skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to computer-generated 3D animation, I can imagine it was very difficult to float and spin vector-arrows in mid-air with enough accuracy to show what goes on without having to resort to reams of explanatory paragraphs.

Eugene Khutoryansky is something of a lesser-known 3b1b that's more focused on physics than math. I found his animations very helpful for building intuition around Maxwell's equations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tm2c6NJH4Y
PikaPods
> because essentially he's telling the employee nothing that he didn't know already.

The employee did not know that the CEO would be so forgiving. And it helps set that culture as other's here about the incidence and response.

Also, why is this so important? If your punishment for bringing down Facebook is your boss' boss telling you "Hey even if this is a serious mistake, I don't want you to worry that you're going to be out of a job. Consider this a learning opportunity," than that seems more than fair to me.

Why worry about being so sensitive?
As someone who loved his $10 Sansa Clip and never owned an iPod Shuffle, you make a good point. There was no point in the iPod Shuffle, except for Apple enthusiasts.
Probably features. If existing libraries can already do what you are marketing, and are better documented, there’s no point in using your library all else held equal. I think first you need to build distinguishing features to get people to notice the tech, and then document it to make it more usable and drive adoption into actual software
I don't think it really needs to be stated that everything Apple does is an already well established medium that they're late to. They didn't event smart phones or smart watches or set top boxes or smart speakers or the personal computer or or or
I mean.. sure, but those are hardly "problems" that needed solving with an Apple Watch. Another digital watch, simpler / cheaper would do just fine. Same for the HomePod, solutions to those "problems" have been around for a while.

If you compare the solution/problem pairs you described and take into account how good of a solution those products are to those problems, I don't see how they "solve" the problems significantly better than an already existing, cheaper alternative, which is not the case for the iPhone, iPod, AirPod, mac book, etc where they (on their initial launch) addressed a particular market need significantly (very significantly) better than the alternatives.

And I'm speaking this as someone that owns 1 of every product category Apple currently ships, so I'm by no means dismissing the quality of the watch or homepod, etc.

[edit/addition]:
Furthermore, the Vision Pro could just as well solve similar problems to similar results as the ones you described -- for example, the need for a incredibly high quality media consumption device, portable. Or an infinite canvas that seamlessly pairs with your other Apple devices, etc. If that's true, then I would say the Apple Vision Pro should has the same utility to its target audience as the other products Apple's released on the last decades years.
Working at Long John Silvers was also grueling work and I was always covered in grease and received minor burns from time to time. The job can be learned by almost anyone in a couple weeks though. Physical difficulty has almost nothing to do with compensation.
> But if you flavor your brine with delicious things like fruit juices, stock, herbs, spices, sugar, and more, then surely your meat will be more delicious than if you just soaked it in a plain old salt-water solution. Sorry, but nope! Flavor molecules, unlike salt, are for the most part too big to penetrate the cell membranes of a piece of meat; your brine may taste flavorful, but your roast will not.

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-dry-brine

I'd _highly_ recommend the book The Food Lab, and site Serious Eats. They both go into the science of cook and answer lots of questions like this.
And then there's Texas A&M
Please abide by the HN guidelines, as well as common sense.
China's first natively built supercomputer goes online – with unknown specs
This must be a common problem in space travel. The tiny spaceship in Men in black 2 also landed upside-down, but it has movable legs to correct position.
Also take a look at Stalwart: https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-server

I haven't used it, but have used some of the sub-crates for some email-parsing problems, and it worked great.
How the AI Boom Went Bust
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iRobot and Amazon call it quits, terminate acquisition agreement
Because WalMart knows it is primarily a logistics company. They know that if they get the goods to stores efficiently, everything else will follow.
Great article, with one caveat:
The big upfront question should be; do I need BullMQ (and Redis). I think in most cases a simple DB queue table will suffice, reducing complexity allowing for greater customization.
The evidence is not all that solid. The most demonstrable link is between use of portable devices at bedtime and poor sleep quality. Everything else has mixed evidence.
> myself talking about how useless the iPhone was

The need people had is, wanting a phone you can carry with you anywhere (not tethered to a wall).

While the original iPhone might have had limited functionality (no 3G), it still solved the fundamental need people had - which was a phone they can carry anywhere.

What fundamental problem/need is Apple Vision Pro solving on Day 1?

(I'm not being a hater, I'm genuine curious to know/understand)
control behavior by regulating the intermediary

this is a strategy that works under any governance system on the planet. so to actually make an enforceable law don't try to impose restrictions on the action, provider, or users of the action, instead you should think about things they rely on and restrict those.

this law doesn't do that. but it would be fun to think of things that would. can we take something away from social media users? can we incentivize non-social media users? maybe we can leverage our disdain of data brokers into a partnership where data brokers can't serve companies that have children's data

just spitballing, I don't actually care about this law or any of those proposals, just noticing the current state of the discussion lacks... inspiration.
The problem is banning that is just gonna have people straight up going handheld, not putting the phone away.
Here is the money quote that makes the most sense to me:
“They wanted to pay them good money because it was the absolute core of their, of their business — to get this stuff from the distribution center to the store at precisely the right time with no screw-ups,” Lichtenstein said. “That was crucial.”

I am sure that WalMart demands full compliance with all regulations and is very exacting in pick up and delivery times. Likely drives are doing the same routes all the time. A lot of drivers would find that boring.
Growing up I remember the trope about showing papers to do anything in the USSR. It was in direct contrast to the display of freedom in America.
This is indeed a great use case for people living alone. But then they they'll also get way cheaper options if it's just to watch streaming services. I'd assume devices like the xreal are lighter and cheaper, and the Vision Pro's extra resolution is less an appeal if it's just to watch Netflix.
I think this is one of the central ways to really enjoy the work. He was trying to create a linguistic tradition in English that was as strong and rooted as those found in Finnish, Saxon, etc cultures. Hence the use of language to “fill in the details,” of the world building.

A lot of people, through no fault of theirs, miss the significance of Aragorn and the return of the king. They don’t understand the significance of the stories that are only mentioned by characters in passing. But I think some of that passes on unconsciously which gives the story and it’s world the lasting impact it has had.

If you study the Wanderer, the Arthurian epics, Finnish-Ugric mythology, Beowulf, etc you can see where he pulled a lot of his inspiration for the world he built from.
Thanks so much! It’s GNU Unifont. I kept switching between fonts every few months until I discovered it, I’ve been using it for the past few years now with no intention of switching off :D
Search "1brc rust" on Twitter and you can see people hard at work competing on optimized Rust solutions
Absolutely. But why would Netflix rush to get a native app for a platform that 0.007% (I looked this up!) of their customers use?
“Sir, I think it’s hardly fair to condemn an entire program just because of a single slip-up!”
No, pay corresponds with the skillset and how replaceable you are (moreso how replaceable). Walmart truck drivers are highly compensated because trucking is a lonely and relatively uninteresting job to do. Doing that for many hours requires a certain type of person and would mentally wear down most people.

Walmart requires a consistent level of output which they hope can be maintained by keeping truck drivers happy with high pay. Other trucking companies can afford to have some drivers leaves and thus pay them less because they have some leniency for delays which Walmart cannot/will not tolerate
I made this (slightly modified as chicken tenders) just a few weeks ago! Absolutely delicious.
I agree with it coexisting with a flat screen. We go movie theaters with friends and family and watch in silence. Simply having people around you rather than being alone seems to be enough. I think VR will be something in between. In your situation, you’re not planning a night out but you’re also not just flipping on the tv because you’re bored. You have a family ritual to watch a show/movie at a designated time. I do something similar and would be fine with putting these on if it makes watching something more immersive.
Of course it's not going to replace your family's shared viewing experience.

But a lot of people watch a lot of TV solo.

And headsets are actually extremely comfortable for binge-watching because you can lie back in your reclining chair or lie totally flat on your bed or long couch. You just drag the virtual screen up to your ceiling. You can also loosen the headband in these cases.

There's no reason to sit upright for viewing unless you want to.
Actually an interesting essay I liked, and not what I expected from the title.

I don't know if this is intentional, but the title led me to expect the opposite of the author's final sentance (kind of irrelevant to the rest of the piece) conclusion.

> Maybe that’s actually the most compelling reason to settle Mars and beyond. So that there is, actually, a planet B to draw inspiration from.

I hope everyone knows by now, the amount of investment it would take to make Mars at all liveable -- still far less comfortable than, say, antarctica -- by humans is enormous and would span generations, if it's possible at all which quite likely is not. Far far more resources, orders of magnitude, than the amount it would take to deal with climate change and keep the actual earth liveable, which we already seem to think is out of our means. Like even in our worst nightmares of climate change it's probably still easier to live on earth than on Mars no matter how much we put into Mars.

Here's just one the first thing found googling that looked reasonable explaining this: https://lasp.colorado.edu/mop/files/2019/08/Humans-Will-Neve...

There really is no plan(et) B for earth. Which is the argumetn I associated the "there is no planet b" title with, which perhaps the author was intending to play on?

To the extent that people's fantasies of it take away any urgency at all to trying to keep earth from getting less liveable, it's pretty infuriating.
I think you can prevent a lot of revolt by just finding a way of putting this other than "software engineer output" should be held to standards. The whole point of this article is that the individual is not the problem. Rather, the system should prevent the individual from being the problem.

Nobody wants software quality to be regulated by people who don't know anything about software. So, probably we should be regulating ourselves. It's not an easy problem though. Can you really state a minimum safety standard for software that is quantifiable?

- All tests passing? Not good enough

- 100% test coverage? Not good enough

- AI approved code? ha
Maybe this will force me to downgrade to the Pinephone.

When the Matrix becomes intolerable, the ride on the Nebuchadnezzar must begin.
I know this is a bit of a useless comment, but doesn't only offering a Windows package prevent most people who want to use this from trying it? Horizon might be amazing, but if I can't run it on Linux, I've closed the tab.
> One major problem, especially for indie developers of paid apps, is that customers have come to expect free support for new platforms

This is an interesting aspect indeed.
Not just the increased customer expectation but also the resulting increased dev-cost.

It looks alot like Apple aims to repeat what they did on the iPhone: Deliver a solid barebone experience, watch and observe what the dev-community does, build your app/service feature-backlog / adjust your revenue-share model based on the 3rd party apps that succeed.

But now the ramp-up complexity to make a good app is much higher than it was back then for the $1 Flashlight App, the $2.99 iBeer App or Fruit Ninja.

The question is whether there are again enough devs who are eager to do all the upfront invest to "throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks" on behalf of Apple...
How does this differ from OAM?
For whatever it's worth, since you cited Plomin, if you Google him (or that study) you'll get a lot of interesting writing about how not-especially-useful that result turns out to be. A good shot/chaser on polygenetic behavior indicators is Shalizi's "g" writing, which is mostly about the distinction between exploratory and confirmatory data analysis, which seems pertinent.
Ask HN: How to Sell an Ecosystem to Developers?
I attempted to improve the landing page's communication (inlang.com), but received negative feedback. Only a few developers who were already in the realm had a clear understanding of it.

Frequent feedback:
- What is the ecosystem? -> It's apps, plugins, libraries that are compatible with the inlang project
- What is inlang? -> U need a inlang project, then every app just works

Do you understand it? How could we communicate it better?
Perhaps think instead of human skin as a wretched slimy substrate on which poor, determined fungi have to somehow eke an existence.
Then there is a data breach, and every person in the country is de-anonymized.

No thank you.
Yes, like desktop publishing compared to traditional printing. Its output is comparatively shitty but average people will settle for it on account of its democratization. My context was feature factory web dev versus low / no code rather than autocomplete versus solo author.

By democratization, I mean that it enables one-one where previously there was only one-many: instead of the inversion of experience where the same unique app experience is shared by millions, a technology allows the interface to be tailored for an audience of one or dozens: missing toes and fingers, color blindness, particularly difficult and unique operating conditions, etc. Given those unique constraints the mediocrity provides at least some preferable solution. The downside of this is that it sets the floor a lot lower, and people who would never have even tried or contemplated trying typesetting will dabble with desktop publishing to achieve their ends.

Somebody on here gifted me with the word "procrustean" and I've taken it and put it in my Minsky fish tank. There are many reasons to eschew the trusted experts model: somebody who has made heads for pins for twenty years is incontrovertably an expert, but who cares? Our uncanny valley appears to be only a local minimum.

[PS, nobody understood my point but I thank them for the honest feedback.]
Well if you need it touch it again, you hope for an even better AI.
The post is referring to erasure coding or similar, which you can add to your files with a tool like PAR2.

You need to spread the files (including the redundancy codes) over enough disks that you expect to be able to access sufficient blocks in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Fascinating observation. How would you calculate at what point of pi converted to utf-8 contains a certain string?
Very neat capability. Need to see more of hyper-optimizing models to one specific use case, this is a great example of doing so.
Without being an expert, I would say that samples on Earth would let us (or at least those who look at the samples) look in ways the rover was not designed to look. There is a lot of analytic equipment that is here on Earth but not on Mars.

Also, there are things to study besides past life. Geology, material science, horticultural implications, and other things are all worth study
The "past life on Mars" maybe interesting but it is also an easy selling point.
A shortage, as it pertains to other "goods", is defined as a situation where an external mechanism prevents price from rising. A common example of a shortage is where price gouging laws are in effect. When a shortage occurs, a non-price based mechanism must be used to distribute "goods" instead, such as first-come, first served, a lottery, needs-based selection, etc.

Only labour gets the special shortage definition seen here. Seemingly because shortage was originally used with respect to healthcare practitioners, where true shortages are possible with price ceilings often imposed by government in order to allow equal healthcare access to all citizens regardless of how much they can afford to spend, and then misconstrued onto other fields.
I'm hoping there is a better selling point than a really good home theater for single people. When I was single, having a TV and couch was valuable so that even though they were 95% used alone, they could be shared with guests.

If I was into media enough to spend $3,500 to have a great experience, it would be a bummer if I couldn't watch a movie with someone else occasionally.
> DoH is good for privacy.

That depends on what sort of privacy concerns you. I think DoH is awful because it allows DNS lookups that I cannot observe/filter/respond to without going to great lengths.
An article with that title is supposed to talk about how hiring decent drivers is more profitable than random cheap ones.

This one seems to have missed the memo, and only gets there briefly once or twice, but the title does not in any way imply an information-free article.
I think there are other reasons which matter.

* what comes preinstalled
* a weird application
* the end

Regarding features - for users - Linux with GNOME is delivering features for decades which Windows lacks:

* Tabs in file-browser * fast and modern terminal (ttf-fonts, utf8, OpenGL…)
* clear concise settings
* maintained application repositories
* no „desktop“ which forces me to arrange icons (WTF?)

Other consider Cortana or ChatGPT as „required“. If they think so…
I had an iPhone on launch day. Compared to phones of today it wasn’t great, but compared to some of the phones it was replacing, it was fantastic. I was coming from a Moto Razr, so it was pretty much better in every way. For the smart phones of the day, there were a lot of things they could technically do on paper, but no one did, because they were too clunky to use. The iPhone solved this. The features it did have were a joy to use and easy to figure out and discover.

There were also some pretty easy jailbreaks after not too long, which allowed for 3rd party apps before Apple had an official store.

I think the only things holding back the original iPhone were the price and production volume. As I remember, it sold out quickly. And everywhere I went people were every interested in it. The guys selling cell phones at the mall were trying to stop me to see it, a girl at the bar said having that was better than a puppy. Pulling it out to use it was like being a celebrity, everyone started paying attention and trying to get close to it; it was a very strange time. I don’t recall anyone saying they didn’t want it due to a lack of features, other than people online looking for clicks or who had a history of Apple criticism.
Their metric doesn’t include old poor quality code that was recently replaced.

It only looks for brand new code that was immediately reverted/rewritten, and also looks for code that was copied from the internet vs. from within the repo (the former is probably non-idiomatic for the code base in question).
> Gtk and GNOME are not companies.

"Company" doesn't mean "business". It means a bunch of companions. Like the company in `The Fellowship of the Ring`.
Don't. Situations like this will test your friendship (especially when there is both an information and power disparity between you).

You basically can have a boss or a friend, not both.
While you are not wrong, you can derive a lot of human culture from first principals based on constraints that are universal. We have to eat for energy: a lot of culture is really built around meals. We grew denser than hunter gathers could find food so we had to start farming, and that density forces a lot of culture on us (you can't just kill each other when someone makes you mad). We expanded to places where we cannot live nude: we have to make and wear clothing - a lot of culture is around clothing (dance and music is different in places where clothing makes movement uncomfortable).

Of course there is a lot of variety possible within those, and that is not an exhaustive list. However just those constraints force a lot of culture and while the result for aliens can be different, they will face those same constraints and thus you can develop a lot of similar culture around them.
The News Business Is Cratering
It's even worse than that, this product is additional to smartphones or computers and by not supporting it you aren't even losing a single customer since they have other main devices.
We have a projector at home.

Still my wife watches her stuff on a phone.

People actually don't care about quality more often than not.

But the quest 3 should be cheap enough already for this and good enough and still is not the mass market
Yes, that argument was not a winning one.
Putting on my doomer glasses: with the so-called loneliness epidemic and the rising prices of property (forcing people to co-habit with non-family/friends), I can definitely see something like this becoming as popular and perhaps as necessary as mobile phones.
you'd be surprised: many actors play the same character in every movie they are in. Harrison Ford and Ryan Reynolds in my opinion.
Rabin–Karp string search algorithm
From my own (possibly limited) anime viewing experience, the US surprisingly doesn't feature as a setting in anime quite that often, in fact, I've seen more K-dramas set in the US than anime.

Instead it's countries like UK and Germany that I feel have far more of a presence in anime settings. Not sure why that is the case.
New research challenges hunter-gatherer narrative
In general middle aged women read unrealistic romance novels because they enjoy the fantasy and in general are never going to be with anyone that is as good looking and romantic as the men in those books.

I don't shame them for doing that. It is their choice.
Any reputed tech company pays entry level engineers 2-3x more than the industry average. There's no complicated reason behind it. They just want the best talent. There are plenty of $50K/yr programmers out there but they aren't going to write the kind of code you want. I imagine it's the same for truck drivers.