skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very curious what they're using on the capture side for this. How are they keying out the rest of the stadium? What's the camera setup?

I'm not a huge sports fan, so I honestly couldn't say whether I'd want to watch a game like this - but I love the concept. From a technology perspective it's great to see them trying new things.

I will say that 180° video - the other way to content in VR - makes content feel very emotionally impactful to me. If you haven't watched the Apple Immersive Video series in VR, it's very well produced and worth a watch to see the capabilities of the format.
Honestly want to understand your viewpoint here, is your corcern the resource consumption used in producing VR headsets, this NBA application, or something more general like all computing?
The desktop environment it used was disorientating since you were already running it on some other desktop environment like Gnome 1 or KDE 1.
> Rust has approximately 1.5 advantages over C/C++

I can think of at least 3 that deserve a whole integral bullet point:

* ADTs

* Hindley-Milner/typeclass type system

* Lifetimes and affine types

And a bunch of minor ones that count for something like 0.1-0.5 of an advantage.

I would guess we're on track for a majority-of-new-code switchover point somewhere around 2030-2035.
That's good. When i wrote the article, I was able to get a similar response when i used chatgpt "search", but not with the basic tier default prompt with the prompt "i own a Mac, would currentkey stats be good for me?". Were you using the default chatgpt prompt here or chatgpt "search" or a better model?
I don't know that he does. He maybe posts hot takes, but they're not lies, and if they are [community notes gets him](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889062581848944961). I'm sure there are exceptions, especially for smaller accounts, but generally you don't see the kind of outright fake stuff you see on reddit, and you certainly don't see moderators protecting fake content like they do on reddit, or mass banning for saying things like "Golf of America".
Obviously there are many problems in the web world that are just as hard as problems in the game world. Some of them are even the same problems.

But having done both, making any game beyond the absolute most basic game in Unity is harder than what 95% of web developers do day to day.

I’m currently in web dev because it pays so much better, but game dev really is more technically challenging than most web dev.

It’s hard to compare average skill levels between the 2 because so many people are drawn to games because they love them and to the web because of the pay. But if I had to guess, I’d put my money on there being a significantly higher floor for game dev.
I'm sure I'm not alone, but I'm not 11 because Microsoft won't let me.

My game machine on W10 runs the games I want it to run well enough as well, which is nice.
developers using ai continue to find new and novel ways to make themselves worse
Sure, it works great. And if the federal government fails, just call your favorite VC buddies and start a new federal government. Maybe one without one of those pesky constitutions. Why has nobody thought of this?
The parent link is so sad and upsetting, I had no idea homosexuals in West Germany continued to be punished and incarcerated until 1969.

The Nazi values continued to be enforced post war.. despicable.
All names are taken. There's no need to point this out every time.
Sure, but what I'm saying is that's not where the knowledge bottleneck is.

The knowledge bottleneck is in the human population, which is then reflected in Stack Overflow and blogs, which is then reflected in LLM's.

LLM's aren't doing anything special to stifle new tech adoption. New tech is harder to adopt because it's new tech, because people in general are less familiar with it.

(And there's a little bit of a training delay in LLM's updating, but that's a minor aspect here compared to the years it takes for a new Python package to become popular, for example.)
Well he is indeed discussing the early 20th century in that quote, but your point highlights exactly what he’s trying to say: he’s contrasting the previous zoological approach that treated humans as inert machines with inputs and outputs (~physiology, and arguably behavioral psychology) with the modern approach of ascribing reality to the objects of the mind (~cognitive psychology).
Not surprising, of course, given that both are (originally) document-layout systems first and foremost, and given that we write horizontal lines, the primary layouting constraint has always been the width of the page/monitor/clay tablet/whatever, and the text (and possible other content) then just flows to whatever "height" is required (or until one runs out of space).
To recycle [0] some comments on how "obvious" lies still have layers of evil utility:

> Forcing victims to compromise themselves is part of the strategy. Even as a lie, it demoralizes them, binds them to your organization, and isolates them from one-another. [...]

> "Bob wants to join the resistance. He says he was lying about the loyalty oath [to] the oppressors."

> "I dunno, even if Bob was always lying about that, it still makes him the kind of person who would deceive people in order to keep his job, so I'm not sure we can trust him either."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42850644
So was 7, and 95, in their day.
Delphi was far superior than all other languages of the time, it had all the necessary bullet points to become what is Java now.

Borland really failed on the marketing and sales side, while providing the best tech, they completely missed the importance of having a strong sales team capable of scaling the language inside corporates, which were the driving force back in the days.

I have a lot of good memories of Borland Delphi 4.0 and 5.0 on Windows 95 and later 98/2000.
If you want more feedback, I work in software engineering and I'm happy to chat outside of HN.
Web Environment Integrity. Eventually your hardware will rat you out via attestation.
Useless study, surprising based on where is coming from...

- Too small sample

- Self-selected sample

- Participants self-assessed their critical thinking

- Correlation not causation

- No control group
$100 million to do what?
I got a free trial of an NBA app for the MQ3 which had a courtside view. It didn't work on my 20Mbps ADSL so I stayed late at the office one night to try it out. It was kinda cool but I`d say third to kicking back and watching on TV at home or at a bar with brew and bros which is second to $6 tickets to sit courtside if you wish at college games in person.
I think they're talking about a VR POV that's courtside more like a normal VR experience, rather than this perspective "above" the stadium
My Delphi era between 1997-2004 was probably my most productive time. I can't even count the number of apps I wrote with it. The compilation speed, VCL, IDE, compiled code performance, they all contributed to its success I believe. I even wrote three different half-finished Norton Commander clones using Delphi. I also wrote the most popular Turkish social platform with it too.

The things that slowed Delphi down was getting distracted by hype: Kylix (Delphi for Linux) and Delphi.NET both contributed to its decline along with the rise of C#. Ironically, I had cheered for both when they came out, but they basically lacked Delphi's magic: fast iteration and native performance. Also, cross-platform dev apparently didn't have big enough market at the time.

Basically, Delphi was Golang of early 2000's: self-contained native binaries with native performance in a language high-level enough. Unfortunately, they got lost on the way.
Many of their supporters wouldn't know a webpage from a database schema and once thought Bill Gates would send him $$ for forwarding emails. Like my 60+ BIL.
https://archive.today/4XR9r
I’ve been out of web dev for a while, but maybe the problem is there’s a new framework every 6 months and instead of delivering value to the end user, developers are rewriting their app in whatever the new framework is.
These are ideologues, not earnest professionals.
You can totally define various messyness math/logical formalizations, e.g. discretion, confidence score, etc.
Jamie Dimon
I would love this when playing DnD. You could even have the app recognize dice and compute modifiers for attack rolls and what not.
Shouldn't it be called TXSE rather than NYSE Texas?
This seems to be very subjective. I can wear the Apple Vision Pro headset for hours without it feeling uncomfortably heavy.

I'm not sure if that's because I just happen to have a good light seal fit, or if it's because I spend a lot of time in VR on other platforms and am more used to it?
The FCC is a weapon in Trump's war on free speech
No problem, this is the type of feedback I'm looking for. Thanks, I will take note of your suggestions.
Freedom of Thought
Yep, very reasonable
The difference is that there are culturally inappropriate things to say--that is, things that people who aren't completely toxic bigots generally agree you shouldn't yell in public, and then there are things ON THE LIST the right wing government fascists are going to kick your door down for uttering to two people online.
From their overall FAQ:

> Q: Will Zed be free?

> A: Yes. Zed will be free to use as a standalone editor. We will instead charge a subscription for optional features targeting teams and collaboration. See "how will you make money?".

> Q: How will you make money?

> A: We envision Zed as a free-to-use editor, supplemented by subscription-based, optional network features, such as:

- Channels and calls
- Chat
- Channel notes

We plan to offer our collaboration features to open source teams, free of charge.

It seems to me that they're just going to charge for Zeta if they do, because it... costs them money to run.

Unlike others (e.g. Cursor), they've opened it (and its fine-tuning dataset!), so you can just run it yourself if you want to bear the costs...

They did something similar with LLM use, where for simplicity they gave you LLM use, but you could use them directly too.
> Less documentation/examples of new tech -> New model doesn't have enough info on new tech to be useful -> Less uptake of new technology -> Less documentation/examples to build a corpus....

Q: Could it be that those who aren't relying on ChatGPT (or similar) might have a significant competitive advantage?
Right, that's the goal. If you're right, our collection of knowledge will defend you. There's no need to fill it with fake info or hide legitimate research.
Seems like it wasn’t just you: it was the first proper Linux distro in the world:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
Why? It's just moving more of the grunt work of shuffling things around to the human?
I doubt it. Game companies need guys willing to sign their life away, months at a time. I worked in EDA, now storage. TONS of very talented people.
> Would you prefer to watch your sport of choice in 180-degree immersive video, or as a 2D flatscreen view with a tabletop 3D representation?

I think for people who are analyzing the game: Coaches, players, opponents, dedicated fans, historians, the tabletop view will be priceless. I also suspect that the tabletop view will become a tool in the editing room.

For casual sports fans, a much more immersive experience will probably be better.
I think Gentoo explicitly does not do systemd, might be worth it to look at that if you want to avoid systemd, considering that I think the "official" stance of Arch is systemd.

There's also SixOS coming soon (https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/de/event/sixos-a-nix...). NixOS does kind of a similar atomic thing, so you might enjoy that, but vanilla NixOS is systemd based, so once SixOS drops you might get exactly what you want.
But it doesn't matter, if he chooses to ignore them. Which his VP has said will happen.
3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain
I'm not a federal contractor nor employee, and I am a die-hard Pivotal zealot, so absolutely take the following with a grain of pink Himalayan rock salt:

Although overshadowed by Kubernetes elsewhere in the industry, I suspect that Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS)--which the US General Services Administration's (GSA) internal digital transformation consultancy, 18F, adopted[0] in 2015 significantly influenced the software delivery philosophy of the federal government by making trivial heretofore disastrously cumbersome provisioning, staging, and deployment processes. The step away from hand-provisioned virtual machines to elastic, accommodating environments may have made agile development possible in federal offices, bringing our government into the 21st century, only fifteen years late.

I distinctly remember the switch from "here's your VM" to "here's my code," and--as an application developer--I never want to go back.

0. See: https://cloud.gov
Do they have this for F1?
I was thinking the other day how people really don't want to pay to buy a programming language - this was the doom of Delphi because it was super popular and alot of people liked it but people really hate paying for programming languages.

On the other hand, people seem OK with paying for IDEs - witness Jetbrains with maybe $1BUSD revenue versus Embarcadero at $100MUSD (extrapolated from 2021 numbers). The numbers are a guess but the point remains.

So perhaps Delphi might have had a different future if it explicitly made all its language free and sold its IDE. People might have been pretty happy with that, because as I recall the Delphi IDE was really nice.

Anyhow that's all history.
>Consider a developer working with a cutting-edge JavaScript framework released just months ago. When they turn to AI coding assistants for help, they find these tools unable to provide meaningful guidance because their training data predates the framework’s release. This forces developers to rely solely on potentially limited official documentation and early adopter experiences, which, for better or worse, tends to be an ‘old’ way of doing things and incentivises them to use something else.

I can't help but feel that a major problem these days is the lack of forums on the Internet, specially for programming. Forums foster and welcome new members, unlike StackOverflow. They're searchable, unlike Discord. Topics develop as people reply, unlike Reddit. You're talking to real people, unlike ChatGPT. You can post questions in them, unlike Github Issues.

When I had an issue with a C++ library, I could often find a forum thread made by someone with a similar problem. Perhaps because there are so many Javascript libraries, creating a separate forum for each one of them didn't make sense, and this is the end result.

I also feel that for documentation, LLMs are just not the answer. It's obvious that we need better tools. Or rather, that we need tools. I feel like before LLMs there simply weren't any universal tools for searching documentation and snippets other than Googling them, but Googling them never felt like the best method, so we jumped from one subpar method to another.

No matter what tool we come up with, it will never have the flexibility and power of just asking another human about it.
If it’s a $100,000,000 contract then it was appropriated by Congress.
Whether or not it’s “waste” is entirely irrelevant.
What's a real sport?
There is an implicit assumption that average mom and grandma were out there using message groups. Either that or you are gate keeping moms and grandmas out of the internet. I am going to assume the former.

Myspace proved social networking worked. Facebook made it easy for non-techies and kicked off the status game. Instagram locked in the dopamine loop. TikTok perfected it.

The internet grew because it got commercialized, which also meant dumbing it down for non-technical people. Funny how that same growth created most of the wealth enjoyed by people posting on YC. Always makes me chuckle when I see good old days of the internet nostalgia here.
The US government was funding Afghan farmers to grow 'crops'. I'm fairly sure that wasn't cotton.
The presence of this and other generally non-factual statements somewhat indicts the article.
Yep. So considering I've never bought anything from Google directly (even my current phone, a pixel, was free from my carrier), they have no reason to care about my disgruntlement. Not like there's a Maps Pro or anything.
I mean the motive of the masses who cheer this on. Is it just to own the libs?

Yes, in many respects. See this paper for a good model of the basic behavior: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451
Well, fucking finally! But it seems like it's going to take a few more years until L4S is deployed everywhere.
Nearly a year later, Mozilla is still promoting Onerep
not if your investors see release of at least one new model every 'x' months as a necessity. but anthropic has definitely warded off that fate so far.
I loved Turbo Pascal, then Delphi. It was the most productive I've ever been as a programmer. I kept upgrading and was a very happy camper, right up to the point where they went insane with their pricing and I couldn't afford to keep going with it. Lazarus is pretty good at filling that gap, except for the horrid documentation.

The knife twist in the back was when Microsoft hired away Anders Hejlsberg and pushed him into the evil that is/was C#. The whole .NET thing was, and will always be, evil and bloat.
Is Delphi's name any sort of reference to triumphing over the Python language? Delphi is where Apollo slew the Python: https://www2.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/hymns/index.php?pag...

“The story of Apollo at Delphi begins with the god's conquest of the Python. According to some ancient accounts, the Python protected the oracle of Gaia, the mother of the gods and first inhabitant of the site. As described in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Apollo slew the serpent and then spent eight years on leave, in order to cleanse himself. Zeus also played a role in Delphi's mythological construction. Wanting to find the center of the Earth, Zeus sent out two eagles at opposite ends of the Earth. They collided at Delphi, and Zeus concluded Delphi was the "omphalos," or navel of the world.”

According to Guido's timeline, Python began development in 1989, had its first release to `alt.sources` in 1991, and had its 1-point-0 release in 1994, so it's possible that people at Borland could have been aware of it by 1995: https://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-o...

Wikipedia suggests not however: “Delphi was originally one of many codenames of a pre-release development tool project at Borland. Borland developer Danny Thorpe suggested the Delphi codename in reference to the Oracle at Delphi. One of the design goals of the product was to provide database connectivity to programmers as a key feature and a popular database package at the time was Oracle database; hence, "If you want to talk to [the] Oracle, go to Delphi".”

Cool coincidence at least :)
Yes sorry. decrease the time
Quantum Computing Notes: Why Is It Always Ten Years Away? – Usenix
Absolutely everything related to this article except the sport itself. All innovation from now on should go through a committee of scientists and randomly selected individuals to avoid such fucking stupid ""innovations"" to ever exist.
This is precisely why I have said that every new framework/library should have a markdown or text or whatever is the best format for LLM models endpoint that has all the docs and examples in one single page so you can easily copy it over to a models context. You want to make it as easy as possible for LLMs to be aware of how your software works. The fancy nested navigation guide walkthrough thing is cool for users but not optimized for this flow.
It is not relaxing to wear any VR headset compared to watching TV. I use a web-based image viewer on my MQ3 in lean-back mode but the extended battery and UI are awkward for this.

For high energy experiences like games and fitness apps the weight is less of a problem, but Apple chose to ignore those established applications for passive entertainment where you don't want to work your micro muscles.
> Without knowing what your friend's contacts were for, though, I can't tell if that's $100 million in waste that was cut, or not.

The reason we can't tell if what is being cut is waste or not is because the ones doing the cutting are not being transparent and have no accountability.

It isn't an audit if it's just Elon saying "Good" or "Bad" at each thing he looks at and then sometimes posting on the social media site he owns that he "Found a bad one!"
YOU HAVE COMMITTED AN ACTUAL CRIME
>My only nerd imaginations are something like a WH40k game

Okay, actually, wargaming in VR would be sick if executed well...
This is like saying in the 90s that Google Search would stifle tech adoption ...

I don't buy it. AI can teach me in 5 minutes how to write a kernel module, even if I've never seen one. AI brings more tech to our fingertips, not less.
This works fine in Cursor. As far as I know, you can't say "open the file..." but you can say "where is the function to do <xyz>" and it'll include a link to the file in it's response and then you can click to open it.
One thing not made clear in that history was their role in ARM Linux. There was a guy there, I forget his name (I think it was Andy). We learned a lot about making an ARM compiler for CL from him. He really was the, at the low level, the one that help make ARM Linux happen.

Anyone remember his name? Definitely would like to give him a shout out.

It might have been Andreas Färber.
Do you understand that times are changing and complaining/whining on the internet is just over?
Internet Slowdowns 2024-2025: Christmas, Nye, and Lunar New Year Affect Traffic
Probably I'd want better seats!

Unfortunately this medium has neither the atmosphere of a live event, nor the skilled camera feed cuts of a televised event (a lot of effort goes on behind the scenes to make a televised game exciting to watch).
I still have a full box of SuSE 7.3 on my shelf, the first (and only) Linux disto I've bought. :)
I went to https://chatgpt.com, typed "What does the CurrentKey Stats app do?" into the box, and pressed Enter.
If it works the same way the oil and gas industry regulation works through the Railroad Commission then we will end up with financial industry people with substantial skin in the game designing the regulations. They will then enforce those regulations selectively with preference being to minimize the impact of enforcement operations on the bottom line of those who violate the regulations. This will happen so that the noncompliant operators can remain viable as businesses instead of levying severe penalties for noncompliance that would cause others operating in the space to take notice and voluntarily comply.

It will come down to a situation where connections matter when enforcement is considered.
I get court side view if it’s 3d footage it would be immersive. It’s the tiny players running around the coffee table that’s technically impressive but conceptually baffling why you’d want that.
Do they have a processing step where they add in random dots everywhere?
Some are more confusing than others.