skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2021 I guessed that Shopify was overvalued because it didn't benefit from the same network effect that Amazon benefits from. (Also I preregistered this prediction so you know I'm telling the truth lol no I didn't.) Shopify has an app that app lets users buy from web stores that are Shopify built if they have the address. This difference is reflected in the size and staying power of their B2B customer base.
> With everything known surrounding the destination of some of these flights, It is surprising the logs didn't lead to investigations into some of the serial passengers.

Perhaps I do misunderstand.

What I get from rereading the thread is you entertained the possibility of investigative action based on suggestive association (people riding on a plane associated with crimes).

If that isn't a correct characterization, please correct me!

That low of a bar for investigative action would give prosecutors quite a weapon to harass almost anyone they wanted to target. Even a clearly dead end investigation can seriously impact someone's life and reputation.

The phrase "probable cause" isn't "suggestive association with cause" for a reason.
A year ago, I would have chosen a new Tesla, hands down (disclosure: I am probably not gonna actually buy an EV for as many years as I can eke out of my trusty Subie).

Nowadays, I have chatted with numerous folks that have purchased alternative EVs.

The Tesla owners still seem the giddiest (There's a lot of 'em around here), but I have not heard one ounce of buyer's remorse from any of the other brands.

The one that brought the Rivian, is every bit as giddy as any Tesla owner I know.

I think that Tesla has managed to establish itself, and will last, but the free ride is over.
I feel like an old grumpy man saying this, but I hate the idea of wearing a device on my face to literally hijack one of the precious senses one has. I'm sure over time I'll look back and laugh at myself for thinking that way.
This is clearly surfing on the inflation wave to raise their price without a direct relation to it.

I cross my fingers so that they will get punishment from the market.
I'm shocked that there aren't more multiplayer VR experiences. Yes, sure, there's Pavlov and VR Chat. But unless you have a friend who's into VR Chat, it's remarkably difficult to find a game that can immerse two different people at the same time.

It felt a bit ironic that mini golf was one of the most fun multiplayer party games.

My wife was like "You should bring over your quest 2!" to our new house -- she already has an Index and some other high end headset. I asked "But why?" and we couldn't think of a good reason.

Maybe the epitome of VR is always going to be a bunch of friends sitting around watching one person play it, but it felt like there could be something more. Something like a Star Trek bridge experience or... something.
> "I work for the highest bidder"

Uhm, I find people like these are actually the easiest to keep. They know their price and define it. You know what to expect.
I've always felt they did Xbox / PlayStation strategy, selling headset below cost and earning on game store fees.

Perhaps the math is not working out?
> These are folks who dislike cities but live in the suburbs and make their living from the urban economy, and they were willing to set aside their distaste and vote for transit

The vote for the plan was purely within Austin city limits. The plan was not at all voted for by suburbanites, nor are they paid for by the suburbs (except for purchases those suburbanites make in Austin proper, generating sales tax revenue).

> More than 42% of voters here have a distaste for density, public transit, and urban living in general

Source, please? Because I doubt it. Austin has one of the most pro-urbanist city councils in Texas, and has densified at a rate most other cities have not over the past 20 years (and second only to Dallas and Houston in terms of nationwide growth). I'm a Texan myself, born and raised, and it's a completely different built environment than what it was even 10 years ago, and that's not by accident, but actual policy supported by voters. Skyscrapers, density, apartments, townhomes, rezonings in previous single-family-only enclaves – things California talks about in studies and papers and committees, Texas is actually doing (I've lived in Los Angeles for over 5 years now, and the sentiment here is much more anti-development than I see in Austin and Dallas, which is generally pro-build-it-and-they-will-come).
My hopes of large volume fully open source systems died when I learned that beefy RISC V boards will ship with UEFI.
Their severance looks quite generous. Layoffs aren't great, but it seems like they're handling it responsibly.
I mean we were starting from a system that was basically e-mail, except where providers were required to deliver all messages without any discrimination or filtering. They had to create a new framework that allowed for carriers to choose not to deliver calls, interoperable technology to authenticate calls, and now close loopholes that are still allowing bad actors access to the phone network. It's a fundamental rearchitecting of how the phone network works that requires every single operator to make upgrades, so yeah it's going to take some time. And you're not really going to see much progress until it's nearly finished because if 90% of the network is secure you'll just see the same volume of crap through the remaining 10%.
You can choose not to use them. Most of the ways people got things done in the past haven't disappeared, although some are more difficult to find now.

My mother does not have an Internet connection. Or a computer. Or a cell phone.

She definitely prefers to live under a roof. She's just not interested in any of the above.
That's a significant increase. Can any game historians here tell us if a price hike this large has ever happened before? It's not a good look for something that seemed to be gaining a lot of traction.
Is it better than Grammarly?

I mean, sending all data to a Grammarly service brings the same privacy issues as sending it to Language Tool.
> Banning books could mean that owning them is illegal and that just hasn't happened.

Just within the last century it was illegal to send a copy of Ulyesses or The Canturbury Tales through US mail.
Lol exactly. Really wanted to play Half Life / Alex but not about to give Meta any money … absolutely not going to use a facebook account to use a VR device.
I would not recommend doing that, you will need to be able to selectively turn it off or change it sometimes... VPN blocking is unfortunately becoming more common among popular services. I have to disable or at least switch servers quite often to access popular services.

Also if you are new to the game, make sure you use wiregaurd, it leaves the large complex VPN protocols of old in the dust. It adds almost no latency to my connection, sometimes speeds things up.
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This is really neat. I'm a little sad that it requires rewriting of your js app to make it work with it but still. I'm going to tinker with this for sure.
That same experience will be a boon later. You can show your progression from QA > Dev > Whatever you want. It's no longer an anchor weighing you down, it's a Rocky Balboa underdog story.
Hardware. But these people were product line managers, marketing, etc. A few were ex-sw-engineers. I didn't observe anything consistent except they had gathered at this place.
There's honestly just hardly even any games on it at all. And all of the games are really expensive. I like how on the Nintendo Switch there are big budget games but also thousands of games for like $2
See, the issue isn’t what Grammarly stores, that’s a sensibility defined policy. It’s what I would send to Grammarly that prevents me ever using it or any service like it.

I don’t care how little data you’re storing. I type passwords into my browser and as a software developer I will never be sufficiently confident that you aren’t accidentally getting sent username and password box text even if you tried your damnedest to avoid it. The problem is you’re a keylogger. Ostensibly one with a positive reason your customers install you, but you fundamentally are a keylogger.

I cannot trust such an application… ever.
Abstractly, you're right, but in the concrete instance of the united states, there's an oligarchy that currently (mis)rules the country, and if you want to replace an oligarchy, bottom-up/discoordinated efforts probably won't work.
"You'll own nothing and you'll like it."
In my experience, very high-performing teams are not rare outside of prestige employers, but the distribution is longer-tailed.

Employees at prestige employers don’t want to consider that they might not be the best, or might not have to put up with all the corporate bureaucracy, so they erect barriers.

For recruiters, recommending prestige resumes is just the equivalent of “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”.

Nobody on tech teams is putting in 20 hour weeks and watercoolering to get by in those small teams at small companies. Everything they do counts.
Keep an eye on moisture of rice or ingredients too, the less moisture the better to avoid a soggy end product
Pokerstars is pretty good as a social experience. Eleven table tennis can be fun too.
Grid like comes with a caveat. Most grids are only in city center (so that lines can connect to every other line in the city with most demand), and subways are not often grids but rather interlocking L shapes and curves depending on which radial direction out of city center got to have a subway first (but usually you can still see distinct gridlike patterns). And then there's geographic impediments like where streets and parks are.

Beijing is a grid: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Beijing_...

Shanghai is a grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#/media/File:Sha...

Tokyo is grid-like east and south of the Imperial Palace: https://i0.wp.com/transitmap.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...

Taipei has a grid: https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38

The gridded portion of Manhattan has a grid between 14th St and Central Park: https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38. Buses fill out the grid in outer areas like the Bronx: https://new.mta.info/map/5366

Paris is gridded about as much as it can be due to the non-grid road layout: https://www.ratp.fr/sites/default/files/plans-lignes/Plans-e...

Berlin is gridlike: https://sbahn.berlin/en/route-map/
To be fair, if you want to play Alyx you can also use the Valve Index. So no Meta involved
People with experience can’t be asked doing the course because they know better anyway :) of course you do better because you probably take it seriously
I'm struggling to imagine how it could be superior to Xorg on this... Xorg works flawlessly with external monitors in my experience.

Maybe there's some edgecase that I haven't hit that it fixes?
I wondered that too. It'd be extremely unusual for Tesla to go as far as changing the badge.

OTOH, a car dealer along the way might do that if they noticed the discrepancy between the badge and what the software reported. It'd be hard to blame them too, since people do sometimes downgrade the badging on cars (eg, this "218i", lol: https://carsandbids.com/auctions/Kmm4AgbK/2016-bmw-m2 ).

It still leaves Tesla as the bad guy. The current owner bears no relation to the ones who did it, and there's really no reasonable process that could have allowed him to know that this might happen.
Can your mom get started with Paypal in 5 minutes? When I set up a Paypal account recently, it took days to "get started", because that's how long it took them to verify my bank account.
What, why? Running out of money or cost-cutting?
> I will also ask: how often are you writing applications that want to accept either files or sockets?

In Go where there is an io.Reader/io.Writer abstraction where blocking interactions are OK and you're absolutely intended to handle all of the errors, it's really no problem at all to use a socket where you'd use a file.

Unfortunately, this only works because the abstraction handles it well. You can't really do custom things with file descriptors, so the amount of useful things you can do by treating sockets as files is quite limited (though it certainly exists.)

(I was going to say "TLS for example" though come to think of it this isn't even strictly true under Linux; https://docs.kernel.org/networking/tls.html )

Still, having TCP sockets and files at the same abstraction layer in general isn't all that bad; you should consider that writes to the filesystem could fail and do take time when blocking. When done right, this makes it much easier for apps to become transparent to the network and other media when it should be possible.
If the strike price for the options is 5x the current stock price (due to 80% drop), I wonder how useful the no-cliff rule is for recent hires.
Show HN: Looria – A product (re)search engine
About 1.5 years ago, I introduced my review aggregator BuyForLife on Hacker News, where it became the #8 most upvoted Show HN project of all time[1]. The idea of helping people to make better purchasing decisions continued to chase me over the last year.
Here are some stats that illustrate how important online reviews are:

• 90% check online reviews as part of their online buying journey

• 43% visit 5-10 websites to research a product

• 75% spend more than a day doing research before buying a product

The top frustrations with the current process are:

• Google full of SEO spam and Ads

• Fake reviews

• Fragmented trusted sources

• Inconsistent information across sources

Thanks to the recent advances in NLP (transformers, GPT-3, etc.) it became possible to solve these problems at scale, so I decided to team up with my co-founders Johnny and Tavis to build https://Looria.com.

We aggregate and summarize the most trusted product reviews on the web like Reddit, Youtube, or Consumer Reports. Just like Rotten Tomatoes provides trustworthy ratings for movies, Looria offers ratings and reviews for all kinds of products. Our vision is to make Looria the go-to platform for making purchase decisions.

Looria is still in beta and our data is far from perfect. We're working hard on improving the data quality, adding better filters, and scaling to many more categories.

[1] https://bestofshowhn.com
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Spending hours in Echo VR[1] playing Zero-G Frisbee was partly what got me through the pandemic. My friends and sister would hang out in the lobby and just talk while throwing the frisbee around, or play competitive games together, and it felt like really radical and transformational gaming experience. I can't recommend it enough. It's even free-to-play.

1. https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2215004568539258
Nope, Google is utility. It is embedded on how the web works, it's not a matter of not having an alternative but it is a matter on Google defining how everything works. Whatever Google chooses to do, it becomes a standart. People design their products to fit Google's infrastructure.

When that infrastructure rejects you or your product, you are in trouble because everything is build around the assumption that you will be reachable over Google.
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Absolutely it should be. An VRMMORPG will definitely be the way of the future for these consoles
Alyx is probably one of the greatest gaming experiences I've had... but I was also able to borrow a Vive from a friend to play it. I'm a Half-Life nut so I would have bought a headset anyway, but I'm glad I haven't bought a Quest.
> The only problem right now is buying the MobileCoin in the first place.

That... seems like a necessary part of "get started"?
I'd say this is a great reason to not a used one. Which Tesla doesn't care about at all and probably want to discourage.
I assume that Meta is done subsidizing the sales of the Quest. They have likely sold about 10 million units at a loss. I wonder if they have decided that the Quest is not yet the feature complete product that will run whatever they want the metaverse to be. Quest was basically an experiment and it seems they have learned what they need to.

Their next headset, the Quest Pro, will have eye and face tracking cameras with the specific purpose to drive social avatars and make VR social more natural. Meta’s interest was always social and while the Quest might be great for gaming, that is not the addressable market they are going for.

And yeah, I realize that most people here are going to be a hard no on Meta owning their face data, but strategically this is what they are going for.
I believe the main issue is content. Not only us it more difficult to create content for VR, it's at least twice as expensive. VR will IMHO have the same fate as 3D TV"s had. Fancy and interesting in the beginning, but too much of a hassle on the long run.

Did I get it right?
Imagine berating someone for their inability to relate. Perhaps the poster has undiagnosed autism? It's surprisingly common in adults.

The point of posting it was clearly attempting to understand/relate.
Synopsis first, with real examples. Rather than reading through parts of guides which are either irrelevant or already known, I like to see what it does, as in code/config with comments. When searching for a developer’s product I already know what I’m looking for and how it might look like. Synopsis gives a rich picture, which (even if not very clear in details) either matches expectations or does not.

Guides are good for learning, manual references are good for referencing to details. Synopses are good for wading through possible options and not wasting your time. Landings are idk what for, most landings are useless marketing nonsense. Delete it, add some examples.

Good example: https://lesscss.org/

Mature, industry approved, feature rich, stable and powerful professional makes your hair silky and smooth example: https://sass-lang.com/
Get another degree (one year masters) and then reapply as NCG, or just delete exp from your resume and see if you can pass as NCG.
This is all just giving away control to corporations. Freedom is about having the option, not using it. Even if most "regular users" never use it, if they ever change their mind they'll surely appreciate having it. It also affects the ability to develop new hardware, and being locked to hardware/software approved by the remote side (e.g. Facebook or whichever app/site you're using) is a pretty Dystopian reality.

> My bank account online is more secure?

Sincerely, why? Because I can't customize my own software anymore? Fortunately banks around here don't require SafetyNet, some of them do require a mobile device though.
Tangentially, there's Acron [1], which is an interesting mixed-mode multiplayer game, where the one VR player is the defender, and iOS/Android players are the attackers trying to steal from the defender.

It's a pretty fun party game, (though beginners get confused easily). I hope the concept gets expanded.

[1] https://www.resolutiongames.com/acron
It seems to be a very popular product that they were selling at a loss. I think I'd still get one for $400, it is much more useful and fun than most much more expensive AR/VR products right now
> I've always found the "hey Twitter friends, I wrote a guide, buy it for $90 now!" stuff super unethical anyways. First of all, the information they sell that way is 100% available for free somewhere else or is useless. They're usually mediocre in their fields, but have chops for social media marketing.

true.

but the fact that every and all information is be encoded within pi[1] does somehow not slience the intellectual property debate.

probably because arrangement and presentation also have value.

[1] https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs
We'd get pretty far by just putting that guy's face and that quote on billboards everywhere. It's an idea so odious that no commentary is needed.
Did you read the article? The CEO admits straight up that he bet on growth, and failed.

The letter is actually very direct, with little PR speak. Generous severance benefits too. As far as layoffs go, it's way more responsible than normal.
> But, imagine that a school adopts the DRM processes described in the article and requires this study level of control even on personal devices that are used for school.

The prerequisite for this to happen is that the school removes all physical editions of the books and has digital editions for all content, and a lending program for the books that is sufficient to satisfy publishers... and all students have digital book readers able to access the school library.

I don't see this happening in the near (or even within the decade) future. There is far too much content that is physical only, publishers haven't embraced digital editions for libraries, school libraries don't have the technical resources (physical or in many cases human) to convert their collections to digital.

The hypothetical school book ban for digital editions is needlessly alarmist.

When those resources are available to schools, then yes - lets talk about it... though the school banning books will continue to mean "that resource isn't in our collection" and a student can go to another library (or in many cases book store) and get a copy of that book for themselves. This is no different than today.
You can implement something else, riscv is a young isa
They dropped the requirement to have a Facebook account for Meta Quest 2 a few weeks ago.
I also daily drive Anydesk, and I use it a borderline obscene amount. I have gotten no warnings about hitting a usage limit. I moved to Anydesk for the same reason, and would probably move away if Anydesk put up a payment wall. Do you have any links about free-tier limitations? I use Windows/Linux to connect to Windows/Linux/Mac/Android and I have not yet hit any snags with numlock or device connection limits.

The only bug / minor nitpick of Anydesk is that a Linux session host needs to explicitly initiate a new connection to the client for a file transfer, whereas on Windows hosts it happens transparently and just gives you a file picker alongside the existing session.
I don't know if the way this works really correlate to worst / best performers in this case or in my experience. I once worked for a company that after some great successes slowly went bankrupt. Naturally there were many episodes of layoffs and in general I would say people were let go based on changing priorities. You could have been a great employee in an area they were going to pursue and you were gone.

After the first or second round of layoffs that I avoided, I mentioned to an older employee that I was really glad to dodge that bullet. "I don't know," he said. "The earlier ones usually get the better deal." This was so true! I stayed until the doors were closed for good and didn't even get vacation paid I was owed. I don't regret it though because as the company imploded I got to try my hand at new roles, and worked with a really clever team that tried heroically to turn the company around.