skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the cofounder at Lumina - we're building a modern webcam designed to solve some of these problems.

There's really been a lack of innovation in the entire home office space, with the webcam being particularly bad. It sucks that a decade-old product (Logitech C920) is still the bestselling product today -- that would be like if Apple stopped releasing new phones after the iPhone 4S (launched 2012), and it remained the bestselling phone through now.

A few thoughts to add to the article:

- On why webcams aren't seeing innovation, I'd disagree that the market is too small. There's enough gross margin to produce a $B company just by selling webcams [0], especially if you can actually get customers excited about the product.

- A big reason there hasn't been innovation is that the space doesn't attract entrepreneurs (because hardware is viewed as hard) or investors (because hardware is viewed as hard).

- Size isn't everything. As the iPhone shows, you can get very good image quality from a tiny sensor and lens if you have the right tech supporting it. (At Lumina, most of our eng effort is on the software layer)

I would've loved to see Lumina in his comparison. We launched a few months ago and are seeing many reviewers prefer us over the Brio (Logitech's flaghip) [1]. Personally, I'd guess we're 60% of where we can be in terms of quality and think we can achieve a quality level between an iPhone and a DSLR, hopefully closer to the latter.

[0] https://s1.q4cdn.com/104539020/files/doc_financials/2022/q4/...

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/lumina-ai-webcam-review
Yes, it's pointless as a game IMO. Personally, it reminds me of the "interactive screensavers" kind of apps for win95.

I love the aesthetics and don't regret the purchase, but it feels more like a tech demo than a game.
Can you elaborate how language features failed V? And what claims were extraordinary?

Like the language compiling itself in <1s? It's true and you can verify it yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvP6wmcl_Sc
Big Sur, Monterey, Yosemite, El Capitan, Catalina... all worked for me because I've either been there or there was a screensaver/wallpaper to associate them with their locales. I really don't know a thing about Ventura.
I started using it because the UI is flawless and because I never installed WhatsApp and I never will. I don't have false hope about the "security" and "privacy" of Telegram that said: but it's a great messaging app which, by now, a huge number of people are using.

At my kid's previous school and at my kid's current school there are parents using Telegram. Sure WhatsApp is still the most common one but Telegram is not unheard off.

700 millions users is quite something.

Hardly a week goes by without Telegram telling me: "xxx joined Telegram". Last week I re-connected with a friend I hadn't talked to in a long time because I saw he just joined Telegram. Said hi to him, sent him a few pictures. I don't know who brought him to Telegram but he ended up using it and he's definitely not a techie.

At this rate in two years they'll have 1 billion users. Maybe it'll even snowball at some point.

This is competition to WhatsApp. 700 million users and growing is not nothing.
I don't see any elderly people using them. Nice thought, but I am not convinced.
I'm using it to avoid the Meta apps on my phone. It was the easier to convince my mom to use so that we can talk online, the other being Signal.

On the other side, people who I know use it for finding all kinds of uncensored stuff in the groups there. It is not totally dark net style there, but the moderation is lax compared to the more visible social media.
People would absolutely complain if you needed sudo to check out a repo.
And even then, the "expert" goal may be foolish, these days I'm much more about feeling new things, new ideas, at my level. And then let the "little bit" process take me to where I can go. I may never end up an expert but everyday will have been fun and happy.
After the fix it's not allowed to do

`mut x := immutable_var`
>"you would see more of those decent articles if people were more inclined to follow a subscription model where the journal is accountable to its customers."

I think this argument holds up. For example, publications like the Scientific American and The Scientist tend to be very high quality in terms of accuracy (usually with unobtrusive citations, if I recall correctly). It's too bad their subscriptions prices are so high; they were hundreds of dollars a year if I remember correctly, versus less than 50 dollars a year for other magazines.

Ii'm not sure about how financially successful they are, but I found myself struggling to justify such a subscription price, when the purpose was essentially edu-tainment. The publications that can more easily get people to pay more, in my view, ostensibly help people make more money or find career success, which is why industry publications like STAT for biotech/medicine (and more generally, publications like the WSJ/Bloomberg) tend to be more financially successful.
> Of course the outcome of random unfriendly and annoying UIs is the only predictable outcome... so why wouldn't the EU responsible? Who else would be?

"Of course burglars choosing less protected houses is the only predictable outcome... so why wouldn't the makers of security systems be responsible? Who else would be?"

I still don't get it. Without the EU laws, it wouldn't be magically easier to block tracking cookies, they wouldn't offer a choice at all? What are you arguing for?

> As I said the only possible option where there could be design cohesion is via the browsers (or maybe a EU-controlled open source JS plugin but that's even worse).

We tried that, it failed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

> I don't ever use the cookie popups because fine-tune control of cookies doesn't have much privacy ROI. I want to use cookies on most sites and ublock does the rest.

The cookies for functionality/session are not affected by the cookie popup.

> I highly, highly doubt the tiny percentage of people not using an adblocker but are still technical enough to uses cookie popups regularly and effectively is really worth the cost.

I use an adblocker and still decline on the cookie popups. I assume you are doing, too, otherwise you wouldn't complain about popups you don't see?

> Has the ever been a study that shows the real-world utility of forcing sites to use cookie popups?

Me able to decline them is real-world utility. If a majority or at least significant portion of users is successfully tricked into accepting the cookies, then that calls for a refinement of the law along with better enforcement, not for retraction of the law. "Let them have it", what a bleak, defeatist thing to suggest.

You are blaming the makers of the law for what is very obviously the fault of the perpetrators, who are trying to get around the law in profoundly shady and just downright shitty ways.

I am glad the EU law exists, without it there wouldn't even be the option.
Then you want solution to notification problem. Very specific issue vs broader "web sites are bad, apple is doing good" issue.
Telegram has a very interesting development history. They were nomadic for the early 2010's, eventually landing in Dubai. Apparently this was because they feared being pressured by governments (the CEO and founders are Russian).

Is Dubai a place with good protection against government pressure?
With hero3 it is not a problem, see the very first sentence.

It does not stream over usb. There's no app to simulate webcam on the host operating system. Hero3 outputs hdmi, you use some hdmi-to-usb dongle, which are plain old USB UVC class devices and every operating system out there with usb support knows how to handle them. So if a logitech or whatever webcam works, this one will work too.

However, I see that hero9 has no hdmi out. That's the bummer.
Sorry, I didn't understand the underlying message that your sarcasm was intended to pass.
They're still pretty brutal.

The BestBuy around the corner from me, for example, is selling an Asus Chromebook with a Celeron N3350/4GB RAM/64GB eMMC and 15.6" 720p screen for $400 CAD.

Is this not underpowered? Sure there are other options, but to most people the appeal was the low cost. For $799, I'd just buy a PC.
You should read more about what racism is before you go around accusing other people. Or perhaps better, stop reading so much about racism that it makes you confuse a personality trait with a race. Such a personality is common among young white left men, please stop spreading that online. It does not contribute to diversity, but only divides.
Sounds good, can you name a few ways?

I'm being serious. If there are better ideas, which there probably are, let's put them out there.
I use it because all my friends are on it. Sometimes I have someone asking me to add them on Whatsapp, but I offer Telegram instead and they end up liking it a lot more. There are also a few public channels I follow that are essentially RSS feeds. Linuxgram and PINE64 News for example.
Not sure on that, the Nintendo v Team Xecuter case ended up with $10 million in damages for selling Switch piracy mods/tools

https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-agrees-to-pay-10-millio...
I’ve had enough “coincidences” of the same type that I 100% believe it’s occurring. It’s the simplest answer actually.
At least here in the US, it absolutely is. Kids get hit by cars and die on a semi-regular basis and basically no one is ever held accountable for it. From Chicago, just a few weeks ago: "Driver issued no citations after fatally striking 2-year-old riding mini-scooter in Lincoln Square"[0].

[0]: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2022/6/3/23153664/lincoln-...
The Dutch, the Israelis and everyone east and North of Germany. It's pretty refreshing in some respects, but the friction between these blunter and less blunt cultures can be massive.
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius."
> Are you able to do a steelman of Thiel's politics, where Thiel himself would agree with your characterization?

Would someone acting in bad faith ever agree to such a thing? Maybe you could goad him into saying yes once but the right tends to use terms like "strawman" or "silencing" as a thought terminating cliche without any attempt to make clarifications.
> Malicious compliance is exactly what the EU should have expected and planned for.

It usually isn't compliance, malicious or otherwise.

It is malicious “we know we are breaking both the letter and the intent, but we know they don't have resources to properly enforce against everyone, so we are going to chance it for as long as we can”. The vast majority of these consent systems are not compliant with any of the relevant regulations (ePrivacy Directive, GDPR, CCPA, …). They will fix it when they get a slap on the wrist. If they get anything it will be a slap or a warning because while anyone in their right mind is pretty sure that the non-compliance is deliberate, that is nigh-on impossible to conclusively prove.
Of course not. Telegram managed to catch all the people who like that they are not Google and Facebook, while also not caring enough about actual encryption.

I had telegram installed for almost 3 years. I never had a secret chat that I did not start myself.
Yeah we should never have developed cars or computers. Toys for the rich.
Show HN: StatusVista – An all-in-one status page of the systems you depend on
I think the way society conceives if grade school math is pretty rotten, and we need to shake things up if only to build a new cultural relationship with it. Common core focusing on intuition is actually good, and someday throwing in theorem provers will add back a good challenge while keeping things approachable.

I might even cut polynomials entirely to make room for the new stuff and do informal calculus earlier.
> has 170MM staked and isn't picking up the phone

Three Arrows Capital?
I've done exactly the same with a canon dslr. Everybody asks me if I am a streamer

Many are jealous, i think. It's hard to understand through their poor webcams haha
I use it for notification from many servers... just a quick curl in a script, and I get an alert on my phone in a matter of milliseconds.
Unless you pump the energy deep in to the ground it will still eventually find its way to radiate back out in the form of infrared blackbody radiation. The timescale we're talking about isn't very long in the grand scheme of things, and the entire surface of the planet is doing this to some extent or another.

Even if we did one of those megasolar projects people like to talk about like paneling the whole Sahara or Mojave, we would still only be absorbing a tiny amount of the petawatts per second the sun is constantly bombarding the planet with, much of it being absorbed by plants, the ocean, darker rocks, etc.

Our solar panels just don't hit the scale that the melting ice caps do, and the only thing we can do to stop that is reduce the flow of new ghgs into the atmosphere.
Should I be willing to relocate to US for FAANG internship or it would be fully remote? If need to relocate, will I be responsible for paying flight tickets and lodging?

Also, what is the best way to get accepted for FAANG interview for someone with no work experience? Submit resume directly to company website? Connect with FAANG recruiters on LinkedIn and direct message them? Maybe try to get some experience in other tech company before applying to FAANG to maximize chances?
Hi HN! After recently being laid off from my job, I needed something to work on in my spare time and put together StatusVista. It crawls status pages of various services and lists the results on a single page for easy visibility. There are similar solutions out there but they are somewhat limited in the number of allowed services to track (i.e. StatusGator). It's in early stage and the available services are fairly limited but I wanted to get it released in case it's helpful to anyone. I'll be adding new services over the coming days so stay tuned. There's a demo and I'm taking requests via GitHub issues. Cheers!

The tech stack: Terraform, Serverless Framework, DynamoDB, AWS Cognito, React, MaterialUI, Gatsby
This is also my experience in the UK.

Messengers are extremely network-based services. Everything depends on your network, and experiences will differ dramatically between countries.

For me, WhatsApp is everything legit and personal, Telegram is for extremist groups, Messenger is for parents, Instagram is for millennials, Twitter is for politics nerds, Discord is for gamers, iMessage is... for adverts from takeaways and SMS 2FA.

But this will be completely different in other countries, social groups, industries, etc.
The amount and variety of machine images shipped is honestly impressive:

https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/releases/tag/v1.0.6

First time I have seen a project publish vmware-arm64.ova for ESXi arm edition.

Is it still possible to exec into a shell on a cluster node via something like https://github.com/kvaps/kubectl-node-shell ?
Seen a lot of "meh" videos. But Julie Schiro has made a few actually good videos

https://m.youtube.com/c/JulieSchiro/videos

Personally I just wish that people would invest in a cheap $20 or so lavalier microphone.
Also, we now have an operating system Vinix, which uses autofree. Does that work as a proof for you or is that also not enough?
I recently got a new work laptop and decided to take the opportunity to switch from using windows 10 with a linux VM (please don't try to sell me WSL2, I'm not interested) to plain linux. I decided to pick devuan stable since the base machine needs to be... stable. I have no interest in using systemd on anything which needs to be stable. I feel happy for anyone who has never encountered severe stability issues with systemd but I am not that person. Devuan comes with sysvinit which is also trash but it offers the opportunity to use other inits. At this point in time I have switched it from sysvinit to runit and eventually ripped out the entire runit infrastructure that comes with devuan and replaced it with something heavily inspired by void's runit. This isn't great, it would be nice if devuan took things other than sysvinit+initscripts more seriously. Maybe even just switch to OpenRC since, while it is still not great (please stop using pid files) it's a hell of a lot more sane than the mess of init scripts devuan ships with.
LOL, all of these "decentralized" currencies turned out to be quite centralized in practice.

I like crypto, but it is true that it brings nothing new to the table.
Most of the things that cause these problems, like stolen apes, would not work on Bitcoin as it lacks smart contract functionality.
I have cameras inside the house. Carefully aimed, with microphones disabled. We do this mostly to keep an eye on our cats.

The worst you're going to see is an old fat white guy going downstairs in the middle of the night, in his underwear. If that turns you on, then you know where you need to go get a job.

No, we don't have any cameras in the kitchen, because the kitchen/dining/breakfast room area is isolated from the rest of the house by doors, and we don't allow the cats into those areas.

Yes, the doors have baby-resistant mechanisms for the door handles, otherwise one of the cats would open the doors himself -- he is long and smart enough that he can just reach up, wrap both front paws around the door handle, and pull down. We saw him do that once, which is why we have the baby locks in place.

But, if there were a fire in the house, there might be a video record in the cloud of what started the fire.
The operation wouldn't need to happen covertly, just as bitcoin's increases in electricity usage so far haven't happened covertly.

Bitcoin will, in order to secure the assets on the chain, need to have an adversarial amount of resources wasted. That's the point of proof of work, to prove that you wasted a lot of energy. It's an energy wasting contest.

There are physical limits which mean the waste in this contest-of-waste can only increase so quickly (i.e. manufacturing limits), but I think the fundamentals of the system are as I describe. It is "working as intended" that proof of work must take more energy if energy is cheaper. Practically no other systems work this way.
I feel like "unsolving" problems is becoming the only way to make a good buck in IT anymore.
I haven't found any good laptops from Dell, Lenovo or Microsoft that combined the features I want. I want a "desktop-replacement" CPU, good cooling and without GPU. There are quite a few gaming laptops that fit the bill, except the unnecessary GPU and high price (and ugly styling).
I'm a happy Telegram user, but the features Telegram are introducing with their premium subscription are not particularly compelling, and some of them really seem like anti-features:

• 4 GB uploads, faster downloads: I'm struggling to imagine what these would be useful for, other than movie piracy. The default upload limit is already 2 GB, and the download speed is fine.

• Doubled limits: Most of these are client-side limits. Locking these features down behind a paywall is just obnoxious.

• Voice-to-text: I have never intentionally used Telegram's voice messaging features. Most mobile phones can already do speech-to-text; making other people use a premium feature to get the same results is silly.

• Unique stickers, unique reactions: Oh please god no. Animated stickers were bad enough. I'm going to be tempted to ban anyone using these in the groups I moderate.

• Chat management: More paywalled client-side features. (Including one feature that was previously available to all users -- auto-archive for new chats used to be offered to any user that was getting a lot of chat requests.)

• Animated profile pictures: See "unique stickers".

• Premium badges, premium app icons: Yawn.

• No ads: Where do ads even show up? I've never seen one, even in large channels.
His experience is limited to 1C programming, which occupies similar business niches as SAP. 1C ecosystem is utterly different from HN's.
You could simply delete your post.
Is there any further reading on this topic in particular that is not leading to wild conspiracy theories?
There's very little clearance in that direction, and the clearance which there is is necessary for the screen / lens not to touch the keyboard / case and get scratched.

So if you have a bump on the inner side, you also need to have a notch in the topcase.

And unless you move the webcam something weird (an edge or below the screen), you need to have that notch through or below right below trackpad, which is less than optimally comfortable before you even consider that the accumulation of crap in that notch can then damage the camera lens.
Not to be super “arm chair psychologist” about this, but I always thought the whole “you deserve it if you got scammed” mentality comes from the people that believe crypto will replace all modern finance.

For crypto to replace modern finance, it needs to be better in every way (so it’s a total replacement).

Decentralized currency is better for some things, worse for things like preventing scams. If modern finance prevents scams better, than crypto won’t replace it in that area at least.

Solution? Easy: scams aren’t a problem. Modern finance isn’t better in fixing that problem, cause it’s not a problem. Now crypto is once again better in every way.
How to Prove It is an excellent text. I didn't fully grok Spivak and Rudin until I worked through it, then the proofs all clicked!
The systemd man pages are a book. And, just for avoidance of doubt, that's not a good thing. I am never surprised when someone can't find out how to configure systemd to do what they want. It's just too enterprise grade.
> have no idea who bunny.net is

$ whois bunny.net
(...)
Registrant Name: Registration Private
Registrant Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC
Registrant Street: DomainsByProxy.com
Registrant Street: 2155 E Warner Rd
Registrant City: Tempe
Registrant State/Province: Arizona
Registrant Postal Code: 85284
Registrant Country: US
(...)

> we're in a country with better privacy laws"

...it appears that the domain registrant is not, so you will just have to trust that the company is not in the US or not owned by a US entity (mostly relevant for the rest of the world, probably).

> with fonts there's a really simple solution: Just don't

This was worth repeating :)
I think the article is congruent with your thinking — k8s shapes those OTHER decisions in critical and may in some cases be the reasons why those decisions exist in the first place.

To me, the insight of the article was questioning whether a team of your size should be needing to make those decisions? It may very well be that your case requires k8s. But, I can think of many small shops that would benefit from keeping things simple and paying someone (a cloud provider) in the beginning of their journey and slowly adding complexity as success comes along.
i copied it directly from disclosetv, who had it like that
Ha. I even triple-checked this with a bunch of google searches to make sure I was right. Sorry about that!

That is strange. They aren't even some common base, CO-OS is literally based on Chromium OS.
Whats the privacy factor like? Does the camera software phone home? Do you track users ?
> This is flamebait unrelated to data privacy risk.

It's not flamebait, it's a legitimate reason. A country who has been killing people in various wars/invasions is unlikely to behave ethically when it comes to privacy.

If you behave unethically in one area, I have every reason to assume that you'll also behave unethically in another area.
Software engineering jobs are extremely cushy. You are not working in an Amazon warehouse to make the ends meet.
I saw this video on the history of Kaliningrad the other day, quite well done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2f9Zf-MDtU

Russia has at various times tried to give away Kaliningrad to several countries, who refused it because... it's full of Russians, and Russia will inevitably invade whoever has native Russian speakers to "come to their rescue". It wasn't Putin that invented this, as it turns out.
I got a 500 or 404 error.

https://archive.ph/Nvx58