skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man... on top of the obvious moral issue with enabling this hack, I'm astounded that someone would do this for $1k per person. Putting my freedom on the line would be so much more expensive than that.

On a more technical note, is there any safeguard against SIM swaps? Something like a fingerprint scan that's tied to your SIM. I'm not familiar with phone hardware at all but I'd love to hear if someone's working on this type of thing
Not new, Series 9 has been out since September 2023
The AirPods are really the first mass-market augmented reality device. It's so well done that no one even thinks about them that way. That's how it'll need to be with visual augmentation, but there's no reason I've seen that we won't get there eventually. I'm bullish on Apple being the first major player here in part because they already are, by a huge, huge margin, the biggest player in augmented reality.

Apple is IMO the only company that seems capable of simultaneously tackling the form factor, outside-viewer perception factor (AirPods are fully socialized, as you mention), inside-viewer perception factor (AirPods on transparency really do feel 99.9% fully "transparent")
You’re describing a situation where you’re physically co located and someone is giving you the only headset?

I don’t get it. Why not just tell them? What do you do if someone hands you a controller for a tv game equivalent?
Apple does not put a lock on anything we own. They sell something locked and people buy it.

It’s absolutely not the same; they were clear from day 1.
What do you want to achieve?

Some tools:

* Google Search Console [1] honestly
* ahref's free version is also quite powerful
* KeywordsEverywhere [2] is also pretty great

[1] https://search.google.com/search-console/about
[2] https://keywordseverywhere.com/
I've never really enjoyed down cushions on a functional everyday couch. Feathers inevitably make they're way out of the pillow, through the cushion's exterior fabric and into your back/arm/leg/etc... or just around the room. They lose loft and aren't as easy to replace as say cutting a piece or two of foam and inserting those. My current couch has a down cushion on the top of the seated part and backrest and when they go I'll replace them with memory foam.
It's been a minute since I last saw a Hennessay Youngman video. Worth it for anyone who has taken an Art theory and criticism class or has simply shaken their heads at the things that get written on the placards next to works in most galleries.
What tools does your son use?
This is a good example of why SMS 2-factor is far less secure than TOTP or other methods. You do what everyone tells you, add 2-factor to your account, and then some rando at the local T-Mobile store enables SIM swapping for peanuts, and your whole digital life goes up in smoke.
This is such a huge blast from the past. Haven’t heard of Steve Pavlina in decades and this was the golden age of Weblogs.
I'm not sure how we could possibly quantify and compare better, happier lives before and after TVs or smartphones, but it would be impossible to narrow down the metrics to peg the change over such a long period of time on just those technologies. The scale is just too big and the timeline to long to possibly know why happiness may have increased, if it did at all.

> quite clearly huge numbers of people DO want TVs and smartphones

This really ventures into the space of addictive behaviors. Do meth addicts really want meth, or are they using for some other reason? Can we assume that they DO want the meth and that's the primary driver simply because they keep using it?
I feel like the thing to do is to give whatever you are looking at in the showroom a pretty good shake, and to sit down on it hard. If it's creaky or loose at all there, it'll fall apart in no time at home
Did Mark Zuckerberg ever actually use it? I felt like it got shitty after John Carmack left FB. I don't think he was direct in the UI side much (more like increasing framerate in software updates) but I got the sense that as VR CTO or whatever he was able to say "Hey — what, come on, fuck that shit get rid of it" but now there is nobody to do that job.
It depends how well you treat it. Someone fidgety putting their feet on a €5 Lack table is enough to ruin it, as the connection between the legs and the tabletop is just double-ended screws.
Transparency logging is a fantastic complement to public-key cryptography.

A prioritised list of the most important cryptographic constructions may very well look like this: symmetric ciphers, hash functions, MACs, public-key cryptography, transparency logging.

If you're interested in security and/or cryptography and you don't know what transparency logging is, you're missing out.
Gnome is the outlier with beautiful design and they get soo much shit from Linux neckbeards for it haha
> "he who hesitates is lost."

This is apt only when lives are on the line.
That was my impression from having lived through it as well. Imgur built it's own little community and figured they could make a go of it on their own instead of being purely a reddit image host. They still do host a fair amount of content but gone are the days when you could got to imgur.com/r/aww and see all the cute animal pics because imgur was the default host of all of reddit so they had the integration to show subreddit specific albums.
Ask HN: Brain Fog?
Does anyone else here feel like there is a massive amount of brain fog in their day to day lives?
There are many headsets much more expensive than that. They aren't as mainstream but for the hobbyist who is willing to pay more for better, they are definitely out there.
One of the things that I will never understand of the Vision Pro is why on earth they went to design and build the front of the headset to have that colorful alive gradient or a truly bad rendering of the user's face. That screams bad overengineering with undesired added weight and extra power consumption. Also it seems that the front glass from some batches crack exactly the same way. Again, why go with that at all? Why not use some better material? Carbon fiber seems like a good choice when it comes to weight though I do not know if it has downsides besides cost.
Eh? Perhaps this is cultural? I wasn’t aware Christmas cake was a thing but if I had to guess it would just be normal cake with green, red, white colors/icing and Christmas themed decorations. Sure enough, that’s most of what shows up on Google image search. It’s also exactly what SD-XL outputs in my (limited) testing. It doesn’t surprise _me_ too much that a text to image model struggles with that concept because it feels rare and under specified. Having said that, I live in the US south and maybe I’m just ignorant to all that. We mostly eat various pies here.
This reflects my experience so much it's surprising to read
I meant words that are sung not spoken.
Broadcom Now Sampling 51.2T Co-Packaged Optics Switch
For listed buildings, you've got to get permission from the council. For most buildings they'll let you put in double-glazed windows if you can get them in a style that matches the existing windows.

One of the iconic features of many Art Deco buildings is curved windows [1], and the flat windows having very skinny frames. That means nonstandard "heritage" windows, which can be several times the price of normal, mass-produced windows.

Blocks of flats have the additional problem that it's unlikely every owner will have the cash to replace their windows at the same time. So it's tough to save money by getting them all done at once.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/uWUr5YyvJvRDPkH27
If you are going to multi-node Postgres, you need to start planning for Cassandra/Dynamo.

That is a BIG lift. Joins don't really practically scale at the Cassandra/Dynamo scale, because basically every row in the result set is subject to CAP uncertainty. "Big Data SQL" like Hive/Impala/Snowflake/Presto etc are more like approximations at true scale.

Relational DBMS is sort of storage-focused in the design and evolution: you figure out the tables you need to store the data in a sensible way. They you add views and indexes to optimize for view/retrieval.

Dyanmo/Cassandra is different, you start from the views/retrieval. That's why it is bad to start with these models for an application because you have not fully explored all your specific data structuring and access patterns/loads yet.

By the time Postgres hits the single node limits, you should know what your highest volume reads/writes are and how to structure a cassandra/dynamo table to specifically handle those read/writes.
I'd be screwed without calculators, specifically my TI-84 Plus.
I got a Room and Board 65" Jasper in Cognac Leather right before the pandemic. I thought I was overpaying and it ended up sitting in shipping for 4 months because of lockdowns. I was predisposed to hate the thing but it's become one of my most reliable large purchases. Very solidly built. The leather has held up perfectly in front of bright windows.
My two cents (as an owner of a Vision Pro): 1) This is a beta product and I wouldnt recommend it to anyone that is not a developer or in a position to create apps for it, 2) this is going to have as big of an impact on humanity as the computer or the internet did and every engineer or aspiring entrepreneur should pay it attention.

This device is magical. Yes it's too heavy, yes there are not enough apps, yes sharing it with other people is a hassle. Every one of those issues will be solved in the next 2 generations.

When the screen is 50% better and it weighs 50% less, 20% of knowledge workers will be tuned in daily. Technology isnt a zero sum game, but I genuinely believe the impact will be bigger than AI. AI changes the way you work, Apple Vision will change the way you live, which will change the things you consume, which will impact the work that needs to be done to serve you. Empires will rise and fall. Travel to beaches will go up, travel to tier 3 towns and cities with minor attractions could get obliterated. Most TVs will disappear. My grand children will be able to experience memories with me long after I'm dead. After this, looking at my smartphone seems so analog. Anyway, I could go on for hours

Lastly, on the topic of pricing, there is a great book titled Positioning by Al Reiss that highlights the rational behind Apple's strategy on pricing. They are a second mover in this space, they needed to come out of the gate as the absolute gold standard of this technology and position it as the best money can buy. They delivered on both the tech and pricing. Long after the price comes down, they'll still own that position of being the best money can buy. When you own the position, it takes a lot to lose it. It will be almost impossible for Meta to take that from them now. Big mistake on Meta's part.
Refactoring the Way you Talk About your geospatial skills: It is Costing you
Didn't Microsoft's hololens first launch around 10 years ago? It was AR rather than VR, but it was absolutely pitched as an early product meant for very specific use cases to act as a proof of concept before consumer versions.
I don't have a strong opinion on the matter, but it does not seem accurate to categorize this as a fringe theory. According to a Insider poll conducted in 2019, over 40% of respondents thought that he was killed and less than 20% were convinced that he committed suicide. I also think it is inaccurate to categorize the issue as having sharp clarity in either direction as you are doing.
The Pulse #85: is the "AI developer"a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?
Coca Cola paid death squads to murder workers who were organizing
No, the lunchtime supervision cost €2-€3 a day in schools where school attendance during lunch hour is not compulsory. Parents can make other choices. They can have kids lunch at home or choose a school where attendance during lunch is compulsory (these don't charge the parents, but lunch time is shorter, and the school ends earlier).
20 years after the singularity
There aren't that all that many US store clerks I'd trust to do calculations on paper, either. I'm guessing things are different in Japan.

In my (thankfully) long-ago days as a young person working retail, I had a coworker who could not figure out 10% of a given quantity even with a calculator.
> apparently the same people

The only thing these two groups of people have in common is that you don't like them. I fail to see any correlation here whatsoever.
Wishing everyone a happy IDEs of march
Pretty sure meth addicts really want meth, based on the chemical reactions involved between the brain and meth.
I'm not turning into a marathoner sitting in my chair either. So there could still be a tiny bit of truth hiding in the article (if you want to become a good runner, start running).
Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?
Next: A cubesat(and a laptop) for every child.
>Only for demand to go up disproportionately with increases in income

Okay, if we want to limit ourselves to economics jargon rather than vernacular.

>Practically this means luxury goods are purchased to convey status

No, practically it means poor people aren't buying them much. Only some luxury good purchasing is related to status signaling.

>Premium is the word that means paying extra for an increase in quality

I'm not aware of a context where that would be the standard definition, though in some contexts it may be the excess portion of the price.
Why would it be using Tesseract if it also uses an external service? And who's paying for the service?
I played $60k and ended with +$64k net. Going to open a Robinhood account next.
What exactly is Kreuzberg 36? I always assumed that was a street number after hearing an old Smut Peddlers song.

https://genius.com/Smut-peddlers-kreuzberg-36-lyrics
FTC and DOJ want to free McDonald's ice cream machines from DMCA repair rules
i think the key difference is “out in public”
He was not going into “whistleblower” testimony.

He was suing Boeing for defamation And his claims were that Boeing retaliated against him for being a whistleblower. It might seem like the same thing, but it’s not.

And the instances promoting criminal investigation are related to the 737 probes, not the 787 that he was a whistleblower about. There no evidence his civil case was the impetus for those criminal probes.
I occasionally reach a similar state near sleep where I will be half-dreaming that I'm reading from a page of a book where the words materialize/"come into focus" right before my eyes into what is usually vaguely grammatically correct nonsense.
Just asked the same question, haha - it looks like some carriers allow you to lock your SIM from being ported to another number until you authorize it (either in person or through your accounts online). That being said, I guess if someone working at, say, Verizon was handling your switch, they might be able to switch it to a bad actor's phone before switching it to your legitimate one? Not entirely sure though -would love to hear a more informed answer.
With opsec and infosec, you are only as strong as the weakest link.
I think most people who commented here did so to dunk on the puzzle maker because they felt smarter than them and wanted to show it.
This whole thread is about overpriced crap that sells because people don't know better. And if one's partner prefer flashy crap to quality stuff by calling quality stuff "antiquated" because it doesn't conform to styles peddled in social media and are devoid of fundamental quality well... that's not a conflict of taste, that is a story about choosing flashy crap for the sake of flashiness. Which doesn't seem defensible to me.
I don't think they had boomboxes during WWII
The world is feeling so free.
I think the productivity tips are good ones. But something must be different about his university than mine. Finishing two difficult degrees (math and CS) in 3 semesters is simply not possible in most if not all US Universities. Perhaps this is somewhere else? He does call them units instead of hours. He even says that the last semester he also worked 40 hours a week and that he ran a club and socialized with friends.

First of all, most universities don't even offer all the courses you need to graduate every semester and when they do, they are often overlapping. You certainly couldn't fit them all in with a full time job as well. Did none of these classes have homework or turn in assignments? He also says he slept 7-8 hrs a day and at least one semester had classes from 9am-10pm. Sorry, but most of those classes must have been a joke. You can't absorb that much information in a day and the 3 remaining waking hours is not enough to study and review the material, prep for tests, and take care of daily life stuff.

The number of credits required for graduation must also be low. Especially for two degrees even considering that they would have a lot of overlap. I tested out of every credit possible at my university and was able to complete 2 degrees in 8 semesters. And I had a full class schedule, around 30 hours a semester and I had to plan very carefully, sometimes 1 or 2 semesters in advance just to make sure my necessary courses would be available and not overlapping.
I’ve only glanced at it so someone correct me if I’m wrong, but IIUC this is not a replacement for matrix multiplication but rather an approximation that only gives decent-ish results for the types of linear systems you see in AI/ML. But for that use case it is totally fine?
Absolutely. The vast majority of such use cases are way better served by a transparency log than a blockchain.

Imagine an embedded system that only accepts firmware updates that are digitally signed and discoverable in a public append-only log. Such a proof would have to be attached to the firmware update just like the digital signature, with a size constraint on the order of kilobytes. To be fair I haven't kept up-to-date with blockchains, but I find it hard to believe that any existing blockchain could solve this. Transparency logs can.

I wonder when businesses that currently use blockchains as immutable logs will realise that there is a more cost-effective solution. One of the reasons it hasn't happened yet is because blockchains have magnitudes more mindshare than transparency logging. In fact, there doesn't seem to be that many people who deeply understand the design parameter space of transparency logs.

Shameless plug: My colleagues and I have spent a few years designing one - Sigsum. As Filippo mentions he has contributed to its design as well.
Extraterrestrial Life in the Thermosphere: Plasmas, UAP, Pre-Life
"it can be only a single specific word" - that is incorrect as a human can change the process to generate the next word, up to and including, using a random process to create or select the next word (i.e., any word would be fine).

You could say the process chosen is somehow predetermined (even if the choices then are all made by using randomness), but then really the word "prediction" has very little meaning as the criteria to what is a "good next word" have a nearly unlimited and ever changing range as the generating process changes.
> Is it just the vast amount of money?

No, it is the vast amount of risk they are willing to take. Microsoft/alphabet have vast amounts of money too, but no appetite for risk.

Apple is willing to dump tens of billions and years into R&D for physical products, fail, and then try again. Microsoft half asses it, and then pulls back instead of plowing through (see them shutting down Microsoft retail stores and windows phone). But they have that Excel and Windows B2B gravy train they can ride for the foreseeable future.
There's two definitions of EDM, the first is it's original intended definition, which was as a blanket classification for all electronic dance music -- techno, jungle, house, dubstep, whatever. Instead of calling it techno or electronica, or whatever, EDM was meant to encompass all of it.

Almost immediately after the term started being used, though, it became strongly associated with a particular type of dance music -- namely the mainstream house music that got played at big "EDM" festivals -- think David Guetta and Afrojack and Avicii and Tiesto... They used a blanket term when putting the festival together because the festival booked all kinds of dance music, but the main stages were dominated by a particular kind of dance music, so for most people that went to those festivals, that was the kind of music they associated with EDM.

"Techno" went through a similar evolution. It was originally a term for a particular subgenre of disco and kraftwerk influenced dance music coming out of detroit in the 1980s, around the same time that house music was starting up in Chicago and garage music started up in New York. It pushed further into pure electronic sounds than house and garage did (at first) and early techno compilations solidified in people's minds that electronic music was "techno", especially in america, so "techno" for a while became a catch-all term for all kinds of electronic music. That faded away when "electronica" and then "edm" sort of took on that role, and techno continued as a subgenre of music by itself.

So, I think, properly, techno is a _sub genre_ of "electronic dance music" in the general sense, but is a different genre than what a lot of people think of as EDM (the kind of house music played at large festivals).
The hipsters all wanted to have proper cappuccino. And its delicious. Hahaha.
> you could make the exact same argument about almost any tech device, like the iPhone itself

I don't think this is true. There was a massive appetite for the iPhone for decades leading up to its release, and there was no question that mobile was going to have a giant role in the future of computing. If you look back, most nay-sayers didn't doubt the value or utility of pocket-computers, but rather just that Apple specifically would be out-competed by established vendors.
Geniusrise – Wannabe Competitor to Vertex AI, Azure AI Studio and Bedrock
I actually have the Mörbylånga table at home and I find it very sturdy. One thing which the pictures doesn't show is that there are two supporting beams under the table, which provides the necessary strength to not collapse on first touch. Obviously, I have not done the actual test, but I will try to remember and report back if the table ever breaks.
As long as Apple keeps it locked down like an iPad, I don’t see much of a future for the device replacing general purpose computers in the workforce.
Can't believe such an obvious PR puff piece gets so much attention on HN.
I used to think the trades is where the money is. I've met so many plumbers, AC repairmen, general contractors, firealarm installers - who are really doing well for themselves. Then just the other day there was a Reddit thread about lack of jobs in trades in Toronto. I did a double take. The joke in our friends was our immigrant parents pushed us to study and get corporate jobs and all the trades folks and real-estate agents seem to be doing better than us. A true grass is greener on the other side moment.

I learned that at most trades companies, there are folks with over 20 years of experience and then newbies. No one in between. Every economic cycle, the folks with 5-10 years of experience get laid off. Apprentice are rarely trained by the old dog and put out in the field with minimal experience.

Perhaps this is a Toronto, Ontario problem. Ontario is going through a major economic cycle that has almost everyone feeling quite hard times. Or perhaps this is just the negativity that is Reddit. There is also the BS that income waged workers pay double, if not more, taxes that businesses or self employed workers.
Wow, this exchange made me feel old.
Reads like a clearly AI Generated article. Seems like this AI stuff has gone full circle, and people are using their own AI toolchain to discredit other AI toolchains.
Looks like it hasn't veen updated in a couple years.