skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But instead of making Oculus the "XBox" of the future

I don't get dizzy or have to stand up and move around to "sit down and veg out" on Xbox/PS/etc.
Have you read Tim Dorsey at all?

His stuff is full of this type of humor, with notes of whatever decades of covering Florida Man stories for a Miami newspaper does to a man.
Called it! But it is very concerning that people think this is Binance fault somehow. They were not the ones who misused the funds. They were not the ones who over leveraged. All CZ did was to point out that Mr. Fried was not being honest
The good times made crazy people look smart and the bad times are making crazy people look like idiots.
Most people (all?) are driven by circumstance rather than their "inner" self. He might be a good/honest guy that started this with good and honest intentions; but things went very differently. There is little he can do, and I think there are few people in the earth who can stand to circumstance. (especially when billions and millions of people are involved.)
Comparing Text-Based and Graphic UI for Novice and Expert Users (2007)
I have wondered if the use of (combined urine and feces) fresh Cow-dung[0] in the hair/bead, was to discorage lice.

[0] Cow dung : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_dung
I have to correct myself. 93$ a month would have been about right, not 93$ in 2.5 years.
Well, he apparently hoodwinked his customers by abusing and losing their deposits.

I don't think people who made billions by scamming well meaning customers should be held in high regard.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in prison
How did you acquire the financial independence to "check out"? You'd need a farm, several solar/wind generators and backups and a way to pay for internet, surely?
The unpleasant truth is that you won't "escape" copilot; if anything is going to be done about that, it's more or less a legal issue.

That all said, the author of SourceHut seems really principled in regards to what they're building. If I was going to bet money on one person not ending up like GitHub (and one platform not ending up like GitHub), I'd probably bet on them.

I kicked the wheels on it recently and was really impressed, though I'm unsure if I'll use it full time yet - for all it does well (kind of putting git back to what it should be), it does draw a line in the sand where I'm not sure I'd draw it. Something like Gitea might be another option since it can provide a familiar enough interface to drive-by contributors.

In truth, I wish Gitea had support for git-send-email similar to SourceHut. Feels like it'd be the best of both worlds.
2019....
Regardless of how you feel about piracy, any kind of blocking should never be happening at the DNS level. From an eff.org article[0] about a similar case last year:

> This order is profoundly dangerous for several reasons. In the U.S. context, where injunctions like these are usually tied to specious claims of conspiracy, we have long argued that intermediaries which bear no meaningful relationship to the alleged infringement, and cannot therefore be held liable for it, should not be subject to orders like these in the first place. Courts do not have unlimited power; rather, judges should confine their orders to persons that are plausibly accused of infringement or acting in concert with infringers.

[0] https://www.eff.org/ja/deeplinks/2021/07/dns-provider-hit-ou...
Using an algorithm specifically for 21, I believe
There are so many dodgy root certs these days. First thing I do is delete a BUNCH of them when installing or upgrading a browser.
P2P, as in hosted from other people's phones? I think the issue is that people generally wouldn't be happy with P2P data uploads from their phones (compared to P2P on desktop, where internet is cheaper/faster, and battery isn't an issue).
I believe it's the common folk who had money with FTX who are down. All the way to zero. One wonders if EA is could be considered a guilt-compensation mechanism.
Same here. How often do you take it? I find I get too into the work and multiple days on end I get frustrated and fuck up my sleep.
Serious question: how long can it last at these levels. Where’s the support for this asset?
I used to think that Elon would make Twitter better.

Now I'm not sure. His erratic behavior is showing up more than ever.

He cut half of the engineering staff, realized Twitter needed some fired engineers, while trying to cram untested monetization features into production. He's flip flopping on ideas within hours.

If advertisers continue to pull out, he's going to have continue to sell his TSLA shares.
>https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/subcommittee...

>Below are key findings from the staff analysis:

> ...

>Certain corporations are using the cover of inflation to raise prices excessively, resulting in record profits and profit margins.

Is this a bad thing? The paragraph later goes list examples which were shipping, rental car, meat processing, and oil and gas. All of them experienced some supply/demand imbalance (ie. too little supply or too much demand). In that sort of situation, isn't it better to let prices go up until supply meets demand, rather than leaving prices as it is? Sure, paying higher prices suck, but if demand outstrips supply you'll have shortages. During the pandemic we saw this happen with GPUs and game consoles, because OEMs were reluctant to hike prices and/or institute an auction system. They avoided a PR backlash from it and were able to channel the hate towards "scalpers", but the situation for the consumer wasn't really any better. I doubt consumers would want empty shelves at the butcher, for instance.
My problem with RT is that the ordering of its operations (an absolutely crucial thing) is not specified anywhere. It's just an explosion of sliders, more or less arbitrarily grouped into categories. Same goes for ART, the somewhat streamlined fork of RT. In contrast, DT offers a sane and documented pipeline, which reasonably follows the pipeline known from the video world, with its separation into scene-relative and output-relative parts based on physics and perception, adjusted for photography needs.

Strict terminology based on fundamental principles, strict reasoning and control over the pipeline, rooted in the video world. Perhaps that's why it looks somewhat foreign to you, it's a bit unlike most other photography tools which need to be marketed and typically offer "magic" with little reproducibility from one software to another. Like the saturation slider which is not actual saturation known from the color theory, at least in Lightroom and C1. Hence the endless bickering between photographers who don't understand fundamentals of color perception and fight over what software gives a better look.

Regarding the UI, maybe I'm different from the most but I honestly don't care how it looks, as long as it delivers and is usable. A professional tool is a truck, not a luxury car; it's alright to have it a bit dirty. I remember the days of Softimage 3D; when I've seen it the first time in 2000, it looked terribly ancient to me. But it was one of the most powerful CGI toolkits at the time.

Regarding the defaults, they are easily changed once and are used afterwards, provided you understand the fundamentals. However I've never needed to do so once I understood how it functions under the hood. The defaults look fine to me.

I'm not a professional photographer though, and despite DT being light years ahead of everyone in several areas I find it lacking in others, which prevents me from using it on a constant basis.
Yes. Go find the video "Line Goes Up", which covers this issue at length.
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/ - lots of articles and meta analysis of fitness/nutrition studies.

https://squatuniversity.com/ - articles and videos related to proper form and mobility.
No no no, it absolutely must be reckless shoppers spending so much money on necessities. They should be ashamed of themselves for buying food, toilet paper, and baby formula. Corporations are always innocent conveyors of value.

sigh
>> I'm not sure how I feel about this one.

I think this may be a case where because you have a bunch of freedoms, you feel like you should have more.

I say this to re-assure you, not critisize you.

Open Source, and Free Software, are very clear on the 4 freedoms you enjoy. You can use, modify, distribute etc.

But it's not a 2-way street. You have no rights about what goes back into the project, the author is under no obligation to receive code contributions, no obligation to add features, fix bugs, or anything like that.

Of course lots of projects actively seek out contributions, but it's certainly not a requirement - nor (IMO) should it be.

Coversely open source has struggled to find viable financial models. This sounds like a success story and we should look long and hard at any successful financial model.

So, I don't think you should feel unsure. If you want to contribute then chip in some loot. If it means the project becomes sustainable you are the big winner.

But most of all, I think, be careful of adding "more freedoms" to your understanding of OS and FS, when they don't exist.
They were almost immediately useful, maybe not for the touch aspect but for the large screen that could actually browse the full web without being nearly as clunky as everything else on the market.
It is. If you want people to understand that you have some other meaning than that, you're going to need to phrase it better.
I have a Twitter thread on this: https://twitter.com/liuliu/status/1587978815208407041?s=46&t...

(Note that at that time, there is an implemention bug in inpainting model that caused the weirdness that I need to manually fix)
> Ok, I buy this, however, what is this "purpose/ meaning/ calling/ value" thing? What does it mean, really? How do I find mine?

Have children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEfJ8Q6keRk
It looks like there is a response from the company in there and it probably needed an EQ review before releasing. It starts off with attacking the reporters, and then this:

> ... I know you guys promote some kind of app security solution commercially, but I did note in my earlier response that our company and MsgSafe has never shipped an app that was not in BETA only and that the 5-year-old app beta was abandoned years ago.

Trying to ignore the fact that there might have been malware in a security-focused message application they shipped is concerning. (I _can_ imagine how it might have been done innocently - a beta intended to be internal-only w/ various metrics analysis et al, for example). It's hard to trust part of the business if a separate section of the company engages in that sort of behavior.

That said, their note about an unrelated party in the US registering the same name for a company in the US is really weird and concerning.

> Our attorneys believe someone could have done this (and it agrees with our event timeline we’re creating as we investigate) for physical actions taken and may have used this with insurance companies to obtain additional nonpublic information about our company and our insurance infrastructure which is large and complicated just like every CA’s insurance has to be.

This feels vaguely scary if you run businesses abroad with US-based hosting or physical infrastructure.
I really like Ben Thompson's position in VR adoption - he compares it to the PC adoption. It was enterprise first, then consumers. Users learned how to use a PC at work, and once the price drops enough, they bring one home.

Thompson was high up on the Microsoft / Meta VR deal.

IMO Zuck has a great grasp of the trajectory of VR/AR in 2015. Meta is singlehandedly trying to will it into a common place. To some extent, they had succeeded way more than a lot of other commenters give them credits for. VR is way far prevalent than it was 2-3 years ago.

Oculus Quest 2 certainly wasn't driving the instant paradigm shift like the introduction of an iPhone in 2007 (15 or so years ago). Though you'd argue that precursors to iPhones were WAP phones, Blackberry's. They laid the ground work (Blackberry was also an enterprise-first adoption). As an interface, handheld devices are much closer to our familiarity with PC so the jump wasn't huge. Plus it has a killer use case -- everyone needs a phone.

I am very impressed by the clear vision in 2015 that we're still seeing it play out in front of our eyes in the VR/AR/Mixed Reality space. What hasn't happened or wasn't mentioned the killer use case -- the utility why people would need to be in VR/AR/XR mode.
I feel like a 0.1x engineer most days.
The article starts "Kurt Vonnegut, who was born 100 years ago this month". Today is November 9 and according to Wikipedia Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922.
Bank Man Fried
It’s likely that bronzes were melted down, not that they corroded away.
I keep seeing these headlines, and I keep really trying to feel sorry for these people that are potentially loosing their arses. However, I just can't get there.

NFTs are the ones I'm really LOLing about vs the currency plays, but since the currencies are failing too, it just kind reveals the house of straw the whole thing truly is.
Sure, but if nothing else, you can use federal reserve notes to pay your taxes. FTT can be used for what now?
> Every new front end feature just feels like such a chore. You tire quickly of building new CRUD endpoints and pages pretty quickly.

I was at this point with my last job (and the job before that... and the job before that...) and finally found a "cool hip" startup where we're doing something fun and exciting that's more "app-like" and less CRUD. Worth a shot trying to find somewhere different that could still use your skills!

> But sometimes the bugs are ones that I introduced, so anyone who has worked in this business long enough knows it weighs on you a bit to be the cause of a problem.

Classic joke that I heard is that the average tenure at a tech company is 16 months, because that's how long it takes for the code you wrote on your first day to come back and bite you in the ass :)

I try and take every bug that I introduce as a learning opportunity. I'd like to say I introduce less bugs now than I did a decade ago, but that's definitely not the case.

> I tried to get into strongly typed functional programming a bit, but realised after a couple of years doing Haskell that it just swaps one set of problems for another.

I agree with this... they are niche and have their place, but I don't particularly enjoy writing in them.

> I've always liked games, currently trying to do a late career change into gaming. I think I just need to believe in the underlying product, then I can put up with the pain. Pay is dreadful though.

Not only the pay, but the hours are often horrible and you have to deal with the worst people on Earth... gamers. I don't think it's possible to release a game these days without facing heavy criticism no matter what you do. Maybe if you're just a small cog in a big machine, you'd be insulated from it, but then you don't have any autonomy.

> Getting a new job now is quite time consuming, you need to solve riddles online while someone watches.

Tech hiring is broken. No matter how bad a job I'm at gets, the dread of having to do interviews usually keeps me at it for a year or so more than I normally would have stayed.

> I think the market is going to become quite illiquid, maybe salaries will go up?

You think this even with the massive layoffs going around at all the big tech companies? I'm thankful to still have a cushy, high-paying job right now and I'm saving every penny I can. I have a feeling that the next few years are going to be really rough for everybody.
Drugs, Money Laundering, Money Hiding, etc. etc.

There is utility in a black currency for all sorts of illegal things
Were else are people having good conversation about this?
The Quest Pro is a step towards AR. It’s what is known as pass through AR.

There’s also work that was publically discussed about getting real “AR in your glasses” by Meta. The technology is just more far out.
The way iOS search is done by Kagi is a little creepy. You have to load an extension and allow it the ability to inspect everything. It then intercepts searches and redirects the browser to Kagi. I’m sure it’s what’s necessary to add a search in iOS, but still a sad compromise. Regardless the search results from Kagi seem much less SEO spammy which is nice!
Biden: Musk’s relationships with foreign countries 'worthy of being looked at'
Do you PR or raise an issue to every package you use? You can still use 2500 different packages for free. This seems like a good example how it would work well.
That’s an amazing article. It sounds like the he’s never heard of the kelly criterion, just makes massive bet after massive bet and then blows up. He does have ~1 billion more than me even after this mess, so maybe it all worked out.
Upwork. Much better than fiverr. If you work there a lot, you'll need to learn to vet ppl.
I agree that he is way too optimistic. And from what I heard from Meta's employee, their hardware org is just not that good and the high level direction is very lacking.
100%. Love it. I work at a bank so it's pretty awesome & rewarding work: barely any hype, tried and trued technologies that have been battle-tested to hell-and-back, and great work/life balance. If they allowed me to WFH permanently, I would never quit.
Have you looked at design companies? Boost Design is an example (Sydney only I think). Products with embedded smarts might be a good fit for your skills and interests.
It's not VR, but there's a whole bunch of high-dpi 15 inch portable "gaming" monitors out there for $300 or so. I bought one a couple years ago for an Intel NUC, and the whole thing is about as thick as a laptop. I've carried both my MBP and the montitor (and the NUC plus a mouse and a tiny keyboard) around in a regular Jansport bag.
Refs are reviewing the play for targeting.
They are banned on iOS but not on Android.
Makes a nice hand warmer on a cool evening.
Libre Arts – Weekly-ish recap – 9 November 2022
Well, it has no intrinsic value, so it's all psychological on the basis of what numbers sound low or high.

Sounds like my kind of asset
So you're 1x, Evan Wallace is 10x, and the pour souls in question are 0.1x.
Is there a decent guide somewhere of what is safe to remove? I feel like I should prune root CAs, but also like I would need to know a lot more.
Quit. Why Persistence at All Costs Can Be Deadly
I don’t doubt it, that kind of issue with navigation sequence is easy to mess up if you don’t prioritize it. I just meant that it being SVG is not inherently invisible to screen readers in the way that Flash was. It still means that they need to put some effort into organizing the navigation.
Does anyone know how Coinbase avoided this fate? I really thought it would be them to fall, but they proved everyone wrong.

There’s some key difference between Coinbase and an exchange like FTX. Is it because FTX had a token, and then leveraged themselves using their own token?

Binance has a token too. Are they in similar danger? It would be an interesting contrast to know why one exchange is safe vs another.

Here’s SBF testifying in front of congress in Dec 2021 that FTX is completely transparent and therefore safe: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRxC7XrT/

Consumers need to be able to research claims like these. Is there a way to make a “Warning: this exchange is over leveraged” indicator? Or is it just impossible to know?
I wonder what will happen to the Twitter’s third party clients relying solely on API. Nobody seems to noticed them.
Careful there, no reason to risk triggering an existential crisis on otherwise happy folks :P
zfp compression might be an interesting thing to try. In fixed rate mode, it supports random access too.
HN thread (no comments yet):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33539843
It's just another round in an endlessly repeating cycle.

Remember "Unicorn Devs"? "Framework Evangelist"? "Superstar Developer?"

In a few years "10x dev" will fall out of use, and we will have the next term du jour. My money is on "Astronaut Dev".
An experimental nuclear powered plane has flown.

And while no nuclear thermal rocket engine has yet flown, there have been ground tests.
But bitcoin is the absolute worst black currency. Every single transaction has a permanent public record.
so the article is correct?
Ask HN: How do you feel about Meta's name?
When I first heard the name, I thought, "Great for Facebook/Meta, bad for everyone/everything else."

My thinking is that I do not want one of the most powerful companies in the world owning and/or controlling the metaverse, either in actuality or 'just' ideologically/brand-wise.

I'm guessing folks don't care much because of one of the following reasons:

- nothing we/they can do about it
- there are still other, if less attractive, words for the metaverse (multiverse, etc.)
- props to Zuck for doing the rename - it was a brilliant maneuver, there's nothing more to say about it.
- the metaverse is not a thing yet, so nothing to worry about yet.
- it's not ideal, but now facebook/meta will own the metaverse, good and bad, whether they want to or not
- something else?
Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32938408

Likely this is the same script.
Maybe delete everything except Lets Encrypt and then re-enable ones for the sites you regularly visit that are now broken.
I'd be shaking now. Building a business upon someone else's API...
I read it as stonk to mean stock that would be a bad decision to put money in at any time (not just because it is overvalued at this time). Like GameStop.
What does “EEE” mean in this context? End to end?
That’s not what 10x means to me. It means 10x the median productivity, i.e. 10x a competent programmer.

I don’t think anybody can dispute that 10x programmers exist, Bellard, DJB and Carmack being uncontroversial examples.

What’s controversial is the distribution. Are 10x programmers bound to become famous through their outsized contributions, such that their number is very few? Or are there a large enough number of 10x programmers working in obscurity such that you might have one on your team?
Fortunately for investors in public companies, you can mostly sort out the crazy people ahead of time

By inspecting the growth mechanism of the company. Amount of leverage, yield on investments relative to risks, assumptions about future growth, management commentary etc.

Unfortunately for investors in FTX, they had no visibility or regulations/protections against their deposits being stolen
I agree, but at least a little compensation will do. Like free Reddit premium or something.
Book Review of “The Trap” by Sir James Goldsmith (1995)
Running into edge issues and always trying to figure out if it was my container, Podman, or SELinux is making me very close to installing regular docker.
To me, it was more of a publicity stunt to avoid government regulation around the world. Zuckerberg can say it's a "metaverse" company now, not social media. It just so happens that he's also enamored with VR/AR.
Sync Follows from Twitter to Mastodon
It's not exactly out of "thin air", since we are trying to be nuanced here. If you take out a mortgage to buy a house the bank does loan you the money out of their own funds. It's just that the seller who receives your funds will put the money back into the banks (not necessarily the same bank, but the money market is there for the banks to settle among themselves). So in effect the sellers make the loans to buyers, intermediated through the financial system.
Yes I am using Tweetbot and I’m worried for them.
In the early 2000's, I remember in art school I did a project that involved driving around the country, leaving tiny sculptures wherever I went. To keep people updated where I was, I made a Perl script that accepted messages and photos sent to it that I authored on my fancy Sony Ericson picture phone. The script would update a website showing the photos and messages in reverse chronological order. Took maybe about 3 hours to get it up and running.

I didn't realize I had invented Instagram. Shoulda spent a little more time on it.