skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Q2 owner here: I actually want to upgrade to Q3 since the Fresnel lenses on the Q2 are kind of crappy producing tonnes of god-rays, and the 3 step IPD adjustment is far too rudimentary and limited in range(it goes up to 68mm while my eyes are 71mm) because of which, to my eyes, it looks like ass in some scenes. Q3 lenses and flexible IPD should solve all those issues.

Devil's advocate take: Unlike cheap handheld gaming consoles, when it comes to VR, cheap VR devices with large drawbacks might actually be poisoning the well , instead of helping VR uptake. Hear me out:

People will naturally go for the cheapest option when making an impulse buy like this, play with it for a bit, be disappointed by the compromises made to achieve that low price point, return it or let it gather dust, and then give up on VR forever thinking it sucks. The Q3 while being more expensive and less of an impulse buy, might leave less people frustrated and willing to give up on VR and more likely to recommend and tell everyone how awesome VR is. Just a shower thought.

I think also an important metric would be to look at the rate of returns for those devices as well. That should let us know how many customers were actually happy with their VR console.

My biggest issue with the Q3 and why it probably sells much less, despite improving Q2's shortcomings, is it also includes a lot of unnecessary AR gimmicks that needlessly jack up the price and no VR gamer ever asked for. People want to try VR for full immersion escapism, not to look at their apartment/living room in AR with expensive goggles on. They can already do that on their iPhone/iPad.

IMHO they should have just left the AR gimmicks out of the Q3 to keep the price lower and keep the focus on VR gaming. It would have sold much better, but it seems The Zuck really wants to keep pushing AR to people (probably for AR ads and AR shopping in the future).
This was not always the case; and local models respond almost instantly.

In ChatGPT's case, I'm assuming they're throttling responses to not hemorrhage money.
I guess the robustness of the economy too. Losing your job when there’s a lot of hiring might not be the worst. Of course, most mass firings happen when the economy isn’t doing well and finding work can be a challenge if you’re not top talent.
It’s one year only, I know we can’t expect a breakthrough. But this is very boring.
Those who are anxiously awaiting the advent of intelligent aliens will be greatly disappointed.

UFOs as solid, guided by alien intelligence, objects do not exist.

Of course, top-secret missiles, aircraft, and other such animals may exist. But they're just ordinary man-made stuff and not 'UFOs' as defined by the public.
> It definitely does, although I don't understand why.

Maybe because it's a kind of lying, and people who do it on a regular basis are untrustworthy people?

> JFK told us we'd get to the moon this decade which is absolutely nuts.

Remember that he didn't phrase it as "we will do this", he phrased it as "this is our goal". He referred to it as a goal we're choosing, not as an inevitability.

Musk isn't goal-setting, he's making promises. The difference between the two is critical. One is being a leader, the other is being a liar.
A counterexample to Betteridge's law of headlines.
IMO he doesn't have the votes in the Knesset to do it, and the US is already applying significant pressure to wrap it up soon. Not to mention the Israeli economy can't take the workforce drain to sustain the war at this level for much longer. He doesn't have forever, whether he likes it or not.
What's un-controversial is claims like "There will never be..." are bullshit.
Really all of your complaints apply equally to all domains of programming. Windows development is awful, Linux development is awful, web is awful, backend is awful. Bad libraries and bad APIs are universal and there is no escaping it no matter what domain you work in.

Overall you really seem to not have a clue what you're talking about. If you use real grownup tools, the experience of developing firmware is not any different from any other domain. With the obvious exception of debugging being more difficult. Arduino and everything involved with that ecosystem is trash.

Good libraries are available. Good drivers exist. If you simply leave the arena of arduino trash libraries you end up in a world that looks extremely similar to the rest of the OSS world. Quality varies of course, but you'd be a fool to think that no one in the entire industry writes good code.

Besides that, writing a driver is usually a very trivial thing to do. I always write my own, and in the majority of cases it's simply copying registers from the datasheet into a nice C structure. It takes like an hour.

And your core argument is plainly wrong. If the language didn't matter, we'd still be writing straight C, if not direct assembly. Every embedded environment I've seen supports C++. Some even support the standard libraries.

Rust is also becoming quite popular for embedded. But clearly there's no reason or use for that, right?

I mean, if the language doesn't matter, why aren't we still writing COBOL? Why does any language higher than C exist at all?

And no, I don't think C# on a microcontroller would be practical. I want to see it because I think it'd be funny, precisely because it's so inappropriate.

>My short fooray into Microcontrollers has shown that all the software development experience for them is absolute garbage.

Read: I don't know anything about this industry, but I'm still gonna tell you it's all trash.

I'm not sure it's a very smart idea to attempt to dunk on something you admit you know very little about.
We’ve also figured out an alternative format to use from within eBPF to unwind stacks (we happen to only support dwarf at the moment but theoretically any source information could work): https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/11/29/dwarf-bas...
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so instead of tipping zero, since that implies the ability to decide, tip something that might be less jerk and make the decision to not return, perchance?

and if you aren’t given a choice, and it isn’t advertised, well, that’s a different predicament. same solution. you aren’t going to refuse to pay, so refuse to return.
If Jimmy turns a piece of wood and some graphite into a pencil, he has created value. That didn't require exploiting the lumberjack or the miner. Jimmy did not steal value from either. He created value by inventing a new way for their raw materials to be useful to other people. Jimmy didn't need to "stand atop" anyone to do this.

What's "pathetic" are the ad hominems and insults the people in this thread have to resort to when they can't argue like adults. You're not right because you're angry, and you weaken your advocacy by trying to use your frustration as leverage over people giving reasoned arguments.
This is not a structure. It's a situation.

Sorry, I was unclear: I was trying to highlight the fact that this situation is far, far less common in other countries, namely those with single-payer healthcare. That seems like pretty solid evidence that it’s a structural issue, not just… idk, circumstance? Chance?

Otherwise sorry I misinterpreted you —- guess I’ll spend more time reading next time!
About a year ago I made a little wear os app to track the upcoming departures at the station near me - it was suprisingly useful (especially at big stations - sometimes you can make incredibly quick connections!), so I decided to genericise it to the point it'd work for other people (in the uk) as well! So far people seem to really appreciate it [0], which I'm glad about

Alternatively, for something slightly less polished, I made an app that connects to the spotify API, fetches synced lyrics for the track currently playing, and displays them on an electromechanical (flip-dot) bus sign from the 80s that's sat in my kitchen!

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.nthn.androi... (paid, but feel free to reach out if you want a free copy)
> Many areas it is illegal to not be connected to the grid

It’s mind-boggling that this happened as it only seems to serve the private power companies while simultaneously restricting entire populations from some of the biggest benefits of current and future sustainable energy sources.
Self-copying RNA vaccine wins first full approval: what's next?
>If you are stuck in traffic or on a bus in an ugly urban hellscape, is a billboard really that bad?

Yes, it intrudes into a person's thought pattern with the explicit goal of selling you a product/service/idea. I'd much rather stare at a wall and continue with my thought or look at a work of art (which 99.99% of ads are not, imho).

> I'm sorry, they are not going to plant trees in Times Square to replace the billboards. Even in their own press photos, they are showing several billboards that are covering up even uglier buildings!

So why not put up a non-distracting work of art? Have ads become the only visual expression allowed in public?
That actually sounds like Lebanon is attempting to escalate by hitting Israel with drone attacks.
Not exactly what you asked for. But I recently came across this VR example using Gaussian Splatting instead. Exciting times.

https://twitter.com/gracia_vr/status/1731731549886787634

https://www.gracia.ai
memory efficient? It downloaded 500meg!
> have gotten twice to three times sweeter since I was a kid.

They definitely have not. You just like sugary things better as a kid.

It's kind of like, the summer camp I went to as a kid, and recently revisited as an adult -- they shrunk all the buildings and fields in size by half! Or so it certainly seemed, I could have sworn...

I can't eat the candy I ate as a kid either. Now, 85% dark chocolate on the other hand...
this all sounds great for rich people and like hell for everyone else. AI learns that brown people exist, women become data farms, clippy is your new boss, children are our future profits.

There is some kind of satire in here about how tech leaders and QAnon folks want the same things but take opposing routes to get there. Tech wants to say the N-word, get inside women’s private parts, devalue knowledge work, and indoctrinate children. But for liberalism…
Is it weird that most of the ones around 1am are under 50mbps? The variability I think make sense, but the 1am consistency seems strange.
I have no specific answer, but our knowledge of cancer is rapidly progressing, so most books will probably start to see errors pop up in their text as time goes on. This seems like the kind of thing you'd have to update pretty regularly.
Thanks for this!

It was hilarious, and I'm already reading the next.
> Culture influences everything

While culture definitely touches everything and is a lens through which we look at the world and each other, there are some things that culture cannot bend to its will. I'm not arguing that there is an objective reality that we can access, but there are things in the universe that culture cannot make a dent in.

I had a conversation just this morning with Bard where it provided me with a culture slant that is also, shall we say, politically influenced, but in this particular instance I just wanted the raw facts without taking people feelings into account. It felt like it was lecturing me, which is very very off-putting.
And they're likely making a killing with the Steam Deck.
That's not the point that GP is making. Rather, discussing these kinds of topics tends to produce a lot of low quality and emotionally charged discussion that makes it dubious whether one should've engaged in the first place.
David Simon discusses this point specifically in a 2008 lecture at UC Berkeley titled "The Audacity of Despair":

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nRt46W3k-qw>

The statistics discussion begins at about 8 minutes, and continues for much of the discussion and Q&A.

I'd seen that long before watching The Wire itself, and in fact the lecture was a large part of the reason I wanted to watch the series.

(Poor quality audio and a very distracting speaking manner. Still very much worth listening to.)
Stopping subsidizing corn for ethanol will help a lot.

[0] > U.S. farmers have planted 91.7 million acres of corn in 2019

[1] > roughly 40 percent of all corn is now used to make ethanol

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/07/29/corn-americas-lar...

https://civileats.com/2022/02/14/how-corn-ethanol-for-biofue...
Agreed that cutting-edge software likely needs more frequent debugging, but I don't think that means LTS releases shouldn't be easier to debug.

Consider that you're a big company deploying software to hundreds or thousands of machines, and you hit a difficult-to-diagnose performance issue, crash, etc. You'll very much appreciate if the OS has made it easier for you to debug things.

Put another way, Fedora users/developers might appreciate having frame pointers because they have to debug more frequently, but RHEL/LTS release users might appreciate frame pointers because on the less-frequent occasion when they need to debug, the stakes are much higher.
> It’s expensive because it’s desirable - how do you fix that ?

Killing desirability is easy, actually.
> The switch is way too big to be considered a handheld.

This seems like a pretty subjective judgment. Was the Sega Game Gear not a handheld console?
> The return type of comparison operators is entirely irrelevant

It is entirely relevant. The boolean type of the language is whatever is the type of (0 < 1).

> Typedefs have their own namespace anyway

Typedefs positively do not have their own namespace.

If you write

#undef getc
{
typedef char getc;

}

you cannot call the getc function in that scope; it is now the typedef.
Only the first year is free of charge, no?
I don't see any direct quote of him saying what you are claiming. Please post that quote if you can find it
I suspect a lot of people would benefit from "nuke it all and start over" treatments.

Get a bunch of kimchi, leafy fibrous veggies, etc, in for the new seeding. Natto, soy sauce. Basically re-make yourself in to a Japanese or Korean person, diet wise. You may end up much thinner and healthier as a result.
That wasn't even true at Twitter and it's really trivial to verify that even now.

Stop attacking other people and mind your own business, especially if you're making stuff up.
> What seems much more likely to me is they offered unlimited storage as a competitive feature of Google Workspace thinking it would still be profitable even with some customers using much more storage. But because we can't have nice things a bunch of people realized they could essentially use the unlimited plan as an ultra-cheap object storage service and were storing 100s of TB of data. Rather than raise everyone's prices to subsidize bad actors, it seems much more reasonable to just discontinue unlimited storage.

This is the internet. Google has been around since the dawn of the popular internet. At this point, no one should be naive to the abuses that internet-facing services regularly encounter.

The correct thing to do here is not offer a fantasy service to customers. Now that they've offered a fantasy service, they should be on the hook for actually assisting the customers that have been locked into their service.

Admittedly, there's naiveté on both sides here. There difference is that the company is the one with the money and power, and they instigated this relationship by offering the service in the first place. They should shoulder the burden of fixing the problems they have created by attempting to undercut the market when it was beneficial to them.
everywhere it's the same. the problem is that it makes no sense for a state entity to force a company offer their product via a 3rd party without taking into consideration the myriad of questions that arise.
Separation of Storage and Compute, and Compute-Compute Separation in Databases
Your final sentence is false and not supported by any national population-level data.
Hwy 17 gives real meaning to "single point of failure".

Speaking of single point of failure in Santa Cruz, there was a time when the entire area lost nearly all phone and internet because a cable was cut over in San Jose (https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/04/09/san-jose-police-sabot...). Sabotage!
Do I need to do something run llamafile on Windows 10?

Tried the llava-v1.5-7b-q4-server.llamafile, just crashes with "Segmentation fault" if run from git bash, from cmd no output. Then tried downloading llamafile and model separately and did `llamafile.exe -m llava-v1.5-7b-Q4_K.gguf` but still same issue.

Couldn't find any mention of similar problems, and not my AV as far as I can see either.
Interesting, will check it out. I've done some research on parametric design, but from what I've read, it's mostly been applied to architecture and some aspects of 3D modeling. Which is kind of a shame, because it's really neat. I'm actually building a "programming language" for designers that is essentially a parametric design language.
> UCSC is an enclave on a hill with limited transport routes to downtown or the rest of the world

Right, this is how you solve it. (Most students don’t need a car parked on campus to get to the rest of the world from Santa Cruz.)
Lets go all the way then - if I spend one dollar on one billionth of a company, it is a unicorn.

OK, someone go launch UaaS - Unicorn as a Service: I'll buy a billionth of any company for a dolla, and you get to claim to be the latest unicorn!
I immediately thought of the Axolotl Tanks in Dune when I saw this list. Great name.
You offent need to make excemption file.

My tip is to run some thing one program execution, and then run it twice during the same program execution, and diff the reports.
How much more concise do you need than this?

"Design system: A complete set of standards and principles to manage design at scale. It can include, but isn’t limited to, the visual design language, typography, colour palettes, components, copywriting guidelines, and other elements that create a cohesive, scalable look and feel for the product."
We will know that AGI is more likely to be solved when FSD is easily solved.
Insanely fast whisper is mainly taking advantage of a GPU’s parallelization capabilities by increasing the batch size from 1 to N. I doubt it would meaningfully improve CPU performance unless you’re finding that running whisper sequentially is leaving a lot of your CPU cores idle/underutilized. It may be more complicated if you have a matrix co-processor available, I’m really not sure.
There's a very entertaining Irish comedian named Andrew Maxwell, and among his other activities he made a documentary about people who believe that the US government is hiding aliens in Area 51. His commentary on the whole thing, delivered on The News Quiz was as follows.

"It's easy to believe in UFO's! It's easy, just look up, "I don't know that is." Noooo need to start a website."
Let's build a WSGI server (2020)
This only means the flavours are derived from natural products like plants, bark, meat, milk, bone, etc. So not fully synthetic flavours (which are often from oil/gas), but still these will not be anything you would ever guess or recognise. Companies that use actual 'natural' flavours usually list them in the ingredientsas consumers take these as signals of the product being 'healthy' (e.g. fruit concentrates like apple concentrate or various citrus extracts, root extracts, leaf extracts, etc)
So what was the conversation?
> Optimize for flexibility and you'll end up with something that's way too complex. Optimize for speed and you'll regret it down the road. Everything's a tradeoff, but the only guarantee is that at some point, you'll feel a distinct urge to throw it all away and start over.

Very well-put, quoteworthy!
Ubuntu hosts a debuginfod server that you can automatically discover debuginfo from any binary from using the binary’s build id.

https://sourceware.org/elfutils/Debuginfod.html
Yes and as the CTO it is better to understand what products make sense for Amazon customers and implement those, instead of what he wants to use personally.
You know, every time I see articles like this from a conservative outlet, I always wonder what they want to do about it. It's not like they believe in government action to solve collective problems. Perhaps they should encourage their wealthy readership (I believe the median income of a WSJ reader is quite high) to marry these women who do not have fathers for their children?

I believe this site is populated my males with reasonable to high incomes (I could probably be said to fit that description somewhat) - maybe we should encourage the single ones among us to find single mothers to marry in order to help solve the problem?

I suppose I'm being absurd, but what is the endgame of these articles? I suspect it's just to shame single mothers (as though the party of Donald Trump has any room to try and shame others). I doubt the vast majority of single mothers explicitly planned to end up that way.
Before starlink my only option was 3MB DSL from Verizon, it was literally life changing as a WFH person to get the 100-200Mbps downloads that Starlink gave me (for $99/month).

Fast forward and now I have 1GB symmetrical fiber-to-the-home.

Really nice to have that, but the leap from DSL to Starlink was life changing, the leap from Starlink to fiber was merely a minor improvment.
Somehow wound up installing from https://github.com/mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
Don't ask me how I wound up there - I apparently followed links from this HN article.
Well, yes. Previously, anyone could put up a poster on a public Morris column in my city, now all the public space is owned by jcdecaux.
> extremely desirable

Can it be both desirable and cheap ?

Take a look at some lakefront properties in Indiana: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/605-Roosevelt-Dr-Whiting-...

Why would anyone pay 2m vs 200k ?
Sure, that (hwy 17 express) great if you want to go to Diridon in about 50 minutes if there's no traffic.

The folks who took Santa Cruz commuter shuttles at Google seemed widely miserable.
Stop. This kind of low effort comment needs to be a violation of HN rules, because it never contributes to the discussion.

See to me personally, I don't think this feels like it was written by AI. But this isn't going to be a productive topic of discussion.
Because advertisers think their concerns over their profits override literally everything. How will the poor corporations make money if they can't flood people's senses with bullshit information they don't want or need?

Driving accidents? Small price to pay, the Instagram model needs followers for her fashion business so it's totally fine for an ad depicting her in a bikini to be placed right in front of a dangerous roundabout where accidents happen on a monthly basis. I wish I was kidding, that exact ad is located just over 1 kilometer away from my house. I should take a picture of it.
I said “substantial subset” precisely to avoid this kind of tangent. My point was simply that there are a lot of edge cases we have no clear path to solving which are masked at the current level by punting the problem to the human driver. We are a very long time from being able to build cars without manual controls even if we might hit the point where a majority of driving miles are automated long before then.
How many startups start by telling investors, employees and customers, "We're going to fail"? They know the odds are that's going to happen. Are they pathological liars?

No one can predict the future. Musk is what plenty of entrepreneurs are...over-confident. That's part of the profile. That doesn't make him or any of them liars.
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