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3825 commented on Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird ifixit.com/News/90137/vis... · Posted by u/zdw

mouzogu · 2 years ago

i'm interested in this product from a cultural theory view

80% struggling to pay their groceries while 20% playing fruit ninja in a dystopian walled garden

i feel there is some underlying narrative which i'm trying to construct

3825 · 2 years ago

I don’t have spare money to spend on a Vision Pro that I couldn’t spend somewhere better but I have this thought when I was taking a hot shower. I’m here just living normally while there are millions running for their lives from war zones like literally.

I’m more worried about the multibillionaires than anyone else, glass hole or not.

3825 commented on Tell HN: I just received my Equifax breach settlement check · Posted by u/binarymax

txru · 3 years ago

(Hey, friend. I meant this as a lighthearted take. I have no power to write this into law)

I don’t think at all anyone should do this cheaply haha. And imagine if the CLO told the board the other C-suite were squirreling secrets away. And individuals can always be indicted for fraud

3825 · 3 years ago

> Why should all the other C-levels avoid jailtime

I don't care if the C-levels (other than the CEO and President of the board) go to prison. I want to see the CEO and ALL board members in prison for life with no possibility of parole.

3825 commented on Most people don’t finish online job applications shrm.org/resourcesandtool... · Posted by u/Oras

lkramer · 3 years ago

What I have noticed is that the more menial, low paid and generally low desirable a job is, the higher that initial barrier is. I suspect it is to at least some extend intentional, though I struggle to understand why that is.

On the other hand the initial step in software development job application (my current profession) typically seems a lot smoother, though of course then they are followed up by more technical steps (which generally makes sense).

I do see start ups here in London who try to make the process smoother. I do not know how successful they are.

3825 · 3 years ago

> What I have noticed is that the more menial, low paid and generally low desirable a job is, the higher that initial barrier is. I suspect it is to at least some extend intentional, though I struggle to understand why that is.

One suspicion I have is perhaps the people in hiring whether consciously or not believe making the process more difficult improves the signal to noise ratio of applicants. Makes sense when there are 10+ applicants for each open position I think. They don't care about the people they are turning away.

3825 commented on Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? · Posted by u/hubraumhugo

adventured · 4 years ago

You can't be just a bit better than Google and you certainly can't be worse. It's very difficult to be better than Google, that's an enormous challenge unto itself. That's greater than a billion dollar problem just to get warmed up if you're talking competing with them at large scale. If you listened to HN, Google sucks and it's easy to produce a superior search engine because of how bad they are now. That's false; even if Google's quality has eroded, they are not a mediocre search engine. That notion comes from the same place wherein people proclaim they can create a serious Uber competitor in a weekend (and mysteriously these people never do anything of the sort).

You're going to need a quantum leap improvement over Google to unseat their positioning. It has to be very substantial to overcome all the various moats they have, not least of which is consumers being used to using Google, the brand awareness.

The next great search engine will emerge from a niche and conquer one segment after another from there. It won't be a massive general search engine that shows up one day (which is what the Google watchers have been waiting for forever - that new behemoth comprehensive competitor is never going to arrive fully formed). There's a decent possibility consumer Web search will be a later stage addition to said new niche competitor, consumer Web won't be its primary or initial target. They'll add on general consumer Web search as a "we might as well" offering once they conquer enough niches.

3825 · 4 years ago

> The next great search engine will emerge from a niche and conquer one segment after another from there. It won't be a massive general search engine that shows up one day (which is what the Google watchers have been waiting for forever - that new behemoth comprehensive competitor is never going to arrive fully formed). There's a decent possibility consumer Web search will be a later stage addition to said new niche competitor, consumer Web won't be its primary or initial target. They'll add on general consumer Web search as a "we might as well" offering once they conquer enough niches.

I love this because I want it to be true. However, iirc Google wanted to sell itself to Yahoo! for a million dollars and about five years later again for a billion dollars.

I know there are quite a few millionaires here but for me, five million dollars would change my life. I can’t imagine being able to turn it down.

3825 commented on Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? · Posted by u/hubraumhugo

amelius · 4 years ago

Because nobody is writing good benchmarks for search engines. You can't improve something if you can't see what you're doing.

3825 · 4 years ago

I find it interesting that you mention the word benchmark because reviewers used to rely on benchmarks for new phones and such but then iirc at least OnePlus and Samsung devices have been caught and banned from multiple benchmarks.

3825 commented on Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana npr.org/2022/02/02/107778... · Posted by u/DocFeind

3825 · 4 years ago

> There are a lot of professional workers that are on cocaine, business owners, successful artists, etc. Does that mean cocaine should be legalized? Absolutely not.

I think you are very wrong. I think there should be safeguards such as improper commercial storage should be unlawful. Similarly, distribution (sale) to minors and without proper packaging should remain against the law. However, I find no logic in trying to ban any substance from an informed consumer in a world where alcohol and tobacco are legal.

> In contrast, the majority of anti-vaxxers (not the crazy ones talking about microchips) ended up being more or less right with their decision.

I think they are idiots. As far as I know we don’t have any deaths because of the vaccine. It is safe. Maybe it could be more effective and I’m sure we will have better vaccines with time but there is no reason to not take the vaccine now and a better vaccine when it is available later.

3825 commented on Starlink adds another 100Gbps connection to the SeattleIX seattleix.net/participant... · Posted by u/walrus01

walrus01 · 4 years ago

You can't buy smaller than a single /24 through the officially approved arin, ripe and apnic transfer processes, since that is the minimum size of individual netblock you can announce into global routing tables.

An asn is not something you buy from a third party unless acquiring a whole corporation that already has one, since there is no real shortage of them, you'd get your asn from your regional registry.

Expect about $50 to 55 per IP now.

3825 · 4 years ago

> Expect about $50 to 55 per IP now.

So 254 * 50 or about USD 12k to 13k? That’s the only cost and you get to own 254 IP addresses? Are there ongoing costs?

3825 commented on Facebook loses users for the first time washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/lxm

erikbye · 4 years ago

Not much, huh?

I think you're wrong in saying there's a limit when it comes to AR.

Our smartphones are AR devices, a poorly interfaced cybernetic extension. It's a cumbersome device yet unimaginably successful.

This poor AR device has constraints that will always hamper it. It must be of a certain size to display anything useful/readable and to be a useful touch-operated device.

If people put up with this poor device and it's slow information delivery, due to the poor human-computer interface, then they sure as hell will put up with AR devices of the future.

This new wave of AR need not have near as hampering constraints.

AR has the potential to be more successful than the modern smartphone when products are as uncumbersome, lightweight and comfortable to wear as regular glasses/sunglasses, while having the technical specs to augment reality with razor sharp and useful 2D and 3D overlays, and sound.

I see no reason people will be more reluctant to put on a pair of sunglasses than carry an iPhone in their pocket or purse.

Then there are other AR product forms, like contact lenses.

AR has a wide host of useful applications, both civilian, social (recreational), military, engineering, medicine, etc. That's not the future, for most of these branches it is already in great use. There's a ton of R&D going on in this space.

3825 · 4 years ago

> I see no reason people will be more reluctant to put on a pair of sunglasses than carry an iPhone in their pocket or purse.

I agree. I disagree however that VR is already here. It isn’t, not even close. And it will keep getting further away as we push for higher resolution and higher frame rate displays.

I think there needs to be some way to power this thing all day long. Maybe Apple was onto something with its Apple Watch strategy. Create a minimally viable product and only introduce new features very slowly so you can still claim all day battery life in a happy path. Tl;dr I don’t think the limiting factor is VR itself but rather how do we power it. I don’t want something on my head that I have to charge every fifteen minutes.

3825 commented on Div Divisiveness scottohara.me/blog/2022/0... · Posted by u/roosgit

FactoryReboot · 4 years ago

The biggest use case for semantic html is accessibility imo. Given Aria tags are the main workhorse there, I say semantic html has failed to provide value there.

Given all the html created via a component like pseudo element, it further questions the value added imo.

Potentially unpopular opinion, but semantic HTML failed to adequately solve any problems it has set out to solve. Even selectors are better done via something like css modules anyway.

Sure the end compiled HTML is a mess, but that’s like complaining your bytecode or binary is messy. Who cares?

Long live div soup.

3825 · 4 years ago

Counterpoint, this is what bad people use div soup for:

» Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 css classes to every single post in the timeline to make it more difficult to identify and block 'Sponsored' posts, oh my.

Previously on hn, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115460

3825 commented on California school kids must get Covid vaccine under new bill latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/prostoalex

version_five · 4 years ago

> mandating flu vaccines

One of my big fears is that this is coming. People have been emboldened and received very little pushback against forcing others to get the covid vaccine, and to prove it wherever they go. How long until we start hearing "flu vaccine saves lives, I have the right to know if someone around me isnt vaccinated, etc etc". I'm almost afraid to say it out loud, and I bet a lot of people here already support it.

Childhood vaccination against Polio and the other big and previously debilitating childhood illnesses is nothing like mandating a covid vaccine, especially during a live event where the guidance and effectiveness is changing daily.

3825 · 4 years ago

I fully support it. The only thing that gives me pause is the cost. As long as the vaccine is easily available free of cost, I am OK with a mandate.