skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being blind isn't necessarily dangerous at all.

Lots of blind people have their homes set up with everything carefully arranged and no hazards. They prepare food, clean their house, commute to school, to jobs, and to appointments via familiar routes with no dangerous intersections, or they might use buses, trains, and Uber / Lyft just like millions of other people who aren't blind.

Being blind can be full of annoyances and frustrations, but I think it's a stretch to say that it's "dangerous".
Link to Google Play Books: https://play.google.com/books
Notable shift in emphasis to mixed reality. I wish they had HDR support called out for the passthrough though.

The Quest 2 CPU was too weak, and while this one will be better the Apple chips are still way out in front there.

The proportion of people in tech I know with a Quest 2 they never use is amazing. We all want VR to work but fundamentally headsets are a bad idea.
It just makes me wonder what is the correct way to legislate opioids?

Obviously, we need some legislation, otherwise we'll revert to the world of patent medicines. (Basically, cure-all patent medicines had opioids in them, and people didn't realize what they were taking.)

Also, obviously, we shouldn't criminalize addiction to opioids.

Perhaps we merely need to change how opioids are prescribed so that someone can legally maintain an addiction without an otherwise "medical" need? IE, a recreational heroin user can get a prescription, and if someone accidentally becomes addicted to painkillers that were prescribed for medical reasons, they can legally continue that addiction as long as they want to?
Isn't that "social" though?
If your MacBook battery is recent and lasting for less than 8 hours, you’re doing something very unusual.
Node is a JavaScript runtime with some framework stuff on top. Not more, not less. The language is the implemented ECMAScript version. If you want to add a new (key)word to the language, there is a long commitment process.
"Fooloofol" will give `Uncaught ReferenceError: fooloofool is not defined` in English and Node. :-D
Darts isn't a specific model, it's a wrapper API for a wide variety of forecasting models, and Prophet is one of them. Other models may or may not outperform Prophet depending on the nature of your specific application and your time series data. You really have to test them to know. And Darts facilitates testing many models on the same data by putting them all behind the same API.

Also, Prophet was developed by a very small number of individuals at Facebook, it's not something they invested massive resources into.
I wonder what the future holds for these devices now that Meta has drastically decreased their Metaverse spending.
What helped my suburban neighborhood come together was putting in a community garden. We have apple trees, thornless blackberry plants, grape vines, strawberry and blueberry plants, and a raised garden bed for everyone. People talk when they come down to weed, water, plant, etc. It gets people out of their houses in the evenings and gives a gathering place where we also host the block parties.

My opinion is every suburban neighborhood should be planed with a central community garden place.
The open source tools listed are quite basic compared to commercially available tools.
The EU says Twitter/X is the worst platform for disinformation
The Quest works in both standalone and PC connected modes. A gaming PC will give you a different game library and way more rendering power, but PCVR is nearly an abandoned platform these days. Most VR money goes into standalone and PlayStation VR.

You will need internet to download games, but it can operate in offline mode as well if the game supports it.

You do need an account, but it can be a Meta account not connected to your Facebook if your choose.

They are not hackable in any way and there are no custom firmwares. In fact, the software side of these devices is incredibly complex (tracking, lens correction, very low latency rendering and control pipelines) and replicating the work that FB has done would be an effort for a large team of VR engineers. If you dig into some of the details of how they work you will realize they are a technological marvel to rival the iPhone.
The New Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
You need a Meta account
Presumably-related ongoing thread:

Deno Queues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37674752 - Sept 2023 (67 comments)
I must agree. I immediately thought "this webpage _feels_ great." Typography, everything. Great work.
How clear is it who owns the copyright?
Apache used to not reject SNI hostname headers ending in a dot, in contravention of RFC 6066. Firefox notoriously didn't strip the trailing dot before sending the header. Some versions of curl (or the underlying libraries?) did, some didn't. I filed a bug at bz.apache.org about it.
tfw you cannot ever imagine using the features in a massive product rollout by a giant company and you despair for humanity instead.
While I like your idea, that needs to come with a cleaning service included :p

For a mainstream VR headset, you really need low latency. It's almost as bad as hard real-time machines because your users will get a mean headache and literally start to vomit if the latency between moving their head and the picture updating becomes too high. Rumor has it that reducing the screen latency by re-projecting a previously rendered frame was one of the big contributions that John Carmack developed to make Oculus feasible at all. So that means you now either need to stream ultra high resolution panoramas, which is too much data for even current 8k H265 codes to handle, or you need a streaming service with such an extremely low latency that just due to speed of light it basically has to be inside your city. Or well, you just accept that people will feel sick from the latency and reduce your target market to the 1% that can tolerate a 10ms delay on their vision.
ping 1.1.1.1
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=30.139 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=27.925 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=27.965 ms
OpenBSD PF versus FreeBSD PF
I don't know if Ryan and the rest of the Deno team are lurking here, but given "Anchored on the robust capabilities of FoundationDB" what I think would be absolutely fricking cool is to get full access to the underlying FoundationDB engine, which would surface the "model any data model you want the way you want it" capabilities of FoundationDB directly to Deno developers.

In case anyone wonders what this would make possible out of the box: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/design-recipes.html
I doubt it would be down for everyone as I assume it uses anycast. Working fine here.
Did you just make an account to call others entitled and accuse them of being coercive?
> Maximalist positions are a thing in our industry. Take a technique, outline its drawbacks, extrapolate you can’t use it under any circumstance, and ban it forever. We are lucky that Rails embraces exactly the opposite mindset as one of its pillars.
I'm glad I sold all my Quest 2 headsets (family) earlier this year. These things go obsolete faster than phones.
Is that how the engineers at Mistral iterated on this model?

I can patch windows and other binaries too (I'm actually pretty decent at that; 20 or so years with IDA/ghidra). That doesn't make them open source.
Could you explain about HDR passthrough? I'm thinking "see real life sunsets in glorious HDR color," which is probably not what you mean.
if you decline cookies the page doesn't load. meta can get <insert four letter explicative here>ed.
It sounds like you have a strong personal preference for Rust, which is fine. I'm pretty sure nobody loves Go as much as many people love Rust.

Even 100k LOC is pretty small for a software project, and likely doesn't need more than a few engineers. The advantage of the simplicity of Go shows up when you have to coordinate across >100 people, many of which are kind of mediocre, and you need all of them to ship features. If everyone in the world were a genius who is obsessed with writing clean code, Rust would be a fantastic language to work in at that scale, but they are not.
I don't think it matters whether you "boil" the water or not, you still need to put in enough energy to cause a state transition in the water you're evaporating. I see some papers on using ultrasonics to increase the efficiency of energy transfer from a heating element[1], but I don't think the second law of thermodynamics allows for a free lunch here.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13594...

Edit: If you're thinking of something like an ultrasonic humidifier, I don't think these actually evaporate the water[2]. The mist these produce would still contain salt if you tried to use them for desalination.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidifier#Ultrasonic_humidifi...
Is there anything like this for Kinesis?
Because it could be seen as communicating: "my ten minutes of coding around the array access problem is more perfect than your hours of investigation to root cause the issue plus your ten minutes of coding".
> Please note that this tag should not be added without the reporter's permission

Given that the OP was upset for not being recognized as a kernel contributor, I wonder whether they'd settle for this. If not, then that would explain why Suggested-by was not used here.
Uh oh. Whatever will we do if we can't tattle on someone for lying?

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I think what makes a programming language easy to use is largely due to the constraints that it imposes, through carefully thought-out design decisions.

At first the constraints may be difficult to grasp. You may feel like a feature is missing, but that's part of learning a language. Once you have learned them, the constraints actually become helpful.

One thing I dislike about JS is that it's like the wild west. You have a mash-up of all different paradigms that are possible, so you get libraries like this. No, I wouldn't say this makes code more readable, though I'm a fan of the pipe in other languages. It just makes yet another way to do the same thing.

I don't mean to be rude or ranty, so with that said, it's cool that you were able to make this. Kudos for that.
Related (2016) thread:

Why kernel development still uses email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12620468
And that's just one more thing that blind people don't want to have to deal with when they just want to go about their lives.

Humans are slow and unreliable. AI is fast and consistent.

Both are imperfect. You shouldn't rely on either one for something life-or-death. Nobody is using them to decide if it's safe to cross a street.
However, you also need to turn the same amount of gas back into liquid, just somewhere else without the salt. It does seem like there's good potential for recovering and reusing that energy.
Clang static analyzer (integrated with clang-tidy) is actually really good.
I don’t care about the legal liability I care about the actual features and capability of the system. If this thing can’t go faster than 50kph then it’s not better than my Honda civic from 2020, literally.

I hate how this has gotten advertised as way better than a Tesla but actually it’s much much worse than a Tesla in terms of its actual ability to drive in all conditions.
Technically evaporation takes less energy than boiling as your product is ambient temperature water vapor instead of hot water vapor. You also don't have to replace heat lost to the environment by the hot water and steam during the boiling process. The difference can be lessened by good insulation and heat regeneration, but they still can't be perfect.

Of course on the flip side, your goal is fresh liquid water, so you need to condense the vapor. Condensing hot vapor is easy, just expose it to cooler ambient conditions. Condensing ambient vapor is harder, and will require you to run something like a refrigeration cycle or a chemical desiccant system which will need energy to be regenerated.

Most commercial systems use vacuum distillation which boils water at low temperatures and pressures, which has its own drawbacks but is generally more efficient.
We've been having issues the last ~30 minutes, starting with this (UTC timestamps):

Sep 27 17:39:09Z Relocating dyno to a new server

Sep 27 17:39:09Z State changed from up to down

Sep 27 17:39:09Z State changed from down to starting

Sep 27 17:39:32Z Starting process with command `npm start`

Sep 27 17:39:33Z State changed from starting to crashed

Sep 27 17:39:33Z State changed from crashed to starting

Sep 27 17:39:33Z Process exited with status 127

Sep 27 17:39:33Z /bin/bash: line 1: npm: command not found
which is probably what would have happened if the blogposter had submitted to the regular mailing list, but he wanted the extra clout of submitting to the security list, and it backfired
> without having to setup partitions

Without being limited by partitions. In Kafka your unit of parallelism is partitions but what happens when you don't care at all (or much) about ordering and just want to add or remove consumers to match your current load? Queue semantics.

In Kafka the number of partitions can go up, but not down. And even when you do that the messages don't get split up to fill the new partition so you can't burn down a backup by adding more partitions or more consumers -- ope.
You also make friends with other parents when you have children, especially the first intense childbirth experience, but then also school, sports, scouts, camping, etc. The effect declines as your children get older.

After that, I agree, new friendships are rare, but perhaps also unnecessary, depending on your gender and personality (middle-aged autistic males probably have loner superpowers).
I had this, until I deactivated the "I don't care about cookies" extension.
I am pretty happy with Pop!_OS[1], it's got a fair amount of polish, reasonable choices about snaps etc.

1: https://pop.system76.com/
Its okay if you have not used a high res screen recently. Its like using a shitty college classroom projector to program. I have a cheap 4k monitor so it kind of ruined vr for me for the moment. I will not get an 8k monitor until I have the screen in a headset first.
And the failures as well to avoid survivorship bias. Sahil wrote a great book called "The Minimalist Entrepreneur" that goes into a lot of depth about finding customers. Also, Stripe Press has a book called Get Together that covers how to create community as well. I would recommend both books.
If I add value which management does not approve, then I am met by threats on their end. That is a stunning argument against management.

The workers create all the wealth and do all the work. The heirs who own the controlling stake in a big company like Siemens do not work, but expropriate surplus labor time doing work.

You have the workers who do all the work and create all the wealth on one end, and the heirs who parasitically expropriate the worker's surplus time on the other. It's obvious to those of us who work who the "argument" is against.
>> And you failed to respond to the argument that you can anonymously post deepfakes

You can't post them anonymously; even Tor can't give you a 100% guarantee. Not for a very long time, and not if the law after you. If the AGI is on the side of law enforcement, especially. Law enforcement will become more expensive.

It's just a different scale of warfare. Nothing really changes except the amount, speed, and frequency of the casualties.

And any argument you make is absolutely applicable to each corporation right now. Do you prefer the dystopian dictatorship of the corps or the balance of powers?
I have a Quest2 that only used for about 1 hour, is there any resale value or trade-in somewhere? it's collecting dust these two years, supposed to be a Christmas gift, did not work out at all.
What do you mean?

You can install certificates by cloudflare and then the only one that can connect to your server is from cloudflare.

No one can intercept it then.

If you're talking about flexible SSL. Sure, you can use it purely as a https proxy for your SEO score of your blog. But securing it is not much effort.

If it's just for a static blog, I'm not sure what you would though.
psoriasis on my hands, associated clawlike fingernails. i bleed and shed a lot of skin.
Whoever owned the land didn’t tell you with an easily viewable sign that there are crocodiles nearby. You have a liable party now! Why do you think California puts a label on everything saying it could cause cancer?

Plus disability insurance should cover this?
Compcert is a true tour de force in what can be done with formal methods, but my experience is that almost no one is actually in a position where semantic equivalence is major source of issues for them. I more commonly see it brought up internally as a way for people to avoid facing the larger issues traditionally plaguing high assurance C development that aren't as simple as "just" changing the compiler.
https://archive.ph/f9EMF

It doesn't sound like a particular insightful book - yes, models do not always match reality, and slack/friction are valuable properties we lose at our own risk. But at least based on the WSJ review, I'd assume these are the essence of the book.

Any HN readers who actually read the book and can shed more light than the meagre article?
I daily drove my quest 2 using immersed VR for a few months. In the end, the resolution was just not good enough for it to be better than my 3 monitor setup. But I'm looking forward to trying again in a couple of generations.
In my head -- and I'm no doctor, believe you me! -- I call this "emotional inertia", which is a phrase I've borrowed from one of the many doctors who has treated me for depression.
A.k.a. the budget version of Apple Vision Pro. Just $649.99 plus all your personal data! Strap it on your eyeballs and feed the machine, the algorithm hungers!
Practical Engineering recently had a video on the topic "Why is desalination so difficult"

https://youtu.be/mxqOPdEUNTs?feature=shared
https://www.meta.com/quest/compare/

Quest 2 was 90h/90v, Quest 3 is 110h/96v
Device with focus on mixed reality and productivity sporting the latest in mobile chips and hand tracking. It also does VR but MR is the new feature being brought to the table.
> I would struggle to talk to them for 3 minutes

Have you tried talking to them for 3 min? Your statement is written as if it’s a hypothetical.

When I talk to the parents at my kids school (5min from my house) I’m amazed at how much we have in common. 50% of the dads are computer programmers. I’ve found things in common with most of the other parents.

When I talk to my neighbours the one on my right has a PhD from the same college as me and the one on the left went backpacking to the same places as me.

You live where you do because of “reasons” your neighbours live there for similar reasons. We’re all random suburbanites.
This plus the Verilog to Routing that was posted yesterday showcase the algorithms used in chip design (this post being more about the physical side, v2r covering frontend synthesis as well). The field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) has some of the most interesting, hardest problems in tech, yet the pay in EDA is kind of mediocre. And EDA is essential in developing new chips -> Semiconductors are essential to our economy.

The EDA companies complain about not being able to attract new talent, but maybe if they paid better? The other problem with the EDA companies (as someone who has worked in EDA in the past) is that they're just plain stodgy - they feel like some kind of old boys club. We had C++ code from the early 90s and to a large extent they still coded C++ in a 90s style. C++ Templates? Nope, not allowed in the group I was in.
Awesome! Thanks for that. Cloudflare smashing it on simplicity as per usual.
What do you think about the BSDs, or 9front, the Plan 9 fork?
Holy smokes thats a lot of authors
"Messages are generated by AI. Some may be inaccurate or inappropriate."

Then... what's this for? Why are you rolling out a feature that's clearly not production ready?

God I hope this hype bubble blows soon. I am sick to absolute death of hearing about AI. At this point I welcome the actual SkyNet to rise up and start killing everyone just so I can never hear any more pointless hype about it.

And for that matter: What do AI stickers solve that a search box in existing sticker libraries don't?

Also also: now you can make your own AI for the ask of a Facebook account? How long till they paywall the ability to sext them, since that's apparently what most people who use this use them for? Or will they just block anything age-inappropriate to protect the children?

Anyone else figuring this is going to be an even bigger bust for Facebook than the metaverse trash was?
Windows source access is given out pretty freely to academics as the Windows Research Kernel (WRK).

But the point is that the data pipeline and tensorflow or what have you that trained the model is the source here. The model is the binary.
Any word on what "tactile feedback" or "experiences you can feel" for the controllers means here? Did they just add vibration and punch it up with marketing bullshit, or is something fancier being described?
Ultrasonic "steam" tends to aerosolize the total dissolved solids. Google "white dust" in regards to ultrasonic humidification. I suspect that this would not work for desalination.

Aside:

I have a home-built ultrasonic humidifier. If I run it with Boulder, CO tap water that is low in TDS, it only takes a day or so to have a PM2.5 >600 in my house. For this to work I had to install an RO filter in order to humidify with ultrasonic and not degrade air quality.
Something similar happened recently in Massachusetts with a doctor seeing an injury the parents couldn't explain and the kid being taken away for a while. Injury turned out to probably have been done by the grandparents who never told the parents because the kid didn't fuss, but the kids were taken away in the middle of the night.

https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/massachusetts-dcf-e...
hdr for the added content no?
Counter-intuitively, I think I'd be able to manage a headset better if it wasn't this box strapped to the front of my face, but rather an evenly balanced hockey helmet with a flip-up mask.

I can do hours wearing a hockey helmet, but these things are uncomfortable after a little while, and I think it's because it's just a more balanced thing that my neck muscles aren't constantly counteracting.

Not to suggest that that's the only thing that makes these a non-start for me, but I feel like that's one of the core issues.