skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chris is an absolute angel. I'd tell you to check his blog, but if you're interested in video game marketing you already know it anyway.
You could apply the same logic to the stuff inside your house, which is just a glorified storage unit. Why are you paying premium to store that stuff, when you could downgrade to a studio apartment or a tent?

The bottom line is, if you want to own stuff, then you must store it. You know what is more expensive than storage? Buying stuff you need or want and reselling it, again and again. Or leasing it in general. Some stuff has poor resale value, takes a lot of energy to choose and accumulate, and is not easy to replace.
The article also does say that Grizzlies come and go, that the significance here is it’s a female with cubs. So it’s not like grizzlies aren’t present at all on the island.

Of course there could be a boom but apex predators tend to not be super boomy since they’d outstrip their own resources first.
I’m mildly curious why they’re de-orbiting the iss. I get not wanting to maintain it, but I’d think there’d be some historical value if it could be boosted into a stable orbit. That’d probably cost a shit-ton though so I guess that’s my answer.
People aren’t dumber, or smarter. They just focus on what’s the next important thing to tackle.

For example, I doubt any website programmer knows the circuitry, assembly code, OS level calls, networking, etc, that make any webpage element do anything. Let alone can sit there and calculate any of the mathematical requirements needed to do any of that.
But they know how to use an IDE and a framework like React.

All this is a long way of saying:

…on the shoulders of giants.
AI is just the new tool needed for the next step up.
I'm not too well-informed about the operational mechanics of the Holodomor, so if you have any articles/chapters to recommend in regard to the long-term planning process that led up to it, that would be appreciated.
> almost no one on their death bed wishes they had spent more time working / on their computer

And old age isn’t needed to figure this out. Even middle age will do. When I reflect on my life, I almost never think about past work.

(Yet, I remain mostly working.)
No. It's the boiling frog situation. The world will get shittier and shittier and everyone will complain but no one will stop it.
yeah, I plan to add a bunch of features once the app is available in Google Playstore. Some of the ideas:
- filtering / searching
- assigning TODOs to projects (tags) so you can group them
- e2e encrypted data backup for some small monthly subscription (so you don't lose data)

later on, if there's enough demand, I plan to create iOS and web versions
I am pretty young, so take this with a grain of salt, but the motivation seems simple to me: If it is burnout, then a short break might put things into perspective, and help him decide whether to retire, switch jobs, do something on his own etc.
If you didn't expect this then I don't know what to say at this point. Meta must have hired a new PR agency because the amount of leeway and charitable interpretations I've seen given to this company recently is absurd given their track record.
So far, we can't even get Samsung to have their FOSS kernel stuff published in a buildable and usable form - its basically impossible to build their recent kernels with their recent toolchains without finding out that some obscure config option was skipped or that some file didn't survived the pre-release purge or that it requires some obscure Linux distribution to run on. And if you get it to build, chances that it will boot are slim. (Good luck finding out if there's a working UART somewhere on chip pins and it's not hidden behind hypervisor and fuses)
That's true for every skill that comes fluently. We've only got limited time, which skills really matter?

I'd say yes to basic arithmetic; but I can't really use my own experience as a software developer who started off in video games to justify why a normal person needs to understand trigonometry and triangle formulas, any more than I can justify why they need to study Shakespeare and Alfred Tennyson over e.g. Terry Pratchett and Leonard Cohen — "I find it intellectually stimulating" is perhaps necessary, but certainly not sufficient, given there's more to learn than we can fit in a lifetime.
> TechCrunch doesn't come out and say it, but if the answer is not a clear and definitive "no," it's likely that Meta does indeed plan to use images captured by the Meta Glasses to train Meta AI. If that wasn't the case, it doesn't seem like there would be a reason for Meta to be ambiguous about answering, especially with all of the public commentary on the methods and data that companies use for training.

I have a slightly different interpretation of this: I think Meta want to keep their options open.

I think that’s true of many of these “will they train on your data?” stories.

People tend to over-estimate the value of their data for training. AI labs are constantly looking for new sources of high quality data - but quality really matters to them. Random junk people feed into the models is right at the bottom of that quality list.

But what happens if Meta say “we will never train on this data”… and then next week a researcher comes up with some new training technique that makes that data 10x more valuable than when they made that decision not to use it?

Safer for them to not make concrete promises that they can’t back out of later if it turns out the data was more valuable than they initially expected.
It’s funny, I’ve always just been kinda waiting for death. Probably need meds but never felt like changing “who I am”. I’m curious to see what happens to me when that cancer day comes for someone so apathetic to the whole life experience.
>These people who think there is one true diet are dangerous

In my observation (after examining anecdotes, and accounting for flawed anecdotes) everyone without exception does well on an animal based diet. It's when it comes to plants there are enormous variations.
>> i've met more than one person muttering about Jung's red book and Kripke's theories of truth, PKD's exegesis, evola, and junger, before disappearing into rehab or homelessness. some ideas are just not healthy recreation, and what they all have in common is a meme complex that causes people to dissociate with all the zeal of a religious conversion but imbued with existential horror. in short, avoid.

> Can you name three?

the parent comment by motohagiography gives 3 examples, quoted above.

i'm not well-informed enough to agree or disagree with motohagiography, but i am interested in your analysis, if that's why you want examples.
It's even uglier in jurisdictions where sales tax is not included in the $X.99 price tag. The total amount you need to pay becomes something like $X+1.07 and you end up with a lot of of unexpected change.

Edit: In the example, I meant X+1 dollars and 7 cents. Apologies for the ambiguous formula, it felt awkward to use parentheses inside of an amount.
"snicker-slithing susurrential warrens" is just insanely beautiful.
The absolute best for me: The Malazan book of the fallen.

Book 1 is really hard to get into and doesn't reward as much. But if you stick with it, as early as the end of Book 2, you'll know what you're in for.
thanks for the feedback - I agree, I should explain better how the app works. Right now it shows up on the next days with an "overdue" label
Proof positive that paying for a product doesn't pre-empt the vendor from collecting your data anyway to monetize something else.

The real question is, who's paying $500 for the privilege of being a willing mule for Zuck's surveillance empire building dreams?
> Yocto AFAICT does not have a package discovery via TUI

Depends what you mean by package discovery, but `oe-pkgdata-util find-path` may be helpful in determining what package would produce a certain binary.

Other than searching on open embedded like you mention, I am not aware of a way to do this if you have not already added the layer containing the recipe.
I think it would go the other way where you use coverage to guide reinforcement. Crank the temperature up to increase variation and you would probably produce a model that could approximate the file format you were targeting.
> If you don't have space in your apartment or home for items you want to keep, then where else are you supposed to store things?

On ebay? Sell the stuff now, buy it again if you need it. Doesn't work for everything, of course, and I don't practice it, I've got tons of space and tons of clutter.
Evaluation of OpenAI O1: Opportunities and Challenges of AGI
Ray bans won’t be random junk. It will be incredible end task data seeing how humans perform tasks in arbitrary homes.
Don't take my word for it, but this crow is delicious.
The indifference of this by everyone involved is infuriating. This criminal activity is treated as natural as rain, just something us 98% of people have to endure.

It's important to remember that accepting crime, especially low level crime like this is a policy choice. It's the same people doing the same crimes over and over. They have run ins with the law and they just get let go to continue terrorizing the rest of us.

For instance, the number of state prisoners that have had 15 or more prior arrests is over 26%. You can cut crime. You can just prosecute these people and take them out of society for their most destructive years (18-40) and we can end this madness.

Even a 15 strikes and you're out policy would make a huge impact on the quality of life for the rest of us

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/acceptance-of-crime-is-a...
Waydroid was really slow last time I tried it, and most apps I tried did not work well or at all.
Please provide a simpler explanation than “species begins eating calorically dense food, increasing brain size, and becoming smarter”. Your supposedly simpler explanation must involve an unknown outside intelligence of some kind. I’ll wait.
TFA has some entertaining descriptions of the userbase of low-IQ
knuckle-draggers who need help choosing their clothes and can't
remember where they parked their car. I'd prefer a more honest take
on how most "glassholes" use this tech to find the names and addresses
of "hot" passers-by they've recorded for their wank-bank. Wait till
all this gets leaked from Meta (which is inevitable) and we see where
the average users attention really dwells.
I have a feeling that random junk will get valuable again when AI can augment it at scale. Which I’m sure already happens, I’m just assuming it’ll get more extreme.
"I personally haven't been affected despite using the capabilities of the system extensively, so its not a dealbreaker" isn't?
The ring of Uranus. One of the wonders of the solar system.
There is some difference in included data packages between home and EU-roaming, but, yeah, it feels like it's about 10 years late. FWIF, 10 years ago I saw much more of free public WiFi. One part why it changed surely is security reasons, the other is just that people don't really need it that much, I think. I definitely don't rely on it that much (I do sometimes, because far cellular networks are not always available).

IDK, maybe I would feel different if I used laptop on the go more, but I doubt it. Having a mobile phone seems to cover it now.
That actually sounds more promising than the way most altcoins are operated today. If only Sam Altman doesn't elope with all those GPT13 coins...
They are also far more durable than bills, specially lower-denomination bills like the $1 note that wears out quickly because it is used more than higher-denomination bills.
Very interesting!

Somewhat related, years ago I worked in an office that switched to hot-desking, and I spent a while trying to figure out whether was there was a way to automatically generate a map of who was in the office, and whereabouts. Identifying an individual laptop is okay, but figuring out which docking station the laptop was plugged into was a lot trickier without admin access to network hardware (which I def didn't have). This approach may have allowed an individual laptop to figure out where it was, and then update a central location database.
One yearns for simpler times when the buck could be made from the sale of $350-$500 glasses alone.
happy he is enjoying retirement. I hope to join his ranks shortly

but for most of the people you work with in tech, retirement will just be a fantasy

it is common for my coworkers to be forever-renters now, even those in their late forties and fifties...I don't see how you can stop working if you have to pay increasing rents over time

its crazy how having kids, owning a home, and retiring all became privilege flexes
Last decade's definition of "power user" is "being able to type on physical keyboard and have more than 1 window open at a time", and Android caters to that; it would not even remotely be decent, though it'll likely eat just a bit more battery and cpu than a pure XFCE running without compositing.
That sucks but yeah that is not my experience in the US. Not sure what 3ds is, some kind of identity or MFA service?

All of my banks have functional websites.
Comments like this are the clearest sign that this topic has become so politicized that rational judgement is out the window. If fluoride in the water is opposed by *those people*, or is supported by *those people*, then even if new clear evidence comes out one way or another, it will be undermined by not wanting to hand the other side a ‘W’.
The glasses actually have two modes where you can take pictures. First, you can take pictures with the capture button or just asking for a picture. Second, you can ask Meta AI to look and tell you something about what it sees. You can say “Hey Meta, look at this and tell me what it is” and then it goes off to the AI cloud to get an answer.

I would assume that since you can enable AI and “improve the AI” that that’s data that’s fair game for training.

But when you take photos using the capture button or saying “Hey Meta, take a photo” the photos don’t even use cloud storage by default. You have to specifically turn on Meta’s temporary cloud storage feature to sync data while charging with your iPhone to work around iOS rules. If you don’t, those photos are just local only.

There are instances where questions can be answered by just using the product and reading the legal documents. I think this is clearly just lackluster research from TechCrunch carried to MacRumors.
Videos streams from everyday life sound like extremely high quality data for training AI. Videos available on the internet are a very biased sample compared to that.
> It uses the kernel's `make menuconfig` system which seems like it occupies a bad place between "easy usable GUI" and "robust config file you can check in to git".

Are you aware you can generate a sparse config file with `make savedefconfig`? Maybe you're aware of that and it doesn't meet your definition of robust, which is reasonable.

I think Buildroot is much better engineered than Yocto, in the sense of simplicity. Buildroot is fundamentally just a bunch of make and kconfig. Yocto has some powerful features but I find it to be considerably more difficult to penetrate "what is actually happening here". I haven't had as negative an experience with Buildroot error messages, but if you think those are bad, Yocto errors are like g++ template errors circa 2010.
They reenabled display port output on the Pixel line?
Macrumors is such a trash site. This article is Macrumors adding approximately nothing to this TechCrunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/meta-wont-say-whether-it-t...

Note that the tiny bit Macrumors added is converting TechCrunch’s accurate “Meta declined to say” into a claim of probability.

TechCrunch has updated the story [1] with concrete answers: Meta trains when the user asks for recognition of an image, but not passively in the background.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/meta-confirms-it-may-train...
The only people with that premise are those that want a higher defined benefit pension via Social Security, perhaps because they don’t have sufficient wealth otherwise. That age is going up to 67 in 2025.

Nobody with sufficient passive income to satisfy their desired quality of life works longer than they have to.
> redefined the level a normal human should function at

To a level much higher.

We stopped doing many repetitive, tedious things, but in return moved to things that are way more abstract and complex.

And that's happening everywhere. Even farmers are getting ever closer to being full on system architects.

Oh, you didn't learn to do quickly calculate square roots in your head? Instead you spent that time on learning about relativity in high school physics class.

By calling the people of the past smarter, you are really underselling the amount and depth of abstract though happening everywhere today.
I'll give you my perspective having gone through something similar. I was in a pretty similar pit, hit rock bottom, and only then did every high achiever in my life open up to me that taking a sabbatical was the best thing they had done for themselves.

Your original comment especially about not enjoying things, not knowing what your hobbies are, etc, are indicating that you've just lost yourself a little bit. I was in very much the same place. It takes some time away from what occupies most of your thoughts/attention (work) to re-learn who you were and who you are now.

For me, I took 3 months away from work. For the first 2-3 weeks I basically did "nothing." And it was only after that initial period did I start to remember things I enjoyed to do and felt motivation to go do them. After that, the remainder of my sabbatical was spent finding every minute I could spend with friends and family that I could.

I came out of that sabbatical with a, still fuzzy but a bit clearer, understanding of what I wanted but I was still the same ambitious person I was before. Chances are, you would still be too. If you're going to do it, think of it less like a 3 month break and instead as giving yourself 3 months of room to think and experience and re-introduce yourself to yourself.

As an aside - if you're feeling and thinking these things, your partner likely notices too. I have no idea what your relationship is like but can guarantee that all this definitely has an affect on y'all and you won't see what it truly is without said room to think and contemplate.
There are always better books than the ones I read, and there will never be the best. I’ve tried selecting a few that I can remember at all times, the most interesting book to me, and I’ve listed them on my website at https://brajeshwar.com/#books

If I had to return and re-read, I’d re-read “Leonardo da Vinci.”
Yeah, the main draw seemed that you don't need a special receiver and that standard networking gear would work, but.....LoRa hardware is not very expensive or complicated.
Very happy to see that these issues are getting attention now. I think that the Python language being so centered on one implementation is a long-term threat to its success. Web servers, command-line programs, and embedded devices have different requirements: high post-warmup throughput, fast startup, low memory usage. They aren't necessarily best served by the same implementation. If this project succeeds in replacing Python's C API with something that doesn't expose implementation details, such as whether the implementation uses reference counting, that could make it easier both to maintain alternative implementations, and to experiment with new techniques in CPython.
Althea Networks provide openwrt firmware which allows to buy/sell data by usage(micro transaction) on the fly, some cryptocurrency is/was involved which make some sense if you think about it(This and Filecoin might be the only projects which it makes sense IMHO). Wider adoption could incentivize the pricing to be as close to commodity.

https://www.althea.net/
It would be symmetric, but not every provocation needs to be answered symmetrically.

It would also be a bad idea. It would add very little in terms of strategic capability, and its effect would be largely symbolic. If anything it would simply stoke the aggressor's internal and external propaganda, and pull more willing conscripts over to the front. It would also cost a lot of money, which would be better spent on drones and shells.

Sometimes the coolest, fiercest response to a provocation is simply not to answer.

Though if there were to be a response, a much better one would be: "Just for that, here's another $200B for Ukraine."
I think it was https://aclanthology.org/2022.tacl-1.49/
But am now thinking I may have made a mistake, with this showing they can be simulated in TC^0 when I thought the result was both that and that they can simulate TC^0 .
Same here. I believe in most U.S. states, knowlingly possessing stolen property is a crime. If you didn't know, you just have to forfiet it to the lawful owner.
What if it is a 5 gigawatt data center in the middle of nowhere or if the power source is a nuclear reactor or three? Presumably, data centers are paying a premium that other customers aren't willing to pay.
In the US, sure, but most of the world display prices inclusive of tax. (at least from my experience in EU and Asia)
Hey!

First of all, cool to see some activity on this front!

I’ve written a fair share of pure CPython bindings and regularly post about implementing them with minimal overhead (<https://ashvardanian.com/posts/discount-on-keyword-arguments...>) and would love to share a few recommendations, questions, and concerns :)

Just a suggestion to help you grow—I'd restructure the landing page (<https://hpyproject.org/>) and the README of the repo (<https://github.com/hpyproject/hpy>). It could benefit from some examples to clarify the "Nicer API" bullet point. Maybe these could be taken from the API documentation page (<https://docs.hpyproject.org/en/latest/api.html>). The page could also be more convincing with some supporting stats in favor of PyPy, GraalPython, and other Python runtimes. A reader like me might not be sure if they have enough usage and are stable enough.

Avoiding singletons and having encapsulated context objects like `HPyContext` is definitely a great thing to have, especially in the multi-threaded Python future or in complex environments with multiple sub-interpreters. But this doesn't really solve the problem if, under the hood, the `HPyContext` still redirects to CPython's singleton.

I've also looked at the linked benchmarks (<https://pypy.org/posts/2019/12/hpy-kick-off-sprint-report-18...>). They are dated from 2019, five years ago, and already mention CPython's `METH_FASTCALL` fast calling convention, but it seems like they are not compared to it. In either case, parsing arguments from one "ll" string specifier is hardly a detailed benchmark if the underlying magic isn't explained. I occasionally do one-off benchmarks as well, but it's better to describe the principle—why the thing is supposed to be faster. For example, if you're concerned about performance, you'd just parse the arguments directly from the tuple without string formatters—like this:

<https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD/blob/80cc4bcaddbdee9a0c0e991e13376c234aff3b3f/python/lib.c#L929-L1066>

It’s more error-prone, but it would be cool to see if a high-level solution can achieve under a 10% latency penalty.

Hope this is useful :)
Yes, I recall the audio engine problems and the war between Alsa, Pulseaudio and Jack (and OSS before them). Luckily Pipewire solved all or nearly all those problems: it emulates other engines APIs so that programs requiring this or that engine will transparently access it instead of the real required engine. If you're running a recent distro, chances are that you already have Pipewire installed, otherwise you can install it after getting rid of the old engines.

https://docs.pipewire.org/page_overview.html
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Is this legal? It might be, but I've never seen other sites do it so it seems dubious.