skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latency for me on a Quest 3 with a Puppis router + Virtual Desktop is around 45ms. I personally haven't found 45ms to be a problem (it's comparable to many TVs without game mode) but YMMV!
It still seems like an improvement though. They could be mistaken for very unfashionable glasses. That’s so much closer to what people want, than Apple or Microsoft’s headsets.

Actually it is a little bit annoying, people might actually get away with wearing these things, which means Facebook spyware might be entering everyday life. I’m glad I’m too old for parties.
The most productive discussion about this website, on HN, was 12 years ago[1].

I remain entirely impressed by the artistry (and patience?) that went into creating these animations!

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890267
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The Apple Vision Pro front screen feels like an initial clunky attempt at trying to make this easier by giving an obvious indicator when somebody is off in their own world vs actually looking at you... though as UX design it's a good 10 years ahead of the hardware, since nobody's ever going to be casually wearing AVP in a coffee shop.

VRChat, of all things, has some interesting experimentation going on in this space. For example, there are avatars that will link up with your other SteamVR apps to show a placeholder screen or other indicator on the avatar when you have an overlay floating window active that's totally separate from VRChat.
Thank you for your response!

I don't have experience with WinRT, but it does seem quite similar at first glance. One of the key reasons I focused on modern C++ was to ensure cross-platform compatibility. However, I completely understand that if you're working on Windows and are already familiar with WinRT, sticking with it makes perfect sense. I'll take a closer look at WinRT to see if there are any significant differences.
Money IS everything.

It says something that sony has the ability to fail like that and continue. Just like FB failed at the metaverse after doubling and tripling down about how it was the future of the company before it just kinda stopped talking about it.

Companies with this much cash can take risks and fail with little to no concequences, smaller companies cannot and thus often choose not compete or just HOPE that they get bought by one of these near monopolies.
For me personally, the effort of 'polishing' a post makes it drastically more valuable to myself in the end: I think harder about the material; I notice problems with my thinking that I would have glossed over otherwise; I explain things in ways that will be more useful/legible to me-five-years-from-now.

Committing myself to publish posts is, in part, sort of a motivational hack to get me to do the polishing. The possibility that someone else _might_ read it and judge me for it pushes me to put much more effort in than I would if I kept it private. (I wrote a short blog post on this: https://brokensandals.net/personal/reviews-as-notes/)

I probably wouldn't see this as a sufficient reason for blogging if I believed that _literally_ nobody would _ever_ read the stuff I post. But it is a significant benefit that's available even if I only have a very tiny and sporadic audience.
That's fair.

We actually started with "reduce your costs by 3-10x with infinite scalability" without talking about storing in s3 and serverless (along the lines of your thinking - only talk about benefits + what you do). But our users, engineers by their very nature, were skeptical about how Oodle works, so we ended up settling on a combination of why, what and how. This resonated better with our early customers and prospects.
I cannot believe that Dave Winer is still at it after 30 years: http://scripting.com
Yes. A lot of the innovation in space recently has been about making space missions cheaper. NASA and JPL still do these huge multi-billion-dollar headliner missions, but the democratization of space is an underrepresented story in the public view of space. It's still hard to get far from orbit cheaply, though.
> I would care less if the collapse of Pakistan did not have consequences for the west, but it does.
Because they have money, and don't often abandon projects.
So bike batteries are typically not more than 750 Wh. If you are trying to go on some long cross-country trip for fun, then maybe you pack three of them (2kWh of electricity). That gives you ~100 km of pedal assist.

That's still a dollar/day including CC fees. Seems reasonable.
NASA is absolutely looking for life in the Solar System. Many of the Mars missions have looked for signs of life.

What NASA is not doing is looking for communications from intelligent aliens. Why? Because Congress decided in the 1990s that that would be a waste of money, and banned NASA from doing it.
> I'd like to think it has already enhanced the quality of life for multiple people with its revelations.

Your definition of "revelations" seems to be: stripping any useful context and over applying underlying concepts wrapped in overly verbose prose.

(Maybe have an LLM summarize these lengthy summaries, ala "Thanks to AI I don't need to read all those 300,000 words now, right?"[0])

For instance, from your "Nutritional Strategies and Supplements for Managing Anxiety in Adults" example, Section 19 Links Between High-Fat Diets and Anxiety Development:

> Studies observing the effects of specific high-fat food components, like those found in soybean oil, suggest that these can disrupt gut microbiota balance, further aggravating conditions like inflammatory bowel disease, which are closely linked with anxiety disorders[49]

Looking at [49] you get the article: Widely consumed vegetable oil leads to an unhealthy gut, finds mouse study.

Your use of an LLM created slop that removed the context of it being a mice study, and instead stated the underlying conclusions as actionable fact for "adults".

This is dangerous, and well, sloppy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646994
How much is Microsoft paying you?
Thanks for your feedback, and great questions.
1. We create serverless functions to process each file and then combine the results, optimized for columnar file formats.
2. This is one of our core innovations :) We created custom representations of WALs which help us with query performance and ingesting them quickly.
3. Once a WAL is ingested, it is available for query within a few seconds. So far it has been reliable and we have not had issues with missing data.
They innovate. Look what Quest did for VR.
I use a Quest 3 and do almost all of my gaming with Steam + Virtual Desktop and wireless PCVR. Including games available natively on the Quest like Beat Saber. (It's a lot easier to mod the PC version.)
As the new conductors will have lower impedance, some breakers may need to be replaced to interrupt higher fault current. Otherwise, it's likely the only substation equipment needing to upgrade would be series compensation stations which may have lower normal and emergency ratings than the upgraded conductors.

More likely is that lower impedance on the reconductored circuit will cause increased flows on other, non-upgraded circuits, either requiring those to be reconductored, or installing phase-shifting tranformers or reactors to limit current.
they need a big glob of white tape right over the nosepiece.
Show HN: Paywall Removed – SandMind – Free iOS App
this update completely removes the paywall for a fully free experience. now you can track your emotions, discover patterns, and monitor anxiety levels with ease. depression tracking is coming soon, too!

your data stays private and on your device—nothing is tracked except for a simple notification that lets me know when someone creates a canvas. it’s fully anonymous and just gives me motivation, knowing the app is being used.

i removed the paywall because this project was always meant to help people, not make money. mental health tools should be free, and SandMind will stay that way.

roadmap:

- more health screenings (like phq-9)

- apple health support

- local smart notifications

- considering open-sourcing the project

- more… i’m open to any feedback or suggestions

thanks for your support!

https://app.sandmind.art/sandmind-ios
Rarest Pokemon card sold for $360k at Sotheby's
It looks pretty promising! How would you compare the strengths/weaknesses?
Yes, I tried- I was (and, am) a bit of a FOSS zealot, though a slightly more pragmatic one.

We made heavy use of performance features inside Windows such as IO Completion Ports, and we probed Windows itself for information about our processes to make something similar to a prometheus exporter. Because we leaned heavily into the ecosystem, with usage of named pipes for logging and crash collection; Wine simply couldn't do those things, and of course predictable performance was extremely important. (skipped frames cost avatar lives!)

Wine was not working for the gameserver, it wasn't even working for the comparatively simple backend service executables- because we had the same philosophy, sadly.
Not to the investor.
Spot on. David Roberts (Volts) also asked about that in one of his interviews.

IIRC, the expert answer was: substations generally need a retrofit (eg new transformer, breakers, smarts).

Even so, reconductoring is much faster and cheaper than building new lines.

Because retro doesn't require a new permit, often reuse existing footprint, and substations can be upgraded as needed (eg only for sections pushing more power).
> No Transfer-Encoding: Chunked (responds with 411 Length Required, prompting the client to resend with Content-Length

I've always wanted to undertake a project similar to this but chunked encoding has always been the thing that put me off the idea... I never even though about just not supporting that :)

I've written many http/1.1 servers in the past but only for internal stuff that I also controlled the clients. Guess perfection was the enemy of good for me.
That said, the bump in battery/processor, tracking for controllers, and passthrough should be nice for folks that more wanted something to try in the vein of the 2, versus the "step up" to the 3
But if someone calls you on the phone, they are just sending their voice to you, there's no Avatar from them, except for one your software invented. The one that you're looking at is disconnected from the actual person.
You and er, Madison, right? This article is riddled with generalisations, oversimplifications and many comments that are vague to the point of being almost misleading - or certainly of limited value given the lack of context. This is the level of technical article I increasingly encounter out there these days... In a way I suppose it's good in that we all have to fall back on reputable sources again rather than be tempted to hit a search engine where we will this sort of traffic-generating, borderline chatgpt, cut'n'paste salad, complete with occasional chirpy "WAL is a gamechanger!" sorts of comments. And a 'deep-dive'? Sheesh. Anyone looking for a reasonably deep dive - and the first encouraging sign you might notice is that it's >1500 words - could do a lot worse than go here...

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/wal.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/runtime-config-wal.html#G...
I'm speaking from 25 years of first-hand experience. The money doesn't need to move instantly at 99% of POS scenarios, just the understanding that the money will eventually move.
I had little issues with wireless but it was really important to have a fully gigabit capable wireless router and have my computer hardwired. I had it on a separate network because I had to buy a router that could specifically handle gigabit wireless and didn't want other things interfering. I definitely noticed issues playing Minecraft with shaders on because it's just so much data but it was only in wide open areas and I found it more fun to build or mine in VR!
I'm not sure how big the James Bond wannabe market is, but let's see how it plays out
I take it you've never seen HYPER-REALITY? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
I think that information needs to be included in the input stream. instead of asking a model "what did I have for breakfast", you give it an api it can query to look at your food journal and if something is not available, it's marked explicitly as unknown.

if you make the human stressed enough, they will in fact tell you an answer whether or not they know the answer.
It's been 20 years since they're promising me a naked scanner app.. it's almost here.
Out of curiosity: what kind of freebies are there during such presentations? (I am form France and we don't really have that concept here)
But we keep seeing these devices after multiple generations and they keep using more and more silicone so they're not shrinking that much.
For 3D I’d run a clustering algo across the graph and use the Z axis to background “far” clusters.

I’m imagining a typical graph might end up looking a bit like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/07... in which case I’d want to have whatever cluster/file/method/object I’m focused on front and center with some visual cues like low-contrast and z-axis perspective that preserves edges to show the “far” clusters that interact with the focal point.

edit to add: as per usual, naming the clusters automatically might be hard.
I’m struggling with the same problem. I think it depends on who you audience is. LinkedIn might get you to potential customers in your domain, but product hunt would get you to more techie people.
My product (check out www.ac28r.com) is a software invention, so my initial target would be techies who understand it; hopefully a good reaction might help with the hard work of selling.
In modern bottling they fill a bunch of bottles at the same time, and in some cases (How It’s Made) the bottling or pastry pouring or cookie cutting equipment moves with the conveyor so it never has to stop.

But that’s new equipment, so filling the bottle is still the slow step in some past version of the bottling plant. You’re still going to fill three, four, six bottles at a time, then cap them, but the labeling machine might just be serial.

The way those machines work is also pipelined - add some space between the bottles, slap a label on, use rollers to make the label stick.

Then you load the cases n bottles at a time, not via pick and pull.

Several of those steps could feed in from one machine to four and back to two and then to one.

More equipment means more maintenance but also affords you taking part of the system offline and still keeping output from cratering.
A Two-Month Mini-Moon: 2024 PT5 Captured by Earth from September to November
I'll mention that the single most impactful upgrade you can make to a PC for VR is to get an AMD X3D CPU. X3D CPUs really smooth out p99+ frame times which results in a tremendous improvement to the VR experience (which is dominated by outlier frame times).
It’s ok after they deliver the MVP there will be a wetware update.
But that's most true only if you forbid playing open strings. Or if you demand that they be tuned to equally tempered fifths rather than just fifths, and that the player finger accordingly! Neither is likely, in which case it's biased toward keys that include just-tuned open strings, and a player would need to make a conscious effort to avoid open strings when other key-appropriate intonation is desired. That leaves us with only keyboard/mallet instruments as being unbiased with respect to key, but their equal temperament isn't what I'd call natural nor what an orchestra ought to sound like overall (though they could be tuned with bias toward the keys being performed, to help blend with the orchestra...).
I just imagine you saying this to a group of frustrated NASA engineers, then seeing a hard cut to a bunch of rough necks chasing each other around on an oil rig.
Cozystack has officially been included in the CNCF Landscape
Frankly, it sucks. I had so much fun with new tech when I was younger. But many companies, and FB in particular, have managed to crush my expectations time and time again.
You may be referring to either 1) the real-time line ratings (directionally required by FERC order 881, or 2) technology like the "SmartValve" from Smart Wires which dynamically adjusts impedance to keep conductors within their operating envelope.

Among risks that are managed is ground faults caused by sage (as the line heats, it expands, getting closer to the ground), or 2) annealing which is a permanent expansion of the conductor due to operating too hot for too long. The advanced conductors use composite cores allowing the conductor to carry more current at a higher temperature with reduced risk for annealing.
1. Very cool

2. If you were making it today would you just use SQLite?
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People aren't infallible, but in my experience they're much less likely to give me incorrect factual information than LLMs. Sometimes lawyers are wrong, of course, but they are wrong less frequently and less randomly. I've typically been able to get away with not verifying every single thing someone else tells me, but I don't think I'd be that lucky relying on ChatGPT for everything.

Edit: and it's a good thing, too, because I'd never be able to afford getting second legal opinions and I don't have time to verify everything my lawyer tells me.
> Meanwhile the democrats did nothing except ask me for more money and continue to take L after L

I agree with you, except to me it's far more insidious - they used the threat of things like roe v wade being overturned and reproductive rights being taken away to drive donations and voter turnout, thus incentivizing themselves to never actually deal with that looming problem.
My take is that fungi have built most of Nature. They are the first farmers. So if the right branch of the fungal kingdom and anything else lands on a planet, you’ll get the rest eventually.
Those symptoms affect relatively few people, and usually not in the long term. Thankfully, I am not one of them.
> If you are not actively guarding yourself against that, you're a victim of it, probably a great deal more than you realize

Just check the website in their profile. Cryptocurrency, hell they had a role in Libra (fb coin that got shut down by the SEC i believe). Not a victim but a perpetrator.
I was thinking about D the whole way while reading this. I just know I am going to see Walter Bright in the comments XD.
Loved the little twist on the mechanics of 2048, instead of just mindlessly pushing down-left-down-left most of the time, you actually had to think about the proper moves of the pieces. Nice to add a second dimension onto the play, had my rusty wheels turning for a little bit before it bit me.
My dad ran a hospital and literally had one of these things: https://hips.hearstapps.com/autoweek/assets/s3fs-public/IMG_... - Things seem to move so quickly these days I'd guess the Orion things will be reasonable to buy in 6/7 years. Getting old sucks!
je refuse!
An alternative is to automatically merge dependency changes which pass the tests. Then there's no need for any intervention unless something needs your attention, just dismiss the notification.

We do this at PRQL, with: https://github.com/PRQL/prql/blob/12b1bb65afd5b67f34b98d0ac1...
that’s not what the person i’m replying to said
> If you know of something interesting said be anti-Rust persons within the Linux kernel community, just share it with us.

Already done before in the second link here[1] and then the developer sharing this content was the victim of an attempted SWAT:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41410228
There's a lot of unnecessary blocking.

An example of blockers losing value: Tesla bears were chronic blockers, even passing around blocklists. Nowadays Tesla bears seem to have lost all relevance.
I don't think there's a real 'default' Scheme, like Chez is probably the implementation which generates the fastest code, but if I'm not mistaken it only implements the R6RS spec, Guile is quite performant and supports both R6RS and R7RS Small, Chicken has a bunch of libraries (the 'eggs'), but I think it's R5RS (I may be wrong), and of course GNU/MIT Scheme is what you want to follow along with MIT publications working in Scheme (like Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, and The Art of the Propagator). There's also Gauche, which I believe is the most conformant implementation to the various Colour Dockets for R7RS Large (Gerbil may also be fully conformant).
It would have been, had I not watched a graphics comparison between the 2 and 3. Now I have no choice but to replace my 2 with a 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euJgtLcWWyo
> I don't even understand how you end up running Windows Server on GCP. Never ever heard of a corp that does this.

That's the whole point here. It's so expensive due to licensing terms that no one even tries.
Trying Meta's new AR glasses
will the external cameras finally be available to apps? they're crowing about mixed reality, but previous quest can only do passthrough - even the most basic use of the external cameras is extremely limited and requires workarounds.
You seem to have a very naive understanding of the dynamics here. Making it a life finder mission would have taken two times longer and cost three times more, assuming it wouldn't have been cancelled long before that.

NASA is not in charge of its own budget. Neither it is, ultimately, in charge of what missions get greenlit. Sure, NASA is an inefficient organization in many ways, including planning and management practices that never seem to get better despite numerous reviews, but honestly it's incredibly difficult to be efficient when your bosses sit in the Congress. You don't want to know what NASA's Planetary Science division could have achieved in the last twenty years with all the billions that have gone to the boondoggle that's the Senate Launch System and its earlier incarnations.
A big part of why this kind of space research is worth doing is weapons development. That is a big part of why huge money goes to space research - because it's more efficient to give that cash to JPL than to Raytheon in terms of developing certain kinds of rocketry and robotics technologies.

In comparison, many other branches of science work on much leaner budgets, and sending stuff to space actually does look very wasteful from a "$ per paper" perspective. If you disregard the weapons development value, there is actually very little reason to do these big-money experiments that could instead support the research of hundreds or thousands of more frugal science experiments.

At the same time, there are lots of ways to do space research more cheaply, like launching small satellites. Most of the people who don't like this stuff are against the billion-dollar single missions rather than against astrophysics or against the concept of sending things to space. Many of them also are against the FCC project at CERN, for example.
You mean the difference between wholesale price of the manufacturer and the negotiated discount by the PBM right? Your use of pronouns obfuscates who you're talking about.
and then there's no instructions :clownemoji
yeah a lot of the videos and comments are so misleading. There were reports of people completely resetting their devices for 20+ times just to try to improve passthrough. Even with good pass through its not worth wearing a helmet still
changing the ssh port is also for noise reasons. The number of drive bys on port 22 is insane.
Have you tried Contractors in multiplayer?
The tech industry is so focused on strapping technology to our faces
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