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> It’s got a worse track record than blockchain

This is not true. VR gaming is something some people genuinely enjoy doing and paying money for. There are more than handful of VR gaming studios that can run healthy businesses based on this market.

I'm not saying that the Vision Pro will make VR replace laptops, someday it might, who knows. But suggesting that there is zero value from VR is also not true.
They're related, though. A portion of fines fund enforcement activity. (IMHO, a higher portion should go to enforcement. Right now way too much goes into general funds.)
> I greatly admire the principles, but in practice, the Erlang platform underdelivers in a modern context, because applications are usually not deployed by hot-swapping, but by rollout on Kubernetes. High availability is achieved by load balancing over horizontal scale-out of pods. Distributed systems today use external systems for state, like databases, keyvalue/caching stores, message queues, etc.

I can believe that there are reasons to avoid BEAM in production, but "all the other ecosystems solve the same problems differently" isn't a good reason. One reason to choose the BEAM is because it offers solutions to all of these problems as part of a single coherent ecosystem. Yeah, you'll be confused if you try to take the BEAM and then roll it out on K8S, so maybe just... don't do that?

If you want to compare and contrast BEAM's solutions with the more typical modern suite, that would be more persuasive. Just saying "it's bad because it's different" isn't, because the differences are why people are interested in it.
It would be easier and simpler to use a portable LCD monitor. They do exist and are simpler, smaller, and cheaper than a VR headset. Tablets could have been used for the same use case.

But...they aren't. People don't want it. What they want is a computer so light that it's always available. Most people seem to carry phones for consumption and sometimes lightweight laptops for work.
> You can’t exist like that in the current MBA driven stock market.

Their supply chains and customers will evaporate? Or you mean they can't access the market for cash at valuations that make sense?

Depending how they operate, only one of those is existential. Any number of firms that the markets soured on simply bought themselves back private and carried on existing.
I'd argue even 4-5 things can still be ok given they're significantly (enough) different sizes. Recently I needed to show how our online revenue was split between 5 different products and the pie chart worked perfectly.
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Sure. I said we can decide to treat things we can tell apart as non-fungible. I didn't say we had to.

If it's things we can't tell apart (say, liters of oil in the same tank), we are pretty much forced to treat them fungibly. I say pretty much, because there are such things as LIFO and FIFO accounting conventions - sometimes we do our damndest to tell apart things that can't really be told apart.

But if we can tell them apart, it's up to us. We have decided to treat money (incl. physical bills) as fungible in most contexts. With laws.

Even with laws there are limits: If someone wants to pay a debt to me, and offer to settle with a 200 NOK bill, it would be illegal for me to refuse, even if I knew this bill had been stolen from me earlier that night.

But if it was a $10 bill, or a bitcoin, it would be perfectly legal for me to refuse. With crypto tokens in general, there's to my knowledge no government on earth stopping me from declaring that I will take payment in bitcoin minted only on Thursdays.
Looks great. I would love to give it a try if it had Chinese support. The japanese support looks good though, maybe another reason to try learning.
10kw stove output? "Novel battery usage". I don't know of another stove that uses a battery?
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There can't be evidence for something for which no evidence was sought.

Coming from academic physics background, the state of medical research boggles me. Let's start from so called "meta studies". Why are they needed? You'd think that if the individual studies were done carefully enough, a single study would be enough to establish a fact. Instead, you see meta studies with sentences like "we examined 142 studies on X for Y, out of which 76% showed statistically significant improvement". If we assume that the majority "vote" here is the correct result, what the hell did the 24% of the studies do wrong? Why aren't the people who made them expunged from the community for doing questionable research?
Especially when you can’t see these people and their reactions anymore anyway.
afaik gforth doesn't have bigforth's native-code compiler
Yeah this is what I was referring to: GPU/FP issue which, btw, had been explained to me in the past here on HN...
> Where "finally assembly" means screwing on a door handle after the rest of the car was shipped from China.

Do you know that for sure? According to Wikipedia:

- Canoo's research & development team is based in Michigan, in the Detroit region (Auburn Hills, Livonia), but production operations are in Justin, Texas.

- On June 17, 2021, the company announced they would build a new factory in Pryor, Oklahoma (just outside Tulsa) to manufacture all of their future vehicles.

- On November 15, 2021, the company announced it would move its headquarters to Bentonville, Arkansas and establish a manufacturing plant there.[37] As of December 2022 the company still lists Torrance, California as its headquarters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoo
It's clearly not good enough to pass a border, or to buy alcohol.

And here I have absolutely no idea if it is true or not. I don't know you, I can't see you. You could be a bot, a dog, a scammer, a teenager... Your evidence means nothing "evident".
In other words...Your rights to the content you created, are disturbing the road to my IPO?
Airplane mode on iOS does _not_ by default turn off wifi and bluetooth, just the cellular radio. At least in Europe; it's possible that this is driven by regional regulations. Though I think pretty much everywhere allows use of the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands in the air now.
Yeah, I mean proving I lied is the hard part.

If I want to tell Uncle Sam or a prospective employer I have no social media then that’s the whole point. :/

Your example is what will surely happen though at the most “opportune” time, too.
What type of 'electromagnetic radiation' is now specially new to this device?

And what health risks are you aware of, i'm not?

You do know, that light is the same thing right? And you do know that even without a headset you do have radio waves and wifi around you constantly?
Actually that’s the book of Isaiah (Isaiah 14:12) but it doesn’t say Satan, it says Lucifer. That’s the only reference to Lucifer in the Bible (old or New Testament), and that’s been interpreted as Lucifer = Satan = fallen angel who led a rebellion in heaven, but there’s not much else to this, at least not in the Bible.
The higher you go, the more expensive you get. And the fewer places see the value you bring compared to a cheaper "senior sw dev" with 5 years of experience.

If you want to be paid more than someone with 5 years, you have to generate more value than they do, and you have to persuade the hiring manager that you can generate more value. The fraction of places that can see that is smaller than the fraction that can see the value of a senior over a junior. (On the other hand, for those places, the competition for the jobs is also less severe - there aren't tons of people with 20 years of experience on the street at any given time.)

So it takes longer than it did when you had 5 years of experience. But keep looking. There are places that will see the value in what you provide.

The job category you're looking for is "principal software engineer" or "staff software engineer".
Publishing a claim doesn't make it the scientific truth. Case in point, the many thousands of published studies about ESP.
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This is pretty much a myth. Both run a different kernel. macOS used be known to have a network stack (and maybe some stuff like a virtual file system) from freebsd but I am pretty sure most of the code has been replaced by now.

Having some BSD userland binaries doesn't make your OS a BSD. Otherwise Windows is just a fork of curl.
Buying a first-generation battery-laden appliance from a new startup in a category where my existing electric stove is about 20 years old and still works fine is quite the serviceability risk.

Batteries are definitely disposables. Would love to understand what degree of standardization exists and what the replacement will look like after 5-8 years on this product. If there isn't a plan, their "sustainability" pitch is nothing more than greenwashing.

I get this is for price-insensitive luxury early-adopters, but it would be nice if startups rewarded their early customers with something like extended warranties for the extra company risk they're taking on, especially with something expected to last 15-20 years. If these guys are around in 8-12 years, they will have ideally 10x'd their volume a few times by then so the extra warranty costs will be minimal. But most startups fail, so odds are this appliance will be e-trash then... would be nice to have some bonus reward for being the first to take on that risk.
Are there any 'smart' appliances that can respond to what is happening in the pot?

If the recipe says 'bring to boil, then simmer', then I want the smart stove to do that ~10 kW at first and automagically lower the power once the content is boiling.
Was not expecting this departure
ECFR: Supplement No. 4 to Part 744, Title 15
Ballmer didn't understand that phones would become a very strong consumption device. If we were just talking about productive work and phone calls he'd be right. What niche do VR headsets fill in user demand that is currently unfilled? There may well be one - I'm not posting for the sake of making Ballmer's exact mistake - but I don't know what it is.
This is not really "sieve-ing" per the article, but what prevents me from running another process that periodically queries the data in a cache? Like just running a celery queue in Python that continually checks the cache for out of date information constantly updating it? Is there a word for this? Is this a common technique?
FWIW I never use a code editor with the compiler running locally, I always use VSCode Remote. Even before that I just used a bare bones editor like Atom and SSHFS (or similar) to edit and compile stuff remotely.
Call me back when PWAs can be registered as share targets on iOS (i.e. it appears as an app on the share sheet when you click "share" on a web page). I really want the ability to bookmark sites I browse on my phone and save it to a self-hosted web application.
I'm really interested in this job but wondering if you are you open to (non-US) remote candidates?
Another API that Google implemented that Mozilla and Apple made similar objections to is WebUSB.
Cause the features in this are the features that are needed to make this widely adoptable. Using the finger gestures instead of needing additional control hardware is key but expensive. Being able to switch between the virtual world and the real world seamlessly is key but expensive. The hope is that enough people hear about it and think it's cool that is forces the R&D to push down the price on this tech to be able to make it more widely accessible. Because without those kinds of features, AR/VR will always be niche.
Twitter is facing mounting debt, large quarterly loses, and lost tens of billions of dollars in valuation. I wouldn't use that as a success story.

From the WSJ, so no complaining about liberal bias.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-elon-musks-twitter-faces-mo...
What’s the definition of success for this product though? That’s what I’m having a hard time sussing out.

It’s not fair to compare to an iPhone.
There's nothing particularly contradictory about that: there's already situations where that is the case. For example when a book contains images which are public domain, or where elements of the book like the facts within it are not copyrightable. Another interesting one is tabletop game manuals: the layout and presentation of the rules are copyrightable, but the game mechanics generally aren't. So you can make a book which just contains the rules and not be infringing copyright. Using AI-generated images would be exactly the same situation.
It's interesting that you mentioned the good devs leaving, because they never got the chance. The owner had a policy of only hiring average devs and 10x devs were fired with extreme prejudice. His hiring theory was similar to modern server management: Cattle, not pets. It should be possible to fire a dev on Monday and have their replacement closing tickets by Friday. Good devs were harder to replace than average devs, so every good dev was a liability.

This policy was also useful for retention. Other firms in the area knew that he fired all of the good devs, so they never tried to poach his employees. In fact, if you got tired of the toxic environment and quit, the firm's name on your resume meant that you probably weren't going to get another dev job without leaving town. When a dev sees their former colleagues making sandwiches at Subway, another weekend of unpaid overtime doesn't sound as bleak.
Honestly, I can't imagine a better use case for this thing.

It's not like users will be allowed to play real games or install a real OS.

I'd like to know how it handles itself when you throw 8K120fps HEVC or AV1 at it. If it can't do that, then how could it ever compete with a $2500 PC and a Valve Index?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your proposal, but it seems to undermine process isolation. If you trust processes to yield under a co-operative multitasking system, why not trust them to leave each other's memory alone?
I don't think people bought those just for playing around with it.

They upgraded or started using those generic machines for generic things.

You can't just buy this and use it as a replacement.
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https://archive.is/6qlrQ
If those are the Canoo vehicles that I'm thinking of, then the front visibly is excellent, but maybe also not how you expected:

https://insideevs.com/news/657023/this-is-the-view-you-get-r...

It's not a screen, just a tinted window.
Fun fact, there was an Apple iSight before some time ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight

I think I even had one.
No idea. Like I said, my feed is pretty clean in the UK.
Was this planned? What is behind this move?
They do. Source ISO images are a relic of the fact one of the ways sources would be distributed was on a physical CD.
I saw that. I would love to see them demo this.
> If you applied those same limitations to C it would be just as if not more safe.

If frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their butts when they hop.

If you add all the security guarantees of Rust to C you would have something substantially similar to rust.

As to your last point, it's very easy in rust to isolate those operations so you can just go over those with a fine tooth comb and not have to worry about unsafe stuff appearing everywhere in your code.
While it is incredibly unlikely I will get a version one of this product without some major feature being announced.

I am excited for this to come out, and to have a company that won't just abandon it actually try their hand at this. I stand by my opinion that if anyone can manage to make a device like this mainstream, it will be Apple. They have the money and the patience to do it.

Now "If" that will happen is still up in the air, but given how many other products have just disappeared after a single less than successful product I have high hopes.

Especially given all of the groundwork they have already been putting into place for this on iPhones for years with their AR kit.

That being said for me the single biggest thing I need to see improved to consider this is how it works with a Mac. This will likely be a more closed platform meaning I can't use it for coding, but if I can hook up my Mac and do more than just a virtual display and actually control the windows independently, it will likely be a very quick purchase for me. Considering how much my monitors right now cost, this price isn't that insane. But the idea of having a truly portable Mac work station would be incredibly invaluable.

Edit: I also stand by my opinion that Apple likely knows this version will not be a success and they already know it's going to take a few versions to hit mainstream. I feel like this is emphasized by the "Pro" name being added giving them room for a non pro version later.
> versus the amount of additional development effort in supporting GNU/Linux

The 3D APIs will be a decent chunk of that effort, I thought.
What are the implications for shipping costs and times?
What's the fan like in that Hatco? I have a countertop induction cooker and I use it less often than I'd like because its fan runs full blast, at all times, regardless of the power setting. If I need to cook something at a very low heat for hours the fan noise is just too obnoxious to tolerate.
That's a great idea! A boost button, to run 20 seconds or something, would suffice for most needs. Or a boost "timer knob" for that tactile goodness.
This has been the case for practically all of 2023. We posted an entry level UX position and got over 1000 applicants in a week. Even senior positions (what I was looking for) are flooded with applicants that total in the mid-hundreds. I was laid off at the end of the holidays in 2023 and only found my current position through sheer luck of networking.
It’s micro-OLED, not micro-LED. Completely different tech.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/what-is-micro-oled-apple...
The virtual objects and eye tracking are the features that, if they nailed it, seem to really set it apart. When they first launched the iPhone small details like the scrolling and pinch to zoom were just done so well, it changed the game with user interaction. I'm hoping the advances in this device have a similar impact on users.
A full time employee?

So bloated!

You can get by with a part-timer working half the week.
Sorry, this came across as salesy. My goal was to test the temperature and send more information and tips later on. But does that qualify this as spam?

Anyway, the tips you shared are great; the only issue is that most people don't have the means to go to France for an immersion. And Québéc, while a great place, is not really the best place to learn French, the French way. If your goal is to learn Canadian French, Quebec, without a doubt, is a great place to go.

Thanks for chiming in. I appreciate the feedback.
Terribly Ugly might be the lifestyle that those Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles are delivering.

Seriously, I would be happy to see those quirky things on the road.
You're probably right. I guess what I'm really looking for is something like ubuntu server but an even smaller attack default attack surface and with apk packaging since that just works and apt and rpm automatic update has either been too complex or buggy and lead to bad outcomes where patches I thought were being applied were not being applied. I'm not married to musl. Some of my stuff I would like to use breaks without systemd though.
Ah, I believe you meant micro-OLED. The names are unfortunately very similar.

I'm more excited about Samsung's micro OLED with no color filters that will push the brightness and/or reduce power consumption.

AFAIK, Apple's Sony micro OLED does have color filters. So there is definitely an opportunity for another display upgrade.
I thought the Rust ABI wasn't even stable?
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Looks like they added a "Dual Loop Band", aka a top strap, as well.
Imagine 10 km/h, the more hours you have drive the more kilometers you've driven. Similarly, with £/QALY the more QALYs you've paid for the more £ it will have cost.
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That contradicts the assertion made in the article:

Well, since thread cancellation is implemented using exceptions, and
thread cancellation can happen in arbitrary places, we’re always liable
to a cancellation happening in a noexcept block, which is undefined
behavior, and which in practice will cause your program to crash.

So since C++11, and especially since C++14 where destructors are marked
as noexcept by default, thread cancellation is essentially useless in C++
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> his thesis ended up being just a collection of his publications

We have in France the concept of "thesis on publications" where you write an intro, an outro/conclusion, and bind your articles in the middle. This is very helpful when you have already published everything that builds your thesis.
The cognitive dissonance I'm getting from reading the comments here is pretty staggering. Where I live (The Netherlands) me and every IT person I know is getting absolutely hounded by recruiters. As an additional anecdote I'll add that I've just switched jobs to a start-up on very favorable terms and the recruitment process basically amounted to being cold called and asked "hey you wanna work here?".

Can anyone here comment on whether this horrible job market is a US specific situation or whether I'm living in some kind of weird bubble?
'No evidence' is not a satisfying answer.

It's very easy to satisfy the human mind. It's very easy to stay satisfied. The human mind wants to be satisfied, it does not want the truth. Consult any list of fallacies to see the difference between facts and satisfaction. The true nature of the universe is very complex and hard to understand.

Thus we have science. Science, as a practiced art, is a way to delay satisfaction of the mind. My mind will not be satisfied about question X until certain questions are answered.

(Bear with me) It can be very clearly observed that the Sun goes around the Earth. Every day I can observe this. I am satisfied. It is ONLY when other questions come up, that I must become unsatisfied and make more observations, and come up with a new theory.

I may observe the phases of the moon, and see that the Sun shines on the lunar surface from a certain angle. This observation is not consistent with the Sun orbiting the Earth, as I know that the Moon is closer to Earth than the Sun; thus the daily Lunar cycle should match Earth's cycle. My observations are not consistent. (There's also a lot of other evidence, but I like this one).

In fact, it is just an illusion caused by the Earth spinning round.

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Science communicators need to talk about tests a lot more - what mental model is an expert using, and how do they test that model? How is evidence incorporated into that model to update it?
This website (whether you mean HN or the topic website) works well on both my PC and my mobile phone. On which platform is it not responsive for you?
“Jeff Epstein Appointed Chair of the Twilio Board of Directors”

That’s an unfortunate name to have. I’ve always wondered how people handle when this happens. If it’s as big a deal as I feel it would be if it were me.
Most interesting to me is that they’re sticking to the M2. There was a lot of speculation they’d stealth upgrade to M3, since that is now available.
Because that has additional hardware instead of using your hands and does not allow seamless transition between the real world and virtual.
I've seen this stated in a couple places, but IIRC the kernel is C++ and the UI is Dart. I assume lots of things in between could be in rust, but do you know which? daemons, services, drivers, window server?