skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's true but this seems mostly a software limitation, especially with quest pro / 3 which are true mixed reality headsets they could have you seamlessly blend in and out from reality. Other devices could also be integrated, like a virtual, mirrored version of your phone you could seamlessly use while exploring a foreign planet in No Man's Sky, you could mirror mail, discord or browser windows into the virtual world or get notifications synced from your phone and desktop, take voice or video (in avatar form) calls though your phone etc.

To extremely varying degrees some of this is already somewhat possible, but at the end of the day the Quest is just a low to mid-range phone running a proprietary nailed-shut android OS that's barely hold together by duct-tape. So Meta can't do much with the foundation they built, just like a tablet device its just a toy you aren't supposed to do anything real with it. Some of that is also the reason why Carmack left [1].

[1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/john-carmack-leaves-meta-criti...
This Nonprofit Health System Cuts Off Patients with Medical Debt
Apple isn't really in the business of low volume luxury/status goods. Yeah, some people will mock Apple users as status-seeking. But, really, everything Apple sells may not be bargain goods but they're a pretty long throw from one of those many Vegas clothing etc. stores where, at least figuratively, I couldn't buy a single item--or at least wouldn't even consider it.
twitter experience is a lot simpler. at the end of the day, twitter power users just need to tweet. reddit power users are moderating a forum.
This reminds me of some people who have been getting jobs recently as security for huge arena's in the USA just to see Taylor Swift live because the ticket prices were outrageous. haha

[1] https://www.insider.com/taylor-swift-eras-tour-nashville-res...

[2] https://fun107.com/a-new-bedford-woman-went-as-far-as-landin...
>is a lack of self-discipline

Hmm, maybe there is something to say about the addiction capitalism??

You cannot place the blame on individual here. This is a societal level problem. This is a failure of democracy to recognize and address the problem. Greed and bad incentives are the problems, again. They are causing massive destruction, again.
What design flaw?
Everytime I read threads like this I get very concerned. It's like, even here, people don't understand the core problem. Or are intentionally trying to shift the blame away from big tech.

Of course the state spies on you. After Edward Snowden everyone should know that. And thats a big problem because the state is the one actor that should fight to protect you from surveillance. But let's not claim that big tech is not the motor of the machine that is state sanctioned surveillance. Google allowed the US to read your e-mails. A yahoo software was responsible to access your webcam from the outside. NSO sold Pegasus to state actors.

That sounds bad enough. But if these companies would care about their users they would stop this from happening. Right? Of course these companies will tell you that they need your information to provide you with the best service. In reality they want to collect the biggest value as possible from you.

In the past you would just pay for a service and the service would provide a service. If the company wanted to extract more value from their users they would raise the prices. But today is different. It is no longer just a transaction between you and a company. It is also a transaction between the company and a third actor who is interested on spying on you.

The motivation changes. It is no longer about protecting you country or whatever. It is about money. And companies want to make money. And if companies see a legal opportunity to make more money they will take it. They will sell as much of your data as possible.

Now you will tell me that I should just stop using these services. But that's not so easy. Network effects are real. If they aren't real for you? Great. But other people have friends outside of tech circles. Now if you want to have a social life you need WhatsApp or other services. This is an even bigger problem in developing countries that are literally dependent on these "free" services.

Normal people wont buy a homeserver, self host a matrix instance and convert literally everyone in their friend group to element. They will go for the cheaper solution and just download WhatsApp. But they don't know that they are paying for this service with their data. E2EE? Yeah right, your Messages can only be read by me, you and Facebook.

This is why we are in dire need of anchoring privacy into law. People will go for the cheaper option. But if you are in need of using a service it should not come with strings attached. And if your service is only sustainable by selling the private correspondence of people it deserves to die. There is plenty of great OSS that just doesn't have the network effects of proprietary ones.
the way you calculate savings is not really true in reality. even if I can now do my work 4 hours a week faster. I'm not immediately getting a pay bump, my boss just gives me 4hours of extra work.

It won't give me 4 hours a week back, because my boss still reserves my time for those 4 hours.

My household won't have an extra 30 euro a month to spend on those dinners. actually it will directly have 30 euro less to spend on dinners. so yeah all those considerations make me cautious paying for more subscriptions.
I tried typing in a ticker symbol "ozk" and it had nothing. I tried typing the full name, "Bank of the Ozarks" and it got nothing. I understand it's looking for natural language, but I would expect business names to pull up something?
Call me contrarian, but I rarely look at how many stars a project has, and that's probably because I've started to be more skeptical of large projects by default. If a project is smaller, has a good README, isn't quick to ask me for money, and I can read/understand the code, I'm more likely to give it a star.
> what Microsoft did to Google 3 months ago.

And what Meta did to openAI with Llamas
> I am not much of a Zig-head, but the best compromise I can think of is having a few operators which purely and solely exist for this purpose. In other words, there is no operator overloading, but you can define, say, "#+" for any two structs, or something like that.

And those operators wouldn't have any precedence.

> If you want to take this one step further you'd probably have to allow users to define infix functions, which would be its own can of worms.

As long as these infix function are preceded by a recognizable operator ("#" in your example), I think that this would be fine.
Why would they optimize it if the service is provided for free?
I think this was a lot of people's first thought as well, but maybe we can brainstorm some other uses that provide a more direct benefit to persons in need, dare I say to society.
Peter Deng is OpenAI's new head of product
I thought about using twitter as notes app. they say it's the new google. but I wish they didn't hide my own notes from me
> Nintendo is an exception here from what I understand

Tangential, but they're an exception because the only games worth a damn on their consoles are always just a few first-party releases and they keep it that way intentionally. Nintendo is a bully with few friends.
This would mean companies can fire or put wage pressure much more effectively on highly
Skilled or experienced workers by onboarding low skill low experience much faster

AI will further consolidate mega corp power to a terrifying degree.
You gotta wonder how many generations of hardware can they got through before people stop feeling like its reasonable to point at beat saber (2018) as an example of the platform being good.
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All fundamental human rights are actually progressive political positions if you really want to examine them. For anything we accept as a "right", there was a time and place where people would emphatically argue it was not a right.

Human rights are not intrinsic to human beings: they're fundamental to our civilization. I for one look forward to the expansion of fundamental human rights.
Mac OS has had force quit for many years and desktop/workstation UNIXes have had "kill -9" for longer than that.
I searched in the US trademark database and it appears that Mozilla's Fiddler is not registered as a trademark. Furthermore, I discovered that there is a distillery in Georgia that holds the same trademark as well as Telerik. Could be that because the word in not that unique, companies can use it more freely? I am not that knowledgeable about trademarks though.
In the sense that there is no non-incestual physical relationship where a parent can generate new offspring with their own offspring
Funny you should mention Reddit, because IIRC Reddit itself started with first-party bots pretending to be users, manufacturing "social proof" to cheat around initial user acquisition hurdles.
Be careful with anything related to “chronic Lyme”. While it is true that Lyme disease can trigger long-term symptoms, Lyme has also become a catch-all haven for pseudoscience practitioners and quackery.

It has become so bad that most patients with unexplained chronic conditions who use internet health forums will eventually go through a phase where they think they might have Lyme disease. The “chronic Lyme” alternative medicine industry has evolved to cater to these desperate patients by offering convenient, albeit unprovable, answers to the question of what’s causing their symptoms. The chronic Lyme proponents claim that it can’t be tested for, won’t show up on normal tests, or can only be diagnosed through vague symptoms. As a result, anyone showing up with vague symptoms gets a diagnosis of chronic Lyme.

Their proposed treatments usually involve extended rounds of expensive antibiotics which have no proof of working and have not shown any difference from placebo in clinical trials of supposed “chronic Lyme” patients. Sadly, some quick research on the musician you cited shows that he has been taken by one such alternative medicine practitioner and has been attempting to raise tens of thousands of dollars to pay this practitioner for antibiotic treatment. I’m sorry to say but I suspect this musician has been caught up in the chronic Lyme alternative medicine industry without much, or any, scientific basis for the expensive treatments he’s being peddled.
on a default subreddit or a niche hobby forum?
> You are implying that AWS turns off the machine if this person doesn't spend his $10k. I don't know exactly if that is correct, but it doesn't sound like what actually happens.

That is more or less correct.

Machines that aren't running anything are powered off to save money. so if you spend $10k in credits running a bunch of useless compute, that more or less converts into say $3k of wasted electricity (if we say 30% of AWS running costs are electricity, i just made that up, but it will be some non negligible percentage)
The US Navy and the US Marine Corps bombed an area on the island of Vieques for training exercises.

In 1999, there were protests to get them to stop, clean, and leave.

This is part of what the EPA has identified as contaminants,

> After the base was closed, Puerto Rico Governor Sila Calderon requested Vieques be placed on the U.S. National Priorities List as a designated superfund clean-up site. As of 2014 the EPA has listed the following contaminants and ordnances at the western portion of the naval station: unexploded ordnance UXO, remnants of exploded ordnance, mercury, lead, copper, magnesium, lithium, napalm, depleted uranium along with other unspecified materials. In addition to these, the eastern portion of the site "may also include" polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), solvents and pesticides.

And to give an idea on the level,

> As of 2014, the Navy has spent about $220 million since 2003, to investigate and clean contaminated lands on Vieques. Since 2007, about half of the money budgeted for munitions removal has been awarded to 23 local companies in Puerto Rico.[6] As of 2014, "the Navy spends more money each year to clean up Vieques than it is spending to clean up any other former Navy installation in the US".[6]

Quotes above from here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_in_Vieques,...

From this article, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/vieques-puerto...

> Though no official cause has been determined, studies have found unusually high concentrations of toxic metals like mercury, uranium, and arsenic in viequenses’ hair and urine.

and

> Shortly before the navy’s departure, Carmen Ortiz Roque, a Puerto Rico epidemiologist who studied Vieques for years, found residents there were 30% likelier to die from cancer than other Puerto Ricans, with significantly higher rates of heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, and infant mortality. Another analysis found Vieques islanders over 50 are as much as 280% more likely to have lung cancer than other Puerto Ricans. “The human population of Vieques is by far the sickest human population that I’ve ever worked with,” Ortiz Roque said.

This was over 23 years ago and still isn't clean. Trainings were done with live munitions. The whole area is still contaminated.

It's a beautiful island. The people are great. But they're living in this mess that the government still hasn't cleaned up.
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Thank you, I missed that detail
This conversation is rarely in good faith. AI will replace jobs is code for "we'll pay you less and you'll be happy to have a job. in fact, we could replace you but we are sooo generous!!"

It's all about leverage.
Mostly just... the British have a LOT of history and so the stacked ranking of wars over the course of just the British Empire includes over a dozen more consequential wars than the War of 1812. The poor high school students have enough names and dates to remember!
Thanks! Meltano is primarily focused on EL, but we let you run any Python data tool or custom script as well, including dbt (Core) for transformation. So we occupy a space somewhere between EL tools like Fivetran and workflow orchestrators like Airflow/Astronomer, and depending on what you add to your Meltano projects, you can use it for either EL, ELT, just T, or anything you can come up with.
What is this? Just because you stopped finding friends after getting married doesn't mean that if she finds new friends it means any disrespect to you. Just because someone gets married doesn't mean they have to start depending only on their spouse for everything, just to keep that spouse at that "number one" spot.
"built itself upon them" is a stretch.

The difference is really that Reddit was relatively late in a concerted effort to monetize.

But it winds up at the same place regardless.
>Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

So we should do nothing at all then? And actively make the risks worse if it serves narrow national, political interests?
I guess the question is, how do we get rid of them?
"What do y'all think about this union idea?"
What questions does it raise?
... with temperature = 0
Yes, mr smith, it’s a eureka moment for capital. I’m sure the high skill employees will be just fine.
Weird to say the barrier to entry is “an extra $1000” when the headline is exactly half that, which is similar to the cost of a console or decent GPU.

Edit: and the Quest 2 will be reduced to $300 in a couple days from now
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Ask HN: Interesting APIs
I'm looking for interesting WebSocket and REST APIs to build hobby projects. I've checked the resources on https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis, but I'm specifically interested in suggestions beyond what's listed there.

The last Ask HN post is a couple of years old[0]. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25566620
https://archive.is/a3soh
Only with upskilling and opportunities to share in the growth.
Am I the only one who thought of the GrubHub ad music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-T3qKl6y-c) when watching the linked video?
I'm not sure I understand this issue. The existence of a standard package manager doesn't prevent you from manually vendoring dependencies if you want to. I have personal experience working on node.js projects where several dependencies were just `cp` into a directory and treated like local modules, no npm involved at all.

It's like `apt` or `brew` for system dependency management. It is there if you want it but you can just as well download a tar and config/make/install yourself if you want.

In many ways, it is like a standard lib. No one forces you to use it. If you prefer the simplicity of your own implementations then I see no reason why you can't just write your own.

But when you want the advantages of a package manager, and there are advantages that you may not appreciate but others do, then having a standard one built into the language feels preferable to having a dozen non-standard independently competing variations that the community cobbles together.
I think its more about a mismatch between our evolutionary past, and the modern environment. No different from junk food. Stimuli that would be adaptive in our prehistoric environment, is no longer so, but still triggers the same reward mechanisms. e.g. Seeing pictures of people on a social media app.
9 other subscriptions and I only have to work 0 hours a week
Good AI means you would get more out of interacting with the bots.

Enjoy humans while they still matter.
Copilot is supposed to tweak relevant system settings for you

That was my issue. I don't know whether ChatGPT was giving me instructions for the wrong version of Windows or just hallucinating solutions, but things as simple as "Can I write a script that, when run by a shortcut, toggles the desktop screen resolution between 3840x2160 and 1920x1080" and the output doesn't work. Then you tell it it doesn't work and it does it entirely differently, and that doesn't work either. If ChatGPT has no idea whether what it says works, will Windows Copilot? I have my doubts.
No, a tag like a hashtag.
This comment has absolutely nothing to do with the article posted.
Lol so you didn't accept PRs to "own the bots"? Your horse might be a bit too high you know.
Rails, Hotwire, a lot of gems.
On the contrary, you could go always off on your own and use any tools you could get your hands on to do private acts, think private thoughts (including writing/drawing them out physically), and make private art. That is increasingly difficult in a world where every tool you can get your hands on is designed to spy on you as a primary function.
Yes, but the qualifier is important.

>just one reason why developers don't like subscriptions.

The truth is that I don't even consider paying for new subscriptions anymore unless there's a good reason for it to be a subscription. I don't want to have to "trust" someone. Will they exist in a year? Will the software get worse and leave me with no choice but to use the "new" version? The test here is that I genuinely don't think I would use software that asked for a $0.05/month subscription either. That's just not how I want to use software.

If we want to talk about money, though, then there are still good reasons to not buy a $5/mo subscription. It sounds like it's a good enough deal, and in fact, I might even agree with you. But there is absolutely nothing that guarantees that this will stay the price forever in perpetuity. In fact, even a literal guarantee that enforces this would be worth toilet paper because if it ever came to a head, if the company went bankrupt, it would take down the activation servers and potentially leave you without your software.

So playing it from the top, let's say you get a new-fangled productivity software. Everything's great and you're only paying $5/mo.

- Then they release a "new" version. The new version breaks all of your workflows and you have to relearn everything. It's now awkward for the way you were using it.

- Then they add new features that are only available on a new $20/mo subscription. Turns out $5/mo wasn't really sustainable after all, so they need to adjust the price. Slowly over time, pressure mounts on the grandfathered old accounts to do something that will push them up to a higher tier.

- Then it all goes badly: Some venture capital and/or acquisitions later, and the software goes broke. Now what? Well, if you own it, nothing. If you don't, tough luck: All of your workflows are broken again, and you have to go back to doing things the old way.

For tools that are core to the stuff I work on, I do not play games like this. I do not care how sure you are that this won't be you. I don't want re-assurances, I want control over it.
Show HN: StoryBooks – AI-generated stories for kids
I hate that you can either get 4k or 1080p/1440p in laptops.

4k is a bit much, but 1440p is too low. 3k or similar would make much more sense.
Some of those shots to me come across as if the character's glance just happens to be where the camera is. It increases the realism to me.

Even if intentional on the part of the director or actor, there's a bias I think people have to assume something like "all glances at me are because of me". As in, if the events of The Shining were happening, without a camera, surely Torrance would look at the spot the camera happens to be. Or, alternatively, if he never looked in the location of the camera it might be interpretable as avoidance.

I think there's more to it than that (subconsciously drawing you into the diagesis?) but that's how I've interpreted some scenes.
> In July 2022, Meta raised the price of the entry-level Quest 2 from $299 to $399, citing a rise in the costs to manufacture and ship the device. It said on Thursday it will lower the price of that headset back down to $299 beginning June 4.

That's interesting, are prices coming down now?
Because you believe them to be human rights, but they aren't, and no what the UN says doesnt matter in this case.
I'm not sure it's a widespread belief, but I did some quick searches and the circumstantial evidence[1][2] seems to lean toward that. Wow, this is pretty strange[3].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35251905#35252948

2. Bunches of other threads on HN/Reddit/Twitter.

3. I don't mean this disparagingly.
The cynic in me would say that including a standard package manager is absolutely necessary to stop several of them popping up every year :)