skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just putting in my take for the vision-pro-curious, coming from a tall/big tech guy with excellent vision who owns one:

I kept mine this whole time and I still actually use it regularly and it still amazes me. There's a steady trickle of interesting things that appear for it, and it's VERY useful as a giant virtual extended laptop screen if you have a Macbook. Especially if you are in a recliner and can tilt the virtual screen above your head a bit- vastly more comfortable. Very much looking forward to the extra large virtual curved monitor they're working on, hopefully this fall.

The thing is still kind of magical.

When I first got it, I would get some eye fatigue and/or dizziness after about an hour of using it, but that seemed to improve after a couple weeks (adaptation?) and I can now use it for 2-3 hours at a time uninterrupted without any discomfort. Chewing ginger apparently helps (same as with VR headsets).

Drinking coffee from a mug with it on is difficult. Get a straw.

I'm a big guy (6'3", 260lbs) and the headset is still a bit heavy.

The gestural and eye-focus UI is extremely good, my only complaint is that I still find it hard sometimes not to make erroneous inputs which can get frustrating, but that is more the fault of web UI's with closely-clustered controls that were not designed with this interface in mind- but sometimes with text input as well, it's sometimes frustrating.

The quality of the passthrough video (AR) can be improved, it's a bit shimmery (although still clear enough to comfortably read things on your phone or watch). It's stitched together from a bunch of cameras so it is surely already a technical feat.

The FOV is OK, but more is always better.

The immersive environments (and being able to dial them in and out) are FANTASTIC. Shout-out to the Bora Bora one in vOS 2.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKueDGv4OVQ and the Marvel and Star Wars ones provided by the Disney app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lisof6XWtII&t=491s I also love the moon one. Each one has both a "daytime" and "nighttime" view as well.

It's fantastic on a plane, if dorky.
Sure, that is how it was designed. The reason it doesn't work that way anymore is because of a continuous parade of states violating Americans' rights, each one so egregious that people said "yeah, it was designed the way macinjosh describes, but boy it turns out a lot of these state 'cultures' or 'identities' are producing despicable outcomes for our fellow Americans, and we should step up to prevent those abuses."
Sometimes I wonder how many people who espouse old building technology have actually spent a lot of time living in an old house. Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and living in an old house growing up ... well, lets just say I prefer my modern house of today.
> and everything suddenly gets trucked-off into receivership.

That's the problem. These things aren't getting collected and trucked off. They are just left rotting in their installed locations. I'm pretty confident that you could just show up to any of these with a tool box to just start opening one up to take out whatever you wanted from the insides, and not one person would question you. They already said they don't care if you never returned any discs you had in your possession, so nobody would care if you emptied their inventory of discs within. And until now, I'd wager not one person inside the company ever thought they might be vulnerable to a PII attack like this either.
The marginal cost of that work is insignificant compared to the amount of equivalent work you'd have to put in for linux or bsd.

Plus, little snitch is basically state-of-the-art in terms of ease-of-use if you're willing to put the money into it.
In part, thanks to ASML.
A. Yes. Plus selling to the Wehrmacht ("war is a racket"), often with forced labour - or both, first stealing from Jews then selling to the Wehrmacht (like the current owners of BMW, ancestors sold to the Wehrmacht, profited from forced laber and additionally stole from Jews [1]). In communist East Germany Jews even couldn't get back their assets after the war, because Jews where "capitalists".

B. The vast majority of Germans profited from stealing from Jews (see book "Hitlers Volksstaat"), e.g. Germany was out of money before Kristallnacht and Jews had to pay 1 billion Reichsmark after the progroms, which helped the German state. Also jewish furniture etc. was auctioned off to all Germans - people too often only talk about arts and houses.

[1] The Quandts already were rich selling to the Prussian army, then during hyper-inflation of the economic crisis bought struggling companies, then "bought" companies from Jews who were forced to sell, then used forced labour in their companies, sold to the Wehrmacht, after WW2 got everything back and the debt they accumulated to buy all of that had evaporated because of the war. Today they own large chunks of BMW for example.
He leading everyone away from Christmas and towards consumerism :)
Just sent you an email now.
I can immediately tell that this is the perspective of someone whose sole source of information about FSD is the MSM. My Tesla drives me around the city autonomously every day, and you're sitting here telling me it doesn't. FSD is already a solved problem. It's real, you can buy it, and you can use it, right now. And it keeps getting better and better with every new version.
The landing page? We are working on it! I posted a link directly to the app earlier but it got flagged from top of the front page :(
I try every couple years. I tried KDE on Fedora last time (I hate gnome since 3) and could still crash various KDE apps with drag-n-drop operations—I’d trained myself never to use those outside narrow situations on Windows and Linux years ago because they usually broke things or did something stupid, but am now accustomed to them both working and doing something reasonable, so I spot those issues in a hurry when I use other environments now, and no longer accept that as just the way things are. Among other jank and poor stability, that’s just an example.

IIRC making caps another control anywhere I was logged in—not just in KDE—was weirdly hard, too.

Five or six years ago my Ubuntu tv-attached old desktop forgot how to decrypt the root disk its own installer had encrypted, after an OS upgrade.

My Debian server required manual intervention (busting out my rusty Gentoo chroot grub-installing skills) to install its bootloader. The manual version went the same aa usual and had no problems so no clue WTF the installer was trying to do, but it consistently failed, and this was boring, old business-class Lenovo workstation hardware. That was four or five years ago.

Basically when I try to go back I’m missing lots of features and it’s less stable than what I’m now accustomed to, so end up wasting a bunch of time and regretting it.
Amazon is the worst in this regard.
Does this make services like RocketMoney, Minna, etc (subscription controls) less useful?
The first line says that the gunner operates the cannon every day at noon

> However, the gunner does not always operate the cannon: He only does on cloudy days. On sunny days, the cannon operates itself, using the time signal of the actual sun

That's why I don't understand how you came to this conclusion, what's your thinking behind it?
> Do planes have access to Starlink now?

There's a number of airlines that have signed contracts, like United. I think it'll take a while for everything to be completely rolled out.
Show HN: Logfolio – A Tool to Track Developer Work Logs and Prepare for Reviews
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Logfolio helps developers:

- Record daily work logs of accomplishments and key work items.
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The idea was inspired by Gergely Orosz's "The Software Engineer's Guidebook" and his insights on the importance of keeping work logs.

I just launched it on Product Hunt and would love feedback from the community

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"We jumped into the insulation craze . . ." Wut?

The whole point of insulation is to make it easier to manage temperatures without wasting energy, AC or awnings.
This is a very large rationale for what we are building with https://nanos.org .
I shall remain skeptical.
Yes, the problem is that once digitalization becomes even half-workable, then it becomes an excuse to remove these "deal directly with a human being" options as a cost-cutting measure.

There ought to be laws about digital options being removed first in these situations, at least where government or businesses that operate infrastructure (like delivery companies) are concerned. (Strong laws, some laws for this already exist, but they tend to be weak and/or do not last long, since they go against the tendency of the state to grab ever more power.)
That is my question too, insurance companies make it easy to get a policy online, but require you to call to cancel. I looked through the FTC site, but could not find an answer to this.
LPT: if you're not a customer but you get their mailing advertisements and want them to stop, create an account with them on their website then update your address to their headquarters.

If you call and tell them to stop, they will only stop for 2 years then resume. Or resume when you take your vehicle to someplace that (re)sells your information to them.
I have an M2 Macbook Pro mostly gathering dust and waiting until Debian supports it rather than dip so much as a toe into Apple's crass software ecosystem. For now it is a file server, albeit I had to purchase an dongle just to make it run with the lid closed because Apple deemed that an unlikely use case.
If you need to make your code more baroque and harder to understand in order to unit-test it, that seems like the tail wagging the dog.
TriliumNext Notes: Advanced, hierarchical, open-source note taking platform
That's a name I hear from time to time but have never quite understood what their purpose was.

My last laptop purchased from the the Lenovo store and my subscription to Nvidia GeforceNow were processed via Digital River.

You'd think both Lenovo and Nvidia would be big enough to manage their own ecommerce. I suspect their legal teams will see them get better treatment anyway.
The Art of Liquidity: Evolution of Bitcoin Native Channel Scaling
I bought an xreal pro hoping for a cheaper vision pro while technology catches up.

Honestly xreal's marketing is generous at best. They seem to really try to push it as being an AR device when its really nothing more than a monitor stuck to your face that you can't change the size of.

Using the beam or the software on your computer adds some AR ability, but due to the way it works on your Mac it really is not a pleasant experience and uses a ton of resources. The tracking is not great.

The lack of any sort of pass through (all you can do is dim it) makes it fairly useless in many situations, like the one mentioned in this article.

Options are great, and it is great that is significantly cheaper. But I bought the xreal pro, I keep trying to use it for watching something, games, programming or other work. But every time I use it for maybe 20 minutes and just get frustrated and put it away for a few more weeks.

It is one of the reasons I think that the price (and size) of the vision pro is justified. The tech to make something smaller and cost less just isnt here yet. All of those headsets like the xreal have serious compromises while trying to push an "AR" narrative for features they just don't really have.
There are two key points here:

1. The main dietary source of extra fluoride for most people is tea.

2. There’s strong evidence that adults don’t experience detrimental effects from much higher proportions of dietary fluoride — even the most recent skeptic fodder (the NTP manuscript) finds no effect on adults at concentrations an order of magnitude greater than municipal fluoridation can provide.

Put together, it’s unlikely that the demographics most susceptible to higher doses of dietary fluoride (meaning children) are receiving those doses. But if you’re worried about your dietary fluoride intake as an adult, you should consider not drinking tea.
> My brother in god, you can travel from any point of the Earth to any other point on the Earth in less than a week. At what point are modern people going to “deal with it”?

Clearly people do "deal with it" since lots of people fly all the time. But that doesn't mean that the experience can't be improved.
This is kind of why I like living near highways and train tracks. Most people live in suburbs and they don’t hear the noise of the city. They just miss out on so much environment. Sadly, my wife hates this (she is not in tune with her environment) and so we moved from a place where there were crazy people screaming to a place which is relatively quiet.

Sometimes I’m at home and there aren’t any sirens or bells or people screaming and I just think about how out of touch we are with the environment.

This has spread to everyone. Paul Graham has lost his connection to the environment and instead writes about silence. What a fool! If only he was more in touch with his environment.
Can you point to an example that's close to what you're describing?

Only thing that comes to mind is like de facto parts of Mexico, maybe Somalia?
"I know better than the people that voted for their own state government so I am going to force my will upon them."

Mindsets like this are actually why democracies fail.
"early adopter tax"- love that, may have to borrow it

And you're right! And some of us will happily pay that! It is the _bleeding_ edge, after all.
I'm in Texas and was able to cancel online. It was slightly frictional. I had first paused my subscription. Apparently you can't cancel if your subscription is paused, so I had to reinstate the sub to cancel.
What I had in mind is that there are parts of the world where bathing nude at the lake/beach is seen as more normal, and parts of the world where it sounds crazy. In the parts where it is normal, I guess there would be less inclined to used deepfakes for this, so the usage would be lower/fringe and it would not be a problem asking for our attention to solve it.
If that happened I would become a drastically different person because no one may control people’s bodies like that except for themselves. God that really made me angry to read. I really really hope you are wrong.
Apple projector could display AR and VR content without a headset
What nonsense. There are whole transitions of Christianity that don't agree with the '12 apostles'.

And there are plenty of historians that disagree that there is any solid bases for the claim that there were exactly 12 apostles. Even assuming that term had a specific meaning in the first century.

There is plenty of evidence that the very term apostles no is different then historically. Paul himself, literally the oldest source on Christianity we have, disagrees with the classic 12 apostles theory, as Paul claims he is an apostle.

So pretty much every serious historian disagrees that there is a clear cut '12 apostle' that were consistent and named since the time of Jesus. In the oldest document we have of the time period no '12 apostles' are mentioned.

There are so many serious issue with the whole idea of '12 apostles'.

> [0]

That's not a source. The majority of that 'history' is church internal history that has very, very thin bases that actual historians would accept.

The fact is we almost nothing first century sources that talk about this (and even what we have is heavily bias and unreliable). Pretty much all of this history is 2nd century at best (most of it later). And we have plenty of evidence that this is by far a long enough within religions to evolve a mythology.
Elon Musk set up 100k Nvidia H200 GPUs in 19 days; normally takes 4 years
Aren't those the risks you take for being a government contractor? It's probably spelled out somewhere in the 1,000 page plus contract you signed.
I own a Kindle Paperwhite (last gen, relative to this new one) and a Kobo Clara BW (purchase in the last 6 months). IMO, the Kindle is the premium e-reader when it comes to look and feel. It's just a fantastic experience. The issue is Amazon and how even if you want to put your own purchased ebooks on it, you have it send it through their servers. That tied with a few other privacy issues over the years led me to also get a Kobo.

The Kobo can run in a fully offline mode (called "side-load mode" or something like that) and I can transfer my ebooks directly via USB. I use the Kobo most of the time now since most of my reading lately has been independently published ebooks, but I still use the Kindle for books I purchase via Amazon directly.

With all that said, I personally think the Kindle Paperwhite is already the perfect size. It fits snuggly in my back pocket and strikes the perfect balance between screen size being large, but not too large to hold for my average male hands. I'd be a bit concerned about the size increase for my personal use case, but Amazon does a great job with the Kindle in general so I'd like to see some reviews.

As for the new Colorsoft, I'd really like to see some reviews. The color Kobos that came out earlier this year got some mixed reviews for colors, but I'm not sure if that's just the nature of color e-ink or not.
Remember folks, this is a US$3Trillion company and they can't get their flagship products shipped.

Something is very wrong at Apple.
Dems propped up Trump using their Pied Piper strategy coupled with Hillary's lousy campaigning "efforts." They dug their own grave, and it doesn't matter to the revolving doors of the machine in the grand scheme, since back to my original point, we have two parties of capital. Democracy is illusory.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/how-asset-managers-h...
Doubling nuclear generation in the next few years and increasing the number of reactors being planned hardly describes panic.

Japan and Germany panicked. China did something else.
I believe that the Literate Programming tool which I managed to work up:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/literati...

(with a bit of help from folks on tex.stackexchange.com: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/722886/how-to-write-... )

could be used for that --- you'd just need to execute the code once it is written out, then read the files in once they have been made.
They didn't require someone to come out to get you signed up for service.

Litigation could resolve malicious attempts to "complicate" signups for the purposes of complicating cancellation.
I agree about the issues that Linux sometimes has....

However, how is this different from current Windows? I have had a machine decide that it needed to update while I was in the middle of a teams call. "Luckily" I was able to switch over to phone while it did what it wanted to do and then switch back but still....
Financialization of housing is the problem, not those who are homeless.
And here I thought windows on arm was increasingly sliding into irrelevance as nobody is buying it.
Automatic renewal is convenient and appreciated when you like the service.

It's a dark-pattern underhanded dirty trick when you don't.
This is outdated. The M3 Max is right there with Intel i9 on singlethreaded PassMark, and does so while pulling a lot less power.
It isn't projecting a 3D surface (I'm not sure that even makes sense in this context) and it isn't storing volumetric information.

It is just using refraction to make brighter and darker areas in its shadow/caustics to make an image. The paper is 10 years old at this point and linked by this article.

https://rgl.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/media/papers/Papas...

https://nishitalab.org/user/egaku/tog14/yue-continuous-caust...

I think once you read the papers you will realize that the only thing 3D is the surface of the lens and that is only so it can get curves and angles for the refraction.
I take it you’ve never encountered the dreaded message, “The item is not available due to issues with the item's content”?

There was a news item here on HN about something available on the Internet Archive: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16725526> This is now gone from IA. Old page with links to IA which are no longer working: <https://web.archive.org/web/20180331224513/http://profileeng...>
What?

In that case, why have a state government? Why not have everything determined county-by-county?

In fact, why have it be county rule? Why not just neighborhood by neighborhood?

You place the locus of control according to the problems you need to solve. Neighborhoods combine to cities combine to counties combine to states combine to countries in order to be competitive and thrive against the broader environment. Yes, it does typically entail a loss of autonomy, but the benefit is that your little independent enclave doesn't get taken over by the next-strongest neighbor.
So that jpscharf's point doesn't get lost in threads:

If you are running macOS Sequoia, there's a good chance you need to enable Local Network access under System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Local Network. Make sure that Google Chrome is turned on, as well as any other third-party browsers you use.

Normally, you get ask for this permission upon first launch of Google Chrome, but it's easy to hit the wrong key and dismiss it.
Ham radio and blogs are at similar stages of cultural relevance. There may be something the blogging community can learn from the ham community, though hopefully blogging survives as something more than an emergency-response phenomenon.
I wish people with your worldview could try some drug enhancing appetite for like a month. See how easy it is to get their fingers out of their arse and keep eating healthy when their body is craving food all day long.

Would you also tell people suffering from depression to just cheer the fuck up instead of going the medication way?
The color model is uncharacteristically expensive for Kindle at $280, more than the color Kobos which are $220 for the same 7" size (which also has physical buttons and stylus support) or just $150 for the smaller 6" size. Kindles are usually the cheaper option, at the expense of being less amenable to sideloading and jailbreaking than Kobos are.
IIRC they implemented online cancellation everywhere a while back.
The origin of most meteorites on Earth has been discovered
That's fair if you fail to consider that I am 6'3", my partner and child are much smaller, and I'd essentially be the only one to gain from such an upgrade while having to pay for 3x, unless I wanted to sit separately from them and endure much consternation. lol
I have been developing and maintaining https://glicol.org for 4 years. I have donation page on github but only got it from 2 people. It seems all the donation service providers requirs login. I don't know why we cannot have a guest mode like regular shopping website.
> are 20F hotter than we assumed when designing the house

Then you designed a house for a climate that never existed. There is nowhere on earth that is 20F warmer than it was 200 years ago, let alone 20.
> After that, the last refuge of x86

It's not like ARM has taken over those markets yet. Snapdragon X is fine but nothing special compared AMD/Intel chips. I think we just might have a pretty distorted view of ARM vs x86 because of Apple. They are just much better at designing ARM chips than anyone else (including both Qualcomm and especially ARM itself). Servers is kind of a mixed story as well.

There is nothing wrong with other companies trying to disrupt AMD/Intel duopoly and hopefully we'll get lower prices and more innovation because of that but calling x86 dead is a bit premature at this point..
Insurance industry bosses keen on AI; few clients happy dealing with an AI agent