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Personally, I find Elite: Dangerous to be the best, most immersive VR game I've played. It's a 6DOF space sim set in a 1:1 scale version of the Milky Way that puts you in the pilot's seat, with a few dozen ships to choose from. The insides of the cockpit (or bridge on the larger ships) are fully modeled. Paired with a decent HOTAS or dual-stick setup, it's about as close as you're going to get to flying a futuristic spaceship. The game offers combat, trading, exploration, mining, rescue missions, surface exploration and you can have friends join you on your ship as either a gunner or ship-launched fighter pilot.

Development has stalled somewhat over the last 6 months -- the developer is actively releasing updates, but mostly catching up on bugfixes in anticipation of a new expansion later this year. But if you're new to the game, there are easily 100+ hours of gameplay available as long as you're ok that it's not a narrative-driven game. The community is very active, with player factions driving many of the activities in the game from public Discord servers, so the lack of content updates isn't necessarily as bad as it would be in other games. Only like 0.5% of the systems in the galaxy have been explored, so plenty left to discover!
I understand your experience. It was only after time spent comparing models that I found that a slightly easier way (which may not work for you or anyone else) is to figure out three things:

- start with the number of drive bays you’d like to have (Synology has a good calculator page you can use to figure out different configurations, if you wish to go that deep).

- the model year you’d prefer (newer, older, etc.). This is part of the model (like DSx17 is from 2017, DSy18 is from 2018).

- and if you prefer an Intel CPU or a non-x86/ARM CPU (this decides what kind of additional software you can find or run easily).

This is still a lot of work, but breaking it down helps.
It is operated by Neustar (an American company) under contract from NIXI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neustar
My 2020 prediction: k8 stacks are the new JS frameworks.
> Just disputing that a citation was required for that claim in this forum.

The ask was: "Citations to your references would be appreciated."

It's true that a citation is not needed, but including one adds value, in that it increases efficiency.
Funny you bring this up. As a privacy advocate I've had trouble over this. On the one hand, it is public record. On the other hand, it used to be in order to access those public records you would have to drive to the County Seat, enter a government building, and be physically present to request that information.

Nowadays, every time I forget one of my neighbors' last names, I can look them up on the GIS. I can also be nosey about all kinds of details like how much they paid for their house, and who is in arrears on taxes or their mortgage payments.
No kidding. I sincerely doubt this actually qualifies as Open Source. It certainly can’t be distributed by, e.g., Debian.
If I could pay $200 to get the full experience, I'd already have paid. I can't, so I haven't. Unless they can get the price for the whole package including a game to below $500, it won't reach the masses and unless they get below $200 they won't reach me, because I'm a cheapskate that is satisfied with playing 30 year old games.
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Thanks! I had briefly used kustomize in the past, and it looks really useful for creating alternative dev/staging/production environments from a common base.

In the end I decided that I'd collapse all environments down to behave identically, which is simpler, but does add a few constraints for development in particular.

Will take another browse through while considering options for upcoming infrastructure :)
Even if you're very affluent, VR can give you some experiences at much lower risk. E.g. flight simulators and racing simulators let you learn planes, cars, airports, tracks, etc. much more cost effectively and without the risk that missing the takeoff or missing a turn will end your life or career.

I don't know if they use VR, but all Formula 1 racing teams have simulators set up, not only for learning the cars and tracks, but also for working on car setups before the race weekends. Same with flight schools -- they're all throwing you in a simulator before the real deal. I can say from experience the crummy "simulator" I got as part of my $150 Groupon "flight experience" package paled in comparison to the realism of $300 worth of Oculus, a $100 joystick, and $100 worth of simulator software. Especially for helicopters, I'd say, you really need the sense of depth.
I'm also interested in how you go about this. Evernote and Notion have good clippers, but I'd rather not rely on them. I tried to use markdownifier[0] for a while, but images are hotlinked and will break if the site goes down. I should really just write my own clipper that does this, but I haven't found the time yet.

[0]: http://heckyesmarkdown.com/
I would not gamble on any "magic beans" (future earning from stock). If they have the cash, let them double your salary to stay. If they don't have the cash (and they probably don't), take the other position.

You were going to get screwed in the end even with a "successful" startup. While the founders will share the profits you realize that you weren't going to? Like you alluded to, the VC's an maybe founders will have preferences that mean you get nothing. There will some reason but the end you will end up working for less than you are worth in order to enrich others. As I like to think of it "I can't afford to subsidize your business any more."

You have to view this as business - a value for value relationship.
Laws are purely a technicality. Especially with the US lobbying situation being the way it is, I don't think it's reasonable for anyone to expect that some bad thing heavily incentivised for won't happen just because it's not allowed now.
The important barrier to such thinking is company culture, as long as only a few people think this way others will correct their mistakes.
I think it varies.

This should be an interesting read (not entirely related but somewhat similar): https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-c...

The Apple Watch required FDA clearance (though this was only the 4 with the ECG feature). Since the EU has required approval even for some phone apps for fertility cycles I think a fitness watch that says it provides clinically accurate blood pressure readings may fall onto some radars.

I don't think the FDA, and especially EU regulators, look upon consumer devices that replicate medical functions lightly, since these can burden healthcare professionals and result in misdiagnosis/self-diagnosis.
That is my intuition as well. It also seems better than password. Fire base offers it as an option.
Back then it was rare for anyone to try and get you fired from your job and cause other economic harm simply because you disagreed with them or held an unpopular opinion. These days, information warfare is the norm and everything is on the table because "progressives" believe they have some kind of divine right to push their agenda at all costs.
> In legal usage throughout the English-speaking world, an act of God is a natural hazard outside human control, such as an earthquake or tsunami, for which no person can be held responsible.

> In the law of torts, an act of God may be asserted as a type of intervening cause, the lack of which would have avoided the cause or diminished the result of liability (e.g., but for the earthquake, the old, poorly constructed building would be standing). However, foreseeable results of unforeseeable causes may still raise liability. For example, a bolt of lightning strikes a ship carrying volatile compressed gas, resulting in the expected explosion. Liability may be found if the carrier did not use reasonable care to protect against sparks—regardless of their origins. Similarly, strict liability could defeat a defense for an act of God where the defendant has created the conditions under which any accident would result in harm. For example, a long-haul truck driver takes a shortcut on a back road and the load is lost when the road is destroyed in an unforeseen flood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God
This seems interesting, but would have liked to see dashboard and chart configs cleaned up. Grafana's json configs have the same issue. I have a dashboard for one project. The json is over 13k lines long. Less than 5% of that is unique.
100% this for me. Every 6 months or so I go and price out a VR capable desktop machine along with a headset. It's hard not to spend close to $2000 and still have confidence the rig will hold up in 2-3 years. I've seen builds out there around the $1000 price point with people marketing it as "VR-ready", but honestly I'm skeptical of what exactly that means and whether or not it's durable towards upcoming content. The price to (good) content ratio is awful as well.

EDIT: wording
Just to clarify my grandparent comment here, I was thinking "transformative work" when I said it was protected by Fair Use, not "derivative work" as I stated. So I was wrong!

To clarify my sibling response here, I'm acknowledging that statement was wrong. However, to say that _derivative_ works are "not at all" protected by Fair Use isn't entirely accurate either, as they absolutely can be depending on the the judgement and application of the four-point doctrine of Fair Use. The parent comment here cites part of the copyright law, but Fair Use, which I cited, is a core component of the same copyright law that limits the application of the section they cited.
It looks similar to e.g. Quake 3's license, source is open but assets aren't.
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Prohibiting commercial use would make it non-open. But it's not that surprising given that VVVVVV is still sold today. I'd rather have the source with limits over not having the source at all.
Insanity vs criminal intent is a difficult line to draw, and probably a lot of people who are convicted of murder were actually criminally insane at the time. But there's still a distinction we make for insane humans vs criminal humans.

I suppose we'd have to subject HAL to some kind of 'reasonable AI' test.
I guess I should have been more prudent. Some time ago I recall reading here at HN some crude calculations about this where I got this impression.
Small nit, public records aren't things you put out there. It's records of your interactions with the government (directly or indirectly) that the government makes available as part of their transparency and FOIA efforts.
Full page takeover popup asking me to sign up for a newsletter. Closed with fist pounding emphasis if I just clicked through on a link from the very newsletter the site wants me to sign up for.
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Just to add to that - I’m kind of in the same boat here. I had to read the homepage and intro sections a few times and I’m honestly still a bit lost in understanding who this benefits and why.

Just by way of anchoring: I’m no dunce, I’m a typical nerdy guy who knows his UNIX and has written lots of C, Python, JavaScipt, Ruby, etc. Written some mobile apps. Written plenty of web stuff. But I’m not immersed in any academic language study and not really an FP guy.

I don’t think you should dumb this down - the text itself is very good prose. But the context is missing something — perhaps a paragraph or two of anchoring for us “normal programmers” to explain why this is relevant to people who normally write Python web apps or Rust utilities or C++ games all day long (or if it’s not relevant, why, and who it is relevant for).

Good luck with the project!
This is a great analogy. VR takes effort to set up and to get into and it's not as seamless as just launching a game on your computer.

I have a VR setup and I absolutely love VR gaming, and yet I'm sitting here on a Friday night on my desktop computer playing a 2D game because I can't be bothered to go and get my laptop (which is VR capable, where my desktop is not) and clear floor space and plug in my VR headset.

It's not just that it's a universal pursuit which currently has niche appeal. It's a niche pursuit. It's not just about floor space, it's about floor space in which you can relax into your VR space and know you're not going to be interrupted.

The only disagreement I have is the space argument. Once you have your "vr legs" and can stomach free locomotion, you basically never move your feet again and so "roomscale VR" shrinks down to a 1m x 3m window. That's about the space I have available in my office and these days it's generally sufficient for anything I want to play.
Btrfs like OCFS is pretty much junk. You can do everything you need to on local disk with XFS and if you need clever features buy a NetApp.
Knowing the address of three strangers isn't very valuable, and thus less likely to be abused. Knowing the address of millions of people can be very valuable, and thus very likely to be abused.

In cases like this the issue lies not in the specific datatypes, but the aggregation thereof.
My friend did watch, which is able to monitor BP (using different method than Omron). He won few challenges with it. How to contact Apple? :-)
Virtual reality is for more than games though. Porn is not niche.
Heh. That was one of my thoughts before I saw "cargo."

"I sure hope this isn't written in Node."
I didn't meant the DAO to be an actor outside the legal system.

The difficulty of answering your remark is that different legal systems probably have different point of views about it.

According to what I was told where I live, I'm allowed to organize activities, even such involved payments, with other people without registering an organization. Especially if those other people come from different countries. As long as I'm declaring my full income and pay taxes.

Such a thing limits what a DAO can do - for example, it can't sign agreements with regular companies (it's not a legal entity) or it cannot employ people.

But as long as you don't do such things, I was told it is allowed. I'm being careful with such statements since I'm not a lawyer.

You may see DAOs as a legal alternative for civil agreements, which are really difficult to make for individuals in the international market.
It's not really that curious. Textbook publishers pay professors significantly more than Journal publishers. Hard to get a group of people on your side when you're exploiting their work for profit and giving them jack in return.
Perhaps in general, but in this case the email he's pointing to is an nhs.uk address.
> How do they know the animal wasn't just making the only move it had out of boredom

The parrots only exchanged tokens when it would actually help the other parrot, meaning the subject understood the other parrot's test and wasn't acting randomly.

> or that it expected reciprocity but didn't get it?

Ultimately, all generosity is predicated on an expectation of reciprocity ("Do unto others..."). The difference is how long the subject is willing to wait for it. The subject was in a situation where immediate reciprocity wasn't possible.
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I love Emily's Electric Oddities, she has many other interesting projects. If you liked this you may want to check out her The Lissajukebox build, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=466xZ3cexMg&t=43s
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Yes it is very enjoyable.
It says a lot about vvvvv that, I don't like this TYPE of game, lots of jump puzzles. But I like this game! It is just really well done.
I think it's confirmation bias. If you lack confidence but consider yourself nice and caring, then you'll be more on the look out for instances of women saying that's what they want. It's more comforting to hear that, because it means you're just fine, you don't have to change, and it's the world that's unfair.

But let's say you don't have that bias and instead you're taking in ALL the evidence from society, film, books, etc... Well, then it's pretty damn obvious that women tend to like confident men. Look at the hero of pretty much every movie ever. Look at the popular guys in high school and college. The evidence is overwhelming.

Men and women alike want partners who make them feel special. Part of that is how you're treated by that person, sure, but part of it is how "valuable" that person is themselves. My dog can worship the ground I walk on, but at the end of the day he's still just a dog so it doesn't mean much :)
Dishonorable mentions: asking me to accept notifications from the site, or the full page "YOU SEEM TO BE BLOCKING ADVERTISING" from getadmiral.com (I don't block ads, I don't have an ad blocker, I do block tracking cookies/scripts).
Well in 1994 a CD-R without a buffer was neither cheap nor low-end. It was the only thing you could get, cost as much as a car, and was bigger than a laser printer.
> Thanks for the cogent explanation. That actually makes a lot of sense to me.

Thank you! A lot of this licensing stuff actually does make sense if you just look at it the right way.

> Did you pull this from somewhere? I would like to read more, if so.

Sorry, no. Just from many years of arguing about licensing on the net. For further reading, I would suggest this:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
Yes, THIS. I've switched back to the silicone band since the leather one basically started deteriorating after 6 months. I think the sleep tracking is _ok_, I care more about the heart rate monitoring and like the long battery life. Have you tried searching for a replacement strap not from Withings?
The blame is on Oracle side for sure. No question about it.

> or replacing the source code of most of the modules with hex bloats.

Ok good point, I am no longer pissed off on MODULE_LICENSE, didn't even thought about that.
> They're not exactly making use of it for "good".

Depending on your definitions of "exactly" and "good".

I think a better question is something like: might it plausibly result in a net better outcome than some/all alternative approaches? I would say the answer to that question is definitely yes.
I was just about to ask the same thing.

It's not that blood pressure reading aren't useful, it's just that this is marketed as a "fitness watch" and not a general blood pressure tool.

Now I have seen some suggestion that blood pressure could be used to predict how hard you can train on a given day in the same way that heart rate variability can be used. That's really interesting.

A blood pressure reading on it's own though, without any clever interpretation, seems much less compelling in a sports product.

If this is just marketing to make blood pressure monitors more "sexy" I guess that's fine too just less interesting if you have an actual sports goal in mind.
Since the valuable service provided by publishers is, more or less, predicting future citations of a research work for funding purposes, what do people think of using a PageRank-like system for that instead? That way, instead of trying to publish in a high-impact journal, people will just put their papers online and try to get them approved by high-impact researchers. I think that could be just as reliable signal of quality as the current system, while costing less money, because high-impact researchers would find it in their interest to approve only the best work sent to them.
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I'd prefer the evolution of Rust to slow down and stabilize. More like C and much less like C++.
Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?
I'm about to leave my job for another and i'm tasked with documenting the existing architecture and flow of the app.

I'd also have to document why certain decisions were taken.
I'm looking for any openly available similar documents for guidance mostly around how to structure the document.
> Somehow lisp gets a pass.

OK, which is more readable:

(setf (car lst) "value")

Or:

(rplaca lst "value")

I think the one which allows me to learn "setf's destination is the first parameter" and forget the rest is easier by far. setf is glorious macrology: It allows people to write arbitrarily complicated datatypes and have assignment just work, reliably.

But the problem with this code isn't the macros. It's the fact the author types like they're being charged by the character and taxed for whitespace. The macros are amazing to the extent they allow this sort of thing. Blaming them for it is wrong, but judging by the only standard that matters, readability, this is not a good coding style.
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I have been using httpx 0.95 in production. So far so good.
There is always "du | sort -nr | head"
Holy backwards compatibility, Microsoft!
Sim racing, or for those unaware of it: basically racing games with realistic physics and usually a competitive online racing field, is incredible in VR.

The sense of speed and immersion with a good wheel and pedal setup in VR is unmatched by a monitor based setup. I tried it at a VR arcade and kept adding time to my session to keep playing.

I have a fairly nice and expensive sim racing setup at home right now, but my PC cant run any of the current sims in VR well enough for me to justify getting a headset. Between PC upgrades and headset im looking at $500+ in upgrades that I just haven't gotten around to doing, but you can bet its on my list
I remember getting this game from the first humble bundle and enjoying it, it had very simple gameplay, little to no time to get into and very enjoyable. Going to play it again!
That is some serious nightmare fuel.
Free will is something you have the power to act on, regardless of external influences. Just because the fear of punishment exists doesn't mean that a person cannot opt out.

It's the same thing as if an officer during war told you to retreat, however you still defy that order to rescue a fallen comrade in the presence of immediate danger.
A dna test was really helpful in finding all my half siblings and other family members because my biological dad is a sperm donor.

The fact that my DNA can somehow turn up at the scene of a crime somewhere and the police can query the sample I sent to Ancestry x years ago, well, let's say that I already knew that risk going into it and it will have to be what it will have to be.

In our lifetimes, I'm not seeing a way for us to dismantle the forces that are pushing for such a big surveillance state.

Therefore, by definition, you can either find a way to cope within that surveillance state, or you can move to somewhere so remote and hidden that you can't be caught doing what they don't like.
Note that the proposal is for this to not do any of that kind of thing, so it should have no affect on this either way.
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Not much more strict than CC-BY-NC, unless I’m missing something? The “you may not represent your fork as my product” is a good abuse prevention that I’m not sure the equivalent CC contains, good call including that.
The Washington Post article says that quote was from 2018, contrary to your speculation that it was some long-ago comment that is no longer relevant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/int...
Mostly, no, because defined benefit plans have been all but killed off. Most union jobs have a defined benefit plan, but union representation in the US is under 20% I believe. Pension plans are "insured" by a Federal plan (PBGC) but it does not guarantee 100% coverage and has been under severe strain as the number of pension plans drops.
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