skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these "relive your memory" videos are incredibly awkward, because of how downright sad it is to strap this on your head during your kid's birthday just to relive it on repeat like Tom Cruise in Minority Report.

The real usecase is porn, but they're too tactful to say it.
David’s room from 1983 Wargames. Scratch built 1:12 scale model
Ask HN: Which is a better unified API platform?
Hello HN,

We are in need of a unified API solution. We have evaluated Merge.dev and Apideck. Need some help and tips on which one to choose?

As far as we understand
1. Merge.dev has a data sync approach and is very costly
2. Apideck has a more realtime approach where there is no concept of datasync
It's a bit like that, except if the law is incredibly vague and not written by elected officials.
>And who was protecting it from the mass fabrication and censorship prior?

Who's protecting it now?

Or were you under the impression that Twitter became a bastion of free speech and truth after Musk took over?

Twitter still complies with government censorship requests[0]. The "blue check" system has become a farce[1].

Misinformation and hate speech have skyrocketed after Twitter stopped policing it and started unbanning and promoting right-wing content[2..4].

And oh yeah, all that corruption and evildoing exposed by the Twitter Files? Twitter's own lawyers admit it was all bullshit[5].

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/tw...

[1]https://www.newsweek.com/2023/04/07/verified-misinformation-...

[2]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/29/twitter-stops-policing-covid...

[3]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/12/under-musk-twitters...

[4]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65246394

[5]https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-...
But if you want to publish something that will be visible to the public, you can't just export the default output from your CAD app. You want something that fits with your brand's aesthetic/guidelines, that looks professional, that clearly communicates without distraction. These things require consideration. Look at an IKEA diagram—they are carefully designed to make assembly as obvious as possible to a layperson; animations are invariably slower to produce than a static print diagram.
It’s interesting that as users, we think of v4 as this pivotal moment when the platform changed forever - but the article’s author seems to think of it more as the inflection point of ongoing problems that had built up for a while.

Especially with a high profile implosion like this, it’s really interesting to contrast our experience in the userbase to an internal perspective.

>Digg V4 is sometimes referenced as an example of a catastrophic launch, with an implied lesson that we shouldn’t have launched it. At one point, I used to agree, but these days I think we made the right decision to launch. Our traffic was significantly down, we were losing a bunch of money each month, we had recently raised money and knew we couldn’t easily raise more. If we’d had the choice between launching something great and something awful, we’d have preferred to launch something great, but instead we had the choice of taking one last swing or turning in our bat quietly.
Where does one buy one anyway? What does it cost? (I know it'll be some huge amount, just curious)
I with you, productivity is what I really want to use this for. Did you ever find any other VR tools that could do what you're describing? Because that's pretty much exactly what I'm hoping for too.
But this is not what it's meant by "learned helplessness". You are describing an unrelated phenomenon. Learned helplessness has nothing to do with feigning helplessness to get what you want; it's instead about giving up and accepting a harmful situation that is perceived as unavoidable.
Only because they found it much more effective to "collaborate" on the regulations such that they'd be allowed to label opioids however they'd like and addict millions of people in one of the biggest health crises in the history of our country.
"The company was fairly mum about how it planned to make those cameras and its format more widely available, but I am completely serious when I say that I would pay the NBA thousands of dollars to get a season pass to watch games captured in this way. Yes, that’s a crazy statement to make, but courtside seats cost that much or more, and that 10-second clip was shockingly close to the real thing."

The author was shown a 10-second clip and is ready to hand over thousands of dollars.

A few paragraphs later he acknowledges that it was just a 10-second clip, but there was also another clip, so a total of 20 seconds - surely enough to write an opinion piece of thousands of words.

The reality-shaping power of Apple's demo maestros is truly admirable.

I'm an XR believer too and I'm very happy that Apple is entering the market with a high-end device that's not for gaming. At the same time, we have to recognize that the history of this form factor is littered with amazing 10-second demos that failed to deliver actual user value, from recent failures like Magic Leap going all the way back to the late 1980s and Jaron Lanier's VPL Research.
Maybe a fun trick but sort of depressing to actually listen to AI songs in the way you listen to normal music
There was a time that Google tried to prevent SEO. Now Google hosts and attends SEO conferences.
> "Google is inserting AI into art history."

The phrasing of the subtitle implies that active interference or malicious intent is occurring while I don't believe the article shows this is the case.
I probably won’t buy Apple Vision for a while but will eagerly follow it. Like the author, I’m mainly excited about using this for work/ productivity.

I’ve tried out working in VR using oculus and immersed. I’ve really liked the experience but the blurry text was a deal breaker. From the reviews so far, that might not be a problem anymore.
I think the point was more that there are fewer German speakers in India than English speakers, by a large margin, so if you are going to scam in German you might be more likely to source your call-centre operatives from elsewhere, which is why Indian call centres don't have the reputation in that country which they do in the UK & US.
> Perhaps it may lead to prohibition, but perhaps it may just lead to OS developers building better controls than the terribly weak ones we have today. Movements raise awareness, and there's lots of room for spaces in-between. After all, we never banned TVs, books, or games, and they were all in this class of problem.

Actually, "we" have banned all of those things, and continue to do so.

Do you know about promise rings? Kids kill themselves because they get raped after being told their whole life that being impure means their parents love them less. This is just another thing parents get together and organise -- see, it doesn't need to end in prohibition to cause harm, it just takes parents organising to define wrongly what wisdom means to a child.

> in reaction to a small movement suggesting some restraint around an incredibly powerful force affecting most people on the planet.

That's not what I see. I see a group of people, some well-intentioned but some others who are not, and they are organising to restrict the ability for children to learn things and to communicate with others. The well-intentioned need to be made aware that their intentions are not good enough and that children will be harmed and the future made worse because of this.

Sure, some of those people just want to ban "addictive games" or "targeted feeds", but others want to read and approve every message in and out of the house so they can behave differently in public than they do in private, and you can't let them do this.

Don't you see? It's slippery on both sides! That's why there needs to be a better way.
I don't know about the social justice issues, but I've found that a growing problem with reddit is what I'll summarize as "the rules".

I admit I'm much more of a lurker than a contributor, but I do post things from time to time. Comments fairly frequently in technical forums, and posts much less frequently, but when they are, they are either: 1) to show a project I did, or 2) to ask a technical question.

Basically all of these use cases are more and more an exercise in frustration. I've been using the site for at least a decade, but I can't remember having so much trouble using it until quite recently. The last several posts, let's say during 2023, I've made get either manually or auto-removed. Every single subreddit no matter how small has its own, different, set of "rules" and if you don't memorize them you get your post removed. These rules are often very antisocial, in my opinion.

For example, in one forum that I read very often, I never post anything because I only like to post my own work, as I consider such work to be "original content" -- I'm not one to spend my time scouring the internet for other people's work to share, instead I like to share when I've got something to share, right? Seems natural enough to me anyway. Well, I posted a project that I spent 2 months developing, yes as part of the startup I work for but it was a for-fun April-fools type project, intended to amuse. Banned. Immediately. For "self promotion". (There were literally no ads in it or anything, just a website with a fun interaction, and the startups logo in the corner.) Thanks guys. Guess I'll take my ball and go home. Apparently they prefer reposted nonsense to original contributions? Bizarre, backwards..

Another example, someone was asking where they could go for some discussions on a certain topic, so naturally I responded to point to some other subreddits. Immediate auto-remove due to "posting links to other subreddits". Really? So, like, they have rules against hyperlinking? That thing that is at the foundation of the web?

Similarly I posted a question to a Python forum, actually quite an advanced question about an interesting phenomenon I noticed related to async generators -- auto-removed. Told to repost it in LearnPython. Great. Did so, got a bunch of beginner replies, as I expected, instead of the in-depth discussion I was hoping for.

Now, I understand that these rules and bots exist for a reason .. mainly one reason actually, which is to fight spam. But enough is enough. At what point does spam fighting become intrusive to normal, community sharing of ideas? To be honest, this has gotten me so down regarding reddit that I'm considering just not using the site any more, as it's gotten quite boring because I can barely contribute without jumping through hoops. Trying to post or share something is just depressing because either it breaks some rule, or people jump all over it with negative comments. It just doesn't feel like it's worth the effort anymore.

Does anyone else have this experience, or is it just me?
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I forgot that Apple was having an event yesterday, and when I saw “Apple Vision Pro“ in headlines everywhere, my first thought was that they were opening an eyeglass store…
The irony is that Reddit already has this feature, but that goes to show how poorly they market it. They also sell NFT avatars (though cleverly, not describing them as NFTs in the UI)
> you just look at the key you want on the on-screen keyboard and then click it by touching your thumb and index finger.

This has been used on many other devices and is miserable, it's like using the joystick to type on a game console
This is consistent with the idea that the geometric patterns of hallucinogenic drugs are just feedback artifacts in an analog system of your senses, and by imparing its 'clock' signal chemically, you get periodic noise whose geometry is proportional to the signalling frequency and its failures. No higher dimensions, just maybe a lower, impaired, fractal dimension.

There are still theraputic uses for this impairment, and definitely a lot of recreational ones that allow you to discover things about yourself like any other testing or resistance, but hallucinogens are at best biohacking via chemical glitching, not spiritual gateways.
What’s the best app you’ve tried?
Seems it's come up before: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408

Rejected as "documented" in 2007. Also mentions a similar issue with envp.
Further evidence of my justified true belief that the world will rapidly divide between those who already had programmatic control over their computers, now infinitely more productive through direct access to the GPT APIs (to say nothing of the firms that will use LLMs only internally, trained on their own codebase for example) and those who believe GPT=ChatGPT, which will slowly become but another conduit for ads through plugins. It's quite sad when even Nature magazine becomes a spokesperson for the latter group, who will continue to believe that LLMs are a racket on the order of Bitcoin.
I think people sometimes pay a bit too much attention to "random Linus posts/rants on LKML". As far as I've seen, these kind of outbursts were never the default/standard behaviour but the exception, and I believe Linus toned down a bit in recent years.

I'm not fan of his outbursts by any means, but you have to see these things in context. Imagine everything you post on the internet will be read by heaps of people and still be quoted years from now. Often my posts on e.g. HN don't express my full nuanced views either, because it's not germane to the topic at hand, because I phrased things badly, and sometimes I'm just dead wrong. No one quotes all the stupid stuff I said 15 years ago though, or the stupid stuff I said yesterday.
I think you need to accelerate it more / aren't high enough. If you persist the white dots, you'll see letters.
Accidental DNA collection by air sensors could revolutionize wildlife tracking
I quickly looked up research and, yeah, while LSD does impair many cognitive functions, reaction time seems to be unaffected.
I’m going to take a guess that the rationale is file locking. If you have three separate processes using three separate database files, you can write all the data you want, as fast as you can, without worrying about file locking. SQLite can handle three processes writing at the same time, but it can be faster to do it split into separate files and then merge after the fact.
This is one of those things that are so bad it warrants breaking backwards compability, possibly by releasing a python v4.
enforce what exactly? The rules are made up. Gensler is truly a clown, he doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. Look at this, that was just one month ago, about Ethereum, the second largest and he cannot give a clear answer https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1648338351832064003

So again, what shall the SEC enforce exactly? If you don't see the endgame here ...
IME 99% of the time it’s not a brilliant conspiracy but rather just people being dumb
>every user is a racist transphobe nazi homophobe enemy.

Nobody on Reddit has called me any of those things.
An MR 3d sculpting app like Maya or ZBrush would be pretty sweet. Not sure it's as killer as Photoshop but id be excited none the less.
The problem is, that we don't have access to up-to-date Russian military records.
Is he really Russian soldier?
If he is, can we guarantee that the video is not digitally created (deep fake)?
If we guarantee the both, what is the motivation for Russian soldier to say it and what situation led to this video?
Do we know, that this soldier was indeed responsible to be close to the dam?

It is so difficult to say what is true these days.
Show HN: ChatGPT Export – A bookmarklet for exporting chats as Markdown files
I’ve had this thought for a while. Companies like Vercel have coined the term “composable” but it really does feel like this is what is actually driving things.
The nuclear plant is at the reservoir (city of Energodar), not downstream.
I clicked the site and wow...
If companies choose not to innovate and purchase their innovation instead that still creates a market for innovation and a source of funds for doing so. I'm far from convinced this is the case as most big tech companies have entire research divisions regularly producing papers and patents and we've seen some big AI products recently launch out of internal big tech initiatives.
They had a simple rule that they index what users can see and if you try to cheat your way around that you get ranked down. Sticking to that for everyone would have been an iron clad defense against monopoly accusations. Instead they chose to help certain corporations (or at least corporations with certain business models) present different content to the bot and users.
How's D1 meant to be used, since it has a very small maximum size (100mb I believe)? Should I create one database per user, for example? Genuine question.
His interviews with SBF over the years are worth reviewing. You can tell he was always a skeptic…
Videogaming seems like such a small market for Apple to chase individually. They make almost as much revenue on airpods every year as Sony has ever sold in PS5s.

I feel like I’ve read this comment verbatim in at least one other thread in the last day or so…am I in the vr simulation already?
Then the system of this web is broken. This is censorship at it's finest.
And Mr. SOROS would agree with me.
> Apple has managed to combine AR and VR, by simply re-creating the AR inside the VR. The idea is simple but profound.

The Quest Pro does that, just badly.
> demos that failed to deliver actual user value

Does Apple have a a history of doing this?

I think that's why people are excited.
That's a fairy tail. The global cryptocurrency market cap is $1.13 Trillion as of today and there's no sign that it'll be back to its peak.
I assume you looked up [0].

> [under int main (int argc, char *argv[]);] The argv and environ arrays are each terminated by a null pointer. The null pointer terminating the argv array is not counted in argc.

This confirms that the argv function parameter of main cannot be null.

I couldn't find the behavior specified for passing null for argv in exec*. As other comments pointed out some BSDs return with EINVAL. I think both this and Linux's behavior is compliant.

[0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/e...
Probably referring to the limitations of Markdown? Not sure what Markdown flavor Obsidian supports, some extensions (e.g. tables) are quite powerful...
Lmao, but the first iPhone was a major improvement over other phones at the time and offered a form of consistence/stability versus the often very experimental models other companies had.

The difference here is of course that VR/AR has been thriving already. Apple is late to the game as they are most of the time, but the reactions I have seen so far in YT/Twit comments are the amazed reactions of the tech illiterate general public, they don't care what it does, but it does have an Apple logo!

Apple is not bringing anything new to the table. No virtual objects, no 3d anything, just 2d planes showing video/photos which non-Apple VR/AR has had for the longest time.

This is just from the briefest search: https://www.vrdesktop.net/. Already exists and looks more fully featured than Apple's stuff.

Apple is a 1T company, the "richest and most technologically advanced company in the world", so why don't they act like it?

They do seem to have an impressive resolution on the thing, but only Apple can ask for 3.5k, no other headset bothers to have as high a resolution atm because they know consumers will balk at such a high price...

Apple's press release shows it as if some rando people are using the thing at home as if it's not going to be art studios, etc that buy the headset and a couple of hardcore Apple fans. No regular person is buying a 3.5k VR/AR set to look at a crappy 2d photo gallery app.

Other VR/AR software for existing headsets like the Vive/Oculus etc already do actual virtual objects/interaction as baseline and Apple couldn't even be bothered to include something like that for their press release. Because they don't need to, I suppose. People will eat it up anyway.
Ask HN: Isn't a killer app for AR one that improves hearing, sight, and memory?
For example, subtitles could help people without perfect hearing and auto zoom / color blind modes could help people without perfect vision.

And a name reminder could help people who are constantly forgetting names.
Undb – open-source nocode database, an airtable alternative
I doubt developers will have a problem understanding these warnings.
Well the way things stand if top guy wants to brainstorm with a minion they will need to make an appointment. Appointments are made with top guys, not by them. QED
Apple has the walled garden approach to apps, and they don’t let porn in. (Except for reddit app, which has porn allowed, to the complaints of Tumblr)

But maybe it will be possible through the Safari browser or something.
This has passthrough

https://simulavr.com/

but I don't think it is as nice.
> look at the key you want on the on-screen keyboard and then click it by touching your thumb and index finger

it sounds kind of exhausting, but i guess have to try it to know for sure.
as usual what matters is the user experience. technology is only a conduit for such. the difference between Apple and many other tech companies is they prioritize the former over the latter, and when the latter is available it exists mainly to amplify the former.

this problem is most obvious in video games, where eye watering graphics are prevalent but gameplay sucks. Once it gets to 8K per eye with decent FoV, it will truly look pretty close to reality.
GitHub Copilot X [0] seems to be exactly that, it is in technical preview with a waitlist.

[0]: https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x
This doesn’t seem like that big a deal, you can still have shared logins (Google etc)
Even if they somehow nail the hand input, without controllers for haptics, I'm a bit disappointed.
Why Watch Film on Film?
What's wrong with a JS back end? Node/Express is awesome.
If you're already a programmer, there's no excuse for not working directly with the APIs. Learn about context and prosper.
For a project on Github I maintain, I've seen increased amount of low quality PRs in the recent months (changes where it was obvious that the submitter never ran the code or interacted with the project as a user) that seemed to be raised just for the purpose of getting some sort of cred. These create noise and extra work for the maintainers. Most of them originated from India, I believe. Had to remove those 'help-wanted' and 'good-first-issue' tags because of these void PRs.
I think it's very clear that the recent LLM boom is directly responsible for Twitter, Reddit, and others quickly moving to restricted APIs with exorbitant pricing structures. I don't think these orgs really care much about third-party clients other than a nuisance consuming some fraction of their userbase.

Enterprise deals between these user generated content platforms and LLM platforms may well involve many billions of API requests, and the pricing is likely an order of magnitude less expensive per call due to the volume. The result is a cost-per-call that is cost-prohibitive at smaller scales, and undoubtedly the UGC platform operators are aware that they're pricing out third-party applications like Apollo and Pushshift. These operators need high baseline pricing so they can discount in negotiation with LLM clients.

Or, perhaps, it's the opposite: for instance, Reddit could be developing its own first-party language model, and any other model with access to semi-realtime data is a potentially existential competitor. The best strategic route is to make it economically infeasible for some hypothetical competitor to arise, while still generating revenue from clients willing to pay these much higher rates.

Ultimately, this seems to be playing out as the endgame of the open internet v. corporate consolidation, and while it's unclear who's winning, I think it's pretty obvious that most of us are losing.

(my comment on this topic from another thread)
Half of big multinationals plan to cut office space in next three years