skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I don't even have to turn my head, <super + ]> and the screen for the web browser appears in front of my eyes.
To be fair, on my keyboard super + ] is right thumb + right index finger.
I have shortcuts for every program that I use, and every program that I use has its virtual desktop binded to some key combination on what is a very weird keyboard.
And I maintain that a small screen is perfect for redacting code (and I had a similar setup of yours in the past).
Passkeys seem to make it harder for you to backup your own private keys to other devices or to paper. Is there an open source Passkey manager yet that allows importing and exporting?
We need physical copies. We need to bring it back. A Storage medium, that is cheap, small, durable. I was looking at SD Card or Switch's Storage card the other day and thinking if Movies or Titles could be stored just like it while being significantly cheaper to manufacture.
Because Microsoft doesn't get a 30% cut of products sold for it's platforms. Also Windows on ARM hasn't caught on and x86 has only recently been closing the performance per watt gap with ARM.

Meta's headset is Android based so it has 18+ years of low power, ARM performance and power tweaking. And Apple is using their in-house M series chips.

Microsoft's bread and butter is B2B; Azure, Office, etc. The Xbox and consumer divisions are just too small to take on high cost, novel devices. They've historically not been great at branding or marketing direct to consumer either. (Zune, those Microsoft store commercials, etc.).
Let's take (over) 65,000 starts distributed since 2000 on the Carl's friends site[1] - and call it 65k for rounding.

That's 65k starters, with your negative unhelpful comment assuming $0.05 / 5¢ "profit" per starter.

That's 325,000¢ - or $3250 USD "made" in nearly a quarter of a century.

That "profit" discounts 24 years of:

- PO Box rental
- web hosting
- domain fees
- labels and bags for starters to go out in
- envelopes, if the one provided isn't suitable or sufficient
- electricity for refrigeration and freezing of starters
- ingredients for feeding and maintaining the starters

$3250 over 24 years gives a mean of $135 per year -- obviously this will fluctuate from year to year, and costs have risen since the early 00's -- likewise there have probably been more requests as the internet has grown more popular, and the word of Carl's friend spread further.

If you think ~$135 (or even ~$100 on a slow year) is sufficient for everything above -- never mind the time and work donated by the growers and keeper of the mail box -- then you're very much mistaken.

Furthermore, if you think they're being "paid" for their work out of that, your misanthropic and "negative nancy" response, is sorely mistaken.

Of course, all of this presumes that every item is international shipping, and paid for in the "substituted" two $1 bills, or IRC.

1. For US domestic shipping, they just ask for a 63¢ self-addressed and stamped envelope [2]

2. For your profit-implying "they want you to pay them" comment, see:

"Requests sent outside the US require $1.55 US postage *or* substitute two U.S. one-dollar bills or an IRC (International Reply Coupon)" [2]

Note the "or" part -- it's a choice, not a mandate.

Firstly, you can send them what it costs, $1.55, as you like - via PayPal, cash in an envelope, whatever. Their "two $1 bills" option is handy for places like Canada which may have US note currency -- and the IRC is useful in places that don't have US currency in regular circulation.

Secondly, many places don't actually sell international reply coupons any more. While the UPU mandates their acceptance and swapping for postage, they don't mandate the sale of IRCs [3]. For example, Royal Mail (in the UK) hasn't sold them since December 2011 -- therefore requiring the use of PayPal, finding $2 in bills somehow, or sending the $1.95 in change.

If you think Carl's friends have somehow become massively rich over the past quarter-century by checks notes mailing out carefully-maintained 1847 sourdough starter, likely at a loss... please let us know how you've worked that one out.

[1] http://carlsfriends.net
[2] http://carlsfriends.net/source.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon
BigQuery - Athena

Pub/Sub - Kinesis

Cloud CDN - CloudFront

Cloud Domains - Route 53

...
After working with infrastructure for 20 years, I fully endorse this post.
> Perhaps you should consider holding
these claims to the same standards of
evidence you demand for the others in your
list.

Sure. Glad to do that. Have done it many
times at various Web sites. For this post
here at Hacker News, tried to be short.
What you are asking for could use a book,
maybe books.

Okay:

(1) There is a list of MSM hoaxes at

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/01/30/nolte-atlanti...

The hoaxes are evidence of my claim of bad
reporting.

Each claimed hoax has a link to a
reference. If the references are not good
reporting, then we have more evidence of
my claim of bad reporting.

(2) At

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/09/america-last-1...

just saw:

"12 Senate Republicans Vote to Send
Ukraine Another $60B After Vowing to Put
U.S. Border First"

Soooo, need details on the $60B: There
are claims, where we need details, that,
in direct contradiction to the headline,
the $60B is not actual money we will "send"
to Ukraine
and, instead, is shipments of equipment,
supplies, etc. from US sources that amount
to the $60B to the US sources. Soooo, if
these claims are true, no US dollars
actually leave the US, and US balance of
payments and exchange rate of the dollar
only a little or not at all affected.

And, for a Senator in a state with a
company that makes bullets that will get
some of the $60B can help explain why that
Senator voted for the $60B -- inquiring
minds of curious citizens might want to
know.

(3) Also at

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/02/08/late-january-su...

just saw:

"Late January Surge in Jobless Claims
Crashes To A Halt"

So, "surge" and "crashes" are heavily
emotional and not supported rationally.
Easily enough, we want the data over time
that justifies these emotional
descriptions. The story does have more
data, but just a graph of "claims" over
time would be a LOT better -- the story
doesn't have enough data to permit drawing
a good graph.

(4) At

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/08/poll-black-and...

see

"Poll: Black and Hispanic Voters Fleeing
Democratic Party in Growing Numbers"

Here "fleeing" and "growing" are emotional
but not really rational. E.g., "growing"
might mean just 1 case in the whole year
and, thus, meaningless. Soooo, again we
need a graph over time.

(5) Then for one more, at

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/arab-center-poll-us/2024/0...

is

"Arab Center Poll: Near Consensus of
Arabs Views US Negatively"

So what? Is that new? Again, we need a
graph over time. Without data over time,
this report is nearly meaningless.
Two factors are needed: something you have (your device) + something you are (your biometric). If you're concerned about losing your phone (I am), then you can backup your passkeys to the cloud and/or sync them with other devices (with end-to-end encryption of course, so that the backup/sync service has zero knowledge of your passkeys).
You won't find too many arguments from me here. Stalin was the absolute embodiment of Machiavellianism, which I loathe with a passion like none other. The inevitability of people like him in politics are the reason I think overly centralized political systems are doomed to failure, sooner or later. Had he not been the main reason Nazism was defeated, I think his legacy, as colored as it already is, would have been very different. But, on the other hand, the importance of and the sacrifices suffered in the defeat of Nazism cannot be overstated.

Such is history that sometimes great people do awful things, and sometimes awful people do great things.
I agree with everything you said. It's played for laughs, but it's a misogynistic joke about men having all the power and women having all the responsibility for child rearing. We can do better.
Cloud Egress Costs
President-elect 'to give up his BlackBerry' (2008)
How could it be a top loader, if the drum isn't open at te top?
The endgame here is big tech wants to own identity. Tying our online existence to biometrics managed by their devices is the path towards that future.
Setting up a multi-az db with automatic failover, incremental backups and PiTR, automated runbooks and monitoring all that doesn't take half a day, not even with RDS.
If I think about VR, I didn't thought 'i want to stare at a display ' I thought 'i can move around in a world without limits which includes motion, touch, perhaps sex, etc.

What we now have is just gimmicky.

I have a nice reality, there is no relevant upscale at all to use a virtual sub quality experience every day.

And for 3.5k you get plenty of wall color and tools and nice things to make your environment nicer

And yes I do have a projector at home for 10 years. It's easy and was cheap (700$ 10 years ago 720p)
A startup sized company using this many tools? They're for sure doing something weird (and that's not a compliment :) )

Totally on your side with this one - but alas, people associate value with complexity.
It should get noisy and rotate less freely then ultimately seize up. From there it depends on the drive type, in direct drives the motor burns, in belt drives the belt gets worn.
Agreed in principle but I'd rather use something I know than let some corporation manage my biometric data.
For what it's worth, on the off-chance that anyone at MS who worked on this views the thread, I thought it was cool. I liked what you did. I'm sure that seeing people review the Vision Pro is frustrating, seeing how many things you already did being declared revolutionary. I'm sure it's like that for Oculus developers, too.

In retrospect, people like John Gruber and Tim Urban will mock the industry prior to the Vision Pro for not Getting It Right, or for fundamentally-flawed interaction models, ignoring where things were right. Eye-tracked selection was already a thing in the Sony headset. Tracking windows fixed throughout your environment has been a thing in the Oculus inside-out devices since release, good enough to keep track even on different floors. Varjo does reprojected AR better than Apple, for a cheaper price point (though still a steep one).

Microsoft, for their part, captured a sort of mundane magic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97mqPUn-4x0
Same here, in my current job the fountain pens get very little use, maybe just a few times a month.

I discovered that my Platinum Carbon Desk pen is hands down the most resistant towards clogging and drying, even with quite dry inks. I heard the Sailor Desk pen is very similar. The nib is very fine though. So I currently keep that one with a black ink, and a glass dip pen for occasionally using some of the other fancy inks.
Some values should change.

If a trans person (or other minority) cannot go around your town unharassed, I don't understand why you'd want to keep that value instead of valuing humans as humans and treating them as such.

Why the fuck would I, being bisexual, move to such a place - where I can't be open about basic things? Why would I move somewhere that friends didn't have that option?
Sure, all the climate scientist are wrong and some random guy in the internet knows more.
Saudi Royals are incompetent fools. I don't think they considered any of the issues Hanson does. The Line is just flashy and cool concept to stroke the ego of MBS.

Saudi Arabian water supply infrastructure insufficient, and suffers from aging and inefficient infrastructure, but Royals spend money on flashy structures.

In 2005 Saudi Arabia launched six megaprojects. One of them was King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC). It has now 7000 people and it failed. None of the other megaprojects finished either.
Our proposal isn't for 240/4 to be reclassified as RFC1918 space, it's for it to be reclassified as unicast space.
That’s exactly and literally what top loaders are in Europe. The drum has a hatch and the machine tries to position it next to the outer hatch for unloading.
What form of authentication does one use to log in to the service that stores one's passkeys?
Use 1/2 a cup of vinegar in the rinse, as an acid, it neutralizes the soap. It also help remove smells.

Front loaders get mold too, fun fact, mold eats soap. So vinegar helps here too.

Downside? Clothes wear and fade faster.
Exactly. It's a very cynical play by oil and gas companies collaborating with car manufacturers. The play here is to get paid to "study" the obvious (it won't ever be profitable to produce these things) while delaying the inevitable (demise of the oil and gas industry and its dependent ICE car manufacturing business). The oil companies are also doing this because the goto method of producing hydrogen involves large amounts of gas. Much larger than would be used if you burned the gas directly in a combustion engine. So, they are getting subsidized to produce more gas while shedding crocodile tears over global warming and green washing their business.

Toyota has very reluctantly produced more EVs in the last year than the total amount of hydrogen cars it has ever produced. That number is in the lower tens of thousands spread over a decade. Their EV production numbers aren't very good either but it absolutely dwarfs their hydrogen car production numbers. And soon on a quarterly and eventually even monthly basis.

Toyota of course is by far the most enthusiastic hydrogen car proponent. They can't shut up talking about it and are flogging that dead horse at every opportunity they have to explain why they are so far behind producing EVs. But for all their talk about hydrogen, they are not lifting a finger to actually scale hydrogen car production. Because it doesn't make any economical sense whatsoever. Never has. They know this very well. Because they've been "studying" this topic for decades. They know everything there is to know about the viability of hydrogen cars. That's the whole reason the number of vehicles is so pathetically low. The number is the absolute bare minimum needed to grab the subsidies. Per vehicle, the subsidies are orders of magnitude the sales price of the car. Which is typically far below cost price. Producing hydrogen car has never been profitable. The game here is to minimize the money lost producing these things while maximizing the subsidies grabbed.
As it starts growing? Is there any indication that mixed reality in Windows 11 has ever grown?
Yeah, but once security clearances are involved, you take on reporting obligations for compromising situations. Being coy isn't really an option.

Given his verbiage, this might not actually be reportable (strange man asking about nonspecific "work," and not a foreigner). But he told this story to the client and they freaked out.
I still wish all of these would default to a synchronous mode of operation, maybe with something like an „unawait“ keyword for those cases where you really benefit from async behavior?
Google I/O 2012 [video]
> What options do you use?

Last two sets of glasses I got were progressives from zennioptical.com. You have to be happy to fit the glasses yourself (worked okay for me), but I've been happy with the quality of the hardware and the quality of vision and fit. The last pair I bought was in 2020 and I'm still wearing them all the time. All up cost was US$108 including frames with progressive lenses, high refractive index plastic, oleophobic coating and delivery. I'm about -6 with an astigmatism in both eyes.
I agree we should look at the whole picture but that would mean to look at how much CO2 is rejected to produce an EV compare to a Petrol car and how much to recycle it.
You do have to instantiate that struct, and you can do it with.... a beautiful NewCreateUser(dep1, dep2, dep3, ..., dep20) *CreateUser {...}. This is essentially what he recommends with his "func newMiddleware() func(h http.Handler) http.Handler".
> Two factors are needed

If two factors are needed. They are not always. Many (indeed most)
security situations do not require two factors given the risk
tradeoffs. Useful for your bank. Not so much for pizza.
need a pwa. ffs. what's with native only?
Johns Hopkins researchers make progress in blood test for psychiatric disorders
In the last 3 years coal went from 65% to 58%, expect this trend to continue and even accelerate. See the link below.
https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/renewable-energy/victorian-ren...
There is a section of the drum that opens and closes. You rotate the drum to align the opening of the outer shell on the top, also protected by a door.
Great idea!

Does anyone know if there are any similar projects for keeping track of housing costs, renovations documents with a todo board?
> "Eventually, there may be dozens of ways to make gestures with our fingers, each one a different command, like today’s keyboard shortcuts."

I do not believe that this is a desirable evolution. The speed and accuracy of moving the fingers are significantly less than for moving the hand.

A much better user interface can be achieved by holding a stylus in the hand and using the stylus for pointing or gestures.

I have also considered this paragraph as extremely sad:

> "In the presentation, when Jobs did the world’s first “swipe to unlock,” the audience made an audible gasp. A minute later, he brought up a list of artists in the phone’s “iPod” app and asked, “Well, how do I scroll through my list of artists? I just take my finger and scroll.” Another audible gasp. It’s weird that something so normal today was jaw-dropping 17 years ago. "

The astonished reactions of the audience just demonstrates the sad fact that the majority of the computer users have always been brainwashed by the inferior Apple and Microsoft graphic user interfaces and they have never experienced a really well designed GUI.

At that time I have been only mildly impressed by the fact that such a user interface has been finally implemented in a smartphone, because a GUI with finger gestures on a touchpad was just a much slower and much less accurate variant of the GUIs based on mouse gestures, like I had been using for many years in CAD/EDA programs for drawing, like those from Mentor Graphics.

Unfortunately, such superior user interfaces have always been restricted to niche applications, while the mainstream operating systems have evolved to use worse pointing devices, like mice with scroll wheels or touch pads and touch screens (touch screens are justified only at smartphone sizes, when carrying any other pointing device may be inconvenient).
I’d add support to that as well. A lot of places will try and sell the job with the promise of a possible move into dev. But once you are in those roles moving is incredibly hard. And as stated - it is poison on your CV.
What is the cost?
With 1/10th of the sum one capable engineer can setup a way better infra on premise.
The days of free money is over, guys.
Wake up!
Likewise, I spend years in it for a day job and I never used a mouse.
This article cheerleads the policework, but I'm not convinced it's sound to introduce highly novel forensic techniques in court trials. So you validated your technique with a control sample from a pig; that's scientific rigor, that's sufficient for a scientific journal paper. I don't buy that's sufficient to put a person in prison for life.

One stray cross-contamination of lab equipment would invalidate everything. Repeat the work multiple times; but it's a systemic issue, and you repeat the same error.

- "The prosecution did not seek the death penalty in part because of the uncertainties of using a new scientific protocol, and the possibility of a long and expensive case as a result."

edit / tangent: (Then why'd he accept a plea deal for life? Represented by a public defender [0]. That's a striking resource asymmetry: million-dollar national lab work for the prosecution, 30 minutes of paper-skimming for the defense).

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-13-mn-32560...
>Well, I don't even have to turn my head

NEITHER DO I. I don't know how much clearer I can make that, yet you still refuse to understand.

><super + ]> and the screen for the web browser appears in front of my eyes. To be fair, on my keyboard super + ] is right thumb + right index finger. I have shortcuts for every program that I use, and every program that I use has its virtual desktop binded to some key combination on what is a very weird keyboard.

None of this is relevant to me in the least. I don't have to do any of it, because all the info I need is already in view of my eyeballs >>without moving my head at all<<, as if that's even some kind of manufactured inconvenience.

>And I maintain that a small screen is perfect for redacting code (and I had a similar setup of yours in the past).

Sure, if all you do is interact with one single text editor, and not any of the many other screens that modern development requires.

Having this conversation with you is pointless, enjoy your mediocre computing experience.
Fundamentally those are excuses based on Microsoft’s current market position.

When they invested in Windows 1.0, their existing users were not asking for it and didn’t have a use for it. MS-DOS wasn’t a good foundation for a GUI, the IBM PC hardware was misaligned (e.g. terrible graphics), and obviously Apple was miles ahead.

The product didn’t fit any of Microsoft’s existing strengths and felt like a toy rather than a credible business tool. By the same logic that’s applied to AR/VR today, Microsoft absolutely should have exited the GUI market in 1988. (They were even a leading Mac software vendor! Why bother making their own worse GUI?)
Something of a tangent but I couldn't find anywhere a way to wirelessly extend usb ports. Allowing you to plug a mouse/keyboard/Yubikey to a computer in another room with minimum latency and without the need of any software or particular drivers.

If one wanted to do something like that one would probably start by reading that article I guess.

Thanks for this very thorough work.
Many years ago I bought 30pcs of Herb 330 for $15 and still have 25 of them. I use razor blade to broaden the nib. https://files.catbox.moe/azn979.jpg
> Automating a database backup and testing it works takes half a day unless you’re doing something weird

True story bro

I'm sure that's possible if you're storing the backup on the same server you're restoring on and everything is on top of the line nvme storage. Otherwise your backup just started to run and will need another few days to finish. And that's only if you're running single master.

You're massively underestimating the challenge to get that kind of automation done in a stable manner - and the maintenance required to keep it working over the years.
Depending on your local climate, I'm not sure the ceiling fan advice works any more. Not on 39-40 C summer days.
There are 450m people in this bloc. How can you confidently say something is equally „fair” to everyone? It’s obviously somewhat „fair” by your definition but that’s just your definition.

So then, who’s „fair” and who isn’t. Are you implying that I’m not „fair”? Can you please clarify how am I „not fair”? Tell me where it hurts you.

Am I not „fair” because I spent a couple of decades building something and it worked, or are you not „fair” because you clearly can’t compete so you you use legislation to force your „fair”.
Sometimes you don’t want libraries, instead you want to implement similar stuff in your own code. And Rayon uses unsafe to workround the compiler limitation of the safe rust I was talking about.

Also, it seems Rayon is substantially slower than C++ OpenMP https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/brre8o/a_scaling_comp...
Let’s consider piracy as digital trespassing then
Forty days lost in the rainforest: Colombia's miracle rescue
I heard that "the distinctive San Francisco sourdough flavor" was due to the water. The Hetchhetchy water in SF has a very distinctive taste. One of the only cities I go to regularly where the tap water tastes amazing