skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes an SSRI does start working instantly. That was my experience the first time I took Zoloft; I remember leaving work early that afternoon for a walk in the park, marveling at the way all the colors in the world had become more vivid.

When I tried Zoloft again years later, during another bout of depression, I felt nothing: not right away, not for weeks after, no change at all.

I suspect that there is not really any such ailment as depression, any more than there is any such disease as fever; that is, the pattern of symptoms we see represents a reaction to some underlying problem, and many different kinds of problems may cause similar symptoms, while requiring different solutions.
Why not bypass this nasty stack juggling
and just use a async/await?
> I was never quite sure I held them in the right place to have my gestures picked up by the cameras.

That's okay, I'm sure Apple will try a flat keyboard with no tactile feedback soon :)

They're making noise they're aiming for thinness again.
It’s kinda interesting seeing Google try and fail to find the next revenue source after search ads, and now seeing Apple try and fail to diversify away from iPhone sales. They are both wildly successful, but I’m ready for a new crop of competitors in the market.
H100 SXM is 2000 TFLOPS at FP16. Multiply by 8.

M3 Max is 28 TFLOPS at FP16.

Based on FLOPS alone, it would be more like a year or two.
Shh don't tell anyone https://archive.org/details/fgtd5r/01+-+The+Tale+of+the+Frog...
>My neck was sore for a week following.

neither here nor there, and I know you didn't ask, but from one tech worker to another, this isn't normal and unless you had some condition before you should be addressing this with exercise.
I’m not sure many influential people at Apple would be looking for Tim Cook to resign over this— especially given that Apple is now sitting at a 3.5 trillion dollar evaluation under his leadership.
When the price is higher than many people's average monthly post tax income, and its not a must have device like a fridge or washing machine, it's definitely a pricing problem.

In 2022 the US median personal income was $47,000. That's pre tax. Consider approximations with averages and marginal tax rates and take out 12% for tax, and you have $3445 per month median personal income.

The apple headset is $3500.

Take out average rent of $1350.
Average credit card debt per consumer is just over $6300 in 2024, which seems high, but is also nearly twice monthly post tax income (holy crap).
Average car payment for used vehicles is just over $500.
I've not discussed food or utilities.

Given the above are for the average consumer, I'm not at all surprised a luxury and discretionary niche item such as the AVP has had next to no sales.
Or, maybe it isn't Apple-specific; maybe there simply isn't enough users, or VR/AR as a software paradigm is currently too far removed from how companies design their applications, and it is just a matter of time until they adapt. Like I said, I am not a developer, so maybe I'm missing something obvious here.

Long term, here's what I suspect may happen. Robotics+AI is going to eat the lunch of VR. VR is only used when it's not economical to have the actual stuff, but the realm of nifty real world stuff is going to expand tremendously.

This may well result in a societal bifurcation, where the rich have a bunch of robots, and the poor have to settle for VR.
Video from inside:

https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-guide-to-north-korea...
Funny because all I've learned from here is that "founder lifestyle" and "VC funding" are dirty words I don't want in my life...
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I think that's actually a great idea...
> Headphones for your eyes.

"I need a SinoLogic 16, Sogo-7 data gloves, a GPL stealth module, one Burdine intelligent translator, and Thomson eyephones."
Leaks of Apple's attempts to create a cheaper consumer version of this tech in an eyeglasses form factor go back to around the time of ARKit's release in 2017.

Every time they restart the effort, they eventuslly come to the conclusion that the tech just isn't there yet.

Currently, the short term plan (now that developers have something they can work with) is to produce a lighter/cheaper version of the shipping headset, while they continue long term work on an eyeglasses form factor for the consumer market.
Sure, if you could get in.

I tried for 5 years in a row to get into my country's service. It failed. Pivoted to information security, hey at least I am a millionaire now.
Ask yourself whether you want to optimize the P10, P50, or P90 outcome.
Idk if this email is a scam but Fluence is a legit project.
I don't follow your line of reasoning. They are in war so we (members of Nato) should dig our heads in the sand or what?

As sibling comment says, they are bolder because they feel our reactions are lukewarm.
A big political enemy of the saudi family that been a pain in their ass (rightly so since they are an evil dictatorship) vs random student that just took a poster as a souvernir.

Not the same thing. Anyone can be killed in North Korea. 99,99999999999% of people are not on the saudi familys enemy list.
I don't know. Go run it and find out, we're not your intern.
To make this work, you need your LLM-based AI to outperform any other form of generating quests and rewards -- and that performance is measured on things like player enjoyment, game/story progression, exploitability, client system requirements or server operating costs, etc and most of those things are very hard to constrain or optimize for with an LLM right now.

While the costs are hidden from end users and are going down quickly, good LLM's remain very expensive to run and very hard to keep on track compared to other options.
Sure it does. The ratio of good to bad absolutely matters. It determines the amount of effort required, and determines the statistical likelihood that something will be found and escape the pit. People are still writing actual books despite the ghostwritten garbage heap. If that ratio changes to be 10x or 100x or 1000x worse than it is today, it still looks like a majority garbage pile to the consumer, yes, but to creators it’s a meaningful 10, 100 or 1000x reduction in sales for the people who aren’t ghostwriting. AI will soon, if it doesn’t already, produce higher quality content than the “turked” stuff. And AI can produce ad-infinitum at even lower cost than mechanical turk. This could mean the difference between having any market for real writers, and it becoming infeasible.
That's just diplomacy.
sure, but that's the opposite extreme, isn't it?
Very cool! A assume you use Postgres' native full-text search capabilities? Any plans for BM25 or similar? This would make Korvus the end-game for open source rag IMO.
It's not a fiction story. It's a first-hand, viscerally personal account of a female artist who was bullied out of her profession for expressing views the bullies disagreed with.
https://archive.ph/17QpU
I think you can have an SE track with the appropriate amount of CS background. You'd have to, to be a functional engineer. (Then again, some I've worked with...)

One reason I also wish I'd gone along an SE track is that it would likely have given me a lot more experience actually doing what I do for work. Using version control, working with others in a group setting, actually making software.
It may sound odd, but suicides can happen when the medication is actually working. It gives the patient just enough motivation to finally do what they were unable to do because they were so paralyzed by anxiety and depression. It's really sad.
Important distinction.

'Fax' is 'exempt' not secure. So of course many places will take the relief valve even though the service is both a poor fit / quality and horridly insecure. When it works right the records aren't even in a sealed envelope but just on the output of some printer somewhere for anyone to see!
There's also javax.money.
Can you estimate how long it would take to replicate alphago zero today on one set of 8xH100.
Or, put a JWST 2.0 with hexagonal segments each the size of the full JWST diameter, and fold that up into Starship... Yes please!
Hydrogen flight looks ready for take-off with new advances
And a TV can be viewed by other people at the same time. And you can get up and answer the door, or use the bathroom, or watch it out of the corner of your eye while you cook dinner.

Even watching the VR sports that they are trying to make happen, you'll be doing that alone. For a lot of people watching sports is a communal experience and you'll never get that with the Vision Pro.
> It's an expensive gadget for a niche [0] market

With an interesting chicken and egg problem. There aren't enough users to justify making content for it and nobody wants to buy it because there isn't enough content.

Pretty much all of the VR headsets have this problem. So did the Amazon Echo devices.
Good thing she didn't try a career in politics, huh?
VR gaming is in a weird state because a lot of devs still haven't gotten over the hill of trying to design everything almost exactly the same as PC games despite the fundamentally different paradigm.

For an example of what I mean, compare a game that actually embraces the medium like Gorilla Tag to the endless numbers of "PC FPS, but in VR with nausea-inducing stick movement" shooter games that don't.
> Tim Cook is a different character, his special ability is his uncanny focus on squeezing the supply chain and keeping the money printer churning.

Apple Watch, AirPods, Apple Silicon… plenty of great products and services have come out under Cook’s time as CEO.

In my lifetime it has been exceedingly rare for Apple to launch a failing product. The company tends to be pretty conservative in what new features and products it launches to protect the brand equity. It’s not impossible, but I would be hesitant to consider Apple Vision Pro and their AR/VR efforts to be a failure unless you are negative on the entire AR/VR industry and future applications.
Growing up, I always heard "measure twice, cut once", but in almost every context I've actually had to measure and cut, "measure once, cut twice" [or more] is actually the way to go. Cut with a jig or a stop, stack your layers of fabric together and cut them at the same time -- any time you can avoid measuring the same length twice, the better your two pieces will match up.
LCD inversion pattern tests: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/inversion.php

On my monitor, pattern 2(a) flickers "strongly" (compared to any others) and pattern 4(a) less so.
Ask HN: Trouble learning things I view as solutions looking for a problem
Even when these things have proven themselves to be very useful in widespread use.

This is something that is playing a major part in impeding my progress, blocking my motivation to learning some tech skills that are more in demand. Especially since I currently have no job, so there is no real-world frame of reference to understand why they could be important. Why they could save my butt one day or make my life easier.

At some point, long ago (2012-ish) I was no longer required to do deployment for web, but unfortunately I never caught up because I was never made responsible for production ever again. So I am just familiar with old ways of deployment and missed out on a lot of changes that led to where full-stack web dev is today.

This mostly goes for a lot of skills in CI/CD and cloud that are in demand these days. Some of it comes up more in full-stack job interviews, in terms of, do you have experience with XYZ or how would you use XYZ in some situation. I have no good answer for them because I haven't really learned how to use them. And I haven't learned how to use them because I can't come up with problem scenarios where they are a possible solution. For instance, why do I need Jenkins and Chef when I can already test, SSH and add scripts and cron jobs no problem. Why would I need the cloud when my past jobs and clients got by well with a cheap shared host. For uploading files I just needed to know at least two of these three- Git, rsync, and SFTP.

It's not that I actually believe most of these things are "useless". But rather that my mind can't draw a good problem scenario for them. So from my POV they look like solutions looking for a problem. Maybe my experience just has no good frame of reference for those things.

Discovering a context, a frame of reference to understand these tools and apply them- especially without a job -that's what I want to figure out.
Advice works well when coupled with incentives.

If F=ma, then the "money" coupled with the "advice" characterizes the amount of force delivered.

Money here covers the spectrum of incentives from cash to sex to perks.

The wiser one is, the more prone to hoovering up good advice one likely is, and the less "m" is needed.
Well, usually we measure the difficulty of a problem by the run-time complexity of a solution to the problem. If the approach is deterministic, we'd usually care for the complexity of the best solution for the worst-case kind of problem; but it could as well be an expected run-time for a probabilistic approach.

Interestingly, you don't always actually have to _have_ an actual solution - it can be possible to determine run-time bounds (that tell you how hard your problem is at least) just on theoretical grounds. This could be, e.g., by comparing it in complexity to another problem that has already been studied and whose complexity is thus known.
> Fat chance.

I see what you did there.
Yes I would expect as much because Chrome is still not allowed to ship its own from-scratch browser on iOS right? I.e. under-the-hood all browsers have to use the engine that Apple provides. That was the case when I used to work on Google Web DevRel back in 2015-2021, not sure if it's still true today.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378899>

I'm pretty confident in my understanding of HN's guidelines and dang's views on them. He's the site moderator (I am not). Note that most of HN's actual moderation is, however, by ordinary members.

I'm not going to argue the point. I strongly encourage you to read through dang's comments and admonitions on this point, which makes clear just what constitutes a swipe:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>

And ... you've been admonished before on this specific point, more than once: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39696275> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37925316> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37906769>
I think this is approaching the end of what this VR form factor can produce. Compact pass through glasses + Dramatically improved “AI” assistants is almost certainly going to be the end goal for what these technologies look like.

Google glass may have been on the right course all along
Well played, but, ahem: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9913629> ;-)
Uscsb: Designed to Fail: Chemical Release at LyondellBasell. July 27, 2021 [video]
Well, they have nukes, but they're also morons. If that side of them materializes, they'll probably crash the currency value, which also raises S&P, and if you are leveraged, hopefully by more than the currency crashes.
There is, as far as I am aware, nothing to stop Microsoft from crawling any other site’s code. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Things like “copyright” didn’t seem to stop OpenAI.
For this specifically? I dunno, I mean let Apple release a new flop AVP every year for the next 5 years and so long as the rest of the company performs like it has during the last decade then it still isn't really more than a dent against the guy. Vanishingly few want leadership out because of a single botched product launch that didn't even prevent the quarterly numbers from being extremely strong.

Maybe there are other reasons that factor into why you think Tim should go as well but that's not really "for this" then (and probably still not a generally popular conclusion but at least more reasonably based).
>The question is, why does anybody care whether or not they think or understand?

I can turn that around and ask you why do you not care to know whether a tool is capable of thinking/understanding/reasoning/generalizing etc especially if it's a tool you want add to your toolbox.

And I say that as a person who thinks LLMs/genAI are useful for some tasks even if I know they do not think.
nice one comment thread.
Building an AWS Cloud Asset Inventory with Postgres
They did not have internet. From the article:

> You were in a country that really was sealed off from the rest of the world. No internet or social media. All press and TV (one channel) dedicated not for news but solely for the glorification of the Leader. That is the Kim dynasty and the regime.
The scenario at the end really illustrates how important it is to not evaluate partial policies without accurate and full knowledge. In particular, we don't know how whether this hypothetical situation ever happened (and if so, what breakdown led to them hiring ~480 white & asian men before even hiring 20 women or URM, assuming a 500 annual hiring budget?).

But that aside, we don't know how management would handle the hypothetical. If I need to hire someone today and all I have are the "opportunistic" headcount available, am I allowed to hire an Asian man or am I required to leave the job unfilled? The use of the word "opportunistic" does make it sound as if this is not a hard requirement in all situations. But again, we are on HN and do not have access to anything like the full guidelines presented to management at Dropbox.
Like the author said... Obvious. :)
Sure it did. There was a page in the pamphlet that came with my viewsonic 15" that listed the supported timings. You just threw it away, but that's not X's fault.
Show HN: Mandala – Automatically save, query and version Python computations
`mandala` is a framework I wrote to automate tracking ML experiments for my research. It differs from other experiment tracking tools by making persistence, query and versioning logic a generic part of the programming language itself, as opposed to an external logging tool you must learn and adapt to. The goal is to be able to write expressive computational code without thinking about persistence (like in an interactive session), and still have the full benefits of a versioned, queriable storage afterwards.

Surprisingly, it turns out that this vision can pretty much be achieved with two generic tools:

1. a memoization+versioning decorator, `@op`, which tracks inputs, outputs, code and runtime dependencies (other functions called, or global variables accessed) every time a function is called. Essentially, this makes function calls replace logging: if you want something saved, you write a function that returns it. Using (a lot of) hashing, `@op` ensures that the same version of the function is never executed twice on the same inputs.

Importantly, the decorator encourages/enforces composition. Before a call, `@op` functions wrap their inputs in special objects, `Ref`s, and return `Ref`s in turn. Furthermore, data structures can be made transparent to `@op`s, so that an `@op` can be called on a list of outputs of other `@op`s, or on an element of the output of another `@op`. This creates an expressive "web" of `@op` calls over time.

2. a data structure, `ComputationFrame`, can automatically organize any such web of `@op` calls into a high-level view, by grouping calls with a similar role into "operations", and their inputs/outputs into "variables". It can detect "imperative" patterns - like feedback loops, branching/merging, and grouping multiple results in a single object - and surface them in the graph.

`ComputationFrame`s are a "synthesis" of computation graphs and relational databases, and can be automatically "exported" as dataframes, where columns are variables and operations in the graph, and rows contain values and calls for (possibly partial) executions of the graph. The upshot is that you can query the relationships between any variables in a project in one line, even in the presence of very heterogeneous patterns in the graph.

I'm very excited about this project - which is still in an alpha version being actively developed - and especially about the `ComputationFrame` data structure. I'd love to hear the feedback of the HN community.

Colab quickstart: https://colab.research.google.com/github/amakelov/mandala/bl...

Blog post introducing `ComputationFrame`s (can be opened in Colab too): https://amakelov.github.io/mandala/blog/01_cf/

Docs: https://amakelov.github.io/mandala/
> practical for very little but consuming content in a reclined position.

You can create content in a recline position too. It's utterly fantastic, actually, if you just have a little tray in your lap for a wireless keyboard, and a mouse on a table on your armrest.

I really think the future of VR is mostly in a reclined position, actually -- headset weight becomes a non-issue, and it just avoids developing postural problems. It's infinitely better for your back and neck and shoulders than sitting in a chair at a desk all day long.

The Meta Quest finally recently gained the ability to shift your environment to a vertical angle, for reclining or lying down in bed.

I don't really see VR's killer app being immersive games while standing up or sitting down, because of motion sickness. I think it's going to be reclining, doing work on big screens as well as watching content on big screens and immersively. I think we're just waiting for the displays to increase their resolution a bit more, and for prices for those displays to come down.
"It's a dev kit for those willing to spend on early access to Apple's AR/VR ecosystem" was always the sane take, it was really weird watching so many people convince themselves that it was a mass-market product and then convince themselves that the failure of a mass-market audience to materialize was some kind of a disaster.

I have no visibility inside Apple so I don't know if they drank their own kool-aid on this one or if this is just Ye Olde Yellow Journalism, but it's a strange amount of drama over something that in any other industry would be a complete non-story, even at ten times the dollar amount. Probably more than that, depending on the industry!
It's not really 2FA even. More like a magic link (which is what we use for verification via email). The customer has no password, just verifies using a code via sms/email.
Would be free for us because we have those H100`s, but currently it's way too hot now. They will reach 70°C, even watercooled.
Well I guess there's a pretentious, poorly-drawn XKCD comic for every occasion.

Harassment, intimidation and violence are not "consequences" to be celebrated or excused.
> CNN et al also claimed knowing it was Russia.

They did? Source?
Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (1997)
Again, had she tried running for office then she would have been democratically put out of a job too.

It's tough business, having an opinion. It's like having an asshole; everyone's got one, and we all think yours stinks.
If Google ad words even allows a scammer to create an ad for a bank login page then we have a more fundamental problem.
I agree with the exception of you being surprised that folks will spend 5000E on a road bike. Of all my discretionary purchases my custom roadbike might well be my happiest. A well fitting allroad bike can take you to the grocery store or up a gravel road to a mountain pass and make both journeys joyful. I'm on mine most days to do something practical made fun and healthy and sustainable, too : )
Starlink Mini is now available for roaming across the United States
considering it has a CPU that is as powerful as the MacBook Pro, I find your target price extremely optimistic.

hopefully once the display tech becomes cheaper, the overall price will come down quite a bit. But $500? unrealistic expectations IMO. Maybe in 10 years.
It’s not clear from the article. Would something like creatine, considering it’s ability to increase water retention, positively or negatively impact the muscles speed?
> Next steps

> I’m curious to test rustybgp, and bio-rd, and whatever else there is.

If the author is reading this, I nominate OpenBGPD.