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Yes. HoloLens came out 8 years ago, at the same price point and pretty much with the same set of features (only slightly larger). The only reason it flopped (and Microsoft stopped investing in it) is lack of compelling applications.

Absolutely no one will "watch TV" with a sweatband weight around their head; some may feel compelled to lie that they do to justify the stupid purchase decision they made, but no one will really do it, and absolutely no one will buy an "Apple Vision Pro 2" if Apple ever makes it.

Of course, I'm holding up hope that Apple makes an amazing tech leap and creates something the size and weight of regular eyeglasses, but slim chance of that.
Sure but just because someone is smart doesn't mean they don't work hard. And a smarter person can achieve what a stupid person can with less effort. This is just reality.

I mean it's akin to saying a car can drive faster then a plane if the plane doesn't accelerate. Of course. I think as stupid person I can find certain niches and excel in areas where smart people typically don't attempt to try, but reality is reality and we have to face it.
The question is does this tech need a killer app or does it needs to become more light weight, no external wired battery, etc... essentially becoming almost like normal glasses.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1752070908599017949.html
Hey, author here, feels really nice to be HN famous (as defined by your stuff being on front page without you posting it). AMA and feedback welcome I guess.

Wanted to write a book on this topic over the pandemic lockdown, but then I felt it could just be a post. Let me know if anyone thinks it’s worth a full book. Maybe more exploration and demos of the options, reference designs etc.
This mirrors my experience as well, and would only change 1) to 1) a lack of directed effort, and add 3) lack of people skills.
I certainly hope your back is in the universe too, otherwise the pain is very justified
Exactly - Managers with kids in high school (aka expensive employees) won't move. People who are 25 (aka cheap employees) might. It's been done for years by IBM and many other companies.

When it happened at my job 20+ years ago this was the exact pattern - good news for me is that I was 23 and wanted to move (new city matched my lifestyle much better). Only 1 person in my org who was in their 40s (based on my guess) out of 20 moved. He was single with no kids. All of my same-aged friends did move as well. At least then the paid severance if you didn't take the offer.
Yup, I just used the default demo of their TTS to convert the article one chunk at a time so I could listen while I swapped some RAM around. https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech
I wonder how they handle this in Japan. Does lost luggage get handled through the Police lost & found?
Nice, I built a similar toy with RNBO - https://knobs-gallery.vercel.app/harmonics

https://rnbo.cycling74.com/
Exactly as per my earlier point, because the owner may have been known and the airline may have exhausted their avenues to contact them. In which case after a period of time, what is the airline to do but get rid of the bags
I wrote a thesis on EHR's 7 years ago. They really haven't seemed to improve much. I personally think a big part of the issue is actually scope, these systems are expected to do everything - medical notes, script ordering, appointment management, billing of course, and 3000 other things. This weirdly leads to a distribution problem, you can't be a serious competitor in just one area, you have to do everything. Only the monolith can shift the monolith. Then combined with the risk (or perceived risk) of working with medical data, and you're left with something that just never improves.

If your curious, here's where I discuss these points in the thesis https://barnett.surge.sh/welcome/complexity.html
+1, I experienced a very similar cure for carpal tunnel/RSI pain. After two years of pain, I learned about John Sarno's work from a Reddit post, and it took took about ten days to get better. Couldn't recommend this more highly. Yes, I realize that if you've been living with pain, this sounds like us telling you that the Force is real. But at the end of the day, what do you have to lose by trying? Here are the most useful links that got me started.

- Check out the 20/20 Video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qwFjKYlbf4
- TMSWiki.org has lots of resources, testimonials, and their SEP (Structured Education Program) which is a day by day learning program. https://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/Structured_Educational_Program
and then the company goes under and you have a useless chip rotting in your brain!

See https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
There is never enough money, that is why they are rich whilst you just have satisfied with caviars… especially for those who think they are good and right engineering solution and the money is theirs. You should be grateful instead … /sarcastic
If they live outside China, how do you even blackmail them with this? They’re openly LGBTQ and that is perfectly accepted in the west.
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I don’t think you have a problem at all mate
Looks great! I'll poke around--my dream is make a WH40k-like turn based strategy.. curious to see if this can handle sufficiently convoluted rules.
Thank you. I must stop scoffing at others on HN when they don't get what I consider to be obvious jokes, as it seems I too am capable of missing obvious humor.
Regulatory capture …

At least they do not handle the people involved, the media or anybody who raise there is a problem … there is still some hope in non-chinese system.
> ...deepfake evidence being used to frame someone for a crime, etc? Is there a reason I shouldn't be concerned about these prospects?

This is already happening, I'm reasonably certain, and until something of substance is done about it on a systemic, legal level, "deepfake" proliferation will lead to further systemic 'othering' of already-marginalized people at the expense of our own humanity.

Eventually, some of us (humans) won't be able to worry so much about engineering heaven-on-demand, as it were, when suddenly we find ourselves limited in ways we never could've imagined or ever hope to escape from.

People will continue to point and laugh by way of social media, but for how long and at what, or more importantly, whose expense? These are serious questions, which the general public has been plainly ignoring until recently- and that's being entirely overly-favorable.
What if elections are rigged? (serious question)
> Musk’s perpetual lies [...] are well known

Hear hear.
How do you know the news are fake or real? You just hold one side's opinion.
Agreed, I've been bouncing back and forth between Debian and Ubuntu since Debian 7 came out, and I feel like I've been gradually caring about Ubuntu less and less since 12.04. The snap thing has been just kind of irritating, especially Firefox being snap by default (even, to my surprise, if installed via apt!) which breaks the Gnome integration and has (had?) worse performance than the .deb version.

I did just read that Mozilla is releasing an official .deb package of Firefox for those of us who would rather not use the snap version, and I plan to give it a shot. But I'm thinking about transitioning back to Debian on some of my machines instead of upgrading them to 24.04.
15 minutes how often? Once you spend 15 minutes 20 times that's a pretty significant amount.
Yes! I needed some forward looking wisdom to round it off. Thoroughly enjoyable.
basically they are unwilling to admit a mistake and fix a small issue. I have seen a few PMs become super defensive and double down on a decision.
Given how people on HN think they're so smart I'm surprised this article got voted up. Usually it's some article about how high IQ correlates with people who drink water. They just vote up the article for self validation.

Now it's an article for the Narutos of the world. Guess a good number of people think they're stupid. I think both sides are wrong.
I've always known it to be:

<b> and <i> for font manipulation (bold and italics)

<strong> and <em> for giving text importance (important and emphasized)

but honestly, I don't think it matters as long as you're consistent.
One benefit answer.ai has over some of those labs is that it's building software, so expenses are mostly just salaries and GPU time - no need for massive capex on fabrication equipment or anything like that. And since we're focused on efficient fine-tuning and inference rather than foundation model training, even the GPU spend is likely to be extremely modest compared to some other players :)
> for the “smart” person, failing at a task takes a stab at the heart of their identity. Self cushioning in a cloud of rationales “well, I can’t do X but at least I’m smart” means that if “being smart” is ever questioned, the possibility of them failing terrifies them.

Yes, I see it much the same way. If you're curious, I wrote about a related theme a few years ago here [1].

> When the work is uncertain, she withers: uncertainty means the unknown, which means risk, which means failure, which means she's worthless. The thought of fumbling in the void terrifies her.

[1]: https://arunkprasad.com/log/unlearning-perfectionism/
CS already is the super-degree.
Yea. But in that time there has been an absolute revolution in what can be done with that data. FHIR specifically has completely changed the landscape.
I just left a gig like this after two and half years (a leadership role at a 1-10 stage startup), and I have to say it was a overall a net positive experience for me.

NGL it took time to get used to it. Being an ex-founder, it was doubly difficult as not only did I have less agency than I was used to (and frankly expected), I was also no longer on an equal footing to my friend. This led to some friction and disagreements of how things should be done, but at the end of the day, it came down to perspective differences as a founder and as an employee, and I learned to make with peace with the fact it was his company, and not mine.

In retrospect, I think the fact that we were friends first, and had spoken a lot as fellow founders beforehand, made it harder to align expectations in this dynamic. Thankfully, we parted on good terms, and I'm still helping them out as a consultant, which feels like a nice middle ground for me.

That said, I'm not looking to jump back into something like this anytime soon.

If I do however, I would definitely go into any future engagement with more tempered expectations of what I'm there to for, and what I want out of it.

As obvious as it sounds, a lot of things can be taken for granted due to the prior relationship (on both sides), and its important to lay out as much of your thoughts and expectations upfront, so that there is as little ambiguity and misunderstandings down the line. No detail is too trivial, especially around compensation, and its important to recognize and remember that you're there to do a job, not just helping out a friend, which is how the conversation usually starts.

This whole thing has taught me a lot about handling that balance, and a lot more about myself as well.
> Chinese manufacturers make great products.

this should read "A few Chinese brands make great products"

Most Chinese brands make low quality products; corner cutting is rampant.

> Additionally, almost every high quality brand has manufacturing in China; Apple, Microsoft, Nikon, Canon, Dyson, etc.

That is because the foreign brands set the specs and define the standard of quality, which the factory (i.e., Foxconn) follows to the letter. So Chinese _manufacturers_ can make great products (when required and paid) but Chinese _brands_ generally do not.

This is one reason why Chinese brand products are cheaper than their foreign brand counterparts even when the foreign product was also manufactured in China.

DJI and Anger are two Chinese brands that have worked hard to develop a good reputation internationally, and deliver top products. I wouldn't trust Huawei though.
Im not interested in finding a citation for you to prove a point. You cam take it for what it is, look it up, or not.
So that's why most "innovative" startups in the US (apart from those bleeding billions dollars a year) never seek profit and hope to be purchased
An extremely transparent attempt to ensure Florida children do not have access to news and information that goes against a very particular narrative. It's all about the control of information, which sure is ironic coming from "the party of small government" and self-proclaimed "free speech absolutists." Absolutely disgusting.

It would be fantastic if social media companies instead simply blocked all access to IPs located in Florida regardless of age.
Good oral hygiene (apparently) offers protection against heart disease as well.
https://bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...
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Is this something where a public competitor might help? It surely can't be worse than private industry.
> How is market competition or the public served by forcing a company to go out of business instead of being acquired

How is market competition or the public served by companies whose only strategy is to fail and be bought by the ever shrinking number of ultra rich mega corporations?
thanks to all for the good answers.
> But after 40+ years of reading, why am I not getting recommendations on anything in the last 10 years (again, except for Three Body Problem)? You dodged that question also. No recommendations from the last 10 years? Why is that?

I thought it's a rhetorical question, because on its face, comparing award-winners across decades is orthogonal to the question on whether the recent winners deserve to win, and is frankly subjective. If I accept your prior that the winning story in 20xx is not as good as the winner from 1975; that information is insufficient to support the argument that the 20xx winner didn't deserve to win. IMO, the way to prove that would be to name another book from the same year that deserved to win, but didn't. "Everything is now shit" is an indictment of the entire industry - not minority authors whose quality of work is for our purposes, is yet to be quantified (relative to the rest of the contemporary field).

To answer your question about the lack of "monsters"; I think it's a function of the number of SF authors active in a given decade (big fish in a small pond), the number of SF books published, the relative proportion consumers reading books vs competing media (some of the best SF I've experienced are games - which weren't competitive with books as a vehicle for stories until, SystemShock maybe?). People don't read books as much anymore. I am working through my list of Hugo winners, and there are some not-so-great books in there. IMO, several of Ted Chiang's are better stories than a good chunk of the winners 1960-2000.
> People don't want to drive. People have to drive

I want to drive. I love to drive. It's one of my favourite hobbies. What better way to get out and see such a diverse amount of the countryside?

I frequently drive 4 hours through a mountain pass to the other side of the island and it's absolutely breathtaking.

Road trips are our preferred holiday.

There is no public transport in these places and if there was why would I want to spend time with a bunch of random mouth breathers?
The UK police is busy hunting people for their tweets.
also healthcare cost if you do survive, or social security for those left behind.

it's the same thing with smoking. even ignoring how it affects bystanders it does raise the cost of healthcare
Tell that to my heart valve. All bovine baby.
Linear programming on reals is "easy"... You can just check all the points. I believe you can follow the shell of the legal polytope and just use a greedy algorithm to choose the next point that will minimize your goal.

If you can get away with a continuous linear program I don't see why you'd use monte carlo. The simplex method will get you an exact answer.
> Patient R was in a hurry. I signed into my computer—or tried to. Recently, IT had us update to a new 14-digit password. Once in, I signed (different password) into the electronic medical record

That's IT infrastructure incompetence, not an EMR issue.

At the two healthcare systems I go to, both utilize RFID badge readers plus PIN. In the ER and urgent care, nurses need only tap their badge and enter a quick pin and they're in. It's taken them seconds to pull up my records and I've never noticed a delay in care.

In the PCP's network, everyone seems to get smooth and quick access often while we're conversing, and I can see all my visits, lab results, and so on. The major annoyance is that I get emails notifying me I have a "message", instead of even offering me the option of receiving an email with the actual message.

I don't think people understand how expensive and time consuming the non-electronic stuff was. I remember my mother spending considerable amounts of time trying to get records from labs and doctors and having to shelp a lot of it by hand.
This is everywhere. We made everyone their own secretary but gave them crappy tools and no training. Also they’re never gonna be doing it more than very part-time, so will always tend to be bad at it and find it a distraction from the work they’re actually good at.

I’m skeptical computerization has even been a net benefit for productivity for most jobs, for that and other reasons. I think it’s been such a huge boost in a few areas that it looks productive overall, but actually it’s been a step back in most jobs. The high of eliminating positions and of centralized command-economy-style technocratic visibility into everything keeps management hooked on it anyway.
Turn on Jumbograms. I ran iSCSI for ZFS served out via NFS on distinct cards so I had less contention for the disc fetch against the NFS serve, and it worked "ok" but that was FreeBSD (partly) and 9000 MTU definitely made a difference. Possibly right-sizing the MTU to be bigger than the blocksize is a tuning distinction but 9k jumbo definitely improved things.

Why send 4 packets when one will do? Same volume of data, less switch burden to latch it through.
I used to work at an EHR software company. All of this is true.

The most interesting thing I think on the horizon is gluing the ever-increasing intelligence of AI bots with voice assistants. The company that can reliably take a HCP's dictation, store and retrieve that information accurately is going to transform the industry by drastically reducing the administrative overhead, and letting doctors treat more patients.
This is the less serious topic and as quoted below one should be more concern about https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/10/2023-17... which affects all 737.

Anyone can quite how boring due with this. Just not to use it?
and in the short term too!
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3623614
Radio shack store managers easily hit 60 (Strip Malls) to over 100k a year (Shopping malls) in the late 1970s, again thanks to performance bonuses so this is nothing new. Same long hours as retail, with way more reason to get out of bed each day.
(60k in 1978 would be 280k in 2023 thanks to inflation)
> The bolts were missing not loose.

The same explanation is plausible for either one.

> Boeing did not put in the bolts when they re-installed the doors.

Do we actually know for sure that they were re-installed?
> Choosing Linux is the opposite of choosing stability.

I would argue that a close-source (at least before the leak), non-supported kernel is way more unstable and risky than an open-source, still maintained one (some kernels are actively maintained through 2033).

Bear in mind that the position was not about developing/maintaining the OS, but the applications that run on it.
Cool, so with electricity price of $0.25 USD/kWh, I calculate a cost of $2,730 USD per hour.

So - it's approximately the same as the A380, but carries 2-3x as many people for a typical seating configuration.

In addition, that electricity price is more stable because it can access diversified energy production methods.
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Here is a non-ref link:

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Seriously. If I or any of my peers at Google back in the day ever talked like this we’d get PIP’d.
>hopefulness is much better and productive than hopelessness.

Being pragmatic is not hopelessness. You have to admit what the problems are, and the book does not do that.
I’m pretty sure the entire premise is more than a little facetious, and the author already knows this.
How many more cases where data and AI people messed up? This is on us as a professional community of people who build the future. Is this the future we want? We seem to actively work towards it.
It just depends on what your hobbies are. $4k for a decent name-brand carbon bike is a lot of money to spend on a hobby, but sometimes hobbies defy justification. There is only a limited amount of time you can spend on this world. How to prioritize things you want is a personal decision.

I just disagree with the premise that carbon bikes are something only elite athletes benefit from. I know what I like, and I only have to justify a decision to myself.

(Full disclosure: right now my main bike is a _nice_ aluminum hard-tail mountain bike because my carbon road bike was stolen lol)
> I did not think that I would need to pay for a VPN service to avoid weird legislation in my state

Why not? Were the book bans not a sufficient warning signal?
The concentrated high rise public housing model was panned in its own time. The housing advocates at the time encouraged diffuse public housing.

Instead the existing (white) political machine used high rise public housing to explicitly punish and break up an ascendant black political block. They used highways and a university campus to the same effect.

In fill housing, at least in Chicago, is not a problem as we have both empty lots and tons of single family homes that can become 2 and 3 flats. Along with that you can add small specialized housing for various populations that need it.
Framing this as "awkward" is so stupidly disingenuous. I surely hope you are not serious, though this is HN so I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this line of commentary given the audience and people involved.
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Or ride a carbon bike (without crashing) and tell me how much better you feel.
The first time I tasted beer in college, I was surprised to discover it's carbonated. I wasn't aware, and wasn't expecting that. It's still kind of weird and annoying to me, and I prefer beer like Guiness where the carbonation is less pronounced.