skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the full story here and have not taken the time to dive into it. Perhaps I will later. I just want to make a quick comment based on some of the responses I've seen.

Having been the subject of market research, product plan and intellectual property theft in the past (no, not by the Chinese) and having that information used to launch a competing business I think I have perspective to offer on this.

There is HUGE difference between "R&D" and just "D". "R&D" is slow, costly and full of risk. "D" simply requires execution. Borrowing from sports talk, you know "where the puck is going" and you can aim in that direction. You don't have to invent much and you actually have the luxury of improving upon what you know is and will be the technology of the "R&D" shop from which you stole.

One of the mantras of YC startups goes something like "if you are not embarrassed by your first product...". This is usually true for hardware as well. And, in most instances, you actually know very well what you'd like to build next. However, hardware isn't a simple matter of a weekend pivot. You just don't have that freedom. Not even close. So you have to go with what you have, get it to market, make some money with it and look at introducing your "next generation" product a year later. You can't do hardware spins in a couple of months. The greater the volume the more you are shackled to whatever you are shipping and it can easily be a year or more before you can put out a significantly updated version 2.

I've seen comments about optics being sub-par and more. Well, that's the kind of thing that can happen when you are doing "R&D" and you have to put out a product. It could be embarrassing, but that's what you brought to the party and that's what has to ship.

The thief, on the other hand, knows what you are shipping, what's ugly about it, your future plans, market intelligence and much, much more. Upon gaining this information all they have to do is align it with funding and execute on your version 2 or 3 way before you do. While you are busy building a company the thief can surface out of seemingly nowhere with a product that your first product can't compete with.

This is PRECISELY what happened to me nearly twenty years ago. Our resellers, from the US, Europe, Asia and other areas started to call me out of nowhere to ask if we had licensed our products to company X. One of them made an interesting comment, he said: "Martin, the material they sent me sounds and reads exactly like what we've been talking about for more than a year" (under NDA, of course).

Company X came into the market and put our product --which was going to be replaced in about six months-- to shame. And they did it with MY product plan, MY specification, MY design, MY market intelligence. The net effect was that, ironically, when we came out with our product WE looked like we copied from them. Which was the proverbial addition of "insult to injury".

Anyhow, not defending anyone. I don't know enough. Just wanted to react to some of the comments that point out the thief's product is better than the original. Well, yeah. It would be.
Brilliant idea actually. When people are paid to spend time, and with very little oversight on how they spend it, people tend to get lazy.

I personally started to not go to meetings that fit certain patterns:

- is there a less senior, but capable engineer that can do it without me? If so, great. Lets make it their project [edit: this is to help them increase their impact]

- is there a weekly meeting that fits 'status checking' style? Do not go. I am mostly not needed anyway, and if i am they can reach out to me

- does the meeting involve >5 people? If so runaway, it cant be productive anyway (except if it is some sort of review with vps on project launch etc).

I try to be available and approchable anytime, and doing just the two above cuts my meetings by more than 50-60%.

For others, i try to ask an agenda and whether things can be resolved offline

Meeting creep, process creep are real things that get in the way of productivity. I can see how "showing" some monetary impact of having a useless meeting can help reduce it.
> If you're based in Europe: Would you use Western Union over SEPA ?

At least in France, people actually use apps like Venmo for person to person transfers (or cash, or cheques, but they're on their way out).

We mostly use SEPA for either automatic bill payment authorization, or big transfers.
No one will start a bank transfer and ask for their friends IBAN to pay back two beers.
"e" and "a" are the same but the "L" by Nreal is custom.
Additionally the "n" in Nreal looks like half of the "m" in Magic.

Only the "Nreal" part is using the font FYI and only 3 letters directly overlap (e, a, l).

Magic Leaps offers a similar font LominoUI on their site but it isn't entirely the same as the logo font:

https://creator.magicleap.com/learn/guides/design-typography
Magic leap has released something (although it’s not that amazing). It’s assumed that what is shown to investors is much too large for a consumer product but the promise is that they will someday get the tech to a consumer level.

I doubt they’ve been faking anything to investors like Theranos.
A lot of enterprise/“dark matter developers” who are happy going to work everyday doing our job and going home to our nice big houses in the burbs in lower cost cities.....
Wasn’t the original idea that apps weren’t required, as html5 would be sufficient? Jobs initialy believed in webapps.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything about no kinds of third party applications on ios at all
An application of dynamic programming in window management
Chinese companies have a very long history of state-supported IP theft.

When a Chinese product so obviously mimics an American product--especially when the chief engineer used to work for the American company--it's on the Chinese company to prove that no IP theft occurred. They've lost the benefit of the doubt.
Why is random better?
A very good friend of mine went through 2 years of prison due to a string of unfortunate incidents, and one of the best sysadmin/devops folks I know well before, and even after. They read a lot of fiction, as the "system" was opposed even to me sending some custom car and hot-rod building books. Such weird insecurity, don't want any inmate smarter than the $15/hr guards.

During his years inside, me as a linux user, found it almost impossible to use any/all services to communicate in the prison system. They were all built for only ie6 by the same little mafia of crappy IT web services companies that were entirely unusable outside of firing up an old xp instance. This was circa 2013. It made communications all but impossible, and really quite painful/expensive.

Everything from telephony, to any sending of property is controlled by a small, nepotism/lobbyist-driven industry mafia that literally over charge everyone involved, raping all sides associated to the incarcerated. Government lobbying at its finest by the prison industry, and actively fight against any reform.

After said person got out, went immediately back to making 6 figures with oddly a defense contractor even, and many others industries after. Employers were always happy to overlook some of his history for the graces that he was actually competent and produced results.

Go figure, often hard to find even those without prison records that can do so.
In the UK (and France, IIRC), Siri launched with a male voice only.

The poor support for women's issues in many apps (rape crisis centres in virtual assistants, period tracking in Apple Health etc) do represent serious failures in product development, but I suspect that the voice gender issue is a bit of a double-bind. If a male voice was the default in the US, I expect we'd be seeing thinkpieces about how Siri was reinforcing patriarchal stereotypes about men being authoritative.
A. It's more complicated than that.

B. If it wasn't clear, I'm generally on your side here.
The springs are not damped yet, but for the main example, drag is enabled[1]. This continuously slows down the particles.

Drag is computed[2] for all the particles using something similar to the Drag equation[3].

Also, like electricslpnsld said, having a small enough time step helps.

[1] https://github.com/loicbourgois/gravitle/blob/master/fronten...

[2] https://github.com/loicbourgois/gravitle/blob/master/src/par...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_equation
Not in the bay area or other tech centers, I would guess.
it doesnt make sense to stay in tech (as an individual contributor) long term - especially working for someone else
The article reports on the lawsuit, but is light on details about the headset. Tested recently did a 10 minute review on this headset, the 'Nreal Light' [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9A9u-lwjTs

Regardless of the merits of the lawsuit, I can see why Magic Leap would be scared. The AR glasses looks great. They're certainly stylish enough for the mass-market -- they look like normal glasses at first glance, they're quite reasonably priced (at $500), and run from a regular Android phones via USB-C (for power, as well as sensor and video data).

For reference, here's the Tested review for current Magic Leap product, the Magic Leap One Creator Edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrq2akzdFq8. It retails for $2295. Though it comes with controllers, eye-tracking for focal accommodation, two waveguides displays that are used to provide two separate physical layers to focus on.
Essentially just a base-10 version of floating point. It will work better for accountants and others performing conventional math done with base 10, but no fundamental advantage. The problem stems from trying to represent an uncountably infinite set with a finite set -- at the end of the day you end of with a very sparse approximation.
Self-repairing electrode might extend life of batteries
No, it’s illegal to discriminate against someone over 40. You can blatantly put on your requirements that you are looking for someone over 40 and can’t be sued - not saying that’s a good idea.

If you couldn’t discriminate against someone younger, you couldn’t post that you wanted someone with a master degree and 10 years of experience.
A complaint isn't required to allege specific IP stolen. It's to allege general categories of IP stolen. Too much specificity limits the scope of the complaint and would require an amended complaint if more IP was stolen than originally alleged.

The next stage of the litigation process, discovery, is for determining the specific IP pilfered (if any).
I gave up on Science decades ago. I started reading more Nature instead thinking it might be better, but I've given up on it now, too. Some folks who have read Nature for far longer than I did will tell you that it has always been problematic, even more so than Science. I fail to understand why either of these publications is held in particularly high regard.
There’s definitely a shortage of skilled professionals - we have a hard time hiring without lowering the bar as well, and I am at a FAANG. We don’t necessarily care if someone has experience in most of our stack - myself, I hardly had any experience in almost any of it when I joined, but I had the combination of soft & technical skills desired.

Since I joined, I have said no to all but 2 candidates I phone screened, and one of those I rejected in the onsite. We didn’t even ask a difficult question for people to implement, but people demonstrated their lack of thoughtfulness in how they approached problems.

I don’t care how old people are - one of my teammates has been at my workplace for a little under 30 years and is valued for his well-honed perspective, tireless QAing, and reliable execution. Regardless of age, I expect people to intelligently talk about tradeoffs, and keep an eye on the problem that is being solved & its effects on the end user.

The interesting thing about bigger companies is compensation stops matching up with the value created. Jumping up $100k-150k in total compensation usually correlates with an exponential increase in productivity increase from the person’s presence, and usually that increase is not from code.
Japan to provide 1.3 mil vaccines to kids in developing countries
No one is arguing for CTF to be playable on mobile, just that the page should be easily readable.

And it’s not hard to do that.
To be honest, reading the article made it sound even worse than the title. Having everything at your company priced for individual workers (from PCs to desks to smaller things) is a lot of nonsensical stress placed on workers. I already do enough econ bullshit outside of work, the last thing I want to do is start keeping spreadsheets for things that my workplace should provide me.
Yeah, I think that the example of what happened to PC makers' profits after Microsoft became the definition of PC instead of IBM-compatible, was pretty informative to the phone companies. They didn't have to be too tech-savvy to see that they didn't want to have PC makers' kind of profit margin, and Microsoft above all was the company that they would be suspicious of.
Feminist scholar calls Japan's gender problem 'human disaster'
A is not the same. It looks similar but the cut on the bottom has different angle. Also looking at it closer, even E is not the same. In magic leap the top cutout is bigger than bottom one, in nreal they have the same, equal size.
Because everybody is equal.
This is a complaint...it's the first step in a very long process of litigation.

In order to get to the next stage of litigation, it needs to allege just enough facts to make a "prima facie" showing (i.e., that it establishes at least some evidence of each claim).

If it makes that hurdle, the case proceeds to discovery, which is where both sides turn over documents, depose witnesses, etc., to determine the actual IP stolen (if any).

TLDR: it doesn't matter if the complaint is convincing. It's just the first step.
Boeing sued by 400 pilots over 737 MAX's 'unprecedented cover-up'
True, though it sounded like them only having a few years experience was a showstopper on its own (no other factors, like their mission blurb was unappealing), in this case?

Maybe we're back to your original statement, about ageism being a two-way street sometimes. I appreciate your candor in mentioning it. Were you thinking of particular things, like "they'll make bad decisions, or won't have much experience executing", or "they'll probably be on drugs, and the company picnic will be extreme snowboarding", or something else?
Indeed, I think backwards compatibility was actually a disadvantage, because it tempted app makers to want to use the same look and feel for devices that were too different for a single interface to work for both.
Openmailbox would be lovely, but I had the same experience of extreme slowness. Even their web client is slow—which, fine, I'll use Thunderbird, but I could not get POP or SMTP to work. (I currently use Protonmail.)
I’ve been in the robotics/embedded software industry for the last 15 years, and I have never experienced a vast majority of coworkers under 35. Either I’ve just been lucky, or this is one of the corners!
This.

Apple killed 32Bit arm in the A11 and as a result gained extra space on the chip for more cores and the Neural Processing module. It’s highly expected that they will eventual build ARM Macs and that can’t happen if 32Bit software is common.
if you cant up-skill then tech isnt a good field for you regardless of age
The potential downside of GM food is human extinction.

In the 80s and 90s the beef industry meddled with nature and started feeding animal meat to cows. The result was a disease that could have killed us all if we had eaten contaminated beef in the previous 10 years. If the genetic conditions that make people susceptible to vCJD were more common or universal, we might not be here today [1].

Grass-fed beef can be assumed safe because it has been eaten by humans for 200,000 years. Animal-fed beef turned out to be very dangerous very quickly. People who think GM food is as safe as food we’ve been eating for hundreds of thousands of years are highly delusional.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Creutzfeldt–Jakob_dise...
Ninja is one of the oldest professions in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja
> corporation that is in no way on the hook for anything towards the common man.

It is, because corporations have stronger incentives than governments to benefit the common man.
...out of a company budget that they use to requisition company resources.

They don't pay out of pocket, which would generally be illegal in most First World nations...
Yeah, it is an especially silly statement because Blackberry and Apple ios both existed at the time Android came out, so obviously it was NOT fundamentally a winner-take-all market. He kind of backwards-admits this by calling it the "non-Apple" market.
As someone who's "getting up there in the years", I really want to believe such a shift will come to pass, but somehow doubt it will, at least for my generation. Partially because '80s - '00s generation CS students were by an overwhelming majority upper-middle class males, and it's hard to generate sympathy for what are now mostly high-earning older men. As pointed out by others, it's "the bias in tech nobody wants to talk about." There's almost this sort-of "serves you right for getting complacent" kinda attitude around all of it. In general, the most sympathetic coverage I see about ageism in tech is through investigative journalism contextualized with riches-to-rags stories of the loyal Company Man whose American Dreams are dashed at the behest of an uncaring Corporate Goliath: "He had a family, a stable 6-figure job, 30 years of experience, and multiple advanced degrees, but now he's in the breadline". The perfect example of this is ProPublica's coverage of IBM's layoffs. Meanwhile, there is little recognition of the parallels between the purported "millennial mindset", sought-after and lauded by corporate HR departments, which holds "my job is my purpose, my life's work" and the sort of toxic "leetcode-ism" / "brogrammer" culture that is harmful to diversity in tech.

Anecdotally, the older folks who work a strict 9-5 are, unsurprisingly, often the most welcoming and "chill" people I've worked with. They also manage to get the same amount or more "real work" (i.e. fewer bugs, less drama) done in that same 9-5 block (again, this should be unsurprising when one considers the effect of experience). However, I also recognize these older folks have been almost overwhelmingly men. In my career thus far, I can recall working with 3 women over the age of 40 who were direct-contributors. Most corporate HR departments believe at least part of the solution to this problem is laying off "old guys" and replacing them with "young woke millennials," whilst totally ignoring that the "old" part of that is itself a bias and protected category. However, the protections are getting weaker (https://www.propublica.org/article/appeals-court-rules-key-a...).

Anyways, for folks looking for somewhat offbeat advice - as I get around to being an "old guy" myself, I've found that having dreads and a beard (and generally being of that "long haired freaky people" bent), while maintaining physical fitness, has helped a tremendously in masking my age. People are usually shocked to find I'm not "in my 20s or something." Of course this is sort of lifestyle-specific and not accessible to everyone, and I assume at some point I'll reach that "uncanny valley" with regards to my appearance and age, as mentioned by another poster.
There’s a shortage of engineers who will work for the incredibly low industry-standard wages.
A lot of developers in open space offices will grab an unused conference room when they need some quiet to focus on tricky code.

Probably would want to pass on that with this policy. Assuming it's even true, given it's on Bloomberg which with its various pronouncements this last year has proven as reliable as The Sun. Maybe they just made it all up.
Not to pick on the guy, but when you're asking for funds before releasing source: is it "funded open source" ?

Surely people would have been a bit pissed if a strange project got backers, but the problem here was snake oil PR.

"It's amazing, better than anything else, just give me a bit of money and I'll give it to you when it's finished"
How this relates to GM?
Another factor is if they eventually move to their ARM chips in Macs they need to deal with the fact that The Ax CPUs lack 32Bit support and are 64Bit only.
For Sale: Free Operating System (1998)
Most of the videos are blocked by copyright :(
It doesn’t make sense to take that comment out of context, though. I sounds like you are trying to do that, but it doesn’t make sense and that’s probably why many people don’t see your comment as valid.
I would say that, even if windows Vista had been great as a desktop/laptop OS, making a mobile phone OS that is based on a microcomputer OS is a mistake, not likely to go well.

Apple did not try to make ios a clone of Mac's OS.
Healthy living can't prevent cancer
There were a few vaporware corps that proposed ionizing atmosphere with an ultraviolet laser and then sending high voltage RF down that channel. It was supposed to be against cars but I imagine non-rad-hard electronics would find some induced currents troublesome.
"A later revision of IEEE 754 attempted to remedy this, but the formats it recommended were so inefficient that it has not found much acceptance. DEC64 is a better alternative."

This is just plain wrong. The IEEE decimal float types are now in SQL as DECFLOAT, coming to C and C++, I could go on...
And as a counterpoint, I've worked with a number of Senior-level programmers more than old enough to be my parents and seen them behave in some of the most god-awful ways. Resume-Driven-Development, Not-Invented-Here syndrome, refusal to write new tests, refusal to maintain existing tests, breaking the build, deploying broken code. All because of the insidious little "because I (don't) want to."

I'm less convinced that age has anything to do with good outcomes these days as is the discipline to do the responsible things, regardless of how little we wish to do those things.
This i agree. Cognitive load of pricing everything would be very high. I agree on putting monetary impact on meetings, however.
Helping organizations do more without collecting more data- Google Security Blog
The problems of insufficient donors and that of oppression by the government are different problems. An opt-out registry solves the problem of insufficient donors. As for the government, it will find other ways to oppress people so long as the people don't carry weapons to defend themselves.
My favourite mashup of his is Village People's Y.M.C.A with Hans Zimmer's Inception soundtrack. It really puts the lyrics in the spotlight

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DsoCe7C4Kmk
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IIRC, something like 90% of a software engineer's career will be spent doing "maintenance" work - working on existing code bases, some of which may (eventually) be quite long in the tooth. So it's something that the young bucks are going to have to get used to pretty quickly.

Also, a lot of the "new" stuff that they want to work on is really old stuff, just with a new name and a new coat of paint. Having been in the business for several decades now I see of lot of this, and I am by turns both amused and appalled by it.
I don't want to take any position on either Magic Leap as a product/company or on this lawsuit, but it's not at all unusual for R&D to cost far more than production. This is how drug development works: someone spends billions researching and developing a drug and gets a temporary monopoly on production. Once competition is allowed and prices are competed down to the marginal cost of production the generics are close to free in comparison to the original branded product.

So "Nreal copied Magic Leap's product after Magic Leap sank billion into R&D" is an entirely plausible explanation for the comparable results despite the dramatic gap in funding.