skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I continue to think that if anyone could actually pull off mainstream AR it would be Apple... I am just not convinced the tech is ready for it to be mainstream.

I feel like for it to be mainstream it needs to be borderline invisible (or just looking like normal glasses). Bonus if it can just be contacts (yes I know science fiction here).

Part of the reason I think Apple is in a place to possibly actually make it a thing though, is their track record of taking an existing category and fixing usability issues. See Tablets, Smart Watches... and of course Smart Phones.

They have also been building their AR platform for years and been getting developers to use it. If they are smart with how they have done that, the work for those apps should "easily" translate to this device.

That being said cost is going to be a major issue here, as well as size like I already mentioned. But unlike a certain company... Apple is not known for abandoning projects and I would hope that they are smart enough to realize that this is not a device that will make a profit in the short term
Take a look at Cobi toys for the less garish models, although they aren't going to be like Technic sets.

I still have my old erector set for my kids, as well as several boxes of knex. When I was young, I eventually lost all interest in legos once I had an erector set and a large enough knex supply.

Those erector set electric motors were downright scary and I have many memories of bruised and cut fingers from making an airplane with a single odd numbered hole bar.
What do you think of my last point (in the GP)?
What is their countertop height? I'm about to remodel a kitchen.
If asahi linux can run on this it's an instant buy for me.
What problems regarding resource usage can come up when trying to use thousands of sqlite databases simultaneously from a single process?
Absolutely agree.
Unironically through the first few paragraphs I though this was some very cleverly put satirical take on modern society.
There is a great book about the effects of modern food, primarily on dental health, written back in the 30s - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price. Even though it's almost a century old, the findings are quite fascinating and can be extrapolated to present day.
It's quite undeniable that modern life has drawbacks and obesity is just a symptom.
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Haven’t had insulation problems, it’s more that the pins on the lightning connector eventually wear and stop connecting consistently. For MFi cables I believe that part is supplied by Apple and will be the same across all brands. Most of mine have been Anker.

I’ve also had USB-C charging cables fail, and the springy charging pins on my Pebble weren’t great either. Lightning or USB ports on phones will also get gummed up with pocket lint. Not making a physical connection for charging just seems to work better long term.
I am very happy with my TCL Roku TVs and like having Roku built-in so the whole TV can be controlled through a single interface.
Enjoy the data loss introduced by randomly mis-identified files not being reported then. Yes, I've had it happen before that data files (not executables) that I fully intentionally stored on my computer were recognized as malware. If I hadn't been alerted about that fact, I would probably have wondered days or weeks later where the file went, with no way of restoring it. I'd never want an operating system to automatically, without notifying me, remove files, no matter how malicious it thinks they are.
Blink actually does run the GCC9 CC1 command from start to finish twice as fast. Qemu takes 600ms to run it and Blink takes 300ms. Both Qemu and Blink use a JIT approach. Since GCC CC1 is a 33mb binary, a lot of the time it takes to run it, it stresses the JIT pretty hard. https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/1610276286269722629
A Toyota Prius is pretty close to that.
s/weak-willed/addicted/

There. Fixed it for you :) Yes, to me it seems like capitalism creates a society where most people get addicted just trying to cope with everyday life. For some it's alcohol, for some it's OxyContin, for some it's food, for some it's all-nighters in World of Warcraft.

"59.3 million (21.4%) people over age 12 used illicit drugs in the past year."

"Underage [..] 29% reported drinking alcohol"

https://www.verywellmind.com/rates-of-illicit-drug-abuse-in-...

Looks like weed and alcohol already are 50% of all citizens... I don't find it difficult to imagine that the other half ab-uses food.
Hello! I just saw a post on YouTube earnings and am sharing my own 2022 online earnings!
It's very important to consider "metabolic rate" in these considerations. I have been nearly under-weight my entire life (I'm in my 60s) and I've eaten as much high-calorie food I've felt similarly, usually a large amount (generally consuming the most any gathering I'm at, etc, eating three meal a day, etc).

The one thing I've always done is avoid foods with added sugar and in general processed food. There's good evidence that the consumption of "ultra-processed" food is associated with the obesity epidemic and that these food are what people weight-maintenance processes out of balance.

Given this, adding a drug to solve that problem might not be a panacea. What other bad effects could result from a strong drug plus a crap diet? We'll start another mass experiment to find, I suppose.
It's not just "if you don't eat, you die". It's that you have a strong yearning to eat. Now that's probably an evolutionary adaptation to "if you don't eat, you die", but nevertheless I want to eat pretty consistently every day. Again, how is that different than a nicotine addiction? The only difference is that if I don't smoke, I won't die...
Thats such bullshit. Sure, yes, there is 100% mental aspect to every obese person, but some of that shit is old and already dealt with, but since you are already fucked you cant get out from the cycle.

Of course we should deal with the mental side but it will be a million times easier to deal with after you aren’t a fat fuck.
This, and in general setting LED brightness to minimum necessary to get target brightness with fully open LCD, taking into account interaction of nearby LEDs (light from one LED spreads to adjacent cells, thus you could minimize brightness of boundary LEDs even farther).
It is not mindfulness itself that is pseudoscience, but the simplified claims of new/modernized techniques that are put under that name, and their rush to link themselves to state-of the-art neuroscience and experimental psychology.

It is worth repeating the (Wikipedia) definition of mindfulness: "Mindfulness is the practice of purposely bringing one's attention to the present-moment experience without evaluation"

In this raw simple form, mindfulness is always a net positive (in the long term). However, I agree with you that special techniques (and obsession) can lead to negative effects especially when done without guidance. The reason is simple: Any powerful technique/technology is quite harmful when misused, and the mind is a fragile system.
`asdf` allows this for all languages, not just Node, one stop shop.

That said, yea, the JS ecosystem is literal cancer.
Ask HN: Has a life coach ever worked for you?
Did you at any point in time have a life coach? Did that help you grow professionally and personally? Would you recommend getting one?
The downside is the risk of atrophying one's own mental ability to generate such suggestions if excessively relied upon. Given my druthers, I'd prefer to be a generator of text ChatGPT would want to absorb than to be a consumer of the mystery meat it is regurgitating.
My whole family mostly avoids alcohol (Muslim) and lots of people are overweight.
If your biggest problem is that you will die in 41 years, you must live an incredibly easy life.
I'm not suggesting left-right, I'm suggesting forward-back.
Obesity is now a global problem; I don't know why people view this as US centric.
They didn't, they just made it up
I just use rofi and type what I want to launch. I dont really see the need for all this.
ChatGPT doesn't say anything of the sort. In fact, it will vehemently insist that what it says is not necessarily true or accurate if you challenge it.
Really eager to see whether Apple can turn AR/VR into a mainstream product. My guess is no but then again it's Apple.
Well, the answer should be yes. Otherwise you would have to conclude very few people use arithmetic in their work which seems peculiar. A tool based on calculus could be rather abstracted from the math though and the user not even know they are using calculus.
so...if this has a computer in it, and can be a productivity device the way an iPad could be....maybe. It would give more screen real estate, less desk, maybe the same apps. I can just about see how someone might expense it if they had to work on private content in public environments a lot...

$3k is really just too much for a fancy monitor for productivity apps, though. I'm bought into the concept, but not the price.
This is a pretty big leap, what is even "true meaning and purpose"? The culprit is that this food is literally everywhere and billions of dollars are poured into research everywhere to design systems that entice humans to take the convenient way out. If I was to go along with your hypothesis, I would alter it to say that poor nutrition is what contributes to a person's lack of "true meaning and purpose".
There are complicating factors in NYC, as well as the fact that the average resident doesn’t pay what it actually costs for trash pickup, so moving to a private model would cost significantly more for each household. (Obviously TINSTAAFL, and this cost is just hidden in other ways. Eg taxes)
> That's literally everyone's job in investing. You think a pension fund or an ETF serves a different purpose?

Yeah, if you completely ignore risk profiles. VCs have extremely high risk appetites and comparing them to pension funds is in bad faith.
TinyGo does indeed have problems with the reflect package, as well as many others, one which I've managed to help with [1]. The developers have been very helpful, but the reflect package is still a big missing piece.

Your framework sounds interesting. Do you develop it in the open?

[1] https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/3274
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It’s 332M USA vs 447M EU. And be assured, nobody benefits from isolation. Chances you outcompete everybody at everything are slim. I would also argue that SV would never grow so much without relatively free trade.
There are a few kinds of value. There’s value in me playing piano even though other people are better. But nobody will ever pay me to do it. They’re two different topics.

I think you’re trying to say that they don’t have to be different topics? Like there’s value in going bowling with friends even if you all suck, and maybe that kind of thing can apply to widgets? I don’t think I buy that. If the value is the social relationship, I’d rather go bowling with friends than make them widgets. I’d rather spend my money to go bowling with them than on their widgets if there’s a computer-made equivalent available for 1000x cheaper. I think this applies for most people making most widgets.
> I don't know anything about a "power split" transmission, but isn't that the sort of thing a differential gear set does very well at?

A planetary gear set is often a component of a power split transmission, but there are other components. The key thing is that it is able to blend power from multiple sources [1]

> The thought occurs to me to make the rear wheels powered by the ICE and the front wheels electric.

> Then no wacky transmissions.

The problem is you then have a car that switches the basic drive characteristics (FWD to RWD) depending on what fuel you are using. Everything from the chassis to the suspension in a car is designed according to where the power is coming from.

Mitsubishi addressed this problem in their Outlander PHEV by using 2 electric motors, 1 on each axle, with the front axle being supplemented by the ICE engine (via a 1 way clutch) when more power is needed than the small battery can output, or when the battery is depleted [2]. This doesn't completely solve the problem but makes it less noticeable, and eliminates the need for a mechanical driveshaft between the front and rear.

Also, this approach only switches the vehicle from FWD to AWD, not from FWD to RWD. It's the same with dual motor EVs, they switch from 1 axle drive to 2 axle drive - they don't switch from one axle completely to the other. Imagine your car suddenly becoming RWD when the battery was depleted. That would be weird, and potentially even dangerous.

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00941....

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ__5-V6CTI
This is usually how Apple enters/creates a new market. Many other follow the same strategy. They start with a very high end version that highlights their strengths and the product's potential. It will not have mass adoption and it won't make them money. If successful Apple will certainly roll out newer lower costing versions.
> Why do they even have their own fleet of garbage trucks, though?

We have both: “New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY)…serves residential buildings, government agencies, and many nonprofit facilities. The private system is regulated by the City’s Business Integrity Commission (BIC) and consists of more than 250 waste hauling firms licensed to remove non-construction and non-industrial waste. The private haulers serve businesses ranging from small pizza parlors to large office buildings” [1]. The public system guarantees minimum service to the population.

[1] https://cbcny.org/research/12-things-new-yorkers-should-know...
You really don’t want that. I mean, if you’re sure things are going to stay below -10°C for the forseeable future, by all means leave the snow on the roads, and I wish more places in Northern Europe would do that. (Winter days become much more tolerable when what little light you have is reflected back by snow.)

But if they are not and especially if they are going back and forth, then you’re getting slush, half-frozen slush, frozen slush packed into ice, or half-frozen slush on top of frozen slush packed into ice, and not only do you not want to drive on that, it’s also a pain to remove even from pedestrian paths, because you need power tools to break it up and then you have a crapton of inch-thick sheets of ice you have to transport and dump to melt somewhere. They take a couple of weeks to melt naturally on the road, or a couple of months under the spring sun if you pile them up on the side of the road (which also happens to look hideous).
It has gotten much cheaper to host stuff, but I really wonder if marketing costs have fallen as well. You can certainly find cheap or free avenues (like HN) to tell people about your product, but it can be lost in the sea of information. Good marketing to the best subset of potential customers is essential in getting anything off the ground. That can be expensive especially if you are an engineer with very little marketing experience.
if the breaking upgrade thing is such a problem I guess it should be possible to run both versions side by side, although might require some registry tweaks?
Actually, Intel beats M1/M2 in perf/watt benchmarks: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html
NYC also has a ton of fraud perpetrated by gov employees.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/seventeen-new-york-city...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/bribery-fraud-charges-are-dism...
It has no mainstream use outside of cryptocurrency projects, which already require major dependencies and will never be implemented in the stdlib. Prime facie, it doesn't belong in stdlib.
> - Weakens the nuclear family, which is the foundation of stable civilization, by decoupling sex from responsibility

>> That sounds like you have a problem with birth control, not prostitution.

No, birth control doesn't change anything. I wasn't talking about just responsibility to one's child, but also responsibility to one's partner.
A star, of course, is itself almost as far from a closed system as it is possible to be in our universe.

A bomb calorimeter in a chemistry class might be approximated as a closed system for the purposes of thermodynamics. Very few things in nature can.
Would that necessarily cost way more than the custom lenses needed for glasses?
Love love love planetscale.

When I found it (you can thank Theo), shocked this isn't what AWS' serverless DB offering already was.

I agree with what the author mentioned in another comment, not dropping performance for non-serverless use cases is a decided win. I deeply appreciate the work being done to enable serverless applications, so thank you for the work and thank you for sharing your findings OP.
An apartment too small for a washing machine? It occupies less than a square metre of floor space; how small is your apartment?
As someone who runs a music label, ans has been doing this since 1999, it's not worth it to invest heavily into music. The people that make money in the industry, aren't the people that play the instruments.

It's a long gone dream of just making music that has turned into payola, social media corruption, fake audiences, and negative things like drug abuse, lip syncing, fraud, suicide and ghost writers. Don't wish it on your kids, there are countless kid stars that succumb to this toxic industry like Britney Spears, Aaron Carter, and Michael Jackson. For the rest, there's working at guitar center and ripping off others with overpriced music equipment to grant you a health-care-less descent into oblivion as a broke ex musician.

The players that give up may well be saving their own life, if not for a ton of frustration and false hope.
The headline makes it feel like you're going to go into the dependency struggles of JavaScript tools, which you do, but not until the end of the article after mentioning struggles with database dependencies and operating system dependencies...

Seems like this is more of a rant against tools upgrading themselves and breaking previous dependencies which causes this kind of domino effect of dependency issues when trying to upgrade the initial tool, not the "JavaScript ecosystem"
I think you're looking for the Apple headset thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34250929
I'm not obese, but am not what I'd consider at my ideal weight. I wonder how/if doctors would even prescribe this to someone like me. I think I've read some Hollywood types are using this to lose weight, but those are edge cases. I imagine for normal people this would not be easy to get prescribed.
Do you live there? It seems pretty effective IME.
> That's why for instance we do not have much multi-motors EVs without a mechanical coupling...

AFAIK, no multi-motor EV has a mechanical coupling between the motors. Do you know of a counter-example?
I'm not inherently opposed to gain of function research.

Someone is gonna do gain of function research on pathogens, and it's pretty rapidly becoming something in reach of determined hobbyists, let alone rogue states.

I think I'd prefer we understand what's possible, how pathogens vary in deadliness, how they might be modified by less friendly actors, etc., and I'd hope it's not being done in a cavalier fashion with regards to safety.
Blink is primarily a user mode emulator, but it does support real mode BIOS programs. It can even bootstrap Cosmopolitan Libc bare metal programs into long mode. Here's a video of Blink doing just that. https://storage.googleapis.com/justine/sectorlisp2/sectorlis...
How can the bank curtail such behaviour? Is the logic that Epstein should have been entirely denied access to banking services?

> Why on earth wouldn't you want the bank to be held partially responsible?

Because the idea that criminals shouldn't be allowed access to banking services is fucking vile. Anyone seriously suggesting this genuinely deserves to be burnt on a stake. Not allowing convicted criminals to vote is bad, but this is infinitely worse.

What next? Shall we require sex offenders to wear special armbands and allow casual violence against them as they try to navigate society?
<using that to go on my own learning journey and developing the necessary skills. Only after I have exhausted every other feasible option will I ask someone "What is this?">

Yes this, thank you, this expresses much more accurately, what I was getting at. When I said "classroom" I think what I meant was really "research."

It also digs out the core of my concern, which is I guess the laziness fostered by these apps. They don't encourage the "learning journey" much. And that is so much richer and more interesting, than a jumble of disconnected names.
At least if you've actually learned the concept of derivatives and integrals, it wouldn't be that hard to refresh enough for a given use case. I'd agree that most of us that have taken a year of university calculus don't know calculus.
I can see people using these for work on virtual screens if the DPI is high enough and they're powerful enough. Already when I visit a coworking space I see people with a laptop up on a stand, a keyboard, a mouse, and ipad doing second monitor duty. That's close to 3k depending on the macbook and ipad they're using. This is pretty niche though.
It's trivial to run both side by side. You can easily switch between interpreters.
Why is anyone still pouring money into this again?
Agree, from a fellow Lincolnite!
It all seems really odd, and the waist-mounted battery pack makes me question the credibility of this 'leak'. Apple won't let me plug in my headphones, but they will force me to wear a lithium-ion Walkman? It just doesn't make sense. The pricing is all wrong and the anticipation of a "killer app" seems way off-base. It's either a very confused product that probably shouldn't release, or a questionable leaker.
A story worth reading if for the dramatic ending itself.
If the reported price ($3,000) is anywhere near accurate, then Apple really risks falling into the HomePod trap - the original was great, but costed more than mass-market wanted, which opened up a huge hole for Amazon's Alexa speakers to come in and dominate. Then, when Apple came out with a cheaper device (HomePod mini), the market had largely moved passed it.

To be clear, this is not my judgement of quality at all - only a market assessment based on pricing.