skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first couple AW gens didn’t really have much of a fitness angle, though. The hardware and software for health tracking was very lacking. It was only later on that they pivoted hard on fitness and did a big marketing push with the “three rings”.
You do realize you didnt actually argue against it being apartheid? You repeated a victim narrative, a common method in fascist systems to normalize crimes against humanity.

Its really worth reading Einsteins notes on Israel.

"“When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations build [sic] up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.”"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/albert-einstein-the-p...

Should echo in the ears of everyone that ignored Trudeau warning

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/israel-s-gaza-campaign-puts-...

Murderous totalitarian regimes do not work. They quickly turn into mafia states. At its not something you end up in accidentally, its very visible by people falling back onto tribalistic narratives they prefer over reality.

Looking back at Einsteins letter from 1948, its worth remembering, that Hannah Arendt co-wrote it while being a Zionist. Anyone actually interested in a future for Israel should think really hard if revisionist Zionism is a way to achieve that.
A well run meeting is a thing of efficient beauty.

The problem, is most people don't actually want to run a good meeting due to either having to accept the risk of whatever they're trying to do actually happening or not, or the risk of having to do other people's work if they run a meeting about it.
There are lots of ways around this. The most obvious is to forgo the process if the story is one of the few that would draw the ire of a national government or otherwise place lives at risk.

There are lots of cases where anonymous sources are used in less extreme circumstances, and to protect those you could build a rigorous system of vetting notaries, equivalent to a security clearance. Under OP's proposed model we wouldn't need a lot of these notaries, since as I understand it they'd only be actually validating sources if doubts are raised, so the requirements could be quite strict.
Then start a co-op?
LLMs are statistical machines

A google search will give you 1000 sources that lemmings don't jump off cliffs, because there was a Disney movie about it and now it's the prototypical example of falsification.

Here are 10 articles on a comparatively small website, where only one gained enough notoriety to be directly called out as debunked on secondary sources, where the statistical data is insufficient.
It’s actually the opposite. X is making these changes on their own. An individual out of the spotlight could probably sue.

In the law public figures are not protected the way individuals are. When sell out and willingly make millions of dollars exploiting your likeness, you don’t get to choose if people make a parody of that likeness.
I warmly recommended to start singing in choirs as a novice, there are at least a few good choirs that cater to beginners, at least in Sweden. Of course there are many more really good choirs.

I am not a singer at all, but singing in a choir is really fun.
I am also trying to sub using RSS and I get no response. Odd times for sure.
>> The creator has also recently started working on a 3D modelling program (Dune3D) in the same style which I am very excited about.

I kind of wish he talked to us about doing a version of Solvespace using OCCT instead, but he's got a lot of good ideas and it will be nice to see where he goes with Dune3D. I can see its Solvespace roots!

Solvespace NURBS shells are completely separate from the sketch entities and constraints, so there's a fairly small API surface to make the change. That separation is also one of the issues preventing a fillet tool though.
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While it did some fitness tracking (especially the heart rate stuff which couldn't be done with a phone), it certainly wasn't promoted as a fitness device.

There was all that stuff about "connecting" (where you could send doodles and heartbeats to your Apple Watch wearing friends) and they made a big deal about watch apps and notification management. And of course the "luxury watch" aspect (gold watches that go out of date in a couple of years - sheesh).

It's only after a couple of iterations that Apple doubled down on the fitness side of things.
it seems it does not support CPU only
Palestinians have the moral high ground because it was their land that was invaded in 1948 and they been oppressed by Israel ever since. The “rapes” have been discredited over and over. One of the many things Israel does that is very obvious to outside observers is to lie constantly in the most obvious of fashions.
Don’t forget about the dynamics of when things go wildly successful. Greed can easily take over in friendships and all the sudden someone might talk themselves into believing their friends don’t “deserve” to participate in that success at the same level as themselves.
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168105
"GitClear analyzed approximately 153 million changed lines of code, authored between January 2020 and December 2023 [A1]. This is the largest known database of highly structured code change data that has been used to evaluate code quality differences [A2]. We find disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of "added code" and "copy/pasted code" is increasing in proportion to “updated,” “deleted,” and “moved” code. In this regard, code generated during 2023 more resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness of the repos visited. "

If the cost of updating code has dropped due to AI, is code churn still a good proxy for low code quality?
I use MXroute for my email. I pay for one plan and can use it with unlimited(?) domains. So good and reliable enough for all my hobby projects that need a contact address.
Other people can't tell I own Apple products when my phone is in my pocket and I'm not listening to music.
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The sales numbers so far are pretty much on par with the iPhone 1, which wasn't that great a product either with no app store or 3g connectivity
The amount of boiler-plate, and in particular getting mocks right, are friction that can go away.
It makes sense in principle. I wonder if the incentives work though, usually the people that suffer from the bad prep aren't the same people that are responsible for prepping the meeting. It could perhaps work though if people were free to decline meetings which hadn't been prepped, that way if you wanted people to attend you'd have to do the legwork to make it worth their time.
Depends on who your target audience is. Many applications can still safely assume they are for office workers using a desktop or laptop computer with a keyboard and a mouse.
There is a tweet reference by the Author that

"Apple can’t convince streaming video companies to check the “allow iPad app” box."

If you saw what happened to the music companies and you are big enough you can get around all of the nonsense that Apple can leverage against you why do what apple wants?
Have spent a lot of time trying to integrate Ubuntu into a Red Hat environment. It's close but there's enough differences to give you an ulcer.
Well, the punishment for Facebook is twofold: (A) they probably spent 10's of thousands on fighting this in court, and (B) it sets precedent that they are liable for this sort of thing. If they start getting sued regularly in jurisdictions all over the country, then the "pay expensive lawyers a lot a few times" vs "pay some humans to look at complaints many times" may start to come out in the consumer's favor.
Beef consumption has gone only in one direction. down.

I don't expect that trend to reverse due to prices .
“That was a documentary.” - Daniel Ellsberg talking about Dr Strangelove:

https://slate.com/culture/2017/12/the-doomsday-machine-danie...
> therefore don't know what's considered best practice in browser-land.

I myself also don't know what's considered best practice in Javascript generally (browser or server-side), even though I also have to write it occasionally -- but I wouldn't feel safe trusting that ChatGPT suggestions were likely to be model current best practices either.

On what are you basing your thinking that ChatGPT is more likely than not to be suggesting best practices? (Real question, I'm curious!)
We don't live in a hard, binary world of extremes. Yes -- buildings and locks are, for the most part, easily compromised. But...

If I make a window of bulletproof glass, it's a lot harder to compromise.

If I surround my building with a wall topped by razor wire, it's a lot harder to compromise. (Unless, of course, I'm making an action film.)

Depending on what or who I'm protecting, I might find these solutions very valuable. Similarly in software, depending on what or who I am protecting, I might be very interested in various security measures.

So far, we've managed to escape an incident where bad actors have compromised systems in a way that's led to severe loss or harm. People are terrible at evaluating risk, so people tend to assume the status quo is okay. It's not, and it's only a matter of time before a bad actor does some real damage. Think 9/11 style, something that causes an immediate reaction and shocks the population. Then, suddenly, our politicians will be all in favor of requiring software developers to be licensed; liability for companies that allow damages; etc.
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Yep, haven't seen this locally.
(1) All of these video apps, including Netflix, are on Meta Quest, which makes it all the more of a snub. (It's a dirty little secret that apps are highly portable between VR and AR headsets because they are almost all written in Unity anyway)

(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.

(3) So far all the video apps (not to mention remote desktop apps like Immersed) I've seen have a poor user interface for situating and controlling the virtual screens. It doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem but it's somewhat startling that it hasn't been addressed. Maybe AVP will point the way to something better.

(4) I tried the "VR camera" view of NBA games on Xtadium. I've lately taken a shine to sitting in the front row at college games (Newman Auditorium is rarely full so usually I can sit courtside with a $8 ticket) so the "courtside view" was appealing to me but: (a) my 20Mbps DSL connection is not slow enough to support it (though every normal streaming service works fine) and (b) the perception of space around the camera is really strange. I just can't say it is really any better than watching an NBA game on an ordinary TV.

Once you get your AVP (or if you "think different" and get an MQ3) you will realize there are some troubles when you try to synthesize views out of multiple cameras in different spots and even a camera like

https://us.kandaovr.com/products/obsidian-pro

that shoots great pano video will get strange results when people get close. The problems I am having w/ it have to do with the network and camera so I don't see it being better on AVP.
I don't think it's near as "exciting" as many make it sound though. These days I usually run Debian on my personal machines, before anybody thinks it's fanboy-ism or Stockholm Syndrome.

I've been using Arch on and off for a while. Back before systemd, and it had an installer.

I can't remember anything earth shattering in quite some time. Certainly no big paradigm shifts.

Packages are up to date, but they're the developer's latest release. If something is broken, wait for the fix to be released and that's about it.

I ran ~15-20 developer workstations on Arch for a couple of years. They were there before me. Being a Java shop, we managed our JDKs/IDE outside of the system packages.
If I read your post full of hyperbole and double-standards, I'd hand-wave it away too.

You simply choose to cherry pick certain realities that paint men in a worse light and women in a better light when it comes to preferences for sex toys.

Even if we give you the benefit of the doubt that you are arguing in good faith, you still haven't given a compelling reason as to why it's your goddamn business in the first place what sex toys people use?
I'm in the same boat. The idea of everyone watching TV in isolation defeats the purpose for me. Even (maybe especially) for sports, where for large swaths of a game it is essentially background content to a cultural gathering. Not to mention issues around comfort and battery life.
So maybe we could move the moon then?
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I beg to differ. People dicking around on their e-watch during in person meetings or social settings where they should be paying attention to who is speaking, is just as socially rude as those on their phone.
There's a separate team that manages the Ubuntu PPA. I don't know how official they are, and what relation they have to the various Mozilla core teams.
That's insane. My CEO is 60 years old and has built and sold 4 different companies before this. His network of former colleagues is deep. It would be childish for me to believe all of the potential people from his former working relationships should be beholden to the exact same homework assignments as someone who is a complete stranger.
From that same article it was 650 million active iphone users vs. 2.5 billion android

I think Apple is *very* happy to be Porsche in this story
Show HN: QR-Code Offline Scanner
I've built an offline QR code scanner for laptops, targeting a specific but common scenario: connecting to WiFi networks without manual password entry. It uses the laptop's webcam to scan QR codes, including those for WiFi credentials, just like your phone. It works offline, in the browser, after you load it once.

Feedback welcome. Thoughts?
"A senior vice president at Walmart told Yahoo! Finance at the time it was because of a “shortage” of truck drivers. (Those who study the trucking industry dispute that such a shortage exists, concluding that drivers leave the industry for jobs with better pay and hours.)"

It turns out that good truck drivers could also be doing other useful work, and want to be well compensated and taken care of for their labor.
I might be missing the point you're making, but isn't a baby cow called a calf, and a male cow called a bull? Unless castrated, in which case the bull is instead known as a steer.
I'm surprised this unauthorized method uses the API at all. Years ago I animated a route with streetview images using crude browser animation and screenshots.
Cherry-picking is fundamental to most people’s views, sadly, and they always use “we have to draw the line somewhere” as an excuse for why it is valid to ignore similar or even far worse situations. Worse still, they focus their time creating elaborate objections to what are mostly meaningless topics, mostly due to not being able to exercise their control over those much bigger and broad issues. For example, known effects from cigarettes versus theorized effects of e-cigarettes. Same goes for debates on alcohol vs pot, electric car accidents vs ICE vehicles, so on and so forth. It also happens when placing extraordinary value on an individual cherry-picked life or theoretical life, rather than any of the actual lives lost every day to solvable problems.

End of the day, it’s all about people trying to control other people’s thoughts and actions by forcing them to conform to the box the debater has created and lined with cherry-picked facts. You can see that in the arguments of this article and in this thread.

Just as a note, I’m not advocating one way or another on any topic, just addressing the issue of cherry-picking that happens regardless of which side anyone falls on an issue.
Indeed - if anything in my organisation AI has lead to developers replacing poor quality existing code more quickly because what was quite a time consuming process before can be sped up tremendously by using language models.
> The iTunes Music Store does still exist, although its revenue contribution to the labels has long been eclipsed by streaming. It’s more important contribution to modern computing is that it provided the foundation for the App Store.

I'm glad that Ben mentioned this. I discussed it at length in my own blog post "App Store is neither console nor retail but jukebox": https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/jukebox.html

The App Store was a carbon copy of the iTunes Music Store, thrown together very quickly, as shown in evidence and testimony from the Epic trial, but a store for selling 99 cent songs is an extremely bad fit for selling computer software. A lot of the problems with the App Store today stem from its origins in the iTunes Music Store, and unfortunately Apple has done very little to reshape the App Store to be more suitable for software.

As a software developer myself, I have very little interest in Vision Pro right now. One major problem, especially for indie developers of paid apps, is that customers have come to expect free support for new platforms. Last month I finally gave in and made my Mac and iOS apps a universal purchase instead of separate purchases, but to me it's ridiculous to give away a new version for free on Vision Pro when consumers are giving $3500+ to Apple for a new device. Consumers are resentful if they have to give third-party developers any extra money. The level of consumer entitlement for free software is over the top. Apple gets to make all the money from expensive hardware, and we're supposed to be indentured servants supporting any and all new Apple hardware for no profit.
If businesses don't buy these in bulk, this will be an Apple Newton v2. Likely to be uncomfortable/look stupid and be stupidly overpriced as well for what you get.

I'm sure Apple is in a much better position than in the mid 90s so they can probably absorb bad sales and these headsets will shrink down soon enough and get killer apps and get cheaper so the real question is who's going to build the Android of VR and take the non-walled garden market?
I switched from Ubuntu to straight Debian... but I have been testing Opensuse and had good experiences with it so far. I am super excited for theor upcoming Slowroll edition.
Notifications and the current weather on my wrist. I don't have to take my phone out or even have it with me.
> And (as a european) i'm reminded of the confusing american light switches which show a light when they are off.

I have those in Europe. The point is that you can find the light switch in the dark. Why would it need a light when it's on, if it's in the room that it lights?
If people are still talking about the AVP in six months then Netflix can tick that box or they can port the Netflix VR app which already exists on Meta Quest to the AVP.
Nice. Would be even nicer to be able to move the base frequency
Many things are discussed in that article, from toys that are really fancy fleshlights to chat ai that poses as a sexualized minor.

I find the sexualization of minors, even mock minors, to be reprehensible and we should consider shutting that down.

But the rest of it is basically proposing steadily increasingly accurate (or alien) versions of fleshlights. Increasingly fancy toys for people to use by themselves or with their partners.

We are not now, not likely will we be in decades, capable of producing something even remotely close to a "simulated human". The concerns there are valid, but as likely to pass as "I'm really worried about people getting access to black magic". Yes, it would be bad if it came to pass and yes, people absolutely want it, but it's not real.
IMHO There's no good reason for 'feminists' to be upset about robot brothels. If anything, it would re-inforce the divide between fantasy and reality.

The only explanation is that it's competition. It might sate some men, expecially singles, reducing their craving for sex with real women, and therefore it's 'value', and the effort they're willing to expend to obtain it.
How do you generate traffic for it?
The first city in the article is Cicero Illinois and is a terrible example! It's hardly your prototypical suburb - it's a 150 year old city that the metropolitan area grew to encircle. You can probably attribute Cicero's problems to two things:

1. Cicero was the site of the Western Electric Hawthorne Works [1]. Back in the day, just about every single American home had something built in that factory. 45,000 employees in a city of 65,000 people. And then it closed. What do you think is going to happen to the city and its finances???

2. Mob-controlled corruption. Most famous being the town president Betty Loren-Maltese [2].

Now that the city has become extremely Latino and the city leadership is Latino, the population is up to nearly 90,000 people and the violent crime rate is significantly lower than US average. It is very dense and has excellent public transit - Strongtowns would enthusiastically approve of the built environment. The current problem is a lack of good schools and good jobs. But in 20 years, there is every reason to believe that it will be hailed as a wonderful success story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_Works

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Loren-Maltese
The two rovers it launched are small, one is a rolling ball the size of a baseball, the other is a hopper a few times bigger. Not much pushing happening with them.
Kapa.ai (YC S23) is hiring AI engineers with RAG focus (remote)
There is a solution for chronic cases like this: a manually operated valve that stands in for the sphincter. Some of the guys in my prostate cancer support group have described this as "life changing".
In that case it wasn't even the junior's fault - they were following experts from Juniper who were supposed to be past-masters on installing that specific piece of crap (as someone who later accidentally became developer of that piece of crap for a time, I feel I have the basis for the claim).

And those people told him the install system didn't support SSH keys (hindsight: they did) and got him to make the root logins possible with passwords. Passwords that weren't particularly hard to guess because their only expected and planned use was for the other team to login for the first time and set their own, before the machines were to be exposed to internet, using BMC.
For you, VR likely wouldn't be able to replace that social context. However for those kilometers apart, it might allow them to simulate it. See for example Big Screen[1] which lets you enjoy a group watching experience.

It might not be as good as sharing real popcorn, but it can be a surprisingly convincing imitation.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/457550/Bigscreen_Beta/
My two bosses guarantee our team will never have a well-run meeting. They're both junior managers who were selected for immediate promotion when their managers left. Both of them will drift and ramble on new topics when we manage to complete an agenda ahead of schedule. I need to find a new team. Or maybe I could find new jobs for them and get myself promoted to their current job ...
Why is your opinion of what should be allowed more important than theirs? And do you really want to make everything unethical illegal?