skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same things as what Washington and Adams had to deal with: state-building. There were the very contentious issues of the Bank of the United States (the Democratic-Republicans under Jefferson and Madison were originally opposed to a National Bank under prior administrations but essentially accepted it as a necessary evil) and slavery, maintaining the balance of power between States in the Senate, appointing justices, postmasters and military commanders, defending the western frontier from Indians, populating the Ohio River Valley, managing relations with the French, British and Spanish, warring with the British, buying Louisiana from France, resolving border disputes with the British and Spanish in North America, etc.

I mean beyond that, most issues were local. Voters only voted directly for their Representatives, local offices and Electors during the Presidential Elections, and who that Elector was mattered a lot more given you know, this is basically almost entirely pre-Industrial Revolution and both long distance traveling and long distance communications was still basically Medieval-tier garbage. You wanted to know that your Representative was getting you a good deal in Office and was a man of good character by whatever standard you judged that to be.

EDIT: Almost forgot: checkout American Elections: Wicked Game (a podcast) for the nitty gritty on individual elections. They covered every Presidential election leading up to the 2020 election and they’re currently in the midst of re-releasing it leading up to this year’s election with some updated content.
That sounds like something from the shuttered Servo team. At least they rose like a phoenix - https://servo.org/
"Golf widow" and similar terms have been around for decades. Tennis and softball don't take up nearly as much time for the casual participants as golf does. Softball also lets spouses and family attend (we used to go to my dad's squadron softball games) and participate (as much as any spectator participates) in a much different way than with golf.
Both the state and corporations want to homogenize the population.

The state wants a homogeneous population because it make it easier to obtain desired election outcomes and desired amount of power if people can be manipulated as large groups towards a limited subset of parties/options. The politician who promises "I will lower tax for the middle class by 1%" won't stand a chance if their opponent promises "I will completely abolish all taxes for the middle class."

Corporations want a homogeneous population because it makes it easier to meet consumer needs if consumers all want the same things. Also, in terms of marketing, it's easier/more effective to target people based on their social groups; then let people expend the effort required to bring themselves into alignment with the group identity... As opposed to trying to target campaigns based on complex individual needs...

When trying to create campaigns which cater to many unique individuals, there may be no clear, repeatable patterns that can drive predictable consumer behaviors. If the consumer can be tricked into adapting their own personal preferences to more closely match their group's preference... and if that group happens to be a large group, it creates predictable consumer behavior, at scale, at no cost.

E.g.

Identity = "I'm a creative individual"

-> Sales pitch = "Here, buy this Apple computer"

Identity = "I'm a moral person"

-> Sales pitch = "Here, buy this book about DEI and corporate responsibility"

Identity = "I'm a libertarian"

-> Sales pitch = "Here, buy some Bitcoin"

Identity = "I'm a highly educated and caring person"

-> Sales pitch = "Here, buy this vaccine to protect your loved ones"
A lot. Please don't do this in production.
Same Apollo company where original version of uuid came from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifie...
Hoopla: What Is It and How to Use It? (2023)
Rule nr 1 Exercise boosts brain power in https://brainrules.net/the-rules/ The accompanying video explains it in 3min.
A software to Batch resize all images in a directory to a specified size
Only "Maraş" (a city in Turkey) ice cream will sometimes be served on a plate. Regular ice cream is still served in a cone or a cup.
Etymologically, "vodka" (and its various, mostly Slavic, cognates) means "little water".

Similarly, whiskey means "water of life". Alchemists had aqua vitae, in Latin, with the same meaning, and the French eau-de-vie.

<https://www.etymonline.com/word/vodka>

<https://www.etymonline.com/word/whiskey>
aight bro, haskell from first principle is good book. at the very least, it gives you some explanation why haskell doing things as it does (lambda calculus thingy). then you can check matt parsons' book.
I really don't know, it would depend on a lot if factors. More important to me though is that I think it's st least a possibility in that scenario, as long as a vast majority of voters believe they only have two options we won't have a third party step in.
Will there be other design / style options? I don't want round glasses, they don't fit / suit my face shape.

They also remind me of harry potter, not a fan of the look.

The last AR glasses I saw on HN were also this same round shape. Why is that? This looks like a potentially cool product! But not with the current design.
Yeah, look at those bastards. Trying to bring down Big Pharma and the insulin lobby. Their whole purpose is to feed the Big Ortho and Big PT groups anyways.
Because he undermined the election process in a serious way. If he loses, it sends a signal that siding with someone who does that is risky. If he wins, it opens the door to someone much more cunning than him, to do the same thing, but better. Its a brilliant way to short-circuit the entire political system which has let the US enjoy such a brilliant stretch of stability.
Art forgeries are an example of a human brain regurgitating the original content. Someone reading an article and rewriting it with some differences is a derivative work. So yes, a brain with knowledge is potentially infringing a copy or a derivative work.

Human brains are often treated specially in law, but I don't think they should be.
In 98 I ordered a p3 500mhz with 128mb and planned to upgrade to 384mb. before it even shipped out to me Intel announced the 550mhz irrc or 10% faster. two years later at least 50% faster with the 700mhz and copper mine.

Things moved rapidly back then.
The ethical obligation is to

1. Not stream everything around you to third party online servers

2. Not use unreliably and algorithms that almost certainly (accidentally on all parts) discriminate against certain classes of people that they tend to return more false positives for.

3. In situations like dating, present yourself not what an AI chooses to present.

... I'm sure there are plenty more.

I'm sure there are ethical use cases for the technology too, but in a world like GP proposes there are going to be plenty of opportunities to use it unethically.
Brown University's CS department had an entire auditorium full of Apollo workstations when I was a freshman in the early 1980's. The intro programming course (CS11) was taught by Andy van Dam, who might (or might not) be the namesake of the boy in Pixar's Toy Story. It wasn't a difficult decision to choose computer science as my concentration.
I can do more than complain when rights are taken away. That was the entire point of the second amendment, the populace needed to be able to defend itself from tyrants.

I hope to never see that day come to pass and will do whatever I can to avoid it, but we aren't left with only complaining if fundamental rights truly are being taken away.
Yes, as in: allowing (well, requiring?) drivers to run in kernel mode.
That seems like a very solvable problem with an ambient light sensor. Or even just manually; my xreal Air's have a little rocker than you can change the brightness with.
In this case, I think both climate change and the positive mental effects of exercise have pretty strong consensus.
And since they talk sunglasses as well, I like mine to be fitting my face so exactly that I have zero/almost-zero stray light. Their shape of shades looks the opposite of desired.
Yesterday both candidates were too old. Today only one is.
I doubt they care what happens to the rest of the country or the world as long as they can stay wealthy.
Verbal diaeresis?
I mean, that sounds cool and would allow more freedom of motion for a more realistic moon walk, but I don't know if I'd call that lower tech. This thing seems to be a small elegant and easy to transport counterweight. I suspect moving the NASA setup would be difficult :)
According to TFA it is based on Android TV. So a de-googled LineageOS version of Android TV.
> who in the hell can be so stupid/ignorant to still be undecided in this election

We only know the name of the Republican candidate at this time. You can make your decision how you want, I’ll make mine when I see who I have to decide between.
> It's about the copyright infringement to acquire the training set and it's about the copyright infringement when producing output.

I just read your comment. I also read news articles I paid for today. None of that is copyright infringement, and scraping that same content to train an AI is no different.

Yes, when an AI produces a substantially close reproduction that would be copyright infringement, but some systems have guards to prevent that, like Github Copilot.
I don't recognize a general obligation to limit my subjective experience to what my squishy meat brain can supply independently. We're all going to have to adapt to a more ubiquitously connected environment. Halting everyone's progress in the name of someone's personal of idea "ethics" isn't going to move us forward as a species.
I am subscribed to Glancias, which is an AI summarised daily news email service of sorts. Since news is supposed to be a high-risk area where you don’t want hallucinations, I am sure they’ve fine-tuned their setup to some degree.

However, it still managed to pick up several clickbait headlines about NASA’s asteroid wargame and write a scare news summary:

Truth: https://www.space.com/dangerous-asteroid-international-coope...

> The participants — nearly 100 people from various U.S. federal agencies and international institutions — considered the following hypothetical scenario: Scientists just discovered a relatively large asteroid that appears to be on an Earth-impacting trajectory. There's a 72% chance it will hit our planet on July 12, 2038, along a lengthy corridor that includes major cities such as Dallas, Memphis, Madrid and Algiers.

Glancias Summary:

> NASA has identified a potential asteroid threat to Earth in 2038, revealing gaps in global preparedness despite technological advancements in asteroid trajectory redirection and the upcoming launch of the NEO Surveyor space telescope.
Attention Bubbles
My comparison was meant mainly in the light of going against the system that is in place because one has a problem with the system itself.

On a jury the expectstion is that you will vote based solely on the logic of the facts and legal interpretations presented. Jury nullification is a choice to go against this, going outside what the system wants you to believe is your duty because you disagree with that premise.

Here, not voting is going against this unwritten rule that we must pick between the two options and that is our civic duty to vote for one or the other no matter what. Sitting out for a specific election is ignoring what the system wants us to do when we disagree with the assumption that we must choose between the two options given.
Sure or some simplified version of ranked choice voting. Perhaps where only the top two choices get counted instead of having unlimited ranked choices (which can get messy and be harder to audit).
Poison? Why would you say so?
True, there will be comments blaming CS for not doing faster rollout. But there would be some comments empathizing with CS viewpoint and pointing out the conflicting compromise between velocity, and correctness. Even now I think the comments wouldn't have been unequivocally critical, of CS, if the hosts affected were a variant of windows (say issue was seen on version of windows 10 which was two update behind),there would have been some emphasizing the thorniness of the problem and sympathetic of CS.
Was confused because everything moved in 2 seconds per frame on M2 Firefox.

Switched to Chrome - suddenly everything is butter smooth.

Congrats on an article very well done!
Well, it does have a ton of sugar, though :/
I could be wrong, but I remember folks that worked on Dreamcast games that loved how you could just throw the geometry at it in any old fashion you liked and the GPU would just sort it all out as needed. Transparencies and all.
No, disappearing = people thinking their data has more value than it has and setting their robots.txt so that it's no longer even indexed for search because they've banned any use of AI. Then, because it's actually not that valuable, no one notices and that data eventually ceases to exist when the creator eventually abandons it or dies.
As annacappa noted, this predates Colin Furze's (which was awesome and totally worth a watch), but it's a much simpler design than Furze's or movie wire walking. 'course, you can't go as high. But good for a small performance. And actually, I think comparing it to Furze's there's more potential for freedom of movement in various directions, although Furze did have that retraction mechanism in his arm, this one seems like it allows moving the entire piece around the room due to the simplicity of it.
No there isn't a minimum turnout. Sitting out for an election means that whoever does still vote gets to decide the winner. St scale, though, a decrease in voter turnout would signal discontent with the system and the parties in charge. Those parties would likely respond to try to capture more voters and a third party may finally see a window that they could use to raise funds for a legitimate challenge to the two party system.
Related:

https://www.hoopladigital.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cordcutters/comments/12u00ni/hoopla...
In their article “Independent and Unbiased Search Results” I believe Mojeek fundamentally misunderstands the goal of a search engine. There is no such thing as an unbiased search engine. The entire purpose of a search engine is to be biased towards relevance. The opposite of biased isn’t fair, it is random.

If you search for “cars” what should the engine show you? There are likely billions of pages containing the word. (And for some queries, the correct page won’t even contain an exact string match.) If you want to create a useful ranking, your first few results need to have identified the correct intent but also be sensitive to timeliness and location.

https://blog.mojeek.com/2018/08/independent-and-unbiased-sea...
who gets to judge what the lie is?
> how are you supposed to focus on something projected right in front of your eyeballs

Your eye can't tell where the rays were emitted. You don't even need fancy waveguides to make an image appear to be at infinity (although the G1 appears to use waveguides, and I don't know what they've chosen as their focal plane). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collimator devices have been in HUDs for ages.
It's because no other profession has the combination of (1) forcing people out of a highly trained role so young (with no options to reuse those skills in any other roles - forcing folks to go have to go back to square one and get a new professional education to move anywhere else), along with (2) the peculiarities of a government pension.

Unless you overhaul the way government workers earn retirement, or we decide that it's safe to employ older air traffic controllers, any other choice would be highly exploitative.
> So why would you stand if you're guaranteed to lose?

From a country with Preferential Voting: you run to make preferencing deals that benefit the people that vote for your particular ideals.

It's on the record that X% of the popuation support the stance you take.

Further, it goes all the way to the houses and breaks the party stranglehold; Australia has 10 Independents, more than Canda, the US, and the UK combined.

Politics shoud be about more than "a little king" as POTUS, it should be about the house reflecting the proportional views of the population and weight being given to views represented and the deals that aligned views can make together.

The US FPTP system was doomed (from an iterative dynamic system perspective) to devolve into a two party non representative end game despite the express opposition of many Founders to Party Politics. It's what happens when a poort voting system is scaled up over centuries.
> He may be a sociopathic narcissist but at least he's not black!

Where the he'll did that come from? I could care less what race, sex, or religion a candidate is. I want someone who is the best fit for the job.

> Maybe the problem isn't your made up voting moral code, it's that you're a little too in love with talking about your made up voting moral code.

Everyone's moral code is made up, where else would it come from? You don't know me or what I talk about about, I have no idea why you would think that I am in love with talking about my opinions on voting.
Voting is absolutely an obligation for any democratic society. Abstaining provides no kind of signal or message to the body politic.
> It seems like they're just capitalising on their customers lack of technical know how and overcharging

So...doing what every other tech company does? Or really, any company does?

"Overcharging" is true if you value your time doing all this at $0. If you don't know how to "plug an API into an app", which is a lot of people, then it's definitely worth it. If you know how to do this, how long did it take you to learn, and what is that time worth to you? Was there something else you'd rather spend that time doing? Is that time worth $20 a month to you?

For you, the answer sounds like it's no, you'd rather do it yourself.
So lucky I opted for an i7 13850 in my new thinkpad and instead put the cash towards the RTX 3500. Doing large language models on the go, on GPU... and on Qubes OS no doubt... simply amazing.
I do it with bash and ImageMagick. Just takes a couple of lines of bash. That's been around for a few decades.
Is suspect when there is no screenshots with how the AR looks like
Maybe you would never misuse this technology, but if it becomes widespread and normalized then plenty of people are going to be walking into public toilets (other previously private spaces) with this tech on. We're creating the conditions for total surveillance of the physical world.

Is this the future you want to live in? It's not too late to back down.

EDIT: As pointed out by those below, these glasses don't have cameras. Which I think is much more preferable to the alternative.
The "scientific management" was just one example out of many, and I disagree its lessons form the thesis of the book. The thesis as I understood it was that states seek legibility of domains under their jurisdiction, and the example of the forests was demonstrating the bad outcomes arising from seeking that legibility through misguided means. While unfortunate, that was an implementation error that could - and indeed was - corrected.

I'd say a much better illustrative example from the book was the introduction of last names. In that case, faced with the illegible identity of the people under its rule, a whole new construct was invented, imposed and pertains to this day. This one really opened my eyes. The whole reason we have last names at all is because our society just sort of invented them, hundreds of years ago, for its own convenience, and it was so successful we all just accept it as the way things are. Now that is seeing - and acting - like a state!
Once you've already had people rank their choices, why ignore meaningful information they've given you? In particular, models like IRV encourage people to continue ranking a compromise candidate on the top, to avoid the scenario where the compromise candidate is eliminated.

In models that ignore some of people's preferences, voting "1 Preferred, 2 Lesser Evil, 3 Greater Evil" is dangerous, because your preference for Lesser Evil over Greater Evil is ignored. This creates an incentive for people to keep voting the way they do now, with the compromise candidate on the top.

Approval makes sense because it's easy to explain. Condorcet makes sense because it's relatively close to ideal at the cost of making it slightly more complex to vote. Any model of the form "Ranked choice, but ignore some of the preferences" is the worst of both worlds: more complex to vote, but doesn't produce as good of an outcome.
I wish Congress would leave the decision making on such matters to the experts. Politicians have no valid role in this process.

Why isn't this farmed out to an appropriate regulatory entity with deep expertise? Akin to the FAA for aeronautical.
>Christianity is a tough sell, given Trump.

What are you talking about? Christians (American ones at least) absolutely love Trump. I'll probably get a bunch of replies here from non-Christian liberals making a bunch of theological claims about a religion they don't even believe in, but the people who decide what is or isn't "real Christianity" are the people who actually go to church and call themselves Christians, not a bunch of people who don't believe strongly in any religion. Talk all you want about how Trump doesn't exemplify so-called "Christian values", but that's totally irrelevant. The Americans who actually go to church every Sunday are showing up at Trump rallies like he's the Messiah's chosen one and they're voting for him, and of course defending him at every turn no matter how much you might think his words or actions don't align with your perception of the religion.

>Other than promoting coal, what has Trump done for rural America’s economy?

He's given it a lot of lip-service, and that's all that matters for these voters. And also very importantly, he delivered for rural America by installing a bunch of SCOTUS justices who managed to overturn Roe v Wade. How's that good for rural America's economy? It isn't, but that doesn't matter, because this issue was #1 or #2 for these voters, especially the ones that most strongly identified as "Christian".

It's amazing how easy it is to see why Democrats keep losing elections to the MAGA crowd, and how they completely fail to understand their mentality and what's really important to them.
To block third-party trackers from twitter in uBlock Origin:

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Whose optics? Its only relevant to the people that would only vote for her. I'm no political strategist, but they'll have to undo the (untrue) opinion that she was in charge of the border, which is one of the Dem's primary losing issues right now. If the Republican's can pin that vision into swing voters minds, true or not, she stands no chance to win. I am unsure if that is a fair prediction but that is why I generally hope they can find someone else.
These glasses don't have a camera. At all.

But your bigger point stands.
Sounds like you assume these have a camera - they don’t appear to.
Could be cool. It's a nicer, smaller form factor than most of the competition today, but I'm wary of the low resolution, lack of camera, lack of speakers, and awkward bumps on the earpieces.

But a 1.5 day battery (if true) sounds perfect; a lot of previous generations didn't last an entire day, making them kind of worthless as daily drivers.

Definitely in the market for smart glasses at some point, but will wait to see the reviews. Starting at $600 is still pretty steep for glasses.
also DDG has !bangs

Even if I were to use Google, I'd remain with DDG (using '!g'!) so I can use other bangs
The History of Insensitive Munitions