skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a brand new product line.

Similar to AirPods - the headset market has been around for a while now.

There's ~12M VR headsets being sold per year already. As far back as 2019 - there were ~5M VR headsets being sold per year.
Of course inheritence is a transfer of property, in the only meaningful sense!
The throughline of the blog seems to be that the public at large have uncovered that tech (the industry) isn't about tech (the cool stuff we build) anymore, it's just a vehicle for marketers.

I suppose there's a cynical question to follow up: was tech ever about tech? If so, when/how did that change? If not, how did the public get fooled for so long?
Feynman could've done it, with a little luck anyway. :-)

https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/abacus/feynman.html
Then the product is dead in the water.
Didn't know him before. Googled his blog in case people are looking https://feld.com/blog/
I recently got a popup in youtube to unlink the accounts, so already on their way.
A little related, back in the day Sun Microsystems came up with picoJava, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava, a full microprocessor specification dedicated to native execution of java bytecode. It never really went anywhere, other than a few engineering experiments, as far as I remember.

For a while Linus Torvalds, of the Linux kernel fame, worked for a company called Transmeta, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta, who were doing some really interesting things. They were aiming to make a highly efficient processor, that could handle x86 through a special software translation layer. One of the languages they could support was picoJava. IIRC, the processor was never designed to run operating systems etc. natively. The intent was always to have it work through the translation layer, something that could easily be patched and updated to add support for any x86 extensions that Intel or AMD might introduce.
https://cloudcustodian.io

Create a rule and shame them on Slack.
Depending on how you define America, use of psychedelics goes back a bit further than the 20th century, or the arrival of Europeans. For example, here's a nice overview of the history of mescaline, the active ingredient in peyote cactus:

https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2019/09/17/from-the-dese...
A lot of it is what you pay attention to. It's easy to get pinned to trends that looked optimistic when you were young. Those trends may falter and fail, but they're blades of grass in a field.
Given that X11 is going away, the server (except for Xwayland) is unmaintained, and in a few years modern software just won't support it at all... the sooner you switch, the better.
There shouldn't be much controversy over fixing pandemic-era over hiring. But that's just the public-facing rationale. Betting more heavily on AI tech might be the real reason.
Planes get swapped out last minute pretty often, its pretty much the only way to avoid full airline meltdowns every time one flight is 60 minutes late to take off. Hell, there was no huge meltdown in the US once the 737 MAX was grounded, twice. They just swap them out, the system knows how to do it efficiently

An evil (but working) way to bypass this once 737s are flying again, would be to put a different plane with similar layout on every flight, then swap to the 737 on the itinerary the day before

Different plane, different seat, is pretty aggressively baked into TOS
your too late already...all that time wasted on the office pool table has given an edge to all your competitors, and since your still doubting itll only get worse
I'm gonna guess it's mostly rich techies who buy every product Apple releases. Remember there is a market for their $700 Mac Pro wheels (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-w...).
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I'm not sure that's a fair blanket statement to make. I don't think I've bought any new devices with only 1gig ports in quite some time. My work laptop has 2.5GbE, my 5 year old desktop has 2.5GbE, my NAS has 10GbE, etc. 2.5GbE switches have also gotten quite cheap.

My WiFi 6 router only has gigabit LAN ports, but that's because I didn't personally need to go any higher than that. Faster options were available at the time I bought it.

My point is that consumer electronics are generally available with >1GbE if the application suits it. If you only buy the cheaper models then 1GbE is more common. There are plenty of applications where even 1GbE is overkill and spending any more money on a faster link would be throwing away money.
Probably because it's a sort of call to arms to those languages to try and improve things where Zig is currently on top :D.
Some of those can't be fixed (e.g. hidden control flow, hidden allocations) but some can (e.g. I think D has an alternative allocator API, it can now compile C/C++ code as well, and I believe its package manager is trying to add support for system dependencies as well).
There doesn't seem to be any justification offered on why it's not yet open source.
Not that one is required, but it is suspicious that such a commitment isn't a priority, and that maybe there is a desire to keep closed-source as an option.

Personally, I'd not want to check any assets into such a tool before it becomes open-source.
I worked adjacent some telecom consultants in the 90s whose income was solely driven by a percentage of cost savings they could trim from telephone bills. Seemed like a very brash business model but they clearly knew there was gold to be mined.

I keep thinking I should be doing "cloud optimization" work and being compensated this way. Slicing and dicing output from usage/billing APIs and providing an "optimized spend" probably has the potential for a lot of low hanging fruit.
Can you help me understand why rolling code attacks aren't broken on most cars but are broken for garages?

Also, are attacks like this real/common/easy to pull off? https://youtu.be/1SUGf6OwRzw Where the signal is amplified from the key inside the house to the car. How does the car/keyfob not detect it's signal/noise ratio or time for roundtrip is all messed up distance wise?
"god says scam the rubes"
Slightly related, are there any good photo management alternatives to Photoprism that leverages more recent AI/ML technologies and provides a GUI for end users?
Evolution of AI and Amara's Law
Amara’s law aptly captures the dichotomy in our perception of technological advancements like AI. As we navigate the short-term challenges and excitement, it’s crucial to maintain a balanced perspective, acknowledging both the current limitations and the vast potential.
I wonder how much duplicate or redundant computation is happening in GPT due to idential, multiple spellings of words such as "color" and "colour".

Humans don't tokenize these differently nor do they treat them as different tokens in their "training", they just adjust the output depending on whether they are in an American or British context.
Enriching AWS does not threaten their social standing.
I wish that was true, but those extensions are far from flawless. Still, they are a massive improvement over having to click away all banners, especially for those of us who have our browsers set to clear cookies when quitting the browser.
Neither does random layoffs.

Nor does sitting on thumbs for years and missing the AI revolution, right after inventing it.
It annoys me every time a company makes a long-requested change, but only for EU users. Since the technical work required for it had to be done anyway, it seems to be pure malice that they don't just give it to everyone.
I already unlinked myself from all those.
Ruth Porat IMHO is a worse offender. After the layoffs last year she was like "I was head of Morgan Stanley during the Global Financial Crisis" and Memegen was all "That is not the flex you think it is." Go from ruining the American economy to ruining Google...

Most of the dysfunction within Google comes from management trying to manipulate a finance department that is not-very-bright to loosen their purse strings for their pet projects. There's a lot of "That Slides presentation seems pretty promising, here's another $250M for you" and not a whole lot of understanding of how to build an enduring product.
Well, it’s definitely fathomable. Does my employer have cost control baked into their proceses, tooling, and culture or are they rushing me to get projects out the door leaving barely enough time to make sure they’re production-ready?

Most places I’ve worked had no formal production readiness review before launching infrastructure.
So watching the FAA lurch to life after it delegated/abandoned its regulatory mission isn't a horrified response?

Or is that business as usual in your estimation?
I was curious about that as well. He probably doesn't tell because there would be instant arguing. To be fair though, hardware development feels like it has slowed down while the parts are becoming more expensive.

I have a thing where I wait to upgrade my workstation until performance of newer hardware has 2x'ed on most workloads. I had to wait quite long this time. My trusty 1080 Ti was not 2x'ed until fairly recently, and that came at a hefty price and much increased power draw. It feels like a lot of low hanging fruits have already been picked.
Have you looked at news regarding the intelligence agency in Canada or do you just like claiming people are crazy with your tinfoil hat comment?
I get paid the same whether or not I spend time going around to save company cost, it’s not like they’re going to share their savings, then shareholders get their juice, management gets their juice and Im the clown who went out of my way for them, who cares
I do software not cost management
He has rolling multi year vests and annual trading plans.
But miette already produces quite good error messages! On par with Rust's IMO: https://github.com/zkat/miette
It is not the activists fault that the company wants to track you. They do not have to show you that stuff if they don't so unnecessary tracking
Does the requirement to pass around an allocator end up causing a "what color is your function" problem?
The huge achievement of Amazon was designing a system and selling it to people where developers no longer had to pre-approve spending. Previously developers were hamstrung by purchase order requirements; it could take weeks to authorize a single computer. Now the pendulum has swung in the direction. Developers can spend unlimited amounts of company money without realizing, billed in arrears.

And in many cases this is a huge net win! After all, there's another way to waste company money invisibly: design a process which requires meetings and waiting while work is held up.
Unfortunately my friend, basic politeness is a lot to ask for in this day and age.
Philosophically speaking, is it really hidden control flow if a function call just happens to look like a attribute access?
I have always had this sort of nagging feeling about the way BSD sockets works: it really is a bit strange that the reading and writing operations are effectively entirely separate. When you write to most FDs, the inverse operation is reading; but sockets don't work that way, reading and writing are effectively working on two different streams!

The insight that a TCP connection is basically equivalent to a pipe is a pretty good demonstration of how this could have been better.

As another related example, imagine if the same had been done for standard I/O. What if instead of having separate file descriptors, all of the standard I/O happened through one file descriptor? Imagine how much more painful everything would be.

Unfortunately, this is now pretty much how a lot of stuff works, but it did not really have to go this way.
Or just buy the real deal: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325965381740

I find it hard to believe it's only $62 shipping.
Show HN: Retrieve the source code for any model made available on replicate.com
I wrote a script that retrieves the source code of any public model made available on replicate. I'm able to setup, modify and run new models on my local system in a few minutes.

It's nothing too crazy, but it will save me many many hours in the future :]
I am tired of people that complain and don't offer a way concrete forward.

This is why the free software movement failed and why the fediverse will obviously fail.
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Tesla "its just another software update away" pumps are the most delusional.

Tesla cameras aren't even class leading in the automative industry, let alone at the cars price point. They are worse than the iPhone you handed down to your tween 5 years ago. What makes anyone think that their quality and placement will ever be adequate even with new CPUs and better software?
Rebasing is extremely easy with git. Sounds like more of a skill problem then a git problem.
Idk man Bard has been better than ChatGPT imho.

It has reduced my time spent on Google Search or watching long youtube videos (which is where most of their Ad revenue comes from). Not sure if thats already showing up in quarterly results but it's a hard job keeping those numbers up while this big transition is happening. Doesn't matter who the CEO is.
i actually quite liked the porter E175E2 i flew on, CRJs can go eat shit for sure though
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If you apply this reasoning to the MAX statistics, then you have to apply it to the statistics of all the other planes, too, which also received various changes and updates during their service lives improving their safety and you are back to square one, that is MAX is much less safe than other planes
I think that's a rather low bar. Coming off of IE6, any browser that is advertised on the front page of Google just needs to not suck to be successful.
Did you work in this field? I just don’t find that a fair characterization. They are all still doing blue-sky research.

There is a ton of further research to be done in deep models. A lot of it will incorporate LLMs because that is currently the most powerful primitive you have.
Research is a lot more closed now but I would not take that to mean research is no longer happening.
Rationally, this is an incredible overreaction.

The probability of encountering something like this is so astronomically low, you'd be better off buying a newer, safer car because you're more likely to be killed driving to the airport to get on a 737 MAX.
Might be referring to the notion that nowadays dentists are more generous with anesthesia. E.g. it used to be normal to pull out wisdom teeth without general anesthesia.
Also their diagnostic tools have gotten a lot better (recent x-rays are insanely detailed).
They aren't firing the people they allegedly wrongly hired.

Google is still valued as a growth company. They need to hire everyone they can to build new profitable things.
This page seems only halfway there. These are not quite terminal arguments. No hidden allocations, standard lib is optional, simplicity - all cool! But the question is, when are those the right tradeoffs?

For example, I could see these being attractive in embedded work. I could see the simplicity becoming a headache in other contexts, like making abstracted all-purpose numerical libraries a la Eigen.

Maybe I am wrong about those particulars! But I would like the arguments completed: Zig has X distinctive features, which you should prefer if you do Y.

This is relevant to my interests right now: I am working on scaling up some scientific algorithms for astronomy research which have been well prototyped in Python, but which need to be faster. I am currently, unhappily, doing my work in C++ after abandoning Rust for being too immature in its CUDA and SIMD support, while also feeling pretty complex. Would Zig do well enough for me? I want a little more ink on the page to help me think this through.
Search quality is diminishing because "the web" as a graph of hyperlinked text documents where any domain name is a priori equally likely to contain a gem of information you're looking for, doesn't really exist anymore.
If we're hoping for things, what about an even semi-conscious consumer base that just doesn't purchase cloud appliances?

Collective action would end this problem overnight, just like it did here (although I think they are insane for buying cloud appliances in the first place).
I switched to Bing (and some smaller engines) after Google failed to find exact ASCII matches on sites I care about.

Bing is not yet superior, but it's mostly good enough and abandoning Google felt like a big relief somehow...
Our decisions are based on what we think is a net benefit not what is.
Root Canal treatment has gotten objectively better. I have got about 10 of those over last 18 years. The first one was spread across three weeks, 6-7 sittings. Compare that to the latest one I had a few months ago. One week, three sittings. And significantly less painful.
Which is why your slice of the organization gets a cloud budget. Don't keep your budget under control, well no bonuses for the employees.

>Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome
I read a point about lowering activation energy on JDK website about making language more approachable. Though Zig is lower level language and much of use for typical enterprise devs like me it does have vibe of low activation energy.

I feel a lot of useful software will be written in Zig once it is picked by young/upcoming clever developers.
I think OP is referring to Sundar's time as a CEO which started in October 2015. Crome's rise had already flattened out by then: https://www.statista.com/statistics/545520/market-share-of-i...
Unless you look at things with the money lense.

Seems to me Search must be yielding like crazy. Android is too. User trust is high. Youtube is booming even though tiktok.

I think the man is doing great. At least he is printing real money.
well the whole point of MCAS was to allow pilots to fly the 737MAX without needing another type rating
I see an impending intersection of three phenomena, with potentially disastrous results for society:

* Social media is decreasing the average attention span. TikTok is accelerating the trend of people not having time to look past a soundbite or headline in an endless scrolling feed. Intellectual depth and critical thinking vanishes.

* AI deep fakes make truth unknowable. Given the above, the majority of people will take these at face value, or they will give up, because "who can even know what's true anymore?"

* UBI (required because of the coming labor automation revolution) will keep everyone complacent. I'm happy, why would I care who gets elected, or what the government does, as long as I can still buy stuff and eat well?

The logical conclusion is that we fully transition from citizens into a herd of consumers with goldfish attention spans. Voter participation rates plummet. The populace is no longer able to hold government accountable.
Seems like we have ended up on the wrong side of the HN hivemind, reality be damned.
I see equity funding as useful starting funding.

Publishers are great for finishing funding once you know what your game is.
How sad is it that the state of the airline industry - from manufacturing to maintenance to actually flying - triggers a need for something like this?

In Foundation, the lack of the ability to fix things signaled the impending end of the Empire. We need to build a library..
why is it about time??

VCS is sort of a solved problem like SQL.

it's like saying it's about time someone revisited those Javascript frameworks.
More layoffs will certainly make Google's search better!
This is gonna sound dumb, but Peak Helium is supposed to be like in the 22nd century, and it’s actually technically possible to extract it from gas giants using large floating platforms and launch it (with multi-stage, reusable nuclear rockets) to orbit and send it back to Earth. Uranus is probably the best planet for this.

Helium 4 is one of the few bulk substances with enough value per kilogram to be potentially worth shipping across interstellar distances. (Helium 3 easily is valuable enough, but the market for it is tiny.)

The prices of liquid helium are sometimes up to $50-100/liter, which is $400-800/kg. Launch prices from Earth may reach as low as $10-20/kg in the following decades, so it’s not impossible that nuclear analogues of vehicles like Starship could reach $400-800/kg to Earth. Helium-3 is worth orders of magnitude more, and probably can be made to work with expendable chemical rockets from Uranus cloud layer to low Uranus orbit and rendezvous with other near-term propulsion (electric propulsion?) back to Earth, if there was a Big market for low-neutron fusion fuel.

Talking about in 100 years, of course.

So the space nerd side of me almost hopes we use up all our helium so prices are high enough so we can harvest it from the gas giants.
It may be prudent to note that git by default is rather kind in that way that it will not change your data unless you explicitly force it to with --force or --hard. I think git, as hard to learn as it can be, sometimes have a bit of an unfair reputation here. It's not all bad.

Not only is it quite careful about not losing data, someone actually took the time to make it spit out messages that not only describes what just happened, but also gives suggestions of what to do next depending on how the user wants to proceed. That adds a level of discoverability that is usually associated with dialog based guis. The quality of these messages can sometimes be surprisingly good, far from the Clippy-level helpfulness you sometimes see.

There are a few exceptions to the principle of not losing local changes, where you explicitly restore an old version of a file for example. But saying the default behaviour is destructive really gives a false impression.

But yes, you are absolutely right that a system to recover unsaved work is a good thing, but I would argue that it belongs at the editor level, not in a version control system. A user could have a number of files open that have local changes. The editor has a much better idea in which order changes were made, and which changes hasn't even been committed to disk yet.
A better question is, why zig when you could use jai instead?
Amazon ECS is the new EC2 for crypto mining
We should be getting kickbacks from Amazon for all the work we’ve done for their bottom line.
Those are all acquired services, so the opposite is likely: they were linked together through the number of ugly hacks.
Oh wow, I actually bought Rise to play it on my Steam Deck from time to time, that sucks. Since it's "verified" I'll try to get a refund.
I literally bought it to play on my Steam Deck as it's less graphically intensive than Monster Hunter World (which I read was a bit laggy on the Deck). If this doesn't get fixed, I am going to ask for a refund.
I think I would give them that one, they were only able to recover the data because they got lucky, not because the system was designed to not destroy data. I would go even further coming from my infra background, even if you don't truly lose production data, if you have to reach into your DR backups that's a failing of the systems in place that come before it.
That is trivially refuted by the website.

https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/our-work#focus-4-early-chil...

And all governments of the last 30 years have been spending money on children: Harper had sports credits, and the Universal Canada Child Benefit. Trudeau replaced it with Canada Child Benefit and has added daycare subsidies, dental and drug cover for minors.

The bigger problem is that nobody in the world has figured out what effective "pro-natal" policies look like. You can't push on a string.
We could have these regulations in the US, too, if we voted for them.
`fsmonitor` is still only available for Mac and Windows.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...