skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, but to play devils advocate: beyond the physicality of the device (whether it’s uncomfortable or ugly), how does this change the relationship between you and your information in a way that phones and smartwatches don’t? If information is already instantly accessible, how does a pair of glasses with the same capabilities change the acceptability of the concept?
I remember reading that there were entire product lines that omit you ever bought one mail order you were forever on the lists of “suckers who buy nose hair trimmers mail order” and they passed those lists around like candy.
I ran a similar experiment many years ago, not with a timeshare but with a multi-level marketing scheme. The tactics they used were very similar. I kept saying no and they kept inventing new reasons for me to sign up. I finally got bored and said no, thanks, I'm done, and walked out--but even then they were trying new reasons on me until I got out the door.
What point are you trying to make in relation to the cost of labor and barriers to entry?

You might have a point that everyone is so rich these days that they are willing to pay $200 an hour for a reputable plumber to unclog their toilet rather than take the risk it with a $50 plumber without 500 yelp reviews.

This would certainly explain the trouble young people seem to be having starting plumbing businesses and introducing some well needed competition.

I think this would fall under the discovery or triangulation problem.
These are entirely different tech skill trees. Meta has been acquiring research companies and empowering researchers to invent cutting edge solutions like micro-led projects and Waveguides whereas the Vision Pro is a traditional VR headset architecture.

Similarly Google has invested in 3D displays that use lightfield displays, with Project Starline.

One would assume Apple has many lines of research towards AR glasses, but nothing is publicly known.

Meta plays the asymmetry game. Apple and OpenAI are secret shops. Meta Orion and Llama can benefit from being more open.
Extinct volcanoes a 'rich' source of rare earth elements, research suggests
It's surprising they didn't pick a RTOS.
And when you need to put your thumb on the scale, cross your eyes to see an extra crow.
How the YouTube Algorithm Promotes Thievery [YT] [video]
This is not what ceasing and desisting looks like. If Automattic doesn’t fire MM within a week then we know who wears the pants there. A fork backed by real money is starting to look more likely.
The haptic feedback you get from touching your thumb and forefinger to simulate a click is actually better than a button because it feels more organic and natural.

Where it falls apart is not being able to feel yourself touching objects which nothing other than a full glove is going to be able to simulate. Controllers and rings provide no benefit over Apple's approach.
I've put some effort into doing so.

Much of the mainstream right-libertarian rhetoric seems to trace most directly to Murray Rothbard and to a lesser degree Robert Nozick (though he distanced himself from that somewhat later in life), with strong supporting roles from Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, von Mises, and others. The institutional support is strongly tied to the Kochs, the Cato Institute, and a large group of aligned propaganda mills through the Atlas Network, comprised of 500+ partners in 100+ countries, to quote the network itself. The greatest number are in the US (181) and Europe (157), with a disproportionate number in the English-language speaking Canada (11) and Australia (10):

<https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Network>

<https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners>

Somewhat interestingly, few of the RLs I've encountered seem even aware of this legacy, with many appearing to think that they'd reached an identical set of conclusions (and rhetoric) through their own self-directed free thinking...

The Atlas Network itself is strongly tied to the Mont Pelerin Society. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe edited an excellent history of that movement, The Raod from Mont Pelerin (2015):

<https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674088344>
The light weight nature of these is interesting for an application like electronics repair: an app which could live-search chip serials and pinouts as you look over a board (or pull a digital microscope feed up onto your vision in one eye while you work) could be quite the productivity booster.
Sister comments are addressing the Wi-fi part. There's of course also the host part which has to keep up with the rendering and sustain performance.

Overall VR streaming is IMHO still very finicky for anyone who's not dumping buckets of time or money into it head first.

In particular for people wanting to get into VR who were not specifically into PC gaming, there's so much things to catch up and the whole gaming ecosystem to digest. It's a lot.
The current news is some arcana about an en banc appellate rehearing about EcoBee's damages expert. I won't attempt to explain the issue since I don't understand it myself.

Anyhow, I had a conversation once with Catherine Lacavera, who at the time was head of Patent Litigation. I argued that damages awards should be based on what a willing buyer pays a willing seller in other cases, not on some "hypothetical negotiation. She didn't quite understand the issue, and said their damages formulas already did take that into account.

In reality, another VP of Engineering confirmed for me that he would never agree to a royalty-based license of anything, unless it had a cap on it. I don't know where they got this $20M figure, but "damages experts" get paid the big bucks.
Millions of people, at all stages of the age curve, not dying or losing their marbles to diseases that can be treated by immunotherapy? I foresee many opportunities.

Time will tell…
> The solution for C I proposed is backwards compatible, and does not make existing code slower.

Where can I read about it? The only way to make ptrs to array elements also safe that I can think of, is to replace them with triples: (base, element ptr, limit).
For clicking buttons on virtual screens, maybe. For 6DOF interaction with the virtual world, it is absolutely horrid.
No kidding. I have never seen a news article from a large serious organisation that had the word "bastardized" in it before.
Ha. This is is exactly what turns me off of Slay the Spire. It's a filler game, full of filler content, designed to fill your time. And not, as far as I can tell, much more than that.

"Content" is a commodity. I don't see a huge difference between the folks who view creative work as "content" and talk about it as if it's fungible and can be valued per uni of weight, and art speculators who buy up works of art they've never seen and then leave it warehoused in some freehold somewhere.

I can't really blame people who do creative work for catering to folks who think about their work this way - everybody's got to eat - but I'll still gladly bemoan the pervasive cultural debasement.
You sure about that?

https://nypost.com/2024/08/08/business/google-meta-reportedl...
I can see that I guess. Easier to start a new one than do the annoying parts to finish one.
The fork has a name; it's called ClassicPress!
With a 128Gb Mac, you can even run 405b at 1-bit quantization - it's large enough that even with the considerable quality drop that entails, it still appears to be smarter than 70b.
Canada's fertility rate has hit a record low. What's behind the drop?
The fuck else we gonna spend money on? Tamagotchis?
Frog Protocols for Wayland
You're the one that chose to try Gemini for some reason.
Has she published a single AI research paper?
Nick Clegg (public affairs guy at FB) is currently lobbying to get VR headsets on schoolchildren. I can't think of anything I want less than my kids wearing those things while in class all day.

https://nickclegg.medium.com/how-the-metaverse-can-transform...
The exaggerations in the post are crazy, that WP engine "broke" websites by disabling the news in the admin dashboard? If I recall that is like a one line code change. They disabled it because Matt published a disparaging post about WP Engine, knowing that it would show up in the admin dashboards of every wordpress install. That post was about them not being "real" wordpress because they disable post revisions (which apparently they have done for a decade). His own competing managed WordPress service (confusingly named Wordpress.com) disables features as well, unless you upgrade to a higher plan. What a mess. This should have continued to be handled by lawyers and not by using the foundation to disable updates for thousands of sites. What happens to vulnerabilities as a result of this move?
And most new tech is garbage that quickly dies. Don't get correlation and causation mixed up here.
Perhaps you havent tried o1-preview or advanced voice if you call all the rest SOTA.
It feels like if these image and video generation models were really resolving some fundamental laws from the training data they should at least be able to re-create an image at a different angle.
Not sure of your point. When I read the rest of your comment, it seems like you agree with me: saying you did not progress as a dev is not such a big deal for non-devs (3 in 4), and when it was, it was because the reasons are surprising (having too much meetings when the company tries hard to reduce the meeting invites to ask more questions to understand why there is disconnect between the objective and the reality).
Agreed. Can the experience provided by this hardware be so much superior to a smartphone that'd ill want to put this thing on my face if im not someone that needs to wear glasses? Can this be really superior to a "fingertip" experience I take out of my pocket when needed? I'd have to take the glasses out of my pocket, put them on when needed, OR wear them all the time? All the time is a no-go for me, I've had Lasik, and its in my top 3 best lifetime decisions, not wearing glasses is such a quality of life improvement. I'm a vision pro owner, and it's a great experience, but even with a smaller form factor, I would not consider this a replacement to the 'fingertip' experience.
Get used to it. You'll be wearing a muted version of it soon.
You have to remember that OpenAI's mission was considered absolute batshit insane back then.
The burden of proof is on the state, not the accused. The state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt, the accused is not obligated to provide anything in his defense.
When writing software I almost never find myself in a situation where UB is a design concern or needs to be factored around in the structure.

I almost always find myself struggling to name and namespace things correctly for long term durability. Almost all compiled languages get this wrong. They generally force you to consider this before you start writing code so you can explore the shape of the solution first.

I think lisp is the only language I've used where this wasn't a burden, but in reality, lisp then forces you to deeply ponder your data structures and access ideology first, so I didn't find it to be that rewarding in the long run.

I love that Go lets you bang simple "method like functions" straight onto the type. This solves the first layer of namespace problems. It does nothing for the second though, and in fact makes it worse, by applying "style guidelines" to the names of the containing types. I am constantly let down by this when writing Go code and I find it hard to write "good looking" code in the language which is all the more frustrating because this was what the guidelines were supposed to solve in the first place.

I really just want C and I want to namespace my functions that act on structs into the structs themselves. Then I can name stuff however I want and I don't have to prefix_every_single_function() just so the me and the assembler can fully agree on the unmangled symbol table name which I will almost certainly never care about in 99% of what I compile.

There's a real joy to the fast initial development and easy refactoring you can find in scripting languages. Too bad they all have wacky C interfaces and are slower than molasses.
> This is an oversimplification but Protestants for example believe in Sola Fide, the believe that salvation comes from faith alone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_fide), whereas Catholics believe that salvation requires "good works", the sort of thing you're likely thinking of

“Protestants” are not a monolith and can have very different ideas. And no, I was not thinking of good works, it’s more general than that. The New Testament is all about being merciful, letting go of hate and not seeking retribution. How we are supposed to act on those ideals is not always clear, but that is a recurring theme in the foundational book of all Christian denominations (the big ones anyway).

Anyway, that was mostly rhetorical. The actual reason is that religion is just a way of making a point without having to support it, the ultimate appeal to authority. These people are happy claiming that Jesus loves people, except for some scapegoats, whom he hates. It’s pathetic, really. I have a lot of respect for people who actually live in accordance with their principles, even if I don’t agree with them. None of the Christian I know who are like that support the death penalty.
Was the spacecraft from the event described in the article an actual spacecraft in space or a simulation of a space mission on the ground?
I’d be vary wary of going even if you have zero intention of being sucked in. They’re literally trained and adept at exactly those kinds of people - so don’t go unless you can sign over a durable power of attorney to someone offsite for the duration.
I actively bias towards non-MAS downloads if an app offers both. And I’ll bias towards non-MAS options unless I absolutely need the MAS-only option
I disagree with this sentiment. Form factor has been the driving force behind the adoption of computing devices throughout history—look at the PC or the smartphone. Each one marked a new era. Glasses seem like the preeminent form factor for a computing device, short of a direct neural interface.

The smartphone enabled always-available computing. Glasses will enable always-on computing.
The Path to a Better Way
The Verge's article[1] mentions that the consumer version planned to be a few years out won't have silicon carbine lenses, and that those lenses are responsible for the majority of the cost of the Orion device due to extremely poor yields. Sounds like they're pretty great otherwise so maybe they're return to it at some point in the mid-future.

I agree regarding the undertaking - enormously costly, but if they can make it "just glasses" it might actually end up as the "next computing format" Zuckerberg was looking for. (Even in that case though, whether it was worth the investment/Meta can stay on top I don't know.)

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo... (ctrl+F for "silicon carbide", it's the last mention)
What a cursed thing. I like it.
About a decade ago I took a holiday with my now wife and some friends at her step-mother's timeshare for a huge discounted rate.

The whole time we were hounded by salesmen who thought it was her step mother and not some 18 year olds sipping beers at the pool, they constantly tried to sell us more timeshares we could never afford, we could barely make our way there!
Correct.

Ebay is full of timeshare listings for next to nothing (if you don't consider even paying the annual fees isn't worth it in most cases).

Years back my GF got roped into a timeshare presentation because she wanted free nights in a hotel room. After gently scolding her I printed off pages of Ebay timeshare listings and went to the presentation with her. What a high pressure scam. Anyway, we stayed the required time and when the guy took us off to "close the deal" I whipped the listings out of my pocket and said "Look at this! I can get a better deal on a better resort for $1!". The poor salesman just stood there with his mouth opened then finally said they would have our complimentary tickets at the desk thanks for attending.
This entire thread is some of the best content I've consumed in a while!
Cheese Stood Alone for 3,600 Years
His reputation wasn't exactly sterling before: https://pearsonified.com/truth-about-thesis-com
as a lifelong glasses wearer I don't understand why anyone would want to increase the time & activities involving wearing glasses, especially big, clunky ones. Make Zuck wear these 20 hrs/day in all weather & activities for a few decades, then get back to us.

edit: though I got to admit it has advanced "not hotdog" capabilities...
Just look at their use case. The have to store a large amount of logs of web-sites visitors or bots. Of course Redis is a very bad choice, because most servers don't have that much amount of memory. It's really useless to store logs in the RAM.
that doesn't state what uses linux, angular.io is also on there
> immediately drown

You don't need to worry about puddles of water in a vacuum, you may need to worry about sublimated water vapor frosting up whatever you land though.
This is the first I've heard of SQLite JOIN performance being "weak". I just spent 10 minutes scouring the annals of the web and didn't turn up anything relevant. Are there any additional links or other information you can share about this claim?

Edit: @akira2501: SQLite comes with different tradeoffs, sometimes superior and other times less so, depending on the use case. Blanket statements without evidence are unproductive in progressing the conversation..
Nice hardware. They're down to swim goggle size.

Then you see what Facebook wants you to do with it - see screens in front of you all the time. One with Facebook's "Recommended" page, and a video of some talking neckbeard. There's a feeling of "we were promised virtual reality, and all we got was talking heads of influencers." The hardware apparently has GPS, but that's turned off. So, no Pokemon Go yet. Not even Hyperreality.[1] It's all about ads and clicks.

It can't draw dark. The workaround seems to be to dim out the world and draw light overlays, like almost everybody else. Will it work in bright daylight?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
Mira was appointed CEO after Sam was fired and she fought to bring back Sam, no? Why are people now saying she was part of the coup that fired Sam?
Couldn’t really disagree more, although I guess I see where you’re coming from. Slay the Spire to me lacks “content” at least the way you’re using it - there are 4 classes that essentially have never changed and the levels are pseudo randomly generated and otherwise don’t change much run to run.

However, attaining very high levels in that game requires a depth of skill, strategy, and math that is constantly startling to me, and I used to play card games professionally.
Here's a more thorough definition:

> Evidence that is not within the personal knowledge of a witness, such as testimony regarding statements made by someone other than the witness, and that therefore may be inadmissible to establish the truth of a particular contention because the accuracy of the evidence cannot be verified through cross-examination.

Tying the two together, basically it would be anything that can't be verified (in court) by the one who the witness is 'quoting'.

Regarding witness testimony, I don't think the tradition of it makes it any more iron clad. We used to have a lot more testimony of sorcery and such as well that got people killed. Further, we have only recently begun to study it scientifically. From what I gather, from my very limited knowledge of the studies thus far, it doesn't look good for eye-witness accuracy in general.
Timeshare scams far predate widespread adoption of the Internet by about two decades, and scamming was far from uncommon before that. Hucksters and charlatans have always been about us, but the level of sophistication today is higher because the tools available are more numerous and it's easier to target multitudes vs. single individuals.
So where do you sign up to be part of the "select external audiences access to Orion"?
I would be fine with discovering the existing resources actually, if SI can do that. The reason I mentioned Terraform is because my infrastructure is fully managed by it so I thought that would be the easiest path, but if SI can automagically discover all the resources that’d work just fune for us. Thanks, need to give it (SI) a go!
Why? What benefit would that give them?
I am surprised I had to scroll down this far to find someone making this point. In addition to being the obvious joke in this situation, the message was so dull, generic, and “this incredible journey” that I instinctively began to read diagonally before finishing the second paragraph.
Definitely, my intent wasn’t to hand wave away the role government plays there. The lag that is inherent in some regulatory departments though seems too long and it’s the working class that suffers to most. I think FAA and NASA are good examples of largely well-run departments while the SEC, EPA, and FDA appear to be largely a sham who really let corporations get away with literal murder to the detriment of the greater good. Things have to get extremely bad before they are able to do anything perhaps because their authority is stripped.
This has been an insane, slow, public descent into everything they promised not to do, it’s so crazy to have seen people inside try to stop it
It's not worship. It's an observation. Those who talk, say they would stop at a precise stopping point, but they never start. Those who do, almost always overshoot this precise stopping point that the talkers refer to. An IA that has the precise stopping point is possible today. But zero people have made it. This is not unique.

In fact, I'll tell you what, you make it and I will dedicate my ArchiveTeam Warrior to your project instead for a year.
Is any of this experimentally falsifiable? Or rather, where downstream of this does something experimentally falsifiable pop out?
Procs, Lambdas, and Performance
>there are at least a dozen people who can take over tomorrow

Well, this is its own sort of problem though [0]. A good thing about a BDFL is unambiguously having someone in charge, accountable and responsible with power to "decide" as opposed to no one or too many fighting for it. When people ask this question I think they intend to know "who does Linus want or will he put in charge?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_crisis [0]
Housing prices, stagnant wages, and lack of available childcare. Some folks just don’t want kids of course too.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-...

https://www.thestar.com/business/hourly-wages-have-been-fair...

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231205/dq231...
I just received an E6 offer from Meta
He did not convert to Islam until he was in prison.
These glasses are wireless.
Funny, all the "small government" people I know are fine with this.
It was probably crafted with ChatGPT?
Seems like a good time for a rebrand to remove "Open" from the name. Maybe "InevitableAI"?
Also no possible, there's life on Europa and it shares a common ancestor with life on Earth.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/08/22/22081/earth-ejec...
The Paradox of the Distance Runner
Seriously?

https://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html

Chapter 2. Chapter 7. Chapter 8.

It should be _zero_ surprise to you that SQLite is not as powerful as other full database query engines.
I’m not aware of those beliefs. Could you provide a link to an article/ comment?
Earlier this year, Matt chased a popular Tumblr user he banned under Tumblr's weirdly transphobic TOS to Twitter to harass her publicly. He immediately took a "sabbatical" from Tumblr after this.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/tumblr-ceo-publicly-spars-...
are these better than qwen at codegen?
This worked in a previous version of SI (we've built like 4 different versions of it over the years) - but we haven't brough it back in to the current version yet. But we absolutely will!