skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s a “problem” either; I think it’s good the the US is incapable of producing some of the most basic 100-year-old tech that forms our war machine.

I think the interesting parts are everything around how it got there. How decades of focusing on expensive wonder tech and unchecked MIC grift has led to the US to this state where it fundamentally can't deliver materiel it needs. The contradictions of 30+ years of end-of-history neoliberal economics vs. the fact that someone needs to run a big potentially unprofitable factory and keep large excess inventory of if the US expects to respond to long-duration conflicts like this. Whether or not the US ends up like the western colonial empires of old sooner rather than later.

So from that standpoint 155mm shell production is an excellent window into larger trends
$1 Large fries

$5 Spicy Deluxe Crispy Chicken Sandwich meals

The app is a LOT cheaper than the original pricing. The deals are also pretty consistent.
They were giving free Large fries until I took advantage of the deal x3 without getting anything else and now I no longer get that deal...
eh, In a lot of cases you can get the equivalent of any extra value meal for way less if you use the deals page of the app. You can go there today and get like half off a meal.

Starbucks tries to gamify buying certain items or repeat visits for extra stars.
"Last but not least, I enjoy working with Rust much much more than with Python :)"

Wow. I'm so curios about Rust now.
Yeah, these pacifist-style comments are really tone deaf and out of touch.

Yes, we'd all prefer peace and leaving each other alone, but if some other nation comes to kill your countrymen and replace your democracy with a puppet, suddenly just relying on pacifist ideals doesn't work well anymore.

Most of the time, these commenters don't want to engage with reality as it currently exists. If you ask them what exactly you're supposed to do without a war machine if some other guy invades, they just have the silliest deflections and hand waving. Ultimately, they just want to say "war bad" from atop their high horse, as if other people didn't believe that war was, in fact, bad.

Ukraine is an obvious example. Ukraine wasn't doing anything to Russia other than choosing to gradually move culturally towards the West, which is their right. Before the big invasion in 2022, there were repeated attempts by Ukraine or by Western countries to try and forestall Russia's invasion by opening up negotiations and talking things out, and Putin didn't give a shit.

Diplomacy didn't work there. What would've worked? Having a stronger military, or even better, being allied with other strong militaries. Putin doesn't invade the Baltics for a reason.
As others have said, use the app. Got a double cheeseburger and a free medium fries there today, and this was in Manhattan. $3.79 plus tax.

Even if you don’t use the app, if you just buy a double cheeseburger and a small fries it’s $3.99.

They're pushing their prices but there’s still cheap meals to be had.
Bard is a horrible name though. Poet? Horse ornament? It's close to Bardo which is the stage after death and before rebirth.

Gemini is much more neutral and easy to work with. Like Alexa or Siri.
very surprising that Waymo would describe the accident in terms that blame the other party
Opening sentence is idiotic. It brings nothing to discuss the subject at hand.
I looked up the cited street in street view- there are stop signs in all 4 directions. I look forward to the full accident report, but from the evidence available it sounds like the cyclist didn’t stop at the sign appropriately.
Potential Alzheimer's drug discovered using computational biology suite
Ruth approves.
But the vision pro has a lower PPD than them, so I think it would be fair.
HBM has such high access latency that the Xeon Max can't actually use all of the available bandwidth except in a caching mode (where a lot of that bandwidth is used with cache line spills and fills): the cores' line fill buffers will get full and cause backpressure and stalls in the CPU. And this assumes that every core is trying to load all the time.

You can see line fill buffer issues with 8-socket machines today, for example, where they are the cause of stalls due to the high latency of cache coherency checks. However, since they are part of the core and fine for 99% of users, the size of the line fill buffer is kept relatively small.

That limitation puts the HBM Xeon Max sort of on par with Grace for actual usable memory bandwidth, not so far above it.
Sounds like the cyclist didn’t stop at the intersection or follow the rules of right of way.
Essentially yeah, it suppresses the crowding out effect of homes rented out which otherwise crowds out first time home buyers in terms of price and access to capital. Also by making each marginal investment property more costly, instances of collusion or monopolistic conditions will reduce as, if occupants have a preference for renting (which I would doubt), there would be more smaller landlords -read as more market competition.

Unfettered use of housing stock as an investment is inefficient and frankly undemocratic as the delta between ownership and renting entrenches inherited wealth. Ideally, although up for debate, would be to use marginal tax to fund creation of low income housing units as Santa Fe NM has recently implemented as a luxury tax on new home purchases.
I never heard of them before, but they offer is amazing -- even though I don't think I'll be using anytime soon.
So because the Department of Defense invented packet-switching networks fifty years ago, we owe them fealty? Respect? Hitler designed the original Volkswagen Beetle. Who cares?

All of us tech people used to know a fascist when we smelled one, now some of us lick their boots for a paycheck.
Luckily they labeled the sections so I just skipped to the middle with all the good stuff.
In Brazil, cars run on ethanol. Emissions associated with combustion of the fuel are zero. It's not the ICE bit that's a problem, it's the fossil fuel part.
I just read that complete page on Barrages. I never realized it had gotten so sophisticated even by 1917.

We see movies where artillery is always just raining down from the sky. It seemed so random.

It blows my mind we had complex patterns and essenstially formations and defensive walls and boxes to protect a position and just wow.

That must have been hell on the receiving end.
Similarly some chain restaurants gouge first-timers and out-of-towners by having high menu list prices but issuing coupons to locals and regulars constantly. Round Table Pizza did this everywhere I've lived that had a location - their menu prices were absurd, but you'd regularly get 30-50% off coupons in the mail that you could use when ordering online or via the phone, which made it reasonably priced.
> by the same intellectual framework that allowed them to dominate the rest of the world

People consisted other nations and ethnicities subhuman as long as they existed. Europe was, AFAIK, the first place on Earth that (1) considered subjugated people equal before the law (if they converted), (2) banned slavery and (3) imposed slavery ban on other nations.
If Waymo is truly as much better than Cruise as the statistics claim, this is a perfect opportunity to release the full video of the incident. Most collisions are avoidable, but a few are the result of a perfect storm of conditions that would be difficult to navigate for even the most skilled human driver. To know whether the truck's occlusion of the cyclist is one of those cases requires the actual footage.
I’ve been househunting on and off for the last year or so. It was a bit wild to see one house that was in my price range¹ has a Wikipedia article.

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1. The big issue was that the house was going to need a lot of work to be made livable. Add in that it was historically significant (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) and it wasn’t going to be a simple matter to rehab it, especially on a recently divorced dad budget.
This is why I'm returning mine after four days, despite it being the best device I've ever used in my life.

Apple has thrown around the word "magic" for different devices, but the Apple Vision Pro is truly worthy. I'm so sad to be returning it because its highs are very high: movie watching, hand and eye tracking, dragging windows around in space. Steve Jobs said the iPhone "works like magic" — and sure, multitouch was a big leap forward - but this really feels like magic.

Why return it? Exactly because of this article. I can't justify the expense for occasional movie-watching alone. To do work, I need it as a Mac monitor replacement. I LOVE the idea of extending my small MacBook Pro into a bigger space, but the quality of the image as streamed over WiFi is just too poor. It's distracting how fuzzy it is.

When they solve this (either by improving resolution of the cast image, or maybe some other neat trick of running Mac apps natively on device) I'll be back because I am certain this is part of our computing future.
Can anyone explain the title to me please? What exactly is the author referring to by androids and electric sheep?
Haha that is how I interpreted the title too. Was thinking who in their right mind would question the value of an appendix?
I don't know about that, yes you're right with regards to what the phone didn't have. But I still remember it being an evolutionary change when I watched the release. I don't feel that for the Apple Vision Pro.

Think about what the iPhone had at the time compared to what we were used to, provided my first was the iPhone 3GS.

It was one of the first phones that actually had an incredible touch screen compared to the best phones of the time, it was one of the first phones you could scroll and navigate smoothly without hitching, something Samsung struggled with for years. The ability for the device to seamlessly rotate between portrait and horizontal views. The ability to toss away my MP3 player and play music in the same way from my phone in a user friendly interface. The ability to do all of these things on the one device and have an interface that allows me to switch between active applications that could run in the background. The iPhone introduced the idea of gestures that actually worked, even just the idea of pinch and zoom functionality was an absolute game changer for mobile phones and Apple nailed it. It took companies years after the release of the iPhone to implement a decent touch screen that allowed smooth pinch and zoom functionality.

These were at the time some of the things that made the phone smart that we didn't have before. I think sometimes people forget some of the subtle things the iPhone brought with it that were a complete game changer
100% agreed on the story. There’s a recap video that’s probably not too hard to find on youtube which takes 30 minutes to explain the story up to the start of KH3 and I remember a predictable amount of it. There’s also this gem: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fCWjSOSWiUw

I only know enough about what “Aqua got ‘Norted” means to put an apostrophe in front of ‘Norted. (Xehanort possesses people or whatever.) I also literally never saw Aqua in any game I played before KH3, except maybe as an extra I didn’t notice.
And then you can double dip with a little drop shipping on the side.
I don't doubt his credentials, but:

"As per last time, since I don’t have an AVP, I’m using the Meta Quest Pro (MQP) and extrapolating the results to the AVP’s resolution."

For such a long and detailed argument, it's slightly odd that he's never even tried or tested the actual product he's criticizing.
The reason the word "inept" keeps coming up is just how opaque and senseless to the rank and file the January 2023 layoffs were. High performers, low performers, newest hires, most tenure: we saw all kinds of heads roll. I saw a team lose its sole TL with a decade+ of tenure on the team, then turn around and hire 4-6 people to try and catch up. A growing deployment team was actively hiring before and after it got a 6% haircut.

The simplest explanation would be that every cost center/P&L had to offer up 6% of its people, regardless of that cost center's overall trajectory, place in company strategy or open headcount. And that every cost center's VP or general manager or whatever just got collared by HR, was given a list on a piece of paper and couldn't leave until they chose 6% by ...whatever metric they came up with on the spot.

Whatever actually happened I'll never know, but what I've seen was 100% compatible with that theory. Which in turn looks pretty inept.
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> Firstly, I need the laptop's trackpad and keyboard to use the computer. So it has to be positioned where it normally would be. That makes it difficult to place the screen in the space in a reasonable location.

I, personally, use the dedicated magic keyboard+trackpad with my macbook, because it is connected to an external monitor for about 90% of its usage. And you can use those with AVP too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the cyclist blew through the stop sign as is incredibly common.
They aren't disillusioned. They are realistic.
> It's clear that this is a first gen problem.

AVP is an incremental improvement on literally a decade of 3D headset development. The idea that this is some kind of MVP to be followed on by rapid improvements in an emerging technology seems pretty strained. What it actually is, is a luxury-targetted Quest 3 clone that weighs 50% more and costs 7x as much.

What we have here is a Rolex, not an iPhone.
I watched a news segment where a former government official close to Putin said people don't understand him. Putin goes into incredible detail when planning military campaigns. For Georgia and Ukraine Putin had been planning the attacks for decades. Plus he has a Plan B, Plan C etc. all that he wants he's decided already years ago and is not interested in anything else. You missed your chance for peace talks by a decade or two.
“Your work”, is their “content”.
So one person poisoned hundreds of kids all across the USA and no one can hold him accountable?

Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling about your food supply doesn't it?
For me the main value add over a laptop is ergonomics in some situations. If at a desk or table a portable laptop stand can also address this, but that won’t work in an airplane or while lounging, both of which are situations where craning one’s neck down to see the screen is fatiguing.

That alone probably isn’t worth the cost for most but I could see people buying future cheaper versions for this purpose.
I don't think enough people understand quite what Russia has in store for Ukrainians in case they win. For example, some think Bucha or the mass graves in Izyum are one offs. But those who speak Ukrainian or Russian can find dozens of interviews with Ukrainian POWs who have come back in exchanges, and after watching them it becomes quite clear the Russians have tortured and/or brutally murdered many thousands of captives, and have a clear game plan what to do with anyone who isn't completely submissive and has any shred of Ukrainian identity in them once they occupy an area.

But even aside from what happens to Ukrainians, if this goes Russia's way it will embolden many other regimes to solve their problems through fascism and colonial invasions too. Pacifism is very nice and weapons of war are absolutely an evil thing, but if you don't have them your pacifism quickly becomes appeasement and/or submission when someone who's not as nice as you decides they're gonna go ahead and institute a few changes in their neighbourhood.
What do you think about the conclusions of this piece published by a former UN official, a former NATO military official, and an academic?

https://braveneweurope.com/michael-von-der-schulenburg-hajo-...
is it like some sort of hypertext markup language that can be styled using a cascading class-based DSL
I’m not here to debate theology. I’m here to point out that using epithets like homophobe to attack someone for his religious beliefs is inappropriate.
The trick is to not eat there. Even the quality (heh) of the food is much poorer than it used to be.
What’s the relative likelihood that a waymo car will hit a cyclist or pedestrian vs a human operated car? Unfortunately for us cyclists, people are hit by human drivers every day.
What do you mean "far from ideal"? It's literally just passing in your services URL rather than using the default when instantiating the client. Something you will need to do with any client you use.
That description perfectly fits another massive tech company CEO: Steve Balmer. Revenue tripled under him. But Microsoft's mindshare, brand image, influence, etc. all went down.
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Markdown in Google docs: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036?hl=en

Of course, if you want non wysiwyg, then don't use Google docs just use markdown in a text editor or install mediawiki or something.
Google really has fallen off. This is intern level stuff.
I’m not installing an app to eat at McDonald’s. There are better options for less.
yeah honestly I built 1 little mac app in Rust and now I'm using typescript and can't stop thinking about how I miss Rust's Option and Result
The Case for Co-Designing Model Architectures with Hardware
Thanks, I somehow missed that part. I wonder how those studies controlled for confounding factors — it could well be that a prior tendency to more Clostridium difficile infections is correlated to a tendency to get an appendix infection.

To be clear, I'm not necessarily as sceptical as GP commenter. I'm just surprised that so much talk about the actual function of the appendix appears to centre around theoreticals rather than on clinical data.
I lived in Southern California in the 90s/00s and Taco Bell was a good cheap complement to the real Mexican food culture. It had its place and I liked it.

I moved away and stopped eating there for a long time. Now when I try, it's horrible. Inappropriately expensive, like you said, but also just carelessly put together and gross tasting.

What I can't figure out is if it's due to the geography, maybe Southern California had and still has a better Taco Bell experience. Or if it's gone downhill everywhere as part of the general enshittification of everything.
It is not maintained anymore, but there's termtosvg that still works and does not need javascript or service to render your output https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg
Yeah but you couldn't be on a call and browse the web at the same time

No copy/paste

Terrible camera

No apps
So just slip them a little personal data and they’ll knock a few bucks off.

Feels…dystopian.
It is pretty common to see people go from the opposite side of a stop sign since it's "safe", even if it happens to be against the rules. I can understand how the Waymo AI would end up being configured to do this. Hopefully they amend that based on this incident.
So the scenario (as described by waymo, surely with some spin):

"Driving through a 4 way intersection, while a large truck is also going through the intersection. As you go through, a biker quickly passes behind the truck with minimal time to react once in sightlines."

A human driver would take significantly longer to react, and could be deadly.

Waymo managed to hit the breaks before the collision, potentially leading to only minor scrapes. Feels much better than human would fare in a similar scenario.

What I hope Waymo learbx for this, as well applies as similar scenarios: never cross through these zones of high bike traffic when the obstruction from another vehicle prevents a wide enough view to brake before this zone.
Some interesting analysis that is tainted by the fact the author doesn't actually have an Apple Vision Pro and is instead pretending his Meta Quest Pro is basically equivalent (just with higher resolution screen). This does not seem to be consistent with the experiences of the various reviewers who have actually had their hands on both.

Additionally, Apple claiming something is a "screen replacement" does not mean they are claiming it is a 1-to-1 replacement for your 4k desktop displays. You can replace normal desktop displays with a VR headset for work – people have already been doing it with at least the Quest 2[1], which is inferior to the AVP (and the MQP) in every dimension except price. The resolution is still higher than the average display of 20 years ago, and people were getting a lot of real work done on those.

[1] https://medium.com/immersedteam/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d...
i don't think the idea is that you can sell your old motherboard and get a new one; the idea is to make it as easy as possible to buy a new motherboard and only have to discard the old one, rather than having to buy a whole new laptop.
With the app, you're still paying, this time with your privacy.
Maybe I'm just too rich to appreciate it these days but a, say, 1-year old used mac mini m2 looks like it can be snatched for around $499 on ebay.

The PC equivalent, probably a 2023 Dell Optiplex 7010, for instance, looks to be just about the same amount ($449).

Compare https://www.ebay.com/itm/364218215167 with https://www.ebay.com/itm/276266965157

I think we've hit the commodity price point market with used Apple hardware.

Again, maybe I'm just too rich to care about the $50 here but I thought the Apple premium has shaken itself off at least the used market.
Rather than come up with a new manufacturing process for the existing munition design, why not develop a new munition (presumably with a new scalable process) that can be fired from existing weapons?

No rounds seems like a worse condition than having equal-or-poorer performing rounds.
I have tried the magic+keyboard and trackpad with the AVP. If you connect them directly to the AVP then you can use them for lots of stuff, which works fine. But of course you have to use iPad apps. I just tried connecting the laptop and it seems like the keyboard and mouse don't forward through the screen share to the computer. Or I set it up wrong? So I guess I'd have to pair them with the computer directly? But that would be fiddly and I couldn't control visionOS with them.

But still, if I was sitting in front of an external monitor with my computer I would just use that instead of the AVP.
When I got hired as an associate engineer in 2015 the job was 50% coding and 50% technical customer support. 2 of us got hired at the same time and we would switch off weeks.

On customer support weeks I would take bug reports from customers, repro them, write down the repro steps, then try to figure out the right engineer to take it to. Eventually I started going deeper to try to find what part of the codebase was broken, then eventually I tried actually fixing the bugs myself. It was a great way to slowly ease into a real production codebase while simultaneously providing some actual value to the company without having to deliver features. It gave me a ton of customer empathy that I’ve carried with me through the rest of my career.

I did this for about a year before I was competent enough to get promoted to regular engineer and focus on product work full time.

Idk if any other companies do it like that but it was a really great way to upskill very green engineers.
The startup time mentioned is actually a big deal for me – I do record all of my terminal sessions (I even wrote a tool that uses his avt library to grep through the terminal logs, although I never got around to making it fast enough to be really useful: https://github.com/moyix/termgrep), and with the Python version I often lose the first few characters of my first command in a new terminal because asciinema is still starting up...