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I2C supports multi-master designs.

In practice, it is similar to how a firearm allows one to shoot at themselves in the foot.

Electrically it seems like a low speed bus should be the ultimate in reliability. Sadly, I2C peripherals are implemented with high speed digital logic and sometimes no filtering (or present but not enabled)! They might react on nanosecond glitches of the I2C clock line or very high frequency noise that is hard to see.

It boggles my mind that I2C is implemented so horribly but continues to be used… for decades.

And don’t get me started on the hung bus problem…
Is it though? I've asked a few uber/taxi drivers and they all have sort of laughed at the idea.

Not a scientific sample of course. And there are clearly politics being played on all sides of the issue.
It's pretty strong evidence! We understand the basics of how humans (or living things in general) are constructed, and in that framework, built out of physics and chemistry, there's no space for special magic stuff; anything biology can make is made of atoms and could in principle be replicated. Even if there's some exotic whatsit we have somehow not been able to detect thus far, something that lives outside of our existing scientific theories, that would simply require updating those theories, and then figuring out how to follow the same steps biological systems do. Thus, the idea that there is some other "non-physical" thing intrinsically inaccessible to us is an extraordinary claim.

You similarly have no direct evidence that there isn't a bottle A&W root bear on Europa, but our understanding of the history of humanity (and root beer and space travel) makes it very unlikely. It is reasonable to conclude that there is no such bottle, and wildly unreasonable to posit that there is.

Edit: added the word "direct" + minor clarifications
Meta has a lot of work to do on DevEx for non-gaming experiences. Say what you want with the Vision Pro, but it comes with a lot of niceities like SwiftUI. When you develop with the Quest, you're stuck with Unity or Unreal Engine -- it's almost too much freedom to develop simple productivity apps.
When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1998)
The hype is the part where you start talking about the future. We have little idea what will be in GPT-5. OpenAI hasn't announced anything. Sam Altman does hype it up sometimes, in very vague terms.

> future models are world-changing

Possibly, but talking about what you imagine the future will be in the present tense is hype. That's not the future, it's speculation about one scenario. There are others.

There's been a lot of progress making models that aren't quite as good as GPT-4, or are maybe comparable. Why is that? Have we hit a wall? I don't know, but that's a scenario, too.
I really want some good VR train sims. It’s vaguely educational! A standalone quest train sim would be an instant buy for me. Probably not for many other people.
DSM V was published only 6 years after the first iPhone so I don't think that means anything. We're living in a very different world.

It really seems to like scientism to me to claim that something doesn't exist if it's not listed in the big book. Smoking wasn't recognized to be unhealthy until the 1950s and 60s.
Is this ‘open’ as in ‘we have partners’ or actual open source?
“Not an advantage” is sort of the default case; Ruby supports async, too (and, unlike Python, doesn't have function coloring.) So, I don't see why asyncio is an advantage.

I like Python -- I use it more than Ruby -- and asyncio is fine, just, IMO, not an advantage of Python over Ruby.
You (and others) are a bit confused. The DSM V (5) was published in May 18, 2013 and there have been updates. DSM-5-TR was published in 2022. This was after the above issue was explicitly looked into by a subpanel and found to be lacking in evidence.
So how do you explain our relashionship with countries like Saudi Arabia? Because forget the bully, thats like being friends with the school shooter.
Answer to Q2 is easy: no. Nobody thinks that companies should be allowed to pledge allegiance to whoever they wish, there are already lots of laws in every country against pledging allegiance to terrorists or being owned by terrorists etc.
Is it based on some prior art (BSD, Linux...), or a new proprietary OS written from scratch? The post is not too rich in actual information, beside that now other tech-giants can use it too...
Even if you had a modem card, there are too many more potential queueing points upstream of it: what you're proposing here would never make any measurable difference in real life. The congestion that makes cable uplinks suck isn't happening at your modem.

If you want to run BitTorrent and game at the same time, the router can e.g. limit the BitTorrent flows to something below the minimum guaranteed TX rate, so you know there's no queueing on the modem.
How to add more tools like something we are working on? Can i list my open-source alternative to Perplexity that I am building?

here is the link, add it if you like useful - https://omniplex.vercel.app
(Still in dev)
Here’s the D3 implementation (which is just an interrupted azimuthal equidistant projection):

https://observablehq.com/@d3/azimuthal-equidistant-hemispher...
Microsoft's efforts were pretty half hearted, for example, none of their headsets worked with Xbox.
It's a silly caption isn't it, why would it be third-person view, nobody's going to see those sketches and assume it's an actual product render, surely.
That's not how copyright works.

Copyright is violated when a work is distributed or reproduced (or performed or... there's a few categories).

If I take a website, duplicate it, then publish it myself, I am engaging in copyright infringement.

If another person comes along and views my website, they are not engaging in an illegal act. It's the act of distribution that is infringing, not the act of receiving.

In your example, if a publisher creates a website and distributes their content, that publisher is exercising their rights to distribute that work. But there's no strings attached, there. Unless I sign some sort of binding contract that stipulates that I must view ads in order to receive the content, there is nothing in copyright law that says I'm in any way stealing or breaking the law by blocking those ads.

And if such a contract was in place (say, a click-through ToS... though whether those are enforceable is a question), my blocking those ads would be a contractual violation but it would not be "theft" in any meaningful sense, nor would it violate copyright law (it would be a violation of that specific contract).

So no, they are not "inherently the same thing". A publisher publishes their content. As a receiver of that content, I can do whatever I wish with it, including censoring/redacting the portions I don't want to view. Similarly, if I bought a newspaper and cut out all the ads before I read it, no reasonable person would consider that "theft".
I wonder if this "opening" of the operating system is their way of putting the metaverse project out to pasture - analogous to donating it to the Apache Foundation - without admitting that the company burned $36 billion on a misadventure.
I understand your take but I don't agree. By your logic no news site could display a video at the top then summarize the video in an article. This is one of the main use cases of the YouTube embed - which gives revenue to the creator when it's played on a third-party site (and the third-party site host gets no revenue) and the YouTube creator has the option to disallow embedding their video if they don't want it embedded anywhere - it's in their control.

The idea that the number of embed plays will be 0 on this site is just unfounded, and untrue as I just watched a video in an embed on this site. That creator just got a view, where otherwise I would have never seen their content, thanks to this website.
"But it hallucinates!!!!!"

Yeah, and it's getting quantitatively better, all the time. There is a clear progress curve.

Go back and look at the comical quality of GPT2 outputs, and the things people were getting excited about on Twitter. I wrote GPT off at the time because it just seemed like Markov model shenanigans to me, then I tried GPT3.5 and had my mind blown (but was still skeptical due to all the hallucinations), and GPT4 has finally convinced me that this is inevitable, and it's now just an iterative improvement game.
> All of the people driving this work for companies that sell postgres hosting.

Even if that's true (and I'm not sure it is, there seemed to be plenty of people in support of the feature), that doesn't mean it only benefits them. Plenty of features are championed by one group but benefit many others, so perhaps evaluating whether it's good based on who asked for it isn't a useful strategy.

> The feature is driven by "We're power users and we know what to do and what this is"

That's not how I perceived it. There are, as was noted in the article, multiple ways to do this, and even ways to enforce it currently. To me this seems very clearly a case of users, and people responsible for providing it to users, wanting a feature to make the quality of life of those users better (anyone that does an ALTER SYSTEM in the environments they are referring to is going off-track and going to cause themselves a problem) and attempting to work with upstream to provide a solution rather than using kludges (such as making the files immutable, but possibly not getting a useful error from postgresql when the command fails) or implementing local patches, so it's not necessarily exactly the same as the mainline postgresql.

> the resistance is "Yes, but there are a million users, they are not power users, they will shoot themselves in the foot, and then PG will gain a bad rep for security".

No, the resistance did not seem to be that the users will shoot themselves in the foot, from what I read. It was that they were afraid security researches would see this as a security mechanism, but since it's not necessarily hard to bypass they would get called out for poor security, affecting the reputation of the project. I'm not sure how you expect millions of users to shoot themselves in the foot by having to enable a flag that prevents them from doing this and then attempting to do it. It's not default behavior, it's specifically opt-in behavior. And if it's clearly not a security feature, but a safety feature to help people from doing things they shouldn't in environment that it will cause problems in, then hopefully security researchers won't waste their time with erroneous CVEs.
Moravec's plots (from 1998!) are looking more and more like prophecies:

https://www.jetpress.org/volume1/power_075.jpg

https://www.jetpress.org/volume1/All_things_075.jpg
I recognize that percentage-wise, dissapointingly few US citizens have passports. I suppose it's more linked to economic status than anything else.

But I was merely rebutting the parent's statement that there is no centrally issued ID in the USA, in the context of ironic use for a base layer for "decentralized" identity.

It's too bad the article focused on that nonsense instead of, what good is a decentralized identity -- if it can't assert your actual physical identity.
I had clear for a bit when I traveled for work more often. It was nice, and it's definitely not "for rich people". It's less than $200 a year. I bet most people pay more for streaming services for non-essential entertainment. I've always been torn on if it's something viable long term though. While they're at it, they should ban fast passes at amusement parks.
Not if you have TSA precheck as well.

Most US airports I’ve been to have 4 types of queues:

* No TSA precheck, no Clear

* TSA precheck, no Clear

* No TSA precheck, Clear

* TSA precheck, Clear

They all work exactly as you expect (you get the benefits of either precheck or clear or both at once, depending on the queue).
I don’t think hardware is the right savior though, just moving faster with software, focusing on differentiation (ex: better understanding of the data for the task at hand rather then purely using OpenAI APIs). Hardware is the perfect way to kill your margins even with a successful product, look at the jawbone story
What a weird framing? You say this as if gmail, android and chrome are all dead now. They’re still being used and improved. Even if they didn’t enter new “categories” they’re still in a lot of existing ones and very popular -like hundreds of million of users- even if alternatives exist.

First of all, Google Search has maintained dominance and relevance for decades. That’s no easy feat. They have news, patents, books, LLMs all added into it.

Google has a hugely popular cloud service. Especially if you include Google Workspace.

Obviously YouTube is huge and regularly gets new features. There is a YouTube app for almost every piece of hardware with a screen.

They have a pretty impressive mapping product suite. Everything from Google maps to Google earth and all their GIS products and tools (eg solar panels location SaaS).

The play store is huge. AND They have a huge variety of extremely popular consumer apps like Photos, Music, Home, etc.
I flagged this submission because nvAlt is and has, been obsolete for quite some time and does not run on most modern setups without some hacking. The nvAlt author is trying to get people to stop using it. In fact, the author reminded people of it being obsolete this weekend[1].

nvAlt's logical successor is nvUltra[2], which has been in beta and slow development for several years. Last I was in the private beta, the users forum was filled with complaints about the slow progress of development, so maybe keep that in mind before choosing nvUltra.

I was a long-time user of nvAlt and have since migrated to Obsidian[3]. With the Omnisearch plugin[4] and some UI settings adjustments, you can get pretty close to the nvAlt experience.

1. https://brettterpstra.com/2024/04/20/a-plea-to-nvalt-users/

2. https://nvultra.com/

3. https://obsidian.md

4. https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch (but install from within Obsidian itself)
I've only played among us as in private lobbies with friends to have fun during the pandemic. That's why it was so popular. Would never think to play it online with strangers. There's really not much to it its just about as complex as a simple boardgame. It was just a way to easily socialise with everyone you knew even if they weren't a hardcore gamer during lockdown.
More hassle than a YouTube video, which is already more hassle than an article, but considering we’re talking about mixed reality, the ability to do the soldering, next to a detailed 3D model of exactly what you should be doing, in your line of sight, is a big selling point to me.
I feel like for LLM's at least, we've not seen a lot of progress on the high end for a year or so. GPT4-Turbo is a little better than GPT4, but mainly only for things that can benefit from huge contexts.
I hope at some point they expand to devices beyond goggles, like i dont know a holodeck or something
My wife's mom is a statistician (and has been since like 70's). She also used to do a lot of programming in the line of her work (working for a telco, and later as biostatistician), in the latest iteration in R, where things are like you expect them to be. But, before then it was also Matlab, where 1 / 2 = 0.

But, none of that is really relevant. Both operations are useful and common in statistics. Which one is more common will depend on your domain.

> the designers took note of Python [...] made changes

That's putting too much faith in designers of Python. Even calling these people "designers" is giving them too much credit. By their own admission they don't have any sort of vision or strategy for how to deal with the language, they just add random stuff and see if a lot of people complain or thank them.

In other words, matrix multiplication operator is there not because there was some kind of intention or design on the part of the small group of people who are responsible for releasing the language, it was more of a "genetic algorithm" kind of thing: change - iterate - see if change optimizes some metric - repeat.
Setting up a Docker registry mirror to workaround Dockerhub rate limits
Looks so awesome. So many of these really nice looking Kinesis Advantage looking keyboards tend towards columnar layouts, not staggered, and that's run me aground both times I've tried it. :/ I'm envious though!
Thanks. I know about the one for Pyodide. Is it confirmed that it works for this new py2wasm compiler?
At most large airports in the U.S., there is a separate CLEAR line for PreCheck from the CLEAR line for standard security. CLEAR is a benefit to skip the queue, but it doesn't usually have an impact on the level of scrutiny.
i found the little yellow thing in that room and i was expecting it to enable the elevator but no luck.. what am i missing?
Isn't it based on android?
> Unfortunately, the laws of physics driving DRAM cells have not improved much over the last couple of years (or decades, for that matter), so memory chips still must operate with similar absolute latencies, driving up the relative CAS latency. In this case 14ns remains the gold standard, with CAS latencies at the new speeds being set to hold absolute latencies around that mark.

Some gaming memory kits can do 10ns or less latency. Though I guess if memory latency is your bottleneck, you should look at HBM.
Sure, but it can be projected in a way that minimizes distortion of the current region you're looking at. 3D effectively allows you to choose the best projection from an infinite family of projections, while 2D restricts you to a single projection regardless of your location of interest.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/tiktok-lite-dsa-probe/
No, they used Three.js among other things. Startup time was fast here, it’s probably just how long it takes you to download the game assets that determines speed in the end.
It sounds to me Meta is terrified of Apple and they needs apps sooner rather than later.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405197.
Quarto can do this really well (eg, my blog here: https://andreasthinks.me/posts/burglary_attendance/). It also does Rmarkdown.
My wife observed that in large orgs, headcount is currency. People constantly looking to justify headcount so they can say they have a 10-person org, a 50-person org, a 100-person org. I've seen managers get buy-in to spin up a new department to build a tool they could buy off the shelf for the price of 2 or 3 people. I'm constantly reminded of Mitt Romney's old saw, "corporations are people". Just an admixture of irrational, vain, fallible people. The successful ones make fewer mistakes than the rest.
Interesting that it's the fdny itself that is doing the arrest and not referred to the NYPD or something. I didn't realize fdny had the legal authority to actually arrest people
Seems more aligned with trying to achieve what android is to mobile phones but with mixed reality.
>No matter how much the chattering class wants to portray this as a "fad" and not an inevitability, those of us who can type and read can see the reality for ourselves.

Right. Regardless of any "superhuman" abilities, we can talk to our computers now, and they can talk back. The decades old holy grail of HCI has been achieved. That fact alone is going to change everything.
Really good. I am actually using js-tiktokken and wish there was a package to handle all the other LLMs also but still something I can work with.
Am I the only weirdo who does not want, under any circumstance, to move to a world where head-mounted computer systems are normal? It's bad enough we have the things in our pockets. I don't want mine mounted in front of my eyes.

I can hear the replies already, "If you don't want one, don't use one," but if something becomes normal enough, the outside world does change around it. Why invest in street signs, for example? Who prints maps or encyclopedias now? Or why make anything actually aesthetically pleasing if 98% of the people who are going to interact with it will see it through a digital lens, where you can change your designs on the fly and for so much less cost?

It's not just that I don't want to use it. I don't want it to become normal among other people either.
A flavor of android
I'm a bit confused, DDR5 products are already out - as are CPUs and motherboards that support them.

How can this change happen retroactively? Would motherboard manufacturers just need to update the BIOS to enable new XMP configurations? (For when this new, higher transfer rate RAM becomes available)
Recent and related:

2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39149938 - Jan 2024 (41 comments)

Also:

Bob Kahn on the Birth of “Inter-Networking” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405197 - June 2023 (8 comments)

Others?
I enjoyed it, but in Safari on iOS there was no sound at any point. I checked my device volume. I toggled the game option for sound on and off.

It just occurred to me that it may be because I have my phone ringer set to silent. That is indeed what caused it, which is not great as I don't want notifications to be making noise.

It also felt slightly too zoomed in (I even attempted to zoom out using my fingers).
> The PFY was duely grabbed by the griddlins and had his futtock roasted.
Thanks, old friend. Always a pleasure to build cool stuff for a web browser, like in the good old days. ;)
OpenXR Mobile SDK is the native development option for the Quest devices:

https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/native/android/mo...
Mitre says 'nation state' attackers touched its NERVE
"This long-term investment that began on the mobile-first foundations of the Android Open Source Project has produced a full mixed reality operating system used by millions of people."

Hopefully they stick to a proper license model with AOSP as a cornerstone.
It says 'to more device makers', not all, and anyway it wouldn't even have to be open source but just public releases? I expect it's a case of applying and meeting whatever standards though.
There is the old quote “we overestimate the impact of technology in the short-term and underestimate the effect in the long run”. I watched this with the internet. First it was a toy (before maybe 1991}, then it was massively overhyped (1992-2001), then disillusionment kicked, in the end it transformed a lot of business, maybe not in the way predicted but the impact is undeniable. Same with AI, right now we are probably at the 1992 internet stage. There will be a lot of wrong paths but it’s pretty clear this will have a massive impact.

People were right to be skeptical about blockchain and cryptic, but AI is on a totally different level of usefulness.
Really awesome, well done!