skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone close to this in the industry, I definitely agree.

I also really don't know why he decided to deemphasize the perspective and depth correctness so much. He mentions it here:

> In this case, they were willing to sacrifice image quality to try to make the position of things in the real world agree with where virtual objects appear. To some degree, they have accomplished this goal. But the image quality and level of distortion, particularly of “close things,” which includes the user’s hands, is so bad that it seems like a pyrrhic victory.

I don't think this is even close to capturing how important depth and perspective correct passthrough is.

Reprojecting the passthrough image onto a 3D representation of the world mesh to reconstruct a perspective-correct view is the difference between a novelty that quickly gives people headaches and something that people can actually wear and look through for an extended period of time.

Varjo, as a counterexample, uses incredibly high-resolution cameras for their passthrough. The image quality is excellent, text is readable, contrast is good, etc. However, they make no effort to reproject their passthrough in terms of depth reconstruction. The result is a passthrough image that is very sharp, but is instantly, painfully, nauseatingly uncomfortable when walking around or looking at closeup objects alongside a distant background.

The importance of depth-correct passthrough reprojection (essentially, spacewarp using the depth info of the scene reconstruction mesh) absolutely cannot be understated and is a make or break for general adoption of any MR device. Karl is doing the industry a disservice with this article.
I figure it could have just as easily been a mistake that wasn't in my favor that I'd have to spend years sorting out to my detriment.
Traefik is pretty cool. Can get you very far with forward auth plugins.
Haven’t had that problem with calls. People have had to learn how to politely end conversations probably about as long as we’ve been using language. Once you learn that, the calls don’t drag.

On the other hand, if a call takes five, ten, fifteen minutes for good reason, it would have been hours or even days of messages. How many times have you spent ten minutes helping fix a newbie’s dev environment, and afterward they say “wow, thanks, I’ve been stuck all morning”?

And those calls aren’t rare! Knowing how (and when) to use calls over messages has been one of the most useful “soft skills” in my career toolkit.
But wouldn't a scammer try to use plausible, real class action lawsuits to scam people?

Or would a scammer use obviously fake class action lawsuits in order to filter for the stupidest people possible?

Depends on how many people fall for the scam I guess.
I'd vote for tampermonkey. If you learn how to use it well it's almost like a new superpower.
Not if Azure or GCP never allow ESNI (in this imagined scenario).
This is less about "facilitat[ing] public conversation around important topics" and more about facilitating revenue opportunities. But it will further hasten the platform's race to the bottom as users are spammed with political ads.
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I don't know about the auto industry but web apps post bug bounties on hackerone.

And Google's bounty program reward hackers who will find bugs in apps with over 100 million installs, or in google's open source apps. And they pay up to $30,000 per bug depending on impact.
These are good and valid questions.

Relating to our solar panel install (refer another comment of mine in this thread) we went through with one of those plug in power meters and identified about spot and average power draw for about 80 different devices, spreadsheeted those data up to try to get a feel for where our power was being consumed -- as often times we would hit 40-50kWh/ day consumption.

Predictably (in retrospect) the biggest culprit by far was the hot water system. While we couldn't conveniently plug a meter in-line, it was fortunately wired up on its own phase (we're on 3-phase), and with the solar system install came a smart meter, which then provided some hour-by-hour insights.

A timer in the circuit-breaker box for the HWS, along with an element change (replacing the 2k4 with a 1k8 element) massively reduced consumption there -- I expect very many people have inefficient, and/or poorly configured, and/or poorly serviced electric hot water systems that are chewing through vast quantities of power.

TFA seems pretty savvy, so you'd hope this kind of low-hanging fruit isn't their problem, but OTOH you're right that those figures are very high, and you'd expect someone looking in this much detail at their power profile would be off-peaking all the high-draw systems they could.
> [In "God" we trust]

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...
Thanks, I missed that. Posted an edit at the top of my comment.
Is your blue collar friend religious and the dink is not? In my personal experience that has been a better indicator because the religious educated people have kids and the non religious blue collars tend to have less kids
>in a closed-pressure vessel filled with helium at a pressure of 30 bars...

>It has a 30-year lifetime, with an easy installation process

Normally, any kind of pressure vessel (steam, compressed gas cylinders, etc.) is subject to routine inspection and hydro-testing for re-certification.

What happens if/when it needs to be serviced? Do I need to draw down a crazy level of vacuum before charging it helium (or whatever working fluid)?

>Traditional fixed-output units cycle between on and off multiple times a day, switching between zero and maximum capacity to achieve the right temperature balance. But the new heat pump modulates its output to continuously provide the desired temperature.

New heat pumps / air conditioners already do this with variable speed compressors and fans.
Some gaps matter more than others /s
I realized that a good job done before the task is due will save me time to spend with my family or do whatever the hell I want to do with that time. To my mind it looked like if I did that I'd be saving time, and in my book time is money so I'll be saving money if I quickly finish my tasks.

I also imagine that I'm trying to build a wall out of bricks, rather than focusing on the wall (end goal), I just have to put one brick. Feeling sad? Place another brick. Bad day? Place another brick. Didn't get a raise? Place another brick.
Sorry, that was yoinked from Plato. cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069572

Is Yarvin better than de Maistre (or at least Ezra Pound)? (the best argument for monarchy I've seen so far is a claim that there were so many glass ceilings when Britannia was Ruling the Waves that the Peter Principle never had a chance to get into play)

On the Realpolitik front, the Athenians make a compelling argument for petulant dynarchs in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Melos#The_Melian_Dial...

> "δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν."
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You're right of course.

Unfortunately many of us us learn far too late that their marriage wasn't worth preserving in the first place.
> We believe that cause-based advertising can facilitate public conversation around important topics.

No. What Twitter knows is that they're desperate for revenue and what Twitter believes is that they'll get it from political advertising.
Thank you for this comment, it's very insightful.
Does this still work if I mislabel the balls to begin with?
yup, I bought a random cassette deck ebay that I'm sure was worthy in its time, and only use it to listen to vaporwave / synth music

you can't really tell how much wow and flutter it has with that genre

it's almost a feature
The last syntax is kind of like Haskell actually
You buy Hitman 3 + Hitman 1/2 legacy pass DLC for it. If you already have any version of Hitman 1 or 2 purchased, you don't need to buy the legacy pass DLC for that specific entry. The official website has info on how to let the system know you already own the game (which differs based on the platform), so that you can use that content from within Hitman 3.

tl;dr: there is no reason to ever purchase Hitman 1/2 at this point. You just buy Hitman 3 + legacy pack DLC to get the content of H1/H2 in H3. And if you already own H1 or H2, you get all that content in H3 without needing to pay for DLC.
GPTOne - an app to iterate on an essay such that it fools GPTZero
This was my thought too - a badly written and crashing container in kubernetes with a restart policy as “always”, dev gone home for the night and now a crash loop, nothing to see here
>"I'll never understand this argument."

You do not have to. I choose what works the best for me personally. And yes I looked at higher resolution monitors. Did not seem to look any better.

You do whatever works for you
I can imagine this scenario happening in Algol68 (or indeed any language), especially in the 1970s when memory was shared, unprotected and at a premium.

The scenario could have been a season batch job that corrupted some required shared memory.

But, Algol68 included four main aims and principles of design: Including Security: "Algol 68 has been designed in such a way that most syntactical and many other errors can be detected easily before they lead to calamitous results. Furthermore, the opportunities for making such errors are greatly restricted."

On the other hand, I did speak to an ICL engineer once, and he told a story of an ambitious ICL programmer adding a "Happy New Year" console to the Geroge OS (Written in Assembly language)

The ambitious ICL programmer decided it was too tough to test this one-off hack, and rolled out the OS update with his happy hack, untested.

The update seemed to run fine for a few months... Until months later (at New Year as it happens) all the ICL servers in New Zealand crashed, and two hours later all the ICL servers in East Coast Australia crashed.
This triggered a frantic call from the NZ ICL engineer to ICL in London England warning them of the impending doom in the UTC zone.

Yay... but this ICL Happy NY hack was probably written in ICL assembler.

On the other hand there was a nice little hack used by ICL in Algol68R that could be used today sniff out NULL pointer issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68-R#F00L
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Yes, telling people to not reuse passwords is enough of an ask.
Can anyone tell me why they use Helium rather than say Nitrogen?

I thought I read somewhere that we are running out of He.
Absolute molecular weight is important. Can't remember why off-hand but if I recall correctly there's a pretty substantial efficiency hit from using heavier gas molecules and conventional Stirling engines have a similar issue.
Whenever I hear about a software problem in NZ, my immediate reaction is: “time zone issue!”
I'd consider this an interesting intersection of software, business, and finance. There were a lot of games that tried the episodic release format (which many considered the future), but few ended up succeeding. Hitman is one of the last series still pushing this concept, and this final update is a pretty elegant bow on an otherwise messy pool of game content. It's not earth-shattering, but certainly curious and worth discussing.
No reason AirBnB can't invest in improving their average host quality if they invested in it. Consumers just need to push back publicly.

These sorts of HN posts is often how change happens.
I knew there was some Baby Bell history I was eliding. I remember a long time ago in a Wired (I think) there was a two page spread with the convoluted family trees of the various national cellular providers. It was very convoluted.
Yeah so for .NET I target win-x64 or linux-x64 or linux-arm64, but I guess .NET needs some linux-riscv or equiv.
I almost can't believe that there's a place where you can specifically buy a product that's not (or less) user hostile (there's a reason all the manufacturers have jumped on this train).

Does Costco do stuff like this in more instances? Are they for real some kind of consumer super heroes?
This - we've got a brand new Daikin heat pump at 10F/-12C outside temp, it took full 24 hours to bring our place from 50F/10C to 72F/22C. A regular nat gas furnace would knock it out in about and hour and half, and at fraction of the cost.

Incidentally we're in the process of installing a nat gas tankless combi heater to address this issue - you can get a forced air set up with those.
Thank you! Will you go on to teach infrastructure provisioning/IaC, CI/CD, live schema migrations, rollbacks, etc on a cloud provider with this stack? I would find the complete devops pipeline so helpful
And many more examples like that.
I had perfect vision until about 50. I am 61 now and have to use reading glasses (luckily weak ones) when reading / programming. With reading glasses everything is crystal sharp
np this is based on a Twitter joke: https://twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1457842724128833538

But I don’t think this joke works because afaik it’s a reference to: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex

And in the book it didn’t work because Zaphod was (rightfully) so egotistical he was immune to it! So it seems the sci-fi author’s moral here is that it’s fine actually.
Its more they are encouraging zoning that increase density in a way that is also enjoyable to live in while increasing the viability of the city because it increase the value of the tax base above the cost of servicing the land that makes up the tax base.
The DEC Alpha had speculative execution.

I found lots of bugs porting code to it. It was my first 64-bit platform.
Ah, well that explains it I guess.

Though, it's a "partner" provider and it's in your official github account, plus there's no notices saying it's not officially supported... it would probably help people if that were a bit clearer.
I think it is a comment and a preview on what we are going to increasingly see. It's in my opinion an evolution of subscription-based monetization where IO _seems_ to be planting a flag that H3 is _the_ Hitman game for the forseeable future.

I am not sure how much that matters to B2B or less game-oriented B2C products but its interesting nonetheless because of the monetization take it seems to indicate.
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All chips degrade over time, so it doesn't have to be overlocking, after running a CPU for many years it may turn out that it can no longer reliably work at a stock voltage levels. It is very unlikely but it does happen.
Even ignoring RISC-V's already excellent toolchain and software ecosystem support, and the license everybody gets for free (which is a huge deal), there are technical reasons.

RISC-V is designed with great care taken to weight all decisions as not to hamper any scope of implementation, from the lowest power microcontrollers to the fastest supercomputers, and everything in between.

This is unlike e.g. ARMv8/aarch64, which imposes too much complexity (>700 instructions) to small implementations, and hampers all implementations due to low code density.

In small implementations where performance isn't paramount but 64bit is required (for e.g. addressing, as is the case in many specialized tiny cores embedded in larger SoCs), bad code density increases ROM and/or RAM requirements as code takes more space, thus area and power. If 64bit is not needed, aarch32 can be used, which has much higher density, yet as of recent B and Zc extensions, RISC-V is better still, and can be tailored to the requirements, down to as simple as ~42 instructions and 16 registers (rv32e).

In large implementations, such as Apple's M1/M2, aarch64's awful code density imposes a large L1$ code cache in order to keep the pipelines fed. Large L1$ are very costly, as latency, area and power go up quickly with cache size, and maximum clock drops as size increases. Keep in mind that, in current fab nodes, SRAM is far more costly than logic

In contrast, RISC-V offers industry-leading code density through a form of variable instruction size that takes great care to not complicate decoder parallelism. There are already multiple large scale RISC-V cores announced with 8-wide decode (like Apple M1/M2).
> There's a lot to criticize apple w/r/t locked down devices, but their support lifespan is pretty good!

Compared to most smartphones, it's pretty good, but compared to PCs it's pretty bad.

Overall, it's a sad state of affairs imo. Why do phones become obsolete so quickly when other computers can be perfectly usable for well over 10 years?
Ironically a slight bump in the aluminum body causes immediate massively expensive damage. I guess the body has some magic protection in it if it can handle being thrown off a cliff.
Slight of words, the goal is to make it a “right” so that when someone disagrees, there is a Mott and Bailey to throw out.
Russia blames illicit cellphone usage by its troops for Ukraine strike
I find it's the opposite for me. I'm basically anonymous in big cities, whereas smaller cities and towns can be, uh, incestuous when you start getting to know people. They can also be visciously judgmental, but that goes for people anywhere.
“the things that slow them down or frustrate them”

Whenever management makes a new attempt at getting more precise estimates I always tell them the only way to get things done is by doing them. So the number one goal should be to remove obstacles, simplify processes and make sure tools work to our benefit. For some reason nothing much ever changes and the question for better estimates returns. It’s pretty weird.
We're running out of cheap helium. For applications like this, I'm sure it'll be fine.
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I find your example simple and easy to understand and I don't see any issues with defining everything explicitly.

I'm using docker swarm/compose extensively for multiple years and configuration can be a bit verbose sometimes but it's very simple system to maintain and write config for.

I think, splitting relatively small configs into smaller bits and using additional abstraction can actually increase complexity of the system compared to having everything in a single file as it's basically write and forget and not something you modify heavily once system is mature.
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$40.44!
I think all your points are correct but none of them address scalability. What do you do if your one efficient machine is too small for your problem? To be fair, not a lot of problems reach that point in practice, definitely not every problem a microservice is written for.

It might still be completely viable to rewrite something so that it's only 10% as efficient but you can scale it horizontally easily.
Here's how they do it in Belgium: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/belgium-deals-credit-without-....

They have a public credit bureau hosted by the national bank that records all the loans and credit. The data is not for sale to just about any company that is willing to pay for it, the individual has to give permission to share it when they apply for a loan. There isn't such bullshit as in the US where you practically have to push your student to get a credit card "to start building up a credit score."

The system works well enough that there's hardly any debate about it.
Sure, but Hitman is hardly the most popular franchise out there and maybe the hundredth one to embrace this model. This would have been news like 10 years ago.
How did it get populated "mostly by Russians"? Are you saying that in 2014 all Ukrainians started to move out and let Russians step in and take over? This is very hard to believe.
Yep, this is trivial to falsify, Musk jumped to an incorrect conclusion based on some anecdotes that he did not follow: https://twitter.com/Popeska/status/1592179502838435847
Nerds like video games or something. haha
Helium is a more effective heat transfer medium with lower molecular weight. Hydrogen would be more efficient but it tends to cause issues with the containing material and leaks.
They haven't fired their PR spin doctor yet
Yeah because amphibious capabilities is the same as zoom integration on a car that already has a million software features like that.
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telescreens, or, well, audio telescreens.

Whisper, the new Speech recognition model from Open Ai, is very, very, good with English, and really decent with other languages. With Polish for example, on a normal conversation, it gets almost everything except some very specialized words.

For now, such models require somewhat significant resources, and running them for every conversation of every citizen, 24/7, isn't really feasible, but Moore's law in AI is going strong, and that will change in a few years. Even if you want to run the largest possible model right now, an RTX 3090 can do it in faster than realtime.

I'm pretty sure that, with the amount of data the Chinese government has access to, they can build something even better than Whisper, and there are enough labor camps in China in case they don't.

I'm imagining something like a watch, or maybe AR glasses, which every citizen has to wear and which transmit everything they hear in occasional bursts, encoded with something like opus to save on bandwidth.

Once you get every conversation of every citizen transcribed and meticulously cataloged, you can do a lot of pretty interesting things. You can pass it through transformer models for sentiment analysis (to flag anti-party opinions), you can search for specific subjects (and with AI, those searches can be much more advanced than a simple keyword search) etc. Because of how smart these AI systems actually are, you can't trivially go around them by rephrasing what you say. If you start replacing "I want the men in power to die" with "I want the humans in electricity to paint", it will eventually pick up on that and flag you anyway.

If your watches also identify who's around and use voice recognition to figure out who's talking to whom, you basically have the whole social graph mapped out. One criminal slips up and gets flagged, and you can start going from there. Decrease the alarm threshold for anybody in close contact with that person, take additional signals into account, like locations which trouble often starts in, and that gives you a lot of possiblities.
I hear this all the time, but are there any public numbers on how much money is spent on licensing? Are we talking pennies per chip (which adds up) or tens of dollars per shipped device?
ARM was going to sell for "only" $40 billion, which makes me think that per device fees are low (there is an ARM chip in everything).
It’s because they call it identity theft. It’s not the bank getting defrauded but you having your identity stolen.

Someone steals $1000 from a bank, they come to you and say hi he said his name was kmonsen so we would like to get the money back from you.
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Support of the Ukraine is synonymous with supporting NATO’s war. There should never have been a war, and there should have been a cease fire by now.

Does that opinion make me anti-Ukraine?