skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all these alleged sightings and videos of blurry orbs , not a single high resolution photo of aerial craft
> We've seen this story before and it hasn't ended well for the folks in Mark's position.

Is Microsoft today in a fundamentally problematic position ?

Apple has the spotlight and a higher evaluation, but I'm not sure Google or Microsoft "haven't ended well".

> A personal device like these headsets needs to be delightful.

The number of people willing to pay for "delightful" is pretty small though. Even as today, the iPhone isn't winning on delight, it's primarily on the ecosystem, green bubbles, game payments etc., as we've heard in the numerous trials and hearings from Apple execs.
Crazy is ableist language.
Note that elif said "overnight" rate. I'm pretty sure they're on the EV rate plan from GA Power[1]. You only get that rate at night, and you pay a pretty punitive $0.21/kwh for any peak usage. As they mentioned, that's a pretty solid number for the marginal rate you'll pay for an extra kwh, but there are a number of base fees tacked on to that. I'm not on the EV plan, but my average out the door winter final rate is about $0.13/kwh and my summer rate ends up being more like $0.17/kwh.

[1] https://www.georgiapower.com/residential/billing-and-rate-pl...
Clickbait title. They are banned from creating social media accounts.
The Science of Accelerated Playback
TL;DR: faster playback translates to better engagement and retention.

Average adult reads prose text at 250 to 300 words per minute (wpm). By contrast, the average rate of speech for English speakers is ~150 wpm, with slide presentations often closer to 100 wpm. As a result, when given the choice, many viewers speed up video playback to ~1.3~1.5 its recorded rate to compensate for the difference.

Many viewers report that accelerated viewing keeps their attention longer: faster delivery keeps the viewer more engaged with the content. In fact, with a little training many end up watching videos at 2x+ the recorded speed. Some studies report that after being exposed to accelerated playback, listeners become uncomfortable if they are forced to return to normal rate of presentation.

Source: https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed#the-science-of-accelerated-playback
In mid 2021, NuScale was estimating $58/mwh.. it's now $89/mwh. I don't think you can blame 'inflation' for a +50% increase in estimated power costs over the last 18 months.
Cool, should be even easier to get the ball rolling.
> We've seen this story before and it hasn't ended well for the folks in Mark's position

Isn't this what Android did? They seem like they're doing fine enough
I wondered about this myself. Cats don't often attack rats, but rats apparently change their behavior dramatically when cats are around. Just making rats afraid to come out of hiding would surely make them less efficient scavengers and would reduce their population.
I don't know much about the apple metal stack, but theoretically all you have to do is duplicate and offset the camera and render twice.
"walks back" but the ToS remains the same: They are still there.

They just removed the helpful images and explanations.
In general the digestive system becomes less effective at extracting all amino acids as we age. This is why elderly people need to increase their protein intake in order to avoid sarcopenia.
I have heard good things about NixOS but I am also told its not a normie daily driver.
> Newer instructions (e.g. AVX2) would simplify this slightly, but the compiler is actually smart about replacing some of my intrinsics with better replacements.

I've seen this story many times before. What the author should be doing is reorganizing his code to be branch-free, clear about aliasing, and aggressive with vectorizing-friendly pragmas. Notice that when he wrote vectorized code in the 25-year-old SSE instructions, the compiler was able to optimize into better, more contemporary SIMD instructions? It's not because he used SSE intrinsics. It's because SSE intrinsics forced him to write branch-free code. If he took the same steps with scalar code, it would now be clearer and easier for the compiler to truly optimize his code, and it would be stable throughout time as new architectures come out.
String theory lied to us and now science communication is hard
Worse yet: https://medium.com/@MyLawyerFriend/lets-take-a-minute-to-tal...
Yes, they buy bottom of the barrel and, if it doesn’t work, assume that is where state of the art is.

Few months back I’ve seen anecdotal posts somewhere that new generations of managers are trying to shift computing to phones and tablets because they’re “better than laptops”. No one enforces a delightfulness standard for Windows laptops, and it is creating a skewed perception.
Can you please not post generated comments, including LLM-generated comments, to HN? Threads here need to be between humans.

Edit: here are some past moderation comments about this, if anyone wants to look:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35984470

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971947

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35869698

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35867006

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35210503

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35206303

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34662167

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34240213

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34178237

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950735
The part that you quoted was me summarizing what I thought they were saying and kind of asking if that was what they were saying. I've never met the guy. And by the way, yes, I do think crackpottery is an equal opportunity condition.
Flatbush cats and other organizations like them are real heroes, stepping in to help fix an important issue that is completely and utterly ignored by the government, and if anything exacerbated by some of their rental policies.

As rental scarcity has only become more severe, and no pet clauses have become more restrictive, the amount of pets unfortunately abandoned on the streets has increased. The government has shrugged its shoulders and these volunteers have showed up to clean up the mess.

The negative attitude of the birder organizations expressed in this article is wild to me. These TNR orgs are keeping a lid on the feral cat population that would absolutely explode otherwise. The impacts on birds would be dramatically worse if these cat trappers weren’t out there helping working to reduce the population of feral cats.
just use dbdiagram.io
> Sure, it's bigger, but how is that a problem?

It actually does cause reliability issues. A common troubleshooting tip for a CCS (Type 1) charge failing to start is to lift up and push in on the handle while the charge is starting to make sure the data pins make good contact for the initial handshake.

I'm sure Ford and GM have some real world reliability metrics around this at this point.

My understanding is this is unique to CCS Type 1 used in North America, which uses an external lever at the top of the connector to latch it to the vehicle. CCS Type 2 used in Europe and elsewhere uses internal latch points where the vehicle locks the connector to the port during charging and doesn't seem to have the same issue.
Yeah the Quest always gave this corporate dystopia zuckerberg overlord world with NFT sneakers vibe. The Apple one feels like a high quality computing device I can imagine using in a few years.
I remember browsers stopped it for awhile. Maybe I’m misremembering?
The volatility of it is trending down year after year.
Companies didn't need to make extremely better margins to offshore. They just needed to make enough to enrich the executive team.
I do think it's superior OS compared to many alternatives which is precisely why I'm using it. likely there are better, I don't know. heck - you can even build whole Unix thing from scratch if you fancy so. but the problem with that is that Arch satisfies all my needs / ain't seeing advantages desirable enough elsewhere / I'm lazy.
I think I understand. The intended idea was, e.g, a pair of "glasses" where in front of each eye are two layers, (1) a partial transparent mirror and (2) an LCD array, so that you could darken a pixel to block light coming through the mirror, and you would ideally only see light from the projector that was being bounced off the mirror and entering your eye. But you're pointing out that those LCD pixels won't be at the same focal depth as the objects out in the world you're looking at. Thank you.
Then why is the US one of the few nuclear countries that hasn’t build in years?

I saw a calculation that suggested that anti-nuclear campaigning has resulted in 1/3 of current emissions because it resulted in increased coal and gas use. That wouldn’t have happened if the environmental movement wasn’t so anti-nuclear.
With lowcost laptops I've noticed that most users end up using a mouse instead of the trackpad.
> the government doesn't even control large parts of the territory it claims, ultra-violent drug cartels do

> Brazil, Chile, Peru, etc. aren't nearly as bad

Brazil is just as bad.

Drug gangs essentially own their territory. Brazilian state is legitimized by the police's monopoly on force. Gangs don't allow police in their territories which implies the laws of Brazil don't apply there. They have seceded from brazilian territory and established their own parallel government without anyone noticing.

It's common knowledge that local businesses operating in those places are doing so with the blessing of these drug lords. They even took on the role of police by punishing small time criminals who interfere with with their drug dealing operations by scaring away customers. They implement barbaric punishments like cutting off the fingers of thieves or shooting their hands. People living in those places may not even get mail because it's too risky to send mailmen in there, I've seen people who had to go to some remote post office to pick up correspondence.

It's actually kind of impressive. Shows what a people can do when it has the balls to organize and most importantly to arm itself.
I fail to see the hypocrisy in the above comment, but maybe you can clarify your reasoning.
Trials like these usually use herculean doses like this. If you remember, the "aspartame can kill you" trials also used an incredible amount of aspartame to kill the mice.
This thread is someone using GPT-4 to re-discover the optimization made by Deepmind in that thread.
'AUR' = Arch User Repository on Manjaro. Non-Manjaro users won't know that acronym.
The research is not just "we can grow things", but what is required to do it successfully long term, with significant logistical challenges.

You would also bring value to the inhabitants of the base, so it's not just the gain in knowledge.
To be clear: 'penultimate' means 'next to last', whereas 'ultimate' means 'last'.

Since NixOS's rough edges can be quite rough, perhaps 'penultimate' may be more apt. (I mean, when NixOS works well, then it is amazing; but if you hit some use case where NixOS is difficult to use, then it requires more effort/understanding to get through).
Sleep degradation is really not a natural consequence of aging. Rather it tends to be caused by negative lifestyle factors typically correlated with age, in particular obesity. Let's be clear about the causality here.
He later says that he has not personally talked to Steve Huffman.
A bit of a missed opportunity here. Apollo could have shown users a running total of the API bill that the respective user is incurring and exposed how much Reddit thinks each user is worth. Putting that number in front of users would cause riots IMO. And would have been a delightful goodbye kiss.
People notice in subconscious but rarely in the wallet.
Perhaps, but scaling one requires extreme investment. Recent startups are raising close to a billion to take on competitive markets.
After being laid off I had the good fortune to get an offer from a remote first company. Now I'm moving back with my parents in case I get laid off again.

There's no way I'm signing a 1 year lease in the current economic environment.
I was confused by "touchpad", I assume it's the trackpad ?

More extensive touch support, like having touch support on the laptop display alleviates a lot of the trackpad needs. It's still nice when it smooth and responsive, but looking at the the Surface devices for instance, it's nice enough.
Much more concerning: Sponsorship guidelines.

https://youtu.be/-5zGuFPxW88
Pricing the headset at 7x the Quest seems like an Apple power move. Ordinarily if you’re 2nd or 3rd to a category you’d expect there to be pressure to price in the same ballpark. You want customers to compare but say the new product is worth spending a reasonable amount more than the old product because it has some bells and whistles.

At $3500 Apple invites no comparison. They’re basically pretending Meta doesn’t exist and that they’ve invented the category, as though it’s the iPhone or iPad.
The major issue with nuclear power is and always has been costs are just too damn high. What nobody talks about is increasing the efficiency of coal power plants significantly reduced their operating costs. The same was true of everything including hydro except nuclear which just kept getting more expensive compared to alternatives over time.

Coupling long plant lifespans with minimal growth in electricity demand for decades meant there was no incentives to build nuclear after it reached ~30% of total demand. It couldn’t pass that ~30% threshold because costs enter an exponential spiral of decreasing capacity factor meaning higher fees when it’s in operation.

PS: I say ~30% because the actual economics get really complicated that’s just what most countries seem to roughly settle on. Forecasting today out a full plants lifespan and I don’t think even 30% is still viable without massive subsidies.
I watched this recently. Good video I thought that helped explain things to me. Her comment that she doubts a university will ever hire another string theorist seems damning if true. I always figured it was originally a common position as it's so cheap compared to a physicist that needs equipment to run experiments. Apparently it was mainly done for grant money when everyone thought string theory was going to be the next thing, but basically very few believe that now
I used ubuntu for years and decided to give Arch a try on my media pc. Was way easier than I expected as it now has an installer, archinstall. Honestly the whole arch elitism thing no longer makes sense.
> Ultimately this is all the continued failure of North America to pick an EV charging standard. ... It sounds like there's still years to go for North America to catch up to Europe.

Doubtful. I suspect that the US will standardize on NACS soon.

Then Europe will be playing catch up because it has a bulky charger connector compared to the US and China.
I mean a smart person would take the opportunity to eat crow, declare mea culpa, and demonstrate that they've learned a valuable lesson.

I'll let others to speculate if he is the kind of person you would expect that of.
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A browser is much more than a rendering engine. Support for new features like openXR is something that iOS users are not allowed to choose.
> NYT seems to be running an anti-cat agenda.

My sides.
>then it was China to Thailand/SKorea

You mean Vietnam surely?
This is mentioned in the OP's link.
Cats are ferocious predators of mice and birds and other small animals. Maybe management is helpful, but even supposedly indolent cats do a lot of hunting.

They aren't good at hunting rats in particular. Rats are big and cats are scared to fight them.
> “By contrast, every demo that they showed was a person sitting on a couch by themself,” he said of Apple’s WWDC keynote earlier this week.

Bullshit.

There were many lifestyle video showing people moving around. That was actually worse than sitting on the sofa and being generally stylish.
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No one is culling house pets. However feral cats are culling cockroaches and rats in New York which are huge pests.
https://archive.is/hs54k
Didn't they do that with AlienBlue? I never used it so I have no idea how much of it is left or what they gimped.

Regardless, if they wanted to create a better app they'd do it. They don't want to.
What boggled my mind were the trackpads on some laptops that weren't just average, but actively bad.

The worst by far I've ever used was on a circa-2007 HP convertible laptop that ran Vista. Despite it costing more than some models of MacBook at the time, the thing was built with that cheap creaky "fake metal" glossy plastic, and that included its trackpad. The trackpad would've been bad enough just like that with the smooth plastic gripping at your fingertips, but to make it worse its surface had inverse dimples, and because its touch sensitivity wasn't all that sensitive you had to apply more pressure when using it which pressed your fingers down into the dimples and made them stick even worse. Oh and of course, as was customary for non-Apple laptops at that point it was also tiny.

It's almost as if it was someone's job to make that thing's trackpad terrible to use. Just mind boggling.
Sounds like a crappy change, because when I was in 8th grade in MA they literally had us take a class learning to use a blueprinting desk and the Cartesian coordinate system.
At least Apple proves it’s possible To expose all their apps just as is; they have been saying in Quest forums for years this is ‘impossible’ and the app has to be tailored for it, even just as a flat screen hanging in VR. Impossible, or couldn’t be asked? The latter surely?
Oh, that makes more sense.
Well, there are a lot of international agreements to NOT develop Antarctica, and instead keep it as pristine as possible.
> and the rat problem becomes worse

Cats usually won't tackle rats, this is even mentioned in the article.
I listed it as an omission, not a con :)
Yes, the government is part of the real world.

If you created a nuclear power plant in your basement that you feel is totally safe, that is great, but a good chunk of the rest of the country wouldn't be comfortable with that and they would expect the government to shut down your nuclear power plant.

You could disagree with them and the government, but it wouldn't work out well for you to invest all your money into your basement nuclear reactor.
That’s seems disingenuous considering the Quest Pro is literally competing for the same market segment and there were numerous tech investments made to build out the workplace vision. I think Apple came out with a much more compelling product in that space (although it may be fair that the quest pro had less investment and focus because they believe low cost headsets are the real priority).

The pricing won’t matter because if Apple sells a bunch it won’t matter how much the Quest costs because the developers will be prioritizing the Vision headset and its modalities which is the key thing that will matter. It’s like what happened with Android - they were about to release when Apple showcased multitouch at which point they scrapped their existing stuff and retooled to make Android multi touch because they knew that would become the dominant modality to make it easy for developers to write apps for both / make it easy for customers to compare and contrast. More importantly, Apple seems to be seeding with an existing massive App Store for non-augmented apps that Quest doesn’t have in any meaningful way iirc and they’ll need to spend money trying to attract existing Android developers to publish to their store or sign a deal with Google to provide access to the Play store (which will never happen).

Expect to see a massive strategy shift from Facebook if Q4 numbers indicate the vision pro is a hit and likely competitor “me too” products from Google, Microsoft, and Samsung if it at ask looks like Apple has reinvigorated this market.
I am not sure I agree. Meta can aim to be the android of the VR market, providing a decent product for much less money and being able to benefit from having much more devices out there. If VR becomes anywhere near as mainstream as phones at some point, meta will be very well placed to capture that position, which could be incredibly profitable.
> "it’s a hurdle not to have … collections like queues and ordered maps."

const m = new Map() // it's ordered

const q = []
q.push('a')
q.pop()
Segway Ninebot sells fairly well.
After a few steps in a row, this sounds great. Are you hiring?
Men have always been very exploitable. It is up to individual men to not let themselves be exploited. Men these days do a lot to warn other men about the dangers of being influenced by women. Whenever a man acknowledges the beauty of a woman, it imbues her with a bit more power and influence, and with social media this can scale to truly stupendous levels.

As men we need to stop this. If every man simply decided tomorrow no woman’s beauty warranted us doing anything that we didn’t already want to do, women would become powerless and we would once again take control as the masters of this world.

I don’t think this comment will be very popular, but I’m not here to say popular things, I’m here to speak truth.
If we never fell for this awful "API" concept in the first place, we would've never gotten into this situation where discrimination based on user agents and companies effectively mandating what user agent (and by extension, the rest of your hardware and software stack) you can use to access their sites is normalised and even widely accepted.

I wasn't convinced and said this when sites first started promoting and offering "APIs" like it was a new feature, and it's worth repeating again: Every site already has an API and it's 100% free (unless you already needed to pay to get access): HTTP and HTML. Why would I need to register again an "app" (or even register at all if the site is already publicly viewable), and perhaps even pay --- just for the privilege of getting tracked and restricted even more, and to be able to get JSON instead? Fuck that shit.

More frustratingly, people calling things "private API" as if the client for it wasn't something that every visitor to the site would've automatically downloaded and executed. Anything that gets sent to and runs on my machine is fair game for me to read.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
It’s because GPUs are vastly overpriced and gamers don’t want to be ripped off by greedy GPU manufacturers.

If Nvidia and AMD want to sell GPUs then they should make great products and sell them at compelling prices.

As it stands they deliver the barest minimum at inflated prices.

Heck the newest Nvidia card is SLOWER than previous generation and costs hundreds of $ more.
Here is the original article which started this news cycle. Note that David Grusch hasn't claimed he personally saw any alien vehicles, just that other people told him they exist. His claims are worth investigating but nothing really new.

https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-re...
Windows led to a few market failures like this. One that comes to mind is high DPI displays. In terms of pixels per inch, today’s 1080p displays are laughable by 2001 standards.

It has been a quarter century since high DPI CRTs were affordable, and 20+ years since LCDs were.

However, Windows wasn’t compatible with such things until at least 2010, so here we are a quarter century later, and laptop lines still often only offer meh-for-the-late-90’s displays.

A more recent example is suspend resume. I’m not sure of the details, but I am sure that intel will never do better than S3 sleep from ten years ago, and Microsoft pushed them to change how sleep works.
Although your examples are very centralized projects, your thoughts about the next social media platform is the desired way to go.