skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found this a few days ago and honestly it's great

I specifically used https://txtfiddle.com/~eoufjoc/remove-subdomain-from-domain
I’ve had a series of art projects that were always asking to have their own virtual worlds. When I heard about Apple Vision Pro I got excited about being able to deploy this kind of application. My Mac Mini burned out and Ithought about replacing it with an M2 so I could use Apple’s proprietary dev tools but then I thought it would make more sense to get real MR/VR hardware.

I got a Hololens 1 off Ebay which was not too expensive but the software availability is just about zero and I never really built a stack to develop for it.

I am not a Facebook fan but I heard really good things about the MQ3 (costs 1/7 of the Apple vision) and I can say I am impressed. It supports ‘immersed’ and some other applications to put virtual screens in your space, I have used immersed a bit but I am still thinking of getting a fancy monitor for my workstation (can’t make up my mind if I want high refresh rate or a very wide color gamut) and putting the old monitor up in my media room/VR lab instead of using virtual screens.

I have been developing virtual worlds using A-frame which is basically web development, the server reloads when I update the files so my workflow so far has been “edit on the computer, put on the headset to view” and it is slick because by the time I put the headset on the page has been reloaded.

I have a bunch of GLTF models of Mars captured by the Pathfinder rover and processed by a PhD student, I’ve gotten one to view on the MQ3 but I think the rest are too big. I have a cable to plug in the MQ3 to a computer that makes it work as a PCVR headset, this weekend I plan to see if the models will load when my computer is running the WebXR browser.

With A-Frame you can make worlds viewable in a desktop or mobile browser as well as a headset, my understanding is that the AVP also supports WebXR. I think portability of other apps should be possible because I’ve seen people use Unity for everything from Magic Leap to PCVR.

As for games I have done a lot of that. I haven’t touched any other games since Asgard’s Wrath 2 came out. Angry Birds VR is also great. I am also impressed with fitness apps like Supernatural and all sorts of “game-adjacent” apps which I would liken to theme park rides. For instance I had a great time seeing overtouristed places in Paris with panographic photos. Probably the next bit of photo gear I get will be a pano camera. As it is I use it to view pics I take with my QuoCam Ego which makes a difference because before this the only way I had to view stereo was to make red-green anaglyphs, now I can know if an image is failing as an anglyph because the stereo is bad or if it is an anaglyph problem. It views stereo movies too and I think it is great that Apple is promoting this.

If a customer comes around looking for an AVP app I will probably invest in an AVP and a new Mac but until then I am having fun with my MQ3.
I was recently appalled to discover how many of my subscriptions auto-updated the expiration date when my card expired.

I had hoped to use "ignore it until charges stop going through because jumping through their hoops is ridiculous" to cancel a few pesky subscriptions and it didn't even work!

I think this is a "feature" of using Stripe for billing? Or something? I couldn't find anything obvious that they had in common but that.
You've Formed Your Opinion on EVs. Now Let Me Change It
https://archive.ph/jGKmJ
Meta Going All in on GenAI
Firefox wasn't "bloated", it had a whole ecosystem of browser extensions that HN types loved which by the nature of the extension model ran synchronously with the UI and often stepped on each other's toes, broke on updates, and led to terrible memory leaks.

They were then screamed at for being insufficiently "complacent" when they tried to fix those issues by changing the extension model.
Yeah I didn't really get the appeal of reblochon for that reason. Really liked Brie de meaux though. Other cheeses that have "barnyard" aroma (manure) have an appeal that inscrutable to me.
If russia can buy American chips and Dutch lithography machines through 3rd countries, sure Ukraine can get some drone on ali.

Suddenly some farmers in * get obscure country from the list * will decide it’s a good idea to deliver pesticides from the air because reasons. For sure supplier will see right through it and will care about plausible deniability first.

The whole titanium cia story happens more often than it doesn’t
Intentional Obfuscation is difficult to convey to people who, for example, make enough money to hire someone to do their taxes for them.
I see no reason we shouldn't stabilize the population at a size rather lower than the one we currently have. This is a problem our grandchildren can solve, if they want to.
Thanks for clarifying. Still, do you see the NY Times as corporate media? They are independent, if I understand your meaning. I'm not out to defend them - I have no particular interest in the Times - but there are so many misconceptions about journalism.
At this point I'm really curious why is there no open-hardware printer project. There seems to be a huge market for one.

Or at least not an entire printer, but something where you would buy some popular printer model and replace its motherboard.
Thank you for this feedback! We'd love to contract you in the future to try and break our system
In my case it can mean the difference between whether or not I can get through the day as a functioning adult. I think that outweighs the associated suffering and therefore makes it ethical.
The title here matches the title of their blog post, which I agree is poorly worded.
I read it this way twice before I read it as the OP intended.
Ooo, nice, thanks!
One difference between suicide drones and hobbyist drones is the design lifetime.

IIRC some of the gasoline engines used on suicide drones are built with a peculiar design that is powerful but wears out in just a matter of minutes. But that's acceptable because it'll still outlast the lifetime of the vehicle.

Another difference is payload configuration.
I can't. HN won't let you downvote children of your own comments.
Optimising string processing in Rust (2016)
I mean I don't go to buffet to eat a lot, but just because I like what they serve and I can make my own plates. We exist.
I don’t use either of these services in existing VR headsets and experience no loss. Odds are low I’m gonna shed tears about their absence on one more headset.

edit

I should add that that I can certainly expect many people who might buy this won't be thrilled, and for them if this is the kind of thing they are interested in, I would understand their dissapointment.
A leading proponent of vertical farming discusses how urban areas should adapt
Uranium Prices Explode as Wyoming Uranium Miners Rush to Cash In
These patterns work on adults and are economic inefficiencies whether you subscribe to strict personal accountability or not. Good policy improves individual and social outcomes.

Choose to improve things, even if your ideal is that everyone would take care of it themselves.
IMHO in order to stop an oppression, people need to withdraw there support of said system by organizing directly and withdrawing from party politics because party systems create polar opposites that keep the status quo going.
Dent corn is perfectly edible. The white variety is used in cornmeal, corn chips, and tortillas. Yellow is more used for animal feed and industrial use. But it is edible since it is pure starch.

Also, except for emergencies, the corn wouldn't be diverted but the farmers would plant a different variety or different crop the next year.
> Reports from the Open Society Foundations

Sorry, billionaire advocacy organizations aren't credible sources on the issues they are trying to influence.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/4-asylum-seeke...

73% male, 83% under 35 at the peak of the migration crisis. I think my characterization was pretty fair.

> According to USA for UNHCR, 40% of individuals arriving in Europe by sea in 2019 were women and children. In 2022, over 159,000 people risked their lives trying to reach Europe by sea, with more than 2,400 reported dead or missing.

That number should be 0. Guess how we can make it 0? Eliminate pull factors that incentivize migrants and allow NGOs to aid and abet human trafficking. Australia had a similar issue with migrants arriving via ship, but through effective policy they have virtually eliminated both arrivals and deaths.
Just because it's not happening in the Anglo-sphere doesn't mean its not happening. France always has been a tech giant, both in traditional hard tech and computer technology. They had something like the web before the web for example.

Also, notice how many big names in the AI field have funny accents and non-American names. Maybe startups go to the USA to become Unicorns but a lot is happening in Europe, especially in talent.

I recall listening to Mistral CEO, who also happens to be French, explaining that UK, France and Poland are very good at training mathematicians and as a result they happen to have access to a good talent pool in EU. He also said that many people don't want to go to the US because of the food, safety and other aspect that make EU nice place to be at.
I wish there was some way to do this without handing over the credentials for my entire financial life to a 3rd party—which I refuse to do.
Agreed, but I don't believe the typical inkjet buyer is an artist, or even a hobbyist with calibration needs. They'd be much better served by a laser printer and outsourcing specialty prints to a shop.
Also, people's circumstances change over time, but their work not so much.

As a new grad, hell yeah I want to be in the office to interrupt and be interrupted for the learning, interact to know other, hope for serendipitous encounters, have a good time after work, meet a potential partner, yada yada.

As a family person with decade of work history, I see it as losing my balance, a hindrance the interruptions, the banter, the random assignments because you ran into someone in the cafe, having to deny after hours stuff again and again for the kids or appointments, having to take the whole day off for a 2 hour appointment at lunch, blah blah blah.

Not all new grads are the same, neither all seniors. Let people pick. The illusion of loss of productivity has been shattered and there's no going back.

There was a point in time when all you could buy was a black ford model-T. Ford would love to do that. But it can't anymore. Times have changed. Took Ford a long time and many executive shifts to move on and get along with reality.

So will this.
While the resources are out there it's very feasible that we could become locked into a scenario where it is out of reach. I don't particularly care for letting the cost stop us from taking it from outside Earth, but the prerequisite for doing so is having enough energy available to accomplish the goal. Which is a path we could easily close off for ourselves.
See also https://olduse.net/ for a 42 year delay on USENET. All I had to do was put this in my ~/.emacs file:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "olduse.net" (nntp-port-number 11942)))

Then I typed `M-x gnus` and used the `^` key to see a listing of newsgroups.
"I hope that this post provides some mental and moral support for suffering programmers and technologists who want to improve things. It is not just you, we are not merely suffering from nostalgia: software really is very weird today."

What about suffering software users.

"! want to end this post with some observations from Niklaus Wirth's 1995 paper.

"To Some, complexity equals power. (...) Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling - the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.""

Who were the "some people" to which Wirth referred. A wild guess: software developers.
> If someone you know (a customer, in this case, with an existing relationship) wants to keep paying you, why go out of your way to say no?

Because I don't want to take people's money that I haven't earned. Why do I want to scam people? Blaming them doesn't make it less of a scam.

> unless there is a concrete reason you have to believe otherwise

Here we agree. You need a concrete reason. For example, if your service streams movies and they haven't streamed one in a year, that might be a concrete reason. Sometimes it's ambiguous, and then send them an email.
I think it was more than 'bugs'. The whole architectural design was inadequate. See Computerphile video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBJm9ZYqL10

(C++ programmer, but not an expert of distributed systems - would be interested to hear from someone that is)
> This sounds like it can get a bit overwhelming.

Indeed, I wouldn't want that but glad it's an option.

There's no need to review transactions the moment they happen to catch any fraud. It is fine to wait for the statement and review it once a month. You're still not liable, so there's no rush to do it immediately.

> I really do wish banks or visa/mastercard would offer virtual card functionality.

Some do, although for some reason it has never worked for me (but also have not tried debugging the process too much).
The cultural significance of the resource wars in the middle east has been immense. I wonder if the modern imperial powers will wage new wars for resources in east Asia in the future.
Google TAG: Kremlin cyber spies move into malware with a custom backdoor
I just went to getfirefox.com (with no ad-blocking or anything). There are no hits to any Google or Doubleclick domain. In fact, there are also no XHR's or GETs to tracking APIs either, that I can see. Not sure what you're referring to, but this is the most privacy-respecting webpage I've been to in a long time.

Same thing going to mozilla.org . I'm not seeing any tiny hint of what you're describing.
> The FDA approval was based on results from a multicenter clinical trial led by the Mayo Clinic involving over 1,000 patients across 22 clinics.

Medical tech often requires clinical trials so there is some cost to that. And it can also limit how quickly competitors can create a competing device. But $399 monthly for unlimited use doesn't see so bad when a dermatology clinic might see hundreds of patients a month.
It would be good to hear what was said, if you don't mind sharing.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058847. Nothing wrong with it but it's a bit of a tangent.)
The sad thing is that our political class and media used to actively ridicule China's Great Firewall, but now when the internet nasty of the month pops up they all froth at the mouth over controlling what people can see.
> presumably happy with your service

The OP is about billions being spent by people who are not happy but haven't unsubscribed, so that seems like a bad presumption.
The 8 bit guy made a post at the beginning of the year saying he makes maybe 8 times less than during covid and that it's not unique to him. I imagine that alone would cause people to quit youtube.
> It's bizarre to me just how many people in this country (especially the ones who can least afford it) simply do not take charge of their financial health.

They may be too exhausted from their second job - or from the one job they have to be on their feet the whole work day - and may not have the mental energy to comb through financial statements. You have the luxury of time and energy, so real reasons sound like excuses to you. I would recommend you (re)read John Scalzi's essay on Being Poor[1]. Except:

>> Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.

The link between stress and poor decision-making is well studied, and unfortunately poor financial health is self-reinforcing: being poor is very expensive!

1. https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
My initial point was that by the time you find the evidence, adversary goals are already accomplished. The author is quite credible after nearly ten years, given all the circumstances. Eastern Europe being organized against fracking when they can't even get their shit together in other matters? I believe all of this is the same psyops, only repackaged for a younger generation with a shorter attention span.
> Most places don't accept cancellations over email, or require certified mail for cancellations

E-mail yes. But I've never seen a letter mailed fail. Especially if you Cc your state's consumer protection regulator.

> if you do a chargeback or block a payment, they will terminate your account

Wait, what are we trying to do?
Sadly, I've interviewed enough people that this doesn't surprise me in the least.
People assume that all the difficult video stuff is 3D and that 2D is "solved" but it's actually quite an issue to do it well and fast.

The Factorio dev blog has some of the issues encountered, and rendering speed for Dwarf Fortress in ASCII mode has been an issue in the past.
Tempest is indeed a terrible example:

- it's a static perspective view, less complex than sprite based 2D

- it's implemented on a vector screen, where the cathode ray gun is drawing the lines instead of the software, not a bitmapped one

- almost everything can be precalculated and only vertex locations need be stored

Of course it's still a creative game, but not very hard to implement.

It should be noted that Battlezone wasn't actual 3D since everything happened on a fixed plane, but it had dynamic rotating shapes and the like so much more advanced.
My Chrome/Firefox extension makes IPv6 look nice: https://github.com/pmarks-net/ipvfoo
And destroy all that natural habitat full of biodivesity? Rooftop and parking lot solar for the win.
>What really bothers me is that the CEO of the Organisation at the time was also a Christian priest/deacon

Because Priests have never done anything bad before?
Ah, you had the knowledge to solve the problem using bash, but had not the wisdom to sit on the answer and surf the web until a plausible amount of time had passed :)
His previous post seemed well received.

What I learned selling my company https://www.harryglaser.com/what-i-learned-selling-my-compan... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38975561 (272 points, 6d ago, 98 comments).
Cultures don't exist in a vacuum. Within a society, a given group's culture is influenced by the situations that group experiences.

Besides, there's already evidence that systemic issues like poverty impact crime rates.
> Efficiency gains in a process certainly create extra "resources" whatever they might be.

Sure, and most of the world has much better lives already because of that then their parents.

This is excluding US which had a unique position after ww2 which has eroded to some extent but is still much better then the rest of the world..

> But I do applaud you for not saying "we need immigration because we need ethnic food" like most people say nowadays.

I would guess that is dismissive on purpose, people saying that are avoiding a potentially sensitive topic which they do not care to engage in. (which I probably should as well, so yes, ethnic food is the reason)
>Gyms, cloud storage, restaurant buffets, insurance all follow this business model.

I'm struggling to understand how you can lambaste people by saying "jUsT cAnCeL iT"[0] when you seem to be well aware of the business model of gyms, wherein cancelling a membership is widely-known to be a purposefully cumbersome and difficult experience.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39059793
This is almost always the case.

Growth at all costs often means “if it doesn’t win a new customer it doesn’t matter.”

It’s takes concerted, continual focus to ensure customers actually solve their problem & renew.

If that’s not a priority, you don’t hire the people with the DNA & skillset to deliver it.

Many startups are learning that you can’t just pivot your strategy from acquisition to retention. Your product, your team, your culture all have to make major changes to succeed at it.

Of course, you don’t have to be bad at fulfillment and retention to win new customers. But you won’t be able to allocate as many resources to acquisition.
It's an appliance with huge gaping security flaws that its very creator says you should use under approximately no circumstances.

> For what it's worth, the "XP" OS is often licensed and supported for well longer than a consumer SKU. IIRC microsoft provided support and security updates for embedded/appliance applications until 2019!

You're 100% right but that still means the thing has been sitting around for half a decade with no security updates whatsoever.

There is a fine line between stability and simply being a miser and refusing to update things within a reasonable period of time. Healthcare, especially corporate healthcare run by people other than physicians, is far to much on the miser end of the spectrum.
I never get over the weird feeling seeing something like Windows 95 which was released with such spectacle, Jay Leno and millions of dollars in launch events, requiring the latest available PC equipment to boot the same day, and of course the looming threat of the SPA sending you to PMITA prison if you didn’t pay your $209.95 being reduced to a small square on my mobile phone still running faster through a million layers of framework. Seemed like serious shit at the time.
They are talking about the price of consumables in the process. You also need a building and electricity and employees and a whole bunch of other stuff you can infer via deduction.
i know what you mean with not going into detail. i only need to list all my favorite programming languages for someone to be able to identify me.

but, if i may ask, is that work that can be done 100% remote? would it make sense for an older software developer to pick that up? i am a generalist with lots of experience and i'd love to train up in a niche field to help me find work.

if you think that makes sense id appreciate if you could ask your IRL person to email me :-)
At least for the "Midnight Blizzard" part of the title, it's the result of a naming framework [0] for threat actors that Microsoft has been using since April 2023. I agree it sounds weird.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/int...
What is it when you have the detail texture loaded in such a way that you can say "get every second byte (or whatever)" to get the half size, and so on?

IIRC some CPUs were good at that kind of memory access, but most were not.
- Understanding git (deeply, including PR, cherry-pick, merge, etc.)

- Using modern tools (ChatGPT, Phing, Copilot but also GH Actions, docker, etc.)

- Workflow improvement (Faster typing, how to use keyboard shortcuts, write scripts for automation)

- Debugging and measurement (Finding issues quickly, Analyse performance, etc.)

- Basic infrastructure understanding (Networking, Orchestration, Deployment, CI, etc.)

- Automated Testing (How to write Unit-Tests efficiently to save time ignoring all the TDD 95% coverage bullshit)

- Learning Markdown (How to write good technical documentation quickly)

- Learn concepts, not Frameworks[1] (tinker with other languages, command line, GUI, Web, etc.)

- Basic Operating System and Hardware understanding (Tanenbaum: Modern Operating Systems, drivers, etc.)

[1]: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/05/learn-concepts-not-framewor...
A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space?
My rule of thumb looking at any problem has evolved to: it it's one person, blame them. If it's happening to swaths of the population, scrutinize the system they operate in. Mistakes can only be treated entirely as such if most other people don't fall for them. Otherwise it's a systemic issue.
This is actually how the Manson family murders started!

They first injured Gary Hinman trying to get money from him- before the Tate murders. While he was injured they spent days first injuring him, and then debating how to keep him from going to the police for two days before he died.
Better in terms of effort to money.