skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: People want useful or fun, not "VR"

> If they can't sell VR, I don't think anyone can sell VR

Imagine having as many monitors as you need. Anywhere. Rearrange them whenever and however, even on airplanes! It all weighs under 1 pound (0.45 kg).

How much would you pay? I'd pay at least $600.

> where we'll know what people want to use it for/if it's capable of living in the mainstream

A cheaper, better multi-monitor replacement would be very useful. It might even be fun in some cases, but it's still mostly a productivity tool.

Unfortunately, short-term incentives seem to limit funding to projects with potential for:

1. Platform lock-in (Apple Vision, Oculus)

2. Ecosystem extension (Apple Vision, Valve Index)

> or if it's forever going to live as a niche product

Is having 2+ monitors an obscure niche? An overwhelming number of offices and other workspaces disagree.
Has that "dunking" manifested in actual exploits?
A million dollars doesn't even buy a small house where I live.
Headline is information-free, I'd replace it with the subtitle...

Rice scientists validate method for guided discovery of 3D flat-band material
Word has it when he passed away, he had a stew going.
The toggle isn't good enough because of their practice of commingling all suppliers' inventory of a single SKU. Shipped-from-and-sold-by-Amazon doesn't mean you're actually going to get an instance of the product they stocked themselves.
> It's no different than going to a restaurant and not tipping knowing full well that is the accepted business model.

That's a ridiculous comparison. To make it more accurate, though: if the restaurant was also storing a copy of my personal data, recording my every move, and interrupting my meal to shove food I didn't order down my throat, I certainly wouldn't tip anyone at that restaurant, and would prefer to eat elsewhere. The servers who choose to work there have no moral right to complain about me not tipping them, and eating food that is available for anyone to take without paying is certainly not equivalent to stealing.

Once, and if, I'm given the option to actually pay for the service I order instead of this insanely hostile experience, I'll happily tip for it as well.
It’s funny how it’s never about politics, only about good ideas. The names “blacklist” and “whitelist” were perfectly fine to describe the completely innocuous things they are, and everyone had no problem understanding them for hundreds of years. All of the sudden they’re “unclear” and “not very descriptive”, and we need to pick names that are “informative and meaningful”. Weird, the timing of that determination.

I would respect the people advocating for this stuff a lot more if they weren’t blatantly using doublespeak to my face
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.

RIP Carl.
Show HN: Red Team in a Box: Alert your blue team from a web browser
Hello Everyone!

I came up with the idea of performing Red Team activities from within the context of a browser, using client side code to see of the organization could detect the activity. Originally intended to be free but also be used as a lead generator.

The idea was basically "If you can't detect these things, why are you even bothering with a Red Team?"

Interested in any feedback or comments-- is this crazy?
It's not you. Things like WordPerfect's "reveal codes" feature were a major reason law practices were so reluctant to give it up. It's far easier to fulfill a court's rules on how to format briefs when you have that kind of control over your document's formatting!
But it’s not productive wealth is it? It’s just stock. It’s Locked up value that he hordes like a dragon. That money isn’t actually being used to generate anything. Even when it is spent, it’s just financial products that generate money through financial transactions instead of actual goods and services.

This has been the case since the 1980s when capital gains started being taxed below income, and the carried interest loophole was created. In fact, this is a well known economic phenomenon. Some would go as far as to say that it is an intentional outcome of the policy.

In the end, the problem with Bezos and the rest of the oligarchs is the same problem with monopolies, it’s a command economy. Only instead of being dictated by some unelected government bureaucrats in a totalitarian state, it’s a a bunch unelected rich dudes with dreams of a totalitarian state.

It’s an unhealthy economy.
You can just go to view >> web layout in MS Word to get a pageless view. And view >> print layout to go back to pages FYI
Very interesting article, I am surprised that the author blames it all on apathy and stupidity, when greed at the regulators could possibly be a viable alternative explanation.
Typically, only 1-2 of the 'requirements' are actually required (generally the ones that sound most applicable to the actual job..)

The rest are usually added by various levels of management that feel they need to 'contribute' something.

However, it makes it a PITA to get past all the databases/HR/etc. to actually get to someone that knows the 'real' requirements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc
"I should be able to wreck 20 people's lives because honoring my agreements is inconvenient for me"
Well, if every CxO-level leader disappeared how are decisions made? By popular vote?
I liked the part of the content where Schönfinkel:

> If well designed (as I hope the Wolfram Language is!) computational language has a certain clean, formal structure. But human natural language is full of messiness, which has to be untangled by natural language understanding—as we’ve done for so many years for Wolfram|Alpha, always ultimately translating to our computational language, the Wolfram Language.

> But without the notion of an underlying computational language, people tend to feel the need to search endlessly for formal structure in human natural language. And, yes, some exists. But—as we see all the time in actually doing practical natural language understanding for Wolfram|Alpha—there’s a giant tail that seems to utterly explode any all-encompassing formal theory.

Oh nevermind.
Reading the headline, I was about to say porn, but Apple will forbid it and Zuck will watch over your shoulder, so I guess not.
Not sure exactly what you mean. Are you saying the US could compel SpaceX to let Ukraine use Starlink to attack Russia? I don't think they could do that--certainly not without a Federal law passed for that purpose, maybe like Eminent Domain.

Or are you saying that the US could have stopped Starlink from being used to attack Russia (in the event SpaceX had agreed)? Again, I suspect that would have to be done via some new export control law.

Either way, the US military doesn't want to deal with the inevitable delays of the legal system. Much faster to just own the asset so you can do whatever you want.
He was also in Predator, and he famously reminded everyone of that on SNL once.
> It feels like regulators are at risk of crossing into the territory of issuing “recalls” against Tesla that they wouldn’t otherwise because 1) it’s actually possible for them to edit minuscule details through OTA updates, and 2) Tesla is against the ropes and they can score points by making it look like they are doing something.

I got a recall for my Lincoln Navigator that was "put these two pieces of paper between pages 186 and 187 of your manual. It contains additional information about your seats and operation".

Sorry, if that is a "recall", so too is a required software update for safety.

All this, despite Musk (and many Tesla fans) wanting to feel unreasonably attacked.

> It’s a IIHS top pick

So were twenty one other cars in the midsize luxury segment alone (Sixteen if you "only" count the Top Safety Pick+).

> is insanely good at detecting dangerous situations related to pedestrians and other vehicles, and there are so many software-based safety enhancements in this car that I’ve never seen in other vehicles.

Multiple times, multiple things I've heard Tesla owners express surprise at learning the "dinosaurs" also have, just from my cars alone:

- Traffic Sign Recognition, including recognizing school zones, and recognizing active school zones.

- Adaptive blind spot - so nice. Speed differential low, or you're going faster? Will not activate, or only activate last moment. But if someone is blowing by you in the HOV lane, it will warn of them when they're still several hundred feet back.

- Laser headlights. Matrix headlights. Night vision with thermal imaging.

- Predictive active suspension - The car actively scans the road ahead with sensors and it will adjust suspension for poorer road conditions.

- The car can not just stop, but will actively swerve, if safe, around obstructions to avoid a collision, or even a parked car opening a door into traffic.
I remember a few years ago that Microsoft docs started to point to Mozilla docs, maybe part of Edge rebrand? Perhaps renaming to MDN during this agreement could leave someone like "huh is it M(ozilla)DN or M(icrosoft)DN??". I have no clue.
I suspect it is not someone that came and gave it for free.

So I would say they should belong to the keeper right now.

And if it was a gift, it would still be a property transfer. So still his.
That's true, but quarto also has full support for Python and Jupyter notebooks, not to mention julia, and observable. It's really built from the ground up to be multi-language so that everyone can benefit from all the goodies in RMarkdown.
> I’m not aware of this problem in MSVC

The compiler I was thinking of was indeed MSVC. From a quick web search, it seems that more recent versions of MSVC have changed them to be thread safe by default, so if you can make sure that your code will never be compiled on older MSVC versions (and that nobody will ever use the compiler option which disables the thread-safe initialization), it might be fine to depend on it.
This supposes that there's some naturally-right size for a corporation to be, without bothering to argue why that might be.

I don't see why that would be true, and abundant evidence that both large and small corporations add value to the world.
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V051-2023.PDF

> On affected vehicles, the letter font size of the Brake, Park and Antilock brake
system (ABS) visual warning indicators is smaller than 3.2 mm (1/8 inch), as
prescribed in FMVSS Nos. 105 and 135.

> affected vehicles will receive an over-the-air software remedy
The spreadsheets of VR (well, AR) is spreadsheets. The marketing of Vision Pro is literally that you can have a lot of spreadsheets open in the room around you, without being limited by the size of displays you can carry with you.

I think this is a better approach than trying to get people to do spreadsheets in the metaverse.
They do not pay (enough) tax, no. Nowhere near what the actual cost of producing that energy is.
But M(icrosoft)DN was MSDN.
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I think some major newspapers are 'downvoted' by default, as so many off-topic articles from them are posted.

I think I read this from a comment from dang.
Touché.

I forgot about subsidies, once your income gets that low. (Remembered that marginal tax rates would be low, at least.)

The difference between "cheap city downtown" and "expensive city downtown" is an interesting phenomenon. It isn't a hard and fast rule, but you're right about the general pattern.

It's also true that I could have aimed even lower than I did. If I'd assumed roommates in a larger apartment, I could have ended up with lower numbers.

If you really wanted to be a starving artist, you could probably get by on $1k/month. So then, as little as $400k invested plus a $30k cash cushion might suffice. It'd be pretty rough though if you were trying to pull it off in the US. Honestly we're starting to get into food-stamp territory.
This is insecure code that is susceptible to SQL injection. Check out https://phptherightway.com/#databases and read the PDO section. It gives almost your exact code as an example of what not to do. Look at using PDO bound parameters. You never want to concat strings together to create sql. Especially with strings that come from untrusted sources.
Is not subnetting /64 solving a real problem?

Obviously we couldn't subnet it back when we derived the last 64 bits from the MAC address. But since then everyone decided that's a bad idea, so why not use the address space?
In case this sparked anybody's interest, I went through the tweet's author's course on RL [1] recently and it was extremely insightful. I heartily recommend it (slides, lectures, assignments are all public)

[1] https://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/
Follow the incentives. Destruction of the NS2 benefits Ukraine, I always suspected it was someone from Ukraine or the West. Russia destroying it never made sense.

But Russia has used nuclear scare several times, it's part of their playbook, because deniable nuclear FUD works in their benefit. Western public is very sensitive about this topic and the reaction won't be "we need to escalate", rather appeasement towards Russia. I don't see how Ukraine would benefit, the theories laid out in the article don't make sense IMHO.
"Another benefit is that it requires unique methodology for OpenBSD, which
requirements investment."

Secure in the absence of an attacker?

This part:

xx: b8 05 00 00 00 mov $0x5,%eax
xx: 0f 05 syscall

This means "perform operation #5, which is open(2)"

Inside the kernel, we know the system call # and the address of
the syscall instruction.

Why can't the attacker just jump to an existing syscall instruction? Maybe one followed soon by a return.

4) in libc.so's table, all the system call stub "syscall instructions"
are registered.

I don't know a lot about binary exploitation techniques. Is all this entirely reliant on layout randomization?
Attn applicants across the job market: stop using ChatGPT to write answers! This advice does not apply to people doing hiring though, as I personally do not use it for that purpose for the company that I decline to mention
Stripe published a post on theirs: https://stripe.com/blog/accessible-color-systems

I'm not aware of any tools though that leverage the concepts they laid out to generate new palettes.
Windows also provides language-independent ways of calling low-level (and pretty high-level) OS interfaces.

The library you have to link to access system services is not going to pollute your language environment with bad runtime.
> If we start telling people what they can and can't use legitimately-purchased energy for, we go down a dangerous path very quickly

No, you make the cost of energy take into account the cost of the carbon emissions. That's what a carbon tax is. It's not a dangerous path, it's basic economics.
It's in the url bar.
Is that the same 'every' that have wireless speakers or 'soundbars'?

Because I'm pretty sure mine doesn't. I hate it, I'm the first to point it out or only one bothered by it. I haven't done anything (other than run Audyssey) to stop it, it just hasn't been a problem as far as I can tell.

And I know you're exaggerating, anyone would notice 'hundreds of milliseconds', but still.
I was asking around in my network after experience with self hosting S3 like solutions. One serious user of SeaweedFS recommended looking into min.io instead. Another serious user of min.io recommend looking into SeaweedFS instead…
>You sure?
>https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abs...

That's just one RCT. The Cochrane meta-analysis looked at a bunch of them.

>When the medical field phases out masks because they "have no benefit" I will believe that masking was useless.

You're putting the cart before the horse. In an ideal world, guidelines for the medical field are based on scientific evidence. But there's always a delay.

You better consult the scientific evidence to make up your mind.

When it comes to covid and masking, policymakers will wait as long as possible before aknowledging the evidence, because they know the public hasn't forgotten the draconian masking of school kids yet.
This is a good sign for anyone considering dental school. Only a matter of time.
What do you think the venn diagram of ratepayer and taxpayer looks like?
Thank you for letting me know.

Would you be able to take a screenshot?

I'm testing for the iPhone SE using chrome dev tools, and the display seems fine there, so what I see it most likely not accurate.
I suggest: “dangerous defect notice” as it is descriptive, unambiguous, sufficiently alarming, and clearly indicates it is a property of the product instead of the remediation.

Disagree on this suggestion. “Notice” to me doesn’t imply a necessary response, whereas “recall” does.

But, I do agree with the general sentiment that people don’t understand the legal obligations that come with a recall. And I wouldn’t object to a change of language by the NHSTA, as long as it’s consistent - I would be against any language that tended to differentiate “OTA recall” from “physical recall” for the same reason I don’t like “notice”. That, and the NHSTA may or may not know the full scope of remediation before issuing a recall.

“Mandatory safety update” perhaps?
>30 karma, same as flagging: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...
if VR is about having virtual monitors then thats not a Very enticing proposition
> What is the real change that is going to occur?

The EPA pretend like there's accountability
There's a couple of mentions of it in side pages and in example code, but that's all I can find:

> will soon be a proud part of the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-observatory/ (posted 25 October 2023)

> Their brilliant but offbeat idea grew into today's Mozilla Developer Network

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/At_ten (last modified 25 January 2024)

> const heading = <h1>Mozilla Developer Network</h1>;

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Tools_and_tes...
(n.b. The project looks awesome, and it’s awesome that it’s written in Rust and working well. Great job folks!)

I’ve been the managing functional safety engineer for several safety-critical real-time embedded systems and safety-related components/SEooCs (including a RTOS), and something stood out to me after reading through the repository: This is not a safety-critical operating system, despite the project’s claim.

There was clearly requirements engineering and verification work done, and the authors are under absolutely no obligation to publish the requirements and methodologies. But there’s no safety manual / integrator’s guide provided, no evidence of any qualitative or quantitative safety analysis or modelling at any abstraction level having been performed, no evidence of a safety concept, and no evidence of a safety case. I recognize that this is likely intended as a PoC from the description of it being exploratory to produce a “Lessons Learned” report, but the website for the ESA initiative that’s driving this development claims that “The design of the system will be guided to support potential future qualification activities”. If that was done, there should be evidence of some of all of those work products, because that’s how you support future qualification. You cannot retroactively sprinkle safety on top of a system that hasn’t been designed with safety in mind.
"Users of Linux and macOS may well be familiar with the sudo command, used regularly in the terminal, and it looks like Windows may finally be getting its own version."

More Linux tools are coming to Windows, especially Windows Server because the tools are good and they make it easier to administer a Windows Server.

They are looking at adding a default TUI text editor (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440) and now they are adding sudo.

I would not be surprised if systemd or something like it gets ported or reinvented for Windows simply because it makes managing services so nice.
Arc Browser Just Redrew the Battle Lines in the Endless War for Your Attention
This supposes that there's some naturally-right size for a corporation to be

No, in fact, it doesn't. Please re-read the comment you're replying to.

There is no cutoff, limit, or threshhold. It doesn't prescribe a naturally-right size any more than a graduated income tax "prescribes a naturally-right amount of income".
the closest i have found is https://pocketables.com/2022/01/how-to-format-that-wifi-qr-c...
That’s a clever and thoughtful idea, but those responsible for branding at Microsoft would burn the entire place down if this was ever to be the case.
Searching for:

site:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ "mozilla developer network"

yielded ~115 results on Google
AnyDesk says hackers breached its production servers, resets passwords
The individual wants his class to be taxed. Telling the individual they can simply pay more does nothing for everyone else in the class. Your reply is unserious.
I think that is a wrong perspective. Of course many people care about that.

The problem is that by looting rich people you will not end up with the problem.

In fact, you can make the problem much bigger mid-term by killing incentives and making people into poverty...

Cuba or Venezuela were richer than Spain in the 50s just to give you a couple of examples. And Venezuela has natural resources.

What happened? Well, yes, this kind of: let's take everything from the others and give to the poor.
Apple Now Selling $300 Developer Strap for Vision Pro
> Are you aware of the usage of PFAS in textiles, food packaging, and waterproof-treated goods?

No, because that's not true. Teflon (the substance used widely in waterproof goods and food packaging) is not the same thing as PFAS [1] (which is actually not one thing, but a whole class of things). Teflon is PTFE [2], which is different.

The terminology being casually flung around this issue is misleading. Certain PFAS types were used in the manufacture of PTFE (specifically Perfluorooctanoic acid [3]) which is the actual answer to GPs question -- this is primarily an issue of industrial concern. PFOA is far more reactive than PTFE, which is one of the most inert substances known to man. You can't just group these chemicals together in the bucket of "things that have fluoride polymers" and panic about all of them.

We regularly put teflon parts in humans, because they don't react with anything. Proving harm here is an incredibly high bar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid
The Zone of Interest Is Much More Than a Holocaust Film
Sounds like you should try both and write an article!
That's great to hear, thank you!
And yes, that's exactly the intention, it's a game designed to keep you on your toes.
Read the article - unfortunately i don’t know enough about flatband materials. So i don’t know what benefits this discovery may have. What is a good place to start to learn more about that?