jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ahh, so volumetric rather than holographic then.

I always get a bit suspicious of claims of commercial holographic displays due to the data requirements, if nothing else. Here's an analysis from the MIT Spatial Imaging Group, for instance.

"a hologram of dimensions 100 mm by
100 mm and a viewing angle of 30 degrees contains approximately 25 Gigabytes of information, or
the equivalent of 25 billion samples of information - all for a single frame. In order to update such
an image with 8-bit resolution at a rate of 60 frames/second, a data-rate of 12 Terabits/sec would be
required for transmission of the hologram"

http://www.loreti.it/Download/PDF/Olografia/holovideo/MIT/sp...
No, but I call frat boys both of those things. S.C.'s for short.
It seems to quite accurately sum up the content of the article though
Have you never used a statically-typed language? Most statically typed languages can handle adding an integer and a float together. The only one I can think of that isn't capable of that is OCaml, though this is probably a strength of OCaml rather than a weakness (int-to-float casting can be a common source of bugs if it happens unexpectedly).
so you are a digital used car salesman scum, nice
>2500mg of Q10 will see vitamin K and E like activity.
Writing an octree is definitely part of coding an MMO. It's a piece of software, of which an octree or something similar is a fundamental part, thus it totally fits. If this is too slow-paced or ground-level for your tastes ... avoid game development, it just gets worse; more complicated, more pedantic, more detailed, more time spent not actually creating game logic.

However, I'm also cheesed at the misuse of the term MMO, Minecraft is pretty close but the lack of a centralized game world in any way makes it unlike most MMOs, and by extension doesn't really fit the term. It is merely a persistent multiplayer construction set. N8 (Neverdaunt) or Wurm Online (which notch had formerly worked on), for example, are similar construction-oriented games that definitely fit the MMO moniker because there /is/ a centralized persistent game world. Dealing with the side effects of such a architecture does make things an order of magnitude more complicated.
Mac Market share is down worldwide [though up in the US]
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
It's pretty much all CSS-based at this point. Javascript is used for tiny things like the centering of the confidence intervals.

We were looking into some of the canvas libraries out there but that really only becomes necessary when doing pie-charts and other non-rectangular shapes.
I absolutely see something slimy about it. I just don't think it's embarrassing, threatening or intimidating to say, "Have your friend Melanie call me" --- which was the example from the article.
Try support@charminc.com — Will update my profile now.
the ongoing investigation of a spectacular crime

They're really desperately clutching at straws if they are detaining people that are no more related to Wikileaks than being quoted in a speech on Wikileaks. That kind of behaviour is unworthy of the verb 'investigation'.
It's definitely a pain point for games that there isn't much choice around for general-purpose UIs. It's a big factor in why many indie games end up with really shitty, underdeveloped UI.

Fortunately, you don't really need to reinvent Qt or CSS to get the job done. A font system and a few hand-coded controls usually suffice.

I think the bigger problem is in sound synthesis and processing. This arena still remains mostly confined to reverb algorithms, crossfaded tracks, and pre-recorded samples, yet the depth of the subject goes about as far as graphics does. So we're really missing out in terms of applying technology to creativity here.
> Wouldn’t this make it far less concerning than CO2 with its half life of 120 years?

In the pre-industrial era the oceans outgassed CO2 to the atmosphere to prevent land plants from suffocating themselves by sequestering all the carbon dioxide. In the post-industrial era the oceans capture a significant percentage of the CO2 that humans generate (because CO2 is heavier than air, and easily dissolves in water).

The most important considerations for the earth's atmospheric heat balance are the heat inputs from the sun (solar cycle) and underwater volcanoes, and the shielding provided by volcanic eruptions. The oceans store heat during the summer, and release heat during the winter.

My previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20002823 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013166
Really? How many were killed by the terrorists?
This is correct. In addition We need to provide an on ramp back into the mainstream for the radicalized. In addition we need to take real steps to stamp out environments that lead to radicalization. Hint: this starts before they log in to the internet, and you don’t become radicalized if your life is going well.
It would make the implementation of back doors and moderation/suppression of speech much easier, so that’s a plus too. Full sarcasm of course, but if those aspects could be managed, I’d be all in.
They were also delusional about the imperviousness of their actions. It doesn’t seem like any of them expected consequences. Underlining that there are consequences should be productive.

There are a lot of people hurting in America. It’s a terrible precedent to prioritise people threatening insurrection.
That would be MCMXCIX
Attacking other users like that will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong they are and how right you are, or you feel they are, or you feel you are. No more of this on HN, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: your comment history is unfortunately replete with this kind of abuse. We already asked you to stop [1], and you've clearly been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, which is another thing we ban accounts for [2], regardless of which ideology they're battling for. So I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

Destroying the commons like this is profoundly not ok. It does no good and helps no one. Having this place descend into the hell realms is not in your interest either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24538396

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Really? I would not have guessed that at all, seeing as basically everyone I know my age has used a Tinder-like dating app, but maybe 1-2 have used bitcoin as everyday currency.

Got some figures?
Me: Alexa, unwobble my table
Alexa: "Scanning ground..."
> Ideally everyone's income should be derived from the value they generate.

This utterly breaks down at the upper end of income, so why is everyone gnashing their teeth about keeping it intact at the bottom end?
Justified opinion argued for with evidence. Like your unjustified opinion isn't. You can remedy that if you want to make your case properly though. Please do.
The problem w/ Theranos was that at first glance everything about it was physically too small. A single drop of blood is too little, the cost of running the tests was too low - to do all of the separate tests it was supposed to be able to do and still be within the realm of the possible.

The Toshiba machine doing one type of test from one drop of blood at a cost of ~$184 is well within the range of what should be possible in the real world.
I consider Mailu to be one of the best alternatives if you want to use Docker or have an infrastructure with Kubernetes. I've been using it for some years.

https://mailu.io/
This is the kind of thing that happens in third world countries and leads to violent riots. When politicians use their majority power to block out any kind of power for another party, its anti democratic and dangerous.
It says it is a twitter and facebook tool, but none of the items on the "features" page (or anywhere else that I could find) describe what exactly it brings to the table with respect to facebook, other than the ability to authenticate with a facebook account.
is HN reddit now?
Interesting, but the conclusions contain a few vacuuous statements like the following:

- A large amount of your funds may originate from a few people. These are your super nodes. Support them and push them.

- A large number of intros may lead nowhere. Don't invest much in these intros.

How is one to know the former from the latter? Seems like a bit of post-hoc reasoning that is apparent when you look at the end state, but impossible to really figure out when you are in the middle of the process.
So you're saying I'm right?
Yes, because users always know exactly what they want and provide valuable feedback..
I agree. Back in the days before HN, I would often use Delicious as my aggregator of choice. I would follow specific tags (webdev, informatics, etc.) in my RSS reader and I would find amazing resources all the time. In retrospect, each tag could be similar to a subreddit, but with much higher quality links. These topic-based communities as you put it are much more interesting than, say, seeing what links my cousin shared on FB.
If you want a blog -- just buy your own domain, use a service that you can replicate yourself in case you need to (e.g. Wordpress or plain HTML, using a plain web server -- GitHub Pages is free of charge ;)) ; and do monthly backups of everything (the storage of an entire blog on S3, Dropbox, or heck, GitHub, is cheap).

Personally I'm using GitHub pages, on my own domain, using a commenting system simpler than Disqus, but that I'm hosting on a free GAE account. Wordpress with regular dumps is also appropriate.

My blog is not popular, but I like feeling in control. I'm surprised that people haven't seen this coming with services like Tumblr.
I must disagree. Managing 2500 people is a daunting task. I've seen problems that arise out of managing 30 young people playing a game. It is an extremely difficult task and most can't tackle it in the smallest of scales.

Writing this will involve mentioning what you ran, how many people, how long it was ran, turnover rate of members, conflict resolutions, etc. During the interview I would point out examples of large-scale conflicts which could have potentially threatened having lost large numbers of people and how you resolved those.

Also important is time spent in that position, what you did to make the job scalable, etc. These problems are absolutely real-world problems.

I must mention this: Focus on problems solved. You can say online community, but saying that it is a game with people dedicating good amounts of time to it is useful since it shows that this is not a facebook community where moding one can be a fairly simple task most can do.
The performance advantages of C++ over a recent JVM are pretty minor when the price is blowing up randomly. I wasted years on teams trying to make native code not suck, and only once did I witness as much as a single month of uptime achieved after heroic effort. Now I view manual allocation and pointer arithmetic as a form of nerd sniping—just because it's incredibly hard to get 100.0% right doesn't mean you're actually accomplishing much by doing so.
The user has cats: what your site looks like just on the corners of the screen (or maybe even one or two corners) while random keys are being pressed by paws.
That's a query optimizer complexity trade-off. SQLite is targeted for embedded usage, and a smarter query optimizer would make SQLite much larger, cutting into one of its main strengths. You're better off using SQLite as a scaled-down RDBMS and moving to postgres when necessary.

Lua's design makes similar trade-offs, and they comment on this in http://www.lua.org/doc/sblp2005.pdf: "For instance, just the control-flow analysis of Bigloo, an optimizer Scheme compiler, is more than ten times larger than the whole Lua implementation." It's the same reason the core language doesn't have regular expressions. (Well, that, and LPEG.)
Well, small craftspeople will need to bill before shipping so they can buy material. Sure, for generic crap that is massed produced in some factory, no billing before shipping. Wanting small run cool stuff and not wanting to be pre-billed are mutually exclusive.
More on IB:
so you basically just have to fund an account with whatever their minimum is now (might be 10k now).

then to get most US stock/options/futures data, it only costs 10 bucks a month for their live feed. If you make trades, your commissions go towards paying down your data fee. If you don't trade for a few months, consider it 10 bucks a month for the opportunity to develop strategies in a real environment.

Also, they give you a "paper trading acct" which behaves like a real account, except it doesn't post real trades. you can forwardtest your strategies on live market data with this.

IMO, this is probably the best way for HN people to get involved.

I also realize that it probably sounds like I'm selling for IB, but i'm not. Just a happy customer for 4 years.
Indeed, requiring the air-gapped machine to first running malware doesn't exactly make this revolutionary, and the bandwidth is so incredibly low. Also, likelihood of ambient interference is quite high that the reliability of this seems suspect best.
It's worse than that. The synthetic diamond makers have been making great progress. The first synthetic gem-quality diamonds were made at General Electric in the 1950s. It wasn't cost-effective back then (the heat and pressure method tied up a big press for days), but now it is. Gemesys in Florida is stamping them out. DeBeers tried to stop Gemesys.

Then there are controlled-vapor-deposition synthetic diamonds, which are manufactured by a process which looks a lot like a small semiconductor wafer fab circa 1985. Those can only be distinguished from natural diamonds because they have some hydrogen and silicon inclusions detectable with a laser and microscope setup. The manufacturing process is kind of slow, but that's because it's low-volume. If Applied Materials, which makes semiconductor fab gear, reworked the diamond fab process, diamonds would probably be priced like RAM chips.

Jewelry from both processes is available.

As for synthetic diamond for abrasives, that's easy to make and available by the kilogram on Alibaba.
Is reallocarray() BSD-specific? That might explain it.
I agree, but how might you imagine that management would find this out if the person is unwilling to speak up, instead relying on the silent fear of the union to keep it at bay?

Do you think that leaving the abusive manager in place, but impotent, is a better outcome? For whom? The company, the employees?
If you run the same mileage every day every week every year well yeah then you are very unlikely to get injured.

But that tells us nothing.
I think this is a huge point that is not talked about enough. Users seem to be over-valued especially since there is nothing keeping you around once you get your free credit. For instance I have gotten a free ride of 4 ride sharing apps (Uber, Lyft, Flywheel, Sidecar) but I just use Lyft as a customer. The rest just drove me somewhere once for free. Sucks to be them.
Not sure about the specifics of your distribution as you didn't name it but that sounds like how it works on all distros supported in the link above. E.g. on Ubuntu you're adding a 3rd party repository to your apt sources not just pulling it from the Ubuntu repos out of the box.
So all one needs to do is advertise oneself as such to be exempted?

I doubt that, and I, frankness be, suspect there's probably going to be some very dubious standard that will no doubt even consider race and other similar tribal nonsense when deciding to allow it or not.

If one deliver U.S.A. content one must deliver European content as well, for they are white, and thus they are like us, but the Japanese are not white, they are not like us, so we don't compare themselves with them, so one can offer their content without our egos feeling hurt.
I love it that the Sublime producing company permits one license regardless of the machine, so I can have the same license file on all my machines (Mac and Linux laptops, desktop and servers). It was money well spent.
> perhaps making it X% full stop, across the board, no loopholes, applied to all income earned beyond Y/year

This has been floated for some time, usually followed by a discussion of a sales tax increase. However, the groups floating these ideas tends to be the more fringe types, so they are almost always dismissed out of hand.
Is this tech really needed for union organization though? It seems much better to be using conventional chatrooms like Telegram/Signal for the best outreach among workers. And Telegram/Signal seems to be far more trustworthy of not leaking your stuff to the companies than some random startup, as a lot of people are already using it...
Can anyone comment on how good these datasets are? Are these going to be down to like, an individual tree?

I also note it mentions integrating with unreal's water engine. Unreal's water engine is excellent, but as of yet, not so great with tiled landscapes. Curious how that'll work.
For relatively small bits of info, probably only once before the app is uninstalled: yep, agreed, this works. There's no practical way to prevent it either, short of requiring interaction literally all the time, which just makes dialog-fatigue worse.

But ultimately this will do a single extremely visible GET request, which is limited by the browser's normal sandboxing. That's quite far from "bypassing the internet permission". And in some cases ineffective (e.g. I have multiple browsers and intentionally do not set a default), though that's rare enough that I don't think it's relevant.

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An "app can send intents" permission would be sorta nice for things I truly want sandboxed, e.g. a password manager. XPrivacy allow(ed|s) blocking stuff like this, I would and did happily toggle it off for most apps since e.g. many games have no need of anything but their APK's data.
Exaggeration is a well known and powerful poetic tool. Although hate is not an exaggeration of what is going on, it is an emotionally loaded term that delivers the message clearly. You get all the relevant information from the context, and you get the urgency, and the disgracefulness of the act by using poetic replacement terms.
You just named them. You want "shock", you have to offend the dominant philosophy of the elite (and especially the art elite), which is liberalism.

That said, there's still a difference between "I'm shocked, shocked I say! Everybody come join me in telling me how good I am for being shocked!" (both major dominant sides do this today), and actual shock. All of your examples are the former. I'm not sure there much left for the latter.

Later edit: I'm an audience the shock artists would love to "shock", and my parents are nominally their exact target, and let me tell you that if my father woke up one day and read that an artist had literally crucified himself unto literal death in Times Square, he still probably wouldn't be "shocked" in any sense the artist would have been looking for. Maybe conservatives in the 50s could live in a bubble, and I do mean only maybe (many of them were in a vicious war, after all) since I didn't live then, but I know for a fact today that "the masses" are already used to swimming in a culture they don't own.

Further, upon more reflection: "The masses" don't respect the shock artists today. It's hard to imagine how to shock people who don't respect you. Also, if you examine the theory of why the artists are trying to be shocking in the first place (in a nutshell, turning conservatives into liberals by "shocking" them out of their "comfortable" world or something), it's pretty difficult to draw a sensible cause-to-effect line on the whole theory anyhow. Given that one of the few scientifically-well-established differences between the two cultures is in their reaction to "disgust", stimulating conservative's "disgust" reaction (the usual shock approach) seems more like a way designed to make conservatives more conservative rather than less.
Ignoring the singularity talk because I think it's become meaningless, but Jürgen Schmidhuber would disagree with the conclusion that machines can't be creative, or at least that it's beyond algorithms.

He has a formal theory of creativity [0] which claims to explain, among other things, music, humour, beauty [1] and fun. It centres around compression and Kolmogorov complexity.

There's a great video in the first link.

These are hard problems, but it's shortsighted to consider it impossible for us to build machines with approximate behaviour. Often with this class of criticism you'll have arguments along the lines of "sure the submarine moves through the water, but is it swimming?" Apologies to Dijkstra.

[0] http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html
[1] http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/beauty.html
> I'm not sure what you then do with the information of harassers.

I think the problem would be entrapment. The laws differ from country to country but I'm pretty certain that a honeypot wouldn't be legal here.

Which is unfortunate.
Here's link to abstract and full pdf for free:
http://www.jemr.org/online/5/3/5

Interesting study but by no means conclusive and has a few flas as they only measured 6 female participants reading 300 words at a time on each device.(10 inch ipad, two sony e-ink devices of 6 inch variety)

Number and sex of participants might not be that crucial here but 300 words at a time seems very low amount.

Anecdotally, I can read just fine and quickly on a most glossiest of LCDs for a few minutes.

If I have to read for an hour or longer give me e-ink screen any time.
Heh, I fool around with cars. I have far, far more respect for a guy who built his own machine than someone who wrote a check for it. Even more for the guy who machined his own parts.

When I was in college, the cool thing to do was to design and build your own stereo system from discrete parts. Some did quite a stunning job of things like machining front panels out of raw stock.

Making your own stuff is viscerally satisfying in a way that's hard to describe.
I'm not sure how tin-foil or revisionist this belief considered, but I've suspected for a while that predatory pricing simply isn't a thing that is remotely common or effective. There is far too little historical evidence of it happening, and even less of it being effective.
I don't see why that would necessarily happen, because the barrier to entry for new competitors in the smartphone-app-ride-sharing industry is relatively low. Of course, it could happen if Uber ironically manages to get regulatory favors that increase barriers to entry to would-be competitors.
I think there might have been a way to make your point without belittling/chastising anybody. C'mon, we're a supportive community man.
You really don't have to be so cruel. I understand how you may see this failure to be perfect unprofessional, but please understand that this is something that could be settled with a kind email. Writing an inflammatory post such as this one serves no purpose other than to inflame and shame.

I am disappointed with this post. I have not seen any post like it on Hacker News, try as I might to remember. It even appears that you created an account just to comment on this one lapse in judgement on the part of a company.

Perhaps in the future you might try and be a little more positive?