skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it validates the market and thus justifies further spending to Facebook investors.

Precisely. Apple has validated this product category and Meta has already established being a viable competitor in XR.

Even if Apple prices it high, Meta is going to win on quantity and price, just like Google did for Android, and Microsoft did for Windows.

Not even the Apple fanboys would buy this, unless they are developers or having this as a collectable who think that every product Apple releases is going to be an instant hit like the iPhone. I don't think it is this version of the Vision product line. It will probably be the third generation that comes in the slimmed down glasses form factor and slightly cheaper.
Sarcasm doesn't play well when talking about a sales deal. Parroting some reddit's user's words doesn't help, either.

> I'd be worried about talking to someone who feels the need to be careful when they know the call is recorded.

You'll do alright then in our nice little surveillance earth. Personally, I don't like to talk to people who record me without telling me so, no matter what I say.
Not good news for vegans looks like, as top sources of taurine are meat?
I wonder how can you even think about doing an IPO after trying so hard to destroy your user base. Reddit has never been perfect, but why corrupting its core values of usability and simplicity?
You’re ending up with a product that the board likes and users don’t.
Then why does it switch heavy loads if it shouldn't do that?
People neuter/spay pets

People will NOT feed strays

People will adopt strays

Local councils (municipalities) collect them and there are a lot of shelters

(there is zero rabies here which helps a lot as strays are not inherently dangerous)
Let me cure your impostor syndrome
How many of those sold still get any use? I gave mine away after a month after the initial wonder wore off. My friend has like 3 separate models, and he's never played anything beyond Beat Saber. The headsets just collect dust now.

But I do appreciate VR evangelists, without whom the technology wouldn't progress at all. Despite being a gimmick for now, I have to concede it's pretty cool tech.
How Mark Zuckerberg Deceived the World with a Multibillion-Dollar Fantasy
In my country they have been banned already.
It's been commonly said that 80 percent of success is showing up.
But that's not a mechanical movement, as far as I can see? Actually it can't be, because it needs to move the watch hands out of the way so you can see what's on the display...

Another (slightly less pricey) "smartwatch with hands" alternative is the Garmin vivomove range: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/698394
No. Typescript cannot access runtime values (I assume you mean types that depend on runtime values). In TypeScript types can depend on other types and it does support literal types which covers a lot of use cases. What do you need dependent types for?

[Edit: why the down vote?]
The 12.99/yr model could have been perfectly sustainable. Why not?

And the "hammering" is addressed and strongly countered in the article.
For Rust, pre-GAT, there was no way to “output” a type which could be “called” with further arguments (very fuzzy terminology, sorry, best I can do!) or maybe in other words, you could write functions which retuned values, but not new functions.

Nowadays, GATs support a bigger subset of HKTs, but still not everything as I understand it.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/10/28/gats-stabilization.htm...
And before anyone chimes in that "burning constantly" is a waste of electricity, most bulbs used for this purpose are behind a mechanism that opens and closes the circuit according to the ambient temperature so the bulb doesn't burn if it's warm enough.
I don't think that's what "self" destructs means.

You can't self destruct something else. You can only self destruct yourself.
Ask HN: A manager to get me interviews?
I'm a software developer with +13 years of experience, worked as a Principal-Staff Engineer/Tech Lead/etc. Lately I've been working as a contractor for the US but my contract ends soon.

I never looked for a job in my life, offers always arrived (mostly via Linkedin) but the situation looks different now, and I don't want to go blindly applying and filling forms that people don't even read (I've been at the other side of the table too).

I'm looking for a US company working with Rails/Postgresql/maybe Elixir. Looking for >150K/yr and working remotely from outside the US (be it South America or Europe).

Do any of you have a good contact that can act as a "manager" and get me offers? Or any other ideas to get me on the spotlight without going after a rabbit hole of filling up forms?
"Anyway, sorry to disappoint."

Oh, no, I have very low expectation for russophobes, you didn't disappoint me.
You should narrate the video, it would make it easier to follow for people who've no idea what you're doing (like me).
From discussions it seems that the problem is that many subreddits will be going private to protest the recent Reddit API costs changes. Some will not come back unless the change is reverted. If the change is never reverted, they will be gone forever and this project is trying to save old posts so they can still be seen even though the subreddits are private. Not sure how usefull it will be... but somehow interesting as an example of reaction of policies changes of centralised social networks
> If we go back in time to the mobile phone era, just before the iphone was released, the mobile market was actually flourishing and very solid

If we go further back in time, mobile phones were bricks used only by business people and tech enthusiasts. They didn't have mass market appeal because the technology wasn't there yet. Once devices got to be more powerful, compact and capable, everyone wanted one and the market exploded.

I suspect the same is happening with XR. Nobody wants to strap on a giant and clunky headset. But do you really not see the mass appeal in a pair of smart sunglasses that augments computing in a way we haven't experienced before?

The technology has the potential to disrupt computing as we know it, but it's _really_ hard to get right, which is why the experimental stage has lasted for so long. XR is _much_ more complicated than any computer interface we've had so far, and requires advancements in several cutting edge tech to align: display, battery, computer vision, voice recognition, miniaturization, etc., and, of course, the price to come down.

There's a reason all these companies are pushing so hard for this. We're still a few years away from reaching the iPhone-like boom, but Apple getting into the field is a sign that this is not a fad. This first generation is obviously not a mass market product, but the tech and price will improve until it becomes one.
This was very much in line with my own thinking, or at least that is what I suspect and can’t know for sure.

With the recent AI buzz I got to think, maybe the keep from the story are higher level concepts that exist only after the underlaying layers have been trained and can therefore not be adressed before.
We use Gusto for that stuff. It's been fine.
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> A manufacturing facilities that produce 4 GW of solar/year is an exponential improvement over a 1GW nuclear reactor.

Except that 1GW of nuclear capacity means up to 900MW of production in practice, while 1GW of solar means 100MW.

Nuclear stops for maintenance, refuelling and repairs. A well maintained plant can operate for 60 years or more.

Solar stops at night, slows down on cloudy days, and so on. Panels degrade and have to be replaced after 20 years or so.

Non-hydro renewables only beat nuclear when you conveniently forget storage, which is insanely expensive, and when you look at nominal capacity, not actual production.

Just go look at https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR : currently, wind is barely producing anything across Europe. Germany has 67GW of wind capacity, yet they're producing a laughable 7.4 GW. It's been that way for *WEEKS*. You can't possibly store weeks of production.
You keep asking:

> Who cares

A: Obviously enough people to make this a rather lively HN discussion. And to make it somewhat prominent news in the tech sphere in general. So, quite a lot of people.

Which makes one wonder why exactly you are repeatedly trying to minimise it with this dismissive “who cares”? One can't help but wonder if it is because you have some personal stake here that you don't want people scrutinizing too thoroughly.
In any discussion of cats that study is mentioned and usually mentioned several times at that, and that is not surprising giving that it is published in Nature and comes from Smithsonian - it immediately generates a lot of trust in it.

2 things are notable about that study:

1. the researchers didn't specify the proportion of ill and old birds and mammals in those billions of killed. It is a glaring deficiency for such a scientific study. Billions of mammals and birds reach end of life each year. In natural settings natural predators take care about that. In developed areas basically only cats and rats are such predators who is available to perform that duty. When it comes to the ill birds and mammals - we have already been through such situation with deers and wolves. Thus, if the proportion of ill and old is high then it would mean completely opposite conclusion than the one the study reaches - it would mean that cats predation is beneficial for those birds and mammals.

Now, why the study has such a glaring deficiency? One can make an informed guess when one learns the 2nd notable thing:

2. a researcher in that department that produced the study was convicted of animal cruelty committed toward cats and that researcher is cited in that study.

Some other things to note wrt. cats and birds :

1. rats, a human civilization companion, raid birds nests and eat eggs, i.e. causing massive damage to population during the most fragile stage in the birds lifecycle

2. cats don't eat eggs

3. cats control rats population

Anekdotally - my grandmother's farm (farmhouse and 2 large barns) had always had a bustling population of barnswallows, and it also had always had a pack of feral cats living there. Sometimes we'd find a small pile of feathers - all what is left of an ill or stupid barnswallow as the cats would have no chance of getting a healthy flying bird. The farm had naturally had a lot of various food stuff - cattle feed, pig feed, chicken feed as well as human food - pretty much everywhere, ie. in storages as well as being actually fed in the barns and outside ranges to the cows, pigs, chicken. Despite all that food stuff present in large amount in many places, there had never been any traces of any mice or rats (note: no artificial pest control measures - like traps or poison - had ever been taken on the farm). So to me the cats are necessary companion of our civilization, and as far as i see they are beneficial - by protecting from rats and by taking out ill birds - to whatever birds population still surviving the stress of development already imposed on it by the humans.
Finishups seem to have the advantage of decades more experience & dedication themselves.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ltsc/ Did that quite awhile ago, I forget in response to what. I lost a lot of really great info on how to use Windows 10 LTSC / Server / Enterprise / IoT when r/LTSC went permanently private.
The 'phishing page' you mentioned is not a chrome extension I guess? It probably didn't go through the same detection of the Chromestore? Maybe the Chromestore is better than that?

I'm curious if any security software could detect malicious chrome extensions on the Chromestore. That'd be helpful.
This is probably the first case I know of where software architectural design by legislation actually leads to improved software architecture!

Having a media player bundled with the OS is bad, but having it tightly coupled is bad and stupid.
In my experience, most of the time they are either (1) a waste of time or (2) a place to play politics.
Because someone unauthorized used a device to force it to do that.

These devices are not built to be operated by the general public. Anyone who operates these devices knows to reduce the load first.

I don't see the sense in saying "these devices, built for a specific industry with specific, exacting specs, should instead have been built with different specs that were never meant to occur".

Everywhere in industry we train operators to know how to operate machinery that can be made to break itself, because it's cheaper to train the operator than to make the machine unable to break itself.
Have you seen github.com/marqo-ai/marqo? It does all this wrapping, and you don't even need to pay for OpenAI or pinecone
> "Dumb question, but why is OS or browser support necessary? Couldn't an HTML canvas element and some JS that can parse the file format display any kind of image that you might want?"

That one is not downvoted currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36203733

Sometimes posts get downvotes "in the noise"; I've had some of my posts go to -1 or even -2 before jumping to >30. It happens; people have axes to grind, think you're stupid for asking a question, etc. and by chance sometimes they cluster just after you posted. Don't assign too much value to it; it's very rare that I see a normal on-topic question like that downvoted.
Well, as it stands HN is like just another good subreddit.
Famously, the original iPod had "less space than a Nomad".
The archive includes all information in the webpage including text posts, comments, images and is updated to archive.org.
They really are. I wear a watch daily, and have been collecting them for some years.

Originally I had a bunch of themed-watches "This is the watch for swimming", "this is the watch for going to sauna with", "this is the watch for posh events", "this is the watch for photography", etc.

Nowadays I have too many, so it's more a case of choosing which watch I feel like wearing in the morning. Sometimes I swap every day, sometimes I wear the same one for 3-4 days, but no longer than that really.

My collection includes a lot of vintage (read "bought second-hand for peanuts") Soviet watches, high end Swiss pieces, and a single Casio F-91-W-1 for when I'm feeling like a kid from the 80s.
Reddit IPO must be so nerve wracking to the founders. They have to enshittify the site as much as they can to push up the valuation numbers, while hoping there is no exodus before they've sold their shares. Exciting times!
> This is just irresponsible

And reporting to the vendor is suicidal. At least assuming the stories I hear about vulnerability disclosures are representative, which I think they are.

In their place, if I were to inform the company, I'd do it anonymously. If it was an actually important issue - as this very much looks like - I'd consider informing the building manager, HOA, the gas installation company they use, and every local journalist, all together so they know about each other - and then CC that to the vendor.
Articles were making bold claims, but it's just optimizing libc++ and abseil's implementations. There are already known implementations faster than either of these in the right scenarios.

As always, speed depends on the use case. What's optimal for a sorting algorithm depends on the size of the data, its distribution, and also how it fits into the rest of the program and how that program fits into what else the machine is doing.

For example, you can make things faster by using more hardware resources, but that would penalize the rest of your program that doesn't have access to them anymore. I've frequently seen cases where a function was made faster in a microbenchmark by using all of the registers available, but then real programs ended up slower because the rest of the code had to spill to call it.
It can, but that only appeals to gaming or movie/TV aficionados, and otherwise is only for very occasional use as a novelty. It’s not something that would become an integral part of most people‘s life like a smartphone.
> Apple doesn't even think they will sell a million Vision Pros.

Because the Vision Pro is mainly a dev kit and has zero third-party apps right now. Apple would never say "this won't sell" about a product they deem finished and ready for the consumer market.

> VR/AR is still completely new to the vast majority of people in the world.

Because the tech has been completely uninteresting aside from a small gaming niche and shortlived tech demos, which makes it a pure luxury product for people who already have high-end gaming hardware able to drive it.

> Quest marketing it better because it aimed towards a demographic that has the most experience with VR, gamers.

Sony's PSVR has been targeting gamers for 6+ years and aside from that one horror game I don't think it ever got decent content. It does not matter who you target if your product has nothing that interests people in the long term. Name one big feature of the Quest 3 that's more interesting than anything possible with the original Oculus Rift a decade ago.
Speaking from experience: You can work your ass off from a beach. If anything, I'm more likely to do so
Oxygen is a carcinogen, now what...
I've missed that you pivoted to the browser extension, will try it asap!
I was listening to a famous shoe designer give a talk today. While telling a story, he mentioned in passing that he no longer uses paper but does all his design work with a stylus on an iPad. This guy has to be in his 60s or 70s. I was kind of surprised.
Andrej covers this in https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero. He explains things in multiple ways, both the matrix multiplications as well as the "programmer's" way of thinking of it - i.e. the lookups. The downside is it takes a while to get through those lectures. I would say for each 1 hour you need another 10 to looks stuff up and practice, unless you are fresh out of calculus and linear algebra classes.

Other idioms I can think of, in my words:

Softmax = take the maximum (but in a differentiable way)

tanh/sigmoid/relu = a switch. "activation"

cross entropy loss = average(-log(probability you gave to the right answer)). Averaged over the current batch you are training on for this step. (Sorry that is still quite mathy).
Ever actually read the FCC certification on products? Ever see the bit about "this device must accept even harmful interference"?

That is what this is about. It's not necessarily the fault of the manufacturer if a device can be harmed by deliberate RF-based (mis)use.
That's what I was also thinking.

The cats have been there for some time now (I assume there were lots of feral cats even before the pandemic) and the local ecosystem has somehow adapted to/with them. Getting rid of them is probably going to have unwanted consequences.

Who's to say cats can't live independently among humans (and rats and other animals) in cities? Someone is probably going to bring up the argument that the cats are not taken care of and have diseases, parasites, injuries, etc., but so do all animals living in the wild. The only difference is that you don't see the parasite infested malnourished stoats in the woods every day like you see your neighbourhood cat colony.
The OP said this:

> By Reddit links I mean posts/comments/images, I should’ve been a bit clearer.
Live leaderboard of archived links https://tracker.archiveteam.org/reddit/

I've been contributing to this project for ~2 years now and I've never seen it running so fast
Peter Fairlie's videos are amazing!
I would agree that the putting goggles over your face is absurd and it will never be a hit, not in a million years. However! Having that proof of concept to be able to manipulate your environment with just a gesture of your fingers and simply by looking at something - this I believe can be extended to external cameras, screens, and all sorts of IoT devices.
and Shazaam!
Here in Finland nuclear availability is over 90%. Admittedly this is better than in most other countries.

Solar load factor is 9% and wind 30%.
Protein metabolism and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies[pdf]
Oculus Quests are also stand alone computers. It really is just that Meta is coming at this from the bottom with mobile hardware and Apple is coming from the top.

They really are not fundamentally different. Apple can bring to bear a lot more polish and synergy with the rest of their ecosystem but it's only as different as iOS and Android.
This has been my experience as well. They have been 'we got to fill in papers for HR'.

I'd like to think that some-one is doing these right, but they aren't me.
…I don’t think that’s what “moving the goalposts” means? What were the goalposts?

I was just observing that WFH is better for the environment than WFO, which I would again say is just an objective fact. Obviously peoples priorities differ, and I guess some people don’t see climate change as real so would fight me on it being a fact, but I feel completely certain about that assertion.

Re: capitalism, I mean, yeah… isn’t that also true? Much much more subjective but capitalism sure seems to be doing a number on the planet. Again what we want to do with that fact is up to priorities but… well tbh I’m confused about what you’re cross about!
Like any of these vox populi sites (like IMDb) their value to me is mostly identifying lemons. Otherwise, you are relying on people who are not like you who feel motivated to share their opinions. To rely on them is to drive yourself toward the middle.
If the headsets are good enough you could actually use them to remove information from your view as you walk instead of adding more to it.
Does anyone know how to get a foot in the door for jobs in places like this? Not necessarily Antarctica, could be Greenland or other remote, harsh places. I am a regular software engineer from the EU, would be over the moon to pursue something like this
[duplicate] Tyler Cowen’s theory why workers ‘are doing less’
Ask HN: What online games do you play with your team members to reinforce it?
We are a small team in a large international company. Each week we spend half an hour in informal exchanges in "virtual coffee" in a visio, usually also playing games. None of us has English as mother tongue so playing things like wordle is also a way to couple the fun with knowledge improvement.

Would you have some game suggestions for us?
People mostly still don’t want to use them, other than for texting and taking pictures.
I kind of think having the compute power combined with the external battery would have been pretty slick. An AR head unit combined with a portable Mac mini would be pretty compelling at $3500. Give it the ability to be a MacOS desktop when plugged into a regular monitor and I would buy one for sure!
Sponsorblock then skips embedded sponsor segments too.
I nearly failed out of college my first year due to obsessively playing ranked online games of Myth and Myth II.

I still fire up the game on my Linux workstation from time to time. It bums me out that nothing like it has been made since. I would absolutely kill for Bungie to buy back the rights to the franchise and have a go at modernizing it.
> They aren't looking to replace Apple, they are just trying to find a way to get their revenue growing again.

Thats like "they arent trying to be the best, they are just trying to be a little better.

Ofc they are trying to beat apple, and everyone else. Or you are saing that if they were magically given the opportunity to become most valued company, theyd simply pass with "no thanks, thats more than we want" attitude?

Every major corporation is trying their absolute hardest to grow.
Capitalism has nothing to do with freedom of speech. See: capitalist countries without freedom of speech.
Sounds cool, will take a look.

Are there other embedding APIs that you like or have used?
Sequent might be of interest yo you https://sequentworld.com/
Yeah, must be super stressful for the whole leadership team. They’re obviously not trying to muck things up, but is sad to see the collateral damage going on.