skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Instant” (i.e. infinite speed of light) also permits causality. That’s the historical Galilean model.

That is in fact the only other way to make a causal universe that satisfies a few common sense assumptions (“the laws of physics are the same in every location”, “the laws of physics are the same in every direction”, “the laws of physics are the same over time”).

“One more derivation of the Lorentz transformation” by Lévy-Leblond is a very accessible derivation of this if you’re interested in reading more. It was suggested that perhaps relativity should be taught this way in high school, instead of the historical approach of “c appears to be constant in experiments, so how do we work around that with math”.
You now have to not only find someone responsible for the algorithm but also competent and with permission to do it. Isn't it clear that this is very hard?
My wife is very much into gardening, but also habitat. She'll look up endangered butterflies, find out what plants they rely on for laying eggs, food sources as larvae etc. She'll plant them in a corner of the garden and like magic, we'll see those butterflies within a year or two. In some cases there will be an insect that relies entirely on a tiny number of plants, but those plants may also rely entirely on it, or on something else. My point being that except for cultivated and commercially available plants, ecosystems are critical. Much of our garden's flowers are wild. Commercial flowers usually provide pollen, but not habitat, which is why she focuses on wild native flowers. I'll ask her to try the app, but I'm gonna predict that it won't be much use for these.

Usually when she's looking up how to care for a particular plant she uses Kagi to exclude websites with a large userbase in the United States. She prefers websites that are UK/Ireland based, or to a lesser degree, Northern European (using Google translate). Why? Because of subtle differences in plant naming, species etc and wildly different climate. She finds advise from U.S. based sites to be extremely questionable here, and you might waste a whole year trying to grow something before you realise that the advice doesn't work here.

But hey, every British band in the 60s and 70s wanted to break into America because they're are hundreds of millions of English speaking people living in a single TV nation. It makes sense for you to focus your efforts there. And whatever AI is behind your app is likely to have been trained on commercial plants in the US.
> nor the executives who built that system

This is exactly why being an executive of a large organization is so incredibly difficult to pull off well. Sure, you can let your assistant fill your calendar with a bunch of meetings you don't want to be in to spend 95% of the meeting listening, 4% being the arbiter who tells people what they already knew they needed to do but refused to do it until asked by someone in authority, and 1% saying you'll take it further up the ladder. You will also fail hard because you will be constantly blindsided by people either fucking up (at best) or gaming (at worst) the processes for which you are responsible. Small example litmus test: in organizations that use Jira, whether the executives are comfortable with JQL and building their own dashboards to tell them what they need to know, or whether they expect their direct reports to present their work. If it's the latter, how can an executive be surprised that their reports are always coming in with sunny faces and graphs going up and to the right?

That too many companies are not willing to hold executives accountable for processes that they are, in theory, supposed to be accountable for is an entirely different problem. The law proscribes, the officer arrests, and the judge presides, but all rests upon the jury to convict. If a company's "jury" is not willing to "convict", because the crime is one of negligence and not treason, then the company has larger problems and I'd like to short their stock, please.
The other side of this particular coin is, when such bandwidth is widely available, suddenly a lot of apps that have worked just fine are now eating it up. I'm not looking forward to 9 gigabyte Webpack 2036 bundles everywhere :V
An Antidote for Wandering Minds (2014) [pdf]
I think at Apple scale, there come other dynamics into play too; like having to maintain a certain reputation to drive sales in other areas, or foster goodwill with technology enthusiasts by catering to a niche not too typical for Apple. The Vision Pro feels like basic research; something that probably won’t be useful on its own, but is part of a larger manoeuvre and will yield benefits later on. If you read up on all the experts and knowledge involved in the product development, there’s a high chance something new entirely might come out of this.
What Happens When a California Oil Refinery Shuts Down?
Two thirds of the title is true.

That's pretty good.
And most of those protocols can be disabled under sysctl.conf.
IANAL, but the only expressly illegal thing that they seem to have done is maintain the "acf" tag, and used the "advanced-custom-fields" URL, which could be trademark violations.

I'm sure there are other laws that are relevant here related to deception and misuse of the subscription to the plugin updates by the 2 million users involved.

Legal issues aside, this is an extreme erosion in trust for any user of the WordPress.org platform. They can no longer have confidence that their commerical (or non-commerical) plugin won't be chopped up and have its users stolen at any moment.
The laptop I got last year also "replaced" one that was 11 years old, from the awful interval where they had internal batteries and limited ports but custom chargers and almost useless batteries.

Replaced in quotes because for the covid years I used a desktop and didn't have to be able to function outside often enough to bother with a laptop.

Considering that 5 years ago is 2019, I figure that efficiency gains are probably also not as dramatic as I'm imagining.
I'm not sure where rustls comes from -- Chrome uses BoringSSL, and last time I checked, Mozilla implementation used NSS.
The pirates remain triumphant and unshakeable. Why? Because you can go to any number of torrent sites you want right now and download anything you want, and as long as it's not too obscure it will probably not take more than 10 or 2 minutes.

Trying to shut down piracy is playing whack-a-mole with one hammer, 10,000 moles and 100,000,000 holes.

> The legal actions against free streaming sites

The only people using those are people too scared or lacking in knowledge of how to download.
Scratches in 2001: A Space Osyssey (2018)
> What if someone can't get to the point where they are able to write useful code?

Then I still won't believe it's a Lisp syntax problem, unless they have a background of success with other languages.

Some people don't have a knack for programming. Among them, some try this and that, and falter in various ways.

> And the people who like this family of languages are annoyed and offended that other languages that do not require this are hundreds of times more popular and are used by millions of people.

Those other languages are harder because of their syntax.

Languages that remove syntax are an affront to the self-image that people have built up over their mastery of convoluted syntax.

For most ordinary people, learning programming is equated with learning syntax. When they are memorizing things like that >> has a higher precedence than +, they feel they are getting smarter.

The idea that this stuff is not necessary, and that you actually don't know jack if you don't know semantics, is a huge threat.

Once a beginner is off into a syntax-heavy language, chances are high we have lost them forever, due to simple ego effects.
nah I'm on wsl
Sorry, but I have about 60€ in total for subscriptions per month.

I am not going over that budget (despite not being poor, it's more of a principle) and 7$/month is too much.

I totally understand that subscriptions are nice for the seller side. But for me as a consumer, they are not in the majority of cases.
I wake my children up by turning off the fans/white noise machines they may use and then gently rubbing their backs while whispering things like, "time to wake up buddy."

This is in direct response to my parents' preferred method of waking us up during my childhood of a cold cup of water thrown onto your sleeping body if you were not awake in time.
That suddenly reminded me of a Redditor talking about how some acquaintance of theirs works for a US military technology company, but is only involved in non-weapons research that has civilian applications.

When pressed, the Redditor said that the their friend was working on the mathematical theory for computers to control planes that have no power, such as under emergency landing conditions. I.e.: If the engine dies, the auto pilot can help steer the plane onto a runway.

"No, your friend is working on precision glide bombs. The emergency landing thing is just marketing to make it palatable. She might not even know, but that's definitely what she'd doing."

That stuck with me: someone could be working on bomb technology and not even know it.

Talk about an accountability sink!
I just switched ISPs, and the new one has one of the most obnoxious phone processes I've ever interacted with.

I go through the usual hoops: press 1 for English, "we detected an account linked to the number you're calling from, is that that you're calling about?" ... Press 1 for support, press 1 for Internet, "no outages detected in your area. Most problems can be solved by rebooting your modem. Press 1 if you want to try rebooting." (Pause)... "thank you for your call click"

First off, rebooting doesn't solve my problem. But I guess I have to try anyway?

So I call back, this time I do pick to reboot, and get "your modem will reboot in the next few minutes, and could take up to 10 minutes to come online. If things still aren't working, try our online support chat"

So, basically there doesn't seem to be any phone technical support (with a human), at all.

Also, rebooting is offensive to me as a programmer. Kernel updates and memory leaks are the only reason you need to reboot. How absolutely shitty is modem firmware that the ISP actually spent the time to build this reboot system out??(Never mind that I personally don't feel like I've ever had a modem/isp actually problem solved by rebooting)

Made me wonder if I should have switched.
block_on and spawn_blocking are tokio's async abstractions, there is no "blocking code's abstraction" that can leak.

What the article intentionally omits is that I can defer io by getting a handler and polling it in a select loop. And right after that, I can also poll my mpsc queue if I want to. This is how "blocking code" has worked for the last few decades.
Yes.

Gven the average mass of a human body at 66kg: (((1/sqrt(1-((0.99c)^2/c^2)))--1) 66kg * c^2) = 50,000PJ

which is the amount of electrical energy the entire US produces in 0.287h???
Good old sparc. I wonder how many other engineers brought down production by closing their laptop lid in the datacenter while connected to the console port (which drops the server to ok) on the db server.

Unplug first!
A blameless postmortem culture says that when a human error is identified in the causal chain leading to an incident, there will be no consequences for the individual. In a sense it embraces blame but eschews accountability.
I don't think the impact has ever truly been huge, although it is almost always overstated.
Sure, when humans use multiple skill to address a specific problem, you can sometimes outperform them by scaling a spefic one of those skills.

When it comes to general intelligence, I think we are trying to run before we can walk. We can't even make a computer with a basic, animal level understanding of the world. Yet we are trying to take a tool that was developed on top of system that already had an understanding of the world and use it to work backwards to give computers an understanding of the world.

I'm pretty skeptical that we're going to succeed at this. I think you have to be able to teach a computer to climb a tree or hunt (subhuman AGI) before you can create superhuman AGI.
> spares you the trouble of navigating much of the zoo that is git cli design

Yeah. I understand the inner workings of git and am perfectly capable of using git on the command line but the git cli is just so horribly designed. I regularly have to google how to perform rather basic actions because the cli just isn't structured in any sensible way.
Right, but what is also important to remember is while size is important what is also key here is the complexity of a neural circuits. Human brain has a lot more connections and is much more complex.
This is how we get a Dr. Strangelove situation. If both people take that advice then they both crash into each other, even if they realize at the last minute it was a terrible idea.
It has a lifetime option for 30 dollars.
I don't think he's actually as dumb as that, he is just playing the same counter-intelligence game as other people on the right, because telling the truth isn't as advantageous for them.

People buying into that stuff are morons, but useful to the republican party all the same.
There's more: you have to hold your phone/tablet or you have to sit/stand at a desk which can hold the screen, keyboard etc for you. The broader problem here is the somewhat caveman style interaction we have to do with computers/devices, ie. go right up and touch them and be near them. This is quite often bad for our health (see problems with sitting, RSI etc) and means they use up valuable space in our homes.
> Stage 3 diabetes treatments are so easy to test, too.

I agree with this.

As for the rest, I appreciate your optimism but I think this recent discussion [1] captures how dire the situation remains for t1d. For example, GLP-1 drugs are not approved for treatment for t1d despite overwhelming evidence that they are useful. Or “We’re really just starting to figure out how to safely and effectively manage weight with lifestyle changes for Type 1 diabetics.” Stem cell miracles have been promising for years [2] and I don’t agree that the situation today is meaningfully different. The recent success with implanted cells is hopeful but the patient was already on immunosuppressants, so the result doesn’t generalize. Despite the overwhelming amount of money thrown at this, a cure is always just around the corner.

[1] https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/type-1-diabetes-research

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16278164/
Matt Mullenweg and Entrepreneurial Hubris
Because sometimes it's necessary to make sure basic features work correctly, I remember my LG Oled didn't work with 4K 120Hz sources until LG released a firmware update for it.
> in Korea and a lot of other places now, 200sqft apartments are becoming more common

No surprise Korea is on the verge of demographic collapse
You seem to be conflating "different hardware" with proof that "language hardware" uses "software" equivalent to LLMs.

LLMs basically become practical when you simply scale compute up, and maybe both regions are "general compute", but language ends up on the "GPU" out of pure necessity.

So to me, these are entirely distinct questions: is the language region able to do general cognitive operations? What happens when you need to spell out "ubiquitous" or declense a foreign word in a language with declension (which you don't have memory patterns for)?

I agree it seems obvious that for better efficiency (size of training data, parameter count, compute ability), human brains use different approach than LLMs today (in a sibling comment, I bring up an example of my kids at 2yo having a better grasp of language rules than ChatGPT with 100x more training data).

But let's dive deeper in understanding what each of these regions can do before we decide to compare to or apply stuff from AI/CS.
Also I wouldn’t be surprised if any potential wrongful death lawsuits could cost Tesla several magnitudes more than the current average.
Consultant here: A lot of it.

Ideally, a consultant is hired for their specialist skills, rare experience, sage advice on niche topics, etc...

In practice, about half the work I do is to act as a lightning rod so that the guy with the power to sign the cheque for my time doesn't get fired if things go sideways. Instead, they can just blame me, shrug their shoulders, and hire another consultant.

I've had a customer where I got "fired" for an "error". My coworker replaced me. Then he was fired, and I replaced him. We alternated like this for years. Upper management just saw the "bad" consultants get fired for their incompetence, they never noticed that we were the same two guys over and over.
Why would the average person want to hold a heavy iPad in their hands if they don't have to?
Couldn't you have the laws of physics change based on your speed but without changing based on location, direction, or over time?

Also infinite speed of causality doesn't have to imply infinite speed of light, does it?
I'm assuming you have to pay for such an agent?

Google Play also requires it if you're just publishing as an individual for free. I made my account back in 2010 and the last update was in 2011, and let it get restricted earlier this year because I didn't want to publicize that information.
There are no performance profiling mechanisms on these small devices, and the timers are rather coarse.

But it is easily possible to estimate the execute time:

- mulacc of one weight takes 11 clock cycles.

- There are 1696 weights in the model, each one is only touched once.

- We can assume ~25%-50% overhead for loops and housekeeping (1:4 unrolled)

=> ~23000-28000 clock cycles per inference, which is less than 2ms at 16MHz

Since this is an MLP, the inference time directly scales with the number of weights. (This would be different for a CNN)

As per veryfing on PMC150C - I considered using an LED for valid/nonvalid output. But iterating with OTP devices is quite tedious when you do not have an emulator. Since both devices are code compatible, we can assume that the code works on the smaller devices, though.
WPF was the same IIRC
I had dinner with Ted Nelson. He took out a voice tape recorder and said "Note to self:..."

Dumbeldore touched a wand to his head, pulled out a thought and put it in his pesisive.

The book 'Memory' is optional reading for a year long class in development. I still get things out of it.
One of the huge challenges is preventing false positives. Did you also try giving it a legit screenshot?
I thought it was going to be some ‘90’s thing with a janky rewiring.

That’s neat.
I had a similar experience in Germany about a year ago. Train stations are mostly self-service now. The ticket kiosk ate my €50 and promptly rebooted. It didn’t print a receipt or anything. The only human I could find was a security guard. He told me to call the number on a sticker on the machine. The person who answered couldn’t speak English. My €50 is out there somewhere but it would cost me more than that to track it down.
OP uses the Apple case which pretty much every VP owner I've heard of agrees is comically oversized. You can make do with a much, much smaller case that would fit in a backpack.

That said, the last time I had the opportunity to use my VP on a plane I just used my kindle and laptop instead.
Harnessing LLMs with TDD
Im not convinced. For the price of a Vision Pro, I can drop a few large displays at the places I frequent often. Or just use smaller screens; it’s not that big of a problem in the first place. In regards to traveling—the same argument could be made for online conferencing tools, but especially high value representatives will choose to meet in person, because in addition to improved collaboration, meeting in person is about signaling, too: Being there means you took the time and effort to do so, because you value your interlocutor, and because you can. It’s a power play, one that VR by definition never can get you.

I know these were just examples, but my point is the problems you’re presenting are really contrived compared to stuff like being able to listen to a lot of music on the go, having a phone with an internet browser in your pocket, or a well-made digital watch that can monitor your health without efforts on your end. All those products had an extremely clear, immediate value proposition, and didn’t require a new viewpoint on my understanding of technology.

The Vision Pro, especially after reading comments like yours, kind of feels like a product designed by people that should have lifted their VR glasses a bit more often and just have taken a walk in the forest instead.
Nature is healing. Love to see it.
I don't know if you have come across this: A Spline Theory of Deep Networks [1].
Has been on my To-Read list forever :(

[1] http://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/balestriero18b/balestriero1...
The animated ripple across the «what’s new» button is infuriating. It keeps drawing my attention from reading what this is.
Yes, you could implement it in a way where the first layer is streamed and accumulate on output activations in parallel in the memory. This would limit the memory requirements for the input activations, but would increase execution time, as more activiations have to be shuffled around.

In this case I am streaing from ROM anyways, so it does not matter if the inputs are read only once or multiple times.
ScreenPipe AI company will harvest your email without your permission
Hora do you know that? I've seen really well optimized React apps and very poorly optimized Svelte apps. It's not like using Svelte magically makes performance good. Just like using Unreal Engine doesn't mean that a game is optimized. You just have different, maybe better, tools to improve performance.
Certain sports also lend themselves incredibly well to it

Motorsport simulations and golf come to mind

Not just for leisure but a serious aspect of professional practice

Visually reinforcing the difference between a 0.1 second window for motorsport, or thumb sized threshold for a golf chip or putt, for example.
I've mentioned this previously. Without government-mandated standards, implementation could take years. We apply this approach to numerous areas; why should IP be an exception?
Link to your kits?
It is my understanding that Penrose doesn’t claim that brains are needed for cognition, just that brains are needed for a somewhat nebulous „conscious experience“, which need not have any observable effects. I think that it’s fairly uncontroversial that a machine can produce behavior that is indistinguishable from human intelligence over some finite observation time. The Chinese room speaks Chinese, even if it lacks understanding for some definitions of the term.
How much would every death or severe injury caused by FSD cost Tesla? We probably won’t know anytime soon but since unlike anyone else they can afford to pay out virtually unlimited amounts and courts will presumably take that into account
I've not had a qualified technicoan pull out a manual ot diagram to fix an appliance even tough this scenario of AR for this usecase was one of the OGs in the 80s.

I once had to learn to juggle for a stage play. I could have sat though a hundred fancy presentations on how to do it, and fail abysmally as it is all about feeling and timing, things that are even sabotaged by AR latency.

Artistry? Now there's the real AR market. Not the Metropolitan paint stroker kind, but the one that usually ends in Hub.
All European countries censor the Internet to some extent.

OpenDNS is not operating in France and Portugal, for example. There are many other cases.

Sometimes it's because of piracy, sometimes it's because of terrorism, sometimes it's because it allows voters to post comments about immigration or vaccine policy, or criticism about certain Western allies committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing, etc.