skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try one of the mode dedicated forums like www.watchuseek.com.

Some pointers-

Mechanical watches requires periodic maintenance, it can get to 500$ every 5 years.

A movement is the watch's heart, many times different watches share the same movement. Some of the characteristics of a movement are manual vs automatic winding, power reserve for automatics (how many hours or days can it tick without winding it), functionality like day, date or second time zone. Accuracy can be slightly adjusted by a watchmaker and other methods but it tends to be much worse than digital watches- COSC certified watches, and those are not cheap, are allowed −4/+6 seconds per day.

Water resistance and design are important, for example some diver watches have screw down crowns.

Display backs are a thing, a transparent back showing the mechanism inside.

The type of glass or crystal will influence the price and scratch resistance, from just glass, through hardened glass (Seiko have some for example) to Sapphire with anti reflex coatings.

I am afraid that the really "cool" watches are out of your budget, but OTOH this is a nice budget for good watch.
In today's world of consumer 3D printers, recreating this is getting easier and easier.

Sure - it would be a 6 month passion project. But you'd get it done a lot quicker than the original designers took to make the thing out of carved wood.
13 years old is old. I don’t know why people are always this revisionist and pretend children aren’t sentient.

By 13 you’re mostly developed. You lack life experience so you’re a little naive and you lack the final development of the brain but you’re basically a finished person.

There’s no way that at 13 you don’t understand that spending 64k is wrong. That’s an absolutely absurd amount of money. It’s like when people like you say they don’t know murder is wrong. You don’t have to be 25 to know stealing 60k is wrong.
Looks like they are issuing under a sub-CA of "ssl.com" according to https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/4659#issue...

Interestingly, the mozilla dev-security-policy group seems to contain a recent discussion about including "ssl.com" in the root store here https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic...

Curious to know if this could, maybe it should, have ripple effects to the various SSL Root CA programs. Having someone run a subCA that actually exploits an RCE against ACME clients doesn't seem very trustworthy, and any CA enabling this behaviour should probably be kicked out of the trust stores?
But how would HN avoid creating its own /r/all ?
That’s not what “aficionados” means.
I understood what you meant, but I'm also old.
What are some of the verbatim comments you were banned for? On which subs did you post them?
Qt still does release update for the Qt6 serie. Qt5 is basically discontinued even for commercial users and KDE has a collection of patches from Qt6 which also applied for Qt5 here: https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/ which most distributions are using.
See my other replies above, but I had to take on debt to even get the hardware made, which then required me to get a full time job to pay off the debt. I tried to continue running the business on weekends but after years of burnout, working 7 days a week was killing me. I simply exceeded my capacity to continue operating the business, and so was unable to try selling the boards to refund people. I elaborate on this in the other replies but basically I had pushed through burnout for years on end by that point, and eventually you just hit a wall. You get to a point where there’s nothing you can do but walk away. That was 5 years in with no hope of success. I felt awful for letting all those people down, but I simply couldn’t continue to operate the business in any capacity, and no one wants to buy a failed business with loads of debt that has been eclipsed by venture funded startups shipping successful products.
emacs won, didn't it :D
Qt absolutely releases updates

https://wiki.qt.io/QtReleasing

(Disclaimer: I work for the Qt company)
Agreed. Seems folks on HN lose track of their biases - like all people.
> ~10 years

Actually its more like 30 years.

People get too focused on devices and the recent storyline around Google/Oculus/Meta/Apple etc. Any and all devices are and will always be WIP, they get refined once there is strong demand in the direction of that demand. The concept and experierence of immersive / interactive computing is much older and we should not ignore the lessons it may try to teach us.

What we have here is a new round of device refinement in anticipation of strong demand for an alternative computer interface that did not materialize in several decades - even though it could have.

It may be that VR is an exception. Some people are arguing that there is some sort of threshold that needs to be reached. Its possible.

But this is not the usual pattern. People are extremely adept and keen at glossing over grave limitations and filling in the blanks if a technology helps them achieve something relevant to them.
>So far at least, this is a tech that is being pushed onto people rather than being pulled.

Like anything else in life?

How much it took for the Guthenberg press to be "successful". It took at least 50 years since Guthenberg died bankrupted until there were millions of books being printed and people realised what the printing was by the consequences.

Guthenberg pushed so hard his entire life.

Aviation was not pushed by fanatics that killed themselves for at least 50 years(they were gliders in India thousands of years ago that killed themselves trying to fly) before it became a normal thing.

Read about Otto Lilienthal or the casualty rate of early aviators and then tell me that it was not pushed.

The nuclear bomb was not pushed with project Manhattan, one of the biggest expenditures on earth ever?

Rockets were not pushed? Going to the moon was not pushed? The diode and the transistor were not pushed by the germans and later the Americans?

Lasers were not pushed before we knew what could be done with them? Computers were not pushed?

>I don't think this was the case with any of the major steps in the development of digital computing but would be quite interested if people can think of historical precedent.

The entire Silicon Valley thing was created by the Pentagon at first. It did not went from zero to billions of devices instantly. The military were paying the development of early (ultra expensive)microprocessors in the dozens to power submarines and spaceships, like the hand weaved RAM of the Apollo devices.

The early entire DARPA internet was at first 56Kbits, the entire network!!

Certainly things like Xerox PARC machines were pushed when every single machine did cost a fortune. It was not pulled because Xerox had no idea of what to do with the technology, just like lasers before.
Honestly, they are useful in practice, as long as you’re using a language that supports them properly (I’m not convinced TS is that language). Even without, they constitute a pattern that is very simple to implement which is very powerful.

People believed (and some still do believe) the same thing about generics.
What was trash about the blackberry? The browser wasn't great, but the keyboard was excellent from what I remember.
Didn’t realize Cheese Board was a co-op! I’m not surprised though :) And I agree, we all owe a lot to IETF!
I dont know what trades you have in mind, other than that you mentioned industrial robotics, but most trades people without college are not making anywhere close to 150k. The really successful ones do though, and maybe thats who you are talking to.
For new staff it is very important (for both sides) to know how things are going.

For established, productive staff they become a waste of time unless one side is driving them.
I'm a fan of Tudor (https://www.tudorwatch.com/) or Sinn (https://www.sinn.de/en/Kollektion.htm) for this price range.
This looks really promising and that's coming from someone who used to hand roll assembly for my hardware projects in uni. Since my day to day focus is elsewhere these days I need a setup that will hold my hand and hide away as many footguns as possible. I'm already familiar with Typescript so using the same language in a different environment is a win. Having that system be backed by a large company is a great boon as well, as it means there's a somewhat smaller chance of it disappearing from underneath me (Google's projects notwithstanding).
This was wholesome to read, thanks to the the author and whoever submitted it.

Funnily enough I sometimes described my inner chaos as a bunch of kids I have to take care of, that's what it reminded me of.

I especially love the closing remarks. What else is there to do? Let's do this. :)
I wanted to know what Douglas Englebart would think about all this VR stuff, while I was watching the Apple Vision video.
I wouldn't say there are too many pitfalls. Quote all variables (acme.sh seem to do well on that part) and don't use eval (probably the reason for this problem).
Not saying it didn't exist, but that it wasn't mainstream. Ask your mother if she's ever heard of Symbian phones...
Maybe Meta is using it and thus implicitly its billions of active daily users?
Because they are predatory and have ruined the experience of using apps. Apps are trash now, it’s all just gambling and attempts to milk money out of you. People have gone back and changed old apps to add predatory features.
Indeed.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
They are having water cooler conversations and collaborating on the new product engineering.
I can't remember seeing stray dogs in France. People usually call animal control pretty fast if a dog looks lost.
I think the correct candidate for a pocket watch would be an old school iPod.
Ask HN: Learning the technology/tool/stack that you don't like
I've liked old Google Analytics. I don't like GA4. I can't even force myself to start using it. It just isn't user friendly.

So I'm looking at alternatives now. And I wonder. Which ever tool I end up using, I'll still have to learn it. Maybe it is better to force myself into embracing GA4 than to learn new tool. Like it or not GA seems like a standard tool that everyone is using. When I was looking at job adds almost all mention GA by name, some adds say that you need to understand/use some web analytics tools but rarely I see other tools listed my name.

For veterans of IT, how do you decide when the time comes to start using some new tool which one will you embrace? Trends can be just hype. When I'm investing my time I want to invest in into something that is valuable to learn. So how to know what it is?
What I mean is that you don't have to build an iOS app anymore just for notifications.
There are some sounds that it seems speakers can't still faithfully reproduce.

Gunshots are one - the sound difference between a real gunshot and a high end sound system replaying a gunshot is huge.

Likewise, the sound of an old nokia ringtone (make by a piezoelectric speaker) can't be replicated by a modern speaker really. If you have thee two side by side, you can always tell which is which.

I wonder if a modern Fotoplayer could make use of that to make a market for itself?
There’s no rabies in any animal that’s likely to run up and bite you. A variant of rabies is still present in bats in the UK.
It’s not any different than people who “own” a Twitter handle. Should those go up for vote every 2 years as well?
You're being facetious.

You have an artificially high bar so you can gatekeep people from being smart and be the arbiter of who's smart and who's not. What you don't realize is most people don't give a crap and easily hundreds of billions worth of software is sold every year by developers who don't know about anything you mentioned.

Your attitude is also inappropriate for a place called "hacker news" where people are resourceful try to do the most with whatever they have. Maybe you want to go to /r/compsci
Linking to my other comment in reply to the same question:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36255281
> Anyone who operates these devices knows to reduce the load first.

How? This is a system for remotely opening a circuit. The user can’t reduce the load first. At best they can (likely with too much latency to be at all reliable) wait for the meter to report a small load.
This kind of thinking is exactly why I stopped asking questions on SO a long time ago.

Because once you can construct the perfect question, you can most certainly answer it yourself. It should be OK for questions to be somewhat vague, to contain "noise" and non-related stuff (because how on earth should the person asking the question know if something is relevent if they don't know the solution already?).

And I think in most cases a "complete minimal failing example" is way overkill. If someone in the future runs into the same problem, they have code already, and if there is already a solution accepted, then all that is needed is the description of the problem case and the solution (and in the best case, a root cause analysis, but that is an optional extra).

Some mods seem to think that SO is the next Encyclopedia Britannica, and each question is an article in it. This was not true in the beginning, and I don't feel like this is the right direction. But who cares about what I think.
Why is it so predictable? I know investors don't care about anything other than returns, but what returns do you get when you tank companies in such diametrically opposed ways from how they've operated before?
It's kinda silly, it'll end up in having opaque targeted links, but at least you won't be able to tag external links that easily.
Another thing is that many moderators are paid but by other companies and PR firms. Reddit doesn't see any of it.

A lot of the content on Reddit is promotion and semi-hidden forms of advertising. Again Reddit doesn't see any of this spend.

In both cases Reddit is paying other companies for using their platform for making money.

Why would a corporation pay hundreds of thousands for ads when they could spend tens of thousands on some employee time to post, comment or moderate and get better results?

I imagine that the commercial entities using Reddit are using third party tools but the changes will hurt normal users more visibly.
I'm using Qubes OS. I wonder why I can't simply run some application and instead have to install and manage Docker for that. I care about my security myself.
> After that ordeal I decided to build web apps only.

Way to go ! Not everything can be a web app right now, but it's getting closer every year.
I feel like weekly 1:1s are a sign of broken systems and processes. Managers should make time for team members whenever they need it, and team members should be free to ask.
It used to be grab code, laptop and backpack... a modest barrier to enty.

Now any jamoke can dl a firmware and conceal this in a pocket and go wild. That's "easy to use."
What’s really emerging from this is the start correlation between us intervention in afghanistan and the rise of poppy cultivation.
this is a bit bizarre, how do you know what personal issues they have? maybe they need to care for someone or need special assistance due to their disability, maybe she is actually paid less than many other PMs
Remove mods from the biggest subs, replace them with paid employees. Just for a while, until this blows over and new volunteers show up.

Or, since you just need one mod in every sub to keep the others in line, replace the top mod. With a script.
The problem with Arch is not with the installer. Installing it actually is pretty straightforward thanks to their Wiki (although it may seem intimidating to those who never actually tried reading it). The problem (also a key feature) is they apparently ship totally untested packages immediately as upstream releases (so updates often break something) while Manjaro does some reasonable testing and fitting (so updates almost never break anything) while still managing to ship reasonably fresh. Most of the the other distros ship ancient versions of everything. So to me Manjaro feels the golden point between radically fresh (Arch) and obsolete (others).
Can we stop pretending the mods are some thankless workers when they literally do it to get power and status over some “community”.
There is accessibility using the Qt backend and I started working on accesskit integration, which should cover the rest of the backends. Yes, more work needs to be done there, but the architecture has proven that it works. Any help with accessibility is welcome, especially as I lack the experience of having to rely on accessibility features. I might miss some things that will be show-stoppers for people reliant on accessibility. Of course any help is appreciated, too ;-)

All the text handling code is done in Rust (or C++, depending on the backend you pick). Just the basic navigation between elements and such is done in our DSL. But yes, we need more widgets and more features for some of the existing ones. We are working on that...
I took grumpiness of real-life parts as a joke. I think it was intended as such because in the last scene they still don't know they are having fun with their neighbor.

I didn't see it as "your life sucks, get virtual". More like, "your life is normal, enrich it with new activities and connections using vr".
Twitter handles are analogous to Reddit usernames and not subreddits (which are arguably analogous to hashtabs).
I’m mean, when that happens, that’s great, but in practice most of the time firms use licensing and legal barriers to prevent interoperability and competition. Just look at the utter mess that is video calling.
Have you been to 4chan? It has moderation. Also - 4chan is not only /pol/ and /b/.
I'm also on side with regular one to ones. Especially as working can now be more remote, I think they are a useful touchpoint to help continue that relationship with the manager. The important thing, like all meetings, is to make sure that you're getting the value out of it. If you don't have anything to say & neither does your manager, then skip that week's meeting. But having that constant slot & occasionally using it for just a chat occasionally can help a lot.
Isn’t ga4 going to be the dominant tracking method used in the future? Not sure about a depreciation schedule or timeline - guess what I’m getting at is it’s easiest to learn a tool if it’s the only option or if one is desperate. Or if they’re being paid to do so
I mean aside from the part about being implanted in brains, I believe what I said is literally true.

It IS a VR and AR device. AKA mixed reality. The fact that they are promoting lots of floating 2d windows doesn't make that a new category of product. Other people have been doing that and calling it something like mixed reality.

It's just that people don't know about things like the Varjo that are ultra-high end and in a similar price bracket or category and so they decide to just pretend it was an entirely new thing.

If I was Apple I could improve my sex life just by telling Apple fans that instead of a penis I had "tremendous tensiler" or something.
That’s what I was getting at. I think the original commenter was implying BlackBerry (or RIM), not Microsoft or Google.
First of all, what are other examples of "Rust empowers the developer, Go protects the developer from themselves"? As article mentions, Rust as a language is actually must stricter than Go, C++ and many others, and Rust community likes to brag that by restricting what we can do in safe Rust, we end up with better software. And I agree with that. But when it comes to dependency management, Rust turns out to be surprisingly lax.

Also, in this case, Go doesn't exactly protect the developer from anything. One could create a single package with tons of files in them, and it'll keep working. But the way Go package system is designed, it just subtly suggests to the developer that it's not the right thing to do: having a package (i.e. directory) with 200+ files in it just feels wrong by default. One trait of a well-designed system is that it's difficult to abuse.
They do mention that subdomains can't be used for tracking in the introduction to Private Click Measurement [1]

But I have to be honest that I can't quite wrap my head around how this is supposed to work.

1. https://webkit.org/blog/11529/introducing-private-click-meas...
I like them. We work all-remote, so sometimes can go an entire week without speaking directly to my manager.

It works as a nice check-in to make sure we're both aligned on what needs doing and what I'm actually working on.
Certainly under normal operation. This may be skirting that protection.
I am using Debian for more than 20 years and have never missed anything.
/r/Games banned me for saying that GTA V should not be censored, for example.
Assuming your assessment is accurate (I don't pretend to have any expertise in the matter!) then the question becomes why certain countries/ regions suffer such corruption and lack of rule of law, and more importantly, why is it so hard to fix?
The Untold Story of Samsung’s Growing Chip Business
The first time I tried an Oculus Quest was mindblowing, it was a very unique and impressive experience. I wont go on about it but I encourage you to do the Oculus Quest demo app if you get the chance.

BUT then the excitement faded and I don't find myself wanting to return to VR much. Having something strapped to your face is awkward and tiring.

Tech companies can see the potential because it _is_ breathtaking but are also aware of the drawbacks and hurdles. Zuck decided it was a big enough thing to bet the farm on.

Its a potentially very powerful thing with some big issues that no-one knows how to fix. Hence the buzz and endless talking and companies jostling for position to be the leader without knowing quite where they want to lead us to.
people are getting so hung up on remote vs office as though it's either or.

Out side of tech people who want to work in the office 5 days a week are in the minority along with people who want to work at home 5 days a week. The vast majority of people want the _flexability_ to decide when to go in. They'll go in for a change of scenery, to socialise with colleagues (not necessarily after work but idle chit chat in the office) or to informally speak to a few people.

Demanding and mandating people come back to the office is a real shitty move, and does nothing but cause stress and anxiety to everyone.
It's not broken, it's working as intended, giving more power to large corporations.
Enshittify! What a nice verb
> Regarding renewables: are we held back by solar panel manufacturing?

I would say yes, tentatively.

Looking at the growth rate[0], and given the capacity factor in practice appears to be 10%, the current estimated manufacturing rate of 316 GW in this calendar year implies 31.6 GW of average output, multiply that by a lifespan of 25 years to get the steady-state level and it's 790 GW — nice, but well short of the ~2 TW of current electricity usage, and ideally the post-scarcity solarpunk future has far more electricity available as most of the world doesn't currently get aircon, electric heating, home freezers, cars (batteries or hydrogen argument is irrelevant as both need electricity), and we also electrify steel and other chemical processes.

Assuming current estimated growth rate continues as an exponential, new PV factories start changing from "well obviously we should build it" to "hmm, let's think carefully" some time around 2027.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics
The language seems rather complete [L], which makes me wonder: would that byte interpreter be of any use in other environments? How fast is it compared to e.g. V8 and JavaScriptCore? And to µPython?

[L] https://microsoft.github.io/devicescript/language