skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What's the current state of VR&AR Headset friction / boot time?
When I look at my phone, it can scan my eyes and log me in within a second, bringing up my homescreen 'dashboard'. (If I am travelling, I revert to password, but this still gets me in within 4 seconds). A further second to click into the app/browser I want, and I can be 'instantly immersed'.

With VR/AR headsets, the friction to 'boot in' seems to be one of the biggest problems in adoption, and one that I feel Meta et al don't openly talk about. (Note, I am ignorant of this field in general).

How close are we to seamless, quick boot, such that one puts on a headset and are 'immediately' immersed?

(My admittedly poor) web searching of this question just tends to offer webpages on common boot issues (e.g. 'Quest boot time'/'Vive startup time' just leads to complaints and support forums.)

I suspect this also to be a primary issue with the true 'metaverse' taking hold. GTA6 will, in my opinion, be the luxury 'hang-out' metaverse, but will likely take many minutes to access. I feel that Microsoft could have made Minecraft the de facto metaverse (by implementing certain features), but will never quite get there. Perhaps a WebGL game that can take you to a bookmarked 'spacial' lobby within 3000ms can get real traction.
Creditors and vendors on the other hand, may not be.
>lots of places

Well you see that's exactly the problem. There are in fact, not a lot of places.
The thing for me is that the media companies that thought they could just launch their own streaming services and keep all the money for themselves completely devalued the engineering of Netflix. It was "FAANG" for a reason. Viscerally, Netflix doesn't feel like it belongs alongside Google, but it did, because it was good.

How does Disney fail to make money off Star Wars? Because they decided to build a shitty tech company in-house instead of just doing what they know and licensing their content to the experts.

They had to have it all, and they played themselves.
I think, despite the humor fail, you have an accidental point, because the police dogs DO fetch unarmed hidden offenders.
In a company I worked for 20+ years ago the IT set up an email "spam filter" that used a big list of regexes, but the problem was the filter ran on the raw message, so it also filtered SMTP headers.

I noticed this when an email that was routed through smtp123.essex.hp.com or something similar never arrived to my mailbox.
Though that one is perhaps to blame on pdfTeX rather than on the TeX format :)
When the bourgeoisie speak, they are not speaking for the benefit of the proletariat.

I do enjoy the byline!
Exactly, the fact that you're based in a developing country automatically means you'll get a peanut salary, whether you're local or expat, code-mill or rockstar, etc, etc.

SE is not moving to these places for better quality.
It archived the paywall too
I am building _exactly_ the same thing for Playwright over at https://ray.run/. I think this is the future of writing tests no doubt. Planning to launch next week.

By the looks of it, I am taking a slightly different approach than you. I am using LLM only to identify elements, but the actual generators are created using https://ray.run/browser-extension
Maybe, but over billions of charging hours I have not heard of any stories about chargers catching on fire yet. I have to assume that if one of them did catch on fire it would be all over the news, the media is starving for anti-EV stories.
"Ar5iv" does a pretty good job from my experience
A lot of automakers in the USA get subsidies, GM even got bailed out in 2008.

Tesla on the other hand creates a lot of jobs, invests in US factories, invests into R&D, pays a lot of taxes, and most importantly - delivers on the vision of transition to clean energy.

Without Tesla, America would still be driving even more gas guzzling SUVs and pickups.

So the relationship is mutually beneficial for the company, country, economy, and ecology
Tesla built coast-to-coast supercharger network years before any talk of charging station funding.

Charging station funding is a subsidy to legacy carmakers, because they don't to spend a penny building charging infrastructure. Let the govt (Us: taxpayers) pay for it.

Mary, you electrified the entire auto industry, you led, and it matters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UduPjk9gonw). At the time of this announcement, GM has zero EVs being sold.

President Biden shared a video of himself and General Motors CEO Mary Barra while stating that GM and Ford are building more electric vehicles in America than ever before: https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/02/president-biden-hypes-f...

https://electrek.co/2021/11/18/president-biden-gm-ceo-marry-...

It is obvious that Govt hates Tesla, it is never mentioned. All the subsidies are for Ford and GM.
If you take a look at the optimized Mojo code doing the matrix multiply [1], it takes an expert to understand. It’s not just some simple for-loops in Mojo they’re comparing against.

[1] https://github.com/modularml/mojo/blob/5ce18c47a27c0c4123de1...
The catch is that the company often knows more about your value (monetary, not personal) than you do. And they're often more experienced negotiators than you. So as a perspective employee you're normally at a disadvantage, unless you're at the tail of the bell curve or in a very in demand field.

Most companies are happy to pay you way less than you're worth if you'll accept it.

As an engineer I'm used to all the facts going on the table and then reaching a consensus. That's not how hiring works, the employer won't show you their cards. They ask how much you made in your last job, but they won't tell you how much the employee that left the position you're applying to was paid.
> I’m not sure what’s going to get me to reactivate Disney+, maybe it’ll be whenever the second season of Andor comes out towards the end of 2024 or early 2025, but it’ll just be the two months the show runs, and then I’m out again like the Falcon leaving the Death Star.

I don't get why you'd even pay for two months if it's just one show you want to watch. Wait until it's all aired, subscribe for one month, watch it all over a few nights and then cancel the subscription.
why is this on hackernews !
Isn't the issue there that some people basically just don't like soccer so they can't appreciate the differences?

I would put myself in that camp - watching soccer just doesn't appeal to me that much, so it all kind of seems the same. But I can very much appreciate the differences to people that enjoy watching the sport, and I think this could be said about nearly any endeavor.
Tesla's CCS cables in Europe don't seem significantly larger than equivalent NACS cables.

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/attachments/screen-shot-2022...

Tesla definitely seems to build thinner nicer cables and has reliable chargers and cable cooling, but I'm not sure that's inherent to NACS vs CCS.
I do not understand ReplIt's business model. In my head I associate them with cloud ides which were all the rage once upon a time but slowly died out. So who is using Repl It these days? They seem to be hiring frequently so I assume they are growing.
I believe that take is ahistorical. The other options withered away because most people prefer cars and the associated lifestyle. Dense city cores are still there for the taking, if you can handle the crime.
How is that any different from exception handlers, which are so-named because they are for carrying exceptions, not errors?

Maybe you're leaving out the stack trace that one usually expects when propagating exceptions? I'm not sure that is meaningfully different, though.
There doesn't have to be a superpower alternative, power fills a vacuum, it doesn't spontaneously grow on it's own.

The US has a lot going for it, but it's got one thing, the only thing that leads to polticial upheaval, that's bad: the population does not view itself as one people, or even as disparate allied peoples. We have been propagandized to hate each other. Check all the boxes you like, this fact alone has one outcome.
Are you saying older teslas won’t be able to charge at Tesla super chargers?
But it is a government intervention. No banks were willing to give them that loan. Government gave them money when nobody else wanted.
> So who is using Repl It these days?

Kids, a lot of kids.
That's too hard. Just use C-x M-c M-censordvd in emacs.
> Isn't the issue there that some people basically just don't like soccer so they can't appreciate the differences?

Yep, hence the first sentence of my comment: “I think it comes down to personal taste.” :D
Tesla doesn't need govt funding, they built a coast-to-coast supercharger network years before and have been continuing to build.

The charging station funding is to help GM and Ford, they can't figure out how the charging thing works, and they don't want to compete fairly, so my tax dollars and yours, they go to help these legacy carmakers.
This is what happens when someone gets super rich from a lucky investment, we have to hear their dumb ideas for the next 30 years...
Miniature phonographs were once common in toys such as talking dolls. Right until the early 80s, I think.
Codespaces user here (I set it up for the teams), for about the last 1.5 years in a large corp setting with teams using it.

My experience with is it has been wonderful for getting started and immediatly becoming productive with very complex systems. Most of those systems have 1 (or very few) experts who need to help everyone else with their setups. When problems arise, and they often do, they've become the bottleneck and Codespaces removes that. Those experts can focus on keeping just that up globally versus locally for each individual.

Outside of that scenario, complex systems, I've experienced it to be overkill. The negatives that come along with using such systems haven't outweight the benefits.
And make his fans believe he’s a champion of free market and a self made man that is fighting big government. We can see it clearly in action in this thread, it’s working on many.
You're equating anti-vax with seeking truth, seeking honesty, asking for transparency, all in good faith. Good for you, seeing the best in people.

After the last 3 years, you'll have to pardon most people not making that identification. Loud, partisan, probably bad faith, anti-vax advocacy has ruined it for the simple, honest, good faith truth seekers. Very unfortunate.
Let's go for a biblical one. Circular one I've see twice in this thread.
Rust libraries like my [SNAFU] allow you to both add additional details and use the `?` operator:

read_to_string(path).context(ConfigFileSnafu { path })?;

[SNAFU]: https://docs.rs/snafu/latest/snafu/
At least the gas station lottery ticket winners don’t dress it up as individual exceptionalism. Not a hot take, not flippant. Enjoy the luck if you have it, but call it what it is.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-rol...
macOS only? Wanted to try this on Windows
We've got Florida now too!
EVs have some advantages at higher elevations since they don't lose power like combustion engines do. They're great with large elevation changes as well due to the power regen on the downhill legs.

If the distances are pushing things too far for current EVs I feel you, and there are a lot of places still with limited charging access.
How could any shifts 'endanger' electricity use, or the thousands of other major technological inventions accumulated throughout human history?
Slightly off but Photopea is great even better than gimp imo when it come to psd compatibility. Inkscape is good for vector or ai files, will try this next time
Let's get a clear statement about this.

Fact check: there is still a free tier (0.5GB RAM, 0.5 vCPU, 10GB storage).

Fact check: you get one always-on instance with your "Hacker" plan.

So this post has a totally misleading title.

I don't even understand the use-case that requires these 5 always-on instances, and the complaint site doesn't make it clear.

If this changed, let's get a link to an official post. My downvote will follow this post.
this is factually incorrect. Disney bought a very successful sports streamer BAMTech to power Disney+
How about LMDB ? It’s single writer/multiple reader, very fast and reliable.
Even in the case you listed, it's still true that Tesla buyers are replacing their other non-EV car with an EV at higher rates than non-Tesla EV buyers, based on the data.
How did they think they were going to monetize this?

It has no way to obtain user information, to send back to the vendor, and to track their listening preferences.

I bet you don't even have to register an account to use it; it looks some "local first" thing.

EDIT: I figured it out. The equipment for making records was prohibitively bulky and expensive for individuals to own; no copying was possible. There is always a catch!
If the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech to corporations, then surely the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms to robots.
Tell me you aren't familiar with US regulation without telling me etc (Tesla's trying to make their plug the US standard is so they could get US subsidies for their charging infrastructure. If there's something Musk's company excel at, is getting money from the government)
And of course they don't know true and false, because they don't know anything in the cognitive sense of using innate emotional and logical reasoning (faulty or not) to come to a self-directed conclusion of their own.

They respond to prompts, scan through their data and give answers based on what their programming for probability dictates.

Humans seem to do the same thing much of the time but beneath even the most half-baked human reasoning is a self-directed sense of the world that no LLM has. The AI woo on HN is quite strong, so many will probably disagree for all kinds of shallow reasons of semantics, but even the creators of LLMs don't claim they possess anything resembling consciousness, which is necessary for understanding notions of truth and falsehood.
Same problem with sports. Asking me to pay a middleman is an instant dealbreaker, especially the cable/satellite tv company.
I believe the point is that the headline was written to suggest that the claims were factual, and to deemphasize their source. An alternate, less manipulative, headline could have been: “Palestinians blame Israel for deadly hospital blast.”

And of course, when you consider the weaselly correction headline after, the slant is undeniable.
Writing a bad take-down of a bad idea is doing a service to the bad idea.
For years, the only way Tesla made money was from government subsidies.
I’m from very far outside the tech bubble, far enough outside it that people don’t even personally know anybody that writes software and there are almost no local software companies. People in that group - the vast majority of people in the world but by definition not really possible for an engineer to have much contact with - do not understand what work is involved in creating and running software. How well do you know the amount of work involved in getting your medication into your body or your computer chip produced?

I think with software it’s even harder for some people to appreciate the costs because they don’t have an intuitive understanding of what’s required to make it - even though most people don’t know how a lot of their goods and services are made, they know eg a guy in a factory made it and some other guys transported it, and they can kind of put a face to a name. They might know that someone had to design the page they’re looking at, but they have no idea a backend even exists (why do you think we have the term “cloud”?) and no way to estimate what it costs to run, so of course they don’t also know about CVEs and web standards and wipeout/takeout/data residency and multitenancy and releases. They just see a web page that used to work and now doesn’t.

It doesn’t help that so much of the software they use is free, because it’s being used as a funnel/delivery mechanism for paid stuff like hardware or monetized through ads, or paid for by their employer, or because it’s just cheap to maintain. It’s kind of reasonable to assume that all that software stuff you use is free because it’s easy to make. Even though replit is software-for-software, it seems like the type of thing that’s used mostly by beginners who still probably don’t understand what it takes to maintain and operate paid software to a reasonable degree of quality, so the same situation applies.
Sounds like you should make friends with latin-1 encoding. All 256 8bit values are valid.
So what they did, in the terms that take effect on November 16, is that among other things, at the new section 30 there's this:

We may use your Inputs and Outputs, including Customer Data, for machine learning purposes in order to develop and improve the AI Model, the Services, and similar products and features, and you instruct us to process Customer Data for such purposes. You may select preferences about your data by visiting your account settings.

So they'll feed the customers' data (our mail addresses, at the very least) into their AI model and other things, pretending that the MailChimp's client instructed them to do so, which of course, at least under the GDPR, could in all likelihood only legally happen after getting explicit consent from us newsletter subscribers.

So, it's at least almost for sure against the GDPR, but until they're stopped and fined they'll do it, and few of their clients (not to mention us newsletter subscribers) will realize anything.
Tesla will support both protocols at their chargers.

But if you have an older (pre-2020) Tesla you may not be able to charge at a non-Tesla NACS charger, since those older Teslas do not natively support the CCS communication protocol.

Tesla has promised to offer retrofits for older cars. I went the DIY route for mine (replacing an ECU in the trunk area) for a cost of around $200 in eBay parts.
Yes, I'm an Apple News subscriber, and it is the closest thing to what I'm talking about, no doubt because Apple is the only company with enough sway to convince publishers this is in their own interests. But even Apple can't push them nearly far enough. Having to look up the same article in Apple News when I'm paywalled through the web site even though I can legitimately access it is extremely annoying. These publications are definitely not going out of their way to take me to my legitimate, paid-for Apple News copy of their article - and I'm sure that's by design. Secondly, only a subset of publications are available. I want there to be equal access to all articles. But media does not want to compete on a level playing field like that.
I don’t know about the past, but you can absolutely dereference userspace memory in ebpf.
Companies would only do that if required by law because otherwise it’s a huge advantage for your competitor that’s not doing that.

So yeah, if one thinks this is wrong, they need to take it up with their lawmakers. This is not something private companies can change on their own, otherwise all the well behaved companies would be much more likely to go out of business and only the poorly behaved ones would remain.
The actuator perhaps but the wiggling thing attached to it that moves the air? I don't think that's solid state? If it were you could even call a fan solid state.
I lived for decades in walking distance from a NPP, then I educated myself on the subject, read a lot about it on the internet

...and now I feel even safer living near NPP.

I sadly moved away for unrelated reasons, but I'd move to a similar place in a heartbeat. Turns out that requirements to actually build a NPP(access to water, seismic activity etc) are quite strict and make for a good place to live overall.
What is there to navigate? I similarly didn't sign the paper to authorize the school to use pictures of my kids so they don't use pictures where my kids show on their Facebook account.

They do however display their art in the hallway.
I’m curious what you use it for?

Heroku (I work there) eco is $5 a month + $5 database ($120 a year).

I understand that the use cases don’t perfectly overlap, so I’m curious about your use case.
Eh, I think this covers a huge majority of the country...and absolutely already buy $50,000 vehicles.

> Adjusted Gross Income Limitations

> $300,000 for married couples filing jointly

> $225,000 for heads of households

> $150,000 for all other filers
Also there's the possibility to help in writing documentation.
This context you provide is interesting. Where can I read more in this specific perspective?
to make streaming economically viable there will need to be Gpt-x that watches the content too.
FAA warns that falling satellites are going to start killing people
I think there's something there - I feel like there's a sort of glamourisation of shyness on some social media, as if claiming it as a label inducts you into a special club. I can be shy, like many people, but I can't fathom those who claim it as a special quality to be treasured.
Disclaimer: I work at Replit.

You can read all about our hosting changes here: https://blog.replit.com/hosting-changes.

TL;DR

- deprecating always on in favor of new deployments product

- migrate workspace URL to replit.dev from repl.co

- replit.dev is the new development URL. only available when someone is in the editor.

- deployments are the only way to host things on replit

From the blog:

> We remain committed to providing a powerful free development experience to anyone who wants to code. This post is only about the hosting experience, which we are migrating to our new Deployments product.
Swift doesn't need a runtime, but if it runs alongside Objective C code, doesn't it? On iOS wouldn't much of what Swift is doing be to calling down into Objective C? In other words, I think that unless you get rid of all of the Objective C in iOS, Swift will still be sitting on top of a runtime.
“From the Philippines to Colombia, low-paid workers label training data for AI models used by the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.”
The loan was subsidized; commercial entities wouldn't give such a loan, hence even when repaid was a cost to the public. The idea, of course, is that this cost is paying by public good, but Tesla mis-stated the truth, and didn't grant back the public good it was supposed to.
> watch it all over a few nights

I don't have time for that, maybe the author doesn't either
Acorns come pretty close. Protein, carbohydrates, and fats, as well as calcium, phosphorus, potassium & niacin. Just leech those tannins!!
> Even “Bookkeeping for Dummies” makes my head spin. Surely this stuff can’t be that difficult?

Is this an artifact of accounting itself? Or of the country in which you live?

In my country, accounting is… well still not easy but at least I would say it is accessible to most.

Meanwhile my impression of the US tax system for example (not my country!), is that it is a very complicated system with grave consequences for making any sort of mistake. All thanks to the efforts of US companies hiring lobbyists to work against general public interest.
indeed it did.
Faster-Than-Light 'Quasiparticles' Touted as Futuristic Light Source
There was a show I watched every episode of, not because I particularly liked it but it starred one particular actor that I really wanted to watch.

I'm rather embarrassed to admit this, but there it is.
> deployments are the only way to host things on replit

Which is only paid, correct?