skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminiscent of Adrian Cockcroft “Gigalith” architecture.

Not sure on the economy of scale though - if you need redundancy on a scale up architecture you essentially need to have parity compute sitting idle (likely in another location/region/data centre).

If you have an HA requirement your infra spend has just doubled, and the ROI on your DR tends to nothing (unless you can do something clever with on demand DR)? You’re also replicating everything your write to DR (so network and storage there).

Also more practically, you’re just less flexible. Waiting 30 minutes for a machine to checksum 1TB of memory before loading the OS is painful in an outage scenario (every reboot hurts, replenishing cache hurts, losing a massive instance hurts). Do like the sentiment around simplicity though!
> Total Cost: $5592.66

This is highly misleading since it doesn't include $ value of all the freq flyer miles used (as far as i can tell).

And I'm left wondering was it really cheaper? If yes, by how much?
Conferences
Are you attending any conferences this year?
You don't need to give up the car - you just need to reduce car trips.

The easiest way to do that is reduce commuting trips, as those are very common, but you can reduce trips in other ways, such as allowing more gas stations/convenience stores. If it's a five minute drive to the grocery store but a two minute walk to a 7-11, some of those trips to the grocery store will be replaced with walks to the 7-11.
Sounds great, but I feel we'll be wading through ads and product placement
He absolutely was.

He asks "Can you say with 100% certainty that TikTok does not use the phone's camera to determine whether the content that elicits a pupil dilation should be amplified by the alogorithm?"

Chew: "The only face data that we collect is when you use the filters to have sunglasses on your face, we need to know where your eyes are."

Congressman: "Why do you need to know where the eyes are if you're not seeing if they're dilated??"

Apparently I can only find primary sources of this hearing on TikTok itself, so: https://www.tiktok.com/@jamiethisyoujeffries/video/721387823...
> It may be more feasible to sell $3000 smartphones than to sell VR headsets at this price.

Apple feels that eventually this class of devices will replace smart phones. It’s the same reason meta is betting almost everything on XR
Not necessarily. I think a lot of the "decline" is because more beginners are switching to Linux and look for easy distros, so Gentoo takes up less of the market share without actually becoming less popular.
I would love to see a list of all the websites you hate.
More cars than drivers isn't really a problem once you're past the 1:1 ratio, as obviously they can't all be used simultaneously.
So does the model simply extract the most likely answer to the prompt based on model weights?
I can't see VR being a better home video experience for most people. For one thing, watching is often a group experience with friends, spouse, kids, etc regardless of content. But even alone I don't think most people want to feel so completely disconnected from their environment just for regular casual viewing. I think most people just won't see the appeal beyond the initial novelty. It's already only a subset of people who care much at all about video quality. There could be niche for enthusiasts of course.

On a personal level I also dislike the idea of being home in the evening and myself or my spouse decide to watch something and put on some goggles and completely shut off to the outside world and the other person. Or going in the living room and seeing 3 kids with goggles locked away in different worlds. If we actually did start using VR as the main way to consume media I think it would do us a lot more harm than good. Just my opinion.
> Jobs trusted Cook to find and keep people who could design products

Tim Cook's first major executive move as CEO was to fire Scott Forstall.
It's easy in places that became dominated by cars after the fact, like Netherlands and Japan in the 70s or many other European and Asian cities today, but much of American suburbia is designed for cars. There might just not be viable options other than cars or motor vehicles. Corner shops are unviable because a relatively low number of people live within a walking or biking distance.
I find it hard to believe (unless it's data from the 80s). Online dating has absolutely devoured all other ways to meet people romantically
Depends on how you look at it. It’s the mindset. The way you worded it sounds like you default to writing poor code and then have to reach a certain bar before it requires optimization.

Can’t you write closer to optimal code to begin with? With experience can’t you start with learnings of the past? A lot of things are easy and convenient to do now but people like you just parrot about not needing to optimize so as to not do it at all.

Maybe instead of thinking if it’s expensive or cheap think about actually wanting to do something decent? Or is everything fake and just a transaction?
Nobody talks about horses, even though we have tons of footage proving that we had "horse-centric cities" long before Benz started doing his thing.
You want me, the owner of a vacant skyscraper (and possibly the land that it sits on) to do what? Donate it to "we"? I don't think "we" are going to compensate me adequately. I think I'll just turn the buildings into condos as soon as "we" let me.
This really illustrates how pointless a large number of college degrees have become.
Great writeup. My fondest memories were of multiple multi-day compiles of KDE 4 on an ancient system (even for that time) back in the mid-2000s. Glad to see that there are people using Gentoo to this day.
The feeling of hunger itself may slow aging in flies
I assumed he would use Surf Air or something similar (AYCE commuter plane for $2000-$2500).

Makes sense if you have lots if FF miles and free rent somewhere else.
It's just not good enough yet.
There are two places a new shell language needs to be ubiquitous for success. One is installed on systems, which is pretty easy. With today's connectedness, new software is just an apt install, pacman, or curl | bash away. The other, much harder problem is that the people using the system need to know this new shell language. If I have to debug your shell script using Zsh, Csh, or Fish, I'm not going to be happy about it.
"I do not understand the appeal of retrocomputing."

But at least one knew what was going on. If one didn't then one could probe the hardware with a logic analyzer and an oscilloscope. Try that today and see how far you get.

Mind you, the 8088 was a dog of a processor, too little too late and far tooooo slow (nobbling the 8086 was a dumb retrograde idea).
I’m just saying that exacerbates the messed-uped-ness. IMO it mates things worse, even though it superficially makes sense.
Pass a law that says if it’s vacant for a year, it becomes property of the city.
> From the information available so far, the Apple headset will be fairly close to Meta's Oculus Quest in terms of hardware

That's not really accurate. The rumours suggest optics at least as good as the Meta Quest Pro ($1k), possibly with a substantial move forward from there. They suggest resolution of 3k per eye, significantly above the Meta Quest Pro, and using Micro LED for a big improvement on the screen door effect, brightness, quality. Then there's the compute, with 2x M2s, this is quite possibly going to be able to run AAA VR games (if they're compatible with iOS) – the M2 is running some AAA games on things like the MBA, and this one has an M2 per eye.

These rumours might turn out to be rubbish, but they seem to be credible rather than speculation, and they would suggest a high price tag. If this was a Meta Quest Pro "Ultra" it might be >$2k based on Meta's pricing, so Apple charging $3k for it given their "tax" (and high production quality) feels about right.
Yes, at least the military version appears to still be in active production, but not cheap: https://www.rocelec.com/part/HARMD80C88-2-883

The 8087 too: https://www.rocelec.com/part/REILD8087

I suspect the ones in this laptop are either NOS or recycled, however.
Exactly - Apple has all the pieces to absolutely nail the AR workspace experience.

Reality OS Headset built on top of iOS (and MacOS) could easily allow bluetooth peripherals (keyboard/mouse) to pair with to their headset, and you've got multi-monitor workspace ready to go in a physical space that normally wouldn't accomodate it.

Need more CPU/GPU than the Headset provides? Just use Sidecar to push your Mac desktop into AR and work on it as a 2D pane from there.

I've used Virtual Desktop on the HP G2 Reverb, and while the quality was excellent, it's a bit clunky having to connect HDMI/Displayport loopback connectors to bring up multiple displays, and I'd much prefer to do my work in MacOS.

A lot of the speculation around the new product seems to be around AR augmenting people moving around in public space, but the thing that gets me excited is what this might mean for the traditional desktop environment.
Even if you're right and the average person never replaces facebook with a social media platform they run out of their living room, I don't think it would mean that he failed in his goal as long as he's able to demonstrate that it's possible to do it with modest resources. It sounds like he just wants to give people a real world example they can point to which shows that not having a ton of money isn't a huge barrier running a social media site.
The global machine learning training program born out of South Korea
Something about the situation doesn't add up. The kid hasn't had time to do five "a lot of work" degrees worth of classwork; something's got to give. This is a 12-year old, not a 22-year old.
I think the question whether it is a great laptop has already been answered; it is a great laptop given all the rave reviews. Speaking for myself, the issue is integration and the walled garden. Because beyond the performance, a big point of getting into the Apple ecosystem is seamless integration which means opting into multiple Apple devices (unfortunately Linux/Android are sadly not there yet when it comes to integration, it is ok but not amazing). Which brings the main concern - what if I get buyer's remorse? Now all my data is stuck inside, and based on my experience with iPhone 5S many years ago, getting data out of Apple devices is harder than pulling teeth. Linux/Android are miles ahead there so if I don't like a particular device, I can easily switch to another. For me, that is the biggest thing - I don't enjoy being a hostage (even though most people using Apple devices are happy willing hostages and I get why that is).

Another way to look at this is - if Apple is so confident that their setup is absolutely incredibly good - why not make exiting with the data super easy? After all, if it is so good, people just won't leave even with those options available, right?
People steal bud light. I remember being accosted by an apparently homeless dude with a trash bag full of beer who was handing it out on the tram.

I drank one.
Odense in Denmark, 200k. Good public transportation, never needed a car when visiting it. Roskilde is even smaller 50k and fine to get around walking, biking or by public transportation.
This sounds nice. Since it is incorporated to the Brave Shield, it should be synced across browsers, I think? That would solve the major issue blocking me from using Cookies Auto Delete -- I would have stuff added on one device, then I forgot to export it to my synced folder to import on another device, and I start to lose track about which stuff aren't on which device's list yet.

Brave being able to sync my no JavaScript, block Image, and block Cookies list is why I'm basically "locked-in" to Brave. I don't like its crypto stuff, but I don't see any of the other incorporating as many accessible privacy options that syncs across device as Brave does. I really wish Firefox, or even Vivaldi, would do it because I really don't like the crypto stuff, but I really like almost everything else Brave does.
Only when you feel safe. I use public transport in Asia and do the listed things, but I wouldn't do that in NYC because I might get pickpocketed, for instance.
Yeah I don’t really understand this. I would ride bus to and from school. Stay after school for activities and find a ride back with friends or siblings or some other way without my parents needing to get involved. Anecdotal but whenever I see school buses now, they mostly seem empty and whenever you pass a school there’s a huge drop off or pick up line.
> If you subscribe through the App Store, Apple gets 30%.

15%. The only companies that pay 30% are the ones earning over a million dollars a year from things other than long-term subscriptions.
Little Man Tate
By "do not use cars" I meant replace car trips via walking or transit.
As you said, you can pass physical property, why would you need that to be extended to other area on top of it ? I mean you would think that inheriting the actual capital generated by the art pieces, on top of the unsold original pieces, would be enough as far as money goes (moral right is different, I see why you would want to inherit that). It's a bit as if I were able to claim a salary for my dead relatives because, you know, I used to live off of that...
FTA:

> I was living in LA, rent free.

But also, FTA:

> August 2022-May 2023

So 10 months. At the quoted amount of 5592, that's 559 dollars a month. Do you think you could find a reasonable, safe, clean place to live in the Berkely area for 560 / mo? A quick search says no.
> That means on a $100 purchase, if a customer pays with a credit card, the retailer will get at least $99, where they previously would have kept as little as $97 in some cases.

I absolutely love the heavy lifting “as little as” is doing here.

> Businesses with annual Visa sales volume below $300,000 will qualify for the lower fee, as will those who do less than $175,000 from MasterCard.

That’s revenue, not profit. So your business basically needs to be casual or failing to get the lower rate.
I just listened to Pastime Paradise. That's wild man. I assume Coolio was required to get permission for that, because, that's a VERY obvious reworking. I never understand music IP law, like how Queen was able to sue Vanilla ice because of one 7 note chord in Ice Ice Baby:

Queen, Under Pressure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I

Vanilla Ice, Ice Ice Baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE

Yeah those 7 notes are identical, but that's a pretty substantial reworking of everything else.
Not really sure how Google or Meta have anything to do with the iOS feature linked here.
This is unfair. I don't have a strong position in this debate but there is clearly a difference between in-person interaction and digital interaction that is much greater than the superficial nature of the necktie (or any other piece of clothing). Which is why it generates such strong feelings compared to the necktie.
There’s no evidence that it was embezzlement, or any other type of fraud. Just bad accounting.
Before moving on to NixOS, I used to manage every USE flag on the entire system. Every single package install or upgrade would prompt a quick look into any USE flag changes and potential reconfiguration. It was really nice knowing your system with that sort of intimacy and _really_ lowered the amount of effort required to make changes to the system. But... nothing can compete with declarative and reproducible at the whole system level.
>It's literally the exact same thing as in office these days

It's just not. In the office you're sitting next to a person you can lean over to and ask a question. Yeah, it interrupts their workflow, but that's ok when they're supposed to be helping you onboard. Remotely you've got to send a message, wait for somebody to reply, schedule a zoom call, whatever. It's async communication and it's slower, which is OK when you're not blocked, but when you're onboarding and blocked you need to be unblocked quickly because you don't have the experience to know where else to go while you're waiting.
internet commenters are allowed to spitball, obviously a 800 sq ft 1 bdrm can go from anywhere between a quarter mil to 2 mil depending on the neighborhood and the view, OP's point is that converting to residential is a net positive for the real estate owner.
It's exactly this. When I was young I had a Linux machine as my daily driver, and I would putter and futz with it and make it do what I wanted.

At some point I realized that I was spending my time at home doing what I was paid to do at work and I bought a Mac and moved on with my life.

The car as personal private time is also huge, it's one of the last private defended areas we have.
I never understand how NIMBYSM is considered environmentally correct or friendly. Every movement is taken over by vested interests. Average 4-8 floor height buildings with existing American infrastructure otherwise should be enough to flood market with 'cheap enough' homes.
You need a PPD of about 35 - 40 for reading comfortably. 50 is retina quality.

Even with the Meta Quest Pro, it only gets to about 24. The same goes for the HP reverb g2. For $1999, the Varjo Aero PCVR headset comes at 35 PPD, but at that price it doesn’t include the $3000 -$4000 PC to run it or the $600 base stations and controllers. It’s also wired to the PC

At $3000, i am guessing that the Apple headset will be 35 or higher PPD
Can't blame you for this. I'd scoff at this a few years back, but alas...

I prefer linux in theory for my personal machines but I can hardly get a week without some issue (on ostensibly stable Ubuntu) either causing it to randomly fail when waking from sleep, gnome-desktop having catastrophic bugs like leaking memory to the point where none is left, or pegging the CPU, or stuttering, or....

and even without extensive packages installed I have things breaking there constantly, where I have to fight with apt and etc.

MS backwards compatibility too is really an incredible feat.
Most VR headsets on the market are not clear enough to display text. For example, Meta Quest Pro and Quest 2 both have pixel densities around 21 pixels per degree. While a 27" monitor running at 2560x1440 at an arm's length (40 degrees horizontal FOV) will have a pixel density of around 64 pixels per degree. 64 PPD is very legible and usable for office applications, chatting, and similar things. One can see individual pixels in very aliased and high-contrast images, but not otherwise. In contrast, 21 PPD is not great - most text will be either very blurry or aliased on an equivalent virtual display. The math is simple: 21 pixels per degree x 40 degrees (which is 1/3rd of the human eye's horizontal FOV including peripheral vision), equals a display resolution of about 840x473 at 16:9, or close to 420p. Clearly, this is not comfortable to do office work with.

SpaceTop has a relatively low FOV but much higher pixel density of about 46 pixels per degree. It's about twice as good as what Meta Quest Pro and Quest 2 can do. It also seems to have individual floating apps rather than entire screens, but if we would assume that one would like to have a typical experience roughly equivalent to a 27" 16:9 screen at an arm's length, that virtual screen would be at about 1840x1035. I think this is right at the edge of what I would consider comfortable. Most graphics, including text, would probably be slightly blurry, and anti-aliasing blur or aliasing artefacts would be clearly seen. But I would not get too frustrated by it.

That's a trend with AR glasses when compared to VR headsets - they have narrower FOV and higher pixel densities. So they are overall better for non-immersive office-like applications. Still, the holy grail of productivity AR headsets is something like 60 PPD and at least 90 degrees horizontal FOV x 60 degrees vertical FOV. At that point, I would say the differences between our actual vision and what can be shown on the glasses in terms of resolution would be not significant, assuming the eye balls always point within 30 degrees of the center of the AR display. But this means a resolution of around 5400x3600 per eye. Or approaching 12K in total for both eyes combined.

SpaceTop is probably much more usable for office work than many of the VR headsets on the market. And it seems like they're aiming for a similar experience to having one or two 1080p 27" screens about a meter away from one's face. I think it's right on the border between fun tech and practical tech. Slightly higher PPD and FOV would push it more into the territory of practical tech for me, someone who writes and codes while travelling. Now it sounds good but not revolutionary.
Man, in that video, she said "easy" or "simple", but shit sounded complicated real fast.
I have clearly been talking about organisations not transactions:

> The only organisations who pay 30% earn over a million dollars a year from things other than long-term subscriptions. That’s a tiny minority.

You’re just changing the point and arguing for the sake of it now.
Nah man. You know how to set up the board. Its just a static file in your head but you know what it looks like, you know how the pieces move, you know the alphabet, you can count to 8. Now all you need is someone of equal skill to play against and write down the moves. The one to make an illegal move first loses.
> that’s not the only benefit of people being in one place.

fair enough, but it may be the only necessity
Battery life is the key in why Apple doesn't want third-party browser engines. On Mac, they have to babysit the user by saying "your battery is dying because <x> app is using too much energy" because otherwise the user will bring it into the apple store complaining about their battery life. Forcing all apps to use WebKit has likely saved many MWh across the iPhone's lifetime. The only downside for Apple when they'll be forced to allow other browser engines is that they might need to make a more active alert for "using the most energy: Chrome".
Exploring the definition of art, uncovering hidden meanings, and the potential of AI as a tool for artistic expression.
Yes, Matt Tantaman wrote a SQLite extension that gives it CRDT semantics! It's a CRDT-Sqlite or ... CR-Sqlite. Ha.

https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite
> I always wondered why if, my designer friend had to settle, how Warhol got away with it.

Your designer friend didn't have to settle.

Warhol went to district court and got the undesired result.

Then went to appeals court and got the desired result.

Then went to the Supreme Court and got the undesired result.

Your designer friend could have done all that too and created the exact same case law in a complete coin toss that affects everyone for the next few decades. They didn't. The secret ingredient is money.
I would happily welcome a 9- to 10-hour oral history from Paul Graham.
They never built the sprawling suburbia that much of the US has now though. Public transit remains viable in places built for humans even if it gets colonized by cars for a few decades. Low density suburbs with winding roads doesn't allow for non car transportation to be viable.
If you don't want the financial incentive, you can forego it. That's what fanfic is.
Sure, nothing beats living rent-free.
This really should be put in the title.
This is a big part of it. Almost unironcially you could make public transit work better by giving every single homeless person in the city a car, and then spending money on keeping the transit operational, safe, and clean.

34% of kids ride a school bus to school, and that's basically transit designed for the middle class.
I’ve never claimed perfection. But comparing the city to the whole country is disingenuous at best.

Rotterdam is the polar opposite to Amsterdam in terms of mobility and freedom from car dependency.