skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to declare a new internet law:

"VR will have become mainstream when someone posts a VR-related link to HN and the resultant discussion is about the article itself rather than VR in general"
> Not sure how well the rest of ISS can function, if at all, without the Russian modules in operation.

I believe the supposedly irreplaceable function of the Russian segment is raising the station via a Progress spacecraft docked to it. Elon Musk claimed SpaceX could do likewise with a Dragon capsule, but I tend to take his statements with a grain of salt, lately.
This entire subthread is exactly why I don't believe people when they trout out old linux desktop stereotypes and then handwave and imply they've actually tried it anytime recently. Shocking, in development efforts can undergo lots of change in the span of months, let alone years.

Wayland is a wip (a number of things are being worked on right now that have never even been fathomed for x11) and it's already a significantly better experience in countless ways over x11.
I see, so that comment is not disagreeing with the original 60 -> 90 switch. They think it's a bad idea when 60 -> 90 -> 60 was completed and then the user (and their confederate) attempted to go back to 90. So that commenter would have been okay with things if Tesla had modified nothing back down to 60. Thank you for explaining.
The ideology(s) that enables rich westerners to pick and choose what supply chains to care about based on politics and feel justified in their double standards is a far greater threat to me than some guy half a world away who's bribing local officials to let him discharge toxic waste into the water I get my sardines from.

Unrelated nitpick: We've been running on outsourced atrocity since all of human history.
This is a good one. What I wish I'd see from all companies doing layoffs
I actually buy quite a bit from Shopify stores. A lot of products like personal care, zero-waste and sustainable products, etc, are on Shopify. Once you've seen one, the checkout flow is often recognizable.
You're in good company here on HN (me too).
I’ve seen this project, and the reason I mentioned bridge cranes was this critique. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iGGOjD_OtAM
My experience is the same. I thought it would be no problem considering my extensive history with FPS gaming, but my early attempts at joystick navigation within VR were pretty stomach-churning. I'm hoping I can grow accustomed to it, but I doubt we could ever ask this of the more casual crowd. The masses will need to be fed simpler VR-centric games rather than the many hoped-for FPS conversions and sequels.
Google Sheets also has formulas Excel doesn't (QUERY, IMPORTHTML, IMPORTDATA, etc.), and IIRC it does arrays differently. (I haven't used Excel much, so I'm not entirely sure about that one.)
can confirm all this, and more.

It wasn't until the late 2000s when programming became easy enough for the mainstream and you started to see "coding camps," upwork and the like.

In the mid-90s, you had crazy demand for development but needed to be a brain surgeon to get hello world to work, let alone a website to be remotely reliable.

There was no automated testing, let alone CI.

Source control was sometimes used, sometimes not. There were LANs but there was no "web" let alone SaaS apps - there were maybe 1,000 websites and Yahoo! listed them all in a list. It was like Product Hunt, but even smaller.

You almost have to wonder how anyone learned to code? and you'd be right for asking: it mostly happened in top-20 colleges and a handful of companies. I remember showing PhDs about PKZIP and having them not believe it was possible to compress data without losing information - I had to literally show them the (rough) algorithm.

Truly, it was a time of magick.

(I don't miss it: the pay sucked, people treated "programmers" like crap, it was often impossible to reproduce issues, and of course you could only work in an office with dedicated hardware. Compared with today, it felt like the stone age of software development.)
I think it's fantastic that smaller-to-midsized towns are bringing EV buses into service, but I'll mention my perennial bugbear again: all of these towns had dedicated trolley service under a century ago. The lines were torn up and replaced with less frequent, traffic encumbered bus routes.

Hamden, for example, had three lines between it and New Haven[1].

[1]: http://www.hamdenhistoricalsociety.org/trolleys.html
Money equals power in our society, so your theory is not cogent.
If you insist on passing messages, use a well-designed message queue service and don't rebuild the wheel (but just a little shittier).
Some believe it is their moral obligation to do so. I, personally, believe that "blaming myself for the worlds problem" is a step to becoming a more mature (accountable) person in our society.

I also believe that corporation will do literally anything to make a profit - including slavery - and the only thing that stops them from doing so is because they stop being profitable. Knowing this allows the consumer to pressure the company to align with their values or loss their business.
> No, it's not. You can deploy Pluton without having to implement the Secured Core PC spec.

I may update the article to reflect this, I will look into that further. So far the few Pluton systems available all seem to also implement Secured Core, however, as more systems become available perhaps that will change...? I am OK with being wrong here and openly admit that there may be inaccuracies and speculation due to the limited public information and limited number of systems and configurations with Pluton so far.

I'm not quite at the point of agreement yet, mainly because your argument leaves Pluton's addition and functionality almost redundant and inexplicable. From your perspective, almost everything the Pluton is capable of is also possible with a TPM. However, this does not make sense to me, as why implement the Pluton if an fTPM is fully capable of everything the Pluton can do? Why can't an fTPM just be updated with CPU microcode which Windows Update already can handle? What is the point of SHACK then if TPM is fully capable of handling keys already? Why would Microsoft make a grand announcement about how this allows for "chip-to-cloud" security with Project Cerberus and all that, if nothing actually changes almost at all?

Also, can you explain how this checks out with Microsoft RIoT?
Is "VR" and "metaverse" synonomous by your definition?

I've always been cold on the metaverse hype whilst at the same time remaining a big fan of VR.

However, I don't think VR is about to become mass market in the way some people hype it - and I don't think it needs to. It can remain a healthy niche and things would probably work out better that way.
"In 2017, 70% of the cars to catch fire were more than 10 years old."

https://housegrail.com/car-fire-statistics/#1_There_were_212...
VR will never become mainstream. I’ve been working in VR since 2015 and I don’t use it daily. I don’t know a single person who uses it daily.

Maybe if you’re mildly autistic or remarkably introspective it works for you. For most people it’s a fundamentally alienating experience, like taking LSD but with none of the joy.

VR is fundamentally an industrial technology, good for training and other purposes. For entertainment or home use it’s purposeless. Ask anyone (non techy) who has one. They don’t use it.

The focus on VR is how I know Zuckerberg has no idea what he’s doing. VR is never going to work, not in its current incarnation. It just demonstrated that he has no idea how normal people work, and that he’s decided (for some reason) to completely ignore whatever data they have, which would show him that people just don’t use it.
Did you ever consider that in "sub-replacement" populations they still send poor people down the mines, as that is way cheaper than robots?

Never mind the perpetual political destabilization of that region because our oligarch owned nations want the natural treasures buried beneath that African soil for cheap. It's their own fault for having babies. Djeez.
This.

For the good of humanity, I plead with Meta, Valve, Neuralink and whoever it was that just beat Neualink, to join forces to defeat the scourge of mankind - motion sickness!

Please!
As I stated in my comment: this is true at the beginning of a process node with a new design. But yields improve, and eventually you end up with too many parts in the high bins and nowhere near enough in the value bins-- so you end up blowing fuses on parts that test fully OK to make them be 4 cores or 6 cores.

(And now, Intel is about to let Xeon customers pay to unlock additional cores...)
Because of... things like... this?? Or am I misunderstanding and the question is "why should I care about the misery at the other end of my consumption?" Which, I got my reasons and I hope you can find some of your own too.
Last update on Twitter:

"While I don't think it's ideal to need a huge social media push to get things accomplished, thanks to the momentum this thread has generated it seems like we've got a path forward with Tesla towards getting this taken care of the right way."

Tesla is a big company by now. Probably a lot more people working there in Service Centers than in the core manufacturing & engineering. Hard to get everything right. Lots of room for improvement for sure. Rooting for Tesla to work these things out over time! (Disclaimer: Owner + shareholder, both out of conviction.)
@OP, you could consider adding it to Rune which adds daily challenges incl. daily leaderboards with 1 line of code: https://github.com/rune/rune-games-sdk#daily-challenges-opti...

Full disclosure: I’m CTO at Rune, but I genuinely think it might be fun and easy for you to do. Here’s a similar popular game on Rune: https://app.rune.ai/untangle-H-vghwxUfO
No it's literally whataboutism. I know people here usually use it wrong when they disagree with a comparison or analogy, but this is not the case.

They didn't expand on anything about the article or topic or use it to compare the issues or find contradictions in logic, they just laundry listed other topics that are known and non-disputed.

This article is about exposing a lesser known but large issue of mass child slave labor (40k+) in the battery supply chain.

Most of the things they listed aren't even in the same industry supply chain (textiles, farms, shipping), how are they relevant?
On the contrary, you made the false claim about fuel production cost being more expensive for EVs yourself here when not quoting me:

> “cost of fuel production (also much higher for EVs)”
Possible missing something, but most of your response is what a user should do, not how nodes themselves secure themselves. Personally, I neither use Tor, nor would suggest anyone use it; that’s not really topic of this thread though.
Callinc Rc a workaround is like calling i64 a workaround. It is a type that encodes a certain contract, it's there to be used. The advantage Rust has is that for 95% of your codebase the simple code using stack allocated values and references will be as fast as it can be, and yoi opt-into the slower behavior for the remaining 5% if they are not part of your performance critical path. If it is, then you need to rearchitect things, like you would in other languages. But you can do so after meaauring.
A dish with an option could legitimately be both — as, eg, burritos at my local Mexican place allow a variety of meat and non-meat fillings. For a single item on the menu.

If they didn’t separate, eg, burrito options into different entries, then you’d get a burrito entry with both “vegan” and “beef” correctly.
We had to debug an issue with ARP during a deploy of docker containers a year or two ago. A nearly complete understanding of the lower layers is not that much knowledge and quite useful at times.
The title is a bit exaggerated, but the problem is real - how much of the "clean" high-minded Western solutions rely on the backing of the practices that would be appalling and impossible to tolerate in the West, to be practical? Energy production - and production in general - has its risks and its costs, and there's a very real tendency of solving these problems by just shipping them away to the places where the press does not reach and consider them solved. The shining (or stinking) example is the "recycling" system based on collecting plastic waste in the West, and shipping it to South-East Asia, where huge part of it is just dumped into the rivers. Another example is energy policy, where "clean" Western energy is relying on very non-clean sources and practices.
You’re not the only one although I think it’s cool (albeit contrary to personal preferences) to see comments on this thread from people who have positive VR experiences
You don't think car makers have a vested interest in there being a robust secondary market for their cars? If I have a choice between a $50k car that will have a $25k resale value after 5 years, and one that will have a $10k resale value, that's a strong incentive to buy the former. That's another $15k in my budget for my next car, and if I liked the last one, there's a good chance that money is going right back to that same manufacturer.
Not surprising unfortunately. When it first came out with its lower price I was pretty sure they were taking some losses in order to lower the barrier of entry to VR. VR has become way more established in the last few years, to the point that having a headset is no longer a conversation piece, so they can raise the entry barrier a little bit now that a lot of people already got through.
I don't think Microsoft feels threatened by desktop Linux. If it catches on, it will be because manufacturers start shipping it, not because it's easier to install.

Manufacturers sell Linux workstations designed for power users and developers. UEFI/TPM, and now Pluton won't be a stumbling block for that as it hasn't been so far.

Dell is the biggest seller of pre-installed Linux desktop machines, and they are all billed as Workstations for power users or developers. Their home machines only have as an option Windows or ChromeOS. (Count that as Linux if you like, but I wouldn't...)

Why? Being more price competitive by bundling a free or cheap OS is not worth it in scaling up their support for a new OS. That's your stumbling block to better Linux desktop adoption, in my opinion.

Causing issues with remote attestation are probably more a side effect of just not caring about other OS's, rather than some sinister plot to sink Linux on the desktop.
> If the previous owner misrepresented the car as a P90 and modified the badge then it's on them.

I'm not entirely sure if I agree with this - they didn't just modify the badge, they also provided the additional rage from a P90.

As a thought experiment: if I sell you a BMW 328i as a 340i but I also swap the engine and sell it with the additional power that comes with that change, have I misled you? Perhaps - I'm honestly not sure - but I don't think selling a car with a P90 badge that also includes the modifications needed to have that car act as a P90 is automatically wrong.
Calm Manifesto – a manifesto for calm startups
I suspect the quest 3 is more expensive to produce than the 2 so they’re raising prices now so that they can price the 3 the same as the 2 on launch. They may also want people to wait for the 3 because they feel it’ll do a better job of showcasing vr potential.
Exactly. This is the absolute core of the issue.

"On France’s BFM TV, journalist Phillipe Corbé stated this about Ukraine: “We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombing of the Syrian regime backed by Putin. We’re talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours to save their lives."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/civili...
I haven't personally experienced that, but I suspect the explanation is simpler: someone is probably re-selling your geocoded IP, which is then bucketed into a range of telephone area codes.
Hmm, the Carfax report for the car should show it as what it is originally, right? All features that are not in that should then be considered absent.

But that's not a complete list. FSD, etc. won't transfer either. You're right. This would be a useful page on some Tesla owners' wiki.
Creates opportunities for competitors to Google itself, maybe, but not good for small players reliant on web ads.
You know what'll help? Pluton. The future of computing is a signed code path from power on to end-user application code with multiple layers of sandboxing in between. With so many hostile actors, from script kiddies to government agencies out there, "general purpose computing" (which, from a security standpoint, is just arbitrary code execution) just isn't viable anymore. We need provable attestation that no layer of the software stack has been tampered with.
Why not go get an MBA? Or, pursue the various executive education classes offered through business schools? Are you in such a remote area that there are no other CTOs/ executives in your area (even retired ones?) with whom you can network? Is there a geographic area that is the "home" for your particular industry (IE: whatever your start up does) such that it would be worthwhile for you to travel to that geography regularly and build a network of connections? Are there online places where you might encounter other remote startup execs?
Given a situation where replication is desirable, is using SQLite + LiteFS a better choice than just replicated Postgres?
Well that's one way to kill platform adoption momentum.

My biggest problem with VR is I've never been able to use it. I've been to One Microsoft store about 3 years ago that had some VR setup, but they refused to let me try it out.

I don't understand why Meta doesn't have these to try out in stores. I'm not gonna buy something I can't see, touch, and try first.
Cost-cutting, ever since meta started loosing users they started cutting R&D.
Valve partnered with HTC on the Vive. While HTC has now decided to pivot away from consumer/enthusiast VR headsets, Valve never gave up.
Absolutely true, in the realm of anything related to self-driving or even fly-by-wire controls.

However, the software that artificially controls how much range the battery pack will produce (outside of the charging & self-protection algos) - that's borderline unethical to DRM.
It's not clear of the 3rd owner purchased an S90 or knowingly purchased an S60 that had been "faked" to be an S90.

Tesla made a mistake, which benefited 1,2 or even all 3 owners. They then fixed the mistake.

I wonder if there are some regulations that prohibit the type of upgrade Tesla did on accident, and the $4,500 fee goes to cover the regulatory requirements necessary to upgrade a vehicle.

Otherwise, yes it's kind of bad move from a customer service point of view.

As another commenter wrote, the first blame lies with who ever rebadged the S60 as an S90 and then sold it as an S90. At somepoint one owner realized they had benefited from something without paying for it, and it's unclear if they ever tried to rectify it with Tesla.

Edit to Add Ethical Questions:

If you're at a restaurant and you get the final bill and you notice an item wasn't paid for. Do you speak up, or do you leave knowing you ate food you didn't pay for?

What if you order DoorDash, and you get extra food you didn't pay for? Do you message Doordash to charge you?

What if it's the opposite, you don't get food you did pay for? Ask DoorDash for a refund?

Finally, what if you accidentally receive a high ticket item in from an online order. 3 months later, the online retailer figures out what happened, and asks you for the item back. If you refuse to send it back, should they charge you for it?
Yeah - it's pretty poor branding IMO

It's not Meta. It's Facebook. Meta feels like... an SNL skit or something.
> They didn't buy from Tesla, but they're still a customer buying servicing from them.

This strikes me as a result of Tesla's whole "ignore everything known by car companies and act like software companies" approach. So far the software industry is young enough that most companies can expect that anyone approaching them for support is the same person who bought the software... but that's not at all the case for cars, what with resales, inheritances, etc being standard practice.

I think a lot of software companies are going to be in for a rude awakening over the next 25 years or so, as hand-me-down devices and accounts become increasingly common. I wonder how many lawsuits it's going to take before companies purporting to "sell" software actually take wills into account.
This is so true. If you actually know how to cook (and I just mean the basics that most people, or at least most women knew in the year 1900, nothing fancy) you feel gaslit constantly when you hear people talk about how hard it is to eat nutritiously and affordably.

You can see this with the inflation discussion -- you can tell immediately if someone can cook by if they complain about the current inflation in the context of food or not. If you truly cook based on commodities, it's barely noticable. If you eat out or use mostly processed and premade "ingredients" with big brand names, yeah, it's a lot more expensive.

What corporate america did to US food culture in the 20th century is comparable to the enclosure movement in preindustrial England. There was a common resource that belonged to and was highly valuable to all (cultural knowledge of how to prepare cheap nutritious palatable food from scratch, using time effeciently), and it was destroyed and monopolized by a small group. Crazy as it seems to those on the outside, there are entire generations of families in the USA who have inherited nothing more from their ancestors in terms of food culture than preferences for certain brands.

The irony is there's never been a better time for the every day worker to be able to cook for themselves with limited time and budget, thanks to modern appliances like instant pots, dishwashers, microwaves, and freezers. A homemaker from 1900 would be flabbergasted and overjoyed. What's missing is the operational knowledge and habits.
Hi, I'm a Volt owner. We purchased it almost 6 years ago and are still thrilled with it. The 50'ish miles of EV range covers 95% of my wife's driving, but she can also take it on road trips w/o having to find a place to plug it in.
It's not 100% obvious. The mental model where send() blocks until recv() on the other side confirms it is coherent: the receiver sends ACKs with bumped ack numbers to acknowledge the bytes it's received, and could delay those ACKs until the application has taken the bytes out of the socket buffer. It doesn't work that way, of course, and shouldn't, but it could.
Ok well, they literally did say "what about..."

But generally whataboutism refers to comments that try to deter from the original issue by saying "X does it too so it's alright until they stop too". I didn't read the initial comment that way.
> "Hey sorry about your battery. We only had a 90 so we threw that in there. Enjoy. Tell everyone you know about how awesome Tesla was about fixing the problem and remember that next time you go to buy your next car"

That would be such a great solution
Is this 'Lex' an online personality? Unless he is a famous musician, model or wrester, the post should include his last name to avoid confusion.
Do you actually checkin on it or do you just go off the armchair comments from other folks that clearly haven't tried it anytime recently? Hardware acceleration (webgpu, vaapi, etc in Firefox), support for embedded platforms, mixed mode DPI, 360Hz screen support, fractional (albeit suboptimal for now but perfectly fine) scaling (miss me with complaints about proprietary electron clients), vulkan support, and soon there will be considerably better scrolling support than in x11, maybe even full top-bottom support for fractional scaling the list just goes on and on.

But yeah, if you want to use scale some ancient out of date Electron app, you might have to use Xwayland it might look bad under some compositors. Not really the end of the world. You can even easily use OBS to screen share to those apps these days.