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Vision Pro runs iPad apps, and has a windowing system UI that’s similar to iPadOS. It feels like a “spatial” fork of iPadOS.

iPad apps respond to “touch” if you bring them in arms reach you can do all the typical iPad gestures like scrolling, tapping, etc with your hand physically touching the app window, in addition to doing it with gaze.
I thought this was an excitation of the state of the nucleus rather than that of electrons.
One thing that crossed my mind when I was looking at the TypeScript compiler. Was that it was parsing header "d.ts" files even though it wasn't used in source. Although, it had some references of a type in a small main function.

Iirc, I think this was how most compilers did. The downside is that transitive deps can easily explode. Thus, compiling a super small main function can takes seconds.

I did suggest a solution to just lazily parse/check symbols if they are encountered in source. Instead of when including a type, you have to parse all the transitive header files of the file that defines the type.
There are people named Null that cause issues, for sure.

There's an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/327/
Also the excellent (as usual) write up from Admiral Cloudberg https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/strength-in-numbers-the-...
Isometric? Like, is the nucleus gaining a virtual proton or something?
Pope Francis to join G7 session on AI
How to promote KDP books to reach a wider audience and increase sales?
For the Carmack quote? His interview with Lex Fridman. This excerpt has it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rczu8kc8JZA I think the meat starts around 6:50, but really watch the whole thing. It's Carmack talking about what Carmack does best.
Ah, I get you, thanks. I think I've just never met anyone that didn't have a season ticket.

So mobile payments, the blue card and the yellow card without season tickets are operationally identical from the user's standpoint?
Is life worth beginning? Do the non existent yern to live...

Overcome your machinery. live your life and get out clean.

This is fine.
From Vegas to Shanghai F1(Formula 1) is a global canvas for luxury brand collabs
Yeah, me too, and I have a recurring donation to NOYB, as they generally do fantastic work. I think this one is a rare miss.
steam is 100% made out of the same material as water, still not of the species water.
nor ice.
now imagine some sect attempts to baptize with steam and/or ice, just to demonstrate they are "smart" to find "loophole" in the CIC :-)
>People have a fundamental misunderstanding of what LLMs are.

It's labeled "AI", aka "artificial intelligence".

So clearly, it's intelligent enough to tell fact from fiction, right? It's intelligent enough to read and repeat facts, right? It's artificial intelligence, isn't it?

I'm playing Devil's Advocate here, obviously. I'm aware how this actually works like you, but the way it's billed you can't expect the commons to understand any of this in any other way. There is a very specific concept of what AI is among the masses, regardless if "AI" is it or not.

If you call something a duck, you can't blame someone for saying it's a duck.
> Dates in passports' machine-readable zones only have two-digit years.

Simultaneously the most and least surprising situation.
That looks almost identical to the one from 2022. The only obvious differences that I see (besides "pre-proofs" watermarked all over it) are in the Geologic Time Scale table and the credits on the lower left.

The map itself looks the same as far as I can tell.
You are spot on, 10ms internal time for 100000 molecules, 60ms with the "stack on top": https://www.chemeo.com/similar?smiles=CCCCO
It is using a manually coded, most likely not that efficient, with popcnt.
That much it was all about JSP/XML and stuff; J2EE too. JDO came soon after too. The applets did exist and (javax.)swing was a thing - but it was far from the focus... and of course Java was still considered slow.
The key point in the article is that the polling shows that respect for universities has fallen, and fallen quickly since 2016. It obviously isn't just about Israel, as it happened well before 2023.

I put it down to a number of factors:
-The replication crisis
-Divergence of "Social Justice Leftism" (for want of better words) over main stream liberal and conservative ideals at universities.
-over production of degree holders, creating a shortage of trades people and graduates who can't get jobs. You have many graduates who prefer to work in unskilled jobs rather than retraining into trades.
-Increased expense of university. On average most attending university are better off. But there are a lot of people worse off.
-Disappointing returns on research at universities. Commercial and Industry specific labs have a much greater return on investment, but the narrative has been about needing to invest in universities.

I'd like to see less places funded at universities. Less research funded at universities. More funding for research elsewhere. Pre registration of studies become the norm or mandatory (i.e. say before you do the work what you are looking to test in the data you collect). More prestige and funding for trade schools.
> That would only work if the two banks have an agreement

Yes. This is why not every pair of banks supports direct transfers.

> No established bank would make such an agreement with a bank that has no assets

Yes, it's a hypothetical you created.
I wrote a more fleshed-out example of what I'm talking about on Reddit[1], but to save you the click through I'll reproduce it here:

[begin quote]

> [OOP] also make you have to think heavly about design, as you'll get yourself thinking about stupid things like "Does a buyer sell the goods, or does the customer buy the goods? What if we’re firing someone? Does a manager fire the person? Does the person fire themself? What if HR initiated the process, not the manager?"

This smells like very poor application of OOP. Let's take the firing example, it sounds like you're trying to design code like this:

employee1.fire(employee2);

But that's almost never what you want to do. Instead of designing classes that map to "things" like employees, it's likely your classes should be modelling business use cases like EmployeeTerminationProcess. To make up a bunch of stuff,

let process = EmployeeTerminationProcess.create({
initiator: employee1,
toBeFired: employee2,
}).begin();

// later,
if (process.hasEnoughDocumentationBeenProvided()) {
mailer.send(process.makeTerminationEmail());
}
// or maybe,
if (process.isComplete()) {
process.archiveAllMaterials();
}

`create` might even be a factory which returns instances of different specialised classes for different processes. Say if the documentation requirements are different when the process is initiated by a manager or by HR.

Trying to fit the colloquial English phrase "Bob was fired by Janet" directly into a line of code results in weirdness; instead of modelling English, you should be modelling the business process itself.

The problems you have with classes are common, and a result of crappy education and crappy existing codebases. It seems like industry and academia have gone through a wave of "let's model tangible objects as classes" which was never a good idea.

With any luck, the rise of functional programming will remind practitioners in OOP languages that abstractions are real (as David Deutsch described it) and that every tutorial containing class Dog extends Animal needs to be put in a bin.

[end quote]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/pyokmi/a_reflection_a...
<sarcasm>noyb.eu provides false information about ChatGPT, will noyb.eu correct it?</sarcasm>
Btw, my suggestion for the US would be to remove that special bankruptcy exception for new student loans.

That's because once you do that, the supply of new student loans would most likely dry up. Thus shutting off the money fountain for the education industry.
> My brother's college roommate became an actor instead of a lawyer.

> Now fifty-seven, he confided, "I think I made the wrong decision."

Don't worry; many lawyers, at age 57, are saying the same thing!

(There are more lawyers of the Saul Goodman size of practice than the LA Law type of practice)
I think people here are underappreciating just how much generative AI is going to solve the chicken and the egg problem for VR that's been plaguing it.

Within the next five years, at least tens of millions of people will have interactions they would rate as very important to them with AI personas.

Personas they can't interact with in the real world.

But strap on a headset and you can talk and see your AI buddy/therapist/girlfriend right there in the room with you?

People are going to be throwing money at the hardware. It's always ultimately been a software issue. Yes, the hardware could get much better in comfort, fidelity, and all sorts of ways. But the thing that's been holding it back is that the software for VR is broadly a solution looking for a problem.

Well, we're about to see a problem for which it's the perfect solution, and that's enhancing interpersonal interactions that are going to take up more and more media share as the next few years progress which can't be replicated nearly as well in any other format.
You're totally right.We can't just hit the brakes on technology. It's here to stay, with its flaws and perks. As users, we need to be savvy about what we see online, questioning stuff instead of just swallowing it whole. Education is key here. The more we can help people navigate digital sources of information, the better equipped they'll be to identify misinformation.
> no asset without risk

That doesn't follow in any way from the concept of a risk premium [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_premium
partnering with Baidu on mapping and navigation ensures Tesla passes national security regs - smart and necessary move by Elon, local market demands driver assistance services and Tesla has to compete
It seems like her main complaint is not that she's being expected to travel with adults or lie in the bassinet - but that the airport didn't know to provide her with a wheelchair.

I would not expect that to be tied to age! I thought anyone could tick the "I need assistance" box and get wheelchairs, golf carts, etc. Sure, they could guess that their 90+-year old passengers are likely to need them, but there are plenty of 80-year olds that need them and plenty who don't.
Roles are for services not for users. If you have a read-only Web api then it makes sense to use a read-only role regardless of which user is using it.
In 1973, I invented a 'girly drink' called Baileys – The Irish Times
> if you choose one distro as your base

Yes obviously if you control the whole stack then you don't really need containers. If you're distributing software that is intended to run on Linux and not RHEL/Ubuntu/whatever then you can't rely on the userspace or packaging formats, so that's when people go to containers.

And of course if part of your infrastructure is on containers, then there's value in consistency, so people go all the way. It introduces a lot of other problems but you can see why it happens.

Back in around 2005 I wasted a few years of my youth trying to get the Linux community on-board with multi-distro thinking and unified software installation formats. It was called autopackage and developers liked it. It wasn't the same as Docker, it did focus on trying to reuse dependencies from the base system because static linking was badly supported and the kernel didn't have the necessary features to do containers properly back then. Distro makers hated it though, and back then the Linux community was way more ideological than it is today. Most desktops ran Windows, MacOS was a weird upstart thing with a nice GUI that nobody used and nobody was going to use, most servers ran big iron UNIX still. The community was mostly made up of true believers who had convinced themselves (wrongly) that the way the Linux distro landscape had evolved was a competitive advantage and would lead to inevitable victory for GNU style freedom. I tried to convince them that nobody wanted to target Debian or Red Hat, they wanted to target Linux, but people just told me static linking was evil, Linux was just a kernel and I was an idiot.

Yeah, well, funny how that worked out. Now most software ships upstream, targets Linux-the-kernel and just ships a whole "statically linked" app-specific distro with itself. And nobody really cares anymore. The community became dominated by people who don't care about Linux, it's just a substrate and they just want their stuff to work, so they standardized on Docker. The fight went out of the true believers who pushed against such trends.

This is a common pattern when people complain about egregious waste in computing. Look closely and you'll find the waste often has a sort of ideological basis to it. Some powerful group of people became subsidized so they could remain committed to a set of technical ideas regardless of the needs of the user base. Eventually people find a way to hack around them, but in an uncoordinated, undesigned and mostly unfunded fashion. The result is a very MVP set of technologies.
My iPad only allows one user..
I agree that being much more iPad than Mac makes it feel like a huge waste of potential. Maybe it can’t be Mac-like in UI since you need large interaction targets, but it could allow much more “full computer” style productivity
This news has so many implications.

1 - I think the move to Germany is a tentative one - they could not pack all and move it to India thoroughly like IBM did, because in a election year this can create waves in the public opinion and shift votes against MAANG/FAANG corporations sponsored globalist politicians.

2 - It's only but the beginning. German and European staff have a better STEM formation in real universities (for now) but when Alphabet will have to face work unions in Germany they will pack again and go India, Burundi or whatever else.

3 - I see that some of the most relevant FOSS projects core programmers are getting the axe in this move. I would like to elaborate on this since open source now fosters autopilot, gemini, that are perceived by the big companies as a way to lay off or to pay peanuts the real software developers that created and fostered the FOSS movement.

4 - The people left in the cold were not saved by their putting the pronouns in their bio, nor by abiding to cambodian-style woke ideologies. They licked but when they were not needed anymore they were dumped, with their mouth full of it.

5 - Flutter is DEAD. No matter how you put it.

6 - Since the Agile mindset and antipatterns were adopted, it seems that large companies are self-eating thinking they can do keeping management only. Meetings and fake presentations of systems that deliver 5% of what stated. Anything productive is seen as debris of demon. Pol-Pot style, if you have any competence you are an enemy of the people and of the DEI mantra.

7 - People with experience in this and willing to react to this trend are scared to talk and isolated. Not being able to express dissent while seeing the whole productive sector of the western world being dismembered, vilified, destroyed.

8 - Large companies are like Zelensky, they need stupid cannon fodder that follows the orders and if not can be replaced in zero time with even more submitted servants. If you are OK with this I feel no empathy towards you and your peers. These people saw google implement sjw ideologies in any products, staid silent, and now they are not useful anymore to the system they so eagerly and willingly contributed to enthrone.
Is Gemini that unpopular? It seems that nobody in this thread is aware of its features.

The best that can be done is just what Gemini does: a button to (smartly) compare the generated text against google search results.
Not semantics, but if you think of examples of at least pop culture that we think of as being in the mainstream, it's about staying power of the genre. For example let's take Rock 'n Roll.

When it really became popular -- say Elvis gyrating those hips -- he alone sold 10 million records in a year. And critics then talked of it as a fad that would die out. Elvis would continue to record, continue to sell millions, but eventually - well he died, but rock 'n roll the idea, the genre lived on. In fact rock 'n roll songs were written about how it will always rock 'n roll in defience of the "fad" label.

And ~fifty/sixty years later, there are still rock 'n roll bands selling millions/records/year. Not Elvis but the genre remains. We can't quite compare records sales now anymore because physical media just isn't sold really anymore.

That "staying power" isn't something VR headsets have (yet). Laptops have that. Critics say that VR is a fad and I think that's more what they mean. They say more critical things as well, but that's sort of the gist.

Another example is the automobile:

“[Motor cars] have the appearance of a fad, and an extremely dirty, dusty, inconvenient fad… These crude impracticable machines are unlikely for many years to displace in the Englishman’s affection a fine trotting horse and a smart trap.” -- Anonymous Horserider

It's too soon to tell with VR headsets, but their limited capability, high price, and well: relative usefulessness seems not in their favor.
The readme is so detailed. God job.
Polypharma Study: Association Between Diet and Amount of Prescription Drugs
Here's your cookbook: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78401179/how-do-postgres...
QNAP to add ransomware protection to its NAS operating system
> status of the blockade

Blockade means blockade. This is a traffic rerouting. It's a bit nutty to say the U.S. vs Houthis is in any way a policy failure for the U.S. The threat was reduced and then it ceased to be pressing.

Contrast that with the oil markets before the U.S. intervened.

> the United States special envoy for Yemen, stated that he hoped to achieve a diplomatic solution with the Yemeni Houthis

Sure, this was never contested. Again, they're an irrelevant fighting group. What's desired is for the missiles to stop so they can go back to threatening the Saudis and we can reposition naval assets from playground patrol duty.
Because that's how you get FAAG
If you have a link, maybe.

I'm a little biased against the Dr Phil type of advice because, from what little I heard from him, it isn't really good advice.

But, I'm open to changing my mind based on a video from a trusted source, like a fellow HN reader :-)
This. #pragma once is more consistently supported than many parts of the standard. Just use it. (And I've worked with some of those esoteric embedded targets. Haven't run into a compiler that didn't support it yet)
Can you recall the case name? I'd like to read it!
Yeah so you're right about Brown not coming from the color, but I believe this was still done on purpose.

Pink noise has an inverse proportion to frequency, so defined by f^{-x} where 0 <=x<=2 (so at best, an inverse square). Now the problem with this is that sensitivity of human hearing is not flat across frequencies. There's a sharp uptick from 1kHz to 3kHz (peak) and you gotta get to 9kHz before you're back down to the level of 1kHz (which 100Hz - 1kHz is fairly flat). Here's a random graph[0], take it with a bit of a grain of salt but as far as I know it is reasonable. But remember that dB is logarithmic so this is significantly louder.

Because of this, Pink Noise is created to be "flat" with respect to the human ear[1]. I mean there's approximations going on for this but think of it as a lazy version of that if we didn't know the more complex response curve from [0]. While white noise is flat across frequencies, the perception is that higher frequencies are louder.

In short, pink noise will sound like it is raining on a metal surface or by rapids in a river. You can hear the low frequencies but you got lots of high ones too. Brown noise will be like sitting in the forest when it is raining, it hitting the soft dirt. Or a lot like being near the ocean.

So if you want that comfort slow pace feeling, turn up the low frequencies, so 10Hz to 500Hz, and I like to cut-off anything above 600Hz.

It can be good to play with single tones too[2]. I like about 65Hz (I can hear about 21Hz to 17kHz on this site with some good headphones but who knows. All that isn't flat and I'm a tad over 30). But the site I sent you previously has a lot to play around with. I'm not sure there's a high quality refined tone specification site but if you find one let me know.

I hope this helps.

[0] https://www.compadre.org/nexusph/course/images/OscillationsA...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise#Pink_noise

[2] https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/
I think the biggest selling point of ollama (llama.cpp) are quantizations, for a slight hit (with q8 or q4) in quality you can get a significant performance boost.
I don't know, it seems recently that we've detached what things are from what the people behind them say things are, so bing AI is an LLM, phind is an LLM, and they market themselves as search engine, like to see in details you say

>> It is not a mechanism to retrieve facts

Then bing AI powered by chatgpt shows on its site

>> [Hello, this is Bing! I’m the new AI-powered chat mode of Microsoft Bing that] can help you quickly get information.

if get is a synonym of retrieve and facts is a synonym of information, I'd argue that maybe it's not people misunderstanding what LLMs are but maybe someone explaining it wrong?

Guess in the world of marketing words don't carry any value anymore, then I agree with you
If you watch very little anime.. why would you presume to weigh in on this topic? Shōnen is the most popular category of manga / anime and it’s targeted at adolescent males with mostly male protagonists.
> I had to rescale my idea of happiness. Maybe by a factor of 1024 or more.

Tell me you're a programmer without telling me you're a programmer :-)
Light stands still in a deformed crystal
Banks have more than one point and function.

Eg they also provide 'checking' accounts. There's no conceptual reason why that function needs to be bundled with the 'aggregating default risk' function; but it happens to be so in many countries.

To illustrate, on the one hand, think of an institution that takes deposits and lets you transfer money to pay your rent etc, but doesn't make any 'real' investments: all they do is park the deposits in government loans.

On the other hand, think of exchange traded funds that invest in a wide array of bonds (or even equities). They diversify defaulting risk across the economy, without taking deposits, like your typical bank does.
> You migrate one or more column data types over a longer period (and no, using ALTER COLUMN name TYPE new_type is not the best option).

What is the best option then? Renaming the existing column to something else, creating a new column with `name` and then dropping the renamed column?
But null is still null, a very special non-reference signifying absence. And not some pretend-object that walks like a valid reference, swims like a valid reference, but somehow doesn't quite quack like one. The problems surfacing as an NPE don't magically go away by null-less approaches, they just bite you at different times, in different form. Sometimes sooner, which is good, but sometimes also later. Java made null worse by not taking nullability into the type system (these days nullability annotations do a tolerable job at pretending it was) and lacking scope functions that make it easy to check without the eyesore of flooding local scope with names. Kotlin is really awesome for not falling into the trap of chasing the pipe dream of a world without absence.
Intel says CPU stability problems caused by motherboard makers
Now how the heck do you generate ~148.38nm light with a narrow linewidth? Their approach using four-wave mixing inherently results in short pulses.

.. and given that it decays through gamma emission, does this mean we could now build an optically pumped gamma ray laser?