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> This almost is not ever true for software startups, who get more value from speed, flexibility, and not needing to pay a team to manage hardware. Just let [cloud services company] handle it for you until you reach that point.

This is an old myth. Today you can get dedicated servers provisioned in minutes with an API call. A competent DevOps person can manage 10s if not 100s with proper automation. When you have a certain baseline usage of compute moving to dedicated can give you massive savings. And if you're a heavy user of say, RDS, the cost difference can be even more dramatic while also gaining on performance. For ephemeral workloads, testing, etc. the cloud makes sense of course.
> Hopefully, it captures the public’s interest.

why?

it still isn't clear to me so far why I have to be using this
It's probably that by optimizing code they reduced CPU load, therefore reducing fan noise due to overheating, and finally inducing clearer sound quality with lower SNR. It makes sense to me.
I disagree.

Considering that StarLink satellites have a orbital period of ~95 minutes, I doubt that debris fields de-orbiting "very quickly" as you so precisely put it will be quick enough.

And even so, just shotgun your payload of tungsten flechettes into a orbit a bit higher than the satellites and let gravity do the rest.

I'm sure people smarter than me have considered these scenarios and done the economic math.
I have the Meta/Rayban stories sunglasses and they're unquestionably my favorite sunglasses and it's unfortunate they haven't been as big of a hit as I expected.

They are very natural, the camera and video feature work great, they're excellent for taking calls and listening to music. If they could achieve the AR feature set that I have in my Nreal Air's, but untethered it would be "The great leap forward" for AR/VR consumer glasses.
> Why should people have to drive

Want to add, with walkable cities and less car centricism you absolutely don't have to drive.

Not meaning to be insensitive to less healthy people who enter into that condition through no fault of their own, but also, perhaps fewer people would be in a position that they are physically unable to shop for groceries if they didn't "have to drive", and got in the exercise of a daily walk to the grocer.
I think you may have missed the news last night. They just invented three brand new facilities within 72 hours of SVB collapsing. That is making it up as you go.
>no one can reason what happens within the network

The formula of a neutral network is not hard to see. People would not be able to write code to do training or inference if they didn't know what is happening in the network.

>the number of parameters, the number of layer

You can measure the effectiveness of a neutral network to know how tweaking the number of parameters affects it. There are also restrictions like hardware or execution time that can place an upper bound on these aside from overfitting.

>the choice of temperature

Similarly, you can measure the quality of output to find the temperature that seems to work the best.

The theory is that it's all one big optimization problem. Where the values of the parameters of the NN aren't the only thing you can tweak.
Will It Merge? Gas Disks Can Determine the Future of a Binary Black Hole System
There's also a charitable way to read that. You won't change the world by resigning yourself to its current state; you have to reject its current state. Which isn't to say this is the next big thing, just that big ideas start by rejecting reality.
We own the home outright, no mortgage. The repair and maintenance expenses are sporadic and extreme. $6k here, $8k there, without warning.

Rent increases are definitely something to watch out for, but in another six years we will no longer have any school-age children, and our ability to move around without regard for school districts increases dramatically. In 30 years, I will have exceeded my life expectancy at birth, although I hope to still be kicking, obviously. I will probably be retired in half that time.

I've watched my parents end up in a house far too big for them after kids moved out, and they downsize to another house that ended up still being far too big for them.

My willingness/desire to rent may be a reflection of my phase of life more than anything: when I was very young, I rented because I wasn't yet sure I wanted to be locked in somewhere for decades. Then I owned a house for decades until a divorce, rented while I figured out what my life was going to be like again, and now another marriage and another house, but my future looks like it will be a lot less locked in, a mirror of my youth. We intend to travel extensively, spending just shy of six months overseas. At that point we don't need to be paying expenses for a place in which we're not living.
Meta Quest is definitely not flopping. It's now believed Quest headsets have outsold the Nintendo GameCube. Quest 2 outsold the latest Xbox. I really question the narrative that VR is this niche thing no one uses. The numbers support that it is going mainstream.
ChatPaper, use ChatGPT to summarize the ArXiv papers
Thanks, totally forgot
I was gonna say I remember this from Mythbusters promos. Now, Adam was the Steve-O of the show, so take that quote with a grain of salt.
How does that follow? Money gets "printed" no matter what due to fractional-reserve banking.
It doesn’t need to be “As fast as possible” it just needs to be faster than the I/O. For sure, congrats that it is X times faster but the writer doesn’t really describe performance in terms of real world constraints.
https://www.myhifishop.de/Voodoo-Corner/AQVOX-LAN-Detoxer-RJ...

LAN Caps, that is something which you can cover your unused ethernet ports... I wonder if they lower my ping in gaming too...

I was thinking of gold plated optical cables, but this is pure snake oil...

EDIT: I think it might be joke as it is in "Voodoo Corner", but the rest of the stuff isn't so...
The Failed Bank List on the FDIC has quite a few examples.

You can see dividend payouts from failed banks here: https://closedbanks.fdic.gov/dividends/

There are many examples of cases in which depositors take a 4-10% haircut, and receive it months or years after the failure (meaning the haircut is quite a bit larger when factoring for time).
The timing can work out nicely for Apple since Tim Cook is on his way out in a year or two anyway, so if it flops or the initial launch goes real bad, they can blame it him and communicate his exit as a "reset" for the product and company. It would have been risky to leave it for the new CEO to launch. Sort of like you never fire a football manager before a major clash even if it was clear to everybody that he will be sacked soon.
"The early bird catches the worm - but the second mouse gets the cheese. " comes to mind re Meta/Apple... but honestly I am very bearish on AR/VR in general. Meta learned their lesson the hard way, I hope Apple doesn't do the same.
Last time I used Rust to build a music player, the resulting audio quality was much worse than my C++ version. I'm sure these new kids on the block ("Rustaceans" or whatever they call themselves) know what they are doing when building web applications and CLIs, but when audio quality has to 120% of the original sound, nothing beats true and tested C++. I cannot explain how or why, but programs made with C++ just sounds better, fuller and more authentic than programs made with other languages.
The only way any company can pull this off is if they create a truly wire-free, glasses form-factor device which is sufficiently high fidelity to display AR convincingly.

It all relies on how much the technology can be miniaturised and pushed, if there is anyone that can do it it's Apple.
I've used some of these in the past and they're easy to get started with, but I found limitations in terms of components, styling, and performance. Since we compile down to a NextJS app, we aim to have the flexibility of traditional webdev with the ergonomics of Python
agreed. if they fulfilled even 80% of their original order, maybe this would make sense.
> Children are not born owing their parents anything.

Yes they are. That is the function of children with respect to parents in the circle of life, just as it is the function of parents to care for children. Not all obligations are ones you voluntarily undertake.

Of course there are boundaries to the scope of that obligation. But those are defined by society, not "consent." The problem in Claire's story is that the parents are perfectly capable of working but choose to burden her instead.
This is a fun little story.

At the time, Angela Ahrendts, formerly the Burberry CEO, had been hired as the SVP of Retail to replace the guy who left to go flop at JC Penny. What you noticed at the time is that Ahrendts tried to position things as luxury fashion items. This was the era when you had the ridiculous $10,000 Apple Watch Edition, Hermes straps and the like. This completely flopped.

They sort of scrambled after this inevitable failure and settled on it being a device for health and fitness. I think health monitoring in particular is a huge untapped market. A later version added an ECG. If they can figure out how to do blood sugar testing without a needle that will be absolutely huge for so many people.

Preventative care and passive monitoring I expect to become huge industries, particularly with aging populations. It won't be too many years before you see such devices giving you early warnings of a heart attack, for example.

From the outside it looked like Apple never had a clear goal for the Apple Watch on launch and just stumbled into it.
You'd probably want to set your expected % based on word-starting tokens in some large English-language (or Latin-script) corpus, due to the unequal distribution of letters in English and languages that use Latin script generally.
> I guess they think bits are bits.

I'm guilty as charged.
I find it hard to believe anybody could describe that cover as a "wonderful thing" that "made their life better."

If it's really art for the sake of art, art justifying itself, then let it be done for free. I want the monetization of such things banned, because I don't think this is art for the sake of art. I think child modelling is done for the sake of commercial exploitation.
>seems to indicate that a non-American is accusing a non-American of being an American....

Aye. But there's so many American poodles in Europe, it's hard to tell the difference.

Love the downvotes by the way. If only downvoting a fact you don't want to hear could somehow make it not true any more!

I also didnt mention the US's strafing of the retreating Iraqui army during the Gulf War either [0]. Who can forget the photos of the destroyed columns of vehicles, heading back to Iraq and the soldiers burned to death in their retreating trucks? It'll be interesting to see the howls of outrage from the Americans [and poodles] if Ukraine withdraws from Bakhmut and the Russians shell their retreating forces.

Talk about pots and kettles!

[0] https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/highway-death-in-pictures-1...

[0] https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/dont-photograph-people-like...
Any info on what that policy costs, per $1M
How does Pynecone compare to Flet? I've played with the flet framework and it seems to have a ton of potential.
The quest has seen decent sales, but from what I hear, it's got limited sticking power with users. Most headsets end up in the drawer gathering dust after the novelty wears off. Meta needs to see buyers continue using to consider the quest a success.
I thought you were going to say you can't share passwords as well when it's tied to a headset.
Some people just liked the UI and features, but I think major reason why people are so butthurt about Reader, is that its existence was a very important symbol: it was a mainstream product from a well-respected company that elevated RSS to being a normal feature of websites, not just a niche protocol of open-web-loving bloggers.

And conversely, shutdown of the Reader was a wakeup call that big corporations exist to make money, and things that don't monetize well are not going to survive.

That was just past the peak of "Web 2.0" frenzy that used free public APIs for all kinds of "mashups". The APIs didn't even require developer keys and didn't have stringent rate limiting. Everyone was giving away their data for free! It's hard to believe now.

Around the time of Reader shutdown, Twitter locked down their API, significantly curbed 3rd party clients. Facebook and Google abandoned XMPP. Later Google Maps became serious about monetizing their API, and all those mashups and RSS feeds started dying down.

So in short, shutdown of Google Reader was the beginning of the end of Web 2.0.
It's really comments like yours that keep me going.
Unlike steam, itch.io runs games in a process sandbox. I remember they had some interesting technical details, but I’m on mobile and can’t find them.
> 9001 and It Usually Ends In Nuclear War

I thought this was a game about ISO certifications for a minute.
Those will also increase the horsepower of your car, so it's really like getting two products in one.
Well, from my perspective, making claims about the world ending requires some substantial backing, which I didn't find in OP's comment.

But now I understand that perhaps this is self-evident and/or due to a lack of reading comprehension on my part, thank you. I hope that when our new AI overlords come they appreciate people capable of self-reflection.
> Placement on automotive CPUs has measurably increased engine horsepower.

Even more amazing promise... So it is snake oil for both cars and hifi...
No, because those exceptions become the new rule, and fragile emergencies are a bad time to think through what the new rule should be. "Hard cases make bad law."

I feel the need to say this in every comment because I don't expect people to read my other comments, but I do support what was done here, assuming the private buyer solution was tried and it failed, I just also think it's bad that things are run this way.
The ETA doesn't fix the walking across the border problem.
Trees Across the U.S. Are Sprouting Leaves Earlier Than Usual This Year
I agree with this, but it's also possible that the Fed moved a bit too quickly, overcompensating for moving too slowly last year.
Will using the right version of memcpy help with reducing the effects of rotational velocidensity when ripping to lossy formats?
The full name is still printed on most of our banknotes (alongside Bank of China and Standard Chartered who issue a smaller number of notes). I think it's just the parent company who deleted the original meaning.
That's so dumb. Everyone knows that string.h functions produce the best sound you can get, and you should prefer `calloc' so you get clean sound.

Ideally you want to write your audio rendering code in asm, too, since newer C compilers add a lot of junk to binaries that reduce the quality of the output. If you can't do this, simply use older compilers.

But if you're going to write in C, I suggest Cosmopolitan Libc and running directly from BIOS since operating systems end up doing a lot of work that produces electrical noise on your hardware.

You're better off running literally only audio rendering code for the best quality rendition.

/s
My wife and I do this for our kids. Photo albums are more fun anyways as looking through them and talking about the memories is more of an event then just getting a 'like' on a photo.
I also learned this today. Thanks for sharing! :)

Edit: But sadly it is not up to date. :)
I've always felt totally alone falling somewhere between hardcore audiophiles and the 'norm,' which seems to feel a cell phone or cheap laptop speaker is as good as anything else for music. I really notice the difference between cheap crap, and say an older used brand name receiver with freestanding floor speakers, the kind of system you can find on craigslist for about $100. But I cannot notice a major difference between the $100 system, and say a $100k system (or whatever audiophiles spend). I also do notice a big difference between a 96Kbps MP3 and 320Kbps, but not between 320Kbps and lossless.
Every single morning I wake up, clear the haze from my eyes, shuffle to the bathroom, and stare at my aging face in the mirror.

I run my hands over my stubbly chin and gaze deeply into my own eyes, wondering.

"Why can't I figure out some way of ripping off audiophiles?"

"Some dude sold a marker used to color in the edge of CDs to audiophiles for like $20. A $0.50 marker for $20. C'mon man think of something."

"Am I too moral, or just an idiot?"

"They're so god damned gullible. Why can't I figure something out? They're all old and rich, it's not like I would be hurting anyone..."

I then sigh and continue on with my day.
Same for the iPad. It literally only ran stretched iPhone apps at first, with 1024x768 resolution (the iPhone 4 released the same year at 960×640)
He doesn't have his product win. He kept the ship on course and found ways to squeeze out more revenue.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20230312033446/https://discuss.s...
Also that they can tell the difference between stirring with an expensive tool vs a toothpick or needle.

Sure stirring grounds to break up clumps seems like a good idea. But it's mind boggling someone managed to name the technique after themselves and get everyone to refer to it by an acronym with their name in it.
> The story is that housing prices are so inflated that even well-paid professionals can struggle to responsibly buy in if they don't already have a stake in real estate. This isn't new to Manhattan, but it's now common across a lot of American cities and that's news-worthy.

Is this accurate? Or is it more “well-paid professionals struggle to responsibly buy in select areas of a handful of metros”?

Are well paid NYC professionals struggling to buy in the Bronx? Or east Brooklyn? Or Staten Island?

I doubt well paid professionals are struggling in all of Chicago, Kansas City, Tampa, Dallas, Atlanta either. It might be that they are struggling to buy in the richer parts, but that is simply consequences of widening income/wealth gap.
I have a framework laptop, and one of the deciding reasons I bought one was due to the modular ports. I'll admit that 99% of the time, I leave a USB-A and USB-C ports in on each side, but the ability to move the ports to whichever side of the laptop I need, as well as having the ability to swap in ports that I only seldomly use is great. Another understated benefit is being able to use any expansion cards they add in the future. They didn't have ethernet ports at launch, but now I'm able to get one if I so need.
I know I'm the one who submitted the one linking directly to mercury.com/vault but shouldn't that be the link here? It has all the information outlined in the current twitter thread.

Here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35137232
lol it's nice to see Hacker News is still a bastion of reasoned communication and friendly discourse between tech people. I should really log in more.

I built Joblint literally 10 years ago as a fun side project. I was fed up with a spate of really terrible job ads and decided to write something to help me as an engineer vet whether I wanted to work at a company.

It's not a solid tool, it doesn't represent the way I'd build things now, and it codifies my fairly limited view of what made a bad job when I was a bright-eyed 20-something. I should probably add a note to the repo and site to express this but I'm always surprised when it gets dug up tbh.

If I were building it again then yeah it'd spot a lot more issues, it wouldn't be built using a massive RegExp , and it'd probably go harder on trying to spot red flags around homophobia and racism. I'm sure some of the foaming gammons here on HN would be overjoyed.

Anyway, see you all in another 10 years. Lots of love
I had the first Apple Watch. It was great and it was immediately obvious of the health benefits. I blogged about it in 2015

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...
The money that they lose is going to be assessed on all FDIC banks. It doesn't come out of general government funds. So it'll probably be paid for by increasing bank fees on customers.
Very impressive! I'm 3 years in Software Engineering, and can't build simple stuff in OpenGL. Really impressive for someone in HS.
Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contractor pays $1.5M fine
It’s more that you won’t need them because if the govt is serious about stopping bank runs it will raise or eliminate the cap.
You can commit pretty deeply to a joke. The indirect evidence is substantial.
Not a few of the companies operating in the esoteric high end accessory market appear to be cynically fraudulent. Apparently supported by some of the hifi press and dealers.

Considering that special oils, special shiny tapes, special rocks, special boxes of rocks, special cable lifters, and very special cables have all magically delivered an incredible improvement in imaging and the soundstage etc etc etc, it's very much a sellers' market.
That ship has sailed 15 years ago. Web is (unfortunately) the most flexible and feature-complete crossplatform GUI framework.
I'd probably move about 250k an opaque neobank if I'm spooked about to solvency issues.
It's very important that memcpy() copies from higher addresses to lower, as that cancels the harmonic caused by SIMD instructions copying the other way.

The opposite if you happen to use a big endian system.
Compare your approach to EdgeDB - https://www.edgedb.com/. They have a similar product - SQL alternative but not NoSQL. Their homepage is also a little long, but has clear examples.
> But Apple’s famed industrial design team had cautioned patience, wanting to delay until a more lightweight version of AR glasses became technically feasible. Most in the tech industry expect that to take several more years.

They are absolutely right on this. I guess we won't get this and it will be a rushed bulky device instead. This would be a massive mistake.
I think plotly is giving the colors just based on the order of data inserted.
Happy Mercury customer for 4+ years
>It would be a lot more fun if we could make similar jokes about pedophilia in the Muslim and Jewish communities...

Oh. I agree with you there. Do you know any good ones?
Gross sales of Meta Quest are inflated. "Grossly" inflated. HAHAHahaha. The Question is not volume but ROI.

Meta is pouring massive amounts of money into the project and has yet to establish organic demand. The headsets that have been sold are gathering dust. There is no product/market fit.
Why Do Some Modern Computers Still Have Serial Ports?
Not saying that you could tell the difference, but as a random physical process I am sure there is some vague difference in stirring vs. not. So at least there is no immediately obvious falsehood.

Claiming that bits are not bits is on a flat earth level stupid.
The current proposal plans on not defining anything about where and how those things are gonna be stored, but the plan behind all that (and how plenty of classes of the JVM have been designed even in foresight) is that a value type can be flattened (and each value type field recursively so). But do note that it is only a possibility — the JVM might decide that flattening all that would have a negative impact due to increase in size and opt for storing object references.

But the important part is losing identity - even if a field a few layers deep won’t be flattened, it doesn’t have to work the same way for the same data at every place - the JVM now is free to instead of copying the reference only, can choose to copy the value. This trivializes things like escape analysis as well (we can just stack allocate this value class, if it does turns out to escape, just copy to the heap).