skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In current VR technology that's going to be hard and annoying:

> Text is tough in VR. It’s hard to read, given the resolution of today’s HMDs and it’s hard to write, since you’re typically blind in a headset and it’s annoying to be tied to a keyboard at a desk when you’d rather walk and move around in VR. I tolerate these problems with RiftSketch by making the text in the editor extremely large. I can only see 20 lines of code at a time in VR whereas my physical desktop has a 4K monitor where I’m usually looking at 140 lines of code per file with several files open side-by-side. (https://uploadvr.com/riftsketch/)

And that isn't even trying to give you a pen & paper experience. (<- something I'd also like to have.)
When a system is broken, someone finally comes along and suggests hacking the system. If you don't have ten minutes to spare, here's the short version:

1. If a third party claims makes a copyright claim on your video, they can elect to gain 100% of the ad revenue. Suggestion: claw back 50% (or more) by making copyright claim(s) against your own content.

2. You may have videos that are not eligible for monetization (examples: just starting out on YouTube or reuploading content). Suggestion: make a copyright claim against your own video and it is automatically monetized.

Worth noting, a copyright claim is not the same as a copyright strike. Also, he may have stolen the idea from another YouTuber (which cannot be monetized) but I think he did a better job in the presentation. :)
The blog is hosted on IPFS. To allow normal web browsers without IPFS support to view the website they use Cloudflare's IPFS gateway, which is a service that serves content from IPFS over normal HTTP.
You can always use https://ngrok.com and other similar "tunneling" solutions. It works like a charm:

https://ngrok.com

https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared

https://github.com/inlets/inlets
As a child of the 90's, I recall the self-esteem movement. All kids get a ribbon. All kids participate. Tell all kids how good they are. I think the movement missed the boat. The key word is "self" -- it doesn't come from others (though others might help you see it). Kids knew they sucked at a sport; the ribbon didn't really do much.

To gain self esteem, you must accomplish things. The good news? You get to pick the things. The hard part might be seeing what you've accomplished.

Lift weights and track progress. It is great to see the first time you lift 100, 200, and/or 300 pounds. Grow a garden. Raise a plant. Train a dog. Build a website. Create something tangible. Create something intangible. Finish a book. Have a fun conversation with someone. Help someone. Volunteer. There are so many ways to impact your life or the lives of those around you. Take time to notice the positive impact your actions have on yourself and others. And know that you don't have to be perfect.
Would it be reasonable to add something to the tittle so it's clear it has nothing to do with electronics?
Maybe it's just me.
I always found franchise initial startup costs to be predatory, as they get paid either way regardless of whether the franchisee actually succeeds. In my opinion they should be abolished and franchisors should only rely on royalties, so that they have an incentive to help the franchisee succeed if they want to make money.
OpenGL really is a legacy API in 2020. There is a massive mismatch between modern GPU design and the OpenGL API design. The only reason it wasn't left behind a decade ago is that there wasn't a decent replacement.

Today, with Vulkan and soon WebGPU available, there really is very little reason to hang on to OpenGL for anything but legacy.
An unconditional branch should be one of the fastest instructions. Why would that sacrifice most of the gains in performance?

It should cost about the performance gain from two of the effective instructions.
Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (La Technique) https://ratical.org/ratville/AoS/TheTechnologicalSociety.pdf

Jacques Ellul, Propaganda https://archive.org/details/Propaganda_201512

Thomas Ligotti The Conspiracy Against The Human Race https://archive.org/details/TheConspiracyAgainstTheHumanRace

and anything written by Peter Wessel Zapffe (an introduction to his work https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah)
Nostalgia IBM model M bucklespring keyboard sound emulator
That will most likely be the already mentioned WebGPU.
I'm a minimalist. Speed, distance, fuel, 6 volt plug-in.

http://www.oldbug.com/lightfoot41.jpg
Don't forget the search engine search engine!
Google have moved on from allowing exact searches to me made, sometimes you have to think "if I didn't know what I actually wanted to see, and was trying to make a question-form query about it, what would I write" and that gets better results, IME, than something where you know the exact words you want (which even with "" might not be in the link).
It can come back in 2095 if disney doesn't pay off politicians to male copyright last even longer.
Simple Hack for Seeking Help
> 1. Compile times

Give Idris 2 a try if you’re not afraid of the teething problems.
Not only a great game series, but also damn good case for a movie franchise.
I think the pricing is what it is partly because their main cost is not actually the storage space, but data transfer and computing. However to keep things simple and predictable for the customer, Dropbox is not directly charging for these.

Just think about the traffic you can easily generate when you have some work projects sitting on Dropbox folder. All the builds, downloading libraries, getting node modules etc, people working on large documents etc. The cost to provide 100GB of space vs 1TB of space might be actually pretty close for Dropbox (considering also that very few people actually use all that space).

Other providers may have different cost structures. Maybe the services they are providing are bit different (for example less focus on sync speed), or maybe the customers are using the storage in very different way (I guess most of the content in iCloud is photos and videos).
Yes, if you live in an area with municipal water treatment, but if you rely on a private well, accessible and inexpensive UV treatment would be great. Of course, you also (generally) need a water softener and perhaps more expensive filtering equipment depending on the what metals and minerals might be present.
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, by Evariste Regis Huc

He's an early 1800s French Catholic monk and is possibly the greatest travel writer of all time. Not only is the trip amazing, but the way he writes about it? Incredible.

In the sequel, the Chinese empire summons him to stand trial for being a Christian, since it was mostly illegal to be so in the empire at the time. It, too, is amazing.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32747/32747-h/32747-h.htm
OpenGL absolutely is a legacy API today. It has been an awful impedance mismatch to modern GPUs for about a decade now.
I ran my vlog on RasPi and did everything in a static generated way. I configured Cloudflare to cache everything for 30 days. Finally I have a cache warming script that requests each static file after I purge the cache (could be better by only purging and warming changed files, like via a Makefile). With this approach, a tunnel with a public port and IP could run minimally during the purge/warm cycle and then be shut down.

I solicit feedback via email rather than having public comments, and upcoming authenticated areas are done via Auth0 tokens.
I somehow doubt that all of Google’s internal decisions are as simple as “well we’re an ads company, let’s just not worry about search quality.”
Gonna aggregate all the subtopics in one reply.

> you should take a look at SGML

I am aware that SGML is the ancestor of HTML and XML. I'm not sure there are any popular software today that handle SGML syntax. Furthermore XML has fewer rules to remember than SGML. So I will largely ignore SGML, except for explaining why some behaviors went into HTML.

> The hard-coded tag soup parser is by no means "standard".

I believe HTML5 standardized the syntax/error handling for HTML (not XHTML) documents. It should mean that for any given document, every HTML5-compliant web browser - Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc. - will parse it into the same DOM tree.

> Does every popular browser support [XHTML] in the same way?

Yes, XHTML mode is supported by IE 9+, all Firefox, all Chrome, all Safari, all Opera, and all mobile browsers on Android and iOS. https://caniuse.com/#feat=xhtml

> I would expect some subtle differences, because this mode is not very popular and probably not as tested as standard HTML.

Indeed XHTML is very unpopular. There was one slight bug I encountered in Firefox about a year ago, where invalid XHTML pages would show a yellow error screen (correct) but with no error message text (this was a regression). That said, I'm pretty sure that the XML-parsing engine, XSLT, and related technologies are here to stay, so XHTML isn't at risk of losing support.

> On the contrary, part of the point of XHTML is you can reference the document type definition (DTD) so everyone would be on the same page.

That was the original intent in XHTML 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. But anyway, nowadays the DTD is optional and probably unhelpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38427011/does-xhtml5-req...

>> The standard "tag soup" HTML parser has numerous surprising behaviors

> There is nothing surprising here.

So are you an expert at diagnosing HTML parsing and invalid syntax? I prefer not to be one, because I'd like the XML parser to yell at me loudly when I'm wrong, rather than helpfully try to fix my code the wrong way.

> if you dig deeper there are a lot more surprises in XHTML documents

Like what? I'll try to name a few: Namespaces (colons), character entities, CDATA sections, strict comments (rules about the substring "--").

> assuming they are served with the proper MIME type

Yes, I forgot to mention this. My website https://www.nayuki.io/ has been serving application/xhtml+xml for about a decade, and seems to work well with the browsers that the audience uses.
Good spot! Riddley was influential on Mitchell.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/05/featuresreview...
That API is under development, it is WebGPU.
>Will they stay there for more than a few months? No. They will be squashed out, and legitimate players will over time win out.

This isn't true at all in my experience. As a quick test I tried searching for "best cordless iron", on the first page there is an article from 2018 that leads to a very broken page with filler content and affiliate links. [1] There are a couple of other articles with basically the exact same content rewritten in various ways also on the first page.

A quick SERP history check confirms that this page has returned in the top 10 results for various keywords since late 2018.

>It's easy to speculate and make logical statements, but they don't hold much weight without first-hand experience and observation.

This statement is a bit ironic given that it took me 1 keyword and 5 seconds of digging to find this one example.

[1] https://www.theironingroom.com/best-cordless-iron-reviews-of...
Indeed - ZigBee is quite good for this. I know from experience that a Philips Hue bridge will gladly pair with and manage non-Philips bulbs (e.g. I have some IKEA ones in addition to Hue), and similarly that Philips bulbs work fine with a non-Philips bridge. You can also block the Hue bridge's access to the Internet and it continues to work fine.
My grandfather died last year at 102; but unlike Mr. Vollmer, he retired young.

I'm always impressed when I see people that age up-and-about. My grandfather drove until his late 90's, and was still relatively active until a few months before his 100th birthday.

He gave me the best advice about raising children: "Remember, they're people too!"
The ‘Google is an advertising company’ is said often on HN. I agree to some extent but, doesn’t that imply that every newspaper company is also just an advertising company? Google solves a real problem and this works well, for them, with an advertising based revenue model. Do they compromise their search to that end? Probably. Do newspapers? Hopefully not, but maybe. To me, that doesn’t make them advertising companies. Apologies if this is pedantic.
Duncan Trussel Family Hour. Specifically the episode where he is interviewing his mom on her death bed.
A few times I've seen someone on HN bring up the idea of using statecharts for UI implementation. Many years ago there was a book around this idea, but I wasn't able to get a copy before it became very rare.

"Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts"
https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-User-Interface-Statechar...

I've always wondered if statcharts were a powerful enough abstraction to handle everything I needed, and would like to read more about its specific application to implementing UIs. Does anyone have any other references, books, etc?
Yeah, "made up language" was a poor choice by me - its an attempt at imagining a transformed English.
Who should abolish them?
> A quick check found a studio at $1,325/month that’s considered affordable for one person on a 40k/year salary.

What? That's nowhere near affordable! There is no valid metric by which that cost is affordable to that income, that's a insane figure!

Using the standard federal housing guidelines, a single person making $40k/yr should spend about $810/month on rent. And a $40k/yr person spending at-or-above $1290/month is considered dangerously house-poor (by that same metric).

I wish people would stop trying to normalize housing crisis financials. No person should ever have to spend $1300/month+ on a studio apartment, and people should stop pretending that's OK.
"Matter, Space, Radiation" by Menahem Simhony.

It explains the Ether (EPOLA, Electron-Positron Lattice) and states the many proofs for that, as well as explains many hitherto unexplained physics phenomena such as Mass Inertia, the speed of light c, Gravity and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

You'd think the concept of "Ether" is debunked but after reading the book you'll be convinced it is real.
SpaceX is not 100% NASA funded. NASA contracts SpaceX for a specific product and nasa receives that product. In other words, you do get what you pay for.

Do you believe that any software the government buys must be open sourced? Your tax dollars buy plenty of iPhones and Macs. Should apple release all their software and hardware to you?
What's with the artifacts down the middle? Is one side 60 fps and the other not?
Thanks for clarifying, I know what shorting is but have never done it in an account where it made sense to do what the parent was suggesting.
SpaceX deliveries what they are contracted as a private company to provide. To my knowledge, this does not include putting mission footage into the public domain. Adding additional requirements increases the cost passed on to the tax payer.
Using it on Android still, as it's the only browser I've found with good text reflow on zooming.
Opera Mini is simply the best experience for compressed mobile web browsing on low-speed connections. I use it when traveling and when my data plan runs out for reading the news and web sites (I don't log into anything because I don't trust the provider, and they have to MITM HTTPS). I'll be sad if this goes away.

I wish there was a self-hosted solution for compressed mobile browsing that I could put on a server. It'll be hard to replace the aggressive optimizations they have done to make this possible, though it's likely I can get most of the way by inlining everything and replacing script and image tags...
Two Years in Psychotherapy
Given how much it costs to open the restaurant itself, it seems like the franchise fee (for most franchises) is an odd thing to focus on. If I'm going to be spending $1.6M-$2.3M just to build a Taco Bell location, I'm honestly not going to be too concerned about the $30k franchise fee I need to pay corporate up-front. It's a drop in the bucket.

Regardless, corporate is always incentivized to help their franchisees succeed; they wouldn't really have a business without them, and of course they want their cut of sales/profits to be a higher absolute value.
Are you being facetious?
I actually don’t see it that way. Often a franchise will vet the owner, provide setup assistance, provide location recommendations, train employees, etc. That doesn’t occur in all cases, but arguably most franchises do this and it’s part of the initial fees.
Yeah point taken. Guess I have heard that too.
this is some praxis turfing.
Quotes doesn't work reliably anymore, this is a big part of the problem. Googlers have been really busy the last 10 years doing everything except:

- fixing search (it has become more and more broken since 2009, possibly before. Today it wotks more or less like their competitors worked before, random mix of results containing some of my keywords.)

- fixing ads (Instagram should have way less data on me and yet manages to present me with ads that I sometimes click instead of ads that are so insulting I go right ahead and enable the ad blocker I had forgotten.)

- saving Reader

- etc
If you dont want to pay you join a different franchise or start your own restaurant. I fail to see the issue. Nobodys putting a gun to your head to open up a CFA restaurant.
That can't be right if, according to OP, the first result was a reddit post from six years ago, yet the date according to Google was Jan 11, 2020. So the first time Google saw that page would likely have been the day it was published.
FYI, this article is from 2015. It was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710973
> * but, doesn’t that imply that every newspaper company is also just an advertising company?*

Historically, at least, they sold subscriptions.
Also funny when you realize the boss is Brian Fargo, the guy who oversaw Wasteland and Fallout.
We changed the URL from https://github.com/jonathontoon/manifest to the project page.
Last I checked a lot of the consensus were that the Dat project was more mature than IPFS and that it had some advantages over IPFS (such as not using as much resources to run).
How is it now? Is it more mature? Even though I actually even sub to their newsletter I haven't really been keeping up to date if they have made any major releases.

Not to be a downer on IPFS at all, btw. I'm very glad that both it and Dat exist. IPFS has always seemed like a much larger undertaking and it is cool thst they are trying to push the dweb even further. We need that just as much as we need Dat, which with its inclusion in the Beaker browser for example really serves as a super cool demo of what dweb can give us in the future.
There’s a book called 10 days to self esteem by dr David burns. Try that or CBT or his team based therapy model. If you are a developer or coder, work through hacker rank problem sets too. Also expand your social network and see friends and family. Make it a routine.
I agree, it compounds. It's all in building good habits, so that habitualness takes over and you don't even think about it.

Watching that man's twitter feed, posting the pic of his watch well before 5:00, and aftermath of his workouts is motivating in of itself.
I recall subway had "low" startup costs and it resulted in too many locations.

What incentivizes the new location to do due-diligence in picking a good location? If this is placed into the chain owner: What's the difference between a franchise vs single owner?
Yeah. As far as my limited knowledge goes on pricing, I don't believe LIBOR had a direct impact on fx rates. FX forwards and swaps are more impacted by the interest rate on treasury bills. LIBOR & EURIBOR would have an effect on interest rates on money being lent to people doing carry trades for example. But I don't think that it would affect pricing of the underlying trades afaik. Maybe a trader can chime in.
How To Measure Anything[1] by Douglas Hubbard.

The basic gist of the book goes something like this: in the real world (especially in a business setting) there are many things which are hard to measure directly, but which we may care about. Take, for example, "employee morale" which matters because it may affect, say, retention, or product quality. Hubbard suggests that we can measure (many|most|all|??) of these things by using a combination of "calibrated probability assessments"[2], awareness of nth order effects, and Monte Carlo simulation.

Basically, "if something matters, it's because it affects something that can be measured". So you identify the causal chain from "thing" to "measurable thing", have people who are trained in "calibrated probability assessment" estimate the weights of the effects in the causal chain, then build a mathematical model, and use a Monte Carlo simulation to work out how inputs to the system affect the outputs.

Of course it's not perfect, since estimation is always touchy, even using the calibration stuff. And you could still commit an error like leaving an important variable out of the model completely, or sampling from the wrong distribution when doing your simulation. But generally speaking, done with care, this is a way to measure the "unmeasurable" with a level of rigor that's better than just flat out guessing, or ignoring the issue altogether.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busi...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibrated_probability_assessm...
You know that but your compiler doesn't (generally speaking).
> With a 0.13% acceptance rate, it’s harder to become a Chick-fil-A franchisee than it is to...get a job at Google (0.23%)

I think I'd rather just get a job at Google.
Stoner by John Williams. It is a slow burner, but it’s worth the effort. It’s novel about an average person living an average life, but the prose captures the emotion of life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_(novel)
Should be a fun experience! I used opera mini extensively back before the iPhone got quite big (I think)
Misleading headline? It costs $10k only compared to hundreds of thousands with other franchises. CFA covers all initial costs and simply takes much more in profit sharing than others.
If you read the article, this is where Chik-fil-A is radically different - and cheaper - than its competitors.

This naturally means it's very hard to qualify for one.
> RoR is an extremely powerful tool

The issue I always had with Rails is that there would come a point where I would want to achieve something which wasn't really in the "blessed path" of a Rails application, and then I would end up with something that felt like a hack to circumvent Rails' default behavior. That, or I would want to do something which is very simple conceptually, but I would have to add some unnecessary complexity and/or ceremony around it to fit into Rails' interfaces.

Also I'm not a huge fan of the Rails' model of having everything from request handling to routing to DB access in one big framework. The needs of each application can be quite varied, and I'd rather plug whatever components together I want to for a given project than to be limited by some outer structure.

> Ruby statements look more like natural language statements than those in other languages

The more I program, the more appreciative I am of a strict compiler. What I've always found with interpreted languages is, while they seem convenient at first, projects inevitably start to slow down under the accumulated "squishiness" due to lack of strictness. I find it's pretty easy to get used to syntax, but there can be a lot of hidden "gotchas" in interpreted code which tend to outweigh any benefits.

Also as far as the natural-language-like syntax, I find that Swift offers a similar benefit, with the added benefit of strong compile-time checks.
Your posts show an obvious bias against spaceX. Why the hate?