skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, I totally believe there are niches. And I know the simulator crowd has some people who will go to great lengths to get more of the real feel. E.g., the multi-monitor setups: https://help.realsimgear.com/en/articles/4162793-recommended...

But I'll note that as entertainment experiences, plenty of people are happy to play flying and racing games on a 2D screen, so I suspect that this particular niche is quite small, similar to the fraction of dedicated fans who insist on 3D screenings of movies.

I'm sure it's not big enough to justify the billions spent on R&D, and I suspect it's too small to interest the major players in the long term. But perhaps the niches are enough to justify continued production of 3rd-party headsets.
There is a general prohibition on EU member states granting state aid to companies, but there are exceptions to this where the aid is justified in order to promote economically underdeveloped regions. There are a lot of rules and court cases about when state aid will fall on one side or the other of that line. See eg https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/state-aid/legislatio...
A lot of our customers use us [0] for that, it works pretty well if executed properly. The voiceovers work best as inserts into an existing podcast. If you see the articles of major news orgs like NYT, they often have a (usually) machine narrated voiceover.

[0] https://narrationbox.com
Draghi: "We (EU) are killing our small companies"
Ahh, sorry, you are correct. Looks like 2026 was what I was thinking about: https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/23/report-foldable-iphone-is-com...
You can do that with Sapling, in fact it's both very easy and conceptually more robust than Git because with Sapling you are just manipulating commits. Sapling also includes `sl web` which makes interactive commits, splitting, and rebasing a breeze. In Sapling, commits are easy to manipulate, so there's nearly no need for the staging area, unlike Git where the staging area is easy to manipulate but commits are unreasonably hard. You can stage temporary changes to your hearts desire with a slight mindset shift.
Poland is in NATO and has oodles of allied countries right next door, from Finland to down to Turkey. They have strong reason to be weary, but they're also not solely dependent on aid from across a giant ocean like SK.

Israel has won or at least didn't lose multiple wars against their neighbors over multiple decades, and has mostly solid peace deals with Egypt and the Saudis. Few middle eastern countries can throw military resources around like Russia or NK, too.
zstd is not zip and pkware has long been irrelevant
As someone not in the third trimodal tech pay-hump (I can’t possibly pass the interviews, I’m all used up for the day after 90-120 minutes of far-less-stressful ordinary interviewing) I’d considered it, because the pay cut would be fairly small, I find the mission appealing, and federal government benefits and retirement are really good…

Then I noticed the “term of service” stuff and nope’d out. Without the retirement, it’s a terrible deal even for me.
I definitely will at some point. I haven't seen an attempt at a standard here. For now, I'd like to solidify the current libraries and prototype them with real users. Based on what I learn from there, and ISO proposal could be in the future. :)
The solution would be honoring Do-Not-Track: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
I never even tried it. I cannot conceive of a single thing I'd want to talk to an LLM about, or a single question on which I care about an LLM's answer.
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As context sizes grow, it's easier to add lots of information outside of training data via in-context learning, which should offset that issue quite a bit.
It might not be "justice" to you in the narrow definition you are creating, but fair economic and user privacy rules are justice to me and likely to most. I don't find it orthogonal to justice at all.
> you have to spend more and more of your IQ points figuring out basic shit

I'm not sure that watching a movie on a streaming service requires more IQ points than watching it on a DVD.
I think you are referring to 4 out of 5 NixOS board members quitting

https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1dqn9os/4_out_of_5_n...
Ease of use and out of the box functionality.

OpenSaaS takes a lot of configuration and setup. SaaSavant ships as a fully functional SaaS application. Just add your environment variables and the features that make your product unique, then deploy. User sign up, account management, automated billing, emails, newsletter, landing page, support ticket system, policies, user dashboard, admin dashboard, etc. are all setup and ready to go.
Getting clip-in lenses designed for the headset should improve the experience a fair bit, both from ease of use and because it allows for a tighter fit.

For the movement, try out Gorilla Tag. For most people, it turns out that arm-swing movement eliminates nausea; it's just enough to convince the brain that you're the one doing it and not something else.
Why do you need an in-cluster operator/pod?
Perfect software doesn't need to be maintained. TM
I mean, I do! But I see plenty of people listening to stuff from their phones or mono Bluetooth speakers, so I don't think it's a strong preference. Heck, I'd rather have stereo, but my workshop speaker is mono and I don't care enough to upgrade it for the casual listening I do there.
One dentist makes more than 10 philosophers. Who's intelligent now?
Yes, if a client gives a UUID and you want to look up relations to that table, you'll have to join with that table. And the index on the UUID has its own costs. It's still better this way. If for some rare reason this join is too expensive, there are other options like using a cache or denormalizing the tables slightly. The alternative of a UUID pkey will seriously slow down every join.

One question is whether you do random or k-sorted UUIDs for a secondary key. K-sorted is likely faster, but in many cases the difference is small enough that you'd rather take the easy random route which is also guaranteed not to leak any info.
The high competition is usually also the root of the evil, since they need to do things that other would not to get an advantage. Like using child labor somewhere. Create a solution for non-existent problem but then lobby some laws which will create this problem. There is no moral in public companies.
> , hard links break the tree structure, for one, so you get a DAG but not a tree.

More than DAGs, but instead pretty arbitrary graphs since you can express cycles with hard links.
No, if a human does it by accident, as is clearly the case here, we call it "hallucination", "misremembering", "mandela effect" or "dementia"
It's getting harder and harder to hide the complete lack of achievement.

You can only strike each others' egos for so long.
VAT is physically paid by businesses in EU.
At the end of the day it's a tax on final business to customer transaction (like sale tax). It's levied on a transaction. Saying one party pays it but the other doesn't is meaningless. It's added to the transaction and then collected by the business and transferred to government.
I only use it as Perl alternative for UNIX scripts, nothing else, unless forced otherwise.

There are enough alternatives with the same dynamism and native code generation.
> Where’s there support from the federal government for this incredible endeavor?

https://spacenews.com/spacex-explains-why-the-u-s-space-forc...

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musks-spacex-clock...

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-07-19/what-the-m...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/spacex-becomes-nasas...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/tech/spacex-starlink-subsidie...
> Is this a funding problem?

No.
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I'm shocked. 90% of my game library is physical. So if the console is priced at 799 € without a disc drive, and the drive costs an additional 149 €, that totals 948 € if I want to continue playing my existing disc collection.
No, thanks!
IMO, a lot of the best podcast content comes from a spontaneous tangent. You’d lose those moments with autogenerated podcasts.
> Not everyone lives in places where there is 10ms latency to the closest data center. Streaming only works OK when bandwidth is high and latency is low, which is probably less common than you think.

You don't need 10ms anything below 40 is good. I get 20ms being 500km from datacenter.
It'll be great when the AI generation gets on device and you won't need to pay per minute of text generated.
Elevenlabs would burn through the investors' money someday and they'd stop subsidizing the reader voice generation.
Good to know.

(Also sibling is right, I spaced on X-CF- being a header sent to CF customers’ servers. I don’t used cloudflare but cloudfront does the exact same thing)
That's an unusual use of language. Even by your standards, though, the book fails. The data mentioned in the book, while interesting, doesn't justify the author's claims.
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I'm too much of a transhumanist to understand why, when you can choose to look like anything you could imagine, you would choose to look like your default human self!
Regardless of topic, Mark's blog has been consistently making me smarter.

ClickHouse, DuckDB, literally anything GIS related.

Thank you dude.
> there will be a nuclear war

sounds like a pretty good reason to me to worry about it.
Am i missing something or is the big O notation in this article wrong? For example in "Sorted sets like BTreeSet use comparisons for searching, and that makes them logarithmic over key length O(log(L)), but they are also logarithmic in size too" how is the search done in logarithmic time? You could have a header that differs from an internal one only on the last character and then you have to read the whole thing. Also space-wise B-trees are linear, not O(nlogn). Additionally, at the end when talking about the trie, how do you achieve O(log(L)) for misses? Tries are not balanced, they do not halve the possible set on comparison (as I think the author states) and even if they did I don't see how that achieves the logarithmic time.
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Because we keep telling people the opposite in academic settings, where the pkey is usually some actual data field(s) you expect to be unique. There's some point to teaching 3NF this way, but it shouldn't be taken literally.
> VR is nothing but isolation.

The most popular VR app of all time is a 3D chat room.
Yes, those pure, angelic and kind trillion dollar tech companies are being bullied by the big bad evil EU government because they are jealous of their success. They're just haters

Its not like it has anything to do with them consistently violating people's rights and having the biggest monopoly in the history of the world. Get it twisted, you must defend them tooth and nail because one day, it could be you. /s
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Missed this one.
https://www.occourts.org/rss/news-events
Personally, I would not believe that forced arbitration would be applied to the context of physical harm, nor would believe that Disney would dare to try it.

Evidently, I was wrong... But the arbitration clause clearly says it applies to the case. You are expecting things that aren't written there (nor in any other of those "contracts" you sign every day). IMO, you should be correct on that, but the world seems to disagree.
Absolutely, but I hope there already are measures taken to prevent and contain battery fires during manufacturing.
Missed this one...
https://www.occourts.org/rss/news-events
Fully agree. Alma is the true continuation of CentOS IMHO. The Alma team has developed some serious chops, and contributes to the ecosystem as well. The Alma team is doing things the right way, and I have a lot of respect and appreciation for them.
It looks almost like my handwriting :).

It's interesting that each time it shows a different variant.

Anyway, when I press "get the derivative of f(x)=x^2" I get

2-1
f'(x) = 2 x

but the 1 is too big. (Do you need a screenshot?)
The vast majority of SAR satellites are below 500W and have a beam "footprint" of about 5km by 5km at minimum.

Imagine 5 100W lightbulbs reflected and focused to channel as much light as possible onto a 25 square kilometer field from hundreds of kilometers away.

The planes are fine.
VR is interesting; we think we want VR, and we probably do, but this is like saying we wanted airliners before we actually had the technology to build one. Most recent VR headsets feel, relatively speaking, like those crazy early flying contraptions that simply couldn't deliver on the promise. At best, the state of the art is equivalent to the Wright Flyer - amazing demo, not quite ready for mass adoption.

Until VR headsets provide a seamless, pleasant experience, they will remain in the hands of early adopters and enthusiasts.
big problem all over Europe, plus in Ukraine and Russia.

regardless of which side wins that war their demographics are dwindling
Thank you for the insights.
Yes, it uses Git as the default backend, so it's more or less just a different interface to a Git repository. Everyone today uses it this way.

The server-side components have been open source, but not fully usable due to fb-only code. That's changing and you can in theory build a working OSS server now that works on mysql/s3, but it isn't supported yet.
> Eg Ireland might give a tax incentive if a large Fortune 500 company hires X people in Ireland.

If Ireland is willing to give the same tax incentive to any company hiring X people in Ireland, it's fine.

If Ireland only grants the rebate to Fortune 500 companies in a bid to lure specific US investment, it's the state creating a competitive distortion i.e. state aid.
the point of contention comes out of how you are saying "...by accident" but I'm sidelining the intention
Sure, happens all the time. Synthetic aperture radar satellites operate in different bands than air traffic control radar, so there is no risk. Your house is scanned at least once every few days from wide swath radar satellites like Sentinel-1.
My kids did not learn, perhaps because new kids kept coming to learn the lesson. And they generally can't connect a non-working disc to a specific act. Instead, a disc stops working after dozens of cumulative actions. We never replaced any broken discs either, and just slowly saw our collection dwindle from 20 working discs to something like 2.

My favorite example was the kids using dvds as roller skates to slide around the room.
What "testimony" are you referring to?

The war truly could have been avoided (multiple times, even in the first week after Russia invaded) but Ukrainian "leadership" succumbed to foreign (US/UK) pressure.

This is a myth and is easily debunked. But unfortunately your use of square quotes here signals an intent to discourage reasoned discussion on the topic.
Yeah, no. If that was the case they would not fine companies based in the EU. Guess what? They are also going after companies based in the EU.

Your argument holds very little water.
I mean, isn't that exactly the case here though? Ireland's law said they could do this. The EU says that's wrong, and Ireland is seemingly getting a reward for doing something illegal that the EU didn't decide was illegal for almost 30 years?

Again, not disputing that this is legally accurate to how things work, but that definitely strikes me as an environment that a lot of businesses would find hard to work with. Other smaller startups I've worked with had Irish branches because it was a good way to hire devs and governments gave us some incentives. Finding out, potentially decades later, that the Irish government had screwed us over would be a lot more catastrophic than this fine will be to Apple.
It's more like a law that targeted only sake drinkers, and punish them for a BAC of 0.01.
Maybe they should do it like Roth IRAs. You can move the money to a tax haven only after you’ve paid taxes on it.

So if you’re building hotels or factories in the haven that’s fine. If you’re hiding money we demand our pound of flesh.
Configure all machines in a way that they can survive on some random untrusted public wifi. This should be the obvious default stance for laptops and phones.

But even for workstations wired to a trusted LAN it still makes sense because you never know which of the various tunnels might assign and expose some IPv6 address to the internet.

For servers you might be able to make an exception if you have a vigilant IT and the people with admin access aren't actively trying to circumvent security, but even then that better not be your only layer of security.
Most nausea issues come down to bad/unimaginative design, rather than being inherent to the headset. For an example, try out Gorilla Tag, which uses arm-swing movement instead of making you use a joystick.
Or Ireland could just lower the tax for every company making it a level playing field. I am not a fan of EU economic ideas at all but I am happy they are starting to enforce this one. My country (Poland) has done such deals as well. Wanna start a small business? 19% corporate tax, 23% VAT, 19% cap gain tax. Some German car company thinking about opening a factory here? Let's offer 0 tax rate for many years + additional incentives!

This really is demoralizing how they set rules for small guys but then give big incumbent companies everything they want.
Impressive work. I love jupyter, but it's a bear to work on.

What mix of JS packages do you see?
Could that be built into one uber package?
> Fines imposed on undertakings found in breach of EU antitrust rules are paid into the general EU budget. This money is not earmarked for particular expenses, but Member States' contributions to the EU budget for the following year are reduced accordingly.

https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/index/fines_en

Also, because there are always people in these discussions commenting things they haven't given a single thought to. No, these fines do not finance the EU.

The EU budget is around €160 billion to €180 billion each year. Roughly 1% of the EU GDP, contributed by member states.

Fines this large are the exception, not the rule. So fines do make up a very small portion of the overall budget.
Man, it’s going to blow your mind when you realize that all the talking heads aren’t real and never were.
I give amc & mathcount mocks to kids every weekend & time them. There was one question everyone got under 5 seconds. I was like how did you guys do it so fast. Apparently aops had told them every year will have a special property that'll forsure be on the test. So that's why they all knew 45^2 was 2025.
Considering that each node's filter in their trie implementation is bloom-like already, the solution is awful close. I agree that testing wider swaths of the string at once might be a dramatic accelerator.

A more naive approach might also be warranted. Some frequency analysis of hit/miss for trie nodes might allow them to find specific character positions with a higher miss rate than the first one. Testing such special positions first would speed things up. That assumes, of course, that the header data is fairly regular in nature.
> "64 GiB of memory" & "1-error-per-10k" entries.

That's the size of the BF that gives that error rate (per his calcs - didn't check). So that definitely busts the cache.
Background: I spent a few years commercially designing and building VR and AR headsets.

Biggest challenge with VR is the design philosophy for headsets. No matter how much I and others pushed against it - many VR folk are intent on sticking all the hardware on people's heads and faces.

Instead, we need more walkman like designs, where the compute and batteries sit on a user's hip, and the tethered headset is as light as physically possible. Cables for tethering can be a pain, but not as much as putting 500+ grams on your face.

Light headsets are amazing, and yes, I've worn prototypes. Ideally, get headsets down to 80-100 grams and the experience is radically improved.

There are a few small companies pushing on the design, but not main stream enough.
Any idea how it deals with binary files and locking of files? I can't find anything in the docs about it.

I'm a gamedev and currently Perforce and Subversion are the best in this space (because of robust Binary and locking support).
The good news is that the developers of Gorilla Tag and Echo Arena are working on a spiritual successor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xjnw_skc9g
I confess that none of those patterns resonate with me at all. I’m not sure if I can even see that patterns in them that you see.

Conversely, to me, 9733 “looks prime”. I couldn’t explain that if I had to. It just does.

I like that there’s enough prime real estate for us all to see it differently.
The leading theory seems to be that it's meaningless gibberish, in part because asserting that it isn't requires some degree of specificity as to what it could be, and there's little agreement on that aspect. Which is to say, it's the plurality theory but far from the majority theory.

It's also known that the text makes no sense as an encipherment known in the 17th century of any known natural language. Statistical analysis of features suggests it's not random gibberish... but also distinguish it from natural language. It's also prone to a high degree of repetition or near-repetition (think phrases like "burgle bugle bugie", with one-letter changes between successive words).

Personally, I think it's gibberish that was constructed to have some degree of plausibility for a would-be cryptanalyst. Or maybe even something as prosaically simple as calligraphy practice, given the unnaturally repetitive nature of a lot of the text.
I just setup a argo cd autopilot repository https://github.com/pmig/argocd-autopilot as a comparison. Autopilot gives you a great opinionated scaffold for internal applications.

Our template already includes update automations with the renovate integration and easier integration of third party applications.
Not every country has legal corruption as part of political system.
You're talking sense, but I'm kinda wanting to do it at the subprocess level so that caller and callee need not use the same language (I was talking in terms of tests but tests are just a special kind of function).

Whether to use nodejs or python or rust (and which version thereof) will be as much a part of the bundled function as its code. I figure I'll wrap nix so it can replicate the environments, then I'll just have to do the runtime stuff.
it's harvest season in the global north.

this is what harvest looks like in modernity

what we are witnessing, is the system moving energy (as money) from USA corporations onto Europe.

winter is coming, and heat will be needed; happens every year.
> but not all states (like Cali) honor that and may still charge you state income tax

Whoa, so before moving to a low tax country you should move to a state that is not insane for a while and then move abroad? Crazy.
Consider the extrema: You have a Pentium P5 running at 16W doing something like 70 MIPS (which isn't quite producing 70 MFLOPS), getting something like 4 MFLOP/Watt.

Then take a Titan V at 14.9 TFLOPs (32 bit) at about 250W, for 59,000 MFLOP/Watt.

There's almost no conceivable world in which it's worth running the P5. It literally consumes ten thousand times as much power per unit compute as a not-quite modern GPU.

For compute to "always" be more valuable than the cost of the power it consumes, the value of that compute would have to be infinite. We have no such application. And I suspect we're unlikely to. :-)
It used to be a joke that satellites could read your license plate from space. Then I see commercial images like this and I am less sure.
errata. Also real humans often make mistakes in live interviews. The biggest difference is that eventually these fake humans will have lower error rates than real ones.
spell check alert. you misspelled "lobbying"

I think you were trying to say:

> Not every country has a legitimate lobbying scheme as part of its political system.