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The MLB VR app[1] is pretty neat. You can sit behind home plate with a virtual strike zone, track balls, launch trajectory, height, a bunch of stats as you watch the game play out in real time. Including live games.

A lot of the negative reviews are people confused it's not a game, it's to watch baseball games.

I can't say I'd watch a ton of games on it but I watched some playoff games on it.

Only complaint is that the players are just little cards running around the field. MLB has very good 3D tracking[2] of players on the field, if you could see a somewhat realistic model of players on the field that would be pretty amazing.

If they iterated on the concept I could see more people adopting it.

[1]https://www.meta.com/experiences/mlb/2873640696088444/

[2]https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-gameday-3d-guide
Yes - but the amount of code that loves Amdahls law, is tiny compared to amount code churned out each day that can never run parallel over 1M cores - no matter how clever a compiler gets.

I cannot work out if we pack enough parallel problems in the world or just lack a programming language to describe them
Corporate social media is always, always a dead end.
It gives control to the node operator. You join a node on the basis that you like the operator and trust them to federate responsibly. The end user is along for the ride with the node operator.
The value proposition is that you know how to fix something, when it eventually break, because you don’t fundamentally understand.
+1 "The hardest part isn't the building"

That's the first thing I thought when I read the title.
the steve jobs of hacking
Might not be a goal of the author. Maybe they just wanted to make a shell :)
Don't count on me for being one of those people. I didn't vote for the current administration :)
I think llms will be great for Lang's like elm personally. Especially with agents that can operate in an eval loop.
They should have used Caseway which provides all of it's sources: www.caseway.ai
This is the problem of gnosis vs doxa. Regardless of one's intelligence, since the priors (or rather posteriors as at least I as Bayesian thinker would really look at paper X and then look at who made it (how much funding they had), where, and the context (is this obvious marketing) and compute from overly safe approximation it's BS, the actual probability that tou call priors) actually are reliable & you cannot know what you cannot know & Postman.

So then you are hands in the air, trying to get others internalize, a discussion culture where you actually can as normal thing claim or are by default assumed to be probably superficial.

Even if someone knows lots about foundational things like philosophy & what they want etc., statements have a certain feel to it regardless of mathematical truthness, and at some point you will do the value benefit calculation that you might be superficial but you should learn about others topics first because you know you can for less time gain more information that is valuable from them.

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Pearl's causality as far as I see is best modelled with cdr car + NBG as embedded agency foundations + computability in the mix + signal theory (time as discrete evolution from one state in the chain to another; signal theory is relevant when you have multiple agents or the environment & PARTS of you run at different clocks or something more complex) i.e. part of formal embedded agency. Doesn't feel too meaningful without it except epistemologically (close what can we know type questions) where causality might be a good lens, especially to filter inquiries.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999454
That's an assumption, I read it just fine. :) I just disagree with how the author keeps talking about draftsman's lettering as if it were some company's font (e.g. Gorton and Leroy) rather than a commonly taught community standard.
It's not just a matter of opinion, but resource allocation.

WASI preview 1 was already a significant effort. It is the least polished bit of the wazero implementation, but even compared to: a spec compliant interpreter, two compilers and runtime, it weighs. It has some issues around filesystem sandboxing. And portability to “everywhere Go runs” is a pain.

Preview 2 is a significant departure, with little promise that preview 3 isn't another, ad nauseam. For a small team, that's hard to track.

Wasm 1.0 is a useful spec; Wasm 2.0 is still a draft. wazero supports everything final from 2.0 so far.

WASIp1 was useful too, but wazero is useful without WASI.

Until the dust settles, I'd rather wazero was reworked to make WASI even more pluggable from the outside (there are two impls already), than invest more resources in the WASI implementation itself.

Still, if anyone wants to fund fulltime work on this, I guess that can be arranged.
> There's an (increasingly small) group of software developers who don't like "magic" and want to understand where their code is running and what it's doing. (...) The other group (increasingly large) just wants to `git push` and be done with it

I think we're approaching the point where software development becomes a low-skilled job, because the automatic tools are good enough to serve business needs, while manual tools are too difficult to understand by anyone but a few chosen ones anyway.
Ok, let me rephrase this:

> Their audience has always been, and will always be application developers who prefer to do nothing low-level. How did they forget this?

to this:

Their audience has always been, and will always be application developers who prefer to do nothing except to build their main product.

> Our primary DX is a CLI. One of our defining features is hardware isolation. To use us, you have to manage Dockerfiles. Have you had the experience of teaching hundreds of Heroku refugees how to maintain a Dockerfile? We have had that experience. Have you ever successfully explained the distinction between "automated" Postgres and "managed" Postgres? We have not.

I'm pretty much sure an application developer in this day and age has to know all of them, yes. Just like git.
i am hoping for an slm "turing tape" small language model where the tokens are instructions for a copycat engine
I've actually seen much more of the opposite since I got into the industry a decade ago, with some developers absolutely terrified of touching a CLI. That approach can work out fine for some roles but man I think it's unnecessarily limiting. I'm far from a CLI guru but find some basic knowledge there pretty useful from time to time. Most of the CLI experts I've personally met are experts at much newer tools as well.
You sound much better informed on the technical/plumbing details than I. Mainly I was trying to emphasize that the lock-in and high-switching cost from social networks comes from centralized control of the urls. If each content creator controlled their own domain, the discovery mechanism/feed could be separate.
Not a bad ider at all. I like the eye for an eye violation.

You sure you want the Feds involved? lol :(
Wonderfully written and a rare exemplar of the rise of a fad from its primary source. Usually these things get lost in urban legend before anyone has the sense to document them properly.
2023

See also
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35294111
Interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood
That's why abstractions like PyTorch exist. You can write a few lines of Python and get good utilization of all those GPU cores.
> The truth is we are constantly moving further and further away from the silicon.

Are we? We're constantly changing abstractions, but we don't keep adding them all that often. Operating systems and high-level programming languages emerged in the 1960s. Since then, the only fundamentally new layer of abstraction were virtual machines (JVM, browser JS, hardware virtualization, etc). There's still plenty of hardware-specific APIs, you still debug assembly when something crashes, you still optimize databases for specific storage technologies and multimedia transcoders for specific CPU architectures...
Capture and product stickiness. If your product is all serverless wired together with an event system by the same cloud provider, you are in a very weak position to argue that you will go elsewhere where, leveraging the competitive market to your advantage.

The more the big cloud providers can abstract cpu cycles, memory, networking, storage etc, the more they don’t have to compete with others doing the same.
Perhaps it is no consolation at all, but grief is beautiful when expressed with grace like this.

Also, I really like the design of this site.
"Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" by Jonathan Blow comes to mind - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

A fantastic talk.
I just read the article in full, and don't understand your point, either.

Maybe you could explain what part of the comment you replied to you think is either wrong or already covered by the article, so that either we can realise what we failed to notice in our first reading or so someone can explain to you why you're wrong in thinking that comment isn't correct in the context of having read the full article :)
Congress doesn't allow for funding of crops in other counties that compete on the international market.
I feel like fly.io prioritizes a great developer experience and I think that appeals to engineers who both do and don't like magic.

But the real reason I like fly.io is because it is a new thing that allows for new capabilities. It allows you to build your own Cloudflare by running full virtual machines colocated next to appliances in a global multicast network.
According to meta studies done on Covid, the most effective early response that countries did was actually authoritarian lockdowns, but just not the ones that people remember. It was the shutdown of borders, airports, trains, and busses that had the best effect in reducing spread.

Doing so limits trade and restrict peoples free movement, but those costs were minor compared to the pandemic. The costs were also smaller than initially expected, a lesson that future leaders should remember.
The Gemini protocol as seen by cURL's creator
You yourself are probably 10-15% bigger than your grandparents were, since average height has increased 4 inches over the last 150 years.
youre missing the point. if you want oureach, have outreach. dont staple it to a science grant.
Yes, the standard deduction doubled, but that was offset by the reduction in the personal exceptions per dependent and dropping the individualized deductions, so for families with children (like us), unless they were higher income (which we are not), the tax cuts just about broke even. Maybe you're higher income or don't have kids.

Here's a summary of the impact[0]

> The average tax refund was $90 higher in 2018 than 2017, according to 2019 IRS data. (This statistic covers tax filers who used a version of Form 1040.) However, more detailed IRS data, released February 2020, shows that the refunds were not equally distributed across the population.

> Taxpayers with an AGI of less than $10,000 received 11.5% fewer refunds in 2018 than 2017, and the total value of their refunds was 17% less. (A 2018 analysis from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found single filers who earned minimum wage and had no children were least likely to save on their income taxes in 2018.) Across tax returns with an AGI between $1 and $50,000, taxpayers received 4.5% fewer refunds in 2018 and their refunds were worth 2.7% less.

> Taxpayers with AGI between $50,000 and $100,000 received 2.5% more refunds but those refunds were worth 1.8% less than in 2017. Those with an AGI of more than $200,000 received 45% more refunds in 2018 and the value of those refunds was 203.4% higher. Taxpayers with an AGI of $1 million or more received 216% more refunds than in 2017 and those refunds were worth 394.3% more.

[0] https://www.policygenius.com/taxes/who-benefited-most-from-t...
I find it hard to believe that vigilance can be opted out of, unless—sarcastically speaking—you leave the company before the lack of vigilance becomes a problem.

I somewhat agree with your take but that "free lunch" is paid by a disciplined use of lifetimes, somewhat contradicting the claim of "removing vigilance and discipline by using Rust's type system/borrow checker". In my worldview, type systems are in fact a compiler-enforced discipline, but I see how productivity can be boosted once problem areas become more visible / less implicit. Problems don't really disappear, they only become easier to scan through.
I don't agree, I think you're just describing two sides of the same coin.

As a software developer I want strong abstractions without bloat.

LLMs are so successful in part because they are a really strong abstraction. You feed in text and you get back text. Depending on the model and other parameters your results may be better or worse, but changing from eg. Claude to ChatGPT is as simple as swapping out one request with another.

If what I want is to run AI tasks, then GPUs are a poor abstraction. It's very complicated (as Fly have discovered) to share them securely. The amount of GPU you need could vary dramatically. You need to worry about drivers. You need to worry about all kinds of things. There is very little bloat to the ChatGPT-style abstraction, because the network overhead is a negligable part of the overall cost.

If I say I don't want magic, what I really mean is that I don't trust the strength of the abstraction that is being offered. For example, when a distributed SQL database claims to be PostgreSQL compatible, it might just mean it's wire compatible, so none of my existing queries will actually work. It might have all the same functions but be missing support for stored procedures. The transaction isolation might be a lie. It's not that these databases are bad, it's that "PostgreSQL as a whole" cannot serve as a strong abstraction boundary - the API surface is simply too large and complex, and too many implementation details are exposed.

It's the same reason people like containers: running your application on an existing system is a very poor abstraction. The API surface of a modern linux distro is huge, and includes everything from what libraries come pre-installed to the file-system layout. On the other hand the kernel API is (in comparison) small and stable, and so you can swap out either side without too much fear.

K8S can be a very good abstraction if you deploy a lot of services to multiple VMs and need a lot of control over how they are scaled up and down. If you're deploying a single container to a VM, it's massively bloated.

TLDR: Abstractions can be good and bad, both inherently, and depending on your use-case. Make the right choice based on your needs. Fly are probably correct that their GPU offering is a bad abstraction for many of their customer's needs.
Hitler's salute doesn't involve the heart gesture, nor did Mussolini's version, which is why they flip to the random guy in a mask in your video.

But it's all nonsense, even if it were exactly the same physical gesture. There's no intellectual or political connection. No sane watcher of events believes that Musk has any connection to the issues of the 1930s-40s Nazi party. It's just not there in his history or very very public persona.

There are eminently sane things to criticize Musk for. There are great points to make. But this sort of thing is crackpot and poisons anyone else trying to make rational critique.
No. It is definitely not the case that the modal developer today needs to know Docker. If only! It's a huge pain point for us with the PaaS customer cohort.
This.

As soon as the abstractions leak or you run into an underlying issue you suddenly need to understand everything about the underlying system or you're SOOL.

I'd rather have a simpler system I already understand all the proceeding abstractions about.

The overhead of this is minimal when you keep things simple and avoid shiny things.
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After the migration can we have dicks on Tumblr again
Do you mean 128GB? Not aware of any variant of the Macbook Pro with that much RAM.
it wouldn't need to be 30-60 cameras. so if you want to have a serious discussion, let's put down the ridiculous comments about something you clearly have no experience with.

from the demo, it's a stationary seat for a VR user. so in the VR experience, everyone will be sitting in that exact same seat. for 3D, you only need 2 lenses. for 3D VR in a 360° experience you need more, but much fewer cameras than 30-60. the best VR 3D i've worked with came from 16 cameras and a helluva lot of optical flow processing in post, but that was only on a cylinder and not a sphere. it did allow you to look 360°, and this demo doesn't need any of that. so yet again, your looking at less lenses than that. if you want to give a few degrees play in leaning left/right, you might need 4 lenses to allow for some parallax in that leaning. however, the demo clearly showed an unobstructed view of the "court" with nobody in the crowd obstructing your view. at that distant, there'd be very little parallax of the players on the court and the biggest notice would be from something in the foreground. yet, as previously stated, they've already shown that's not an issue.

as for the NBA never upgrading, you're saying that to someone that has personally worked on VR content for NBA finals. you can even see some of the camera rigs in the footage of the games. so in a sense, the NBA has already embraced VR which I guess means never has already come and gone

as for expert producers, if you've ever worked in live action VR, everyone that works in it promotes themselves (personally or as company) as experts. i started in 2014, so that's about 10 years of experience. i'm not an arrogant asshole, so i'd never call myself an expert, but i've got enough experience to qualify.
> proxy PCI passthrough driver thing

Do you mean vCS [1], which is already integrated and licensed by KVM/RedHat/Nutanix, Xen/Citrix and VMware?

It's distinct from SR-IOV, PCI passthrough, vGPU-for-VDI, and MIG.

[1] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/virtualcomputeserver-expands-v...
Cool.

How many people are going to use it? How much money is this going to make?

I'm not putting my bets on NBA or Apple for this thing.
This is when I wish humans were not simulation machines. So much pain caused by that damn brain of ours.
> In the US they’re too high for what we get: essentially nothing

He wrote, using his 5g phone connection and the internet from the safety of his home. Outside, a car sits silently in the driveway.
I kind of wish there was a shell that had the option for histories localized to a directory. So I can go into a directory and then look at what I was doing when I was last in that directory. Some complicated compilation command line to compile and link a source file and a bunch of libraries that was run when I was last in that directory, for example. There'd still be the 'history' command for everything and then maybe 'dhistory' for the commands that I ran in that specific directory when I was last there.
> That gives them a major advantage over us.

I would like to start with this: what is the advantage of other countries enjoying the work of artists/authors for free?

My point, from the very beginning, is that the concept of copyright does not seem entirely, as in 100% stupid. I am not saying that it is perfect the way it is now. Just that throwing it away entirely is maybe not what we want. I hate it when BigTech abuses copyright, but the problem is BigTech there.

Copyright is also what makes copyleft possible. Which I believe is a good thing to protect the users from the corporations.

And finally IP laws are what prevents an employee from leaving a company with all the code, renaming/rebranding it and selling it for a fraction of the price. Doesn't seem completely ridiculous, does it?

> You seem to be operating under the assumption I came to these views from an ivory tower.

Not at all. I operate under the assumption that you don't have that need anymore. Apparently you did, and because you got to where you are, you now believe that it's all based on merit and that people who don't manage to do the same don't deserve any empathy. Or something like that?

It's a typical US mentality, though (the "all I have is based on merit and merit only, and I don't want to pay for others").

> Laws work in a subset of countries, and a lot of countries straight up ignore them. That gives them a major advantage over us.

There is plenty of need for laws inside a country as big as the US. Not seeing that suggests that you are in a pretty good situation now and don't care about those who aren't.

Reputation doesn't work. Do I need to mention the nazi billionaire who now controls the US government as an example?

> We should regulate the shit out of corporations to protect the freedom and privacy of users and prevent monopolies.

Exactly. I don't think he says "we should remove copyright as a concept entirely.
I already do
You are forgetting all the ways you can act as if you are superior to others other than by using nasty words. You are also forgetting a lot of commonly used insults from the far left: fascist, nazi, racist, sexist, bigot, bootlicker, tech bro, and so on and so forth.

Some on the hard left put a large focus on controlling the use of language. They are the arbiters of what is offensive, etc. Those "guides to inclusive language" that made the rounds a few years ago were perfect examples. You can't say blacklist or totem pole or "no can do". You can't say kowtow or gyp or "master branch". What is insisting you control the language of others except acting as it you are morally superior to them? Generally speaking, wokeness/political correctness is exactly that: acting as if you are better than others and your moral pronouncements (no pun intended) should take precedence over theirs, because of your superior moral authority.
I assume anything we did to make MIG work for us would have been custom.
FOSDEM 2005 recap (Go and observability tracks)
>I absolutely prefer modern OneUI on Samsung phones to the Pixel variant or stock AOSP.

I'm deeply interested in knowing why, if the answer is anything besides you have always or mostly used Samsung and are used to it.
I remember wanting this so bad as a teen.

Little could I've predicted that only a few short years later I could play all the Genesis games I ever dreamed of thanks to Genecyst and a bunch of ROMs.
Pretty cool, visual learners are gonna' be thrilled. Also sorta' ties into r/FUI quite neatly too..
Cool, I want $0 of my tax dollars going to fuck over Latin America when the people of a country there elect anybody slightly to the left of Genghis Khan.

I want $0 of my tax dollars going to bombs to Israel

I want $0 of my tax dollars spent on military bases abroad.

Let's curtail the big stuff and then we can pinch the pennies, or at least let's compromise and do both.
Ive practiced and done all sorts of useless tricks and games, but this is one I still do not "get" in any way. What do people find satisfying or like about it? I could see doing it for a day to get alright at it, but much beyond that I don't really find it all that impressive shaving off fractions of a second. It doesn't even seem like a great party trick because you need special cups with holes in them so they don't stick.

But I guess it does build up atleast some level of hand-eye coordination and dexterity. Which is utterly lacking in most of today's youth and educational worlds where using actual tools and making things by hand is viewed as "dangerous" by many, and only a small fraction of kids get into many sports, and all of our focus is on more abstract concepts.