines have a caller and a callee and the callee always yields control back to the caller. (This is much more common today)

Stackful vs stackless coroutines: in a stackless setting the language distinguishes between synchronous and asynchronous functions. This is what Python and Rust generators do. In a stackless setting (such as Lua), every function can potentially yield or call a sub-function that yields.

Exception handling is somewhat similar to stackless coroutines, specially in languages such as Common Lisp where the exception handler can choose to resume execution from the point that raised the exception, instead of unwinding the stack.
Java took over by targeting large teams of inexperienced developers.

C++ took over by adding OO to C with zero cost abstractions, and then evolving into modern C++ (which discourages OO and encourages composition via template instantiation) without leaving programs behind.

Lisp has supported composition forever (it is one of the big advantages of functional programming), and the macro language is similar to templates. I think the big problem is that it is difficult to scale lisp projects with inexperienced developers (loses to java) and is not zero cost (has a GC, is often interpreted; loses to c, c++ and now rust).
There are few MFT lenses providing great bokeh, they cost thousands of euros.

I don’t understand how you could take my comment that way. MFT gear is not cheap at all. APS-C these days can be physically similar in size, and cheaper while having better image quality. Hence why I think there is little reason to choose four thirds.
When you look at Warren Buffet when he started investing as a kid and the actions he took as an investor. He could never do the same today; tremendously illegal.

The change obviously being the politics and subsequent laws created to 'regulate' the market. But ultimately politics will taint it. Worse yet, it's clear that in the USA it has been corrupted since Clinton Era.

Clinton has a lofty goal of fixing the 'inner city ghettos' and how did it he do it? He repealed glass steagal. Which resulted in the 2009 financial crisis, but that was just the surface of that bad decision.

Something else rather unique to the USA is naked calls or even exercised options before strike date? Like the health of the US stock market via legislation and politics is so bad. This is in essence what the gamestop and wallstreetbets is making boatloads of money against; but is somewhat essential as the checks/balance to the US system.
Has any company ever tried having a bonus pool divided equally between all employees?

Ie 5% of gross revenue / employees. So every time you add someone you reduce the bonus unless that person adds more to gross revenue?
Tumblr was the home for fujoshi girls, a demographic which is most highly represented in the high school anime club.
It's also toothless when the employer's insurance company can require a (post-hire) background check to cover the employee and failing it is grounds for canceling the hire.

I don't see an obvious solution, because compelling commercial insurance to cover someone with repeat duis/reckless driving/addiction issues in a work truck doesn't feel quite fair, but there needs to be a path to gainful employment for ex-cons if we want our supposedly rehabilitative justice system to have even a chance of working, and there's not a lot of options that aren't customer facing, don't involve driving, and don't put you in some sort of security context or in charge of accounts or money.

Basically, any job that pays worth a damn requires a bit of trust, and we simply don't trust ex cons. And they're probably statistically somewhat less trustworthy, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have a path out. For our sake as much as theirs.
The scheme compiler in Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig is a great introduction to compiling Lisp. I was particularly impressed by it only taking a change in one line to go from regular recursion to handling tail call optimization.
Against my better judgement, I am going to respond to this: you appear to be one of the least self-aware people I have ever interacted with. You literally asked for that smack-down:

> I am calling you out, you fast talking egomaniac coward, bring that big brain out of hiding and show off its real power: state clearly and explicitly, precisely what is incorrect in that comment.

So you really shouldn't be surprised when, again against my better judgement, I obliged you.

I tried really hard to avoid this confrontation. I offered you a lets-agree-to-disagree olive branch not once but twice and you responded with ad hominems and insults.

So I'm going to offer you one last piece of advice (again against my better judgement, because I think the truth is that you are beyond my ability to help): you can sometimes get away with being obnoxious on the internet, but it works a lot better if you don't do it at the same time that you put your profound ignorance and unwillingness to do your homework on proud display.
I wonder how much efforts would it take libreoffice team to bring calc up to feature party with excel regarding vba in order to run files like these
Even for those campaigns it might be cheaper to cast a wider net using a non-personalised ad scheme.
Intel Gaudi 3 the New 128GB HBM2e AI Chip in the Wild
I'm assuming `timeout_return_value` would be a user provided value that serves as the default. But most effect systems also support a `return` effect that lets change the return type of a function [1]. So you could make it return `Just<result>` when it succeeds or `Nothing` when it hits the timeout.

[1] https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#sec-return
Sounds like advertisement is something that people usually don't want to see or click on. I wonder why?
fwiw, the author's previous book ("The Coddling of the American Mind") was ... featured ... on If Books Could Kill: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-am...
They're not dumped. The emulator implementation recreates the expansion chip functionality in software. There are only so many expansion chips, so its not intractable.
> So many people really believed ad blocking is like, actual theft.

If copyright infringement is considered theft, then AdBlock would've to be considered akin to theft too. They're inherently the same thing. You're consuming the content without providing the expected revenue to the owner.

From my perspective, neither can be considered theft. Which is why I use AdBlock, too. But if either is theft, then the other would've to be too.

You could very well argue that AdBlock is technically worse then copyright infringement, because you're still using the bandwidth of the provider. With "piracy" you're sharing the content through other avenues.
To be precise, Mull browser (a Firefox fork).
Lockpicking lawyer: cast a key kit [video]
> Casting this as a cost problem is part of the political problem.

It's inherently a cost problem. We have to replace a bunch of capital infrastructure with different capital infrastructure. That costs money. If you fund that with deficit spending, you will increase inflation, which is politically unpopular.

In aggregate polling, Donald Trump is now tied with Biden among people 18-34: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16D9GSxqF5LFIRTcoVJlv.... That is completely nuts, and it's because eggs are somewhat more expensive than they were a few years ago. What do you think is the political feasibility of financing climate change mitigation efforts through deficit spending?

> There is little discussion of sticking to narrow market solutions when it comes to war, yet we blithely put out billions dollars for various form of defense and really don’t ask how are we going to pay

Defense spending as a share of the economy has been shrinking for decades as the Cold War threat recedes into memory: https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/non-defense-consumin.... If you can persuade Americans to open their pocket books for climate change the way they did for defense during the cold war, then that's great. But that's what it will take.

> It’s only political lobbying of extremely wealthy fossil fuel corporations and billionaires that stands in the way.

This sort of magical, ignorant thinking on the left is why we have no hope of doing anything to mitigate climate change.
To look down IRL, I move my head forward. Makes sense to me.
Yeah makes sense.

I attended a boarding school in a third world country, it was a pretty neat childhood!
The current tech isn’t there yet but it could be fantastic for travel when it becomes feasible.
Firstly, largely agree.

> You'd be complaining about how a really_really_unlink_now_i_mean_it() syscall was irreversible, too.

Or the converse; what file (or worse hundreds/thousands of files) is using up all my disk and what's the sane way to delete all the old versions, and which files are important to keep all the old versions of?

> I like not having to rely on arbitrary commands implementing (or not) wildcards.

Indeed and being able to use meta tools like xargs. "The unreasonable effectiveness of plain text".
I know the Google search console lets you upload a site map, which can be an RSS feed, so the information is readily available. I suspect Google isn't incentivised to promote RSS, especially after they killed Google Reader.
But Simon, you are a strongly opinionated guy whose opinions are interesting. Why don't you make a data journalism piece? Why don't you submit an article to the NYTimes, WSJ, etc.? They will publish it! What are you waiting for?
Don’t have an account, so I wasn’t able to get to the part where they described whether or why this is a problem.

But just based on the beginning; our politics tell us something about how we expect the future to play out. How could that not influence investing strategies?

Politics has infected investing? Maybe we’ve been cured of the idea that financial plans can be made without regard to politics.

Edit:

In general, there’s a rhetorical game around putting things above or beyond politics. This is just “playing the refs.” The politics describes how we interact on the mass scale. Everything is part of it, including your and my hobby horses, no matter how much we’d rather have our special things be sacred.
No, a link would link to the YouTube channel so it would be good as well as the embed.

The creator doesn't get views unless someone clicks to play their video. Most people won't click to play the video.

Also this site makes no attempt to check if a video can be embedded before displaying the text.
To be clear, we haven't been asked about it. Besides the framing of the question ultimately begs the response.

Q1: Is it ok for China to control what Americans watch?

Q2: Should companies have free association?

Q1 and Q2 determine the same decision, but express different values and ultimately different responses. You have to be honest that the framing begs a particular response. That's the part that's not unbiased.
Prehistoric Planet hypothesises that some used fire.
And ad hominem attacks mean you don’t have anything valid to say :-)
> To me that really just screams lazy and incompetent management.

100%. Why make hard decisions when you can just hire? A company flush with cash simply hires and lets decision makers avoid decision making.
Yeah, I think MS' is the best out there, but agree that the usability leaves something to be desired. 2 thoughts:

1. I believe the IR jargon for getting a JSON of this form is Key Information Extraction (KIE). MS has an out-of-the-box model for this. I just tried the screenshot and it did a pretty good (but not perfect) job. It didn't get every form field, but most. MS sort-of has a flow for fine-tuning, but it really leaves a lot to be desired IMO. Curious if this would be "good enough" to satisfy the use case.

2. In terms of just OCR (i.e. getting the text/numeric strings correct), MS is known to be the best on typed text at the moment [1]. Handwriting is a different beast... but it looks like MS is doing a very good job there (and SOTA on handwriting is very good). In particular, it got all the numbers in that screenshot correct.

If you want to see the results from MS on the screenshot in this blog post, here's the entire JSON blob. A bit of a behemoth but the key/value stuff is in there: https://gist.github.com/cmoscardi/8c376094181451a49f0c62406e...

[1] https://mindee.github.io/doctr/latest/using_doctr/using_mode...
I think the iPad and the watch were the most successful immediately but even then they had considerable redesigns.
Games! This device begs for high end VR games!
Of course I know that security by obscurity is a bad idea. Hence I applaud the lock picking lawyer for his wonderful YouTube channel. But this latest video really makes me wonder: is this is a step too far?
This came from the esafety commission not from the executive, the commission has separate powers and is free to enact them. And yes in Australia they are seeking to de-escalate political tensions that could arise from sharing the material, such as copycat violence.

Further:
Initial notices warned social media platforms that footage of the stabbing was illegal 'Class 1 material' and should be removed immediately.

Class 1 material is content that promotes or incites violence or is likely to cause offence to a reasonable person.
Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware
With WasmGC finalized, I hope we see more compilers that target it instead of including their own GC.

It's could be a new interpreter, or maybe a version of CPython that uses WasmGC structs for all Python objects, or a compiler similar to this but that targets WasmGC directly.
> the situation is, in the worst case, as good as when types are mandatory

The worst case is actually worse than when types are mandatory, since you can get an error in the wrong place. For example, if a function has the wrong type inferred then you get an error when you use it even though the actual location of the error is at the declaration site. Type inference is good but there should be some places (ex. function declarations) where annotations are required.
Especially considering the number of "Petrol company is in ESG but Tesla is not" type of articles that we've seen in the last +5 years.

The reality is ESG is just another gamed metric, if you want to do ethical investing that's probably not the best way.
Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture
Gives a compelling reasoning and evidence of how agriculture was roughly simultaneously invented around the world.
No matter what encoding your JSON file is, gzip will output a compressed bag of bytes that, when unzipped, will result in the same file coming out the other end. This is true of movie codecs, Word 97 files, or anything, and none of the maintainers of those formats had to be consulted about this in order to make it work. That's what is meant by "thin waist" here.
As I said, the attention step is O(n^2) per token sequentially and O(n^2) for the entire sequence when calculating the entire sequence in parallel, where n is the length of the sequence.
Meta opens Horizon OS for other companies to build VR headsets
I keep ALL of my data in Dropbox and basically treat all of my computers as one single computer.

I'm a little surprised how well this works given two things:

1) I use both macOS and Windows - I was especially worried about projects that take dependencies from package managers but haven't run into any conflicts here

2) I keep almost everything in local git repos inside dropbox. I was really worried I'd end up with fucked up repos if I end up working on one computer when it hasn't fully sync'd yet from the other one, but again, haven't run into any issues here

I really love this setup. It works amazingly well for me. But I'm also quite concerned that in the last years Dropbox keeps trying to get me to keep files in the cloud and not sync'd locally, and Apple now wants to push Dropbox to a new model which also prioritizes this. But worse, it's not backwards compatible, there's some types of file which will no longer sync and I don't actually know if I have any of them. And no LAN sync, which I suspect is part of why I've had no conflict issues with my setup.

Most of the incompatibilities/changed behavior seem like edge cases but the list is long and very scary for someone so dependent on dropbox:
https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected...

So I guess I too am in the market for a dead simple "just do an amazing job of keeping this filesystem the same across devices" product.
I just want a copilot-like autocomplete and chat plugin that uses the standard oai api so I can hook it up to any local model.
Well, Barclays are my main and Starling my secondary and only ever accessed via apps, so I could start by testing them both. Thanks for all this work.
No, because I see no point in switching from some commercial services from a company to other commercial services from another company.

I host what I need as a service, I run locally and sync the rest.

Even if Proton act as a friendly company, it's still an enterprise witch have the job o making money. They are less close than their direct competitor Tutanota, so with them you can pull your data for a local automated sync with JMAP (at least for mails, I do not know if they offer {Card,Cal}DAV for the rest) but that's is. They are as hard a Alphabet to get data synced (not punctually exported), Alphabet offer a buggy non-standard IMAP, offer a broken cardav API, they offer a homegrown IMAP version. In practice it does not change much.

You want to own your data? Buy a domain name, keep a relay personal mailserver, if you need a webmail choose one (Mailpie, Modoboa, Roundcube for instance), run OwnCloud if you like such web-centric model. Most of the west world have FTTH connection with more than enough upload for personal usage. You emails for antispam cab be hosted also by Google if you want, but on your transferable domain, and you have all the infra at home, if a service start to be bad you switch transparently for yours correspondents.
Just in case you're not familiar with the phrase - https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/have-no...
This is a big deal. I'm amazed we don't have even more disasters. I'm glad to see criminal charges, and hope other cities follow suit.
> do the correct way

Careful, with that attitude you might not have a wife for long.
frawk was the first awk to add proper CSV support, but the better-known awks have added it now as well, so its utility has become more limited.

Edit: Actually, for correctness' sake: goawk started earlier (2018, frawk 2019). I didn't trawl through the history to see which was at a usable and/or CSV-supporting stage earlier. Both did support CSV before that became trendy though.
Lots of zeros is good.

One big problem with null pointers is that there's only one of them. (One of a given type doesn't help.)

Hoare's "NULL was my biggest mistake" rant proposed the wrong solution, namely no null.
The problem with map projections in the digital age is what works well on world scale doesn't on street scale and vice versa. As explained in detail in this post: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/adaptive-projections
They argue their use is transformative and thus the works are not derivatives.
Just reading about DDT reminds me of the "WizBiz"[0] series of fantasy novels, it's funny how just the mention of something from so long ago can evoke memories.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WizBiz
One aspect they forgot about is information asymmetry. If you are a customer of a company you are better able to evaluate the company.

A right-winger is better able to evaluate say parler vs truth social than a left-winger would be and thus able to invest with more confidence.