skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of these hasn't been announced, but the competitors cost 600-800$. That's a bit much for me.

That they're a lot lighter and smaller than full-fledged VR headsets is nice, but they're also more expensive and lower-featured, so that's a tough sell.

One thing I like about them is that they're really just dumb displays rather than requiring a connection to the Facebook servers or some other dumb stuff that will ensure a limited life time and limited user control about what they do.
To keep all the people employed in all the states where parts are produced.
Go watch the original, it’s weapons grade cheese.
Agreed. The article claims the scenario is “mathematics vs circumstance”, but really it’s really naive math vs math which takes into account the nonlinear utility.
That doesn't mean that the optimal amount is nonzero. Taken in isolation, the optimal amount is clearly zero. The optimal amount doesn't change based on the cost, the optimal amount of effort to expend is a different answer.

It's not just stated in a silly way, it's stated in a way that's incorrect because they didn't mean what they said. "The optimal amount of fraud is nonzero" does not actually mean the exact same thing as "in an optimally-beneficial fraud prevention effort, the amount of fraud is non-zero".
Good luck replacing the first-stage bootloader with something non-proprietary. And then there’s TPM, Intel ME and who knows what else that runs black-box code with potential remote access.
Exactly. The fact that this article doesn't even mention the concept of marginal utility, and acknowledge that it's mathematical rather than "psychological", is borderline irresponsible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility
I call it

a small price for a dream / what if mood
I was surprised to learn (about myself at least) that this isn't really true, when I saw the musical Hamilton. Of course, the characters also break out into song, etc.
That’s awesome - If, for some reason, they don’t get back to you let me know and I will get you into the Slack
People don't run tractors. Fossil fuels do. And we've been told that we're phasing out fossil fuels some time between 2030 and 2050.

How do we run tractors then?

Probably with horses. Welcome to 1500. Please mind the plague.
I think Ganzflicker is something similar.

Article and discussion:

Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's (sciencealert.com) 177 points by smusamashah on June 28, 2021 | 146 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27669211

Link to online tool (warning: it starts flickering as soon as the page loads):

https://kerblooee.github.io/ganzflicker/
Turboraketti! It spread well in Sweden too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boaddp6MPpc
I’m not disagreeing, just wanted to correct what prices are talked about ;)
Too bad more sites can't be like that and leave it up to the browser
Zimride still seems to be a thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimride
That was a long time ago and people my age only see that we went to the moon a few times. The only failure most people are aware of is due to a movie.
Not an ethical conclusion but a pragmatic one. The ethical part is what you do after the fact:

1. Pass the cost towards self regulation of people, using client facing measures e.g. prove their innocence if they are an outlier

2. Catch a couple of cases and over market your policing ability to disadvantage the most gullible.

3. Catch a couple of cases, even minor infractions and destroy them with disproportionate fines or jail sentences, economy of randomness or economy of those who have the best lawyers.

Fraud against government, as above but add:

4. Add arbitrary constraints, you don't really want the system to work, you just fake it for political reasons
Fashion is mostly a scam. The idea that people - especially, but not just - women are supposed to replace their wardrobe (*) frequently, and that the items in their wardrobe need not last, induces artificial consumer demand, diverting social resources - especially those distributed among the masses - from more useful endeavors (social or private), and is environmentally wasteful.

So, my non-artificial intelligence has generated the following new fashion: Last year's.

(*) - Note I'm not saying change clothes on themselves, but the set of clothes they own/use.
Yet it's all too common today. Here's a fun exercise for anyone: imagine what would happen if 10% of the team would go away in the next month. Now imagine if it was 80%. For how risk-averse companies are, it's pretty crazy how bad their back-up plan is should the latter happen.
I feel like we're about 3 generations from "shut up and take my money." A no-brainer version would:

- Allow AR, or at least not block my full field-of-view, so I can use them in contexts.

- Have competitive resolution with my normal monitor. 1080p, as these are, seems like an MVP, but 4k is where I'd start to really use these.

- Sci-fi: Support some kind of wireless protocol. A cable running down my shirt feels awkward. It's fine if I need a cable for 30fps movies, but for emails/coding/etc., I'm happy with much less refresh.

- Less plastic. More metal (or carbon fiber or whatever).

- Price point of $200 makes these a no-brainer shut-up-and-take my money. $400, I'd probably buy. $600, I'd probably /almost/ buy, but wait for used on eBay. $1000 is a no-buy.
How do black dwarves make sense? Their entire species lives deep underground and never sees the light of day, so they don't need to evolve to protect their skin from UV rays.

It's not like humans randomly became black or white, skin color is a result of thousands of years of evolution because of our surroundings. If you're going to apply the real world here, then you have to admit that black skinned dwarves make no sense from a biological point of view, since as we can see in the real world things tend to get paler and paler the less UV they're exposed to.

I don't know enough about Tolkien elves to comment on there being no black elves though
Checkout https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM. The README is pretty complete.
Pilot of a stolen aircraft is threatening to crash it into a Walmart
> psychological underpinnings

Another example of a 'dumb' decision: torpedoing a career to preserve relationships.

My prospects are abysmal, my savings insufficient and I'm still dysfunctional, but I'm better off than I would've been in many ways if I had not decided to give my loved ones (and my mental health) higher priority. I like to think I can make a comeback one day, but it's okay if I don't.
Their plan is project an image of cool headed control to keep their power and status quo intact as long as possible. No reason to be the one to risk destabilizing things that work well for them. Even if society intentionally reorganized itself, institutions may become meaningless, ending the good times for leaders and their cottage industry the institution provides.

I don’t think it’s an intentional conspiracy, but lack of material upside (the root of power being material ownership), for powers that be to risk their power and (for some) legacy as being the one in charge when it all went sideways. Such folks do not live long after the fall.
They are literally replacements of the default prompt I used and posted. Nothing more.
I'd call them recession-prepping but not apocalyptic.
Exactly (esp for ML/Graphics/Vision). However, I cannot say for other fields. That is why it is necessary to keep revising these fundamentals. I always plan to do it, but end up doing something else. >.<

If anyone has idea on ways to design a revision schedule, please help me. Thank you in advance!
> So when I read “dead body” I’m picturing someone who’s beyond the realm of possible resuscitation.

I think you are possibly attributing a much stronger definition to "dead," that is incorrect. Dead merely means lifeless, no longer alive, or deceased. It does not mean, "beyond the possibility of resuscitation," at least not in any definition I have seen. Many have in fact died and been resuscitated. Whether this is legitimately resurrection, being raised from the dead, is where I have probably been playing fast and loose, because I don't believe a body is required for resurrection, but a body is always required for resuscitation.
Only the US peaked, IIRC, not the world. And even then only using the specifically limited types of oil that were common before fracking, which is a relevant distinction because "are we screwed?" is different from "did this model correctly predict decline of supply of $thing?"
There doesn’t need to be a conspiracy. All it needs is for the majority of people in leadership positions to act in their own self interests rather than in the interest of the people they’re meant to be representing. The outcome is the same as if there was a big conspiracy theory. It’s like having two functions, you put the same variables in, the function bodies are different, but they both spit out the same result.
I live in Canada & I've done the spreadsheet math. I can probably ~triple my salary if I go balls to the walls. Insurance is a drop in the bucket (I can just outright buy my drugs). I'm just kinda comfy where I'm at, and I'm having fun at my job.
see everything star trek after star trek enterprise
It’s a bit confusing; it asks you to “draw” a route but it won’t let you actually draw a line, at least on mobile; what you have to do instead is tap two points on the map and it figures out the route for you. This can take a few seconds though and there isn’t any UI indicator that it’s thinking, so you just have to be patient.
> Older audiences have more money and spend more of it.

And one way to make them spend that money is to target their kids, which is much more easier to do so ...
I appreciate how you phrased this. It has me thinking about how it might be similar for privacy and security in terms of information or even physical security. Yes, one can be super secure and safe from harm if one puts tons of locks on everything, but it also keeps out people who we might want to let in.

Actually, now I'm thinking about it emotionally as well. Best way to prevent myself from getting hurt is to close off as much as I can. Also the best way to prevent myself from feeling joy and all the other things I want to feel.

So thank you for this reminder.
The funny thing is, this was an issue we talked about back in College during the Ethics of Computation course.

Back then, the consensus was largely that utilizing computation to allow someone to win a competition where the nature of it was fundamentally non-computational was unethical.
>Why they did that to kids and general population is beyond me.

I'm absolutely shocked, shocked I tell you, that the media would endlessly foist sensationalist hit pieces and shock factors one after another! Shocked!
Maybe not, I read that as compared to opioids, both Cannabis and Kratom being safer, with this person saying Kratom is more useful than Cannabis for this. Hopefully I read that right!
A man won an art competition in Colorado using AI-generated art
Or get better? You lucking out in which country you’re born in / citizenship shouldn’t be the only thing that allows you get a job. We all work in an industry where we praise meritocracy, so the best thing to do is to earn your role through merit, not privilege.
This doesn’t answer my question. How do you find people “who have more money and higher expectations, and highly value efficiency”?

> “Don't talk to your local barber who wants a website to show up on google maps.”

The specific case I was referring to was a series seed funded startup that needed to build an MVP. Even for them $10,000 was too much. They ended up finding someone for half that to build their entire V1. This was maybe 5 years ago. They’ve since rebuilt everything in house and are doing very well now.
There's plenty of fossil fuels, even if marginal extraction costs are higher than they once were. If anything, the price is far too cheap for the negative externalities it causes.
If you have $100 million to your name, it'd be smarter to hit the green button. It really depends on what you're starting with.
Diverse casting is in fact the laziest form of racial inclusivity possible.
PLEASE make movies and series stemming from African tradition and mythology, and rightfully cast black people for that.
The problem with forced diverse casting is that I can't bring myself to imagine how and why dwarves/elves/etc.. can be both black and white, since they all come from the same land in the LoTR lore. At least pick a lotr race - skin color pair and only cast people of that skin color for a determined race, I'd be ok with that. It just messes the lore for me, nothing more nothing less.
Ooo wee yoo I look just like Alan Turing

Ohh oh and you're hella Gordon Moore
US telcos admit to storing, handing over location data
Especially in the Western US. In Los Angeles, all travel is measured in time rather than distance.
Supaplex!
OP didn’t say they were good at competitive programming.
I did not know that Polestar service is optional with Volvo dealerships!

Maybe that's exactly what GM does not want to happen with Cadillac and Buick EVs.
I'm from South Asia. I offer end to end web development, SEO and digital marketing. I charge $50/hr.
You can't say something like this without specifying the country under an article about Amazon's global anti-union strategy. Going off what you said, you're probably talking about the US, which really isn't in any way comparable. You have shit labour laws and dynamics all around and nothing which could be useful when talking about other countries.
Buddy of mine recently did a two session psychedelic ketamine treatment with intensive pre and post-support therapy. The changes in his negative habits and ruminative thoughts were impressive. He had done LSD a few times, but he said the ketamine was a much more “safe” feeling experience.

I’ve been considering it myself, despite not being depressed or anxious, just to see what channels of growth it might open up.
I think JWST might have bought NASA a bit of leeway with the delayed/over budget budget hawks. Also, the NASA footprint is spread out into too many congressional districts to be an easy pull the plug decision. Everyone learned after the super conducting super collider was killed.
I just saw a Google Nest Hub control an Apple HomeKit smart plug
I wouldn't even go as far as saying "level of anti-fraud enforcement", because "anti-fraud enforcement" ain't exactly formally well defined
Why's that? Large companies generally don't need single generalists; what they mostly have is teams of specialists, people who can get much deeper into a subject than a generalist can. Is there some role at a FAANG where generalists would thrive?
you would be afraid to see the list of SLS subcontractors, i.e. who actually builds it. "private companies" indeed.

unless, of course, "private companies" is your shortcut for "SpaceX".

which other launcher of the same class are being designed, build and launched at the moment by the way?
No, I typically end up filling the roles of CTO, CISO - I can advise, implement, whatever, on virtually any stack.

It’s just that in the U.K., technology skills have little to no value.
Because people dont care about money if their life has no happiness or purpose in the first place
hey man i get arguments about stuff like access to equal education and police brutality as real problems. but are you really trying to make the case that unequal access to porn is a social woe or oppressive?
It’s also, in some sense, a formulation of Blackstone’s ratio:

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”

At some point in pursuit of “0 crime” you will be imprisoning 10 innocent men to capture 1 criminal.
You're several years behind on the status quo. 90% of the time they don't even give pain pills anymore post surgery, and when they do they'll give you a 1 to 3 day supply at most. If you need more than that, "Tylenol extra strength".

When I say the people who make the rules don't care, that's what I'm talking about. And a bunch of people who support this new model will say "just use cannabis." You can find examples all throughout this thread
The switching between energy and fossil fuels is becoming more transparent. Energy problem? It's a high gas price problem.

You can make fertilizer from Green Hydrogen, no methane needed. It's already being produced, with lots of big projects getting built, because it has less GHG emission, though it needs to ramp up.

But that basically puts a limit on how high gas prices can go before it gets replaced for that (and many other uses).

So, hopefully the production cost of fossil fuels is as bad as they claim, because that will speed things along.

So Putin's got one last winter to try to rally the reactionaries of Europe to topple their democratic governments. I guess there's some small chance he'll succeed, but it's not going to stop China and Australia, Africa and the US rolling out renewables, so what does it actually gain them?
> I would interview kids nowadays who want $100k but have no idea what Agile is.

You’d be amazed at how many middle managers making 250+ think that agile equals scrum or that scrum is valuable in the context of software. I’ll take the person that has never heard of it, to be honest.
I don't use any Jetbrains product and I have no idea how well-executed this is, but I am pleased to see a relatively smaller company competing against the almost monopoly of Microsoft's VS Code and GitHub.
It was very successful locally. The problem that "killed it" was that GM wanted to expand the model to other plants (Van Nuys was the next) and the same techniques didn't work. Likely because the wrong people were running things in Van Nuys compared to Fremont. Leadership is EVERYTHING when it comes to organizational transitions and problems with that.
She came out of the woodworks recently because everyone was upset with her for the Russian gas issue.

She said something like it was the best deal at the time.

Look, if you think getting rid of your nations energy independence, and handing that to Putin was the best deal at the time... You're delusional.
Ms. Tverberg seems to exclusively write panicked clickable headlines about oil and energy, dating back several years, with none of the prophecies/projections coming close to fruition. Not a lot of strong data in the article for such an extreme claim.
I work in IT/AppSec, and this came to mind immediately. Implementing perfect security would be "don't connect to the internet and don't let anyone use the computer". Clearly not an option, so my job is to analyze the cost and risks against the benefits and help choose a path of balance. A specific example: we can only heuristically detect the difference between legitimate and malicious calls to the public endpoints. Is that spike in traffic trying to DDOS us, or is it close to Black Friday so customers are in go-go mode? Setting the rate limits somewhere meaningful is a tradeoff.
When you're up in the tree branches, it's easy to forget what the roots look like.

You're right though, we should hang on to the fundamentals to make adapting to new tech easier.
I would like to dismiss this as just an alarmist conspiracy theory or something. Unfortunately, I have to consider the possibility that it is true, because failure to recognize or admit to the most severe problems, especially if they seem intractable, seems to be extremely common in daily life and history.
How do you achieve zero fraud in a transaction?

We can start with payment. What would someone pay with? Credit/debit numbers can be stolen. Checks can be stolen or forged. Cash can be counterfeit. What form of transaction has zero chance of fraud?

To make transactions available to people you need to introduce systems that can have fraud in them. There is a balance between availability/ease and fraud.
The problem is not merely that the anti-fraud efforts are costly but that the anti-fraud surveillance apparatus will itself be value destroying. (In the tax case, it’s “people in democracies don’t enjoy their government having total visibility into their activities and society, in its judgment, says this is more important than tax collection at some margins.”)
Buddy, America does _far worse_ things on the international stage than scrub a few rocket missions. Like, you remember the Iraq and Afghanistan wars right? You're making a really bizarre leap of faith here that the world only cares about some rocket missions.
Show HN: A code snippet manager for VS Code
I believe both TIM and Chip's Challenge are available on Archive to play in browser.

The first game I remember playing on my own is the first Commander Keen. I was very proud of being able to start and run it on my own from DOS (I was 3; using a text-only input mode is difficult when you're pre-literate!)
I’ve seen some companies charge very little ($2-$5k) for a pen test. How are you able to charge $350/hour for essentially the same work? Is there some pitch or playbook you’re using to justify the price for doing the same work?
What do you mean “for schemas”?
> It really obviously is up for debate

"obviously" to you, I guess. Not to anyone else who realizes that life expectancy beyond 30 and absence of periodic famines with mass starvation is the result of objectivity.

> whether objective knowledge is accessible at all

How to make steel, plumb our houses, cure our bacterial infections, and bring A/C power to them is not knowledge that's "accessible to all." Most of us are happy that someone somewhere knows how to do those things. That's called "division of labor."

> whether objective knowledge is accessible at all

Kind of like the missing link in the fossil record which causes creationists to say "Look! Darwin was wrong!": quantum mechanics is the difficult-to-understand problem giving an easy out to people who don't believe in science anyway. Give it a rest.
Take a look here https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM. Post install, I use the "Opencore-Boot.sh" script to boot the machine and inside of it modify the cpu "Penryn" to Icelake one assuming you're running a Ryzen one.

I did get some warnings from QEMU along the lines of "X register doesnt exist" or something but the machine runs fine and geekbench runs fine as well. Play with the cores/threads settings as well. If you go too high (for me was around 8), it doesn't boot up and just hangs.
> There is no competition for such a complete package

GitHub + VSCode
Well, I needed some noun. Any recommendations?
We use Space due to GitLab's recent pricing changes.

We like:

- free git hosting

- free slack-like with sub-thread

- generous CI/CD

- built-in issue tracker

- built-in wiki

- very snappy

- has mobile app

We don't like:

- CI/CD script uses Kotlin DSL, feels "heavy".

- Issue tracker very basic, we end up using YouTrack. Still don't know how to integrate it lol.

- One project can have multiple repos, but they all share same permission. So we end up creating multiple projects e.g. mobile app, web, backend.

- Regarding multiple projects.. we end up creating another project just to contain wiki.

- Cannot trigger based on tag. We end up creating branch for different environment.

- Difficulty in writing CI/CD script due to limited documentation/knowledge on the net and unfriendly keyword ("space"? Lol. You have to type "Jetbrains space automation (keyword here)"

- At certain times VERY slow.

- Notifications in Mobile App sometimes not working.

We find confusing:

- Calendar

- Video call

Confusing because why add more features that's already best served by other services?
Should We Be Polite to Our Personal AI Assistants?
What were Korea and Nippon like before encountering Western cultures?
there's a real concern that "erotic plasticity" (esp if you combine this with a recommendation algo) can push people towards weird ass shit. literally the same thing happens on youtube, tiktok etc. with regular videos so why would this be an exception?
LiveView Native SwiftUI – library for using Phoenix LiveView on iOS devices
Okay, will do. Just in case, you can send the invite to ex [at] siliconvict com