skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't confuse "pro-Russian" with "anti-bullshit" stance.

Finding Russia to be the aggressor and Ukraine to be the victim doesn't automatically imply you have to throw away all your mental faculties and gobble up wartime propaganda without questioning, reducing yourself to a binary classifier - "it says Ukraine good == it's good; otherwise, it's pro-Russian trolling".

War time is literally the last moment you want to take what anyone involved says at face value. The eagerness with which people in tech circles - including on this very website too - are jumping in to loudly signal their allegiance with a side (be it Ukraine in this conflict, or US in US vs. China threads, or...), whether or not it even makes sense, much less follows any kind of sensible reasoning - this is what keeps baffling me. As a teenager/young adult, I had the impression that STEM circles are better than this. The last decade has proven me wrong.
Why cant we have a single group chat of 8 billion people?

I mean what could go wrong?
If you are okay with cutting the spine off, you don’t need a big hydraulic cutter to do it (even though it is objectively the coolest way). Clamping a straightedge to the book and running a knife along that edge will cut a handful of pages very cleanly, you just run the knife through over and over. A metal ruler and a Stanley knife will do this just fine - heavy pressure on the ruler and light passes with the Stanley knife. (This is what amateur bookbinders do to trim the edges of books they’re binding when they don’t have access to proper guillotines.)
You seem to be quite misinformed about the war. It's openly known that Ukraine is running propaganda campaigns and intentionally publishes misleading information, to win the information war. Note, this isn't bad and in fact is encouraged by us western allies. We *want* Ukraine to lie. In fact that's how the last counter offensive happened. Ukraine ran a massive propaganda campaign about their "offensive" in the south, then attacked in the north. That's also why even western secret services don't know how many soldiers Ukraine has lost so far. That's also why we don't know who blew up Nordstream 1&2, even though the tracks point to a Ukrainian oligarch, as reported by reputable western newspapers.

But that doesn't mean that we - normal citizens in comfy chairs - can't try to look through the fog of war. No reason to go into the Reddit outrage mode. It's very possible that Ukraine has made a mistake or expects some military advantage from the dam breaking. But its also very possible that Russia broke the dam, to enhance their defense. Or it was an honest mistake due to lack of maintenance. Or it was a partisan group, who are active in this area. We will probably only really know in 2-3 months, when independent western experts have finished their investigation, anyone stating "facts" beforehand is just making up stuff. It isn't "victim" blaming to keep some rational mind in this conflict. We all know that Russia is a genocidal aggressor, but we also know that Ukraine is intentionally spreading misinformation, to gain military advantages.
>The technology is cryptographically secure, but not at all robust to much simpler betrayals, hacks, etc. If you trust overmuch in the tech and don't focus on less technically interesting but more fundamental threats, you're apt to get rekt.

Isn't this the case with anything to do with cryptography, encryption, and digital security overall?

Because let's face it: Who seriously cares if your password is cryptographically hashed with 40960-bit SHA-9001 encryption transmitted over TLS8.11 For Workgroups?

Just call up the call center and convince the scriptmonkey you really are John Dickus the Fifth and get them to reset the password for you. Easy. Done. No quantum computer required to crack the code.
I love Excel, it's amazing.

It should be illegal to use it for any critical issue.

We "lost" 1000s of covid cases back in the pandemic here in the UK because the version of excel they were using only had 65k rows.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988
15 minutes? Why so long?
How many degrees field of vision? Somehow this is not mentioned by Apple or reviewers.
if they keep this up the employees will start rethinking the value of corporate loyalty
Who benefits the most from the collapse?

Does it disturb Ukraine or Russian military the most?
Who will achieve military goals because of this?

Does it help Ukraine in information warfare? (does it increase West participation to war)
As the excellent video "Windows Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting" hilariously demonstrates.

(I trust that technology has improved over the last 15 years, though Siri is fairly similar.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJ0CytAsec
> As history has shown, you can only do so much to stop this.

History has shown you can stop this well enough. Try accessing e.g. instagram; bibliogram attempted this, the project is now discontinued.
- https://omscs6750.gatech.edu/spring-2022/required-reading-li...
- https://www.hci-books.com/review/designing-the-user-interfac...
Interesting thoughts about EyeSight. I agree that if I were using/wearing this, I would not care about the ability for others to see my eyes and gauge my reaction. This could've been added to a subsequent version of the device.

But it could be that testing showed that removing the device in work and home settings to deal with quick interactions was enough of a deterrence to devise a solution? Also, that being able to show the eyes was a huge differentiator from competing products?

I wonder if they had a few non-negotiables and this was one. They figured it was on the roadmap, so might as well lock it in from the start.
Simple: you don't see the wall.

The mask is not transparent. It shows the real world around through cameras. It can as well show none of it, or imitate a hole in it that leads into an endless perspective.
Yep, I remember reading an anecdote describing Wittgenstein's room as being entirely bare of books, except for some pulpy detective fiction novels.
https://mastodon.social loads in under a second, for me.
Ukraine needed to present a credible threat to cross there to pin Russian forces in the area. Now that it's basically impossible to cross the river, Russia can redeploy the majority of the forces to other areas.
Can’t access it, the cdn won’t allow me. Look like it’s akamai.
I'll welcome VRML back anytime.
Imagine seriously thinking that a society that had financed one of the largest militaries in the world on a partially ground-up/volunteer basis for the last nine years couldn't finance an internal revolution against a corrupt twice convicted criminal who infringed on his own campaign promises, the rights of businessmen, and human rights, and who fled to the country that had been threatening Ukraine ever since the 2003 Tuzla incident, while also keeping the Parliament running throughout the events and preserving a Constitutional majority of representatives.

Nah, it's all the US, of course. Ukrainians can't do shit in their own country, except breaking the back of the second largest army in the world purely out of spite towards those who want to take away their freedoms.
I don't think Tim Cook likes the battery brick more than Steve would have, but there are engineering compromises to make here.
I've always found it difficult to see how most Germans in WW2 supported Hitler and the regime.

But here we have in the free world, with access to all the information from the internet and who can read what journalists all over the world report, who still choose to believe a state that act in the exact same manner.

At least in Nazigermany the narrative was controlled and it was difficult to "see the other side".

It's absolutely crazy how even ridiculous propaganda can be effective.

(And yes, some of the Russian propaganda is absolutely ridiculous.)
There's an oversimplification.

Entire bands of the earths surface receive the same amount of sunlight per square metre for similar amounts of average time per day.

Only some of these regions are left with only dry desert sand.

There might be more to this than simple hours per day of sunlight, topography for one factor.
Nah.

You could have the same resolution/frame rate, with manual adjustment, for about $1000. It won't feel as refined or polished, but it will be functionally the same for VR world.
In all parts. The center is has the biggest text. If it helps think of it this way: you're looking through a black fence at something colorful on the other side.

Edit: You're right, the text is only in the middle and next largest "fold." The rest is, spoiler, alien face glyphs.
There’s a lot of pro Russia / pro CCP people on HN. Even dang is pro CCP.

Would be nice to live in a world where there was no border conflicts or vile threats from governments.
Looking at the innundation by blowing up the dikes in ww2 near my birth city it's not unprecedented but now definately a war crime (which the allies did btw). The reservoir here was the North Sea.
I like this idea, but how or what? The power brick is obviously critical, but I'm guessing they want you to put it in your pocket or on the desk or bed/sofa and largely forget it's there?
Yeah I tend to agree. I also feel like the majority of my deeper software knowledge has come from reading/modifying existing code, debugging and reverse engineering rather than actually writing code.
Compiling and running tests
"xrOS" is visible on the simulator title bar in the platforms state of the union. Just didn't get picked by marketing ultimately. I'm glad; "XR" as a term sounds too overly techy. The marketing is bringing this futuristic thing down to earth, making it relatable.
Not really benefits anyone's offensive or defensive plans. Maybe political but that's a stretch.

No one comes out with prepared narrative too, which makes it look like an accident.
Well it depends on your data. I'm an accountant and it is very normal for accountants spreadsheets to be full of 'check digits'. Checks and balances are well ingrained into accounts!

In its basic form you perform the same calculation on the totals as you did on the roots and subtract it from the result. The answer must be zero. I know it is harder on some kinds of data, but it can prevent a huge amount of every day errors.
> IANAL but my understanding is that violating the ToS is only ever a problem if your crawler decides to "sign-in"

Where on earth would you get that impression?

From the reddit ToS: "To use certain features of our Services, you may be required to create a Reddit account (an “Account”) and provide us with a username, password, and certain other information about yourself as set forth in the Privacy Policy."

NB: "Certain features", that clearly means that features are not gated by sign in, and that the ToS also applies to them.

Also from the Tos: "
Except and solely to the extent such a restriction is impermissible under applicable law, you may not, without our written agreement:

license, sell, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Services or Content;
modify, prepare derivative works of, disassemble, decompile, or reverse engineer any part of the Services or Content; or
access the Services or Content in order to build a similar or competitive website, product, or service, except as permitted under the Reddit API Terms of Use."

And later: "Access, search, or collect data from the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) except as permitted in these Terms or in a separate agreement with Reddit (we conditionally grant permission to crawl the Services in accordance with the parameters set forth in our robots.txt file, but scraping the Services without Reddit’s prior consent is prohibited)"
Racket goes a step further from having types and gives you contracts. The whole language is defined by these contracts. For example,

> (list 1 2 3 4)

is a way to create a list consisting of elements 1, 2, 3, and 4. This procedure is defined as returning a `list?` (a contract checking for a list) and the values provided are `any/c` (a contract representing any value). But many other languages can support something like that just fine. Where contracts further help are with composition and specifying allowable values or ranges of values. For example,

> (round 2.4)
2.0

as we expect. But looking at the definition of `round`, we see that `(round x)` accepts an `x` satisfying contract `real?` and returns `(or/c integer? +inf.0 -inf.0 +nan.0)`. If you try to `round` Infinity or NaN, you get what you "expect" and not some new value. If you try to `round` POSITIVE_INFINITY in Java, you'll get

> Math.round(Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY)
9223372036854775807

because, with types, Math.round() must return an int or a long.
Someone provided confirmed russian defensive positions along Dniepr. Unless the Russians moved out before the Ukrainians would have at least a reason to destroy the dam.

They have, however, avoided civilian casualties, and looking at the map this would have been a deviation from that. It would fit the russian MO better
Passkeys now support external providers
Your comment isn’t adding anything to discussion.

If you have anything to say about the topic - you should say it.
No this is not true. There was an election among party members, that was with around 147000 people. This election apparently worked. It was the subsequent election among the party functionaries (601 people) that failed due to someone not being able to do 4th grade math.
I've not been able to figure much in the first and second video, but in the third I think it's written "XXXXXX IS THE GATE"

edit: the first word could be like INVERSE. Not 100% sure
Whenever I go into SF, the hotels are extremely expensive, and for the most part fully booked. The hotel situation is so dire in SF that AirBnB was launched and extremely successful.

How are these hotels not succeeding?
There is a bridge to Crimea, they will bring in water like they used to do when it was cut after 2014 (even when there was no bridge yet). They made huge reservoirs in Crimea. The canal is mostly for water used by agriculture, and it will be a problem in years to come, not this year. And definitely not for troops. The canal is a tiny detail.
Agree. My children love watching back videos of various events. The equivalent from my childhood was the occasional photo or very long-winded and boring home videos taken with a giant shoulder-mounted camera saving to VHS tape in a shoulder-slung module - maximum effort for meagre results!
I'm personally for banning phones in school, and schools should have e.g. tablets with internet access when the classes call for it, and for supervised access outside.

I'm not for what this proposal sets out to do which is to completely eliminate phone access.

That is, I'm in agreement with you.
I think with the Oculus, at least when developing with Unity, you target the Android platform. I'll admit I've never actually looked at what is under the hood in the Quest.
Originally seen via https://reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/141uxz1/iosipados_17...

This is big news as vendor lock in and inability to use our own sync was one of the biggest issues bought up whenever Passkeys are discussed. Apple are now allowing external sync fabrics such as password managers.
It is light, but also only 1080p. I don't think I could ever go back to 1080p.
Bitcoin is actually a perfect example, since it's impossible to do anything with it except moving it from one account to another without requiring trust of the other party.
I think this book captures a good bit of the spirit

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984598.Masters_of_Decept...
The only way this war is going to end is for Russia to be removed from Ukraine by force, and that unfortunately requires dead Russian soldiers.
Yeah, spot on. It's incredible how many people here think they see the big truth while the "herd of sheep" is obviously way less enlightened than them. How anybody can orchestrate a pro-russian view point within this conflict is mind boggling to me.
> It feels like they wanted to start super high to really test the market

Reminds me of how Steve Jobs announced a price reduction by $200 in two months after the release of the first iPhone. Apple can likewise reduce the price of Apple Vision, but save face this time by releasing a non-Pro version.

> If they ever exit the space

I'm not sure if Apple would exit the space that easily. While markets for auxiliary products like homepods were easier to exit, Apple announced Apple Vision announced with too much fanfare to exit quickly.

Apple will probably commit to Apple Vision for a while, just like the Apple Watch. While the first Apple Watch did not take off massively, Apple persisted by pivoting it from a luxury item to a more practical device for fitness and Apple Pay.
I can be carefree or I can ramp up to paranoid as necessary - that has kept me alive and healthy. I don't consider wearing shoes inside paranoid - only convenient and typical.

As for you, your workmates are complaining: it is time to empty your boot. No paranoia, just good manners.
>Used to roam my neighborhood trying to beige box into junction boxes for the bell of it.

I'd be very surprised if this wasn't accidental given the character of this site, but holy moly is the pun fitting. Congrats.
You can draw users with a killer app but you can also draw developers with a killer user base. I believe they're leaning on iPhone/iPad app compatibility and Mac screen display to launch it as a peripheral first with existing third party apps, then establish it as a place your customers are waiting for you.

Early adopters first, of course. Maybe it really is too early? Depends on the response.
> "prompt injection" and "social engineering" will quickly become two names for the same thing.

That's really well put. Essentially they need the same mitigation; education, warnings before actions, and permissions.

An LLM needs to be treated as a junior assistant who is easily manipulated via social engineering. They need to have a "guest" or untrusted level of account access.

"Human" in the loop is essential.
The vast majority of families are multi-city, and many are multinational. I don't see anything wrong with trying to improve on FaceTime, since millions of people already use that every day.
Apple is IMO attempting to brute-force create a market here. Facebook/Meta couldn't do the job - for one, Zuck has no idea what he's doing other than chasing buzzwords, for other, they have destroyed a lot of user trust over the past years. And I'm not sure if the stock could take more billions sunk.

Apple in contrast? They deliver a whole different game in terms of quality and capability, and now others will take up developing stuff for the platform, just like it happened with every new class of device Apple pushed out. And financially, Apple doesn't have to take care of anything, they have more cash on hand than the GDP of entire countries (165 billion $ [1], more than Kuwait, Ukraine or Venezuela [2]).

And even if there don't appear any VR apps - movie addicts will love it.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/05/how-markets-biggest-companie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
> Concerning Fukushima the problem would have been averted, if managers actually did what they were told by engineers:

This is an often cited claim with no realistic value. TEPCO did run simulations in 2008 that showed that the current safety measures were not sufficient were an 8.4 magnitude earthquake to happen that management ignored. But we have to be careful here and ask the appropriate followup question. Why did they ignore it? Easy to say money, and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't part of it. After all, we can always build bigger and better, there's no end to this. The reason management felt comfortable ignoring this simulation is because there was no evidence that such an earthquake could actually happen. I can simulate a magnitude 15 earthquakes all day, but that doesn't mean you should prepare for them, since there's no mechanism to explain how this could happen and no historical data to suggest it. This was the situation. You have to remember that the Tohoku earthquake was the 4th largest ever recorded. EVER. The simulation was based on an 8.4M 1933 earthquake (the 20th largest ever recorded) and in a different region of Japan. There was good reason to not act quickly on this simulation. Now, there were scientific advancements during that time and it was learned that the potential for such an earthquake that large could happen, before it did, but I'm also not sure how quick you expect people to react. Even when it was learned it was clearly known to be an unlikely event.

For your fun, here's the list of the strongest earthquakes since 1500s[0], which still puts Fukushima as #6. There's <20 that are >9M and you'll notice that Japan only shows up on that list twice.

There's a danger to this kind of thinking that is concerning to me and appears like it should be concerning to you as your concerns are safety. This narrative encourages companies to not run such hypothetical scenarios because if they do and the situation turns from imagination to reality blame arises and we create a narrative of how we should have acted. But this isn't a Shell/Exon situation where they were measuring and modeling realistic data. Do not conflate the two. I understand the frustration, we want to know things could have been different. But this is also why we want entities to run hypothetical scenarios, because if knowledge updates then some of the work to improve systems already exist. It is a hedge. But we need to be careful to not put unrealistic expectations on others or to move the bar based on post hoc understanding. Don't be captain hindsight. It'll just discourage performing such hypothetical scenarios in the future. Post hoc blaming is counter to your actual goals.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes#Largest_e...