skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got one, a shell you can put your phone in, so you can slide your phone around your desk AS your mouse. It can provide vibration feedback, alerts, sounds, etc. It can use the macro lens and the IMU for tracking its location across the desk. Would also serve as biometric auth for websites.

Prior Art for

G06F 3/0338 - Computer mice, trackballs or similar devices for computer control
G06F 3/041 - Digitisers using touch-sensing
G06F 21/32 - Biometric authentication

See, you can have peripherals tha
No. Ethereum is a solution searching for a problem. Have you seen any widely used successful application developed using Ethereum?
I didn’t mention my preferred solution in any manner.

All the best to you, a person who tries to maintain a facade of rationality and objectivity in HN political discussions. That facade crumbled easily.
Inefficient graphics and Electron apps.
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Wow, it's like if the movie Brazil was a documentary.
I am not so sure this completely discounts the statistical relevance of when Letby joined, more infants died. When she was reassigned from the day shift the the night shift, she brought along the same pattern of deterioration for the infants. I am not convinced that there being "no medical evidence" discounts these facts, but still, I wonder if it is possible that Letby is single most unlucky nurse in history and truly freak accidents happened on her watch by chance. Its hard to say.
I think it's a tech advancement issue, just like touch screens wasn't a thing for a very long time while it they were resistive. Then the iPhone came with capacitive touch screen and now they're everywhere. When (if ever) XR won't suck, which could take a decade or two, it will be adopted massively.
Casio UK online store hacked to steal customer credit car
Scalable-Softmax Is Superior for Attention
Sorry to hear that, my mom is in similar shape. As is my wife's. Fucking awful.
great write up dedoimedo!
Is that a straight up mirror of marketplace.visualstudio.com or do authors need to upload their extensions to both places?
Eh, I knew someone was going to nit-pick this point, which was why I wrote "first meaningful fully-reusable first stage rocket" but obviously this wasn't enough. :)
Seems like the preferred interface would be a purely functional block that provides the access.

Obviously forcing callers to free means adding lints and docs. Returning borrows leaves the likelihood of entering into explicit lifetimes hell and such in calling code.

A functional interface like (paraphrasing)

// pub fn apply_op(&mut self, FnMut(&mut T, &bindings::dma_addr_t... ))

Keeps pandora inside the box.
At least with a fully human chain of responsibility, the buck stops with someone

A computer cannot ever be made to atone for it's misdeeds

Humans can
The security apparatus should understan that anything they do in this case will be performative only.
5000000 downloads already, all legal
many many instances up and running publicly
if it was me, the first task I would give a deepseek model, would be to obfusicate itself
and pattent the results, and start selling copys realy cheap......deepcheap

https://spectrum.ieee.org/deepseek
Being bad at emotions does not necessarily make you a shitty person.

If I showed you the transcripts you too would be impressed! I can assure you of that.
UI looks clean, but I'm always annoyed to see users looking for a new browser being drawn towards gimmicky Chromium reskins that do little to loosen Google's grip on dictating web standards.
> I’m actually kind of surprised it took Microsoft this long to push back against the VSCode clones

Why would Microsoft push back against VS Code forks? I thought "Microsoft <3 Open Source", is that no longer true now when people forgot about the old Microsoft?
Abstract:

> The maximum element of the vector output by the Softmax function approaches zero as the input vector size increases. Transformer-based language models rely on Softmax to compute attention scores, causing the attention distribution to flatten as the context size grows. This reduces the model's ability to prioritize key information effectively and potentially limits its length generalization.

> To address this problem, we propose Scalable-Softmax (SSMax), which replaces Softmax in scenarios where the input vector size varies. SSMax can be seamlessly integrated into existing Transformer-based architectures. Experimental results in language modeling show that models using SSMax not only achieve faster loss reduction during pretraining but also significantly improve performance in long contexts and key information retrieval.

> Furthermore, an analysis of attention scores reveals that SSMax enables the model to focus attention on key information even in long contexts. Additionally, although models that use SSMax from the beginning of pretraining achieve better length generalization, those that have already started pretraining can still gain some of this ability by replacing Softmax in the attention layers with SSMax, either during or after pretraining
it's more than 8x slower? sure it would have been fine >10 years ago
And? Congress can impeach the President if they feel the law isn't being executed. The law also extends nearly limitless benefit of doubt to the President when he is executing his Constitutional duties.
> There is a lot to be said about the use of DI frameworks with blatant class path scans, but that's not necessarily Java's fault.

I used to support Atlassian's products on the intranet before we migrated (almost) everything on their cloud: Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Confluence. I think Jira and Bitbucket were hands down the slowest of the bunch to boot and from what I could tell it was exactly due to classpath-scanning and god knows what else. I could never believe a 16 CPU 32 GB KVM needs from 3 to sometimes 5 minutes just to boot Jira. To me this was insane.
If the documents truly are mundane and simply fill in gaps and dox a few old people then it would probably greatly reduce conspiracy theory stuff to reduce them because the gaps in the narrative is where those theories grow from.
Oh, but it gets better than all the windows being the same color! Sometimes, even though the taskbar shows your window as active and you have the blinking cursor in a text area, typing won't type until you click that window!
While I consider myself of being part of a Linux-y bubble, I can definitely see people around me, who are, or where, in the same bubble, using PowerShell more and more and more. And, this is the interesting part, every single one of them has been saying that PowerShell is way better than e.g. Bash, or whatever you wanna compare it to. This is also because of the much more modern architectural design of Windows NT, which is and has been miles ahead of Linux, because it could learn from it's failures when it was developed. Same for PowerShell. It could learn from the mistakes that Bash made, and still has to live with.

Still, obviously, this is anecdotal evidence at best.
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A dumb headset is exactly what I'd want. I don't want yet another device with an OS that locks you into someone's f'ing ecosystem or alternately requires me to find apps specifically for it, etc.
just invest in local infrastructure instead of throwing money at a nazi
It's not about being rich or not. People who can choose what kind of computer they have will choose Apple over PC. People who cannot choose will use work computers in their office with Windows installed, that corporate chose for them.

People who do not want a computer at all will have neither PC or Mac. The majority of people do not want to have a computer – they see enough of them at work, and they are happy with their smart phones.
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ok so... Hi everyone. I've been working on a simple way to centralize saas user access via API connectors and "not-programatic connectors" (like a reminder / memo tool) for small companies without IT teams, so I created MIA (IAM :)).

We aim to provide these companies with a simple tool to manage user access to their saas environment and track saas spendings. Cost tracking is realized with a simple bank connection + AI/algo matching.

I think the overall tool is good and delivers right from the start. Approx 30% of user accounts are illegitimate in every company we talk with so that's a big issue for security & cost.

But I'm kinda struggling to find a "long term, recurrent value" to this tool.

Would greatly appreciate some feedbacks.

The tool is free under 20 registered user so you can play with it but I will be glad to offer free licence to everyone helping me out.

Have a nice day.

Arthur.
The poster I replied to brought up Ariane 5 crash as the example of ESA dysfunction while being very positive about SpaceX. SpaceX had lost plenty launch vehicles both in testing and with live payloads, just ask Zuckerberg. I pointed out the contradiction there.
"nanite replacement"
This page reliably crashes Chrome on my Android phone as a well as on my Ubuntu laptop.
This is exactly what Google and OpenAi meant when they list "no moat" as a risk.
Also in Germany, their leading solar energy technology became unprofitable in the global market and was sold to China (see what happened to Q-Cells [1]). The EU can publicly finance research all they want, but if the results of which gets profited by private interests of any nationality not necessarily EU countries how does that help the EU catch up?

But this does seem different since they plan on building open-source models which would benefit everyone equally (and no one in particular), it would just level the playing field more I guess?

I think this and things like MCP [2] are fantastic, they would make the LLM just one interchangeable piece you can buy from anywhere or host yourself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qcells

[2] https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
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these posters have mastered doublespeak
It looks like the big issue with Ann Arbor is supply. I just pulled up Chicago Zillow for this criteria (1-1.25k sqft, 2 bed exact, 1+ bath, condos only, for sale not rent) and am having trouble finding one for more than $700k. Lots in the $350-400k range. Overall there are hundreds, with almost every block having at least one in the "nice" downtown area.

Leaving criteria the same and switching to Ann Arbor, I see four, with only one of them actually being downtown, for $725k (but the other three are all under $300k). I would consider Ann Arbor more expensive than Chicago, at least for this type of unit, but not necessarily because there's more demand.
When one bottleneck is removed, that usually means the rate of change is bottlenecked somewhere else. Maybe in the release process, or testing?

Or maybe the bottleneck is the willingness of customers to try new things? Risk-adverse customers will often avoid startups. Showing yourself to be trustworthy isn’t purely about the rate of feature development.

If the other bottlenecks can’t be removed easily, instead of 10x features you could end up with fewer software developers.
Anyone else remember the game Messiah? I'm probably wrong, but it still feels to me like that was a much earlier version of "nanite"/dynamic LOD building. No pre-built LODs, but automatically changed the number of polygons on anything based. Didn't work very well, everything in game looked kinda "blobby". But if we're gonna call Nvidia's library an alternative Nanite, I wanna call Nanite a Messiah alternative.
Hey hey hey, let's not let facts get in the way of a good pretext.
China didn’t increase defense budget accordingly and for now still sticking to the same gdp percentage (around 1.5%) so the spiral hasn’t started yet (surprisingly).

Also China is always aggressive to DPP which isn’t something new and US government well understood the reason and used to assure China they will deter DPP’s independence agenda (if you’re familiar with that history. also https://www.foreignaffairs.com/taiwan/taiwan-china-true-sour...). Unfortunately there isn’t much political room now in US for that kind of assurance.
This also reminds me of "garage startups". In fact, probably only a fraction of people around the world own a garage. If your family has a garage, it means you are probably among the top ~1% richest people on Earth.
The lesson here is that simply wanting something to be true doesn't make it possible or practical. We also tend to get carried away with sci-fi becoming reality.

You see this constantly where people desperately hope for some form of FTL. They want it to be true and cling to fringe theories because of that.

Companies have been trying to make VR happen for decades. It's not going to happen. Not only do people not want to strap something to their head, there are fundamental technical limitations around latency, true blacks, depth-of-field and what input feels "natural".

People just take Snow Crash and Ready Player One too seriously.

AR is kind of the between of that but it has fundamentaly technical problems and constraints like processing power, energy, true blacks and lag. A true AR experience would have to constantly repaint the overlay as you move your head at incredibly low response time to feel "natural".

Lag will be a major factor with AI chatbots for probably some time to come. The processing loop is basically text to language to embedding into AI model and then converting that token stream to spoken language. That takes time. We're such a long way from something that feels "natural" like talking to another person.
Can one of these use "requests" via copilot? There are multiple usable models in copilot but it’s quite limited feature wise.
Nice find. Now we wait a week or two for VSCode/Microsoft to add some new popup asking people to login to MS Live (or whatever their auth system is called today) in order to download extensions, and that endpoint will be put under auth too.
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Yes, it's so frustrating to hear them talk. Everyone knows a great deal of their success was luck (as discussed in the book Outlier), but they still find it amusing to lecture the "lesser folks" about ways to get rich.
There is slack - but the slack is in the house schedule not the human. A house can sit for several work hours with nothing going on and not care. The humans working on the house do not like being idle - they are working for money and when they have no work they get no pay and in turn that makes it hard for them to pay their own bills. The bank cares a bit about idle time, but the interest charges from a few hours here and there of idle time isn't that much and so that is where builders put the slack in. Of course those interest charges still add up and so there is effort to reduce them but the costs of scheduling a crew and then not being ready for them adds up even more than interest.
:-) I wasn't sniping, it just amused me...
(Kidding OFC. But I _would_ watch a 1 hour video essay on the history of alternative LOD systems.)
Nitpick: There are actually a handful Rust drivers in-tree, e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/ph...

Though, I think all of them are direct ports of existing drivers.
LOL.

I’m some sort of off-brand late comer Scots Canadian so my opinion is essentially alien and invalid to people like you but I’ve got to ask:

Why does the incestuous name dropping qualify anyone especially?

Peter Thiel is expressly trying to (and vocally so) speed run everything into the apocolypse and is very worried about the anti christ (apparently). He’s also running a massive surveillance dragnet and wants power and money above all. Again, his words.

How in the global fuck does working for or being awarded by a person with those ambitions qualify anyone for anything?

You may as well have said they attend church every sunday as their qualification.

If you said, well he has spent 10 years developing high availability systems and invented novel algorithms or implementations for managing high volume data flows or something then maybe there would be something to talk about.

But I’ve seen baby faced juniors elevated to senior and management roles and bungle them SO badly that it alienated all the actual engineering talent again and again because they were little more than virtual blood boys.

It sounds more like this latter scenario is the most likely.

Its just all goddamned hype men and their blood boys up and down this grotesque beast of what was once an industry.

With those words you don’t work in an industry, you serve a new segment of technolords and their only goal is to eat everything.
I feel like whenever the topic of AR glasses come up, these large companies focus too much on cameras. When really, I'd be happy with just a persistent display that can be in my field of vision. A clock, notifications, maybe a map if I'm walking. I've been using the Viture One glasses as an external monitor and they've been great for privacy in public places. You definitely can't walk around with them since the internal prism messes with your sense of balance. But they are a nice step in the right direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdc9rcrZW8I
Data is getting scraped, models are being built, nobody is really going to stop that now.

You may wish it wasn't like that (not you, but all of us), but there's no way China or USA block their companies in development of key technology like this, and I think we (EU countries) should act in the same way.
Not really. The vast majority of adults are not at all accountable in today's society. We blame.
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"You don't need any of these increasingly abstract layers of complexity that exist only to solve the problems created by your previous solutions."

Woah you just stabbed the HN web dev community through the heart!

Direct link to a wonderful rant: https://imgur.com/n6WlLZw
It was because they could only image a dead/fixed 2D cross section on an electron microscope. The 2D cross section of a vast interconnected network of tubes looks like disconnected small “beans.”
Which are the non-member states still? Is that post Brexit UK and Norway (the EEA member)?
Your statement, not mine. And I wrote intelligence, not sentience.

People who become quadriplegic as adults (or older children) have already developed intelligence before.

My theory (which I have not researched in any way) implies that someone born fully quadriplegic would be severely impaired in developing intelligence. Sight and hearing are of course also important sources of feedback, the question is whether they are sufficient.
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You seem to very strict about the kind of political discourse that you would allow.
And I'm going to even elaborate on how problematic is your "net positive or society" and who would possibly be in charge of determining that.
Another gem from the thread:

https://suno.com/song/2f7c5ee6-a67b-4c4b-914f-65ed3d0ba734
And they all regretted their short sighted work didn’t they?
Well, im not measuring anything. Im just saying that the spend per capita is mostly equivalent for Singapore and UK.

No idea why you are equating enlightenment to per-capita GDP. I don’t quite understand that equation. Singapore may have a high per capita GDP, but that isn't resulting in a higher median individual incomes. Given the extremely high cost of living, the purchasing power of an average Singaporean is actually comparable to that of someone in the less affluent EU countries that have 1/4 of the GDP per capita and equivalent (or better!) healthcare. So while the GDP figure looks impressive, it doesn’t fully reflect the financial reality for most residents. Is that your "enlightened policies" at work?
I have the same browser and versions as you and it plays on my phone. Pixel 7 Pro, if that matters.
Oh, sorry. When I asked "do you think all taxes are theft" and theb you said "yes", I foolishly assumed that you consider taxes to be theft. How irrational of me!

But sure, enjoy your performative intellectual superiority. I'm sure lots of people are impressed.
If hedge funds must pursue hedging against market volatility, a lot of people misuse the term nowadays. These historical examples, which fund a technological project in order to achieve private advantages in market information, are those funds hedging against volatility?
Well... there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
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And people have been even more critical about x86 architecture. It doesn't matter that much.
They are still too small to innovate (to take risks, to invest in better technology), the jobs are also small for better tooling, everything requires too much on-site labor, etc.

SFH is itself a waste of money. And land, which is especially expensive where housing costs are high. For every small house different crews need to go there, prepare the site, do the foundation, etc.

Half of the hard costs is labor. (Which is, again, usually high in areas with high housing costs.)

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-makes-housing-so...

And of course the opportunity cost due to lost density effect is substantial, blablabla.

The tragedy is that there's a huge discontinuity here, and overcoming that would require a lot of capital (social, political, financial).

And in general construction productivity is extremely meh, to phrase it politely.

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insight...
Great article.

I think it may be the first time I saw Kagi mentioned in a major publication.
Yeah I get what they are saying, but if anything that supports my argument. Wealthy people might work less when taxes go up, but middle class people have to work more. Poor people might work less because of benefits, but overall the people who are working are working harder to support the shenanigans of everyone else.