skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that comes to mind about comments.

I think writing blog posts may be hard, but writing a constructive comment is hard also. People are not good at it, and I often find myself writing something and then just give up in the middle and deleting it again. Not just because finding the right words is hard (especially if you're not a native speaker), but some of the same questions go through my head as well (Who is the intended reader? Hasn't someone commented on this before? ...).

Thus I would suggest assuming the commenter has spent more time thinking about what to write than you might expect. And even if not, someone else may get some value out of their comment, so even if it isn't you, give them the benefit of the doubt. The point about assuming they're confused, not angry, is spot on I think.

There is probably a connection to the point about writing becoming harder with more experience. Each sentence you write will trigger more warnings in your head, or it might become harder to put yourself in someone else's shoes. To keep going, you probably have to learn to just accept and expect imperfection and just keep going, cut the editorial phase short at some point and just publish or you'll never get done.

The next presumably angry/ignorant/dumb commenter you encounter may have just done that, and by necessity. You never know.
Why is "You might have cancer" even an email at all? Shouldn't that be done face to face?

When I was diagnosed with the cancer the nurses wouldn't even tell me I had cancer until I was sitting down with the haematologist, even so far as going to tell me when they asked me to come in to discuss my blood test that, "Don't worry that your appointment is in <St. Cancer wing>, that's just where our department is based". ( I didn't believe them, I was feeling incredibly rough at the time, cancer made sense. )
Pretty extreme hot cake, don't you think?
Even if that where possible, I doubt that the accuracy of the eye-tracker is sufficiently high for this approach to work.
So was xrOS a red herring?
If the code is tied to a physical process, this will likely not change.
What changes is the sensor, it's transfer curve or the mean to communicate the reading, but how to treat the value does not change so much over time.
It is far more than the moderators of Stack Overflow, which is just one of 181 Stack Exchange sites. This is a general strike, in response to policies, blanket statements about moderators, and secret moderator directives that applied to all sites. Moderators have publicly announced strike actions across the range of sites, including subjects as diverse as Cooking and Astronomy.

See https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389812/167145 for starters.
I was part of a similar project (as a control) the majority of people who claimed synesthesia did not see any kind of benefit compared to those that didn't.

But a small cadre (I'd have called the people with actual synesthesia) were spectacularly good at some of those tasks.

Another task was doing maths with notes. You got to specify the numbers attached to the sounds.

It'd be like beep-beep-bop and they'd shout 14! Or whatever it was
Host for free in the cloud: https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
I think they meant the size of the res.

During WW2 blowing up dams did happen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
The first video shows diagonal rows of.. creatures, reminiscent maybe of crabs, or maybe flowers. They are pretty clearly visible once you repeat the video several times, and watch the black empty spaces between color lines, instead of the lines themselves (much like Castaneda describes it).

The second one contains some intricate pattern or maybe letters, but still more like flowers. I was unable to make out any definite shapes.

The third one contains letters in the vertical columns. I could not make out enough to read a complete message, but certain letters, like R, S, or E in the left columns are pretty clearly visible after several repetitions. The largest fragment I could detect with enough certainty is ...ERS IS THE... in the leftmost column.

Disclaimer: absolutely clean, no psychedelic or other mind-altering substances.
The demo of Vision Pro shows a virtual keyboard for a bit. That means it supports gestures (with hands and eyes) and typing on the keyboard.
Computers and peripherals have been coming closer to our bodies for decades.

Think of the first mobile phones and how strange it was to see people talking on the street.

Now, we have headphones with ANC.

So, something for eyes might very well be the next step.
I've recently compiled my JSON parser with Borland Turbo C compiler (from 1989) on FreeDOS. It feels good to see the code builds with compilers covering 34 years. ANSI C is still remarkable.
London is not representative of England, it's basically a different country.
Its not that it is immoral, just that it indicates management lacks the imagination of what to do with it which can be problematic if it is a competitive industry.
SwiftUI, RealityKit, ARKit, Xcode, Reality Composer Pro, Unity ... give me a break :)

These device specific environments and technologies are cumbersome to learn, will exclude everybody with a different device, usually change rapidly which makes code maintenance a nightmare and at some point simply die like flash.

I will start developing for 3D devices when we have a standard similar to HTML or when 3D elements are part of the HTML standard.

A text based way to describe how elements are positioned in space and what attributes they have. With JavaScript support for interaction.

Looks like there is "X3D":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D

At a first glance, it looks a bit like a 3D version of SVG? That could be a good starting point.
Often the right prompt and hacks are way beyong the trivial tricks given in this article. Or for that matter, the course OpenAI created along with Deeplearning.ai.I wish there is a great compilation somewhere
Since you seemed to appreciate logical fallacies, your argument starts with an appeal to emotion [0], then ends with ad hominem [1]. There's no point in your argument, nor in your personal attack, since nobody denied the war or mentioned anything about it in this thread of ours. Siding with the victim doesn't suddenly make your logic perfectly sound, and it doesn't make your peers side with the aggressors, either. Let's keep discussions civil, shall we?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Being the victim of an aggressor does not automatically make everything the Ukrainian government says true. That's bad logical thinking.
It suggests that most of the rich media (text/image/video) we interact with have yet to find a compelling application to be represented in 3D.
> Angry Birds became a multi-billion dollar franchise for being one of the first iPhone games.

It's sobering to think this has now been so long ago but still: this is absolutely not true. Angry Birds came out end of 2009 and games were available for more than a year by then. See top 2008 here https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/12/apple-reveals-most-do... and top 2009 here https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/12/09/the-most-popular-iph...
> If there's any truism to parenting (and education) its that there's no one size fits all solution

So a pledge to try to enforce a one size fits all solution is dumb as hell yes?
The killer app is your current workstation. This thing is worth it alone just by virtue of being able to expand my workstation to an indefinite number of virtual monitors wherever I am alongside my laptop.

This is possible on current VR headsets, but the resolution isn't there for any of them, including the Meta Quest Pro. This is the first one with resolution enough to push it over the threshold.
There is also the fact that the AMD CPU is newer, has a 50% higher TDP, and is built on a smaller node, but is far from providing 50% better performance than the M2 [0]

On the other hand, I don't own a Mini, nor I'm on the market for a mini PC, but I don't feel like dropping $800 for a prebuilt PC unless they provide stellar support and warranty, and chinese OEMs aren't really known for that.

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/M2-vs-R9-7940HS-vs-M1_14521_14...
> At USD$3500, who is it for?

I thought it would be absurd to be wearing these goggles in the street. Then I thought that at home it would also be strange being with the family with those things on the top of your head. I thought "This is perfect for people who live alone". And then it dawned on me: the killer app for this is p0rn.
> Like most things with covid, the null hypothesis was inverted. Instead of assuming that like the vast majority of viruses, natural immunity was a thing, they inverted it to assuming that natural immunity was not a thing until proven otherwise.

This is not "inverting the null hypothesis", it's the precautionary principle. The danger is unknown, there were indications that the virus was spreading rapidly and ICUs in certain pockets of the world filled up quickly early on, so it's better to be too careful than not careful enough.

Let's just look back at 1918. 17-50 million dead who'd have loved to have had the option for a more cautious handling of the situation. I'm glad we didn't have to repeat that, even though some of the measures definitely went to far, especially in hindsight.

> Living in Boulder, one of my favorite things was noticing how the same exact people who refuse to eat genetically modified vegetables for produce of any kind elevated a genetic products efficacy above the organic immunity provided by the human body fighting off the actual virus.

What does this have to do with living in Boulder?

Living in a Nordic country, one of my favourite things was noticing how the exact same people that have no problem with GMO food were talking about WHO and Bill Gates running gene experiments on the world populace with mRNA vaccines.

> No matter your position on natural immunity from covid, I think we can all agree that a person refusing to eat genetically modified produce having this opinion is irrational and inconsistent.

Just because you don't agree with their reasons or don't know them does not make their behavior irrational or inconsistent. One could argue that a single shot (or 2-3) with a well-understood mechanism vaccine against a pandemic virus is worth the risk while daily nutrients coming from GMO plants are not worth that risk for personal health and the environment impacted by it. I don't share most of that view, but I don't consider anybody holding it to be irrational. So, no, we can't all agree on that.

> I think I eventually concluded that the vast majority of the public are mathematically and statistically illiterate,

Math education levels in the world, especially in North America, leave a lot to be desired, I agree with that. But let's not call everybody illiterate who is of differing opinion. Especially as somebody who accuses others of ad hominem and may themselves need a refresher for concepts like "null hypothesis".
React VR: https://developers.facebook.com/videos/f8-2017/react-vr-buil...
The very first paper published by Apple's machine learning group, in 2016, was about using GANs to generate synthetic training data sets. The examples they used were eyes and hands.
> please stop doing drugs, they're surely harming you too much

Once Ukraine is within striking distance of the supply lines to Crimea how will Russia supply it?.

Perhaps via the bridge have already shown they have no issue blowing up?.
To everyone complaining about the price, let's add Steve Ballmer to the studio, he will give some weight to your words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycUOENFIBs
To add a data point regarding early access to internet, I know of a <14yo kid who was learning digital art from yt, using iPad apps to draw, and sharing them on fora, and finding community online when they felt unable to connect with their peers in school. There were negatives to that experience too, and it could have turned out much worse. But completely prohibiting mobile usage is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
In hindsight, much more important than closing schools.
Car prices like Tesla are a no brainer because the market was already here.

With iphones you suddenly had a multipurpose device for relative little.

With this, we know the market and it's not strong by any means
Doesn't really seem necessary unless one is claiming that the image is real. For the image in this post, it seemed obviously fake to me, so I didn't feel the need to label it as AI-generated.
All 360 models are susceptible to the "reset glitch hack (RGH)" more commonly known as voltage spiking the CPU

The 360 "Slim" units are extremely reliable, with the 360 "E" units even further die shrunk but using much cheaper components
> watchOS didn’t really have one.

What? It's had a few over the course of the product. One of its amazing feature sets is the workout system, general health monitoring, etc.
Huh? Like what? Never had that happen.
This type of view pretends to be smart, but only until you personally get robbed or mistreated. Then such people quickly learn that sometimes there's black and white. Seen many times.
Homesepot $44K pre-fab house
Both dams and human conflict are pretty ancient. China alone has like 10 stories in their historical record like this.
The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023
> Mastodon is not P2P/decentralized

Mastodon is decentralized, because there is no central server. However, it is not distributed.
Turns out you don't need to cram SQLite into a Cloudflare worker anymore. https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-d1/
The canal was not working until last year. It's questionable how much agriculture has been revived in that time.
> Especially because I assume that you weren’t allowed to read comic books during class.

But we were able to bring them to school.
TOOL album artwork? :-D
All of these depend on the individual. I've never had a wrist watch since I finished college(used for timekeeping in exams). Mostly because never needed it. Mobile phones were out by then, and you had a watch and much more in it. Its just that use case for me died out. I'm also into swimming, and other exercises(kettlebell), but the fitness features don't seem to be attractive to me either.

I didn't find the steps tracker etc wearables attractive either. It felt most people wearing them were interested in measuring and reporting things, than doing the actual workout.

But I just looked up now and the Wikipedia page for Apple watch says they sold more than 100 million units so far. And now have a fairly large portion of market for watches world wide.

Different people have different use cases, likes and dislikes. And there's also the additional public mood factor which is very hard to measure and understand. Based on that this product could be a huge success.
When it comes to apple the consumer version is the development version.
India already have the reputation for their "IT support departments" calling everyone in the world every few months to try to gain access to their computer, also known as social engineering, a form of hacking. Many of their operation centers have been exposed, yet the Indian government has not been able to stop it. China also has 1.4 billion people, and they indeed are more known than India for being a serious black hat threat. But if you ask the average person what kind of hacker they are more familiar with, they will probably recall the 10+ times they were personally called by a hacker with a strong Indian accent.
It's probably the most expensive product launch price since Jobs returned to Apple.

Apple probably considers Apple Vision as an alternative, not a compliment, to desktop computing.
xrOS was likely one contender for the project until Marketing and execs came together on the final names. They chose a few and trademarked a number of them: https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/23/reality-pro-os/#:~:text=As%20...
> That strikes me as gross miscalculation, not really logistics

The convoy stopped because they likely ran out of fuel and other supplies this is very much a logistics thing.
My HA platform project started in 2013. Every few months or so I check back to see if HA has progressed far enough that I can ditch one of the last custom apps in my life.

It's getting there. But it's not quite there yet. Last I checked the logging still saves every change, it's not easy to set up so that it will only save average/min/max over time to save SD wear.

Creating new integrations is easy but still not quite a five minute job like it is with my extension API(https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices).

I don't think their integration API has quite as much of a "Narrow waist" as I would like. It seems like extensions are somewhat tightly coupled(I looked at trying to make an adapter to use HA extensions in standalone scripts but it seemed very hard).

That doesn't exactly seem ideal for avoiding brittleness.

And updates still seem to break stuff on HA occasionally, plus it's a large platform that I just haven't seen many people talk about aside from enthusiasts, who tend to downplay problems with FOSS apps.

But yet, having custom software in one's life is generally IMHO far more of a liability than an asset.

So what I actually do is just use YoLink and Google assistant for everything I possibly can, and use my custom software for video recording and unusual stuff YoLink doesn't do, and I'm pretty happy with that so far.

I'd love to have a one size fits all "If it need automating, use this" platform, and HA seems like it's got the potential.... but just using the YoLink proprietary platform is the lazy, trouble free, super cheap way.
Apple Watch was useless but looks cool and is just a watch so people bought it as a fashion accessory. This is useless but looks dumb so will
flop.
128MB RAM upgrades are quite common in the origina Xbox scene, especially these days

Some mad scientists (read: enterprising individuals) have even figured out how to gain 256MB or 512MB of memory in their units
This is true about it being an external PSU, but it is nowhere near 1/2 the size of the computer.

I have one because I was able to get an i5 that was passively cooled, so great for a Plex server that's second hand for only £100. The PSU is more like 1/8th, maybe smaller.
https://t.me/jurnko/7938 [Ukrainian language]

Here’s a post from Kherson journalist with breakdown of Russian propagandist reactions to the situation for those who still think it’s not Russian orchestrated explosion.
I see the words "WE LOVE YOU" in the negative space in the first video.
I have been hunting for hours to get details on the field of view and pass through quality.
That seems to be a way to define 3D objects and render them in 2D html.

This approach would be useful if 3D devices let you render a view for each eye. And report head and hand movements as events. So one would build a whole 3D engine with the current Browser APIs.

The approach I was thinking about was to tell the 3D device "This object is located at x,y,z position 123,40,8". And the device does the rendering. It's probably much faster, as the device probably has a lot of hardware optimized for 3D rendering. Let alone things like AR, where you have to analyze a given video input, figure out that there is a real table in a certain position in space where you can put 3D objects on, calculate the physical interaction and shadows etc.

Not sure which approach is better. Time will tell.
> You don't own your phone any less because the manufacturer chose to glue it together rather than use screws.

That's because the glue is equal-opportunity. It doesn't give them a back door while blocking me.
Did you mean Microsoft HoloLens?
IANAL but my understanding is that violating the ToS is only ever a problem if your crawler decides to "sign-in", as that constitutes agreeing to the terms of the ToS.

Further, old.reddit.com doesn't gate any content (even NSFW stuff) behind a sign-in page (at least for now)
It actually works with your Mac too
Stress, low wages, even suicides happen in American workplaces too. I lived in Thailand for a few years, saw the sweatshops (garments, backpacks), I know what they pay. It didn't look like great work, but it also seems to differ from the cubicle farms I used to slog off to every morning only in degree, not in kind.

People on HN with good educations and jobs in advanced economies complain all the time about stress, burnout, the personal toll of the job, feeling unappreciated, disposable, and underpaid. I'm not saying we should just accept what goes on in developing-world sweatshops so we can have cheap running shoes and iPhones, but the problem of oppressive workplaces seems more pervasive and baked-in to global capitalism.

> Are there any solutions?

Not that we can address as individuals, no. Wages and working conditions will improve in China and elsewhere, just like people in Britain and America no longer have so many horrible sweatshops and factories full of low-paid and interchangeable workers (compared to 75 or 150 years ago). Read Dickens for example -- every industrial economy so far has gone through that phase. Then eventually the Chinese can sit in cubicles getting ordered around by an AI, while under strict surveillance, getting paid more to keep their consumer economy rolling, stressed and miserable just like Americans.
The OP "believes" that the Russians bombed out their own pipeline, a thing not even mentioned by the Western press anymore (it's all a "blob" for them at this point).
Agreed, I think they may struggle to overcome the whole “Black Mirror” effect. Feedback from my brother and parents (veritable Apple-philes) this morning amounted to “sounds kinda cool but I’d probably think someone was a grade-A weirdo if I showed up at home and saw they had a AR/VR headset / I’d take that $3500 and go on a nice weekend trip, play some golf, have a nice dinner, etc.”

While HN may be more “the target market”, I’m still fairly certain we’re a vanishingly small contingent of consumers, and apparently we’re not even completely onboard with AR/VR ourselves.
There are some quotes in Malcolm's book about Wittgenstein's habit of reading detective stories, too. Related to the question raised in the article whether going to the movies was just leisure or also philosophial. Taken with a grain of salt I especially like this one:

"Your mags are wonderful. How people can read Mind if they could read Street & Smith beats me. If philosophy has anything to do with wisdom, there's certainly not a grain of that in Mind, & quite often a grain in the detective stories."

(p. 32 in the Clarendon Press, 2001 edition)
> So the harm could be CT scan

Guess what CT scans cause (in aggregate populations): Cancer! It's literally a buttload of xrays.

To put some concrete numbers on it,

"They estimated that one full-body CT scan in a 45-year-old person confers an increased lifetime risk of cancer death of 0.08%, which is approximately 1 in 1250 people. Moreover, annual scans from ages 45 to 75 years could result in an increased risk of cancer mortality of 1.9%, or approximately 1 in 50 people."

Read More: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.12.9226
In what part of the video? The top?

The bottom is definitely covered with repeating non-letter shapes.
Not to say that you require this kind of background to upend 100 years of entomology science at eight years old, but

> "Hugo's father is Andrew Deans, professor of entomology at Penn State."