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Now with COVID-19, they really DO have a killer demo:

1. Put the goggles on some investor's head.

2. Investor catches COVID-19 and dies.

Nobody wants to share VR or AR gear any more. The whole idea of location based VR / AR entertainment centers is deadly now.

If it's so great you can't believe it without trying it yourself, and nobody wants to stick their head in a device that anybody else has been drooling and coughing and vomiting in, it doesn't matter how great it is, nobody's going to try it.
With the whole shelter-at-home thing, I had a chance to work on a simple app for my kids. One of the corollaries of "simple" was avoiding an ORM.

Implementing logic is single SQL queries can definitely be a bit challenging, but I thought it was also quite rewarding and liberating - Raw SQL is incredibly powerful!
Some names are just too perfect.

Starcraft Ghost

The Phantom (games console)

Duke Nukem Forever (though it eventually did come out)
> Governments by their very nature, and democratic ones especially, are supposed to be about charging taxes and redistributing that wealth for the better good.

The idea that democracies allocate resources efficiently (as in, "for the greater good") is one that I do not agree with. If a democratic majority conclude that harsh restrictions on immigration is beneficial for them (as they suppress the bargaining power over wages/benefits of those who immigrated illegally anyway), then maintaining these restrictions would be democracy as intended. However, you'd still end up with a significant underclass and thus an inefficient outcome.

I think even a cursory analysis of the state would lead you conclude that governments don't efficiently allocate resources in any meaningful sense, but they do allocate resources very well from those who are disadvantaged by its policy to those who are privileged by it, democratic or not.
This fee doesn't seem that unreasonable, but I do think best solution is for businesses / people to have deposit accounts at the fed
HN is not a marketing site, hashtags don't work here btw.
Don’t Go to Xrclabs.com
I built a retail startup and took funding from XRC labs. Probably the worst accelerator in the US. Their management and team is terrible and do nothing for you. I see why the Co-Founder Holly left. I should’ve noticed a red flag when their portfolio companies never exited or raised a Series A. Their terms are not founder friendly and you can’t raise from any investor after you take their money because of terrible terms hidden. Pantho needs to fire his entire team and get new people who actually know about startups. All in all I know their LPs are done burning cash into this poorly run accelerator. The retail industry sure looks good these days :)
Already handled! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22940299
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I created Timelines so that people could have ownership over their data while posting on social media.
Timelines stores your data in a specific folder on your Google Drive which is sandboxed from all your other data on Google drive.

Do try it out. Hoping to get some useful feedback. Thanks!

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The extra "AND expr" in the join clause makes it more strict, which means the outer join can produce more nulls in the joined tuple. In a sequence like A left join B left join C, moving the extra join filter between the two joins is the difference between getting tuples like (a..., null..., null...) vs (a..., b..., null...).
How many man-hours do you think $10,000,000,000 gets you?

Alternately, what do you think the pay per man-hour ended up being?
It is a highly likely the photograph were modified with Deluxe Paint 3. I don't see what else they would have used at the time.
Somewhere roundabout EC2 is the remains of some religious building, with an office built over it. Walk past the big glass windows, double-take then blag your way in politely and admire it. It's a serious chunk of stonework that's literally been built around. It's so peculiar to see the juxtaposition. I think it's related to henry 8th's destructions. Does anyone know it?

I did a search but couldn't find it, what I did find is quite interesting. Take a look at the top picture here https://symbolsandsecrets.london/page/21/

Scroll down for some more of londinium and assorted london relics.
$10 billion from $350 billion is 3 percent.

That makes it sounds like bank is taking on some form of risk, but they're not.

Sure, bankers are paid more and there's labor involved.

But $10 billion is 1 year salary for 100,000 people making $100,000 / year.

It's obscene amount of money.
Will VR/AR join 3D TV in the consumer tech hall of shame?
Are there other companies making progress in the augmented reality space? I've tried the Hololens v1 and was completely underwhelmed. The field of view is far too small and not impressive or immersive at all. Is the v2 much better? When will we get what Magic Leap was initially promising?
The note there lists that Tangier was founded by the Carthaginians. But Carthage itself was located near modern-day Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.
Personally, starting a newsletter/blog has been one of the most valuable personal development experiences I've ever had. It's allowed me to:

- Meet tons of smart and friendly experts in a field I might want to work in some day

- Gain a deeper understanding of what consistency and quality look like

- Take my interest in my topic of choice (in my case, video games) to a whole new level

The only drawback I can think of is the scope of it all. There's always so much good content to write about, prioritizing and weighing personal vs public interest isn't an easy task.
Oh, if it is a foreign power, they arent laundering it to prevent the US government from discovering the source, they are doing it to prevent discovering the source from their own governments. Because those foreign actors wouldn’t be running away from taxes from the US, since those money were never in the US in the first place.

Also curious on how it would work. If a rich foreign national decides to invest into a random startup, i dont think US has the ability to look into where the money came from, unless that foreign national claims to have made those money in the US.

Again, could totally be wrong here, so please someone correct me if that’s the case.
How would you approach those things? Do we altogether avoid making those lists because they don't fit a strict criteria? I think they serve a very useful purpose and taken in the correct context, are incredibly informative. At the very least it stimulates curiosity which is a positive effect in itself.
Happened to me to with a company within my trial period. It's amazing how many things you can learn about a company in times of difficulty, in my case leaving the company was happening with or without the layoff.. I hope your friend can find a replacement soon.
If Congress creates a bad law, how is JP Morgan to blame for following it?

Let's say they say, "there must be some mistake here - let's use our own authority to do what we think is right". Would that not just expose them to lawsuits and other issues?
You can't.

Federal government must be dissolved or made smaller (maybe down to just DoD and DoJ, although the former is likely the most corrupt one).
Surprised no one has mentioned IoT yet.

The goal is to have everything connected to the grid. Your door opens: it pings a server, you walk in through your main entrance: A notification is sent.

Not just in home automation, but in industrial settings as well.

There's a lot of heavy machinery equipment and industries ripe for disruption as IoT devices scale into those industry verticals. For example: real-time access to information about machinery running the supply chain is invaluable. Whether it is ground, air, or ocean freight, being able to tell when a shipment is loaded, when the carrier has arrived, etc... helps optimize a supply chain and allows operators to react in real-time to address supply and demand. Everything will be tracked whether it's an NFC or RFID sticker, and IoT devices will pick up these trackers as they flow through a system or supply chain.

In short 5G enables IoT devices at scale that can feed data into BI systems
can let you find bottlenecks and react in real-time to issues that have a high impact from a deliverables perspective and might require intervention to correct an issue in real-time.

4G does not have the bandwidth capacity to enable IoT devices at scale.
The value comes from the robot producing things for much lower costs than the human, eventually paying for itself many times over.
Palmer Luckey (Oculus founder) has repeatedly dragged them for cheating on their demos. Given how much faith some investors have had in them, I imagine that's what happened there, too, at least for the first batches.
I think it’s up there, but still Google Glass takes the cake (or maybe General Magic).

Glass did release limited versions of stuff, unlike Magic Leap, but I think they spent way more money than Magic Leap. Magic Leap raised $2.6B [0]. Although I have no idea how much Google spent, I suspect it’s more than this when you factor in the barges and rollout plan that they had and didn’t use at all.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap#section-l...
Wow this is misinformed. Posting incorrect information in such a cocky way is detrimental to the forum.

Look at any global bank's stock price throughout this crisis. Being a lender to the businesses of a shut down economy is not very profitable.
Docker's v2 image format was the starting point for OCI, which is a later standard (and: actually a standard with multiple implementations, rather than a single implementation).

This is much more noticeable when you run into Docker v1 and Docker v2 images. They're quite different under the hood. In particular it means that OCI images can perform "layer rebasing" and "cross-repository blob mounting". Updating a layer of an image goes from O(n) to O(1).
> I would also love to inhabit the parallel universe where Netflix hands out a 4-minute buffer, because in this one 20 seconds seems to be on the high end.

Presumably it depends on the device, but I vaguely recall testing this out on a Chromecast, and I found Netflix to buffer up for several minutes. Some other streaming providers, such as Rakuten, only buffered around 15 seconds.

> I strongly suspect that Netflix's video and audio are sent in different streams

I think this might be right. They presumably want to support lots of different combinations of audio codecs and video codecs, so keeping them separate would make sense. Pure guesswork on my part though.
Unemployment peaked at 23% in the US during the Great Depression, and that's without many types of business being illegal to operate as is currently the status quo for areas under shelter in place orders right now. Its certainly not a perfect comparison, but the effects of mass unemployment are hardly unknowable, and we'd be lucky to see only 23% unemployment if lockdown orders persist for half a decade.
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And what if the self-driving cars end up causing fewer deaths than human drivers?
I agree with your general point, but San Francisco politics is the worst example. The local political scene is huge and all very connected together, and you have a billion options for every seat because people are trying to play the game and just run for any office. We had a dude running for Community College Board last cycle who had never attended any sort of public school.
Wow, they burned billions.

Karl Guttag has blogged about them for years, debunking their technology. Hi blog is a good read for all things in the AR/VR space https://www.kguttag.com/
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Marahba!

Yeah, it's either that, or the fact that Tunis (the new capital) was founded 10 miles away after the Umayyads took Carthage from the Byzantines (mentioned by u/scythe).
If y'all want more discussion on this, I tweeted about Paketo and why I find it interesting: https://twitter.com/jbeda/status/1252974134532780034
Rather depends what font the quizmaster is speaking in: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/71807/what...
> Facebook has quietly stepped away from AR/VR

Has Facebook de-prioritized Oculus? I haven't heard any news, but I'm also not following it closely.
This is by design. The entire program was built and designed to benefit them, and I would not be surprised if it turned out that they were instrumental in writing the legislation and were given details ahead of time, so they could get a leg up on the "competition".
I actually didn't know that Fork can be bought! I installed a Beta version a while back, upgraded regularly and never have been shown a nag screen. Gladly paid for my license a few minutes ago.
"Research group" is a generous description for them.
Sort of makes sense. You'd need a ground-truth search->document dataset, I think, to test on, though. Seems a bit hand-tuned.
They did? I'm not a developer myself so I may have missed out on this, but I never sensed any enthusiasm about the platform. ARKit certainly brought a few people into that world, but I've never felt that Magic Leap inspired anything but skepticism practically since launch.
I don't think it's as elaborate as you're saying -- the clearest road into a productive job for many years has been "join a fast growing tech company who uses <cool_framework> to do the magic, so the tech team is always building more business logic". When you've been working with (eg:) ActiveRecord and Ruby on your database data, direct SQL just doesn't come up until you're trying to wrangle more efficiency in your queries or do more complicated joins.

It certainly makes sense for all developers to learn more SQL! But it just hasn't been part of the daily work requirement for many.

As for the attraction of noSQL databases, I think perhaps it's more of a new-hotness trend rather than a serious technical decision. NoSQL has its place, but like most of this kind of tooling, it's often applied incorrectly because of a lack of thinking through the business logic.
WTF? In _Nature_?

Loved it, though.
I like that line of thinking. It leads me immediately to the question "do smokers get more colds?". If the answer is yes, you may be on to something. If the hypothesis in the paper is right the answer should be that they get fewer colds.

For me this whole thing reminds me that nobody takes colds seriously. But now it seems like there has actually been a lot of study on coronaviruses.
The first time I had a reason to build Chromium was ten years ago. I was using a 32-bit machine with 4 GB of RAM, and that's where the story ends.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2472.pdf does not mention structs at all, which is disappointing.

I quoted this language below: "_ExtInt types are bit-aligned to the next greatest power-of-2 up to 64 bits: the bit alignment A is min(64, next power-of-2(>=N)). The size of these types is the smallest multiple of the alignment greater than or equal to N. Formally, let M be the smallest integer such that A * M >= N. The size of these types for the purposes of layout and sizeof is the number of bits aligned to this calculated alignment, A * M. This permits the use of these types in allocated arrays using the common sizeof(Array)/sizeof(ElementType) pattern."

But to be honest I don't understand what it's trying to say. If bit width N = 3, the next power of 2 is 4, so would that mean that "bit alignment(?)" A = 4? Then M = 1 is the smallest integer such that A * M >= 3. Then the size of the type would be 4 bits? That wouldn't fly with sizeof.
I'd hardly classify Glass as vaporware.

They have an Enterprise product still being supported: https://www.google.com/glass/start/
If you're self employed and are looking for some really good info, check out the site that bench.co put together:

https://bench.co/blog/operations/paycheck-protection-program...

I have no affiliation with them, just think they have a great collection of articles on the PPP, EIDL and the other SBA COVID programs. There's so much SPAM content out there it's tough to tell what is legit and what is not.

The SBA.gov site has limited information on the programs, there are more criteria that the lenders are applying to make sure they are covered. Many people would not have realized that they were eligible for the programs based on the news stories and government sites.
Get something out, you aren't going to find it easy to raise money without proof you can deliver something people want. If you haven't been able to do that in 2 years, why would anyone give you money?
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To be clear I am not advocating optimizing everything down to the last bit here. Problem here is when THERE IS a need many would not even have a slightest clue where to begin as all those "low level" concepts were relegated into oblivion.
Because it's fashionable to say so!

Kinda like having a tattoo in High School: it makes you look deep to girls in their teens...
Old source code of CS:GO and TF2 was leaked
Not sure if Facebook is stepping away from AR/VR. Oculus/ Facebook reality labs is still hiring plenty of folks in the optics/ photonics world.. even making announcements over the last week on open positions.
I think it's less of a tale of "vaporware" (I mean, Magic Leap has something that actually exists, even if it's not successful) than yet another cautionary tale of startups taking WAAAYYY more money than they need.

There was simply no reason for them to need this much cash before they proved market fit. I mean, has there ever been a successful company that gorged on funding before they needed it that eventually became successful? So many of the Vision Fund companies are in the same boat here.

If Magic Leap couldn't find at least good market fit with a couple hundred million, I don't see how they were going to get there with a couple billion.
Do you have a source for Facebook stepping away from AR/VR? I hadn’t heard that.
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They have amazing software running on a supercomputer, but weren't able to fit it into a pocket (with their portable NVidia-based device). Maybe in 20 years?
Glass was killed by a single word: "glasshole" - I've never seen anything else so utterly destroyed so quickly.
That point was plenty clear, and I was not disputing it, so no need for an apology. The more relevant point here is whether narrow banking is legal at all, and I was trying to bring the discussion over to that point.

If your point was merely to cite some non-blocking barrier to narrow banking, than I don't really see why you brought it up. If you want to apologize, apologize for being technically correct at the expense of providing insight.
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First of all, great demo, and great showcase for this technology. I think it did a great job of showing its strengths to traditionally backend developers like me.

I also appreciated the twitter analogy. I just couldn't help but think "Wait, Twitter doesn't have 'Update/Edit Post'!" :)

I've heard that Blazor in the .net world has similar goals to LiveView, but I haven't gotten into it much. Can anyone confirm?
I'm not saying bailout is wrong, but taxpayers should be handsomely rewarded for those bailouts (at least 20% APR) as those bailout companies were making a lot of money on taxpayers and never shared any profits with them (they even avoid paying taxes though various financial means).
CTEs can help a bit with composition (and readability)
> structured much more like a think tank and policy center

Uh, I agree that the central bank isn't consumer facing - but this is a bit of a stretch. Think tanks don't loan trillions of dollars.
> I am upset at myself for hoping anyone in this process would act like a decent human being.

I hear you that you were hoping these big institutions would do what was best for people and the country in a time like this and they didn't deliver on that.

If helpful, this is how I thought of it. If the fees are higher on bigger loans, and the company's goal is to make money, this was the right decision for them. These banks are as successful as they are because they are the best at optimizing for the goals the system we've created has set. Maybe in a special case like this, they could've chosen to go against this incentive. But that would probably be worse in the long term. The real problem at hand is that the incentives we've set aren't the ones that we want anymore. We know it needs to be fixed, but it's really hard because our economy is this tightly coupled web. No one really knows what will happen if we start changing incentives. So we've decided not to change much yet. In a way, if banks had gone against their incentives in this moment of acute need, it really would've been a lie. A red herring that might make us delay changing the incentives even longer.

I guess the way I'm holding this is without righteousness. There's no single individuals in these banks that are the evil ones to blame. We've just created a system of incentives that ensures whoever is making certain decisions will keep making the ones that are made. It doesn't matter who, they'll always be made. It's like darwinism. So let's really spend time thinking about what change we want to make that would reward people for making the choices we want to see.
And we wonder why healthcare is so expensive in the US.

Maybe it's time we reconsider some of these regulations.

Medical billing sucks across the board (ask most doctors or any patient), and $5 aspirin is borderline criminal negligence.
What the program needed was for applicants to demonstrate they had exhausted other lines of credit available or at least had been turned down for a loan since their state implemented business closures. The same way unemployment checks are contingent on making some effort to find gainful employment these forgivable “loans” should only be given to those who (1) truly need assistance and (2) have made a good-faith effort not to need assistance.
I put in an application immediately with Bank of America. My business is pretty small so our requested loan was about ~$80K. I personally know others who used the same automated system after me and received a loan while I got an email a couple days ago asking me to hope that Congress allocates more money.

The problems are pretty simple. Big banks prioritized big customers, especially those with debt to the banks. If your monthly payroll is $2.5M, are you really a mom and pop shop? Big banks then collected ridiculously high fees for a simpler process than they normally conduct. I'm guessing they literally had a team that estimated the highest fee they could charge without being punished by the government.
I think Apple has been around long enough to know better than to make claims like "iOS is secure" or "macOS is secure".

Oracle, for example, apparently learned the hard way about claiming software is "unbreakable".

Everyone here on HN knows that pretty much nothing is "secure".
I have Fork, but I don't see any word diffing functionality, unless you are just referring to an additional highlight on the changed word(s)
It's not the your opinion differs, is that's you are presenting a cognitive dissonance. If you have years of experience then you would understand exactly how this happens, and yet, you think it was avoidable, which is a misunderstanding of operational failures.

If this failure was so easy to avoid, it would have been avoided. It was the result of a combination of failures, as all failures in highly-available systems are. It was a failure in bitrot, in planning, in execution, in communication, in reluctance to failover due to a concern about failing back, etc.

That said, like Matthew said, this is the kind of failure that happens once.
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