skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is this a common thing... "I would like to meet with all of the powerful billionaires of Silicon Valley" and make it happen?

Not impossible to pull off but probably much easier once you have enough key people blackmailed.
> ... and sleep helps!

I would have agreed with this statement every day of my life until yesterday because Nikola Tesla has pulled apart many of my presumptions.

For example, sleep. Tesla slept 4 hours/night in his first year in college and would sleep 2-3 hours in adulthood. (wikipedia). There are some explanations of short amounts of sleep for sustained periods as demonstrated by those that practice polyphasic sleep [1]. Yet these polyphasic sleepers, obtain "bodily rest" because of hours of sitting at a desk. Yet even this seems to defy Tesla's life where he would walk 8-10 miles PER DAY (wkipedia).

Despite very little brain rest or bodily rest, he was one of the brightest minds AND lived to age 86.

So yeah, I really don't know.

[1] https://polyphasic.net
Depends on how serious Montana is.

The most trivial 'bans' are via DNS or App stores.

You could tell all ISP's as a condition of doing business in a Montana they must not resolve TikTok to customers in Montana. That would remove most non technical users and would probably be pretty trivial to implement.

ISPs have a mapping of customer to IP and therefore could return different DNS servers via DHCP or return different DNS responses based on ip.

You could also tell Apple, for example, to remove TikTok from all phones with a credit card in Montana.

The process of blocking could get as advanced as the Great Firewall of China.

So if you want to think about how you would do it, you would need a technical method of disabling (dns, firewall, app store, AD policy, etc) and a technical definition for state (likely billing address).

The US's policy AFAIK is to not balkanize the internet. So I think the US government's position is that soft bans, such as pushing policy to individuals phone's and devices that carry out the policy is ok, but mangling app stores or DNS is less ok. This promotes more of a bottom up ban (companies implementing it on employees) than a top down ban (the government attempting to force it in a specific way).

I do think banning TikTok on government devices and especially on military devices or enlisted people's personal devices is definitely a good idea. I would encourage you not to think of things as black and white, but as grey. Top down GFwC like approaches are quite bad, app store approaches are kinda bad, policy on phones is bad (but probably the happy medium, especially if the policy can be understood by the person who has it on their phone), and changing culture such that people won't use apps from foreign adversaries who frequently threaten to invade other countries is probably best. Creating cultures of responsibility is incredibly hard, so that means an element of force is probably merited for this particular problem.
It generally seems like a bad idea to give a plugin an authentication token if it's in a shared environment with an untrusted plugin. Maybe obvious to a typical HN reader, but probably something OpenAI should mitigate or warn about before plugins go public.

Plugins probably need some kind of permission model for accessing credentials, and the UI could surface warnings when activating credentialed plugins together with other plugins in the same environment. And any plugin that uses credentials, should have some kind of "Approve/Deny" dialog each time it executes.

As a side note, I was using the letters CRSF as the internal name for the plugin I'm testing, so reading CSRF is messing with my brain.
Interesting that the second answer mentions the enhanced radioactivity of laundry detergeant. One of our smoke detectors briefly went off the other day as I walked under it with a basket of wet clothes straight out of the washing machine. Any chance that's what it was?
> and visiting quite a few SE Asian locations, even if it was 8/10/14 hours

Visiting the airport.
> Instead of capping prices, you could simply require any fees to be paid by the cardholder.

This has begun. Many restaurants near me have a credit card fee, as does at least one car repair place.

No fee of paying with cash/debit.
It's all about the content. It won't matter how nice this thing is if there is no content to go with it.

The pricing will ensure this market will be small and niche for some time to come. And Apple being Apple, we can expect locked down SDKs, walled gardens, and all the rest. Why would content creators target that? And with what tools? Which are the launch partners (if any)? Who is already working to produce content? What kind of content?

Is it going to be games or is this being aimed at people wanting to do meetings (which meta seems to insist is the killer use case). Or are they like MS trying to target companies with some fancy AI use cases around people fiddling with complicated 3d models professionally? I don't think anyone has nailed content for AR just yet.
Another sample:

But what was usual was, when the magnet got delivered, I had the crane put it down next to the cyclotron which was going to give us the Pi mesons coming in, and I had designed some air bearings for the magnet. We put some thin steel plates on the floor. And so that night after my magnet had been delivered, I went in and connected the tygon tube to the air bearings, and opened the valve, and now I could push the magnet around with one hand. Of course, the first thing I discovered was that the floor was not level. And if the floor is off by a milli-radian, that is, twentieth of a degree, that 80 ton magnet — 80,000 kilograms — is pushing you with a horizontal force of 80 kilograms. So you levitate it; it's very nice, it sits there, it's obviously not stationary any more; and then you notice that it is springing on you, accelerating like an enormous boat, and you try to push it back and it doesn't stop, and then you realize that all you need to do is turn off the valve and it stops. So then we did that.
Usually these machines come with obscure hardware interface cards (ISA card if you are lucky) and software which talks directly to those cards. Even though you can find a modern PC with ISA slot, passing through ISA devices to a VM/emu is the hard part.
The state offered them, but they weren't the only way to get one. Any SMART compliant digital card (which most major healthcare providers and chain pharmacies provide) will pass verification anywhere a CA state one would.
I suspect fednow is why visa and MC are moving now to reduce fees.

I can’t wait.
Even with 50 million people spending $3k, that’s still a $150b market.

But there are lots more rich people in the world than that.

And they will spend more than the initial cost, because they will buy apps, Apple Care, and next year some will buy version 2 of the headset.
It's hard to say without actually testing the hardware with a power meter, since throttling plays such a big role and power budgets advertised are often just a single figure approximation of a much more complicated formula.

I run a home server powered by a Ryzen 5800H, nominally a 45W part, but I've seen it maintain a power draw far higher than that for hours under sustained load.
I don't know if it's that serious, but personally I'd be rather embarrassed wearing an emblem or a logo and not being able to speak at least to some degree about that thing.

Reminds me of all the clueless people wearing Che Guevara shirts...
Trying Gnus as an Email Client
> Neckties were an essential business requirement for ages. At some point, people had had enough of the mostly pointless ritual and began rejecting the norm. [...]

Neckties are still widely worn.

Have a look at the demise of hats throughout the 20th century for another example.
https://buildhsr.com/ is tracking the progress (ie, we are capable, if slow). First up, Bakersfield to Fresno.
Copying isn't stealing.
When you have to work 60h+ weeks, you're way too exhausted in the evening to do anything social, and you'll lose the weekend to barely recovering. That forces many people to look for companionship in their coworkers.
An in-depth look into the technical details of the blocking would be interesting to read. Another point is that the data from Atlas VPN seems somewhat unreliable:

"Atlas VPN research team analyzed and ranked 85 countries in terms of VPN usage in 2020, 2021, and 2022. The VPN penetration rate was calculated by summing up VPN downloads by country and dividing them by the country’s population. The VPN download data is extracted from Google Play Store and Apple App Store using the Sensor Tower service for data in 2020 and 2021. The data for 2022 was extracted using AppTweak. Download data includes 45 biggest VPN providers."

From: https://atlasvpn.com/vpn-adoption-index
Try RAW Power from https://www.gentlemencoders.com.

„Gentlemen Coders was founded in 2016 by Nik Bhatt, an 18 year veteran of Apple. His roles in the Photo Apps group included Senior Director of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer. He also led the RAW Camera and Core Image teams, as well as the imaging team for the Mac version of Photos.”

App supports RAW from some cameras unknown to Apple system: https://support.gentlemencoders.com/the-future-of-raw-camera...
America is already imprisoning more people than any other comparable country and does not have all that much more crime overall. And crime in America is now significantly lower then a generation ago, despite all the fearmongering.

Fear in America has zero to do with reality of crime.
"JavaScript is a perfect choice"? My goodness!
This won't be helpful to anybody, least of all you, but I'm like 2 stories in ("August" and "Visitation") and this is so Neutral Milk Hotel that I sort of assume Jeff Mangum stole all his lyrics from Schulz.

To anyone else here: you can get Street of Crocodiles off the Internet Archive and it's a quick read (at least so far).
I have one I'm not using. My email is in my profile.
Very interesting point. It does make sense that Tesla who primarily worked in the field of electricity & magnetism would develop a faster intuition of inventions related the forces.
Also, a postfix operator fits nicely with method chaining.
Reminds me of hearing one of my classmates in college complain about how their boyfriend (at the same college, but a junior or senior) was having to fly back to Hong Kong every weekend to help run the family business. I can only hope that they were able to spend those hours sleeping or studying.
I believe both in the flexibility of remote work, and in the benefits of learning and collaborating with people in person.

I think we have gained and lost things in the remote shift. I feel bad for young people starting their careers who will never know what it's like to make acquaintance with their coworkers and feel at ease with them, to work on problems together.
Instead of air mileage, just give us the coffee. We can't afford the time off, but we can drink that damn coffee.
You know, that's the funny thing, it doesn't have to be like a Judge Dredd world.
I live in what we can describe as a suburb: large streets with parking on both sides, 2000 m² single-family properties, ample space for trees, etc.
But at the same time, school is less than 200 meters away. Drugstore on the street corner. Grocery store (a large one) 300 meters away. Public library less than a kilometer away. _Sidewalks_ on both sides of the street. Cycle paths. Buses on the avenues (avenues are large transit streets, streets are smaller and do not go through, so close to zero traffic).

The same way it is unreasonable to think that less car centric cities would solve all our issues, it's just silly to equate "non car-centric environment" to "dystopian cities where people die on the street whenever there is a bit of cold".
Unbelievable, that this is all you got from the parent comment.
Pricing transparency is a good thing. It makes sure incentives for everyone are correctly aligned.
I expect new hardware in 2023, not because of how powerful the current chipset is or is not, but because Nintendo is very likely losing a massive percentage of sales to emulators now.

How many units would the game have sold if Yuzu/Ryujinx didn’t exist? It’s even more jarring when you’re a paying consumer running the game at 720p20 and someone else can quite easily download switch games for “free” and play a much better 4K60 unofficial PC version.

Those videos are all over YouTube and have been for a couple of years now. I’d always assumed Nintendo was just trying to get TOTK out the door, give it time to sell, then announce the new system with a new Mario later in the year.
You could also say that Chrome had a huge _interest_ in pushing for browser-alternatives to native Apps because of Chromebooks. Some of that died down once Android support was added. The position on many of these by other browser vendors were that they were harmful for the web. You will likely never see implementations of these non-standard API outside chromium-based browsers.

The other thing which they are very slow to support is new codecs on the video tag. Presumably this is because they want to keep their "video playback" power metrics. the WebKit team is incredibly metrics-driven, which is one reason for their performance and power-efficiency.
MegaWang 2000 Turbo Edition hardware
This project demonstrates a new build of retro style audio and graphics hardware, like that seen in 1980s arcade games. It includes software emulation, an SDK, and hardware schematics.
So cool. Besides, who would ever need more than 640 KB of RAM?
Still the case, but similar to many other European states. Austria, France, UK and Sweden have the same requirements (lived there or have very close friends on these).

US roads are much easier to drive though. Even in LA driving is much more relaxed. That city is just built for cars. I think it's reasonable that the US driving test isn't as strict.

EDIT: Sweden also has a mandatory snow & ice training as part of the learning. You can do that in Germany, too, but it's not part of your driving exam. Makes, of course, perfect sense given the weather in each of these countries.
The API access wars are coming. What is alarming is that at the same time Big Tech is trying its best to limit access to data granted by the DSA.
"From the information available so far, the Apple headset will be fairly close to Meta's Oculus Quest in terms of hardware"...

So a $3000 VR headset with a FOV that's still the equivalent of looking out of a periscope on a submarine. Fantastic.
Didn't say I would enjoy it, but I'm sure there are some out there who would. I can more easily imagine it being productive though.
Nope. If you’re doing this regularly you get to know the hacks to get through customs/security/etc quickly. I would always knock off at least two of the following on every trip: museums, restaurants, parks, architectural sites.

Plus I had enough miles and a flexible enough schedule that if I did miss a flight, I’d just book a reward flight home a few days later and make a proper trip out of it.
That's interesting! I would have expected these things to matter for trademark law, but not for copyright.
This is a cautionary story for Android developers, but my main takeway is why these big behemoths should be split.

There's no reason why banning someone from an app store, for any reason, resulting in banning them from an totally unrelated online video site, password manager, locking them from 3rd party sites that use Google Auth, ... is acceptable.

Imagine being banned from a clothing store because you returned one item too many and then not being able to buy groceries from another, or not being able to get on a bus, or unlock your house.

This is ridiculous.
You can pump tcpdump into wireshark for a pleasant remote experience
Doesn't seem so. The article talks about a person getting a sociology degree, while the Reddit post talks about someone working on an MEng degree. Given the poster's extensive posts on Flyertalk and his comments saying that there are two of them[1], I think there actually might be two different folks doing this.

edit: Found an older post where the poster says they're doing an MEng Civil Engineering program[2]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/user/greateranglia
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/urcxua/is_it_poss...
Thought experiment:

Create a book which starts with a literal duplication of some art on page 1, and a completely unrecognizable work on page 1000, using increments of various artistic interpretive methods.

Use the same Prince pic to ensure the book and its works are noticed.

Mail a complimentary copy to Prince's estate just to be sure.

--

If I were the Supreme Court, I would:

1. Choose a penalty p1 for the first page.

2. Choose the first page N that was considered not overstepping in anyway, presumably by averaging the page choices of every justice (with all their agreement).

3. Set the total penalty to linearly go from p1 to 0, for pages from 1 to N.

Total penalty, P = p1 * (N^2 - N)/2

That N^2 should kick the ass of anyone that vexes the Court with such an interesting but contrived situation!

Oh well, better not.
Consumers don't want VR/AR that requires wearing a deeply uncomfortable bulky headset, that means facing a significant chance of framerate- and tracking-induced nausea, and that isn't good enough resolution to use for even basic stuff like web surfing.

I would be very surprised if Apple releases a device that has those problems.
As usual, thank hn for being educational (occasionally in a good way)
Fair, I guess I forgot to mention my point, so sorry about that haha

The point that I was trying to make is that a general Apple consumer doesn’t really care about those things, but does like consistency. So Apple waits until they are pretty sure that something is actually valuable to customers, before releasing it.
Forgive me, another sample:

So the President's Science Advisory Committee was formed and studied things. Where do we stand relative to the Russians? What is it they can do with these new technologies? What is the relative future? Jerrold Zacharias, of MIT was the spearhead of the secondary-school education reform, the Physical Sciences Study Committee, Biological Studies Committee, Chemistry Revolution and so on, and that was all very good, in my opinion. And also people asked, well, what is it technology can do for us? And it was I guess at that time, or a little bit earlier, that various people were involved in making the U-2 program, which was a simple recognition, long resisted by the Air Force, that the 35-mm camera exists, and that you don't necessarily get better pictures by going to larger film size and very long focal lengths. Those same people, Edwin Land and Ed Purcell and others — myself to some extent — made possible satellite observation as well. President Johnson said about the whole space program, that if it had just given us satellite photography, it would have paid for itself many times over. In fact that wasn't the "space program" at all. It had nothing to do with NASA. It was people, Land and Purcell, trying to do something specific for the country, rather than what NASA tends to do, which is to do things for NASA and hope that something will fall out of that which will help somebody some place — it's a totally self-serving bureaucratic enterprise.
The Apple Park part is delusional. It's just a big corporate office, yet they're ascribing some magical powers to it.
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Arch does this with certain packages, usually libraries, by appending the version to the package name.

And of course the bigger things...like python2 vs python, and the multiple openjdk stuff.
A system that relies on turnstiles is decades behind as well. Best practices in much of Europe use proof of payment and cheap monthly passes relative to single tickets, so most users have monthly passes.

This cuts down on access time, infrastructure cost, fare collection cost, and minimizes marginal cost per trip for users (i.e. zero).

In Germany, they just introduced a monthly 49€ ticket that covers transit (and regional trains) for the whole country.
Brightline rail has the worst safety record in the country. They're too cheap to even put up fencing around their track. The only thing Brightline gets is sacrificing a few lives to make a buck.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/799962246/brightline-nations-...
Affinity did exactly the same just now. They've released version 2.0 which is a paid upgrade so people who bought 1.x will not receive any new features anymore.
> If you want to draw this conclusion you’d have to calculate the cost of the alternative. What would the impact on prices be if there were no electronic payments?

The alternative is credit or debit cards with a tenth of the fees and no cashback, just like in every other country.
You are still safer riding that public transit then riding a car. And it is usable when you are too old/sick to drive. And it is nitnlike traffic jam were unheard of for cars.
The alternative is not "no credit cards", it is "credit cards, but with lower interchange fees"
That is usually against the card-processing agreement. If you want to have fun, you can report them to Visa/MC and watch that go away within a few days.
That's a ~9 hour trip including the drive and 30 minutes safety margin.
Why? If the merchant is paying an extra 1-2% for your purchase in cc transaction fees, why should they be expected to eat the cost? Why should your service be subsidized by people whose transactions don't have that overhead?
GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines
Great idea! I’ll put a bet on Microsoft doing this. Especially if Bill reads this, I’m sure he would love it.
The speed of change is very slow. The "greatest amount of success" in the cities you mention has been a decades-long process that merely reduced the car density in select inner parts of the cities.

We are not talking about perfection being the enemy of the good. The congestion of the daily car commute is as real as anywhere.

Ultimately its a question of finding accelerating solutions (the way). The article I commended on focuses too much on a certain value set (the will).

There are good things being invented. Tiny electric cars for example, that in principle could halve the car density. But remember the paradox that more space will simply lead to more traffic.

Ultimately the entire distribution of work, residential and utility/shopping areas must change. This is not shapped so much by individual preferrences around mobility as it is about real eastate and transport economics, incentives for developers, manufacturers and financiers, interplay with local government tax strategies etc.

Its a wicked problem. Being clear about the challenges can only be good. Blind faith doesnt always carry the day.
I've tried many times to work on flights, and failed miserably every time.
Couple of questions. Is Apple intending to use microOLED from Samsung after buying Sony's microOLED for this upcoming AR HMD?

Also are they intending to use Samsung's new purchase of eMagine optics for the higher quality microOLED micro displays with no color filter?

If so, are they then just trying to cut reliance on specific types of displays?

Also microLED != microOLED.
Gentoo ended my distro-hopping phase back in high-school/college student days (17-18 years ago). Top class documentation (the title moved to Arch in the meantime) and helpful, supportive and knowledgeable users of their community taught me so much about Linux. Additionally, although I'm not educated nor working in CS field, Gentoo got me curious about programming languages, build systems and compilers (as a hobbyist). I used it happily and exclusively for 6-7 years (then moved to Windows at work and Mac at home).

From summer of 2020 I restarted with Gentoo on my new home desktop.

Thank you Gentoo for everything.
Asked who? I can't find a specific scientist credited for naming it.