skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless they can deliver a totally game-changing experience imo. And so far it looks like they have the best VR/AR headset on the market, but will that be enough, remains to be seen.

Like if Apple is able to provide such a good experience, that I don't need multiple monitors for work, I could easily justify that purchase. But it would have to have great battery life, support virtual screens, provide a fast and smooth experience, be super comfortable even after 6-7 hours, etc. I don't think Gen 1 will check all those boxes off, but gen 2-3-4, maybe.
I said the same to my fiancée. We have gold status on Westjet (Canada’s second largest carrier and it has a hub airport close by) and I just put in the cancellation on my westjet credit card and will use up the rest of my credit. They use predominantly 737-800s and 787s in their fleet. AirCanada, their direct competitor, has a significantly larger airbus fleet. I’ll start using them from here on out just to decrease my odds of flying on a 737MAX
On the flip side, there's a decent market for people with disposable income who just always have to buy the latest and greatest gadget because they read about it online/because it's new and fresh.
Company cultures can get worse over time. Why couldn't that happen globally?

In the past there was always a larger, younger generation coming up that would have enough people to make things better even if locally things got worse.

But that's not true anymore. We're already seeing this in places, such as the loss in expertise in certain areas such as nuclear powerplant design, diminished ability to cost-effectively build public works projects, the looming problem of skills shortage for all of these "near-shored" industries, and the inability to keep up with housing demand because there simply aren't enough people in the construction industry.

I didn't agree with some of the examples in the article, but I do think it's true that the declining population that's coming will lead to a lot of orphaned infrastructure and lost know-how.
I think your best bet would be a VirtualBox with Windows 95-XP on it or using DosBox. However there is an entire sub-reddit dedicated to the game where people have run it like 20 different ways.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SimTower/
From my point of view, it's not that much about lying, for me the OP demonstrates a degree of incompetence of the post writers about Git.

The fact that they don't seem to fully understand working of Git (not on the level of Git developers, just the level of Git administrators/users) does not inspire trust in their competence to create a Git alternative.
We don't have any evidence it's generally open to consumption by all Tesla employees, and I'd be shocked if it was. I also don't think there's any cloud video storage happening by any large company that encrypts video files, Tesla isn't like uniquely dumb about this
From what I have read, you can recharge the battery while in use, so that sounds like you wouldn't be limited to 2 hours of use as long you can plug in.
> It reduces it to "Can I fire 50% of my workforce? Then it must be AGI."

Well, no, that's job automation, and if it's job-specific then it's narrow AI at best (assuming this is a job requiring intelligence being automated, not just a weaving loom being invented), in other words specifically not AGI.

It's really pretty absurd that we've now got companies like OpenAI, Meta, Google (DeepMind) stating that their goal is to build AGI without actually defining what they mean. I guess it let's them declare success whenever they like .. Seems like OpenAI ("GPT-5 and AGI will be here soon!") is gearing up to declare GPT-5, or at least GPT-N as AGI, which is pretty sad.
> Free software can be used for any purpose, including competing with the original authors. If you can’t do whatever you want with the software, it’s not free software.

That's like saying a free society can only be free when individuals are free to do anything they want including harming/limiting freedoms of other individuals. Well, no, most free society limits your freedom to harm other people or bans you from limiting other people's freedom. The AGPL prohibits you from limiting other people's freedom.
> presumably many many years of code sits on top of.

Not so many, since they tried to link all 3 only few years ago

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/18253472/mark-zuckerberg-f...
I find it funny how many comments you've made in this thread missing the point. People are reacting against the dishonest pitch, not the product.
I have two such playlists and rarely deviate - one is a spotify playlist simply called 'Work' shared by another user with around 180 hours of mostly instrumental tracks by various artists, and the other is the soundtrack to Portal 2 (released by Valve as "Songs to Test By"), which is mostly ethereal industrial noises and a good rhythm

Typically I know which one I 'need' for a given task, and I tend to find that not needing to go hunting for a new one each time genuinely speeds me along

But of course, sometimes what I really want is to pick juuuust the right album...
I guess part of karmic consequence of "move fast and break things" motto - especially when it comes to not caring to develop or have forethought on security-safety concerns for what such a system, a digital version of The Facebook, could have on society; Harvard was planning to launch a digital version of their print version of The Facebook - and part of Mark's history he's quoted as saying, along with lying to the ConnectU twins he was hired to develop, that he didn't understand why Harvard was taking so long to get it going - that he could do it way faster; the externalized costs/harms are practically incalculable - all for that sweet sweet cheap-shallow-manipulative advertising revenue.
Well, DECT wasn't exactly very secure, and neither was GSM (2G) call encryption. And check out the recent TETRA-related CVE's for more fun ;)

https://www.midnightblue.nl/tetraburst
I was going to say that history repeats itself. This is incorrect. This is actually just history.

This is so old that its replacement, ThumbEE, had already been deprecated as well.
FWIW, we also get non-stop cookie permission banners and often just straight-up denied access to certain services that don't want to have to jump through the hoops.
I feel like game companies should have to disclose the minimum length they're going to keep the servers running for a game before release. Be it 12 months, 3 years, 10 years, but the consumer should have that knowledge before making a purchase.
Eh, can't be that excited about anything involving the data hole that is Meta Platforms products, even if they make some EU concessions. Maybe when we get that EU-only iOS sideloading support I can finally be more smug about it.
I mean 3He+3He -> 2 Be. This is a fusion reaction that would produce only a stable element. Of course, there would be side reactions and the reaction vessel itself would be constantly bombarded with neutrons. However, you definitely would not have the situation we have now, where uranium is burned up to just produce some slightly lighter but still radioactive metal that then has to be isolated from the environment for tens of thousands of years. It would be a big improvement.
> Spores are illegal in Germany

So are growkits, but spores are easier to transport (in a syringe suspended in water, or on aluminium foil). Problem with growkits is that it takes a while to see whether you’ve got a good (or contaminated) one, and yield isn’t that high.

Main options:

- (Learning, qulity) Start from spores (syringe or dry): do this to learn a lot, and also to have something to eat afterwards. It was one of my most valuable projects ever. Spores go into petri dish, then search for Uncle Ben’s. Two months starting from zero.

- (Learning, quality, faster) Clone a living part: get your hands on mycelium or a fresh fruiting body (possibly also a sclerotium AKA truffle), which consists of mycelium as well (the »fruit« is the same material as the »tree« for fungi, I digress but this is so interesting). Put into agar petri dish, let it grow, and search for Uncle Ben’s. (I did this with store-bought King Oysters.) Roughly 2 weeks faster than the spore process because you’re skipping the selection-and-transfer phase, and thus also contamination risk.

- (No learning, genome+contamination gambling, fastest) Growkit: don’t have experience with this, but I’ve heard that they often don’t work because they’re contaminated. I have no practical experience here.
Not to be pedantic, but I imagine there would be easier ways to telling a Japanese soldier apart from British/American soldiers during WWII /s
Except the last cold snap in Alberta almost took out their power grid. Canada needs infrastructure to build things out and we have not investment in what we have let alone what we need, how can we build out even just 1 more Calgary?
Right but how does that employee know? Do they have access to private chats and can run stats on it?
Good point! It would have to save the files with another filename... or propose a UI to tell which programs were open, so that you can take note of what you were doing
> true China

> Taiwan/ROC

And then people keep pretending they don't understand what's all the fuss between PRC and ROC is even about.
lol. i'm looking for a flight on the Tu-104 please.
I'm just reading Flying Blind by Peter Robison which talks exactly about these things (haven't finished it yet).
I'd say that open-source works best for companies when they don't open the main thing. Meta building React in the open is a good example. The community gets a well-maintained library. Meta gets free testing, code contributions and potential hiring pipeline. When trying to compete with Meta, React gives you virtually no advantage. There's no incentive to leave important features out of the public codebase. Both Meta and the community benefit.

Would it make sense for Meta to open the codebase for facebook.com? Aside from studying/scrutinising the code, the only other thing you'd be able to do with it is to change the logo and try to compete with Facebook.

In this example, it's still probably not enough to disrupt them thanks to the social graph and infrastructure complexity. But you could imagine moments where even Meta gets nervous when anyone can start competing with feature parity from day one.

Over the long-term, it's more likely that Meta would want to keep some features private. It's also less likely that they would get lots of quality contributions back. If you're running a fb.com clone in production, you're likely trying to compete with them on some level. This leads to a weird relationship with the community and limited value for both sides.
That article also states that using a standard Git feature, shallow clones, you go from 20min to 90s. Most of the problems touched upon in the article are about state management for local environments, yes that can be tricky. And it can take time, but it has nothing to do with Git.
The rudder is necessary for directional control specifically turns, and for flying straight in a crosswind.

I've heard of a few cases where applying more/less power on the right/left engines can sort of crudely achieve the same thing, and you might get lucky and get on the groud without crashing, but loss of the rudder would be a serious emergency indeed.
Github Copilot was the real killer for me. I would say around 80% of the time I no longer have to leave my IDE for trivial problems (e.g. I no longer Google the regex) that I'd otherwise just rip from Stack Overflow.
Just be careful to monitor your usage, while it may be free to me, I suspect it is not free to you. Watch for a surprise bill.
I’ll quote wand3r back to you:

> Sure it's not because of Kayak
Never say never... I got the first generation iPad, and was happy that I did. But then, it was not that expensive. But yes, especially with such a new product category, you really want to wait a few generations, if you want to get the best product for your money. Just look how quickly iPhones evolved and this Vision Pro is even more groundbreaking.
I have found it pretty useful in a few situations:
- USB/Mouse keyboard when the iMac you are working on has totally dead batteries for the mouse/keyboard- its not fun but works in a pinch.

- Cloning weird ceiling fans/lights. Apparently I've bought horrible remotes but this helped.

- Used this as a nightstand clock while traveling.

- Used the authenticator app as a backup Yubi key

- Mouse jiggler to keep a computer awake

- blasting tvs at restaurants is a ton of fun and my kids like that.

- And the IR functionality for Nerf Laser Ops Pro (IR laser tag) is an absolute blast - the actual Nerf guns have a delayed trigger, but with Flipper there is no delay or need to "reload" so you are an unstoppable beast.
Am I missing something or are people just taking the word of an unknown Medium blogger with no sources as the official truth?
Are there lots of airlines that don’t have power at every seat now?
Indian PM Modi announces Scheme to install solar rooftops on 10M houses
> Mastodon is a bit like email. Not great but it works right now and is reasonably easy to get into and integrate with. The feddiverse is bigger than Mastodon. But it's mainly Mastodon. And Threads soon apparently. Millions of people daily active on it. Not quite critical mass yet but closer than most other things have gotten since Twitter started imploding. Good enough?

For what?
When Pain Tests the Limits of Recovery from Drug Addiction
The red sea alone, which is what they're using, is about 0.1% of the world's water, which is 230 million tons of lithium, which is ten times the reserves we have from land. There's plenty.
> I recently bought an expensive new computer. And after a few weeks, I went back to my old computer—it ran better than the new model.

I'm curious what the specs of the old and new desktop computer were, and how many years old the old one was.

I upgraded my desktop PC after 5 years, from a decent Core i7 CPU of back then to a Zen 4 based CPU now, and it's 3x faster for single threaded things (if I measure walltime of things like javascript minification), and has 2x more cores/threads on top of that.

Maybe they mean the OS feels slower or something instead? Or made a very uninformed buying decision.
You can use a browser extension like Stylus and make it any size you want: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpee...
No it's not. It's a statement, yes. Not a political one necessarily.

I stopped buying El Monterrey frozen burritos last year. They removed some of the beef and replaced it with filler rice. I did not appreciate that cost-cutting, so I stopped giving them my money. It's not a political stance that I have here, it's an economic one. I don't like shrinkflation so I don't reward it.

I will refuse to buy any GM car because they made a decision to juice their subscription revenue. This has nothing to do with my political stance. It's an economic decision.

And so with the Boeing planes. They're obviously cutting corners in their safety department. The result is still a mode of travel that's really safe, but the way we got to that level of safety is by not cutting corners. I may decline to reward a company that has decided to trade a little of that hard-won safety margin for some better financial numbers.
So, they found nothing suspicious with devices or apps.

Also made some far fetched connections of Flipper Devices to companies owning the hackspace Pavel Zhovner worked in, and attributed his trolling and making anti-censorship tools "as actively supporting the authorities in Russia". lol.
This sounds a lot like the KeeLoq algorithm [0] (minus the hashing part). From my research into the rolling code space, I think most remotes don't quite have the CPU/featureset to support a real, secure crypto system with things like SHA, AES, and RSA/ECC. Would love to see one though!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeeLoq
Great comment. I think HN commenters tend to skew young and urban and it's always nice to remind people that there is not one universally correct way to live. There can be more to life than typical urban amenities like restaurants, cafés, nightlife, clubs, museums, parks, boutique shopping and so on.
Maybe French and German users have lower standards for good UX.
Well, I would argue that if the company had the gumption to do a 180 (on short-term spam/enshit/ads) they are the best placed company to revitalize and still dominate the search market 5 years from now.

It's really hard to argue they don't have everything they would need to build the best product on a technical level - information, AI-talent, capital. But somehow we all know they are going to kill the golden goose for a quick feast.
An alternative use case: on a long flight I would prefer to fly on a 787 or A350 as these composite aircraft maintain higher cabin humidity and pressure which is easier on the body.
Deciding to live in a van down by the river?

Congrats on the FAANG job and the side gig throwing off so much cash you need to post this.
Steam has a hidden debug console that allows users to rollback any game to any previous release via the `download_depot` command. It's not remotely as user friendly as when a publisher adds an old version of a game as a beta branch that can be easily switched to in the UI, but as far as I know there's no way to prevent its use.
In some formats, the question is easy. If the CDF is F(x), then the CDF of the maximum of n independent draws is G(x) = F(x)^n. This is because the probability that the max is less than x is the product of the probabilities that each is less than x.
Up until recently the standards were tested once then done. After that people were free to drill holes or alter things to bypass the standards.

Now they perform checks periodically so this happens less.
Over half-a-billion in sales for a $3500 dollar v1 product on day one.

Literally only Apple could probably pull that off.
Nothing wrong with this, family ties can be ripe with abuse... free loading, mental abuse, etc...

For many people keeping a level playing field is the only way to keep the bullshit out, although I doubt anyone manages to get rid of all of it.
It's a ton if you were a startup launching your first product from nothing.

Not much for Apple, Meta reports 20 million Quest sales (18M of that Quest 2 sales so you can take an educated guess how much the 1 and Pro made up of the remaining 2M).

From what's going in the device the margins are probably not great on the main unit, especially when you compare it to the plastic Quest 2.
One of the few elements left like this is the ARM Javascript instruction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24808207
This is really a release mostly for developers and enthusiasts who are willing to spend some money on a product which still has to grow. From the software obviously and one can also expect quite some hardware improvements with the next generations, at least wrt. run time and possibly weight.
> Who does this benefit in a zero-sum competition scenario, assuming that everybody is affected.

Foreign-run software companies not affected by this law, big companies with deep pockets that don't need to fear upstart competition, and other industries that are not R&E but can enjoy the lower tax rates from TCJA that were paid for with this revenue.
Indeed, I was thinking of this too when I wrote my comment.

It's natural to tightly schedule people when you think of the mission cost in $/minute. The problem is too tight a schedule is an engineering problem related to other ones we know like too thin a supply chain, too small a cache etc.

You need to put slack in your schedule to account for unplanned events -- the whole point of having humans there is to be able to respond to unplanned events, right?

Startups go into crunch mode when certain deadlines approach, but knowingly abandon other goals in the process (when companies don't, you end up in a death march). These missions are short enough that crunch is valid -- but another way of restating my point is: shouldn't the goal be that as many of the experiments you paid to get into orbit actually happen?
I had initially forgotten that I had registered for Bluesky and even had it installed on my phone. When I signed up, I was intrigued by the notion of something novel in this space. So the I launched the app the other day, only to find that it seemed like a less efficient and slower version of Twitter. I couldn't identify any hints or nods toward potential future product innovations or features that would justify my continued use of Bluesky...or anyone's for that matter. I'm likely overlooking some aspect of its functionality. Does anyone have more information or insights to share?
This gen, maybe not, but it will if it survives to future generations
I'm thinking of adopting a similar policy in our house. Already getting a lot of utility from the "how much do you care?" system https://adam.whittingham.dev/posts/how-much-do-you-care.html Hoping they'll work well in combination
I'm on my second cartridge and your comment made me check how old my laser printer is: 9 years.
I'd be willing to bet it was safer to fly right before the 737 MAX was introduced than right now.

Just a gut feeling.
Using ClickHouse to Power Machine Learning Feature Stores
DO NOT just go and do a heroic dose on your own if you are not VERY experienced.
Do you have contact info for that team? The NPS app is one of the best I've ever used and I'd love to know who built it.
Medical devices with shit firmware are hardly uncommon. I can totally believe someone crashed one with a device like this.
i mean yeah, we should be teaching kids better, and should take out sugary vending machines from high schools.

but that's not going to fix the problem, any more than DARE stopped kids from doing drugs. the war on drugs is over -- the drugs won -- and it's pretty damn clear the war on junk food is also over -- the junk food reigns supreme.
Is it optional? if you see a car zig zagging, or a car is going in the wrong direction, or there's a driving school sign, etc. As a human you can tell something is going on.
> The 90s internet may have been better precisely because things were hard to find, for instance.

The 90's internet was sort of like pawing through the piles of records at a thrift store. When you found something amazing, it felt really, really good.

I rarely have those moments these days, but the sweet spot definitely felt like 2000-2010. Facebook was a great way to keep up with people and didn't have too many ads. There was enough "old, weird internet" going on.
Why do you lie and spread fud ? I have been in Vancouver/BC for close to 10y and have never heard of anyone paying for care in any form. The virtual ones are all covered by MSP, access to doctors via the virtual calls and walk ins isn't perfect but isn't what you're describing
> Boeings stock price is down 18% this month.

I hear Warren Buffet’s voice over my shoulder telling me “Boeing stock is on sale.” Boeing is a huge defense contractor that is never going away. Maybe this is the bottom of their current crisis and it is a good time to buy?
Decentralization is a cool concept, but didn't GitHub and BitBucket emerge because a centralized server was in demand? Git is a good tool for many uses, but when was the last time you pushed directly to a peer's repo on their machine? How many firewall and reverse proxy configurations did you have to setup to be able to do it?
Indeed the choice for me as recent as 1-2 years ago was still SVN vs Perforce. Despite only having ever worked with Git
Thank you, bought the audiobook.
> Last I checked, the Western or European parts of Fediverse had since been trying hard to distance, obscure, dilute and fight Japanese anime content, without much success.

For others reading this, numpad0 means pedophilic anime content.
Why do you think ChatGPT will stay free of ads, SEO-spam, tracking, profiling, all the stuff that's wrong with traditional search?
Two prior successful startup exits.

I also do consulting and advisory work in adjacent spaces so this is pretty much my lifelong dream - spend my other time just doing open source projects I think are interesting.