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the hype was around their fiber scanning display patents, they were showing investors a totally new technology that projects images into your eyeballs. There are numerous articles describing the patented pie-in-the-sky vs the state-of-the-art, just one example here: [0]

> They don’t even have an decent brightness control of the pixels and didn’t even attempt to show color reproduction (requiring extremely precise laser control). Yes the images are old, but there are a series of extremely hard problems outlined above that are likely not solvable which is likely why we have not seen any better pictures of an FSD from ANYONE (ML or others) in the last 7 years.

Magic Leap was unable to improve and miniaturize this technology - its a dead end - so they ended up using the same tech as everyone else

[0] https://kguttag.com/2016/11/28/magic-leap-no-fiber-scan-disp...
I see several comments here defending new-shiny syndrome in the context of improving the developer.

From a business standpoint, that doesn't make a ton of sense. Development is meant to complete the business's objective of solving a problem for humans. It's not meant to make the developers enjoy their work more (though that's a nice bonus when it happens).

Chasing the new shiny puts the team in a perpetual state of re-learning how to do a known process. Maintaining and extending existing code in a known way is more predictable and more cost-effective.
I will. I work in an engineering company which shipped a number of AR glasses projects (for clients I can't name,) and I can say that whomever did engineering for Magic Leap had no idea whatsoever about basics of optics, and such.

And their overall engineering level is totally amateurish — you cannot have such shoddy job being done for money, let alone such amount of money, but they have everything to tick the checkbox in the buzzword department: waveguides, holographics, structural colour, photonic chips...

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One main point:

Holographic waveguides, and such are a dead end development with a substandard image quality which you cannot do anything about, as well as its inefficiency (these waveguides waste 70-90%+ of light.)

You can make them more opaque to preserve more light, but then you get VR sunglasses, instead of what the promise is.

The fundamental problem is that the amount of image light transferred is inversely proportional to the amount of light obscured. — they are extremely inefficient, and there is physically no way around this.

For this reason this solution really had to be sent to the wastebin on day one, and not be presented as the next best thing after sliced bread. This is obvious to anybody knowing optics on above a high school level, and it's inconceivable how anybody paying real engineers can opt for this solution.
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> agriculture

This I did not know.

> vehicles

This I hoped would never happen (security and privacy) - but anyway. (It has been a problem for well over a full decade, I know.) Anyway, as said, there is some light side: providing features while defending as much as possible security and privacy is a stimulating goal. One would feel more comfortable, though, if that were an established, common, given, granted goal.
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Related: If you use Home Assistant and have Chromecast devices, the AirCast addon will allow you to use AirPlay to send something to a Chromecast device.

https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-aircast
Why? Checkout what version you want to roll back to, and deploy it.
I think it is competition for local talent. I worked for a US tech company in a remote office in a smaller Scandinavian city and at senior levels we got comparable salary/stock compensation. There was a slight adjustment for COL, ~10%.

There are other US based tech companies in the city which helped drive up the compensation. And at senior levels (staff+) employees are much much harder to replace.
Seems to work even for the subdomain link example below:

https://kgizdov.medium.com/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50ea...

Output:

https://scribe.rip/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50ea81f69f5
> 2x hours into it

Yeah, that includes a lot of time learning. For that reason it is also exciting, because you’re having fun learning what you chose to and additionally fattens the resume.. that releases extra dopamine.
I'm surprised Node has cold-start issues. I had it in my mind that JS was Lambda's "native" language and wouldn't have cold start issues at all. Did it used to be like that? Didn't Lambda launch with only support for JS, and maybe a couple other languages that could compile to it?
It's not about when it happens, it's about the fact that humans are tribal, and it is immediately scary to be cut off from your tribe. For an older generation that already feels disconnected from their world and have started to lose their social circles, the immediate disconnect from what they had left is traumatizing, regardless of the platform.
Maybe hide a raspberry pi somewhere at a store and setup a vpn tunnel to the local network?
We must be miscommunicating again or I'm being dimmer than usual, because when I read the spec and the MDN page I don't see any way of forcing the display format (pattern attribute exists only for browsers which do not understand the picker).

I see 'browser will autodetect the right display format for the locale and give back YYYY-MM-DD' in so many words, which would be nice if it worked. The problem being it not actually working and not allowing me any good way to override it when it doesn't work.

To be sure I wasn't imagining things, I decided to test again, with the simplest example I could find on the net (I forget w3schools still exists).

https://imgur.com/a/XQWOfBk

Note the date format on the picker. I can assure the test system used had LANG, LC_TIME, LC_ALL, timezone, etc. all set to a non-American locale. I used Chromium to make sure this is on a typical(ish) browser. Still the MM/dd/YYYY format is used.
Japan's well oiled and peaceful machine comes from a thousand little things that everyone cooperates on. Only areas with large numbers of foreigners have trash cans in public (and still have litter issues). When you walk into a grocery store during a downpour, you do your best to dry off and leave your wet umbrella at the fire. If young people are whispering too loudly, someone will ask them to quiet down and they will listen. Mutual trust and respect that comes with a tightly knit and homogenous society.
I'm definitely not some wizened master but I'd also agree with the statement. Good updated fully reflective of use documentation is not the majority of libraries and even the ones that do manage to do a good job often miss some critical change till someone raises an issue or a PR.
Is there any proof of this claim?

I always see these types of quotes brought up on Hackernews; an overly simplistic worldview that normally groups humans in to three sub-categories. In these sub-categories there's always a group that's semi-impossible to be in, a group that you don't want to be in, and a group that you -- of course -- are in because, well, we're on _Hackernews_ and not Facebook.

But, and I know the irony is dripping right now, where is the empirical data to back any of these claims? The numbers and groups seem to be things simply thrown at the wall.
https://scribe.rip/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50ea81f69f5

works fine
> So, the overindebted in the US are those who used credit for expenses or for failed investments. They are poorer than those with zero debt.

Someone who owns a $200,000 house (and a mortgage of $210,000) is poorer than someone who has no house?

Someone who took a $50,000 loan for a new car and drove it for one day, technically lowering its price to $45,000, is poorer than someone who has no car?
What differentiates COVID from "serious COVID"? Is this referring to the potency of the strain, or the body's immune response to it?
Which also didn't add multicore support, it still has a GIL. But it has been an extremely valuable lesson for other systems, so there's tha.
Another one of those articles...

Please tell us how you incentivise your staff to deprioritise their skill growth in favour of your business? I hope to hear things other than "salary, benefits and bonus" but they have to be monetary.
For my side project I try to keep it as simple as possible.

After I run tests locally, I've got a makefile that deploys to either Google Cloud Run or fly.io.

Database is Cloud SQL which works well enough for me.
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> I pay a service to manage backups so I can walk away from a solo project for months and know it's ticking away.

Any recommendation of such service?
You don't have to actually implement anything, only advise.

I'm sure those people exist, but every successful SAP consultant I know in Europe also spends a lot of time coding and implementing.
This is ironic because the exact same thing could have been said about Neural Networks back in the 90s. Just because there aren't any practical applications now of "mathy ML", it does not mean it's a dead end.
"Manufacturing consent" has to be the seminal term that defines the age we live in. The dust hasn't even settled on the Afghanistan disaster, and already the propaganda machine is spinning at full speed trying to build the next enemy - China.
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Good call! ~ Will add them in the next version.
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— especially if they're technical you don't use them regularly at work?

For example, I don't work in finance (got the degree but my grades were abysmal), but I have a great deal of interest in the field, so I bought the CFA and CAIA curriculum. As I read it I grasp it and answer provided problems with no difficulty. But when I return to the material a few months later, I may as well re-read the whole thing for the amount of detail I've retained.
You're divulging into a different area altogether. It's apparent the person I replied to genuinely wanted to refer to the overall less privileged demographic in his post in the context of Reels and its creators, not specifically to caste.

And they are not the same, however close and correlated you may feel they are.
I want a good consumer AR headset. VR gives me a headache and I really think AR will be more fun / integrated with our lives.

It's sad that MSFT made the HoloLens enterprise only, otherwise I'd be next in line for that.
yep. Those are real win10 powertoys https://winaero.com/download-winaero-tweaker/ https://www.nirsoft.net https://www.voidtools.com
I just use Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Gitea, NewRelic, rclone, and some custom build services with GoLang for DB backups and maintenance, that’s it.

I’m fairly sure I can maintain up to 50 servers as solo developer with the above mentioned tools.
They also have an embedded link to this paper(https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02054 )
regarding the provable convergence of neural networks by non-convex gradient descent optimization. You are correct, the researchers do no propose an alternative to sgd based training (or at least according to the article). It did seem like it was going toward an alternative training method, perhaps SMO on kernel SVM, but then it pivots to describing the theoretical result for infinte kernel svm from the linked article.
you mean the legislation that forced banks to use google safety nets create hindrance in rooting the phone? I really find myself in hopeless position these days when Google can do anything freely because they have enough cash to lobby anything.
A great blog post echoing the same sentiments (that no longer appears to be there):

If you have ever dealt with me directly as a customer, attended one of my presentations, or even simply stomached one of my diatribes in a casual, technical conversation, you have no doubt heard about one of my pet peeves (no, not “Tips –n- Tricks” – we’ll visit that another time) but the term “best practices.”

I loathe that term. I know we are guilty of it at Microsoft – so are just about every single technology-based organizations. In our ever-evolving industry, to put something down in print as THE ABSOLUTE BEST PRACTICES goes against the very nature of the word “practice.” It can seem arrogant. It implies way too much finality. It also can mean serious disruption when a practice changes. I work in a consulting practice. As products, regulations, politics, and trends change, so do our recommended practices. This is why I purposely try to use “under the current recommended practice” or simply just “current recommended practices.”

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/gladiatormsft/archive/2014/08/25/...
> Everything that TS does JS libraries do better

Which ones do you need to do everything TS does?

> without the horrible tradeoffs

Which tradeoffs are horrible?
> At which point does the GPU get its own dedicated power supply?

This is true in many machines already for several years, if you look at the machines the hard to find GPUs are actually in.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that is a market force behind this new PCIe standard.
Time, my friend, time. Women need time invested in them. Not money, not energy. Time.
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> You are your own person, not a mindless company drone. Your life is not dictated by the context of your professional life. Mixing both is terribly unhealthy. Much like alcoholism, just because people use it as an excuse to fill in voids in their life that does not make it any healthier or even desirable.

Seems like my simple suggestion struck a nerve. The idea that while WFH can be beneficial to global society, but still represent a decrease in human socialization isn't really groundbreaking or controversial.

Right now, we have the highest rates of WFH in history and also historical levels of loneliness and depression. All three of these trends were happening pre-COVID. We don't have to make sweeping comparisons to completely unrelated illnesses (alcoholism) to see that people are generally not replacing the socialization found in the office with socialization at home.

When I was in the office socializing with my co-workers/friends, I didn't consider it being a "mindless company drone", I thought of it as being a human with historically human social interactions. You clearly don't (or didn't) like those interactions, but you aren't everyone. One size doesn't fit all.
Your understanding is very strange. I didn't say Japanese zoning is forcing people. Weird.
There is a difference between court orders to violate privacy in narrow cases and the kind of 24/7, always-on surveillance needed to make this work fairly.
Wonderful for the students who he will teach. Kind of off topic, but his positive attitude in this short interview towards training AI workers reminds me of the same positivism in parts of the new book AI 2041. I also like the focus on training practitioners. I am 70 years old, but I still look forward to work every morning as a deep learning engineer.
One thing I can recommend creating your own programming language. If you have no experience with doing this, I would recommend building a parser and interpreter in a language you are familiar with and enjoy.

There is a great guide on how to do this here:

https://craftinginterpreters.com/

You can introduce some exotic syntax, make it do some funny stuff, and just play with it.

Creating a programming language on your own can be very satisfying, and if you don't expect it to go anywhere you take the pressure off trying to get it right, and you can just play.
it works great for me on wsl2 using Ubuntu 21.04
Are you arguing paperwork is placating men who would have otherwise been criminals and revolutionaries? That's certainly a take but it'll need a lot of convincing to believe it.
Copy and paste the url into archive.is how I do it.

Just a manual process.

I don't know if there's an easier way.
Effective TypeScript [0] has many more well written and explained tips to know to use TypeScript well. I highly recommend it.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Effective-TypeScript-Specific-Ways-...
Facebook as a company has long passed the point where it's just a platform to share updates with your friends.
I wrote a camera/IMU tracking software (VIO) before. I can confirm this statement. Get it working is difficult and requires getting all the algos right. Getting it work reliably is a lot of rigorous testing, collecting datasets, evaluating slightest changes, tuning numerical stability, experimenting with different techniques which might work better in low light and optimizing for the hardware (VIO is intensive but the best VIO is useless if there is no computation power left for the app itself).

Neither of this is required for a slick demo in well lit room and perhaps on better HW.
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You've constructed a straw man (I never rejected property rights) while ignoring my actual point. This tendentious behavior is typical of fundamentalists, fundamentalist libertarians included. Unless you can do better, I think we're done here.
As I said, video does not do it justice. If you walk around while flying everything stays very well locked in place.

It probably _is_ using OpenCV under the hood.
Interesting to see StarDock mentioned here. I hadn't realized they were still active. Not since Windows XP's heyday have I used any of their software. Their WindowBlinds product[0] brought be a lot of enjoyment.

I wonder how this taskbar customizability squares with the seemingly locked down start menu that was pointed out in a recent submission here[1].

[0] https://www.stardock.com/blog/501369/a-history-of-windowblin...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28822316
How do they know you’re in the store?
You mean like https://keyoxide.org/?
Neural networks are very non-linear. The blessing and curse of non-linearity is its usefulness while escaping what mathematical logic inherently is able to model. So yes, I strongly assume there will never be a mathematically sound theory that predicts deep learning in any meaningful way. Same problem with everything non-linear. From two-body to chaotic systems, biological interactions to the stock market. All just wishful thinking until Mathematicians give up and instead continue to play around in their well-defined esoteric spaces.
Which is precisely why Java language specifications doesn't state if they are green or red threads, they just happened to evolve into red threads across multiple implementations.

Project Loom is bringing green threads back, now officially as virtual threads.

Additionally there is java.util.concurrent and for those that care to really go deep enough, custom schedulers.
Such an insightful article. The definition of politics being at the inflection point of when people switch from indexing on the interest of the organization to individual and team interest was very helpful.

One thing I might add about scaling teams and growth in general is a bit more meta, which she talks about in a few ways, whereas I would estimate a sense of security is valued at upwards of 30% of your comp.

Some people weight it differently, but when you re-examine wealth as the ability to reasonably plan into the future, it's not just a linear effect of marginal dollars. Working in a high growth environment means giving up the real wealth that is a sense of security.

Your "legos," in the article, are the levers you have that you percieve as securing your ability to plan to still be working there in 6, 12, or 18 months. The growth mentality is that there is no stability and you just learn to manage and extract value from dynamic situations, but that mentality and talent are not always present. To work in startups, you need to source your sense of stability and your ability to plan from somewhere outside the office. This can be a constructive attitude, or it can be frugality, or just maintaining your openness to opportunity elsewhere, but what seems to cause that inflection point during growth isn't so much the speed of growth, but whether you can provide your teams with the ability to maintain that security to plan for themselves as individuals. It's similar to offering her colleague something with a multiple on importance to what she was working on to get her to delegate her current queue. That let her plan, and secured her perception of her future.
It's really amazing to see how Lambda has grown to support all of these languages.
Very interesting article. Here's the original paper[1], if anyone wants to jump straight to that. From the abstract, "We report the discovery of significant numbers (500) of large micrometeorites (>100 μm) from rooftops in urban areas."

[1] https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/45/2/11...
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That's why I said semi automatic. It should always be up to a human to decide exactly who gets the money and how much. But there could be systems that makes it easier for that human to make such decision and worry about the important parts of it.

The automatic parts can consist of listing candidates, link to their contributions and handling of the transactions, not selection.
The event driven architecture for NodeJS with simple requests like the test performed fits Node usage. I've seen past cold-start tests like this (admittingly it's been a while), and Node and Python are often the leaders of the pack with Java being the worst.
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Sorry, whispering too loudly? Where, the library? Perhaps you mean shouting?
Huh, I guess that explains why I like makita tools.
Thanks for pointing it out, it’s just ridiculous how many posters only pretended to have read the article.

I don’t usually agree with heavy handed moderation but in this case it would be nice if the title was changed to reflect the first line of the article… and if the submitter was given a warning.

The mass political derailing will probably block the actual info from rising to the top but oh well at least we can try.
Combination of weather and a political climate that makes harsh approaches to a difficult problem unpalatable. It's probably mostly not housing prices although that doesn't help.
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My company is moving away from datacenter and into Azure and I have to get the az900 this week, it doesnt bode well.

And I was so happy to leave the clusterfuck of 300 aws lambda I was working with in my prev company.

What an expensive fad, and no engineer is ever consulted ...
It depends heavily on region, but in the suburbs most Americans have room for something that wouldn't be easily affordable in an urban Japanese home (or urban anywhere home, i suppose). Maybe a lawn or backyard, maybe a pool, maybe a garage that can fit more than one car, maybe a driveway that can fit your car while your garage is used for something else, a house big enough to have a room that you don't use every day, and so on

I personally would vastly prefer a walkable, affordable, safe, dense urban region over a lawn, a 2 car garage, and a backyard. But not everyone would agree with me, particularly for some who would say that dense and walkable is a negative rather than a positive.
I think we are talking about wildly different things here.

>centralizing a currently decentralized network onto a blockchain controlled by a few major players

No, the basic idea is simply decentralization of trust. I do not know what specific blockchain you are refering to.

>someone buys into the system you’re pushing

I'm pushing that we come together to develop novel systems that fundamentally change how governments and human collaboration in general work. Speculative markets do not interest me.
The same could be said of areas where we cut down all the trees and named streets after them.
You really won't run your rig at 500W all the time either. That's also peak power.

Very few people have computers capable of cooling a constant 500W.