skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luckily the fanatics don’t care about looking stupid as proven with the wireless ear buds. There’s also probably a large enough fanatic culture where this will be a niche product for a generation or two. While they claim it’s the best selling headset or something.
The iPhone is a pro-social technology, enabling, at least in a virtual sense, for you to connect with people through the interface. You can argue whether it has reduced a lot of in-person socialization, but the function remains the same.

This VR stuff is completely anti-social. It is a dystopian vision of the future where your sensory system is sealed off from the world, controlled entirely by corporate entities. There is a reason that it has not taken off yet-- nobody other than the tech executives want it to succeed.
I do, but spending more time ("full-time work") on it won't solve the problem, which is what I replied to.

The problem seems to be that Google does not even keep a reputation for my extremely low volume mail server, and the solution might be to set up automated emailing a couple of @gmail inboxes and marking-as-not-spam all of them there.

Even that wouldn't be full-time work.
I had heard the term murder of crows originates due to their relations with wolves: they will lead wolves to prey and take some of the killings.
Which is exactly what happens for markets that are desirable enough. We compare bans of things not enough people care about, to bans of things that people are willing to do crazy things for. They don't yield the same results.
That's the vision I see.

But I was specifically responding to the article which opens with this quote by Om Malik:

>With that caveat, I think both, the big (TV) and biggest (movie theater) screens are going to go the way of the DVD. We could replace those with a singular, more personal screen — that will sit on our face. Yes, virtual reality headsets are essentially the television and theaters of the future.

And the rest of the article lays out a mostly supporting case with the missing apps argument.
It's a bit more than that as you need to ensure that all of the platform specific code is cross-arch. So while the core is already ready there is tons and tons of I/O that will need fixing and testing.
Like any other "good", there is only ever a shortage of a particular employee category at a particular salary rate (obviously there may be a lag between supply and demand).
I'm am engineer by many definitions, although I don't have or wear a stripey hat, so not the most important definition.

I'm not licensed though and have no signoff rights or responsibilities. If I were to consider signing off on my work or the work of my colleagues after review, the industry would have to be completely different.

I have been in the industry for more than 20 years and I can count the number of times I've had a complete specification for a project I worked on with zero hands. I can't sign off that the work is to spec it the spec is incomplete or nonexistant.

Writing, consuming, and verifying specs costs time and money and adds another layer of people into the process. The cost of failure and the cost to remediate failures discovered after release for most software is too low to justify the cost of rigor.

There's exceptions: software in systems involved with life safety, avionics, and the like obviously have a high cost for failure, and you can't take a crashed plane, turn it off and on and then transport the passengers.

You don't get a civil engineer to sign off on a one-story house in most cases either.
FAA Radio Nav Waypoints: Gandalf, Hannibal Lecter, Chewbacca and Jerry Seinfeld
The option you are missing is to ignore the last guy who gambled on option 2 and won, and just keep using the previous $INFRA .
Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level
Hey there HN -

Today I'm sharing a demo of my our language learning tool, Phrasing. It's a tool born from the language acquisition hypothesis, too many hours in an anki slog, and a strange desire to always be learning obscure languages.

The method is simple:

1. type in a show

2. learn the most important words

3. watch the show/acquire the words

4. review the words when needed in the future.

On top of that, we're trying to:

- do some novel things with spaced repetition (no more anki slog)

- expand the sort of content you can learn from (I want to to refresh my French by reading The Stormlight Archive)

- make an insanely beautiful tool for all languages (I want to learn Sanskrit and Hawaiian and such)

I think we're off to a great start so far, and I'm happy to be able to share what we have already! We've taken some of our core features, and ripped them out to put them on a playground for HN to explore. There's so much more to come though, this is just the beginning.

I'll be here all day to answer any questions. Thanks for checking it out and have a wonderful day <3

EDIT: This link was meant as a demo so hacker news has something to click around on (as per the rules of Show HN). The main marketing page can be found at https://phrasing.app/ - I think that's causing some confusion
In 400 CE, the empire controlled the entire Mediterranean coast, all of modern day France, Spain, Italy, England and the entire Balkans.

In 717 CE, the Eastern Empire controlled most of modern day Turkey and some scattered enclaves in Greece and Italy.

If that's not a collapse, I don't understand the meaning of the word.
Didn't everyone play Euro Truck Simulator (or whatever it was), when it went viral as a daft video game of the year?

I got stuck going round the first corner, then got lost, then gave up when I had to back the trailer into the loading bay.

https://eurotrucksimulator2.com/
> I think I see your agenda here though.

My agenda is to make you (and those reading the thread) consider your own movement critically, instead of perpetuating your own mythology.

> Atheists have done terrible things. Adolf, Joseph, Pol. If you choose these folks as representatives of atheism (or, of what happens when you don't have a supreme accountability) then sure. They constructed a non-Christian(etc) mythology that was not competitive with their own supremacy, and did bad things with the power derived. I think we agree here.

So, by that logic, Christianity cannot be blamed for the inquisition and atrocities committed during the crusades, since it's on those in command of those movements (the Pope) and not based on christianity itself.

> But I don't view "atheism" as an organization or a correlated set of beliefs.

That strikes me as deliberately obtuse.

> You can choose to argue about "Atheism" and disagree. But we're talking about different things.

Again, you're not being intellectually honest here. You're defining terms so that you don't have to admit that atheism (and sects thereof) have their own mythologies and revisionist histories.

Your efforts above to extricate atheism from the atrocities committed by sects of atheism, even those committed those to convert the heretics, rather highlight that fact.
NCEES which administrates the regulation of Professional Engineers in the US made a Software Engineering Exam which had some standards: https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Software-Engine... However so few people took the test they discontinued it. But I at least liked the idea of it.
Who pays for highways now? What kind of question is that?
RaspberryPi5 and PiEEG to measure EEG
This is literally what people say with every Apple launch. I remember people including myself talking about how useless the iPhone was. This was written from an iPhone :/
The barrier to entry for driving a truck is greater than just the time it takes to do the training.

To pass the training you need to be a competent driver. It isn't as easy as you make it out to be and the pool of people who can become truck drivers is smaller than you think it is.
It's all supply and demand.

Dirty and dangerous work attracts fewer workers.

High-utility work is worth more to the employer so there will be more job offers.

When you see dirty, dangerous, high-utility work that pays poorly, it's because there's a ton of people who are willing to do it.
Soon they'll add a `presence` feature so that you can see others watching stuff at the same time too
The real question isn't being asked: will it be good for porn? I think it probably will, so it'll likely see tons of usage.
So why is it ok for you to satisfy your desires with devices instead of with real human contact in a relationship?

There just isn't a clear argument for where the line should be drawn.
Cannot upvote enough. I had the first Rift, Quest 1, I have a Quest Pro: the experience is always a short-term novelty.
I'm leaning more towards "an oodle of poodles" myself.
You'll have to do this for now: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/get-started/tut...

we were gonna get it published on the web store after some initial feedback
In the real world, evil is a morally lazy concept for people unwilling to consider that some abhorrent behavior that adults must be held accountable for also has root causes that we might have some culpability in. Pretending bad behavior happens in a vacuum shirks out duty as stewards for our society, pushing all responsibility of it onto the people who have to deal with the worst of it. Personal responsibility is the start, not the end of addressing the bad things that people do.
Please cite where a GTK developer said that fractional scaling was impossible.
No you don’t get it. The semen discharge is just an aspect of porno that you haven’t consumed yet as part of your growing world view.
> because I imagine we could cut a significant amount of emissions by just poking the right people and saying "hey, maybe you want to re-light the flare at your facility"

Because a pat on a wrist always made wonders. /s
This also allows highway speed limits to vary based on conditions, which is better than the status quo.
> But we don’t assign blame during these sorts of events, so let’s just consider it an expensive learning opportunity to redesign the system so it can’t happen again.

It's the latter half of the sentence that makes it blameless. Zuckerberg is very clearly saying the problem is that it was allowed at all.

sometimes the root cause is someone fucking up, if you're not willing to attribute the root cause to someone making a mistake then being blameless is far less useful.
"He'll see everything! He'll see the big board!"
Maybe for median income and static economy.

You should see regression to mean away from the median.

And in growing economy you should see kids surpass their parents because their lifespans cover more prosperous times than their parents.
I don't think such large questions are served properly with "good" and "bad," context is important. If, for example, the woman in question had no previous knowledge of what a proper relationship looked like, and realized that she was depressed because her husband worked all day, drank beer all night, berated her every effort at making him happy, and couldn't fuck worth a damn, and left him and found a new husband that made her happy? Then I'd say that's terrific. If on the other hand the woman in question was a satisfied, happy homemaker, with a husband who did all he could to make her happy, but then was given an artificial AI sex-bot boyfriend because her husband needed to travel overseas for several months, and she became so enamored with this machine that it undermined an otherwise healthy and productive relationship because no human being can ever truly match up with a simulated one who's sole reason for existence is making another person happy, and as a result, their marriage fractured apart and their children grew up in a split set of two poor households as a result? I call that pretty shitty.

I'm not saying ban sex-bots. I'm saying we should be asking why this is a thing people want and maybe try addressing the actual social ills here.
From skimming MSDN this seems wrong. Windows will try to defragment memory to give you a large page. Of course that takes time though.

Slightly more concerning is that docs claim large pages don not support paging (to disk).
If it's viral, how can you tell it's from the e-cigarettes and not a direct human-to-human infection?
Maybe that would be a nice browser plugin. Something that blocks any further requests. I guess it would work similarly to ad blockers, only once enabled blocks everything.
I am Apple customer and owned multiple VR headsets since 2016. Stepping outside the Apple ecosystem is always painful. They are definitely scratching my itch.
The cost of not having a reliable supply chain is much more than they're paying their drivers. It's just good economics to pay more to reduce driver turnover.
Yes, unless inflation-adjusted incomes increase each decade, as they did for much of the 20th century: in that scenario a child's peak earning years will tend to happen when incomes are higher than the peak earning years of the parents. Whether incomes should increase forever, and why they did for so long and no longer do, is a separate question.
>(2) If you're thinking about buying an AVP and not thinking about buying an MQ3 at 1/7 the price you're not thinking or at least you're not an technology enthusiast you're an Apple enthusiast.

I don't think this follows. I haven't used an AVP myself but apparently they are much nicer to use than an MQ3. If $3.5k is not a significant expense for you then you might as well get the premium product.
I fail to see how anyone under 18 can legally agree to any kind of contract without a parental co-signature. This should be enforceable without new laws, but I'm glad to make it explicit: progress over perfection.
Yeah, but that's pretty weak sauce. I can't control (or even know) whether or not people I may want to SMS with have this enabled. I assume most will due to the power of default settings.

But either way, I have no control over it whatsoever.
I've been thinking there could be a market for place-based experiences with XR headsets. Like you go to the Paleontology museum and it gets turned into something like "Jurassic Park". Something like that ought to be a lot cheaper to develop and deploy than a typical theme park ride. I was a little disappointed when I got the MQ3 and found it didn't have the same persistent SLAM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_... that Hololens does, mainly on the pretext of privacy, but that does make it a little harder to make an app bound to a specific place.

I see that kind of thing having a window of opportunity between when it is possible and when everybody has an XR headset and there is nothing special about it. The slower XR is to catch on, the wider the window.
You can’t even emulate middle-click or Ctrl+click correctly! The best you can do in-page is open(), which will will typically open a new foreground tab; but in typical desktop configurations, middle-click and Ctrl+click will open a new background tab. Users will notice you disrupting their normal workflow of opening a bunch of thing at once and then going through them one by one and get extremely frustrated.

And then beyond that, well. Right click or long press, browser context menu with things like copy, bookmark, open in new tab, open in private window, share… you can’t emulate most of this at all. And hover to see href in the browser’s status bar. And so it goes on.

No, the only acceptable technique is to have the user interact with a real HTML <a>, HTML <area> or SVG <a> element.
Walmart is one of the few trucking companies IIRC that slipseats (shares) their sleeper cabs, which means you're continually going to be changing the truck you drive and live in weekly. That kinda sucks.
With the low apparent population though, most of Middle Earth probably should have been hunter gatherers. Cities don't really make sense at all, but if you want to add them they can be 100 miles of farms and villages to support the city (the cities being on a river or sea port for trade, thus justifying building them at all), but gradually tapering off to hunter gathers who sometimes get something from the distant city that they couldn't make themselves. As population gets denser farming and cities make sense, but at low density hunter gathers have an easier life.
> because it was in range/sync with events/storys/news that actually happened.

As far as I understand he never wrote anything special or world changing, he took stories you already heard a million times and created pieces of fiction that pandered to the sensibilities of his core audience. A story about the life in a small town in the US? Boring! Lets add in a bit of racism here, a literal Trump cult there, re-frame it as some backwater town in the middle of the woods and a few more changes later you have a story people want to read, not quite "The Call of Cthulhu" but maybe enough to bridge the gap to the next award winning piece of journalistic fiction about the just as colorfully exaggerated struggles of a refuge family on their way to Europe or the life and motivations of freedom fighters in remote corners of the world.
Intel's Andy Grove in the mid '90s was particularly candid about his experiences and I think his willingness to discuss his experiences with the then state of the art advanced the public discussion in a healthy way.

https://fortune.com/1996/05/13/andy-grove-prostate-cancer-co...

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0128/070.html
"The J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellowship is an organization that donates a lot of money to George Washington University's law school. Two of the faculty chairs are named after them. Jonathan Turley, and also Robert Glicksman, who is the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law." -- https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/979js7/w...
It’s good to have this conversation. I don’t think anyone here wants the bill enacted as-is (did anyone actually read it? I didn’t, and I don’t live in FL).

Of course this is technically unenforceable. There will always fbe workarounds. You could smoke as an 11 year old if you were determined enough.

But we need more pushback and dialogue on social media’s role in the common discourse. For a while, nobody talked about smoking being bad and it became normalized while killing a lot of people. Seatbelts. Dumping waste in the river… most people go with the flow of common consensus until that consensus is scrutinized.
And that has not been helped by freemium and ads supported platforms. When I first got into computing (around windows XP SP2) if something was free and not open source, it was viewed with suspicions. Piracy was rampant, but they’re already not your market. It’s easy to buy software when it’s fulfilling a real need.
Forget eighteen-wheelers, which are rolling geometry problems: ever driven a solid-axle flatbed?

Come back and tell us that that doesn't "require skill".
> Oh and the other problem I have with it is that you have to wade through endless pages of gpt-trash when you do try to use a search engine to get an answer to a question now.

True, and most people don't realize how bad it's going to get. We're still in the honeymoon period where most content on the internet is human-created, but machine-generated content will be the vast majority of online content by the end of the decade.
Apple still has a lotto' cash. Maybe enough to keep the product line going without much initial uptake.
I mean, I use the sex toys with other humans I'm in intimate contact with. I thought that was rather obvious.
This is good. Seriously, the damage it does is massive, kids should not be on Instagram, Snapchat, or Tiktok.
What does "a shortage" mean in supply and demand? I don't understand, because it seems to mean "we want to pay less but then we won't find any people". Well, in that case, there's a shortage of Ferraris, because the ones I can find are too expensive.
There is an extension for Firefox that does it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/uk/firefox/addon/tochunka-smart-t...
> But some atheists (I would call them "militant atheists") do. Of course I'd argue that militant atheists are largely reacting to the militant theism of others, which is more popularly accepted and gets way more air time (and also is responsible for horrible things in the world). But both are silly.

Do you believe this is not true of other religions as well?
It kinda already exists via SharePlay but who knows if the Vision Pro supports that today or will in the future.
> It’s certainly possible that I’m reading too much into these absences: maybe these three companies simply didn’t get enough Visions Pro to build a native app, and felt uncomfortable releasing their iPad versions without knowing how useful they would be.

I think it's just that simple. It's a low-volume device for now that doesn't justify native apps. Even enabling the iPad app requires testing and, likely, modifications. It's quite possible the Netflix web experience is better than the Netflix iPad app.

Apps are probably not going to come out until Apple releases a lower-cost Vision for the masses.
I don't think you're an outlier, but on the other side, "I watch Netflix on my laptop / iPad" is a _huge_ market. Yes, there's plenty of social watching experiences to be figured out, but solo watching is an entire industry unto itself.

I'm a bit like you. I don't watch TV by myself, and the idea of plugging into a VR device to do so seems weird.

But I carry my AirPods everywhere and mostly listen to music solo. It's not unreasonable to think that the same happens with TV/movies.
> Why not apply AI at the start of the meeting process where meetings are first created? Make people think of what they want to get out of the meeting, what they want to discuss, and who actually needs to be there.

You mean something that now fits in an email?
Probably takes away a lot of drivers from their competitors too.
Ehh, you can get used to almost anything. People complained about the weight of the AirPods Max but there are plenty of people who use them all the time/all day. I think any discomfort with be temporarily and worth "powering through", or at least that's my hope. I'm probably going to be wearing my 8hrs a day as soon as I get it and if it doesn't work or if the productivity isn't worth it (and/or the consumption isn't breathtaking) I'll consider returning it for sure.
I decided to close the Hegel project
There is a short blog post if you are interested in a brief story about the project, reasons for closing it, and its alternatives.
Surely you can just check eBay, Abebooks and the like?
A lot of people aren't factoring in that truckers can work 60 hours a week and are exempted from overtime pay and a lot of companies paying the big bucks in trucking are paying that much because they are maximizing the hours to minimize driver count (health insurance, benefits costs don't scale by hour).
> The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 has issued a stark warning: misinformation and disinformation, primarily driven by deepfakes, are ranked as the most severe global short-term risks the world faces in the next two years.

Oh, i get it. The escorts this year do not look like in the picture.
I'll take that every time, to zeroth order if the bug occurs other places it's free to err other places and I'll deal with it. But if it doesn't then does it matter? If we're experiencing a bug in a specific code-path is the right move to make a change that fixes it in one codepath but potentially changes the currently working n other codepaths that depend on it? If it weren't DRY'd would you bother changing the others? Probably not.

To first order :vimgrep is totally mechanical and brain-off repeat fix is super easy.
I don’t think that it is required.

But generally, frequent customers at any shop, get better service.

Then again, there is costco too. That is a paid membership for support.
Back then I got an iRiver which didn't require me to install malware on my Windows machine to transfer music to it.
And yet everyone now has access to products and services not available to the richest people on earth 50 years ago: all of human knowledge, university classes, movies, music, and entertainment accessible from a small device that fits in our pocket.