skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lack of software updates is definitely a factor why people have to trash a working smartphone but there are two more: software bloat and battery degradation. Newer apps tend to use more and more RAM an CPU so one have to upgrade or use slower and slower apps. Li-Ion batteries have limited life time. Even if you are ready to spend time and money on a battery replacement, spare batteries are available only for still widely used models.
Any font without tabular numbers is buggy, because it can't support U+2007 FIGURE SPACE &numsp;
The Simplicity of a Fractal
I've worked on a couple multi-language/location projects... Usually using the Accept-Language header as the default response to closest match or the default language (en-US fallback). In which case, I would allow for a cookie and/or url override that would set a cookie and redirect.

https://en-gb.foo.com >> set cookie and redirect to bare domain
...?lang=en-GB >> set cookie and redirect without the lang portion
<cookie>
<Accept-Language Header>

I'm also a proponent of having a mini-flag for the current language as a dropdown/flyout menu in the upper-right of the header where each local/language has the appropriate flag/representation in addition to the language name IN that language.

You can use just language (en) instead of language+locale (en-US) as desired.

edit: also, make sure you set your cache directive to include the cookie/header in question. You can also work the other way and always use the locale for subdomain.
It's not so cut and dry, or maybe it is to lawyers, IANAL. I don't think the average person would believe that forced arbitration would be applied to a separate Disney service, and that it's for all time.

That using a Disney plus trial promo several years ago would force arbitrartion in a wrongful death suit stemming from a visit to a physical establishment is well beyond, IMO, a reasonable expectation.
trivially easy to do so, if inclined
Because in this area, EU has rule of law, not Ireland.
> It's a cool novelty effect, but people's brains are already pretty good at reconstructing 3D from 2D, so there's little lasting value. Once the novelty wears off, most people stop caring.

This might be true for some categories of games, and not true for other categories.

For example, I've played VR on/off since I think the first version of Oculus Rift, until now using a HP Reverb G2. For action games and most categories of games, it is just fun and useful for a small amount of time.

But when it comes to simulators like flight simulators and (realistic) racing games, I literally cannot go back to faux-3D anymore. The sense of depth you get when flying/driving and being able to turn your head around helps so much that going back to non-VR is just impossible now, there is no comparison.

I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling like this regarding simulators and VR. But can it hold up a whole market segment with just this? Unsure, but not impossible either, simulator rigs/hardware seems to be doing more-or-less OK even though it's very niche.
Even if society is kinda collapsing that way people are still less likely to listen to a random influencer's review of biochemistry than a Professor in Biochemistry. These LLMs know just as much about the topic they're summarizing as a toddler, they should be treated with just as much skepticism.

There are hacks everywhere but humans lying sometimes have implications (libel/slander) that we can control. Computers are thought of in general society as devoid of bias and "smart" so if they lie people are more likely to listen.
the player always starts at 30:00 for me and plays a 4 to 7 minute cllip that seems complete but very brief
Months ago I found this presentation on youtube, "Re-architecting SWIS for X86-64"[0], about how VMS was ported from VAX to Alpha to Itanium to x86 that did not have the same AST behaviour.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8kcfvJ1Iec
Global list of 70mm film exhibitors
Just because they don't use git doesn't mean they use centralized VCS.
How would this vary from something like https://opensaas.sh ?
> Voting for someone who intends to exceed the bounds of the constitution is not democracy. That's just a hired bully.

As the constitution does not grant freedom from regulation to corporations, regulating corporations is well within the powers granted to states by the 10th amendment of the constitution.

> You're free to reduce your own harm. You are not free to prescriptively dictate an acceptable level of harm to others.

Again, if a society (city, county, state, etc) votes to do so, they are in fact free to do so. If a society agrees that a person is causing harm to others, then that person is fined, locked up, or (in some states) executed in an attempt to both cease the harm and punish them for causing the harm.

If a person such as yourself doesn't like the above, there isn't anything keeping you in that society except the benefits you gain from being a part of the society.
that is because you are a marketing account that is 50 days old and has 23 karma
Cool product - I like the idea of having my forms data stored and accessible directly via the PostgreSQL database vs having it locked in Google Forms or Typeform. BTW, noticed a few typos on the site (see here: https://triplechecker.com/s/G5LRKF/visualdb.com?v=OelKy)
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The number of fonts that include even two good alphabets is pretty low. I have run into needing english and greek or cyrillic in the same document. I know of like three good fonts that have a good english and a good greek. My eye isn't as practiced at looking at cyrillic fonts but it seems even rarer for that combination.

Which honestly makes sense and there may not be a solution for. Different alphabets and writing systems have their own typographical histories and conventions. It's reasonable that there is a very limited design space where you're adhering to the conventions of two separate systems as well as maintaining interior consistency.
Irish with US English
> Sapling's problem is pretty obvious: I would have to get others to use FBs merge stack tool and get that past security approval.

You don't have to use Sapling's integration at all, FWIW. I completely avoided PR functionality when I first started using it, and would just do a branch for every commit (which is what it would do for you, anyway.) I think almost every tool imaginable can do a diff between branches?

> for JJ (apparently) I `rebase -b main -d foo`

These arguments are backwards. What you want is to flip the -d and -b switches which mean "destination" and "branch" respectively:

jj rebase -d main -b whatever-branch-you-want
jj git push -b whatever-branch-you-want

You don't have to switch to any branches or do anything else to make this work. These two commands will basically work no matter what the state of the tree is.

> It feels like the documentation is in the same place that Git was in during the early days

Yeah. We've talked about this. It's not great but we have so many things going on right now, nobody has totally taken over documentation. Steve Klabnik's Jujutsu tutorial is very popular and we've even considered asking if we could rewrite our documentation using it, but again, so little time.

https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/introduction...

(I'm one of the Jujutsu developers, in case it wasn't clear from the last paragraph.)
Confabulation is a term often brought forward as an alternative, but compared to hallucination almost noone knows what confabulation means. Metaphors like hallucinating might be anthropomorphizing, but they convey meaning well, so personally I look for other hills to die on.

Same with "it's not really AI", because no it's not, but language is fluid and that's alright.
I 100% agree that the EU has the right to do this. It may even be in their best interest to do so (idk, I'm not European).

My point is more that it's not "justice" in the criminal-justice sense (eg: consequences for murder/robbery). It's economic policy, largely orthogonal to "justice".
https://graphite.dev/blog/why-facebook-doesnt-use-git

The short of it was, way back in the day, the mercurial folks were more amenable to working with FaceBook than the git folks were.
There are network effects and other feedback loops that make competition not possible. For example, by simply having fewer users, you get less information to train your algorithms. But in Google‘s case, they also have the network effect of running an advertising platform. This platform is hard to compete against in itself. And it provides funding that would otherwise potentially go to other players so that they can invest in search quality. Just a thought. I have not thought deeply about this so I would welcome other opinions.
Just old-school TTS from Acapella, a paid one Heather.
I got used to it before there was a wide selection on Audible and it's ok.

You can't use audio for serious books or articles but History, Biographies, Fiction, random tech articles bookmarked in Pocket and it's locally generated, so no latency is great.

Additionally, when you use a TTS engine, you can see the text and easily copy the things you want to make a note on later. With Audiobooks it's not possible.
I haven't read this specific case but normally "back taxes" refers to the taxes, interest, and fees that are owed.
correct. that's why I mention the nerdfonts as the holy grail.

but without the big OSes agreeing on a new unicode, today it's technically impossible to have a single unicode font (see how noto ships 200 variants on linux, all having some 500mb and only differing a few chars from one another. it's a monstrosity)
the Lexification/Roganization/Dwarkeshing/Hubermanning of reading
To give you one counterpoint, I can wear my Quest 2 (with upgraded head strap) for hours and not get tired or uncomfortable, and I suffer from motion sickness normally too.

The one trick though is that I drink about a liter of water every hour I'm using the headset, even when doing low impact games like golf. The headset is super dehydrating, and I suspect that is the cause of many people's discomfort.

You have to have a bottle nearby that you can drink by feel.
There are comfort solutions but if there's nothing compelling enough for you to do so, you probably won't seek them out. (fwiw Globular Cluster is the general solution for Quests!)

I just got a new different headset (Quest Pro, coming from an Index) and I had to figure out how to make it comfortable enough, because you're right that out of the box, they rarely are. (Except Index, which is still one of the best all-around headsets, even years on)

But I figured out a comfort fix because I'm hooked: I'm in VR 10-20 hours a week these days, because I use it to transcend my physical body and hang out with friends around the world. There are even sleep worlds in VRChat where people literally sleep in VR! Also, less intentionally, sometimes you're hanging out and someone passes out on the couch and starts lightly snoring. As above, so below. :)

In some ways, sci-fi is here! It's just, like bars, beaches, or boardgames, not for everyone.
>Like can browsers notify you about cookies instead in a non-intrusive way

They absolutely can, and they absolutely can be our user agents for maintaining cookie whitelists, blacklists, with a consistent UI for being notified a site uses cookies and if we want to allow them.

But they don't do that.

It would have been 1000x more user-friendly and convenient for our user agents to behave like actual agents, filtering cookies for us, instead of 1000 different flavors of invasive cookie banners and "necessary cookie" notices.

But the EU lawmakers didn't want that, or perhaps they just didn't understand the problem enough.
if you think federations is part of the use case you are missing the entire point of the discussion
I think the main point is not emphasized enough: VR is physically exhausting.
Unless you are playing with stick control (which is nice but nauseating) you will be moving a lot, I am a big guy that can barely kneel and you expect me to do super soldier stuff? yeah, no

I find the best experiences for me are those that require less "getting your VR legs": puzzling places, zombieland or that kayak infiltration game.
Of course everybody has different preferences, but to the author's point: not everyone wants (or can) play high intensity action games (which is what AAA focuses on).

As an aside: the other big one are sports games (usually racquet), playing ping pong or tennis feels realistic and its a good exercise.
Nope, rings very true (west europe).

But yes, also that it's developing for the better. I see sabbaticals from dedicated top-talent professionals more often now than before, it sets an example, and paves the way a bit for more mediocre people to do it without a huge corporate status impact. Some are even able to package it in a narrative that turns their year of a fun sabbatical into some self-development journey.

And I also find there's more opportunity to approximate the benefits of sabbaticals. Lots of employers are experimenting with remote work. And I see some friends who are able to play a smart game, e.g. during a 3 month period each year:

* taking a 40 hour workweek down to 32 hours

* having fridays off, having 3-day weekends and 4-day workweeks

* working remote for 3 months

* early shifts & lunch at their desks (e.g. 7am - 3pm shift)

* having the afternoon and evening off in remote location with lots to do and see

* take 1 week off every 6 weeks, or 2 every 12, to fully travel for a set of time without working.

* stay in 2-3 cities in one or two countries, and rent out their own home on Airbnb or sublet.

* avoid a bad weather season back home

* pick based on time zone differences to make early or late shifts easier

It's not quite a sabbatical, but it does allow you to detach from your routine life at hoe, travel and see a lot of the world, have adventures and meet new people without compromising your career (much).

Especially nice in junior roles to have this lifestyle remote if the alternative is to be a no-name number coming to the office every day for no reason in a big org. But if you can work under an inspiring technical talent / leader, I'd definitely recommend that instead.
Ireland cannot do that. That’s literally the whole point of the EU (or specifically a single market)

Effectively - your hypothetical proposed ‘apple law’ would, at some point in the Irish law passing process, be found to be incompatible with their commitments to being in the EU, and I assume it would be then an unconstitutional law. The price of admittance to the EU is basically having this process and constitution.

Now - they could go ahead and do it anyway in which case the enforcement from the EU could range from anything to an angry letter to some large monetary penalty - as is the case with Hungary currently being withheld some funds.
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Elevenlabs reader does AI voices for free, not sure if they'll start charging at any point since I don't know how this fits into their business model.
people's brains are already pretty good at reconstructing 3D from 2D

But we do prefer stereo over mono in audio domain, right?
The best result for the consumer would obviously be the best maps integrated into the best search. That may end up apple maps or here wego with google search.

It'd be perfectly fine for Google to allow choosing your own maps provider, or just using geo:// URIs so whichever maps app you've got installed handles location links.

Through laws and treaties we've given the EU the duty to enforce this.
Extremists keep trying to sabotage the electrical grid. What if they succeed?
No, not generally in federative states like the US or specifically for Union competencies in the particularly weird confederal entity that is today the European Union.

The Union competency in question had been established by treaty - the establishment and protection of the Single Market, and as I understand it, specifically the provisions restricting state aid - where by being members of the Union, countries have delegated regulatory and judicial primacy to organs of the Union.
I’m pretty sure there would be plenty of players willing to make the investment necessary to capture the majority of the iPhone market even for only a couple of years.
Thanks for the feedback. Triplechecker seems like a cool tool, BTW!
This is not their first time. They were previously called https://airforms.com and were posted here multiple times. No sure what HN's rules are on rebrands for Show HNs.
Time to switch to barter. /s
They need to apply for a license for each launch.
Maybe; depending on their age, the content of the product page (videos, comparisons, etc.), delivery time, and the rate at which those who see the listing purchase it (after searching funda). I am guessing that Amazon uses some sort of Bayesian+ algorithm to figure out what to list.
I actually don't disagree, but for certain software tools, the world would be a better place with their usage maximized. This matters because it improves the standard for everyone. The goal here is first to maximize tool usage, and then to worry about putting a dollar in my wallet. I understand, however, if investors can require a more business-friendly license than LGPL.
IMO it's because too many VR games focus on the "VR" part of that phrase rather than the "game" part. Even Alyx, which is a good game, has some limitations. Most feel more like VR tech demos than real games
HN isn’t social media. No endless and ever-changing personalized algo-feed showing me stuff I didn’t ask for to try to keep me “engaged”. No alerts. No social graph at the center of it. No “friends” or “follows”.

It’s missing enough of the things that characterize social media that it’s unambiguously not in that category.

[edit] however, separately: yes, it should :-)
I made a video showcasing some advanced techniques to use fonts on the web, without compromising performance. Covers interesting font metrics like ascenders and descenders. Fascinating to see how much information is contained within a font file!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSOIbdOaKR8
Context helps so, so much. Adding terminal output, IDE diagnostics, code, remote documentation into the context really improves the output, and editors like zed make it very convenient to do.
Powerful entities influence the world. The difference is that the government (in the EU) is ostensibly democratic and private companies are unaccountable optimization engines.
Put another way, if I want to pretend I'm still in the military, to get all dirty, to get exhausted, etc., I'll go play paintball or airsoft.

Sure, those aren't going to immerse me in a sci-fi or fantasy world the same way, but if recreation is the goal I'll take the in-chair experience.
I think people would revolt if you raised VAT to 30% and lowered corporate income tax to 0%.
It's cool conceptually, but I think for family I haven't known, for family I have known and is aging/deceased that would make me pretty sad so I probably wouldn't use it.
As somebody who's deep into the VR space, most of that is just bad ergonomic design by the headset makers, as a result of them trying to make headsets look (rather than actually be) lighter in the marketing material.

For the kind of design that's actually comfortable, look at third party suppliers like BOBOVR, which have various designs that have actually learned from what's done in other industries. For example, halo strap designs (like https://www.bobovr.com/products/s3-pro) distribute the weight around the head like a hard hat/welding mask instead of clamping things to your face, making the results immensely more comfortable.
Typescript can do some wacky stuff with strings. Not only will it give you autocomplete and prevent “bad strings”, you can write “foo as bar” in your select and typescript figures out the return type has a field “bar” by parsing the string at compile time!
A comparison of cellular bands in Apple's 2024 products
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No, the difference is companies have competition, and are not allowed to use violence to exert their will.
Meta is working on that with their Codec Avatars[1], but since their focus is on affordable self contained VR headsets, and PCVR support is all but abandoned, they'll likely remain R&D experiments for quite a few more years. They just don't have enough compute in their current hardware offering.

Apple with their VisionPro is quite a bit further along and their Persona[2] are available to consumer, though the price tag of the device puts it out of reach for almost everybody.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDxMZ9zjqMs

[2] https://youtu.be/H3PB2zA6Q-c?si=E_OU1WeF4tsqhpTR&t=288
Totally off topic in addition to being needlessly insulting.

Why are you so emotional about this topic?
In the case of diamonds, you have the choice of buying the exact same product with human suffering involved, or without. If there were a lab-grown iPhone on the market, of course I would choose it
I make approximately 750k/year. I can afford diamonds. I choose not to buy them because they are a symbol of accepting human suffering for my luxury.
The server-side IS open source -- it's basically been in the source tree since day 1, but "inert" due to facebook-only dependencies that made the code unusable, but most of the stuff was actually there if you were willing to dig deep. And actually, they just recently said it became "usable for unsupported experimentation"[1], so it's been on my TODO list to give Mononoke a run and see how it operates.

Unfortunately the builds for Mononoke are not actually uploaded on GitHub due to a bug in the GHA setup[2] that I reported :')

[1] https://github.com/facebook/sapling?tab=readme-ov-file#monon...

[2] https://github.com/facebook/sapling/issues/922
LibreWolf is a live since March 2020, still updated regularly.
New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike
I guess I agree with both being a problem. Maybe the way I would put it is that once a company becomes large enough it is a lot like a government. For example, if a a few tech companies ban your speech, you effectively don’t have a useful freedom of expression. Being able to yell on a street corner is not a good substitute if you are censored online.
+1. Would love a UI primer for developers.
There are environmental concerns, I get it, but this feels a little bit like delaying the Manhattan project for a year because the test detonation would endanger some birds in the desert.
Everyone I know who uses VR for more than a year, it's because they started socializing in VR. Like MMOs, it can be as social or asocial as you want it to be!
Occasionally there's a podcast or video I'd like to listen to, but one of the voices is either difficult to understand, or in some way awful to listen to, or maybe the sound quality is really bad. It would be nice to have a an option for an automatically redubbed audio.
Traffic noise has nearly always dominated the urban soundscape. Idling, honking, accelerating, and just tire noise. I'm involved with a number of car enthusiast groups, many members complain of the lack of joy that electric cars bring, but I secretly welcome not hearing straight piped mustangs ripping down the streets.