skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product A is the search engine, so you're paying for search results placement, which is how Google monetizes search.

Product B is display ads, which are displayed on other (almost always non-Google) websites. No searching involved...

I don't see how they're even remotely the same product. They're similar in the sense that their forms of advertising, but they're very different forms of advertising. Search placement is intentional advertising (in the sense of targeting prospective customer's "intent" to use/buy) while display ads are awareness advertising. The proof is in the very different rates: search engine placement terms can cost several dollars per search. That same amount could buy hundreds or even millions of display impressions.
I mean, these were literally 76% more expensive ($299) than AirPods ($169) at launch with similar BT quality according to reviews.
How does Oracle enforce their license if you only use Java server-side and never tell anyone? Does Java phone home now and snitch when you use it?
Founders Aren't Giving Up on Backstage Capital
To optimize within the cab rules, you’d need to have drivers purchase a medallion and only be able to make pickups in the city which issued the medallion...

To optimize within the hotel rules, you’d need hosts to get a hotel/rooming house license...
Do you think all the people buying varieties of salt can actually taste the difference, or know the environmental difference?
What has your microcode done for you lately?
Hitler's American Model [pdf]
Reciprocity can also be

“You’re going to require a visa from our people? Well we’ll require a visa from your people!”

No agreement required. Visas usually come after migration begins (you used to be able to arrive by ship, no visa required anywhere in the world).

That seems to have been Brazil’s policy. I don’t think too many Canadians were going and overstaying, working illegally or otherwise causing trouble more than average.
Neglecting inflation, amortization does not make it any cheaper.
Subject to change as most details arise
Disney Revives LucasFilm Games Division
Except it is fake meat.
Taking live mathematics notes with Vim and Latex
As far as I know it has to do with documentation, easier scheduling of the interviews for people who live far away from the consulate, as well as some queueing thing.

Clearly I know very little.
Since this account appears to be using HN exclusively for ideological battle, we've banned it. That's not what this site is for, as the guidelines explain:

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

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. Primarily that means doing what serves intellectual curiosity, rather than what destroys it.
More than one reality exists, shocking study says
I've had volume issues with the AirPods on my android (Pixel 2). They were so quiet that I could barely hear anything at full volume over normal street noise walking around in the city. I ended up selling them. This was over a year ago so maybe things are better now somehow.

They also apparently pair/connect way more seamlessly with an iphone but I didn't have any major issues with this.
They are in the quantities that bacon is eaten at. Who eats just one strip of bacon?
Sure, for a single hour. A real estate contract is dozens of pages long, and a good attorney would review all of those.

$500/hour for one hour? Doable for most people.

$5000+? That changes the economics of buying, especially if we're talking a $100k house, since that $100k is spread out over 30 years but the lawyer's bill is due in 30 days.
How do I make an architecture diagram like they display in the article?
I also visited 4chan regularly in my teenage years, and this is the thing that jumps out at me. In the past, 4chan was a place where nothing was sacred and people who sincerely believed in anything were ruthlessly mocked. There were always the white nationalist types, but there were enough people making fun of them that it balanced out.

That former group has disappeared, and 4chan has become the biggest echo chamber on the Internet. There are stretches of hours and thousands of posts where there isn't a single dissenting political opinion.

The irreverence of 4chan was always the appeal. It has morphed into a lockstep belief system in a hero figure. What's the point of a website with anonymous posts and no rules if everyone is carefully agreeing with each other?
Having to occasionally charge a pair of headphones, and not being able to charge while in use, is easily worth the trade off of being wireless. I would never go back to wired headphones, regardless of quality/price/features
Not unusual. But still disappointing.
It’s lab grown. Are plants grown in a lab fake plants? Bacteria cultured in a Petri dish fake bacteria?
These get charged way less than your phone. The case has about 24-hours worth of charge in it. I’m much more likely to have my phone low on charge than my AirPods. Wireless case charging will make it so that my case is almost always well charged.
I think lab grown meat will radically change how we as humans consume food and its going to taste way better than any animal grown meats we eat today. Animal breeding and husbandry right now is so crude, and there are so many inputs and outputs to optimize, and while meat taste is part of the equation, others factors are meat yield, byproducts, animal health itself (all factors that are important, but are often times in conflict with making the "tastiest" meats). Stage 1 is going to be recreating crude meats like ground beef or sausage, stage 2 will be recreating true single flesh meats like a chicken breast, or a steak, and stage 3 is going to be "designer" meats like a kobe beef recreation, and stage 4 will be "meat insanity", creating "meat like" foods that nature would never be able to produce but that taste incredible (steak balloons, cotton candy like fried chicken, foie gras & tuna marble). Imagine going to a sushi like restaurant where the food is all nigiri style small meat cuts but the meat is all this wild bespoke artificial meats that no animal could ever product, but are wildly tasty.
Climate change takes a toll on the heart
I think you make excellent points worth thinking about here.

Personally, I was struck when I saw how kids in my son's kindergarten were bucketed on the angel->troublemaker spectrum. It's a very one-dimensional approach.

At the end of the day, people usually find their role where they click. A top-tier salesperson or engineer have very different personalities and traits that make them effective, but aren't inherently better or worse than each other.
Loved my qc25’s, but when time came to upgrade to wireless - new Sony’s are just so much better - better noise cancelling and USB-C charging (Bose has much better feel overall).
gamblor956 covered our motivations for that rule very well, if government backed mortgages aren't an option it could be pretty hard to sell your house.

Folks can debate if government backed mortgages should be a thing, but as far as an association we decided we wanted to preserve the opportunity for folks to sell easily (well as easily as possible) by matching the government limits.

Some of the folks renting at the time were quite upset... until I explained for the 12th time to them that everyone renting on that day still could rent, and then there would be a limit... so they were actually in a good spot. Takes people a while to understand sometimes ;)

eropple kinda touches on a side concern about absentee landlords and such and that was very much on our mind as well.

I did say in another comment that we allowed some exceptions if the limit was reached. In fact we approved all exceptions that came our way as there were very few requests. We wanted folks to be able to rent if they had to move fast, family event, and couldn't sell quickly. We didn't want to put anyone in a bind.
I try to let lonely people speak about their passions with me for sort of the same reason.

Multiple times I have gotten shocked reactions when they discover after several conversations that I have never played World of Warcraft, or watched Doctor Who, because we have been talking about it for so long. This is usually because the more isolated someone is the less questions they ask and they more 1-way the conversation is, but it can result in hurt feelings if they feel mislead. So now I am sure to position myself early as interested but not experienced for whatever made up reason.

This not only helps them connect with someone, but has given me the most fascinating insights into the thought process, inner lives, and domain expertise of people very different from me. But I also wonder if this intense listening, but not participating psychological voyeurism is part of my own personality disorder... and preventing me from fully engaging with the world.

I took this strange passion so far that I attempted to make a startup where semi-famous people read Audio Books from OTHER authors, and then paused in between chapters to give you their reflections on what they had just read.
You do know that "American" is shorthand for citizen of the USA in everywhere else in the world, right?
Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive
Low-rise housing isn't really the problem. Take Barcelona, for example, which has nearly twice the population density as New York City—the U.S.'s densest city. Barcelona does have high-rises, but much of its density can be attributed to its narrow streets.

So, while bulldozing low-rise buildings in poor neighborhoods to build highrise apartment buildings would increase density, it's a very costly and inequitable way of doing it, especially when SO much area of NYC (and all U.S. cities) is designated exclusively for personal automobiles.
Cool. Well I hope your source is right and mine is wrong since I'd love to see a successor to the Vive in 2019 but so far things aren't looking great.
You are depressingly correct.
Plumbing in general is never cleaned and it isn't a problem as the water is moving.

The main issue with water tanks is the water is stagnant and in warm/hot climates ideal for life.

Nowadays it's very easy to add a UV light to the interior of your water tanks to keep the interior sterile.
I'm glad inside-out tracking is becoming the norm. Significantly easier to setup and still had pretty good performance (although on the 2-camera Windows MR models you can't reach behind your back but whatever).

I think Windows MR is significantly underrated just for this fact. My question is, should I get this or just buy the Samsung HMD today?
Are there hydrogen pipelines that make it easy to sell hydrogen on a larger regional market, or will you have to deal with a ton of transport issues too?
Samsung GT-E1080E
We actually have import taxes on everything (except books), which is 60% plus state-specific taxes (around 10-15%), which you pay on the whole price you payed, including the shipping costs. So in my experience we pay approximately 100% over the original price.
Brain wave stimulation may improve Alzheimer’s symptoms
I read the 'remote' bit to be referring to where you do your course work.
I wonder how do unit tests work with NN (or if they're even a relevant concept at all).

You could replay some testing video frames and make sure the objects are correctly identified, but i suppose that's already what training is about...

If an issue like that resurface, does it mean that the original frames leading to the 2018 accident aren't part of the training (or at least frames from someone driving in this kind of scenario) ?
Physicists may have found a way to untangle information trapped in a black hole
I've used a Vive once (a guy at work brought one in). Little sensors at the corners of the room, headset, hand grips. It was really neat. How does this rank next to Vive? I've been thinking of getting one (my kids would love the 3-d "drawing" app I tried). I have a good PC, should I be looking at getting the Rift S? A Vive? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!
She lives with her mother 14 years and never saw her at any time posting in Facebook. Her mother never show her pictures there from her childhood?
JITs were far more important in the 1980s when people regularly used grossly different computing systems.

Think of the popular 1980s computers: IBM PC (Intel 8086), Amiga (Motorola 68000), Commodore 64 (MOS Technology 6510), TRS-80 (Zilog Z80), Apple II (WDC 65C02), Acorn Electron (Synertek SY6502A).

The solution at that time was to use p-code ("portable" code), such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal

In fact, Pascal's popularity in the 1980s was probably due to the large number of p-code interpreters and Pascal -> p-code compilers.

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Ironically, we still use "p-code", now called Bytecode, today. But we really don't move between systems aside from ARM and x86. GPU assembly is special, since its an entirely different model so you can't really port Java or Python to the GPU.

I guess LLVM shows that the high-level translation to LLVM-intermediate language just simplifies compiler optimization, to the point that its useful even if you're making code for a specific machine.

EDIT: I think the modern CPU have more or less settled on the same features. They're all Multithreaded, cache-coherent Modified 64-bit Harvard machines with out-of-order execution, super-scalar front-end with speculative branch prediction, with ~6 uop dispatch per clock tick and roughly 2 or 3 load/store units with 64kB L1 cache and 64-byte cache lines with a dedicated 128-bit SIMD unit

The above lines describes ARM Cortex-A72, Intel Skylake, AMD Zen, and POWER9... except Skylake has 256-bit SIMD units I guess, and Apple's A12 has 96kB L1 cache. Not very big differences anymore between CPUs.
I like to imagine there is this magic wall between properties where nothing ever crosses over and in that situation we could somehow allow an absolute property rights sort of thing.

The catch is that it just doesn't work that way.
CO2 Emissions of Websites
Not having a lot of disk space is a minority case for developers now. I wouldn't hold your breath for the Go authors to address it.

If you have a disk space problem, Nix would seem to be the opposite of the solution to that. One of the ways Nix does its magic is to chew through disk space a lot more freely than most distros do.
They really phoned it in on this one. No physical IPD adjustment, an 80hz LCD rather than the 90hz OLED, a very marginal resolution increase to 1280×1440 (which is still less than the $200 WMR headset I bought almost two years ago), and no FOV increase. The move to inside-out tracking means a more convenient setup, but it will lose tracking when you put your hands behind you (like shooting a bow, which just about ruins Skyrim VR)[1].

Small wonder Brendan Iribe left Facebook over this[2]. They clearly want to push their more casual all-in-one headsets and don't care much about the enthusiasts and gamers that helped get Oculus off the ground in the first place. Really hope Valve steps up this year with a decent headset + the Knuckles controllers. Nothing wrong with building headsets for the more casual consumers but why can't someone release a decent gen 2 headset with the upgrades that everyone has been wanting.

1: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/03/hands-on-with-the-new...

2: https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/279364-oculus-rift-2-canc...

EDIT: After a little more reading it looks like the Quest (their equally priced all-in-one headset) has a higher resolution and a physical IPD adjustment. What the hell are you even paying for with this? You get a worse headset for the same price that lacks all the onboard hardware?
I never use Gmail in a browser. This means that this functionality is not available for me? ( using iSync msmtp mu mu4e emacs setup)
Well, it might have prevented the second crash if they had treated the matter with a bit more urgency. Depends on whether the two incidents really had a common cause, which is looking like the case.

Of course it's also looking like they should have grounded the fleet after the first crash, given the history of the aircraft prior to its last flight.
Be specific in what the job requires
Don’t list out all the popular languages; list out one or two you are looking for max
Don’t start a job description with “we are changing the world..”
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work."

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

There's lots of other stuff to read: https://news.ycombinator.com/front
Well at least that’s fair!
The Rift S has all that out of the box.

The OG Rift has also been able to do most of that since the Touch controllers released two years ago (full scale tracking with controllers that are arguably better than the Vive wands). You can also fix the light leakage problem (if you consider it a problem) by buying a third-party faceplate (the Widemo ones have a much smaller nose gap).
Yes. I used to live near there. Palo Alto has occasionally struggled with their underground transformer vaults. They make the streets look nice, but they're high maintenance. Many were submerged in the 1998 flood.

The "DEC data center" is of historic importance to the Internet. It's an old telephone company building, and was the home of AltaVista. It's now an Equnix data center, and says "PAIX" (Palo Alto Internet Exchange) on the front. [1]

DEC built the AltaVista search engine as a demo for DEC Alpha 64-bit computers, to show what they could do. Having thousands of identical machines in racks was a new thing then.

Because it was in an old telco building, with high ceilings, high racks, and ceiling cable trays from the electromechanical switching era, AltaVista was built like a telephone central office - tall racks of computers, with the cables overhead. Before this, data centers were usually raised floor construction. This is where telco-like data centers started.

As the "Palo Alto Internet Exchange", around 1996, it was the main peering point for the Internet in Northern California. One of the first big carrier-neutral peering points.

Also, I think the "1MW transformer" for the data center was actually above ground in the alley. It, or a successor, is still there, and you can see it in the aerials, but there's a cinderblock wall in front of it now. It used to be out in the open on a pad.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4455915,-122.1611684,3a,31y,...
I still have a Brazilian Atari 2600 clone from the end of the eighties or start of the 90's. Beamrider!
> Once it's lab-grown I'm not sure what I'll do, unless it's a vegetarian restaurant.

As a religious person I've been curious to read up on what religious scholars of various faith traditions with dietary restrictions have to say about lab-grown meats. Sadly, very few seem to have very settled opinions about it. And it's really only the Catholic Church that has the infrastructure to actually consult credentialed scientists to consult on these issues.

Most of the Hindu sources I've seen maintain that meat is bad on two levels. One is the ethical dimension of committing violence to things that feel pain. The other is an internal spiritual dimension where they believe meat is intrinsically not Sattvic. So it's less bad than real meat, but still not good.

The little I've seen from Jewish and Muslim sources suggests that they don't really see lab-grown as being any different from regular meat with regarding kashrut or halal food.
Because it's far easier to live in the US without papers. It's much more difficult to do that in Europe.
People are so exhausted from the aforementioned demonstrations I doubt anybody will demonstrate based on this new information. (I know people who went two weeks without any water in their home.) I just can't imagine Moise remains president for much longer. Note: I live in Haiti.
When a totalitarian adversary does it to aid their preferred candidate it's absolutely terrible for democracy.
There's also the time error correction that's done to ensure the accuracy of clocks that get their timing signal from the AC electric supply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Time_error_c...
That makes sense. For low-level C, you probably want to develop on whatever your target platform is. I'm sure most Linux kernel devs have a Linux laptop. In fact, Linus Torvalds made an argument along these lines in the context of ARM. (Basically, we need ARM laptops if you expect to get developers developing for ARM servers.)
do you want faster updates or a machine that doesn't inadvertently kill you? because for life-critical systems you really can't do both
Passport sales made up 41% of revenue for the Government of Vanuatu in the 3rd quarter of 2018. The most common customer is someone from China desiring visa-free access to the EU.

Vanuatu sells citizenship for USD$155,000.

https://twitter.com/dailypostdan/status/1108123023616311296

Compare China and Vanuatu passports: https://www.passportindex.org/comparebyPassport.php?p1=vu&p2...
N-gate.com now has a ridiculous cookie disclaimer
> Also, presuming you're also not a fan of Trump, would you then advocate for all tourism to the USA to cease?

It has fallen off a cliff under Trump
You’re making the same mistake everyone is making by assuming that the censor in this case is answerable to the Govt and can censor anything he/she likes or is told too. I understand because in the US system that is probably how it would work, it would be a federal agency, and the censor would be appointed by each new president and take his marching orders from the president.

Your argument requires beforehand authoritarian capture of all branches of the NZ government to make sense. At which point the whole suggestion is moot.
> Can't track hands behind you

This is a personal deal-breaker. The rest I can live with.

I get it. There's much less hardware involved, there's much lower manufacturing costs, those savings can be passed down to the consumer, bringing us closer to that hypothetical VR mainstream moment. I agree we need more headsets with this technology.

I've "grown up" with full tracking, though, and I'm used to it. It adds an additional layer of presence. I hope we don't get stuck with this downgrade on all future devices. Add Sixense to inside-out tracking and I'd be outright sold.

That being said, I already own the Vive with its lighthouses, so I wonder if I could use the Vive controllers with inside-out tracking HMDs. I guess that all depends on how much drift inside-out tracking suffers from, and how feasible it is to calibrate the two platforms.
Sadly a lot of libertarianism seems very ... not pragmatic / thought through.

I personally like the idea of a world as simple as many imagine it, but sadly I don't think it is that simple.

A great man once said: “People don’t think it be like it is, but it do."
if it came back after an update, wouldn't it be the issue of the algorithm training itself incorrectly?
If the abstractions evolve over time you still in compliance with the law.

But if you try to think-up all the abstractions and their interfaces before you have a working system -- you are likely to find yourself in violation of Gall's Law.

Many expensive complex systems have been built this way, very few of them have worked :)
If you only create a fruit without a full grown plant to have produced it, yes.

If you want to prove that eating fake meat has no additional adverse side effects to real meat, there would need to be studies. Have there been studies? No, there haven't. You can't assert that the two are the same because of a lack of evidence if there has been no attempt to find evidence. Until you have controlled experiments where people are exclusively fed both (preferably for at least a year, IMHO) you can't just conclude that 'well they seem the same so they must be'.