skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Uncomfortable in many ways:

- Heavy on the head, making the neck sore after a while.

- Press into the face, which can also get sore.

- Seals around the face, which is claustrophobic.

- Insulates head/face, making hot and sweaty.

- Even high resolution headsets look pixelated, making things like reading / trying to see details irritating.

- VR motion sickness is very real, (with guides on how to develop your VR legs... which takes multiple days of careful practice).

Despite current headsets being excellent from a technical perspective, IMO they still need to get significantly ligher and more physically comfortable, significantly higher resolution, and ideally solve VR motion sickness in some way...
Eric's Slide Rule Site (2011)
It’s even worse than that. Those words were never uttered. People have interpreted their own sentiment from what was actually said and now that phrase is repeated as it if it was.
Maybe not a podcast, but I've often wished I could listen to a paper or an article while on a long drive
I’ve seen people try this strategy before. Generally what happens (assuming the project gains adoption) is that eventually someone will independently implement one of the enterprise exclusive features and try to get it added to the free version. Either you lose one of the selling points for the enterprise version or you reject the PR and get bad publicity and risk people forking your software.
> Why wouldn't a Paperwhite return with "e-book"?

The search is "e-book color", if a product doesn't mention "color" or similar in it's title, description or metadata, I don't expect it to show up. No other black and white e-readers seems to show up, only Paperwhite is the black&white reader that shows up.

> And you searched what could be translated to "sleeve" or "cover".

The search engine seems to think I'm searching for either a laptop cover or smartphone/tablet cover, as every single result on the first page are in those categories. Except, for the Amazon Basics one, which coincidentally also ranks highest.

I'm not putting these out there as "This is definitely proof Amazon is fucking with the search rankings" but more like "These results don't really seem to match what I expect or what I get at other similar websites".
I just wanna remind folks that Open Core is not the same as Open Source. I didn't look at specifics, but I was triggered by this comment:

> Some people call our strategy "open-core" and that's technically right. Still, I'd rather say that we have two pieces of software: one that is open-source and another that is not. I think that's more honest because we're not trying to hide the fact that we're selling a non-open-source version of our software.

I'm not morally opposed to open core software - and any version of more open source is valuable open source to me - but I think its important we do not conflate the two, just as we need to not conflate other approaches like source available.
I bought a Valve VR headset just to play Half Life Alyx. It was beyond awesome. My son and my wife also played it and also thought it was very, very cool.

I played a few more games since then, nothing as good as HL-A (I haven't heard that anything is as good as that is...). My eyesight isn't great so I have to wear glasses inside. I only have one pair of glasses that fit okay. Getting focus on glasses + lenses + adjustment takes time. The eyes do get strained after 45-60 minutes and I get a little nauseous, so that limits my enjoyment. If there was a way to use my feet to walk Ready Player One style that'd be really super awesome and might alleviate the disconnect between virtual and physical movement.

These days my son plays multiplayer shooter games and occasional multiplayer sword fighting. He seems to enjoy it, especially the social aspect of it.

Also, at parties the various visiting youth play, lots of Superhot playthroughs as it's so easy to get into casually.
The Traffic Signal Museum
GCP's text to speech options, equally amazing

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voice-types#cha...
Very cool story. The technical bit at the heart of it, that Mark applied stats to determine the safe amount of column supports for ceilings rather than relying on various engineering calculations based on physics that all disagreed, is great. And it's wild that he had the data to collect those stats because of regulators requiring reporting on it, but that that data had sat around un-used for decades waiting for someone to actually turn it into safety.
No but some countries such as Singapore provide them at a far lower cost than any western country.
Flame is so easy to use, as are most things in the Elixir world. I can fathom using anything else for web programming.
I've been enjoying FreshTomato on my home router for a number of years now.

Sometimes, though, there are network environments I'd like to implement which are difficult to configure through the webUI, but which would be relatively trivial from a Linux CLI. For example, I'd like to create an ESSID which is bridged to a tagged VLAN, but on which the router has no layer3 presence. Or, maybe I'd like to setup a wireguard link, but only send selective traffic down it using firewall marks and policy routing.

What I'd really like is a way to use the webUI to setup my initial base configuration, and then flip a switch to turn off the webUI, and implement further changes myself by editing configuration files on the device and calling out to shell scripts when needed to run "ip" and "brctl" commands.

Does anyone know if such a thing is possible with FreshTomato, OpenWRT, or something similar? Am I just thinking about this wrong?
Do you want to work for the company asking for the changes? Because you have one potential customer. One prospect. And from what I see in the question, they haven't offered you a large pile of money to make the changes. The question reads they have asked you to work for free.

Where are you at in all this? Are you already a contractor with existing processes, relationships, and infrastructure for negotiating contracts, getting paid, and supporting large companies? Have you already paid the dumb tax beginning contractors pay for things learned the hard way?

How much money do you need to support the project long term? Does the person who asked for changes have a budget and the discretion to pay you? Good luck.
It took me about 10 years to hear about it, but the IETF tried to deprecate the X- prefix back in 2012: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6648
The author says:

> Once understood in this way, the question to ask is not, "Why do GPTs hallucinate?", but rather, "Why do they get anything right at all?"

This is the right question. The answers here are entirely unsatisfactory, both from this paper and from the general field of research. We have almost no idea how these things work -- we're at the stage where we learn more from the "golden-gate-bridge" crippled network than we do from understanding how they are trained and how they are architected.

LLMs are clearly not conscious or sentient, but they show emergent behavior that we are not capable of explaining yet. Ten years ago the statement "what distinguishes Man from Animal is that Man has Language" would seem totally reasonable, but now we have a second example of a system that uses language, and it is dumbfounding.

The hype around LLMs is just hype -- LLMs are a solution in search of a problem -- but the emergent features of these models is a tantalizing glimpse of what it means to "think" in an evolved system.
Germany green light for €5B in aid for chip plants
Noisy Neighbor Detection with eBPF
I spent 1 hour tracking down a bug caused by this.
Biden pushed other countries to adopt a minimum corporate tax of 15%, but those taxi breaks on patent royalties might be another loophole. Anyone to clarify the link between the 2?
What does this accomplish? Who does this help? How does this make the world a better place?

This only seems like it would be useful for spammers trying to game platforms, which is silly because spam is probably the number one thing bringing down the quality of Google's own products and services.
>Nanoplasmonic aptasensor for sensitive, selective, and real-time detection of dopamine from unprocessed whole blood

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp7460
17 more Florida state parks were considered for golf courses, lodge, pickleball
The Push to Preserve Quiet
I don't know that "parasocial relationships" are the primary reason people like having real hosts. I have a huge list of things I've managed to change in my life because I heard some other real person talking about how they were possible. Listening to these people over time and realizing there's nothing about them that's so special that it makes things possible for them that aren't possible for me gets me off my butt to set about the hard work of making the changes I didn't otherwise realize were possible.
TBF, 'medical error' is a super wide definition. Most aren't diagnostic errors, and they encompass all healthcare professions, not only doctors. It makes a big difference in interpretation and potential solutions.
> You need a quick reaction time for lots of games, many people have high ping times because of their internet provider or rubbish wifi.

There are situations where streaming has lower latency than local console.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-geforce-now-rt...
I'm a practicing radiologist and I share the same frustration. Went ahead to build exactly what you just mentioned. Would love for you and anyone else interested to try it out.
A short demo - https://youtu.be/Adpjff0t_FE
To request access- https://quillr.ai/
CTRL-F Alyx… no? Ok, I’ll just skip this comment section then.
The PS5 Pro is Playstation's fidelity folly
My biggest issue with Juijitsu and Sapling (especially) is compatibility with a repo where nobody else uses these tools. Sapling's problem is pretty obvious: I would have to get others to use FBs merge stack tool and get that past security approval.

JJ? I spent a day trying to rebase/merge from trunk into my PR branch and truly fucked it up in a way that I have never managed with plain old Git - Google results were pretty scarce and unhelpful. For Git, I `switch foo; rebase main; push --force-with-lease`, for JJ (apparently) I `rebase -b main -d foo` - great! How do I access the results of the rebase and update my PR branch? How do I force push that branch? It feels like the documentation is in the same place that Git was in during the early days - I assumes you are deeply familiar with the idiomatic workflow. The effort put into the migration guide is minimal[1].

/rant

[1]: https://martinvonz.github.io/jj/latest/git-comparison/
Wondercraft have been offering this service for a while, and produce some of their own auto-generated podcasts including the Hacker News Recap which does an excellent job of summarizing the most engaged posts on HN.
https://www.wondercraft.ai/our-podcasts
> We train them for the ability to predict thr next word, which is a task that can only be performed satisfactorily by working at the level of concepts and their relationships, not at the level of words.

This is just obviously, trivially false.
All this and no mention of Eleven Table Tennis. If you’re a fan of table tennis and you have a Quest, you should try this game. It’s fantastic. The controller is about the same weight as a table tennis racquet and it’s great practice.
Scale has already been achieved with money (advertisement revenue) and influence (politics agendas, fame) on a viral platform.

What this tech brings is speed. If Google did it, someone else will also do it.
What, if anything, prevents SpaceX from using offshore launch pads? What about launches from international waters?
I think I just discovered a new emotion. Simultaneous feelings of
excitement and disappointment.

No matter how great the idea, it's hard to stay excited for more than
a few microseconds at the sight of the word "Google". I can already
hear the gravediggers shovels preparing a plot in the Google
graveyard, and hear the sobs of the people who built their lives,
workflows, even jobs and businesses around something that will be
tossed aside as soon as it stops being someone's pet play-thing at
Google.

A strange ambivalent feeling of hope already tarnished with tragedy.
It seems like they set up a straw man to make the points about gaming they wanted to make. In fact the most popular things on Quest are either various movie streamers or various 3D chat program. Neither of those things are particularly hard core or hyper realistic.

I love when academics take on a medium. Those who can't do teach.
Show HN: Couchsurfing Roaster
Inspired by GitHub Profile Roast https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41145517
Are you doing that with "old-fashioned" TTS, or have you found a good resource for uploading your own docs/epubs and having them read back by one of these higher quality synthesized voices? (I've been looking for the latter, but not having much luck.)
China's Deflationary Spiral Is Now Entering Dangerous New Stage
Thanks linkdd. Exactly Glasskube in "GitOps mode" will output these package custom resources as yaml so you can commit them to git and argo pulls these resources from git into the cluster.
Social media is of immense value to humanity because it allows rapid decentralised transmission of information. It's why for instance young Americans have been making much more of a fuss about the current genocide in Gaza than any previous one, because the flow of information is no longer filtered through a small number of self-interested media corporations. The fact it pushes some psychologically unstable individuals over the edge is no justification for trying to destroy the whole system; the priority should be on getting those people the treatment they need.
https://archive.ph/BXxpz
I was able to gain about 300k in the span of about the last 5 years of working, saving, investing, and buying a home. I've also seen my income double or so.

I'm in my early 30s. That 300k doubles roughly every 10 years (7% annual ROI). And so those 5 years set me up for 600k, 1.2m and 2.4m respectively at 40, 50 and 60yo.

I've certainly had my fair share of fun, multiple significant relationships, travelled to each continent, great friendships, an active life with sports and cultural activities. But I never had the sabbatical lifestyle where I'd travel the world for half a year or more, 'fun' was always organized around studying and later work life, measured in hours, evenings, weekends or weeks of holidays.

I often doubt whether I made the right choice to spend these years working (sometimes more than) full time, I'll never know.

ROI amplifies money, making these conclusions even harder. A dollar today at 30 is 8 dollars at 60. But I also find the return of money measured in fun goes down as I age. At 16 traveling to Paris by train and staying in a cheap hostel sleeping in dorms and drinking 2 euro supermarket wines with strangers on the street on a summer night was amazing, now I can't get the same pleasure on that budget. Partly because I don't want to 'rough it' anymore, partly because I've already done it, and partly because it feels like I wouldn't belong with those kids in the hostel like I once did.

Anyway, fully agreed that the financial cost would've been way more than my expenses. With a 100k a year job the opportunity costs go up quite a bit, especially with ROI over time factored in. Earning 2 years of 100k at age 28 turns into close to a million at age 40, on average. That's a big opportunity cost...
An hour is much more than I can do. I want to play in VR, but every time I try again I regret it. And it only takes about 15 minutes for the pain to start (and a couple days at least to subside). I really truly love playing Beat Saber, but I just can't ever let myself do it again (until and unless headsets get dramatically lighter).
Perhaps I'm confused, but your question seems contradictory and ambiguous. You first imply (I think?) that ChatGPT is limited to web-sourced information, but then acknowledge the training set includes more than just the public web. Can you please clarify what you are asking?
After comparing a few different products in the no-code, low-code space for CRUD, I recently adopted Retool for my company to develop internal applications. Our apps depends on postgres under the hood, so we can still run traditional queries without the UI when needed.

What would I gain by switching to Visual DB?
> I don't understand the hostility.

Saying this while telling me this is the wrong site for me. Nice.

My comment isn't hostile. My opinion on this github has value and I am not alone. I could have worded it 'nicely' but if you find every brutally honest comment to be hostile, then maybe this site isnt for you.
It's unfortunate, but it is what it is.

When a human hallucinates, that is due to the brain operating out of spec. When an LLM "hallucinates", it's performing exactly as intended, it just has delivered a nonsensical result which is the consequence of the tech behind the LLM.
One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital
This is anecdotal and the little boring, but... Your house/apartment situation. Some games can be played sitting, but many need some floor-space for a good experience.

The people who live in places with nice big room habitually empty of obstacles which they can monopolize for an hour are probably not the prime demographic for VR gaming escapism.

I keep telling myself I'll play one or two of the things in my Steam library once I finally finish a hardware project and clear some junk away...
I wanted to love VR and bought an early unit.

VR felt like it would be the ultimate gaming experience.

Sadly it gave me a headache, made me feel sick and was a real hassle to set up and make happen.

There’s too many competing forms of entertainment without even one of these problems.
Thanks for the feedback. We have a section on data security here: https://visualdb.com/datasecurity/ We are also planning to release a self-hosted version soon, which can be used with intranet databases - this should take care of security concerns.
I just want programmable prosody. Prosodic controls would allow much more believable TTS - apple used to have it on the earlier TTS models, but these new TTS models sound so natural at the phoneme level, but the prosody is often jacked up so that it's easily identifiable as artificial.
This is hacker news, not Reddit
The top list of Apple Podcasts is full of real humans intentionally lying or manipulating information, it makes me worry much less about computer generated lies
It’s because the sets are expensive for something you can only use solo at home, mostly for video games.

Compare to the price of a Switch, which is portable (or the smartphone you already have…) or to a TV, which is usable by multiple people at once.

And then if you still get one, gaming alone at home in a way that’s more isolating than the stereotypical nerd basement gaming dungeon, while also forcing you to worry about the environment around you so you don’t bump into things or people, turns out to suck. A lot.

So even if you get a headset, good odds you won’t use it much.

That’s putting aside discomfort or motion sickness.
Simple event broker: Data serialization is expensive
There’s no clear definition currently, but based on my work in IEEE standards and my own research, I always define AI as an autonomous system which determines paths to its desired outcomes using multimodal inputs.

While I think the computation system described in this post is very cool and sophisticated, I liken it more to a computation engine. It seems to me that computation engines follow an algorithm to determine optimal paths to a previously determined and fixed desired outcome, but they don’t update the outcome goal based on new information.

If the computation engine described in this post could use existing information to form its own goal or idea of a desired outcome, then I’d say it’s AI.

I’d love to do a blog post on this idea because I am sure many might have good reasons to disagree with it. It would be cool if someone else does it, I’d love to provide feedback as I don’t have the time for longform writing.
I agree with this being a user and a VR dev myself. A couple of things that make the experience somewhat tedious is that you can't really get comfortable if you are on a sofa and then decide to lay down and turn side-to-side. Which you can just watching a movie or playing a game casually using a TV etc.

Another reason personally also, it is more tedious to develop games for VR wearing and taking off the HMD all the time. I can imagine this would deter other developers not wanting to make VR games, it's already a slow painstaking process to make games already.

I think also the amount of apps you have to switch on your desktop if using PC also means you keep taking the HMD on and off before you begin to play. Too many barriers to entry when it should be a convenience thing, wear and go!

Not everybody is physically fit/young/healthy or wants to just do physical gaming which i think leads to lack on incentive to use VR too. I personally play most games now via my monitor or projector screen and use VR for simracing as there really is no comparisson here. So VR Great for sim cockpit type games, flying and racing but for everything else, it's back to good old pancake mode monitor instead.
> ‘we have terms like "object-oriented kernel" that, by default, I assume don't actually mean anything’

The author did explain what it specifically means in the context of the NT kernel: centralized access control, common identity, and unified event handling.
If I assign the pin to input like I want to leave a gate floating or not effect it’s pull-up /pull-down or I don’t get to chose because I am in an unprogrammed or reset state… then what happens?

Input on a pin tied to gate happens all the time.
> 737 Max MCAS? Layers upon layers of incompetent people / deadline chasers. It wasn't s software issue, it was a software design issue that should have been caught by the designers, engineers, quality assurance, inspectors. Nobody did their job properly there.

Back when this scandal broke it came out that Boeing had outsourced MCAS software to offshore contractors making $13/hr. From what I understand software development at Boeing Commercial Aviation has been offshored for many years.

Boeing only uses US nationals for software development in their military division because they're required to do so by law.
GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file
IANAL, but my understanding of the Disney agreement is that it states that completely clear. Just like every other terms of use I've read.

What people disagree is in whether it's actually enforceable.
It has a lot of reviews, and the word "funda" in the title; makes sense to me that it would be at the top.
>Voting for someone who intends to exceed the bounds of the constitution is not democracy

It is democracy; democracy is mob rule. That's why the US is a republic, not a pure democracy.
> Open source is business model,

It isn't. It's a development model, which (mostly likely) has profound implications FOR your business model, but it's not a business model in and of itself.

It boggles the imagination that people are still confused about this in 2024. sigh
What’s the alternative? You can’t just say “don’t say that”. There needs to be something you can say instead, 5 syllables at the most, which evokes the same feeling of confident wrongness, without falling into anthropomorphism. It’s a tall order.
So many vacuous claims about supposed missing features, worse displays, worse battery life... and yet the only hard evidence/example in this entire comment chain is the horrible battery life of the apple watch...

You're not even trying to be honest or rational.
Unfair and uncertain taxation is a European specialty.
Presumably these laws are published publicly, and apple has more an enough resources to hire enough lawyers to ensure they are in compliance.

Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
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