skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If what you propose would be implemented, why would anyone ever write a letter of recommendation? I'm currently doing an unpaid favor to the institution which asks for letters of recommendation, as I spend my time so they get my opinion about the candidate. If instead of thanking me for it they would want to put more pressure on me and assign actual consequences, well, that's insulting and I'd pass, I owe them literally nothing.
Any new reason to discuss this now? I guess the context is the Jujutsu (jj) git-replacement which has been discussed a couple of times recently.

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612410

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34033040

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33726274

And a bunch of other zero-comment threads.
Does this take anything away from the rest of .NET?

Serious question.
I can't comment overall on the article, and my experience is a a few years out of date, but my experience with Amazon managed DB services was that the DB iops bandwidth and limitations were so bad that you'd be better off colocating your work laptop with a DB for even moderate size projects.

(It's been a minute, but I think we ended up using an NVMe SSD volume on k8s w/ a PG container to run a stack of low volume services for fractions of what RDS would cost. Next job was married to RDS and we constantly had issues with lack of iops for whatever we were doing, though my memory is that is wasn't anything wild. Just bursty.)
...and without economies of scale, which is probably the biggest factor. There was a significant investment in R&D and software, but it doesn't really smear that much over the number of devices produced; and production costs skyrocketed after COVID-induced shortages which resulted in splitting production batches into smaller ones.
Just traded my 2008 Ford Explorer, had to replace three water pumps in 120,000 miles. Talked with a salesman for the company that makes the pump and also sells to Honda. He said Ford buys a cheaper pump than Honda and its not designed to last very long but it is very cheap.

I am part of a three generation Ford family and just bought a new Honda Acura MDX which I like very much. The software isn't great and the two touchpads are a horrible design (getting replaced with a touch screen in 2025) but those are the only problems that I have found so far.
Bitcoin maybe not crypto in general. Monero for example is entirely private.
`the sweat of thousands other people's brows`.

This is a great point, and I think lends itself to a better solution than taxes. Why give all the excess to the government, who will do who knows what with it? (actually it's pretty clear where the majority of it goes, and I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't spend it the same way as the government).

If someone attained their wealth with the help of others, why can't we enact regulations saying that the wealth must be divided amongst all of them? Sure you can have some differences for those at the top, but it shouldn't be orders of magnitude difference.

Then each of those individuals would be both better off individually as well as spreading that wealth farther across the economy instead of concentrated to a few individuals.

I'm probably too naive in my thinking here though.
Everyone knows the forecasts don’t accurately predict the future. That’s not the point of forecasts.

The value of models is the assumptions you put in. How big is the potential market? What price do you think you can charge? How much of the market will go to competitors.

The value of forecasts is in pressure testing assumptions and opportunity.
Science reporting is also usually very bad. It's interesting to guess what is the real result behind the horrible reporting, and guess if the error was added by the journalist, the press release of the university or sometimes the origial research authors.
Apple recently started the switch to USB-C, so I don't understand this comment. All of my Apple devices charge with USB-C now
> was addressed to completion in the initial version of the language. Rust's async functionality was not; it was added later.

Rust async support is explicitly not complete. They've got an entire working group that's focused on improving it as per https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/roadmap.html .

> consider the trait system and borrow checker, two of the most important features of Rust that were present in v0

This is quite wrong in fact, early versions of Rust were very Go-like, with a focus on green threads and GC. Even Rust 1.0, released in 2015, had a very restrictive borrow checker compared to what's available today. Rust's editions system has allowed for a whole lot of pretty seamless evolution.
The front display is underwhelming, but it also lets you have a conversation with someone else in the room. When you're wearing it, it's easy to forget it's there while talking with people. That was something that was hard to do with previous headsets, such as Valve's Index. I honestly think that the front display is going to become something that every other vendor replicates in some way.
If you buy broccoli for $1.00 and sell it in a week for $1.02 you’ve made 2%. If you buy another broccoli for $1.00 and sell it again for $1.02 then you’re still at a 2% profit for the year. You’ve spent $2 on inventory with revenue of $2.04, for a total profit margin of 2%. This is obviously simplified.
"not embarrassed to wear it in public"

This sounds like the makings of the glasshole 2.0 phenomenon. A lot of people don't want to be filmed even if it's not officially recorded.
That's how chrome got their market share from firefox and internet explore shoving prompts across all google based services: search, gmail maps etc. Using strong dominance of other domain to gain foothold on another domain and later dominate over it. Sound familiar?
Hello from Amsterdam! I’ll take you up on that offer for a cork farm tour! Can you email me? I don’t see contact information in your profile.
Would be interesting what similar companies are (in parts) most likely agency fronts.

My guess would be quite a few in the soft privacy selling business, such as VPN or email providers.
I don't think it is possible to do open air noise cancelation like that. Do you remember where you saw that mentioned?
What other devices? It's heavier than the Quest 1/2/3 and the PSVR2. The Quest Pro is heavier but more balanced with the battery on the back of the rigid strap.

You're right about cooling. It would go from something you can pocket to something that has to be clipped on a belt like the Magic Leap.
I liked that and would recommend pairing it with the review from Casey Neistat - which is much less technical and more "vibes"

https://youtu.be/UvkgmyfMPks
> Serial numbers in and out of ATMs and shops are tracked

lmfao what. Unless someone is committing large scale crimes involving bands, no one is tracking some small bills between private citizens, some stores, more citizens, et al.

For the vast majority of people, cash is anonymous. No advertising company or government is obtaining tracking data on your purchase of an apple and a cup of coffee with cash.
It's the font size on the dashboard for the "check oil" light. Lumping this into the same taxonomy as "uncontrollable acceleration requiring new parts" is farcical.
The author states that 2,000+ studies on curcumin are published annually, but basically dismisses the compound as ever potentially being effective by citing a single study.

I think more evidence is needed by the author to make that assertion. The thousands of research scientists behind those studies aren't idiots nor are they all paid off by Big Curcumin. It's hard to believe they're not aware of the criticisms and just willfully wasting their time.
I wonder how light could be vr glasses if they moved everything except the displays to separate pack connected to the glasses with short thin flexible cable.

I'd prefer to carry the weight on the back or as a necklace or a collar than all of it on my head.

How thin display port cable could be if it was optimised for sinhle purpose and lenght of up to half a meter?
Honest question, how this is better than CUE apart from its Turing completeness? But that probably not a feature that we really want in a config language?
Ok I'll bite.

How did the world survive for millions of years with bevers around before we killed most of them on every continent?
I use the DFS bands when I can in the US
That's compelling. I understand fTPM is less resistant to system level attacks because of the virtualization nature of it. Seems like a conundrum of tradeoffs.
I wouldn't call it horrific (though I guess others might). I'm inclined to think it wasn't intentional. It certainly doesn't keep me up at night, and it's not like I regret anything that I posted on the account. I just find it disrespectful that I'm prevented from expressing my dissent around the company's reversal of its original premise.
That's why the incentives exist. Folks who can stomach it get tax breaks or bigger grants. Evidently, we're not able to stop fraud, so it makes sense to analyze how much we're spending fighting fraud, and spend that paying people to be honest.
literally the only selling feature that has worked towards making me appreciate the vision pro is the automatic IPD adjustment; but that adjustment is so trivial (and never touched again) on other headsets that it seems like needless weight, especially given the front-heavy nature of a battery-free headset.

also I think it's pretty crummy to throw in a proprietary battery plug when there isn't some power profile requirement to do so; it's just strictly anti-consumer.
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I think that argument makes sense in a vacuum. Like considering nothing else, yes, 100%, rusts compiler prevents more bugs then c++ would. I don't think bugs are the only way to waste time or break things. In a large company or complex project your never talking about one small code base. There are inter-dependencies within code and outside code. Rewriting all of anything significant is a huge undertaking. In reality your introducing a new language in addition to cpp/java/go. Its another support task. Its another thing to context switch between when your working on "the legacy" repo and the new stuff. You need to be skilled in both languages.

Its like any team that starts writing automation and support projects in python, when their main language is something else. You get trash python scripts and programs. Its another language where technically the domain is right, but the skill is lacking.
Coming from yaml+kustomize, all those curly braces are a tough sell. It looks like they roughly double the number of lines in the file.
But also more weight
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What part of being progressive do you think lionizes being impaired?
I appreciate you having good intentions. I don't mean to be disrespectful.

This however does not change my position that we have more than enough scripting languages focused on string operations, and don't need another language. And especially not a bloated one that itself depends on huge frameworks. If the same task can be solved using a 76KB standard Unix tool, creating a custom language with a huge bloated runtime simply can not be justified. It's bringing a sledgehammer for a task where a swiss pocket knife would be appropriate.

And my position also stands that it would make far more sense to finally agree on a config file standard format, with native parsers existing in every major programming language, so people stop re-inventing the wheel again and again and again, with the wheel becoming heavier and bulkier and less round every time.
Tried it today. The weight is a real problem. I'd gladly have a larger side pack to lose weight off the headset. If they ditched the useless eye screen, and moved the m2 to a pack they could probably drop 100g from the headset.
Assuming it’s mostly accurate (it has errors in my area), you can find bits of Cairo that exceed 2.1 million in a 3km circle, and Mumbai I can get over 1.8 million.

I’m in New Zealand and at that density you could fit our entire population in just over 2 of these 3Km circles.

I feel irritated when people stand too close to me, but at the Cairo density there must be tens of people within a stone throw.
Not if the Overton Window is out of whack. Reality could conceivably be to the left or to the right of what we consider the extremes.

What we label as “centrist” isn’t guaranteed to be the “actual” center of reality’s spectrum of ideology.
How revolutionary can something be if its impact is relatively limited, it was released for a style of game that was being supplanted by 3d, and all of its major titles were rereleased within years for commodity x86 hardware (due to the rapid advancements in cpu technology)?

The Amiga, as a general purpose computer, was a bright vision in a world that was already leaving it behind.
This was a time when we were happy when they managed to get congresspeople to understand that the internet is not like a truck, but more like a series of tubes.

I think anchoring it to something old school like a book was a good call.
This exactly, thanks.
Why is uninsured a separate category from insured driver insurance? The insurance company should just pay out regardless of the characteristics of the other driver. What if they are wearing a funny hat instead of a serious hat?! Seems like a scam by the insurance companies to pad their premiums.
https://www.visor.com/
The latency is terrible though. I have an oculus quest 2. Maybe it’s an offer of magnitude better on the 3 but I doubt it.
I believe responders believe I am dog whistling for ethnicity, but aren’t considering things like family structure, whether you grew up driving, and hours of the day you drive.
There are a couple of four-stage rockets. For example the Proton has a couple of four-stage variants, and India's primary workhorse, the PSLV, has four stages in all configurations.

Five stage rockets are a lot more exotic. There is the Minotaur V, which was launched exactly once, and India's ASLV, which they abandoned after a couple launches due to budget issues.
One thing that bugs me is that it's hard to tell when/why I'd need car insurance to cover medical or wages costs vs. short term disability, long term disability, health insurance, critical illness/critical injury insurance, life insurance, etc.

It seems like we could easily simplify the kinds of insurances offered and what they cover to be more standardized in an effective way. And would then have less gaps.

One more thing where the entanglement of workplace provided insurance benefits makes it messier too (particularly with disability insurance/benefits).
Mine are usually mounted to a Crye Nightcap: https://www.cryeprecision.com/NightCap

Basically, you need either balance or more points of contact. As long as it’s solidly attached you’re good.
Check out Avalonia’s XPF. Allows WPF to run on macOS and Linux with almost no changes in most cases.

https://avaloniaui.net/XPF
This has become a significant political issue in most states, and auto insurance is regulated at the state level. Many insurance commissioners are elected positions, and if not they are closely tied to the governor. No one wants premiums to go up during inflation, so there is government pressure like never before.

What happened is that with the shutdowns, profits went from 2-3% to 20-30%. Some of that money was given back to consumers, but most went into an absolutely insane soft market where every carrier paid more than they ever had to acquire any driver they could.

This led to a lot of carriers having drivers on their books that they really didn't know how to price correctly. Everyone realized at roughly the same time that they had screwed up more than usual - and that was when drivers got back on the roads. Suddenly frequency and severity of accidents were up to historic levels because everyone forgot how to drive and is driving ANGRY.

So there's a double whammy, it's drivers they haven't insured before on the one hand and the drivers they do know how to price changing their behavior en-masse. So we've gone from once-in-a-lifetime industry profits to massive losses. For the first time, when the carriers tell the government the price is unsustainable they actually mean it. Hence the California shut downs - carriers are TRULY taking a loss on most policies they write and are trying to shut down new customer operations as much as legally possible. You'll notice a surprising lack of auto insurance ads on tv compared to 3-4 years ago.

Progressive's underwriters are so far ahead of everybody that they got a lot of their price changes submitted before everyone (the other carriers and the government) figured out what was going on. You can see that in many states where the prices are public, in an incomprehensible data format. So they have been one of the only carriers still getting new customers.

It's basically been a state-by-state showdown now between state insurance commissioners and carriers, and the commissioners are starting to give in. Premiums were up almost 20% last year nation-wide and it's only going up.
There are always those who doubt that a person is truly a fraud. Or those who are willing to take a contrarian chance.

Even the former CEO of Enron can get investors to take his call asking for investment. Being synonymous with fraud and spending a decade in prison for fraud is no barrier.

He is probably in the top 1% of being able to raise investment for a business.

Andrew Wakefield, the guy who claimed vaccines cause autism, remains a common and presumably paid speaker in the anti vaccine circuit.
Some of the people sweating are tax lawyers doing their best to structure income and hide assets.

They will only increase in value if a wealth tax is passed.

Heck, if you have the PM if Iceland hiding stuff in Panama, what will happen when they get serious??
I know this won't be iFixit's answer but maybe we should converge on the idea that it's because faking someone's eyes on a screen when their real eyes are just behind it is a genuinely sick, actively dystopian idea that is intended to offset the sense that they've developed a piece of technology that allows people to selectively pay attention to a human in the same room, even though they are marketing it to people who spent all that energy amplifying the idea of the "glasshole"?
It'll depend on how people actually end up using the Vision Pro in the real world I suppose - being able to easily talk to other people isn't a high value feature if the average AVP owner ends up treating it like a VR headset you use alone, rather than wearing it around other people or even in public like Apple envisioned.
While I do think calling it a recall is a bit much, it’s more than just a check light. It’s actual controls

> the font Tesla uses to mark the park, brake, and anti-lock brake controls on its vehicle dashboards
codepages?
And of course this is how it should be for software issues too.
Fibers can make that exact same optimization by using a separate stack (as a stackless coroutine uses a separate state machine) alongside the C stack. This can be done either through stack switching, or by treating the fiber stack more like an ordinary object without a special reserved ABI register.

The reason Windows fibers failed is not because they were stackful, but because they tried to use only one stack at a time.
> poor state management in the wrong locations

Can you expand on that? I've never hit perf issues with react but I've been curious how it commonly happens.
It's meaningless to compare it against your car payment. You can customize your loan so much that it gives no insight at all. You can change the down payment, change the duration, etc. These parameters can easily result in 10x variation in your car payment.
Yall really going to be using these on the plane? Can't wait to watch zombies pinching at the air.
> as it always goes

What are the other previous examples of this?
The external component is meant to fit in one's pocket, so the added size, heat, and moving parts would make for an awkward fit.
If the schema allows union types, I don't want to deal with unquoted strings.
It’s good to remember Apple was forced to switch by the EU for the phone. It was not choice they made on their own.
I think the important distinction is whether someone is already very healthy or not.

> Like nearly every trendy non-rx supplement that has been around for this long, if there were any substantive medical benefits that could be demonstrated empirically in clinical drug trials, a prescription variant would have emerged

This is unfortunately not completely correct. Vitamin D supplements don't appear to do anything to me, even though my doc prescribed it. But NAC (for example) is not commonly prescribed even though many people have reported a reduction of OCD behaviour. L Tyrosine can be almost as effective as ADHD medication for some, yet even though it is well known in nootropic circles the doctor will rather prescribe a medical stimulant.

The reason is probably just "FDA approval"/safety in most cases, but make no mistake, current prescriptions are years to decades behind current medical research. (I can expand more if you'd like.)
I'm sure Harvard's investment arm is incorporated. That gives it some person hood in US law. It's making income on its investments and not paying income tax.
I would take the opposite approach. Treat the person as a senior and leave them by and let them ask you for help. Then give them bit sized advise on how you would do it and maybe throw in others do this or that but it's up to you.

Don't pair or do programming work for them. Make them figure it out.
They need to get frustrated and figure it out or ask you.

Empower the developer.

Him explaining ideas to others is how many people learn. Let him teach his peers.

Juniors write horrible code. Lucky you are not in a code judging contest. What matters is does it run and does it meet your departments guidelines in terms of coding rules / style. If not don't pass the code review until changes are made.

I think you are providing good knowledge but not giving the person time/space to grow into the role.
Indeed, the cost of most car-related goods and services is too cheap
What technological advancements would be impossible for a civilization that can't go to space?
I dont know. I only drive once every three months or so. and every once in a while Ill go on a huge roadtrip across the country. I have never noticed any loss in driving skill.
Linus wrote the first draft of the Linux kernel as a college student in late 1991.

19-NINETY-1

Linux is 100% a product of the 90s and after, and is one of the biggest software quality success stories of all time. It has only improved since then.

Initial public release of PostgreSQL, the best open source database around today, was 1996. It has only improved since then.

The C spec was improved from C89 to C99. Implementations appeared for C89 in the 1990s, and both were notable improvements over original K&R.

First release of Python in 1991. Improving steadily since then.

The web browser is arguably the single most impressive app of all. Graphical layout and executable from network-loaded resources. It is THE killer app of the internet. As far as the average person in the world is concerned, if browsers disappeared, the world would stop. The security scrutiny browsers have received have exceeded ANY other pieces of software that have ever existed, and multiple browsers have been independently created.

Blender: 1994. Improving since then.

Games have never been more technically sophisticated, visually impressive, environmentally immersive, and narratively deep as they are today.

I do have a soft spot for Star Control II, but again that was released in 1992.

This isn't cynicism. This is an honest appraisal of my lived history of computing.