skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its unlikely that they'll be keen make the same mistake again.

Companies learning from their mistakes? Large companies learning from their mistakes? Companies learning from the mistakes made 10-20 years ago by a different CEO/CTO/Leadership team? You believe it companies ability to change more than I do.
> Nintendo is probably the most universally hated gaming company

You are just not anywhere near objective reality [1]. Nintendo is one of the most beloved brands in the western world and I can't even comprehend what echo chamber you are in to think that Nintendo is hated.

There are certainly fair criticism of the company, I believe they are incredibly over zealous about their IP enforcement, but I doubt many people ever think about that when they are getting 100's of hours of entertainment value out of their hardware and 1st party software.

[1]https://www.marketingdive.com/news/nintendo-switch-american-...
Every time I see an article like this, it's another point of evidence that, no, large application sizes are not actually needed for performance/functionality/ease of development - they're just due to sloppy programming.

Electron and web developers, take note.
The running-over bit, sure, but I feel like this neofintech stuff is enabling a whole new cohort of grifters
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But then they'd have to rebrand to 2Password!

(I have the same fear though. I worry about having everything potentially compromised via a single string.)
Holy shit, this is fucking cool, guys. I would love one. I might just buy one. It’s just the sticker shock that’s holding me back but this is fresh tech so I can understand the price point. Congrats on releasing!

By the way, I think I found the AR interactions sort of strange. I think most people will have some sort of trouble talking to an unresponsive face (the problem with the eyes covered is that they’re so expressive in people).

Since I ride a motorcycle as my primary transport, I sometimes just leave my helmet on so I can walk up to my office without needing to switch to a mask. I find that people find it harder to talk to me unless I compensate hard with gestures and full body expressions.

The upshot of this whole thing was that I was wondering if even the most mild form of expressing something, like say a 64x24 LED display on the front headplate that lit up in eye shapes to express friendliness would help. Or perhaps it can’t be helped; and we just have to do the same thing we do where we take earbuds out to say “I’m paying attention”.

I’m sure you guys considered all this. Very curious to see what you thought about.
I have AdGuard on my phone at ~60MB, you might want to check that.
Thank you for the kind words. Even if VR computers aren't for everyone, we promise to keep things weird.
Sooner or later, one person's subtle easter egg becomes another's mission-critical behavior. Speaking solely and strictly for myself, I do not enjoy having to support niche undefined behavior because someone thought it was cute.
Ashby (YC W19) is hiring SRE in North America to help us scale
You'll eventually have to cooperate with those people, whether it's on OSS or in the workplace.

It's even worse when really senior figures in a community are also the source of the toxicity.
The dissonance of calling Google/Twitter/FB centres of “top engineering talent”
> So the Quest 2 sold over 12million headsets in the last year. And over the last few years VR has seen a growth rate of over 20% YOY.

Right. So how on earth does this 'Simula One' stand a chance against the rest of the competition, especially when Apple, Sony, Microsoft plan on or are already competing against Meta?

Compared to the competition, price and adoption, the 'Simula One' is a first-gen obsolete contraption.

> I always wonder if when people like you make a comment if you actually look at figures or just go with your gut because you don't like something.

Then you are just as bad as I am. Pulling figures without sources and then saying 'actually look at figures' isn't evidence. Where is the source for the 12 Million and 20% YoY? Just Google it isn't evidence either.

Then this this also you:

> an entire generation of US kids are growing up with VR right now because of the perfect storm of lack of consoles, a pandemic keeping them home...

The US is not the world and people (and kids) simply won't stay in-doors forever, since lockdowns aren't forever. It's quite silly to think that kids would want to stay in-doors like they did in the pandemic to justify the 'need' for VR other than playing games in the metaverse.

For devices like Simula One, it's dead on arrival due to the mindshare of the Oculus / Meta Quest. If there was the next device to surpass the iPhone, it is simply AR glasses. Otherwise, why exactly is Google [0] Meta [1] trying to get there before Apple eventually does?

> ...and widely available cheap hardware from Meta.

Thank you for confirming that the 'Simula One' stands no chance at all against Meta Quest.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/google-acquires-north-augmen...

[1] https://www.roadtovr.com/project-nazare-ar-glasses-facebooks...
The way to do this fairly and transparently is piecemeal pay. Just like how instead of paying a factory worker £x per hour you can pay £y per widget. If superstar Bob ships 10x widgets he gets 10x pay and everyone will agree it is fair. Note CEO total compensation is usually £x per y% increase in share price or revenue. Salespeople get x% for each sale, and what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

You could always make things easier with min wage regs etc by giving a low living base wage and then a generous bonus based on what you ship.
Exactly. Specifically it is saying being too early/fast is just as wrong as being too late/slow.
> That's not how it works. The President can't just call up banks and tell them not to give people their own money, or shut down every stock market in the world.

Isn’t this what Biden is doing this week with Russian nationals tied to the invasion of Ukraine? I agree with you it’s more complicated than just a phone call, but for the opposing parties they don’t need to think about those details. Those people and companies who will be heavily economically sanctioned—-they’ll be eyeing crypto as a way to sidestep these sanctions.

(And to be clear, I do not agree with Russia is in this situations, but I’m looking at it from a supply/demand perspective. Events such as this are clear demand signals to me.)
It would be entirely possible to emulate the US and go all in on shale gas and fracking but it was a deliberate decision not to develop that industry.

https://milieudefensie.nl/wonen-zonder-gas/hoe-schaliegas-op...

The environmental pollution of oil and gas extraction is well known. Siberia is far away enough that nobody cares.
I don't know anyone spending more than one day a week in an office in the UK. Trains are very under-utilised. Business owners in city centres are still grumbling about the lack of trade.
Le Central in San Francisco has a “perpetual stew” in the form of cassoulet. They have a chalkboard in the restaurant which lists how many days it’s been going. It’s even listed on their website:

http://lecentralbistro.com/

“Our cassoulet has been cooking for … 17,002 days”

That’s more than 46 years!
Thoughts on Monero? I liked it the best when I started looking into crypto, but with so much momentum behind bitcoin I just kind of went down that path instead.
...does the video of the guy in the coffee shop remind anyone else of Neil Stephenson's description of 'gargoyles' in Snow Crash?
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an... (super long URL!) is a list of project that made it to Mars. It reads that NASA provided the list. That's the past but likely many of the same will be used in future projects.
Why even turn the computer off? Is there a reason to not leave it plugged in and just let the monitors fall asleep?

I could understand if you're away from a plug and/or on the move though.

Also if cars have computers, don't they cold boot when you turn the car on? Phones and smart watches never truly "turn off" their screen goes into sleep mode which is fast to turn on
Congrats on the launch! Coming from a data science role, this could've been pretty useful for my previous projects. I had to rewrite all of my feature engineering queries when the company I worked at moved to Snowflake.

One question I have is how to Hydra balances writing postgres scripts vs leveraging system-specific features. For example, I remember going through Snowflake's documentation and found interesting functions for data aggregation. Can I leverage Snowflake-specific features when using Hydra?
I and my brother built Marvin-a better way for product teams to do user research
It doesn't make upgrading impossible. The compute pack is detachable, replacable, and can even function independently.

The benefit is pretty crucial: friction. If you have a tethered VR headset, the amount of work you need to do to set it up is insane. Especially with lower-level software like Simula.
I think he could (barely) drink it without a straw
I really liked the files-as-directories behaviour. One of the objections I recall from the time was that this sort of behaviour would make more sense at VFS level.

I'd love to have this sort of functionality available (ISTR it has potentially other useful properties - e.g. new properties / metadata attached to files can automagically be handled by things like tar).

My memory says that concerns around overlapping file and directory behaviour caused pushback here. I think being able to hardlink to a directory was the issue (if every file can be a directory then how do you avoid directory cycles) but I may be mangling the details.
The fact that someone can ask you for your salary before renting you an apartment is not equivalent to what you point to.

I would prefer this system to the Equifax's panopticon to be honest.

The best system would be to have a third party insure your rent. So you would only communicate these kind of information to the third party of your choice with which you would have a legal contract including a privacy clause.
I dont need to monetize it, I can keep the $100 and not buy the energy. And it's not "reliable" if I get rug pulled (extemely common) or someone else has a more effcient mining setup (extremely common).

Maybe if I'm stuck on inefficient resistive heatong in winter, mining makes sense.
Note that in the thread what happens is:

- someone posts a patch to enable refactoring which reiserfs code was blocking

- discussion goes into a deprecation plan, with someone suggesting reiserfs deprecation follow the same as xfs v4. These have formats have year 2038 bugs. Slated for code to be removed come 2030 by starting now
I like Rex Research http://www.rexresearch.com/1index.htm

It's a huge compilation of weird technologies and inventions. Most of them are crackpot, of course, but some of them are legit and truly fascinating. Rex Research predates the Internet, you used to have to order from little ads in the back of Popular Mechanics. Back then this was pretty much the only way you could learn about this stuff. Nowadays some of the less crackpot tech is more widely known, and some of the inventions even have their own Wikipedia pages, e.g.:

Rolamite "the only elementary machine discovered in the twentieth century"
http://www.rexresearch.com/wilkes/1wilkes.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolamite

Aerosol Electrical Generator aka Vaneless ion wind generator "a device that generates electrical energy by using the wind to move charged particles across an electric field"
http://www.rexresearch.com/marks/marks.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator

Hilsch-Ranque vortex tube "a mechanical device that separates a compressed gas into hot and cold streams. The gas emerging from the hot end can reach temperatures of 200 °C (392 °F), and the gas emerging from the cold end can reach −50 °C (−58 °F).[1] It has no moving parts."
http://www.rexresearch.com/ranque/ranque.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube
Maxwell's Demon! Although it does not violate thermodynamics.
I used to work at an electronics store, and another reason I avoid samsung products is because, compared to everything else, they seemed to be engineered to look good for marketing material and spec sheets over actual use. They would look shiny and great and seem to have great features, but the real world UX was so annoying.
There is a huge difference between seeing it and hunting it.
Actually I'd like to see AR mode when outdoors!
Those people will (potentially) be your future co-workers... So it is a valid concern.

That said, I have not interacted with the Rust community and cannot make any comments in that regard. Language is pretty nice though.
I doubt it...

Even apps without notifications are still apps, because they can take additional data from users, sometimes even location and the whole address book.

Look at sites like reddit for exmaple, which purpusefully cripple the mobile web experience to get the user to install the app.
Price is too rich for my blood, but I will be watching with interest how it goes.

I have tried working in VR a few times with my WMR headset and never found a setup which was effective. This looks pretty good! I would love to give it a try first of course.
Kubecost: Bringing open source to cloud cost management
> they publish pay ranges for those titles/ranks.

if it isn't public, then it isn't published.

I'm a fan of Levels.FYI, but you notice the rather large standard deviations for a number of pay grades, and it is self-reported which means the sample may not be representative.

and I haven't found anything better than levels.fyi
SQLite is an embedded database rather than client-server, meaning runs within the Python interpreter. It's compiled (or at least linked) into the interpreter binary, meaning the version is determined at compile time. A given build of the Python interpreter has only one version of SQLite present in it.
I agree. And it used to be the worst out of any of them, so props to their dev team.

The video player does give me problems sometimes though
Anecdotal confirmation yes, 3 months out the gate my new Subaru had a drained battery due to a 250mA cold draw while parked that they traced to some random electrical unit and replaced.
Indeed! https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/introspection
> P.J. O'Rourke

Do you have a link for this?
who said puritanism has to be right-wing. It's also not necessarily about sexuality. It's about putting up a set of idealistic moral standards and trying to force everybody to comply or pretend to comply.
> Airline apps have to cover shopping, booking, cancellations, seat selection, loyalty programs, check-in, bar code generation and scanning, and so on.

All of that happens online.
Much less likely than just selling enterprise features, which is particularly common for networking companies selling stuff like ports "on demand". The trend is towards a lot more accelerators and specialty features (AXV512, AMX, HBM-related), which aren't going to have universal demand, charging for them separately might allow for fewer SKUs (lower unit costs) without charging everyone for features they don't want.

Considering the consumer market at a CPU level makes very little sense, almost everyone just buys a device manufactured by an intermediate company.
> Have you ever seen or driven a car where, as you sped up, the lights got brighter? That's because the battery was dead and all the electrical power was coming from the alternator with no battery to act as a load-balancer.

Not in a long-long time. Voltage-regulated alternators have been a thing for decades now. By the 90s, most companies had solid state internal voltage regulators. Also, most (probably every) modern cars feed the alternator signal through the ECU/PCM before it gets to the battery specifically because it's crucial that computer-controlled component receive a clean, reliable voltage signal. I learned this the hard way.
I think the most effective way to fix this systemic problem would be for app stores to start charging developers for app size, both for storage and outbound transfer. And for desktop apps downloaded from websites, all hosting providers and CDNs should start charging for egress like the big cloud providers do, in acknowledgement of the fact that bandwidth isn't free. Yes, I recently migrated some of my company's infrastructure off of AWS, in part so we wouldn't have to pay for egress. I now believe the world would be better off if we didn't have that option.
Windows 95 required 4MB of
RAM and 50-55MB of disk space.
Can this law distinguish between a direct response marketer and a brand marketer

Yes that's not equal work. You have to compare two brand marketers.
https://www.schnada.de/

Rather simple design, just a couple of images and text.

But the text is German dadaist poetry, and I'm not really sure if parts of it or the pictures aren't computer-generated, based on the sheer amount of content, supposedly created by a single person for fun.

On the other hand, the creator is kind of a genius, so maybe he really did write it all himself
The web supports location and photo picker and camera APIs and most apps don't access your address book.
also true in Sweden
True, people can sell software for one time purchase, for this(current) version of operating systems. Any new OS version comes, if software works, good for customer; if OS breaks things, then the developer can sell an upgrade, for that OS version.

Edit: this will be difficult for server hosted apps. It will work only for apks, exe, or client sided installs.
SimulaVR has a "webcam view" that allows you to see your mouse and keyboard through passthrough video:

https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula#mouse--keyboard-view
United Airlines has been posting jobs for internal application development for a while... --including at upper management levels.-- Just saying.
Interesting that life goes on in Ukraine.
Only 250 more to go.
I'd be interested to see some real hand tracking and passthrough. How warped is the passthrough video and what is the hand tracking FOV? In my experience a lot of these headsets forget I'll want to interact with things not directly in the center of the screen.

Text comparison image is kind of annoying. More zoomed in and more favorable angle for the good side. Why isn't this a pixel perfect comparison?
Shortwave radio online. There's not much to listen to, but its a neat site.

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
After working directly with Intel and AMD engineers, my money is on AMD. The amount of planning they're doing is nothing short of incredible.
Open Forms with a Button in LibreOffice Base
Perfect example of Wirth's Law in action, sadly.
Intel in Israel: A Semiconductor Success
Frankly the keyboard included doesn't matter. Include it as an optional add-on, but _put_it_in_the_picture_. So it looks like a complete system, not just a headset.
25% reduction in death with a P value <0.05 is a pretty strong placebo effect, as is a 40% reduction in hospitalization
Exactly.

I often look at vintage tech and lament how boring everything is now. Will anybody look back on our modern devices in 30 years? We are surrounded daily by utterly soulless slabs chained to walled-garden ecosystems.
This kind of bloat doesn't just affect storage usage, for people with capped data plans these kind of apps are a nightmare
& in the year 2038 you'll lose your mind?
Love it, what a cool project!
I think that instead of this, my solution would be to have each function that depends on dt to accumulate the dt themselves, and reset it at their individual periods.

A Rust trait with an associated const would help with this:

trait TimeDependentFn {
const PERIOD: f32;
type Output;

fn call(&self, dt: f32) -> Self::Output;
}
Wouldn't that result in overly broad ranges being advertised?
Sun did the same with Solaris’s versioning, jumping from Solaris 2.6 to 7 (i.e. 2.7).
My favorite iOS app, Decoupled, is 2.4MB. My favorite Android apps were 5-10x smaller.
ResierFS allow metadata in everywhere.
That’s how they allow sharing a ext2fs and resierfs on same disk during conversion
Oil and gas can be only a short term disruption to either Russia or Europe, because both are commodities AND have substitutes.

Natural gas is a little more problematic because the pipelines and LNG terminals are a big investment, but this matters less over the long term.

Disruptions in fossil fuel supplies - are another reason to switch to renewables and nuclear, the best substitutes in the long and medium term; so Russia is eroding the foundations of its economy. The Kremlin instead of researching hypersonic missiles should be investing in RnD to either find the commodity Russia can export or new alternative uses for oil.
Hi! JD here, Hydra's CTO. NoSQL is certainly a challenge but we have a few ideas/angles on how to solve it. Certainly we plan to start with simple queries and then iterate from there based on what our customers need.

We are really excited about the prospect of bringing SQL and NoSQL together!
A year ago I would have probably told you to calm down and that the statement was clearly a joke, but the way many people have responded to the pandemic has really opened my eyes, and I now agree with you. Unfortunately public health is a place where gray areas and humor can be dangerous because they contribute (often unintentionally) to a lack of taking things seriously.
You are more than welcome to use our free products. That's what they are there for!
You know what also have huge app sizes, it's various iOS email app. Fastmail is the only email/calendar app with a reasonable size (just 20MB) [0].

- Gmail (397MB) [1]

- Outlook (328MB) [2]

- Hey (69MB) [3]

- Protonmail (128MB) [4]

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fastmail-email-calendar/id9313...

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gmail-email-by-google/id422689...

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-outlook/id951937596

[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hey-email/id1506603805

[4] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/protonmail-encrypted-email/id9...
Then buy I-Bonds
That is right. Being shown a targeted advertisement is exactly the same as being forced to pick cotton in the fields by day under threat of life and limb. As a matter of fact, the real question is whether the slaves suffered even a fraction as much as I did browsing Instagram.

An argument could be made that even thinking about the slave trade is inconsiderate when billions are shown ads on Facebook properties today.
I think this is really cool, however I view VR headsets like monitors. I want them light, cool, and relocatable. I would imagine it would be cheaper to have this as two units. The headset, and "the box". The box does all the fun stuff and sends it wirelessly to the headset. Use a hardware compressor/decompress and a wifi 6e chip.

Really that's all I want, a headset that is comfy, stays cool, great lenses, and can be streamed to. My quest 2 can do this but it is not comfy, cool, and has god ray problems.