skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intersting.

I could do without the camera, small keyboard and touchpad (they are horrible).

From my perspective, the right form factor for this depends on intended use.

I can see an option for travel, something you just throw in your backpack. The lack of a conventional display means you are locked into using the headset. Not sure I would want that if this was the only computer I have while on the road. The keyboard is super important to me. Small keyboards are uncomfortable and slow me down. This is why I buy larger laptops (16+ in). Also, I never use touchpads, they are seriously bad UI devices. I use a thumb-operated trackball and a mouse only if I have no other option.

For context, I have to work on everything from office documents and coding to 3D CAD modeling. Again, touchapds are just not the right UI.

If the proposal is to have this be a desktop computer, well, the right format would likely be a small "cube" computer that allows you to connect whatever keyboard, pointing device and camera you want. It would be nice if the headset was wireless.

Resolution? It has to be substantial. I am looking at three 27 inch monitors, each being 2560 x 1440. I have been thinking of upgrading the middle monitor to a 4K model for CAD and graphics work. This, I think, might be the toughest problem for this concept. Sure, it's a 100 in view, yet I doubt it will have enough resolution.

At the end of the day you have a computer that only one person can look at. This could be of value in some environments. You don't really need their laptop to accomplish the same feat.

This could be interesting if you need to work during a flight. Again, I would want a real keyboard and a different pointing device. Trackballs are great on planes because they don't have to move.
You are saying this started 3-400 years ago? Then why is it visible just now?
> I think consumers just don’t want to spend a lot of money on VR

And I don’t think Apple wants those people as customers, at least not initially.

$3000 for a headset from a company that sells $1000 monitor stands for $5000 monitors and $500 wheels for the computers doesn’t seem about right to me. In a year or two, the next generation of VR headset will be much better and still $3000 and you will be able to buy this one for, maybe, $2000.

There’s an awful lot of people who can afford $2k for a piece of hardware if it’s good enough.

All that said, I suspect the headset will be priced well under $3000.
And that, dear reader, is how we ended up with hundreds of bland copy-cat Android phones to the iPhone. There's something to be said, mentally, for working somewhere that's inspiring. A shitty office in yet a clone of all the other office parks, buried in office-park-landia of San Jose, is not it. Even a stroll through the secret underground parking lot at Apple is inspiring with all the exotic cars that are owned by early Apple employees, instead of Honda Civics and Toyota Camrys. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I drive a Honda, but they just don't have the same emotional pull.
Thanks for the advice.
Can you transfer to a graduate program after CC or undergrad only?
Often in threads about loneliness, especially Ask HN threads about how to connect with people, there are some extremely terse replies to the effect of "Get married; have a family." And while I support doing that 100%, it is not the trivial solution for loneliness or lack of community. Connection to a world outside your house is an extremely important thing.
You're also pulling "can't afford anything else" into that as if the two groups are the same, which is what they're complaining about. (I'm not expressing an opinion myself, I've never been to New York.)
US taxes are actually currently extremely low - in the 90's the top marginal tax rate dipped below 50% for the first time in five decades and now it's gotten all the way down to 37%[1]. That's just for income and a lot of wealthy individuals end up paying the majority of their taxes as capital gains but the other change that's harder to quantify is that our tax code has slowly become a swiss cheese mess of loopholes and exemptions that drastically lowered the effective tax rate.

The causes of loneliness in particular are more hard to trace - culture definitely drive a fair amount of that but we're also dealing with far more isolating technological factors - I don't feel particularly qualified to comment on that portion so I'll just leave it at that.

1. https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/60868250060...
This is my Flask+Vue boilerplate: https://github.com/void4/lazyweb/
I've had a similar issue with MongoDB's ObjectIDs. They are generated using a combination of process id, UNIX timestamp and a counter that is randomly initialized during process creation. The issue when docker comes into the mix is that the root process id of every container is 1 so a decent chunk of entropy is removed from the ObjectID. Add to that the fact that the timestamp doesn't have millisecond resolution, the only thing saving you is praying the counter of any of your processes never overlaps during the same second.

It's unlikely to happen but still possible and it has brought down some of our parallel worker pool because once you have a collision, you are bound to keep generating the same id sequence until you restart your whole process to randomize the counter again.
You won't learn unless you spend the time to try (and fail) doing so yourself.
He couldnt get over his fiancee’s death. So he brought her back as an AI chatbot
No, just engaging with the ‘everyone else does it’ part which felt emphasized. Proving lost potential is hard without an example of something better - which I would argue is the Oura ring, but less popular for different reasons.

And for Siri and Alexa, you probably use ChatGPT, so you know the difference when you see it
Once there are true smart glasses, things will change. I love the Hololens 2 experience, it just needs better hardware and smaller form factor.
Drawing tools yeah, but the workflow is still very much focused on pixel editing with layers, a fixed canvas size, etc.

In this respect it's very much like Photoshop that does have some vector stuff but it's really a terrible tool for doing graphic design, UI design, etc.
Cities have traditionally been about two things: opportunities and freedom. For many the freedom is more important of the two. It means the freedom to be anonymous, the freedom to choose your own community, and the freedom to live your own life.

Small towns come with a default community, because everyone knows everyone. It's great if you fit in, and terrible if you don't. Many people move to cities primarily to escape that community.
Uber and taxi are still around.
Ten years ago it was the Pandora algorithm. It really did a good job of distilling genres. (Spotify has never quite been able to match this for me, though sometimes the “mood” playlists provide good results)

These days, I read a lot of music biographies, and that tends to lead me down interesting paths. Read about Bowie, you’ll learn about Mick Ronson, the Stooges, etc. Read about the Talking Heads, you’ll learn about Fela Kuti. Read about the Beastie Boys, you’ll learn about.. well almost everything.
Some things are impossible to achieve at small scale.
I use the voice to text feature of the Watch's Messages app daily. It has worked flawlessly since I bought the Watch.
Taxes are used to bail out the rich and murder and imprison the poor. And a little bit spent on infrastructure.
“A philosophy of Software Design”
Yeah. Screw scooters. People riding those don’t care about pedestrians. I’ve been knocked out by one of those things. They’re more dangerous than cars. Cars at least move on designated roads while scooters just zip past pedestrians and can come from anywhere at any time.
I think this had more to due with negotiations with the record labels[0]. All the major record labels have investments in Spotify[1] which I imagine lends more credence to Spotify being able to negotiate good deals with the labels, since they can act more like partners

[0]: https://www.cultofmac.com/325034/apples-music-streaming-nego...

[1]: https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/spotify-at-days-close-what...
This comment reminded me of how quickly children can become friends. It's funny what we can do when we come to the table without any expectation of one another.
So how much has that cut down on car traffic inside Boston?
> Cars are fine and are needed, you can't move anything big with tram or bike easily

What’s the percentage of cars on the road you see moving big stuff that could not be moved by other means? (Aka not people).
Arch is also rolling update, and has no trivial chance to break when upgrading, I learned this painfully a few years ago. switched to Ubuntu, which is boring but stable.
Yeah, the modern idea of the frontiersman as a rugged individualist who answered to no law but God in his heart and the gun at his hip is a fantasy, like the noble knight or honorable samurai. Actual cowboys weren't nomads because their fierce independent spirit couldn't be tamed by society and its rules, but because their job was moving herds of cattle from place to place and of course they didn't do it alone.

And many of them weren't even white - "buckaroo" is a corruption of the Spanish vaquero. But you wouldn't know any of that from any American cowboy movie or tv show.
Washington DC is a cheaper alternative if already in North America.
You forget - this isn't just about the car. It's mostly about the roads. Roads cause all sorts of issues with land use, and even if the cars are clean and intelligent, they still take up lots of room (probably a bit less with EVs that are more situationally aware and non-polluting).

Removing some roads and replacing with more shared/human-centric transport will make a huge difference to the utility of cities. We can do this independently of electrifying vehicles - see superblocks [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33279811
US taxes used to be zero most of the existence of US. Compared to most countries, US taxes are high. California has total taxes higher than a few European countries, so when we talk about high taxes this is the context(perspective) for me.

As for loneliness, my generation and part of the world (Eastern Europe) does not encounter it. I see it in the newer generations, for example people around 20 years old are extremely lonely even here compared to my generation or my parents' generation, but the decline started with my parents, it was fairly small in mine and jumped dramatically in the past 10 years. Looking at the causes, I found the list that I enumerated earlier.
I would argue that the move the Apple Silicon was in the pipeline long before Cook took over. I mean PA semi was purchased in 2008 and the first A4 processor was 2010, the writing was already on the wall a good decade out.

But Air-pods, Apple Watch and Apple TV streaming were all under cooks watch. Maybe not as ground breaking but still very important. Mind you, who else has been doing ground breaking stuff like under Steve? I cannot think of anything other than the recent AI stuff. It kind of feels like Steve picked the last of the low hanging fruit and then bowed out before it came to stagnation.
Ah, my apologies. I'll be more careful in the future.
Depends on the type of AR, passthrough or real vision with overlay like the Hololens
Like the people who took up python to get away from the unbearable Ruby zealots.

Religious wars will persist
Also lots of young families and a decent tech ecosystem due to U of R, RIT and a decent batch of tech/engineering companies. The winter is hard but the Spring and Summer are beautiful.
It wouldn't take any. Military action against Taiwan would lead to sanctions at a level never seen before. Without Western support in the form of raw materials, spare parts, and intellectual property, the hardware at TSMC is fit for nothing but whatever the modern equivalent of Weird Stuff Warehouse is.

I guess they could raise a few yuan by selling the DUV and EUV machines on eBay. "Removed from a working environment." That'd be about all they could do with it.
Your job isn’t dictating your relationships - it’s giving you an opportunity at making some.

Disgusted? By… a company… having an office? We have shockingly different interpretations of dystopian!
Perhaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city
That’s why there’s a 5 lane highway from Utrecht to Amsterdam?
I don't think clockless makes anything easier
Light rail is a super slow form of transport in LA and Portland.

I think you are right that cars are reaching a certain tipping point of efficiency but they still beat the public transit in most categories.

Mass transit has the issue in that it tries to serve too many masters. Should it be faster (more expensive, serving few people)? Should it be serving the less wealthy (more stops, less money)? By trying to appease too many groups of people it tends to miss both marks.
>or does it simply enrich heirs?

This was one of the original arguments in favor of copyright, except in reverse, as the poverty of heirs was an argument in favor of copyright:

When, in 1749, Thomas Newton's (1704-1782) edition of Paradise Lost was published, it carried details about the impoverished circumstances in which Elizabeth Foster, Milton's granddaughter, lived.[33] The account gave rise to a performance of Milton's Comus at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, from which Elizabeth received £130, the profits of the evening. When aligned with the fact that Milton himself received only £20 from Simmons, the tale became a staple in subsequent accounts of neglected genius and avaricious publishers.

Deazley, R. (2008) ‘Commentary on Milton's Contract 1667', in Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
While it’s by no means the norm in most of the US, you can definitely live that way in other American cities besides New York. Chicago, DC, San Francisco all come to mind.
I struggle with this too. Returning to the office and all that involves (commute, schedule inflexibility) isn't ideal, so I hope that I can keep WFH but find the community aspect with more intentional effort there. But I miss the ease of just getting that from the office environment.
Ever since I got API access to GPT-4, I don't even bother with using ChatGPT proper (I need to cancel the subscription one of these days). I tend to use it in bursts, so smoothing usage by rate limits doesn't work for me.

Is it more expensive this way? At the rate I'm using it, probably 2-3x. Is it worth it? Absolutely. I've never in my life felt so happy to pay for something per request.
My argument isn't that the Uyghur genocide is harmful to Americans.

My argument is that the regime that is carrying out the genocide is in control of the algorithms for a major social media company.

You perfectly prove my point when you have no problem realizing the impact on Americans control of a social media has in the case of Twitter, but are completely blind to the impact of TikTok.
In the US, passenger takes lower priority to freight. This is why I rarely go by train.
I rather suspect that "magic" and "vtable" are very similar concepts to many developers.
> (Europe is [...] more homogeneous

You might underestimate how different Europeans feel from each other.

Consider neighboring states California, Oregon, Nevada vs. France, Germany, Spain.
> I see [Rust : Zig :: C++ : C] repeated a lot, especially in Zig spaces, but it doesn't really make sense to me. Rust is an excellent replacement for C, even though it has more features.

It’s the feels, not the features :) Rust code feels like C++ code, at least when you’re reading it (I haven’t written any worth talking about). It puts the problem domain in similar terms, it has similar transparency (or lack thereof) regarding what it’s copying or allocating or whatnot, and so on. In that respect (!) they are closer to each other than C is to either—at least vanilla C, not a DSL (“language overhaul mod”?) like GObject. And it makes sense to target the C side of that divide in a new language (though again I lack the experience to say to which degree Zig succeeds in hitting that target).
Live Photos rarely contain more than a word or two in my experience. Not ideal but hardly end of world
Open plan in a nutshell: would you like to save 20% on seating costs for the low cost of a 30% reduction in productivity? Then open plan offices might be right for you.
Vaunt is an initiative of Kochava Studios, the research and development arm of Kochava, Inc. Vaunt helps advance the open-source community by creating a recognition platform. It is used internally on a number of Kochava’s repositories to highlight their engineers. Vaunt leverage existing repository data (i.e git commits, pull request etc..) to recognize contributions from developers. Vaunt is not related to Kochava's enterprise solutions.
It sounds like they are specifically deprioritizing private schools below where they are in terms of natural demand though? Seems like they should they should just address areas by demand, regardless of the type of demand.
Don’t worry it’s not the worst one. That one was where I said I liked the Apple Keyboard on the 12 inch model and that I didn’t experience many keyboards but I have used an IBM model M, Corsair k70 and various other ones. So you can get keyboard shamed…
apple is all about ecosystem.

many little niceties you hardly notice but would immediately notice the loss of.

with vr and ar you are placing yourself directly within the ecosystem. (the os becomes your reality, if you will, extended… xr… wasn’t that clever of them…)

the iPhone long game shows apple’s willingness to creep slowly into lower cost tiers to preserve the brand value.

carmack doesn’t need to be wrong for apple to succeed. apple just needs to be patient. (and maybe get back to some fundamentals on the software, the operating systems fee like they are beginning to rot a bit.)
I mean the fatigue and awkwardness of holding a wrist up to speak to it. Think of twiddling your thumbs but productively for phones (how natural)… But yes, voice to text is a great solution to their problem - there’s just a lot left on the table
I am a back-end engineer with a pretty solid foundation in computer science, I believe. Topics I'd really love to study are compilers, operating systems, and computer networks. As I understand, these topics are absent in CCs.
So you still need to have cars and a city designed for them to operate. Edit: What about ambulances, police, fire service, deliveries, postal services…, public transportation…?
It's not just having an office. It means work-life balance is so tilted that your workplace is basically your whole life. That implies all sorts of terrible things.

Why even leave work? You'd get all sorts of nice marriage statistics if you force people to live in a prison-camp environment 24/7
The cores/money comparison doesn't looks like it accounts for inflation.*

more to the point, the comparison also represents the period of time in which AMD, the one-time "lesser" player nipping at monopolist Intel's heels by competing on price, became the technology leader and started commanding a premium for their products. Meanwhile, Intel has not been forced to cede its position in the market, their existing contracts and business model is based on premium products, not cost leadership. It will take awhile for this to sort out.
I have a counterpoint for many comments here. If you are writing some Python for example, and most of your code is executing commands such as tail, cat, wc, etc. and then doing something with their output, you are better off writing a shell script instead .
The Netherlands did almost exactly what you claim is not possible.
Solitude: A Return to the Self, by Anthony Storr was a good read, but it's been over 15 years, so maybe worth a revisit. I am sociable, but I don't do much socializing. Rollerskating and motorcycles have punctuated my life with social groups and a sense of doing things with a group. I engage with people, but only if it's right there; I don't plan or reach out much. Fortunately, I have older kids, and I have some younger ones too that add all the socialization I could ever want. Family has been the key throughout my life. I do love my solitutude and reading and hiking and looking at stars though. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 60s/70s with street gangs and violence made me stay with my small group of tight friends. I've lived and worked all over the world, but I've never felt compelled to plan, attend, or create anything beyond the day-to-day life and the new MC club I am a member of (and skydiving with my older son for the third time!). Doing stuff.
Except at the mass transit railheads, where it is severely lacking. If you want suburban people to use mass transit, then stop discouraging them, and give them a place to park their cars (which are necessary to get from their homes to the miles away railheads).
SQLite to Postgres ? maybe

Postgres to SQLite ? Maybe too

Any of those to MySQL ? Yeah nah I got bitten way too many times by that. And massively surprised that SQLite had some features MySQL didn't...
Yep, I live in such a town now. It's a 5 minute bike ride downtown, 8 minutes to the downtown of the closest neighboring town, 13 minutes to the next closest. And it would be 12 minutes to a major shopping center with a grocery store but there's no safe route there at the moment - but that's not an impossible change to make!

Point is, you're right, it doesn't take that much density to make getting around without a car viable for many trips.
Let's see. Unreal Engine can build for Apple Silicon. So any game dev can make his choice himself. Unity and others are also there as good frameworks.

More importantly, Apple did not ruin relationsships with Media companies. I'd love to see some more VR concerts or other events. Meta totally failed at scaling this.
I use ublock origin and adding this https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter... to it does not have any effect on bloomberg.com.
> Reversing that development, limiting car traffic to where its really needed is like trying to perform a complete heart and arteries transplant on a living person

Nonsense.

Ljubljana went from full of cars downtown to a 1 square mile pedestrian area with zero cars. It’s fantastic. And all the major arteries into the city went from 2 lanes to 1 lane + bus.

Amsterdam famously reversed its car centric design in the 1980’s.

Even San Francisco was able to close its main city artery to car traffic and transform many of the big roads with dedicated bus and bike lanes.

And those are just the cities I know about. There’s bound to be more. The feat is completely possible, but takes a while as any large refactoring does.
The American Dream doesn't convince people that loneliness is normal. Social media did that. While I appreciate social media, as it allows me to stay connected to my friends around the world. It doesn't help much with friends locally.
Slimvoice, the lightweight invoicing app, was shut down April 1, 2023
You pick where you live. If you want to live somewhere that doesn't require a car you need to pick carefully. It does exist in the suburbs from Miami, to Portland, to Seattle, to LA, to Chicago, there are suburbs you don't have to have a car for and almost every major city in the US has that option.
I disagree somewhat with the characterization of the differences as artificial. I think Apple genuinely believes that, despite their excellent touchpads, a cursor-driven interface is not the same as a touch interface.

They’re gradually bridging them (Catalyst, and adding cursor support to iPadOS), and speaking as a fan of both product lines I’m glad they’re trying to make them each more powerful without just slapping them into a single UI.

Could they do a better job of supporting external devices on iPad? I imagine so, but there’s such a long road from the extremely-protective/simplistic/sandboxed iOS 1.0 to a full-fledged workstation operating system I have to think it’s not all that easy.
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