skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and the problem didn't start with facial scanning.

> This has become a growing problem for decision making as intensive care units, nuclear power plants, and aircraft cockpits have increasingly integrated computerized system monitors and decision aids

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias
Isn't this exactly how Doom worked, long before Serious Sam?

But Quake went a different direction, sending the client updates about every entity they could see. Which had some benefits (players don't have to be perfectly synchronized) but also drawbacks (bandwidth proportional to scene complexity).
They have by far the fastest chip, the best software with CUDA and feverishly working on next gen chips. They also bought out multiple years worth of global high bandwidth memory manufacturing capacity.

No one will beat them at their game. However if there are any major breakthroughs that might render those processing capacities unneeded, or the major players hitting a wall regarding AI spending, then they will take a massive hit. It will come eventually because the chip business is always in boom/bust cycles.
Cat is out of the bag at 1:40!
sounds like he got scammed.

Buggy mushrooms are still edible, but high end culinary mushrooms are typically low bug. He should have asked them them to cut it open.

Source: amateur hunter. Probably collect 2-300 lbs of Boletes/year. I eat a lot of bugs.
On the contrary, I expect most tech companies to not be profitable especially in ZIRP era, unless they're big and public for many years (or small boutiques).

If one is looking to work only at profitable companies, the pool of employer shrinks significantly. You can almost kiss goodbye to the vast majority of VC funded companies. It's not as bad nowadays but in ZIRP times, it's not the norm for growing tech companies to be profitable.
Probably could profit selling them second hand honestly.
> To continue rolling out new Google AI features to users at a faster and even larger scale, we’ll be embracing portions of the Android stack

Because they are panicking and need to add AI faster than Apple and Microsoft across their whole portfolio.
I was joking. They don’t advertise it that way at all.

It’s hard to believe the guy I was replying to even bought a Vision Pro in the first place if he’s the kind of guy to say “Apple Police.”
Don't twitch and apple take 30% cuts as well? Seems pretty standard for content distribution platforms.
Real question: How does F-Droid police malware?
Absolutely agree. I love Elixir but the editor integration has always been unfortunately second-class. The happy paths in VSCode work well enough with the ElixirLS, but there are a few flaws that are a quite a bummer. One major one is no rename / refactor functionality (seriously?!) and a more Phoenix-specific issue is trying to contend with auto-complete in templates, which is no fun.

I like VSCode fine, but I'd definitely be interested in a Jetbrains level IDE for Elixir stuff.
As someone working in the social avatar space for >10 years, you sound like someone who has worked in the social avatar space for >10 years. :)

Once it comes time to flip on the monetization switch, you have find a way to bring the users along for the financial security ride (ala Roblox). The alternative is user base revolt and then rejection.
I think many companies hire scientists whose research is designed/manipulated/cheery-picked to produce results that lead to press/headlines/commercial claims which ultimately drive people to buy more of the product.

The scientists who worked for the tobacco industry so they could convince the public that smoking was harmless didn't become unemployable. They worked for the oil industry to convince people that climate change wasn't real, and are working to convince the government that food additives are harmless. If you're willing to take money to deliver research for a company that wants to hurt people you'll never be out of work.

If this guy had hired someone else to create fake science to drive traffic to his testing centers he'd probably be free and clear.
Yes, the question is: what's a person to do in that case?

Particularly if they only have one device (a phone), and they lose it.
I’d not give Valve credit for lootboxes when Pokémon and baseball cards surely were the direct parents of lootboxes. Not would I credit CSGO for creating the digital item economy when Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 were doing that much earlier on.
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Pretty simple fix for Apple might be a warning notice that some of these apps are unofficial and a user option that is part of the system setup where it says "Would you like to allow install of apps from unofficial sources? WARNING: you will get hacked if you do this it's a bad idea" and everyone will be like "no" and then the user is preventing it, not apple.
Would be nice to read how do they collect/prepare data for training.

Which data sources? How much of Meta users data (fb, instagram… etc). How do they sanitize PII?
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I think more likely: The app store would be embedded in the first app that you download. And could be seamlessly integrated like MS Teams or FB.
Kind of buries the lede that the cheapest one found for sale is priced higher than the retail price despite being driven. Not really clear what that suggests.
+1 for CopyQ. Have been using it on Linux and Mac without problems.
Congrats on the launch! Not to sound negative about it but you do realize Overwatch is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment …
Yep. The Cornell University bird identification app listens for birds just fine while the user is doing something else.
When the thing being avoided is more important then the thing being preserved because "what if", this same reasoning is called FOMO.
Looks good. Does Iceburg work in a shared hosting environment with limited access to composer?
Everywhere has localized power outages from infrastructure damaged by weather, though. That's not really a Texas thing or realistically preventable...
Your first paragraph raises some very good points. I am concerned about this last point:

> The App Store sucks.

Can you give some specifics? Do any other app store do it better?
The social aspect of vrchat is what makes it popular. None of what you described has any relevance to that.

Fittingly, the equivalent projects started by the companies currently trying to stuff generative AI into everything fell completely flat.

People don't care about having AI generate exactly the world they want. People want the "wild"-ness and spontaneity that VRChat offers (finding a cool world someone made, running into real, interesting, people and hanging out with them). The issue being that as VRC grows/grew, they had to start taming that wildness (because it also allows for a lot of things not really compatible with monetization), but that slowly brings them closer to the over-sanitization problem that killed all the competitors.
The reality is that drivers are not added, as you say. Most companies release an out-of-tree BSP targeting a specific kernel version. They often contain blobs and are often not GPL. Linux doesn't support a stable kernel ABI/API (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-...) and the only way to avoid the associated issues is to mainline drivers, which most companies don't want to do (don't want to open source their IP, don't want to invest in maintaining it etc.)

Android GKI/KMI addresses the issues related to this. GKI is relatively recent and OEMs don't offer 5+ years of Android updates because they haven't adopted it yet.
I refused to interview at Amazon for policies like this.

I work very hard but I would need to be compensated or given other perks.
I think I got swindled into it by not paying attention when trying to look up a friend!
^ How to compact as many mistakes as possible in one single comment.

1. Google's stock didn't siginificantly outperformed Meta, Microsoft, etc, in thet past two years.

2. Meta and Microsoft are trying to make their own chips as well.

3. They're not using "consumer video cards" to train AI. I don't even know if you can call these beasts video cards any more. H100 doesn't have HDMI port.
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I think it'd be a false dichotomy to suggest that if we weren't clear cutting rainforests and old growth forests with abandon we couldn't have wood for construction and would need to "build everything out of rocks and mud". I think that it's likely possible to harvest wood for construction sustainably and responsibly, but what we're doing today isn't that.
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What do you think about a live call translation app?
The relevant principle of jurisdiction here is that a state has jurisdiction over the acts of its citizens. It's not uncommon and it's certainly not just a US thing (eg. here is a Brazilian court convicting one of its citizens over a murder committed in Australia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/cecilia-haddad... ).
Given that Google invented Transformer architecture (and Google AI continues to do foundational R&D on ML architecture) — and that Google's TPUs don't even support the most common ML standards, but require their own training and inference frameworks — I would assume that "the point" of TPUs from Google's perspective, has less to do with running LLMs, and more to do with running weird experimental custom model architectures that don't even exist as journal papers yet.

I would bet money that TPUs are at least better at doing AI research than anything Nvidia will sell you. That alone might be enough for Google to keep getting some new ones fabbed each year. The TPUs you can rent on Google Cloud might very well just be hardware requisitioned by the AI team, for the AI team, that they aren't always using to capacity, and so is "earning out" its CapEx through public rentals.

TPUs are maybe also better at other things Google does internally, too. Running inference on YouTube's audio+video-input timecoded-captions-output model, say.
Valve likely played a role in normalizing lootboxes in Western markets, but they definitely didn't invent the idea. MapleStory was doing lootboxes years earlier, and EA's Fifa was doing P2W lootboxes prior to TF2.

Their model of cosmetic-only lootboxes is also far less obnoxious than the P2W form that has taken over mobile gaming. Many mobile games today are designed to be as obnoxious as possible in the hopes that the player will crack open their wallet for a shortcut.
I agree, Modern web development is both enraging and endearing.

And the latest APIs are very sexy.

https://web.dev/blog/new-in-the-web-io2024?hl=en
>In this way the promise of passkeys, and the main marketing message around passkeys, is that they are phishing-resistant. This isn't strictly true though

So, it is not true.

However, what's true is that if you're arrested, the police won't have to ask Google/Apple/anyone to give them access to your accounts.

They'll just hold the phone to your face, and get a convenient list of all your accounts and a means to log into them.

Granted, you'd need to have biometrics involved. But you can be simply asked to unlock the phone, if that's FSB doing the asking, you won't say "no".
hypomyces are not especially dangerous and sometimes desirable, as in the case of lobster mushrooms.

life is full of risks but undetected parasitic fungi are extremely low on the list. If you know enough to pick edible mushrooms, you can learn not to eat rotten mushrooms.

The complexity is on par with not eating moldy bread or rotten eggs, not rocket surgery.
How could it use 128GiB of RAM without an LLM?
And has his gov't done anything to protect it's citizens from monopolistic foreign tech firms? No. So really, this comment means little in regards to the wider discussion.
Return tomorrow, same time, same place.
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I disagree that they care. The Index is outdated and overpriced compared to the competitors, and they haven't released anything new since. It came out around the same time as the Quest 1.

The recent #SaveTF2 fan campaign shows how little they care about that game, except for releasing new skins to sell every couple of months. https://www.save.tf/

I don't even expect a Steam Deck 2 now that every other manufacturer is making x86 handhelds. At release their main competitor was the Switch, which didn't run Steam. What's the point of making a new one when all the competitor devices will have Steam installed anyways? They haven't even released a generic SteamOS 3 install
>A guaranteed, long, prison sentence is the only long term solution to avoid the problem

I'm leaning towards this solution concerning all breaches of pubic trust (e.g., Boeing, Sacklers, etc)
One Sec requires Shortcuts to be configured per-app and is made not to block access but everytime on launch introduce some friction.
Then, what is it about?
And there will be some fine print on the website that says "Only SVPs and CxOs have the authority to bind us to an agreement."
Of course everyone will be like "yes" and then the phone will get hacked and the user will blame apple.

* This is not an argument against it. *
A colorful lie. The oldest and best mushroom hunters have a hint of jaundice to their eyes.
GKI didn't exist in 2012/2015, so it was very difficult and expensive for OEMs to support Android for longer. Apple could do so more easily because they control both hardware and software. Google introduced GKI and other related efforts/architectures to address this very problem, which is unique to Arm, Linux and the ecosystem around it.

It's really silicon manufacturer's fault for not wanting to mainline and long-term support their BSP, not Google's.
No it's not. They always have the option to leave.
> interferes with her BlueTooth mouse and keyboard

Wi-Fi radio firmware bug? Presumably this uses something like an ESP32.
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That’s certainly how it seemed from the Android side at the time. The Linux side was hoping that they could adapt the desktop Linux stack to work well on mobile devices, without introducing new concepts like wakelocks. It took them a long time to give up on that approach.
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Sure, this is probably nearer to my expertise. I research ML (generative models) and my partner is an economist, so we have these discussions quite a lot. I'll try to keep it short. The tldr is I don't know and I'm pretty sure no one knows, and I'm even more concerned about the lack of discussion.

First off, I'd highly recommend watching the recent Dwarkesh video with Francois Chollete[0]. I normally wouldn't suggest Dwarkesh, but Francois is an oddball for that podcast. The reason I suggest this is to understand the difference between AGI and ML. It's probably important for the framing and making accurate predictions here. So while I don't think AGI is on the horizon (it could be, but we're reinforcing the railroad rather than exploring other paths), I do think there is still quite a potential for huge economic disruptions and entire paradigm shifts. You don't need AGI to get significantly closer (maybe even all the way) to post scarcity.

For about a decade now I've been asking a simple question and I encourage others to ask it of people that they know. I need no credit, I need people thinking about this question, and to be quite serious about it.

How do you function as a society if 10% of the workforce is unemployable?

There's a wide variety of ways this can be framed and I encourage you to explore those. 10% is arbitrary, but chosen because both 1) people think of that number as small and 2) that number represents depression level of unemployment rates (this balance seems to be optimal for initial conversations, so choose an appropriate number for who you talk to). But the reason I started asking this question is I was wondering "how do you transition to post scarcity?" Because in that framework, those jobs are not coming back. But that doesn't necessitate that there are no "jobs," but they wouldn't be in the conventional sense (see Star Trek for one version of this).

I think post scarcity is obtainable and it is the number one problem humans should be working on right now. It comes with unimaginable benefits, but it also comes at potentially huge costs if we don't implement it correctly. You are right to be worried. But I think the difficulty here and what I often face when trying to ask this question is that it looks simple. UBI is by far the most common answer, but the way people answer "UBI" is no different than "wave a magic wand." There are many ways to implement UBI, many ways to distribute capital (which isn't only money. Remember money is a proxy, a fungible token). So the issue here is that often people will answer while only considering the question at a very surface level and then be satisfied and move on. This is a grave mistake, and we need to dig down into the details. There are many rabbit holes to dig into within this question, and I encourage you to go down some, but will also say that the question is so complex that I am quite certain that no single (or even small group) of human(s) could sufficiently resolve it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UakqL6Pj9xo
And they missed multiple waves of effectively building on their own in house research.
I appreciate the candid letter, but honestly this sounds like a bad leader. Not an evil one, just a bad one. The lack of strategy, and lack of alignment, and praising what management brings... this is someone that is asleep at the wheel.

I can't imagine a company that's been flat for 10 years is going to welcome management with open arms. While they've given themselves more runway, hard to see them not get sold off or close up in the future.
Valve just has a lot of goodwill, they don't feel the need to comment on every social issue, they censor less than the competition, they are very indie friendly, they'd rather just not put out a sequel than churn out yearly releases, the tech they have put out has been (mostly) innovative and still retains popularity.

They also have the goodwill for helping make gaming on linux practical enough that there can be a handheld gaming console that runs linux (plus, of course, popularizing that entire new market segment).

They also don't constantly change large parts of Steam. Point is, people like that Valve is relatively stable, and that's why they insist on sticking to it. The industry is otherwise such a shitshow. The stability is an especially important value for a platform that holds, in many cases, thousands of dollars worth of games for people.
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> It’s always “well we plant new trees, so what’s the problem?”

This is a perfectly reasonable response to complaints that are about the overall amount of forest rather then about "this particular forest is beautiful and unique and shouldn't ever be touched... just like every other forest".
Having lived in both constructions, for the American environs, wood-built houses are vastly superior to cement ones.

Wood construction is better insulating, easier to repair, easier overhaul as the times inevitably change, naturally regulates temperature, adapts better to different weathers, flexes more and thus adapts to stress better, requires fewer and less stringent inspections, fails less catastrophically, has a smaller carbon footprint, is cheaper and easier to source, and is easier to transport.
> Valve likely played a role in normalizing lootboxes in Western markets, but they definitely didn't invent the idea.

My first thought was that lootboxes were a natural development of Japanese gacha toys, and Wikipedia's article does cite them as a precedent for lootboxes.

Not that it was a pay-real-money-to-spin situation, but Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap had a gacha-based minigame mechanic in the game, and that came out several years before TF2, let alone TF2's shift towards free-to-play mechanics.
The kind of game where I believe I moved backwards more often than moving forward.
> corporations are persons, but cannot be sued like a person can

Yes. Just like Californians, non-Americans and children are all natural persons with varying rights, Delaware C corporations, New York non-profits and unions are all legal persons with different rights.
Other people playing along is the feature here.

AI doesn't have the sort of cutting edge consumer tech experience of even a basic FPS it's a non-stater here.
I don't understand how they imagine the business usecase around this and build these products which are almost negligible

In real world, I need a system which must be writing data into parquet files. If such system exist, why would I ever choose Postgres to query. I can pretty much use same data lakes/systems which are writing the data to query the data. If I want to scale horizontally, I would use something like duckdb for in-process or even simpler solutions instead of eating the transactional database process workers.
I tried the example physics article and it just made up a physicist to 'interview' that wasn't mentioned in the article.
Don’t forget Sony, and MS, and Nintendo.
Discussion [0] (28 points, yesterday, 30 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650662
I wonder if that’s a lot of the VR world.

Years ago John Carmack complaining about not being able to present in front of large VR crowds, and discussions about avatar quality:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/carmack-wants-a-250-v...

I love tech and the idea of VR and I was struck by how … NONE of those things interest me.

I wonder how much existing VR just caters to the existing audience, less so others.

I recall a story that ages ago the NHL realized their core fanbase was men, and a lot of them boozing it up. They wanted to appeal to families and more fans and realized and knew it would upset their core fans if they started cleaning up the game … and fans, but they chose to do so.
Uncensor any LLM with abliteration
After trying out a bunch of tools, I found Appsmith worked best for me but for some cases I had to move on to Windmill (which is not exactly low-code but can be)

I absolutely love Windmill. The ability to stitch scripts together into workflows is great.
This model card seems at odds with what they claim you can and cannot opt out of [1]

> We use information that is publicly available online and licensed information. We also use information shared on Meta’s Products and services. This information could be things like posts or photos and their captions.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/privacy/genai/?_rdr
To the contrary, Russia does need Crimea, although military naval ports is not the main reason why. Crimean waters contain huge natural gas and oil deposits. If Ukraine were left to develop Crimea unhindered, it would overturn Russia's gas monopoly in Europe, which is practically their only source of cash. The same motive lies behind Russia's interference in Eastern Ukraine -- therein lies the rest of Ukraine's fossil fuel resources.

Russia does not actually need to extract oil and gas from Crimea, although it would be a nice bonus for them if they could. The main imperative is to prevent Ukraine from having it.

Once Russia captured Crimea, the "land corridor" to Crimea became a necessary next domino. Crimea's only source of fresh water is overland via Ukraine. Obviously the first thing Ukraine did when Russia annexed Crimea was turn off the taps. (Would you keep sending freshwater into enemy territory?) In order to maintain power in Crimea in the long run, it is necessary for Russia to invade enough of Ukraine to take over the freshwater canals that supply Crimea.
We need to consider them and do our best.

Neither should hypotheticals stop us nor should they be dismissed.