skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snap's device doesn't need a separate compute device, and I'm sure it's pretty trivial to make it smaller with such. So I would not judge based on this.
And anyway, I'm very glad to see Meta pushing towards AR, this is the good example of a company with bold vision.
We've already developed the JWST. Unless, of course, all the tooling and test equipment was thrown away.
Somehow the increased accessibility of being an independent entertainer instead of having to work in a toxic entertainment industry that regularly covered up widespread abuse means that capitalism bad.
This particular LED not only emits light but works in reverse as well: it functions as an ambient light sensor. Recording is paused if the LED and camera inputs have a significant difference in detected light levels.
You have no idea how clueless and privileged that idea is.

Apparently you think that number is meant to encourage engineers who just landed a 200k FAANG job to buy a McMansion to get up to 30%.

It's quite exactly the opposite: it's usually given as an upper limit to prevent people from getting houses they can't afford.

And it's increasingly unrealistic for low-income people in HCOL areas because even the cheapest available housing is more than 30% of their income.

As for who came up with it: it was originally an observation of what people were typically paying, which in the 60s became a limit for the price of public housing. And at that time it was 25%, changed to 30% in the 80s.

Source: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_articl...
not working for me:(
The wholesalers I'm thinking of are the "cash and carry" warehouse variety - Makro, Booker and so on.

I don't mean Costco haven't put thought into what they're doing, but there is no attempt to create a perception of aesthetic value - indeed, quite the opposite to communicate their no-frills value of "the most stuff for the least money".
I am very sorry to hear that and I hope they can properly escape this situation.

Maybe my opinion is biased (the media generally does not publish "everythibg is a-OK" articles), but my perception of the timeshare escape industry is that they are sketchy too.

I think this Last Week Tonight episode is very informative on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2bbHoVQSM
We have a system that has landed successfully on Mars, several different ones.
Technically, it's impressive, a real evolution in the field. However, from a business perspective, it's impossible to predict who the winners will be in this space. Companies like Apple, Samsung, and others could enter the AR/VR market with a similar device when the time is right. I assume they want to build a more appealing brand for software engineers.
Look into Planetiler [1] (which OP uses for tile generation). It supports downloading regions that are listed on Geofabrik [2] and converting them to mbtiles or pmtiles. Geofabrik has separate extracts for all US states, for example. If you need to extract an even smaller area from that result, GDAL has support for mbtiles so you could use gdalwarp [3] to extract a new mbtiles file out of it using bounds.

Another option is to use the extract functionality in pmtiles [4] to extract your area of interest from their daily full-planet pmtiles builds. You can then statically host that file and use that in your client with one of their client libraries.

[1] https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler

[2] https://download.geofabrik.de/

[3] https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdalwarp.html

[4] https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/cli#extract
Why is one fibre (actually you'd probably like 2 for upstream and downstream) to one customer the way to go? Even with >100 customers on a single fibre it should be possible to get everyone on 100 Gbit/s (although there are currently no standards for it). That will future proof for a long time.
>I think the Mac App Store has been a terrible distribution system for indie devs... I never even think of going there for apps, nor do the non-technical folks I know.

Not sure what you mean. Everyone I know with a Mac gets their stuff from MAS and brew, only if forced go to some separate installer, like Adobe shit and specialized apps. From hardcore system programmers to graphic designers to home users...
Is this just a pretty picture of the AST that I"m already navigating with go-to definition, fuzzy search, and harpoon in 2024?
I have to agree on the latency issues. While i luckily didn't get any motion sickness from it i found it very distracting and never got used to it, even after several weeks of regular use playing several simracing games.
After a lot of tinkering I got i got it down to around 30-35ms with virtual desktop, but found it still very distracting.

Switching to a headset with a DP cable was night and day to me in terms of immersion!
> Academia has shot itself in the foot by generating so many damn papers every year (>10,000).

Each PhD student needs 3-5 papers to graduate. Nowadays you even need 1-2 to simply get into a PhD program. The huge number of papers compared to, say, 10 or 15 years ago simply reflects how many more PhD students there are in this area.

It definitely isn't sustainable but academia is a distributed system. There's no way to coordinate publishing less. No individual agent will rationally choose that. Especially that it's not just competition within AI but other CS fields too for huge grants and the grant agencies defer to citation and publication metrics. CVPR is among the top scientific publication venues by various metrics and this state of affairs also benefits the field.

There are reasons for why things are this way but the way it's going is clearly unsustainable. It's a red queen race, similar to grade inflation, credential inflation, and various forms of cost disease.
Spec comparison page: https://www.meta.com/quest/compare/
Yep, I meant AMD64, fixed.
I don’t see any end to gaming. It meets deep human needs to master things, achieve things along the way and participate in a way that you don’t do with spectator sports, movies, or tv. I’m a jaded corporate type and it seems like playtime to me! Plus, I’ve watched mythic quest!
Looks very nice, but definitely needs some explanation, not everyone is familiar with 2048. Not that the website even mentions 2048 :P
Ooh I see PixiJs can make content available to the screenreader for a11y. That’s always a big question mark for me when people start cramming a content tree into a canvas.
Have you tried using redshift?
My "ORM" supports event sourcing, or at least easily plugging it in at the model level.

https://github.com/codr7/hostr/blob/532295b40dcad6c54082e1d3...
This is so. fucking. sexy.

Wow.

Thank you for sharing your work.

Please don't go down the GenAI bullshit bingo VC route.
I'm using a dedicated TP-Link Archer AX53 (just WiFi 6, not WiFi 6E) with Quest 3 and Virtual Desktop for PCVR. Turns out the WiFi bandwidth and latency is not really a problem, rather my older GPU (Radeon RX590) is the bottleneck, struggling to encode all the needed frames in real time.
Canceling our weekly stand up in the Metaverse. Don't worry, though, AI is definitely gonna be the thing.
Similar, but Different
Rest assured, we'll have more competitive content over time. :)
I have done four things in the past when working at / with big companies:

1. [Usually the best option] You escalate to your manager. If they're unsuccessful, they can escalate to sufficiently high layers of management that bureaucracy doesn't apply. You can't always do this, because it requires getting other people to care. It's also kind of expensive -- you only get so many social capital points to spend.

2. [Second-best option] You don't take the first 'no' as the final answer. Most people go away after getting rebuffed once, but if you keep pestering people, they might give in. Again, have to be careful with how you spend social capital.

3. [Not always applicable] If your ask involves an external vendor, this is exactly the scenario where enterprise sales representatives become really valuable. Good ones know how to climb the management ladder and build cases for change.

4. [Generally not advisable] You can sometimes just 'break the rules' and accept some risk of consequences. Some rules are real and inviolable. Others can be nonsense bureaucracy. Need to be sure which you're dealing with and whether your reputation would carry you through if you got in trouble.
It's confusing that the name of the app and the domain name are spelled differently.
Can you elaborate on your selection of 60 for the inception point?
Judging from the list of countries this looks like a Europe vs EU confusion somewhere inside OpenAI. That is someone said "Europe" needs external review, and this got translated into "EU+other countries in Europe" for launch control.

Unfortunately the EU strongly encourages this sort of confusion. EU Commission staff and MEPs constantly say "Europe" when what they mean is the EU. And because most of Europe is in the EU, it's especially confusing.
Additional citation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-25/gm-gm-for... | https://archive.today/I3ZSY

> Shares in General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. tumbled after Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas warned that cars are too expensive for US consumers and a price war in China will hurt the bottom line there.

> Automakers face challenges in both markets. Even with interest rates falling the average monthly vehicle payment in the US exceeds $700 a month, which is keeping consumers from showrooms. Add in market share gains from Japanese and Korean automakers, and Jonas sees little upside.

> Jonas estimates Chinese automakers are producing nearly 9 million units more than it sells locally, a fact that is squeezing prices and making the market unprofitable for all but a few players.

> Car affordability in the US is “very stretched,” he wrote in a note to clients. “Industry structure has not changed. Inventory is at pre-Covid levels. Japanese, Korean and EV names are gaining share. Others are squeezed. US has all the burden with falling prices, falling mix, rising costs and lower share.”
I did the layout for my self-published book
Oh, this is great. And pretty much the process of what I do when I look at larger codebases, except not as clean and organized. I would normally have a half dozen terminals open into various source files at once trying to build the map in my head. Though it eventually clicks and happens, it's laborious, but it seems like something like this would help immensely. Now, the only thing left is to combine it with an ultrawide monitor.
There was that time Jesus stepped in an prevented a completely legal death sentence from being carried out.
Once you got that ball rolling your name becomes a "brand" and collaborators will beg you to put your name on their papers so it gets more exposure.
Debugging the Linux kernel using psychic powers
I think you are using an unconventional definition of the word parallelism, if you want to exclude

> Yes, once the pipeline is filled up, you have the three operations going on at the same time, but it's still a sequence of steps that need to be performed in order for any given bottle.

as not parallel.

It seems to me that what you are calling parallelism, most people would instead call homogeneous parallelism. Which is a subset of parallelism.
Do you mind expanding on this method? If it have articles you could share I would love to learn more about this.
It's a good question! Having a history of how things transformed over time matters. We keep track of that in a couple of ways - one is the graph snapshots themselves, and the other is a raw history log. It's really just another view of a snapshot of the graph at a particular time, and a delta between that graph and the current.

We have lots of planned work coming here - but we have a very rich dataset to do it from, and we're stoked to get there.
> slow loris,

Really? I am curious.

You are not talking of monkeys?
The thickness is only part of the design, and the only justifiable part of it. The actual design is far more reminiscent of a cheap children’s toy than a high-end “revolutionary” piece of tech.
There are only seven titles in the library on the website, which is a bit underwhelming. Would I be able to play my Quest I titles, too (like Trevor Saves the Universe and Superhot)?
I’m definitely not a macOS developer, but I’ve been a Mac user longer than most (back when it was called “system”). What makes a “Mac app” feel like one has always been a constant evolution. Even in what I’d nostalgically consider the highest points in Mac experience.

While SwiftUI apps do feel different from what came before, the underlying UX feels different too. A SwiftUI app intentionally built for macOS isn’t nearly as disjoint an experience as say Catalyst, let alone Electron. And given how much the non-native experience has taken hold, there’s no reason a new baseline native experience couldn’t be established. The reason it won’t isn’t because of any specific technology, it’s largely because there’s basically no market for a rich native app ecosystem as that baseline. The entire economy of desktop software is stagnant.

I do wonder if desktop as a use case becoming even more niche than it already has could see that trend start to reverse. It would be a smaller market, but that’s exactly how the older macOS experience thrived.
Philip here from Find AI. We store our Velvet logs in a dedicated DB. It's postgres now, but we will probably move it to Clickhouse at some point. Our main app DB is in postgres, so everybody just knows how it works and all of our existing BI tools support it.

Here's a video about what we do with the data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaFkRi5ESi8
I wonder if we will see similar sentencing for Gary Wang & Nishad Singh.
Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent by your Python code
Hi,

I created httpdbg, a tool for Python developers to easily debug HTTP(S) client requests in Python programs.

I developed it because I needed a tool that could help me trace the HTTP requests sent by my tests back to the corresponding methods in our API client.

The goal of this tool is to simplify the debugging process, so I designed it to be as simple as possible. It requires no external dependencies, no setup, no superuser privileges, and no code modifications.

I'm sharing it with you today because I use it regularly, and it seems like others have found it useful too—so it might be helpful for you as well.

Hope you will like it.

cle

Source: https://github.com/cle-b/httpdbg

Documentation: https://httpdbg.readthedocs.io/

A blog post on a use case: https://medium.com/@cle-b/trace-all-your-http-requests-in-py...
Meta debuts augmented reality glasses and Judi Dench-voiced AI chatbot
I’ve had a few really close work friends over the years. I even met my wife at work.

I agree with the notion that you should be careful about letting many work people know your personal business. However, close teams do work better together and good friendships make work so much more pleasurable and enrich your life.
Part of the problem is that our work relationships are a huge part of our job and we need to manage them carefully.
But all you have to do is look at people in working class jobs where the relationships have no impact on the job, and you see what great camaraderie they often have. I miss that.
> has only finally been made DECENT almost 8 years later

decent? you can't mean teams??

one instance of the client uses more memory and resources than every ircd on the planet combined
Agreed. Any improvement in a well established and competitive metric which a community is tracking is going to get attention and respect.
Money isn’t everything, one look at the Metaverse or Sony’s Concord fiasco tells you all you need to know.
It’s possible to write a scheduler that looks like work stealing and can route unordered tasks around a poison pill.

But we’ve generally found it works better for the worker to pull when its queue is empty, and of course if you have partially ordered events nobody can process (start or reject) those ordered tasks until the borked one finishes or times out.

So the situation you describe can absolutely happen, but is not a given. It’ll depend on other decisions.
Any citations for that? Id have thought the goofy width of spectacles was related to the screen projection
I strive for the same thing, but every time surprising new requirements arrive, there's a good chance that the elegant architecture my team created is in conflict with the design we now want. At that point, there is a three step process:

1. Design the new architecture.

2. Gain a full understanding of the existing architecture and all of its trade-offs.

3. Design a way to convert the old architecture into the new architecture.

This happens surprisingly often and it's quite unavoidable. In the past, I tried to avoid redesigning by building things that could be expanded in every conceivable way, but I discovered that over-engineering actually makes it harder to redesign. YAGNI wins!

I've been thinking for a while that a canvas-type editor might help a lot in the process of redesigning. It should help by taking better advantage of spatial memory.
I agree, and I also think that walking around to items positioned statically in space is a really dumb way to do embodied computing. I mean if an app is associated with your kitchen fridge or whatever fine, pin it to your kitchen fridge, but if I'm going to be enveloped in an omnidirectional high def display, I want a way to bring the windows to me, not have to move my body to different windows.

Anyway, Logitech made an awesome little handheld keyboard for home theater PCs, called DiNovo Mini HTPC, I was able to pair it with Vision Pro.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226367904044?_skw=Logitech+DiNovo+M...
Out of complete curiosity, did you ever attempt to run the server software in Wine?

If it happens to work well in the server use case it might be very interesting.
Even Realities pair of glass seem like the right compromise at the moment.
The demos here all show a rapidly moving model, playing basketball or dancing. The acid test is when the model is standing still. Or trying to.
I think that chunkiness is kind of an aesthetic that's in right now actually, if you look at a lot of popular media there's definitely some "birth control glasses" that are considered on trend.

That being said I'm about the furthest thing from a fashion critic - only Kirkland Signature touches this body.
But _why_ are you glad to see Meta pushing towards AR? Genuine question.
My 7 & 8 year olds have been making stuff with Pulp (https://play.date/pulp/), they really love seeing their results on the Playdate device.
Wire-guided torpedos[1] and missiles[2] are fairly common, and the wire pays out from the projectile-side so it's not progressively dragging more and more. The more recent DM2A4 Seehecht torpedo[3] has a fiber-optic link, probably to reduce EM emissions or the detectability of a km's-long wire/antenna, despite being underwater.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_48_torpedo

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-guided_missile

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DM2A4
> What kind of evidence would sway your belief on this matter?

I do not have beliefs on this matter, I am interested in data. I would like to know what studies of graduate student intentions and outcomes

> Perhaps a published academic research paper on the topic?

I see what you (think you are) doing there. That would be a start
Even with lambdas you want a bit of server affinity because setup is nontrivial. If the job absolutely needs to get done we can get it done. But the opportunity cost is high and we can’t build a business around it. You want to prefer the warm path over the cold one.
Plus if the electronics aren't shielded you can use a non-linear junction detector even if it's turned off.
The most important spec of any VR device is its display. Since the Quest 3S has the same display as a Quest 2, this is more of a Quest 2+ than a Quest 3 Lite.

The current best deal seems to be a used or refurb Quest 3 for $450.
It's called "newsletter" now.
https://archive.is/Z9pL9
I love seeing innovation in this sector. I’ve long felt that there must be a better way than terraform and pulumi. Excited to try it out.
I see old TomTom units in thrift stores and pass them by. Now I want to score one. Wild.

This looks like fun: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TTconsole
This used to be very common but nowadays it's more and more expected to release the code with the paper. This makes it harder to obfuscate big parts of the method.
Arguably, this also has lowered the bar for doing incremental research. Just get the code of the sota from github, implement a new feature, test it, if it's 1% better then publish it.

Previously there was a natural gatekeep ing effect that you had to be able to understand and translate to code all the math and equations in the paper and be familiar with the dark knowledge details that everyone in the field knows but isn't spelled out explicitly in the papers. Boring bits like how to exactly preprocess, normalize, clean the data, how to precisely do the evals etc.
Good explainer, thanks for posting.

Volts recently interviewed Emilia Chojkiewicz of UC Berkeley (quoted in article) and Jason Huang of TS Conductor.

"One easy way to boost the grid: upgrade the power lines" [Jan 31, 2024] https://www.volts.wtf/p/one-easy-way-to-boost-the-grid-upgra...

Here's a prior episode about "grid enhancing technologies" in general, including reconductoring.

"Getting more out of the grid we've already built" [Sep 13, 2023] https://www.volts.wtf/p/getting-more-out-of-the-grid-weve

Grids are a common topic on Volts. Permitting, policy, intransigent utilities, open data standards, biz models, decentralization, virtual power plants, creating a national grid, etc.

A handful of climate crisis / net-zero podcasts like Volts connect and catalyze people, resulting in new startups, legislation, and giving people hope & energy.

Highest recommendation.

Aside:

INTERGRID is my term for our future perfect grid-of-grids. Inspired by the internet, of course. One such effort is (Alphabet) X & AES' Tapestry project https://x.company/projects/tapestry/ .
This song is amazing, it's like midieaval FTL. The game's good too.
Generally speaking, the Wayback Machine is not searchable in the fashion that Google is, there isn't a scale to put the thumb on.

(There are some tiny subsets which are rudimentarily full-text searchable; and some efforts to make domains findable. But nothing remotely like even Google 1.0 mapping URIs to organic terms.)
Honestly as someone with over a thousand hours in VR, I still haven't found anything better than Beat Saber. Rez is fantastic but not something you replay over time. Pistol Whip and HL Alyx are both good but Best Saber is sublime.
No, we lost Roe v. Wade because the democrat party is so useless at representing our interests they failed to ever pass any law granting the right to abortion. Republicans didn't sit on their hands complacently for 40 years like democrats they followed a systematic approach to overturning it. Meanwhile the democrats did nothing except ask me for more money and continue to take L after L
One day someone will create an AR/VR product which doesn't look ridiculous - but it is not this day.
Can it filter by charging level?
A Crossroads on Corporate Power
> and corruption or outright denial of evidence would be clearly apparent

Not really - the legal discovery rules require full disclosure of all evidence, yet you regularly hear about how prosecutors don't disclose evidence. Sometimes the appeals process will grant a new trial, sometimes they overturn, but often the judges will just say "we're not going to bother worrying about the lack of a fair trial". It happens often enough that prosecutors are willing to take the gamble on it, otherwise it wouldn't continue to be a common news story.
Also thank you. I don't know why you're getting downvoted, the headline as it shows on HN is un-parseable and the site itself just shows VPN requests blocked so I had no idea what this was about.