skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's the way to go. one time got "lost" in a corn maze about 2/3rd way thru, going in circles, so just finally hopped a row, and followed the path out 30 seconds later. it's supposed to be fun, not stressful.
BTC is highly volatile but it has a more predictable cyclic behavior than any other investment in the past 3 decades, and for largely mathematical reasons.

Even if that cyclic behavior breaks, I think the US economy and foreign policy is so unhealthy right now that BTC is widely becoming a new store of value across the world. It's a lot easier to deal with than gold.

You can believe otherwise; I'm not here to argue, convince, or be convinced, for or against BTC and I'm not a crypto-nut. I'm just de-dollarizing and hedging against uncertainties in the US economy.

If I lose all of it, it's no big deal as my actual retirement fund isn't my 401K, I just use 401K/IRA to churn tax-inefficient high risk stuff.

None of this is investment advice. Do what you believe, I'm just stating what I do.
North Korea can take you with whatever justification they feel like and return you as a vegetable.

I know the mass games look cool and people like to go to weird places, please avoid North Korea
I'd happily buy one for $500, but $3500 is way too much
What is it like working with hard real time? As in, is there some tooling to determine
how long a given function will take to run to meet a deadline? It starts to sound like
an NP problem, but we have other kinds of correctness and proof testing.

I suppose it's hard to make guarantees with different environments and hardware, but
I realized when we (non-realtime people) ship software we don't really have guarantees
for when our functions run.
The fact that Apple put a fast chip in a limited device doesn't detract from their engineering ability.
> I'm still waiting on my virtual workstation where I can have infinite virtual monitor space

This is it. Right now my work has to shrink down to fit on four monitors. Virtual desktops can help, but only so much. When I'm trying to puzzle something out over 20 windows--source code files, git history, documentation for two or three libraries, Wikipedia, Slack, StackOverflow, I spend a non-trivial amount of time just keeping all that organized and switching between things.

What I want is a room where I can spread out. And I need it for $1500 or less.
As someone who spent a lot of time tinkering with jailbroken iPhones back in the day, there was always an ongoing rumor in the jailbreak community (maybe better to call it a myth or legend) that Apple knowingly let jailbreak vulnerabilities out. Apple probably could benefit massively from letting enthusiast users tinker with the OS in a way that gives Apple a bit of plausible deniability.
then you can't block anything
I like having one-purpose simple apps with no ads, and OSS if possible.

I have switched to FDroid and download apps from there even if the same apps are available from Google Play Store. Like VLC, Syncthing, Ankidroid, etc.

I also switched to OSS alternatives from FDroid, deleting Play Store apps, and I have zero regrets. Some examples-

1. Antennapod is better podcast player than anything on Play Store, like Pocket Casts, Podbean, etc.

2. Voice is the best audiobook player for local files for Android.

3. Feeder is a great RSS reader. Can't use anything else here.

FDroid is not only useful, it is fun, too. I have an app called Bubble which is a spirit level app using the phone's sensors. It's like using Windows in the 00s, and discovering indie apps and playing with them.

It also has apps like Exodus where you can check permissions used by apps to check suspicious permissions.
They spend that amount on a bike, because they first bought a $300 bike, then upgraded to a $1500 one, etc. It's the same with guitars, you can start cheap and figure out if it's really for you.
It’s worse in a lot of implementations because often SMS is often used as part of a recovery flow in cases where you lose the first factor.

I find it more secure in some contexts to never give a company my phone number at all if possible, so that it simply can’t be used as any kind of authentication no matter what.
Minority Report style UIs look good in movies. Use them 8 hours per day every day and they're just tiring.
I think the sentiment is that they’re both hype bubbles.
The relationship is transactional. If there's money to be made developers will be there. The core problem is there's no killer app for Vision Pro and price is way to high to be a impulsive purchase for most.
I'm somewhat over this debate. LLMs may not think like humans, but they sure format text to jsons well, tell me about the latest features of the C# language and fix my syntax. Good enough.
Yamanote is one of the best passenger train lines in the world, when you take into consideration the number of passengers, the quality of service, the cost, and the economic impact. Some of us think that is beautiful.
Right, cities have all the bad stuff and no individual control over it!

Regarding benefits: There are indications that people with schizophrenia use nicotine to self-medicate. The health risks of nicotine when inhaled but not smoked are relatively low. So why make them feel bad by calling them addicted to nicotine?
I guess, Apple coming late to the VR party, when everyone else that did headsets was already in the AI party.
Fire extinguishers?
To do it intentionally, sure, but don't worry, it'll happen whether they intend it or not.
I don't think much people are interested to wear some heavy stuff that makes them look stupid, regardless of how practical or not the computing experience is.

It is as simple as that. When the capabilities of a Vision Pro will be available directly from an invisible chip implanted in your head, yes it will be a success. Not as long as you'll have to wear goofy headsets.
This looks great, thanks! After being disappointed by how flaky gpt-4-turbo's RAG is, I want to set up my own, so this came at the right time.

One question: Can I use an external model (ie get the raw RAG snippets, or prompt text)? Or does it have to be the one specified in Korvus?
I was expecting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrVoJgQ7u8w

For context, she hosted a show called "Faerie Tale Theatre".
I think VR is a symptom that we're both running out of fertile tech to mine, and the population at large is tired of it.

In order to make a compelling experience the tech is Very Expensive...and what it really is is a funky monitor and funky mouse.

Well monitors are a couple hundred bucks and a mouse is $50.

And even when it _is_ affordable, it's just not 'sticky' (yes, I know, poor choice of words)

I've used 'em since the Vive and some of the experiences are outstanding....and yet they end up collecting dust for weeks at a time. I use it, it's great, I enjoy it...and then it goes back to collecting dust.

And I'm pretty sure the cheap, sunglasses, 4x better display of the future would be the same.
You don't even necessarily need to have them coming up with valid speech. Simply giving out random quests and rewards would keep people running on a loot treadmill for most open world multiplayer games.
> For example, video game space has already been trying to create AI-powered NPCs, world generation and story-telling (e.g. Inworld AI).

This'll be a niche for a long, long time.

Games are generally carefully crafted to deliver a specific mechanical and/or narrative experience. A world populated by LLM/etc bots or content is one choice of what that experience might be, but it's not going to be a very satisfying one for many game designers -- especially given the current/near state of the technology. There will be games and experiments that explore it, for sure, but the vast majority of games just don't have any need for it.
> they could not post success stories

It feels like Lisp and Open Source are old enough this should not be a relevant concern anymore. Many newer Lisps exist that have been OSS their whole lives, including the community infrastructure. What remains are the inherent properties of the language instead of any legal artifacts.

That is a great set of responses to the Lisp Curse article. Again I will note that my points are not about Lisp as I'm just taking that article as granted (which it turns out it's not, but still). The point about the pareto principle is also language-agnostic, and an interesting point. It's sort of a proof that the 80% problem is going to persist to some extent even if you do use many dependencies. (Note not to the fullest extent — the 80% problem can at least be mitigated by everyone not reimplementing everything every time.)
Similar to Safari on IOS it does not work with Chrome on IOS.
As a Nick born in the 70's, I thought my world was getting a bit weird as Nick's were poping up everywhere all of a sudden. Then I saw a video on the top ten boy's names from 1880-2020[1] and saw Nicholas pop up in the top ten in 1986, peak at #5 in 1990-1992, and drop off in 2004. I blame Nicholas Cage and Nick Nolte.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hkR5FUVdc
It's a combination of two things: there's not enough users, and the device just isn't comfortable enough for that niche of ultra-enthusiast users to use it for extended periods.

Apple really shot themselves in the foot here with the headstrap design and by weighing it down with the metal and glass housing. Even the "good" strap is unbalanced and uncomfortable and so practical for very little but consuming content in a reclined position.

By contrast, the Quest 3 is noticeably lighter and has an entire ecosystem of head straps that allow for extended wear without discomfort, to the point that the limiting factor is the battery. Between that and the much lower price, the market of people willing to actually buy apps and services (mostly games, but also stuff like Bigscreen or workout apps) is orders of magnitude larger.
And I can see already from the child comments you folks did not disappoint :-)
I was hyped. 100% ready to buy. Then I did the demo. It is too heavy and the field of view is too narrow. I simply don't want to watch movies in it or use it for long periods. Maybe future iterations
Genuinely asking — do you work outside an office a lot and/or travel with it?
For the interested: CRT monitors have a high-voltage power supply which uses an oscillator. Cheap(er) monitors allegedly reused the horizontal sync frequency for the power supply oscillation, to save an oscillator, so if the horizontal sync frequency was very different from expected, or worse, completely stopped, it could burn out the HV power supply.

Has anyone tested this hypothesis? It could also be that the horizontal sync itself burns out, although that seems less likely.

(In even more detail: Like any other switching power supply, the HV supply in a CRT runs on a two-phase cycle: first, a coil, which creates electrical inertia, is connected to the power source, allowing current to build up. Then the current is suddenly shut off, and the force of the coil attempting to keep it flowing creates a very high voltage, which is harvested. If the circuit gets stuck in phase one, the current never stops increasing, until it's limited by the circuit's resistance, much higher than it's supposed to be. The excessively high current overheats and burns out the switching component. Anyone working on switching power supplies will have encountered this failure mode many times.)
pptm.js is paypal's tag manager, for "Marketing Solutions". Gives the vendor shopper insights (clickthru, etc).

Stripe recommends putting stripe.js on every page to help detect fraud better (https://docs.stripe.com/js/including)
There's still the cost of hardware problem. With so few sales it's unlikely that even this functionality would tip the scale.
Even if it did, they should publish the specs and allow me to decide where I get my lenses.
He does it on 8 H100's in 24 hours, ie 192 H100 hours. It's going to be thousands of laptop hours.
> I wonder if it was a special gift I could have developed.

Seems that you managed to train your neural networks to do a parallel search. Probably visual cortex neurons. GPU acceleration rocks.
The question is, why does anybody care whether or not they think or understand?

It’s an artificial distinction given that the majority of actors don’t think or understand so thinking, and understanding isn’t something that society cares about
What if the LLM that a specific NPC utilizes was handcrafted/fine-tuned by a human?
https://archive.ph/dCF9T
How about only save the verbose logs if there’s an error?
Gigamon offers a capability they call Precryption which functions the same under the hood, but also with a centralized interface: https://www.gigamon.com/campaigns/precryption.html
Maybe read past the first sentence - all will be explained.
It's not an NSAID at all, which have their own pitfalls with damage to the GI tract over time.
Yes

If you check the GPU stats it's the "AMD Custom GPU 0405" which stands at 0.62% accross all GPUs
>> can’t really imagine a situation where the slot I the traffic I just left to overtake isn’t still available

Well, I can't help with that. Either you can choose to believe me that this can and does happen, or you can choose to believe that it's a fantasy scenario that doesn't exist.
I thought we got a major hint of it being from disrupting nerve transmission mechanisms. Due to of all things anesthesizing plants with gases resulting in disruption of "conscious" behavior like facing towards sunlight or venus flytraps closing upon being touched.
> North Korea can take you with whatever justification they feel like and return you as a vegetable.

That’s most/all countries (or their embassies) you visit, no?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...
Would be nice to provide some building instructions.
I'm mostly surprised about the free admission of bribery:

> However, I soon found that a bottle of Johnie Walker Black Label handed out at particularly frustrating moments made things miraculously happen a lot quicker. Oh how the North Koreans loved their whiskey.
This would never happen. Apple is terrified to the core (apologies) of breasts and panties and cursing and such. The thought of someone being caught doing those things means the chances of this happening is less than zero.
I think at first even background NPCs that don't give quests and rewards would be nice. Sort of give everyone a character and let them just babble. It breaks the immersion to hear the same phrases repeatedly. You can still handcraft every important quest and interaction to achieve high fidelity, but I would like random NPCs you bump into to not just repeat things all the time.
The key is working incrementally, not sitting idle for months and then hammering production as hard as possible trying to get all the deferred work done in exactly one batch.
I noticed two things very quickly, my arms started getting tired and I was never quite sure if I was holding my hands in the right place to have my gestures get picked up properly.
A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps amputees walk naturally
Yes. It is not useful for most common office work tasks without connecting it to a Mac
Moves faster than than the Earth relative to what? Isn't it the gravitational time dilation that is the relevant effect here?
It's heavy and the extra encumbrance is not great for general purpose computing, though I never felt the need for extra screen real estate while I'm coding, watching youtube, sending emails etc.

That said I still use my AVP regularly, it's a great home theater system for 4k HDR content that's portable for travel. I've owned other headsets like the valve index but the novelty of 3d gaming wore off pretty quickly.
I did, until I reached the part that claims "In Brazil, currently, no one in the mainstream media challenges gender theories." and realized that I was reading a fiction story.
It seems like a developer tool for building VR apps, which could make sense if they were planning on making a $500 device later. But, absent clear plans there, I can’t really see why anyone would buy it.

OTOH they wouldn’t sell any at all to consumers if they announced there was a sensibly priced one planned for the future.
These are two very different concepts that you are relating here. A Lorentz boost can transform a tachyon into one seemingly moving backward in time because the tachyon already travelled on an (unphysical) space-like trajectory. In special relativity, any space-like trajectory has no causal order of events, so this is more of a statement how much tachyons would screw up the world of physics if they were real. The paper argues that this can be kind of remedied by introducing a dual space, but this is not relevant here.

In Feynman diagrams, all particles travel on time-like (i.e. physical) trajectories. Well, technically not, but there is a fundamental mechanism that cancels out any space-like propagator components. But let's not get into that. Back on topic: there is this neat property of quantum field theory (known as CPT symmetry) that says a positron behaves like an electron moving backwards. This is why you usually see arrows denoting anti-particles pointing back in time. But this doesn't mean that anything is actually travelling backward in time. It just makes certain calculations more tractable because of the way field operators are ordered, but there is nothing fundamentally weird about it like for tachyons.
50% VTI (US Total Market Index), 25% AVUV (US Small-cap value), 25% AVDV (Developed World Ex-US Small-cap value)

Important to note I still have, if I'm lucky, 35 years or more until retirement. I'm betting the value factor premium will re-emerge at some point during that time. As I get closer to retirement I'll rotate into more broadly diversified/conservative stocks, but I see little point in holding bond funds in a portfolio for my situation.

That's not to say I won't own bonds outright when it makes sense. A good chunk of my security fund is in T-Bills and I-Bonds. But I can say from having lived through market downturns that I don't panic-sell, so the "portfolio stability" argument for bonds is largely wasted on me. In retirement I plan to keep a multi-year cushion in a Federal Asset Money Market account (to avoid state/local taxes) and the rest 100% stocks to maximize total long-term returns.

I'm a recipient of modest generational inheritance myself, my grandparents were dirt poor, my parents made it to upper middle class. It's part of my job to keep the generational snowball rolling for my kids and (hopefully) future grandkids. Particularly if wealth inequality isn't going to get any better.
New podcast from patio11 aka Patrick McKenzie, featuring Ricki Heicklen. There's a transcript too for those (like me) who prefer reading to listening.

On a personal note this topic is nostalgic to me because I learned about trading from patio11's Stockfighter challenge; I beta-tested it and was IIRC #2 to solve the "find the insider trader" challenge; I did it via the "what in this haystack is more like a needle than a piece of hay" method Patrick describes.

Playing that challenge taught me a lot about the nuts and bolts of market structure, order books, etc. One thing I did not learn there (which it's interesting to learn about from this interview) is the problem of sizing, both the easy and hard variants (if those are the right terms for them) described by Heicklen here. I have a vague sense that the harder one (being diversified, or how to distribute bets in a variety of places so as not to go bust) is related to the Kelly Criterion (if one wants to be rigorous about it, beyond just platitudes like "don't put all your eggs in one basket") but I'd love to read any resources about how to do that systematically.
Sounds like half the embassy hates each other and every one hates the British
Yup, these mirrors can only point directly up (zenith telescope). Any adjustment off horizontally to the earth deforms the curve of the mirror. Some liquid mirror telescopes exist today to track space debris. Cheap and useful.
I've been on the verge of buying it for a while, because I normally work from my laptop and can't be bothered to sit at a desk with a big clunky monitor.

OS 1 had disappointing mac mirroring, only slightly bigger resolution than my laptop.

But later OS versions talking about large-resolution or panoramic mac mirroring... that's super compelling for my use case. The productivity benefits of larger or multiple monitors, without having to sit at a desk.
No? As far as I could understand, the open source and GitHub part is only about Mbed OS - the device part of the code. The cloud compiler/IDE (Mbed Studio) sounds like it will just be shut down.
Ask HN: HTTPS://Github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning
Is this where to start if I want to clone a voice on my own computer for free?
Other options are Casbin, Cedar, and OPA. It looks like cerbos is really only for roles and rules, and unlike those others would not be a good fit for an ACL-type system that required object-based permissions.
I know nothing about this space, but it would be interesting to hook up a jtag interface to a x86 CPU and them step instruction by instruction and record all the register values.

You could then use this data to test whether or not your emulator perfectly emulates the hardware by running the same program through the emulated CPU and validate the state is the same at every instruction.
I think it's more likely than not that the entire AVP project is just meant as a way of recouping a little cash from an ongoing dev program. What they really want is Apple Glasses ten or fifteen years down the line that will be a practical phone/iPad alternative, but they know they need to start building the expertise and UX workflows right now or Meta will beat them to that point.
I had a middle school friend who was a great artist, but also he drew mazes. "Brain mazes" he called them, because of the noodly look.

Anyway, I always wondered how he could do it. To me he was just drawing lines everywhere, but there would eventually be a complete maze with only one solution.

Maybe it was a memorized algo--like a party trick basically.
Is RAG the new DAG? outoftheloop
Got to agree here. Outside a very small number of cases beyond the honeymoon period with VR, it's just not something that I'm interested in wearing. The AVP looks like a fantastic device, bit sitting in my own world of isolation with a screen on my face does not sit well as an every day interaction. Not even every week or month these days.

I suspect AR will be similar for your average consumer. Info overload is also real. If it's built into a car, or something else it then has a function and is good.
yup, nice idea. keep collecting logs in a flow and only log when there is an error. Or

Start logging in a buffer and only flush when there is an error.
https://archive.md/HeUcA
ComicCon needs to find a distressed property, obtaining financing (based on their annual convention P&L and attendance numbers) to buy it, and manage it. While this sounds extreme, it is no different than buying a property to live in because you are unwilling or unable to be exposed to volatile rental markets where your rent increases can outpace your income, or you are unable to find a rental entirely. Same thing for DefCon (Caesars abruptly terminated their contract). In negotiation, the party with the most power wins, and currently these conventions have no power over the lodging industry (who is attempting to maximize revenue and profits).
I don't have needs. I have wants. You see, I don't need. I want.
You have very good questions, I can only guess one answer: s3 network transfer is free for AWS services

Your link[1] said:

You pay for all bandwidth into and out of Amazon S3, except for the following:
[...]
- Data transferred from an Amazon S3 bucket to any AWS service(s) within the same AWS Region as the S3 bucket (including to a different account in the same AWS Region).
I’m sure some countries are more willing to treat guests to the vegetable treatment than others.