skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replacing another entertainment source is definitely a clear sign of value, no argument there.

But I think you’ll find that your priors are quite a bit off at least in terms of “heavy usage” of VR though. Without any snark, I highly suggest talking to people who work in the industry if you’re curious.

Note that a new Quest 2 costs $400 with the price hike (previously $300, and sometimes as low as $250 when on sale). Compare that to $500 for a PS5 or Xbox Series X. I don’t think it’s correct to say that VR “costs noticeably more” or doesn’t have something extra to offer; don’t discount the novelty factor of VR to move sales.
If anyone is looking for easy ways to contribute to OSM I highly recommend StreetComplete (which is a gamified quests to answer questions about your local area) and Every Door (which makes it very easy to add/update info about shops or other points of interest (POI) near you.

https://every-door.app/

https://streetcomplete.app/
Same here in vanilla Chrome and Safari.
Ok sure, but how do you get the person's phone number in the first place?
It redirects to Google now.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230127104933/https://castlebri...
Yep that's why I said let's not even consider newspapers. Many of those have been using AI generated/content-mill/sponsored content for years and years.

Also why I acknowledged journal articles can be worth less than the paper they're printed on. Even if you were to select for reputable, high impact journals, those also often experience scandals, retractions, potential data fabrication, etc.

But then there are textbooks and technical publications, also being published in the hundreds of thousands globally each year.

The fact is that with billions of human beings on the planet, and media increasingly being digitized by default, and AI-content detection, I don't see how we could possibly run out of new content to grow LLMs...
I’m as anti-CCP and pro “buy local” as they come (or at least pretty far down the path)

But they’ve kind-of won… I just can’t feasibly avoid China with my pocketbook every single day.

I have no idea where to get a (usable) phone / computer that isn’t touching on them at some level. That company down the street that sells me a beer and a burger, well I guarantee they’ve got an add of Made in China.

They’ve sadly outplayed us (or our shit heel political and business elite) to the point of overly tight integration.
Honestly, I like the ability to drive in US for comparable distances that you would take the train in EU.

Everything happens on my own schedule without having to deal with people when I drive.
Project Texas: The Details of TikTok’s Plan to Remain Operational in the US
It is indeed the case in US. This is because we have way fewer cops than we should have relative to the amount of crime. We have 30-50% fewer cops per capita than France or Germany, but a big multiple of their crime rate. We have about as many cops per capita in Poland, and the crime rate in Poland is so low compared to US that when I grew up there, they would very much investigate and prosecute a lot of petty crime.
the anti captcha!
My Firefox with residential IP got redirected to google and that's when I checked `curl -I` (-I does HEAD request but browser did the usual GET request).
I imagine the lawyers came up with some bull like "well actually we meant that the 30-mile radius of your new clinic can't overlap with the 30-mile radius of ours"?
> I think architecting an Erlang system can be kind of tricky because you do have to think about all these processes sort of co-existing at the same time and how they interact.

I find it easier to think about each process in isolation --- what messages does it get, and what does it do with them; if it needs to send messages, who/where does it send them to and what will it get back, including errors or timeouts and not worrying about what the other process does in the moment.

The overall behavior of a system built from communicating processes can get hard to predict though. You build up observations, intuition, and escape hatches over time.
I’m building https://polyglatte.com a language learning website (and app) for learning with real content like YouTube videos, subtitles, and text articles. Ideal for intermediate and advanced learners.

Some neat features are that we fully parse the text and part of speech tag it, we have a system to prepare for difficult articles/videos with clips from easier ones, and the core idea scales really well to more types of content like chat messages and images (not public yet).

Our focus is now shifting to on-boarding and marketing. We have a few users that have figured out how to really use Polyglatte and they love it and use it a lot but for the most part, many users leave without seeing most of the value we can provide.

It’s a self-funded 2 person project and we haven’t monetized it at all yet.

I have no problem charging for it but I need to figure out how to help people really understand the value we provide and reach more people before it would make sense to do so.
archive.org has the original article: https://web.archive.org/web/20230127104933/https://castlebri...
Just goes to show that the current state of web security is about analogous to those $5 Master Locks used on gym lockers. Enough to keep honest people honest, but even the slightest bit of intentional attack is all it takes to compromise everything.
If reality has a left-wing bias, then you still have to control for that confounding effect.
> If I'm playing or writing music for people...

The whole point is that you won't be.

Like a lot of demand for small-time live music died with the record player.
Might probably work with zoom.com. However it doesn't close zoom.us, albeit code says otherwise.

https://github.com/zchr/zoomies/blob/cb75091152518b27a003ce8...
Dare I say, you don't know the definition of "cringe" based solely on how you justify the cringeworthiness of these items you are calling out.

Cringe is closer to second-hand embarrassment while your commentary is just being cynical and sarcastic (duh). Those reactions have very little to do with each other.

Cringe is having the audacity to wear Crocs on a summer dinner party. Cynicism is thinking everyone else is an idiot for wearing leather shoes on this particularly toasty evening.

Cringe is the feeling when people gush over Jack Ma's little wuxia short film where not only does he sing the main theme, he also goes toe to toe with Donnie Yen. Cynicism is thinking Ma must've had a spare million or so and Donnie Yen and Faye Wong must be putting a downpayment on a new yacht.

I cringe that this forum has to over-analyze what is, all things considered, a pretty lighthearted and harmless listicle. I cringe that I am writing this comment right now because why the hell do I care so much that someone on the internet does not know the difference between cringing and being skeptical. I'm soooooo embarrassed I hope I don't ever look at this thread again.
* slowly chants in the background *

ship-it-ship-it-ship-it-ship-it!
I didn’t even know this was a thing that was possible, let alone yet another, and Free!?

Thanks. I’ve been looking for something like this or some sort of sensor setup to do the same.
You normally do password reset over email, not SMS right?
Well, good job on it! Seriously I wish this was the standard for any enterprise SaaS tool. Debugging these things is always a pain without logs like it. Useful and performative, plus easy and intuitive to use.

My only complaint was remembering it was /log and /logs would 404 - so I just made my own redirect rule for it haha.
There was a story a while back about only fans bribing fb admins to ban competition or something. Would not be surprised if that was the route taken here.
I think it's perfect for videos where you need an answer. Product reviews to choose from are the most extreme case - what headphones should I buy? Many of the videos, though, we watch for fun and, enjoying the picture and the voice. I use is myself daily and have realized that I don't watch all videos for information and answers.

For me it's 30% for information, 70% for fun.
"it could still lead to catastrophic outcomes to you as an individual"

True, but an individual is vulnerable almost by definition. A schizophrenic neighbor may decide that you are an alien in human skin and kill you. (I have a friend who barely survived precisely such encounter, being shot no less than 9 times from a CZ75. I have seen the (healed) entry wounds, that guy was extremely lucky.)

Nevertheless it takes a government to ruin lives of an entire nation.
No tolerance for drugs? So you're going to outlaw bars? Maybe you haven't heard but marijuana is legal, and not all drugs are the same.
Eyeballing the TSA's checkpoint volumes (https://www.tsa.gov/travel/passenger-volumes), air travel certainly looks to be back at pre-COVID levels. And that's with a lot of companies watching travel expenses fairly closely.
I get a lot of those. Never download the image so I don’t know if there is an attractive lady or not. I do always mark them as phishing spam for gmail but it just keeps delivering more. I lost count of the free Yeti mugs I’ve missed out on.
I could also deter thieves from stealing Macbooks by engineering it to detonate the battery when an unauthorized user takes it. That doesn't make it right, or justify the collateral damage caused by the feature.
I agree that, from the user perspective, I'd prefer if all of the software terms and EULAs I sign online were more favorable to me.

But I think it's a major overstatement to say you'll save yourself a headache by not agreeing to one-sided terms. They are literally everywhere. This very website we're posting on right includes these terms in its terms of service:

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change or modify portions of these Terms of Use at any time.

YOU WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO PURSUE CLAIMS AGAINST Y COMBINATOR ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER

Y Combinator reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Site (or any part thereof) with or without notice.

Y Combinator reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Y Combinator’s sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending content from the Site, suspending or terminating the account of such violators and reporting you to the law enforcement authorities.
Great idea. And I get a Notification prompt that says "XYZ Corp would like to view MyName's AirTag location until Jan 27 @ 9pm" and I can choose to deny, or decrease/increase the time. Can remove them any moment, like when I receive the luggage.

Could there be a financial incentive for Apple?
I’d check your car or home insurance then. They don’t work that way.
You should post a screenshot of this!

I'm also impressed you're able to edit while dealing with a fussy baby; I find it impossible to be productive on a smartphone, and my son wouldn't go to sleep if I was standing at my workstation (keyboard noises and the screen are too interesting).
As a current junior developer with ambitions to do high level work I have fear that the ladder will be pulled up by AI before I can get to that level.

We will see though :)
I prefer Google's method of open sourcing their work. it benefits humanity in the long term, where Apples software generally benefits Apple and is only allowed to run on their "blessed" hardware.

Thanks to Google we have patent-free codecs, an open source mobile OS, and they contribute significantly to the Linux kernel, among other projects that are "available to the public".
Airlines don’t want you checking bags for at least two reasons:

1) For every bag that’s carry-on is one that a baggage handler doesn’t have to deal with (as well as reducing risks of losing it and all those logistics), so they can reduce the number of people they need to pay.

2) Unused overhead space is wasted space. They’re spending a huge amount of fuel to transport X cubic feet of space from one place to another. If the overheads are half empty, that’s wasted space. They want all the overhead space to be used so they have more space available in the hold.

That extra space in the hold is something they can sell. They can carry tons of FedEx envelopes, Amazon packages, etc. as cargo, and of course they can make more money from that than if they used the space for passengers who already paid for the space in the cabin.
This seems pretty cool. I was a big fan of Spire[1] and their device that monitored steps and breathing. Spire seems to have completely left the consumer market and I would love another device that does that stuff.

1. https://www.spirehealth.com/
>Automation and scale create their own threats.

I don't know why such a simple fact needs to be repeated over and over again. It's either naivete or malice that makes people ignore that fact.

A change in scale can easily lead to a change in kind. A party popper and a flashbang are functionally the same thing, but their scale makes them have wildly different implications.
What's the relationship between crime rates and number of officers?
Exactly, your basic appliances are actually quite simple. Usually one circuit board running the show, and some ancillary electronics to drive motors and such.

Your failure modes are usually "this module burnt out" or "the circuit board is dead". You replace the module and you're back in business.

Component level repair is generally impractical, as replacement boards are usually available at reasonable cost. I have done component level repairs on very old machines, or when the failure is obviously a small number of identifiable components.

I had a big window AC unit that was meant to cool the entire house, and the fan control circuit failed. Simple troubleshooting showed that all functions except for the blower fan work, so I pulled out the board and traced that circuit. There was a very conspicuous power device on a heatsink, clearly handling fan power. Order a new component from digikey, drop it in, and I fixed a $1000 machine for $5.

I think most people would be surprised to learn just how repairable things actually are. Not phones or other micro-miniaturized electronics, but pretty much everything else. Our appliances are built on an assembly line out of discrete modules hooked together. You can just replace modules until something works.
The same happens with any user agent.
Spotify + Anki is an app that helps you learn to recognize songs directly within the Anki flashcard program. It's based upon an integration with your personal Spotify account, and uses your followed artists to generate Anki cards. The card itself triggers playback of a given song (at a random location) on your device and asks you to recall the artist.

There's a demo video on the homepage: https://www.zdone.co/
Thanks for sharing. I like! One of my own current side hustles involves creating and selling t-shirts, hoodies, caps, etc. just like you. And also like you, I had ZERO luck trying to sell them in my own store (Shopify, WooCommerce). However, when I listed them on popular DTG-type sites, they started selling, and now sell several hundred $ per month. I'm talking Teepublic, Redbubble, Spreadshirt, etc. I didn't initially want to go that route because I thought making $2 or $3 per shirt sounded pretty crappy when I could have my own store and maybe make $15-$25 per garment. And also have control over my client base. But hey, a few hundred $ per month at $2-3 per shirt profit is almost infinitely better than $ZERO per month at $20 profit. I dunno, maybe give it a try? :-)
Stumbled on someone's workflow for creating AI cards/tabletop materials using stable diffusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsTQY3VMJ78

Might be interesting to you for playtesting when you want to show to others! Good luck on the game - I'm a big tabletop/board game nerd, so would love to play it once you get the game ready!
Python is not slow for concurrency: Python has built-in cooperative concurrency that's pretty efficient, and if you care about minimum task time vs running more tasks in parallel, you need to look at multiprocess execution. In the latter case, you are generally inefficient with memory use, but if that's not an issue, you'll be effectively using your CPUs.

However, Python is slow compared to most compiled languages for simple large loops over any data structure.

A good example is how ORM libraries will fetch a million rows from the database as a list of tuples in roughly the time the db emits them at (say, a second with C-based code), yet it will take them 100x or 1000x as long to turn those rows of tuples into Python objects with pure Python code.
https://thermalmodel.com/

A web tool for simple thermal analysis/modeling. Connect nodes together, classify as conductive/convective/radiative, set their thermal properties and plot their temperatures and heat transfer over time.

Free and open source.
https://guestrevenue.com/ - an tool to integrate Airbnb bookings into Xero for short let owners who want really precise accounts. Built for myself, turned into a multi-tenant app because in 2019 it would definitely make me rich.

I have one user called Todd. He seems lovely but I don't have the heart to charge him because then he'd expect it to work. Everyone else has bounced off because they are weak. Actually I might have more users who just never got in touch; I haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure it can't be abused for Bitcoin mining. Maybe Todd is just the strongest of them - he doesn't mind downloading CSVs and trimming off the rows that cause mysterious 500 errors. It's a test of character. Maybe it is being used for Bitcoin mining and works anyway?

I maintain it because it's a lot less painful than typing 300 bookings a year manually, but a lot more painful than if someone else would just do it for me. It's probably not a business, but if you disagree you can have it for £100,000 - a high multiple you say - but you can't put a price on potential.
So blame airlines for not being trustworthy & not providing enough space, not the people doing the only sane thing they can to deal with it.
With appropriate sample sizes and data collection protocols you can rebalance against such a bias.
If the bag had a readable tag and the database wasn't wrong, then it wouldn't be unclaimed, presumably. Not for certain of course, but you gotta imagine the most common error is that the bag lost its tag and now its impossible to find the owner.
cf. xkcd/810 "Constructive" https://xkcd.com/810/

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Schimidhuber says that his task is "to create an automatic scientist, and then retire."

Not long ago it was mildly insulting for someone to suggest that your writing sounded like the output of GPT, already (for most of us) it has become mildly complementary. GPT may be hallucinating, but it writes well.

So what if you connect it to empirical feedback? Make it a scientist. I don't think it will be long before these machines think better than us (at least most of us.)

The thing is, they don't have glands. They don't have historical trauma in their flesh. What I'm getting at is that these machines won't have human hangups. They won't be neurotic. They won't be HAL. They will be sane.

The interesting thing here is that life on Earth is actually pretty straightforward. In video game terms Earth is very easy and all the walkthroughs and cheats are known and available. The only reason it seems hard is that people are kinda messed up. Once we have sane intelligent machines to make our decisions for us things should get better rapidly.
MDM allows you to remotely wipe laptop and you get confirmation that laptop was wiped. If you are a business with more than 2 people and provide laptops to employees, not enabling MDM is just negligence. Lots of inexpensive MDM services for all sizes of businesses.
What good is a SIM-swap to defeat 2FA if you don't have the password in the first place?
Unrelated to the app your building, I've been reading your blog for a few years. Thanks for the content stammy :)
I am a frequent flyer. When traveling by myself, I don't check. When traveling with my family, I do check. In the past 10 years, at least five times we've had bags delayed more than 48 hours.

Like the linked article, I also had a bag lost returning from honeymoon. That bag was never returned. It took me more than a year to get the airline to provide any compensation. (SDR 1,500) SDR = "Special Drawing Right, roughly $1,300 at today's conversion rate.
https://www.chive.dev/

A cross-platform desktop app that allows you to play local audio files, organize them into playlists, and apply equalizer filters/change speed.

Still in alpha, working on some final features before I "truly" ship it
https://molasses.app

Feature flags as a service. People use it but not necessarily making money right now
How are noncompetes the same when they are illegal in CA
OnboardingKit by Unflow – free app onboarding templates
Maybe, if you have already been conditioned to use Chrome while logged into your Google account and you see that as normal. That ship sailed a few years ago I suppose.

The point of not signing in is that I'm not signed in, and so either your software still works, or it's worse than useless. Guess which one Google picked.

Also doesn't explain why Maps keeps a handful of search results around, right beside the dark pattern they employ to try and get people to log in.
Very cool, I've daydreamed about building something similar but always convinced myself I'd have to wait until text-to-speech was better to really incorporate all the sources I'd like. Awesome work!
Those "toggle buttons without JavaScript" are one of my pet peeves. It's always the same thing:

1. Someone finds out that you can use `:checked`.

2. They add some JavaScript to "enhance" their idea.

3. It's still less accessible than a proper implementation.

This example is a CSS hack and not something you would actually want to use in a production environment. JavaScript is absolutely necessary if you are developing a custom interactive element. If `<details>` works for you, fine. If it doesn't, you might want to look up ARIA attributes.
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I'm sure that works splendidly for some, but I used to commute into "the city" and while the commute itself wasn't particularly bad (thanks, Kindle!) it's still time spent commuting that isn't spent with my wife, my daughter, my dogs, or taking care of the neverending list of things that need to be done having bought an older home.

If my circumstances were different, and that time was mostly recoverable as leisure then it's absolutely great advice, but it doesn't scale to every person.
https://www.xythobuz.de

I don't have anything fancy to show, so here's a link to my personal website with all my projects.
Mickey Rooney's performance was called out as racist even back then, these aren't some new decency standards we made up along the way.
Nope, I downvoted because I don't like it when HN users quote platitudes with no additional context or elaboration to shut down a discussion which is more interesting than the one-line platitude.

It's like quoting Einstein's bit about infinite stupidity, or the Dunning Kruger effect. It's dismissive without being insightful.
ChatGPT got internet access and took it down :-O
There are armorers who already have all of these custom products and have used them on many, many movies. This movie cheaped out on that and had a armorer who was very inexperienced.
Yeah to the extent this is all true, it sounds like they have someone inside instagram.
In Spain taking a train costs much more than taking a plane. Take all the “here in the eu” comments as what they are: anecdotes of a certain country or plain propaganda.
Prediction: OpenAI/GPT (or Google's DeepMind, if you prefer) is going to cause mass unemployment in certain sectors of the economy (for example, graphic designers, copywriters, and many IT professionals) long before it ever addresses any of the fundamental problems that currently substantially reduce human quality and quantity of life, like aging or cancer.

In the near-term, AI will just accelerate the winner-take-all nature of our economy.