skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Product Page [0]: "AWS Wickr encrypts every message, call, and file with a proprietary, 256-bit end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol. No one but intended recipients can decrypt them, reducing the risk of person-in-the-middle (PitM) attacks."

Why do we need proprietary protocols for this?!

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/wickr/
there are many implementations of DPI out there, each one with your own set of rules and heuristics... this discussion[1] talks about it, but the short answer is: it depends

References:

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/ajv0eq/wireguard...
Yeah but code size is tiny, might be as small as a few hundred bytes.
I have yet to call into a customer service department "who's job it is to keep customers happy".

The only time that has been my experience was with companies that were in a growth phase of early existence.

Also, I assume you are calling in with legit reason - so my point is exactly that the "risk team" will start taking appropriate action, ya know, to mitigate their risk. Indeed if you are calling to blow smoke up the company's ass in order to get something for free, you will have a bad time.
This is absolutely on the mark. When I worked at IBM, we would do community outreach in area schools. None of the kids we were mentoring had even a clue about IBM. Only the older teachers even remembered IBM. This was a bracing experience. The brand had been destroyed by not having any customer facing products.
Nice idea to understand chess moves as policy. And the data from Lichess and other servers can be quite interesting.
Russia needs to be denazified.
It’s kindly explained on the actual WireGuard page as well:

https://www.wireguard.com/netns/
Well, I certainly do have a propensity for replying to HN comments with tangentially related rants. Is there any other way to use HN? :)

In this case though, I guess I was challenging the idea that many Tor instances are _not_ hacked. And more-so, I wanted to clarify that the risk of using Tor is decoupled from whether any individual Tor nodes have been hacked. If a malicious actor can figure out how to slowly and quietly deploy a sufficiently high number of their own malicious nodes to the network, then they can compromise the anonymity guarantees of the network even while maintaining a fleet of perfectly secure machines.
ah, I may have flubbed the analogy, maybe what I meant was more from dinner party to massive dance party but still wanting to have a dinner party conversation.
If all clients interfacing with the bank's API are required to prove they're locked down devices running proven official clients it reduces the potential attack surface. Lowering the attack surface increases the security.

If the market really cared about being able to run whatever software you wanted, nobody would be buying iPhones. Fire TV sticks and Rokus wouldn't move any products. Playstations, Xboxes, and Nintendo Switches would be crushed under the massive marketshare of Mister devices and Steam PCs. One quick look at reality shows this isn't the case.

I think you're massively overestimating the market size of people who actually care.

Note that I'm not making any moral argument here, I'm not saying whether these things are good or bad. Personally as someone who likes to tinker and has been bitten several times by DRM and the likes, I'm not too much of a fan. As someone who has to try and ensure compliance on devices, its a godsend. But at the same time I know lots of people who buy Xboxes and Playstations because there's less cheating that happen on that platform. I know lots of people who buy iPhones and iPads because they know the odds of accidentally getting malware on it is very low compared to alternatives. To them, locked down hardware is a selling point.

I don't like having to lock my bike, its a huge pain. But at the same time there's tons of people here arguing locks shouldn't exist. Trusted computing, in the right context, is a good thing. Being able to lock your door is good! Being able to assure your device is what you say it is is good! I definitely agree there are potential dystopian futures with this technology, but that's true of any truly revolutionary technology. Wheels move carts of grain and help tanks roll. Being able to break dinitrogen into more usable sources gives us cheap fertilizer and explosives.
In other words, Musk isn't doing his engineers any favors either.
that you, that is insightful, especially that last part. Never thought about that
Lithium ion battery fires are not lithium fires.

Water is the recommended method because it is the most effective way to stop thermal runaway.

If you don't believe me, google "lithium ion battery fires water"
You could just as easily get screwed by GM, Ford, or any other legacy automaker. Your remedies are always legal or regulatory in nature, and you can’t rely on brand alone to ensure a satisfactory ownership experience.
A bus is only better if it is full of passengers, which is not always the case.
This is cool, the “holes” look very uniform in size and shape. Curious if there is any other evidence of these formations arranged in a non-linear way
There is "passthrough", where cameras on the Oculus are relayed to the screens within, and it seems to be capable of mixing that with the virtual world too: https://developer.oculus.com/blog/mixed-reality-with-passthr...

Also, there's a lot of innovation happening in display tech for AR too which will be even better, since you'll just see the real world more or less directly.
Protocol-Oriented Programming (2020)
what should be the strategy early in my career?
A decade or so ago you used to be able to unlock cores on certain AMD CPU's; there was no guarantee that the core would be stable though. The core could be fine without heavy load and have errors when pushed closer to 100%.

If there was a similar level of binning done for Tesla batteries they should be able to limit the battery especially if there are safety concerns; sounds like that's not the case here though.
Sorry yeah absolutely, I intended to frame it as they have effectively thrown out pretty much all of the Android UI/UX along with building an app store from scratch.
Whether or not the car is street legal is an entirely separate concern, and certainly not one that should be enforced by allowing the manufacturer to prohibit all software modifications of any sort.

It's like preventing customers from changing their own tires because "they might do it wrong and cause an accident". Yeah, they might. But it's not the car manufacturer's responsibility to prevent that, and it certainly isn't justification for locking down the car to only be drivable with manufacturer-installed tires, or remotely disabling cars that use tires from unapproved brands.
Why doesn't the Fed just hike 200bp all at once?
Bostonian here, I used to commute on one every day (MBTA 71 and 73), but they were taken out of service earlier this year, for eventual EV replacement.

The problem with electric trolley busses is that they can't pass each other, they perform very poorly in rain, frequently disconnect, and they need constant maintenance of the overhead wiring. I do miss it because it was a local landmark, but an EV bus will be much nicer to have.
I like Beat Saber (play daily), Walkabout Golf (feels like minigolf, can play with friends anywhere in the world) and Resident Evil 4 (a classic game excellently ported into immersive VR).

Also the price. Before the Quest I'd have needed to buy a gaming PC and expensive headset like the Vive or Index. And it's wireless and doesn't need any sensor units placed around you. The tracking works great and it tells you when you're about to leave a safe area. It can even do hand tracking so you don't need controllers.
Google is one of those places that it often feels like there is no one to handle issues outside of their algorithms. PortableApps.com is currently blocked by Google Safe Browsing, pointing to a single 'malware' file that shows as clean in VirusTotal (also owned by Google). I clicked the REVIEW button that said they'd review in 72hrs - more than 72hrs ago - and I've still heard nothing. Others have said it often takes 5 days... of having Google Chrome saying every file anyone downloads from your site is dangerous malware.

I'm not entirely surprised. There's a noticeable bug in the Google Contacts web app that's been there for at least 6 years. I've reported it twice and know of a couple engineers in Google that reported it, but it won't get fixed. The alphabetical list of US states is out of order, so you can't tab to the field and type "new y" to get New York. The states are in order by their two letter abbreviation, even though it isn't shown. Literally just a SQL 'ORDER BY' or similar that needs fixing. I debated trying to get a job at Google just to fix it.
To paraphrase Feynman, writing isn't a record of one's thinking, it IS the thinking.
I am 100% sure that "Neom" is a colossal Ozymandian mistake that will end up wasting many billions of dollars while achieving precisely nothing of any value to Saudi Arabia or the rest of humanity.
Exactly, so they should do the only logical thing and vote out Elon as Tesla's CEO so he stops destroying whatever public image they have left. Elon doesn't "do" anything besides be a double edged hype machine.
Someone called him out on twitter for his flirtation with toxic conservatism. They asked if he remembers what demographic buys 99% of his vehicles.

I didn’t see if he replied.
Thanks! In hindsight, I'm glad I pulled the live replication in Litestream and left it focused on disaster recovery only. A lot of what I'm doing in LiteFS would be much more difficult if I didn't have control over the write path. I'm able to perform rolling checksums to verify database integrity across replicas and that would be nearly impossible with Litestream (which runs as a separate process).

The FUSE layer does have performance trade-offs. Read queries aren't affected as much since the OS page cache is in the kernel and avoids the FUSE layer entirely. Most databases are under 10GB (or honestly probably less than 1GB) so you can fit most of that in the page cache for any moderately sized VM. The write side will incur a performance hit but I haven't taken benchmarks yet. There's a lot that can still be optimized around that.

The biggest help that I could use is just to get feedback on how it feels to use and any ways I can improve it. The end goal is to make it ridiculously simple to spin up and "just work" so any ideas towards that goal would be awesome.
Alyx "smooth motion" is in settings - game settings, not Oculus or anything, and yes, you have to be careful. Sometimes I can barely maintain my footing if something happens too fast.
It took "thousands of brilliant engineers" to replace the engine of a vehicle with some large batteries?

I think you're overstating the "brilliance" of the engineers. I have no doubt the core of them working on the battery tech could be in the brilliant category, but the rest of those thousands of engineers are run-of-the-mill automotive engineers.

Would you describe Ford as being composed of thousands of brilliant engineers?
Doesn't matter. A metric ton of trash is exactly equal to an Imperial ton of trash, within the tolerance of the measuring device.
I too enjoy the VR experience, and to me, it scratches a similar itch as going to a high-end arcade and playing Mechwarrior. Fun to do occasionally, but not how I spend a majority of my entertainment hours.

> BTW, I worked in the VR field about 25 years ago for SAIC and Disney.

Nice. I remember my first VR experience was about 30 years ago at the local kids science center.
Welcome to DRM hell.

Basically you're always going to want flexibility in hardware, but infinite limits in usage.

Tesla is in the wrong here. If your hardware allows greater range because it allows flexibility in warranty repairs, they need to eat it.
This is a fascinating (start) to an article and topic but paywalled(?)
“Necrobotics”, now that’s a term to add to my “I have no mouth and I must scream” nightmares
Time to jailbreak your tesla.
OG Leaf owner here, and like sibling, we might have fast charged it twice. To me, fast charging is something useful for road trips. But if you take an OG (or even later model) Leaf on a road trip, that's your own fault. Eleven years of ownership, our upscale golf cart gets us to work, shopping, and everything else we thought we'd use it for when we bought it. And when we bought ours, it had 100 mile range (if you babied it), and no real charging infrastructure to speak of. We knew what we were getting into, and we'd do it again.
I haven't seen any announcement of this feature from LT, but it looks cool! Thanks for sharing.
If you have any interest in flight simulators, VTOL VR is a fantastic multiplayer VR flight sim with large multiplayer lobbies. It strikes a good balance between arcade and realism too and is incredibly immersive. Unfortunately (maybe not?) its on steam VR so you will need a PC to handle the rendering but can stream it to a quest using link
Not sure why the calls would be scam calls though. It would be one thing if they were legitimate marketing spam calls originating from phone number traceable back to the business originating the conversation but these are clearly cases where the number is faked in the new area code/country::city code in order to incentivize picking up. (Is that the car rental company? Is the hotel reaching out for some reason? Etc...)

I guess my paranoia here stems from this link in the OPs pdf[0].

0. https://venturebeat.com/2014/09/18/the-cell-tower-mystery-gr...
I've stopped watching movies in english entirely, mostly due to being too boring and predictable. Still kinda a pain to find good titles to watch tho.
I'd love to learn more about blender, but 3D design is often a rabbit hole of obsession. There are mobile phone apps that do body scanning and video editing that is far more simple and easy to use than blender... Although the quality is nowhere near as comparable; the time savings. ease of adoption, and learning curve are immensely more favorable than taking years to learn a program with literally millions of options that will likely experience a major refactor again by the time you graduate. A focus on very "niched" skills can hurt an artist career-wise in the long run as the tech landscape evolves... The reason why blender is so niched is because of it's complexity.

This is not to say there isn't serious talent and skill involved, but take for example photography... Many people racked up student debt to go to photography school and they're now struggling underpaid to pay off those loans because camera phone pictures (and photo editing apps) are increasingly their biggest competition. A person cannot just rely on the ideal that quality will make them shine over the competition...

Camera phone photogs can churn out and upload their work much faster than traditional photographers, and even though the quality is lower, it floods the market to the point where quality is an after thought. The same is happening for film (Netflix) and the music Industry (TikTok)... And we really can't complain about it all... Simple, fast, and better just wins.

Design and development tool workflow needs to make leaps in being BOTH SIMPLER AND BETTER. The latest update of Blender moved towards that, but not fast enough in my opinion, and the workflow is still quite complicated in nature.

As an artist with bills to pay, one can't afford to sacrifice the time or money to gain an immersive education in blender right now, because they're likely far too busy working to make money within editing right now with more simple and faster tools... :/
That would involve going there. And, you know, getting off their sofa.

And, billionaires there might not be clowns. Or vice versa.
Remote companies can be too asynchronous
Play tennis for 57 minutes to burn one Big Mac
My friends and I got a lot of fun nights out of taking turns in beat saber, especially after mods. Not saying you're wrong, just a fun anecdote.
SHOP: $4.8B in trailing 12-month revenue, growing 70%+ YoY for last few years and $250M in positive free cashflow.

They're likely predicting eCommerce growth slowing a bit (combination of post-COVID & reduced consumer spending), so pushing for better fiscal discipline & improving net margins going forward.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SHOP/financials?p=SHOP
The less celebrated Vala language, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)
just put this sentence through a few grammar apps for comparison.

grammarly:

> And I would say even for a native speaker, not only a tool like this is for education and to improve one's confidence, but also demonstrated you care about your reader.

languagetool (didn't recommend any changes)

> And I would say even for native speaker, not only a tool like this is for educational and improve one's own confident, but also demonstrated you care about your reader.

quillbot:

> And I would say even for native speakers, a tool like this is for educational and improving one's own confidence, but it also demonstrates you care about your reader.

gramara (an app I made):

> And I would say even for a native speaker, a tool like this is not only meant to educate and improve one's own confidence, but also demonstrate that you care about your readers.
Why would the company hire employees, particularly those whose literal job description is to represent the company, who act against the real mission of the company? Occam's Razor applies.
While not exactly equivalent, what if the lock was on MPG on an ICE vehicle? Would that be reasonable?

Li-ion batteries have a huge environmental cost. To hide ⅓ of that material behind software is immoral (imho).

It sounds like they were swapping in a better part because they may have not had the original. In the past that was a “win” for the customer. It seems like Tesla has turned this into a loss for the customer (more weight on the vehicle) and a loss for humanity (70 tons of earth mined for unused lithium).
Caught one day, a long time ago, some TV show filming in those click farms in China.

Now, those are reasonably and probably way better at it, not to mention no machine learning was there yet at that time.

Look at the fps ML cheat: it smooths the user input, works on console.

Look at the explosion of VPN availability all around the world, plus the swarm of bots.

Who, in his/her sane mind, would think otherwise???
It’s convenient though. You get live traffic data, international radio in high quality, maps with background pictures, music and video streaming, the possibility to pre-heat or pre-cool the car while walking to it and a few other things.
While I don't know much about the specific solution you recommend, I do appreciate what you said about us not knowing too much about the chemical an physical homeostatic states.

Maybe what I was originally pushing back against was what I thought was the expression of certainty over specific chemicals causing depression, when I think there's a lot more we don't understand about the chemicals and even depression itself than we may admit, including any causal links.
> The previous owner shouldn't have sold it as a 90 or at least disclosed that, "It's a 60 but Tesla swapped out the batter with a 90 and left it configured as a 90"

I'm not as sure about this take. Imagine if this were something not connected to The Cloud; the seller sells the car they have, its not their responsibility, nor should it be, nor has it ever been, to know that this is a component that's Cloud Connected and Tesla can just take it away with no notice. No other car operates like that; even the new BMW shit isn't like that, its pretty clear "this is a subscription which is bound to your account, not the car".

Very few consumer physical goods operate like that. Here's a correlate: Intel bins chips. Imagine you buy a computer, you get an i5, years later its upgraded to an i7, years later Intel rolls around a software update and says "your desktop only shipped with an i5, we're disabling two of the cores". That's theoretically totally possible with Intel & partners control over microcode & chipset updates; but it would be wild to happen.

Now, put yourself in the shoes of someone selling that desktop: you sell the computer you have, it has an i7, "two years ago the chip was upgraded", that's it. Let's say the price difference between these two chips is, like, 20% of the total cost of the machine. Would you, the seller, accept 20% less; in other words, selling the laptop Intel may or may not create for the buyer, in the unknowable future? Would you, the buyer, be willing to pay 20% more, even knowing (or, more likely, not knowing) that Intel could nerf the performance at any time?
I work at a series B startup, and even we are bloated. It would be next to impossible not to be given the prevailing funding environment of the last 10 years.
No man, you just don't get it!

See, if they weren't sold into slavery for mining, they would be like farmers or something. Gross! And that's really tiring, too. And that sucks.

So...if they're gonna be miserable anyway, we might as well have them hep make iPhones and junk. :^)
I always love projects that build from nothing and go step-by-step to build something more complex. Reminds me of one of my favorite posts of a similar style building out "Metaballs" with different algorithms: http://jamie-wong.com/2014/08/19/metaballs-and-marching-squa....

Nice work!
I've found people who extole Stanley Parable are not just capital G Gamers but also capital G Gatekeepers. Their game curation aesthetics have all the tact of Superman's Braniac collecting planets.

Celeste is derivative of Donkey Kong Country. I agree that for an author who thinks derivation itself is stinky, using an overly reductive critical framework where every game is derivative of, I don't know, unaliving Donkey Kong at the arcades, it was odd to see Celeste as a counter example.

Most of game innovation the past decade has been in the monetization model, moreso than mechanics. The author looks down their nose at microtransactions so they have probably missed all the innovation even as it continues to cross pollinate with every aspect of the games industry. No wonder they think Stanley Parable is still a noteworthy observation in 2022.
https://documentation.divio.com/
That's an estimated 1/3 of what Quest 2 sold [1]. And Sony already has a huge install base of subsidized consoles to sell into, whereas high end PCs required to run VR are a rarity.

[1] https://uploadvr.com/quest-2-sold-almost-15-million-idc
Yep, but this is a (IMHO) better critique:

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/20/energy-vault-loses-1-2-...
> What is a reasonable amount of time for an emerging technology like this to develop?

Suggestion: it depends on the harm it causes in the meantime.

If an emerging technology isn’t living up to its promise and the downside is the creators wasting their time, let it go on indefinitely. Maybe they’re having fun. As long as no one is getting hurt, it’s a hobby.

If the emerging technology is solving nothing and actively creating new problems, allowing bad actors to consistently hurt others with little to no consequences, and accelerating our demise so a handful of egoistic maniacs can see a number go up in their bank accounts, perhaps it’s time to stop. Put an end to it even sooner if the biggest proponents repeatedly lie and make promises which fail to materialise year after year.