skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? It’s pretty simple really, at least if you’ve tried VR before. The vision is that you can play with people, hang out with your friends, and go to live concerts in VR. They can get there if they manage to achieve:

* a cheaper device so that every household can have one (think printer)

* less friction to use (lighter, faster start, no need to setup guardian and tracking)

* longer battery

* better experiences to hangout with people

I think anyone could be convinced of that if they tried like, playing Catan in VR with strangers (it’s mind blowing)
You mean that feature they got rid off a while back and replaced with something much simpler?

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/haptic-touch-vs-3d-touch-wha...

(I'm just ranting.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8h5WGyz4P0
Stop ignoring your Rails (and Ruby) deprecations
There's just no such thing as an amazing person. All people are of equal worth. It's a terrible concept.
Wow. It's $70 USD (~£57) 1 Gb symmetric here for IPv4 with half-assed IPv6.

2 Gb (but it only performs to 1.1 Gb) is $100 USD (£81).
That article doesn't assert that unions are to blame for prices increasing. In fact, the only reference to price increases are from an interview from someone getting off the train who agreed that the trains should staff a conductor, and implied that fares were increasing despite the staff cuts.

If anything that article supports the idea that unions protect people, and without them companies will push even more irresponsible decisions that put people at risk for the sake of profits.
Ugh, what's the kWh/₹ for that?

17k for how much battery? I'd need a minimum of 5kwh.

Lead acid costs around ₹20,000/100ah 12v or ₹
₹100h for 200ah, 48v

Roughly the same price for a lithium ion battery pack, ₹120k-₹150k for 100ah48v.

Lead acid gives me "warranty" of 5 years while lithium ion is sold by noname brands whose warranty is questionable.

Gel battery has to be cheaper and longer warranty than both and I doubt that
Much of Meta (Facebook) is so expansive, they have wide areas with only IPv6 access (not necessarily public-facing).
So subcontractors have formed an Alphabet Worker's Union, despite not being Alphabet workers?
There really should be a law about this; if a company abandons a cloud-dependent device, that company should be required by law to unlock the bootloader / open source the firmware / etc.
This is cool! Looking forward to Linux and Windows support seeing as that's where I spend pretty much all my time
I remember mIRC was just few hundred kbs as well
Did back up cameras save that many lives?
> In all honesty, though, "I have to look at the provider's documentation to determine like 4 URLs to add to a configuration" is not that wild of a thing? How much friction is too much friction?

If it's something dumb/simple like grabbing a JWKS URL and an "issuer" URL, and then doing JWT validation, sure. Maybe you need to make a weird bespoke request to some other endpoint. Maybe you need to implement some uncommon signature verification. It could be anything.

> At the beginning of the "standard" OAuth flow you can pass in client state. So you generate a signed nonce. Remember, you are starting this flow, so you mix in some user data (avoids CSRF problems), and you are pointing to some HTTPS site.

So you redirect the user's browser to the IDP, with the nonce in the URL. The user grabs that nonce from the URL bar, then manually navigates to your redirection-endpoint, putting that nonce and their own fabricated token in the URL.
> because it was written by under-experienced software "engineers."

I used to be an infotainment software engineer for an Auto maker. There’s this idea in the software industry that because the software behaves poorly on your car’s system, it must’ve been written poorly by someone who didn’t know what they were doing. In my experience it was almost always a matter of the hardware being stretched way past its limits. Your brand new 2024 car’s system has been in development for 4 years. Product people have been picking at the design and asking for changes way too late, and someone in accounting has asked the hardware contractor to cut more cost off the BOM.

My colleagues were tremendously talented. Some of the brightest engineers I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. The developers aren’t lazy or inexperienced, they’re just being asked to turn lead into gold and often get silver.
I've worked extensively in this space. For those looking for just an OCR solution MSFT's offering "read" is by and far the most accurate. Key-value, table and other information extraction is a much harder problem. Anything that can go wrong in production will. Documents with extra pages, rotated, blacked out, fuzzy. There are many steps that go into making document extraction really e2e.

The biggest enterprise users are doing thousand+ of pages a minute and also turn document extraction into a scaling distributed systems problem
Ad 1.: Multiplication of complex numbers is a very intuitive operation on complex plane, the moment you realize you need to use polar coordinates.
I can’t be more hopeful that this is true.
I and many other people had their accounts completely borked by the required migration. My lifetime license, gone, either through malice or incompetence. For trillion dollar companies, I always have to assume malice.
They could have falsified falsifying their transcripts.
I, too, am hoping to make Forbes' 90 Exactly At 90 list some day.
I was fascinated by the concept promoted by Pandora: "digital DNA" of musical works. It was an exhaustive list of properties applied to each song they played, and it fed into their recommendation engine so that songs could be typed and matched with more stuff we wanna hear.

It failed me miserably.

Digital DNA, or at least its implementation on Pandora, was woefully inadequate in determining my motivation and reasons for selecting songs in a list. I created a Lenten playlist of penitential hymns, and the cardinal rule was: "NO ALLELUIA" which is not vocalized at all during the Lenten season. Well my recommendations were liberally sprinkled with joyous Easter shouts of the A-word, and my experience was ruined.

I may select songs based on particular lyric themes, seasonal considerations, bands based on their particular location or affiliation; things like that. Recommendation engines just have this kind of sledgehammer that goes "Oh! You like <Heavy Metal>! Here's some more <Heavy Metal> for ya!" when my use case doesn't even care about genre, but I was looking for lyrical themes or topics.

Also unlike Pandora, YouTube has one big firehose of recommendations. It is unable to segregate them within a playlist or a particular session for some purpose. The only way to isolate recommendations is by account or incognito, and that is one reason I have 3 separate personal accounts for different purposes, so that my main account's activity does not pollute the interests and recs of the special-purpose accounts.
Here I was thinking it was merely a conduit to buying an O-1 visa.
That's the news here: Alphabet is arguing that they have nothing to do with the workers and Cognizant is their sole employer, but the judge basically called bullshit on that.
Do they have human workers for those hard to solve cases in the loop?
Yeah. You don't really need gigabit internet. I have a 2 connection setup for remoting into. Have around a dozen employees who do the same.

50mbos on one side and 30 on other. It works as if the connection is local so for me, 1gbps is overkill.
Russia isn’t China. People may have disagreed over the timing, but the Russians already seized crimea and interfered with US elections to advance their Ukraine policy.

Russia is a declining petrostate. China is the world’s factory. Antagonizing their biggest trading partners won’t be a winning strategy for many years, if ever.
> Where is the proof that this results in lower price of machines?

It does. Source: Confidential

> You are tr[y]ing to justify a straight forward cash grab

No; I provided context without opinion.
What happens when companies try to squeeze customers, layoff employees, and assume they're amazing while delivering less cool, less value, and threaten the bargain that was already established.
I love sweetgreen for this reason. It really showed me how salad and healthy western food in general can be tasty.

I grew up with a few strict options:

1. very flavorful Indian food of varying healthiness made by mom,

2. rich western foods made in a factory,

3. badly seasoned healthy western foods made by mom.

My mom never learned how to make healthy western food that tasted good because things like balsamic or the right balance of ingredients are what determines flavor (oversimplifying) in western cooking.

As a result, it took meeting my American partner and eating healthy food she or her family made. That helped me understand that tasty healthy food does exist.

Sadly this has left me with a strange attitude about food which is wrong. When I want tasty food, I am not quick to think of healthy foods.

Trying to change it but I thought maybe other immigrants landing in the western world had the same experience.
You turn the physical dial, and regardless of the outcome, you know that your input was received by the HCI, so you don't need to wonder if you should try again.

If it worked, great; if not, oh well; no need to look at it and try again though. That's the benefit.
The Mazda software works ok with the wheel, but using something like CarPlay with it is almost impossible without taking your eyes off the road for a long time. It’s worse than touch-screens in that respect: what will the spinning knob select next on a screen which has three separate panes?
The bill for replacement when it dies, of course, will be 3000 dollars in parts and 1000 in labor.
And the new one will still be just as slow as Android tablets in 2010 were.
"Blocking" in Russia was nothing else than an internal drill by KGB to check robustness to possible blocking in the target fields of operations, e.g. Brazil.

If Russia TRULY wanted to block Telegram, then Mr. Durov, who accidentally operates from and resides in Russia, would have been kidnapped and tortured until Telegram goes down or he hands the keys over to KGB.

Since Durov is still alive and free... the conclusion is kind of obvious.
I too find YouTube pretty good. But like you say I avoid clickbait and am careful with my likes. If it suggests too much I don't want, I'll tell it I don't want those.
Could you share a list of favorites you've collected?

I wish there was a big list that had links to the best lectures and the accompanying book for so many things.
My cousins got into Harvard based on their expertise in squash. Period.

The fact that they were really smart was just the table stakes.
How to think about technical debt
They should rename themselves to Qwikster.
My Chevy came with instructions on proper track prep and tracking it (if prepped as instructed) won't void the warranty. Didn't include free track days though.

Autocrossing is more my thing and I'm shocked any car manufacturer would try to weasel out of warranty for it. I've seen modified cars break and even catch on fire, and can understand racing tires could put undue stress on stock suspension, but a stock car that can't handle autocross? Should we expect parts to be falling off if you need to do an emergency brake or evasive maneuver on the road?
Tell HN: iOS converts units for highlighted text
What a great but deeply buried feature.

Select text like “450g” and scroll right on the cut/copy/paste popup, and enjoy the conversions!
> No body has been deprived of anything, it's just copyright violation.

The second part of your sentence doesn't follow from the first. If someone is violating a copyright, that someone else has been deprived of their rights to control their IP, and they're owed compensation. That's the system we set up, so that's the system we should follow.

If a rights holder wants to grant you the privilege of copying the data, that's great. Many of them actually do that. But that doesn't mean we're allowed to just violate the rights of those who choose otherwise. The response should be to consume media that is offered in favorable terms, not to pirate media just because you feel it's convenient.
Or give Forbes money by advertising, attending their events, sponsoring events etc.
Indeed. Touchscreens are extremely flexible interfaces, but they are not superior in certain use cases, especially where eyes must be kept elsewhere.
My Porsche’s console touchscreen has a Force Touch equivalent
This is changing rapidly and in significant ways, at least in the US

There's a lot of requirements that apply to institutions as a whole to clean up their acts and mature a lot of their security processes to even be eligible for grants. A lot of the wild west days are coming to an end, and I've seen a push in several institutions to wrangle unit-level IT groups into one massive IT organization for their entire campuses. Not only is there a lot of security vulnerability there, but it's also a huge cost center that can be squeezed to flatten the curve of tuition, but not have to reduce the salary of three dozen associate deans
My car has this problem. I'm not sure if it's CarPlay specific or not because I've never played audio any other way.
That still just sounds like people not knowing what they're doing.

In no world would automakers say, "Hey you know, we just did all of this tire engineering with this rubber, but let's change the composition at the last minute and not retest all of its physical properties."

So, why should it be any different with software? Because some sucker PM didn't have the brains to say, "We can't actually do that."?
It hasn’t yet, but if they do there are already alternatives in the Android world. That might the chance that Microsoft, Amazon, Epic, or any other company might take to launch a phone that allows sideloading.
Was response time of the screen analyzed at all? Just the screen itself, not what any of the functions a press would trigger.
Already up to pre-pandemic levels numerically.
Her last name is Savant! How could it mean that she is anything but!

Yes, I have never been particularly impressed by any of the 30u30 I've met in real life, either.
And with a physical button I don't have to look to push it. I know roughly where it is and I can use touch to orient myself.
this is how we teach students in all discipline. displaying a model and then offer better one, again and again.
Our car UX is becoming terrible for both touchscreens and physical controls. It could benefit from simplification a lot, and I think Tesla had many good ideas, even if they might have over-committed to the touchscreen.

For example, VW cars often have multiple knobs and buttons just for controlling the AC, which is far too complicated. If the car is electric, one might also need to put it into a regular mode (non-eco) to use AC and heating through a dedicated button/menu option. A better solution would be to emulate electric mirror adjustments, incorporating all climate control functions into one single knob - up-down for fan speed, left-right for temperature, and clockwise-ccw for zone/area.

Similarly, gear shifters come in various forms, such as buttons, levers, and sticks, or a combination of both, creating confusion. For example, it's common for AT vehicles to have a parking mode on the gear shifter, but also a parking brake button or lever. Sometimes drive, neutral, and parking are buttons, but there is a lever for multiple drive modes. The most dangerous configuration so far I've seen is where D and R buttons are next to each other. Electric cars, in particular, should only require a simple but clear switch between forward and reverse as their pedals already can stop and go, and many will be effectively parked if fully stopped, they won't roll.

Head units are also problematic with unclear and inconsistent button labels like "Media", "Source", "Input", "Map", "Nav", "Car", sometimes different on the head unit and the steering wheel.

In some cases, like Porsches, there are over 60 buttons within the driver's reach, making it difficult to operate without looking. This is not much better than a touchscreen, it totally distracts you from the road. I would even say that any interface with more than 4-5 buttons in a row that feel the same isn't much better than a touchscreen.

All these issues may not be as pronounced for those familiar with their own cars and are easier to see in rentals. And perhaps they are not big issues, there is still very significant room for UX improvement.

I would like to see more cars go in the way of Tesla and remove a lot that is not necessary. This is not to say that they can't keep buttons. But as I said, climate control could be one knob, the automatic transmission selector could be another. If the parking brake will be electronic, just make the car automatically engage it when parked and turned off. The content shown/played on the media unit could be controlled by another knob - up/down for modes and input sources, left-right to skip tracks or tune radio stations, clockwise-ccw for volume. And then sure, the rest can be on the touchscreen.

To sum up - many buttons (especially when mislabelled or when they handle the same function in combination with other inputs) are also attention-grabbing and inconvenient. Buttons or touchscreens - the UX in cars can be improved a lot.
https://www.prophecy.io/blog/announcing-prophecy-3-0-low-cod...
You and JP Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace can have words.

There's 195 nations on this planet. Should every company lower themselves below every nation? Without question? There's far more provinces with some lawmaking capability. How logistically do we even begin to figure out how to obey each & every single local rule?

These nations are on the internet. It's an unplace to connect all places. If your area has stupid beef, it's on you to handle your shit & make it so. The whole world doesn't bend to your local rules, it doesn't alter the rules of the entire internet.
Is there hope of ever seeing Ottertune for MSSQL ?
The email failed to mention the refund part, which I find completely dastardly on Amazon's part. Someone did the math on those "purchased in the last 12 months" refunds and then included it in the blog post but left it out of the email on purpose. The email is almost verbatim taken from the blog post except that product refund part. I really doubt most people will find the blog post and will just see the email and give up and I guess recycle their perfectly functioning sunsetted item.
Dude Winamp was a clean, simple and wickedly responsive UI that allowed a multitude of real-time audio tweaks and supported playlists with thousands of files. This was in the late 90’s running on 166Mhz processors with maybe 16MB of system ram.

Are you saying modern car infotainment systems have fewer resources allocated to the UI?
> That physical button that takes 500ms to respond is still as dangerous.

My Volt's physical mute button seems to be software controlled. Normally it is very responsive, except when the car is starting up. It kills me whenever I start the car and the volume happened to be cranked up from earlier, music blasts, and the mute button is ineffective. Fortunately the volume knob seems to be hardware controlled and can be used to lower the volume when the car is starting. It's really unintuitive since both controls are physical.
When (not if) the touchscreen goes out, large swaths of functionality become useless.

Physical controls are simpler UX.
Finally, we have an intuitive and productive low-code SQL tool
> Thus indicating a design flaw of being prone to user error, but nowhere near the "fire hazard" type comments that were going around at the time (particularly on reddit).

wasn't that an actual fire hazard tho? Gamers Nexus just paid to proved the cause was because users werent connecting them correctly.
Man the judicial systems of the world keep seeming like the new unchecked off their rockers loonies. Definitely feeling like the weekest link in democracy.
It is outdated. Streaming is now cable, which means the business model should revert back to be cable like. Get a couple of killer titles that carry the brand... Disney is doing this well with the Marvel titles. one ends, a new one starts, and they start putting ads of the "new" thing.

In short, without quality, there is no choice.
Evasive Panda APT group delivers malware via updates for popular Chinese softwar
To pick two highly disparate people, in your calculus 1 x Ghandi is equal to 1 x Adolf Hitler.

Now I'm pretty sure both were complex people both smaller and larger than the imprint they have on history: pretty sure Ghandi had many days when he got out of the wrong side of the bed and wasn't amazing, and probably even Hitler did some laudable stuff (history is silent on whether he ever, eg, helped an old lady across the street or similar small moments of useful behavior that most of find ourselves doing).

Anyway, I definitely know an amazing person; and I'm married to them. :-)
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> Or maybe they're just over-reacting to defuse the mob but I don't think that's super likely.

I guess you don't believe in "innocent until proven guilty".
Unpacking BellaCiao: A Closer Look at Iran’s Latest Malware
I wanted to fix everything wrong with paid trading discord servers
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I stayed subscribed but didn't use it anymore. Eventually, after finding the right guidance and finding my way in the market. I partnered up with some real experts (by this I mean consistently profitable for years straight) and made the best trading server I could think conjure up. Nothing gimmicky, just what I wish I would have had as a beginner. LMK what you think in the comments

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Durov don't operate from Russia and wasn't operating during those "blockings", so this theory does not hold up.
Took a quick look at digikey:

RP2040 - 1x unit price = $0.70
iCE40 - 1x unit price = $2.50

I'm not sure if low power is necessarily a priority for a debug probe that's always hooked up to a computer, but the RP2040 seems competitive with power consumption. From what I can see in the datasheets, they're both on a 40nm process node.

I've never used the iCE40, is it easy to get a toolchain up and running for it? I haven't done any FPGA programming before but setting up the tooling always seemed more intimidating than using a standard C or Rust toolchain for a microcontroller.

I'd still opt for the RP2040 in this case.

RP2040 Datasheet - https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p...

iCE40 Datasheet - https://www.latticesemi.com/~/media/LatticeSemi/Documents/Da...
Says the man largely responsible for shutting down the safest most promising most proliferation-concerns-free nuclear power efforts, the Integral Fast Reactor.
Lithuanian university locks out students again for not using proprietary 2FA
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643915. The student was locked out again on 2023-04-26.

Note that the link is a permalink, and if you're reading this in the future you may want to go to the master branch at https://gitlab.digilol.net/Siren/vgtu-article/-/blob/master/....