skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The impression I got from it was it was intended more to highlight how people conceived these kinds of devices in the past rather than a review of an one of the specific devices on the market today, and in that it did a good job imho.
Because emacs is so Lindy.
I think it's wild how universal the idea that a phone is a place for secrets had become.

A device you are most likely to lose, break or get stolen by virtue of being outside of your home for much of the day.
A bit of an aside, I'm a big fan of how Mike Perham managed to start a business around Sidekiq. I think it really gives us Hacker News folks that there's hope starting a viable bootstrapped business around open-source infrastructure.
I never fail to upvote anyone who mentions this. I will never let Google live this down, in whatever small, spiteful way I can.
Relevant: https://lettersofnote.com/2012/07/12/regarding-your-dam-comp...
… in normal conditions.

In other-than-normal conditions the computer is almost always wrong.
> People have tried to map stores for years

Google does a good job. I can zoom right into my local Meijer with Maps and into individual sections.

> AVP is AR, a strange comment.

How so? You are not looking at reality. In fact, reality is blocked. You are looking at screens.
I was using IRC and a few forums at that time. Those have been largely drained.
Apple's DMA compliance plan is a trap and a slap in the face for the EC
Glad that era is over and that these days academics is held up as a bastion of political neutrality and free speech!

Realistically the struggle between liberal ideals and more instinctual authoritarian leanings is an ongoing process that turns up in every country. The issue is that Russia looks like what happens when the authoritarians just get too much power. The thing that is baffling is that despite the effectively inevitable outcome that more liberalism leads to better outcome there is no talking people down from taking authoritarian stances on nearly every policy area.
Thank you for the recommendation.

As the opposite, more minimalistic approach, I started to create different thematic feeds in newsfeed (a terminal reader), and I quite like the result. I check different sources, but it demotivates me to spend too much time with it.
There's usually layers of approval for offers inside organisations, it's improbable anyone you're talking to is going to be able to make a decision independent of people outside your communication loop and they're all going to be talking to each other.
Microdosing might work, but the research is surprisingly low quality
See ticker NYSE:SNAP who just announced 10% layoffs today. Down 2%. See also NASDAQ:PYPL (layoff announcement 30 Jan). Such announcements usually happen in or around earnings (Snap’s are tomorrow for example) so the volatility around these announcements frequently can be more related to surprise from news.

I think it can have an outsized bump in companies which appear to have obviously overhired expensive staff, and that otherwise have a good outlook. Cutting jobs out of desperation is bad. Fat trimming is good and healthy for a company; cutting off limbs to say that you’ve lost weight is not.
> What did you address?

This part:

> You're not really allowed to say, "just try it in a bunch of people, it's okay if untrained folks mess it up because if they do we can just throw out the data."

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> It's just "give investigational drug away for free."

And here insurance regulation can also come in to play along with the pharma regulation.

Sure, none of this would be easy. But the status quo has issues too.
For those that like Chromium but want to remove any integration with Google, there's Ungoogled Chromium

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

> Brave is run by a homophobic, anti-vax crypto clown. I won’t dignify it here with a link.

Brave is a decent browser, I don't understand why would you care who created it. Attacking author's persona and not the technology itself really reeks of bias
Maybe not a perfect replacement, but have you tried Feedly? https://feedly.com/
Awesome work Deno team! I've been hard on ya'll in the past to add NPM package support and I can now officially retract all of my earlier criticisms.

It's amazing to see Deno mature so fast while staying well-thought-out, and I'm excited to use it in as many projects as I can now.
It seems "weird" none of the mega rich has committed a few million dollars for this, it looks like a very good way to build a legacy while benefiting humanity, and e.g. Bezos would probably find a million dollars behind the couch pillows.
> Then make the connection between racism and damages to a company relevant to the discussion, or being thin-skinned and the same.

They both have obvious consequences in a leadership position. Obvious consequences are enough.

> There is zero evidence that Elon profited off the emerald mine his dad bought shares in, and the allegation is that he conspired to hide that money somehow. It's a normal definition of conspiracy.

1. I have never heard this "hiding money" part of it so I don't think that's the crux of it.

2. "Some guy hid his own money" is not a conspiracy. This is baffling.
It has nothing to do with cost.

Using a yubikey says, specifically, that if I lose this little device and the bypass codes, that I have presumably stored on encrypted storage in a way that doesn't require the yubikey to access, then I want it to either be impossible or exceedingly difficult to recover access to this account.

Very few people actually want that, and if yubikeys become widespread, there will be a wave of people having tantrums because their yubikey is lost and the account is unrecoverable.

If it isn't extremely difficult to recover an account in the absence of a yubikey and the loss of the bypass codes generated on enrollment, then there's no point to them.

I've run a b2c website. There is a shocking percent of internet users -- I'd estimate 20% -- that cannot reliably tell you their email address (5% that literally can't, and another 15 that can't reliably). Those users having yubikeys would be an utter disaster.
Which of these were egregious in your opinion?

Just through a random wikipedia list, I found Oppenheimer (if not an outright member of the communist party, very closely aligned) and Needham (who had agreed to be an Inspector in North Korea).
Hearing a political joke and not informing authorities was enough to get sent to a labor camp. Same goes for lagging behind in public condemnation of "enemies of the people" (your neighbors and coworkers).

The moral choices came with a very high personal cost.
The research paper (preprint):

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.576352v1
Good article, about Gibsons great book. But I got a bit stuck on the start of the article.

It states: "I’ve plowed through the first wave of AVP (Apple Vision Pro) reviews, and it seems pretty obvious that, at the current price and form factor, it’s not gonna be a best-seller."

I'm not sure what constitutes a best-seller. But according to several news stories (which may all be based on the same anonymous rumor), Apple has sold 200.000 Apple Vision Pro headsets:
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/29/apple-vision-pro-headse...

Does anybody know how many headsets the other VR vendors have sold?
Installed lineageos on Mi A1 few months ago as some apps stopped offering android 9 support, this is one of the few phones that do not report unlocked bootloader to safety net so it works with banking apps too. For my surprise, the lineageos is much snappier and battery life is longer, so it's win-win. Be warned though, Google's own Android backup system is completely useless, so make sure you export your important data to actual location where you can access it like hard drive, learned this the hard way when I had to manually contact support of various places to reset my 2FA. Now I backup everything with syncthing.
To a point, sure. Lead would be better. Some joke that this is the reason why Klingons have these thick foreheads.
From 304 ppm (1924) to 420 (2024) is 38% rise in concentration. [1]

> Are you saying we never had drought in times before co2 concentration went up

This is a strawman. Nobody claims that AGW is the only reason for climate change. Year to year, some of those things swamp the short term effect of AGW. But while those other things are deviating and returning to their normal, AGW keeps pushing the average global average temperature higher, cumulatively until it becomes a serious threat.

Your logic is like dismissing someone's worry about 30,000 people a year dying in car crashes by saying, "Oh, this car rash thing is like religion... people died before cars existed."

Finally, religion is a cultural thing backed up by old stories. Climate research has the data -- while deniers have done zero research and pretend to know better.

[1] https://www.co2levels.org/
One of the items in your list is not like the others, as it involves the bodily mutilation of children and the chemical interruption of their development.

I doubt we'll be looking back and laughing. More likely we'll be horrified that these pharmaceutical and surgical interventions inflicted upon children undergoing an identity crisis were promoted and celebrated for so long.
"The first rolling-ball mouse"
https://www.e-basteln.de/computing/rollkugel/rollkugel/

So 13 years from balls to optical.
> I use abd to delete/disable every unnecessary useless app and leave them with just 3 apps. Text, phone and contacts. No data or wifi either. A dumb smart phone. Much better than the ageist demeaning Doro big button phones.

I've used an MDM with a kiosk mode for a similar effect. I won't recommend the one I'm currently using because the kiosk launcher crashes every couple of days; still looking for one that works well, and I've tried most of the ones I could find that weren't "call us for pricing"

I don't own a phone that LineageOS supports or I'd try it.
Is Vendor Malware Present in Solid State Storage Devices? (2022)
NB: full title "Is Vendor Malware Present in Solid State Storage Devices Available Through E-commerce?", edited for length.
I see this all the time and while at the time I thought the same there's so many good alternatives these days, even better than back then. All the interesting and small websites I want to follow still have RSS feeds so I feel like we can move on.

The two I use for many years already are:

- https://miniflux.app (OS, Minimal, web interface and can be used with all clients that support Fever or Google Reader API)

- https://reederapp.com (iOS, Mac)
> If it doesn't already its probably because eating it is not energetically advantageous enough.

Counterexample: When trees developed the organic polymer lignin as a building block, it took 30 million years before something (a variety of fungi) evolved to decompose it. Some niches can exist long before they get filled.

Also, "evolutionary pressure to exist" is somewhat tricky idea, since one could say there's even more "pressure to exist" as a universe-spanning presence woven immortally into the fabric of spacetime and powered by vaccum-energy etc. While some organism may benefit by stumbling on it, there's no reason to expect they will given the long odds on whatever chain of transitions/developments are needed to get there. (See also: The Astrophage from Project Hail Mary, which has that One Weird Trick suns hate.)

We should be careful that we don't catalyze such transitions or adaptations when it isn't in our long-term interests.
Aircraft have been reliably landing themselves for decades now. Tom Scott did a video where he was coached through a simulated landing of an airliner with zero flying experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbTDzPUDxqY

The technology is even to the point where drones can reliably land on aircraft carriers. US Navy fighter pilots now have software assistance for landing on carriers (Magic Carpet/Precision Landing Mode). What was once one of the most dangerous feats in aviation is now a routine and reliably safe operation. https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/Navys-latest-flight-control...
Passkeys is like embedded Yubikeys, or, Yubikeys are like external passkeys.

The point of passkeys that the key is kept inside a separate secure computer running secure blobs, so user codes can't touch it. That sounds sketchy but contactless payments using similar embedded secure computer has been fine so this should be too.
If you are into this topic, I recommend "Love and Math" by Edward Frenkel, where he describes his struggles to start an academic career as a jewish mathematician in russia.
No. BankID in Sweden. Other countries have similar. You need it for everything.
This seems to imply that the LHC has done it's job? Would it be switched off in the foreseeable future? Does the CERN run other instruments or is its existence tied to the LHC?
I think you'll be fine for that purpose, it's a large reputable open source project. It's not impossible that someone has sneaked in a bug or exploit, but I don't think any overt attempts would make it in. Similar to Linux or other large open source projects.
> Yubikey and enter a PIN, touch a fingerprint sensor, etc

Laptops and mobiles have all the same sensors. Most big companies have organization wide password, fingerprint and auto screen turn off requirement. Obviously not all companies follows good security practices or doesn't give secure devices(with sensors and encryption), but if that is the case Yubikey isn't going to save them.
> Could you imagine the pain of building an entire software product using only assembly code?

Speaking of it, THIS would be a killer product.

A program gets compiled down to x86/x64 assembly, and you take that LL file and generate an FPGA from it.

Of course there's a lot of limitations in regards to OS APIs, but those could be represented with an SDK (e.g. a network socket API that is compatible with linux's headers and leads to a NIC being controlled with a firmware replacement).
> I don't understand why would you care who created it.

I mean Brendan Eich is pretty bad, but their kerfuffle with Tom Scott[0] is what scared me off for good. I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending software that manipulates the likeness of a third-party to promote a product.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
> from balls to optical
This is why I am going for cryopreservation if I ever have the luxury of choosing the way I die.
That's just 10% of China's population though-- not much.
> Craftmanship is for academics and people that don't work in the real world because it needs time, lots of it.

I think the biggest benefit of craftsmanship is actually flexibility. Well-crafted code has a property of malleability without becoming a tangled mess. Its parts tend to be more orthogonal and less coupled.

I don't think that it's a binary choice of craftsmanship or shipping code; this may be true if you're a younger engineer. Mid- and senior- engineers can build well-crafted systems with less of a tradeoff for speed afforded by having more experience building and knowing where to add that malleability and where it would be wasted.
There is a shocking percent of internet users -- I'd estimate 20% -- that cannot reliably tell you their email address (5% that literally can't, and another 15 that can't reliably).

My email address is firstname.midddlename@<wellknownemailprovder>.com

I get a dozen emails a week from companies and government agencies trying to reach people with the same first + middle name combination from around the world. People seem to think they automatically get an email address with their name provisioned or something and they just sign up for accounts and services using that combo.
I use 1password with Fastmail integration to create unique email addresses for each login. This new “sipping from thimbles” approach to authentication breaks that because iOS and/or 1pass don’t recognise it as a login until the password screen, so I’m swapping and searching and copying and pasting just to log in. I viscerally hate that sort of user hostile design of the auth/login.
they have a whole complex of particle accelerators; many of the old ones are feeders into LHC

https://home.web.cern.ch/science/accelerators/accelerator-co...
Oculus has sold 20m+ million headsets. But it’s a very different headset, gaming focused.

https://www.roadtovr.com/quest-sales-20-million-retention-st...
Thank you!

I am trying to write things down for the last few days, before it was Zim (It's still my core knowledge base), I feel I enjoy writing more than typing to note things.
It's absolutely a problem with cost, though a little bit with UX. If YubiKeys cost $5, it would be reasonable to have 3 of them, and you keep on your keychain, one at home, and one somewhere else. The UX problem is that you would want a way to enroll a YubiKey that you don't physically possess, but that is a solvable problem.

The bigger problem is that a large number of sites don't implement MFA properly, and don't allow you to enroll multiple MFA devices. This really could only be fixed with regulation that clearly defined MFA, so there would be consequences for improperly implementing it.
> they required 200 people to get there.

We really need to be casting more doubt on these assessments.
BigQuery has more footguns than GKE in my experience, but that’s perhaps because I have a lot more experience with GKE and know how to avoid those footguns. To me at least it’s understandable enough to say More Nodes is More Money but completely non-straightforward to say that this query I wrote is going to scan the data in a new and expensive way. Am I doing it wrong?
I didn't see you "debunking" the misinformed nonsense post I was replying to, which I took to be a joke and replied to in a similar vein.

The fact I'm still speaking about my innocuous post and the OP has moved on speaks to the HN culture.

I mean yes it was a flippant remark/joke, yes I thought it was funny (though the humour has definitely been lost now), no I wasn't being serious, and despite appearances no, the post isn't some dangerous fake news statement aimed at subverting people's blind faith in the Apple cult.

Surely internet points are expendable and a form of feedback too? Thats how I know you shouldn't critise Apple on HN, because my internet points disappear. What are they if not expendable, the don't mean anything.
The plan is to see how viable Servo is as an alternative to WebView. If it works well I expect Tauri to provide an option to use Servo when building the app.
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My primary focus is on production ML and applied research, with a special interest in computer vision and video analytics.

Currently, I am part of the video analytics team at Jio Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence. Previously, I have worked as a Machine Learning Research Assistant at skit.ai, where I developed text-to-speech systems, and before that as a Machine Learning Intern at Hike Messenger, where I worked on generation of 3D avatars of human head in real-time. Additionally, I have interned at three other startups, where I trained deep learning models for quick PoCs and put some into production.

I was a Google Summer of Code student, where I worked on creating an open-source version of AWS’ Rekognition system and continued to mentor the project for the next two years. I also served as an Open Source Fellow with Major League Hacking, where I contributed to Facebook’s Pysa library. I have had the honor of winning several hackathons, including the Smart India Hackathon, where I led a team in building solutions for the Government of Goa.

Looking forward to working on cool and challenging problems in ML (preferably on the generative side but open to others). I would love to work on things end-to-end, including model training, deployment, and ML infra/mlops.
If you call them for a break in you 100% are a suspect. They suspect you're up to something. They might even find evidence of another crime while they are investigating the break in.
CERN has been around since 1954. Among other incredible nuclear science earning several Nobel prizes it also employed Tim Berners Lee when he created what would become the www.

The LHC is but one of CERN’s world changing contributions.
A movie experience is available not the same movie experience.

No cheaper headset has these movies available in 4K HDR 3D with optional HFR. That has simply not existed for the home market till now.

No cheaper headset has the same native streaming apps capable of delivering 4k streams.

No cheaper headset has the color accuracy and resolution.

You might as well make the same argument about someone upgrading from a 720p TV to a 4k one.

Remember, implementation is often more important than just a feature on paper. The iPhone killed off cheaper devices that did everything it did because it did the core things better. The same goes for the iPod and the iPad.

Anyone who compares features without an eye for implementation is missing the forest for the trees.
This was a disappointing read. There's no data in there. No research. Just a couple of opinions. I can relate, but what I'd really like to see is some usage data for social apps with more insight.
My threat model doesn't include Apple or Google, the maker of the operating system. If you assume they could push an update to the built-in password manager, you need to assume they could push a keylogger that exfiltrates both your regular password and the password for your TOTP app.
Puzzling prehistoric artifacts served a practical purpose: ropemaking
Lexing on My Haters: How to Design a Programming Language I
Yet another aspect of how this model is super hostile to actual customers or users.
> Attacking author's persona and not the technology itself really reeks of bias

Some people can separate creation from creator, and some people feel it's the fruit of a poisonous tree. I'm personally not sure I'm convinced which is the better view. Since it's their personal blog … I think they're entitled to express that view, there? They still listed that browser, and it's inherently Googleable…

Regardless, "bias" doesn't seem to me to be the right word here. (To describe the blogger, given that their remarks appear based on observed evidence, not prejudice.)
> A kiloton of TNT is 4GJ, so it’s also like a 500 kiloton bomb going off every second.

Funnily, my first reaction to this comparison is that it makes it seem more plausible to me that this is possible. After all, a Star Destroyer can take gigaton level hits!

But the problem with that is Star Destroyers are fictional.

I've been spending too much time on spacebattles.com.
On Intel/AMD you need AVX-512 support to get the instructions with broadcast (and many other goodies that are missing from SSE/AVX/AVX2).

Intel had such instructions many years before ARM (i.e. since Larrabee), but they have chosen to provide them only in their high-end CPUs, annoying the programmers that would like high performance but who do not like the burden of developing for a fragmented instruction set.
I feel it depends on whether they can get it to work well enough not to be creepy and weird. I think the reasoning is pretty obvious, most people will not wear huge goggles that cover half their face outside a private setting, it's just too socially offputting. So if you want to do AR out in the wild, you have to have some way of showing the face underneath, IMO.

IOW, if Apple can't get the front display to work, their product will be limited to office and solo entertainment use.
Why are the letters ’p’, ’q’ and ’t’ missing from the article? Makes it a bit annoying to read.