skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The initial target is developers who think they can build successful AR software for when the price comes down. You will not have significant numbers of users without compelling applications. $3k is a pittance in the scheme of creating a ground breaking application in an unexplored space.

$3k keeps the limited units out of drawers and in the hands of people that will be making something with them.

This device has a lot of cameras and scanners in it. After they work out what is actually required and used the consumer model may have fewer to control cost.

Apple will deliver an app or two to set the user experience quality bar, it sounds like VR conferencing is one of those, but that doesn't mean they think that is what the device is for. It is just that they need to give an example of what the user experience should be or you will have developers delivering poorly performing, battery eating, usability disasters and customers will think that is inherent to the device.
> "...though weighing things out that precisely is quite challenging, especially if they are viscous liquids."

The "error tolerance" in mixing epoxy is probably at least 1% so inexpensive scales are quite adequate. The "secret" to mixing epoxy is measuring the resin and hardener in separate containers, then combining by pouring the hardener into the resin. I also put some of the mixture back into the container used to measure the hardener, mix thoroughly and add it to the main portion of mixed epoxy. This procedure assures all of the hardener is mixed with all of the resin.

BTW I use my kitchen scale every day. As you say, measuring powders, like flour, by volume isn't reliable. Then again, liquids, even water, are easier to weigh out. Besides, measuring cups aren't very accurate. Then again being only as precise as necessary for the job is what efficiency is about.
If true, it looks like the most un-apple product since iphone. It is probably years until they officially showcase this product. The potential backlash from the market is enormous.
Two very closely-related exceptions, and a host of very closely-related copycats. Essentially, one problem space which makes up a small (I would say) percentage of the use of cryptography. In terms of daily impact on the lives of random folks, anyway.

I never said secp256k1 was depreciated (nor deprecated), I said that I have seen recommendations from people far more knowledgeable than I who say, effectively, don't use it unless forced to interoperate with Bitcoin. For example: https://soatok.blog/2022/05/19/guidance-for-choosing-an-elli...

The above link, in case you don't want to read through, basically says "use ed25519. If you can't do that, use secp256r1." This tracks with what I have read from others, and with the direction Filo is taking, so I consider it pretty good advice.
I'd imagine vague rules allow them to give their customers leeway and handle infractions on a case by case basis. Like a popular open source project could get away with a cheaper plan, while on AWS they couldn't.

I think this particular instance is pretty cut and dry. If I understand correctly, they were just reselling cloudflare's services.

However, I DO think under that vague policy they should issue warnings for cases they seem inappropriate
It will help millions of people in life changing ways. Of course we should also fix the causes, but that is no reason not to pursue easier treatment
If you could charge at home with your own dedicated charger, would you plug in a plug-in hybrid?
You're talking about a city of 10+ million people.
"Some teachers find it’s their job to make students get better," Pappas says. "But what a teacher really needs to do is give their students the tools to make themselves better."

In my opinion, both approaches are wrong. The job of a good teacher is to make learning fun. Once you enjoy practicing, skill follows automatically.
> I miss not dealing with people problems.

As a coder, you don't get to ignore people problems. Unless you're very junior, and can get away with expecting your manager to filter that stuff out for you. Beyond that, if you want to get anywhere... you need to build relationships with your coworkers, users, testers, prod support people, manager, etc.
what do you think will replace salaries or negotiation?
I agree, can’t see this either, but all major tech companies and quite a few smaller companies are working on this. And they all did their research so these things are coming.
> don't even hear people from LA or SF boast the way they do in New Yawk

Every borough except Staten Island is larger than San Francisco [1][2]. Manhattan together with Queens or Brooklyn is bigger than LA, the second-largest city in America. (Staten Island is about the size of Raleigh or Atlanta.)

New York solves problems at a scale no other American city comes close to imagining.

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/site/planning/planning-level/nyc-populat...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...
The libsecp256k1 library has been ahead of standard curve25519 implementations in terms of protection against timing attacks, implementation foot-guns, and runtime efficiency.
It says they are magnetic? I wonder if it'll be possible for third parties to make compatible lenses.
AHK has the distinction of being an absolutely indispensible tool and a horrendously terribly designed language. It's probably the worst-designed programming language I've ever seen. Whenever I'm frustarted with how slow and conservative Python development is, I remind myself that this is the main thing keeping us from reaching the same state as AHK.

I hope that this upgrade will fix some of these problems. I'll probably take a few years before I upgrade my AHK scripts.
> I think GDPR violations are a civil thing only (?).

Correct, however most countries have various related criminal offences. (e.g https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/170/ena...) It's extremely unlikely any of these would be relevant in this context though.
In the UK at least semiglutide is licensed only for diabetes.

So it's appetite suppression is a side effect. That's good because it means it gets reported.

Looking at the SPC[0] we can see decreased appetite is "common" (1~10%), while nausea is "very common"(>10% report).

That means more people feel nauseated on semiglutide than feel less hungry.

Add in other GI disturbances (diarrhoea is also "very common") and one can see why people lose weight with it.

[0] https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/9750/smpc
It depends on whether you're more afraid of language bugs or hardware bugs. One potentially nice thing about having a tool like Blink that can fully virtualize the memory of existing programs, is it's sort of like an extreme version of ASLR. In order to virtualize a fixed address space, you have to break apart memory into pieces and shuffle them around into things like radix tries, and that might provide enough obfuscation of the actual memory to protect you from someone rowhammering your system. I don't know if it's true but it'd be fun to test.
Isn't honey a processed sugar? The processing being done by a bee instead of a machine
Lots of engineers. 250k is my base starting point to even have an employment conversation and I’m no 10x unicorn.
It's not. The obsession with bloodwork seems to be specific to certain countries (like the US). In most countries, where the medical system is focused less on charging people money and more on evidence based treatments, blood tests are done to find something specific, not to "see how a person is doing", as they care about the effects of overtreatment (unnecessary distress, surgeries, treatments).

Many people have this weird view of the "bloodwork" where they treat the results of them like a character screen in an RPG game.
NYC government is huge; is that really a "ton"? Private business also has fraud.
Ask HN: Faster Virtual Development Environment
I work at a medium sized company, and we use VMware Horizon View for our dev environment. A few years back we switched to develop using Visual Studio and C# and now have a number of projects we have to run to get the dev environment up and running. In general VMware Horizon View is nice because it allows for a flexible remote/work environment and can hop on your machine anywhere in the office as needed, but the major drawback is that the server-based PC's just don't have the raw horsepower needed compared to a shiny new PC all spec'd out.
Looking for other alternatives that will run as fast as a local dev box, but still give the flexibility of something like VMWare Horizon View. We are also mostly on prem, so other cloud-based solutions would be harder to get working with all of the various Api's and file shares that we need access to in order for it to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>Public services can be cheaper

No they can be subsidized with tax money. That doesn’t mean cheaper
a) Apple lets you plug in your headphones. You just leave a 3.5mm adapter attached to them like most of us do.

b) Given the complaints about the weight and poor battery life of the Meta Quest Pro there needs to be a better solution than trying to balance batteries on your head.

Waist level pack makes a lot of sense especially since if you're sitting at a desk there is simply no need for batteries.
Thank you! Did not realize there was a Lem book I had not read.
I am short term skeptical, but long term VR/AR are going to absolutely dominate computing. The moment you can teleport across the country with a photorealistic "retina resolution" avatar is the moment this product category is going to shoot off to the billion user level. Apple is right to focus on collumications, but I doubt we are on the right side of the uncanny valley yet.
>For instance in my city, garbage is kept in a dedicated garage area in each apartment building

Most apartment buildings in NYC don't have garages.
That's not really an issue, as there's a lot of infrastructure around optionally giving device file access to containers. That's why SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD exists.
> Why is it a good proxy for growth? What do you base that on?

Because buyers are valuing them more and more and not just in words but by actually with their money?

> Are you familiar with the term Deflationary Asset?

Yes. I also believe BTC will outperform gold over the next 10 years (both of those are deflationary assets).
I like to watch shorts when I am really bored and can't think of anything else to watch. Probably do it like once every two weeks.

Too much of anything is bad, moderation is important.
I had this toy and really enjoyed it but assumed that the inevitable crashes were all my fault.
I've been waiting to see something like this. There's certainly room to fine-tune an LLM for this task; in that vein, I wonder whether Ghidra's pcode would produce better results? It's a bit better suited to this task in that the model wouldn't need to be tuned for each possible instruction set. Training on code compiled at different optimization levels might also produce interesting results.

You could probably also take the explanations from the LLM, convert those into embeddings, and then do semantic search over all functions in a binary. For example, searching for "get process handle and inject dll" and getting a list of prospects. It's less useful in an obfuscated binary, but for things like modding games or extending end-of-life software it could be very useful.
Ive never understppd people who interrupt sp can I ask - if you interrupt someone and they then interupt you and say "shut up and let me finish" is this offensive to you or do you consider it a normal event in the course of a convo?

I tend not to do this just to keep the peace, but It absolutely infuriates me when im interrupted and id love to be able to just re-interrupt people
Which other option is there? Only waist-mounts or backpacks are able to remove the weight of the battery.
Lots of mine & industrial vehicles are electrified. In underground mining it's attractive because the vehicle is in a very confined space (easy to run cables to) and it's doubly attractive because of the emissions issue (venting underground). It can make sense for above ground too. But for aircraft and ships you're likely correct.
And Ethereum. These are both non-trivial uses cases. There is various work being done to make it a standardized curve for non-blockchain use as well.
> Apple has next to no enterprise business

Some orgs I worked at had Mac as a standard machine. Not that Apple is in “enterprise business”, but they can sell hardware to some enterprises.
Is that just how you feel?

Or can you show the conversion saves resources even when you have to buy and maintain dozens of extra vehicles?

This seems to me like you’re making a negative decision just because you find it emotionally satisfying, without any reasonable basis to believe that it improves things.
Yeah I’m not really sure what OP is asking.

Are other people not allowed to respond negatively? Is a down vote or a disagreement comment and response equivalent so scary?
How the Century-Old Jones Act Affects Today's Home-Heating Prices
A better question:

Why is computing like this?

I spend vast amounts of time hacking around in Linux with whatever I aim to do. It's almost never easy. There's always this problem then that problem - you have to shave yaks until you're so deep you forgot what you were working on in the first place.

It ain't just JavaScript.

1: how to make a software thing work:

2: follow instructions for (software thing)

3: hmm, wrong instructions, out of date

4: find right instructions

5: do step one of instructions

6: hmmm.... an error find some new software thing to solve this problem, then for this new software thing, goto 2

Programming is problem solving as much as anything else.
You don't have to be a career rockstar to get personal satisfaction and enjoyment from playing instruments for yourself or with friends. When people quit as a child its really sad, because they deny themselves an opportunity for a lifelong hobby. Picking up the guitar again after I quit as a kid was the best thing I could do, but I still kick myself for not sticking through it all the years and all the potential experience I wasted playing tf2 instead.
> The food is the problem

Quality of food is certainly declining, but we are also seeing weight increases in lab rats with extremely controlled diets, so food probably isn't the entire story. There's no accepted explanation for this, but good candidates that might apply to humans are: subtle toxicity by microplastics, and changes in gut microbiomes.
The vast majority of modern distributed systems are (possibly stacked) client/server architectures, possibly with a significant minority of publish/subscribe systems. And even so, latency, partial failure, and concurrency are still major issues.
Ethanol is hygroscopic. As long as you burn the fuel in a reasonable amount of time it's not a problem, but when ethanol sits over time it collects water. Next time you run your engine, it pulls water into the engine.

Now, if the engine runs long enough to fully warm up, this isn't the end of the world. Any water will turn to steam and be pushed out through the exhaust. However, if the engine only runs for a short period of time, water can sit inside of it and cause corrosion. Realistically this is only a problem if you repeatedly allow ethanol-containing fuel to sit for a long time, and also repeatedly run an ICE for very short periods of time.

It is a bigger problem for boat motors, because they operate in a wet environment already. It is also a bigger problem for carbureted engines, where fuel sits in the carburetor bowl while the engine is not running. This allows hygroscopic fuels to corrode the inside of the carburetor while the engine sits.

Ignoring ethanol, it is also true that gasoline breaks down over time. However, it typically takes many months before gasoline breaks down enough to worry. There are also additives that help stabilize gasoline for longer storage.

TL;DR in a reasonably modern-ish car, it's probably fine. In small engines like lawn mowers, it is best to either use ethanol-free gasoline or to completely drain the fuel before storing the mower for the winter. In antique cars with carburetors, it is best to use ethanol-free gasoline.
I agree about the eyesore. In one city I was in, I noticed that as I moved from the poor to the rich neighborhood, all the power line (not trolly lines) were on poles in the former and buried in the latter; the difference was remarkable.

I wonder if something can be embedded in the street. Obviously, a subway-style third rail would be a bad idea!
When considering which diet to use don't overlook the Mediterranean diet, for the sake of your long term health. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/04/health/mediterranean-diet...
I guess I really like the hip battery, because it lowers the rotational weight of the headset and allows for a larger battery without the same tradeoffs. It would make the headset lighter than all the competition that uses headset mounted battery. Apple could say "lightest XR headset on the market" while still packing it with tech. Apple loves superlatives like that. Maybe not ideal for a consumer device, but for a pro device a hip pack seems fine to me. Of course, my brain does not work the way apple does so it making sense to me is not an indicator that it is really true.
No need to make excuses for parents not managing and supervising their kids. If a parent is concerned about sexuality or porn, it is their job to talk with their kids, tell them what they expect, and manage their environment.

So if they are so worried, they should make the effort to find out how to lock down their kids computer and phones that they personally bought and handed to them. Just a little more effort, and they can (or someone they pay to can) lock the devices down, prior to giving it to them.

Parents (not the state) should also be periodically checking their kid's phones and computers too. Not just for sex, but anything else they find objectionable (violence, guns, weird messages from unknown people, etc...) and may need to talk to them about.

> How are parents supposed to control devices their kid's friends have at school or at a friends house?

That is illogical. By the same measure, their kid can see people having sex at their friend's house too or be handed a sex book/magazine. Sex and depictions of sex can happen anywhere, not just on a device.

If the parents don't trust the people they are allowing their kids to go visit, then maybe it's time to not allow them to go there or talk to the other parents. These types of actions, of managing where and what kids do, are the primary job of the parents and not the state.

The context of the argument, is that on computing devices, parents have the means to lock them down. If they don't know how, they can find out or request the services of people that do know how to do it. Otherwise, if they are so worried about them seeing sex on such devices, then don't give them to their kids. The answer to the question is not to turn the entire world into a nanny and police state.
"The hard problems in distributed computing are not the problems of how to get things on and off the wire. The hard problems in distributed computing concern dealing with partial failure and the lack of a central resource manager. The hard problems in distributed computing concern insuring adequate performance and dealing with problems of concurrency. The hard problems have to do with differences in memory access paradigms between local and distributed entities. People attempting to write distributed applications quickly discover that they are spending all of their efforts in these areas and not on the communications protocol programming interface."

They got that right. Most of the value of Java, and the market value of Google and Amazon, come from solving these problems.

The viability of javascript in the browser has depended entirely on the communications protocol not being that important.

One thing the paper misses is the value of encryption. Distributed computing is severely limiting if it can't be encrypted. Indeed, the rate-limiting factor to uptake might be not protocols or distributed algorithms, but confidence in encryption and distributed security -- and that's as much a social problem as a technological one.
Seems like a general complaint against software, not just JavaScript. The first problem is MariaDB vs MySQL, and the second is Debian vs Ubuntu.

I was expecting a rant about react or something, but this is a more encompassing moving target problem with software maintenance.
Yup, but salary is usually under $250k (my last salary was $179k). Most of that is stock.
I was a Windows guy:
And when I moved to Linux I made some notes that I might have problems because of:

AutoCAD - true

Photoshop - true

SketchUp - true

AHK - not so much.

Autokey does what I need. But I still have great time for AHK - which is why I looked at this thread.
Yeah, there's GIMP and Blender and SU online but these applications were really ace on Windows.
I found a way to live without them all.
Great point, no issues with oil and gas companies as a business model
I'm sure they have stats that allow them to figure out how much this matters. If you aren't spying on your customer's usage you should't be in the streaming business.
There is two kinds of Lego (actually, a couple more but for this two will do). Lego bricks and Lego Technic. Lego Technic was conceived from day #1 to make proper machinery possible, the colors you are free to ignore. The old Technic sets such as https://thelegocarblog.com/2011/11/20/lego-technic-8860-car-... this one were really quite nice from a mechanical point of view.

Lego created the technic line because in Europe 'Fischer Technik' (from the factory that makes those plugs to hang stuff on the wall) was eating their lunch, especially in Germany and NL, two major markets for Lego. Fischer Technik was both more durable and far better suited to building machines than Lego and they had a whole line of electronic components to go with it.

Erector sets and Meccano were fantastic too, but not nearly as quick to build with, nor did they stand the test of time as well, clearly Lego did something right in making this stuff accessible.

Meccano is stil sold today, As is Fischer Technik https://www.fischertechnik.de/en/products/learning/stem-robo... and Lego is available just about everywhere.

So Lego did not 'destroy' anything, it all still exists it's just that the markets have shifted considerably and with Lego being heirloom grade plastic some of the bricks that we have here are now in their 6th decade and still being used by my kids.
So he’s more Native American than Elizabeth Warren ?
I wonder if, given the cost of the drugs, we're only going to be able moreso to visibly see poorness, i.e. fat people's class will be well known and discrimination to follow.
Those are fair suggestions. I'm not typically inclined to "do the work for them" so-to-speak, by asking them what experiences & observations have framed their approach, because that's basically priming the person to have a particular response to the second question which might not be in alignment with their actual beliefs.

A lot of the time people don't have a good response to the second question because they have never actually even considered the possibility that they could ever hold the opposing view on something, or what holding that view would entail.
I'm partial to Gepetto for IDA, which includes an especially hilarious trick in which it instructs ChatGPT to phrase its responses in JSON, and then uses this JSON directly to name variables in the decompilation. If the JSON is incorrect, it politely asks ChatGPT to please fix its JSON output, which usually works.

https://github.com/JusticeRage/Gepetto/blob/main/gepetto.py#...
> bruised and cut fingers

Is that really a bad thing? Minor things like that teach the kids how to handle tools and machinery, so they can operate safely the dangerous tools adults use. Like most boys, I had to learn the hard way to not put my finger in a light socket, and how to not stab myself when the screwdriver slips.