skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One thing to remember, you never see a post from your teenage self on USENET being dragged up by your employer causing you to be fired or loose out on a job. Why, privacy still exists on USENET.

Google at one point did a very good job at indexing usenet posts and including them in their search results. If I searched for the name I used when posting to usenet, I would get hundreds of results of posts I made. But if I try searching now, very few results from usenet come up (perhaps because of the age of the posts).

> Also I guess he never heard of killfiles :)

I'm actually surprised he didn't mention that in his article.
You said it first, they were responding. That's not an answer to the question.
I mean, this surely wouldn't be written as obviously as this in real code. It'd be somewhere in a data structure that packs to be able to fit better in a cacheline, and has something like:

struct edge {
struct node* src;
int dst_offset;
int label;
};

Knowing about integer overflow, the original programmer carefully wrote overflow checks where dst_offset gets computed, and the code was correct. Nodes were allocated into one contiguous array, and edges were allocated into another.

Later, someone else changed how nodes were allocated, so adding a new node would never trigger a realloc of the whole graph. Instead, a linked list of node arrays is allocated. Suddenly now, computing dst_offset is UB, and yet, the observed behavior of the resulting program is the same.

Even later, someone updated GCC on the CI machine, and now the inliner is more aggressive. Suddenly, mutations to node labels are unreliable, and edges are found to not refer to any node in the graph, except when debug logging logs the address they actually refer to.

This is the kinda thing that requires an understanding of UB that has nothing to do with the actual hardware to diagnose and fix, which I think is really unnecessary for a beginner.
I find it genuinely astonishing that the contemporary reason for soldering memory onto the motherboard hasn't been raised already. Yes, the reason Apple moved to soldered memory for their MacBook Air line is likely some combination of physical packaging and fleet reliability. But with the latest CPUs, those reasons are now secondary.

The primary reason is now performance. Don't believe me? Look at how RAM is arranged on a GPU or in a game console. The RAM chips are located as close to the CPU/GPU as physically possible, limited only by thermal constraints.

You will never see DIMM slots on an NVIDIA card because the compromises would be untenable. Longer traces means lower performance, while sockets will make the cards thicker and with poorer thermals. The reasons why NVIDIA cards are the way they are correlates with why Apple's latest comptuers are the way they are.

What Apple did with packaging RAM so close to the M1/M2 chip is a big part of the Apple Silicon performance story.
For non-Americans like myself: 8th graders are 13-14 years old.
I was trying very hard to educate you without insulting you, but you're clearly resistant to that. Sorry.
So are the FCC able to levy whatever fine they'd like?
Upvoted with extra strong mouse click on account of cutty-cutty machine.
> We've only seen marketing footage at this point.

Agreed that it is too early to judge. I was basing my opinion mainly off of tweets from people who used it hands on at WWDC, but still that is a biased group.
Hard disagree. My first phone was an iPod Touch in Grade 4, and by Grade 5 I had already jailbroken it with one of my friends. By Grade 6, I built my own computer, got a phone with data, and by Grade 7 was running Linux on my desktop computer, which I used in Grade 8 to compile an Android ROM from source. I'm now an intern for an Android app development company. If I didn't get a phone until Grade 8, not only would I have had way less exposure to technology as a hobby, but I wouldn't have been able to enjoy playing mobile games with friends.
> and can write to her friends.

Good lord...
7 billion averages to about 2300/sec and most of that is reads. I also looked at the requests appolo makes and it polls the inbox a lot. The only maybe difficult part is paying for storage. But this isn't large scale at that size, scaling is solved anyway.
What would be the harm? It’s a blood test for a broad spectrum of cancers. So any doctor and patient should know that there is a non-zero false positive rate. So the harm could be CT scans, biopsies, colonoscopies, …
Also some kind of psychological trauma about the positive test result.

I would have liked to see the real error rates and how many tests they're selling.

It seems like this is not part of the false positive rate of the medical test itself. But it is part of the overall false positive rate of the organization.
I fear they'll position it just like they have the ipad, primarily focused towards entertainment with a super locked down environment that's noticeably worse than a mac, if it ends up that way it'll be a deal breaker for me although we'll have to see, they did convince me to buy an ipad for nothing but procreate lol
Or https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=APwXEdehAZ_AsbZ4a3-hI8rh...

It would be a little silly, but lets be honest, you probably would be wearing at hat or something. Probably under an umbrella or other shade. I doubt anyone wants to sit in direct summer sun outside with this on.

But I've totally be on my patio in the morning with an umbrella up trying to work on my MBA. The screen just doesn't get bright enough to be easy to work with. I'd totally do the AVP if they worked brighter environments.
2016 was called on election night.
It looks like the most compelling differentiator is the AR and pass-through experience. I wouldn't say it's a game changer for VR, but it does sweeten the deal.

But if there is ever a perfect AR experience for desk work, if it does seriously allow me to have only a keyboard and a mouse on my work desk, without compromising my productivity like using a single screen laptop does, it could save me some real estate cost in the long run that would be well worth the price - I'd be able to work better in a smaller room or at the dining table.
Things change. Once we were nomads, then we became farmers, then we moved into cities and outsourced child rearing to schools because we were at factories or offices 10 hours a day.
You can't roll back change. You can try to find ways to adapt to it, to mitigate their bad effects.
> We’ve recently completed a trial involving hour long sessions in extended DMT state

That's fascinating, since that's not something someone could do on their own. One of my biggest questions is whether the "DMT world" really connects you with another part of reality, or whether it's just "what the brain does" when exposed to the chemical.

Have there been any controlled experiments on whether we can pass messages via the DMT elves? That would persuade me that the entities could be real.
Rust is getting keyword generics to be polymorphic over sync/async which, uh, I'm not sure if I'm a huge fan of: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/07/27/keyword-ge...
Yeah, I wasn’t trying to imply that they are the same. As a Catholic we don’t condone artificial birth control (or believe in divorce!) so it’s very different than the general 20th century perspective on things.

I do think it is important to historically understand where things most people take for granted come from because sometimes it can be pretty eye-opening.

There are many aspects of the modern world (birth control and related issues are just one) that were invented by people with intentions I think 90% of people would strongly disagree with if the they understood them.
I've seen this sentiment repeated ad nauseam since this morning, but I can't fully understand it. The comparison isn't between Vision and full presence. Imagine watching the same video with Dad pointing his phone at everyone instead. The days of experiencing things worth remembering with full presence are already over for most people—this isn't any worse than pointing a big opaque block at the person. Either way, there's a barrier. At least this way we can see their eyes to some extent, right?
> I can discover interesting subreddits by pure chance by following a google search on a question I have. Or following a link on a blog

> There’s no chance of that happening on Usenet.

You could the list of newsgroups for phrases that could lead you to an interesting group. Other times, someone in the group may mention the other group if you mention your interest in a comment. At least, that's how I found a lot of different newsgroups when I was regularly reading and posting to usenet.
As far as I can tell this error depends on the LLM assuming rabbits (as opposed to pumas) eat carrots -- if you just append "Note: this rabbit doesn't eat carrots" GPT-4 will answer correctly on the first go.

> 1, First, take the puma across the river and leave it on the other side.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36207859
I had this issue with all internet enabled devices, particularly my Leviton switches.

I moved to Lutron’s Caseta line specifically because they work without internet if something does happen to my network.
Thanks!

> You will like some of the numbers on that site even less than the $19 million median cost for a trial.

> good luck discrediting the numbers.

I'm not sure why you would think I wouldn't like the numbers. I'm not pro-pharma, I'm just pro-informed reasoning.

That said, the article you reference is a bit more nuanced than your take. By the studies they're citing, while the trials for drugs that were approved have a median cost of $19 million, they are clear to outline that it does cost a lot to develop a new drug:

The $19 million median figure represents less than one percent of the average total cost of developing a new drug, which in recent years has been estimated at between $2 to $3 billion.

“The cost of generating this fundamental scientific information is surprisingly low given the total cost of drug development and the high price tags on many drugs,” says study senior author G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, associate professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Bloomberg School.

So, while studies may not be a large cost center for new drug development, they state that new drugs are very costly to develop. Or maybe studies are costly, and it's just that it takes very many of them until one shows success. Ten concurrent studies on ten variations of a drug to look for something promising would cost ten times the amount, and there's still no guarantee that any one study will end in a positive outcome.

If we're talking about the justification for patents for pharma companies, it seems like we should focus on the "total cost to develop a new drug is estimated at $2 to $3 billion" part and not the "$19 million median cost to run a study" part[1], which as I noted is lacked enough context to know exactly how much it relates to drug development cost.

That said, I'm not sure the total cost number referenced above is accurate (to my taste) either. How much of that is advertising? How much of that is kickbacks and trips and drug rep lunches and free samples to doctors? I'm not sure because I don't have access to the full paper, so I'm not sure what their methodology includes. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that a few "blockbuster" drugs had 80% of the cost in massive advertising and good-will pushes to seed the public consciousness about them so they could make more money in the end, so I'm really skeptical that $2 to $3 billion is an accurate indication of drug development cost just as much as I'm skeptical that a $19 million median trial cost equates directly to the drug development cost in a way that's obvious from that number alone.

1: Referenced and linked in JLU article, but here's the link as well: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676...
Is the reddiw code open source?
I imagine if your project sees any substantial usage, it won't be too long before you receive a cease and desist.
…such as deferring how old people are when they are first given cell phones?
So with all those compromises what is it doing that isn’t already accomplished with my smartphone?

Now that Apple has entered the market, the rest of the general public will speed run through everything the VR community has already discovered.

Like:

Some people just get motion sick and there’s nothing you can do.

Even people who don’t get motion sick still have a pretty significant learning curve that is unusual compared to other technology.

Nobody wants to wear weird tech glasses outside of their gaming cave especially if they already have glasses, sunglasses, or don’t like how they look in glasses.

If you have long hair or makeup this all kind of sucks.

The only way to fix many issues is to go down a deep rabbit hole of modding and hacks (physical and software).

The software experiences are fun for a while but soon almost everyone who owns a VR headset reaches the gathering dust stage where they revert to traditional computing that has a lower barrier to use.
> Does someone really sit on their couch, put on a massive headset, and scroll through their vacation photos?

I would, yes.

> Does someone watch an entire 2+ hour movie with a sweaty headset strapped to them (and plugged into a socket) instead of on a couch with their family/friends?

Yes, absolutely. We have a very small 2 bed, 1 bath place and only 1 TV that's in the central area. If I want to watch a movie while my wife is involved in her studies or work, I'm limited to my iPad or my iPhone.
With this, I can lay there and chill.
We have no kids, and we don't have friends over for movies.
I'm also very susceptible to outside distractions. This would allow me to focus a whole lot more.

> And the one thing I could maybe see this being useful for – gaming – was barely even mentioned in their keynote.

Perhaps Apple doesn't want it to be brushed off already as another Oculus or gaming toy?

> a half-assed substitute for consuming the same content

I don't think this is a half assed substitute at all. There's literally nothing else like this.

> Show me the actual future, in terms of software/content/communication/immersiveness, then we'll talk.

They just showed you. You weren't listening. You focused on gaming. Again, that's probably why they didn't.

The anatomy app demo alone would be reason enough for me to buy one. I am frequently in medical related classes and often refer to my anatomy guides on my iPad.
My primary motivators for starting a blog are trying to improve my writing and having an outlet for all of my thoughts and opinions that I don't want to yell at strangers on the street.
Need to imagine more in terms of the possibilities before dismissing it.

Were all of the promises of mobile fully realized? No, but about 60% were (uber, increased mobility, notifications, shopping, news, mail, 80% of use cases previously handled by desktop only, etc.).

Consider the use cases of full 3d immersion at crisp, high resolution (not seen until now). If 60% of them are realized we won't want to go back to 2d. These use cases could include: smart-home monitoring but in a doll-house-sized model of your actual house. Infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) monitoring but in a 3d-architecture diagram that you can inspect at a high level. Imagine how much more infrastructure you can manage (similar to Star-Wars-esque zooming in and out of planets). If even 60% of that is realized 2d will never feel the same. And we will evolve use 3d for any type of semi-complex user interface with the need to abstract and still dive deep into data.

The display gives instantly 2-3x horizontal v. vertical resolution. That's insane. But also it gives let's say 2-3x depth resolution. Obviously you can't see more things if you have windows in front of you stacked (the depth pixels aren't as valuable as the x and y plane). But they're still quite valuable and allow for much better management of what's in front of you. And much better modeling of real-world objects; they're a much richer model of the world -- and all software is a model of the world in some ways.

They "re-charge" the 2-3x horizontal and vertical resolution and in total give something like a 5x resolution. That approaching an order of magnitude more resolution. If anything is limited by not being able to see enough on the screen, you now have approaching an order of magnitude more space. That has the power to revolutionize what we can manage and manipulate in terms of analyzing and building things. If you had a monitor/new paradigm that's 5x resolution that you can actually fully use, could you do parts of your job 2x more quickly? Could do you 3x more work in some areas? Can you build unimaginable things that previously with less bandwidth couldn't really be mustered up (e.g., imagine the first extremely small resolution Macintosh SE). That's the potential power.
Have you ever lived in Vietnam? Living in one of these areas is the only way to get away from the incessant noise.
It’s impossible to run marketing operations without GA and even session recording.

I entered a business where I pushed back for years, but at one point, you need to do it.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/military-whistleblowe-us...
You forgot the basic M2. As far as ordering them in terms of performance, the prices make that pretty clear.
this site feels like an "abstinence" promise site.

sorry but pretending it doesn't exist is not going to teach your children how to deal with it.

I fundamentally disagree with the premise.
In the presentation today, Apple specifically mentioned connecting to your macOS device as a seamless experience. In my opinion, this will be another "content consumption" device like an iPad that integrates with macOS devices and is not a replacement for them.
> Everyone. It's a laptop replacement.

It is? As in it acts like a normal Mac OS machine that happens to be attached to your head, holds all your files and stuff without communicating to another PC?

Can I just run IntelliJ on it and write code?

Or does it just replace your monitor(s) ?
AJA makes a couple of Thunderbolt 3 external SDI capture/output devices with 4x bidirectional SDI I/Os. If you want more than that you need multiple devices or a PCIe card. AJA and Blackmagic both make 8x SDI cards, as do a couple other vendors.
You don’t need to turn your neck tho, you can turn the environment. And nothing goes off screen, just out of foveal focus.
The history of Tetris is really complex. Atari and Nintendo claimed ownership of it, and Spectrum Holobytes did as well.

Is this Tetris company selling Tetris or is it a patent troll that sues competitors?
No, it's a scorched earth tactic, in preparation to abandoning Crimea.

Without this dam, Crimea will be without water for at least next 3 to 5 years after Ukraine recaptures it.
Maybe it's an alien weather ship :P
I don't think it's going to be mainstream at 3500$, probably not even at 1000$.
My wife and I literally live out of 4 suitcases. We “nomad” 7 months out of the year and when we are “home” for five months, we still can’t accumulate anything that we can’t take with us since our condotel [1] unit that we own gets rented out when we aren’t there.

But I still have plenty of screen real estate that I can set out at my desk at home or in a hotel room between my 16 inch MacBook, my 17 inch USB powered/USB video portable external display and my iPad as a third monitor.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condo_hotel
If i've literally never heard of the website, news outlet, whistleblower, reporters, or any of the other entities involved in an article... Then yes, it is worth asking for alternative sources or an insight into the legitimacy of the outlet. I don't really know why you'd be so obtuse about that?
> Personally I would love to see Usenet replace localized Facebook groups.

It actually happened the other way around. Local ISPs had newsgroups that had limited distribution where people local to you would post about upcoming events, things they were looking to rent or buy, things they wanted to sell, etc.

> The ISPs might not want to pick up the tab for running the servers

There's nothing really stopping a local ISP from running a server that's not connected to an upstream feed and requiring credentials to post. That would be localized and a lot more relevant to those in the community if they really wanted a local discussion forum.
We always told our kid, "you'll get a phone when you need a phone", which was a message that was supposed to communicate that the phone was connected to increased freedom and increased responsibility. Then we found at 12 that the actual need was social integration, because he was being excluded from some social life without a phone at 12. So he got a phone.

The curse of Metcalf's law...
Optional controller ≒ most games don't support
While I do think extreme doomerism about new technology is misguided, I also feel this hand wavy "they said it about us an we're fine!" dismissal is also misguided.

Just because TV and video games did not lead to total societal collapse does not mean they are free of negative side-effects, nor does it make these technologies necessarily comparable to any other generational-shift technology adoption. TV definitely had and has negative societal side effects. Prolonged and uninhibited video game usage definitely van have negate side effects. Same thing will likely be the case for smartphones.

I also think smartphones are a special breed since they can expose children much more easily to fringe ideology than either video games or mass media ever could thanks to gatekeeping mechanisms.

We'll never get a handle on appropriate, healthy societal relations with media technologies until we stop summarily treating them as purely negative, purely positive, or purely neutral and start doing the work of analyzing each technology and its use and potentialities in their particulars.
Waaay before that it was, um, books. Kids who read books instead of playing outside were weird. The age of the 10c pulp magazine, science fiction, westerns, crime stories, they were everywhere.

And parents lamented the time spent reading them instead of doing something outside.

Just wait until our kids grow up, and their kids have a VR headset strapped to their face 24x7. They'll bemoan the time lost that was watching youtube.

As an aside, in my day it was TV, and today my kids aren't interested in TV. Not sure my parents see the irony ;)
Nah, Apple thinks these names are perfect.
"Better for the Environment"...

What's even better for the environment is not buying a new computer unless it's actually necessary.. my refurbished M1 Air 8GB still works great - I can comfortably run a Debian VM with Vivaldi & VS Code (doing .NET development), and when I need a GPU for a few hours a month I just use a cloud instance.
Awesome, what are your numbers looking like?
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First off, mobile chips are actually quite good at high resolutions (but usually lack bandwidth). But this is an M2. That's not a mobile chip.
Not a GO-user, but something you might think about stealing from NetDaemon: It has typed entities, so instead of ".EntityIds("binary_sensor.front_door")" you can do something like ".Entities.Sensors.front_door".

It obviously requires a script to run after you add/remove any in HA, but IMO it really improves the DX.
Austrian politicians on all levels rarely admit their mistakes, the same yesterday where the blame was put on technical errors and the lack of a second count (preferably on paper, it's only 600 votes after all) was barely mentioned. Procedures were sloppy and hastened, hence the error wasn't spotted on Saturday.
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The stats already show you to be wrong why bother with another prediction.

As shares of totals, Yuan is at record high usage. Dollars are record lows.

Case closed.
ARC cache is only obvious after it’s been shown to you.

Whether or not software patents are a good thing is an entirely separate question (one on which I suspect we agree, in fact) but software patents can and do contain actual non-obvious inventions.