skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It allows instant-play on 10mbit connections, where you would need to wait 10-20hrs otherwise to play. Even on gigabit connections, you're going to wait ~1hr to play AAA games as opposed to starting immediately. Instant gratification is powerful.
Free market always means someone gets suckered into building someone else's wealth, so
I like the radio idea. It brings to mind the good old days of pirate radio stations.

As for the objections regarding the of locating radio transmissions by adversaries, as technology becomes cheaper and more miniaturized, it will become more and more feasible to have very small, very cheap, disposable repeaters, which could be deployed on mobile, relatively anonymous transport (like flying drones, trains, and ships), and perhaps automatically activated long after their owner has left.. and perhaps activated only in case of emergencies, like this blackout.

Individuals wishing to communicate through these repeaters could send very short and rare transmissions from different, and maybe also mobile locations, so that finding them will be much more difficult.

Unfortunately, if adversaries are aware of these devices (and they would be were such devices to ever become widely deployed), they could still either jam them or perform a denial of service attack by flooding them with their own transmissions. Some sort of steganography might be of use here, but I'm not sure how effective it would be if lots of people know about it, which is a requirement for any widely deployed technology.
Nope. It is not a gimmick and will definitely be a "thing" in the foreseeable future. So we have different ideas of the foreseeable future, interesting.
At different points in history, different sides have been fairly objectively 'good' or 'bad' on various issues.

Slavery was bad.

Nixon was a crook.

Of course people are complicated and you have to look at the entirety of things, which makes it complicated, but still, I don't buy the "both sides" stuff either.
> I’ve never seen a single mind changed

Then why are social media companies so hell bent on suppressing the ones they don’t like? They’re reaching _somebody_.
Or end up in the basin of Godwin's law...
The obvious counterargument is that people like the designer clothing not because of the amount of effort spent designing it, but because of the designer brand itself.
> Just seems like a small target of players who are old enough to fondly remember the original + still have time to play long form games + still have gaming equipment + have VR/are willing to buy VR.

Are they making playing the previous games a requirement? Games can stand on their own, even if they are best enjoyed when you already have some emotional investment.
Are you OK with the government infringing on the freedoms of a bakery to choose what business they accept thus forcing a baker to make a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding despite that baker's beliefs on the contrary?
Everytime I see one of these articles I immediately wonder if they controlled for all the obvious stronger correlations that are already known.
Virtue Signalling is used by everyone, just in different ways.

The intersectional left however, is generally the group with words and actions powerful enough for it to be highly visible, at least at the national level. In local terms, say at the level of school/church/neighbourhood I think, paradoxically, it's people of very conventional/classical morality that might have more power via shaming etc..

Whereas at on CNN for example generally one's 'private sex life' is out of bounds (unless there's something illegal) ... I think that in social circles, there's a lot of gossip and talk about that kind of stuff.

To me the results of this study are obvious, but it would be interesting to point out how it may have nothing to do with the validity of the moralisation. 'Virtue signallers' may often be right, but it's the ugly sanctimony and lack of context that I object to.
No one tried it because it's expensive AF. And you need space. And there are so many of them. And the storefronts don't match. And there are no games. And you sweat. And they're heavy. And you need a monster PC. And it doesn't work. And and and.

It's a gimmick.

Alyx is a $2000 game for a normal gamer, counting an index and a sizeable PC upgrade.
Advertising, advertising, advertising and dance floors.
Your statement doesn't make sense to me. If you're claiming that this WeWork situation is similar to someone fraudulently obtaining $20,000 by claiming they are someone else, I have to disagree because there has been no misrepresentations in the WeWork saga that I am aware of.
HL2 wasn't photorealistic by any stretch of the word. Sure it looked great for the time, but go back and play it now.
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That's bad for dems. "Stop and frisk" Mike Bloomberg isn't even liked by New Yorkers let alone everyone else. This means he thinks that the dem field is so weak, he considers himself an _improvement_. I disagree. I think this only weakens the already weak roster of candidates.
> Imagine the positive press
“Career transition” is that what we’re calling lay-offs now?
I came across Plaid for the first time today and when trying to make a transfer through Transferwise. When asked for my bank username and password at a website !my_bank I was like hell nope. Ended up having to use a credit card instead which had the highest fee... :( I hope this kind of garbage disappears.
CVS even explicitly has signs that point out some house brand product has the same ingredients as X well known branded product.
You can believe that certain actions people do are wrong with demeaning them as subhuman evil beings. In fact, if you want them to stop doing those things you dislike without resorting to physical violence, acknowledging our shared humanity is the first step.
Awesome. You get what you pay for. And with FastMail you get an awesome email experience. Worth paying money for something we all depend on everyday.
Police Reports: Meth, Heroin, Cocaine Found at Tesla Factory
To clear up some confusion around TinyMCE and Textbox.io. The products came to be under the same umbrella due to the merger of Ephox and Moxiecode. The combined company was renamed Tiny last year.

TinyMCE version 5, released earlier this year, incorporated much of the Textbox.io features and technology and is the main product moving forward. It is better than Textbox.io in almost every way now and is recommended for new projects.

Tiny did indeed raise $4M in venture capital last year. It has not been squandered by any means. In fact, we have only just started spending it as we were profitable and growing when we first raised the money.

Tiny has a good-sized development team with more than 30 people in engineering, QA, design and product management. Of the many options out there, TinyMCE is a good bet!

(disclosure: I am a founder and the CEO at Tiny)
Your comment would have been better received if it had any explanation as to why it was there, like

"someone else in this thread said that they know some slack employees and it's true: <link> "

that way people scanning know what the link is and why it's there.
The schadenfreude that occurs when someone tries to 'cancel' another person on social media, only for them to be 'cancelled' for their own previously uncovered misdeeds is pretty pleasing. [O]

Unfortunately I think this is reflective of our society. With social media, there is little room for growth, acknowledgement of mistakes, and understand. You're either with the crowd or not. It's a big reason why I've removed myself from social media. Glass houses everywhere.

0:www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/juliareinstein/des-moines-register-iowa-reporter-fired-aaron-calvin-carson
We have built a good business selling on Amazon in a product category where the competition (including Amazon Basics) is half of our price. If all you bring to Amazon is something that is undifferentiated and can be easily copied, then it'll be a race to the bottom and you'll lose to factories in China selling direct or players like Amazon who can achieve massive economies of scale.
I don't think the Fastmail UI tells me but I believe I joined Fastmail in 2002 and have been using them since then. (Before that I was using Spamcop's hosted mail.)

There have been some minor annoyances over the years, but in general, no major complaints.

Still sad about the loss of the XMPP service a few years ago though.
Just wait til India gets their coal expansion in gear. China is already the largest co2 emitter, India hasn't quite arrived yet. But India has no shortage of coal to prevent joining the party, and 300M+ people still needing basic electric service.
Wow thank you so much, both to you and the author. Can confirm it works as advertised!

Please upvote parent to the top!!
That's not a great idea. If you don't use open, the app won't show up in the Finder app switcher.
While homo economicus is mocked for being nonexistent there is a reason that perfectly rational actors are used in economic models -- in general people are extremely rational, it is just their priorities are not what you expect them to be.

I'm sure you can find plenty of HNers whose friend groups express strong preferences to buying better. There's just nothing to buy better.
Facebook is going to release Oculus link soon so that you can connect your Oculus Quest to a PC like a normal rift. I think that might be able to play this.

edit: it looks like it's actually already out
Thanks for posting! Impressive.

By the way, back then I really liked the first stages of HL2 -- the dystopian intro absolutely rocks -- but eventually had to stop playing, partly because it was getting too long, and partly because of motion sickness. This really took me by suprise because I was a gamer, had enjoyed the original HL without problems... and suddenly there was a new breed of 3D games where I got motion sickness and had to quit.

I distinctly remember two games that made me almost throw up when playing: HL2 and Jedi Outcast.

I was wondering if it was simply a stage of my life, so I decided to watch your video and... instant motion sickness. I think it has something to do with the jerky point of view and the rapid motion, but also something about how the "lens" of the viewport deforms the image near the borders.

Does it happen to anyone else? :(
In reference to #3: Does Fibery provide the capability for a problem solver to create their own solutions on the platform to provide (resell) to their customers?
The same controller pose can correspond to different arm positions, so VR games/apps that do IK are making a guess that is generally going to be somewhat inaccurate. I do like the implementation in Lone Echo, though.
It's not that easy to find a new job while working full-time.
WeWork has not only been in the business of running offices, they have been in the business of _producing_ new offices at scale. They have contracted and built out over 800 locations within 9 years. Probably 100-200 a year as of late - which requires a horde of lawyers, real estate people, project managers, area managers, recruiters and so forth. They even have their own factory for (cheap and shitty) tables and chairs. If every office location has 1000 seats, we are talking 100k tables a year.
For what it's worth, I spend extra money on Ugmonk clothes not because I want you to go, "Wow, Ugmonk!" I do it because of the quality of the goods and design and because I want to support the designer. Originally I wore Allbirds because of this too.

I don't know if I am normal nationally, but locally this is a big part of the culture around these more costly goods. It is in the same vein, I might add, as "buying American".

Is this part of "brand?" Certainly. Does that divorce it from effort or quality? Certainly not.
Well he's not you, so he's keeping 1.7 billion. No one cares at large. Investors actually respected Shkreli, and the masses don't even remember who that is. Just cover your legal bases lol
disks are slow, even SSDs / flash. not to mention eating cycles of the SSD. you want to go the other way with it, cache the disk to ram, not the other way around.
Been with Fastmail for a half year now and loving it.

I can send emails from 10+ different domains and host files there super easily.

Although I'd like to see some algorithm place important emails at the top (somewhat like Gmail) and have scheduled send, Fastmail is a pretty bare-bones service!
Wouldn't this make more sense as a ublock list/set of rules?

I don't want to install this random extension.
Fastmail is fantastic, no complaints at all.... besides the mobile app.

I don't care about the speed or glitches or whatever others may complain about, but I travel way too much to have no offline email access on my phone.

So this turns into me having 2 email apps on my phone (Android); one to do stuff in (Fastmail) and another (K-9 which is not great to write/do stuff in) that just sits there, likely hogging battery life, receiving emails and storing them so that I can read them / access them while in an airplane/foreign country/bad connection spot.

If they fix this I would be overjoyed.
Fastmail is a direct competitor to Gmail. That is Fastmail is Gmail but different. Fastmail is opposed to E2E e-mail encryption as this makes some of their features impossible (e.g. full text e-mail search).

Protonmail on the other hand has OpenPGP encryption that can be used even cross providers (on https://beta.protonmail.com composing an e-mail to Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> will enable encryption). But they don't support all usual e-mail features like IMAP and SMTP (there are bridges but...).
At the highest level, the conversation looks like:

The design engineer: "We know on paper how the product needs to function in terms of strength, weight, durability, etc"

The manufacturing engineer: "We've never made something like this before. I've got a couple ideas how we can bend/shape/form/machine/weld these materials into the shape, but I don't know how those bend/shape/form/machine/welding operations are going to affect the underlying physical properties of the material. I know on paper these operations should be OK, and we can inspect them as we go, but again we've never done them before, we most likely will overlook something or discovery something new, so let's try one of them and break it early before we get too far down a potentially bad path."

The test engineer: "Well it worked up until X point then failed, here's the data for you design engineer and you manufacturing engineer, better try something else".

Design engineer: "Shoot, what we thought we were manufacturing isn't actually what got manufactured. Hmmm, is it even possible to make the part we need? Or do we now need to redesign the part because it can't actually be made. Let's try another approach. And maybe it's smart to pursue a few of these in parallel to increase our overall chance of success"

Those 3 roles can be the same person or separate organizations of hundreds/thousands of people. Requirements documents, manufacturing/quality reports, test reports, inspection reports are the language of this technical interchange.
You are a failure of the society you live in and whatever system of education you were put in. God have mercy on your insipid soul.
My current company offers tuition assistance so may try it but it seems like to do anything with this company you need to ask your boss 5 times about it and there is a cap on earning. My only concern is that I suck at math but honestly I think it is my fault and thus why I mentioned about the certificates as I can take everything else while I brush up on math. Also it seems like with changes in the company there may be less demand for the position I am angling for at my company.
Epstein didn't kill himself...he died in an experiment to test his engine design. Thanks to his wife finding his research material people were able to take advantage of it.

Seriously, I love the Expanse series, but Epstein drive is a name that didn't age well due to forces outside of the author's control.
WeWork is just one part of it, however. Uber is another Ponzi scheme, living on underpriced rides and multi-billion losses for as long as their bond rating holds up.
Why? A fraction of that will buy you even better positive press.
I can see this hitting legal businesses, like gun stores and abortion providers. Advertisements for those are equally political, but I really doubt that Google would judge it that way.
On Tuesday I said:

>Due to some of the technical limitations with people (motion sickness does not make a popular game) I don't think this is not going to be an open spaces and free-movement heavy game like HL2. Not having some really good expansive panorama scenes would be a disservice to the VR tech but don't expect to be able to drive a go-kart around in them. I'm expecting a lot of semi stationary scenes where the player is free around a small space as the environment smoothly and steadily around them (like all the various freight elevator and rail car scenes in HL1). I expect that in typical Half-Life fashion there will be lots of object manipulation and head crab batting practice while the player remains nearly stationary.

So based on the trailer it looks like I was decently right. I think you're gonna spend a lot of time solving puzzles with one hand while defending yourself with the other. I really hope they nail the cinematic aspect of it like they did in HL2 since that greatly contributes to how immersive the game feels.
he did normalize CIA drone attacks, which required no declarations, no trials, no reporting, until he made reporting mandatory in 2016 (heh)
It happens to a lot of people. Try adjusting the FOV.
I've literally seen contracts that define promise n% of "____ gross", where "____" is some inconspicuous seeming word, but they then define that phase in such a way that it does not even remotely correspond to the actual gross.

So knowing that you want gross instead of net is nowhere near good enough to avoid getting screwed. (In the case I am referring to a book author who sold movie rights was screwed over by a contract specifically misworded to sound like she would be getting a percent of of gross, when the actual definition used was much closer to that of net).
To get the benefit, you have to provide documentation that you're looking for a job.
I don't know how you got warm fuzzy from that ending, but I'm not clear on why giving alcohol to someone living on the streets makes you angry. Does being homeless imply that someone is obviously an alcoholic that shouldn't be allowed near alcohol?
S3 Outage?
I'm seeing intermittent networking issues at S3. Don't see anything status.aws.amazon.com though. Anybody else seeing it?
> “There’s no question that every single one of these groups is a white nationalist group,” said Heidi Beirich, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project [..] Many contemporary proponents of white nationalism fixate on conspiracy theories about demographic change and consider racial or ethnic diversity to be acts of “genocide” against the white race.

Fun fact: SPLC's Mark Potok keeps a close eye on the declining US white demographics, and the SPLC considers pretty much any group opposed to immigration a 'hate group': https://www.debatepolitics.com/general-political-discussion/...
That only works for the Bourne shell. Using `env` is more portable.
They split off Coca Cola Enterprises to achieve this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Enterprises
> Maintaining a self-hosted solution is an enormous cost, which most people forget about. You need to create, document, maintain and support an entirely different version of your software (single-user, no billing/invoicing, different email sending, different rights system, etc).

I think you're not looking at this from a local-first perspective. From that perspective you can have the same app locally as on the server. There's only one version. Yes, it does require more planning and atypical approaches, but it's 100% doable.

I'm in the planning stage of a local first web-app that will have a server side version, and it's literally going to be the exact same code on both.

I can see some arguments for having _slight_ differences between server and client software but nothing that isn't easy for a solo-dev to maintain. Mostly set it up once and never touch it again type things.

thinking local-first has fundamentally changed some decisions i normally make without thinking for web apps, but I think it will absolutely be worth it for my users in the end.
Actually, that IS how it works.

It may not be possible to know or calculate the exact intake and output values, but those values are not needed. Your body gives you cues.

> eating a little more or less has absolutely not discernible effect the body adapts to it.

Yes, the body adapts to it by storing or eliminating fat (among other things).
Common advice is you only have to be good at either hiring slowly or firing early.

Google, for example, was apparently very good at hiring (slowly) - at least in their early days. So it didn't matter that they were (are?) terrible at firing.

Facebook was the opposite AFAIK. It didn't matter that they hired too soon and too many of the 'wrong' people - because they were good at letting them go before it did too much damage to the business.

On balance, I'd rather be good at hiring than firing, as it seems to be much more fair on employees.
I just want to say that this is without a doubt the most exciting thing I have seen in VR so far, and I will definitely buy an Index for this. They got me. Full length game, brand new engine, Half Life story?? Holy s*it
I only do hobby gamedev, so I don't know what I'm talking about, but when I think of a tool that's "too complex" to release, I imagine not just a conceptually difficult thing, but a dangerous thing. For example, the editor lets you shoot yourself in the foot with a bunch of a esoteric considerations that don't really make sense, but the internal people know how to work around them more or less, like making sure that there's a dummy Bar for every Foo on the map, and that they are named in some crazy way, and that the name doesn't contain the "%" symbol, and you have to do that all manually and if you don't the host computer hard locks. Internally they solve this by hard-won intution about how to use the tool, plus a huge and thorough testing scheme.

I think that's the key -- if the tool allows you to harm the user's computer in some way, then it's not a tool you can really release without polishing a lot more, to prevent the failure modes. And it's particularly bad if it's hard not to mess up.
This is a disgusting attitude and is exactly why these types of problems exist.
Only if he releases it
I forgot to mention their responses usually contain a veiled threat about accepting such offers.
Astronomers Detect Record-Breaking Gamma Ray Bursts
I guess I'm buying VR gear then.
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Really serious and ominous sounding name. Too bad for this hyper-realistic concept. Never heard of Expanse before!