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One million percent yes.

The code shouldn't build, go green, or be in any shareable state. This is horrifically bad practice.

A language should remove all of these thorns in a first-class manner.

Until you use a package manager like Cargo, you probably can't intuit the wide gulf here. A good analogy might be imagining the world before version control.

Dependency control matters immensely. Hermeticity and repeatability matter immensely. We should strive to build these into the very foundations.
Patrick's stuff is so good. I find myself rereading his old posts when I'm bored, just to pick up on details I didn't remember from the first time I read it.
As Charlie Munger said "Show me the incentive I'll show you the outcome"

Banks have this dialed in, it's called a "personal guarantee"

You lose our money, you're personally bankrupt

Pretty well aligns the incentives

Find something comparable for data, no question the problem will improve
Without a tethered connection the bandwidth simply isn't there.
This device isn't it. The iPhone had issues when it launched, but it was magical. The Vision Pro isn't magical. It has the same issues as the Oculus. The weight in front of the face is felt after using it for a while so definitely not something that can be used for long hours. And the dinosaurs and stuff are nice gimmicks, and really cool but wear off after a while.

What is required is a device as thin as sunglasses, which basically does AR things. That will be the gamechanger and I think that will be done by another company because it feels Apple forced this one and that's sad.
I have no idea why anyone would voluntarily hammer a nail using a forehead instead of grabbing a hammer - tool made for the purpose.

Imagine that you are in a method X, which is called from 100 other methods. Method X crashes, but you don't know what method the wrong data causing a crash come from. In your scenario you will be putting 100 different printf. While somebody in debugger will just have a look on stack and will see it.
Absolutely - I created the website pppwatch.com, which currently has searchable aggregates of the data from the official SBA data source [1]. The individual loan search is down right now, not because of any C&D letters, but simply to save some money on the search cluster while I have been revamping the site in my free time with some new analysis.

1. https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-o...
> In 1988-94, the CPUs available in desktop computers were substantially more advanced than the widely used operating systems. Windows 3 and Mac System 6/7 didn't support pre-emptive multitasking, memory protection, or many other features that define a modern OS.

That was partly because RAM was over $100/MB (Nominal; ~$230 inflation adjusted) in 1990. Additionally, in the IBM compatible world, many people didn't have a 386 at that point.

Also, minor nitpick on the dates; 1993 saw OS/2 2.1 and NT 3.1, both of which had preemptive multitasking and memory protection.
Also, I'm guessing legal fees and the raw cost of severance are no joke.
It was usable on any other network, I had one and it wasn’t AT&T locked

Compared to all the smartphones of the time, it was a slow toy with no apps and a 2G connection that was completely worthless

It looked nice though, and eventually it got an app store (unnoficially first), and the overall UX was a clear winner (nobody believed touch screens would ever replace blackberry style devices!)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incide...

I wouldn’t be too smug.
I live in Vancouver, and absolutely love how we didn’t go with the freeway idea. And traffic will suck anyways, might as well let the locals enjoy the walks and life instead.
This just is not true, you can pair any model of airpods to any device that supports bluetooth. (Maybe there are exceptions but I'm not aware of them.)

I use my airpods with my Nintendo Switch and Samsung TV all the time. No Apple IDs on there.
Well, didn't want to mention that one. But I found the dynamic DNS service that I was thinking of; it was "ath.cx". These days it is operated by the same company that operates dyndns.org and homeip.net. That company is, wait for it...

Oracle.
algotrading
In my particular rural area, Apple Maps knows the street I live on exists. Google Maps still needs a call to delivery people to explain to them that their map is lying to them.
Having a few ADA parking spots is fine and a drop in the bucket compared to the wasted space from all that mandated parking.

Also, people with disabilities tend to drive less than those without them.
don't forget pinch to zoom/expand on actual webpages in an actual web browser.
That's evil. Vicious copyright predators with lawful monopoly for violence and escalation. How worse it can turn?
Unless Apple has truly screwed the pooch, this has been a solved problem. Sometimes, if you are purposely trying to work out with a VR headset, you just wear a headband to catch the sweat. Most headsets also have cheaply replaceable or even machine washable face "gaskets". If the idea of any sweat in your poor device saddens you, just point a fan at yourself while you work out.
Isn’t that what people are saying about the Vision Pro too?

Clunky and sorta useless, but “a new class of device”… eventually
In the case of my company, the camera was bad.

Also, it took over a year to be able to write apps for it.

JS Web apps were not “apps.”
Rumors of a car are still in the offing. But you're right; even if Apple Vision turns out to be a wild success, it will largely cannibalize computers/tablets/phones, not supplement them, in the long run.
I’ve done this in multiple languages. I dislike libraries that return string ids.

The proliferation of string identifiers is a pet peeve of mine. It’s what I call “stringly typed” code (not my coinage but I use it all the time).
Yep. The debugger is a bloated, boondoggling waste of time except in very special circumstances. It's like a high-tier electronic warfare ship in EVE, when you just need to shoot some rocks 99% of the time.
I've seen numba used in a few addons for Blender 3D. Speeding up reaction-diffusion simulations on meshes, things like that. Scientific computing for artistic purposes!
It used to be commonly held that Gen III was the worst of all the games with the Gen IV remakes of Gen II as the peak. Has that opinion shifted?
Do you remember the first phone that allowed you to play music? No. The first one to take photos? No. The first with internet? No.

Yet we're supposed to give to consider the iphone a revelation because of multi touch. I had the iphone 3g. It was a more polished experience than other phones but that revelation part was just not there. Apps made it big, later.

I swear people treat iPhones like a cult.
It’s for whatever. You feed button presses and get back a result.

But for a sample. Looks like this is what would sit on your custom keyboard and translate your key presses to something the OS you are plugged in to can use. It’s firmware.

Things like the glove80 and Voyager are pretty popular custom keyboards.
I met someone at a party once who claimed to do this. He turned out to be a cofounder of Twitch. There may be something to conclude here, not sure.
make an honest developer happy and you will make them as productive as the agency they are provided allows.

almost like happiness really is the thing.
The big issue is that there are many land use regulations so you by and large can't use it as you see fit. Parking minimums are a good example of this.
Show HN: Sankofa – Chat with the Browser History
Hey Hackernews,

I'm Ofer, head of developer relations at Vectara.

Some of us read a lot of articles on the web, like those on HN, and it seems useful to be able to search the contents of the text we read (using semantic search), or ask questions about it (ChatGPT style).

Sankofa is a new browser extension that allows you to index web pages you visit and search / ask questions about that content. We built it using Vectara's retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) platform and hope this is useful to folks.

This is an initial release - we would love to hear any feedback and suggestions.

BTW, Sankofa which means "to retrieve" in the Twi language of Ghana.
Everybody gangster until Deepmind starts saying mid-2010s LessWrong words
Part of it is ultra concentration of white men with few or no women in the Bay Area imo.

If you have zero social life and zero chance of a social life and the aperture of available activities is purely constrained to ultra pure social media groups of similar white men and you never interact with women individually or as a group …

Society is generally breaking down and falling apart at that point.

Normally I would expect men to moderate their behavior if there are women going: “eghhhhhh idk that is tooooooo far guys you need to chill out.”

That isn’t happening anymore, and hasn’t been happening for a while.

So now you are getting a sort of ultra distilled white male in group effect.

Women civilize men, generally, and that hasn’t been happening for years.

You are going to get cults and they are going to get more crazy.

Things like imagining a heaven where you get 77 virgins (Muslim religion) are byproducts of highly stressed out societies where men have next to zero prospects.

It’s not good. The media isn’t going to fix it tho.

My life personally post covid has declined considerably in the social domain. My circle has gotten more and more narrow and I feel more and more weird and isolated.

I don’t want to be weird and isolated. I would rather have friends and a community.

So what do I do? I actually go to church now. That’s literally my only option and I’m not even that religious.

Remote work and the isolation has put incredible stress on me as an animal. I don’t like this.
API models like Smithy can do that.
The judge has done nothing of the sort.

Judge McCormick is the chief judge of these courts and is one of the most reasonable and well regarded jurists you will find.

You would be hard pressed to find lawyers that think she is biased, unreasonable, or unfair regardless of whether they won or lost in her courtroom.

No limits of any law were pushed here. It is a well reasoned, well explained, application of existing law.

Is there some reason to smear the judge here?
This is my first article ever, from my freshly published blogsite. This is not a shill. I believe this brings some interesting opportunities on building actually useful decentralised applications, and this comes from someone who turns the other way when blockchain is mentioned. I think this technology would be particularly exciting for Lispers and Clojurians.
In other words they have attempted to rebrand themselves after justified criticism that they were promoting the mindset that sees climate change as fictional and academic enquiry as a waste of time.
Your direct link reminds me that many years ago, .tk was shadowbanned on reddit; you could see your post containing a .tk link, but no one else would. It might still be that way.

I understand the (arguable) necessity and the prolific scams, but it seemed cruel to broke teenagers.
Print this out and frame it! This is a really good Linus rant!
It feels like you’re arguing with me, but I’ve already said twice that the comfort level is still an unknown and that if it’s too uncomfortable I’m going to return it.

Also worth pointing out that the mouse seamlessly moves from your Mac screen to any native Vision Pro apps. So if I do all my web browsing in “native” Vision Pro, then add in Slack and Messages and Mail as native vision pro apps (using the same keyboard and mouse for input, mind you), I will likely only be using the virtual Mac screen for my IDE. Being able to put everything but my IDE in arbitrary virtual space around me is a step up from my single screen today, absent other comfort issues.
Jetbrains still shoehorning in AI upsell, swept user concerns under the rug
I'm arguing against shrugging and saying "it's because of remote work" when your project is falling apart. Give the benefit of the doubt when there is doubt, but once there's no doubt then build the structure you need to make progress.

Remote != Completely unstructured
This isn't a summary. You basically removed all the positive things he had to say and just left the negatives. That's not what a summary is.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23527...
> I admire your ex (if that's ok to say! :) ).

She and I are still friends; she wanted to focus on activism rather than romance.
Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012)
It sounds like you are already set up for I-5 getting obliterated.

If you only go to the south end for Ikea, Southcenter, and Seatac, how often do you really need to do those things? It's not like it becomes impossible to drive there, it just takes a little longer. Frankly, traffic in Seattle just isn't that bad compared to other major cities. I just checked the traffic from Ballard to Ikea, and it's 45 minutes on 99... I-5 isn't even the ideal route right now.

Of course I'm playing devil's advocate a little bit here, but you also have to weigh this against just how much additional real estate would come available if I-5 was gone. I don't think people's need for driving convenience actually stacks up that strongly against all the other positive considerations.
It probably depends a lot on the instruments and processing used. This deep field image from a while back

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/035/01G...

Is about 4.5k pixels(as published)/0.04 degrees (2.4 arcmin) a side so 360 degrees of that would be an image with 40 million pixel sides unless I fatfingered something in calculator.
VSCode native app when
yes true - a lot depends on the integration in that scenario though. Can I seamlessly copy and paste rich content between the, drag and drop, does the mouse seamlessly move from my Mac desktop to the safari window next to it, etc.

At a deeper level it depends a lot on the question of does Apple want this? If they do then all these will be solved over time. But if they actually see MacOS as a legacy integration then they simply aren't going to invest in encouraging people to use it. I'm waiting to see indications on which way they are going to play it.
Systolic arrays
It's odd ICANN has such a control to effect an countries income just by choosing a good abbreviation. I doubt the creators of the DNS system had any idea that domains would arbitrarily give some countries an extra form of income, profiting from people who could care less about the country it was created for. Why didn't ICANN just charge a flat fee for any string to resolve to an IP?
>Assuming a German would use a tool for anything except it's intended purpose

I heard they made some shower heads that did something else.
I guess it depends on tradition.

Some restaurants "traditionally" bring out bread or chips while you're waiting for the food (even the appetizers) to arrive.

And in most restaurants, many appetizers are not plant-based.
The arguments used here are weird. The decision says that Musk was close friends with many members of the board so he effectively controlled it. That's the case for many, if not most public companies.

The other argument was that the board didn't meaningfully push back on the proposed remuneration scheme. Yet, it amounted to a huge gamble - multiplying the value of a 50B company by over 10x -, which in case of success the board agreed to reward with 6% of shares. It sounds silly to me to suggest the board failed their duty when shareholders - including them - had record profits even discounting Musk's reward.
She's a good writer, and always has been. Most of her opinions are written in clear, plain, understandable way because as the chief judge she sees it as her job to try to set the standard for how the court should behave
I'm so torn as to what I want my future living situation to be.

I grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey and Maryland, spent a little time in my 20s in the denser-than-suburbs suburbia of the Bay Area, and then the past 14 years in San Francisco proper. More recently I've been spending 1-1.5 months at a time living out in "rural" parts of Truckee, CA.

I just don't know anymore. In San Francisco I live within a few minutes' walk of two dozen or so useful businesses (corner store, grocery, bakery, butcher, restaurants, bars, etc.), and everything I need to live I can get by walking no more than a half hour. I hate driving and love this.

In Truckee, the closest convenience store is a 40-minute walk, and all the other necessities are at least a 10-minute drive. On the other hand, I'm a light sleeper, and the intense darkness (moonlight, at most, only!) and quiet in Truckee was wonderful for restfulness. In SF we live near a Muni bus depot, where they clean buses well past midnight every night. I can mostly -- but not entirely -- get darkness with blackout blinds, but it's really not the same.

I definitely don't want to go back to the suburbs, but that sort of thing -- with much better city planning than most (all?) US suburbs have -- has potential to give me quiet and darkness, but the ability to walk everywhere I need to go.

Ultimately, though, what drives where I want to live is where my friends are. As I get older, I find it harder and harder to make new, close friends. Moving to a new place where I don't know anyone sounds like torture to me.
We have developed and tested a custom LLM for neurosurgery - a closed-loop, modular, customizable LLM for neurosurgical consultation. With the model presently undergoing validation through clinician assessment and trial for publication, its early performance and quality of response exceed that of ChatGPT and other LLMs in this area.

A smaller model (13B parameter) built on Meta's foundational model LLaMa 2 and trained with high impact robust specialized clinical data (curated manuscripts, textbooks, etc.), we aim to release it for usage in near future. The model can be a standalone publicly available clinical resource, as well as an integrated AI within our intelligent surgical systems with our built-in novel graph-based knowledge retrieval engine.

Coined GRS-AI, this custom LLM is unique and optimized for cost, modularity, and low resource on-premises deployment hosting requirements for clinical data security and compliance, re-training, fine-tuning, and better coverage of subject matter and accuracy.

A neurosurgical consultation AI at this time, expansion to broader clinics is soon anticipated, customizable to standards, safety, security, and compliances for health care (health systems, payers, care providers, etc.), irrespective of geo-spatial boundaries or jurisdictions.

Please stay tuned for updates, publications...!
Vitalik on Crypto and AI
If you search for Stroads, you inevitably bring up Vancouver. You've just swapped one evil for another. I can't imagine walking along a stroad being very nice.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2014/03/12/metro-vancouver-str...
Agile, as practiced in many large organizations with whom it is fading in popularity is practiced in the form of 'Scaled Agile Framework' - https://scaledagile.com/what-is-safe/

It takes all of the flexibility and tenants of agile development, and destroys them to make things 'ok' for people used to traditional waterfall planning methods, but keeps some of the 'ceremony' around agile so people feel like they're 'doing the thing'.
Apple seems to do well with products that are essential. Phones, computers, iPads, airpods, even iPods were essential to walk around the city and listen to music.

The Vision Pro is like Google Glass, a none essential luxury item that seems cumbersome.

I don't think this will make it TBH. But perhaps it does. And if so, seems a bit dystopian.
MDM is supported by the watch. My organization requires a 10 digit code for watches plus requires biometrics to be resolved on the primary device prior to the watch being able to control that device or interact with apps on that device
baige
facial computing
This is the actual spec: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/macr...

Not really sure what the linked repo is about.
> big.dk

At least I have found what I have expected on that domain.
Why use a new word when 'crap' seems pretty accurate
If their price was 8-9x higher, I’m sure meta could pull off something similar.

The reason they can’t is their target price is much lower.
> I quite often have buyer impulse when seeing the newest high-end Apple products. Even if I don't like the brand monopoly, even if I find their design language mostly boring and bland, there is often something weirdly appealing in their marketing.

This is an utterly bizarre stance.

I can't possibly imagine buying a product, any product, let alone a $1,000+ product, purely based on their marketing, when you admit that you don't even like the product.

Most people, when marketing convinces them to buy something, aren't really consciously aware of it. Not only are you consciously aware of it, but you acknowledge that you don't like it, and buy it anyways.
I had several and was never in close proximity to anyone other then the staff.
> I bet no one in major European cities requires to bike like ten miles each way.

15km is on the outer edge of normal (my bike commute was 11km). But yeah, we can build more densely because we don't require massive amounts of car storage everywhere in the city. The best time to start densifying was 20 years ago, but the second-best time is now.

> my city reduced one lane on several major roads and created bike paths. Sadly, we now have major traffic jams and hardly any utilization of the bike path.

Try counting how many humans use the traffic lane and the bike path per hour. You might be surprised.
I heard the display alone costs $1000. And thats with apples supply chain know how
It was posted to HN a day or two ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168603
Not to mention safe urban areas. Most US urban areas are relatively high crime, and even if you don't encounter actual crime you are made to feel unsafe by a bunch of drug addicts in hoodies who yell racial slurs and other creepy dudes who approach you unsolicited, in contrast to urban areas of e.g. East Asia which tend to be extremely safe.

Boston is about the only city in the US that I feel mildly safe walking around the downtown at night.
The folks who make up "human capital" have been reducing the value that they place on Google the employer, too.

I mean that in several ways: Google doesn't have nearly as good a record of successfully recruiting (or retaining) top-tier talent as they did just 5-10 years ago. It is no longer seen as a dream position, or even a strong candidate's first choice. Similarly, hiring managers who see Google on a resume don't treat it as highly as they did 5-10 years ago.

Google is rapidly on its way to becoming just another big boring technology company, like SAP or Salesforce or Oracle. Now the culture of those around it has finally started to catch up.
Depends on your prescription and if they're cosmetic/colored. If you go through the purchase flow it'll tell you if yours work.
For example:

It didn't multitask, even though other pocket computers for a Long Time had at least the appearance of multitasking. It didn't have the ability to install any additional software, even though other pocket computers for a Long Time handled third-party software just fine. It didn't even have a copy/paste function, even though [WTF? Srsly, Apple?].

All of these things were eventually corrected by Apple, but it was pretty awful until they were corrected: For quite some time, the iPhone was just a rather fancy touchscreen music player with telephone and SMS programs tacked on.

(More damning: All of these things were corrected very quickly by third parties via jailbreaks. Some of us were having a ball with first-gen IOS devices very early on in the game, but Apple wasn't any help in getting that accomplished.)