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A university I went to left a hiring document out marked "confidential". It specifically stated that preferences in hiring go to women and minorities when at all possible. It was not stated as "tie breaker" but stated that they would look at men once women and minorities had been exhausted. For a discrimination lawsuit it would have been a smoking gun. This was in the 90's. I imagine things are similar today, but nobody would have it written down.
> So what’s the motivation to get into this space? What is the opportunity that Apple sees, for example?

I think for Apple, it's just another new personal computing platform. Just like personal media devices, phones, tablets, TVs, smartwatches etc. They may not necessarily see a big opportunity. They simply cannot afford to ignore a new computing platform.
TIL that Guix is based on Nix. I always thought it's a completely separate implementation of the same paradigm until now. Would be interesting to see a comparison which parts/concepts of Nix are used by Guix and what it introduces on top! (Beyond surface-level facts like how many packages it has or that the CLI is different.)
No eye tracking based on all the leaks, which appear to have been 100% accurate.
I mean, you are taking shit for this comment for some reason, but it is absolutely true! At some point I don't want to have to pay for dozens of apps every month. Just charge me what you need and let me have it. If it is broken when you sold it to me, great, I will update. If you come up with new clever additions, I may or may not want those. But subscriptions take that ability away from you. And I want a tool to use, not a relationship with you forever!
They could change the law in MD allowing these plates to cover the URL with a sticker. Hopefully of a url of your choosing.
Wow, this is absurd. That people have sort of collectively accepted this level of lack of control over the machines in front of your face is just kind of mind-boggling to me.
If we could trust the wolves to not eat us zero privacy would be excellent. Imagine how useful that would be for running a society. Bespoke everything. Crazy efficient.

But ya. May as well ask pigs to fly.

Which brings up another point. Isn't it crazy how our society bends over backwards and twists, chokes and contorts itself? To accommodate the existence of wolves.
I hope it is. I'm planning to create a lot of open source projects from it.

Maybe @dang can make an exception?
Not necessarily true. There are some "productivity" apps, as well as streaming (does anyone use that though?), and also exercise apps (admittedly probably falls under the game categeory). And, honestly, I don't see this changing until inputs change. Things like coding, spreadsheets, writing, all generally require a keyboard and mouse. At minimum a keyboard. Maybe GPT powered headset that can really understand you and has the ability manipulate things / OS level access might eventually come about.
What a wonderfully insightful comment, as is to be expect of modern HackerNews. I'm sure your understanding of "the left" is very well researched and thorough.

"The right is so angry, ignorant and willfully uninformed." /s
> show me nancy pelosi's options positions right now

Dang. I wanted to be a billionaire too.
I'm not the one that you responded to, but I had no idea that HN had rate-limiting -- shows how little I comment or post!
The best use of distcc "at home" is when you have one or more "big iron" (desktop, server, whatever) and a few tiny machines that work just fine but don't have much processing power.

For example, with some work, you can setup distcc to cross-compile on your amd64 massive box for your raspberry pi.
Most talk about women and gender equality is region/culture specific. In most of the world, women have a long way to go to achieve equality but in some highly developed countries, i'd say they have it a little bit better overall than men. The problem is men are always judged by what the minority of men do / have, most of the top ten richest people on earth are men? Well lets not forget that most likely the top ten percent of the poorest people are also probably also men, men have higher rates of suicide completion, lower rates of college completion, higher pressure to be a provider, less social support etc... It is great to be a man, provided you are born with high degree of "ability", otherwise you are just one of the "dregs of society".
What are your favorite workout apps?
There is a 7$ watch link remover on amazon with prime one-day shipping where i'm at, apple's no-tool bands cost $350+. there isn't some sorta collusion between watchmakers and jewelers when bands are designed with a simple pin link mechanism.
The Bloomberg report seemed to imply that this one won't have eye tracking.
Unfortunately I think academics fall into the category (trap really) of "passion jobs" that are exploited due to the large amount of people willing to take slave wages to "do what they love". It is why video game developers, aerospace engineers, artists, and the like are all paid significantly less than their peers at more "boring" companies/jobs. They'll do the same day to day work, yet work for longer hours and lower pay fueled by the idea that they'll eventually break through some invisible barrier and reach a point where they're just doing the "fun" stuff all day every day.
As if war and flags didn’t build the society you enjoy today. And they will build the society for future generations to enjoy. Whether they like it or not.
I own both the Quest 2 and the Pico 4. The Pico is significantly better across the board. Better screens, much lighter, better controls, runs cooler. I can easily use it until the battery runs out whereas the Quest 2 would give me headaches because of the neck strain. It's too heavy!

Things I would love to know is:

- How does it compare to the Pico 4?
- Screen specs
- FOV specs
- Pass-through, is it better than the Pico 4's?
I believe it is a "Snapdragon XR2"-based headset. So you can look up the specs on that I guess.
You're clearly trying really hard to market this mediocre overpriced product, so let me give you a tip: repeatedly insulting your target customer base while trying to sell them something might work for your average modern consumer, but it won't really work here on HN.
I don't know Zig so I can't comment much on the content, but the author's writing style I enjoyed immensely; enough to make me want to pick up Zig for fun. I do have some C background, albeit decades ago, so maybe I'm in the right spot for it.
This looks like a great improvement over the Quest 2! It will be interesting to see Apple's headset in comparison. Beyond the obvious price difference, I'm guessing Apple will focus more on personal communication (FaceTime) and productivity (floating iPad apps). Will it be a hard sell when the Quest 3 is pretty good? Guess we'll find out…
I'm convinced askHistorians is mostly for the same people asking and answering their own questions
If every CPU with an errata that needed software workarounds was recalled there would be no CPUs to use.
I appreciate how they seem to be trying out new features and UX changes more often with Windows 11. Not always good, but it feels like some life is being injected back into Windows
The primary advantage of the Quest 2 was the price, so I hope they don't discontinue it given that the Quest 3 is apparently $200 more expensive. It is still likely to have the biggest disadvantage of the Quest 2, which was the mandatory Facebook/Meta/Horizon Worlds stuff and the absolute headache that came from their account migration/connection shenanigans.
Even at only one sentence long, people will apparently sign these things because they like the vibes of the statement, despite disagreeing with the actual language.
Announcing it now, with no specs and no release date, and only a promise of discussing it more in September...clearly meant to draw attention away from whatever Apple announces next week.

As far as VR goes in general, HN is extremely crotchety. I love VR. I love games in VR. I love sculpting in VR. I love hanging in VR. But what I'm really excited about, as someone with a tendency to change seating locations constantly throughout the day, is working in VR. I want a multi-monitor setup in bed. I want one on the couch. I want one on an airplane, in an Uber, etc.

I was hopeful with the Oculus Pro, but I've heard that the resolution just isn't there, for programming tasks it feels like you're reading text on a 720p CRT.

I have high hopes for this space, and am very excited to hear more about this, as well as what Apple announces. What I don't have high hopes for are the responses to my VR enthusiasm. I understand that you would never strap something Facebook makes to your head, or that you just don't like the one or two gimmick games you tried, that's okay.
> having boys take one more year in kindergarten

Functionally doing this with both of my children (though not repeating curriculum) after lots of debating and stress. Adding the expectation into the child's head of being "One of the Smart Ones" seems incredibly powerful moving forward.
All my requests fail beyond the proposed prompts, and the "random". I asked "show me the chart of SP500 over the last 3 months" and it didn't work. Could you give a rough idea of the scope as of now ?
> And that's a shame. I truly think that there's someone like that out there for everyone. I also think it's sad when someone doesn't find that person. I wish that fortune for everyone.

Centering marriage and romantic relationships means that most people only consider romantic partners as their 'person'. My person is my baby sister. We live together, have co-mingled finances, make long-term plans (including possibly fostering or adopting children), etc. If we were more open to different relationship priorities, more people would find their 'person'. The focus on romantic sexual relationships above all else keeps people from finding their person because they don't consider all the possibilities!
To be honest, the pattern is not quite similar. The main reason for PTT's decline can be boiled down to political issues. The PTT operators were unable to effectively deal with the issue of water armies, resulting in a decision to halt new user registrations for nearly three years.
I once was in the car with an American friend who was looking sideways while talking to me and would then swerve around cars in front at the last moment. Very annoying and quite scary. I asked him to stop the car and got out. There is no way I'll trust my life to someone who isn't 100% on the ball when it comes to driving. Good for you you did not end up in an accident there, and it must really suck that you are essentially powerless to do something about it given the family relationship. But, at least one very positive story about automatic emergency braking. I think such features are quite possibly a net positive from a statistical perspective but for me personally they are a no-go.
It's about time. Long, long overdue, actually.
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> I am not trying to "maximize total welfare" where one way to accomplish that is to allow a bad actor to get ridiculously wealthy at the expense of everyone else (even if the total paid by everyone else is less than the bad actor makes).

I don't know if parents suggestion leads to this or not, but I don't understand why we should have a problem with "maximizing total welfare" just because some entity would become ridiculously wealthy. Don't we want to incentivise that sort of behavior? Whether they're "bad" or not?
Everyone knew the world was round in the 15th century.

They had a good idea how far it was from Europe to the east coast of Asia going westwards.

They knew that an ocean going ship wouldn’t have enough provisions to make the journey.

Columbus thought the earth was far smaller and he would be able to make it. He was wrong. Fortunatly for him there was a large landmass in the way which meant he could get restock his provisions (water, food etc)
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don't have politicians data yet haha! but I plan to add it in the next week:)
Huh? This feature makes it easier to force quit applications, something you could always do. There's no change in the amount of control you have over your machine.
With the push to add AI to every corner of Windows, it seems like the Windows team at Microsoft has been re-invigorated. It's nice to see Microsoft chip away at longstanding issues and not just treat Windows as end-of-life.
I've heard good things about PostgREST, which lets you build REST endpoints in PG directly.

[1] https://postgrest.org
Depends where you're based I'm guessing, I'm from the UK and had to order them via the Amazon US website. For what it's worth I've never had any issues returning anything to Amazon, even stuff from the US (although the few times I've had to do that I've bought the US stuff via the UK website rather than the US one so don't know if it would be different).
BTW the main Beat Saber guy left Meta recently https://twitter.com/JaroslavBeck/status/1659245376300302336
This is such an undervalued comment.

Completely reflects my experience. Most dashboards have 99%+ noise that is useless from an operational perspective, and the inefficiency of Blueteam vs Redteam usually represents "how long until I can find the actual data points that matter" in the dashboards.

(That was the reason I went with the peer-to-peer and SBOM idea, trying to reduce as much noise as possible)
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When I watch a movie, I do enjoy it. But there are so much way more interesting and exciting things to do than to watch a movie. So I rarely watch one.

Books? Loooooove books. But they are usually about the real world. Science, biographies, theories ... I wouldn't call them "entertainment".

Never been much into dancing.

Doing sport is super awesome. But is that really counted as "entertainment"? Or do you mean watching sports? I find watching sports pretty boring.

Plays - whats that?

Museums? Hell yeah! But I never heard someone call museums part of the entertainment industry.
Do credit card numbers change? I thought only the expiration date changed and maybe the cvc code or equivalent security check.
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lovell's sharp in particular or oibvips in general?
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package managers are relatively easy to put together and release with your language—provided that you want your new package manager and surrounding ecosystem to work exactly the same as other, popular ones, without putting any effort into improving the status quo. doing better than other languages' package managers takes significant effort, because it's both a computer engineering problem and a social engineering problem.

it's nice when a new language has a package manager right out of the gate, but I would like to see more new languages take a more measured approach and aim to significantly improve upon past efforts, instead of merely replicating them out of some sense of obligation.
This is true for Nim as well, in that most of the discussion is on the Discord/Matrix server. I’m not a fan personally, at least IRC was easily archived and searchable in practice.

I really dislike how Discord has become “forums in the 2020s”
It'd be great if it worked outside of the provided prompts
Amazon’s Ring doorbell was used to spy on customers, FTC says in privacy case
Those are completely trivial complexity-wise compared to a modern server, and many don't have a real function, and mostly are artificially maintained as a curiosity.

I mean, the centennial bulb barely glows, that's why it still works. The hotter the filament gets the faster it evaporates, so a light bulb that barely makes any light can stay working forever.
It’s the feeling of being taxed for a transaction that is already completed.
I'm pretty sure timing of this announcement is not accidental, it's basically the last chance before WWDC.
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A blog post related to Project MF from, gosh, 15 years ago: https://blog.historyofphonephreaking.org/2008/07/business-ca...
> As advanced countries' systems for marriage and child-rearing continue to fail, there is a constant demand for cope.

Make childcare not a choice between living in poverty and not, and people will have children again. Many of my generation including myself can't afford children despite us wanting to.

The worst problem is obviously housing costs and cost of living in general, coupled with wage stagnation. We don't want women to be stay-at-home mothers for good reasons, but society as it is hasn't caught up with that - not to mention it's financially impossible. Our parents generally could afford that, as even simple factory jobs paid enough for a good home (that they owned and could build equity for themselves by mortgage, no less) and the mother to stay at home to actually raise the children.

The US also has the problems of healthcare cost and a rise of anti-abortion laws that place the life of a fetus before the life of the mother, I can completely understand anyone not wishing to risk death from childbirth.
Our exchange here entertains me :)

But I wouldn't call Hacker News part of the entertainment industry.