skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This discounts the possibility that at lower levels of government, America might already be a high corruption country.

Let’s break this down:
1. The performance of the local government. You can already see this when you talk with your neighbors or walk or drive around the streets. Are the potholes in your area getting filled? Are the police doing a decent job? Are houses burning down left and right? Are your kids coming home from school and not getting progressively more literate and numerate? To the extent that there is room in the market for even more coverage of the local government, it really depends on how big the local bureaucracy is.

2. Candidates in local elections. Did you know it was the job of candidates running for office to get themselves and their message in front of as many people in their constituency as they can? They have a message to sell, and if they are at all effective, they’ll sell it as widely as possible. If the local papers and broadcasters aren’t doing the job, they’ll find other ways to get their message out or else just lose the election. Anybody with any interest against this candidate will also be selling messages to get in front of you, in whatever channels you’re paying attention. I don’t think we’re any less informed about our politicians than we ever were, it’s simply a matter of how interested we are in what they do for us. For example, I care very much who is repping me on the Board of Supervisors, but without children of my own, I struggle to stay interested in school board elections, and I find it questionable that we are electing any judges at all.

3. Investigative journalism. This is a separate kind of informational product, and there is a generally competitive market here, but the trick is to see each story as a separate product. Organizations which attempt to specialize in this product tend to not bring in much revenue, but the investigative arm of an organization can bring prestige to the whole organization by putting out investigative products. In any case, investigative journalism does not stand on its own without a supporting organization, and brings in more revenue if you get a book deal.

I don’t think all we have is all that I outlined above. I think the market supports reporting and editorializing just fine, but for the local variants, there just isn’t a lot of demand for the same kind of reporting, maybe because the stakes are lower, maybe because people are just less interested in the community they live in, or maybe there’s less government, less stuff, to keep tabs on.
+1 to steam for how easy it is to enable mods via steam. modding can be a little daunting to your average user but steam enables communication about a mod (via the comment section which is really helpful for communicating with mod owner), quick and easy installation and uninstallation (underrated feature esp for non tech users), and discovery via the workshop
I think he means that if you dont have a VR ready graphics card, that costs another $200.
The point is of course to take 4 random words out of a very large dictionary, not from a very small one.

I'm using four games that I happened to have stacked on top of each other at the time. Most are not even in the dictionary, yet it's very easy to remember for me.

I realise that with this hint, I'm making the password a lot easier to crack.
It's incredible how powerful these small things are. I have a couple and I use them for just about anything, from access servers to access my home network, to running various applications inside containers on them. I did plan on making a cluster some time ago but for various reasons I've put that plan at the back of the line.

The real question here is did they use it to run some heavy applications on the cluster and how did it perform? Basically do they have a purpose for it or was it simply a "because we can" type of thing?
Well, I was thinking something like a single-player game where you are the spider and, through the course of whatever the gameplay entails, you struggle as a spider to stay alive. This could perhaps build empathy for spiders and cause people to think twice before casually killing one. So beyond conquering arachnophobia, what if we can give people a positive affinity towards spiders?

A multi-player spider game sounds potentially terrifying.
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It is for the good of all those that might have accidentally used #30D476 and #201A25, while quite obviously it is #30D475 and #201A26

Obviously a very good use of donators money and free software developers time.
+1 emotchi
“While Sherpas became famous in the Western world for their service to climbers, they are no more synonymous with a porter (the actual profession) than say, Americans are to cowboys.”

Excellent post by someone else who made the mistake of using "Sherpa" in a company name, learning about cultural respect, and rebranding.

http://lostmahbles.com/naming-a-mistake
Meh, not really, it's more of a mindset. I don't own much and I'm far from rich, I'm not poor either, I could own more stuff I just don't like it. I'm always surprised when I visit people and see all the shit they accumulated over the years, it's like entering ali baba's cave. Almost as if there isn't a single week going by without adding more gadgets or useless things into their life.

I will move to a new place in a few days and I could probably transport all my stuff in a regular car with foldable back seats. Actually the only thing that would fit your description is that I'll have to buy a washing machine, I'd gladly use public ones if they were not so expensive.
I haven’t used my plunger in 18 months. Should I throw it away?
Assuming 100% combustion of fuel is not realistic, especially with fusion.
Whoa, please don't flame other users like that! regardless of how wrong or annoying another comment may be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Our customers can specify their own risk profile, and in general, customers using us for more sensitive use cases (e.g. returning all the data they possess about individuals), tend to pick our most thorough checks. In addition, we return a number of signals to our customers to help them determine how confident they should be about a given verification. That said, it is ultimately the responsibility of the business who's the recipient of the data request to determine whether they're confident enough about the identity of a "data requester" before acting on their request.

The unfortunate reality is that very often, businesses do not do enough due diligence before responding to data requests. [1] Berbix makes such diligence easier and more secure, such that more companies should be able to adopt better processes around data access requests.

[1] "GDPArrrrr: Using Privacy Laws to Steal Identities" https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Thursday/us-19-Pavur-GDPArrrrr...
Or try to type nested bulleted lists.
I had much the same experience, and it bummed me out, because I really enjoyed the series.

Two things basically eliminated the problem for me- first, like the other commenter said, increasing the FOV. The default is way too narrow, especially on modern widescreen displays. Adding another 10 or 20 degrees makes a noticeable improvement.

The other change was to eliminate the head-bob while running. There's a console command that takes care of that. Between the two, I went from nausea within a couple of minutes to being able to play for half an hour+ with no issues.

Hopefully this helps you, too!
I feel exactly the same way. Why on earth would I invest any time or money into a product only to have it disappear out from under me?

Lately I find myself putting more and more energy into preparing for my eventual departure from all things Google.
a luxury brand comes together with materials and manufacturing quality.

if Zara or any other generic can compete on these, you never were a luxury brand to begin with.

on the other hand Zara specific strategy of violating copyright deserves flack on its own. but it's unrelated with the problem at hand: a brand selling premium stuff at a quality point that's easily emulated is not premium, it's the equivalent of patent trolling in the digital world: they're trying to get a premium out of owning generic concepts like tote bags or high neck sweaters.
I have seen Regus people at conferences before. They may be more selective, but they do these things as well.
If I know I can play day 1, I'll gladly shell out the $1k for the full index package. I just spent about that on new gpu + monitor so I was gonna wait to save up, but tux == bucks.
This is a very simplistic view. (a) Patent litigations can cost a lot of money, and small companies might not be able to fight big ones. (b) Some products are more easily patentable than others. The current situation is definitely not great for innovation or creativity.
Consider Stadia for what it is: it's someone gaming the system (if you pardon the pun) to become a VP. Once that position is secure, and once all the rest of top brass on the project is promoted, it will begin its inexorable march towards shutdown. So I give it a couple of years. The only way of avoiding this fate is if it gets viral and Google starts making at least a billion a year on it (their official threshold for caring about a business), chances of which seem infinitesimally slim.
Example - IBM rent WeWork space in London for some teams even though they have a London office.
Strongly second the first two, strongly oppose the third. Omelettes are far too difficult for a beginning cook. Fritattas on the other hand are trivial (you just pour the eggs/milk into the pan after you've cooked the filling a bit).
I wonder what drove the need for a logo/brand. Maybe it's to make it more noticeable that it's not written "SystemD".
Luxury isn't necessarily about price (although it's a common component) - it's an ephemeral combination of prestige, exclusivity, quality, and wealth/taste projection.
Hey, I built it with the intention of eventually allowing anyone to modify any site they wish (thus the request for all sites), but I think I'll just make that into a separate extension and tighten up the permissions for this one.

Thanks for the feedback!
It happened to me too and a lot of other players. [0]

[0] https://ca.ign.com/articles/2004/11/24/half-life-2-motion-si...

Changing the fov helps.
I laughed. But perhaps instead for Hacker News to make `>` an actual formatting character?
What is an example of something “slightly off the accepted opinion” which I might say, that would get me called “racist”? And what would be the consequences for me of being called that?
Frankly, I would rather play a new Portal.
Are people less informed about their communities today than they were 50 years ago? Or 30 years ago? Or 10 years ago?
It's been 2yr since I was in VR but the only thing that stands out to me is support for finger/gesture tracking controllers which was more bleeding edge back when I was working on it but may be standard now. Everything else looks industry standard. No obvious omissions, no out of the ordinary inclusions.
At some point pollution will be seen as an act of war and then I suspect the problem will be solved by banking sanctions on countries that buy old, inefficient equipment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee
They are using 301 stainless which, as far as I know, cannot be hardened.
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Socialize the development, privatize the profits.
A game that gave me motion sickness but only when I watched someone else play was Turok on the Nintendo 64. Watching someone else play was sickening.
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Agreed. This is the direct and intended result of a society which values those with money (investors) over those without money (people who invest their time, talent and effort).

He did nothing wrong in this society, so maybe we ought to fucking change society.
> No one tried it because it's expensive AF.

If you already have a gaming PC, you just need a headset. I got mine for $300 on a Black Friday. Is that 'expensive AF'?

If you are buying a PC for the sole purpose of using it with a VR headset, then fine. But who does that?

> And you need space.

Not that much. And depends on the game. If you are playing flight simulators you need zero additional space. I have a small room and it is enough space.

> And there are so many of them

It's the first time I hear that. There's Vive, there's Rift (and now the Index). Forget about all the Windows reality or whatever it's called. That's not much.

> And the storefronts don't match

Who cares. Get your games from the Steam store. Same storefront.

> And there are no games

Debatable. There's quite a few VR-only games, and even more games that support VR (even the good old Skyrim has VR support).

> And you sweat.

That will never be solved, you are moving after all. If you are talking just around the headpiece, than it's a case of YMMV.

> And they're heavy.

Not really. May be a bit inconvenient, but at least the Rift doesn't seem to weight more than my bike helmet. And, you know, I move much more with the latter.

> And you need a monster PC

No you don't. That's again game dependent. The kid's $600 PC runs all VR titles he cares about just fine. You just have to prioritize the GPU, as you should with any 'gamer' PC.

> And it doesn't work

It works great.

> It's a gimmick.

It's an uninformed opinion. You need to try it, rather than regurgitating opinions you saw somewhere.
I think you are confusing whether people agree on right and wrong with whether their is an objective right and wrong. It's entirely possible that there is an objective right and wrong but that some people are mistaken as to what it is.
Transhumanism Victim of Google
Hello everyone,

Recently during a process of cyber harrassment, I discovered I was innocent of anything. Evidently it was not the choice of Facebook and google who put me a transhumanism Spyware. Now all my life is listened. How did I notice? When I did pentest my own website nothing special except two days later sounds and voices said I'm guilty of hacking. I said I would report an abuse no one is trusting me. 2nd suicidal attempt after a short trial that I did win. Who could help me please?
How can I report an abuse if it is as new as transhumanism?

As weird as it appears I have no more consciousness and they even tried to kill me with an internal electrical choc.

What if someone here could trust me. Anyone at Google saying it is not darknet and really you? Both case could be a first step.

Thanks for reading, about to suicide.
You asked who holds the opinion that speech can constitute violence; I answered. The answer is that a "hodge podge" of people hold that opinion.

If you don't know anything about the survey, read the survey. I intentionally linked the results because I didn't want to present a biased synthesis as fact.

Antifa holds that opinion, and believes violence is justified in return.

From the Atlantic piece previously linked:

> the parade’s organizers received an anonymous email warning that if “Trump supporters” and others who promote “hateful rhetoric” marched, “we will have two hundred or more people rush into the parade … and drag and push those people out.”

> An article in The Nation argued that “to call Trumpism fascist” is to realize that it is “not well combated or contained by standard liberal appeals to reason.” The radical left, it said, offers “practical and serious responses in this political moment.”

> Antifascists call such actions defensive. Hate speech against vulnerable minorities, they argue, leads to violence against vulnerable minorities. But Trump supporters and white nationalists see antifa’s attacks as an assault on their right to freely assemble, which they in turn seek to reassert. The result is a level of sustained political street warfare not seen in the U.S. since the 1960s. A few weeks after the attacks in San Jose, for instance, a white-supremacist leader announced that he would host a march in Sacramento to protest the attacks at Trump rallies. Anti-Fascist Action Sacramento called for a counterdemonstration; in the end, at least 10 people were stabbed.

> A similar cycle has played out at UC Berkeley. In February, masked antifascists broke store windows and hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at police during a rally against the planned speech by Yiannopoulos. After the university canceled the speech out of what it called “concern for public safety,” white nationalists announced a “March on Berkeley” in support of “free speech.” At that rally, a 41-year-old man named Kyle Chapman, who was wearing a baseball helmet, ski goggles, shin guards, and a mask, smashed an antifa activist over the head with a wooden post. Suddenly, Trump supporters had a viral video of their own. A far-right crowdfunding site soon raised more than $80,000 for Chapman’s legal defense. (In January, the same site had offered a substantial reward for the identity of the antifascist who had punched Spencer.) A politicized fight culture is emerging, fueled by cheerleaders on both sides. As James Anderson, an editor at It’s Going Down, told Vice, “This shit is fun.”

Did you read all of those pieces in the eight minutes between my comment and yours? Your arguments suggest you don't. You can't ask for examples and dismiss them, refusing to read the things I link.
Google Kills Cloud Print
Yes, the teleportation mechanic was great in Robo Recall. Much better IMO than movement with the analog sticks.
Lids can and should be transparent.
Their market is well off techies/tech adjacent people that don't care about fashion and just want to be comfy (Allbirds are the butt of jokes in any men's style community).

They can't price their shoes too high because their market would scoff at paying more than $~150 for shoes. This market also won't care about where the material is sourced from or who makes it.

Allbirds made a cheap product people can easily copy, so they did. Shrug.
> The problem is that spam can't be "solved". Reputation is easy to solve: only accept email from a known list of good senders. Gmail, Yahoo, MailChimp (or not), etc. But that makes people on HN complain. So your have to try and infer reputation of mailservers on shared hosts. And spammers are always trying to beat you, and there are thousands, maybe tens of thousands of spam outfits. Af they're sneaky. They try to use awa or gcp to send email, or even send spam from Gmail, prevent trickier things. So you're left to defend from a spam campaign from Yahoo while also trying to not block everyone at Yahoo, and detect the spammers who are using Gmail to spam Yahoo too.

Spam absolutely can be solved.

1) enforce identity. If the sender isn't authentic, then the sender is spam.

2) enforce reportability. If the user reports the sender as spam, then don't permit the sender to send more messages to the person who complained. if a lot of people report the problem, then block the sender.

3) enforce liability. if an ISP hosts spammers, then block the ISP.

If someone complains then walk them through the process. Just like people shouldn't drive vehicles without understanding that vehicles are dangerous, the same should be done with computers.
Change the terms, and give the audience a button to punish the advertiser. I would totally click a button that says "charge this advertiser an extra dollar for being misleading".
VR therapy for fear of spiders made the news [1] a few years ago, so it's quite possible there's been more (professional?) progress in the field.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/16/technology/fearless-vr-spid...
Oh I missed that rather important point that they want to add the Index controllers to the mix!
Licenses to stop 'software as a service' from being able to make changes without publishing them back have been around since 2002 [1].

You can hardly develop open source software and then be shocked when someone goes ahead and uses it within their rights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
By that logic Google, and everyone else, have been hurting themselves by offering targeting in the first place, and continue to do so by not restricting non-political advertising.
Fairly certain they’re paying for the APIs. I used to work at Visa and a lot of fintech startups paid for our APIs (for data, not transactions), so I imagine they would pay the banks too.
I'll refer to my sibling comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21597651

Thank you.
I don't doubt this but I think it should be quite easy to make a regular 3D FPS from an original VR game.
No problem! I've been wanting something like this for a long time so you inspired me to at least add these signals to my personal ublock list. :)
What's wrong with this study is that what they claim was found is a complete lie. As in it is not true. What I don't like about it is that it is a lie.
I definitely have in the past. It's very disorienting and not worth the extra 5-15$
How is your service different from the KYC service providers out there targeting fintech startups?
Right, so how did the fucking guy running the ship win the lottery on the backs of everyone who didn't?
I already wear earplugs.
Store, purchase tracker, platform identification system, and analytics engine to push data on game performance and hardware configuration back to the Steam service itself as a mass aggregator so they can keep their finger on the "pulse" of real PC deployments and thereby come quite close to solving the problem that was once the bane of the entire industry ("Game doesn't work on my PC because drivers").

I think people tend to overlook how valuable Steam has been as a clearinghouse to aggregate that last piece of data.
Please don't respond to a bad comment with a worse one, regardless of how wrong or annoying it was.

We've had to ask you this kind of thing more than once. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? We'd be grateful.
It's dodgy for the same reason it's dodgy to print and sell a new novel without paying the author, for the same reason it's dodgy to clone a successful app and sell it without any attempt to improve on it. On one hand you have a system where companies support the creation of new designs so that they can profit from the reproduction of them, and on the other you have companies operating parasitically so they can get a share of the profits without providing any support to the designers.
Yup! Planning to get that done in the next several days.

I created a form if you'd like an email when the Firefox build goes live: https://forms.gle/aiEqoSVk6XMb5DaL8
I guess the fact that this is some absurd string-based-programming code is bonus entertainment. '[19] Bulk add experiment assignments to redux'!
I'm sorry about your situation, but I have to ask: why does an office rental company have data scientists on the payroll?

In general severance is governed by your contract and local labour laws. In this situation employees have no leverage to negotiate if the company has already decided to pay the minimum they have to, especially when your service is quite short.

You're probably best served by putting your energy into finding a new employer rather than fighting your soon-to-be former employer.
Yeah, I know all of this. Smart cards are kind of the exception because they aren't reprogrammable. But security costs money. As you've made it clear your business and customers prefer cost to security.
Apple has spent the last couple of years focused on one thing that Jobs frequently pushed for, without stepping back and looking at the whole product in the manner I'd have expected from Jobs.

We'll never actually know unless someone finds a way to raise the dead, but I personally believe that Jobs would never have allowed those butterfly keyboards out the door.