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there's also this one: https://github.com/caarlos0/svu

Some apps also show you mirrored image for some reason, so everyone else is seeing a mirror image of what you see.

Optimistic part is that they’ve made it to the other side.

Funny that the future Cyberpunk 2077 envisions is IMHO optimistic about AI. Unlike ours, in that world AI has already presented itself as a threat, and worst of them were somewhat successfully contained behind Blackwall. Perhaps because of that and NetWatch, there isn't a strong positive outlook on AI as we have, neither from corporations nor from most people. There are some AI and robots, but they are more specialized and many jobs still require humans, so those who aren't already rich are still to a degree needed. It's a dystopia in many ways, but AI isn't one of them.

None of that has been tested yet in the real world of course. Perhaps we'll manage to build a world that makes Cyberpunk look better. :)

Java version can be played in VR as well, using Vivecraft. My personal experience has been pretty good.

> how many people do actually turn down cookie banners (well I do, but still)

does anyone know why EU hasn't regulated (read: forced) use of DNT headers or a similar mechanism instead of non-standard cookie banners that are obviously being abused in a malicious compliance way?

Seems to me it could've been just "If I send you `DNT: 1`, that means refuse all non-functional cookies".

Yet almost all US companies where users can publish stuff operate in EU just as well. Seems like the upside of the market size outweights the downside of risks.

This and voting up/down are a pain on the mobile UI. It's too easy to downvote instead of upvote, or flag something without even noticing in this case. (I just found two perfectly normal posts I've flagged)

I think the main reason is the Web1.0 design of HN doesn't translate well to small screens.

I wonder, at the risk of turning HN to a Reddit clone, wouldn't it make sense to at least a have a few simple categories/tags here?

Seems to me most people want to filter HN on "purely tech", "tech-adjacent news" (incl. politics) and "startups/business". Maybe if we had something like 3-5 folders to put content here, everyone would be happier.

> Imagine your ex works for Eight Sleep. Or imagine they want to know when you’re not home.

I think what is often missed in "company gathers data it doesn't need" scenarios is not that someone inside Eight Sleep abuses the data, or the company itself does it, but them gathering this data for years and then losing it to some 14yo hacker who promptly posts it and suddenly all your data is public.

The inside job may sound a little far fetched, but the latter is only a matter of time.

Once it happens multiple times with different services, everyone gets access to everything about you.

This lines up with mine as well. My HDDs fail more often than SSDs, but when they do it’s a painful slow death that shows itself in SMART and affords me days if not weeks. Out of 5 SSDs I had only one fail, and that one worked perfectly well a moment, next second my OS froze and it wouldn’t show up in BIOS anymore.

Not really. Right/Left labeling is silly in general so it's hard to explain in those terms, but Turkish military is and has been anything but Left. You could maybe call them reformist, secular authoritarians, in opposition of religious, populist authoritarians.

Interestingly after 50 years and 2.5 coups, the kind of people they pushed out are the ones running the country for the past 20 years and they're stronger than ever. I take it as a signal that the problem wasn't specific individuals and parties, but they were merely symptoms of deeper problems with the Turkish people.

Maybe it's the same for US as well.

I know it's perhaps a silly thing to nitpick on, but the general look of Switch 2 with its darker, Steam Deck-ish joycons don't look as fun as the first one to me.

Current Switch with the neon blue/red joycons had its own character, and IIRC that color combination was what Nintendo often marketed. This change makes it look like a MSI or ASUS product than a continuation of Nintendo's own line.

Adding another datapoint: My iPhone 11 is 3 years old (from Apple Center brand new) and battery is already at 73%, prompting me to replace it.

Phone costed me 600€, replacement after recent Apple price hike costs another 100€. I’m already considering just buying another iPhone next year since replacement costs so much.

Since my first Nokia 5110 I’ve replaced 0 screens, 2-3 screen protectors, 1 keypad, and so many batteries. Ofc this is all anecdotal, for me batteries, lack of updates and non-extendable storage have been the main reasons killing otherwise perfectly useable iPhones.

> I find it really odd that you wouldn't notice some of the improvements between iPhone 8 to 16.

I'm sure they notice some improvements, when I was out shopping for a new phone I could tell the then-flagship iPhone 13 having a slightly better display and a slightly better camera than 11 even by playing with it at the store.

But then, I've upgraded from an iPhone 6S+ to iPhone 11, and even 11 was unnecessary to me. I just had to because I bought the 16GB model back then, the lowest storage option, and with ever larger iOS updates my phone wasn't usable anymore.

With that a perfectly usable iPhone 6S became electronic waste, and I was out 600 euros, to do exactly what I've been doing on 6S: browsing, instant messaging, Uber and Uber-likes. Now the fonts look a little nicer, and camera is so much better, and that's.. about it for noticeable features for me. I wouldn't pay that much for either of those if I could.

My point is, I think smartphones hit a ceiling of useful features a long time ago. The big features, all the important stuff, the GPS, camera, browser, IM and a few other things have been figured out since a decade now. There are some smartphone "power users" who don't have a computer or maybe a TV and use it for watching movies, playing games or they are amateur photographers/influencers and such, for them maybe these new models still offer something. For everyone else an iPhone 16 does what an iPhone 6 does, just a little fancier.

and they seem to be using envoy. that error message looks too familiar. :)

> Python version is super laggy, something to do with OpenCV

Most probably I'm wrong, but I wonder if it has anything to do with all the text being written to stdout. In the odd chance that it happens on the same thread, it might be blocking.

Huh? But there was no L4D3?

(am I having a whoosh moment here)

> Fourth movie was an unapologetic cash grab.

The only part I thoroughly enjoyed was when they meta-explained why they've made the cash grab.

For those who haven't watched: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10838180/quotes/?item=qt6078617...

Chefs kiss

> That take would only make sense if Gabe Newell was running Valve like Bobby Kotick ran Activision, cancelling project left and right if they weren't lucractive. That's not how Valve appears to work

If anything Valve is a big outlier in that regard. They've invested in many not-so-slamdunk products from Steam Link to Steam Controller, Steam Machine, Index/VR, Steam Deck (this panned out) and so on, and they kept maintaining, improving and building up good-will for each of those. You could've gotten their controller for cheaper than no-name Amazon crap, and it still works and supported by Steam.

In an alternative universe Valve is headed by literally anyone else, and one of their revenue streams is just releasing a new mtx-ridden, battle pass infested Half Life every other year and milk the IP forever.

Not to gatekeep it, but having played all HL games on PC and Alyx on VR, I don't see this PC conversion being a meaningful experience.

It's mainly because of the restrictions of different mediums, for example Alyx has much less enemy density, very narrow corridor-based levels made for limited movement of real human bodies and environments, a lot more emphasis on interactivity with the world and objects that would lose their meaning if replaced with "press F to $WHATEVER" buttons. It might be pretty mediocre as a flat-screen game.

I guess it may still be worth it if you desperately need something Half Life and want to see the story, though for that I'd rather watch it on YouTube, or just rent a VR headset for a month.

> Hacker News handles a huge amount of traffic to dynamic pages with basically zero (by comparison) technical maintenance.

Hacker News isn't exactly the kind of website for many millions of Internet users to engage with. Its interface and features work well for the kind of niche it serves, which is much smaller compared to many other websites. HN (at least the user-facing parts) seem to run on mostly the same code for years, where NYT likely needs to build many interactive, one-off features for the flavor of the day topic.

> Twitter (though not doing well as a business) was overloaded with tech employees.

I read this a lot and maybe it has a truth to it, though I remember before the Great Layoff of 2023 there was a time when Twitter was trying (and AFAICT often failing) to grow its business. One example is that they've tried (and failed) short-form videos way before Tiktok started. Today's Twitter seem to be in maintenance mode, and operates with less people.

Maybe it was 'overloaded' in the sense that it was the kind of business that could never grow and shrinking it down to the size where it can be profitable and squeezing it hard was the way to go, that I cannot know.

Since most VR experiences are immersive and take up your entire view, you barely see the OS other than first time setting it up and then launching apps.

Would be nice if it was better, I don’t see it as a “huge downside” as you do though.

Perhaps with Apple Watch and gestures?

I wonder how that'll play out in this case, since everything uploaded here expires at maximum 3 days. Maybe they can "handle" abuse reports by simply auto-responding in 3 days that it is now removed.

So they basically reinvented taxi again, with the added captive audience factor coming from abusing the platform.

Not the OP but I’m surprised you are surprised this much.

In our 2-person family there are times where me and my wife spend an entire evening, sometimes even a full day or two independently doing whatever hobbies we have. We both appreciate the ability to hyper-focus when we like. It’s very easy to “deal with” too: you just continue your life until the other one becomes available. What is so wrong about it?

You are not uncontactable anyway, if someone needs to contact you they can still approach you. Obviously this wouldn’t work so well with a little kid.

Just to note, Quest 3 has significantly improved on it and has granular IPD adjustments now.

It would be great to have a personal rollercoaster at home.

Just installed the Epic Store, my experience step-by-step:

1. Go to Epic Store website, click on Install

2. Nothing happens

3. Click again

4. Popup message appears, I click OK

5. Popup gone. Do I have the app now?

6. No I don’t. I read the steps again.

7. Ooh I needed to go to Settings and approve it there.

8. I went to Settings, it appears at the top. I click.

9. Another popup with lots of text appears. I click yes.

10. Now I need to go back to that Epic page and hit Install again for the third time.

11. Click “Install”. Nothing happens.

12. Get annoyed, click Install five more times. Another popup appears.

13. I click yes.

14. Finally, I have the Epic Store installed!

It’s hard to imagine this experience wasn’t intentionally made so awful.