skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like iPod and iPhone to me.

At the time mp3 players were a niche with crappy hardware and low capacity. The iPod was a lot more expensive and a lot better - it caused general adoption.

Similar for the iPhone - smartphones were a business niche and had crappy hardware, the first iPhone was triple the price and expanded smartphones to everyone on earth.

HoloLens, magic leap are niche products (the latter also being crappy hardware), meta’s hardware is better but still mediocre and constrained by their lack of computing platform. Apple’s hardware is a lot more expensive and if successful will expand the market to everyone in a few hardware revisions.
Wow, there're a lot to parse here, and it looks like you're coming at this from an "I've already decided" and "axe to grind" angle.

> - Lockdowns did little to prevent the spread of COVID...

<citation needed>

> - Cloth masks were pointless security theatre

<citation needed> - and most rational people (and countries) immediately switched to N95 masks as soon as supply chains could support the demand. That said, I'd bet that even less-proven masks would have some lesser but still positive impact.

> - The vast majority of people except the very elderly and obese were in very little danger

...except there are plenty of examples of fit, young people having life-altering acute and/or longer-term symptoms. On a population-level, you're right that the numbers are small(er), but I'd argue that each individual case to the contrary is a disaster for the indiviudal involved.

As Stalin said: “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.”

You appear to be looking at the statistics; I was happy to accept changes to my lifestyle to diminish risk of harm to individuals.

> - The vaccines never prevented transmission

That's a straw-man argument - that's not the primary purpose of a vaccine.

> - The vaccines only offered very limited protection for a brief period

Nah. Vaccines offered significant protection against severe disease for a period of months (which itself is a factor of how the human body function). With widespread vaccination, the world was able to 'get on top of' the pandemic, and its effects of healthcare over-utilisation.

> - The rate of side effects (including serious side effects up to and including death) is a lot higher than anyone wants to admit.

<citation needed>

> - To most segments of the population, the danger of death by vaccine side effects is greater than the danger of death by COVID-19

<citation needed>
For social housing, it is not a tax but rather that housing benefits can be reduced if there are surplus rooms.

Various studies have shown that it did not incentivise people to move, although of those who did move, some of them downsized.

All the major parties in the UK except the conservatives oppose it.
As of now, reddit does not load for me at all.
Puberty blockers to be given only in clinical research
without disagreeing with your statement "Only spatial computing apps matter", there are two other considerations:

Nobody knew what the point of a microcomputer was back in the Apple II days (at the time I thought it was crazy that anyone would buy a computer rather than design and build their own). The best anyone could imagine with was keeping recipes and playing games. Yet the killer app was Visicalc, with analysts and accountants buying their own (expensive!) apple IIs and visicalc and getting around MIS (what's called IT these days).

The second consideration is "onramp". Clicking a button and being able to experiment with an app you've already written yourself is way better than being given sample code. Likewise the crufty skeuomorphic cues (from the desktop metaphor of PARC and then the Mac to the "leather" of the ios notepad and shiny "wheels" of its date picker) are important onramps that get people using something so that they can develop the correct metaphors. It wasn't Apple who came up with "pull to refresh", it was the developers (Brichter's app Tweetie, then quickly adopted by others).

So while you're right in the long game, I think your dismissal is premature.
I’ve been at this a long time and it actually isn’t. It keeps many developers from starting from scratch to take full advantage of the hardware, then disappoints the user
You don't go far enough. Lets do some language reform. The entire alphabet is always just 5 bits expressed in different mediums. Lets make the written characters are all based on 5 sticks coming out of a central point literally representing your hand. Sign language, pretty obvious. Morse code, the up / down fingers directly translate to holding the key down or not. Braille, same as Morse. Digital displays, 5 segments instead of 7. Flag signals, mildly tricky since you only have two arms, but it can be done by mirroring the symbols so that there's 10 positions (top and bottom half), and then the bottom flag positions represent "not here". Alphabetical order is just interpreting the bits as ints. Literally any every way we have ever historically held and communicated natural language unified into a single general purpose encoding.

Why settle at simplifying computer codes, when you can simplify the content at the source.
> you can't hotswap the external pack

I think they mentioned that the battery can be charged by usb-c, so you could potentially attach a power bank or to the wall to extend the battery life, also I hope that Apple allows 3rd party batteries so you could buy one with more capacity (but knowing Apple they might add some extra chips inside the battery render that harder).
Railway: Provision infrastructure, develop locally, then deploy to the cloud
Redit fucking blows anyways. Fuck those jackwagons
This is my one big problem with Postgres. Their heavy client/thread model prevents these sort of architecture where you may have a large number of connections. PGBouncer helps a lot, but it's not quite the same.
I’m getting paywalled even on the archived links?
> Do you honestly believe that things like Lena have a significant effect here? […] I think calling it a “pinup in research” is an exaggeration.

Yes, and not because I suspect it, it’s because I happen to have seen women testifying to this fact. Your language for multiple comments continues to insist and insist on downplaying the issue and disregarding the stated wishes of people who are sincerely pointing out a legitimate problem, and the stated reasons that professional journals like Nature have put on record. There are no longer any technical reasons to use Lena in publications, none. And by and large, it is done and over with, nobody uses it anymore. You can nit-pick and argue over the degree of the problem all you want, and rather than proving that people are exaggerating or being unreasonable, whinging about it now mostly makes it seem like you want to preserve and defend this mildly misogyinist symbol & behavior. Insisting that it’s not a problem, when you’re part of the in-group, is exactly how cultural bias persists.

In 1984 in the U.S., almost 40% of CS degrees went to women, after growing year over year for decades. Since then the number dropped to below 20%. Meanwhile in other countries, like India, for example, there have been years where it was over 50%. We have hard evidence that we are somehow limiting equal opportunity and making CS unappealing to women. It’s a fact of history that Lena was and is considered by many people to demonstrate the attitudes that are pushing women out of CS. So what do you want to do about that? If you don’t believe it, then offer a plausible and compelling alternative to what the problem is and how to fix it.

> I find the idea insulting to female college students. […] I have no idea how they could be themselves considered children without seriously altering the functional definition of the word child.

“The legal definition of child generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority.” (Age of majority is 18 years in the U.S. - typically a freshman in college.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child

How about instead of arguing about trivia, we just agree to listen to and respect people’s wishes, especially when outsiders point out that the in-joke isn’t particularly clever or tasteful and makes us look like Beavis and Butthead?
Trying to use this, I get an error when entering a group. Seems like a cool idea, but it needs to have a lot more functionality to draw me in, I think.
> Trademark is suppose to be about customer confusion, no one is confused here.

If you read the article carefully, SCOTUS agrees. What the toy maker was trying to do was use a "shortcut" called the "Rogers test"; all that SCOTUS said was that the "Rogers test" shortcut wasn't applicable in this case. That means it goes back to normal trademark "customer confusion", which SCOTUS seems to think will go in favor of the toymaker; from the article (emphasis mine):

> Elizabeth Brannen, a partner at Stris & Maher, said Jack Daniel's victory "could turn out to be pyrrhic." The whiskey maker will still have to prove VIP's toys are likely to confuse potential customers into thinking it was affiliated with them in order to win its infringement case.

> "The likelihood of confusion analysis will still take the challenged product's funny message into account," Brannen said. She noted that the high court said consumers are "not so likely to think that the maker of a mocked product is itself doing the mocking."
The nice thing about ipads and iphones is that you just pick it up and use it. You might not even do so consciously. You're not really playing Candy Crush. You're idling.

You have to say "Ok I'm going to play Candy Crush now" and get your headset, put it on, and then do that, with largely your full attention unable to multitask because it's big.

I doubt people will want to use any of these apps beyond the gimmick novelty.
Redit blows anyways
One thing the article doesn't mention: how education levels impact this. Those with more education have fewer kids. I'm always reminded of the opening Idiocracy skit where the smart couple is worried about the financials of having a kid, and the white trash family just does it with reckless abandon.
When trying the archive.is link posted by ggm, I get the follow error:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to archive.is. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).

Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

and for some reason, I can't reply to his comment...
Cheaper Apple Vision Headset Likely to Launch by End of 2025
when i was young i worked for a e-mortgage software company. our flagship software allows customer to sign online or on a electronic signing pad.

the whole legality is based on Electronic Records and Signatures in Commerce Act signed by Bill Clinton.
These words of yours are synonyms.

If there were a state without any government (some lawless anarchy), the idea that the "state" could still have a monopoly on violence is laughably asinine.

You must be from some European country where "government" means something like "Congressional session" or whatever. I have little interest in wading through all that semantic nonsense.
Consider the framework laptop. It's so easy to upgrade yourself.
Or use continuity and interact with the iPad like an extended monitor.

When the Apple ecosystem works, it's extremely powerful.
The problem is not just a language problem. The problem is the repurpose of the web as an "operating system". HTML and CSS are OK for document layout and styling, and JS is OK for simple interactions. BUT none of these were designed to handle highly complex and dynamic applications. We are just building on the wrong foundation, hacking to extremes to twist the the framework to the current trend. We are using the wrong tools for the job.
Your governing system isn't a single system, it's multiple using a suitable algorithm to establish quorum. This is a well studied problem in distributed systems.
> the negative image of wearing goggles on your head

This isn't about image, it's about the discomfort of wearing heavy goggles pressed against your face. Doing that for anything more than an hour or so is horrible, and it's pretty bad even after ten minutes.

People dislike wearing glasses if they can afford to, I don't believe you'll ever get them to wear these heavy goggles for anything except some deeply immersive gaming experiences.
I've noticed dedicated Mac rendering stations have been getting rarer and rarer in favour of Windows or Linux builds. Small businesses are buying multi-core CPU systems and then upgrading the RAM and GPU every four or five years now instead of buying an entirely new Mac Pro every four to five years. A print shop I went to recently had a Windows machine running 32GB of RAM and a 3060, whereas previously that would've been entirely the domain of a Mac.
OpenMP and GCD are very different in some ways, yet very similar in others. Both provide threadpool-based parallelism, and both provided "managed" parallelism well before C and C++ gained standardized parallelism via std::async/std::future/std::thread. If you want vendor-supported threadpool parallelism on MacOS, GCD was the singular answer for years. They aren't exactly compatible, but neither are Cilk or TBB to OpenMP, yet all of these approaches can be used to perform a similar subset of parallelized operations.

libdispatch is open source, and available on Linux, but I can't see any reason to use it versus the alternatives of TBB and OpenMP, unless you were trying to port an application/library originally written for MacOS/iOS.
It is useful, unless you have an absolute crapton of memory, several times what you actually need. The swap is trivial to encrypt if you're paranoid (the key doesn't need to be persisted and can be generated from /dev/urandom on each boot).

https://chrisdown.name/2019/07/18/linux-memory-management-at...

https://haydenjames.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-s...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Swap_encryption
Lots of love and a big hug to you

I have two kids around that age. Have had some bad scares and it’s been devastating emotionally for me

Hope you get lots of support

Feel free to reach out (checkout my profile), if you ever want to talk, about anything really, doesn’t have to be the kids
Reddit has been around for 15 years and never made one red cent of profit. Maybe it's companies that don't understand that there is not much money to be made on discussion websites. It's not like there are any reddit influencers signing multi-million dollar brand deals for doing a popular dance.
The 2$ adds up + thats an ephemeral environment and these things are super finiky to get working properly (dependency and initial setup + adding tools to your workflow). Plus there is a more of a craft like - ad-hoc approach to how you want to do things, plus a learning curve, with what tools and scripts you want to do or write simple stuff on your own -- runpod sounds good on paper but after a while, you then want AWS/Google VM so things are stable and your environment is sane and stable. Then if you calculate, you'll come up to a cost of buying a nice card in 6-10 monthly payments.. So if you want to play with it in peace you spend once and only worry about electricity costs :D
Do you see a difference with Vitamin D? I can never tell.
It's pointless arguing with the remote naysayers at this point, which apparently now includes pg.

Like the title of an oft shared post on this site says: "You Can't Tell People Anything."

Show them instead. Just create successful remote companies and stop wasting your time arguing with these people. Or if you just sold your remote-first company, start a remote-first only vc fund and do well.

A random SEO-driven post says PagerDuty, Dropbox, Unquork, Coinbase, Superhuman, Twitch, Gitlab etc. are remote companies. Is this even true?

If it is, then pg should try to argue against this self-evident reality. If he has the intellectual honesty to do so that is.

The past few years has been so saturated with "Never expect a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it"-type low quality pontificating that it's become unbearable nauseating.
How does this compare to a small discord server?
What can it do better?
I think people are amused by the irony of the original post arguing semantics and then proposing an equally poor solution.
We recently had to destroy over 700 harddisks (10TB) because the customer didn't trust that a secure erase and full overwrite ways enough to make sure no data could be recovered.

It was really painful to watch....
> It's just that noone has been able to replicate that kind of success [of Rust's and Go's achievements] in the web-based frontend space.

While it's easy to dog on Javascript, it's also necessary to consider what Javascript does right.

The main thing that comes to mind is JS' async-everything, async-by-default, and first class async abstractions (like the Promise). Not necessarily something you want all the time, but certainly a powerful feature when it comes to IO-bound tasks and UI development. We don't give enough credit to JS for this imo since we take it for granted.

But consider something like this (JS) using WaitGroups in Go:

const aPromise = promise()
const [b, c] = await Promise.all([promise(), promise()])
const a = await aPromise
Scale comes with time and engagement - right now, nothing is at the same scale. If the API costs, accessibility issues, and lackluster mod tools issues are not resolved in a timely and amicable manner, the scales will change as they have done time after time.

The current VC investors should also consider if the existing CEO is fit for the role, given their apparant personal attacks and defamation against a third-party developer, and the public proof that these were unwarranted.

A lot of the existing alternatives skew to the left or right of the political spectrum. The ideal platform would welcome all, and not witch hunt one or the other. Tildes seems to fit that but is invite only. Squabbles also, but it's not /quite/ the same as Reddit.

Forums are the way to go for now.

What I would love to see is a hand-picked curated list of forums, a la dmoz but for social, with reviews.
Elm is an excellent choice.
the issue is Perl made TMTOWTDI a core value. So there's a hundred ways to express something differently. Compactly, verbosely, etc. Until you're familiar with your peers code, it can be a pain. Once you understand the style adopted internally it's not so bad.

Compare that to PHP where theres generally one way to do something right.
In the beginning of the pandemic, I fell for Fauci's lies. I saw him as a pillar of truth and science against the backdrop of Trump's idiocracy. So, I can empathize with those who still think he's a good person, they have not been exposed to all the evidence of how he orchestrated lies and smears to cover up the lab leak theory, and how he funded the gain of function research that likely lead to the pandemic (even though gain of function was outlawed in the US). He even lied about it under oath. And why has nothing happened? Because big pharma is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the pandemic and they are the biggest advertisers on corporate mainstream media. The whole thing is sick and twisted. And I know this sound like a conspiracy nut to those who have not looked into this deeply, but it is what it is.
Of note, ARKit is about 6 years old now. The Vision Pro may be an MVP for _immersive_ AR, but handheld AR has been viable for many years. Pokemon Go is also nearly 6 years old. WordLens debuted maybe 10 years ago. No one has really come up with anything more useful than those to date.

Totally immersive is VR. For mobility, nothing beats a phone. This is threading a needle of immersive and mobile and I'm not sure what the value prop for that could possibly be.
No content loading through the app and the website is not loading much.
NVD Damage Continued
Ask HN: How do you deal with distractions while working from home?
I am a remote worker, and the only solution I've found to stay focused is to close the door of my room. What about you?
TeX solves the core problem of responsive layout using just a small handful of primitives. No one seems to have noticed that FlexBox is mostly a copy of the TeX boxes and glue model.
Yeah the price point is their way of explicitly saying that this is not a finished consumer product. The next few years will be key, as third-party developers build stuff and Apple evolves the OS and hardware.

They could pivot into gaming, that's not a bad bet, especially if they manage to shove an M5 Max or whatever into the headset eventually.
The thing I find bizarre about all of this is that 99.99% of the data people think is super important would only be interesting to a few very specific parties.

If you format a hard drive, and sell it on eBay through a generic username, then the person who buys that is not going to do some sort of FBI style forensics on the disk.

It would be like going through every single bin on every high street on the off chance that you happen across some celebrities' bank statements.
A modest proposal -- your kids could just figure out how to photosynthesize directly.
Connection scalability was greatly improved in v14 and above.

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2020/10/25/improving-postgres...
My first thought when seeing this was "neat," but my second still eats away at me: what about the tactile experience?

If you can fill your physical space with floating virtual iPads, what will it be like to touch and manipulate them? You don't get to actually press against a screen when you press or scroll. If you wanted to "hold" a screen while manipulating it with the other screen, what will that be like?

I'm just speculating. I find touch and weight etc to be important, personally.

I'm also concerned about the weight of the headset, again, because I find touch and weight to be important.

And about how it works for people with glasses who can't wear contact lenses (perhaps you could have prescription lenses built into the headsets one day?)
> I'm hoping that in a decade or so, people will stop using "vaccines never prevented transmission" as an argument since it has been said at least a billion of times since the beginning, VACCINES PREVENTED SERIOUS ILLNESS.

No. They said vaccines prevent transmission. Over and over.

You may have forgotten what was said at the time, but we won't:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1665770269418614784

It's the reason I was prevented from entering the US until just a couple of weeks ago. It's the reason why my mother-in-law lost her job as a nurse. People who refused this medical treatment, were treated as dangerous because officials claimed that we presented a transmission hazard.

This was a lie, which you are further compounding with more lies.
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> Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

Also the 'single biggest way' to become unhealthy, weak, and scrawny. There is no conceivable way that the (putative, but questionable) negative externalities of healthy food consumption outweigh that.

Also, given that anti-meat activism tends to be either quasi- or literally religious (in the case of groups like Seventh-day adventists), of course my prior is that any anti-meat activist can dump a huge pile of link spam saying "hey, check it out, every problem is actually caused by that thing I don't like". This has little bearing on my posterior distribution, because every time I've looked into specific claims about emission equivalence or deforestation, they are methodologically very dishonest (typically by tricks like falsely equating protein quality or assigning revenue in bizarre ways).
Thank you! dang and Lowtax are exactly who I had in mind.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Do what any other conspiracy theorist would and just call me a naive sheep or a disinfo agent and go on about your business.

I do live in "interesting" times, thanks. In no small part because of the efforts of people like yourself.