skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the ultimate goal appears to replace computers, phones, and monitors

This is a completely empty statement. That's a flimsy corporate wish.

Do you not understand how completely different the introduction of the iPhone into the mobile phone market was, compared to the introduction of Apple Vision to the VR market?

The iPhone introduced with concrete examples of what it could do that the competition could not, it wasn't half-baked and aspirational, it solved existing problems, it was better than the devices that billions of people were already carrying around in their pockets from the start.

I'm writing this comment from my home office. To my right is a window where I can look out on the street below, I see cars and people, I see birds flying over the trees, and a couple of blocks away is the beach and the ocean. It's a pretty view. I can relax my eyes and my brain and look away from work or HN for a bit. How does Apple vision improve this experience?
Right, now I'm surprised I was surprised.
I think when I am at that point in my life I will agree. But I am early on in my career.
Corporate fluff aside, AWS is on track to run on 100% renewables by 2025[1] so the selling is mostly "European cloud" since the green part will be mostly expected by the time they actually ramp up. Competition is always good though.

> Studies by 451 Research have shown that AWS’ infrastructure is 3.6 times more energy efficient than the median of U.S. enterprise data centers surveyed and up to five times more energy efficient than the average in Europe. 451 Research also found that AWS can lower customers’ workload carbon footprints by nearly 80% compared to surveyed enterprise data centers, and up to 96% once AWS is powered with 100% renewable energy—a target we’re on path to meet by 2025.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/energy/sustainability/

EDIT:

- GCP, 100% renewable by 2030 https://cloud.google.com/sustainability

- Azure, 100% renewable by 2025 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastructure/sustainability

- Oracle, 100% renewable in Europe already https://www.oracle.com/sustainability/green-cloud/
they seem to have misunderstood the why and the how of startup culture in the valley

it has been a way to get startup entrepreneurs (founders) to absorb the negative cost of trying out new things; and whatever actually works well gets bought by an established winner.

what's fundamentally unproven about how to build data-centers? this seems to be about using a different sort of 'power supply' for the whole project

what is to stop AWS from being even more green even faster (by buying 'greener' power supplies?)

the only way this makes sense is if their real end-game is to get bought by some already established datacenter company.

then again, it's not 2018 anymore. The VC scheme is also changing a lot. they should find a way to chuck "AI" in their pitch to get startup money now
Pidgin was great.

Now I have all those different (web or not) applications, that never support all my devices. Most application steal a crazy amount of data, consumes bandwidth as if free on the way, while assuming they are alone and can consume all the resources of the computer they are running on. And they all have different UI (dark) patterns, and bugs and this and that.

</rant>
How about “…find out who had a [sustainable] business plan”
In a company of 100k, probably like 8 people are at fault for this from the 80s and 90s. The rest are taking orders and are working on completely different areas of industry.

3M only works because they share R&D across various divisions. If it was broken up, the R&D goes away and new materials development all moves to Asia.
"ChatGPT may produce inaccurate information about people, places, or facts."

good luck with lawsuit when this text is next to your input for chat.

like seriously, how can you be mad at openai when you fail to read what is shown to you?
I don’t buy that, people don’t normally have to sit around for hours just waiting, there’s nothing to do apart from shop for overpriced brands
The market they are disrupting is PCs, Macs, and tablets. Not VR.
Yes eventually, but I don't have money right now.
I don't understand the push against remote work from employers.
If you like X-COM, Mechanicus is similar but also different enough to not just be a reskin. Also it has the best opening cutscene of any game I've ever seen
I think the higher price tag is them signaling they know they won't move as many units like they did with the iPhone. It's economies of scale: if you can move huge volumes, you can afford smaller margins per unit, and vice versa.
Imagine seeing his on investment portfolio if he makes dumbazz predictions like that
This is for Amazon as a whole (so not AWS) but recent news (26 May 2023) seems that they are targeting net-zero by 2040:

"The ecommerce giant recently backed out of a commitment to make 50% of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030. Amazon said in a statement that it would roll this goal into a broader Climate Pledge to reach net-zero carbon across all its operations by 2040. That's a decade later than the 50% goal, which was called "Shipment Zero" at the time." [0]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-shipment-zero-gives-u...

Also worth noting that this is a target. And targets can always shift eg 2040, 2050, etc
I kind of feel like the next logical step for this is someone will invent a way to do a crowd-sourced SETI-style solution for building these large AI models in a collaborative way. I think based on my experience it's clear they've decided to rein in these tools so users can't experience the true capabilities of them.
I wonder what kind of talent they will be able to hire, paying the usual European taxed peanuts.
> It's cheaper/easier now to survive than any other time in history.

Just "survive" is too low a point to be interesting. You need way more than just surviving to have spare time and capacity to learn and innovate. And that level, at least in the western world, now comes with absurdly high costs of living (driven by the insanity of the real estate market), so even the "middle class" is mostly stuck running in a hamster wheel.
EU is pouring huge amounts of money into development grants, because they want to decrease their dependency on the global markets.

Expect GAaaS startups (grant applications as a service) to pop up left and right, offering extremely slick pitch decks, founders in well-fitting suits and ridiculous pie-in-the-sky business ideas.

It’s some version of ”build it and they will come”. Granting millions in free money to anyone who promises to create an EU alternative to AWS / Intel / Facebook gets you a lot of said promises.
For real or are they purchasing dodgy “offsets?”
3rd party applications
And in the first paragraph and in the third paragraph, in the fifth, etc. I count twelve occurrences.

I think it doesn’t pop out because it’s written without capital letters.
Analysis of 4M Climbing Ascents
They literally suspended the website [0] where you can apply for an app. It's been a perma-waitlist that hasn't moved a bit. Several app developers [1, 2, 3] have reached out and gotten radio silence.

[0]: https://developers.reddit.com/waitlist

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
Cuba Base Would Help China Identify Strike Targets in U.S.
It messes up the threads. Sure, I don't mind. Like, it doesn't make you a bad person. But I would prefer it not being possible at bulk in forums. Maybe, 10 deletes per year if you accidentally write some PI or something.

I like how HN allows deletes for some time. At multiple occasions I have deleted some comment that was flame or stupid after 10s and saved others the trouble of reading it.
I’m not sure if you get the controllers part of embedded microcontrollers. They’re not for time-independent deep thoughts, they are for controlling devices and peripherals in real time.

1) you get shorter battery life for slower code. Also, everything is speed critical anyways. It sucks when I’m controlling my toy robot and it’s trying to drive into the floor while doMyStuff(); has its head stuck in float math.

2) external anything is added cost to everything; adding an SPI Flash for code to otherwise done board costs, I don’t know, $2 for the chip, $0.02 for capacitors and resistors, 2-3 days to redo the board, software… can I just make it a want item for v2.0?

3) why do I have to do it wireless? Can I just snatch a prototype from test batch, wire it to debugger and leave it on a desk? Do I really have to manage these keys, and why are you going to be signing it off for release if it’s not working?

Embedded devices are not like a Nintendo Switch, it’s like Switch Joy-Cons, or even buttons on Joy-Con sometimes. They are not like nail-top autonomous Pi calculation device. Admittedly, Nintendo update Joy-Con firmware sometimes, but very rarely, and they don’t make Switch playing kids wait for X button input to finish processing. The buttons are read, sent out, and received. It just makes no sense that adding drag to real-time computing this way would help a lot.
also hetzner
3M acquired that company and then was on the hook. A few bad decisions at the wrong level can sink a company.
I don't think that UNIX mishandles leap seconds. It properly ignores them because they aren't relevant to it. The UNIX timestamp is literally the count of units past the epoch. The existence of leap seconds don't affect that count, it only affects the timekeeping of a completely different scheme.

So yes, you have to handle leap seconds when you're converting from the timestamp to/from the time scheme you are interested in, just as you have to handle leap years, etc. The UNIX timestamp is just a different way of marking time, and is blessed with not worrying at all about how that time relates to the actual motion of the Earth. That makes it easy and consistent for common operations. It is not mishandling anything. It just can't shield you from the complexity of the forms of timekeeping that make it a point to be synchronized with the Earth.
It saves you the trouble when your order goes wrong and way easier to argue/negotiate, it's the same reason airbnb works (else why wouldnt you just exchange number with the host and rent it directly)
Likewise. Especially when it's liberally sprinkled with his catch phrase:
"A new kind of..."

It's unfortunate as clearly he has a huge amount to contribute. Maybe with an LLM someone can build a de-Stepheniser that takes in his pompous, smug text and outputs something more mellow and reasonable whilst keeping all the facts, which is what we are there for after all.
AKA memes from r/AdviceAnimals
Ahaha.. is this a serious post? I'll take the bait.

If you want to shitpost with friends and strangers than exists no realistic purpose for identity management since the main goal is to remain anonymous and true anonymity comes by default on nostr.

In case you do want to protect your identity in that case protect your keys. In case you missed the last few months, there are browser extensions that do not grant access to private keys, similar to metamask and other crypto wallets.

All of that are battle-proven technologies with several years of practice and success in keeping private keys private. You should know that, the question is why don't you know that, or more frankly why won't you know that.
If there’s a good “why”, the “how” is merely iteration and execution. Apple has been known to be extremely good at materials science and hardware engineering so if it’s within the bounds of physics and economies I don’t think that’s remotely a concern.
Has "Europe is investing $X billions to rival $AMERICAN_TECH_GIANT" ever worked? I'm highly skeptical of planned enterprises. Inovation often happens organically.
Not to put too fine a point on this, but by talking about the size of the market, you do realize you're committing the exact same mistake as Dvorak, but in reverse:

>Apple Inc.'s past successes have been in markets that were emerging or moribund. Its biggest hit has been the iPod.

Recency bias aside, Apple clearly has experience to take on markets like this.

>doesn't solve any existing obvious pain points.

I mean, if you pay attention to any of the people that have tried hands-ons, they all say the UI interaction is leaps and bounds better than anyone else. Hand tracking, clarity, and pass-through too - this isn't a Meta Quest competitor, it's an improved Varjo XR3 for half the price. This price isn't really a blunder as much as a signal as to who this is for.

But really, the point is that this isn't the device Apple wanted to make. They wanted to wait another 5-10 years to get the miniaturization and price down so it can just be a pair of glasses. But they don't have that luxury; Zuck is trying to own the market, and Apple needs developers now rather than later. They know this device won't have high volume (and they've told shareholders that for months) but they're investing for 5-10 years from now when the tech is at the point where it does.

>If I buy one, what device can I throw away?

I mean from the way Apple is currently marketing it, the answer is "Your tablet, probably laptop, and even TV, (and eventually, your phone)"
Yeah, people don't know that everything that last long is pfas. Tires are a great example.
Well we already have Hetzner and OVH which are European so just being European does not give them a selling point over others.
Their real end game is living comfortably for years on large salaries financed by EU development grants.
Given such an anti- AI-with-citation policy, researchers preparing comment content with citations for the platform have a counterproductive incentive to parallel construct after using e.g. search engines that use AI (Google, Bing,), and also an incentive to not cite their sources?
US cloud companies are just a subsidiary of the NSA, so this sounds good.
Grocery Mergers? Not So Good
> “Amazon, Google and Microsoft are really good, but US authorities have the right to see the data stored on non-American citizens. That means that many companies and authorities in Europe cannot put sensitive data on the American cloud and instead store it on servers in the cellar,” Åström says.

Isn't this FUD? US authorities can't subpoena data on a server in the EU even if it's owned by a US company
Aging as a morphostasis defect: a developmental bioelectricity perspective
I was about to correct you and ask if you meant Eternal September, but that's at least two Eternal Septembers older than the one you're talking about.
The explanation is that Bud Light is viscerally associated with Dylan Mulvaney, who shot videos promoting the custom can. Bud Light's masculine, blue collar customer base does not want to be associated with Dylan Mulvaney. However, they are not sophisticated enough to extend the association to AB-InBev's other products. It's not hard to understand.
It works better when they use Legislation to keep the great satan in check.

They're addicted to that market and they(we?) need checks and balances to constrain that which we have wrought
I think Diamond's greatest fault as a researcher is his reliance on reductivism. Anyone can cherry-pick history to support "5 simple rules that explain X" if the rules are even reasonably sane.

It may be satisfying and entertaining to read, but human history is much more complex than just a few rules.
Most government actions aren't democratic.
Experiemental Rust OCI/container-image filesystem PuzzleFS
The Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden if the US offered evidence of his culpability. It was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from Afghanistan.

Libya was supposed to be a UN sanctioned humanitarian op. It got silently upgraded to regime change, which is why Putin publicly expressed regret at not vetoing it.

Libya was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from Libya.

Serbia was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from... well, not to put too fine a point on it but... Russia's closest ally in Europe.

It is not a purely defensive alliance in any sense of the word except an Orwellian one. All of its military operations have been exclusively offensive in nature.
They are in elderly care or dead. This is from the 70s-80s.
At best an LLM in this case should serve as a "pointer" or "hint" to references. It's clear one would still need validate the entirety of the case and the arguments put forward from them.
It seems the answer for Cloudflare is that the real price of their services is just a lot more hidden.

9 cents per GB is still a lot more than it needs to be. It's a form of vendor lock-in. BunnyCDN charges[1] 1 to 6 cents per GB depending on the region, or 0.5 cents and lower for the "volume network" with fewer POPs. They've done so for years, and it funded their entire operation until their first investment round last October.

[1]: https://bunny.net/pricing/
Interesting just how similar his reaction is to what Ballmer's was when asked about the iPhone. "We like our strategy," comments about how it's so expensive (in fact giving almost precisely the same comparison; $99 vs. $500 back then is quite close to the $500 vs. $3500 with VR!), and mentioning that they're selling "millions of phones per year" while Apple is selling zero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
UUIDv7 is a good way to store time in UUIDs. See https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-u...
Sweden Is Building a Highway That Charges Your EV While You Drive
The data does not have the growth of the ar market or that the current trend without Apple in it, so it is way underestimating it. If Apple continues to refine it, you bet the market is enormous. People love entertainment/work/social networks and this is just bringing it in a new level of immersion, experiences not possible with typical physical screens and convinence(once they down size it enough)
Those are not cheap, but they do exist already yes
And the average person also doesn't know the website exists. You have a few layers of public knowledge:

Twitter, Facebook, etc - everyone knows them.

Reddit, Discord

HN, presumably other domain-specific forums, IRC

Fediverse (though less so as of late), lobste.rs, presumably many that I don't know about!
I mean, I spent about half that just on the computers in my apartment and I only have a 56Gbe LAN

I shouldn't say "easily affordable" like anyone can afford it, but rather something that you can do with off the shelf retail components (within the budget of a hobbyist software engineer, anyway)

it's cheap compared to hobbies like driving a sports car, at least!
Reddit cannot go public. Its product is volunteer work by moderators and users to produce value. There’s no way to take that work and guarantee its delivery on a quarterly cycle.

This is all a ridiculous self-delusion that Reddit management has engaged in that the platform is really the “value add”. It’s not. Reddit has become the shorthand for cut through ML spam and that’s based on users constantly posting up to the minute accurate data. There’s almost no historical value to that data.
I miss BBSes, Usenet, EFnet, Puzzle Pirates, and a few web forums.

They all kind of exist, but they were mostly supplanted by bigger, more centralized things. All of them had a part in their own demise, too.

Then in turn those bigger, more centralized things have tended to screw things up.
Can't satellites do that more effectively?
>> We learn precisely nothing from this

> That's literally never true about anything.

But if this were true, data compression would be impossible.
> The UNIX timestamp is literally the count of seconds past the epoch

Nope. UNIX timestamp is days since epoch × 86400 + seconds since midnight. And that is the crux of the issue.
The computer graphics industry got started at the university of Utah
The government did not know, but 3M knew. They made a choice not to burn it in order to save money.
I don't know why but I really, really hoped he'd come into the AMA with good intentions, or maybe even to announce that actually, you know what, they've reconsidered and now they're going to walk back some of the changes to the API pricing so as not to affect average users.

If only.
Well "hacker news" is basically a VC promo - does anyone care?
The real sad part is that I would hate to see Reddit go down. All my searches nowadays are with "site:reddit.com" as regular google results will just give you affiliate posts and sponsored top 10s. Reddit is my prime source of true reviews, opinions and content written for the content, not monetization.
What have we learned specifically in this case?
I always find the discrepancy between drugs and chemicals odd. Drugs require years of research to prove that they are safe, whereas chemicals can seemingly be put into the environment as long as they are not proven to cause harm, and even then in some cases, despite the effects of chemicals being released into the environment potentially causing very bad effects.
Physics prevents us from building multiple renewable facilities at the same time? Do please explain. This sounds like utter bullshit.
time_t will not handle daylight savings time conversions like Postgresql does.

Unambiguously resolving "Timestamp at Eastern Time - Timestamp at Arizona Time" is not as simple as you might think. Postgresql handles this case.

Trying to make "time_t" handle all cases is a mistake. We need like 3 to 4 types at a minimum to handle all of the edge cases that occur in the real world. (And if anyone teaches me of any more complications, maybe we'll need even more types)
No idea, but fairly easy to test - seems to me like it flags self hosted stuff like gitlab as it looks like a phishing site is targeting gitlab users. Not sure what triggers it, but that's the only needed preconditions i know of
I don't really think you're being cynical for thinking that. The entire "war has returned to Europe" narrative from the start of the war kind of confirms that as part of the reason for the response.

I disagree that it was due to racism though (in the sense that they're explicitly thinking that "brown people's lives are less valuable"), it's simply that Europe naturally cares more about problems closer to home and the US has the context of its relationship with Russia.

On top of that, both of them have a lot of historical "trauma" from the part of WW2 which was fought by big powers in Europe. I think there would be a similar reaction from Japan, South Korea, and America in response to an invasion of Taiwan by China due to their own history on that front.
Then we don't have that product until it can be safely created. It's extremely dangerous to treat innovation as irreversible
The alternative is to pursue safer business.

It makes sense from a risk mitigation perspective, but it doesn't sound like the reddit third party app devs were unaware or incorrectly weighing this. It sounded like they took on personal and financial risk to do something they wanted to do and add something to the world that they wanted to. Rather than foolish, I find it admirable to abandon profit and security for principles. Especially in the context of reddit being founded on principles. Regardless of what happens to the site and the shareholders: it is safe to say that the true reddit is already dead.
Anything which passes through cloudflare, AWS, Apple, or any corporation with an HQ in America is part and parcel of the American 3 letter industry