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If I wanted to poison update a bunch of developers who likely work at major US tech companies, this is exactly the type of software I would target for "purchase".
This is an Android phone in a laptop case and 2 1080P displays in the glasses.
Because it conflicts with their duty to their patients. Patients should be able to trust their doctor and not have to look for fine print disclosures in the middle of receiving treatment which may or may not impair them cognitively or emotionally.
Ask HN: Do you have any tips for overcoming presentation jitters?
I wondered if anyone had any tips for overcoming jitters when presenting in front of an audience on short notice.

I know I need to get better at public speaking. I am okay, but not great. I believe that one way to improve is to practice. With this mindset, I am speaking at a small one-day tech conference next week. This growth opportunity pushes me out of my comfort zone a bit, but it is a smaller conference and should be a lower-risk environment. I feel good about the content and am prepared. One of the areas I am less comfortable with is "the jitters" you get standing in front of a larger audience.
Anyone who has spent enough time in AR to compare, how's the headache/eye fatigue compared with VR?
I also really like Flutter and think the Flutter team has done a great job on the tech side. Google management, on the other hand, seems determined to do some very short sighted cost cutting and that makes a project like Flutter vulnerable.
Obviously not, how is it you don't grasp that?

How do you expect to get global realtime cloud coverage?

You can also pull from Doppler radar sites (real time, limited to ~ 250km radius about sites), mosaic and interpolate with MODIS
I haven’t seen a single Mac user on screen share that doesn’t have too many icons on their bar for me.

I want to see almost none. For all of Apple’s insistence on design and clean, the menu bar and those hideous icons always there was the worst one ever.

I’ve been a Bartender user for over 10 years (I believe 12) and I’m now really fucking sad.
She's not wrong though is she. I mean just look at the awful consequences of SB132.
That's not how math community generally works.

Everyone knows what the important idea of a proof is. Publishing the work that grates a new field of mathematics that leads to a proof is not worse than toiling away privately (for longer!).

Gregory Perelman, the only Millennium Prize winner, declined the prize because he refused to accept credit for Richard S Hamilton's foundational work.
Doesn't seem too much, some people write hundreds of comments/tweets per day with no expectation of pay.
I felt like it made total sense when I understood the idea of a basis, plus

"sinusoids are a basis for (a class of functions)"

Everything else basically follows from that. The Fourier transform itself integrates (in one notation) e^{-ikx} against f(x). Well, the integral is a giant dot product, e^{-ikx} is the "transpose" of e^{ikx}, one of the basis vectors, so this amounts to saying f_i = <e_i, f> for a basis element e.
To be fair I’m not a hentai expert.
Yes exactly; they must have a non-zero success rate. Few years back my friend's iPhone got stolen, and it was more or less the same kind of stuff.
cool story bro, but:

1. there are plenty of obese people in rural areas where they have all the walkable space they might desire

2. do you even know how little energy humans need to walk? a single candy bar is enough for a three hour hike

3. pick a random chinese/japanese city, find a youtube video with visible crowds, and count the number of morbidly obese people you see. it would take you a while to find a single mobility scooter tier flesh golem, if you can find one at all

"lecturing people like they aren't trying hard enough to starve themselves" is the only solution for the obesity crisis, because the only reason for the obesity crisis is vast abundance of cheap, artificially tasty empty calories. 300+++ lbs blobs of fat virtually did not exist before Standard American Diet
They recently added encryption separate from Bitlocker that applies per-user and only unlocks when you log in. It's possible they're using that.
The AR glasses themselves aren't their own design, according to this article in their press section. https://www.wired.com/story/sightful-spacetop-g1-augmented-r...

They are made by a company called real https://www.xreal.com/ . Not familiar with them but the tech seems to be impressive.
yeah but if that's the case, it's on you not to take the bin out on trash day.
Previously, malware/stalkerware can monitor anything after they’re installed. They don’t get much if they’re purged quickly.

Now, immediate treasure trove upon installation. No matter how quickly you catch it.

There’s a fairly substantial difference here.
Tl;dr: the original design idea behind sql was a failure and here’s why.

I know the intent was to write a declarative language where you just specify what you want and the system figures out how to get it- but I consider that project to have definitely failed considering that in order to get the sql interpreter to behave in a sane fashion you must use explicit JOIN statements everywhere and fetch table rows and index them to other table rows in a specific order using specific keys that the programmer chooses. It’s exactly the same as writing while loops, though the syntax is admittedly quite nice.

I’ve seen people try to interact with the interpreter with a great big god query like SELECT FROM A,B,C,D,E WHERE A.id=B.id and B.id2=C.id2 and so on, and that would be a declarative way to do it, but the performance of the interpreter in such scenarios is absolutely, universally, perplexingly dismal and in practice you can’t use sql that way. It was a nice idea though.
Their OS page seems to imply that it's effectively a Chromebook, which is a bit disappointing. I'd like to see something that has more ability to function on its own, even though I guess this machine is mostly designed to be used in coffee shops.

I can pretty much guarantee you'll be able to do almost nothing useful on an airplane, between the web-apps-only paradigm and the issues with motion tracking on vehicles.
Well, sort of. There definitely have been bugs in Binder related to it incorrectly mapping physical pages, which it needs to be doing as part of its core behavior, and is essentially a logic bug with memory safety implications that Rust fundementally can't defend against. The bug highlighted in the article, and the vast majority of other historical Binder bugs, aren't that though: they are "normal" object lifecycle bugs, related to improper locking, resource cleanup, and error handling. Those bugs very much could be prevented almost entirely with Rust or any other memory safe resource management. In fact, they have rewritten Binder in Rust, with it being the example driver usecase for the Rust-in-Linux push.
Why is it a step forward over those XReal glasses, for example?
I learned recently that Apple shreds old devices instead of selling them to keep the price of old-iPhones artificially inflated by limiting supply.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/94386/the-truth-about-apples-fre...
I have used the xreal for about 1.5 years now for work (with Android Dex) and it all works quite well. No headaches or eye fatigue which I do get with the quest 2.
The claimed "Up to 8 hours of battery for a full day of productivity." makes this a lot more useful for real work on the go verses the "up to two hours of general use, 2.5 hours of video playback" of the Vision Pro.
> When coming across modern writers I will often check their biography to see what odd-jobs they have had. I feel that modern man can become so insulated in modern life (e.g. spending an entire career in academia with, say, no hobbies that are grounded in actual life such as fishing, serious gardening, etc) that he can become very disconnected and overly "heady" or "abstract". As such, I often am glad to see when an artist or writer has some terribly mundane and tactile job on their resume. I know that as somebody drawn to the arts I have been incredibly thankful for my unplanned career in software as it has opened my eyes to many naive thoughts I had as to "how the world works".

I agree with the idea but I was very surprised by the last part of your comment because, in my experience, software engineering fits perfectly into the type of job that you call "disconnected" and "abstract" rather than anything "grounded in actual life".
Serious question: have you tried this or are you theorizing?
Unfortunately we live in a society which doesn't reward that. At all. If you can be content with being the most usefully informative guy on the planet and receiving less recognition for it than the guy who makes funny faces on TikTok all day... good for you. Most people cannot.

One thing that might help with this is actual face-to-face connections. Join a hackerspace or something. A smaller number of people may interact with you than on your blog, but they're a substantially more complex interactions, not just a view counter going up.
damn! thanks for the list ill check them out.
True, but it has been essential for a long time before the notch for those of us with a non-trivial amount of software. The menu bar is a popular spot and so many apps want to put an icon there.
I bought an IKEA 2-seat sofa + 3-seat sofa bed in 2005. I tightened the bed springs maybe five years ago, and cut a piece of plywood to put between the bed and cushions to heighten them and to avoid constantly wearing the springs. Aside from that, it's been moved four times, never had a rip, and still looks pretty new except for a little scuffing on the corners. The thing is rock solid, and some of the best money I ever spent.
The company (XREAL) behind the glasses they're using seems to be doing that. They have a USB-C version: https://developer.xreal.com/?lang=en
I strongly disagree.

Haskell is great in a pure world, but it has an undue amount of friction when in the IO world. It does work in the IO world just fine, but languages like Java handle the actual concerns of the IO world better than Haskell. And for that reason, I say that no, Haskell is not the one true way to write correct code.

It definitely is the One True Way to write happy path code though.
But remove the CPE router. Where do you think that fiber goes? To "the internet"? It's going to yet another box owned and managed by your ISP. And from there, probably yet another box owned and managed by your ISP. And then another black box maybe owned by yet another ISP, and then another black box owned by maybe yet another ISP. Each one of these could let an attacker come between your network and "the internet". You have no control over them. You don't patch them, you don't configure them, you have no say over the services running on them. If they're compromised, you likely wouldn't know.

The CPE just moves the first black box inside your home, but there's always some ISP black box you're connecting to. Even if you're a top tier network, it's not like you control every box between you and every other site you want to go to. You're going to eventually have some handoff at some peering location, and once again your traffic goes to a box you don't control just waiting for an attacker to manipulate and mess with your traffic.
Aw man, yours is way cooler than mine: https://matt-diamond.com/zeta.html

Still, it's funny to see how many people have attempted this! It's a fun programming exercise with a nice result.
Is there any fix possible for aimbots?

So many first person shooters are ruined by aimbots.

I loved Halo: Combat Evolved a long time ago, but at some point many people would start using aimbots and at that point the game was ruined for me.
If you believe this you should vote for RFK Jr. He’s the only presidential candidate that has actually taken on industry. The VO has pledged to open up all the data in the FDA and CDC for transparency. We need this.
They don't. There is some notion of priority boosting but with everything running as sched_other it does essentially nothing.
> 60Hz

ITYM 50Hz
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It looks like the glasses are actually manufactured by someone else, a company called XReal? I’m not sure if they’re related, but it looks like they’re not trying to invent two things at a time. Well, maybe the OS and the Laptop count
If a chronological feed of everyone you follow is what you want, you'll love the Fediverse because it has so little algorithm that it's actually a flaw.

Although, if you follow lots of people, a chronological feed is still just "random posts", because they are the ones that happened to get posted just before you looked at the feed. A customized feed would be better - some way to up-weight insightful posts and down-weight memes.
Physical SIM card?
As someone who did a far amount of psychedelics decades ago I can state for certain that not all "tripping" is the same, depending on a variety of factors. LSD is completely different than psilocybin which is completely different than peyote. All of these trips are completely different based on your mental state, your surroundings and the size of your dose (among other things). Given the wide array of mental health problems people suffer, I find it absurd to assert that there it is impossible that psychedelics offer no potential treatment for some of these problems. That isn't to say they are a cure-all, are suitable for treating all patients, or all conditions, but it is to say that there has been very promising research done to suggest that some psychedelics do improve some mental health problems. There has been convincing research done on the treatment of PTSD and alcoholism, and research in this field has really only begun to get off the ground.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9577917/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9710723/
> I haven’t seen a single Mac user on screen share that doesn’t have too many icons on their bar for me.

This says more about app devs than it does about users.
you just want some to look at? OTOH danluu, prog21, lcamtuf (of course). I had more, but I forgot them. Because they have low memetic fitness.

Hacker News, compared to Reddit.
We already have a real-world example of that[1], which is in medieval times in China, the land was a lot more fertile than in Europe, and with a crop also more nutrition dense (rice). So what happened there is that, instead of achieving something similar to the Shire, the plots of land became smaller per family, to achieve again an equilibrium where each family had enough to eat for themselves, but not a lot to spare. So more fertile/nutritional crops, while it would def help the Shire, would not be the whole answer without some sort of population management.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2020/09/04/collections-bread-how-did-they...
> unless you are really anal about hidden folders in your home directory polluting things up

n = 1, but, uh, this is one major reason I don't use Linux. It really bugs me.
I've been using only Windows (and DOS) since version 2. I've entirely disregarded Linux desktop, until now. I won't be moving on to Windows 11 etc. This is where Microsoft and I part ways. It's clear they plan to make AI on Windows hyper intrusive and privacy violating, and there's no way to trust them with the data they're going to accumulate (which will inevitably end up in the hands of criminals and governments).
if the ads aren't effective people won't buy them
Does anyone on your team make comics themselves? Because these examples don't feel like sequential comics. There's a craft to making comics and it's entirely absent in these.
Do you use cmd + ` (tilde key) to cycle through windows within an app? Its the key just above Tab and that's probably why it was chosen.
This article is very good
It depends on where you live. Where I live on the west coast, you can find lots of used Nissan Leafs on craigslist for less than 6-7k. That's actually affordable. And there are some for under 4k, junk car territory.

Granted, they're 10+ year old cars and can only go ~50 miles on a charge (originally 80 miles but the battery degrades). But if you want a cheap car and live in a city or a close suburb, especially if you can charge your car at work, it's a doable option. These fully electric cars require less maintenance so they actually are cheap to run.
People who are good at algebra aren’t necessarily good at calculus/analysis and vice versa. It sounds perfectly reasonable that someone might struggle with the continuous FT (integrals, brrh!) but grok the discrete version perfectly well (just a sum of basis functions).
It’s partially built into the OS, in that you can move almost every first party icon into the control center (via System Settings). That probably isn’t sufficient for everyone, but it was good enough for my usage that I never bothered installing Bartender on my M2-series MBP.
All these open source alternatives lack something important for macs with notches: a way to see the expanded icons below the menu bar. Without this, icons are hidden by the notch.

You'd expect macOS to properly support the notch after 3 generations of laptops with them, but nope.
> They're usually subjugated by the state

That makes me think of some US-libertarian-adjacent thought, which goes something like "the government are just a big-enough gang", or conversely "organized-crime rings are just smaller competing governments."

While I admit there is some pattern-making appeal to that idea, I don't think it quite matches what we see in practice, where gangs often seem quite happy to abandon unprofitable responsibilities and choose profit over political independence.

If nothing else, it quietly conflates entirely different kinds of governments together: A small dictatorship is not just a shrunken version of large democracy.
Yeah but then you’re voting for RFK.
I mean, promising, but a lot is still "in active development" and on the roadmap, including notch support, icon arranging...
Output on control system HMI Scada screens for stuff like Tilt Drives are all in degrees as well, in this respect it's like the Kelvin scale. Control system doesn't display thermocouple readings in Kelvin either (at plant I work at Temperature setpoints are displayed as degree Celsius).

You might use Radians/Kelvin internally for ease of calculation but they aren't numbers you quote around or report things in.
Yeah let’s hope that they don’t prosecute him under the CFAA. He saved the FBI and untold others. He’s a hero.
> In spite of this, there's no better interview type I've seen proposed given the constraints most companies are under

Yeah, right. Why would companies truly care about this issue and put any effort into making their hiring process feel less hostile when they still have loads of candidates who are more than willing to go through whatever tests they get asked during interviews? It's a leaky bucket and they're happy with the status quo while developers keep grinding away... I doubt it will change anytime soon, but I'm glad I can afford to put my foot down and refuse to do such interviews when I need to find new jobs.
Beautiful if true!
FDA advisors reject MDMA therapy for PTSD
> There's no encryption or authentication per packet (it would be way too expensive) […]

It is possible to tie together 802.1X and MACsec, and plenty of (Ethernet) chipsets can do MACsec at wire speed, even up to 400G and 800G:

* https://www.arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Datasheets/7800R3_MAC...

* https://www.juniper.net/us/en/solutions/400g-and-800g.html

I don't know the telco space well enough to know if there's a MACsec-equivalent for GPON, but given the 'only' 25G speeds involved I doubt it would be much of a challenge.
NB gov is just typically very secretive for no reason...
But also the province is joked to be essentially a fiefdom of the Irving family, for better or worse.
Today in an AI related post on X, I got an ad for Nityananda (A known fugitive from India who claims his own country now) teaching about AI. The guy probably didn't graduate high school.

I hope X will add some quality control to ads they are showing.

Ad that came up: https://i.imgur.com/dSkqV6I.png