skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you should also talk about the drawbacks, potential roadblocks and failure points. Otherwise it's not possible to make an educated decision on whether to move to SI from, say, Terraform, and as such, we wont. SI is very early days and it's exceedingly obvious there will be a ton of issues with it. Terraform has a ton of drawbacks and it's old tech by now. Provide us information so we can decide whether it's worth dealing with SI issues to no longer have to deal with Terraform issues. Otherwise this is just marketing speak and will fall on flat ears.
Also, it's often the same people who claim to be "pro life".
When they say "holographic display", do they mean "wave interference patterns" (true hologram) or just "Pepper's ghost" type stuff?
Exactly. I actually think default parameters are hazardous without named-parameter support. When they added one, IMO they should have added the other as well, so that you can specify exactly which non-default parameters you're passing.
Suppose they're referring to the Ray-Bans Wayfarers, no display, just front facing camera and audio

I thought it was very gimmicky, I tried taking lots of family photos but none of them were any good, between the vertical format and, you know, not being able to frame the shot. Also I never adapted to having an LLM in my ear (big network induced lag times didn't help), so ymmv

All I want are glasses that can tell me where I left my wallet but I don't think we'll see it this decade.
I'm less worried about the current unemployed; that's a whole other can of worms. I'm more worried concerned about a supposed AI job-pocalypse where everyone (including me) can't find a job because AI robots can perform the role I currently perform, for cheaper, and tirelessly.

For the jobs that immediately come to mind, the reason there's no one working then is because I don't have the money to pay for them. I'd love to have a driver and a carer; There's a number of businesses I want to start but I don't have the money to hire people to do things so they limp along with the time and effort I'm able to give them after my main job.
Home Depot smells like a men's shelter/halfway house (it took me a couple trips to realize, why do I hate this familiar smell and not want to come back to this place).

It has the most bottom of the barrel staff and a lumber yard that sells... something... that barely qualifies as lumber. It is the epitome of modern American capitalism. It exists solely because it exists. No one would ever see a current Home Depot when visiting someone and say 'oh my god, please replace our current store(s) with this!'. But department stores used to offer experiences where people said that.
If you don't have RDBMS wisdom and program an application around a RDBMS, your application is going to suck.

No ORM or framework is going to save you.
It isn't. I miss when I didn't have to examine every new device to see what data about me it's going to Hoover up to some mothership to see how it can manipulate me to do things against my interest.

But to the extent you're pitching it as some sort of reactionary lashing out against the bright glorious shining future... sorry. It's not me. It's tech. There has been a real change in the tech space. I used to just be able to take nearly for granted that tech is going to benefit me. Now I can't.

I phrased it as I did on purpose; to do things against my interest. If you are not actively guarding yourself against that, you're a victim of it, probably a great deal more than you realize. To ignore that aspect of tech is sheer foolishness and getting more dangerous by the year.
The two "thumbnails" in the Featured News sidebar on this page are two 720p GIFs, totaling about 32MB. There is another 7MB GIF that I don't even see used anywhere. The result is 40 MB burned on peripheral junk and I never get to see how goofy the glasses look because the pictures in the main article never manage to load.

edit: Oh wait, they are actually animated WEBPs, just renamed to .gif.
It's not that people can't see the potential, but the more likely of where this particular vendor will take things. Not being able to see the true intent behind marketing would be a horrific thing to me.
So this is a major side question, but is there a go-to open source infinite canvas? I'm building a card game and I need a multiplayer infinite canvas for it. I'd appreciate any recommendations.
how does this compare to zotero?
Fun, no. Accurate, mostly.
Folding Home Badge
Ask HN: Does the m4 iPad Pro have a better display than recent MacBook Pros?
And if so, in what way?
Looks like a good start. I'm not actually sure I'd use it on windows however. CPPWinrt has a really decent coroutine support library with tools like winrt::resume_background() [1], I use it extensively even in desktop apps because it makes using the windows threadpool (which is active by default for all windows processes since at least windows 7) trivial. I've basically moved most of my threading code onto that unless I need a dedicated thread to hold a context for some reason. But, that's a windows specific thing as far as I know.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/cpp-ref-for-winrt/resu...
I had no idea that we could install third party software on TomTom car navigation systems until just now.
Lol, if it was Apple announcing a similar prototype HN would be crazy and this thread would have 3000 comments already.

But since it's meta, it's mostly negative.
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There's a link above with much more details: https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo...

[The display] features Micro LED projectors inside the frame that beam graphics in front of your eyes via waveguides in the lenses. These lenses are made of silicon carbide, not plastic or glass. Meta picked silicon carbide for its durability, light weight, and ultrahigh index of refraction, which allows light beamed in from the projectors to fill more of your vision.

This 2022 paper seems like a good explainer of the tech, def download the PDF for the Figures: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-09680-1

Through careful dispersion control in the excited propagation and diffraction modes, we design and implement our high-resolution full-color prototype, via the combination of analytical–numerical simulations, nanofabrication and device measurements... Our MOE waveguide utilizes only a single glass layer for the whole RGB spectrum, reducing unwanted diffraction and with higher efficiency. Our single-layer implementation also brings compactness and lightweight operation, while simplifying the MOE fabrication and yield.

Sooo this layman is reading it as "used fancy ML workflows to fabricate extremely precise hologram guides." Pretty damn impressive and exciting! It's a good day/year/millennium to be nerd, no doubt about it.
Interesting that Meta is using Wordpress.
Nothing like a good Europan handshake.

I am this close to suggesting a round of Barotrauma in the next team-building exercise I'll participate in, as it reveals a lot about what works and what doesn't in a team.
Just remember, these are $10000 prototypes.

Two more silicon nodes (36 months 2027) and these will be the same size as regular sunglasses
Does anyone have experience using this to develop with elixir / phoenix liveview?
> I don't personally see the appeal of hands-free as a paradigm in most cases. Do we really want people talking on and looking at Zoom as they walk around the office? Or as they drive? Or as they are out shopping

I can see this being extremely useful, especially if the person on the other can see what you're looking at. Interactive remote troubleshooting!

> Can you imagine how goofy you'd look sitting at a coffee shop and just sort of staring into the middle distance and talking, as you take a Zoom call?

No goofier than someone talking through their airpods.
100g, has a battery, but still a power puck
hey boss lets have our database be supported by a ... brazilian bank. prbly not a winning proposal.
You're assuming people look out front and are paying attention to the "background" of whatever they're watching with their glasses.
In regards to the mental overhead of charging at a desk, I have found that a charging stand helps me not think about it, compared to plugging in a cable. It becomes the default place to put the phone when seated. A non-Magsafe solution might be better since there aren't cables that can be accidentally yanked.
I don't know why you're so aggressive or insulting over a simple "let's assume good faith". I do know these sort of personal attacks you keep doing are explicitly disallowed on HN. So please just stop.
Trying to start a successful e-commerce business while trying to start a startup sounds incredibly difficult.

Kind of like a plan that starts with "first make a viral youtube video then...". That first step is significantly larger and more difficult than it seems, and kind of sounds like that is your experience.

If I were in your situation, I would prioritize the quickest path to stability. If your e-commerce business is popping off, drop the startup. If neither of those are going anywhere, get a job. Without having some stability it will be difficult to take another swing at your startup.

Once you are treading water again, I would re-evaluate your startup strategy. I wouldn't write any code, or build any prototypes yet. First step is getting in front of people who are your target users and ask them lots of questions about their problems. If the idea you are showing them isn't doing it, ask about their other problems. Build the lowest effort thing that solves that problem in the happiest case and keep showing it.
> Oh, I am sure they'll try.

They won't just try, they'll simply do it, by default, in the absence of proactive action preventing it.
Have we reached Peak Human?
> Can you imagine how goofy you'd look sitting at a coffee shop and just sort of staring into the middle distance and talking, as you take a Zoom call?

Honestly, people used to say the same thing about Bluetooth hands-free devices years ago, and now no one even bats an eye when someone talks using AirPods.
How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft
Adding a parameter to the function signature, and then passing an additional value at each call site is done... automatically in Haystack? Impossible!

Edit: And "to figure out what edits I need to make" is done by any ol' compiler, no?
This has been the case in Italy since 2018, but I'm OK with ISP-provided ONTs to be honest, as long as I can use my own router.

The problem here is that the ISP will try to avoid giving any kind of support (even when the problem is on _their_ side) if you opt into BYOD.
you might be able to order hypernova, a slimmed down version of this, next year

heavy on the might
Promoting Folding@Home through gitification
https://archive.is/VMSro
I don’t know a single person who is interested in anything like this, including massive gadgets nerds. Who’s the target market? The Verge reporters?
Automattic staff post suspicious “Five for Future program” stats
2025 Buick Enclave First Drive Review: Made for Road Trips
CLU had for loops with iterators (generators) and yield in the mid–late 1970s [0]. The Icon programming language around the same time had similar generator features [1] (with yield spelled “suspend”). Ada (1983) also had such features I believe. These weren’t completely unknown language features.

[0] https://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-2...

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800055.802034
> But since it's meta, it's mostly negative.

Same with other companies actively damaging the world around us. Tobacco, Weapons, etc.
>Physicists have taken this to mean that the contorted space-time fabric of a black hole may be made of atomlike parts, just like a gas.

as far as i see the "singularity" at the center of black hole is just a mathematical artifact of the smoothness of the GR. And while that smoothness is a valid approximation at macro scales, by all the accounts the world isn't that smooth at the micro scales, and similarly to white dwarfs and neutron stars it seems naturally for a black hole core to be some next step of degenerate matter, something like quark-gluon soup.
As someone unfamiliar with the VR headset space, what's the benefit?
I've been trying some of the smart glasses on the market and the optics don't agree with me, almost instantly they cause me severe eye strain and eventually headaches. Which is strange because I'm alright with VR for 45-60 minutes. I really want to use these devices for portable productivity but they are so far from that in their current state. I hope Meta can solve these issues.
Google's Rust belts bugs out of Android helps kill off unsafe code substantially
Zoo for zotero is pretty good ;)

I think the dev do not work on it anymore, but it's in a very usable state and open source.
There's dozens of different styles of camera glasses available on Amazon today for a fraction of the price, with completely concealed cameras. I think that train left the station years ago.
Plus, “that person’s name is ‘jazzyjackson’” when you’re looking at them
OMG?
It makes sense if you invert your point of view. These are not chargers where you have to pay for parking; these are parking places which have a charger as an extra.

IMO, the long-term tendency will be for every parking place to have an electric vehicle charger (or at least a standard power socket which can be used for a slow charge), the same way every parking place has electric lighting.
Women also, statistically, commit fewer crimes and far fewer violent crimes. One might reasonably suppose that the statistical output matches the input. (I would also be unsurprised if they were more likely to cooperate, and to plead guilty.) This holistic perspective is less compatible with instinctive misogyny, however.
I definitely see the appeal.

A vastly larger screen where you don't have to crane your neck down to read the news? That sounds amazing for my daily commute, and so much healthier for my neck and shoulders.

And visible directions while cycling would be amazing, when it's unsafe to glance at your phone. (Audio directions aren't nearly as good, and wearing headphones/earbuds while cycling is illegal in a lot of places as well.) A heads-up display in your car should be safer too than looking down at the screen.

And if people are having video calls while walking, that doesn't seem any goofier or creepier from audio calls with earbuds, where it already looks like somebody talking to nobody.
It's happening literally right now?
https://www.meta.com/connect/
> we're going to eventually monetize

How do you plan on monetizing?
More to the point Oracle has flashback queries:

SELECT ... AS OF <timestamp or logical clock time>

So you can query the database as of any point in the past, making manual work to implement the same feature with custom columns redundant.

Oracle can also show you a record of transactions made and what SQL to run to undo them, including dependency tracking between transactions.
Right, indirectly (single port). I was spelling it out.
LG Smart TVs, including OLEDs, now show screensaver ads
Zuck has invested billions in this idea over the course of a decade. I think it's way beyond some "product managers".
That's not at all how I took the article myself.

(and I noticed the comment you were replying to was from the author thereof so under the circumstances it seemed reasonable to use what he'd written about it long form as context)
But what if while you are talking to someone it automatically displays a subway surfer video next to their face /s

Putting stuff in front of your phase is a more natural interface than having to hold a rectangle you look into. But the friction of phone screens might be quite healthy to society.

On the other hand in blue collar work this is invaluable. Basically the same market every other AR headset is going after: overlaying plans or live sensor data over your viewpoint, being able to share a common viewpoint when troubleshooting with people remotely, sending out low-skilled people on support calls with experts directing them remotely, etc
It's hard to say for sure because this write-up is much more marketing than technical, but they probably mean it uses holographic optical elements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_optical_element

These are more or less "true" holographic elements, because they rely on wave optics and interference. But the pattern is fixed at manufacturing time, not varying with the image that's being displayed. And the image being displayed to each eye is still 2D, not 3D.

Basically, an HOE can act like a system of lenses and mirrors for collimating the image from each eye's display and making it appear at a comfortable viewing distance -- but is much smaller and lighter.
> Can you imagine how goofy you'd look sitting at a coffee shop and just sort of staring into the middle distance and talking, as you take a Zoom call?

While I agree with you, you could also say the same thing about mashing a black square with your thumbs at a coffee shop or walking around a grocery store with little piece of plastic in your ear and talking to someone.
More importantly, each processing stage may have external resources it needs to manage to do its function. In many cases, it makes more sense to let the stage own the resource for all bottles, than to have a per-bottle process having to contend for the resource at the point it's needed.
I feel the same way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094245
Does tldraw work for you? We use Pixi JS, which comes with graphics as well.
OT: I find it interesting that the Technic branch of Lego seems to increasingly separate itself from the rest of the franchise, design-wise - to the point they got rid of the actual bricks!

In older models, there used to be the occasional "flying" section that was built exclusively out of axles, beams and linkages, but the main support structures were still mostly made out of "traditional" Lego bricks (albeit with holes in them).

With recent models, they seem to have made the "flying" style the norm and the standard bricks the exception.

I wonder if this is some indication of Technic becoming its own thing independent of Lego.

(I only noticed the design changes, I have no idea if there are some company politics behind it - but if there is more information I'd be interested to know)
Yeah, Apple meanwhile makes it better.
I wonder how different garum is from southeast Asian fish sauce.
It still has this:

> This custom License aims to maintain the collaborative nature of the project while restricting the distribution of modified versions.
I'm hopeful that ubiquitous AR can be a good thing. I remember being inspired many years ago by the book "Rainbows End" about the possibilities.

I am a bit concerned to see advertising companies at the forefront. This is a great video that demonstrates some of the risks: https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs?si=KOQD8RtLR1Il1ZQl
just to clarify: your source is from 2004.

Extreme floods in central Europe over the past 500 years: Role of cyclone pathway “Zugstrasse Vb”
M. Mudelsee, M. Börngen, G. Tetzlaff, U. Grünewald
First published: 02 December 2004
What are you finding them useful for?
Apple has never released a VR headset
From using various VR systems, a hololens, and reading reviews of the vision pro I really feel like hand gestures are a bad way to interact with AR systems. They might work in a pinch (heh) but some sort of small controller that can act as a pointer and has a button or two is superior in every way.

It's interesting that meta went through the effort of bundling an accessory but stuck with hand gestures anyway.
Thing is AMD can't have Nvidia margins because nobody supports them - take a hit for a generation on pro sales - get market/mind share and then you have a chance to play the same game.
> Kernel modules have a moderate list of unstable features that are required but many (all?) have already been stabilized or on the path to stabilization so you don't need a "bleeding edge" nightly.

https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 lists the "unstable features" required by the Rust for Linux codebase. It's a long list!

One of the features in the "Required" section was "added as unstable in 1.81", a version released three weeks ago. Presumably that means you need a nightly build that's newer than (or at least close to the release of) Rust 1.81, which seems pretty bleeding-edge to me.

I sure hope none of those "paths to stabilization" involve making any changes to the unstable features, because then release versions of the Linux kernel would be stuck pinning random old nightly builds of the Rust compiler. That seems even worse than depending on bleeding-edge ones.
cant wait for face ads. ubiquitous ar would be cool, but not from these companies
I believe the number of ISPs differs regionally (I suspect due to where they have network equipment), but I just put in my adress into the main search website (https://www.broadbandcompare.co.nz) and it came back with 13+ ISPs (although some of them might belong to same parent companies). Prices tend to be quite similar (which I suspect indicates that it is operating close to cost) and differentiation happens mainly on bundling with other services (mobile, power, TV, included Netflix...) Keep in mind that I have only lived here for 1.5 years, but from my limited experience it definitely seems like there is a healthy amount of competition.
Collaborative and generative AI features. E.g. sharing Haystack workspaces, searching your codebase in the natural language, making edits to multiple files, etc.
Giving power to Meta to track what you are attentive to, where, with whom,

is about the worst conceivable decision a consumer could make, technology and oo ahh notwithstanding.

They have not only proven durably resistant to even their own tepid self-constraint, hostile to oversight, entirely willing to violate the law, and disinterested in basic moral restraint,

the story—literally today—is about Zuckerberg's now open disregard for ethical action, under the tutelage of Thiel.
Chronic diseases cause 75% of all deaths globally. The toll is likely to rise
I can recommend the book Guide to Graph Colouring: Algorithms and Applications by Lewis. It covers techniques including some state of the art methods for getting good but not provably optimal colorings. It discusses in depth local search and hybrid evolutionary algorithms, which tend to be the best performing on academic benchmarks (DIMACS graphs and large random graphs).
It’s funny they’re using different fonts within the string literals.
All marketing is marketing that will land on flat ears. In the end, you'll have to try System Initiative, see if it is a fit for your use case today, and if it isn't, if it's worth paying attention to tomorrow. I wouldn't (and you shouldn't either) make a technology decision based on what anyone says on their website or blog. :)

Today the obvious drawbacks:

* Terraform has tons of coverage in their provider ecosystem, and we're not close to that yet.

* We have some enterprise features still to add.

* There is some work to be done around huge infrastructures, both in how to provide easy ways to visualize them and how we scale the underlying graphs.

https://docs.systeminit.com/roadmap/

We have plans for all these things, but it's early days. My advice (not just for SI) - you should always build representative prototypes if you want to understand what a technology might do for you. Your circumstances matter, and your problems are likely unique.
Upside: Less distortion, more generous positioning sweet spot, much thinner and lighter.

Downside: Expensive, requires the display to run brighter for the same perceived brightness.
Lower resolution, lower FOV and Fresnel lens...

Not really nobrainer if you want the best experience. And things like these could make or break the VR immmersion.
GitProtect backup and DR for DevOps
As is the Meta Quest 3S.