skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for pointing that out! I’m a big fan of Admiral Cloudberg, and was in fact even thinking of her while reading this article, but I did not make the connection. She’s such a fantastic writer.

Does anyone know how she became so good at writing about airline disasters? She doesn’t seem to have any sort of aviation background.
The barrier to entry to driving a truck is a few months of training so the amount of people that can become truck drivers is quite large. However, the social status of driving a truck is quite low and there is a constant threat of automating the job away. Not to mention the terrible working conditions.
Are you suggesting that Netflix, for example, could charge for their app? I hadn't thought of that, but you might be on to something.
“If you’re thinking about buying an iPod and not thinking about buying a Sansa Clip at 1/6 the price you're not thinking or at least you're not an music enthusiast you're an Apple enthusiast.“
In order for new generations to surpass the wealth of their parents, wouldn't a few unlikely things all have to be true?

- Country GDP per capita would need to grow (relative to inflation)

- Income would need to be evenly distributed throughout age ranges (i.e. avoiding an increasing share over time skewing older)

Those are conditions we could create... but they'd take a lot of big, unpopular changes.
The effect when switching from sine to square wave, as the harmonics are added, is very nice.
I used to work in the space about 6-7 years ago (not directly on XR hardware, but software that was adjacent to it in the content creation world).

The phrase I kept hearing from film studio/director types was that they didn't know how to tell a story with VR that could only be told with VR (profitably). Note that didn't stop them from trying and there wasn't a shortage of ideas. The point was that they hadn't figured out what would actually resonate with audiences (and make more money than doing what they already knew).

But things are different now. Back then, the problem was that VR in your home was a dead-end. What seemed promising was using it for theme park rides and people at Universal/Disney were super excited about it. So the "story" they were trying to design was something that was mass marketable with IP tie-ins, short enough not to tire the average American and maximize throughput while also minimizing floor space in the places they'd install. That's a very different kind of experience than a film or video game.

I think with cheaper/lighter hardware the profit model could be different and the kind of content you consume with it would become different. I don't think people have figured it out yet, but with hardware changes there's a different kind of story that can work and it just needs the right storyteller to figure it out.

All that said, the problem all these tech bro led companies forget is that content is king in this space and you can't just make some cool gizmo and expect people to buy it when no one knows how to create for it. For all their flaws, Magic Leap was actually smarter about that than their competition.
I've been monitoring this with an eye toward creating a honeypot for DMARC abuse but so far been seeing zero messages come in.

Either the spammers haven't figured it out yet, or they realize it's a waste of time since all the messages are either mechanically processed or ignored.
You’re overplaying the hundreds of years part. While the first wristwatch dates back almost 200 years (developed for the Queen of Naples), pocket watches were the rule until World War I, when they were mass produced and marketed at soldiers in the trenches. The mass market wristwatch industry developed from that point on.

I like my Apple Watch, but it’s an iPhone accessory. It doesn’t fulfill a specific need, but provides a suite of enhancements to my phone and can take over a few functions from it.

(This comment was written in response to an earlier version of your comment, but the main part still seems to be there but reformatted).
Meta Quest. It even runs on Android. For that matter, so does Magic Leap 2. If they deign to do so all the "usual suspects" who make Android phones could make Android-based VR headsets.

As much as the media has been obsessed with the train wreck that is Horizon Worlds, it's a well kept secret that Meta Quest has an app store that works like the app store on a game console. You can even sideload phone, tablet and TV apps and they "just work" most of the time.

There is no working "metaverse" and even meaningful multiplayer games are thin on the ground, but no shortage of good single-player games and what I'd call game-adjacent apps.

It's little recognized that XR apps are highly portable because they are almost always based on portable frameworks like Unity. In fact, just about every XR headset supports WebXR which makes it outright easy to make web-based virtual worlds

https://aframe.io/

these work with desktop, phones and tablets as well as most of the AR and VR headsets. All it takes is that you "think different" and choose to live life outside the app store.
As a rule of thumb, nobody sane would propose to go to the moon. I would be very disappointed if this people would follow general rules instead to point to the excelence.
The Housing Famine: The real nature of our policy-induced housing problem
Reaction to headline: Because you can both (1) brag about your shiny new "AI" thingie, and (2) still avoid having to do good prep.
Already, several comments saying how being a truck driver is a tough job (it is!) or "that's what they have to pay to get decent drivers". But whether the job is hard, isn't the question, and the second comment is sort of vaguely accurate, but just ignores the interesting part. From the article:

> One of the best jobs you can get in trucking is at Walmart. The uber-retailer says truck drivers can make up to $110,000 in their first year at the company. That’s twice the nationwide median pay of a truck driver

The interesting question is: why does Walmart pay so much more than is typical? Unfortunately, the article gives a pretty superficial analysis.

Edit: to forestall helpful comments, I am aware that businesses often make an effort to do things based on a kind of sophisticated analysis where they compare the upside of doing the thing ("benefits") to the downsides ("costs"), and then do the thing if the upsides seem to exceed the downsides.

The question is, why is it that this significantly above market rate is what Walmart thinks maximizes its benefits compared to costs?
Ugh, California is big. I lived in Austin one summer and they had 5 lane frontage roads surrounding ten lane freeways, and of course Mississippi had frontage road around I20 pretty much everywhere. Here in Seattle, we barely have any roads that run next to freeways at all, their simply isn’t enough room.
Eh, it doesn't work like this unfortunately; pay is never a mirror of the dangerousness, the utility, or the dirtiness of the job. I would say that usually it's the contrary: the more essential a job is, the less it is paid.
That would only make me MORE paranoid about how they'd "fixed" the numbers.
You need to beg Microsoft to whitelist your IP once in a while
I was using the Gear VR on planes in 2015/2016 and it rocked!
In countries where iDevices are available, which is always forgotten precodition in a planet where 80% is dominated by Android and feature phones.
> Some can even take the 8051 down to your 32 kHz real time clock for < 40 µA operation.

Isn't that a somewhat common ability for µC's? Allowing for very low power standby, RTC functionality & doing useful work at a higher speed?
I'm not sure why the plugin has (or needs to have) access to the private doc in the first place. I would expect a communications channel to communicate my link, not act as a third person with priviledged credentials.
kind of an odd metric. parents' fortunes aren't randomly distributed. e.g. boomers parents dealt with the great depression. I think this is being measured in real dollars although it doesn't say. But... why not just show real incomes distributions? Probably more informative.
We could replace those with a singular, more personal screen — that will sit on our face

Its not going to happen. Strapping something to your face is fun for a little while but its not going to become the primary means of doing _anything_. It's just damn uncomfortable, no matter how light and expensive you make it.
There is one[0] that works on all PCVR headsets and it's great, but unfortunately it's been abandoned by Google.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/348250/Google_Earth_VR/
More news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39176140

It seems there will be news and more details for long.
Physical sliding switches usually look exactly like the ones on your link.

Ex: https://www.chily.com/customer/chily/product/3331_350.png

(Why selling photos of those things never seem to show the label?)
Workflows for a CIAM System
People whose homes are too small for a TV, but who have a spare $3500 to spend? Or $7000 for a couple who want to watch together?

Modern TVs are thin and easily wall mounted.

Doesn't sound like a big market to me.
> In general, I'll turn it around. Atheism is a group of people like any other. Do you believe that atheists alone are able to withstand the human inclination to favor their in group and hate their out groups?

This is the difference.

I don't view "atheists" as a group of people with in and out groups. Any more than "pasta eaters" or "brown-eyed people".

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.
> If businesses don't buy these in bulk

When was the last time Apple’s success depended on business bulk purchase? Apple didn’t become the highest market cap company in the world selling expensive phones to businesses in bulk orders.
Does this apply to SMS as well? I already do my best to avoid sending emails to Google addresses and certainly would not use any Google messaging services, but if this covers SMS, then I'm a bit hosed here.

Maybe I have to fall back to just using voice calls?
I've been using Bing's GPT-4 to learn Fortran for about a week. Well, I'm mainly reading a book which is project-oriented so I'm often researching topics which aren't covered in enough detail or covered later. I think this mixed-mode approach is great for learning. Since Fortran's documentation is sparse and Google's results are garbage the output of GPT4 helps cut through a lot of the cruft. Half the time it teaches me, the rest I'm teaching it and correcting its mistakes. I certainly won't trust it for anything half complicated but I think it does a good job linking to trustworthy supporting sources, which is how I learned how to cast assumed-rank arrays using c_loc/c_f_pointer and sequence-association using (*) or (1). It's great for learning new concepts and I imagine it would be great for pair-coding in which it suggests oversights to your code. However I can't imagine depending on it to generate anything from scratch. What's surprising is how little help the compiler is - about as bad a resource as SEO junk. I'm used to "-Wall -Werror" from C, but so many gfortran warnings are incorrect.
That looks like classic FUD
Suppose an atheist born in Gaza would like to move to Tel Aviv. What is required, short of conversion to Judaism?
> Driving as a profession does not require skill.

how can say this with a straight face?
I've seen friendships break down over one person not doing the dishes for a prolonged period.

The issue with friendships is usually there's some expectation of being in it 'together' and to put in some sort of similar effort, despite the major power imbalance of employee vs. cofounder.

If the founder feels their friend is for instance, giving say half the effort they are (which I feel personally is reasonable for an early stage employee, that they have a life), they may feel their friend is violating some notion of trust, despite the friend getting maybe 1% equity at best.
Open Source Projects – Beyond Code
On budget, but at quite a small one for what it is. Epsilon all-solid launcher had anomalies and changes in these years too, so that could also be a reason for LV change.
Toyota and VW (e.g. Porsche) go back and forth every few years as to which is the biggest/richest.
In a growing economy, people ought to be making things of increasing value. You probably cannot go up forever, but we're not at forever.
Depends where we're seeing this.

I worked as a high school bureaucrat for several years, and through some simple scripts, I was able to make some tedious data entry tasks vastly faster. It was ugly, hacked together code, with lots of hardcoded values I had to update each semester, but it worked and was way better than doing it all by hand. Low quality code is worse than good quality code, but often better than manual labor.

I want my web browser and my bank to use high quality code, but I want semi-technical people who would otherwise do everything manually to be able to automate tedious portions of their jobs.

(The caveat, of course, being that a buggy script can screw up the thing the thing it's automating must faster than a manual process as well.)
> drivers leave the industry

is basically the same thing as

> there's a shortage

If anyone wants to work on this problem with me without solving the self-driving truck / Aurora problem outright - I think the answer is something like remote operation, level 3-4 autonomy for highways, and nice comfy air conditioned driver hubs in cities so nobody has to be away from home for days at a time. Boom - all the drivers come back and get paid decent wages to drive trucks. Ideally the per-truck subscription fee for the service is an add-on to the cost of doing driver business.
PS2 Linux is one of those things I knew about at the time, was super interested in yet never pursued (didn't have the means to) and now wish I had. It doesn't seem like a very practical computing environment even for the time, but that's part of what makes it so damn interesting.
You can use the MQ3 as a PCVR headset by plugging in a very fast USB 3 cable and in that case you can use the Rift version on the Quest to run Google Earth. I was also looking at this model

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/m2020-zcam-bettys-rock-sol-4...

which I am about to publish in an A-Frame world.
The earth is full, so there's less natural wealth available per person. Further, the Ponzi scheme of population growth is slowing down, which means fewer people younger than you are available to support your wealth. This is not a surprise.
For me, whenever people mentioned CRT monitors my mind always first went to "Chinese remainder theorem."
First I've heard of gengetopt, thanks!
I also think part of equation is retention. You want to keep the drivers as them leaving might disturb deliveries. Specially if they are JIT. Inventory not at store does not sell.
Because no one has time to prep for meetings that probably aren't necessary.
To automatically group similar tabs I am using ToChunkA Smart TabS extension.
Instead of a blameless culture, more desirable is a shared responsibility culture.

There are always things the engineer all the way up to the CEO could have done prior and could do after to move the company in a positive direction.
The earth is full, so there's less natural wealth available per person. People are living longer. Further, the Ponzi scheme of population growth is slowing down, which means fewer people younger than you are available to support your wealth. This is not a surprise.
> You can always not use it.

Apple forces all other browsers to be equally slow.

> it adds 20% or more of battery life to use it on a laptop.

This hasn't been true for years.
It's too heavy for prolonged use so although the work features are very interesting this seems to kill it as a replacement for a multi monitor setup.
The kind of driving that teenagers are expected to do is wildly different from trucking. The biggest vehicle I've ever driven was a U-Haul and even that requires more focus and care than regular driving. Add another 25 feet of length, a trailer which can rotate independently of the vehicle, and tight timetables into the mix, and you're certainly looking at more skill than the average driver needs.
If you live with other people, the appeal is limited. I can see the appeal for my friends who live alone in small apartments. They can get this and a nice pair of headphones and have a great home theater experience. This is something that would be difficult to do in their current situations.

I also see the appeal for people who travel a lot for work. This is probably an amazing way to watch movies on a plane or in your hotel room at night.

I have a wife and two small kids, so I will not be buying this to watch movies at home.
I guess this habit wasn't deeply rooted, else we'd still see him doing it.

/joke
Do you not where you're Apple Sneakers everywhere?

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/_Omega-Sports-Apple-Computer...

(It'd have been funny if Sotheby's had titled the size "Leopard.")
> If I get sick from food poisoning, I can sue the companies responsible for giving me that food.

Except that is not how food safety is achieved. There are strict rules about how food must be stored, prepared. How the facilities must be cleaned and how the personal must be trained. If these are not met inspectors can and will shut a commercial operation down even if nobody got sick.

And if they follow all best practices they have a good chance of arguing they were not at fault with your illness (besides the point it makes it much less likely to happen in the first place.)
It doesn't scale linearly.
My favorite bit of irony.
I read most of this, and it's interesting, but carrots-and-sticks aside, is it not possible that nobody is doing native apps for this thing simply because it's a $3500 product in an entirely new category that (to a first approximation) nobody owns or will own in 2024, and that could vanish from the market in a year or two if there's no uptake?
>Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

What does it mean to be a Shapiro Professor?
All of these video apps, including Netflix, are on Meta Quest, which makes it all the more of a snub.

Yep, its a bit of an elephant in the room in both this and the linked blogpost that the authors seem completely unaware that this is an already well-established medium use case that Apple is very late to.
Doesn’t meta quest literally run on android?
Naturally it will have an effect, some which will be negative.

Now that schools has started to utilize AI for teaching, how will children be effected? The school period and teacher-student relationship is a critical part of growing up and developing functional and healthy adults, and replacing it with a cold one-sided interaction done in isolation can only be destructive to peoples mental and physical health. Even if the teaching tools could be made into perfect simulated teachers, the lack of the human connection is a major danger.

We can also see the same thing with AI doctors, with worse medical outcomes as a result. People need human relationships and connections, especially during periods of needs. There are plenty of researcher (already published and will likely be published in the future) on the harm that AI/remote doctors has on mental health and outcomes.

All this come however at a crash against a reality that not all children get great teacher-student relationships. Not all patient get good doctors. Some don't even get any teacher or doctor. During covid, some doctors did more harm by being physical near their patients than if they did not do anything at all. A robot/ai/word-for-human-replacement will likely be worse than a human, but they can also benefit people when the lack of alternatives are worse. People having simulated relationship with generated AI models might be worse than most real human relationship, but it also might be much better than some of the less-healthy human relationships that people might get as an alternative.
This is a huge deal. The silent generation got very wealthy rebuilding after wars. But all generations must do better than the last, otherwise pyramid schemes like 'retirement' are not viable.

The boomers however never quite built the world as much. They needed to do much more. They left us holding tremendous debt and high taxes as they enter 'retirement' but they objectively never saved enough money to make retirement viable.

The boomers are engaging in generational warfare, but that literally doesn't work. As they retire right now and age, they will need productivity from younger generations. Those younger generations will get to decide how much they charge for this service. The boomers cannot stay retired for long at all. No deflation can be expected and they are hoping mass immigration is going to fix the problem?

As the boomers age and need more and more services, the more broke and incapable of maintaining retirement will happen.

There aren't many scenarios where the boomers get to remain retired. None of them are good.
Not ony do treatments have risks, but so do tests! It doesn't take all that lopsided a ratio where if the odds of cancer are low, you have greater lifetime cancer risk from the additional xrays.
How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too
> Does the flavor really permeate the meat? Or could we just added the spices during / after cooking?

You can taste the difference. We’ve done blind tests in terms of rushing the process and people always notice the difference. “Did you do something different today? The meat tastes bland/different/funny”.

But the difference is biggest between 0min and 20min. More than 20min doesn’t seem to make a big impact in flavor, it does make the meat juicier and softer tho.
It sounds like you are envisioning age verification that involves just two parties: the user and the site that they need to prove their age to. The user shows the site their government issued ID and the site uses the information on the ID to verify the age.

That would indeed allow the site to compile a database of government issues IDs and give that information (willfully or via leaks) to third parties.

Those issues can be fixed by using a three party system. The parties are the user, the site that they need to prove their age to, and a site that already has the information from the user's government ID.

Briefly, the user gets a token from the social media site, presents that token and their government ID to the site that already has their ID information, and that site sign that token if the user meets the age requirements. The user presents that signed token back to the social network which sees that it was signed by the third site which tells it the third site says the user meeds the age requirement.

By using modern cryptographic techniques (blind signatures or zero knowledge proofs) the communication between the user and the third site can be done in a way that keeps the third site from getting any information about which site they are doing the age check for.

With some additional safeguards in the protocol and in what sites are allowed to be the ID checking sites it can even be made so that someone who gets records of both the social media site and the third site can't use timing information to match up social media accounts with verifications and so could work with sites that allow anonymous accounts.
Incrementally better pornography is incrementally better at suppressing fertility rates by satisfying sexual hunger with lower odds of producing zygotes. Robot sex is a kind of better pornography. But there are feminist natalists and anti-natalists, and that's only a problem for the former.