skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hololens 2 was the best experience of all of them, also shut down

The issue is a hardware miniaturization one, I used think whoever creates the first real smart glasses is in an advantageous position, but the likes of Apple and Google can likely roll their own quickly once that time draws near. They already own the software stacks, which is really what you want to own. AR glasses will have dozens of comparable vendors when they break the wall down
The Deadly Mining Complex Powering the EV Revolution
Call your representatives and try to get into contact with the key civil servants involved. Then explain the problem to them. Just an honest argument. I mean a lot of us have kids and want to protect them. Totally agree with the concept.

Only this isn't something which can be solved by technical measures without abandoning "Liberté, égalité, fraternité". This is something for China/Russia/Iran/North Korea/England, not France.
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This is true. Some of them could also be good persons, just like absolutely anywhere else in the world. Generalization is the great cow’s middle state.
last thing i heard was that life expectancy was actually dropping in the developed world. Due in part to underinvestment in health services and exacerbated by COVID..

However that could have been UK specific data.

*EDIT*: It was global, data comes from the Lancet, which is considered a strong source by many: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/global-life-expect...
Yeah, I started using Element yesterday. One of the busiest IRC channels I still see has most people using either Slack or Matrix via bridges.
while dithering looks nice, the images could be optimized further with tools like zopflipng, and could be better quality if different choices were made (eg adding more levels of color which still will compress better, or using other image formats)
So how do you define "aware"? Some inner model reflecting the environment?

A stone is "aware in the present moment". Its temperature is an inner state reflecting the environment, short-term. Its composition is an inner state reflecting the environment, long-term.
trains have air brakes connecting all the cars... theres no delay.
How is it that neither the article nor anyone here has mentioned the seminal paper by Nagel, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
So, without trying to raise he specter climate change denial, I would like to ask if this is more of a land subsidence problem. I understand the weather is also causing some of the trouble but it sounds like the city is built on land the cannot hold it up.
Curiously, you can search stories by popularity but not comments.
Not OP, but the subtext I got was that Google--as a browser vendor--doesn't usually push features/standards so obviously broken/harmful that the rest of the ecosystem rebels.
It looks like the US software companies replace all of their employees every 6 years without any action, whether they want it or not.

You don't need a layoff to migrate a product into minimum maintenance.
This site was my inspiration to build my own solar-powered blog.
I love how rigorous they are about it.

My own blog runs on a Pi4 and as I had a HN frontpage hit, that Pi held up perfectly (static site on gigabit fiber).

I went through so many iterations. Starting with a 60W solar panel, a €20 solar controller and a few 12 volt 7Ah batteries and a Pi 3. Now on 2 x 370W panels, multiple Victron MPPTs and 2.8 kWh LiFePo4, also running my computer and monitors.
Honestly, I can't even finish reading through this comment. This is the opposite of idealism - is there a word for it? You seem to be complaining that something is impossible because it can't be implemented in a perfect utopian way. Well, guess what, we already have an implementation of the internet that imperfectly respects "the public good", and it sucks. Let's imagine something better.
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That tracks.
our target customers are , who wants to create forms using their notion database and form submission pages like Typeforms
> But for some cases like Taiwan or Ukraine …

Yip, what about Guyana fending off Venzuela? Why can't they play? At some point its immoral to say "this level of security is only for us".
The debt was smaller and other countries were weaker. Obviously the US and $ are not going to disappear (bar all out nuclear war) but at some point in the future it might have to accept that it is not a navel of the Universe
Better then to just not work toward the common good?
I was surprised to see that the Ya part meant “Yet another”. I mean, I’ve seen it before in many acronyms. But it’s pretty tongue in cheek of them to do that here since one would expect it was just because it was made by Yandex.
Immersed + Visor will get pretty close to that

Their focus has been on VR for screen replacement and their app has shared rooms
How about Google prioritize getting me home without hitting the brake 500 times in one hour? Here's a free million-dollar app idea: Take me down the path that prioritizes right turns, utilizes the narrow neighborhood side streets, and in general finds a path that keeps me moving and flowing towards my destination. Don't just transform me into more traffic. I would much prefer an app that could opt me out of stop and go traffic over being home 11 minutes sooner.
I've lived in California for my whole life. A blackout in the 80's was an anomaly. They were so rare that I remember them as being fun, a little adventure, because they were very rare.

In current year California I experience them on a regular enough basis that they are an genuine annoyance, especially because they are most common in the high heat of Summer. It's bad enough that I have invested in backup batteries for my home so I don't lose my refridgerated food and other essentials.

One can blame PG&E, Wall Street, whomever, and they certainly bear fault, but what's changed is the Federal and California energy policy. They shut down the nuclear pathway and pushed "renewables". It became a religious issue in which simply questioning the notion that we can derive all our energy needs from "clean energy" makes you a bad person.

So now California has extremely expensive energy and poor reliability. It's a mess. But you don't live in California so it's OK right, no, not really, California is where they prototype these policies and you can see them being pushed to other countries and the rest of the US.

It really comes down to the old saw that doing dumb things is ultimately bad for you, no matter how good the intentions. Now we're in the retcon phase of this process where the apologists and beneficiaries of these policies try to gaslight us into believing that it was always this bad, and that things are actually getting better instead of worse.
They try and try over and over again. We have to stand against such measures. Client-side scanning of all input is grotesk. It is literally what Windows is implementing with Recall now.
If we are talking about a "society" then the priorities should be obvious. A society is not defined GDP per capita or shareholder values. These might have some value but even that is only secondary. By letting companies do what they want in the name of the second, we abandoned the first - and that's obvious when we see all the victim-shaming going around when we talk about homeless or jobless or just anyone impacted by shareholder value increasing politics.
> Why?

Because the current way they were working squandered over a decade lead in the space. Deep Dream was 2015... Google Magenta was 2017...
It's listed as Steam Deck compatible on the store page, and it's rated Platinum on ProtonDB[0], so it definitely runs fine on Linux through Proton.

[0]: https://www.protondb.com/app/2060160
It's locked down as it's the only device with the features it provides. So if you want to use those features, your designing for the one device.
IMO we need to stop putting satellites in orbits above ~800km altogether. No matter how careful you are there will always be accidents, and once a collision or explosion occurs in high orbit the debris is essentially a permanent fixture of the solar system, lasting far longer than a human lifetime. There is no feasible method to clean up such collision debris for the foreseeable future. Even assuming SpaceX Starship is wildly successful and launching a thousand times more mass to orbit for dirt cheap, collision debris cleanup is still infeasible. The only realistic way of cleaning collision debris is the natural way, the atmosphere. But it only works on reasonable timeframes when you're below a certain altitude.

Luckily the reasons why we used to launch satellites into high orbit are mostly obsolete now. We did it for three reasons: firstly so the satellites would last longer because they are expensive, secondly to get higher land area coverage from fewer satellites again because satellites are expensive, and thirdly to make it possible to use stationary or slow-moving satellite dishes. Now that launching satellites is much cheaper and likely to get even more so, the first two reasons are obsolete. The third reason is made obsolete by modern phased array antennas that can be pointed without moving. So we don't need to take on the debris risk from high orbiting satellites anymore.
Regardless of locked-down-ness, I think Google Glass—and if it had seen continued development, real spectacles with some sort of miniaturised electronics and a HUD on the lenses—would've been so much more useful than any giant, heavy VR headset.
I'm not fully grasping the experiment your proposing here
3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo
(A less snarky reply:) LLMs and blockchains are both special-purpose tools that are almost completely useless for their best-known applications (virtual-assistants and cryptocurrency, respectively). The social behaviour surrounding them is way more relevant than the actual technologies, and I don't think it's tribalistic to acknowledge that.

People tried to use both as databases, put both in cars, invest in both. The vast majority of claims people make about them are just not evidenced, yet their hypist-adherents are so confident that they're willing to show you evidence that contradicts their claims, and call it "proof".

Yes, the actual technologies are very different. But nobody is actually paying attention to the technologies (an ignorance that my other comment snarkily accuses you of displaying here – I probably should've been kinder).
I think the thing that can't be talked about is that there are also different levels of grief. It is hard to talk about because any suggestion that one person's grief is worse than someone else's seems to trivialize their pain.

But the truth is there are levels to this. I grieved when I lost pets. The pain I felt was very real and deep, but it didn't really compare to the pain I felt when I lost my grandparents. I was very close to them, and I was devastated when they died. That pain, however, was not even close to the level of pain I felt when I lost my daughter. That is life-changing pain that one never recovers from.

So I like the idea of shattered glass because it allows for acknowledgement that all grief shatters us. Some grief, like perhaps a pet loss, might just break us into a few big glass pieces, relatively easy to glue back together. Other loss, like that of my daughter, shatters you into a million glass pieces. No amount of time or effort will put you back together. But you can take the pieces and shape something from them. That something can still be beautiful and have a good life, but it will never be the same thing as it was before.
That's really cool! I always wanted to have a solar powered desktop, never got around to it unfortunately.
You're right of course. Let me rephrase. What I was trying to say was: If the model solves some reasoning tasks that may imply it's building some inner world model which is fundamental to reasoning. That in-turn might mean that the model is reasoning.

Others have argued against the "inner world model" theory and suggested that solving reasoning tasks is merely an extension of the "stochastic parrot" scenario - i.e., they claim that no such world model exists and that the model has rote memorized these reasoning scenarios.
Adding to my own shame, TIL not all free-flying electrons are X-ray
Refusal in language models is mediated by a single direction
I think it depends on what you value as well, like DX. A large portion of our users switch to BAML because they actually "just want to see the damn prompt".
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Discussions:

4 instruments (83 points, 5 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40676221

2 instruments (181 points, 27 days ago, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447117
> I talked about this on #debian-next, and seems that this is not a bug, but a feature, as systemd-tmpfiles also handles autocreating data directories such as /home, and the --purge flag is meant to wipe them clean.

What?? That seems insane to me. It may make sense to systemd devs, but it couldn't be more counterintuitive. I could see myself easily falling into the same trap.
They don't. The estimates are typically 3x-4x the cost of the raw materials. Besides, for these weapons it's the marginal cost that counts.
I can say that I'm fed up with Google's current performance, I'm becoming increasingly disappointed with Google, I can feel that Google has to take advertising revenue into account, this is an unchangeable fact. Therefore, I now use more AI-based search engine tools to find information. Although this is the case, I have to find multiple tools to verify the accuracy of the information, this may be the only reason why I can't completely trust AI.

I often use the following three AI search engines (Perplexity.ai / Felo.ai / you.com).

For research and academic purposes, I often use Perplexity and Felo. If it is for general information retrieval, I will use You. However, for searching information from other countries, I mainly use Felo, its performance in bilingual search is the best. Of course, Perplexity is also an important choice, this is the biggest change in the past year.
yeah, I just noticed that they have couple of heavy duty sensors that are listed under the probe section that seem have temp range as low as -50. So those would be ideal for standing freezer.

They don't seem that expensive either. https://store.wirelesstag.net/products/outdoor-probe-basic

Good to know about pushover. That's been my preferred notification service for many years.

They also have an API. Although not sure if it runs locally or on cloud. I'll have to do some reading. - https://www.wirelesstag.net/apidoc.html

Thanks for the recommendation.
> practically unlimited food production

Our aquifers are being permanently drained, our most productive regions are rapidly desertifying, our growing seasons are becoming increasingly unstable as the climate shifts, our crops are genetically homogenous and therefore catastrophically susceptible to disease, our rampant use of pesticides is unraveling the food chain, we're 100% reliant on the use of artificial fertilizers which is dependent on functioning global supply chains and fossil fuels, and even if you can grow the food there's no guarantee that you have the logistics network necessary to distribute it before it rots.

Which is all to say, food is far from a solved problem. And there's nothing in space that's going to address that particular need.
The made breaking changes in the ABI... not like there weren't warnings.
"Breaking changes to the NumPy ABI. As a result, binaries of packages that use the NumPy C API and were built against a NumPy 1.xx release will not work with NumPy 2.0. On import, such packages will see an ImportError with a message about binary incompatibility.

It is possible to build binaries against NumPy 2.0 that will work at runtime with both NumPy 2.0 and 1.x. See NumPy 2.0-specific advice for more details."

https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/depending_on_numpy.html#numpy-...
Let's look to heretics here.

The world is... only partially finite. The resources are not finite. Check studies for oil wells that have replenished in China over 100 year periods.

Finite space is a tacit of conventional wisdom. Cities like old and modern Rome would disagree.

Your view is centered particularly in the past.
Nice title: “I made a fool that finds potential customers for you”. Reminds me of “there’s a sucker born every minute” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...) ;-)
haha! the replies are hilarious.. also considering their usernames. good laugh.. thanks!
One of the impressive results of this to me is that it can capture illocutionary meaning, which is something that language modeling struggled with in the past. This is why if you say "Are you sure?" after one of its statements, it will often completely flip its statement to the opposite rather than interpreting "Are you sure?" as a discursive question.
Discussion (53 points, 4 hours ago, 28 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717342
ah I see what I wrote. "not even on some deep non-conscious level" yeah that was sloppy nm.
These physics analogies always fall down on the details. I had a mentor who tried to model story throughput as fluid dynamics which sort of worked but he downplayed the psychological aspects, like the author here is doing.

> Friction matters more over large time horizons and large scopes, simply because more things can go wrong.

“Scope” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here and I have met so many people who don’t get it that I find it dangerous to sum things up thusly. There’s a nonlinear feedback loop here that is the proverbial snake in the grass. Many people in your org think of incidents per unit of time, not per unit of work. If you have a hundred developers the frequency of a 1% failure mode becomes a political hot potato.

When managers or QA complain that something is happening “all the time” they mean it figuratively. I’ve seen it happen for multiple people for an event that happens on average once a month, but one time happened twice in a week, and that seems to be the nexus for the confirmation bias starting.

If you have a big enough drive array you will need to order new disks “all the time” and someone will question if you’ve picked a shitty brand because they personally have only experienced one dead drive in their professional life. It’s because humans are terrible at statistics.

Now as to the friction of someone leaving to go home (“don’t deploy on Friday”), this also a psychological problem, not friction.

The problem isn’t people going home. The problem is people rationalizing that it’s safe to leave or skip a check. They are deluding themselves and their coworkers that everything is fine and their evening plans don’t need to be interrupted. You can have the same problem on a Tuesday morning if there’s a going away lunch for a beloved coworker. Time constraints create pressure to finish, and pressure creates sloppiness, complacency. (It’s one of the reasons I prefer Kanban to Scrum.)

Don’t start things you can’t finish/undo at your leisure because you will trick yourself into thinking you have met our standards of quality when you have not. As Feynman said, the trick is not to fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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seen similarly structured sentences

But ChatGPT doesn't generalize the structure of sentences. If this same problem was written in a different language, or just replaced words in the sentence, the result will be very different, no?
> It is not some fundamental property of the universe.

LOL. You don't believe in social patterns?

Ok, well, you might be the only one. I hope you don't invest in stocks or try to start your own company. Or have friends.
Setting up your data plan or tracking plan correctly out-of-the-gate is critical to your company's long-term success with a customer data platform (CDP). A poorly executed tracking plan will lock you into a way of organizing your data that will make it more difficult to analyze the data and after you've already collected a bunch of data it can be challenging to convince the organization to start over with a new tracking plan that better serves the business.

Read more at: https://anamaps.com/blog/data-planning-better-data-quality
That may be true, but I don’t think it matters that much in this context, because the actual implementation isn’t the point. It’s more about the idea behind it.
Policy based on pseudoscience
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history/its-time-le...

The 5 stages were from what I like to call the "just make shit up" era of psychology. Because if it sounded true it was psychology! Some would argue that era never ended, but I think that's just cynical.

https://www.nateliason.com/blog/psychology-myths
Spotify pays $400 a month for 100,000 streams[0]. And that may be split between the artist and a publisher if the artist went through one (probably not if they're small). So an artist has to be extremely popular to get any real money from streaming.

The way smaller artists make money is through live gigs (nothing wrong with that).

[0] https://soundcamps.com/spotify-royalties-calculator/
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ASP.NET WebForms is a mess even on localhost.
I don't. I'm guessing -and it's nothing but a guess- that for every problem that can be solved with intelligence there exists a solution that does not require intelligence. I'm guessing in other words that intelligence is the ability to come up with solutions to arbitrary problems. If that's true then there's no way to test for intelligence by looking at the performance of a system at any particular task, or any finite set of tasks, and so there's no way to create a "test for intelligence".

My guess is supported by the experience that, in AI research, every time someone came up with a plausible test for intelligence, an AI system eventually passed the test only to make it clear that the test was not really testing intelligence after all (edit: I don't just mean formal tests; e.g. see how chess used to "require intelligence" right up until Deep Blue vs Kasparov).

Some people see that as "moving the goalposts" and it's certainly frustrating but the point is that we don't know what intelligence is, exactly, so it's very hard to test for its existence or not, or to measure it.

My preference would be for everyone in AI research to either stop what they're doing and try to understand what the hell intelligence is in the first place, to create a theory of intelligence so that AI can be a scientific subject again, or to at least admit they're not interested in creating artificial intelligence. I, for example, am not, but all my background is in subjects that are traditionally labelled "AI" so I have to suck it up, I guess.