skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’d eliminate the CEO position and delegate to a management company. Family businesses would, in practice, have been outlawed. In summary, a panacea for private equity.
Woah. https://blog.txfb-ins.com/texas-living/weird-history-clay-he...
Hmm, but is it really "generalizing" or just pulling information from the training data? I think that's what this benchmark is really about: to adapt to something it has never seen before quickly.
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I hate when people do this, but I have to wonder how Steve Jobs would handle VR. In Jobs-ian fashion, Apple didn’t rush into a market and built a premium product that for all intents and purposes was well executed.

However, the VR market just isn’t there and I don’t foresee it ever being there. The Vision is likely going to go down as one of Apple’s biggest “busts”, but more due to the market than Apple making a bad product. I wonder if Jobs would have foreseen this and never released it.
Can’t you just change this in the settings app?
I cannot help but see the similarities with developers ending up as managers...
"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, that law only exists for the lower classes"
> They rather famously switched to an Xbox controller for their rolling drones, and for their submarine controls, because they just work better.

Like oceangate?
The first thing I was reminded of was X-ray diffraction images.
Neither do CNNs, so I don't quite see your point. You are throwing numbers without good estimates. Get descent estimates for both children and NNs then make categorical conclusions.

Better even measure in bytes. And remember that kids look at video, not at individual pictures (even if these are videos of pictures).
Yes, drug use and addiction is a medical issue and should be handled as a medical issue leaving no room for criminal groups to profit. That said society must educate its members about recreational drug use and its consequences. Education not laws should be used to stop people the use of recreational drugs. If murder or robbery happens normal laws should apply but if drug addiction is the cause those crimes should be treated like crimes committed by people with a mental disease.
I sorta expected this to be the plan. go big to prove some tech and differentiate from the rest so you arent an also-ran, then figure out how to bring it to the masses.

personally I dont care about the front screen at all, the eyes actually creep me out. pass through is cool though. but mostly I want to use it for virtual screens and media consumption. augmented reality is cool, and I desperately want it to become commonplace, but it has to become commonplace before its more than a gimmick imo
It is fundamentally unsolvable problem.

Many literature about it from fiction like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Grove

Through pop sci https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/789727.How_Real_Is_Real_

All the way to the deepest epistemological problems.

The main reason is similar to why AGI cannot be achieved — it is impossible to achieve something that you can’t or haven’t clearly defined first.
yes, i built this to solve that problem: https://github.com/khimaros/freecad-build
The main page for the site says:

Chatting sucks with AI. Now You can start graphing with AI. Built on top of OpenAI, youre getting the best AI model with the best user interface

The Smarter Way To Interact With AI
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Use AI Like Your Use Your Brain

(p.s. you have a typo - "like your use" should be "like you use")

and then starts talking about pricing. I still have no idea what this actually is or what its value proposition vs. just using one of the GPTs directly is supposed to be. Given the site's statement that "chatting sucks with AI", I'm not sure how this is better since it seems to be a (transparent?) front end to the thing that (the site itself claims) sucks.

You'd probably get more useful feeback if there was anything that explained (a) what this is (b) why someone might want to use this and (c) how you're supposed to interact with it
No. Hash functions are specifically designed to make any shortcuts impossible. Essentially, they consist of many steps of scrambling the input bits, each step taking as its input the output of the previous one.

If any such shortcut would be found, it would be considered a vulnerability, and the use of SHA256 for anything involving cryptography would be strongly discouraged.
I remember long ago there was a lan party hosted on the hornet.
Another Company Caught Using AI to Create Fake Journalists and Journalism
Is there a term similar to “regulatory capture” but where the government becomes dependent on fines?

I suppose that if workers lost out on benefits of approximately the fine amount, the fine becomes a regressive tax since it goes towards general revenue rather than to whom was harmed.
Many thanks.-
I'm with you. I didn't have too many issues learning it. But I also didn't know other CAD software, so I'm sure that plays a big part for people; knowing what you want to do, but not being able to find it can be very frustrating, especially when what you want to do now requires an unfamiliar workflow that looks from the outside unnecessarily complicated. So I can understand people's dislike of the software.

I differ on recommending MangoJelly though; video can be good for learning CAD, but I got real tired of having to sit through a 15-40 minute video before getting to the point of what was being demonstrated. I would much prefer written tutorials or pages describing the specific feature I'm trying to use/learn. The FreeCAD wiki was more useful to me than MangoJelly's stuff and I hope people don't forget that it's there. But many folks like his approach, so do what works for you.
You only need one IP per MTA not per domain. I have a "vanity" email system that I run at home. I run it for my mates too. I have around 10 domains inbound. It all works fine.

SMTP and SIP are often held aloft as fucked up. My Dad's home telephony runs off a RPi and a Yealink DECT station and a dynamic DNS.

The modern internet might look a bit fucked up if you only look at the X/Facebook/webby wankery stuff but the real internet is functioning quite happily.
I see this parroted around a lot, but Amazon's retail margin is not nearly zero. It's 3-5%, and accounts for over half the profit the company makes. And that's even before you account for the "profit" AWS makes from retail's purchases
Perhaps it could be mandated by legislation or executive order.
A plan that worked for me is to have a MVP product for free, then get some clients. Some of those clients will ask you for features, they pay you to implement them, and then you start selling those features.

My area was wordpress plugins, might not be viable for you.
Oh wow $5.9M

Where are going to get their peanuts from now?
Malaysia and other SE Asian countries were "colonized" by Chinese diaspora, whom control most of the wealth in their countries. Hard work is most definitely one component of their success. How about their insularity and doing business mostly amongst themselves? Try breaking into those social and business circles as a non Chinese.

Alas, we don't hear that narrative because it's only bad when Europeans do it.
Politicans should always be held to a far higher degree of scrutiny. This is purely cope and cover.
Disagree. AVP is analogous to the Lisa: too early, too unrefined, but still a glimpse of the future. The basic idea of a computing environment sharing our 3D world is real and is the next GUI. The rendering hardware and form factor are implementation details.
I’ve already done it in nodejs and few lower level libs (cookies, encryption, oauth related).

Because nothing fit my needs and internal perfectionist.

Not a big deal if your requirements are narrow.

Its free, it fit your needs perfectly, it doesn’t waste your time on deployment and figuring out wtf is going on behind the scenes.
We've had 'VR' since easily the Riva TNT2 GPU with attachable LCD glasses.

And every iteration has pretty much failed, no matter the advances in hardware.

Jobs I imagine would've never done VR.
I do not know anyone with even a passing familiarity with LLMs in their current state that would say a chatbot is “way smarter than me”.
To AMZN, the fines are irrelevant. But what about the manager (or whatever meme equivalent middle managment outside of c-suite) that was thinking they could get away with something so their bonus would go up? If AMZN decides not pay bonuses for the people involved, would that be a deterrent for other middle managers from doing the same?
Remember that neural networks were invented in 1943 and were not productized until much later.

Often it takes time for the engineering to catch up to the theory.
Indeed. It needs to be glasses and contact lenses, not headsets.

But then again, we might get a world like this if that does come to pass: https://vimeo.com/166807261
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I often find that a ton of useful information from what I read just slips away. How often does this happen to you and how do you deal with it?
Yeah, without being partisan, ChatGPT can definitely and consistently make better decisions then some elected politicians out there.

I would argue that there are a few politicians underperforming random choice or not making choices whatsoever. So it's not exactly a high bar to cross.
You do realize that all 3 of the companies you listed are all bankrupt, yeah?
Not... double secret quotas!
I completely agree with you that this is maddening and increasingly common in all walks of life. The situation is not getting better either.

Having worked for companies that do this kind of contract work I can imagine how this could occur:

The state puts out an RFP (Request for Proposal) written by someone completely removed from the technical aspects and actual work to be done.

After a bunch of BS, some company gets awarded the contract and begin work. They quickly find that what was requested in the RFP doesn't make sense and they have to either drift from the exact requirements of the contract, or deliver something completely broken.

Not wanting to lose the customer, or violate the contract they decide to forge ahead, working with the state to form the requirements into some form of sanity. Some stories get added to a sprint by someone who doesn't know what any of it means and they sit...

They sit, maybe even for multiple sprints (because everyone has given up on the burndown chart being even remotely accurate anyway and no one has time for retrospectives) until someone screams loud enough about it.

Then, poor programmer, likely knee deep in several other tasks, gets asked to work on this story, it needs to be done by end of the week and it's Thursday.

They begin implementing the feature, look for requirements about address length and find none.

They have two choices:

A) Stop work, ask the business analyst or whoever might know, they'll ask their counterpart on the state side, who will then make a request to IT, who will be just as swamped and take four days to give them the answer because Monday is a holiday.

B) Set some default that seems reasonable (50?) and move on.

It's easy to see which one they end up choosing here. Besides, there's likely several things to be done, this one field is a tiny part of it.

Because there's no test system for the back-end (maybe it's written by the state or some other state contractor) they mock it in a database and move on.

But lets say they get done, everything moves along nicely, stuff gets deployed. Then, not long after it's been pushed to prod they get a bug report.

The bug report says that addresses are being truncated in their IBM AS/400 (or equally antiquated mainframe.) there is a limit of 31 characters that needs to be enforced.

Lots of screaming from people with project, manager, and business in their titles.

The programmer, now gets assigned a new story for fixing the bug, because they were the only one that worked on it, they can't escape their fate.

It's Thursday again and the only window they have for the update is this Saturday, they have 2 other projects that are due this week...

They put in the validation for 30 chars and push it out to be deployed.

Then the author hits the aforementioned bug. It will likely never be fixed as the poor soul that worked the feature has now moved on to be a sheep farmer in the mountains.
It shows off a minimum viable web app configuration, as a ready component of a debian package. I presume Gibney starts off lots of sites, pursuing his own interests or supporting communities, and wants to systematize the getting started part of that.

I've used https://www.gnod.com/ site for many years, and get delight in sharing it with others. However, the recommendation system gains most of its value only after many users contribute over months or years. You've got to start somewhere.
The Ford Transit is widely used as the basis for fibre splicing labs. However, Ford has a problem with the e-Transit: the batteries aren't big enough, even in the extended range version. Charging time doesn't matter, but there needs to be enough range to handle a typical work day without charging as charging time is an expensive way to be forced to pay an employee to sit around doing nothing.
The penalty must be proportionate to the crime. Otherwise, there's a good chance a higher court will overturn it.

It doesn't matter where the profits go; in this case, management at two warehouses did something wrong, and the fine reflects the scope of the harm done.

If this could be proven to be happening illegally at every warehouse nationwide, then it becomes a larger issue and there will be larger personalities.
Show HN: Running nested X11 dwm sessions
I have been using Xephyr and dwm for a while in a nested X11 session, and I grew sick and tired of having all the weird aliases in my bashrc and decided to make a little project that handles this for me in a nicer way.

It's not really an ideal situation, but I do like having Gnome around with all its niceties it brings. A lot of this stuff could be achieved with tmux for sure. I'm not arguing that. I use tmux extensively as well. But since I've been using dwm for a long time, this kind of marries the best of both world for me.

Maybe this would vibe with some of you.

https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/clutch

Thanks for any feedback or comments.

Cheers
I hate when people bring up this ridiculous Jobs argument.

Many products were rushed into market or half baked during his era.

Mac OS X was borderline unusable for years after it launched. Also he believed in a VR future.
One in four US households likely exceed new soil lead guidance levels
But it halves every so often.
Won't the price then be the electricity to prove work (if that's the variety of crypto used, and that question may reveal my ignorance on the subject)?
I don't think it will be the next GUI. I think it will be an alternative with some advantages for selected use cases and big disadvantages for many others. I don't expect it to be an iPhone-sized market ever.
If they aren’t also providing user reviews and reports of trails then they aren’t really replacing AllTrails
Were you replying to my note? The point, as I noted, is not to say "just stick them where the roads are" but rather as a sort of Fermi estimate -- the cost of deployment is demonstrably quite feasible. Whether people want to do it or not is unrelated.

FWIW there are a lot of deserts and plains that can be used for year round generation.
Thanks! That was pretty good...gonna see what else he has :-D
ok - I have no idea what he's talking about, but both my girlfriend and I loved the ones we listened to :-D (1)(2)

Thanks again!

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjbtsX7twc

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FAJXPBdOg
What are the “consumer” applications of 3D splatting? It looks super cool, and I can see applications for the next gen of maps, but I don’t understand if it’s going to be an end user technology or not.
Seconding Postgres recommendation - it's just so difficult to go wrong with it. It's incredibly versatile and works very well in non-pure-RDBMS scenarios too as document store, querying JSON data in jsonb fields and as vector store with pgvector.
Does anyone want Oracle cloud on their ship? Seems like an odd flex to say they can deploy 3 racks of servers and build a small data center. Thats plenty of compute for a medium sized business.
Yes but that's not an SBC, that's a laptop. I don't understand who would call that an "SBC". I guess technically any laptop that's only 1 PCB is an SBC, but that still doesn't answer the original question of SBC -> Laptop.
Just what globalists wish for. As long as they control the buttons
I would imagine that the location of carrier groups is basically known at all times to serious adversaries, regardless of emissions. They're not exactly small and if you're doing it right they don't dive underwater.
Oh I meant package for PortableApps.com.
Minor detail- I believe this would be called "withdrawing" a paper rather than retraction as it had not been published yet.
With Jobs, I think it goes even further. They went after things he was personally interested in and so he knew how to shape that product because he was scratching an itch.

VR has an obvious market in games and possibly others but it doesn't feel like anyone at Apple uses this thing at all. Until they figure out why the AVP should exist it'll just be an also-ran headset without a real identity.
I was told that in Monaco, if you are caught speeding in a supercar, your fine is much more than if you are caught speeding on your moped. I thought that seemed fair to me. Whether it is true or not is something I never looked up as I will never be in the situation of needing to know. If it's not true, then seems like a waste of a good idea that people seem to want to be true.
I hear it comes equipped with the "Started WW3 accidentally" footgun.
I probably should have said Apple APIs or libraries. It's been a while since I did macOS/iOS programming, and I got out of it because I got tired of seeing stuff like this:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/assetslibrary/alas...

Looks like maybe they've slowed down on their deprecations a bit:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release...

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release...

It was rough 20 years ago with the Carbon to Cocoa transition, Objective-C to Swift, CoreGraphics to OpenGL to Metal, etc. Always a moving target, never cross-platform. It's all so opposite to how I would do things. I remember when the US national debt was $3 trillion in the 80s, now that's Apple's market cap. Makes it hard to focus and make rent these days when so many other people are rolling in dough.

For anyone curious, with AWS I get notices every few months about some core service or configuration option that's getting discontinued in 6 months. Last year it was launch configurations for ECS (maybe the EC2 portion) that had to be migrated to launch templates (can't recall exactly). A deploy failed before I could finish a large feature I had been working on, which caused me to drop everything, which led to overlapping merges in git and associated headaches that set us back weeks. I should have been ahead of that, but it couldn't have come at a worse time.
Interesting. I never encountered what it stood for, but had always assumed it was "The Full Article".
yeah - I guess it varies but I can usually spot about 5 of them out at night...Thanks for the link!
A major issue is the pay (or lack thereof) [0]

[0] - https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/how-the-taliban-guard-afghan...
A business employing 100 people should have at least a General Counsel, if not multiple lawyers who can advise them such that they structure their break schedule to not violate state law. That's literally the purpose of having in-house legal counsel.

Heck, a business employing 2 people should have a legal advisor. If I were starting a startup with my own money, a lawyer would be employee number one.
This is actually exactly what I needed for my current project!
I've just put one in my office and it cost just $150 USD. I plan on using my fitness reimbursement from my insurer to cover the expense. I've used it selectively but recently reorganized my office to make it more accessible. I spent about an hour on it today, alternating between standing and sitting. I find it much easier to stay standing while moving my body. Otherwise, I neglect to focus on my comportment while standing and start to cramp up, similar to sitting with poor posture. Exercise and step count aside, it's worth it to me for that reason. Also, being at a keyboard, my hands are occupied and my watch doesn't always register the additional steps. YMMV, literally.
https://archive.ph/ten3W
Can you push terabytes through those daily? I had understood they're quite slow
Great, where's your OpenXR app that takes advantage of the VisionPro's sensors to make a great example of how amazing OpenXR truly is? No? Where's anyone else's?
See also iceoryx2: https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2
Now try the same argument on Jewish merchants in 30s Europe and see how that sounds.
Anytime you have something where you ask the experts, “So how does it work?” and they just shrug and go, “It just does,” that’s when you know it’s time to run!
> It would be cool if Framework started selling a bare-bones kit where you could add your own mainboard, screen, etc.

I'd second this idea. Could be doable by just making every component in the DIY edition optional during configuration, though I don't know how much that'd impact their current manufacturing flow (given that even the DIY edition laptops are mostly preassembled).
Sounds to me like you're closing in on burnout, possibly w/ impostor syndrome. I would rather take a step back, here. You're not actually just looking for a success story "in programming," but something more. Take a moment to cognitively restructure (ask chatgpt to help, it's _very_ good at it) so that you feel at peace. Do that so your creative mind has space.
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Probably about as consumer-related as any other part of a 3d rendering pipeline. Most 3D rendered images you see-- VFX, motion graphics, animation-- were rendered and composited into video clips. Some things like video games render 3D in real time.
This may sound bad but might actually work. You should give ChatGPT 4 a try. It's a small extension so all source and response might fit in 1 context length.
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