skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 15ft you kinda want light cable. Also you want L-shaped connector on one end. From the speed test it does during setup it kinda looks like it needs USB 3 speeds, so USB2 presumably won’t cut it. Anyway, I was going to get one of the cheaper cables from Amazon, but after reading bunch of problematic reviews for cheaper cables I ponnied up for the Oculus cable since I didn’t want to deal with potential problems.

Sure, there is a price difference, but my point was that Quest needs a bit more accessories than Index, so it pushes the price a bit up. I still would recommend Quest to anyone, because people who get Index (or other PC-based headset) know what they need already.

My plan is to store Index in the original case. It didn’t work out for Quest because case is not that convenient for reuse, and Quest is not actually stored in the office next to PC (and at the kitchen area I prefer smaller footprint). Also Quest is moved around way more.

>Disclaimer: I work on Oculus Link.

I sure hope you’ll fix the problems because some VD users report better colors (deeper blacks specifically) and better latency (hard to believe, but still). ;) ;) ;)
And if I search for "police" I see 5 discussions with 100+ comments in the past week alone! So I think there's a lot of discussion regarding police brutality, just not about Floyd's murder itself. (Well, I guess some people might wish HN had even more discussion on police brutality, but we're veering into meta-meta-discussion.)
Contrarian opinion that I'm not sure I hold: think carefully about what you say, and if it's controversial, be brave/make a throwaway.
the Russian film and novel "Generation P" from around that era explores the implications of this tech. It's very ahead of out times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_P_(film)
Amazon Assistant Privacy
Wouldn't this be illegal for EU residents due to GDPR?

though even if they respond emails and help you I'm pretty sure they break EU laws without informing you about rules in advance with clear information about DPO, data processor/controller etc
Bach's work is in the public domain, which means anyone can make their own recording. But, any recording of Bach's works will still automatically have its own copyright, unless it's intentionally dedicated to the public domain too. The great thing about a public domain recording is that anyone can take it and use in any sort of artistic or even non-artistic endeavour, without having to worry about the usual "Contact the copyright owner, hope they will grant you a license that's not too expensive."
Which is evidence of them being substandard for gaming, IMO. For the iPhone, it's sort of justified, since it's more of a personal device (even if I've handed my phone to my son to play games plenty of times). But the iPad? One of the main use cases of that is a shared family device, isn't it?
This happened to us by Google just now too. They deleted our app for a violation in version one of the app when we are on version 4 (over a year later) after 100 emails with basic replies, and inability to escalate we are at a loss. This is for Google Play store. Serves us right to try and build a business on Google/Android
Thank you! These look very well-tailored.

As for systems/protocols, all I know at the moment is that some of it currently uses Zabbix. It's multi-departmental so fact-finding goes slowly. I'm an industrial IoT guy at heart, so I'm also eager to determine the current topology.

I've used some proprietary solutions for things like this in the past (OSIsoft PI System, no relation to the Open Source Initiative "OSI")...and Sunbird DCIM looks fantastic. Both are probably a contracting company's dream for earning huge contracts to configure and maintain, and while I'd love to have the features Sunbird advertises, it doesn't feel like the right solution during a cost-cutting year. It also feels like it would be more difficult for the team to maintain.

In addition, my organization has been willing to let employees use their 9-5 work hours to contribute to open source when bug fixes or new features were needed for software stacks we depend on. So it feels good to see some well-developed open source options that we may be able to contribute to down the road.
Ability to disable javascript for non-https would be a great security setting. Aligns well with Apple's goal for privacy and security as many wireless hotspots and even ISPs abuse HTTP javascript injection.
Also you used to be able to hover over a commit and see the full commit message. That doesn't seem to work anymore.

Overall, seems like change for the sake of change. Boo.
Weren’t Europeans on the street marching in solidarity? I wouldn’t dismiss it entirely as a US issue.
JavaScript Shorthand Coding Techniques
Capable, yes. Unafraid to try something new in an area they believe they can't understand? Much more rare.

You introduced the shoelaces level unnecessarily at the start of this whole debacle. Computers are, to the people we're holding under discussion here, a BAZILLION times more complicated. You can't make your shoes vanish by holding a lace slightly wrong. You can make your work 'disappear' in any of myriad ways, by accidentally mistaking a single keystroke, or leaving out a step, or doing something 'extra' as one person put it to me.

And the tire analogy is also skewed. Tires are another thing that's phenomenally less complicated than computer use, to someone who hasn't studied it yet.

You're holding up much simpler concepts and saying that if people can figure out a 10^3 complicated situation, they can figure out a 10^50 complicated situation.
Besides the insults, there are a couple of real scientific questions. Despite my better judgement... :

1. 'evolutionary pressure on traits' -> so what? It's important, because we are usually much better powered at detecting purifying selection in traits.

2. As for the slanted eyes: why do you think there was no pressure? Assortative mating is a thing.. it's very prevalent in visible traits and really makes this hard.

3. Preference for height... umm ok - this is weird. There are plenty of known examples for purifying height selection in either direction. However, these are rare variants and not the major driver of height variation within bigger populations. Height is actually a good example for looking at variation within populations: https://elifesciences.org/articles/39702
Basically it says that population stratification is a major problem for things that are easily measurable like height (unlike intelligence, which is much harder to measure and way more likely to have known social covariates).

4. In general, you aren't even understanding the simplified responses that the authors are trying to explain, but also can't seem to grasp there might be more that you are not understanding – and just ascribe things to lack of imagination or political correctness of the authors.. who are world class geneticists. You can lead a camel to water...
Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process (1985) [pdf]
MS in Data Science vs MS in AI – Which One Should You Choose?
I was thinking Jesus in a tuxedo T-shirt, but, sure, Nixon - why not?
One can run WhatsApp in Linux.

Or one can use Session, and there are apps for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
The Erosion of Publisher Liability in American Law, Section 230, Online Curation
> Keyloggers, spy software, webcams, etc. are simpler and more effective tools. If they're sophisticated enough to do a believable MITM attack they can do all these other attacks as well.

This isn't true. All of these attacks are pretty hard to run against mobile devices unless you can install something on them.

> a believable MITM attack

This makes me think you don't actually know what a MITM attack is. MITM attacks are dangerous because they are invisible - ie, "believable" is implied by it being a MITM attack.
I bought this book on this recommendation and I don't agree that it should be called great. It did a good job of enumerating (what I presume to be) every major component of power systems. However, it didn't to a great job of explaining how any of those components work.

One example is capacitor banks, which it spent a few pages on. I'm told that they're more beneficial the closer to an inductive load they're installed, but I was never told why, or given any tools to figure it out why for myself. There's not even a citation.

After reading this book I have a better understanding of how much of the grid I don't understand, but I don't feel like there's any part I understand particularly better.
Unfortunately users will flag content they don’t like.
HN is heavily moderated by users and mods, so you get to see what content according to site policy, mostly.

If you want all the stories, there's https://hckrnews.com/ sorted by time. Lots of politics gets through enough to follow the zeitgeist, without getting forever lost, like this guy.
Not for the motors, and the Grin ESCs are not the only ones available. In any cases, Chinese Kunteng ESCs are also very well made, with an open-source firmware available and provide pure-sine wave control as well as regenerative braking for less than a third of the price of a Grin ESC, and also have headroom (people have been overvolting them by significant margins without issues).
This is a neat concept and made reading the article and thread worth it. Thanks.
Do people really use Safari?
You're making an impassioned case for something I'm not arguing about. I hold SSC itself somewhat in contempt, but I don't feel that way about everyone who gets value from it, and I'm not here to debate you about whether SSC is good or bad. You can think it's good while I think it's very bad.

What I don't understand is why it is that Scott Alexander feels like he's in danger from having his affiliation with the blog exposed, while at the same time it's so clear to everyone who peruses the site that it's open-minded and productive and wholesome. If that's the case, what's so alarming about the attribution?

What form does this supposed cancellation take? You've just claimed that white nationalism is off the table --- I disagree, but will happily stipulate. So what is it then? You've got a better imagination for what could happen than I do, since I think there's virtually no risk for Scott Alexander at all. Can you share more about what you foresee happening? Is it some citation to some horrible TheMotte commenter? What is that commenter saying?

I mean, let's be clear right up in front: one thing we can't really debate at this point is whether Scott Alexander is "out". He's out. It's over. The NYT could shitcan the article (I kind of hope it does) and nothing will change; Scott Alexander has seen to that. So what do you think might happen next?
Will we be able to put data from the past into it at some point?
We currently use a simplified version of gitflow. Essentially we picked only the master, develop, and release branches from it. Of course we do have experimental branches but all nowhere as complicated as gitflow.
And people say HN isn't making new features...you guys have the coolest mod techniques around.
Can I use terraform with this so I don’t need to use the website for HCP setup?

Is HCP in any way restricted? Say, I want to use HCP but my requirement would be that the HCP Controller be in eu-central-1 for AWS In FRA or europewest1 for Azure in AMS.
My favorite version of Github, is 2017... buttons looked like buttons and simplicity was embraced

https://web.archive.org/web/20170924075025/https://github.co...
There are two requirements for L1: working for a related (subsidiary, parent, etc) company abroad for 1 year and having "specialized" skills. Apart from the 1 year requirement it's weaker than H1-B as it does not put any requirements on education or salary. Furthermore, a big enough company can get a "blanket L1", which does not require DOL certification like H1-B. Did I mention there is no cap on this and you can have as many L1 workers as you wish?

1 year requirement is not a big deal: everyone using these has already offices all over the world so they hire somebody in a foreign office, wait one year and transfer to the US, considering that H1-B is a lottery it's faster than getting an H1-B from abroad on average. And, bonus, unlike H1-B, the L1 workers cannot easily jump to another employer: for a new job with a different employer they need to get some other visa, likely H1B, and, unlike a worker who already has an H1B, go through lottery. And if you fire them they will have much more trouble staying in the country: a new H1B application will take at least 6 months (file on April 1st, get the status on October 1st, if you won the lottery and did not get any RFEs) so they likely will run over 180 days out of status and get banned from the US for 3 years unless they find some other status like F (student), which won't let them work anyways so they will have to live off the savings they've made from their lavish L1 compensation.

Essentially it has all problems of H1 plus its own: less scrutiny, no salary requirements, stronger bond with the employer.

Hope this explanation helps.
Limiting speed. E = m*v^2
Ask HN: Is there alternative GitHub front-end?
After GitHub switched look & feel tonight[0], found it fully unusable due to increased JavaScript usage and signification performance issues[1].

This is not the first time GitHub changes its UI, but this time I feel like there are no ways to use official front-end anymore.

Is there any alternative GitHub front-end which could be used without JavaScript, like Nitter to Twitter & Invidious to YouTube?

[0] https://twitter.com/github/status/1275503968878239750

[1] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1275649310290575361

[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[3] https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
I wonder how many years we've got where you're still able to read the big mega archive...

Someday it may sit in some kind of "protected enclave", mapped into your process with "execute-only" permission for code, and maybe graded protections for its data as well, so you can't debug, trace, instrument, reverse engineer or otherwise get to really know the system libraries to see what they are doing and learn from them.

The trend has been that way for a while. For the moment, that kind of isolation is done at process boundaries, on devices that have enclaves.

There is no technical reason why that kind of isolation cannot extend inside processes, for a company that designs its own CPUs. For the same kind of "black boxes" as we already have inside mobile devices, but with faster API calls and data exchange than doing it across processes boundaries.
> Instead of Haskell we should be thinking of programming language research and how to get the best ideas into our mainstream languages.

I feel like that's what the Scala people are doing. Yet the end result is that this kind of Scala code is just as slow to compile as Haskell, and just as hard to learn for newcomers as Haskell.

The difficulty lies in the concepts enabled by the language, not the language itself. Go read the GHC user guide, especially the part about language extensions, and you'll finish in an afternoon. Yet people are always coming up with new ideas and abstractions that use these language features in new ways. Haskell is an especially rich platform for new ideas and abstractions to foster. Lens is somewhat difficult to learn, yet in its simplest form it can even be used without any language extensions. (You won't be able to name the Lens or Traversal type itself without RankNTypes, but you just need to expand the synonyms; in other words it's just sugar.)
My only suggestion in to move the Sidebar to the left when viewing a repository's files/commits, or at least give us the option to do so, which is easily doable by injecting custom CSSs into the page using Stylus btw.

Everything looks great so far, so kudos for everyone involved.
'No. That's what the NYT said it was going to be'

This plainly suggests the NYT is misrepresenting something or likely to do so. You even added the emphasis, in case it was unclear. My sensitivity is not to the 'ctrl-left' but the completely unwarranted weird conspiratorial stuff that some mob is out to 'cancel' the blogger, armed with the name they got from the NYT. That they could have just googled. It's, at best, mildly silly.
There's no limit to throwaways, and recently, the Internet has decided that "Anonymously" means "free to be a dickhead".
Only built in browsers and mail clients have high privilege, so use replacements.
Global solidarity demos against racism gets lost on US-only centrism.
In the EU most countries still had borders open for commercial traffic even during the height of the quarantine. This applied not only to trucks shipping tomatoes from southern Europe (rather vital), but also to a plumber hopping across the border to get slightly cheaper products (not so vital).
scared the beejesus out of me haha
Ok great, so if dark is successful in the next ten years with a different team then the original team still will do well financially. Kudos to you for that Paul!
For the boring technical solution, read https://hckrnews.com/
. There's loads of political posts on HN.
Any experience with ML in MATLAB?
What, no closing doors? ("The little lights, they’re not twinkling.")
FFI developers and users.

autoconf developers and users. The whole lib probe ecosystem might need adjustment.
Somehow I need my GPGPU and there are currently no good alternatives.
No Euro presence, good luck enforcing.
Hey, I'm all ears. Just an engineer, but customer feedback is taken super seriously (albeit with a tragically long turnaround time - it's a surprisingly large organization with a lot of irons on a lot of fires). I'll totally pass on anything you have to say though.

e: or put an email in your profile and I'll even reach out!
India is seen as too soft by us in the West, for good or for worse.
All that, and the horrors of McCarthyism too.
Someone is building an FOSS, selfhosted Roam-Clone here:

https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
Livestreaming ecommerce booms in China amid pandemic
How many people run Parallels outside of development circles?

Most users are barely capable of running one computer, let alone a virtual environment with a whole second OS on top. People who rely on Windows software generally run Windows.
Sounds about right as Facebook have admitted they cannot grow anymore in the US. Any growth must come from outside the US.
Roadmap for an Antitrust Case Against Facebook [pdf]
Tolkien utterly detested people like the author of this article.

As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical.... Other arrangements could be devised according to the tastes or views of those who like allegory or topical reference. But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
Not nearly as engaging without the Barbie dolls.
I remember opening my DK2 prototype with huge excitement, open a game, nearly vomit twice and put it back in the box "for later".

I have not adopted more VR options since (still sour from the money spent). But I imagine 6-dof is the minimum requirement.

Box still there, covered in dust.
Needed Dark Mode as well
The theorem only applies to perfectly asynchronous systems, which assume that algorithms are deterministic and have no clocks. We must introduce imperfect heuristics like timeouts in order to conclude nodes have crashed by deduction and be able to reach consensus in concrete distributed systems.

This paper is referenced in chapter 9 (Consistency and Consensus) of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann.
Top Machine Learning Frameworks for Web Development
Machine learning is one of the fastest trending technologies today. According to the report, Machine Learning and AI are going to create 2.3 million jobs by the end of 2020. The massive growth of Machine Learning projects has to lead to the evolution of numerous machine-learning frameworks.
I don't mind the aesthetic design changes but the layout drives me crazy. I count 4 separate alignments in the new repo page on my 15" macbook's full width browser window!

I found and modified a Firefox user style to fix the alignment for wide windows.

Original mozilla userstyle: https://gist.github.com/healingbrew/acc65ad439379eabdbb276e8...

Modified stylish chrome extenstion userstyle:
https://gist.github.com/montanaflynn/ca64cc0fcf55bcd4556a016...

I use this regex so it doesn't apply on the full width logged in homepage or /notifications:

https:\/\/github\.com/(?!notifications)(.+)

Here are some screenshots.

Before: https://imgur.com/3ogzYhI
After: https://imgur.com/8zMwTLL
I don't like the clone button is now a big ugly pill button. I will probably get used to it, but damn you github UX designers, fixing what ain't fucking broke. You should use your fucking creative brains for real problems, PLEASE!!!
You're both wrong, but you're only slightly wrong. It's been announced that those metrics will contribute to ranking in the bear future. Search for Core Web Vitals.
Japan's response was not competent at all. Basically every news article about how Japan managed to deal with the virus is "dunno, they must have gotten lucky?"
Sure, if it was perfectly knowable it would be. Fox news would be numero uno--no doubt. But things like this are not necessarily known. It can be a complicated thing to piece together. What IS known is that at a large scale there is a -calculable- probability that someone who needs help could get caught up, or someone like a surgeon who needs to give help could get caught up. Again, like I said earlier, if it hasn't happened then it will. I'm willing to bet it has happened (though whether it has or has not yet is pointless debate given that it will with a statistical certainty).
I'm privy to my company's books to see the employee cost (free for the employee, usually ~$150/month to cover their family as well) as well as the total cost for all of our employees across several states. We have very high quality insurance as standard, and the full coverage plans are more like $20k - $25k/year. It's completely out of control.
Adding it the FAQ would be awesome.
I felt the same, I installed a custom css user style extension just to fix it. Here's a link to my comment with example before and after along with the CSS needed for chrome or firefox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292
How to Find the Perfect Candidate
Past performance doesn’t predict future returns, as they say.

Losing OS support in Apple-land isn’t the end of the road. There are an additional two years of software updates because the previous two versions retain maintenance support. Also, apps rarely require the latest macOS to function.

Meanwhile, the iPhone 6s is getting iOS 14. The App Store works fine on an iPhone 5s. iOS 9 got a security update last year, and iOS 12 got one this year.
I can't quite buy your example, because NoSQL is pretty much a reinvention of VSAM and IMS DB (not IMS DC).

Regardless, I don't think it's necessarily that the expert would not want to drop some design constraint. It's more likely that it is genuinely hard to decide, which of them to drop and which of them to keep, because there are so many and problems are complex.

But if you're somewhat new (not a beginner either), you don't see all these, and you can benefit from the ignorance. Unfortunately, I think it cuts both ways, it's far more likely that ignorance will actually hurt you. But for a small number of people, ignorance can lead to lucky innovation.
I felt the same, and even made the same image with vertical lines in my feedback to GitHub while the change was still in the preview stage.

I installed a custom css user style extension just to fix it. Here's a link to my comment with example before and after along with the CSS needed for chrome or firefox:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292
As an Oregon resident, I confirm that this is spot on. We handled the lock down very badly, to a point where I had to convince some of my friends that COVID-19 actually exists.