skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it's VR, "Metaverse", or AI models, I want it to be open source.

I don't want to spend 8 hours a day in some corporation's world, even more than we already are. The incentives are not aligned.

The personal computer revolution (that Apple helped kickstart) was amazing. People could actually run the software locally, instead of a mainframe. People bought apps to run on their computer and videos to run on their own VCR. I feel like the Web started taking things backwards, empowering "the remote server" again, like a mainframe.

Now, we have Netflix, YouTube etc. and the broadband internet hurdle has been surmounted for many. We are fighting the wrong battles with "net neutrality". The real battle should be whether we can host the software on machines of our choice, or not.
> Well regardless of financial accessibility if you can justify why in the US the markup of pharmaceuticals is so extraordinarily high for everything vs the rest of the world ?

We do a lot of the (very expensive) drug discovery and testing.
It's not half baked lol.
Still interesting how a lot of companies offer a LLM (non-deterministic) solution for deterministic problems.
That was a Clarke story too, at least the one I remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story)

I don't remember an Asimov one, but maybe he did one too; he wrote a whole lot of stories and I certainly haven't read all of them.
Which is part of what is so troubling about tech today, that it's ranks are filled with managers who don't build anything.

His podcast role is Chief Cynic but man I love listening to Ed Zitron's Better Offline. What I'm about to link is an extremely hard & direct a polemic, especially the second about the specific people at the largest companies, but damn. It was so enervating to hear.

The Shareholder Supremacy episode ties it all to Jack Welsh making everything awful forever everywhere, managing by number-goes-up. And then How Shareholders Are Destroying the Tech Industry is such a real shared anger against specific leaders, that undercuts how bad & ineffective & midling this age is, being lead by people with so little inspiration & touch with their products.

https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/the-shareholder-suprema...
https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/how-shareholders-are-de...

This podcast series is definitely on my world treasures list, as a how-it-really-is "histories of today" account. Also, the Daily Show keeps having some real bangers... (Covering the media coverage of McDonalds vs Enemy Within was a deep cut.) It's cathartic as hell and often remarkably informative (but also sometimes less so too).
I recorded my dog and made a page where you could input text and it would output morse code with his barks.
When $NON_WESTERN_COUNTRY arrests people for, let's say, "picking quarrels", people here usually see that as just an excuse for cracking down on activities that go against government interests. But when western countries do the same, people take those excuses at face value???
> Yeah, it's a little harder than for pure fixed-width Arm64, but it is massively massively easier than for amd64.

For those who haven't read the details of the RISC-V ISA: the first two bits of every instruction tell the decoder whether it's a 16-bit or a 32-bit instruction. It's always in that same fixed place, there's no need to look at any other bit in the instruction. Decoding the length of a x86-64 instruction is much more complicated.
> China has super apps that integrate everything from payments, food delivery, taxi, social media... To single application.

I mean, you're simply describing an operating system. The west builds this as an operating system. China builds it as an app. The rise of the Chinese super-apps is literally just a response to the reality that the West, especially Apple, forces everyone they work with to think inside the App box. Uber has to build an app if they want to access Apple's customers; but with the Uber app adding delivery, its also becoming a little Super.

The more interesting question is why the west doesn't have super-apps similar to the east. The reality, which I hinted to, is that I think we're starting to see more of them; Uber has delivery, Spotify is adding audiobooks, Google is adding an AI assistant, I think the scope-creep of these apps should give you a clue as to why China built them first.

There's certainly cultural aesthetic differences; maybe the west places greater importance on simplicity and focus. I think the bigger reason is market dynamics. The west has a relatively far more competitive market among these goods and services providers. The primary fuel funding technology companies over the past twenty years has been venture capital, which is attracted to younger, newer companies over the old established players. But, venture capital is slowing down, the marketplace is calcifying a bit among the established players, both new ones from the VC boom and old ones which survived it: And now we're starting to see these players branch out from their core competency and become more-and-more super-appy as they pursue greater growth with less fear that a startup is going to drive-by and eat their lunch.
All the rumors always said they were working on both in parallel.

I assume they could not yet make glasses happen in a way that fit their expectations or at a reasonable price point.

Even the Vision Pro is a device with big trade-offs (external battery, crazy expensive).
Not sure where Google, Apple, or Facebook have "failed"... If we are taking a single random product's success/failure and projecting it on the whole company then Microsoft has failed more times than I can count, the most relevant to this discussion being the hololens and the biggest recent history blunder being the Microsoft Phone.
> Will my next email server be an i80486 system? It's worth considering.

Nope. Anything crypto related (notably TLS transport) would not work or would be horrendously slow.
zfs.rent – Simple cloud service to store ZFS snapshots
Everyone thought I was crazy for thinking this thing would get no traction. People want to spend less time plugged into screens, not less.
This is possibly way too personal, and obviously I get it if you don't reply. But I'm curious -- was the sexual contact of a sort that would obviously carry this risk? Or a sort where you had to get very unlucky, or something in between?
> If you write all your code in civet, them you'll have no trouble understanding civet code in 6 months.

I hope so.

> it's mostly logical extensions of the javascript syntax which are easy to understand if you know javascript.

They didn't look thatneasy to understand to me, and a lot of other people judging by the comments.
They're definitely slipping more and more into optimizing excessively for engagement at this point.
No they're just overspec'd and overpriced. If their goal was to ultimately release a consumer level device, they shouldn't have gone overboard with tech that has limited room for cost cutting.

It's typical of Apple's hubris, to throw in all these features they think people will want, meanwhile if the headset had no cameras and was just a display strapped to your head for $1000, it likely would have sold a lot better. But they didn't want a VR device for whatever reason.

At the same time you could blame discretionary spending being at some of the lowest levels in a decade.
You just listed 4 of the top 10 companies in the world by market cap. Failing is an overstatement
You can tell something is wrong at a systemic level by looking at the rise in people in this situation.
This product will go the way of the Apple Watch. Deemed a failure before eventually becoming the category leader about 3 years and 3 iterations later. The price will come down, the (few) hardware rough edges will be softened, and enough support from the massive iOS developer pool will create a “killer app” that starts to build momentum here.

Misleading FUD from Macrumors trying to get clicks.
You can connect a trackpad and keyboard to the AVP. Interestingly a trackpad worked but not a mouse. You can also connect a normal controller (like Xbox/PS).
Or they believe the price to be too high for beta-testing a first-gen Apple device.
> People want to spend less time plugged into screens, not less.

Yes. I threw my phone away 2.5 years ago (after my 3yo daughter kept saying "no phone dadda") and it has made my life significantly better. Like living in the 1990's again.

In a land of the distracted, the phoneless man is king.

That being said, I think the AVP is very cool technology, and will have important applications in the years ahead. (Just not mass market for a long time, if ever)
Completely agree, I think people really don't understand systems to see how fragile civilisation as we know actually is. Breakdown of civilisation will come much, much earlier than any danger to human life going extinct.

I think it's also hard for people to grasp the stepwise process for this breakdown, at least from my personal experience I feel most are ignorant about the cycle of increasing social strife across the globe that will happen, a cycle of ever-increasing misery spreading across societies, eroding civil structures, etc.
A good reason for Lua would be the example at the bottom of this page: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/launch.html#the-launch...

Custom settings depending on the environment you're in, here setting up PowerShell on windows only. Allowing the same flexibility through JSON/YAML would not be as easy and simple.
Well, I stand corrected, thanks. Apparently there are too many things called 'The Incredible Machine'.

I just clicked on the video for a second and the first image it showed still seemed to fit the 'human body' topic, because at a glance it looked like some kind of ultrasonic scanner.
I'm generally optimistic for the potential benefits of chatbots to people who are lonely or depressed. But I wouldn't want to just hand over the burden of society's mental health to an unrestricted language model, especially one sold by a profit-motivated business. It would be akin to letting people self-medicate with a cheap and infinite supply of opiates. And that's basically the mental health crisis we are barreling towards.

What's the alternative? Regulation? Does a government or a public health agency need to make a carefully moderated chatbot platform with a focus on addiction-prevention and avoiding real-world harm? Why would people use that when unlimited/unfiltered AI is readily available?
Football Bros: Your Go-To Destination for Footy Insights
AMD offers CPUs with over 768MiB of cache if you're willing and able to afford them.
Tribute: Joseph Rykwert (1926–2024)
The Issue of Library AI Circulation Policy
It looks like they measured the time of the process where the entanglement occurred, not a time of entanglement itself. I guess they can use this to put an upper bound on the time for entanglement, which is a valid thing to do for an instantaneous process.
I think it's a cool idea. What increase in G's are we talking about launching things this way?
Wpaigpt-SQL-01: text-to-SQL model designed for WordPress and WordPress plugins
That was a linear driver on the moon. It's closer to The Man Who Sold The Moon, but that's also a linear driver up the side of a mountain on earth.
I mean actual threads.

Seems they still have the docs up: https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php
Effectively, there's no real difference. The model is discontinued, the article says they've produced their last batch and are focused on making a cheaper one.

Apple is free to continue selling what they have in inventory.
Access to a Gun is way more of a suicide encouragement than access to an AI.

AI are finetuned to not tell you how to painlessly end your life. Do they need fine-tuning for instilling existential fear of death like religions use? Anyone can invent a heaven in their mind that makes death appealing. Mixing a fictional world with the real world is dangerous when you believe the fictional world is larger than the real world. In reality, reality encapsulates the fictional world.

With a normal human, only a cult leader would ever hint at death being a way to meet again. With an AI, how can fantasy be grounded in our reality without breaking the fantasy? In 5 years when these personalities are walking talking video feeds that you can interact with using 3D goggles will grounding them in our world instead of the purely mental world help?
Tbf, users are also non-deterministic, so if LLM testing like this does catch on, it’ll be in the same realm as chaos testing.
Casey's Contraptions is a mobile game highly inspired by The Incredible Machine
I guess the point is to prevent a guerrilla war from starting without committing crimes against humanity. This implies other action complementing brute-force military incursions has been taken and that the people don't see you as an enemy.

Currently, the "we'll liberate you, you're welcome" approach is not working.
nicely written, thank you for kind words
We want more screens, just easier to use them. We are too lazy to even stand up to wear a headset. We want them in front of us all the time, everywhere, without moving a finger, instantly!
And then there are people like myself who host publicly-available internet services from my home internet service that's absolutely behind CGNAT. That makes things a bit more hassle to get working, but it's certainly possible.
On the other hand, in Berlin you also get entire blocks threatened with being forced to move out because the "temporary" covid-era bike path which never went away causes problems for the fire department in case of an emergency evacuation.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/streit-um-radwege-in-de...

(Article in German)
Remember the population of China is huge. I could totally imagine China out-buying the USA in consumer electronics.
> Is it really reasonable to lock your TLS web transfer to a specific CPU thread? Not sure it actually does make sense.

Only if you want good performance. If you're doing a lot of networking, you want your userland socket servicing pinned to the same CPU that the kernel is using for that socket. Which is easiest to achieve if you cpu pin nic queues and server threads. (If you want really good performance, you might want to skip userland with sendfile + kTLS or nic TLS, or maybe skip the kernel with userland networking)

For a benchmark, cpu pinning and tight control of the system is a clear prerequisite; you want to maximize repeatability, and user threads bouncing around cpu threads leads to less repeatable results.
I was acutely ill on vacation in the UK and went to the hospital, got seen within an hour, no bill.

I’ve waited far longer in US hospitals and paid hundreds of dollars AFTER insurance.
This seems too strong. Assuming they're 100% indoor, you could say they don't have any pathogens that haven't at some point been present in your house. But that's not so comforting.
Notice the rich keep getting richer though. Level of taxation doesn't mean much, look at the actual outcome.
Something I've always wanted is a simple way to rearrange local commits between different branches (or reorder them) by clicking and dragging. I know there are CLI tools out there to do it, but I haven't explored the options yet. I think that's much more intuitive than doing the same actions using the CLI, although that's mostly because using the CLI forces you to know the Git internals by heart, which is probably a good thing in the long run.
You argued the similarly subjective and poorly defined notion that students who cheat must lack an ethical core, which is why I decided to discuss fuzzy things like ethics rather than the obvious fact that they signed an academic dishonesty agreement. Why is violation of said agreement something that I should view with disdain/why does it say anything about the ethical core of the student?
> Then why is there such a gigantic welfare state for the poor in the US?

And, yet, you can't even ensure decent free healthcare to everyone (even if limited to those who can't pay).

> These programs go toward people who contribute almost nothing in taxes.

Like Jeff Bezos?
HTTP errors aren’t the most readable, although traditional database errors aren’t too readable most of the time.
But, do we somehow know that it isn't based on Linux? The fact alone that it will not run Android apps doesn't bar that.
Stopped reading at "Project 2025". Anyone who actually thinks Trump is associated with that is clearly too stupid to make any meaningful point. It does not matter how much they try to pin it on him.

People who fall for propaganda this blatant genuinely concern me. Truly useful idiots.
It's weird how people can recognize early versions of manmade things are usually primitive and need numerous iterations to get working at acceptable levels of optimality but when it comes to democracy there's some sort of a magical force hiding it from sight in this regard.
> Can every system that’s solving something that’s NP-complete solve every other NP-complete problem?

Others have given the answer (yes) and provided some links. But it is nice to have an explanation in thread so I'll have a go at it.

The key idea is the idea of transforming one problem to another. Suppose you have some problem X that you do not know how to solve, and you've got some other problem Y that you do know how to solve.

If you can find some transform that you can apply to instances of X that turns them into instances of Y and that can transform solutions of those instances of Y back to solutions of X, then you've got an X solver. It will be slower than your Y solver because of the work to transform the problem and the solution.

Now let's limit ourselves to problems in NP. This includes problems in P which is a subset of NP. (Whether or not it is a proper subset is the famous P=NP open problem).

If X and Y are in NP and you can find a polynomial time transformation that turns X into Y then in a sense we can say that X cannot be harder than Y, because if you know how to solve Y then with that transformation you also know how to solve X albeit slower because of the polynomial time transformations.

In 1971 Stephen Cook proved that a particular NP problem, boolean satisfiability, could serve as problem Y for every other problem X in NP. In a sense then no other NP problem can be harder than boolean satisfiability.

Later other problems were also found that were universal Y problems, and the set of them was called NP-complete.

So if Python packaging is NP-complete then every other NP problem can be turned into an equivalent Python packaging problem. Note that the other problem does not have to also be NP-complete. It just has to be in NP.

Sudoku and Python Packaging both being NP-complete means it goes both ways. You can use a Python package solver to solve your sudoku problems and you can use a sudoku solver to solve your Python packaging problems.
Unless your website has real humans visiting it, there's not a lot of value, I am afraid. The idea of many dynamically generated pages isn't new or unique. IPInfo[1] has 4B sub-pages for every IPv4 address. CompressJPEG[2] has lot of sub-pages to answer the query, "resize image to a x b". ColorHexa[3] has sub-pages for all hex colors. The easiest way to monetize is signup for AdSense and throw some ads on the page.

[1]: https://ipinfo.io/185.192.69.2

[2]: https://compressjpeg.online/resize-image-to-512x512

[3]: https://www.colorhexa.com/553390
> drunken dogs coming home to beat their owners that I haven't heard of yet?

Yes, it is called "reactive" dogs. Remember the definition of DV, next time someone is blamed for provoking the dog. Even if dog is "provoked", that is not valid reason for violence!

And I am not talking about dog owners, but their victims. Mostly children, spouses... They have no option to leave an abusive household. Many times they are gaslit and shamed. Dog owners have many privileges, and can get away with brutal child murder!

Even threats of violence (growling), or forced sleep deprivation are DV!!!
Ah, great. Thanks for the info!
Segway had a slew of high profile injuries that damaged its brand. Then encouraging people to wear helmets on them made people look too geeky.

People love their electric scooters nowadays, and they’re just worse Segways.

Apples headset is expensive and has no compelling software for most people. It was DOA.
As long as your satellite can withstand 10,000 Gs, spinlaunch will work great.

Founded in 2014, SpinLaunch has secured significant funding and has collaborated with major organizations like NASA, Airbus, and Cornell University, using their equipment in various tests. The technology has successfully withstood forces of up to 10,000 Gs, equivalent to 10,000 times Earth's gravitational pull, demonstrating its robustness.

Hopefully the minds behind it don't go the way of arty genius gone rogue Gerald Bull: "NARRATOR: To the end of his days, Bull was obsessed with what he saw as the injustice of his four‑month jail term."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/wgbh/pages/frontline/prog...
I dunno, this seems like a pretty good understanding to me. What more would you ask for, to represent "understanding" that satisfies you?

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(I posed the Wikipedia version of this puzzle, to Claude Sonnet 3.5 free tier)

"A farmer with a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage must cross a river by boat. The boat can carry only the farmer and a single item. If left unattended together, the wolf would eat the goat, or the goat would eat the cabbage. How can they cross the river without anything being eaten? "

Let me think through this step by step, analyzing the constraints from your message:

1. Items to transport: wolf, goat, cabbage
2. Constraints:

- The boat can only carry the farmer plus one item
- Wolf will eat goat if left alone together
- Goat will eat cabbage if left alone together
- The farmer must control the boat

Let me solve this:

1. Initial state: Everyone on starting bank (wolf, goat, cabbage, farmer)

2. First crossing:

- The farmer must take the goat first
- (If they took the wolf, the goat would eat the cabbage)
- (If they took the cabbage, the wolf would eat the goat)
- Result: Goat is on far bank; wolf and cabbage on starting bank

3. Second crossing:

- Farmer returns alone
- Takes the wolf across
- Returns with the goat
- Result: Wolf on far bank; goat and cabbage on starting bank

4. Third crossing:

- Leaves goat, takes cabbage across
- Result: Wolf and cabbage on far bank; goat on starting bank

5. Final crossing:

- Returns empty to get goat
- Takes goat across
- Done! All items safely across

This solution ensures nothing gets eaten because the wolf and goat, or goat and cabbage, are never left alone together.

Would you like me to explain any part of the solution in more detail?
I would assume that the test runner translates the natural language instruction into a deterministic selector and only re-does that translation when the selector fails. At least that's how I would try to implement it..
It’s only deterministic for each version of the app. Versions change: UI elements move, change their title slightly. Irrelevant promo popups appear, etc. For a deterministic solution, someone has to go and update the tests to handle all of that. Good ‘accessibility hygiene’ can help, but many apps lack that.

And then there are truly dynamic apps like games or simulators. There may be no accessibility info to deterministically code to.
Using uv (IME) should be a drop-in replacement for almost all of your python packaging needs. I highly recommend giving it a shot - it’s saved me measurable time in just a few months.
Oh good, a “funny” guy.
Yes I was exaggerating; the 455lbs 24kW generator would probably be >20mph but not the 8000W one given all the losses.
> Notice the rich keep getting richer though.

A solid indication the level of taxation for that bracket is too low. Maybe it needs to add brackets up to the trillions, because there is a world of difference between 1M, 100M, 1B and, soon, 1T of net worth.

Remember - if you can't control money's political power, you need to control money itself, or the wealthy will have political power without the backing of votes.