skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think both of these things are true:

* It's more accessible to be an influencer today than a pop star 20 years ago

* Becoming an influencer is a lot like being a lottery winner.

Bands on the radio had massive audiences. A decent Youtuber is getting 10k views on their video, which is a much smaller piece of the pie than any band that aired on the radio in the early 2000s. But for every Youtuber with 10k views there's hundreds, maybe thousands, of Youtubers with videos in the single digit of views.
This is such a simple idea that it seems like it shouldn't work. Pretty nifty.
Another useful feature gone, I relied on the cache many times in the past 15 years (almost on a daily basis), it will be missed.
Mandated resets and character rules for password resets may go away
Depends on the person. Not unheard of to see people with 10+ working papers that realistically will never see the light of day. Each of those are months of work.
Save costs by integration with the new feature or increasing cost with maintaining a custom kernel branch in the long run.
It’s almost trolling at this point, though.
Has anyone else noticed the elephant in the room?

The Krebs case study claims that the couple was unable to "legally sell" the timeshare due to their remaining payments.

So these scammers were asking them to do what--illegally sell to them? What are the consequences or repercussions of a premature sale?

"Hey, yeah, we know we've got a bad investment; looks like some Mexican sucker is calling us to let us off the hook!"

If this is true, and the couple was cooperating knowingly with a gray-market transaction, then their hands weren't clean at all, and I can't muster any sympathy here.

The usual litany of red flags: they cold-called you. You did no due diligence, probably because you knew they had to be shady. They promised you money, but then asked for advance fees. What legit consumer just falls for all that, unless they're desperate and shady themselves?

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way
The filibuster makes this basically impossible to do without some degree of Republican support. Overturning the filibuster is problematic because Democrats either haven't had the votes to do so or it would have required the votes of moderates who want to use it for cover. The senate is so constructed that the senators voting can represent 2/3 of the population and not even have 50% of the votes in the senate.

In the last 24 years the Democrats have had more than a bare majority in both house and senate while holding the presidency exactly 2 years between 2009–2011. The backlash for daring to do anything at all lost them both and they haven't had this since.
>sort of small controller that can act as a pointer and has a button or two is superior in every way.

Something named after a small rodent that we use already. And a monitor that we use already. Then you are cooking. You've invented the desktop pc.
Very good form factor. Good job to everyone on Meta.
> the company is still shipping, like no other

Meta, Anthropic, Google, and others all are shipping state of the art models.

I'm not trying to be dismissive of OpenAI's work, but they are absolutely not the only company shipping very large foundation models.
This is amazing technology, but I have a hard time trusting FB/Meta having this much additional information about my personal life.
All of your objections are addressed in the article.
I don’t think ad placement for children should be the primary concern.

Unless I’m misunderstanding the current state of the technology, it’s possible today with a little effort to put my biometrics in a feedback loop with (say) GPT-4o, and use those measurements to rapidly produce and refine an increasingly horrifying series of images, personalized to my lizard brain reactions.

That’s gross, but the same technique could be applied more subtly. Imagine the worst things people suspect about TikTok’s algorithm, but with biometric feedback on its individual effectiveness.
I've long been a huge skeptic of the whole Metaverse project/undertaking, I think I've called it a smoking crater where ten billion dollars used to be.

But this is really interesting: it sounds like the display works, and it sounds like the puck is workable, and it sounds like both can squeak above the line in terms of battery life. If those things are true I may turn out to have been completely wrong.

I don't know the first thing about silicon carbide display substrate thingy yields, so I can't remark on whether or not that's a "scale will make cost acceptable", but I bet some mega geniuses at Meta think so or they probably wouldn't be showing this much.

If it turns out that I was dead wrong on this I'll be glad I was, it would be really cool if it works.
You may want to check out LiteFS and LiteStream by benbjohnson. There was a time in 2022 where he was trending every week for his projects. The following snippet is taken from the LiteFS webpage. "LiteFS is a distributed file system that transparently replicates SQLite databases. You can run your application like it’s running against a local on-disk SQLite database but behind the scenes the database is replicated to all the nodes in your cluster."
For a second I read that as “it just removed my install of 3.1-8b” :D
> Quite interesting that this comment is downvoted when the content is factually correct and pertinent.

>> Yet the company is still shipping, like no other.

this is factually wrong. Just today Meta (which I despise) shipped more than openAI in a long time.
I am shocked to not see a reference to Taylor Swift’s hit song Blank Space anywhere in the article!
> Today, it appears to be the fastest emitter written in JavaScript

JavaScript is really slow though compared to golang. For that reason I prefer esbuild for type-stripping.
> I believe the right message (and far less viral message), is the government has not shown enough evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the death penalty is warranted.

The jury makes that determination after being locked in a room and forced to hear both sides and all the evidence. How much of the evidence are you aware of? What The Innocence Project posted?

This thread is full of people who are anti-death penalty who don't think some guy should be executed. That's hardly a surprise, but it has nothing to do with the evidence presented by the state.
No normal person will be caught dead wearing anything AR related, especially if it’s made by a company whose main source of revenue is mass surveillance.
It's quite difficult to assess what's happening on HN from the outside (I know, I've tried).

It's both bad form and against guidelines to make accusations.

But you can ping mods if you suspect some sort of promotion/demotion ring, sockpuppets, etc. I'd emailed dang about an hour ago on this thread. My regret is not having done so earlier.
3b was pretty good at multimodal (Norwegian) still a lot of gibberish at times, and way more sensitive than 8b but more usable than Gemma 2 2b at multi modal, fine at my python list sorter with args standard question. But 90b vision just refuses all my actually useful tasks like helping recreate the images in html or do anything useful with the image data other than describing it. Have not gotten as stuck with 70b or openai before. Insane amount of refusals all the time.
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However, it is a handy way to tell which users have no qualms about being deceptive and/or who don't care about double checking.
"Safemode is when all non critical functions are automatically shut down and the satellite becomes entirely focused on generating power by pointing its solar panels towards the Sun and trying to reestablish any communication that was lost."

The non-critical functions are all the things the customer actually bought the satellite for. Cool that it's still alive, but now the Space Internet / death lasers / etc. are offline.
Please put some effort into actually engaging with the tools and software and ideas. If you need examples of how to do that: https://news.pub.
This is Facebook/Meta we are talking about though. Not every new advancement, but it is entirely fair to treat them with a whole lot of skepticism.
This is typical of confidence tricks like this. That's why we have the saying "You can't cheat an honest man".
> We don’t think people should have to make the choice between a world of information at your fingertips and being present in the physical world around you.

What a weird mission statement.
Might indicate foreknowledge of the DoJ action, but could also be based on posterior knowledge of Visa settling a 10 year anti-trust civil lawsuit a couple of weeks earlier: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/visa-settles-discov...

That is took place on July 1 makes me think it might have just been monthly portfolio rebalancing. It took me only a minute or two to see whether there had been any other big news stories affecting that stock in the last year. Seems rather remiss of Fox not to include such context, but then what else can you expect from a Murdoch publication.
Except 4x thicker
> Unfortunately, the people signing our paychecks do care

From your experience of a dev, not a non-dev who manage devs? Noted.

My point is that I have observed, with my own eyes, devs BELIEVING they need to do the dance in front of a given manager while I've observed the same manager giving bigger paychecks to another dev that did not do the dance.

They may be several reasons for that, including sometimes the manager's fault, but also sometimes the dev's fault. For example, in the case I think of, the dev who was "doing the dance" was also not getting promoted or being trusted by their promoter. The reason was that they were often unreliable. But the dev in question said few time that if they were not promoted it was because they did not "do the dance" enough. When you are a bad dev, it's easy to blame the lack of promotion on "I'm in fact totally good, it's just that my manager is an idiot who cannot recognize good when they see it".

(PS: I'm not saying you are not good or that you are believing you need to do the dance while you don't need to. But if you are not aware that this happens a lot, then you are indeed missing a big part of the full picture and your opinion on the situation is not at all trustworthy)
A free ride sharing project
I treat areas/ neighborhoods within a city as city names and allow people to cluster from one area to another. We can add landmarks where 100+ people gather in a day - spiritual places, grocery chains, malls, etc.

I am looking for people who can add momentum.
Sure, but that sounds like a culture problem, not a problem with the meeting schedule. If you have abusive higher-ups, avoiding them is not a solution. Honestly, the whole premise of the discussion is kind of silly at that point. If you don't have the power to improve the meeting experience, then you definitely don't have the power to abolish the meeting.
I was trying to figure if by "contraction events" you meant the actual motion or the signal to initiate that. Maybe it was the former, but it looks like you meant the latter. The wristband's EMG sensors can't detect the motion of the fingers themselves, of course, because it's on the wrist (and the signal passes through that before the relatively slow muscles have had time to act upon it).

There are videos of people able to control virtual hands even with partial or missing fingers, be that since birth or after some event, see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woXmJMw2lTM&t=4717s
Same thought, surely it can't be a coincidence, maybe they thought it was so on the nose that it would be best to not draw attention to it.
I tested its ability to detect issues in my nonnative pronunciation of Japanese and Russian. As with you, it praised me more than I wanted, but it also provided pointed, appropriate feedback.

I was particularly impressed that it corrected the pitch accent of some words I said in Japanese. I speak Japanese fluently but, because I began learning as an adult, I have a foreign accent that I am unable to lose. One major component of my nonnative sound is my inadequate acquisition of the pitch accent system. Nobody ever corrects me in conversation and it would be annoying if they did. If, when I started learning Japanese forty years ago, I had had a bot that could hear and correct my pronunciation, I would have less of a foreign accent now.

Some prompt engineering is needed, though, to get rid of that excessive praise. In my next tests, I will just tell it not to praise me at all. That should work.
While still pretty clunky, I think I'd rather wear these for extended periods of time than Vision Pro glasses (100g vs 600g). This is the type of v1 minimalist design I was hoping Apple would go for. I assume Apple investigated this path but realized they would be cost prohibitive? (although when has that ever stopped Apple before?)
It was only a matter of time - IIRC she did try to stab Altman in the back when he was pushed out, and that likely sealed her fate.
Yes, but Linux (hence Android) doesn't have that problem, because its interface is system call not libc.
One step closer to AI headbands from Ell Donsaii world
I don't think the colors mean anything. But I don't know.
I'm not comparing actual devices. I'm comparing how large they were when they were first released. The original iPod and iPhones were bricks compared to what the latest/last versions and it didn't have a touch screen and cameras.

The point is, the size of new technology tend to shrink fast.
That article is useful context for this—it points out that there are way more people trying to sell timeshares than buy them, which means that people who want to get out from under one can't do so easily. That creates an environment ripe for scammers who can promise to finally take this bad investment off your hands.
You're correct there's definitely an increasing need, for natural language interfaces in accounting tasks these days. I believe that Blox GPT could be a solution, for that.
The low heart rate pattern is not exclusive to skiers. They are seen in elite athletes across all endurance sports. I wonder if the actual issue comes from performing in very cold climate.
I’ve been looking for something like this for creating surveys using drone footage - extract every “n” frames from the video, then stitch ‘em up somehow to make a “layer”.

There’s existing software for this kind of work, but I’ve been in the mood to reinvent the wheel a bit for some strange reason.
I don't get the point of the dummy value. How does it help doing anything? I can add conditions with ease without it.
It's far too late to be worrying about that, Meta has been hoovering up information about children for more than a decade now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
A bit strange they replaced Redis with SQLite rather than LMDB or RocksDB which are key-value stores
I doubt she’s leaving to do her own thing, I don’t think she could. She probably got pushed out.
I have said it many times before. You could fill a library with all the problem that BASIC leads too. But at its core is a message that is missing a little from modern computing - the ability to jump in and just get something simple built quick. The idea that you control the machine even if it is slow and sludgy.

This also goes a lot for the leap from command prompts to GUI's. You trade off control for functionality and that is not necessarily a bad thing. I just wish it was easier to get back to a middle path on this. Many have tried but it all seems a little too fragmented.
> are there any bugs

They aren't usually off-the-shelf. They're custom, and can be as smart as the builder wants to make them. (working within constraints like size and power supply)
When someone is talking loudly right next to you, they are MAKING it my business.
> ringless controllers

I was never bothered by the Q2 controller rings. On the contrary: they saved my knuckles from punching straight into my ceiling (oh how I miss Echo VR!)
And another box close enough so the CD tray can press them when it opens.
In case anyone comes across this in the future, I've posted my PostgreSQL version here:

https://github.com/sivers/srs
As a serious Christian and a dabbling linguist, I really hate that they've ruined a word meaning "gospel" (the English calque).

We really should call them "dysangelical" when they bring death like this (as opposed to warning of death, which is in scope of euangel when there's also a way to avoid it).
I think where these products fall flat is the fact that people don't want a computer strapped to their faces.
Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915
Ah, unless your spy is clever....

> As a countermeasure against an NLJD, professional covert listening devices (bugs) of the Central Intelligence Agency were equipped from 1968 onwards with a so-called isolator. An isolator is a 3-port circulator of which the return port is terminated with a resistor. Any energy injected into the bug by an NLJD will be absorbed by the resistor, resulting in no (or very little) reflected energy. An example of such a bug is the CIA's SRT-107.

(or my favorite:)

> A means to hinder isolating a non linear junction is to add inexpensive diodes to places where the NLJD is expected to sweep. This masks the true listening device against a field of false alerts when the many diodes are detected. Such a technique was used in the 1980s construction of the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Thousands of diodes were mixed by the Soviets into the building's structural concrete, making detection and removal of the true listening devices by its American occupants nearly impossible.
> Skipping this work is what makes this a swift approach.

Hmm...
I used to think display resolution mattered more to the general public, but even today you have people plenty happy with FHD computer monitors they look at all day.

TVs also aren't usually great, and people look at them all day long for years without much complaints.

All to say, there's definitely a market for a VR headset with a "good enough" display with more focus on processing power and other capabilities.
Does anyone know how these models fare in terms of multilingual real-world usage? I’ve used previous iterations of llama models and they all seemed to be lacking in that regard.
My fridge is already smarter and faster than humans in many different metrics.

Has been this way since calculation machines were invented hundreds of years ago.
The original article mentions how this is an example of him doubling down. Stallman makes it very clear that he doesn’t consider 12yo+ “children”.
Not really.
They are cheaper in nominal dollar terms (capital, annual costs, etc) but you are typically paying multiples of that intrinsic value of the property (e.g. 2 weeks $100K up front, $5k year, but for a property that might be $1m not $2.4m and definitely doesn’t cost $120k a year to maintain) plus you get no appreciation upside, no tax benefits etc…
Every Starlink runs with Linux.

The license list is a bit long:

https://www.starlink.com/assets/pdfs/Starlink-Open-Source-Co...
For what it's worth, I have now updated some LLM prompts to partially prevent it. The sample has been regenerated. It's never going to be perfect, but it's a lot better than what most humans have to offer.
Did they do it with a remotely operated probe that can't be repaired or assisted?
That doesn't address the thing they're skeptical about, which is how much knowledge can be encoded in 3B parameters.

3B models are great for text manipulation, but I've found them to be pretty bad at having a broad understanding of pragmatics or any given subject. The larger models encode a lot more than just language in those 70B+ parameters.
Cocomelon are already focus group testing their addictive hypnotic kids videos. They don't need millions of kids to develop this crack for kids, just a dozen or so.
That can work in some environments, depending on expected support model.

A lot of organisations are doing product (vs project) development though, and personally I find it superior.

Teams that are responsible for running and operating the product they built are generally more incentivised to produce quality software. Nobody likes to be interrupted in the middle of a technical session or, even worse, in the middle of the night, because their application crashed - so they learn to build resilience in. They start optimising for operability, maintainability and extensibility - since they will be the ones operating, maintaining and extending.

The above is not the solution to all software delivery issues, and is not something that works everywhere, every time. Where it does, it produces better outcomes.
She was out of her depth there, I don't know how she lasted this long. During worst time she showed 0 leadership. But this is from my outside perspective.
The "notes on the game design" page tells how it works.
https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net/king-thirteen
It's quite funny you use the term 'low effort' to describe comments here, when you've clearly not done enough research to realise that your idea is not at all novel. Not to mention the youtube video is just a longwinded advertisement, and the article you've written is very poorly articulated.

There are multiple sentences in it that make me think this is all a big joke:

Like: "Languages must be homoiconic", but then you immediately show a language that is NOT homoiconic.

And also "Microprogramming works incredibly well with LLMs. It is easy to mix and match microprograms written by humans with microprograms written by LLMs.", but then show nothing to actually demonstrate that; no demo or even example code. Did you fine tune a model yet? You don't even mention a possible LLM model by name.

And finally: "If the microprogramming trend becomes as big, if not bigger, than microservices, I would not be surprised." I'm sorry but this is hilarious, especially because the vast majority of software out there is not written as a set of microservices, because it's simply the wrong model for most apps, like mobile apps for instance.
I started reading Mad in the mid-60s, before I was old enough to get the humor. My first firm memory of it was the Star Trek musical parody. Since I was practically raised on Rogers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Lowe, I knew all the melodies and it was just hilarious.
> I think where these products fall flat is the fact that people don't want a computer strapped to their faces.

A winning strategy for a V1 product imo is a minimalist augmented reality overlay for life applications that a person's phone will do most of the processing to generate.

Google Glass but proper augmented reality rather than a simple HUD.
100%. The post cap for that price level is unreasonable, and I don't understand what kind of basic CMS service warrants that pricing.
> Never met a test pilot or double-phd that become a plumber

Yeah, but if one of them had, he'd probably be too embarrassed to tell you!
Lightweight region memory management in a two-stage language
Study inspects unusual behavior of an X-ray binary
WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
Arxiv link is https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08451
> The answer lies in an important observation: vulnerabilities decay exponentially. They have a half-life. [...] A large-scale study of vulnerability lifetimes2 published in 2022 in Usenix Security confirmed this phenomenon. Researchers found that the vast majority of vulnerabilities reside in new or recently modified code.

It stands to reason, then, that it would be even better for security to stop adding new features when they aren't absolutely necessary. Windows LTSC is presumably the most secure version of Windows.
I want to plug the Little Big Planet series of games, it's what got me into programming when I was young and I think it still has a lot of charm
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