skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone knows they’re at level 2. Level 4/5 is completely hands off, no supervision.

Not even their Supervised Full Self Driving does that
That's fair as far as tracking purchases go, but high resolution cameras while You're in the store could also read your phone screen or other things on your person right? That seems more concerning than normal cashiers.
AWS egress fees serve a legitimate business function. They might be higher than what they could be with optimization but they go towards a business service.

What we’re seeing here is more like if those egress charges were due to him hosting the business on his own cloud service even though it cost more.
Did you get a chance to check https://slint.dev?

Disclaimer: I work for Slint
Just a few thoughts:

1. Are 3rd party stores popular on Android? How about preinstalled vendor-run stores such as the Samsung Galaxy Store?

2. Small developers are the primary beneficiary of unified stores. On the desktop Steam is a good example of that, while large developers can afford the costs of generating direct sales via ATL marketing and support, small developers largely rely on in-store discovery/visibility to reach a larger audience.

3. However a Steam-like store hasn't eventuated on Android likely because Google's store is already good enough. Steam largely benefits from being early and maintains that position despite the numerous copycat stores having compelling offers (e.g. the Epic store is largely a dud despite regularly giving away popular gaming titles.)

4. If the final legislated position for Apple's App Store is simply to be a Steam-esque add-on store, i.e. merely a place of convenience but not at all necessary, Apple will no longer be beholden to accomodating hostile competitors.

5. The EU is still discovering how they can balance strict control versus existing commercial freedoms, and we're about to see this play out with Facebook. Since the EU has suggested that Facebook cannot charge for an Ad-free tier. Which has a few obvious run on implications, i.e. that a company cannot set the price of their own product and ad-supported "free" services (such as Google, etc.) are not in compliance.

6. Don't expect any of the "gatekeepers" to self-regulate their actions, because they can't read the mind of the EU. Instead they'll now sit and wait to be told what to do.

All of these thoughts obviously point in different directions, but there are some themes that apply to all of them.

1. Large software developers are pushing for independent stores because it benefits them, and protects them from disruption from emergent competitors.

2. Small developers will still need to rely on hive/halo visibility (i.e. Steam, Google Play, Apple App Store). Even though this costs them more than direct sales.

3. Either Apple has no control and thus no responsibility, or they have full control and can wield that against hostile competitors. There is no scenario where Apple has no control and full responsibility.

4. People don't like that last point, and that mental disconnect is on display - but that's where all of this takes us. It's a case of careful what you wish for.
You can use something like this with Ada/SPARK programing language https://wikibook-ada.sourceforge.net/samples/pragmas_restric...
So, people of particular political persuasions might start asking Google about things they don't personally need, such as out-of-state abortions ? To dilute the signal.
Yeah, that's line was what got me trying to look at the article they cite, which is unfortunately paywalled. It'd be one thing to do that at like... several stores to generate the training data. But scaling it to dozens while it still requires that? Baffling.
It’s boring at 2-4x the price of the same boring thing elsewhere though. If you don’t use the E in EC2 then why go with AWS?
Wow, what a perfect example of a two-faced lawyer
Yeah.

Basically you can use it as an TV and that’s about it. The gesture interface is incompatible with any efficient data manipulation and the screen underperforms compared to a computer monitor.

Unlike the iPhone Apple can’t simply software patch or enable an App Store to fix these issues.
Not quite the same thing, but over the weekend I hacked google maps 3d tiles (mesh) together with a gaussian splat and the effect is pretty similar and effective:

Example 1 with code linked: https://twitter.com/kfarr/status/1773934700878561396

Example 2 https://twitter.com/3dstreetapp/status/1775203540442697782
This coastline is incredibly unstable. They've done exceptional erosion control over the years, and only this much has happened.
Other commenters have covered most of the reasons why they are awful, but my main complaint is that they will completely take over your garden beds and wooded areas if left undisturbed.
Not much to add, just wanted to say I thought your presentation at wasm I/O in Barca a couple of weeks ago was amazing and it's great to see this work getting some attention!
True, but we have to assume that nation states are now actively inserting or recruiting intelligence agents in prominent tech companies. US authorities already caught a Saudi spy in Twitter. How many haven't been caught yet? If I was running foreign intelligence for China or Israel or any other major country I would certainly try to place agents into Google, Apple, OpenAI etc.
Private is less safe if your grouping includes Cessnas and small business jets, and ignores kidnappings.

With a private jet you can be at the airport and direct into your waiting car with security escort without anyone knowing, which can greatly reduce the chance of other issues occurring.
Have you looked at P? https://p-org.github.io/P/
I'm going to launch something new soon hosted on Render. Can you elaborate what features you believe are necessary but missing? I'm also eyeing Northflank.
I'm kinda the opposite. Way too many times I've seen "upgrades" actively remove things I liked and add things I hate. I hold off on letting mobile apps update because they almost always get worse, not better.
2-4% of the time according to the former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt in a Hacker News comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38145997
You can watch porn all you want, and it costs less than Microsoft HoloLens did.

(Similar to Bing where Bing Maps is worse than Apple Maps, but nobody reported on it because nobody remembers it exists.)
Agree. I think a more core issue here is that only 1 person needed to be convinced in order to push malware into xz
I saw a bunch of them. But not on HN.

This one was the best:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=171200100510963&w=2
A rudimentary simulation of the three-body problem
It's me, aws Mechanical Turk again!
This would be awesome, always had issues with support for T-Mobile!
A Hedge Fund That's Also a Newspaper
I am just a few minutes walk from my local grocery store, so I go frequently. Rarely use a cart, just my canvas bag. Will there be portable scanners, or will I have to drag a cart around to benefit from real time scanning?
I was just thinking about MOPy fish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPy_fish)...and how much it encouraged wasting paper!
So what we thought was automation was really just outsourcing.
True, but a determined adversary like JiaTan/Jugar has an ace up their sleeve: they are good enough, and patient enough, to be able to fork the base project, spend a year or two making it better than the original (releasing the head of steam built up from legitimate requests that the old, overworked maintainer never got too, building goodwill in the process) and then convincing the distros to pick up their fork instead of the older original. At which point it really is game over.
> putting it in the microwave using settings I have determined by experiment to work. Perfect every time

Does that involve a humidity sensor in your microwave? Because if you're just talking about power level and time, then how do you account for variation of water temperature? I guess you could use room temperature water (or a fridge pitcher) which would be plenty stable, but tap temperature varies wildly based on the season, at least where I live.
Ask HN: Small/medium tech gadgets available in the US to buy while traveling?
Hello! Going to the USA in the next months and I was thinking in making an interesting purchase whlie being there, since I am from a country where we don't have many available tech. In past trips I bought a Google Pixel and a PSVR headset, and I would like to try something new this time, maybe more exotic. So I am open to any suggestions! It has to be easy to transport back to my country, and while I am not a millonaire, if the price is right I am OK with spend some money on it.
those grocery delivery robots you see in LA, turns out are being monitored/operated by people in a central location with all their camera feeds.
Looks interesting, but would be good if you had an immediate demo for us to try without having to wait for access
I doubt the relationship between the rate of shoplifting and ease of shoplifting is anywhere close to linear. Even before self-checkouts existed, people still shoplifted. And in some places, the honor system even works much of the time.
Any reason for the strange submitted url if it redirects to http://www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de/?

Edit: Looks like HN auto changes it to that. http:// www. plankalkül .de/ Is it because of the ü?
Seems like another user with way more experience than me did an excellent job explaining the situation -- I enjoyed reading their answer!
https://archive.ph/hQjGs
Why is my Bazel build so slow?
I’d argue that the iPhone had way more points where it excelled. Web browsing, multi-touch, pinch to zoom, and it even offered a better cellular plan along with it (cheaper than BlackBerry).

The Vision Pro doesn’t have a lot of features where it excels. Running apps on it is inferior to using your phone or tablet. Watching movies is inferior to your home television. Productivity is inferior to a standard computer. Games are inferior to existing VR gaming systems like Index or Quest. Reviewers universally describe it as lonely, dystopian. Eyestrain is still a problem, dizziness is still a problem.

The iPhone had things about it that were better than existing solutions in a product category (cell phones and smartphones) that was proven and growing.

The most optimistic thing you can say about the Vision Pro is that if it were more like a pair of sunglasses and got rid of all the downsides to using it, it might be a really good true AR experience where your brain forgets about the fact that you’ve augmented reality. The problem is, there is no physical hardware technology that is on the horizon that will ever feasibly bring it to that place.

Not being able to install apps was completely resolvable by a software update. The hardware problems of the original iPhone like the lack of 3G were resolved within a calendar year with the next model, and the original model had an acceptable level of battery life.

If a similar situation to the iPhone was happening we should be seeing a Ming Chi Kuo type of rumor about a Vision Pro coming in 2025 that scuttles the external battery, enables the system to get through an entire Hollywood movie without charging, and solves the problem of the headset messing up your hair and making you interact with the world through ski goggles. These improvements are impossible within the next 10 years or so.

There was also way more urgency with smartphones. If Apple had waited one or two years the iPhone would have been snuffed out by competition. We would see a market dominated by other players in the market like Nokia, Microsoft, BlackBerry, or Palm.

In contrast, the VR/AR market is literally a contracting one with the only major players being Valve and Meta. The iPhone entered a market that was clearly in an upward trajectory.

Would anyone be surprised if Meta announced the shuttering of the Quest division within the next 5 years or so? It has never made money. It has never come close to breaking even, it’s a complete moonshot money sink for Meta. The Quest 3 is selling slower than the Quest 2 did. Microsoft quit on the market before Apple even entered it. Valve hasn't made a follow-up headset and might not ever do so.

A reminder of this story from a few years back: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/13/apples-ar-vr-headset-repor...

This is a product that was in development hell that had pressure to ship. A more courageous executive would have seen the struggles at Meta and killed the project years ago.

The Apple Car idea was legitimately way better and would have taken less time.
Totally agree. I'm not usually in the habit of defending millionaires. But I thought there used to be a justification for private jet travel of maximizing the CEO's time. The company is investing $20M per year in this asset and he's probably flying for meetings all the time and if a private jet cuts a couple hours of airport transit / wait time off of each flight it's probably worth it for the increased amount of meetings he can attend.

Maybe that can be achieved for less than $1.7M, I'm not informed enough. This source https://simpleflying.com/gulftream-g700-cost-to-own-operate-.... says it's a little more than $2M per year to operate a Gulfstream G700, I don't know what kind of jets CEOs are using these days.
My standard development practices like code review and unit tests do not scale to review and test every dependency of every dependency of my projects. Even at company-wide scale.
Wait until you see how popular it is in the US! I can't remember the last time I saw someone use a manned checkout line; my local grocery store has 1 manned lane and 12 self checkout lanes, and the manned one is almost always empty.
Indiscriminate terrorist attacks against unarmed civilian merchant ships are not a legitimate or effective means of stopping genocide.
Can you explain what a dynamic is ?

I was more thinking you'd run this tool, and then have an algorithm convert it( bake the mesh).
Being rude is... unimportant. A lot of people think being passive aggressive is being polite when it's actually being rude + deceitful. There's nothing wrong with being direct, which some mistake for rude. I find it refreshing.
Shining light upon both roaches and fraud will cause them to scurry away back into the darkness.
> Because for a long time the ICE manufacturers were making half-hearted play attempts at EVs, and Tesla came in and made real EVs and had a huge stock play related to that.

And their sales were still dwarfed by legacy manufacturers, who then started paying attention and practically all of them have at least one EV model out there, often with new platforms/models being in the works.
Yeah, the pricing seems completely wrong to me. No developer I know will pay $30/m plus usage for auth and permissions.

They know building it out isn’t so hard that it justifies paying 30 bucks every month forever.
The iPhone was already a smashing success before third-party apps (jailbroken ones included) were ever developed.

It took the Newton to get there, though. Vision Pro may be this generation's Newton, perhaps. Time will tell, indeed.
> I started in 1934, [... ] At that time, the computing industry was limited to mechanical calculators using the decimal system.

That seems a bit biased toward discrete systems. Engineers and scientists of the time used mechanical and (later) electric analog computers, and they were more powerful than the new discrete systems, for most purposes. For example: Helmut Hoelzer’s Fully Electronic Analog Computer used in the German V2 (A4) rockets
https://www.cdvandt.org/Hoelzer%20V4.pdf (text in German, but has some pictures and diagrams)
If you have a modern OS or browser it should show "http://www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de" in the URL field.
Browsing in incognito mode doesn't protect you as much as you might think
I'm not sure about the pm part. They certainly have to worry about it, but scheduling and delivery logistics to a large degree need to be a shared responsibility between product and engineering leadership. This is where the role responsibilities can get quite messy.
If you don’t know why you would need it - you don’t need it.
amazon is notorious for paying late night sketch comedy shows to make fun of them in order to promote their niche projects that only exist in a few cities.
Gaussian splatting is truly amazing for 3d reconstruction.

I can't wait to see once it's applied to the world of driverless vehicles and AI!
I was impressed with the demo video.

I was impressed with the live demo on the app's homepage.

I subscribed.

But it is so slow and the actual app was clunky and refused to enter much of the dictated text that I gave it (even though it seemed to be recognizing what I said): the words appeared on the screen, then they disappeared.

I had both the speed problem and the recognition problem on both of the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, even though my connection is ~ 620 Mbps up and down.

I canceled my subscription within about 10 minutes.

Oh, I should also add the following feedback:

* The homepage promises that your subscription will include support, but even when you're subscribed, the support button is greyed out.

* There is no way to manually enter or edit the titles of your documents.

I'm disappointed, because I was very excited about this.
"Of course, my colleague and I (who were working on computer vision at the time) did stuff like take our bags off, put them in the middle of the floor, and roll a can of soda into the bag, just to see what would happen."

I'm many jurisdictions this could be enough to get you prosecuted for shoplifting if it evaded payment.
I don’t know if it’s really unpopular, but it’s only used at self checkout in Decathlon which is a chain of supermarkets selling sports equipment and clothes.
Is that an accurate way of characterizing it? I've understood The Apple Vision to be augmented reality headset, not a virtual reality headset -- that Apple intends it to be used for applications more like HoloLens was envisioned for, rather than what Quest, Index, or PSVR are currently used for.
The article covers that those rude accounts may have been sybils of the attacker to create pressure. It's effectively good cop/bad cop for open source.
Low-Latency Wireless Network Extension for Industrial Internet of Things
Nothing comes close to this for realism, it's like looking at a photo.

Traditional photogrammetry really struggles with complicated scenes, and reflective or transparent surfaces.
Fair enough - I agree that sophistication inspires the presumption, but it's still just that (not that you said otherwise - just emphasizing).

Anyway, I've yet to hear of anything in the xz work beyond the ability of 1-3 skilled black hats with a lot of post-COVID time on their hands. The NSA ensuring the Intel ME/AMT could be turned off seems another level of sophistication entirely, for example { a "higher pinnacle" in your nice phrasing :-) }.

In terms of sheer numbers, my impression is that the vast majority of attacks blocked at almost every sophistication level are more "criminals" than "states". Admittedly, that may partly be states just acquiring ability to act surgically rather than launching big compromise initiatives like botnets (or otherwise states going undetected). I'm sure it's hard to know.

Maybe we're just in a sad era of increasing attack sophistication measured in "Kilo-Sophistic-meters"? The AntiVirus industry has been having a boom lately.

It's probably already been mentioned many times, but besides economic & geopolitical incentives, maybe the attacker(s) was a hard core `systemd` or IBM/RedHat hater or one of the people who supposedly issued death threats to Lennart Poettering now at Microsoft or even an open source hater burnt out or wanting to burn the world down like The Joker in Batman. In light of that, Russ' Setting The Stage Prelude could perhaps profitably add the introduction of that lib dependency into `systemd` and also various distros defaulting to `systemd`.

Anyway, premature conclusions are to be cautioned against over & over. That's all I was trying to do. { And I'm not claiming you were concluding anything - you seem pretty open-minded about it all. I was always just amplifying parent comments. I absolutely agree long games "feel" more State Actor - part of what I meant by "vibe", but to quote the detective in V For Vendetta - "it's just a feeling". To Old People, 2 years famously doesn't seem as long as to a 25- or 15-year old. ;-) It's actually short on the 5+ year Linux distro maintenance time scales. }
> Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.

I know this is ripe to use as a way to dunk on Amazon, but I sincerely doubt that it was as inane as it sounds. They likely had this workforce to train a system that they hoped would eventually operate autonomously. That being said, it sounds like it never panned out.
It's unfortunate that this is the exact strategy that many politicians and government people default to.

"We got $200M in federal money for improving transportation. Let's spend $50M on it adding a station to this light rail we built 20 years ago to win federal money _that_ time and spend $150M on adding five miles of express lanes to the interstate."

Perfect example. I lived in Dallas for five years. Denton, a city about 45 miles north of downtown Dallas, operates this "commuter rail" line called the A-Train. This line has existed since 2006.

Denton is one of the biggest college towns in Texas. It has two of the biggest universities in Texas (TWU, UNT).

The A-Train doesn't stop at _either college_.

The A-Train also doesn't stop anywhere near where people actually live unless you live in downtown Denton (few people do). So, to use it, you have to drive (or take the DCTA bus, which, lol, don't) to a station to take this train which terminates...

...about 20 miles from downtown Dallas. You need to connect in Carrollton (a station you _definitely_ have to drive to) to take the Dallas Area Regional Transit train, which has a larger network (that still doesn't bring you anywhere you want to go, at least not directly)

The entire system was set up this way because the A-Train runs along one of the busiest segments of Interstate 35E. It runs up this segment because that's where the pre-existing rail was.

This segment is 8 miles.

That rail network goes ALL THE WAY UP TO KANSAS AND ALL THE WAY DOWN TO GALVESTON.

So, to summarize, two of the biggest cities in Texas have a commuter rail that connects them, on a relatively super small segment of rail that was already laid down, but takes passengers to stations where they will need a car to complete their trip.

Oh, and the A-Train only has, like, six stations, operates every 30 minutes between 0600 and 2200 on weekdays and every hour on Saturday, and is closed on Sunday because Texas.

The crazy part about this is that DESPITE ALL OF THIS, this is _still_ better than the *zero* rail service we have in Houston (the biggest and most populated city in Texas).

_This_ is why public transit is an incredibly hard problem to solve here. It will take billions and billions of dollars to _just_ develop DART, Houston's METRO and Austin's Capital into anything closely resembling a real public transit network. Most folks will just vote for a new stadium or more lanes to get stuck in.

(The kicker? I just learned that a section of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas network that the A-Train rides on in Houston was scrapped in 1998 to become...part of Katy Freeway, the 12+ lane monstrosity that absolutely completely fills up every rush hour like clockwork.)
It's got its use cases that don't align with the kind of topics here, so it's not discussed. Doesn't make it dead, just unpopular with the HN crowd. Maybe even fair to say unpopular with the mainstream crowd. But so was the first, Mac-only iPod, and here we are. I have one. I use it every day for a handful of things, but I don't come on here and talk about it.
There should be a hand scanner and a "skip bagging" option that allows you to keep heavy things on your cart. I'm pretty sure I have seen it at stop and shop before too.