skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are assuming they were punished by Amazon, and not just unable to compete in a busier environment. My gut will be that it is that it is harder to compete in the busier marketplace. As evidence, I gave "PS5 controller," a search that literally doesn't have what looks like a "from Sony" result on page 1. Heck, the number one sponsored result isn't even a controller!

What evidence have we been given that they punished folks? There is evidence that it is punishing to be lower in the search results. But this is the same for any leaderboard mentality. Am I punished by having more people ahead of me when I join a peloton race that is live with 2k+ people? Or am I just more likely to be on a class with competitive people when I join it live?

So, reframe your complaint. They don't have to show it isn't punishing to be lower in the ranks. They have to show that they didn't purposely drop someone in the ranks for punishment. Competition is, by definition, fierce. You expect most competitors to lose when the contest is "be top 5 of N", the more so as N increases.

Oddly, bike racing is a good one here. I bet early adopters of Peloton and the like found earlier races much easier than they do later ones. They can blame cheating, of course. And we should do what we can to eliminate cheating. But, at large, more competitors leads to fiercer contests and more losses. Pretty much period.
Discussed in past threads:

How Complex Systems Fail (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32895812 - Sept 2022 (33 comments)

How Complex Systems Fail (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25550685 - Dec 2020 (83 comments)

How Complex Systems Fail (1998) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20380055 - July 2019 (33 comments)

How complex systems fail (2002) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002683 - Aug 2017 (19 comments)

How Complex Systems Fail (1998) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14127543 - April 2017 (7 comments)

How Complex Systems Fail (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282923 - Sept 2014 (16 comments)

How Complex Systems Fail [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926735 - Nov 2009 (1 comment)
If the deadly compounds are not approved for medical usage anywhere in the world, they should simply be treated as chemical weapons. Even if you want to quibble about the intent of the dealers, something this lethal could be easily weaponized to kill hundreds with nothing more than a battery powered fan.
> It isn't humane to let people rot on the streets.

Getting police involved in trying to solve social problems has its own inevitable tragic consequences. This is not a problem you can arrest people out of.
Who Is Open AI’s Sam Altman Anyway?
> I would struggle to talk to them for 3 minutes.

I'd suggest thinking of that as a skill to be developed.
(Shrug) They shipped a lot of electric cars. What have you done lately?
https://thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/doesnt-use-...
> I'd have words with mom, though, obviously...

To what end?
Even in the city its like this. Pick an arbitrary A-B in any city, e.g. go test brooklyn or chicago. Unless you happen to pick an A-B that is within a few mins walk of the same single rail line (no transfers), the car is always faster and by a good deal. Usually its like you can drive 25 minutes in a car or wait around for two busses that will get you there in an hour and ten minutes.
+1. I don't have a TV, so if I could just stream my macOS desktop and Xbox Cloud Gaming (which I already use) to a virtual 50+' screen that follows me as I walk around, that will be enough for me to buy in.
I would expect your binary search solution is possibly slower than just doing 6 checks because the latter is only going to take 1 branch. Branching is very slow. You want to keep code going in a straight line as much as possible.
tastes are pretty much all olfactory, except ... what is it, salt, sweet, sour, bitter, and the "fifth taste", umami? and if i'm not mistaken that means just "sourness", not "sour flavor like lemon vs lime" which is olfactory

but yes, "arrrrr, this is animal scent"
I'm not personally in love with the idea of smart glasses that don't have a display of some sort.
And then you hit:

warning: ISO C forbids assignment between function pointer and `void *'

Which, while true, is allowed (and in fact, required by) POSIX. Of course, not passing "-pedantic" will suppress that warning, but you'll also suppress other, critical warnings.

Okay, I'll put away my pitchfork now.
Tone is hard to read on the internet, but I'm not heated and I don't mind that you feel differently.

> Then there are just as many people like you, who are only interested in contributing as long as credit is given.

The "as long as credit is given" reads oddly to me. Attribution, for me is basically table stakes. Score of zero. I contribute, my contributions are attributed to me. I think you think of credit as a reward, but it's not. It's just decency to me.

Someone taking credit, enjoying the fruits of my work, but not enough to attribute them to me, is minus one. It's not that I'm not being rewarded, but rather that I'm being stolen from.
It’s not so much about using the code as it is about writing the code (or at least, providing utilities to the code being written). Yes every program uses the runtime, but very few people write the runtime. That is, perhaps the default provided to end users should be arena allocators, keeping a general malloc for special cases.
Hopefully this will make it to market.

Would love to see actual purchase-able devices compared against (for example) Ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM).

Right now, their numbers seem a bit too fantastic:

"100x lower switching energy than DRAM on the same node (1,000x lower than NAND)"

"expected to be capable of 1ns write operations, which is about 10x faster than DRAM"

Will probably lose some 0s on its way to commercialization. But 10^7 write/erase cycles would put it somewhere between regular flash & DRAM. Which would be very useful in terms of applications (like in-between cache for flash drives).
But that won’t help Meta.

This really feels like a Quest 2 + 1, which is fine. Same but better specs.

But the site appears to me like it’s positioning it as a Vision Pro competitor when it’s not even in the same league. “We have AR too so it’s the same!” The Vision Pro seems very clearly marketed at a different segment and primary use case to me.

The problem is that if Apple (or a 3rd party on the platform) figures it out I think there’s a good chance it can’t work well on a significantly cheaper headset like the Quest 3.

Then the Quest 3 may be the cheap thing that doesn’t do what people want. Like when you didn’t get an XBox 360 at Christmas because mom/dad got you a $25 TV plug-in Pac-Man game because “it’s the same thing”.

But Meta wants in on the party. And I feel like they’re trying to get their sales before the Vision Pro comes out and immediately becomes the thing that they get very unfavorably compared to (except price). Just like they rushed out a pre-announcement this was coming around the Vision Pro announcement.

Even if Apple face plants or never finds “it”and the Vision Pro isn’t successful I don’t see Meta being either. All these years and it’s still kind of “eh”.
So I do have access to Indexes and the HTC ones, and they do seem to have some more stuff, but I'm also curious what other people think. I definitely could see it if they had more things like Google Earth, which is weirdly absent from the Quest.
I don't like where we are headed at all. I acknowledge we face two dystopian options which is either contribute power in the hands of a few corporations who hopefully you can regulate, or have open source models which ends up delivering significant power to people who cannot be effectively controlled. An AGI law enforcement? How dystopian can you get.
Still no varifocal, foveated rendering, or significant FOV bump. Yawn.
Is there a market for this? Stealth smart glasses that force you to indicate you are recording? Are live-streamers going to use this? Don't people want to be using their phone anyway?

>The Capture LED lets others know when you’re capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered, you’ll be notified to clear it.
What's the warranty on a machine? I don't think a manufacturer should be responsible forever for a machine.
As one of the contributors, I'm always happy to see interest and people using it.

Keeper is a really interesting challenge and we're really open to any kind of feedback and thoughts.

If you tried it out and have some feedback for it, I encourage you to create an issue (https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse), ask on our Slack, ping me directly on Slack... (just don't call me on my phone)

And don't forget that it's completely open-source like ClickHouse so contributors are more than welcome.
There's a bias in favor of action, especially among the social workers that I have known. The worst possible sin is to do nothing at all.

In cases like this, in the moment, it may be impossible to tell what is actually best for the child. Since removing the child is a form of remediation, it can easily seem to be less harmful than leaving them in a situation that might be actively harming them.
I usually scoff at "written in.." part of such announcements, because it is a sign that the author is focused on the input ("I wrote this in X") not the output (value the user gets)

In this case though, the blog outlines specific reasons why this had to be in C++ (interoperability w. their C++ codebase) as well as benefits that are separate from the language.
That's not true. The original HTC Vive has the same refresh rate (90Hz) and field of view (110° horizontal), but the Quest 3's resolution is 2064x2208 per eye while the Vive's is 1080x1200. The Vive XR Elite has the same refresh rate (90Hz) and field of view (110° horizontal), but a lower resolution of 1920x1920 per eye. It also costs twice as much as the Quest 3.

The Vive XR Elite's lower claimed weight of 270 grams is without the battery. With battery it weighs 625g, which is heavier than the Quest 1 (571g), Quest 2 (503g), or Quest 3 (515g).
>> can legally maintain an addiction

> What social interest is there in promoting that?

Because the whole reason why we have the opioid crisis is because consuming any opioid without a medical reason is illegal.

IE, if you have an injury, and are prescribed opioids, and then accidentally get addicted, your only legal option is to go through withdrawal.

If you or I found ourselves in that situation, we'd probably go through withdrawal. Other people won't, and choose to violate drug laws in order to maintain their addiction.

Edit: I just want to point out that plenty of people willingly do stupid things: They get addicted to cigarettes, become alcoholics, drive too fast, write mean comments on the internet... We don't force them to quit their vices. The same should apply to opioids too.
When everything exists, nothing exists?

There are no universal properties?

A non-trivial universal property for a domain asserts something non-trivial about everything in the domain. You think 'political' is a trivial property?
This isn't really an innocent Go feature, either. I have a meme saved somewhere that's basically "no, fuck you, variable declared but not used".
Thank you! For Firefox mobile users: 3 dot menu > add-ons > uBlock Origin > Open the Dashboard > Filter Lists > Annoyances

There's two cookie notices options in there.
The rules to publish on the App Store aren't changing. Apple only has to allow alternative app stores. If you like the App Store, then continue to use it.
I prefer a separate numpad for RSI reasons. Small keyboard with the mouse next to it and numpad either on the left or on the far side of the rodent.
Twilio not working? This is the fix you are looking for
GeForce Now.
Omnibar seems to be what this is about. At one point they note that there’s a Reddit thread that thinks their a/b test is a bug.
My first inclination here is to blame the doctor. Per the Hippocratic Oath, doctors need to understand the implications of making reports like this and only do so in cases where there isn't reasonable doubt or plausible explanations other than abuse. Separating children from parents and making accusations like this is extremely traumatic in itself, so the evidence bar needs to be very high.

Even if the rules tell doctors that they need to make a report in a given scenario, they should not be following the rules when they know the bureaucracies that handle these reports are dysfunctional and prone to separating children without conclusive evidence. Imo they are responsible for protecting their patients from the system in these cases.
This perspective is completely detached from reality.
Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I understand the privacy argument, but that is not going to be enough. The ability to think or blink in a certain way and capture anything you see is too powerful a tool, alongside the augmented reality that is coming.
Yes, but competition
What is interesting is that there are pockets of car free living even in these examples. E.g. in Columbus you have 45000 undergraduates at Ohio state, the bulk of whom live within a half hour walk of campus and all their friends from college, and might only use their car to shuttle themselves and all their roommates to the grocery store once a week.
The Circle's "completely transparent" vibes.
What?

Go is all about mechanical sympathy, and is absolutely a high performance language. I guess it all depends on your context, though. If you're used to writing assembly or C, things may look different.

(A "for" loop expresses much more mechanical sympathy than a list comprehension, as an example.)

But at least in the context of application services -- programs that run on servers and respond to requests, typically over HTTP -- Go is the language to beat. I've yet to see an example of a program where the Rust implementation is meaningfully more performant than the Go implementation, and I've got plenty of examples where the Go implementation is much better.
For some of us, the sideways reach / horizontal flexion for the mouse (thumb trackball, in my case) can cause wrist or arm pain.

It's not about desk space, it's about ergonomics.
> If a hospital gets a toddler with fractures on their skull, society should damn well figure out how it got them and stop it from happening again.

What a leap (the kind the article is calling out by the way). Do you really think all causes for toddler skull fractures are a societal problem?
Uhh, I don’t know if they’re doing that?

This is a very real phenomenon that my wife has noted experiencing as well. It’s a kink in the whole thing that’s worth acknowledging.
> San Francisco (and cities in general) are places of great opportunity. Limiting that opportunity only to incumbents who already live there is stifling to our nation as a whole, and it's cruel.

Instead of punishing residents by doubling their population density (more traffic, more crowded schools, etc), the mega-companies (the "great opportunity") should start hiring elsewhere. And of course we're already seeing that happening post-pandemic.

These companies need an endless supply of engineers, sales, and support staff to build out their ad-revenue engines, so that the execs can continue receiving their multi-million RSUs every year... and somehow the residents are cruel for not wanting their city and neighborhoods to change to accommodate them?
finally, smart glasses that look good.
Can dang do something about the corporate spam that keeps popping up on HN? I don't think meta, or Apple, or the rest of these companies need help advertising products.
I like Grog animated knots:

https://www.animatedknots.com/
I like this idea.

I am far from most of my friends and live in a city for work reasons. There are more activities and everything is a lot more accessible. Definitely more promise in the air. That said, I am living alone and feel it. It's not healthy.

I do want to be nearer friends and (some) family but ironically I think there are fewer relationship opportunities back in the sticks, plus there are attitudes and people in my home town I really don't miss.

I agree with your conclusion - but when younger and single it is difficult to know exactly what to do. Being single being a big problem, and the day to day work from home isolation the other.
Air Force Receives Its First Electric Taxi
How do you compare AI teams?
I don't understand how putting a camera on a pair of glasses is what meta/rayban wanted to spend time on.
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But those already have mass market acceptance. They’re not trying to prove they’re necessary. The iPhone (and other smartphones) literally changed the world. There’s only so much they can innovate after 15 years of record breaking success.

VR doesn’t have that. People weren’t chomping at the bit for the day it was 20% better. Unless it passes some unknown threshold where it suddenly becomes good enough to suddenly be really popular, they’re still trying to prove relevance.
Could this explain the miscompilation I was experiencing on macOS some years ago where I forgot a `return` statement, the compiler didn't give a single fuck and spit out an executable anyway, and I spent hours in a debugger wondering how the hell I found myself in random completely invalid instructions for no reason?

Took hours, perhaps even days to track down. I did it by spamming single-step until it stopped being able to find the line that was currently executing.
It feels much more like an act of war than a ratcheting up by drug purveyors.
Nah, I think it's the future. We don't have to have cameras on them, but it does greatly hinder their utility.
for sure - ppl are strapping go pros to their heads.
> Perhaps we merely need to change how opioids are prescribed so that someone can legally maintain an addiction without an otherwise "medical" need? IE, a recreational heroin user can get a prescription, and if someone accidentally becomes addicted to painkillers that were prescribed for medical reasons, they can legally continue that addiction as long as they want to?

You are describing maintenance programs. While methadone has been the maintenance drug of choice for programs in the US due to legal barriers, it turns out that heroin maintenance programs are even more effective than maintenance programs based on substitution.

With a maintenance program, members come to the site to receive a legally-obtained, pharmaceutical-quality[0] supply of the drug. Depending on the program, they may either use it on-site (e.g. supervised injection) or bring it home. Crucially, the drug is provided free of charge, so members don't have to worry about how to come up with the money to pay for it.

It turns out that these programs reduce crime rates among the members, because most crime that they are committing was in pursuit of the money for their basic needs[1]. Without having to worry about obtaining their drug, or the safety issues associated with the illegal drug market, many are able to find stable jobs, return to stable housing, and lead otherwise normal lives.

This isn't new science - one of the first studied attempts was in the 1990s[2], and there have been many more papers published since, documenting the extraordinary benefits. The science behind it is rock-solid. The challenge, as always, is a political one.

[0] Zero adulterants, no contaminants - just like the supply of morphine or fentanyl that is used in hospitals for inpatient treatment.

[1] Yes, for someone addicted to opiates, the drug is a basic need: involuntary withdrawal is extremely dangerous even under medically supervised conditions, let alone in the conditions most people are forced to experience it.

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC28595/
You're trying to make this weird middleground between normative and positive statements.

In the positive sense, obviously a whole lot of suckers bought into nonsense about terrorists hiding under their beds. We know this is the unfortunate realpolitik dynamic. We don't need to infer unspoken motivations about jobs programs, because the straightforward narrative of security theater blanket is still carrying the day.

In the normative sense, it's nonsensical to treat the broken culture of fear/domination as inevitable. That culture is wrong, regardless of how overwhelming it is.
Why when I press accept cookies it just reloads the website and shows me the same banner? Not even Facebook can get this to work?
i'm guessing "old" from our current temporal vantage point. they are far away so the picture we see of them is "old" because it took a long time for the polaroid of them to reach earth via snail mail. like you took a picture postcard of your kitten and mailed it but it got lost then later it gets delivered. the photo is old but the kitten in the photo is young.
Our philosophy moving to Azure Functions is approximately "There is no local disk. Deal with it."

We are storing 100% of data/state for our functions in a central SQL Server instance. If you provision Azure SQL in the same datacenter as the app service plan, you will see SQL commands complete in well under 5ms from the perspective of the functions. This is good enough for our purposes, especially when we consider how little time it takes to configure & manage this stack.

Our on-prem stack with SQLite running on top of local NVMe still beats the shit out of our cloud native stack in raw latency/throughput terms, but our customers spend a lot more money & time keeping these environments alive. From a user experience standpoint, the latency talking to SQL is pretty far down the list of things that you will actually feel while clicking through the views. Any perceived delays are almost always due to other systems we have to call into.
qutebrowser doesn't really use webkit anymore. It was an alternative browser engine, but even the developers say that it isn't recommended.

It now uses the QtWebEngine, which is chromium based:

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser#requirements
"There's a difference between software engineering and computer science. "

Yes. THIS in spades.

There is a gulf between programming and software engineering. Good programmers are a dime-a-dozen; some of them come from boot camps, some are auto-didactic. Good software engineers are very difficult to find. I think because programming and software engineering are so commonly conflated.
I’m mostly wondering about why the “cast iron” part is relevant. If a wipe is enough for that type of pan, isn’t it good enough for all of your pans? If there’s food stuck on, you’re obviously going to do whatever it takes to remove that. But when that isn’t the case, is a simple wipe good enough?