skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had door-to-door salespeople go "I see you have a no-soliciting sign but ...". They don't get to finish that sentence before the door closes.
It was an injection of stem cells directly on the nerve. They found an appropriate surgical method to put them into the right place. The author of this study contacted me about it shortly after but I can't share the case study yet. There is a group working on it, likely many things it might not pan out and one surgery is not enough to get it approved but its certainly a start. There may be other cheaper ways too with general drugs that are cheaper if they can promote the recreation of the nerves.
That was the part that stood out to me as well after watching The Verge's video: https://youtu.be/mpKKcqWnTus?t=98

The Vision Pro uses optical sensors for hand tracking, so if your hands aren't visible to the device it obviously can't track them. Electromyography solves that problem, and I could imagine Apple integrating some variant of this in a future Apple Watch, and just falling back to optical sensors if you don't own one.
I love the islands in northern Lake Michigan, especially the line that goes from Washington Island in WI to Rock Island north to St. Martin and then to Summer Island. It's always seemed so remote. I assume these are the "Huron Islands"? I've never seen them referred to as such and when I search for them I get links to islands in Lake Superior, which are also interesting but not the same.

I'm interested in the book now. Even if it turns out not to be the Griffon, it's an interesting story.
I didn’t need to, the question was about losing 80% of your capital instantaneously. A broken oven is most likely not worth anything.
A tracker is a type of sequencer. Not all sequencers are trackers.
Trackers use hexadecimal notation for effects, volume, stereo, etc...
They run vertical (see screen shot at OP link), whereas most traditional sequencers (pianoroll, step sequencer, etc) run horizontally.

You have a row consisting of Note, Amplitude, Volume, etc.
There are multiple columns, one for each instrument (in modern trackers it's often samples, or you can even use VSTi (VST Instruments, a standard virtual synthesizer format).

I've used various trackers since the 90s, and for some reason, as much as I like the idea of a piano roll sequencer on a PC, this seems to be the most efficient for entering notes to me. I love hardware step sequencers (especially for drums; the standard roland 16 step, for example is fun/great).

This particular one allows you to use emulated chipsets which I assume are controlled via the effects commands (00-FF values) to determine things like delay, echo, repeat, pwm (pulse-width modulation), etc...)

People do amazing things with them, and the demoscenes tend to use them alot.

SO yeah, they're sequencer in the sense they sequence notes, and effects, and can control software instruments, samples, or in this case, virtual chips. But the layout is very different and more "nerdy" than most sequencers. And definitely very good for looping/electronic music.

The one I've used for about a decade if not longer is Renoise: https://www.renoise.com/

It was the first one that I saw that let me use VSTi, and that's what really did it for my personal style. It has sample chopping and tons of other features that blew other trackers in the dust at the time it was released (Buzz was one that was similar in that you could build your own virtual synths via modular boxes connected to each other), but up til that point most trackers were IIRC sample based only. They all did things differently, but the core principle was the same between them. Fast Tracker, Impulse Tracker, Modplug Tracker are some of the ones I played with before Renoise came along.

Definitely want to check this Furnace one out. I've seen one other one that was IIRC, only a Nintendo chip based tracker.

There's also sunvox which is a weird little tracker that uses like... bitmap fonts for game characters to represent things, but I never quite understood that one. It's cool to look at though :)
Agreed! It may not be perfect, but it's better than arguing. And the maintainers are very responsive.
I understand your position. It's the architecture that a lot of players in the space (e.g. Qualcomm) are doubling down on --- and it seems intuitively obvious that we should tether smart glasses to ubiquitous phones.

The problem is that by doing so we make glasses secondary, auxiliary devices. You wouldn't leave your house without your phone, but if you forget your tethered glasses, well, no big deal.

The only way we move past phone as personal computing form factor is making alternatives standalone devices. If you could do everything you do on your phone, but on glasses, you might drop the phone habit. If you can't drop the phone habit, and there are only so many things you can take with you when you leave your house, AR glasses will always be an afterthought.
The dataset is 1.2 million entries, which looks big, but really is not that much.

If this is uncompressed IPv4 addresses, it's just 4.8 MB; and with some trival compression (like a 2-level trie), it could be about 2x smaller. Even if it's uncompressed IPv6, that's still just 32 megabytes.

Does Ruby support mmap? If yes, I'd suggest direct IP list. Lots of fun to write, big speedup over sqlite, and zero startup time.
The $10k figure is interesting because if they wanted to I'm sure they could sell these to tech elites and celebrities for that much (essentially, the Tesla approach). Presumably the software isn't there yet, but it seems like a missed opportunity to me - imagine getting all the A and B list celebs wearing them. Perhaps it's just not realistic until another iteration but it seems tantalisingly close.
Of course the claim of trademark infringement has some plausible iota of basis to it. But I question whether WP Engine is really pursuing legal claims against WordPress.org as Mullenweg says they are, which would be a surprise to me. (Well, except for new claims as a consequence of this action.)
Is it? A slightly smaller battery would make room.
As mentioned in the article, Pascal had these even before Ada, and a task type with an entry is effectively a generator. I think people often forget that C was incredibly primitive for its time compared to multiple other languages.
Democratize the invasion of privacy!

In all seriousness, your point about Beijing and London makes sense - the horse has bolted on public filming, so every citizen having an always-on camera is probably the best and most likely outcome.
Solopreneur by Iron Man Mode
Agreed. It looks OK on the surface, but if you need enums then TS enums is going to end up in frustration.
> I'm against it because I don't think it's a power the state should be able to wield.

100% agree. We ought not grant the state the power to take our lives.
> if you spend more than this you're probably being irresponsible and living outside your means

It’s funny, the way you’ve said it is a common framing, but I rarely see the opposite, equally valid framing: no responsible person should take a job whose wage is less than 3.3x their housing cost. If companies don’t pay enough, the responsible thing is for no one to take the job.
With 3.5M house just taxes, utilities and maintenance cost will ruin your remaining 7.5.
If portfolio is diversified enough it can be enough for decades? If dollar goes down some other things will go up. gold, Bitcoin etc.
So long as you don't mind glue in your pizza...
It's probably best that you pay for legal advice from one of the creators of PolyForm. It looks like Kyle has time for consultation clients.

https://availability.kemitchell.com/
41% of people on death row currently in the US are black [1].

[1] https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-row/overview/demographics
Permanent timeshares should absolutely be illegal. It's ridiculous to allow a permanent obligation to maintain a property that the "owner" isn't allowed to destroy.
Time will tell about openai's true import. Right now, the jury is very much out. Even in the llm space, it is not clear that openai will be the ultimate victor. Especially if they keep hemorrhaging talent.
WP Engine Must Win
"In this quest for vengeance I think people forget these rules are in place for the State to not abuse it's powers. I'm not against the death penalty because I'm a hippy vegan. I'm against it because I don't think it's a power the state should be able to wield."

I am not sure what the US tries to achieve with the death penalty. Deterrence? Seems not to work. And EU countries have much lower violent crime. Even if they have assault rifles at home (Switzerland). Revenge? An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Russia has secret war drones project in China, Intel sources say
Behavorial Programming in Clojure
XReals have no battery or standalone function and top out at 50 degrees or so field of view. So the fact Orion is doing all of those function at 70 degrees, self powered and wireless is stunning.
Note that it's normally legal to use trademarks descriptively as in "S3 compatible" though maybe it would have to be S3™ compatible or S3® compatible to be totally up to scratch. But even then, the reason Intel CPUs have marketing names at all was judges telling them that 386 wasn't a good enough trademark
I'm never gonna remember that
JavaScript debuggers usually support breakpoints with the "debugger;" Keyword.

You are not confined to "console.log()" methods...

Also, setting regression tests with explicit object type checking on well structured source trees will help narrow the search for design flaws (i.e. minify single file includes should be at the final packing and CDN file hash signature stage.)

Best of luck =3
I disagree. Physical activity enhances mental well-being and the quality of cognition. A system that allows one to design their workspace with regular movement in mind is going to be a boon for people who are usually chained to a desk for purely virtual work, forced to navigate cramped UI with their finger. Say I'm editing a video; you're telling me my media bin could be a literal bin a few steps away, allowing me to physically separate my "media selection" task from my "cutting and moving clips" task? Knowing that this kind of encapsulation helps to improve focus, and the movement would help with circulation and stress? Sign me up.
There's a sucker retiring every minute.
> His own competing managed WordPress service (confusingly named Wordpress.com) disables features as well

They are allowed to do this because Automattic owns the trademark along with WordPress Foundation
Have you compared perf with the reference implementation of the P2300 “Senders” proposal? https://github.com/NVIDIA/stdexec
The real reason people "fall" for these pressure scams is that law enforcement will not help protect the victim against the predator, but because the victim is upstanding citizen but the predator is not, the predator or law enforcement will harm the victim if the victim tries to actively defend themselves against the predator.
The press release says "unmistakably a pair of glasses". The fact that you're complaining about the aesthetics and not wether or not they're glasses is a testament to the generational leap they've made here. Apple's VR goggles are glasses with "rendered" external pass through. These actually fit the traditional definition of glasses.

And yeah like in the future, these will shrink in size. Probably by half in five years. Remember in 2018 when we were wondering if we'd ever have the compute available to do "inside out tracking"? Now it's expected as a minimum requirement. How far we've come.
Can you speak at all as to how the development on this software is done? Is it distributed with centralized version control? Does release and engineering process interact with the version control at all? Are there mechanisms that link defect reports, corrections, and sign offs back to version control and into the build system?

I got lost recently in how the Shuttle software was managed, mostly through IBM mainframes, and z/OSs facilities for all the above. I'm curious how modern development looks in comparison.
I'm really curious for people with your point of view, if you could put on glasses like that which actually looked normal and have a 4k monitor in front of you as good as your real monitor - would you not get it purely for that function?

For me this is such a no brainer that I always just wonder how people hold the point of view that they can't see a use for it no matter how good it gets.
yeah. Call me oldskool but I still think a small controller with laser pointer is optimal.

You can move the point at least as fast as your eyes and a button press will be faster and more accurate than pinch, and no occlusion. Plus more buttons gives you additional actions for the same onscreen target.
As a long-time Python and JavaScript user, I've come to the conclusion that dynamic typing is just not a good idea for anything beyond exploratory or very small projects.

The problem is that you invariably have to think about types. If you mistakenly pass a string to a function expecting an integer, you better hope that that is properly handled, otherwise you risk having type errors at runtime, or worse—no errors, and silent data corruption. That function also needs to be very explicit about this, but often the only way to do that is via documentation, which is often not good enough, or flat out wrong. All of this amounts to a lot of risk and operational burden.

Python's answer has historically been duck typing, which doesn't guarantee correctness so it's not a solution, and is more recently addressing it with gradual typing, which has its own issues and limitations. Primarily that if specifying types is optional, most programmers will not bother, or will just default to `any` to silence the type checker. While for JS we had to invent entirely new languages that compile to it, and we've reached the point where nobody sane would be caught working with plain JS in 2024.

Static typing, in turn, gives you a compile time safety net. It avoids a whole host of runtime issues, reduces the amount of exhaustive and mechanical tests you need to write, while also serving as explicit documentation. Code is easier to reason about and maintain, especially on large projects. You do lose some of the expressiveness and succinctness of dynamic typing, but what you gain with static typing is far more helpful than these minor benefits.
> argument is that the girlfriend and jailhouse snitch both were looking to get the $10k reward money for his conviction

The Governor's counterargument being the "girlfriend never requested the reward for information about Ms. Gayle’s murder, despite claims that she was only interested in money" [1].

The interesting thing is I could see myself, were I on the jury, and if the other facts of the case aligned, finding Williams guilty beyond reasonable doubt where the punishment is life without parole. But I can't reach the certainty I'd want for the death penalty. Yet that implies a tremendous amount of faith in my ability to finely distinguish probabilities of guilt, an ability I don't think I have.

This discussion is confusing because it's about two separate issues: a Rorschach test on your views on capital punishment and an orthogonal one about due process and William's guilt. (They're not orthogonal, but the interaction between those can probably be entirely described by the former.)

[1] https://governor.mo.gov/press-releases/archive/state-carry-o...
Thanks, I will change it.
If they stopped forward investment today, Reality Labs would be profitable just selling Quest hardware and software and Meta Ray Bans. The reason it loses money hand over fist is because they are not nearly done yet with where they want the tech to be.
The Watch already supports a pinch gesture so I'm surprised they're not already using it for VP, at least as a backup for occlusion.
Vic case worker used ChatGPT to draft child protection report
I thought I'd lose if the king was trapped—like some sort of stalemate—so I played through the game with that in mind. It might make for a fun variant.

I should add I didn't expect to find the rules in the Post-mortem, so I gave up on that after skimming through the page and jumped right into the game.
Thanks, I will change it, it's really annoying.
And now Bob McGrew, Chief of Research
> not sure what the US tries to achieve with the death penalty. Deterrence?

Retribution, incapacitation and deterrence [1]. (In my opinion, in that order.)

[1] https://www.bsslawllc.com/blog/2021/12/the-four-pillars-of-s...
Good point. I’ll have to look into that.
I don't, and I absolutely did not mean to imply that anyone should implement HMAC themselves. I was addressing people who want to potentially use HMAC (after proper consultation with cryptographers), for which a general understanding of HMAC is prerequisite. Hence why my original comment only described implementation on a surface level, but elaborated over potential uses for HMAC.

Only cryptographers should implement crypto primitives. Even if I'd get the algorithm itself right, I might not know how to make it so that it runs in constant time (which is something that crosses into the CPU's ability to do so), and thus may inadvertently leak secrets through side channels.

But even if I just use HMAC, I still consult with cryptographers to make sure my use is correct, that there is no better solution, and that I am not missing any attack vectors.

Even in simple cases it can be a grave mistake to use seemingly simple crypto primitives without proper consultation, see for example some of the very prominent problems that were the result of improper IV usage with AES.
My take.

The best reason for IT to want to keep a lid on things is to protect personally identifiable information. My employer was an early adopter of "data breaches" because a developer had a copy of our database of staff, faculty and students on their laptop which got stolen. Since a data breach can affect your company, its customers, employees, vendors and the rest of society, you should be sensitive to these concerns.

I don't know about your case, perhaps it is not a concern, but I think the modern IT organization should be thinking systematically about PII and data breaches and one of the best ways to prevent data from being misused is to keep it under wraps.

That said, I see two angles.

(1) Politics. Other people have talked about it, but it is a deep art. I can't give you answers that work for every organization other than you really have to know your organization and all the people in it.

Central IT at my employer used to be terribly disorganized and if you were in some other unit and needed them to do things your odds were about 50-50 of getting good results going through "the process" so I had to develop a new process of "vendor management" which mostly involved getting the names of many people in Central IT who I would call and say "so-and-so (somebody who used to work there who was super respected) said that I should ask you if you can help me" and then if they can't "do you have any idea of who can help me?" and then repeat.

20 years later (which I didn't all spend at this place) they did a total reorg and now if you put a ticket in the ticket system they will really get to it. If you want to get faster results and try my old tactic they would probably call your boss and your boss would tell you to knock it off.

I can't tell you what the official process for your organization is and what the process that really works is, you have to figure that out for yourself!

(2) Technology. I'll note that if you have a web application you don't really need an API. Actually when a web site adds an API they are often doing it to take something away or take something from you. For instance I have a webcrawler for image-based web sites that I made for Flickr that I found worked on Wikimedia Commons without any changes and that I can often make work for a new site by changing a few CSS rules. All these sites have different APIs and it might be more work to write API clients for them. Between web crawling of HTML-based sites and the fact that modern SPA sites often have an internal JSON API you can often script a web application pretty easily. The same can be true for desktop applications which can be scripted through accessibility APIs and such.

Of course you have to consider your responsibility and the politics if you do that.
niche influencers become the source of advertising for brands
To add to my above- I have spent a lot of time researching AR glasses tech that would allow for this that could potentially be available even as old dev kits to buy, and the tech is out there in a much smaller form factor than what Meta is needing here to get them the full color, high res, 3d display.

To just get floating text, all you need is a micro laser projector in the arm of the glasses pointed at a section of the lens that reflects and focuses the projection onto your retina, at a virtual focus so that it appears in front of you.

Google bought a company that was making a dev kit of these a few years ago (I believe it was called North and the glasses were called Focals). But, as we know, google does this all the time and then kills shit. So I was happy at first because google said they were going to use this to do exactly what I describe above as their first killer app for the glasses. But then... nothing.

Vuzix is another player in the game but with micro-led displays via waveguide instead, and they seem to actually be selling product, but at something like $800 it's just too much to try out just to do my own dev work for.
It means when she was opting for the reinstating of Altman, she didn't have all the information needed to make a decsion

Now that she's seen exactly what prompted the previous board to fire Altman, she fires herself because she understands their decision now.
Ugh. Don't put opening braces on new lines.

As for formatting, indent the first field, too

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> that doesn't require re-running the same conversation sixteen bajillion times in a row

Lets assume the dog visual systems run at 60 frames per second. If it takes 1 second to flip a bowl of food over then that's 60 datapoints of cause-effect data that the dog's brain learned from.

Assuming it's the same for humans, lets say I go on a trip to the grocery store for 1 hour. That's 216,000 data points from one trip. Not to mention auditory data, touch, smell, and even taste.

> ability to reason [...] Transformer models do not

Can you tell me what reasoning is? Why can't transformers reason? Note I said transformers not llm's. You could make a reasonable (hah) case that current LLMs cannot reason (or at least very well) but why are transformers as an architecture doomed?

What about chain of thought? Some have made the claim that chain of thought adds recurrence to transformer models. That's a pretty big shift, but you've already decided transformers are a dead end so no chance of that making a difference right?
That's not true you can just close the login modal and watch the presentations without logging in
I've had the same concerns about mobile phones, tablets, and computer screens. In fact, mobile phones and tablets seem to have an even greater addiction factor, and their smaller screens could be more harmful due to prolonged close-up use [1].

[1] "Ocular and visual discomfort associated with smartphones,
tablets and computers: what we do and do not know" (2019) https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14343924602923438...
It's sad that anyone thinks the advertising model will go away. Amazon has proved that people will pay subscription fees AND get served ads.

I wouldn't mind quite so much if the advertising was at least interesting and creative. Most of it is just the same regurgitated crapola.