skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely not. The app starts at the entry point and execute instructions as normal. Both the main executable and libraries are all loaded on demand from a disk image delivered chunk-by-chunk over HTTP. The disk backend is based Clouflare workers with multiple levels of caching to maximize perf.
Helium reservoir with 'mind-boggling' concentrations may be even bigger
PHET Simulations: Balancing Act: LHS, Relation Operator, RHS
Why Gen Z doesn't want kids - we are living out a fantasy of eternal youth
Got an idea how much he/she/they are charging you in fees?
They likely go to specialized shops for foreigners where you may only pay with US$-backed coupons, and can purchase most of stuff you can commonly buy in Japan.
The entire VR market, including budget headsets, sold somewhere near 8 million units globally last year. In the US alone over 15 million new vehicles were sold at an average price greater than the personal income you quoted. Individual luxury car models even sold more than 100k units in the same timespan. One can get a good new vehicle for significantly less than $47,000 so there are clearly tens of millions of Americans willing to pay thousands of dollars for more premium products.

The problem isn't that the price of this particular VR headset was too high for average people to hope to afford it's that there is no compelling reasons for average people to buy VR headsets like this in the first place. Particularly when that company is just entering the market. Put another way: Even if a person were given a Vision Pro for free at launch I doubt they would have spent 100 hours in it by now. Is that not at least worth mentioning instead of just deferring to price when talking about why nobody wants it?

And, again, if the headset were targeted towards the budget market there is still no reason to expect it would have sold particularly well. E.g. there is a cheaper (~$550) but similar headset from an already established VR company with a lot more compelling a marketplace/ecosystem for an already existing line of products. They're (Meta, Quest 3) in the same ballpark with total revenue and less than a million units on their latest headset in a similar time period despite all these advantages and having the "right" price.
> most people publishing a website either cannot or do not care to host the ad server on the same domain, they just want to monetize the site.

That's sort of beside the point, though. The site owner's commitment to running ads is useless unless there are people to view them, and, as long as unsafe ads are ubiquitous, the only safe advice to give to people is that they should run ad blockers everywhere. It doesn't matter that that isn't what the site owner wants to happen.
Hard to compete with Bellard :)
Disney should buy them up at a discount and set up some AR "shows" in their parks to handle crowd capacity while during the ongoing renovations in Orlando and Anaheim.
Personally, such a product is a non-starter if it faces the same restrictions that an iPad does.

If I’m spending “pro computer” money, I want the pro computer. Having no way to access the file system or run code is just crazy to me.
Jaka Parker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDcfiEX__cA
I was under the impression that the speed in orbit matters, therefore accelerating matters.

From the paper:

> Φ0 is the effective gravitational potential in the rotating frame, which is the sum of the static gravitational potential of the Earth, and a centripetal contribution

This is just so I can catch up with a specific desired dilation relative to earth.

I don't want to make my orbit higher, on the contrary, the less distance the better so communication is faster.
I've been in cloud / IT space for about 15ish years now, and at some point in the last few years I became quite jaded with all the new shiny tech things. I had a lot of trouble buying into the K8s ecosystem when I could do magical wonderous things with SSH and Ansible, and most conversations with my colleagues at the time were unconvincing at best - they would say K8s can do blah blah, and I would point to our Ansible playbooks that were already doing the same thing. The problem for me was less about the differences in technology but more about finding the willingness to learn something just because I have to.

I've since learned to recontextualize these things in terms of people. CI/CD isn't good because it's better than SSH, it's good because people who speak English can understand a simple devops pipeline but not my custom SSH wizardry. It's a way of inviting developers and even non-tech mgmt folks into my arcane world of development / production and allowing them to see what's going on under the hood. My incentive now isn't about what CI/CD tech is better or worse, rather does it allow my team / peers to understand what I'm trying to achieve and join in. And ultimately that's what I get paid to do - I don't get paid to do cool tech stuff, I get paid to make other people's work easier, or at least that's how I see devops / CI/CD. I know I can always find easier ways to do things, but will they necessarily understand them?

Just my 2 cents. Hope this helps.
Hi, Lead Dev of WebVM and CTO of Leaning Technologies here. Happy to answer any questions you might have... potentially in a few hours, it's quite late here :-)

Even better, consider joining our Discord: https://discord.gg/yTNZgySKGa
10k audit logs per sec? I think we have different definitions of audit logs.
The best way to learn any technology is to use it in a project.

If you're between jobs you have more time to spin up weird experimental side-projects than most people.

It's a bit harder to spin up sideprojects for stuff like Kubernetes because it's pretty expensive to run, but there are plenty of related technologies - like Google Cloud Run or GitHub Actions - that are excellent fodder for small experimental projects to kick the wheels on them.

A great thing about side projects is that they're a risk-free environment for experimenting with new technology.
Superb article Robin

Sounds like you really went though a rough time building the invoicing system!

I have read many times about the difficulties of dealing with decimals/rounding but never found an article that nailed the explanation as well as you did
for narrative/dialogue, yes, text generation is currently useless. censorship, slop, extreme positivity bias. even jailbroken Opus is shit.

but audio generation we already have is pretty much good enough, and this is big. it's not AAA tier yet, sure, but still lightyears better half-assing it with mediocre voice actors. it is now an option to only use real voice actors for a few key characters, and even that won't be necessary within the next decade. even indie video games will be fully-voiced soon.
Something being cool technically doesn't mean it's wise philosophically.
unless ur sim has been spoofed...do u get SMS's from other phones?
> I have seen very few resumes that were not boring in looks that were attached to a good candidate

I have seen many. You might be misinterpreting "boring". I don't mean that CVs should be like a Flash website. I mean they should look good typographically and not just like an instruction manual for a washing machine.

I wish I'd saved some of the best ones, but take a look at some of these: https://www.beamjobs.com/resumes/programmer-resume-examples

Ignoring the content, they are almost all far superior typographically to the example in this article.
It’s important to note that predicted numbers for the whole year are limited to <450k units because they are limited by display manufacturing.

The report says they will sell under 500K units in the year, which matches that.

It also says they’ve sold around 100K units within this most recent quarter . Which if you divide by the number of months since its launch, is also completely inline with the linear projection of the number of units that could have been manufactured for that period.
Some of your questions are answered in the actual article... no mention of spouses or kids, so most probably they don't come along.
It was still the norm in Uzbekistan until just a few years ago, but with cotton instead of potatoes. Not anymore AFAIK.
Rather than "Math" in the title, one could also say "statistical model" or maybe "computer science".

I wish the article would have gone a bit more into the details, rather than giving us the ELI5 summary. This article seems more basic than the typical Quanta article.
One might even argue that the stupidity began when he decided to visit NK.
You should work on developing a growth mindset. It sounds like you have a typical fixed mindset where you believe that the things you learned and developed early in your career are perfectly fine and there's little benefit to extending yourself further. This mindset will not serve you well professionally and I strongly suggest you work on that as a priority.

Specifically to understand the benefits of CI/CD I recommend reading Jez Humble's book on the topic[0]. He's an excellent writer on the topic. You can also google his name and watch some excellent conference talks from him.

The best way to understand CI/CD is through experiencing an organisation that is building and deploying at scale. But you're between a rock and a hard place if you can't find employment without that experience. Jez Humble's books and talks will help you understand the benefits and capabilities of these systems.

[0] https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0321601912
They're not particularly related technologically, but they share the characteristic of reaching insane valuations because of whizz-bang sci-fi coolness and neophilia being mistaken for actual utility. The tech industry has been through a few of these.
So thats where crystal Pepsi came from!

Bloody Commie soda!
Similar scaling to genome sequencing. First genome was a huge undertaking, now routine after a few Moore-esque cycles.
Yes, that's the intuition for where the technology might go. Someday.

But actors and DM's are much more disciplined than LLM's, partly because they have careers and friendships on the line for misbehavior. For what amazing things they can do in good weather, LLM's are not really reliable when you want them to consistently deliver something very specific, very secure, or very artfully crafted. They may get there, but their design makes it a very hard problem that we're still a long way from seeing commercialized.
It's interesting because it's an unintentional poison pill of sort. If the US wants to continue to support NAFTA, which has been causing US manufacturers to lay off US workers to outsource production to Mexico (John Deere [1] [2] [3] most recently, for example), they have to allow these EVs in (to the detriment of US legacy automakers). The US auto industry employs almost 2% of the US working age population.

Fun and games for US MBAs and exces until the factory of the world opens up shop next door. Regardless, this should be positive for Mexico (both for labor and vehicle consumers), the climate and electrification of transportation, as well as price sensitive US consumers at a minimum (who cannot afford current US market EVs and their price points).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40848016 ("HN: John Deere Laying Off 600 Workers in Flagship Dubuque Factory for Mexico")

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849275 ("HN: John Deere announces mass layoffs in Midwest amid production shift to Mexico")

[3] https://youtube.com/watch?v=q0HntoXrVbA ("Youtube: Retired John Deere employee on mass layoffs: 'It's going to be devastating'")
This is the text of the policy announcement:

> The Problem Statement

> Based on 177 like tech companies in Silicon Valley (market research and EOO-1 Diversity Statistics data), the percentage of diverse engineering talent is sparse. In short, 4.7% are latino, 2.1% are African American, and 19.2% are female. These candidates are being targeted with all of our top competitors with white gloves tactics, strategic outreach, and engagement strategies, while Dropbox has yet to systematically establish any of these practices to compete for this top talent and showcase our uniquely inclusive, dynamic, and thoughtful culture.

> Opportunity to market DBX [Dropbox] more broadly:

> Moreover, diverse engineers are the most sought after group of individuals on the market today. While the average response rate to engage is high (37%) the rate at which they are interested in moving forwards is quite low (11%). We interpret this in two ways:

> First, due to the small pool and scarcity of diverse talent, companies are motivated to keep their diverse talent happy, well-compensated, and engaged; prospects are rarely on the market, and when they are, it is a highly calculated and careful search based on existing relationships.

> Second, traditional sourcing engagement methods (email, LinkedIn) do not adequately showcase what makes Dropbox special, and because these candidates are so highly sought-after, it would serve us to highlight our culture early on, and to take a more long term approach to courting them.

> Opportunistic Hiring

> As the business needs shift and open roles become more narrow, it will become difficult to find a home for diverse candidates that we're able to engage and who pass our bar. We feel like it would be a disservice to use in the long-term if we miss out on hiring critical talent for Dropbox because of current headcount constraints. To this end, we propose that Eng VP's withhold 20 heads to hire opportunistically.

> When a diverse/URM candidate is interested in interviewing, regardless of headcount, we will put them through the process. If they pass the TPS [technical phone screen] we will bring them onsite and evaluate based on their skillset.

>If the candidate goes to HC [hiring committee], we will proactively find a sponsor/team home for the candidate, and that team would receive a preciously withheld headcount for that hire.

As you can see, this really is a needlessly verbose way of saying "we're setting aside 20 headcount off-limits to white and Asian men". The fact that these set-aside headcount doesn't count towards the team's initial headcount does not change this fact: we had 20 headcount that were explicitly off-limits to white and Asian men.

What's even more interesting is that as per the company's diversity report, our tech workforces was 23% female as compared to the 19% cited in the policy announcement. So we actually had an overrepresentation of women at the time, yet we still instituted explicitly discriminatory policies favoring them.
This PHET simulation says it only teaches ratios ("6.RP.A.3",),
but I think it also teaches algebra!

The balance beam is not balanced when the equality relation does not hold: there is then an inequality relation between the masses given the position of the fulcrum.

Adding the same amount of mass to each side does not change whether the balance remains balanced (and subtraction is the inverse of addition, and integer multiplication is repeated addition).

Given a different amount of mass on each side of the balance, what is the mathematical analogue of balancing the equation by moving the fulcrum just?
To really stress it out, I would use both 0 to 1 and 1 to 0 transitions in the horizontal direction. Also, I would use a 2-on, 2-off pattern. e.g.

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More importantly, we missed a real opportunity to switch to a base-12 number system.
Try 5 years to get into foreign service, then pivot to IS?
https://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/

Artemy Lebedev, a known Russian web designer, visited North Korea and posted his notes with pictures (in Russian, should not be an obstacle these days).

There are three more sections with the selector below.
There could be an insurance angle. IF VR took off, Apple wanted something to point to. Welcome to the age of trillion dollar companies peacocking each other.
In my most recent interviews with Apple and Amazon there were no LeetCode questions after the phone screen. Quite a change from previous experience.
Also notably stealthy as a result of its wooden construction:

From https://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/11/28/flying-under-the-r...

"British aircraft designers got out to an early lead with the De Havilland DH. 98 Mosquito. Introduced in 1941, the twin-engine, fighter/bomber’s airframe was constructed of radar absorbing plywood. While not specifically designed to be stealthy from the outset, the plane’s low signature as well as its top speed of nearly 600 km/h (375 mph) made it a tough target to track for Axis radar operators."
Ok, enough chit-chat, you want the mobile app, right?

https://www.appbrain.com/app/hammurabi/com.papacut.hammurabi

(also available on Google Play and Apple Store, although Sumerians wouldn't recommend using those companies' services.)
Or, you can visit South Korea today, and if you want to go off the beaten
path, leave Seoul. The east coast is a beautiful and fascinating place.
Go to Gangwon, ride a cable car up Seoraksan, eat the best seafood of
your life.
From the article

>The judge in California’s northern district said this week that the lawsuit by two ex-Twitter employees incorrectly claimed the company’s severance plan was governed by a federal law dictating minimum payment thresholds.

From the legal docs

>Plaintiff Courtney McMillian was an employee at Twitter as the Head of People Experience leading Compensation, Benefits, and other global functions.

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Seems strange that the person who headed up benefits would get this one wrong.
My suggestion is to hit up the Social Security Administration website: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/. Go back a century (or to some era of choice), walk the list, find one that you like that isn't even in the top X these days and you'll be fairly safe. You'll end up with a reasonable, not-ridiculously-unique name that this generation mostly doesn't have (the site has recent years and names don't usually go from unlisted to popular overnight).

> the popular girl's name of the decade, apparently.

Keep in mind, in the internet era it can actually be nice to have a bad-SEO common name (though that's often dependent upon surname too).
Finland has banned flavoured cigarettes and smoking has reduced significantly in the younger population. Although it has also steadily upped the tax too, so I don’t know if the lack of flavours cause or correlation. Anecdotally, I know many thirty-somethings who used to smoke minty cigarettes who don’t smoke any more.
"So knowing now that root weave and all of that is from 1986, should I send X.Org a pull request to rename the party_like_its_1989 global variable to party_like_its_1986 or party_like_the_1980s"

Well, that would kind of spoil the Prince reference
I don't know the specifics of this, but the judge ruled in his favor and thus the severance package didn't include this. Elon musk literally have a whole team of lawyers just to deal with all the times he gets sued for various thing - like every one celebrity or rich person. If he paid everytime, he would have went bankrupt many times.
I don't believe for a second that the man straps a computer to his face every day.
My mother chose my first name (three characters) specifically to avoid it being turned into a nickname.

This worked so well she later chose a completely unrelated nickname for me.
Using Tailscale is the most effective solution for in-browser networking, we wrote at length about the topic some time ago: https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/webvm-virtual-machine-with...
No. I just wouldn't feel good about myself working for a company like Meta, regardless of how interesting the work was, how much I'd be learning, or how much I was earning.
I'm not sure that is the case for two reasons:

1. There's no big ecosystem of compiled ARM code to prevent people moving to RISC-V. In the embedded world everything is always compiled from source so it doesn't matter. On Android everything except games is bytecode. Maybe on Windows/Mac... but that's probably the last place we'll see RISC-V.

2. ARM and RISC-V are much more similar than ARM and x86 so it is way easier to translate ARM to RISC-V. It's also much more extensible so you can easily add instructions that you need to make the translation easy. I believe ARM has some instructions that are specifically included to make running x86 code easier - that sort of thing would be even easier on RISC-V.

You're probably right about price being the major differentiator, but I wouldn't underestimate that! Especially with ARM turning the screws on license fees.
Where is the sandbox in your code base?
I don't know anything about mazers (or fire safety), but, assuming flammable materials like wood, how do they extinguish the fire before it takes over the whole structure?

I guess "professional" mazes may have sprinkler systems. Still, it seems that even in buildings that do, a lot of value is put into maintaining escape routes.
They should be clearer, this is not an attempt towards full AI movies in one-click from a polished man made story like CyberFilm[1] is dreaming of.

What's presented here is just the less disruptive job title of AI enhanced cinematic b-roll from 3d gen scapes with cool levers to pull. Despite the rhetoric, they dare not tread on any professional toes with a truly immersive scene change ala luna/sora that would upstage the "unique" offering of hollywood.

[1] Podcast/Interview: https://aneyeonai.libsyn.com/194-russel-palmer-how-ai-is-tak...
> It's not that I actually believe most of these things are "useless". But rather that my mind can't draw a good problem scenario for them. So from my POV they look like solutions looking for a problem. Maybe my experience just has no good frame of reference for those things.

For lots of things your frame of reference should probably be sth like replacing very expensive and very limited engineering time with inexpensive tooling. That could be inferior. But I'm far more eng time limited than I am cash limited. Or, particularly for deploys, (1) blue-green deploys are great; and (2) it's easier to hire eng that don't understand how to use rsync or capistrano than it is to hire those that do. Just like it's easier to use github actions to make it very hard to deploy a branch w/ failing tests than it is to just rely on everyone running tests. (Which, in a perfect world, you could do... but here we are.)
That's a fun name. I used to draw sort of noodly-ish mazes as a kid, too, though they didn't always have a unique path as there could be branch loops. Did they look at all like this 7 minute mouse drawing version? https://imgur.com/a/lat8S6N There's no fancy process to it, though. I can picture a much more impressive maze deserving of the "brain maze" name.
Hmm. Hadn’t considered it for that. I’ve only used it for conversions, never kept things there since their ebook reader is quite bad.
Display managers were starting the X server and then immediately drawing a background on top of it, which meant you saw the stipple for a fraction of a second and it was just kind of jarring. These days the X server commonly won't even draw its own background, it'll just inherit the boot framebuffer contents and then draw over them, so you go straight from boot splash to login prompt without flicker.
The APIs are extremely limiting. You can't do interesting things like draw to the external display.

Things like reading QR codes or accessing the camera feed are "enterprise" features that require Apple's permission to even access.

The docs also suck and too much information is only available in WWDC videos
Tiny 2x4's whack the brain cells
Follow the rule principal.
You linked to it, and its repo is nix, the description is "Nix, the purely functional package manager"

I see no mention of CppNix other than from certain detractors.
Hello there, I havent tried webvm yet but looks similar to v86. There were lot of network related challenges working with v86, for eg. You cant do curl, DNS resolution does not work out of the box. How did you address these challenges in webvm. I think it is very interesting and exciting what you guys are building.
Recently I've met more Ashe's than Aidan's