skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Synching with GDrive for me has been painfully slow. I thought it would be a drop-in replacement for Dropbox, but deleting files in particular seemed to take forever. Probably just some growing pains, but I've never experienced that with Dropbox.

EDIT
Also I had an issue with my mac pinwheeling google's 'Backup and Sync' agent. It's fixed now after a couple months, but there was nowhere I could find to report the problem to Google.
USAF has just over 5,600 aircraft in service total, about 5,000 manned, per Wikipedia. There have been about 1,200 F-15s (all variants) built, 555 F-35s, 195 F-22s, and 4,600 F-16s. Not all built aircraft remain in service, nor are all in the US armed forces.

Your count at least seems reasonable.
> how the hell do you think they manufactured the materials for the space ship?

I'm not saying we shouldn't develop anything, or that aliens can't develop one spaceship sustainably. The point is that we've done a lot of harm and very few people are trying to turn it around. I'm part of the problem too. I need to be better, and we can amplify each other's efforts if we all work together and build the tools and resources that make it easier for everyone to do better.

> This is an incredibly toxic point of view.

I disagree. The most toxic view point is literally the one that ignores how unsustainable we have become and how toxic that is for the planet, and our future on it.
Battery doesn’t last as long as the old version (which didn’t exactly have fantastic battery life in the first place).

And you’ll soon HAVE to use your FB account with it.

Interesting they’ve killed the Rift S. So they’re all in on the Quest.
The versioning model says you have to rename your package for breaking changes. The v2 convention is for when you want to mostly keep the old name. Protobuf package got renamed because they didn't like the old name and wanted to change it more significantly.
Globaltimes: Nvidia's Arm purchase 'disturbing', urges regulatory caution
That would be a nice narrative if it was really possible to access the courtroom. Only 5 persons of the public are allowed in, meaning there is no access.
University of Pittsburgh scientists find antibody that 'neutralizes' coronavirus
Although we have the Enlightenment behind us, there is still superstition. There is nothing I can do about that.
American Airlines Bans Wearing Too Much Personal Protection Equipment on Board
The associated paper [1] summarises the information revealed by Signal succinctly:

The Signal messenger is primarily focused on user privacy, and thus exposes almost no information about users through the contact discovery service. The only information available about registered users is their ability to receive voice and video calls. It is also possible to retrieve the encrypted profile picture of registered users through a separate API call,if they have set any. However, user name and avatar can only be decrypted if the user has consented to this explicitly for the user requesting the information and has exchanged at least one message with them.

So Signal comes out excellently from this, yet is mentioned in the title. However, the paper does find that Telegram reveals to the world, in real time, exactly how many Telegram users have a particular phone number in their address book...

Can we change the title from the (click baiting) university press release to one which more accurately reflects the content of the paper?

[1] https://encrypto.de/papers/HWSDS21.pdf
of course...right after I bought an oculus quest 1.
Facebook Connect: Oculus Quest 2, AAA Gaming Partnerships, and More
> I harp on this constantly. But housing is not more expensive in the majority of American metros. Adjusted for inflation the median cost per square foot of new housing is almost exactly the same as it was in 1990. (This doesn't even take into account that mortgage rates are drastically lower since then.)

It doesn't matter that real estate on the Moon is free. There aren't any jobs on the Moon, or in third-tier cities.
Looks like the state with the highest rate of cremation is Nevada at 75.9% and Mississippi has the lowest at 19.7%.

It turns out Japan's cremation rate is 99.97% (2014) which actually lead to the appearance of "corpse hotels" where the body can rest until a slot opens up.

It seems countries where buddhism and hinduism are prevalent have some of the highest cremation rates, and unsurprisingly there is an overall trend of higher rates in denser areas (even in countries where the average rate is on the lower end).
I don't understand the goal of this site. :|
Some of this is voluntary. I have no financial problems but my wife and kids and I moved in with my parents / her parents alternating every few months to avoid total isolation.
What Ancient Mass Extinctions Tell Us about the Future
The initial F-16 project faced that issue and the Fighter Mafia was pretty successful in preventing scope/mission creep.
They talk a lot about the blue LED, but don't mention one reason that it's important.

What's important is white LEDS, probably the most used color. There isn't really a white LED. They are either three LEDS (R/G/B), or a blue led with some phosphor coating.
IIRC, Rust did have this optimization (or LLVM was doing it), but then there was a version bump or change in IR that disabled it and it wasn't trivial to fix.
Last time I did dithering was for Polyjet 3D printers. The problem is substantially different from what’s in the article.

The palette is fixed, as the colors are physically different materials. The amount of data is huge, an image is a layer and the complete model has thousands of layers, because 3D.

I implemented a 3D-generalization of ordered dithering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_dithering The algorithm doesn’t have any data dependencies across voxels, the result only depends on source data, and position of the voxel. I did it on GPU with HLSL shaders, it takes a few seconds to produce thousands of images.
Ok so the change from a decade or two ago is that young people want to live in places they can't afford. In the past they were evidently more content to live in places they could afford.

Doesn't really feel like cost of housing is what's changed.
This headline is flat-out wrong (and should be changed, please, @dang). About 2.5M young adults in the US have moved in with their parents since February, 2020: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
Interesting, looking at the data you're back at the same peak as in April.
At pressures neutron stars deal with, the laws of know physics are more like vague suggestions.
$300 is a pretty big deal for pricing on a VR headset, that feels very different from $400 for wide adoption.

Seems like this is also the end of the road for Rift, the Quest 2 is lower cost, more pixels, and they mentioned 90 hz screens for PCVR games over Link.

EDIT - review units went out in advance, so 3rd party reviews are already up. Here's one from Tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g
Strange, it works for me.
How about this one?
https://rdcu.be/b7iew
Web Design Engine: All-in-One Website Theme and Marketing Essentials
I assume some users would like to have more privacy. e.g. ask permission before you can see any of my info, message me and add me to your list.
> since this is a guaranteed payment until end of life, this is like having >$375k in a retirement account at age 67.

I would not bet on social security retirement age staying at 67, nor would I bet on the purchasing power of $15.5k remaining anywhere close to it is today.
Building the Slack for Conferencing
This is specifically about the GM build which is necessary for final builds, validation, and submission. Often developers have at least a week to do final checks and submissions with this build.
The Missing OS
The only time it did something for me was when the network diagnostic tool requested a new dhcp lease because I “did not have Internet access.”
Especially where tech has the best margins, we end up with horizontal monopolies over time. eg In idiocracy, "Welcome to Google-Costco, we love you."
Apple will not blacklist their own GPUs in WebKit.
Phone numbers are not private. The identifiers we use to connect to one another are not private. By design.
I remember the entities. Or in my case a singular one. I went into it with zero expectations or knowledge of what other people experience and I'm glad for that. It's amazing that the common thread of the descriptions is so similar.
COMAC is nowhere near ready and will have to prove itself in the domestic market before international rollout. That said Chinese aviation safety is among the best after a very rough start, but the real issue is airplane sales involve geopolitics, and geopolitics is not looking favourable by the time COMAC is ready.

>gifted them the benefit of the doubt on that front

I haven't seen anyone discuss this, but China was responsible for (justifiably) grounding the MAX around the world and crippling Boeing short term. CAAC was the first to ground Chinese MAX fleet after Ethiopian crash, which inspired everyone else to despite FAA insisting MAX airworthiness. I'm sure US is going to remember that when COMAC is open for deliveries, not that the US will ever buy, but the smearing is going to be rough.
>The core question is this: should e2ee systems have any user growth/discovery tools or not? On some level the real question is "does Signal need to grow at all?".

I'm still VERY pissed off that Signal scanned my contacts without even asking me (I don't actually remember giving the app permission to do that). That was a big red flag for me.
The American MIC needs dependable world conflict to drive demand for its products. That's why we give Israel billions and they give it back to us for weapons.
Love my Quest but I basically only play Pavlov Shack, a game that requires sideloading and I am somewhat sure will not come to the official Quest store.

Will probably end up selling mine and getting another brand.
There's several layers. It's Python/Django. I don't think we know what the issue really is. They could be, for example, logging visits to Sqlite. Or other issues unrelated to Sqlite.
I was just thinking about this the other day when reading the comments on small nuclear reactors and how many organizations, governments and countries can't accomplish anything of significance in a timely, costly or efficient manner.

I was thinking it should be written like a law:

The success of a project or goal is inversely proportional to the number stakeholders, investors and/or general labour involved in the project/business/goal.

This idea is closely related to the 80/20 rule, the cost/performance/quality decision triangle, etc.
That’s bizarre. They provide delta OTA updates for iOS betas...
But does it include itself?
It would be probably be more respectful if you would not mess with my posts, now even I do not know who made said comment. Guess I should start signing my posts and keep backups of them.

People sometimes have important personal reasons for deleting things but this does not mean anything. It is not as if "x posted y on twitter and deleted it afterwards" or "the page was edited/deleted, here is an archive.org link" is uncommon on HN, nor it is as if a stalker would not be able to scrap HN posts of someone instantly as they were posted.

> it disappears.

In my experience they show as [deleted] but I guess this is only for posts that have replies.
It's more being prepared to ship their product.

Usually there's a period of time between announcement and when it ships, such that a developer can get the release version of Xcode (if necessary), do some final testing, then send any updates to Apple for review. With enough lead time that their updated app can be available on the App Store the same day as the iOS update being available.

That isn't really possible this time around.
SQLite isn't single threaded - and it can support multiple readers very well.

The limitation with SQLite is that it doesn't support concurrent writes well - it needs to take a lock on the entire database to perform a write.

Writes are crazy fast (a few ms) so this often isn't a problem - but it does mean you wouldn't want to use it to build a site that has many people writing at once, like Hacker News for example.

For a site that has low (or no) writes, SQLite works really well even at a much larger scale - 100s of requests a second.
We develop industrial training solutions using the rift S and quest. But the deep linking with FB, the battery downgrades on the quest, etc, all are going to push us away.

For PC-based training sims, we'll probably get the HTC Vive. And the Pico for the quest equivalent.
I imagine they have done research on how much people care about using it without the power cable plugged in vs. the weight of a larger battery. Even for portable use, it might be better to use an external USB C power pack than have a large battery on your head.
It's quite ironic that by attempting to force me to use a Facebook account, all they've accomplished is forcing me to exclusively pirate my VR titles.
I think it's important to put this into context. They're stating that a malicious user could crawl public info of other users, thereby building (over time) a behavioral model of those users. The theory that you could protect users from that by hashing phone numbers and using the hash for contact discovery, turns out not to be accurate, because there are few enough phone numbers in existence that you can just brute force the hash.

I do think it's important for people using these kinds of services (and I'm one of them!) to understand their limitations, but I also kinda find this a bit self-evident, if you think about how contact discovery works. There's simply no way around it (unless you stop using phone numbers to exchange contacts). So in the sense that studies like these help educate non-technical users of the technical limitations of services, this is great!

However, to say they "threaten privacy"... That feels like a gross mischaracterization of what's going on here. Every social technology site, app, etc, has this problem, and it's something that could be, to an extent, mitigated for (detection of scanning attempts, rate limiting, etc). Meanwhile, these are the apps that are bringing E2EE to the masses. It feels like missing the forest for the trees.
'We Need Less Ally Theater': Little Has Changed for Women in Tech Since MeToo
https://twitter.com/XHNews

I've seen individual Chinese accounts without any publicly known state affiliation marked as well.
Improving Sparse Training with RigL
Has Apple ever added a major breaking change one day before release of new iOS version?
It's funny that this is also coming from the community that runs on building good-enough-for-now solutions rather than trying to raise $1B and build the perfect service from the ground up.
I'm from the Caribbean and I find I learn a lot more about what's happening in the world. For years I've watched BBC and CNN international and found them way too biased to from a properly unbiased view about most stories.
Archived page (5days ago):
https://web.archive.org/web/20200911140514/https://dbdb.io/
How does semver handle the case where I have v2.x.y and I want to change the API but I need to experiment for a few releases?

I want to get to a v3.x.y but I need. a bunch of pre-3 major versions first.
Linux kernel used to do with odd numbers for experimental versions and even numbers for stable versions.
Anecdotally where I live several OB/GYNs (my wife is a resident) have told me they will be delivering a ton of babies over this upcoming winter, and that they are busier than ever - with obstetric cases.

Also anecdotally, we're expecting our first - we were waiting for the right time, had it all planned out.. then COVID pulled the rug out from under everything so we said screw it and just went for it. I suspect we're not alone in this...
many developers have really no choice (at least not individually). They don't really have the means to vote with their wallets, as foregoing the whole iOS market is.. not a choice.

What EPIC is doing is trying to rally people on their side of the fight.

This is the same reason why people (workers) have unions, in the traditional job market. It's not really comparable because developers are not workers, but there are some similarities: Apple benefits from the developers (immensely, with your Windows Phone example) and the developers too.. but Apple has the upper hand, by FAR.
Facebook will makeup that subsidized $100 on selling the data the glean from the user while using the Quest 2.
I’m hoping the improved graphics specs and refresh rate help people (like me) who are sensitive to VR motion sickness.
Cypress – setup to reports, USEFUL MATERIALS
Have my upvote as well. I was still frustrated by a similar observation I recently posted that went negative, much to my surprise, and made me imply a pretty libertarian bias.

Apologies for the bile, I‘ll engage in a more civil discussion tone going forward.
I really wanted Bazel to work for GO (not even C++). I gave up. It's got fine goals --- really nice ones --- but the doc sucks. We get stuck in crummy alley ways between corners of Bazel that does work well.
> or we really have no other words

There are other words, but it is a bit of a mouthful.

Because of these exact issues, the way that I describe the situation is usually as follows "Company X has significant market power, and is engaging in anti-competitive actions".

I have yet to have someone object to that definition.
The author is absolutely right. And to add one more point: Debugging such a system has become so difficult that many do not even attempt it anymore. I have seen experienced operators treating their stack like voodoo ("I have no idea why it acts up, but restarting this part seems to help sometimes. Oh and I increased memory on that VM, because, why not.").

For any reasonably successful web application there comes the day when a developer has to investigate the cause of a bug who wasn't there when the application was "young and agile". They will scratch their head above old libraries, out-of-fashion frameworks, tools, and languages, and finally, more often than not, argue that the whole system needs to be reimplemented in X.
sure, don't lose track of the thread though. I'm comparing against someone who is currently retiring with $60k in their retirement account. $60k probably won't be the median 401k value in forty years. all this stuff is subject to change.
LSD Microdosing found to increase BDNF level, a marker of neuroplasticity
I don't think it's possible for a non-apple/google app to access your address book on iOS or Android without you explicitly giving permission. Please correct me if I am wrong.
A dedicated individual can do quite a lot. Look at John Muir for example - should he have just voted and not do anything else with his life for the environment?

Just from the most immediate problems I could see a lot of profitable work in modeling wildfires, maybe using satellite pictures to identify the most vulnerable spots to light up etc. Also optimizing power usage over networks and things like that are exactly in the ballpark of tech. Is that whole problem space really just best left to the government to slowly add incremental improvements every 10 years? Yes vote but also maybe think about spending more than 1h every few years to think about the problem.
Yeah definitely agree; they probably inluded Signal for the clickbait.
Thanks, will definitely try them out.
I find The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, ProPublica, and maybe controversially, The Intercept do good primary source journalism in the US.
Genuine question - if this was the perfect AR/VR device, would you use it even though it is a FB product? I have real concerns about privacy and the need to log in with FB credentials, but I am also very hopeful for devices that can continue to grow the market and help take it mainstream.
"The only reason it would be relevant that they don't build 2 bedroom houses anymore is if you for some reason think you must have a newly built houses."

Yep. Hence "they don't build 2 bedroom homes anymore"

"The old 2 bedroom houses didn't suddenly disappear."

They didn't. But the population is growing.
Well, if you were willing to spend 60$ you could buy a Smalltalk package suited for commercial applications which looked somehow like Windows. But that's not the topic here anyway.

> Maybe we're talking past each other but the IDE says the community edition is only authorized for GPL software, every other edition is big bucks.

Do not let this mislead you. The software is available under GPL. That is all you need to know. And GPL allows you to use the software for any purpose. Maybe I should mention that I studied law for two years and then had one more year of lectures in patent and license contract law (see my profile for more information).
There is one thing that will make me buy VR, it's a full field of vision.

They say virtual reality, but they sell virtual binoculars...
Not intending to throw Boeing under the bus at all and I do think engineers take security seriously.

But generally there is a R&D lead that makes the decision to implement it. There may be responsibility there, but the decision to design the plane this way was an economic one.

Some reported internal pressure to develop quickly. By now, that is probably standard in the industry where any software is involved. So apart from an engineering position that could nearly crash or delay such a project...

If the system reactivated wrongly, it is certainly a bug and I think they have already fixed that problem. But an error that is hard to identify and the system was basically just designed to conform to regulations defining flight characteristics to evade renewed certification and training.

Of course there are still valid design criticisms possible if you take security real serious.
Equity.
It's satire written by a disgruntled engineer :P
Microsoft's native development environments are a pain in the butt too, and they're constantly introducing and then deprecating stuff.

If you hate Electron don't blame Electron. Blame Apple and Microsoft.
Coming this fall: Return of the video game console wars
> They're a charity and a private institution, not a legal arm of the UK

Just like the Internet Watch Foundation. Being a private charity does not mean much for the UK.
I don't really agree with that assessment. If there is mass layoffs for example, and renters can't pay rent, why would a landlord evict the tenant? Who is going to take their place? I think many landlords would prefer a potential to pay (owing rent) than full eviction and being forced to lower rent and uncertainty wouldn't they? I'm not saying there would be no evictions, but everyone homeless doesn't seem like a fully realistic outcome considering renting is a marketplace.
One example is the new photos permission API. If you don't rebuild for iOS 14, your app will continue to work... but your users get a horrendous experience where they're presented with a confusing permissions popup every time they launch your app.

I'm sure there are other examples as well.
Ditto "fast".
There's an official accessory strap with battery now, if battery is a problem. Helps with balance, I've done a similar setup with a 3D printed bracket and a power bank.
Just like real life
Obviously they wouldn't want the enemy to know their troops are amphibious.
It might end up cheaper overall then buying twice or renting and moving. Especially with prices rising every year. If you know you want kids one day and want to live in that area and paying that mortage still leaves you enough money to live, it easily ends up better deal.