skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing this made me dig up a "magic mirror" project I always wanted to do. Way cheaper to embed an old monitor (and larger display) if all you really need is a "home automation" dashboard (and no camera / microphone integration).
Johannes from Gitpod here. I've answered this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682477 (copied below)

Essentially, we run nightly builds at OpenVSCode Server making it as upstream to VS Code as possible. In contrast to other forks the whole scope of the project is to add a minimal set of changes (specifics about what we added https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/blob/main/doc...)

The architecture we use powers both Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces. Several of the devs and organisations that have asked for our implementation & now have adopted OpenVSCode Server referenced the following issue at Code-Server (https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/3835).
Somewhat related to a China tech angle, I submitted this article about what Chinese stealth boats look like to the newest commercial radar satellites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686121
The united states has required immigration visa applicants to show proof of immunization for years.

>Under the immigration laws of the United States, a foreign national who applies for an immigrant visa abroad, or who seeks to adjust status to a permanent resident while in the United States, is required to receive vaccinations to prevent the following diseases:

Mumps
Measles
Rubella
Polio
Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids
Pertussis
Haemophilus influenzae type B
Hepatitis B
Any other vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/designated-civil-surgeons/vaccin...
determine stack growth direction by having one function call another with a pointer to a local variable in the former and then compare that to a pointer to a local variable in the latter.

This is undefined behavior.

See n1570.pdf, Annex J page 560, J.2 Undefined behavior

Pointers that do not point to the same aggregate or union (nor just beyond the same array object) are compared using relational operators (6.5.8).
>Replacing existing human spaces with robot-optimized spaces would make robots significantly more expensive than basically any other approach.

Houses built over the past 50 or so years are designed to disintegrate over 50 or so years and be rebuilt anyway. Although demand for new construction is reduced by the way that neighborhoods tend to go from high income to low income as the buildings physically disintegrate, there is a lower limit somewhere, and redevelopment will happen everywhere eventually.
How about building something useful rather than yet another (anti-) "social" media platform?
Another reason to never buy intel added to the list.
Most SSGs expect the site to be deployed to the root of a domain, not in a subdirectory. Unless all of your URLs are relative (including fonts, css, anything in js, et c) your approach probably won't work.

Also, your sole VPS will fall over nearly instantly with any significant amount of traffic; the web is a lot bigger in terms of eyeballs these days than it was when we started out.

These static services aren't bound by the capacity of a single machine.
I don't understand what people think they're saying when they use this weird factoid.

People don't want to spend much money dealing with climate change? Well, that seems reasonable, so we should use the most effective and efficient methods to deal with it, so we institute a carbon tax and use the full power of modern capitalism to generate solutions cheaply.

No wait, it seems we're actually arguing that people do want to spend more money than that on climate change, as long as you don't use it to apply price incentives but instead tax it in some non carbon related manner and hand it out as subsidies?

Though in this specific case, Apple is arguing to not fund it through corporate tax rises, which could be seen as a generic tax on everything, which I'd kind of agree with. I want the corporations releasing fossil carbon (equivalents) into the air to pay more, not some random company, because then they have an incentive to stop doing so.
Been using Streamlabs OBS for a while due to its YT stream management feature and remote control; this solves the YouTube problem, and it looks like remote control could be implemented via "Added a feature to browser sources to allow limited control over OBS". This will probably bring me back mainline.
Which games can you sideload?
My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit
Since YT wants to be a direct competitor to Twitch and OBS is the #1 tool to stream it makes perfect sense.
These are books or book series but can give you different pathways into whatever you're interested in.

- Try graphic novel versions that intro you to philosophers / concepts. At LAPL, we have the "Introducing..." series[1].

- The "Very Short Introduction" series are indeed short and cover the basics[2]

- Don't look down on "For Dummies". I thought "Existentialism For Dummies" was a good overview. You can skim them pretty quickly too since within a chapter they may repeat the same theme over a few times from different angles / examples.

- Ask yourself what it is you're interested in. Is it something specific about philosophy? "Does life have meaning?" "How can I be a good person?" etc or do you only want a general overview (which some of the courses mentioned in other posts may cover)

[1] https://lapl.overdrive.com/search/series?query=Introducing.....

[2] https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/browse?t0=VSIO_SUBJEC...
AWS IAM
"I hope this is a precedent for when headsets go unsupported in the future, but damn, getting all the necessary permissions for this involved SO much more effort that you would expect."
Hugging Face Announces Infinity:Ultra-Fast Inference in Your Own Infrastructure
"At this point if you have even the most basic connections (US bank account, home owner, gps, insurance, a car) the more sophisticated tracking methods can still learn about you and reach you with a decent success rate."

Lots of younger people do not have all of the above. If everyone had all the above, then the statment would not contain "if", it would be a given. But lets assume every living person can be "learned about" and "reached". That does not necessarily mean every person is worth learning about or reaching. This sounds very much like a person with a heap of surveillance data trying to make it sound valuable.

"It's just that most companies are using crap ad tech."

As an unwise HN commenter once said, "The market has spoken." :)

"... and reach you with a decent success rate."

How effective is "decent".

Why should I pay for this.

No doubt people are working hard trying to improve surveillance and are making progress against users who havent a clue whats going on, nor any interest in getting one. Kudos for the easy victory. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

But whats the point in trying to surveil someone like Mr Peguero. Hes not hiding his identity or location, or his preferences (Silicon Valley is garbage).

If "adtech" surveillance succeeds against someone blocking Google IPs, then what. Whats the end game.

Anyone who is willing to take the time to block Big Tech with a firewall is, IMHO, unlikely to be a very profitable ad target.

Advertisers should only care about people who are likely to spend money on their products/services. However people conducting blanket surveillance trying to pitch to advertisers ("adtech"), they are the ones who have an interest in arguing, honestly or dishonestly, that every last "identified" individual is a worthy ad target. If I am an advertiser, I am not going to be particularly interested in trying to advertise online to someone who is running OpenBSD or blocking Google IPs with nftables.

Individuals like the OP are proactively saying, "No, thank you." (The OP is actually saying "FU".)

Personally I find its quite easy to control/limit/stop data transfer initiated by websites/popular_browsers using a forward proxy. And I can use AI, too.

However I think blocking 8.8.8.8 and other Google IPs at the firewall is also good practice, not necessarily to stop ads/tracking by websites but to limit the users resources available to Google. Given their incentives and the fact we as users do not pay them like advertisers do, I think its naive to trust Google's employees will, for example, always honour the system DNS settings.

Unrelated but its possible that many OpenWRT users using default settings are actually pinging 8.8.8.8

https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/mwan3/fi...
ISO 18013-5 mDL mobile driver’s license standard

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first...
As an aside, his other posts of the Dead Sea effect - http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...

And Anatomy of a runaway IT project https://brucefwebster.com/2008/06/16/anatomy-of-a-runaway-it...

Those are fun reads too.
There's "bad design" (subjective) then there's "fails to meet accessibility standards" (objective). HN would not pass WCAG 2.0 AA for a large number of reasons. Tap targets and illegible text being big ones.

It doesn't matter if you can zoom into text when downvoted comments have so little contrast with the background (#ddd over #f6f6ef). The "X minutes ago", "hide", "edit" comment header links even fail without zooming.
I'm in Denmark, recently there have been Duck Duck Go posters at bus stops in my part of Copenhagen.
Note that Fastmail already supports this even without 1Password, see “subdomain addressing” and “catchall aliases” in their help pages.
Isn't this only being applied to a single EOL device? You might get a few tinkerers but 99% of these are still going to hit the landfill without software support.

People aren't exactly clamoring for 5 year old Android devices, for example.
Looks to be managed here https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins

Pretty clean source tree to reference :) Seems to be unique per OS and not dependent on third party projects.
For those interested: The "jelly scroll" effect is caused by the normal sequential-scan refresh of LCD and OLED displays, and is therefore visible to some extent on all such displays, either in vertical or horizontal orientation. Here [0] is a page that can be used to reproduce it. The issue with the iPad mini 6 is that its display refreshes along ita short edge instead of the long edge, which causes the effect to be visible in portrait orientation when scrolling vertically, a common use-case. It is exacerbated by the fact that the short edge on the mini 6 is even shorter than before, due to the changed aspect ratio. (The mini 6 has the widest aspect ratio of all iPads.) This increases the perceived amplitude of the effect. Most people wouldn't have a problem if the display would refresh along the long edge instead. However, this can only be changed in hardware, using different display components.

[0] https://www.testufo.com/scanskew
For somebody who is interested in home robotics space; what are more affordable products to get and possibly build upon ? I had some high hopes from the Anker guys since they showed up at the Apple WWDC event, but nothing substantial since.

I have been thinking of getting DJI tello edu drone to do some basic navigating or person following; does anybody have any experience/ideas here ?
> One strategy includes minting a $1 trillion coin, a move she [Pelosi] said Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York [Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee] has raised. Back in 2013, during another debt-ceiling fight, the Treasury and Federal Reserve said they wouldn’t pursue just such a plan as a way of avoiding the debt limit. And the White House earlier this month rejected the idea anew, saying there is only “one viable option” on the debt limit — increasing or suspending it.

I suspect this is mere posturing because it's not up to Congress to mint the $1 trillion coin. It's a decision only the Treasury Secretary can make.

> The concept of striking a trillion-dollar coin that would generate one trillion dollars in seigniorage, which would be off-budget, or numismatic profit, which would be on-budget, and be transferred to the Treasury, is based on the authority granted by Section 31 U.S.C. § 5112 of the United States Code for the Treasury Department to "mint and issue platinum bullion coins" in any denominations the Secretary of the Treasury may choose. Thus, if the Treasury were to mint one-trillion dollar coins, it could deposit such coins at the Federal Reserve's Treasury account instead of issuing new debt.[5][6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin

AFAIK, Yellen has never made a statement on the trillion dollar coin.

However, the fact that this is playing out against a backdrop of unprecedented deficit spending, government transfers, and Fed interventions means that this time is different.
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Thanks for the detailed response! And nice to hear how much you've managed to keep humans involved in the process. I used to work on a content review automation system for a big company, so it's always fun to hear about how others handle similar cases.

And there's a lot of overlap between how that system acted and what you're describing. It makes we wonder if there's space for a company that offers this sort of model training + content tagging + review tooling capability as a service, or if there's too many variation on what "good" and "bad" input is to make it generalizable.
I want an appliance that combines the functions of refrigerator, pantry, stove, oven, dishwasher, and that has manipulators inside capable of picking the ingredients, cleaning, peeling, chopping, and otherwise preparing them, cooking the entire meal, cleaning up, and spiting out the meal on serving dishes. :-)

It should be able to cook good tasting homemade meals from real ingredients (even fresh from the garden if you have a garden), not just plastic wrapped junk food. You load food items through hopper or door in one side, then a manipulator arm picks them up, reads or otherwise identifies what they are, and stores them in the inbuilt pantry or refrigerator.

It should keep an inventory of the refrigerator and panty and be able to suggest recipes that use what you have on hand while optimizing for cost, nutrition, and minimizing wasted food from spoilage. It should be able to produce shopping lists for you based on foods you use frequently or recipes you want to cook in the future. (It could even auto order foods and have them delivered, although I like the idea of just getting a shopping list and buying it myself better.)

It should be able to help you avoid wasting leftover foods by reaccepting leftovers, storing them, displaying the leftovers as a suggestion for the next meals so you don't forget, and know the optimal way to reheat or re-prepare them.

It should be controlled through an app on your phone, over the local network, and definitely not dependent on some cloud service. You should be able to still get a nice hot supper if the Internet goes down.

The app should show you a list of recipes that can be made with the ingredients on hand, you pick one or a couple, it tells you how long it's going to take to prepare. You tap go, and 45min later you have a perfect homecooked supper!
Man, the replies to this somehow conflating improving accessibility and UX with adding 200ms of input delay and MBs of javascript really show a lack of understanding of the topic.
The Roulette Strategy
to me the killer robot is either the dishwasher or the washing machine.

however thats not very forward looking of me.

We don't really need SCADA manipulators for clothes folding, we need a machine that we can just dump our washing in. Inside they might have a 6 axis arm, but I doubt it. There are machines that kinda do that for industrial linen companies. However they are huge and expensive, and you still need to feed in the clothes one by one.

Now what a decent robot arm could be used for is augmenting VR. Being able to tug, push, block and parry a person who's playing a sword game would be brilliant fun. Not without safety headaches, but fun.

I do agree that a decent arm thats cheap and powerful would unlock innovation. But they sorta do exist now. However we really need a usable IK library that doesn't require a maths degree to setup. We also need a library that would allow easy planning of moves as well. Its possible today, but hard.

Think trying to fetch and parse a JSON file over HTTP on a first generation arduino. Thats where we are with the libraries to make Robot arms usable.
You can also just use a firewall rule to rate limit syn packets from a source. It won't affect legit traffic, and doesn't require running a userland process to watch the logs.
Thank you for a good response, which takes into consideration several of my concerns.

My advice would be to both include these points and demonstrate this (perhaps with a video) in your article, as latency is IMHO correctly perceived as the killer of several concepts, such as remote game streaming services and host-to-goggles interactivity. This is especially important as you're using a cheapish consumer device as your primary display.

Do include the circumstances that contradict your 3ms claim. You do this elsewhere in your article (the gray old computers example) but it will serve to bolster your overarching argument.
Of course their time is not free. Neither is the time of the SaaS provider's employees. What's your point?

Of course it's important to consider all the factors. That's important no matter what. The point is that people aren't considering all the factors because the reality is, the costs of SaaS are almost always higher.

You don't have any local backup, by the way? Oof.
We will use the justice system to punish the ... justice system... You know, I'm not going to hold my breath.
On an Android phone you don't have to sign in with a Google account.

I do this on my OnePlus, I install apps through F-Droid and Aurora store to try to preserve some shred of privacy while not being too feature limited. In particular google push messages still work. I also kick unwanted system apps off with ADB. It's a compromise compared to a really clean ROM but it's possible.

It's not possible to use a Quest without an account.
So.. you're saying you can use (pure) Chromium or Brave, Edge, etc, to test, right?

Not sure what your point is, because you're immediately saying you know there are alternatives :)
> The only way you find out is when you crash.

You can fill the stack region with sentinel data and periodically scan it to warn of impending doom.
This is a very sweet way of coping with death.

I think all of these other comments are focussing on the aspects of "upsetting the bees" (which I think is a red herring) and not seeing the therapeutic effects of a ritual. Saying things out loud helps bring closure. This is people dealing with sadness.

"Little bee, our lord is dead; Leave me not in my distress."
wait a minute. Even if the baseline in the population for anxiety would be high or similar to those 15%, this would mean that Americans are even more miserable than the article suggests! Anyway, long covid is here to stay. In the US they could probably do whole departments in hospitals for long covid patients.
I don’t think cars itself is isolating people… I’ve heard passengers used to bring in fresh fruits on long distance trains and have nice chats with passengers adjacent, in mid-20th century. The plot of Fight Club, later in the century, also involves the idea of “single-serve friends” that protagonist make on domestic flights, that you make upon boarding and have good times over drinks, then part ways forever at the gate.

Do people still do that? I bet I’d just be bothering them if I try to. You sit quiet and keep swiping, that’s the norm, especially when you have more strangers around.
How? We could invite the Taliban to govern the USA. Degeneracy in your home town? Start the beatings! Gambling, porn, and inebriety? Haram! They do seem to be able to manage challenging political situations much better than the US in Afghanistan. Think about it :)
(Which is the old-old generation hardware -- the Quest and Quest 2 succeed it.)
I hope at least some of the tech is shared between provinces
This is great!

I've been running into a small issue: this website has no problem generating URLs which are too long for itself:)

For instance, I managed to get the following output:

> https://ooooooooooooooooooooooo.ooo/ooooοооoοᴏοoοᴏοoοᴏooοᴏoᴏ...

which gives me a 414 request URI too large.
So Whatsapp devs are incompetent to disable that feature?
No, using past risk as a prediction for future risk is not crazy, and should put you in at least the same ballpark as the real risk.

And since the risk of covid is extremely age-stratified and depending on risk factors, the correct answer can vary up to five magnitudes depending on who you're asking, which this poll also doesn't address.

So even though the correct answer for the question in the poll is heavily skewed upwards by being the calculated mean, most Americans still overestimate the actual risk by up to two magnitudes.

For all the talk this year about political divides due to not sharing the same objective reality, that's an astounding amount of wrong from the side that claims to be on the same side as science.
It looks like they have their own library for low level stuff (https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/libobs), but for the most part rely on ffmpeg's library for all the platform-specific video, audio, etc. stuff (https://www.ffmpeg.org/about.html). If you browse the CMakeLists.txt files in the repo you can get a rough idea the kinds of libraries they depend on and use.
You can root it and sideload on their end of life devices. Not exactly what most people are trying to buy new.
When a Startup Should Call the FBI?
Why is the number of railcars in storage important?
The Vive is PC driven and can be made wireless with accessories. There are social games on steam that work on it and are mostly populated by kids. The headset is fairly heavy though and also somewhat large, and the minimum eye-distance setting is pretty high so I don't know if it'd fit a 5yo.
In that case, what is the difference between machine and robot? The word loses its meaning.

Most of those execute a fixed program with no feedback. The hallmark of robotics, as I understand it, is complex feedback mechanisms. Robotics classes at my school were 80% control theory.
"It's not any of the things claimed in the comment you were replying to, but I'm going to argue with you anyway"
In fact this is exactly what I expected at FaceBook.

What I didn't expect is that he managed to pull this off at all. Wow! And well done.
So sort of a user interface like TweetDeck where you can horizontally scroll between multiple feeds?
And our reality would segue into the storyline of Threads. The 1984 BBC film should be mandatory viewing for all people in positions of power. The bombing is only the start of the horror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgT4Y30DkaA
That seems a bit neurotic
No, but they have been identified as a "nuclear latent state", in that they possess the capabilities to create one. How long that latency is I'm sure no one really knows.
Doesn't Apple implement XMPP for iMessage as well?
If that's the only reason then everyone with one of those smart speakers will buy one (smart speaker? haha, why not smart microphone?). However it does seem like there will be a lot of objections to having a person looking through a camera among a certain demographic who seem to put more faith in giant companies that employ people who they feel are people like them than they do in people who they do not feel are people like them. Let me try to phrase this more clearly. To someone who imagines Google as several thousand of themselves, having a Google microphone in their houses feels like having themselves in their house. To someone who imagines an Indian operator as very much not themselves, it would feel differently.
With Terraform not accepting PRs, RunX raises 4 mil for alternative tool Opta