skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The “metaverse” isn’t tied to AR/VR.

The metaverse , in most common definitions, refers to a virtual world and ecosystem as an alternate for the real one. See Ready Player One.

Second life is a metaverse platform in essence. But isn’t VR.

Fortnite is a metaverse but isn’t VR. Their programming language is even called Verse.

The Quest itself isn’t a metaverse product BUT Horizon Worlds (not The confusingly named HorizonOS) is. You can participate in Horizon without a headset.

Apple has no metaverse product. There might be metaverse products on Apple devices but that’s no different than an iPhone or Mac playing the things I mentioned above.

There is almost no definition of metaverse that includes augmented reality.
There was a big cheapening when the military miniaturised fast gps so small and cheap it could be put into artillery shells. This was very effective when Excalibur and himars first arrived in Ukraine.

By the time the small diameter bombs had been married to a rocket the Russians had effective and pervasive gps jamming and accuracy plummeted.

The older more expensive systems with ins like atacms maintained accuracy.
What if we just federalize assistance and help everyone, regardless of where they live and what disasters they must contend with?
nextdns is a good choice too.

google i think is just branded cloudflare. cf will be the fastest always, but the most pernicious.

quad9 have low cache so usually first requests take a while.
Note that nothing you listed contradicts what I said.
US to triple nuclear power by 2050. Coal communities could provide a pathway
This seems a little silly to me. It was already possible for a script kiddie to kludge together something they didn’t understand —- copying code snippets from stack overflow, etc. And yet, developers continue to write finely crafted code that they understand at depth. Just because we’ve made this process easier for the script kiddies, doesn’t prevent experts from existing and the market from realizing these experts are necessary to a well run software business.
I cannot comment on the quality of the library, but please change the name to something else than "Better auth" - such generic names are difficult to search for. You do want your users to find stuff relating to the library without false positives, right?
Yep! Nuance is critical, and sadly it feels like nuance is dying on HN.
Your old textbooks are probably better too. I remember when I was taking high school chemistry, the then-current textbooks were awful with garish boxes of blocks of colour taking up half the page, font changes, screaming blurbs, etc.

I went to a store and bought the previous older edition of the textbook which was still the same material but without the fad of making everything visually distracting. It is very refreshing to just be able to read a normal flat white page with normal black, blue and red ink.
Toothpick houses aren't like other lumber constructions, you can build sturdy with wood. Trees are extremely sturdy, thin branches are not.
It was a math problem, like this.

Q: A farmer has 72 chickens. He sells 15 chickens at the market and buys 8 new chicks. Later that week, a fox sneaks into the coop and eats 6 chickens. How many chickens could the farmer sell at the market tomorrow?

AI Answer: The farmer started with 72 chickens. After selling 15, he had 57 chickens left. Then he bought 8 new chicks, bringing the total to 65. Finally, the fox ate 6 chickens, so we subtract 6 from 65. This gives us 59 chickens. Therefore, the farmer now has 59 chickens that he could sell at the market tomorrow.

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You'd expect someone who can read/understand proofs to be able to spot a a flow in the logic that it takes longer than 1 week for chicks to turn into chickens.
Annapurna Video-Game Division Imploded Because of Power Struggle
https://archive.is/XCS5c
I don’t think you do - every few years there are articles of pubs shutting down and it being a crisis. Happened as long as I’ve lived.

You don’t have to go far precisely because your local craft beer haunt, gastropub, sports bar and boozer all serve different clientele.
> Can I actually add "features" to the model?

Yes. You can use a number of libraries to add, mix, merge, etc. layers [1]

> Not with weights. I need it to learn case histories to extend its "feature-set".

Again, yes. You can add attention heads, other features, heck you can even add classification if you want [2]. Because you are working with an open architecture! What you think of weights are not binary blobs. That is a common missconception.

[1] - https://github.com/arcee-ai/mergekit

[2] - https://github.com/center-for-humans-and-machines/transforme...
As a resident of Idaho and former resident of Utah who has spent years having to suffer from the smoke, I have a similar tendency to take this suggestion seriously. Not as a punishment, but as an incentive to improve things. California has neglected things like electrical grid repairs (PG&E anyone?) and controlled burns for many, many years, and now others who had nothing to do with it are paying for it with our health. I know people who are sensitive to the smoke and are essentially trapped in their houses during those times, and have to spend hundreds of dollars on air cleaners.

So, it's an interesting idea to change the choice from: either "don't spend the money" or "spend the money on prevention and fixing our shit"

To: from "the money is spent either way, might as well fix our shit."

If there's also one state that has demonstrated a willingness to use economics to encourage "correct" choices/behavior in consumers, it's California, so they should be real sympathetic to this idea :-)

I don't know if I'd support such a proposal or not. That would require some serious analysis and consideration of the details, but I don't think we should just dismiss the whole idea.
You can do audio-rate modulation (up to 32768 Hz) of any controller using Sound2Ctl: https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/manual.php#sound2ctl
I was just listening to that song in the last hour
Its crazy to see the NY times talking about how people are thinking of leaving Florida. In reality people still are leaving NY state - we're down a million people since Covid started, Florida is up 1 million in the same time.
I was only responding to the statement about the GPL, which simply does not apply to this situation, since it is a trademark dispute and not a copyright dispute.

I wasn't expressing an opinion one way or the other, regarding the validity of the trademark infringement.
They also vary over time or something, right? So even a more precise measurement device, to get better gravity maps, doesn’t solve the problem… maybe? This is all based on half-remembered other comments.
Looks pretty interesting, I see it supports social logins but doesn't look like generic oauth oidc / saml is supported yet - I think that'd be the killer feature, as rolling your own user/pass login isn't all that hard but generic SSO is where things get tricky.

If you added that, I've started working on a SCIM client implementation in typescript that could be a nice complement (or just jumpstart) in future (https://github.com/mnahkies/node-scim)
I'm with you, the less complexity the better. I hate having to maintain ten thousand things around the house.
Over 20 years, that’s 40 per year on average. He’s emeritus from UCSD and I don’t see his old lab page online, not sure how big it was. But my PI’s lab had 13 last year and has 11 people. If Masliah had around 33 people that would be a pretty normal papers per capita.
1984 can't be more prescient than a book that has already become reality in most of the world that matters (culture, art, science, influence wise). If you don't see that hedonism and general moral decay has become the overwhelming norm, you're probably part of it.

1984's surveillance may be here, but the brute force is only reserved for the rare nails sticking out; if those haven't already gone crazy from surviving in the sane asylum.
IMO it is wrong to sell this land to people. It is debt-laden land that will crush most people. It's like I sold you cheap land and you later find out you're going to get cancer there and insurance won't cover you.

How is this any different from selling people exploitive loans to desperate people?
There’s some famous ass basketball players with mediocre but still existent MLB careers.
My point was that nuclear missile development gets a blank check and I cited the over-six-figure intertial guidance units in 80's and 90's era missiles as an example of this.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here?

Accuracy is incredibly important because you don't put a nuke somewhere to kill people; you put it there to destroy infrastructure. More specifically nuclear missile silos, and bomb shelters (well, the people inside them.)

Reducing the CEP means you can use a smaller nuclear yield to get the job done, which is preferable for a number of reasons, including politics, but also allowing for more targets in a strike.

The very latest US ICBMs are suspected of having sub-100m CEP. CEP for ICBMs is "bad" enough that it is typical for planners to figure three warheads per target, but accuracy is rumored to be getting good enough where that is no longer necessary.
I've read this style of comment a lot lately. I'm an amateur wood worker, carpenter, and occasional framer; to call a wood structure toothpicks is a bit misleading. Houses are primarily composed of "sticks" aka 2x4s that are themselves composed in a series of frames. The frames put together are part of supporting the load of the forces put on top of the house, while beams distribute that load evenly. Places where there's peak load they'll reinforce with metal bracing. The last structural components of a house are sheething and siding, which are equally important.

The concept isn't dissimilar to timberframing which uses all the same mechanisms but leverages wood joinery instead of metal brackets and would still use stick framing and sheething. Timber frames have stood for hundreds of years.

Frankly, just because your house is built from solid structure masonry doesn't mean that it will withstand hurricane level forces or dense flying objects at tens or hundreds of mph.
In Apple’s presentation they specifically say that the OpenAI integration is akin to a plugin and they may have other providers, especially for domain specific knowledge in the future.

The third party providers is smart imho. Apple take on little risk, and it allows them to avoid being reliant on any one provider.
That is beautifully stated, and gets to the essence of my question.
Yep, 100m is a 30 story building more or less. I know these waves are big, but this would be the equivalent of a wave height of Big Ben or the full Statue of Liberty.
If anything, we should spend that money to help people willingly relocate, not encourage more people to move to increasingly dangerous areas. Hurricanes are getting worse and will continue to get worse for the foreseeable future.

What you are suggesting is subsidizing people to live in economically impractical regions, specifically regions we know will get worse and more costly. I don't see the logic there at all.
For the fully natural wildfires, yes of course. It definitely happens.

But there are plenty of things that can be done to reduce the number of wildfires. Remember the fires caused by old and poorly maintained PG&E lines?
I expect the scale here is not apples to apples. A three person team is often on a small product and downtime is often a catastrophe like truly broken for customers. Meanwhile a megacorp is often many many large products and downtime usually means a piece of one of them is degraded.

My random guess is that the "downtime" is fairly proportional to the scale difference with megas probably taking the edge.
Ask HN: Is Blogsurf Dead?
Saw it on seirdy . Clicked link > Trouble finding site .
You are grossly underestimating the force of sustained 250kmh winds (cat 4 hurricane), let alone the 400kph winds present in an F4 tornado. Even if your 900 year old building's walls could withstand that it would likely have no roof and be unlivable for an extended period of time.

Modern residential buildings in Florida etc are built to withstand these kinds of forces with hurricane glass and beefed up structures.
You make a case against stupid and irresponsible people that I agree with completely.

Entertainers are not necessarily these things.

Just like lawyers - presidents are often lawyers - are not necessarily brilliant paragons.
"AI" in webpages to "thousands of workers in India"
Iframely GDPR Considerations
...and now it's gone
The flip side is that if punishments are eye watering harsh then people will be even less willing to inflict them.

Bear in mind also that the vast majority of academic fraud isn’t cut and dried easily proved. It’s p hacking or “accidental” flaws in an analysis, or forgetting to mention some important detail.
tbh your data would be too unstructured, it's not really being used to train unless you flag it deliberately with a feedback mechanism
> Even if it is possible to implement such features

It has been possible for years with custom firmware, search "device free wireless sensing" in Google Scholar.

> they would not be incorporated in a communication standard at this time.

One would hope so, right?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/27/1088154/wifi-sen...

When the new standard comes out in 2025, it will allow “every Wi-Fi device to easily and reliably extract the signal measurements,” Yang says. That alone should help get more Wi-Fi sensing products on the market. “It will be explosive,” Liu believes.. cases imagined by the committee include counting and finding people in homes or in stores, detecting children left in the back seats of cars, and identifying gestures, along with long-­standing goals like detecting falls, heart rates, and respiration.

Wi-Fi 7, which rolls out this year, will open up an extra band of radio frequencies for new Wi-Fi devices to use, which means more channel state information for algorithms to play with. It also adds support for more tiny antennas on each Wi-Fi device, which should help algorithms triangulate positions more accurately. With Wi-Fi 7, Yang says, “the sensing capability can improve by one order of magnitude..”

WiGig already allows Wi-Fi devices to operate in the millimeter-wave space used by radar chips like the one in the Google Nest.. [use cases include] reidentifying known faces or bodies, identifying drowsy drivers, building 3D maps of objects in rooms, or sensing sneeze intensity (the task group, after all, convened in 2020).. There is one area that the IEEE is not working on, at least not directly: privacy and security.

In advance of the IEEE 802.11bf standard, Intel implemented presence detection with WiFi 6E starting with 2023 Meteor Lake sensors and NPU, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/7651...

Intel Wi-Fi can intelligently sense when to lock or wake your laptop
Walk Away Lock: Wi-Fi senses your departure & locks the PC in seconds
Wake on Approach: Wi-Fi senses your return & wakes the PC in seconds

Intel Labs 2023 PoC demo of breathing detection, https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/...

The solution detects the rhythmic change in CSI due to chest movement during breathing. It then uses that information to detect the presence of a person near a device, even if the person is sitting silently without moving. The respiration rates gathered by this technology could play an important role in stress detection and other wellness applications.

> such an application would be equally implementable with any PCIe WiFi card conforming to the new standard

Yes, this would be possible on AMD, Qualcomm and other "AI" PCs.

Some Arm SoCs include NPUs that could be used by routers and other devices for WiFi sensing applications.

> looks like a hallucination or perhaps only a misinterpretation of proposed features

Is there a good term for reality conflicting with claims of hallucination and misinterpretation?
Just wanted to drop in to say that this take reveals a blind spot with respect to visual impairment. Reflowability is really vital for visually impaired people who can still see enough to read.

Panning in two dimensions is very cumbersome and brutally inefficient compared to scrolling in just one direction, especially if you have to much of it. If you can only fit a few lines of readable text on your screen at a time, it's really painful to pan across a fixed layout.

(It's been my experience that PDFs are generally not as helpful to accessibility tools as HTML or similar formats can be, as well.)

All of this is exacerbated on displays with slow redraw as well, like e-ink. In the end, I don't even attempt to read comic books or fixed-layout textbooks on my e-readers, for instance. Nobody makes color e-readers big enough for me to read those things comfortably. And my vision is still pretty good— I don't necessarily use fullscreen zoom every day at work and I can still drive.

> the unpredictability of the layout messes with my ability to remember the location of the information of interest

Although technically the layout is fixed, navigation of fixed-layout zoom can itself feel quite unpredictable if you are also using fullscreen zoom, because now you have two layers of independent 2D panning, and all the while your viewport is only a fraction of the screen (in some cases even just 10% of it or much less). At that point, if you're looking at text, you can't see literally any UI elements, just the text. No display corners, no window borders, no title bars, no menu bar, no start menu. All of that spatial positioning you like to navigate by becomes state you have to keep track of in your head, your view of which is updated infrequently at best and only ever partially.

There's also nothing in principle stopping you from using a layout-preserving zoom on reflowable pages. Chrome and Firefox both support this, for instance. By the same token and without loss of generality, you're perfectly free to fix your browser's zoom level and your browser window's size in pixels. It's also trivial to convert HTML to PDF with any of a number of free tools that are easy to get. In contrast PDFs often make spatial navigation the only possible way to navigate, and converting the other way is much harder.

All that said...

> I really hate those who provide some technical documentation in HTML format, without offering [alternatives]

I completely agree with this. Accessibility is intimately related to flexibility, hackability, and ultimately, freedom. Docs should be provided in a way that doesn't assume or support only one way of reading/browsing/working.

I have a pet peeve kinda similar to your complaint, too: I hate it when tools have HTML docs (or even just READMEs or usage messages) but no manpage. Other formats often come in handy for me, too, but I want to be able to view the docs where I'm already using the tool, dammit!
Of course you do. If you use a Samsung phone (just an example), its apps scan everything you open for phone numbers, etc.

And if you interact with anyone at all, or even if you call them, well now you're in call history. People are happy to share call history to save 99 cents on an app.

So yes.
Antarctic krill sequester similar amounts of carbon as blue carbon habitats
New technology offers mind-blowing breakthrough for storing energy
> What if we just federalize assistance and help everyone, regardless of where they live and what disasters they must contend with?

We get this mess. Local governments selling building permits in flood and wildfire zones because they get cash in the short term while others pay in the long.

We’re seeing in Florida, for example, a recapitulation of the financial crisis, down to bogus ratings of undercapitalised insurers allowing risky mortgages to be passed along to banks, Fannie and Freddie [1].

[1] https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-051_f1329bc3-...
I wonder if it’s temporary, like a woman during pregnancy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/04/08/pregnancy...
Thanks! There are 5 of us on the team. Yes, the business is profitable.
Love this. As another humane anecdote I always insisted on call includes a manager so they feel the pain. This is so they remember to treat people with respect AND so they listen when the folks getting paged say something technical needs to change in order to increase stability.
Coming back to this, I see it's in the paper. There's a mention of copyright, and then:

> Netflix prefers to have ACR deactivated during its streaming “in order to preserve the integrity of its subscribers viewing experiences and maintain sole control over measurement of its viewership” (Verance, 2020). The same reasoning applies to FAST channels, which LG and Samsung consider to be ”aggregator apps” (Wolk, 2023), where providers may have agreements restricting ACR usage.

In other words, FAST comes from other providers, who may complain. Random content over HDMI doesn't. However, this doesn't explain why they ignore video streamed from phones (tablets, laptops, etc) wirelessly.
I usually have .env files in the repositories with the structure and examples. It's a kind of documentation. But I have a template file that gets filled by the CD pipeline with the necessary set of secrets that the deployment need.

I advise against dynamic secrets. In my opinion deployment should be immutable. If you need to change secrets, you need another deployment. The usual exception is where the deployment is too costly or you can't do zero-downtime blue-green/canary deployments.

The template file can be something like a .env.j2 and the secrets can be pulled from something like hashicorp vault, which enables you granular permission for the pipeline runners to read just the necessary kinds of secret that particular deployment needs.

You need however to put a little effort into creating these pipelines, but the benefits are huge.
I do think sugar should be regulated more and probably excised taxed, but banning is a different thing altogether
Jeskola Buzz[1] is a very influential tracker. The source code was lost for a while, but I recently learned that development re-started around 2008.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeskola_Buzz
Plenty of older microcomputers got by just fine with only 8 bits in a word. That's enough room to fit two binary-coded decimal digits and thus perform all the common arithmetic operations one or two digits at a time. Many quite good handheld calculators and early personal computers were able to handle practical computations very well in this way, albeit at speeds far below the billions of operations per second expected of modern computers.

The advantage of 32-bit word size is more for interoperability with modern systems and familiarity to modern programmers and programming languages.
"raw dogging" non-RLHF'd language models (and getting good and unique output) is going to be a rare and sought-after skill soon. It's going to be a new art form

someone should write a story about that!
It just reminded me this song of Faith No More : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8b88US-6ts
"FOI probably gives you PDFs."

Having submitted thousands of FOIA requests, I get the impression that you haven't, actually, submitted many FOIA requests. I've received many, many, many, many non-PDF FOIA responses.

Share me some of the open data you've worked with and I'd love to poke at it and tell you where it's wrong and where assumptions about its data is wrong.
Worth the risk.
Earlier, I used to get crypto investment scam texts. These days, I get so many SMS messages for scam jobs, even though I am not looking.
Californias only serious risk is the big one earthquake, but that could hit anywhere on the west coast.

West coast best coast.