skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that's it, I fully agree with you. I was trying to relay that the exhaustion i get from the VR is just inherent to the physical activities I perform while in VR, nothing to do with VR itself. You phrased it much better than I did, so thanks for clarifying to others reading :)
thanks i’ll check out todesktop. i’ve recently been trying to get away from chrome and lack of profile support on safari is a blocker. the existing webkit encapsulators are awful in different ways.
The most upvoted answer is probably the most awesome pierce of information I’ve seen in 2019 though, holy socks that’s a great Quora answer.

And it’s the top answer, clearly distinguishable from the answers you’re referring to, which I think is better than most social media, HN included.
Looks cool, can I do this in the US?
He's already here, and sentenced to a year of supervised release. ISTM he can file whatever papers he needs to while he's physically present?
Ugh, still not seeing it. If I go to mixedreality.mozilla.org, that image doesn’t appear at all. I even tried requesting the desktop website and it still isn’t showing.
I've been fighting against governments violating human rights for a while and I have to say: I didn't know what to do then, and I don't know what to do now.
Does anything stop Dish from selling that spectrum back to the new company?
Does gitlab provide federation, such that forking, linking, issue reporting etc. works accross gitlab instances?
No the parent I think was being a bit hyperbolic and referring to ozone treatment. They draw out a half pint or so if blood, shake it around in a plastic bubble that has ozone pumped into it to enrich the blood somehow, then infuse it back into you. Then repeat. Like a kind of ozone plasmapheresis but not. Costs up to $10,000 for the course. It looks very unpleasant.

(It’s a popular treatment in the Lyme community but I’ve never seen any good evidence that really supports it, nor heard any actual anecdotes where it’s worked.)
Yeah, I did miss the import from protocol.py. I knew it couldn't be just 60 lines but got excited and hit enter. Regardless, to your earlier point, I don't dig into the protocol's details often and just rely on the library.

Micropython and this WebSocket client DO run on the ESP8266. As noted before, I'm using these libraries on a D1 mini. I don't know the specifics of the memory footprint as I stay away from applications where I'm up against the wall of my device's capabilities. But the point stands that there's plenty enough space on the ESP8266 for the glorious luxury of micropython.
This is wildly dependent on your original design actually being good.

Many products are NOT good at first and constantly redesign until they get something good. It's silly to give blanket advice "never redesign your product."
The problem is that we're not leaving ourselves options for when things inevitably go bad. We need to unwind the balance sheet while it's possible, because otherwise we won't be able to deal with another 2008 the way we did.
‘Fast Software, the Best Software’
I’m not sure there can ever be a perfect value store. Because such a store is a future promise to “look after you”, but the world is so damn unpredictable! Food prices could soar, land prices too, etc. How does the perfect value store keep up or know what will happen?

The impression I get is you need to invest in things that are short term risky and long term safeish like stocks to even attempt to store value. If you look at how pensions are usually reallocated from stocks to cash as you near retirement this is a clue.

But even then who is to say the ratio of Vangard to 1 months rent or 1000 calories of nutritious food will be the same in 20 years time?

Gold hasn’t performed too well over the last few years by the way.
You may be on to something.

They did the same thing with the iPhone 7. They removed the physical home button and simulated feedback with vibration. Then they got rid of the home button for the iPhone X.
Is it for a website or webapp?

If it is just a website, I highly recommend Netlify. It does static site hosting for dirt cheap.

If you need a webapp, I would agree with many other posters and say DO. They are the biggest of the "small" cloud providers, DO, Vultr, Linode. They have a wide range of options if you ever need to expand. I can't speak on their customer support because I have never had to use them.
But where do you have ctrl mapped to?
Agreed. Even just for straight up standing experiences, a lot of them involve way too much movement for someone living in a cramped apt. Playing Superhot VR recently, my friend accidentally broke my drinking glasses on the counter :(

It would be nice to be able to just sit down and relax in VR while playing a game.
I know it's a super minor part of the story but did anyone else find it interesting GitHub is using AirTable to collect responses to accounts they are deactivating?
> Regardless, I keep stats, and I'm doing worse than I was years ago. My rent has gone up about $300 a month (16%)

I have to hand it to you, this is one of the most insidious ways to misrepresent the true rate of inflation. If it was intentional, kudos to you; you almost tricked me. If it was not intentional, then a quick math nitpick:

If your coffee has increased 16% in price from five years ago, the average inflation rate (which almost always means per-year rate, and certainly means per-year given the stats cited above) is actually 16/5 = 3.2%.
Unprecedented Wildfires in the Arctic
Sure, our institutions can and should be improved. And I believe that by and large, we are moving forward. But it is not the case that we are currently doing it wrong and we can do it somehow right. We can only aim to do it better. The state of society changes and get reevaluated.

Still, the way I see it, in any point in history or in the future, crime will exist and, if we want law and order maintained, we will have to maintain a database of stolen goods and of criminals. Do you see any alternative?
Technology may eventually help reduce humans who don't mind exploitation.

Beyond that, I'm afraid it'll be business as usual.
Even the first answer has “Western media won’t tell
you this”. Like there’s some western conspiracy to downplay Chinese agriculture industry.

The Chinese media is constantly telling their people that the US is plotting against China and is hostile to them, so the citizens don’t get any crazy ideas like democracy and human rights. While simultaneously amplifying the bad news coming out of America to show the ‘dangers’ of western culture.

Plus there is a large group of astroturfers constantly scanning the web for mentions of China (aka “50 cent army”).

I don’t blame the individuals for holding these views but it’s something to always be conscious of when reading anything online about China. And I say that as someone who loves their country and people, just not their cultural controls.
That's definitely when they peaked.
I use python scripts these days but I don't think they're any better than bash or perl scripts. Just more popular these days.
> In a scorching July 2014 email to the hospital’s lawyers, Wendy R. Armstrong, a lawyer and the wife of Mr. Armstrong’s son Mark, noted that Mark and his brother, Rick, would soon be traveling to Florida to speak at a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing.

“This event at Kennedy Space Center will receive national news coverage,” Wendy Armstrong wrote. “Rick and Mark have been solicited by several book writers and filmmakers for ‘information about Neil that no one already knows.’” The lawyer suggested that unless the parties reached a quick settlement, the hospital would be publicly criticized for giving lethally flawed care to one of America’s most famous and revered public figures.

Well that's nice, a touch of blackmail is always nice.

Regardless of the care being flawed, he was 82 years old! It's hard not to paint the family as opportunistic and greedy.
FormGet Storage Bucket Leaks Passport Scans, Bank Details
Sure; I'm not aware of anybody using cpp with Rust either.
Not a tax lawyer, but reporting of lot identification is a tax-time decision, at least for the things being discussed in this thread.

If it's transaction-time then that's totally unenforceable since this discussion applies to things as diverse as trading physical goods for other physical goods in an ad hoc unrecorded environment. It would make no sense for it to automatically be FIFO anyway, for example a person with amnesia might temporarily forget their ownership of longer-term holdings.

And for just one example where FIFO would be suboptimal despite a rising market, merely suppose that you know you're about to die and your children are about to inherit everything with a higher cost basis, but you need a bit of cash right now. (I highly doubt tax optimizer software has achieved the strong AI that would be necessary to know if you're about to die.)
now with a new interface, thanks to https://github.com/ocjojo
NDA: Preventing Speculative Execution Attacks at Their Source [pdf]
Slightly off-topic, but I keep thinking that downvoting should only be possible together with a comment stating the reason for the downvote.
I saw quite a few 120MB Super Disk drives back in the day, I don’t know if I once saw a Super Disk. They were all used as 1.44MB floppy drives for the early iMacs.
Oh boy. Lots of things in the top answer that western folks will, uh... question. Informative and complete nonetheless!
And such a law and the agency enforcing it need to be a lot more pro-active. By the time governments decide they need to "break-up a company", the lion's share of the damage has long been done against both small players (or potential entrants that never stood a chance) as well as consumers.

This is why although I'm a bit supporter of GDPR and other such regulations, I think there is some truth in the idea that they also "lock-in" the larger players, because of 2 primary reasons:

1) the fine/punishment is never significant enough to the point that all of the ill-gained wealth is entirely wiped out. However, maybe it can't/shouldn't be fully wiped out anyway, because then we enter into the realm of applying laws retroactively a bit, and that brings all sorts of other dangers with it.

2) they block the newer entrants from using the same unethical tactics to effectively compete. However, I don't think this is a good excuse against not enabling such laws. Getting stuck with a couple of monopolies that can still be further regulated down the road isn't as bad as everyone stealing people's data and abusing it for personal gain, etc. Like we saw recently that US carriers have been selling people's location data to bounty hunters and all sorts of other shady groups -- all in the name of some extra profit. No, I definitely think a strong law against such abuses would be much better than it not existing.

But in an ideal world, the governments would've prevented the unethical behavior way before it starts giving companies billions of dollars in profit every single quarter. And then both the rampant abuses for a decade+ and the monopolies would be prevented from the start.

I've been kind of developing my own "rule of thumb" for noticing which company is a monopoly/makes too much money in some unethical way. When a company reaches this step you start seeing it "invest" into all sorts of crazy and unrelated ideas and markets that have nothing to do with its core business.

When a company has "too much money it doesn't know what to do with" and prefers spending it on completely unrelated markets instead of improving its core products/offering better value (huge red flag if it doesn't here), then you know that company is doing something that makes it way too easy for it to print money. Maybe it's lobbying Congress for locking out competitors, maybe it's it bribing government officials to gain contracts, maybe it's them coercing customers into exclusive deals, and so on. When it gets too easy to make a lot of money and the competition seems to have no way of catching up, it's not just because the product is that good.
I have hard time to understand negative yield. What does that even mean? I'm paying someone to take my money? Why would it make sense to anyone?
Also Java (annotation processors) and Scala (macros with full access to type system). Java is considered good enough systems language for some definition of a system - there are successful high performance database engines, web servers, web frameworks, compilers, distributed computing engines written in Java.
I lived in Reston for a few years. For being a quiet far-away bedroom community, it was funny to see how rents exploded, especially once the metro arrived. Apartments in the awful town center area were asking Dupont Circle prices with the 2 hour x 2 commute and $20/day parking and $10/day tolls it would cost to actually work in Dupont.

DC is becoming an awful place unless you absolutely know where you'll be working for the next 20 years and can buy a home close to the office. Otherwise, you're not going to enjoy the 2.5 hour commute and $12 in tolls when client site location moves from Tysons to Silver Spring, MD. It's so crowded, though, because a lot of government workers and contractors who'd be making $50K in Anywhere, America can earn 6 figures after a bit of seniority in the gov.

I'm planning on bailing for good. I could now only barely afford one of those tiny condos with a $500/month HOA nowhere near a metro in NOVA, but I'd never get to enjoy it as I'd be spending the majority of my day sitting in traffic. And wages in DC for techies aren't really that good compared to SV or NYC, since it's mostly set by government. Maybe Amazon will force the contractors to pay more.
You are correct. Change my third question to, "after applying a correct gamma curve to achieve perceptually uniform line widths in the unipolar case, what is the correspondence of line widths when inverting the polarity to preserve the perception of width matching?" Then you want to break that down into the contribution assuming a perfect display and the effect from lower dpi.

This question is less important than the other two, and plausibly the best place to address the effect is in design, rather than rendering.
This will be a very unpopular opinion, but it is true: USA is much better than 200 years ago; if 200 years ago you were a slave, 100% of your output belonged to your master. Now your government owns only 40-50% of your output and you feel totally free.
The only bad thing is that almost 100% of the population is now a half-slave. You don't chose what to pay, how much and what for, you just have to pay up, or else. Yes, you get some services, whatever the governments wants to, same as slaves got shelter and food, as much as the master wanted to. I see some similarities, tell me they don't exist.
That story is from 2017. I don't think it passed.
Please don’t use the word P*nis in your title, this article is hosted on a Christian server.
It is such a strange inclination to want to hide the math behind programming. I find this just makes things even more obtuse.

Every time I have to read code that implements a numerical algorithm, I have no idea what is going on until I reverse engineer (so to speak) the code back into standard mathematical notation.
I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this...

Over the last 10 years there has been a massive increase in the money supply and a huge inflation in financial assets, but not much inflation in the sorts of goods and services that average people spend their money on.

So, riffing on these results, what if the treasury printed enough money to wipe away the debt of every US citizen, either paying off loans on people's behalf or just giving money to people and encouraging them to pay off their loans?

Because loans are quoted in nominal dollar amounts this would eliminate everyone's loan balances. The money used to pay off the loans would then be invested, because creditors are generally institutions and institutions tend to invest in financial assets.

The net result would be an elimination of the debt of all citizens, inflation in financial assets, but steady consumer goods and services prices.

The downside of this is that income inequality increases, with institutions and holders of financial assets getting a massive transfer of wealth, but the upside is that we get rid of everyone's debt.

What am I missing?
Thanks for providing well thought-through advice like that. Following your arguments it seems pretty clear to me that you put a lot of thought in that.

If I may ask, what's your background that tells you things like "most CS folks understand MB and find genetics confusing"?
Ask HN: Alternative to OAuth for Gmail Automation?
I have created a product in the email automation space and Google's OAuth process finally got back me and told me I need a $15,000 to $75,000 assessment because we make requests to an external service (our own service).

Obviously as a side project/business a large fee isn't going to work considering the product makes zero money at the moment. Are there alternatives? Would it makes sense to stick with IMAP all the way?
I don't think most people getting phone calls or letters from the IRS think any of them are real at this point.
I think you meant Lightsail not Lighthouse correct?
All this reminds me of the death throes of a dying empire.

The US is flailing incoherently. Most of it's actions are ultimately making it weaker. It's blown all it's its international credibility. It's spending about 50% of it's GDP on a worthless security state and rent seeking. And this sort of thing is tossing the US's corporate credibility in the fire.
Credit card loans aren't collateralized and can be spent on almost anything so the risk of default (without collecting the principal) is higher, at least in theory. Usually most consumer loans, like car or houses, are easily collateralized. Can't do that with a vacation to the bahamas
There is nothing shown about this (who would approve that controlled study?), just lots of suspicions (as usual). Screen time in general is bad for kids’ developing eyes, however.
Cool to see someone using JavaFX and not Electron. I quite like it and used it for a few card games and stuff.
The number of running nodes is a direct function of the number and size of your containers. The cluster autoscaler stops and and start servers based on how many containers are desired, which is in turn based on the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler inputs (e.g. incoming requests).
Yeah crypto is worth nothing, lets drop HTTPS and find unencrypted alternatives to ssh.
"Welcome to AOL Time Warner Taco Bell U. S. Government long distance. Please state the name of the individual you'd like to call"

-Idiocracy (2006)

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ad893407-a612-4158-96da-f75b143...
This article (below) covers the same story. I like some of the photos it has.

https://gizmodo.com/undead-tree-stump-is-being-kept-alive-by...
Assembler? Inline LLVM intermediate representation might be extremely useful instead, for many applications, see:

https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-24-ir-is-better-than-assem...
Or the “MacBook SE”.
I do not speak for Bloomberg, solely the article. And maybe you're right, but I'm more of a brute force attack individual, although I love Nmap..
Planning to Start, Planning to Finish
> Old version support has a cost for the company supporting it.

Old UI support has zero cost to it.

Arbitrary new UIs have significant cost to them.
1) I didn’t say broken, I said ‘doesn’t properly display‘.

2) How many other smaller phones exist on the market? It’s disingenuous to say it’s .5%.

This is not some complex item- it should simply not look like this. If the simple stuff is misaligned, what can you expect the rest of the page and more complex items to work like?
I have no problem going two hours of beat saber and/or boxvr, though my Quest’s battery does.
it's an embedded tweet:

https://twitter.com/Farzad_YZ/status/1154640983377797120
South China Sea: China and Vietnam Face Off in Disputed Zone
I had to replace a very old MBP recently and couldn't stomach the keyboard, touch bar and lack of ports on the new models, so I bought a used Mid 2015r in mint condition. Best computer I ever owned.

If Apple were to re-release that machine with upgraded CPU, graphics card, memory and storage, I would buy one in an instant.
The same is true for digital audio.

We are so used to see the visual presentation of samples that look like a bar diagram, that a lot of people think analog sounds better because the curves are smoother.

Chris Montgomery has a great talk about this.
Brands/trademarks are an identifier, actually not a token of trust. I don't have much trust in "Walmart", "Capital One", or "Oracle", but a brand isn't about trust, it is about identifying goods and services. The brand/trademark is there to identify those cheap goods as from Walmart, Inc. (as opposed to, say K-mart), that overly-expensive, poor-performing database as from Oracle, Inc (as opposed to, say, the not-as-expensive SQL Server). Of course, you generally want your brand/trademark to be trusted, but they are an identifier, not a symbol of trust.

In fact, a token of trust cannot be created by the company, it has to be created by the people who trust it (the consumer). The fact that people pre-order a game or a Tesla is a token of trust, but the name Tesla is not a token of trust. "Tesla" might be a trusted brand, but it is not a token of trust.

Now the case of Amazon is interesting. Amazon has created a system where the brand actually has no meaning, because they will co-mingle inventory from anyone who claims it is identical, in particular, counterfeits. So I buy something with brand X, but there is actually no guarantee that it actually came from the makers of X. So Amazon's marketplace actually undermines brands. A world without brands/trademarks looks like Fulfilled by Amazon, not like a bunch of untrusted goods and services. The problem with Fulfilled by Amazon is that there is no guarantee that the item is what it claims it is and the whole point of brands/trademarks is to uniquely identify an item.
This merger doesn't reduce total companies though, since Sprint was very clearly going out of business without it.
FYI India has more arable land than USA at the moment: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.ARBL.HA?end=2016...
Don't leave us hanging, man! With what nefarious interest did the public interest fortunately coincide?
This is just foolishness. Are some rich people still exploiting others and rigging the system? Sure. But chattel slavery was an extraordinary evil. It's at best vacuous to put it in the same moral bucket as a democracy where people vote to, say, make sure old people don't starve in the streets.
Most websites break around the 300px mark, even when responsive. According to Chrome's dev tools the iPhone SE has a 320px width. Alignment issues are going to be common on that device.
All I see here is a bit of advice on what to measure, and nothing on how to measure it. The problem with measuring software engineer performance has always been in the how, not the what, so this article is just noise, IMO.
The relevant charts ("the daily image update is produced from near-real-time operational satellite data, with a data lag of approximately one day"):

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2012/05/daily-image/

Artic Sea Ice:

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iq...

Antartic Sea Ice:

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_iq...
Basically, these all say the same thing and aren't _that_ scary aside from the fact they are from the IRS: Amend your prior returns if you owe money. I am curious if they expect the same if you lost money.
To quote a headline from the Esquire:

"We're Supposed to Believe the Russians Hacked Into Voting Systems But Did Nothing Once They Got There?"