skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used SnarkyJs, but I've heard good things! Big props.
>KaiOS is based on FirefoxOS and sells more phones than Apple does.

KaiOS is used on 160 million devices around the world.

Apple sell more iPhone than that in a single year.
This is a fun off the cuff guess but if you look at a Zillow it's not true. Houses the same distance from the center of town are significantly more expensive in Austin. Everyone I know who moved from Houston to Austin moved twice as far from downtown and paid twice as much to do it.
Fascinating stuff. The demonveggen reminds of something in an art museum: compelling and disturbing all at once.
What do you mean by no hydration? How does the client-side code picks up state from the initial render? (does Qwik apps load faster due to not needing hydration?)

Also, it talks about reactivity. Does it means it has no vdom? Is it related for no need for hydration?
China’s Semi-Autonomous Next Gen. Tank
> Authentic avatar expressions mimic your natural facial expressions, so you can be fully present in meetings and gatherings with friends and bring more of your true personality to life in VR.

Carmack's avatar during his talk today was mostly expressionless, with weird jittery movements and a mouth that didn't line up with the dialogue. Nothing like what the promo video shows. It seems Facebook has a ways to go before they can live up to their marketing.

https://www.facebook.com/events/reality-labs-facebook-page/c...
So Facebook drops billions per year to be palm pilot? What incentive does anyone have in this org to deliver an actual product/customer value? How do we know VR isn’t a bet for the 2030s?

If this was a small labs net spending a few million a year… then I’d buy this, but we’re looking at a bet the farm situation.
I don't mean they shouldn't worry. I mean they shouldn't use language that puts blame on their kid for not being "diverse" (which is also a non-sensical description of 1 person).
Show HN: Cobalt – social media downloader with no bullshit
Hey, HN!

I made my own social media downloader because I got annoyed by others that either shove 50 ad banners down your throat, or require you to do some extra steps.
The frontend page is light and all processing is done on the server, so it runs speedily on pretty much anything.
It also has a bunch of download/ui customization options, but none of them are forced on you.

My main goal was to make something that's open, easy to use, and not annoying to deal with.

Please take a look at it and let me know what you think, I'm thirsty for feedback and opinions.

You can also take a look at its source code and judge my coding abilities: https://github.com/wukko/cobalt
They will now have a second larger round of layoffs by summer of 2023.
Packj runner flags risky/malicious NPM/PyPI/Ruby dependencies in your PRs
Haven't they already been successful with the VR hardware? They've also had a games platform for many years now. "Totally different area" is a bit of a stretch.
From what I'm seeing here, all the individual things that were done _were_ correct. It just so happens that the system was setup with rules that allow for this type of thing. A probably correct program would not have helped here.
By not using cryptocurrency rather?
That’s just a bespoke take on string formatting. The point if the shell style is you get essentially arbitrary code execution.
DIE initiatives achieve extremely poor diversity of beliefs. The type of diversity that matters. It is outright hostile to it.
In my opinion, unstoppable money printer and infinite national debt is keeping this ridiculous bubble from popping, one more useless and overpriced future electronic waste.
When I'm in video meetings I become hyper aware that I'm on camera and it immediately diverts a bit of my focus to little social things:

- oh I'm not smiling!

- what's that on my face?

- my hair is sticking up

- did I just pick my nose?

Even if I turn off my cam view of myself I can't seem to get rid of it. Of course I have some of this awareness in real world meetings but in a virtual meetings it's like 10x. It makes trying to do any coding over a screen share almost impossible for me, my brain feels like it's being split in half doing too much at once. Luckily most peer coding is just the screen and voice, no cam. Except interviews, lol.
greg rutkowski and alphonse mucha are about to become top-tier scholars
Isn't the idea that the universe (or the superset of universes) a hole within a hole (or an infinite number of holes within a hole) something physicists already entertain?

E.g. there are several theories about how our universe itself is the inside of a black hole, and so on.
Anecdote: my gaming laptop from 2022 doesn't work on Windows 10/11. It keeps hard crashing when stressed.

On Linux, it's totally stable on identical workloads.

Personally, I don't see reason anymore for the existence of Windows. For a long time it held its ground as a gaming OS, but Steam/Proton has taken that final advantage from it.
Also relevant: "Cognitive ease" from "Thinking Fast And Slow." We often attribute information as higher quality if we're able to recall related information with more ease. Importantly, this happens regardless of the quality of the information. One study they point out is people exposed to random nonsensical words later ranked the words they saw the most frequently as being "better" than ones they saw less.

It sounds like a related bias of automatic thinking here. There's some cognitive ease in recognizing the author, so your bias kicks in that this is better than if you didn't recognize the author.
Sigh. 2012 was so hopeful. Tech was still good and half life 3 was still on the way.

Valve, with all its freedom and liberty for employees, lagged behind crunch mills this treated employees like cattle. The market said CandyCrush > Half-Life. So be it. God is dead, he remains dead, and we have killed him.

I require my engineers in the office and doing what I want them to do. Liberalism must be curtailed by the winds, but my god, it’s no fun.
And I wrote this comment.
> How to prove you know a secret without giving it away

This is the best use case for blockchain. Put the secret on the blockchain and show others that transaction. Since it's on blockchain, no one can deny your claim about knowing the secret. This is why blockchain was invented.

Before blockchain, I was miserable. There was no way for me to prove to my girlfriends that I knew a secret, without telling the secret. Now with blockchain, my life is so easy - I just show them the blockchain transaction and they know that I know.
Eat nothing but meat.

No ketchup, no BBQ sauce, etc., just meat.
Either give up or switch to a different platform I think?
Oh I don't mean the keyboards are expensive. I mean the folks that collect keyboards.
This all reminds me of the tech communities reaction to the first iPod and iPhone.
100%. I think this is the best / "least bad" layoff message I've read.
I assume this is excellent satire, but you never really can tell.
It's also probably why these initiatives focus on skin color and gender rather than things like economic advantage: You can walk into an office and see that it's mostly asian men, you cant walk in and see that it made sure that people who didn't have elite educations got an opportunity.
What's worse than Zuck? CG animated Zuck.
When will they learn? When will they learn... THAT THEIR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
Hate to be that guy, but someone has to say it... In this case the code worked as expected and the "attacker" played within the rules of the game. Except they "won" too much. That's not supposed to happen.
You're hanging around crowds that talk about FP. :)

Right now I'm working with a team where we're trying to introduce FP and reactive programming, and most of them have never heard of either one, or if they have, have never really used it.
As he stated within the first few minutes, it wasn’t enabled for his talk. He also wasn’t using the new avatars.
By not ever making any mistakes.

So really, they are preventable by not using cryptocurrency.
> It blows my mind that peer reviews aren't done blind.

I've co-authored a few papers and blind reviews have some surprising consequences, like discussions along the lines of "you can't say that you already wrote about this issue elsewhere and put a link in the paper, because that would unblind it". I was a bit uncomfortable with that, because I like to "cite my sources" (even if the source was myself in this case).

This also points to another issue: The more specialized the paper is the less likely the blinding will work. If you know a field by heart then you know who works on what, and probably can guess most authors based on that.

I'm not saying I'm against blind review, but while it sounds obvious, it has some issues in practice.
100%. Playing games in VR is on a whole other level when it comes to virtual presence, and it really is something that needs to be experienced rather than told.

I sunk ~ 600 hours into population one since its launch. The gameplay is ok, but the experience of playing WITH people in VR is something I’ve never come close to in 25 years of gaming, and many of the people I played with regularly had never done much gaming before they picked up their quest. I 100% get why they’re pushing this.
> few ventures which would continue to exist if the worlds economy would go south.

What kind of venture is profitable (enough to beat inflation) and economy-going-south resistant?
Scientists used to use anagrams to register scientific discoveries without revealing them. Hooke registered his law of elastic extension using the letters "ceiiinosssttuv”, which he later revealed to unscramble into "ut tensio, sic vis" ("as the tension, so the force").

People did try to brute-force the anagrams. On two occasions, Kepler unscrambled analgrams from Galileo into the statements that (i) Mars has two moons and (ii) Jupiter has red spots. Bizaarely, both turned out to be true facts, but not what Galileo's anagrams were about!
Every large city has a desirable neighborhood with million dollar lots. But if you look at # of houses within 15 minutes of downtown that cost less than 200k. Houston is one of few that's still affordable.
The Strange Loop talk was very enjoyable. You are a gifted public speaker. And I just want to say that I am excited to read your book on Lean in full, too!
Racism is bad.
I see. How much does it suck to work at such a place? I mean in terms of disorganization, constant fire fighting, time to fix existing issues vs implementing new bugs?

Basically I don’t mind working at a boring company so much, what I want is serenity and calm so that my job doesn’t end up taking over my non work time by polluting my mind with stress and worry. Wondering if zombie companies fit the bill.
More of a financial exploit, but don't conflate popular crypto sentiment from Twitter with what's possible. There is no reason regulation is required to prevent this on a automatic protocol level - but no surprise in the DeFi space if preventing this type of exploit isn't an active area of development.
The reason it's illegal is because it wouldn't just be companies like the one you are outlining that would discriminate, it would spread to all companies, because women are given special considerations like maternity leave. Hence, a company that discriminated against them would be avoiding, in essence, a tax that would then fall on others and thus lead to others deciding to avoid that competitive disadvantage even if they had found women applicants and workers to be perfectly suited to the work at hand.

If there were no unintended consequences (I hope that you do not intend this widespread discrimination) then I would be fine with you running your company that way as I would be happy with there being less competition for all the excellent women applicants, and I believe that a mixed sex workplace will outperform a solely male one. A belief I find much easier to hold than dudes prefer working with dudes or some such nonsense.
i have no idea how well it addresses it but Zuckerberg did specifically acknowledge this in his keynote. He talked specifically about ensuring seamless experience for people using flat screens with Zoom and Teams mixed with those in VR. I don't think your assumption that it's only for pure remote is valid, at least certainly in terms of what Meta is working on.
I like where you come from, but a LOT of phds are so narrow in scope that its almost impossible to be anonymous because the set of peer reviewers is very small. Only the large wide fields like medicine and some variants of humaniora are big enough to do this.
Meanwhile, on the same front page, "CATL profits to nearly triple". Despite heavy capital investment.

Batteries are where the action is right now.
I don't think this logic holds.
It is true that a sales rep job benefits from diversity eg having hispanic employees talk to Spanish speaking customers. However the same role can be performed equally well by a fluent Spanish speaker of any race. So a job requirement for a Hispanics sales rep would be racial discrimination for no good reason. You could construct similar arguments for most instances of diversity hiring.

Additionally Diversity is not the same as DEI. Diversity is a statistical concept whereas DEI is a religious belief
I'll think about that, though I definitely don't expect teams to meet me on my level. I mean if you read my comments on this thread I talk about my failures, not expectations that others failed to meet. If I make the mistake of joining a team whose level I can't meet then it's my mistake and I leave with as little disruption as possible.
It really wasn't any more complicated than that. I just didn't want to be this drinking person any more and I realized how massive waste of time it has been.

It probably means though that I didn't have any chemical addiction and it certainly helped that I had a things to do that benefited instantly from my decision – my work at that time.

It probably also helped that I was raised up by parents who didn't allow me to blame others when things went wrong with me – "You can't change to world no matter badly it behaves, but you can always do better yourself."
> But the crypto sector doesn't want exchange regulation, so they don't have the "circuit breakers" that, say, the CBOE does.

The description of crypto markets as "speedrunning the history of why we have the financial regulations we do" seems more and more accurate as time goes on.

But I agree, this isn't a "hack" in the normal sense. It may be a "hack" in the broader, "clever use of a system against the desires of the designer" sense, but it doesn't seem like any security boundaries were bypassed, just that the attacker made the system perform, per its rules, in a way that had not been predicted. Not a bad haul... good luck cashing it out, though.
Show me some evidence, or even some compelling reasoning, for how something can make remote work more efficient, and I'll be all over it. If Meta's got some sort of doodad that will make it so that I can get all the benefits of in-person meetings from home, great, let's go, I'll pay to upgrade my team at work out of pocket.

But I don't see any sign of that here. You're saying that, if the headsets were easy to wear, everyone would use them, but I can't imagine why. How's this better than a laptop with a camera? I can read text more easily on the laptop. I can share documents more easily on the camera. I can see people's faces and emotions more clearly with the camera. This gets me nothing, and it does so at significant cost.

This appears to be a solution desperately searching for a problem, and remote meetings certainly have problems, but this doesn't seem to be able to solve any of them.

Sure, I'll be excited about this if I really need to collaboratively design the frame of a car with a team that's all working remotely. It'll work great for that. But you know how often my meetings would be greatly eased with a collaborative 3D space? Not often.
It's funny that HN is pro-remote work but anti-innovations for making the remote more efficient.

Whoa there - you’re speaking only for yourself! There’s a minority of us that abhor Teams and wish daily for another company to come up with something better. Of course, that doesn’t mean (badly) reinventing the wheel like this. Really, I’m just hoping for a snappier and more ergonomic Teams but I welcome any and all innovation in the space.
Yes it is a general change. A Facebook account is no longer needed to use VR. You can link a Facebook account if you so choose, but even then a ban on Facebook has no effect on your access to VR.

If you have an old Oculus account, it can be converted directly into a Meta account.

See https://www.meta.com/help/accounts/set-up-meta-account/ and https://www.oculus.com/blog/getting-started-with-meta-accoun....

Note that it will be far easier to convert your Oculus account before 1 January 2023.
I'm probably in the minority, but I won't run VRChat because of the EAC kernel-mode spyware they're using. The other competitors, Neos and ChilloutVR, are doing a poor job of even getting the basics executed. Regardless of the outcome, I'd welcome a competing platform that is run by actual professionals (unlike ChilloutVR).
What do you mean by that? How does a physical display on your desk provide better privacy than a physical display a few inches from you eyes? It’s not some shared/cloud display.
Whoever told you that about your cites is probably right -- you shouldn't cite yourself while calling out that you are citing yourself. You should cite yourself the same you that site any other work.

The second part is probably unavoidable. If you're working on something super specialized when all your reviewers are the six other people who work on it then sure, it'll be unblinded. Not much we can do there sadly.
*nearly, just $650B away at this point.
I know that works to make friends, when you drunkenly, randomly start to talk to other people, or jump into conversations.
But how does it work for meeting the opposite sex ? Being drunk for these kinds of things usually isn't good
This reminds me of this article: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-gree...
Not in Vic, but in Qld I was a "victim" of the floods earlier this year. We had total powerloss for 4 days, and no lifts for 10. We lost assets in the carparking.

We always have at LEAST a week and usually a months food in various forms but the weakness here is how much was frozen: we wound up moving deep frozen expensive meat to friends with power, and ate as much as we could of the less robust food to match the 4-10 window because climbing 9 floors of stairs for 60 year olds is a pain.

In broad sense, we could have survived far longer on the dry goods, given water. We had everything we need, if we can cook. If we lost gas, no amount of 3 days would get us there because we don't keep tinned food consumable from the tin. I guess we could have survived on breakfast cereal and cheese.

I am unsure quite how much tinned food I want to keep to meet a 3 day goal, assuming worst-case no gas. I probably would have moved out.

(which of course depends on being ABLE to move out, but I am on the current evidence in fringeing flood land, not deep flood with no connection. I'm in a city. I just got islanded at points, and lost power)
If you're working on something super specialized when all your reviewers are the six other people who work on it then sure, it'll be unblinded. Not much we can do there sadly. But most people aren't working on something that specialized, and most would probably benefit from having reviewers in adjacent fields and not just the other experts in their field. So at least those adjacent ones would maybe be anonymous.
That is incorrect.

From https://www.meta.com/help/accounts/set-up-meta-account/#:~:t....

> Email: You can only create one Meta account per email address. First and last name: We recommend using your real name in case you need to recover your account or manage your store purchases, but it is not required.
> There's zero benefit to being physically together in the 2020s.

Correction - 0 benefit for you. And that’s fine. For many others not getting together in person severely impacts productivity.
Peer reviews are usually blind (authors don’t know who their reviewers are). What you are referring to is double blind (reviewers don’t know who the authors are). The challenge with double blind is anonymizing content that often relies on cited prior work.
That reminds me of a bias study where the researchers were investigating the effects of stereotypes.

They told one group of Asian women that “women are worse at math than men” and another group of Asian women that “Asians are better at math than non-Asians”. Both are common stereotypes.

They then measured how well the two groups did on subsequent math exercises.

Interestingly, they found that the latter group (positive stereotype) performed better than those in the former group (negative stereotype).

As I recall, other research found similar results with Black males and golf scores when told “white people are better at golf” as opposed to “black people are better athletes”.

Not only do stereotypes influence our perceptions of “the other”, but they influence the performance of the other.
New York, New York – 8,467,513 - 450k

Los Angeles, California – 3,849,297 - 710k

Chicago, Illinois – 2,696,555 - 252k

Houston, Texas – 2,288,250 - 192k

Phoenix, Arizona – 1,624,569 - 308k

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 1,576,251 - 240k

San Antonio, Texas – 1,451,853 - 175k

San Diego, California – 1,381,611 - 620k

Dallas, Texas – 1,288,457 - 225k

San Jose, California – 983,489 - 1,160k

Compared to a town with 100k people in Wisconsin Houston doesn't look very affordable. But compared to the top 10 largest cities in the US it looks pretty good.

[0] - https://www.kiplinger.com/article/real-estate/t010-c000-s002...
I once ended up with a copy of "Nippon: The Land and Its People" and found it interesting enough to read the whole way through. I don't know how to compare it since I didn't have a lot of interest in the subject to read other works.

It's a dated book, 1988, but kind of gives a broad overview of a handful of major aspects. It was published by Nippon Steel Corp. I think the biggest effect of that is to shy away from controversial topics. Anyway it still comes to mind 8 years later so I feel like it's worth mentioning.
Very nice! I hadn’t heard of that. I’m amused at how exactly it matches my mullings of how I’d do it in a web tech stack (manifest field, env() variables, navigator property with events, CSS property to indicate draggable area), with only a couple of missing pieces: the ability to match the appearance of the native controls and native conventions (e.g. `background: env(titlebar-area-background); color: env(titlebar-area-color); text-align: env(titlebar-area-align)`, though for best results you’d still need a little more here and there).

I’ve thought of trying to design something like this for Wayland server-side decorations or at least making a better replacement for libdecor, but it wouldn’t help me personally and it’s clear that GNOME isn’t having a bar of the entire approach, so I sadly just don’t think it’s worth the effort.
They're supposed to be shutting down on Feb 15th iirc.

But after reading your comment I did a quick search and apparently they're suing the CFTC to remain open(?). So maybe there's a chance, but as of now it unfortunately looks like they're not gonna be running much longer :(
Also, the `trash_` is redundant, so `rmt --display` et cetera is all enough (and please make short options like `-d` too).
This story reminded me of the Public Apis Github repo situation. Similar scenario, as soon as it became under corporate control things got wonky.

Repo issue explaining the situation: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/issues/3104