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This is such a fun idea, great execution too.

In a way I feel TikTok taps into this type of TV-like discovery, where you are not overloaded with options but instead just swipe through channels until you find something you want to stop and watch.

This has been brought up in the past and Apple did try to cater to that market with their smaller phone and it seemed the market response was not great, they ultimately had to drop the iPhone mini because it was not worth it.

They probably were trying to imply that they had to use a male model to hold the phone because they are now huge

> Let's admit that life is for the most part a shitty deal, with some moments of excitement.

Can't relate with this sentiment. Life is what you make of it and a lot of times we overcomplicate it and worry about meaningless things.

So you define yourself as energy? Not your conscience? Because your conscience and sense of self is what most people would describe as gone when you die, and that's where the fear comes from. Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self...

Im venezuelan and can assure you there is not a single venezuelan not talking about this 24/7 right now. And yes the international atenttion helps. Democracies are fragile and you should be invested in keeping them alive even outside of the US.

You probably didn't watch the video. These are exactly the earrings used in the video to create the matrix LED ones. These earrings are just a fake jewel with an LED back light.

The article showcases a programable LED matrix, which opens up a lot more possibilities.

Second that. Good to see a polite but firm discussion in the comments. Also very interesting topic, would love to be a fly-in-the-wall in a meeting between these two.

Issue is that modern UX designed moved away from this type of 3D buttons. There was a big transition from UIs using heavy skeuomorphism to a more flat and digital look.

To achieve hat you're showing you need some depth to the button. Hard to accomplish with today's design trends.

I would expect these bots will be calling an ordering backend API which will validate the price of the items and the total. Are you suggesting people will plug open ended APIs that allow the bots to charge any amount without validations?

I think the first step will be replacing frontends with these bots, so most of the business logic should still apply and this won't be a valid attack vector. Horrible UX tho, as the transaction will fail.

This is a fantastic demo. I've tried to build these type of prototypes for all Meta Headsets in the past but their very limited API/SDKs block you from doing anything meaningful with computer vision. They are too scared of devs getting access to the camera.

Hope that Apple Vision Pro gives a more robust api to developers and that forces Meta to open up.

I will use this approach for a poc I have in mind. Great job and thank you for open sourcing!

A product manager is expected to view things from a business point of view. To identify features for the product and help it succeed in the market.

A project manager is in charge of planing, execution and governance of a project. They don’t define any of the goals or vision.

Saying product is a large project is a big over simplification. If we go that route anything could be called a “large project”.

It would still be interesting to do that excersice but with more recent movies. I do think the formula works quite well.

As for the Joker I wasn't agreeing with the critics just describing the consensus based on reviews I've heard. To me personally it did feel like it took a bit too much inspiration from the movies it was trying to pay tribute to. When does a homage becomes a copy?

The political angle is irrelevant and I agree with you on that.

I don't agree. Let's begin by making clear that art is subjective so what I'm stating depends on personal taste.

I believe IMBD can help you identify the "most popular" movie. But it's up to you to decide if that's a good indicator for quality.

To give you an example, look at the top 10 songs in Spotify worldwide and tell me if those songs are the "best" songs the art form can provide.

After going deep on an art form, being music, painting, sculpting or film making, you start to develop a taste and an appetite for more complex expressions.

What would you prefer, votes of 10 people that have watched over 1000 films or votes of 1000 people that have watched 10 films?

You went for very old movies which skews your analysis.

A lot of the old movies you picked are famous and popular in movie pop culture. Audience scoring this in RT probably went out of their way to watch these films, they are not as organic as recent scores as you have a larger number audience scores created by movie lovers.

If you find examples post 2015 when RT became a mainstream scoring system that would be great.

Only movie that's current in your list is "The Joker" which among critics is considered to be a copycat of other critically acclaimed films (taxi driver, the comedian). This is a film that tried hard to look artsy fartsy but was not.

"Politically confronting themes" sounds like is very relative to your own political leaning.

Probably more in line with the idea that film critics have an inherent type of political inclination being a small, creative niche.

TLJ: from a technical film POV this movie was actually great. Strong cinematography, interesting twists in the script and overall good acting and pacing. The issue is that it was a very bad "star wars" movie. A lot of fans felt it didn't do the traditional Star Wars characters and story justice. I agree with both critics and fans.

TGS: It didn't win an oscar for best song, it was nominated. Regardless of that, best song is not usually considered a top category in the Oscar's from a film critic POV. That would be best movie, director, script, actor/actress.

Love this, have been reading random blogs for the last 30minuts already

I'm not sure what this is. Are you selling the hardware or are you selling the software to render the UI?

There are no links to documentation or any information beyond a snippet of code.

Not sure of the usefulness of this post. Might be too early to be here.

Cloud gaming is fantastic. I use it daily as I don't have or want to buy a PC or console. I pay $10 a month to play Destiny's latest expansion and I can unsub when I'm done. 4 months of gaming worth $40 instead of the console/PC price. It's also extremely convenient to try new games with a very low barrier of entry. Fantastic service

I'm fascinated by this. I feel the same way. Do we know if The YouTube team if ordering comments using some sort of sentiment analysis? This might be the key to moderating social media. Is almost like negative/toxic comments are shadow banned and relegated to the bottom of the comments section.

This has been studied before and it seems that yes your brain has trouble ignoring music with lyrics.

Based on this study[1] you lose at least 10 IQ points when studying and listening to music with lyrics.

[1] https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/12/04/listening-to-class...

Maybe the answer is that no one is trying to "keep tabs on worker power" and the decision is primarily driven by financial reasons?

Cheap money had to be spent in an inflationary economy, money is more expensive now with higher rates and thus companies that ramped up spending too fast need to cut costs.

Apple did not hire as many people during the pandemic so they don't have as much pressure.

Exactly. The kiosk app that communicates to the terminal only gets a "transaction approved" response. There is no personal identifiable information provided to the kiosk app so there would be no way to link the pin they typed in the kiosk back to the customer identity or card number.

In short, for the kiosk this is a anonymous transaction that was confirmed paid.

The most you could do is ask for more details in the kiosk app which would be clunky and very suspicious.

I would recommend you to read the article below that explores why TikTok could prove a real danger to West citizens.

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-tiktok-war/

China has stated in multiple occasions that the ideologies of the west are a threat to the country and that they will actively work against them.

> 1) Gain access to something like a Stripe Terminal (https://stripe.com/gb/terminal)

Getting a payments terminal is not easy, this would requires ID verification and working business bank account (acquirer), this terminals are highly regulated. Someone doing this can get caught easily by just a couple of customers reporting the fraudulent transactions. This is very small risk and is rarely seen.

Very insightful comment. Would you mind to explain why you disagree?

Climate change doesn't invalidate the progress made with the industrial revolution. This is not a productive message, just trying to stir the pot.

This is something I ask myself constantly. I believe what the commenter means is that if you want to "grow" or get a higher salary then you will be expected to do more, and at a certain point the definition of more can only mean stepping into a leadership role of some sort where you have to interface with more people.

If you're happy with your current responsibilities as an IC then you should be able to stay at that top level (Principal engineer) and continue doing what you're doing today, just don't expect a higher pay.

The audience of hackernews has grown and old users are trying to maintain the culture of the site. The value of this site comes from its community. Let's not turn it into reddit. I personally welcome this type of policing.