skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there are two different things to think about - there's the focus, which is what you think it is, and there's the 'vergence,' which I think is the fancy name for what you're calling parallax. Because the headset isn't trying to project a 3D image (unless you're in 3D mode), there's no parallax - all it's doing is projecting two flat screens at your eyeballs through a focusing lens.

However, because the spacing between the screens is not adjustable, your eyes will always do some level of 'vergence' adjustment to point themselves at the screen, effectively going a little cross-eyed or a little in the other direction. In the beginning I felt like my eyes were a bit too far apart to use the headset comfortably, but a recent software update allowed you to adjust this by trimming a few pixels from the edge of the screen to adjust the position of the image. While it's not perfect, I think it's helped a lot. I've tested this by looking through the glasses with a mouse pointer on the screen while trying to notice at which distance I see just the one pointer, and it's roughly around 3m in front of me, which aligns perfectly with the focus distance of the projected screens.

On the question of actual focus - screen focus itself is actually adjustable on the Viture XR Pro to accommodate for glasses prescriptions, down to a -5.0 diopter. You can adjust focus individually for each of your eyes, and I think it's this that actually makes the biggest difference in how relaxed you can be when you use it. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to adjust it for long-sightedness, but I'm a +1.0 and find there's still room in the opposite direction if I wanted to adjust it more on the dials.

Hope that helps.
Some criminals want to get caught.
This good for you, other people reported problems with pragma once.

And I think C is one of the better languages you could use to write code today. Also from the programs I use daily, the more stable and reliable ones tend to be written in C.
I am sure a school has a way to deal with pupils sharing such images, as the recent cases have proven. Deep fakes or real pictures. It it a social problem with existing framework of decades of proven history and should be dealt so.
If you are willing to shift the blame from the CEOs, why stop by shifting it one level? Why not shift it all the way to the top, to the voters who voted in the politicians?

The health insurance industry is a modern example of the banality of evil, and there is enough blame to go around.
More directly, from the WHO: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2...
> The next step is to automatically add "nodes" to the 3D images where the model can pivot, rotate and whatnot and then boom, you have on-demand animated, interactive content

My gut says a 3D engine + this would be a superior solution to the current approach of rendering rasterized video directly from the latents (coincidentally, Sora got released today).

It may not be tractable to train a network to rig and animate meshes, as well as setting up an entire scene to be a "digital twin" of random videos, bit I imagine such a set up would have finer-grained control over the created video while keeping everything else in it the unchanged
"Someone" could make the comparison. (I personally don't, it's all too complicated for me)

Trying to highlight different perspectives people can have, and to challenge readers to reflect on the use of violence.

Pick any arbitrary group of people, and you can find another group that thinks they are destroying the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

All that being said, obviously there's no doubt that the healthcare system is pretty messed up.
Write the catch clause before the try block
Sometimes people do crime to be famous, this pattern would fit that.
Nothing wrong with preferring family in your private affairs, but it has no place in government.
Mine's in my garage, which is breezeblock construction, and the garage doors are insulated, so it keeps it away from temperature extremes - which will cause issues with an outside battery dependending on local climate minimas and maximas.

The SolarEdge battery has a built in fire suppression system that triggers if thermal runaway is detected, which should be enough time to evacuate (in the UK it's also mandatory to have a smoke alarm fitted in your solar "plant room").
I'm not opposed to power saving measures being enabled by default, but "let this app run in the background at all times" should still be a setting. Require a PIN or biometrics to toggle the setting for all I care, but not being able to turn off app killers is what turned me off several brands of phones. The defaults are good for the general population but I'm not the general population so let me turn that damn thing off. Show me a daily notification about how an app drained 40% of my battery life if you have to but don't make me root my phone again just to turn off the stupid app killer.

I run into issues with the smart watch integration app getting killed before Google Maps, even when I'm not navigating on one of my devices. No way to whitelist the integration app or set some kind of preference, it's just a lottery, probably based on guesstimated power consumption (which, for an app with a Bluetooth lock, will probably be above average) that I want to tweak.
They should, but quite a few are still NMC chemistry.
I can't upvote this enough. This topic in the media space has generated a huge amount of naive speculation that amounts to "how hard could it be to do <thing i know nothing about>?"
I’m really starting to feel uneasy about the “engineer” job-title inflation thesedays…
Sounds like you might be interested in Mark Fell?
I don't just know about the maimai DX location test, I actually flew out to the Puente Hills Mall[0] just to play it.

One other thing I left out (because I thought it was too inside-baseball) is that the way Japanese companies structure their overseas operations also harms the US rhythm game market. For example, the only reason why we got a maimai DX location test was that SEGA had completely upended their US arcade division. It used to be licensed out to a completely different company with zero interest in rhythm games. Presumably with the same assumption that they wouldn't sell well or that arcade operators wouldn't sign a revshare agreement. The best we could get was a bunch of offline'd Chunithm Paradise Lost machine with all the licenses stripped out[1].

Likewise, US players are also very cynical because of how poorly served we are for our given market size. When Taiko's US launch was announced a lot of people were worried that the cab quality would be shit because they were being assembled in the US (presumably for shipping or tariff reasons). The rhythm game community has a long memory; we remember what Raw Thrills did to DDR in the name of cost-cutting. The Taiko cabs that R1 USA got so far seem to be good, fortunately, but it's not irrational to worry about these sorts of things.

I can absolutely see some independent operators outside of Round1 picking up Taiko (or maimai if SEGA FAVE decides to grant our wishes). But I would still be rather shocked if, say, Dave & Busters[3] wound up running either game, given that they basically pulled out of rhythm games.

[0] Which is comically dead. Outside of the Round1 and the AMC basically half the shops are closed and the other half are going out of business. If PHM wasn't Round1's hero store the mall probably would have shut down by now.

[1] Hope you like Jingle Bells

[2] After Raw Thrills fucked DDR so hard it left the states, the reintroduction of DDR to the US (Hawaii exclusive) involved a special deal with Konami, Round1, and Dave & Busters. Because D&B was involved, they insisted on perpetual licensing, even though Konami had moved to revshare in every other region. Which meant having to buy upgrade kits.

[3] Or, hell, Chuck E. Cheese; even though Taiko would slot in perfectly with their target demo.
Yes, he's not acting rationally because he's having a mental health crisis.

If you look at his Twitter account, he disappeared a few months ago and all the replies were friends asking where he went.

(Also, he's a tpot poster, which is a kind of tech bro that likes tweeting about how great it is to do psychedelic drugs. This is bad for your mental health!)
Unless I missed it, the paper didn't indicate what the battery chemistry breakdown of the data set was. If it is heavily weighted for Sonnen (German home backup battery manufacturer) batteries, then those have always used Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) chemistry, which has much lower thermal risk.

In contrast, most historical home backup batteries sold in the US have been early generation Tesla Powerwalls, which are Lithium ion batteries and thus inherently more thermally risky (they must have active cooling systems [1] inherited from Tesla's cars).

Most home batteries currently sold (Enphase, Tesla, etc) now use LFP, so the thermal risk going forward for new installations should be significantly lower.

1. https://wanakasolar.com/knowledge-hub-posts/tesla-powerwall-...
"To be successful as this archetype, you need to spend a lot of time keeping track of AI news on X/Bluesky/Reddit."

Or that is what you tell yourself...
I think it's easier to explain breaches with 0-day exploits than backdoors.

Put any hardware in front of the best hacking teams, in their lab, and they WILL find a way in.
Only if you can guarantee it that possible for someone to sneak in an input that already contains those "x" characters.
> Something being available OSS is very different from a turnkey product solution, not to mention that Tencent's 60 GiB requirement requires a setup with like at least 3-4 GPUs which is quite rare & fairly expensive vs something time-sharing like Sora where you pay a relatively small amount per video.

It took two weeks to go from Mochi running on 8xH100s to running on 3090s. I don't think you appreciate the rapidity at which open source moves in this space.

HunYuan landed less than one week ago with just one modality (text-to-video), and it's already got LoRA training and fine tuning code, Comfy nodes, and control nets. Their roadmap is technically impressive and has many more control levers in scope.

I don't think you realize how "commodity" these models are and how closed off "turn key solutions" quickly get out-innovated by the wider ecosystem: nobody talks about or uses Dall-E to any extent anymore. It's all about open models like Flux and Stable Diffusion.

{Text/Image/Video}-to-Video is an inadequate modality for creative work anyway, and OpenAI is already behind on pairing other types of input with their models. This is something that the open ecosystem is excelling at. We have perfect syncing to dance choreography, music reactive textures, and character consistency. Sora has none of that and will likely never have those things.

> something time-sharing like Sora where you pay a relatively small amount per video.

Creators would prefer to run all of this on their own machines rather than pay for hosted SaaS that costs them thousands of dollars.

And for those that do prefer SaaS, there are abundant solutions for running hosted Comfy and a constellation of other models as on-demand.
Re Theory and Praxis, Thor Magnusson's recent books come to mind:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sonic-writing-9781501313868/

https://livecodingbook.toplap.org/
With a heavy dose of "if masses of people are fooled by this, it can't affect me as long as I can see through it. No possible repercussions of mass people believing completely made up stuff that could affect laws, etc."
I like layering Makefile on top of language-specific build tools like Go, Poetry, cargo, gradle and yarn.

Has anyone seen an advantage of using bazel? The learning curve is an issue as well.

Blaze (inside Google) was pretty good but not only because of common builds but also because of artifacts that were shared across developers.
As I've heard it, it was characterized as flirting by the employee.
I don't know if apple will allow you to do it on an ipad, but even very young kids can learn to use something like newpipe or yt-dlp which can download videos and removes youtube's ads. If nothing else you could download ad-free videos and copy them to a device so there's a massive library of safe media you've vetted and wont have to worry about.
If the company had any sort of ethics at all, they would release a patch that let you point it another LLM so you could at least keep it running. Or release their software as open source.

Or just do something so that they don't just "die".

Another example on the long list of "there should be a law that you have to open source your server if you're shutting down a server based service".
People who cheat in all aspects of life are more likely to become powerful.
5x more usable energy. Energy density of Li-ion cells improve by couple digits or so? if set on fire in expendable mode, if I'm skimming this[1] right.

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037877532...
There shouldn't have to be any political reasons at all to enforce safety testing listings, and I would actively discourage anyone from taking that path regardless of their views on any given administration.

Far too many Chinese vendors just treat the "UL circle" as a required marking to forge, along with everything else they're forging on the items. http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-te... is a good teardown that highlights the problems with the fakes.

Amazon has had more than enough chances to solve this problem somehow or another, and it's clear they do not care about it at this point. They cannot claim ignorance after a decade of people highlighting the problems to them. As much as I don't like Walmart, I'd go to Walmart over Amazon for anything electronic (realistically, I'll buy NewEgg or B&H Photo for most things), because I have somewhat more faith in Walmart's supply chains to actually get me the thing I'm buying, vs "binned product fraud" that seems to be Amazon's bread and butter these days.

"Fraudulent markings on poorly designed, unsafe electronics that lack all the safety systems that the markings indicate exist" isn't a political problem. It's a basic consumer safety problem.
In my experience the trick seems to be light mode, as it gives your eyes a bit more to stay focused on; they take a little getting used to but they're usable. I wouldn't recommend them for programming, but they're great for focused writing (obsidian zen mode) and for drawing / editing work.
"Prompt engineer" opened the floodgates, it made me realize how much I'd been skimping on my consultation and development fees with the Sandwich Engineers at Subway.
In China, the whole Internet is heavily restricted. Bad tools.
Are you able to add the ability to search either for a keyword or a product? I want to search for Google SecOps SIEM (fka Chronicle) and Google SecOps SOAR (fka Chronicle fka Siemplify). Searching fro cybersecurity engineer unfortunately doesnt really tell me which SIEM/SOAR it is, thus i have no idea if its worth me paying for.
Yes, I've put a lot of care and effort into this project, though it's currently just an MVP and each feature has significant room for improvement, especially the interview functionality. I took a look at your project and I really liked your implementation of 'Find Jobs Based on Your Resume', although I think it could benefit from some additional features to differentiate it from recommendations on platforms like LinkedIn and others. Thank you for your feedback - feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate or need any assistance
Then it does not really meet its goal, if it wants to convey the idea that "the true identity is hidden underground" by referring to something that isn't the true identity.
These models will get better. And in answer to the previous question, of course they will get rid of artists. They will keep just enough to do the work necessary with the help of generative models, and let go of the rest.

The rest of the artists are not dumb, and they have a lot of talent. I'm sure many of them will use the same models to come up with their own games.

How this whole thing will play out is anyone's guess. Long term, I'm hoping for new types of jobs to come into being. But who can say?
Are DWave still in the running? They used my PerfectTablePlan table seating software back in 2007 as the front end to demonstrate solving a combinatorial seating problem:
https://www.perfecttableplan.com/newsletters/newsletter10_we...
He lies constantly. Like, he lives in New Jersey and pretends to live in NYC. He pretends to be a vegan.

Also continually uses strange phrases in speeches that he made up, like "all your haters will be waiters when you sit down at the table of success", or saying "New York City is the Dublin/Istanbul/Port au Prince of America" whenever he's talking to an a cultural group.
Also "HELLO KITTY" being backwards is odd - writting on trains doesn't normally come out like that eg https://www.groupe-sncf.com/medias-publics/styles/crop_1_1/p...
I wonder how all those European companies are doing it. They ship everything all the time, avoid the $billions fines, yet make mistakes like everybody else.

> how much the EU slowed down innovation

You say this all the time, yet we're doing fine. How come?
The guy who was killed, with annual compensation of $10M, is one of the richest and most powerful people in the country? There are FAANG ICs making more than that.
But you also need a generator to go with that propane tank. And that generator has quite a few code restrictions, too.
Looks like the generated wireframes are still terrible and would need to be redone by hand. So no need for artists to worry about their job security just yet.
Neuroscientists just turned a major Alzheimer's theory on its head
I thought AI engineers had to pass board exams, after several years of supervised professional practice, and were liable for any work they certified?

Am I misunderstanding the term?
> If you think a language that has just one tool is better, then it just means your use-cases are very narrow.

Counterpoint from “The Zen of Python”:

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/
Pretty off-topic, but yes, domains and land are often bought via shell companies for this reason. They probably didn't settle upon the name Sora until they already secured the .com . That's a famous YC piece of advice. If you can't get the .com then rename. But for domains that everyone wants, like chat.com, OpenAI paid 8 figures for that one.
Transform a repository of Python notebooks into a collection of data apps
I expect my "AI" engineers to know both RAG and what KL-divergences are. If you only know the former, you are just a backend developer, not a ML engineer.
That's the software part of the story, which became fully public in form of MeeGo.

But there was also a hardware story how Nokia would start Intel silicon. I don't think anything of that has ever been publicly annouced before it failed. Wasting a year seems to be massive underestimate. I believe it must have been much longer. After Nokia started to fail Intel hired former Nokia engineers. I have no reliable insights what they did there, but I believe at least in the beginning they still worked with phone hardware on low-level software.
Come on, are you really serious about this?

Of course, you should ask an LLM that question...
See my other comment, but yeah - usable if you tone the contrast down, otherwise the glare from individual characters can be a lot unless they're perfectly clean. Better in light mode. I've never used them for more than a couple of hours at a time though.
LFP has different full/empty voltages so chips and boards has to be re-made. Unless mandated or made comparatively economical, manufacturers won't switch out infrastructures overnight.
Check Windows restart reason with Claude.ai
Demonetized means YouTube also doesn't make money.

They literally stop showing ads in front of it.
HunYuan is all everybody on Banodoco and the broader comfy ecosystem are talking about. And that's with Lightricks' LTX model having just been announced too.

HunYuan is seriously amazing and it looks like it'll be the Flux/Stable Diffusion of AI video.

Sora is cooked.
More importantly, engineers are for some reason especially likely to be terrorists.

https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29836/1/Why_are_there_so_many_Engi...

I think it's related to old physicist brain where you decide you know everything about everyone else's field.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
Dec/2024 has seen one major model release per day:

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
"due to this belief I have that software developers would make effective criminals. A lot of this boils down to a belief I have that not getting caught in the first place is easy."

Ummm.... You understand that the software developer was just caught by a McDonald's cashier?
Twitter Blue is paid and yet every single bot account has it in order to boost views.
Remembering Navy Capt, Grace Hopper, champion of youth learning to code
Today sees the start of Computer Science Education Week and the 2024 Hour of Code. These educational event are timed to coincide with Grace Hopper's birthday on January 9th, 1906 due to her concern for teaching computer programming young people. This is an issue touched on in a newly available recording of a lecture she delivered in 1982, worth watching as it will make you laugh out loud.
Are the politicians not accountable for the decisions they make?

Who has a greater moral accountability to the public - politicians or corporate CEOs?
The title uses the term "supply chain" but it appears nowhere in the blog post. I keep seeing this term used by "cybersecurity" researchers and software developers in ways that seem to differ from the definition I learned in school. .

From Wikipedia:

"A supply chain is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them^[1] to end consumers^[2] or end customers.^[3]"

1. ^ Ganeshan, R. and Harrison, T. P., An Introduction to Supply Chain Management, updated 22 May 2005, accessed 29 June 2023

2. ^ ^a ^b Ghiani, Gianpaolo; Laporte, Gilbert; Musmanno, Roberto (2004). Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 3-4. ISBN 9780470849170. Retrieved 8 January 2023.

3. ^ ^a ^b ^c Harrison, A. and Godsell, J. (2003), Responsive Supply Chains: An Exploratory Study of Performance Management, Cranfield School of Management, accessed 12 May 2021

Was https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org set up for commercial suppliers of OpenWRT. How about https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org

I always assumed commercial suppliers compiled from source to add their own modifications, and then created their own images.

As a consumer of OpenWRT, I compile from source or use "official" images.
> any cloud based device is subject to the health of the company and LLMs are not cheap to run

Perhaps the technical angle to this story is the promise of edge ML. If your language model runs on the device, your cloud inference costs go to zero and the device works as long as it has power.

Aside from the financial benefits, there’s a huge privacy upside as well since no audio or text is sent over a wire. Might be notable for a children’s toy.

Of course, this is very difficult for large companies and VC-backed startups to care about because 1) it involves hard technical problems rather than API calls and 2) as long as you can keep asking for money the inference costs don’t matter and 3) there are no criminal consequences (prison time) for privacy violations.
Read Spillover[1] - as we encroach further into previously undisturbed habitats we're going to see more fun diseases of zoonotic origin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spillover_(book)
Excellent, but I keep dying!!!
FM Theory and Applications By Dr John Chowning and David Bristow
https://www.burnkit2600.com/manuals/fm_theory_and_applicatio...

Mostly focused on FM as applied by the DX7 IIRC. But really good overview of how FM works since it's the guy who invented it.