skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have three conference podcasts talking about systems programming in depth:

- The Race to Replace C & C++ (2020) [0]

- The Race to Replace C & C++, Episode 2 (2021) [1]

- Memory Strategies: The Merits of (Un)safe (2022) [2]

They feature prominent guests including the creators of Zig and Odin, as well as people making a living using Rust. Hope this helps!

[0] https://handmade.network/podcast/ep/fe1a2a6a-3ac6-4ce5-b8fb-...

[1] https://handmade.network/podcast/ep/57103cab-ff39-42b4-b59b-...

[2] https://handmade.network/podcast/ep/afc72ed0-f05f-4bee-a658-...
Apple's first year sales of their watch was a failure with 10 million units sold instead of the projected 40 million. Apple now has 34% of global market share. Now remember Steve Ballmer laughing at it.

It is not the 1st generation of most of their products, but the follow ons.

I'll wait to see what the first months of hands on reviews and perhaps a personal demo. How heavy is that headset and how long is the battery life (I thought I saw 2 hours)?

Time will tell.
Yes! I think the difference is between people who use Reddit as a feed versus a forum. For a Hacker News audience seeking to engage with forum-like content, the new redesigns clearly do not fit their needs. However, to a general audience seeking to find a feed of content and interesting comment sections, the new redesigns are much more palatable.
India has 1.4 billion people, of course some of them are black hats for hire. Perhaps India is a hotbed of cybercrime but this article is mostly anecdotes and nothing in it is evidence that the nation’s at all comparable to other hotspots of hirable hackers like Eastern Europe or Israel.
Yeah, how about no. Parent your kids to balance their screen time, and please keep them off social media as long as possible (or very supervised).

But pledges like this are ridiculous, and remind me of how parents in the 80s thought the C64 or NES was going to rot kids brains, just like TV in the 70s.
> That way you don't shave off 2-page spreads.

A very good point
The fact that parents even consider giving kids phones before 8th grade is baffling to me. Growing up, I got a dumb cellphone around that age and it feels like an appropriate time. The internet is just too wild to let anyone younger than at least 13 go near it imo. What's especially unfortunate about it is that I get the sense most parents that hand out phones earlier could have just gotten their kid some handheld gaming system (there's even new ones on the market and retro recreations these days!) instead and managed to solve the exact same "problem" with basically none of the psychological and developmental risks.

Comes with the huge typical disclaimer that I am not a parent in this environment so obviously I don't know how real the pressure feels.
Somewhat in the spirit of this article, your #3 point:

> 3. Learn to hit "publish" when you still aren't completely happy with what you have written. The alternative is never publishing anything at all!

...reminds me of the very well known quote that most will know but maybe some won't:

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late." - The LinkedIn Dude
And the yEncoding scheme also got rid of the 33% data size overhead inherent in base64 encoding. It's too bad that never made it over to email.
Some subreddits, specifically r/cars says till the 14th and maybe beyond. It shows that they're willing to continue the blackout after the 14th if r/reddit doesn't change course.
"Another tell-tale sign of Apple’s goals is that nowhere in the press release does Apple even mention the word “headset.” The company instead refers to it as a “spatial computer”..."

I'd guess this is because headsets are $x00 and computers are $x000, so they're trying to frame the discussion.

Similar with insisting on AR. I assume solely-VR is cheaper to do, and emboldens rivals, so it's in their interest to push AR only.
> However, this is (fortunately) a very niche use case.

Displacement is actually at an all time high.
Which ones do you recommend for startups that want to deploy services? If that does not winnow the list enough, which of the good ones are open source?
no to before 8th? or no to after?
Wrong. Congress passed a law that exempts residency programs from antitrust consideration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung_v._Association_of_America...
Also, people have already contributed thousands for this project, asking for a cutty-cutty machine is a bit much, especially when I'm really getting good with the heat gun.
The display system boasts an impressive resolution, with 23 million pixels spread across two panels, surpassing the pixel count of a typical 4K TV for each eye.
Link to story

https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/military-whistleblowe-us...
> Most people outside... like cars and their convenience

Everyone loves [the first order effects of] cars. Climate control, directly to where you need to go, whenever suits you, for a high upfront, but low ongoing cost.

Everyone fucking hates the second order effects (see: literally anybodys take on traffic). Climate change, more danger to everyone around them (from pedestrians to motorcyclists to other drivers), noise pollution, and air pollution from tires and exhaust. Everyone likes them, typically right up to when they aren't the driver [0]

[0] Some gearheads break this rule, but I think nearly all of them would agree that requiring the average person to maintain and drive their car isn't great, considering the average driver's skillset.
> But as a commercial matter, you could not; if you didn't have binary groups, you weren't offering real Usenet (and if your binary feeds weren't ultra-reliable, you were offering shitty Usenet).

None of the ISPs I had from the mid '90s through 2010 ever had reliable binary news feeds. Most would be missing too many articles, or articles would expire within hours and the download could never be reassembled.

Anyone who really wanted binaries started using paid services and just use their ISPs usenet feed for text discussion.
> I remember Edward Snowden went to India to learn hacking.

Allegedly for 6 days and he also learned java programming apparently.

Can someone get Snowden to confirm? I think this is some rumour based ad for a coaching institute.
Oneliner dark mode using a HTML meta tag
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This is 100% wrong. The original iPhone plan from AT&T included unlimited data but was still capped on minutes: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/06/26AT-T-and-Apple-Anno...
First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good
> There was also Outlook Express.

It was the one client that never fixed their quoted text wrapping bug IIRC.
A 3000 dollar novelty trick that I couldn't stand to wear for more than 30 minutes. Big no on this.
Debian Flyers
> but I just can't see myself in any of the situations they keep showing in VR/AR demos.

They told Steve Jobs that no one likes to tab on a piece of glass, people want physical buttons. And yet, here we are.
Thanks - I had seen his photo but never knew the name.
“I’ve already explored them so thoroughly,” she says.

when you try to touch it it evaporates

surf, not analyze, the flow
I agree.

A lot of people seem to believe that centralization is the problem, and ignore Wikipedia, which has been true to its mission far longer than Reddit or Twitter have, and it never needed a decentralized model. The simple explanation is that it's the profit motive that is the problem. That can be fixed with the proper organizational structure.

I wish the Mozilla Foundation would stand up Reddit and Twitter clones. I bet they would be more usable on Day 1 than the Fediverse solutions.
Most Google hardware products turn out similarly bad
C is forever. It’s the only language where the community aspires to target as early a specification as they can. This keeps C in the hands of the programmers and not the compiler creators.
> C is simple, but not easy.

I think I know what you're trying to say, but unfortunately C is anything but simple. The semantics are riddled with surprises of all kinds. It's unlikely the average C programmer has never written a program with undefined behavior, for example.
This feels like a well-balanced and objective report.

An interesting bit:

> To select, I’d pinch my fingers together in the air. To scroll, I pinched and dragged in whatever direction. For the most part, things worked fluidly. In a few instances, I’d try to select a smaller target and miss.

If find hand tracking to be way nicer and convenient for UI manipulation and occasional actions (like switching to a different item in Youtube) but a hassle when doing it constantly for minutes at a time. Basically the Gorrilla arm issue, where on games you're moving your whole body so having the arms up feels natural, but having to use your arms all the time become tedious really fast.

The other bit on missing smaller targets feels like a problem that isn't solved on iOS/android either. Cursor selection on text blocks for example is still a pain. Apple bakes in heuristics to try adjust where a touch lands, but we're still so far from reliability that the Apple Pen and keyboard trackpad still come in handy in many situations.

This headset allows for third-party controllers, but it feels like a repeat of many past mistakes (like for the Apple TV and it's ill fated remote controller used for games...)
C. It's the only language people writing bootloaders, writing kernels, and writing serious userland code kinda sorta agree on.

Maybe someday it'll be rust, but if so that day isn't this year or next. Plenty of time to pick it up for your next job.
I can't even wrap my head around some of these prices... One of those pages for "February 1986" has an ad for "diskettes" box of 10 priced between $1195 and $2995. Are these what I think they are, regular floppy disks for almost $300 each?

Edit: that must have been a typo, I see prices in the same issue of about $1/disk.
This thing is so boring and funny
Infectious constraints propagating up the call graph is the entire goal, isn't it?
A RAM disk formatted as swap? Probably would work. Funny concept.

Let’s lie to OS and tell it that this memory is actually a disk. Then, it will lie to the programs, and tell them that that disk is actually memory.
> not a GDDR based APU

AFIK Apple currently doesn't have a foodhold on gaming outside of phone/tablet games (where they are strong, but the games are used to LPDDR perf.).

And while many of the Graphic applications people do use would profit from it I'm not sure it's that big of benefit.

In the end a lot of users just do daily tasks on Apple laptops and for that battery life absolutely trumps any speed benefits GDDR gives.

I guess the desktop versions could/should use GDDR, but there are two issue: 1. Heat, 2. more design/variance in the CPU production supply chain.

The 2nd can drive up cost by quite a surprising high amount.

The 1st point I'm not supper sure about. But AFIK one big problem with things which are stacked on-die is heat as all the heat of the CPU needs to go through whatever is stacked onto it to reach the cooler. And while there are probably all kinds of tricks to improve this I could imagine that using a GDDR which has a higher power draw and produces more heat itself could make this more of an issue. But that is purely speculative.

I guess we have to see until around 2025+ to know if such stacked chips are more prone to die a early (i.e. <5 years) heat death. Especially some of the Air models without heat pipes could be at risk if used in a less climate controlled environment. Or it could be all perfectly fine. I'm looking forward to finding out.
Theoretically, you don't really need it across the entire display - this is achievable with eye tracking paired with fancy actuated curved micro-mirrors (so-called DMDs) that can dynamically make part of the matrix concentrated in a smaller focus area (viewed through a curved mirror) at cost of peripheral picture quality. But it's extremely complex tech and I'm not aware if it's available in any consumer-grade devices. The alternative is liquid lenses, but I think micro-mirrors are more researched topic (I'm no expert in either, it's been ages since I last studied physics and I wasn't good at it even then).

It is remotely related but different from "classical" foveated rendering (which is just a way to get better framerates), as it's an actual optical system. With DMDs you also need foveated rendering (and fancy transformations, as displays are no longer projected uniformly over time), but foveated rendering alone is not sufficient.
This is the first actual
hands-on demo I’ve seen, and apparently it’s actually really good. Really want to try out the auto 3d-scanning tech.
> By the late 90s Usenet was well into the Eternal September and inundated with spam. Unmoderated groups were a mess. There was also just the simple problem of formatting. IIRC Outlook Express defaulted to MIME/multipart posts which would cause all sorts of weirdness if someone with a text-only client quoted them and the OE user replied. Then of course there was the issue of top and bottom quoting. Many Usenet clients had truly awful UIs so a user could inadvertently quote a message's headers in a reply.

I didn't really start lurking and posting on usenet until the late '90s and while those problems occasionally cropped up, they really didn't interfere with the main discussion threads in the groups I was a regular in. I only stopped regularly using it by the early/mid 2010s because all the other regulars in the groups I was in ceased posting.
Is newsnation a legitimate outlet? Being a non-American I'd never heard of this, and when the reporter starts with "Earning your trust every night!" I wonder if these guys are just tabloid reporters?

I find this a fascinating topic, but for every piece of news that seems legitimate there's 10 that feel like nonsense. (It is "fun" to read this kind of stuff though)
When I say it's not an intrinsic to VR, I mean that one can have physical motion games without having facehugger 3D, which currently defines the VR space.

I'll note that Wii Sports came out in 2006, for example. And it sold 8.9 million copies. But I also note that motion games remain a niche interest. I like them a lot, but they're a small fraction of game usage. That suggests to me that VR can't bank on that as a big enough consumer interest to keep VR economically viable.
Caching is not easy for something like Reddit, where everyone has a personalized feed.
Doesn't mean absolutely everyone knows who absolutely everyone is.
This does not apply to cryptocurrencies (the good ones), but it definitely does apply to cryptocurrency exchanges.
EU bids farewell to Twitter as company pulls out of code to fight disinformation
>"Maybe it was getting the weight off my head. Maybe it was that when I was finally able to see again with my own eyes—looking at my notebook, or my hands or the other people in the room—I realized I was no longer staring at the world through a screen. Even Apple’s crisp 23 million pixels can’t replace standard vision. Maybe that’s the long-term challenge, getting us to forget that difference."

This sounds like a negative take from the author, but it makes me incredibly bullish on this reality-first AR/VR approach (sPatIaL cOMpuTiNg).

Apple nailed the important stuff. As time goes on the hardware will get lighter, screens will get better, etc.
They were/are a Tether exchange, right?
> Outlook Express was a shit show

The main problem OE had was the quote wrapping problem that other clients didn't. The other was that it defaulted to top posting IIRC.
For the rest of the world, could anyone share what age a child would typically be when they enter the 8th grade?
They aren't entrepreneurs, they are crooks.
Local TV news is completely corporate owned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYj11qWb-M
I know right? To me it feels like cheating in an exam, where I ask a know-it-all who gives a straight answer without me understanding it, but then it turns out that the know-it-all didn’t know it very well either, but just appeared confident, so we both failed the exam.
It's a logical assumption and the battery is not head mounted.
Why are they seemingly underrepresented on Github?

When I check out a library I often peek at who made it. My general demographic "feel" is

- 40% some European or American

- 40% some dude in Siberia,

- 10% Chinese hacker in Shenzhen

- 10% some cryptic Japanese hacker

I'm always a bit surprised there are very very few South East Asians, Latin Americans, Koreans, Indians
> rendering spreadsheets

I am dying to know what the next paradigm for spreadsheets will be. Is it some sort of "walk-through" spreadsheet?
C is such a glorious language to competently develop software in, UB be damned.
That doesn't sound like it's going to be a stable API? I'm not sure there is much you can do though.

Edit: yea after looking at this, it definitely appears to violate the TOS. Also this seems like a huge red flag just begging reddit to shut it down: "Unlike with the Reddit API you do not need to authenticate using OAuth."
Sure it does, that's why people PGP-sign their posts.
Balancing screen time seems doable and makes sense but the social media bit seems basically impossible.

I have yet to encounter a kid with a smart phone that wasn't using it to view stuff on tiktok or youtube.
Executives don’t care to take the time to transition high performers to new projects or the risk that they will successfully adapt to new technologies. They’re making big moves, they “have to move fast” and “need people who can hit the ground running.” Fresh faces can have the perfect resumes for the new direction and no attachment to the status quo or clout to call on in resisting the “transformation.”
Web browser did drastically simplify delivery and deliverability though.

Not that there wouldn’t have been alternatives had web apps not become a thing. It’s just more user-friendly than most current open alternatives (eg apt-get), and more open than most current user-friendly alternatives (eg app stores).
This is transitory until custom models can be deployed.
Give it a couple years, and everyone will forget it and move on to some new shiny
The first post I saw on this site was an anti-trans post using some really offensive terms. I did not bother exploring further.
For US grades, add 5 to the grade to get a reasonable age. 1st grade is ~6; 12th grade is ~17.
We're talking about over 1,000 subreddits (and growing rapidly), including some of the very largest (~6 of the top 10, such as /r/pics, /r/aww, and /r/videos).

It will almost certainly have a noticeable effect, especially if many of these subreddits decide to hold the blackout indefinitely.
Well said, I’m not convinced I’m going to get value out of it, but I can totally see real use cases here. Better than “you’re going to socialize” from meta.
> Thunderbird was still pretty popular around then as well

Thunderbird didn't come out until the early 2000s. The predecessors were Mozilla mail & news and Netscape Communicator. Seamonkey[1] is an offshoot of the former once Mozilla split mail and news into Firefox and Thunderbird.

[1] https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
> "a fine metaphor for what ails crypto as a whole. The technology is cryptographically secure, but not at all robust to much simpler betrayals, hacks, etc."

I think you mean "crypto exchanges". Cryptocurrency itself is not subject to betrayals/hacks, for the most part (depending on how dumb you are at key management). And depending on how badly you selected your cryptocurrency (pro tip: just pick Bitcoin).
I think for each use case how you interact with the headset over a significant period of time will be different. For productivity, you still will use a keyboard. For a video game, you may be standing and moving.

But, no matter what, the AR objects should be touch-able, reactive to your sight, etc. When you want to interact with it using your hands/eyes, it should be seamless, and that is what Apple nailed here.
I remember someone I knew that insisted on using a ram disk as his scratch disk...

Like, uh.... ok, you do that, good luck.
Inaccurate incomplete and a gross oversimplification IME. This should be titled "What Hallucinogens made the Author see".
"No to waiting" seems the most likely.
C is an abstract computer as much as any virtual machine. Now this computer is quite simple compared to the abstract machines of Rust and C++ but is doesn’t have much to do with how a computer actually works.
The DoD would be satisfied with the opposition because they're concerned about giving Ukraine long range weapons, which a Starlink equipped drone is. Since Starlink's stated policy is now to oppose that use, the DoD may be more open to being officially associated with supporting the provision of Starlink services to Ukraine.

As for Starlink being okay with it just because they get paid, I don't see how that means they lack morals. They're obviously invested in Ukraine winning, but as a defense contractor they're also interested in being in alignment with the positions of the US government. Put differently, I don't really see it as SpaceX's decision to make regarding using Starlink as a long range weapons guidance system, that's the government's job to approve.
Do you want to be a Vision Air (TM) instead?
macOS can virtualized Linux
> We've lived with 2K monitors for decades

This is a bit disingenuous. The 2013 MacBook Pro (a single decade ago) was the first mainstream device with a resolution above 1080p and with scaling people effectively still had a 1440x900 screen anyway. 1280x800 was common at the time for 13" devices. High DPI has really only taken off in the last 5 years.

edit: fixed info regarding scaling
So coal is actually renewable?
Until it is superseded. Ask Blackberry.
rust-analyzer, clangd, and clion are all fantastic. why not try both?

cpp feels better to me now, but that could easily change.

rust-analyzer is a good experience, and cpp is not exactly fast, just faster.
It’s possible in theory to add a transparent LCD display to a transparent OLED display, but neither is fully transparent, so you end up losing a lot of light. And then there’s the cost of having two displays.
Surely the engineers didn't think the plants would be unsafe, right? I'm not sure what's so bad faith about that particular argument.
I was pretty disappointed when I got all the way to the end and not a single person was murdered by a b-tree....
There's consumer boards with xbox one and xbox series SoCs out there with the GPU fused off already. They won't ever be hacked, security is tight and the scene essentially doesn't exist anymore.
What you say is technically true but you still need the controllers for setup and that is quite annoying if you travel a lot. I read OPs level of travel as > 8 hours in air per week and > 3 nights in hotel per week.

At that level this is an easy buy.
Snowden's documents specifically included information about FVEY members spying on each others' citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
For low-level programming in 2023 I would honestly start with Zig.

It offers the same system programming capabilities as C but makes it much easier to write correct programs.

(If Rust is the “better C++”, then Zig is the “better C”).
AI insights is the wrong approach, questioning for self-reflection is the correct approach. The AI shouldn't steer the journal, but instead inspire the user to remember/record in greater detail.
Bah, it's just a tool, and important one for safety and avoiding unnecessary distress. It's up to parents to take care of technological limits and discipline, but it's not not an all or nothing deal. Especially during pandemic, how else were kids supposed to have any connection to peers? And without pandemic, what's wrong with cousins playing Minecraft while many hundreds of miles away from each other.
Two Visions of the Future