skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is time to for everyone to start believing in the lies and platitudes of the other party! Let the cycle continue.
>The metric means what it has always meant

That's just patently wrong.

The measurement used to refer to feature size [0]. It used to be a physical measurement of a thing in nanometers hence nm

Now it's a free for all marketing team names it whatever the fuck they want. That's why you get stuff like intel 10nm being equivalent to AMD 7nm. [1]. It's not real.

>Who cares?

You...else we wouldn't be having this discussion

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_device_fabricati...

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/chipmaking-process-node-naming-lmc-p...
> who outside the tech world is getting excited about and actually buying/using VR Headsets?

Parents who want to buy a toy for their children, they are not exited about it they just find it cheap enough.

If you want proof just play any game/app that has voice chat on the quest. VR chat, among us, any shooter, ....

I really wish there was a way to filter them out.
> This is not to say that Go is for dumb programmers and Rust is for smart ones or anything of that sort

Go ahead and say it; I don't mind being the dumb programmer who gets shit done.

After all,

> Rust, on the other hand, is a borderline research language

It's ironic that the "smart" programmers are using their new and novel language to mostly rewrite existing stuff, while the "dumb" programmers were delivering new and novel shit using the "dumb" language.
Thank you. The fact that these companies exist is evidence enough of the problem.
> Add it up and what you see is that the people in society who ignore intellectualist catastrophizing are repeatedly the winners. Sam Altman got his researcher's fantasies under control, got AI launched and are now the big winner. Other AI groups (Google) stayed in fantasy-land for far too long and were dragged kicking and screaming back to reality, and they are not the big winners.

Entire industries are currently threatened by this tech, and large numbers of normal people are set to lose their jobs. This kind of disruption is often the cost of progress, but historically, revolutions that reshaped the workforce happened over decades or centuries, not years or months. It's unclear what happens next, but it's probably going to be bumpy.

It seems your definition of "winning" is "Company X dominated the market and made a lot of money". Why should the average person impacted by this tech see this as a positive thing?

In your view, does Sam Altman "winning" supersede the interests of society at large? And what would "winning" look like if the definition was broadened to include the interests of the market in which Sam operates OpenAI?
always had that one friend who bought a tower case with a handle on it, and the other friend that had a little handcart for their CRT and tower.

I bought a silverstone desktop case (like a 4U but the same size as a midsize tower laid down, so not as "long") that i would bring to LAN parties. That held a large variety of machines until they started requiring larger (longer) PSUs. I wonder if i still have that case in a closet somewhere.
Full roundabout:

In the 1940s, sulfur mustard, commonly called mustard gas, and nitrogen mustard, a derivative of mustard gas, became a new form of cancer treatment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325736/
There are a ton of headsets beyond the three you mentioned (Glass wasn't a VR anything). Valve, Pico, Pimax, Varjo are a few off the top of my head. Pico 4 would be very competitive against the Quest 3 if they had released it in the US. Presumably the decision not to has a lot of to do with the TikTok stuff. Pimax has several higher end headsets that are very good hardware wise but not the best on the software side. Valve Index is still very popular and there are rumors about a new Valve headset coming soon.
The big difference is that Tesla is the manufacturer and thus has much higher credibility (and responsibility not to deceive), than a random YouTube video.
Top 5 most valuable company on earth

Massive YoY growth

Massive cash horde, buybacks, dividends

Target of endless legal actions due to market dominance

"death rattle"
Batch jobs and (S)FTP. In a bit of a weird twist, back when I worked at Chase, they were innovating on the ancient technology but it was things like "better batch job management/orchestration" and SFTP proxy to route between different servers and centralize key management
It probably also doesn’t help that some cooking techniques, like wok hei, involve heating the oil past its burning point.
I agree, but I'd add that Valve also has the technical acumen and the good will of a community that knows they stand behind their products. To build something like the steam deck, even though it's not VR, you have to solve a lot of the same issues you'd have with VR.[1] Personally, I'd rather vote Valve with my wallet than Meta.

[1]: I'm mostly thinking about constrained space, weight and power delivery here. Obviously for proper VR there's a bit more that goes into it, but they're definitely not clueless.
I dunno, Carmack's take seems weird to me...there are tons and tons of games and apps made by tons of different companies and people, what would the common thing be that is holding them back? The OS is not that hard to use, you can pick up the Quest and be playing a game in 10 seconds. It makes more sense to me that the burden of using the hardware is making it so the bar is much higher for games and apps in VR.
Recursion is a trick. It’s a beautiful, elegant, concise trick, but it’s not at all intuitive to most humans.

The problem with for loops isn’t the loop. Loops are easy to understand. The problem with for loops is that you have to maintain mutable state across iterations, which quickly gets very complicated. Recursion is useful specifically because it doesn’t need mutable state.
There's no such thing as a "GPL'd game with proprietary parts". GPL was designed to prevent that.

You can say "Steam and game consoles only allow publishing software with proprietary components", but don't blame that on GPL.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT MERCED TO BAKERSFIELD.
that's 100k people connected to 400k people. who cares. and it will not be ready by 2030, it'll be 2033. and that means SF to LA will be at least 2040. its absolutely insane and everyone managing that project should be fired and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor.
On what metrics of search quality is Kagi "orders of magnitude" better than Google?
Yeah calculus is simple once you learn it too. We are talking about intro to CS.
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A website that pays you for watching videos on Tiktok, Facebook and YouTube
“Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine; wine before beer and you’ll feel queer.”

"Beer before liquor, you've never felt sicker. Liquor before beer, you're in the clear."
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Joe Budano, chief executive of San Diego-based Indyme which makes buttons to beckon sales associates to specific aisles is interviewed:

>His company also has developed technology — the Freedom Case, they call it — that allows shoppers to open cases themselves using personal information such as their cellphone number or by scanning their face. More than 40 retailers are testing the Freedom Case in stores, Budano said, including a national chain he declined to name.
If I were concerned about long term storage, I would be looking at a parity RAID with a great backup routine and tested restores. Or, if your long term storage can go cold, perhaps magnetic media is perfectly fine provided it isn't online much of the time, not that magnetic media can't last for many years. You'd save money with a spinning disk RAID6 array and get gobs more storage.

It's all trade-offs you need to decide for yourself and your goals. If you want to be safe, replace the drives every 5 - 7 years. You will find drives that fail in 6 months and drives that last 30+ years, even from the same model line.
I have a bizarre theory that 1 - 1.5 packs of cigarettes per year is actually beneficial for health. This theory has two parts:

- small amounts of nicotine occsaionnaly are excellent for the brain

- the innoculatory effects of small occasional acute exposure to toxins and carcinogens preemptively activates and trains your body and its immune system to respond to the types of things that cause damage. Basically by activating the damage repair systems occasionally under a mild stressor you keep yourself inoculated against seemingly damage-associated conditions.

I'll let y'all know how it's going in 200 years or so :)
I have a hypothesis that the reason humans are more likely to believe things that rhyme is because of the effort involved in creating the phrase. Comparing saying something vs saying something that rhymes, the latter takes more time, more effort, and you need to check that the end product makes sense. Whoever came up with the phrase probably put in a lot of thought.

Similarly, I think that humor is more convincing than simple words because, to come up with the punchline, the comedian must have looked at the situation from every available angle. The existence of humor is a costly signal that shows someone else really thought it through.
Absolutely! Having only gotten into a house with a well done vent going outside recently, it is alarming how much cleaner everything in the kitchen is. Heck, I'm pretty sure the entire house shows signs that we don't have as much oil residue as we had in our previous houses.

Now... there is also the eye opener that is cleaning the range hood for the first time. Holy crap.
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No LAN mode but on PC the "host" actually hosts the game (not sure how they do TURN/STUN but it does work most of the time), so if you have all four people in the same building it should run as though it's LAN. There are server side checks for the items you find in the game so it has to run partially through a central server.

battlefield bad company 2 is a similar experience to helldivers 2, IMO, and that is LAN-able.
Guessing hybrids / plug ins will be popular for a long time, just because they are a known quantity.

Kia and Hyundai still haven’t reached the rock solid reliability of Japanese autos, despite having been around for much longer than Tesla.

Traditional manufacturers will likely have an easier time transitioning to EVs than EV manufacturers will, building reliable cars.
If I understand you correctly, this is where I just use a Makefile, but keep it very simple ```render:\tffmtpeg ...``` Do a have dozen of those, and you now have a `make render` command to run that task.
I have a friend in Texas who had some issues because of net neutrality being gone (huge throttling on some sites)
You should never use floats for dinero. And it has nothing to do with JS, though i find it funny that you mention JS.
I think this is going to depend somewhat on how congested your area is, but Starlink is my home ISP and I sometimes get faster (download) speeds at home than I do at the office where we have fiber at 200 Mbps down. It has a little more variance but is consistently quite fast. If the backend is on GCP, it amazes me how fast it will go.
“Problematic” is perhaps the biggest understatement I’ve ever read. Sorry that this happened to you.
This looks cool. A couple of thoughts:

1. A new visitor to the page may not know what to expect. Is it just going to ask a set of predetermined questions, and record+transcribe the answers? Or will the questions themselves be customized?

2. What will the final output be? What, if anything, will be saved and retained by you?

3. The text boxes 'shake' a little when I'm typing. Probably some layout shift. I didn't look into it, but it happens to me on Chrome/Linux.

Your post reminded me a bit of this, which uses different (but similar) tech: https://x.com/StonkyOli/status/1762551140829515964
No, literally, there is a legal requirement for certain process; debates over whether it was properly followed tied the Trump repeal up in court for a while though it was eveentually resolved in favor of the Administration.

Not even bothering to follow the clear objective formal requirements of that process (the question about Trump was more about good faith in the substance) would make it trivial to defeat in court.
ok I bite. I have a Go, a Quest1, a Quest2, several adaptors for mobile phones, even an old kickstarter model of a VR headset with an intel atom cpu and stock android. I have a stereo/360 camera (Vuze VR) and I love all these gadgets.

What do I use them for? 360/stereo movies are incredibly cool. It is just another way of experiencing your personal history. Also there is Oculus Labs where they have some indi games and software which does not show up in the official Oculus Store. There are some gems, like some really cool games and some scientific applications, like a protein modeller.

I have also written VR programs by myself for scientific purposes (mainly biophysics) but also data mining and 3d CFD simulations. The 3rd dimension makes so much difference when you look at objects and you have a real feeling for the objects.

What I miss: Easily exporting 3d Models to VR (e.g. Blender), a good VR web browser. No Chrome is just the 2D version on a virtual screen. Not very impressive. Firefox VR is aready dead. And a good standard fiel format is still missing. VRML was quite nice in the 90s but hey that was 30 years ago.

just my 2 ct
i'm the author and I think this article holds up pretty well, particularly the "Javascript: The Resistance" part

one thing that I didn't note in that section regarding edge computing is that if the data store isn't edge, then putting compute on the edge doesn't help that much, which vercel has started to admit (https://twitter.com/t3dotgg/status/1781881405397442947).

i'll state my position again: htmx makes hypermedia a more competitive approach for many web applications, but it isn't right for everything. i'm not puritanical about approaches and agree strongly w/ Rich's take on "transitional apps" where you use the right tool for the given job.

where i'd probably disagree w/ Rich is where the line is: i think w/ things like htmx (or unpoly or hotwire or datastar, etc.) the total space of problems that can be effectively addressed with hypermedia expands significantly
ISPs predicted this would happen and didn't want to have to revert back everything.
They use caiziyou, AKA roasted rapeseed oil, which has a high level of erucic acid, similar to mustard oil. (Rapeseed is a member of the mustard family. Canola is low-erucic acid rapeseed oil.)
Amazon employees do :) They must be thrilled by this news.
I'm not a normal human, but I recurse. Nearly every problem I have to solve is effectively a tree strucfture that requires depth-first traversal (with some realistic alterations to make it more like A* and a directed graph). I often work down in some deep part of the tree and then when I finish, have to recall my stack and work my way back up towards my original goal. For example, for "create nanotechnology" I am currently on the "stitch images collected from my self-designed microscope into panoramas" and when that's solved I can pop back up to running "collect behavioral data from tardigrades" which will eventually allow myself to pop back up to "modify tardigrades to be cellular assemblers" and then I can work on cellular assemblers that assemble nanites. This has been a 30+ year structure and I occasionally get to pop the stack a bit.
Anyone care to speculate why humans like rhymes in the first place? They do feel meaningful and important, but why?
> Huh, it is rather insulting to people who are more willing to move and also stating top performers always stay stuck to same place.

Not really. I'm not stating a hard and fast rule, but a tendency. People with more options are far more likely to take action to avoid a major disruption to their lives, and people with fewer options are more likely put up with shit.

I know if my employer decided to pack up and move to a new city, I'd almost certainly prefer to take another job locally than uproot nearly everything to move with them for little to no benefit to me.
He's absolutely correct about the software needing to improve. It is difficult to set up meetings or group games all the time. It's too bad, because playing with friends is the best way to keep people engaged in VR. There just isn't enough single-person experiences that are long term fun, except maybe watching movies.
The continuous-rugpull part of demanding CLAs is selling other people's work as proprietary.

You'll hear much less complaining if you're selling your own work under a second license.
Old code should be open sourced to learn from.
Oh, absolutely, and it can be seen for example in suicide rates [1], or the weird state of Japanese criminal justice where prosecutors will only go for nailed-shut cases so that they don't "lose face" (while society as a whole suffers) [2], not to mention the entire issue surrounding "forced confessions".

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia-Insight/Youth-suicide...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...
israel is not defending itself. israel is actively slaughtering Palestinians to the point of genocide. The bombing of more than 30 hospitals and the killing or kidnapping of children. The crushing of prisoners by tanks and the scattering of their bodies on the roads clearly shows a filthy mentality.
Absolutely true, I'm working my way through it now; it's challenging and time consuming, totally worthwhile imo.
Very glad to see some people trying to do some research on this population cohort of Asian American women who never smoked.

It would help if we had a clearer idea of what cancer is. Some cancers are known to be caused by viruses. Maybe someday they will have clearer distinctions between viral cancers and other cancers and that will help solve mysteries like this one.

I'm frankly surprised by this. The only thing I had ever heard of was the Japanese smoking paradox where Japanese people smoke at higher rates and have lower rates of lung cancer. How or if that relates to this, I don't know.
"The stack" can be the state of the thing you're working on. For instance when modelling something with clay, you start with crude shapes, pushing and poking the clay until the crude shape looks more like what you intend, then you reapply this same process at finer and finer levels of detail. The state of the clay from previous operations is your "stack". When you've reached the finest level of detail you care to make you unwind the stack by stepping back to view your work.

Anyway, it's basically just another way of structuring the state of a loop. And if you're doing tail call recursion then the distinction essentially doesn't exist.
I've learned to ignore articles calling anything "simple" or "non-challenging" if they involve Scheme in their explanation.

I know Scheme is a basic programming language and a nice demonstration of how syntax trees work, but I've only seen the programming language used by academics who have been doing research for so long that they have no idea about what is and isn't simple for students anymore.

Recursion is quite easy when you get it. The problem is that "getting it" is very difficult. Even if you think you get it because you've figured out how to use it, you may not really get it. The worst part is that the same explanation can resonate with some and not with others, but most educators and textbooks I've seen pick one "correct" way to explain a concept and stick with it, so if you're not part of the segment of students for which that type of explanation works, you're out of luck and will need to figure that stuff out on your own.
I really dislike the discourse around htmx. I think the closest words I can use to describe it is glib, insincere and reductive (and yes I get that it's supposed to be meme:y).

It pretends to not be a JS library/framework while it is. It tilts at windmills that are badly structured/built apps.

I agree that most webapps are built on too large libraries. I agree that the dependency chains are crazy. etc. etc.

But the solution proposed by htmx is IMO bad and the self-righteous tone is even worse.
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Apparently they weren't for a long time, but they may have been last year (based on some cursory googling). They projected $100,000,000 EBITDA for 2023, but I'm not certain it panned out.

Their cash burn over the years has been astonishing. It seems like a very difficult business to make money in, somewhat ironically. Sort of a "water water everywhere" situation.
The barycenter of the Earth-Luna system is (currently) entirely within the Earth. So Luna is a moon. Once it's outside the radius of Earth, then it'd be a double-planet system (or a double dwarf-planet system if that nomenclature lasts).
Yes. It is awful. Good riddance.
Instead you need to understand induction, which is non trivial as well..
I'm not sure what you mean by "arbitrary place values" with Bitcoin; if you are implying it's infinitely divisible, it isn't. You'd do the same trick with Bitcoin: represent it as an integer¹. The value 1 is 1 sat, or 0.00000001 BTC.

¹(where you need to; otherwise, I'd use some fixed point type if my language supports it)
For loops don't require keeping track of multiple levels of state; you just need a counter. It's very easy to walk through a for-loop on pen and paper. Walking through recursion is much trickier since you have to keep track of your stack.
I guess the phrase "no abstractions" is specifically valuable to us when designing our REST API resources - our whole stack is certainly an abstraction of sorts, but we don't want to add yet another abstraction in that specific layer.
I think recursion is easiest to understand as syntactic sugar for stack manipulation. It always terminates because stacks have finite size. I don't see the point of having an "elegant" mathematical definition of something when it's unrelated to real hardware.
Which shell? If you’re using bash, you’re missing out - so I’d first upgrade to zsh or fish, which have better options.

The other thing I’d do is get really really good at writing shell scripts. Also nowadays it’s super easy to take an existing complex one liner and ask GPT to make it a robust script with args (but check it of course!)

I also like some of the other suggestions if you’re predisposed to them already, like Makefiles, which are simple, flexible, and powerful.
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Also - when I click start, I don't hear anything. The timer on the right starts ticking and, even if I say something, the 'interview' ends after a few seconds. Perhaps it's broken due to rate limits or something?
neither. Use rational or some other better type.
Self-promo (whether on HN, Reddit, Lobsters) or any social platform seems like the most randomly enforced thing. Popular people can self-promo all the time and never get penalized for it, even when it's super blatant. Other, lesser known people try to share 1 link and get banned, but sometimes they don't. /shrug

I know this seems like complaining that the world is unfair, and it is, but it should be called out more often.
The Senate was split evenly in 2021 and operated under a power sharing agreement. And you can't change rules easily or not when you don't have the votes.

I reject the rotating villain conspiracy theory. 1 scapegoat would have been enough. Sinema's choices ended her Senate career. Manchin and Lieberman didn't change suddenly.
I've been running my ML stack on Arch for the last six months and haven't had any issues so far. So perhaps not a big issue on a more stable distro like Ubuntu.