skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is science fiction, not science. If Star Trek didn't exist, nobody would think this way. It's wild how art can so powerfully colonize the minds of people to the degree that they believe their unfalsifiable assertions about the universe just happen to adhere to ideas about the world that were designed as metaphors for the human condition.
Hey, congrats!
Most of the world is facing affordability problems. A $3500 helmet is not top of mind for anyone. Apple isn't going throw money at this for much longer I feel. Immersive videos are not a selling point when considering the tradeoffs of using a headset.
Show HN: Job Simlarity (vector similarity graphs, WhoIsHiring/JSON Resume)
You're literally saving lives here, guess you can't quit!
In an increasingly volatile world, governments turn to Element and Matrix
I grew up mostly in the north and talk very northernly, but somehow the only exception is that 'howdy' became my standard greeting. 'yall' feels like too much, but 'howdy' just rolls off the tongue so smoothly. Other greetings always sound too terse (hi, hey), too formal (hello), or are questions (how's it going, what's up) which I just loathe. Though technically howdy is sort of a question too, coming from 'how do you do'.

What's 'a piece'? Don't think I've heard that one.
> What if we mined deeper?

Below the crust is the mantle, which is ~2,900km thick. Like the crust, is also mostly solid rocks and minerals, but punctuated by malleable areas of semi-solid magma. Composition primarily silicon, magnesium, and oxygen.

Below the mantle is the outer core, a liquid layer mostly made up of iron and nickel. The outer core is ~2,200km thick. It is primarily responsible for generating the magnetic field of earth.

Below the outer core is the solid inner core, with diameter of about 2,400km. It is solid and primarily made up of iron and nickel.
> If GC is an option and you want all the nice parts of Rust, use OCaml

So are you saying it would be possible to use a hypothetical "non-GC-enabled" OCaml compiler that complains if GC'd code is invoked/generated, and it would be a similar experience as using Rust?
I’m a Pittsburgher who moved to Indianapolis when I was 7. I remember encountering the word y’all and thinking, “oh they just mean yinz.” I wonder if someone came from an area where neither are common, if the first encounter is more jarring?
Even a single script that performs actions too quickly on a website can trigger anti-bot measures, even if the bot isn't detected directly.
> When you are deeply involved in tech both personally and professionally you are probably very passionate about this and makes sense that you'd only look closely at this field and think "people are so deeply incurious. This seems to only happen in tech".

Good point. I commented in a sibling post to the same effect.

I've certainly felt the personal strain of time sink and procrastination in my homelab. It's currently running k3os, which has been dead for about four years now, because everything I want is still running, and I never seem have the motivation on the weekend to yell at my laptop when I could be playing board games.

> including the bit of resurgence later on when you have a combination of free time but less energy.

I'm guessing that will happen in another decade or so, when my kids are grown.
As I start to work with more genz folks, it is extremely pervasive that gym culture and health consciousness are much more core to their common zeitgeist than millennials. I imagine the same conditions core to their childhood and adolescence is also driving change in their parents and the rest of society.

Growing up natively with social media seems like a very reasonable correlation for me. Your life and habits are always under a lens, self consciousness or conscientiousness make sense.
I've never gotten local streaming to work, but that might just be down to the age of my "smart" TV though (which is now disconnected from the network due to lack of updates). But I have noticed that setting up a network printer is a lot easier than it used to be, and I assume that's because of LAN-based discovery, though I haven't dug that deeply into how it works.
Do you have a source for this? I've never heard anyone claim that they written so early. For Catholics at least, I think it's a point that the Church and some Tradition are older than the Gospels, i.e. that the Gospels are written by the Church, for the Church (not the other way around)
It is rather expensive for BMD though. It's not like this is the full set of panels for Resolve with that price tag.
There's been a lot of hype about Truth Terminal's X account,Marc Andreessen giving it $50k in Bitcoin, and the memecoins (GOAT and FRTC) with over $1.5B market cap. But the lesson about AI alignment in decentralized, open-source era is fascinating and important.
I have a theory that what people actually want is something ala named exceptions + forced try catch with pattern matching + automaitally derived return Type.
if a bunch of very unhealthy people die off in a short period of time, the general public will appear, statistically, to be healthier
Yeah, the $30k is a drop in the bucket of the many millions you need for a modern production. The real cost will be the editing to make sure it's actually a good experience.
Definitely worth trying to make comfy pipelines more shareable, fighting custom node versioning issues is not a good time, shudder...
If you mean to say that materials which have the property of self-replication with variation are essential to intelligence, then I agree with you.

One finds, in reality, that crystals do not meet this requirement -- the only known chemistry to provide it is a highly specific subtype of carbon chemistry called biology.
My reaction to this piece is that Anthropic themselves are faking alignment with societal concerns about safety—the Frankenstein myth, essentially—in order to foster the impression that their technology is more capable than it actually is.

They do this by framing their language about their LLM as if it were a being. For example by referring to some output as faked (labeled “responses”) and some output as trustworthy (labeled “scratchpad”). They write “the model was aware.” They refer repeatedly to the LLM’s “principles” and “preferences.”

In reality all text outputs are generated the same way by the same statistical computer system and should be evaluated by the same criteria.

Maybe Anthropic’s engineers are sincere in this approach, which implies they are getting fooled by their own LLM’s functionality into thinking they created Frankenstein’s demon. Or maybe they know what’s really happening, but choose to frame it this way publicly to attract attention—in essence, trying to fool us. Neither seems like a great situation.
I mostly agree that transparency and a reasoning layer can help, but how much it matters depends on who sets the model’s ethics
I don't think you need a lint. When you define the error type returned by `handle_request`, you decide how the error type returned by `handle_request` will be incorporated. If you've decided to implement `From` then you've decided you don't want/need to add context. Otherwise, the compiler will give you an error when you use `?`.

The time I can think this won't work is when you are reusing error types across places. Recently, I've been experimenting with creating a lot of error types, so far as one unique error type per function. I haven't done this for long enough to have a real report, but I haven't hated it so far.
A friend of mine at university once showed me how presumptuous those "Verbal Reasoning" tests are. You know, the kind that high-powered consultancy companies love to give internship candidates as if it tests for anything meaningful.

The tests typically begin by instructing the sitter to try not to assume anything in each question. They presumably mean that you shouldn't assume something like women liking the colour pink more than men.

But actually, there often are a bunch of assumptions you need to make, such as that there are seven days of the week with the standard name and sequence. That the word for each number has not been switched with some other. Etc...
Hopefully, but I don't think it's obvious. We don't seem to be currently in an era of plummeting hardware prices.
If I recall correctly, a politician's wife back in the 80's was hospitalized for drinking isopropyl.

(Just looked it up on Wikipedia - I recall correctly)
If I remember correctly part of the issue was that they used magnetic detector based firing systems and only tested them off the coast of California. When they fired them elsewhere the Earth's magnetic field was different enough that the detonators failed.
Ok, let's restrict the technology. What's the end goal?

Because 1 billion years from now, even if humanity is back to before the wheel technology plants will have disappeared and the oceans evaporated due to the sun.

If we want Earth originated life to have a chance to go over this bump something will have to go forward.
This is the discussion which we need to be having, and one which has been put off since Jimmy Carter failed to put a tax into place on computers so as to budget for worker re-training for folks whose jobs were eliminated by computers.

Instead, you had situations such as the type compositors unions bargaining for sinecures for their members, rather than participating in, and informing the usage of the new systems, contributing to a decade of ugly "Desktop DTP".

On-going automation should reduce the total number of hours which humans need to work to ensure that humanity is housed, clothed, fed, &c. --- why aren't we talking about reducing the workweek? See recent story in Tokyo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342203

Or, if the U.S. gathered together all the money used for Disability, SSI, WIC, Unemployment, Welfare, Social Security &c. _and_ their administration and overhead, there would be a significant amount of money --- would that be sufficient to fund a Universal Basic Income?
OpenPCI 11.5 is a cross-vendor portable PCI stack for 68K Amigas
> It was both genius and horrifying.

No, it was just stupid and horrifying. Something like `set_db("customer", "name")` would have yielded the same functionality with no obfuscation.
Apple and Meta trade barbs over interoperability requests
How to Make the Drone Panic So Much Worse
I dunno, Blackmagic clearly collaborates with Apple, and probably would have made this camera regardless of Apple Vision Pro or not, but once the two marketing departments came together, they decide to launch it with Apple Vision Pro filming in mind.

That's not to say it cannot be used for other things. Blackmagic frequently market all their cameras for prosumer/professional film-making, but you can use the cameras for so much more than just recording films, although the marketing is geared towards film-markers. Doesn't make it misleading.
I picked a place to live that's close to nature, right across my back fence from millions of acres of public forest. I love it here. Poverty is not required. I commute to work via Starlink and most nonperishables are delivered to my front porch by UPS, mostly from Amazon. It's green on both sides of my fence, and it's a choice that normal people, who can work remotely, can make if they value it. My house is far cheaper than one in a city and local costs are lower. Amazon deserves credit for making such a lifestyle easier, and if we can export more of it, that sounds like an advance.
Do you have any recommended reading material on this?

Intuitively it feels like making it concurrent should do the opposite of making GC deterministic! I’d love to read something showing that intuition is wrong
In communication there are senders and receivers.

You can receive something a certain way that was not intended by a sender.

It's important to try to understand the intent of the sender. In this case, many cultures sending the message "you guys" don't internally view this as relating to gender.

You could try to change their culture because many people receive it wrong, or you could learn about the culture and try to change the receivers culture.

Sometimes you can't accept the differences because it's perpetuates too much harm.

Where to draw the line is an ongoing and difficult question.
>basically any interaction between industry and legislature

If legislature doesn't talk to industry before regulating, expect lots of incompetent, ignorant, economy-crippling regulation.

You don't have to change anything in the US if you want this. Just move to Germany.

>cripple billionaires

You might be able to persuade Trump of this, actually, if you sell it as increasing his power over the other billionaires.

More seriously -- It sounds like you have a strong desire to live in an authoritarian country, where the state possesses unchallenged primacy over its citizens. I support your right to do that. There are many available to choose from.

I'll bet if you do enough research, you can even identify an authoritarian country which also has crippling regulations. That should be perfect.
Semi related: hiking across England in a straight line

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_japiE6QKWrN8t0-oUKOoMGx...
did anyone ever advertised IM as a stop all crime solution?
This is a real life version of this comic

https://xkcd.com/2501/
The marginal happiness for 1% of security nerds would be vastly outweighed by frustration for 99% of people who don’t care.

I don’t want a bunch of broken fake USB-C cables lying around that work for slow charging only and will totally fail when used with my mouse, keyboard, running an external display, etc. I get these kinds of USB-C cables from time to time in boxes with mediocre gadgets and throw them out! Anker’s whole brand was originally based on testing USB cables to weed out the broken ones after all.

What is the threat model here anyways? My approach to security when charging my devices is:

1. Use my own charger and cable

I am not worried about my power supply brick getting pwned by a rootkit delivered via the airplane’s AC power mains and then that pivoting to my laptop.

So is the threat that my power brick got pwned on its way from the factory to me?
It's just so convenient to be able to use the same charger for every device, and to use the same port for either charging or connecting peripherals. Is it ideal from a security standpoint? Not at all. Does that matter? Not in 99+% of contexts. Security is just not a real issue for the vast, vast majority of people. Those who really have significant risks to consider should adjust their habits and lives accordingly, but nobody else is going to go back to the days of a different, incompatible, power supply for every piece of equipment.
It’s not an article solely about health.

Headlines are rarely about the article and more about getting you to read the article. People think of a headline as a summary but in reality it’s best looked upon as the most striking line in an article.
Same.

I had the perfect use-case for LLM-assisted coding a few days ago: I had a well-defined function to implement, for which dynamic programming was a great fit. I haven't used DP in years but it's a well-trodden path, why not throw the problem at the LLM and let it implement it?

Well despite careful prompting, it kept getting it wrong. At some point it generated some credible code, but I spent the day finding problems, nudging it to fix it, asking for explanations for stuff that looked (and was) incorrrect... Resulting code was bug riddled and horrible (LLMs tend to fix problems by adding more code rather than rearchitecting the existing code to eliminate edge-cases). I ended up spending a whole lot more time, I had to spend ages carefully nudging the LLM to no avail, understand LLM-generated garbage code _and_ still solve the problem myself.
the U.S. is rightly considered a “rich death trap” for its young and middle-aged citizens...

Our purchasing power is declining, vis a vis wages not keeping up with inflation and in some cases falling [0]. It follows that if we aren't as rich as we used to be, we're falling into less of a "rich death trap".

0 - https://moneywise.com/research/americans-purchasing-power-pl...
Amazon forces sellers to divulge COGS, won't reimburse other costs
Ghost artists on Spotify
The last 40 years have seen enormous economic growth outside the G7 to the point that North America and Western Europe no longer dominate the global economy.

Vice president Vance marrying a woman from India was a look into the future. The rich elite know what's happening.
His short story collection _Space Lash_ (originally published as _Small Changes_) was a big part of my childhood.
Is Mozilla independent?

The undisputed reality is that Mozilla is almost wholly funded by the dominant (i.e. monopoly) search provider.

This blog post as well as basic Firefox design decisions (compromised privacy by default) are fully conducive and reflective of this reality.

In other words, this opinion was bought and paid for by Google.
> But then people realised that 99% of the time you just want to handle the error by passing it upwards

This seems like a gross exaggeration

> So it seems that what people actually want is errors that by default get transferred to their caller

Hell no
I loved this paper, below is the punchline for me I reckon (and summarizes where-they-are-at nicely too I think - finding out a lot of possibly very important things!):

""The discovery of unexpected problem-solving competencies (such as Delayed Gratification and segregation) that are not apparent from the component policies and algorithms themselves is a critical research program.""
Is it though? Two URSA Cine would run about the same cost, and this camera effectively are two URSA Cines put into one.
Why is garbage collection called memory safety? Garbage collection in whatever form is only memory safe if it doesn't free memory that will still be used. (which means if you actually get all your free calls correct C is memory safe - most long lived C code bases have been beat on enough that they get this right for even the obscure paths).

Use after free is important, but in my experience not common and not too hard to track down when it happens (maybe I'm lucky? - we generally used a referenced counted GC for the cases where ownership is hard to track down in C++)

I'm more worried about other issues of memory safety that are not addressed: write into someone else's buffer - which is generally caused by write off the end of your buffer.
This is great! (If you don't mind me asking) How did you get around getting blocked by YouTube, and what are you using for Speech to text? I built a similar site (https://transcriberai.com), but we couldn't get around YT blocking our download requests, so we only accept file uploads.
NetBox Discovery Now in Public Preview
> Unbeknownst to him at the time, Google Authenticator by default also makes the same codes available in one’s Google account online.

This sounded absolutely crazy to me so I went to open Authenticator on my phone and lo and behold it offered me the option of linking to my account and "backing up my codes in the cloud" to which I declined.

But I had never seen this behavior before, so is this new? It did not seem to be enabled by default in my case.
Show HN: 500mrr.com
This website collects and analyzes Hacker News threads titled “Those making $500/month on side projects in 20xx – Show and tell”. I processed these posts and created a browsable database of side projects shared by the HN community.
Michael Levin: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System (2018)
I was wondering if someone from a different sub-industry would disagree here :D

That sounds like a very interesting job, with quite different requirements and constraints from what I'm used to. One day, I'll get a job where application latency is critical, and optimizations matter deeply. Undoubtedly I'll find something else to be upset about, but at least it'll be a new complaint.
"Folks"

"Do you folks need more time?"

The problem with "people" is it sounds vaguely rude or hostile.

"Do you people need more time?"
Canadian and not UKian, but our public healthcare is definitely not worth 50% of my take home cash, I get much better access to care in the US right now. it still says Canada on my passport so I can get healthcare if I get fired or chronically ill
Covid stats skewed everything. This article isn't very rigorous.
I think Go union type proposals should start with their objectives
For years, I was an Apple Watch user: I assumed that all medium/top end trackers were the same, and that Apple Watch was pretty much the benchmark.

…but now that is have had the opportunity to use extensively Garmin watches, my experience is that they offer far superior accuracy, precision and technical details for activity tracking and sleeping than Apple Watch.

My picks would be in the following order:

1) Garmin high-end watches, they are truly a work of love

2) Aura ring, because of great convenience and reliability

3) Apple Watch, because they are great all-rounders

4) Coros, Suunto, Whoops, because they are highly reliable, but lack some of the smart functions

5) Withings, Fitbit, etc…, they are a solid option, but they generally lack distinctive features/capabilities

I would stay away from any brands offering super cheap products, due to privacy concerns and lower reliability and lack of advanced features.
If the webpage was required to be connected back to Logitech to function, yeah, deservedly so. If, like Via, it can run fully offline then all you'd need is to save the page for offline use and that would be acceptable.
I think the main point that I want to make is that attracting all of the world's smartest people to our country, and staying the world's superpower in technology & science, does have extremely 'clear and defined benefits to the people already living in the country'
I can’t believe that his work is so complicated that he can’t take a good older developer in thier 30s, who would be more than willing to move to a lower cost of living area where they can raise a family affordability and design an internal training program to get them up to speed.

Offer things that we care about like free health insurance, “unlimited PTO”, a generous 401K match with immediate vesting, etc.

I personally wouldn’t move to Alabama. But many would.

At 50, I need to work. But I don’t need to chase after FAANG salaries. I optimize for my other priorities. As I said in my previous post, I’m not “disdaining what I can’t have”. I’ve been there done that.
Show HN: A Community-Driven Mapping of Agentic AI
I built this open-source mapping of the Agentic AI Dev Tools landscape because I was tired of seeing static, outdated VC ecosystem maps. I wanted to create something that evolves with the industry through community contributions.

What makes this different:
- You can submit PRs to add or update companies
- I maintain it as code with auto-generating visualization
- The map updates live as our community contributes
- Anyone can contribute in minutes

I was sick of doom scrolling on Twitter to understand where to start.

The goal is to help devs choose the right tools and plan their AI infrastructure while the community maintains the most current view of the ecosystem.
The Structure and Legal Interpretation of Computer Programs [pdf]
> Don’t forget “we don’t build weapons…well the company does but my team doesn’t.”

It's totally possible. There's an defense contractor in my area where all the work at the local office is on non-defense government projects.
> generosity

I'm sure you think of your own citizenship as charity as well...
The number that is repeated is likely to be dirtier than the numbers that are not so you get that information too.