skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This money is likely already taxed, albeit to a lower rate than usual as most of it is coming from capital gains which caps out at 20% in the USA.

Let's talk real numbers instead of wishy-washy platitudes.

Nov. 2023: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/infrastructu...

This page confirms a 1.2 TRILLION dollar investment into US infrastructure. That's 4 times higher than even if you were to take all that SV money at gunpoint and invest it into infrastructure.

I don't want to defend the "cash pile". The crunch is real, and it sucks, but unless it is hoarded for years to come, it still moves a hell of a lot faster than public money, on much lower numbers overall. And innovation money (which a lot of this cash pile would go towards) tends to benefit the entire world, not just the US.

I don't see how your magic-wand suggestion would benefit anyone any faster, honestly.
Your condescending bone-to-pick attitude about people using cryptocurrency is kind of cringe.
> CBMC isn't perfect, but when coupled with a good linter and -Wall / -Werror / -Wpedantic, it is a very useful layer in a defense in depth strategy for safer software.

I agree to a certain extent, but at what point are you putting in more effort than it would take to migrate to a stricter language that offers more safety by default?
I was told Jony Ive personally quit over this project. He felt it was fundamentally wrong, and the first product Apple made post Jobs that directly contradicted the vision of the company.

And not in a Porsche shouldn't make an SUV sort of way -- rather on the way out he shared some pretty well articulated moral issues with the product and how Jobs would release buggy products, but rarely fundamentally flawed ones.

This IMO is Tim Cooks first totally original product. The Watch was an Ive product. It will mark whether or not he can find original needs in the market, or simply will fall into what Jobs accused every bad CEO of doing -- SKUs for SKUs sake.
What the heck is Google Bets?
Jack Dorsey's Block is also cutting jobs
100% agree, but I don’t think a work commute will be the deciding factor in that. If I wasn’t commuting, I’d just be logging into work earlier, or maybe waking up later. It’s not like I’d be using the extra 30 minutes each morning to go adventure in the mountains.

Commuting doesn’t necessarily mean working long hours and missing out on the rest of life. I still only work 35-40 hours, I just sit in my car for 30-45 minutes each day. I definitely wish I didn’t, but for the pay I get (and the pay cut I’d take for taking a remote role), the 30-45 minutes is worth it at least temporarily.
Yeah when I found this out, it resolved my concerns. Most of my apps will have a native Vision release (email, web browser, slack, etc.) and my actual monitor screen will only need more professional software (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
As for standardizing on hardware and toolchain, what I mean is that I try to get projects to commit to using specific hardware and a specific toolchain. The goal is to limit variables for automated testing and analysis.

OpenBSD, in particular, is adamant about testing their OS on real hardware for platforms that they support. Their definition of "working" is on real hardware. I think that's a reasonable goal.

It helps with analysis like this, as you don't have to worry about different compilers or different hardware. GCC, in particular, can produce different output depending on which hardware it was compiled on, unless a specific configuration is locked down. If there is a flaw in how it does vector operations on a particular Xeon processor, this won't be caught if testing locally on a Core i5 processor that produces different code.
"oh no, someone blackmailed me with these selfie videos of me swiping some watches, guess I'll just keep them then" ;)
Yeah, there’s a mind boggling amount of misinformation about Waymo. I’m sure it’s driven by financial and emotional interest in Tesla. It’s strange.
This can only work until it doesn't, and it won't work in many situations because eg 1. apps aren't going to bother being compatible with it 2. compositing has surprising performance and memory costs, and in this case the destination is more constrained than the source.
Did they gather evidence from Elon's tweets or what are we talking about?

If there were actual concrete data on RTO being empirically better, the Corporate Real Estate world wouldn't have anything to worry about in the next 5 years.
What? Doesn't Wayland work this way by design?
Wayland clients don't draw things the way old-school X clients do (neither do modern X clients), so it doesn't make sense at the Wayland level. KDE or GTK could potentially implement something like this though.
IIRC many windows apps at that time were using MFC or otherwise composing a UI out of rects, lines, buttons, etc. Then came Winamp and the fad to draw crazy bitmaps as part of the UI. If everyone does that, shipping draw commands is less useful and shipping pixels makes a lot more sense.
Not everything in emacs is written in elisp. I can tell you _for sure_ that turning off GC in emacs doesn't result in a runaway train of resident memory.

You can be incorrect, or you can try it.
Having seen underneath the surface of a certain FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) giant of USA/multinational market...

The two biggest differences they have with GosPlan is that they have way lower cardinality (less products/categories), and computing/communication power to iterate very fast.

Add to it market data (out of Walmart and others streaming all your purchases with minimal redaction and categorized by store/zip-code) plus in some cases direct inventory view into stores, and simply an army of people and robots/ai that do daily tuning of the supply chain, and you have GosPlan's wet dream of central planning.
> I wasn't speaking French, I was speaking English, in which virgule means slash.

It seems like you and GP both have valid points.

Borrow-words usually (AFAIK) generally have the same meaning in the donor and recipient languages. So referring to the donor-language definition is a good way to figure out intended usage.

IIUC, virgule has different meanings in Latin, French, and English. I'm guessing that's what's throwing us off.
i generally agree with the sentiment of this post. it does appear to be a beta/dev kit. i will say that the productivity criticism is a BIT unfair. It may be the case that you can only have 1 MACOS display, but you can have many non macos apps running right alongside the 1 macos display. You could have your macos display doing things that only macos can do, and then run the vision pro version of discord or teams or safari or whatever else you would use that has an ipad/vision version as floating windows separate from the macos display.
yep it was screen studio! Super handy to use
You can build new soil on top of contaminated soil to bury it. Here’s a permaculture site in an old rail bed in nyc that has nasty stuff lurking beneath many layers of new soil[0].

Not really sure if trees uptake heavy metals.

0: https://youtu.be/UqyK_9iybD8?si=rx7iCjsTu1Zn6YbO
Jason Cohen from WP Engine did this to get his first customers. There's a write up about it on LinkedIn (I think) if you can find it.

Also, Braintree founder Bryan Johnson used the same trick to sell payment services to local retailers. As soon as he entered a store, he offered $100 to shop owners for their time to hear the sales pitch. It lowered barriers and in the end each prospect was just looking for an end to their problems, with no more of the broken promises and over promises he got from other providers. He made sales, and learned why customers buy.

WP Engine now does over $100M in sales per year, and Bryan Johnson sold Braintree to PayPal for $800M.
Exactly this. For many reasons that are already well-trod, some commercial buildings are effectively unconvertible to residential. This is a potentially good adaptation for those buildings.

In fact the specific properties that make them unsuitable for residential conversion (deep floorplates with low access to sunlight) are non-issues for many types of retail.
What is the problem with the workaround suggested in the last comment there?
Medical students often ill-equipped to help suicidal patients
https://archive.ph/Q2ZT5
I tried nostr and I was impressed by how fast it is compared to the alternatives and by how seamless it is to connect to everyone. Unfortunately I'm not interested by the current content and I'm not sure a social media without censorship is viable on large scale
Newton and to a much much lesser extent the first iPod and iPhone. But really the Newton while a product that I love and a super profitable line was the last time Apple created something that had so many rough edges.
Man wouldnt it be nice to just have all the fake candidates interview for all the fake job postings.
Yeah, but XTAL 3 MR has zero standalone capabilities and requires being tethered to a rather beefy PC to function at all.

From their own page, the very minimum requirements for the PC are 32GB RAM and an RTX2060 GPU. And that’s a minimum, so I am not sure how well it functions with those specs.
> I think it has to do with the way the city grew out north and south, with the city itself as a chokepoint (since it is surrounded by water otherwise). Common reasons people need to go from north seattle to south seattle: IKEA, Southcenter, Seatac.

> I'm sure there are reasons for people to go north as well, but I have a harder time thinking of them (other than that they went south and now have to come back north).

@sean
To reach UW, northgate (well it's demolished just ice skating for now lol), ballard and fremont; granted this is a bit optional, uvillage is nice to visit as well.

Also I find it a bit interesting you have a harder time thinking of interesting stuff in north seattle, I am actually sometimes annoyed having to drive north past downtown seattle to reach north seattle. I didn't really think about it but yeah ikea/southcenter are relatively easy for me to reach. :)

@uoaei
Anyways regarding planning itself. Seattle is actually actively planning their next community plan, one of the items called out is whether to allow more 'urban villages' which have shops and other amenities.

For malls, Northgate should have been the north seattle mall but it's currently being redeveloped. There's U village but it's a bit high end. The other alternative of Alderwood mall isn't too bad to get to by driving but during peak traffic can be quite slow.

https://www.seattle.gov/opcd/one-seattle-plan
So-so in what way? This product is clearly a toy. Which is to say that it is genuinely new. Maybe like how the Apple II was when it first came out. PCs were quite expensive back then too, if I remember correctly. This really will take time. All the important technological things were toys before they became tools.
Love to look stupid.. as foreign speaker and after reading all comments and also all translations in the dictionary, I still have only a vague meaning of "moat" in this context. Could someone define precisely please?

Things like "network effects" vs "1-3 team moat" vs "human written text" now totally confused me.. what will protect it? What will be the most precious? Who succeeds?
What’s the advantage of Together? The price is about the price of GPT 3.5 Turbo ($1/mil tokens is $0.001/thousand tokens), which has the advantage of wide ecosystem and support.
The facial interfaces are just held on with magnets, so it's not unrealistic to think that people might swap them out regularly depending on who's using it. The interface is sized for the user so hygiene aside you'd probably want to swap it for a different one anyway.

Unfortunately Apple is charging $200 per extra facial interface though.
Completely agree about Adam Sandler. Loved his performances in Uncut Gems and also Punch Drunk Love. I also enjoy him in his usual typecast.
I once visited the famous Waikiki Beach in Hawaii. Ironically, the sand is from my home city of Manhattan Beach, California.
I rent at a WeWork style building, and have been at this coworking space since 2018.

My rent has consistently been around $700/month. This year, they got a new sales person, a new community manager, and finally started fixing things like the broken coffee machine (which was only broken because the previous community manager didn't want to clean it/stock it), removing expired products from the vending machine, and finally changing out the water filters on the drinking fountains...and the tried to raise my rent to $1400/month, with "No room for negotiation."

Interestingly enough, the minute I started moving things out of my office, we could negotiate a smaller amount of money for rent, but, I'd rather take that $700 and just get an extra bedroom in my apartment: things can be closer and I can do more.

When I moved in to this building, there was a waiting list of people to get in -- now, it's close to 85% vacant...with more and more folks leaving every day.
that doesn't explain the previous status quo, which appears to be that previous (and maybe current) incarnations cant Bluetooth pair without an apple ID.
Sounded in Gruber's review like they have something that sort of incidentally does that https://arc.net/l/quote/wgcwgxod
lol. No amount of good internet fixes remote calls.
Doesn’t look like it.

> Ive began dreaming about an Apple watch just after CEO Steve Jobs’ death in October 2011. He soon brought the idea to Dye and a small group of others in the design studio.

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-apple-watch/
We have always been 100% remote. I have people who live in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, NC, IL, and CA. It's the only way to go.
"Lab Testing Reveals EnviroTextile’s Hemp Fabric Stops the Spread of Staph [and Pneumonia] Bacteria" (2021) https://www.envirotextiles.com/lab-testing-reveals-envirotex... :

> Staph is spread by direct contact and by touching items that are contaminated such as towels, sheets, privacy curtains, and clothing. As noted by the San Francisco Chronicle, “It is estimated that each year 2 million Americans become infected during hospital stays, and at least 90,000 of them die. MRSA (an antibiotic resistant strain of staph) is a leading cause of hospital-borne infections.” One of the most important recent discoveries is hemp’s ability to kill surface bacteria, while cotton, polyester, and polyethylene allow it to remain on their surfaces for up to months at a time. [...]

> Hemp fabric was tested against two bacteria strains, Staphylococcus Aureus (staph) and Klebsiella Pneumoniae (pneumonia). The fabric tested was a hemp blend, 60% hemp and 40% rayon. The staph test sample was already 98.5% bacteria free during the first measurement of the testing, while the pneumonia fabric sample was 65.1% bacteria free. These results, even prior to the tests completion, clearly display the fabrics unique capability at killing bacteria and reducing their spread. This is especially imperative for healthcare facilities.

> For infrared testing, the same hemp blend was analyzed resulting in a test result of 0.893, or nearly 90% resistant. Different blended fabrics have the potential to increase the percentage of this initial test, especially fabrics with a higher percentage of hemp. Many of hemp’s applications will benefit our military, and EnviroTextile’s hemp fabrics have recently been approved by the USDA as Federally Preferred for Procurement under their BioPreferred Program.
Always has been.

Sometimes we just start to lose blinkers, sometimes they get sticker, and even both but in different areas :/
sure. VR chat is good. Closer to the metaverse and its defining features as described in the actual book than any self proclaimed metaverse fan seem to know.

But yeah, not really game.
> "It seems like there's a bunch of businesses that could help make an office building more enticing - specialty coffee shop, bar, barber/salon/nail salon, dry cleaning drop-off/pickup (this one I've seen). And then the one that might really make a big difference: daycare."

A lot of the US already understand this, but they remain steadfastly bound to the idea that those services can only exist at ground-level (or in some basement level). The key conceptual gap is that it's totally fine for these businesses to be 10 storeys off the ground!
Don't think PLA is a good choice for coffee cups
"my liberty ends where your liberty starts"

This true statement is irrelevant, since one person's seatbelt does not impact anyone else's liberty.

"I don't like cars anyway" is even less relevant.
heck even if we just did more trees and shade cover of parking lots it would be better for the environment all the way around, and make drivers happier so they don't have to crawl into a complete oven of a car.
Without sufficient density, these things don't make money (or the municipality doesn't have the tax revenue to keep them open). You can't "just" make things more walkable. You also need enough people to raise money to maintain sidewalks, buy stuff at stores, work in the area, etc.
Always used phpbb but when I discovered a nulled version of WBB in my script kddie days, heck was it a good time.
Judge rules Tesla pay package that made Elon Musk the richest person unfair
I'm surprised by this too.

Bitcoin was developed just barely before ed25519 was finalized, which is probably why it uses secp256k1. Unless intended mainly for government users (FIPS), almost every new cryptographic system uses ed25519 -- except Nostr.

I always assumed Nostr chose secp256k1 so you could send bitcoin to another Nostr user without some extra "payment address request protocol" bolted on the side. Very surprising that this was not the motivation!
It could, and it certainly will be by Elon.

But it also could be, that Elon is completely disregarding the law, and has for years.

This will become very apparent soon(ish) as there will be more trails, against him and against Tesla.
> we've jumped out of the airplane

We who? The greedy and the irresponsible who are hogging real estate to profit from the productive sectors of the economy? Good riddance, then. A "complete catastrophe" in real estate is great for every person and business who is actually productive and beneficial. There needs to be balance. If 100% of a nation's surplus productivity is swallowed into real estate profits, then you'll have a scam economy where all money and all effort goes into real estate instead of useful work.
In this instance 'moat' simply means an advantage that will prevent direct competitors from undercutting your business.
If you can't make any promises as to the quality of what you're offering, then how can you reasonably expect people to pay for it? At the end of the day you need to be able to tell consumers what they can reasonably expect from your product in terms of its capabilities and accuracy.
> 1. For "the singularity" to happen, we probably need something more to happen than just chatGPT to ingest more data or use more processing power.

It's not actually clear what "the singularity" is? Is it something running out of control or it's still controllable? There is a blurry line. People are afraid because they think it's sort of uncontrollable explosion.

The second question is about AGI. What is it? Is it something 'alive' or just a generic AI calculator with no 'creature' features. Like self preservation at least.

I think our view of these two things will change soon as we get a close up picture. Pretty much like Turing test doesn't look great anymore. As even dumb chatbots can pass.
Not sure if it’s a valid point, but what I would like to have - kind of a regex or a template for strings or numbers. Otherwise, it’s still just a sting or a specific value. It’s not like you are free to update backend to prefix ids to your liking. Most of the time you have to work with set schemas.
… Revenge for _what_?

I think it’s probably just that there aren’t _that_ many Delaware chancery judges, and he’s kind of a frequent flier.
Indeed, that fixes the part about it only marching forward. But still, it wouldn't be sufficient in cases where the ultimate cause is near neither the start nor the obvious error, but (e.g.) in the 50th of 100 entries. At least, not unless the initial error is simple enough to be captured by a conditional breakpoint. But even then, I'd probably be reaching for my prints just to determine what a good condition might be.
Building a Video Games Recommender System
I do realize Google has a lot going on. They have to, to keep all these people even remotely busy.
A rpi was never "useful enough" to really be a replacement for desktop computers, and it was never "cheap enough" for purely a teaching tool. Cheap second-hand laptops were always a better option IMO.

Arduino makes completely different types of computers.
https://archive.ph/H505g
Are current watches good? I genuinely don't know and am interested. I hadn't gotten one because I was an early iPhone adopter (Gen 1), but haven't been willing to be an early adopter since then. But I would like a watch, if they are good now.
I thought my watch was overpriced and sold under a lie, which then cost me serious money to basically buy the same product again. It works fine, but I will always hate it since I had to buy it twice.

The Macbook went from an amazing piece of tech to a useless piece of RSI inducing crap. You have to buy from system 76 to get anything like the old macbooks.

The phone, well, I was forced into an upgrade this year (as part of the watch fiasco above) and was amazed how underwhelmed I was. I went from an X to a 15 and as far as I can tell, the camera is better and it's a little lighter. That's not enough for the money I had to shell out.

All in all, the company has seemed to be going downhill to me for at least 5-8 years. But, I'm just one consumer of many. Other people seem very amazed by these things which just do nothing for me.
Revenue increase of 10 billion is about 3%, essentially tracking inflation.
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Cars aren't that loud. Trucks, buses, and trains are loud, and that is what you have a lot of in urban areas.
Makes sense, thanks for superquick reply :) Then I'd say nothing even close to certain..
Federal Way has good Korean food also (well, along with lots of Koreans). Frankly, you'll find Asian communities south, east and north, with the high end in the east, the middle end in the north, and lots of value in the south.

Schools are better in the north, which is why we chose Ballard rather than Beacon Hill. The reason I don't think about North Seattle so much is because I live here, I guess (and getting places isn't so hard if I'm not crossing Seattle).