skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only argument for owning a vision pro is that I could do _more_ of everything I'm trying to quit or reduce, hard sell, and I doubt I'm in the minority on this one
Instruction-Based Image Editing via LLM
I own a Quest 3 and on day three of AVP. I can assure you, the difference in quality - and therefore movie-watching experience - is night and day between these devices. Watching a movie in AVP is outstanding. This device doesn't shine in all cases, but it shines there.

It's like saying, "Sure, Ferarris are cool, but my VW can also drive to the track." (No shade thrown to VWs. Love the boxy, 90s-era Jetta.)

Usual disclaimers: Is it for everyone? Probably not. Is it expensive? Very. Is it perfect? No. "Essentially the same?" Not at all.
Sounds similar to something I hit at work once. I built a release of one of our products and uploaded the binary to a file server on our Ethernet LAN for the test department to test, but the upload failed. Everything else I tried to upload worked. I found I could also not transfer that file to anything else over Ethernet.

After some experimenting I determined that there was a particular 4 byte (if I remember the length correctly) string that simply could not be sent or received by my Ethernet card.

Some searching turned up something on some obscure support forum where the maker of that card admitted that there was a bug in the hardware's checksum implementation that made it fail on that byte pattern.

A friend of mine in college had an interesting hardware data corruption bug on a computer he built for his project in the microprocessor lab we both took in 1982. We did a joint project, where together we designed a small 68k based system and then separately each built a copy. Here's mine [1] [2].

On mine the serial ports worked fine up to 19200 bps (the limit of the ADM3a terminals we were using). On his once you got past 2400 bps it started getting errors.

That nature of the errors was such that only a subset of the possible ASCII characters could be sent. Characters outside that subset would be replaced by characters from the subset. The faster you went the smaller the working subset.

What happened was that there were filter capacitors on the serial lines to filter out high frequency noise. My filter capacitors were correct. His were not. When he had went to the EE stockroom to buy filter capacitor they gave him capacitors that were a couple of orders of magnitude bigger than he asked for.

On his system then if a character with too many bit transitions or bit transitions to close together those looked like high frequency noise to the filter capacitors and were filtered out.

[1] https://imgur.com/Ts9wcfW

[2] https://imgur.com/3D4rvdC
> There's also stackable moderation coming shortly, which enables other individuals/orgs to operate moderation labeling services that users can choose to use.

Very excited for this - IMO, this is federated social media's biggest promise.
Forget porn, I'm just annoyed that I have to have an account and Internet access to make my lightbulbs do their thing. Access control and "security" have just become absurd. A car charger shouldn't have to authenticate/authorize me, nor a light switch, a television, a computer display (whether or not it's attached to my face), etc. etc. etc.

I'm going to become a luddite and carry wads of cash and wear a tinfoil hat.

This is my startup idea: less of this crap. The logo is going to be a rabid woodland creature wearing a tinfoil hat.
Prison labor has no impact on recidivism, so it can't be considered rehabilitative in its current form: https://mn.gov/doc/assets/Effects%20of%20Prison%20Labor%20on..., https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/impact-f....

I couldn't find any studies that specifically focused on involuntary labor; presumably some of the people in the linked studies were willing to work and not forced.
One of the most surreal moments of my life was walking in the bush in Tanzania near a village, two maasais passed by on a motorbike, stopped, took out a mobile phone from the folds of their red garment, took a picture of me without saying a word, and left.

At the time, smartphones were not common and I was somewhat surprised that all maasais had cellphones (non-smartphones, usually). But of course I now understand that they're essential for a society that doesn't have any other form of connection (no landlines, so fast adoption of mobile, and also poor roads and no postal service).

And of course, it must have been much more surreal for them to see a random white young man walking alone in the middle of nowhere near their village.
You'll have to file me under

a) doesn't watch films or use internet gadgets in bed, especially to the exclusion of someone else

b) would at any rate choose a film my partner wanted to watch too

c) ignoring the above, would probably buy the cheapest VR headset that offered a virtual theatre good enough
The longevity, power, flexibility offered by computing devices today is amazing.
Keeping someone trapped in order to force them to do work is called “slavery” and it’s generally frowned upon in the modern era. There shouldn’t be profit associated with prisoners, that’s how you get wrongful arrests and draconian drug laws.
Yes, I am aware of these pitfalls. I only use SMS based auth for things that demand it, and if it is a thing that is truly critical, I find an alternative that doesn't demand it. At the very least, I ensure that I have a way of physically showing up and getting my account recovered in a worst case scenario.

Google Voice is probably my favorite Google service... I have looked at alternatives many times in the past and have never found anything that compares that isn't super expensive (and usually not as good). I really hope Google keeps it. But I am prepared to migrate if Google shuts it down (and I really hope they provide a seamless number porting experience if they ever do...).
There was a meeting about Electronics Recycling in California, long ago.. A new California law was going into effect regarding E-Waste. Many companies, media outlets, smart people and activists were gathered.

A particular guy stood up and pitched his company solution. That company was called Unicor. The spokesman was well-spoken, had clear points, and was African American. The pitch essentially was, use prison labor for E*Waste, contracted via Unicor.

A second person stood up in the audience and called it what it was, in front of everyone. Privately, the two nearly came to blows back stage out of sight, shortly afterwards.

this is not fake in the USA, and even more not fake elsewhere in the world.
One of the ironies of these things is that they tend to map to a specific e-mail address, whereas the more paranoid of us who'd want to pay for a service like that tend to have different addresses, either entirely or something like Gmail with +filters.

HIBP supports domain searches[^1] at least, but part of the problem is also how we keep trying to reinvent the e-mail system to not fall prey to this, much how Fastmail have Masked Emails, and Apple have Hide My Email.

In a sense, it sounds like the advice of the services is less subscribing to them than trying not to have a few e-mails that map to your personal identity.

[^1]: https://haveibeenpwned.com/DomainSearch
You might not be able to mine, but you could smelt at a much smaller scale. You could smelt your own alloys from all sorts of fancy recycled materials -- steel from warships, chrome from classic automobiles, etc etc.

The goal is basically to do things that sound impressive to justify absurd prices while employing as many people possible in as good of conditions as possible.
There is absolutely no possible way that you (or any other person) would notice a 4 inch GLOBAL AVERAGE rise in sea level over the last few decades. I don't care if you literally spent 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year on your belly at the high tide mark.

The data is the data and you need a lot more than "living on the beach" to refute it.

And yes, the sea level is different in different parts of the Earth. Why? Because forces are different in different parts of the Earth. Current (which impart forces) alone is enough to make a difference in sea level in two different parts of the Earth.

And yes, land changing elevation is colloquially part of sea level rise.

The problem with using your brain is it doesn't make you an expert in things, or able to refute expertise without actual knowledge. And simple observations do not amount to much knowledge on anything but the most simple subject.
Where'd you get 100atoms/m^3? I remember in astrophysics we learned it was closer to 1 proton/m^3, but maybe that was the universe average (which includes the vast and desolate intergalactic medium)
Capitalism's whole thing is create the sickness and sell the cure, right?
an email can be sent by cron, this seems like a convenient alibi to craft
OnePlus tells why it won't match Samsung and Google's 7-year phone update policy
How do you make Twilight and vampire? and eclipse?
Mass shippers like Aliexpress already stopped using ePacket.

Ali has their own Cainiao. The big companies realized if they do the Amazon model and build their own logistics network for cross-Pacific sea/air freight, the long-term savings are huge.

Even within the US, Amazon already has planes, trains, and automobiles. Why pay USPS and be at the mercy of government bureaucracy when you own your own integrated logistics stack.
> The one was just stealing stuff from cars.

There is nothing "just" about that.

> heavily punished for something unrelated a friend of them did?

It is not unrelated at all.

> They [the cops] should be held accountable

I agree with that. They too should be held accountable, yes.

> not the friend of a guy who killed a cyclist while fleeing from police.

The friend could have said "yo dude, let's not do crimes, it is stupid". If he would have done that the two cyclist would be still with us.

He did a crime. Intentionally. That crime directly lead to two deaths. He is punished for that. He thought he will be punished less severely. He was wrong. Sometimes when you roll a roulette wheel the ball stops at "two cyclist dead, you go to prison for life". The best strategy is to not roll the wheel.

> killed a cyclist

Killed two cyclist. Dean Amelkin and Christopher McConnell. Now that is a tragedy. Those two did not do anything wrong. They could be you, they could be me, they could be our parents, they could be our friends.
The students I worked with at UNR were not from privileged backgrounds and picked the school because it is affordable. I loved working with these students. They were smart and hardworking, and you could see the positive impact of higher education on their lives. It is a betrayal of these students to hire someone like this that will harm the reputation of their degrees.
The thing about "hundreds of platforms" is that they all have to be self-sustaining. And I have trouble believing that they are vs. just being maintained for free and paid out of pocket as long as it's tenable. The number of patrons for the Mastodon Patreon has actually gone down from that 2022 report (9603 in 2022 vs. 9096 now) and the monthly Patreon revenue extrapolated to a year is 273k€, which is about 50k€ less than what the 2022 report has as (total from all sources?) donations.

According to Graphtreon, paid members for the Mastodon Patreon are down 23% in a year and earnings by about 28% (https://graphtreon.com/creator/mastodon). mstdn.social is also down by about 16% / 22% in the last year (https://graphtreon.com/creator/mstdn). Mastodon.world seems to be doing better since all of their numbers are up compared to a year ago, although on a six-month window they are dropping 19% / 25% (https://graphtreon.com/creator/mastodonworld).
You can use torrent clients under Linux though.
Not sure if dumb question:

If they use the data you provide (such as your address) to search other data brokers, doesn't that potentially give the data broker MORE information than they already had on you? Do the companies in this space prevent this somehow?

Edit: Lest people think this is somehow impossible otherwise - all it should take would be to search for just your name + location, get the query results, then filter on the client side. Which is exactly what a human would do for the brokers that have a "remove this entry" option when you see (presumably) yourself in the search results. However, this not only requires the data brokers to support such an API, but also requires the deletion services to actually put in the effort to do it this way for every broker they can, which seems nontrivial. Hence my question of whether these services make such an attempt at all.
competitors require an account too?
Unless you come from the law faculty.
I remember Brave introducing BAT tokens that you could earn for seeing ads and then donate to other websites and content creators. How did that experiment end up? Was it just a crypto hype thing?
that would break multi-line commands, so not a good option
Whenever we have weird network problems, the first thing our networks people do is check the bad packet counters on the machines involved. It annoys me slightly, because the problem is never related to packet corruption. But ...

> A Montreal machine receiving this packet discarded it at the kernel level after realizing it’s corrupt, never passing it to the userland ssh daemon. London then re-transmitted it, going through the same corruption, getting the same silent treatment. From ssh and sshd’s perspective, the connection was at a stalemate. From tcpdump’s perspective, there was no loss, and Montreal machines appeared to be just ignoring data.

... it would have caught this! I suppose it's a good habit, because it's a cheap check for something that would be absolutely baffling otherwise.
I've been on for a few months now. It feels like 2014 Twitter in that it doesn't have gifs or video, so you will see some very good jokes.

A number of people I used to follow on Twitter are over there but seem to have broken out of the posting habit and are quieter now.

When I look at the "discover" tab I don't usually see much stuff that's interesting to me. It's a lot of men posting thirst-traps, furries, bog standard too online politics, and discussion about what's going on on Twitter

Edit to add: people really like to advise blocking. It's to the point that new users are often advised to add a profile photo and an intro post before following people, because you might get blocked just for not having those. I don't know what this is about - possibly because there's no private/locked accounts? It seems really strange to me.
Please also consider a --dry-run option that gives a preview of what actions would be taken without actually making any changes. This is really helpful for learning a tool and making sure you got complex options and fileglobs correct before committing to potentially irreversible changes.
All the single word handles seem to be taken! :(
Here, in France, small businesses are delighted when I pay in cash

From what they tell me, that's because:
- they get 100% of the money (no tax)
- it grants them the right to cheat with tax declaration (which is always good)
- it can be quicker and easier than credit card (I'm think of those guys who sells stuff for 5€, for instance)

I believe medium/large businesses loves credit cards, because the people doing the payment are low-waged, untrusted people, who cannot do maths etc (or whatever the reasons managements got in their head)
But small businesses ? When you give money to the owner of said business ? They have credit cards because the consumers use them, but they hate them
If labeling has fuzzy boundaries, perhaps it shouldn't have strong implications. If it does, the boundary cases behave chaotically, which is usually not acceptable behaviour. I mean, if the labels have no consequences, what is the point of labeling in the first place?

Organizing everything in the world into neat boxes feels so early 20th century to me. Back when we still thought that human reasoning can be applied to achieve a complete understanding of the world and everything in it. Putting things into boxes is a coping mechanism for the feeling of chaos; people do it because it makes them feel good, not because it actually reflects how things are.
So he is trying to buy the company he bankrupted using the money that he was giving by investors? This seems surreal. Why does he have any money at all at this point? He ran the company into the ground.
>The only thing missing are political prisoners

That's a pretty important detail, don't you think? I don't think gulags would have a much better reputation if they merely kept their political prisoners interned rather than working.
You'd have to be desperate to want to work for the US government after you've seen how things work there.
> Is there some way to mitigate that?

Against a very sophisticated attacker? Maybe not, but it doesn't matter for my purposes. My concern is the most likely kinds of attacks, which are not terribly sophisticated. It's really more of a sanity check than a comprehensive security audit.

No security can ever be 100% effective. Like all security measures, this is just one layer intended to cover attacks I am most likely to be exposed to.

In other words, if I'm protecting against governments and other well-funded entities or skilled and determined hackers, I wouldn't be using this alone. I'd be using it in conjunction with other security processes, such as not attaching unknown USB devices to my systems at all, or at least not to ones that matter or aren't permanently isolated from my other machines.
its not about them working or not, its about what companies benefit from using such labor as opposed to employing people who need to support self/family.
Support for Policies That Promote More Housing Crosses Geographic Lines
Mod of the Netherlands Uncovers Coathanger, a Chinese FortiGate Rat [pdf]
>It has glare and poor FoV. It gets hot and has a short battery life.

FOV is the most unforgivable. I can't for the life of me imagine who is deciding that 110 is sufficient. I would give up just about every single other specification in a headset for 180°+, and I have owned just about every consumer headset released since DK2.
A lot of the same shit I do now between work but without work interrupting it and in the vicinity of a mansion and having built a family trust fund for their future.
WebKit is also a bit better than other engines in “nativeness” too, with e.g. in-page widget behavior and such. Blink is second best here probably thanks to its shared heritage with WebKit, and Gecko is last with unstyled widgets and little behaviors being “off”.

The battery life/heat thing is big though, Safari is much better in that category and it seems like that property extends to WebKit browsers on Linux too in my limited trials with GNOME Web, so it’s not just a case of Apple using private APIs to gain an advantage or whatever. It’s a difference in architecture and likely dev culture — efficiency simply doesn’t get prioritized to the same extent by the dev teams of the other two engines. With Blink especially there seems to be more interest in coming up with APIs to give devs access to the contents of the user’s fridge or whathaveyou.
They may re quire a phone number now... but I am not so much worried about using my temporary carrier number to sign up, because Google doesn't force me to login with SMS (I now use Google's Passkey support, with two passkeys- my phone, and my Bitwarden account).
"CISA’s efforts to combat disinformation ahead of the 2020 election..." No thanks, free speech has been attacked enough these past 10 years.
When the VisionPro first went public I wondered if I should regret pre-ordering a SimulaVR[1] but it seems like for productivity at least I probably made a good choice. We'll see when it actually arrives though.

[1]https://simulavr.com/
The MacOS virtual display limitations seems like a real achilles heel for no good reason.

The technical reason is wireless bandwidth for the virtual display.

But AVP isn't wireless!!
You've already got a wire running down from your head to the battery pack on your waist. And from there in a real productivity setting presumably you've got the battery pack plugged into the wall. So what's the harm in having offered a TB4 input to allow multiple displays from your MacOS device?

Just feels like an aesthetic "no wires / no ports" thing which is fine if not for the giant power wire!
Discussed 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39187236
if industry can capture labor at the lower price point, there is a lot of incentive not to hire civilians with health care and worker rights, instead get more prison labor. This is older than Egypt.
There is some work by others to make this possible:

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed
Oh, but you know they would love that.

I kind of see the EU legislation similar to California. After CA passes laws, eventually, the other states do as well. I'd imagine that the EU hopes that their legislation will influence others at some point too.
I wonder how it works for people who use business-name@personal-domain.tld as their emails with whatever businesses.
I find it kind of amusing:

The article mentions (obviously) Mozilla Monitor.

When I follow the provided link (leads to https://monitor.mozilla.org) in the default Firefox container and enter my email a new tab (now https://accounts.firefox.com) is created in a Google container (despite the fact that nothing suggests me leaving https://accounts.firefox.com)

Automatically remove your personal info from data brokers you say?
Lotus+Flower=Buddha
Buddha+Religion=Nirvana
Nirvana+Music=Kurt Cobain
AP had most of a decade to reach this point. How fast will new servers need to spring up + how fast will people need to move off the main one to avoid losing more control to VCs?

Keeping in mind it's further complicated by BGSes and the likely multiple base cost to run vs an average PDS. Someone has to run those to maintain the key benefit over AP unless they came up with an accessible to normal people way for people to self-manage keys and data since the last time I looked into it.
dry-run should be a pipable | function for any command;

> do_thing.py | dry-run

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Think of it as "explain your work, step by step" as one would prompt...

also, its a food-for-thought you muppets.

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@jasonjmcghee ; ( $ ) . ( $ ) great justice.
You realize that prison is interested in getting them back?

This is an industrial complex and they are the product.

There are exceptions of cause, see Norway.
The theoretical Alcubierre drive basically collects all of the material you would intersect with in a gravitational well ahead of the vehicle as you travel, which is great!

...until you stop, releasing all of that mass as a gargantuan amount of energy at your landing site.
Wouldn't in many of those cases those funds be more needed by their victims to help restore a little of what was lost. Direct things like paying medical bills or supporting someone who can no longer work or less direct things like paying for therapy for someone who is now traumatized?

As for victimless crimes, do they really deserve prison to begin with and wouldn't we do better with alternatives, or perhaps even removing some of those laws entirely?
Thanks for all your hard work!

Twitter is an obvious influence on Bluesky.

Was the team able to benefit from the experience of working on Twitter, or were most of the big problems novel?
But isn’t University of Nevada a simply a state school?

I understand they have some research programs, but this primarily is a higher ed institution.

If there primary focus was research I’d agree with you.
Thank you for an example with fruit. I am not trying to be thick, but your last paragraph confuses me. My point of reference is, say, lending $1,000 to a sibling who will pay me back within 2 weeks when he gets his paycheck. I gave him $1,000 and he will return me $1,000 so when and how would interest arise here? What axiom am I missing that makes his debt increase? Is it a choice by me to demand it?