skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do worry that Facebook will figure they might as well double dip on sales and advertising; future headsets are probably going to have eye tracking (ostensibly for foveated rendering and better avatars), and combining in-world advertising with exact data on how long people looked at them is a pretty compelling sell for what is fundamentally an advertising company.

They spent like 15 minutes of the presentation talking about how ethical they're going to be (re: AR glasses) and how trust has to be earned, but their ethics track record isn't exactly stellar.
At their surface, and possibly internally, the neutronium likely breaks down, if only briefly, giving protons and electrons.

Voila, spinning charges.

Current models indicate that matter at the surface of a neutron star is composed of ordinary atomic nuclei crushed into a solid lattice with a sea of electrons flowing through the gaps between them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#Structure
I have a Valve Index and love it. Yes it's immersive regardless, but VR still has such a long way to go on the quality front. FOV is fairly poor, pixel density is awful.

I'm looking forward to an actual "retina display"-like option (60+ PPD) with higher FOV in another 5-10 years, but I'd assume that'll be 8K minimum per eye, maybe more like 10-12K.
No surprises. For all the arguments around FAANG and user hostility, Autodesk are the absolute pits. They have been price gouging for decades. They release buggy software and hold various industries hostage with their pricing. For an Architect with 100 users of Revit as an example, the fees are eye watering, and the support 'contract' is always with 3rd parties, which is invariably extremely limited. Horrible organisation.
The mobile apps also thinks your primary use case for "Share" is to send someone a dropbox link.... when I'm trying to post the file to Instagram
Apple has become an ecosystem to avoid at all cost. From denying the right to repair, design of devices to make it prone to catastrophic failures, making it difficult to recover own data (to force people to use cloud backup so they can look at all your data) and many more (like trying to make employees go through security checks without being paid for it)... Greed has blinded them.
The export filetype and 2d drawing limitations are sad.
> genetic variants for dark hair were relatively common among Vikings.

Relative to what? "Common" could mean anywhere from 10% to 80%, and the article somehow never manages to explain.
are they really though? With the link it does make the quest a PC VR headset no?
We are building exactly this : https://lynx-r.com
> Because app developers will use other browser engines

That still does not force you to install those browser engines.

If you want the apple approved apps, in the apple approve app store, that fine. But me using different settings does not force you to not use those approved apps.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24491868.)
Interesting! Do they have a term for DC pensions in the US? Is that their 401k?
I do make a habit of trying to understand what somebody meant instead of trying to twist their words into something inflammatory.

It’s worked out really well for me so far.
Curtailment of typhus epidemic in the Warsaw Ghetto
Mental illness like schizophrenia are by definition a net negative, that’s why their disorders. It seems strange but people can be very different without mental problems or seem perfectly normal but have severe issues.

It’s why some but not all young children with imaginary friends can be considered fine. More strangely some adults have similar imaginary friends which they realize are mental constructs but they still enjoy interacting with them.
> Less of a chance to make the error, or more of a chance to catch it.

B only catches mistakes in the case that the number of parameters doesn't match the number of placeholders, which isn't even possible with A. If the string you built isn't correct, that's on you in either case, and should be immediately obvious by looking at the output. So in that sense, interpolation is strictly better than `formatted` at dealing with potential mistakes.
Uh my Zillowing suggests that you’re wrong. At least in WI - and what’s more middle American than WI. I’m talking even bumfuck, wi, where a hunting lodge with no plumbing and a woodfire oven for heating will set you back 100k. In Madison WI you are wrong nearly on an order of 10 (Comparing w 1990 prices).
I don't know all the tradeoffs involved, but seems like a downgrade to go from the pure black of OLED to the backlight bleedthrough of LCD for a screen so close to the eyes.
Even houses built in the 70s and 80s where I live in central KY have “appreciated” much faster than inflation.

W/r/t your point about hedonic adjustments, I’m not sure that matters if most still can’t afford it.
https://opengovasia.com/vietnamese-it-sector-posted-six-mont...
True. This is a very thoughtful response that gives me pause. Good parent privilege.
> What else would licenses be if not contracts?

In Anglo-American law, at least, a license is a permission which may either be gratuitous (most open source software license usually would fall into this category) or part of a contract (which requires mutual consideration, among other things, rather than a one-sided grant).

But, IIRC, gratuitous licenses are, in US copyright, enforced under contract principles, mutatis mutandis, not under the bare law otherwise applicable to the rights transferred. And I think the FSF is very much aware of that, and that is a big reason for the automatic termination on breach provisions of the GPL, to get back to the bare law, no license situation, at least after an established breach.
Ok, we've changed the title to a different phrase from the article. Thanks!
There's a bunch of eager grandparents looking forward to seeing their first grandchild born, as well as loved ones going to funerals etc. These people trend towards being over 55 and a cross country solo road trip for a widowed grandmother is not always an option for them, and covid isn't going to stop them from getting on a plane if possible.
The FoV is anything but binoculars on modern headsets. It's as close to full FoV that you're never bothered by it or even think about it.
If a hurricane came and destroyed a bunch of people's homes and businesses and people stopped working, it would be more reasonable to say that "the hurricane caused mass unemployment" than it would be to say "the hurricane didn't cause unemployment, it was just people's individual decisions to not work out of a pile of flooded rubble that's causing the unemployment."
> Having everyone wearing full body pods isn't feasible.

How is someone wearing a full body pod in a window seat (as pictured in the article) causing problems for others?
I would not let my kid in non-supervised contact with abusive relative. If they were abusive to you, they will be abusive to them.

And distance from that relative allows you to see that with more clarity as you are no longer in environment where it was normalized.
> (And can we just add a link to the third party sticker website? People seem to care about that and sticker discovery is needlessly difficult. I get asked this frequently and am constantly sending the sticker link. I'm sorry, but the default ones suck and I cannot understand any good reason it works this way)

Presumably the reason is that your own sticker sets should be private by default, which makes it more work to allow optional public sharing of them (which supposedly was not worth delaying the feature for). For example, I have a sticker set of weird pictures of a friend of mine that I like to use, but only with mutual acquaintances.

Btw, I would argue that stickers are the prime example of Signal trying to become feature rich. But of course, there's only so much you can do at the same time. (Though new features appeared to be released more often recently, presumably as a result of their funding infusion a while back.)
Exactly. I completely detest how they use this as a way to 'securely verify' real users, but they argue that the only unique cryptic information everyone is likely to know is their phone number. So why not use that to verify?

As you already pointed out there's a gigantic downside which is your privacy. I always keep hearing the occasional person that says that they are not on Facebook (for privacy reasons) but uses WhatsApp. I later congratulated them for signing up to Facebook and they also allowed WhatApp to upload their entire address book to find or search for anyone's number on Facebook who is not on WhatsApp!

Wire, Signal, and Telegram do the same thing but are just as bad for privacy and are disqualified.
I'm sorry but the title is misleading. It's not that 30M young people (18-29) are living with their parents due to Corona but more that the number has grown from 24M to 26,6M in America [!] since February. Meaning the title should rather be: "The pandemic has pushed 2,6M young Americans to move in with their parents."
see the linked source from the article: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
edit: i see the title has already been corrected, HN is great :)
Vee häff camz in Hamburg. If the driver sees that, it's end of the line for them. If they are cought by "Kontrolletties" it's that plus 80EUR fine.

Winke, Winke :-)

edit: Written as experienced multiple times in the last few weeks. Fine was initially 40EUR.
> we're working on shipping more value to users with fewer upsells.

Glad to hear, though I really wish you guys had stayed as a storage company. You're not going to replace all the apps that I use Dropbox to bridge too, yet your apps seem to do their best to keep me in your ecosystem. Please stop that.
There's a config for that in the tweak tool. It makes secondary monitor workspaces static. It's not exactly what you want but it gets kinda close for me. Wayland does away with the shitty X conventions so maybe there is hope once X finally dies.
Given that a warplane has not been developed so quickly since WW2, part of me wonders if there has recently been some development which has given the air force a wartime sense of urgency. While it seems unlikely that we wouldn't hear anything about such a development, it also seemed unlikely that we wouldn't hear about a project like this.
The Hockney documentary mentioned is fascinating. He shows works where the painter has reproduced optical effects (ex: depth of field), conclusively showing that a lens must have been used.
Wiki has a good article on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockney%E2%80%93Falco_thesis
Not to mention the egress issues large safety equipment might cause. I can’t imagine an emergency deplane where everyone is effectively in inflatable sumo suits.
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You're thinking too small. By owning a Quest 2, you're signalling that you (or your parents) have disposable income they are willing to spend on electronic devices. Yes, it clearly shows you're a gamer. So if you're a gamer, you probably drink Mountain Dew and eat Doritos. Based on your FB profile, you probably like certain types of shoes. 75% of other people with matching criteria purchased something, so let's shove that in your face as well to see if we can't get it up to 80%. Oh, you play games between the hours of xxx, so you must be a teenager. Let's target ads to get your parents money.
>nova

>desirable location

Lol
Also check out https://www.vrdesktop.net/ for PC streaming, this option works wirelessly and performs very well as long as you have a fast and stable wifi connection.

The version on the Oculus Store doesn't do SteamVR streaming though, you have to buy it and then sideload an alternate version (which still checks for a license from the store).

There's supposed to be some sort of easier sideloading system coming (currently you need to sign up for a developer account and enable developer mode), but no new info since that was announced a few months ago.
Population density of NL is like 10x that of the US so I really would expect housing to be much more expensive in NL.
I'm not the person you're asking but I've tried it and it goes both ways for me. Sometimes it's still very immersive, and other times the reduced FOV (compared to reality) does take away from the experience.
I'm guessing it's a safety thing? Having a bunch of people in bubble suits would make it really hard to evacuate the plane.
Are there any other sync services that can handle large git repos without choking?

It's been a few years since I last checked but when I did Dropbox was the only one that didn't choke
I'd like to know what possessed the author to celebrate this beautiful plane in Comic Sans
Installed and activated this morning. I'm already a fan. Easily revertible if I decide later that I hate it, but I like this workspace strategy much better than what's built-in with gnome.

I did find it a bit challenging to figure out where the settings were located (I don't use many GNOME extensions).
Most people/developers don’t care about these “issues”. Jessie Squires, while I am a fan of his, tends to be very outspoken on a variety of topics. It’s not out of character for him to write a profanity-laced tirade on the internet about something that doesn’t matter to 95% of people. This isn’t meant to be a dig on him or his beliefs (I wish I could be an anarchist) but just a matter of fact way of saying that most people and developers simply do not care about these “issues” and are just happy being developers for a great ecosystem that can line your wallet with fat stacks if you play your cards right.

As with most things on the internet, outrage drives engagement, so stuff like this will easily reach the front page of HN, even if most people really don’t care much at all.
It's not a single point. Builders are cutting corners any way they can. Interior trim is expensive to install so they just declare that the modern trend is bare walls, floor to ceiling that you can bang up easily. Tract home inspectors will skip over most units so you can leave out flashing around windows and doors. This is their mentality.
One way would be if major web apps launched and iOS users complained about being unable to use them. For example, Spotify Web Player launched without desktop Safari support. If macOS only had Safari, users might have complained and put pressure on Apple to change it.
5G. I don’t know why it has such a bad rap. Perhaps millimeter wave tech was over-hyped. 5G is a significant improvement and will allow wireless carriers to compete directly against home Internet providers.

Sure, it isn’t like 3 cellular carriers is a huge level of choice, but it sure beats “Comcast is my only option.”

This generation of graphics cards is exciting and I’m hoping AMD will have a strong showing with the RX 6000 series.

Depending on the specifics on pricing and hardware I’m excited for the small iPhone 12, as long as it doesn’t eschew too many high-end features compared to the larger ones.
Update: I tried a bunch of things on noclip.website and ShaderToy (which never seemed to work properly before) and they seem to be largely functional.
Until when you are going to be stupid and believe this made up situation, it's OK guys, it's not our first time to have a pandemic, why make it such a fuss when it's not, you are acting foolish with this COVID shit...? 1 million deaths by corona, and that is questionable, but because of this made up situation many more millions will suffer and die because you guys decided you are fucking scared and submit like little bitches to the governments... your freedom is taken from you like candy from kids...it's sad to watch this.
OS/2 didn't move the needle for anyone. Smalltalk V evolved into an unsupported, expensive Smalltalk. Smalltalk never had its Turbo moment.
You can have both! https://github.com/material-shell/material-awesome

This was an earlier version of Material Shell based on AwesomeWM. At some point the author wanted more animations and custom menu handling. Those are 2 areas AwesomeWM doesn't really handle well.
Just wait until November where depending on the outcome, American democracy itself might be saying "I can't breathe".
This is a reasonable position, assuming you're also in favor of banning obese people from flights.
No, they just can't build enough. It's not as though building high-rise condos and houses is mutually exclusive.

In Japan, houses don't really appreciate. People just knock them down and build new ones with much more ease. There's certainly no shortage of developers wanting for "investment" apartments, it's not the deciding factor. The demand can actually be met there.
I bought the original Quest and will stop using it when the Facebook account becomes mandatory. Hopefully there is a suitable replacement from a less odious company at that time. I absolutely will not get a Quest 2 despite being very impressed by both the hardware update and price.
Ozone generators are a safety hazard to other passengers so I’m glad they are banning the use of those, the EPA states that ozone can:

“ When inhaled, ozone can damage the lungs. Relatively low amounts can cause chest pain, coughing, shortness of breath and throat irritation. Ozone may also worsen chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and compromise the ability of the body to fight respiratory infections.”

EPA.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/ozone-generators-are-sold-air-cleaners
If someone wanta to sit on the window and take the body pod risk on themselves, and possibly have a similarly-equipped family member or travel partner adjacent, that’s their business IMO.

Sitting on the aisle where they may impede the escape of another passenger who is a stranger, not acceptable. But that may even be misinformed. Obese people on the aisle present a formidable obstacle as well.
So how do you solve this on other Desktops?
Do you use the window previews or is there any other way? Because Windows and Mac both only show icons as well and Youd have to look at the names or previews of the Windows to know exactly which one you'd want. The grouping of applications can be disabled in gnome tweak
I have noticed that most of my fellow millennials seem to have completely forgotten the concept of "starter home"

I've noticed this too, but obviously it's not universal (lest someone accuse me of bashing millennials).

And with regards to houses getting bigger, I keep hearing about the "golden years" when you could buy a home on a single income. Sure, but those homes were similar to what my parents starter home was - 1000 sq ft, 2 bed, 1 bath with a family of 5 living in them (siblings sharing rooms).
> How much would you have to charge me to make storage workable for you?

I think it’s not about the price you or I pay. It’s about living up to investors’ expectations. They don’t need to be “just profitable”, they need a massive cash cow and ride it out.

Storage is a commodity now, so no way to achieve it with that. They need more value-add, and apparently a “hub for your digital life” is what they decided it needs to be.
I remember this post. It would definitely be a great feature.
I wonder if that might be a useful next step for FOV in VR... Some additional screen area in the peripheral that's lower res than the main screen area?
Nothing concrete I can point you to offhand. An AdaCore employee popped up in the community (freenode #ada, probably comp.lang.ada too) and started talking about it. I know several people pointed him to differences that were later addressed, or he had already tackled.
NASA to film an Estée Lauder ad in space
Wouldn't this be a simple case of measuring the probability of needing to evacuate the plane quickly vs. probability of catching covid-19 and dying?

Honestly, right now, for an elderly person, the covid risk is probably higher.
No offense, but I can still "roll my own" desktop with Linux and Windows, replacing components out as needed. I understand that this sounds like some technical hurdle to many, but it also feels like a cause to the rising hardware illiteracy of the average citizen.

I might be conflating causation and correlation, admittedly. I've always enjoyed the hardware aspect of computers, so it's hard to look at this sort of thing completely objectively.
What if you let the child buy drugs? Same thing. Don't let your child do illegal things and better - don't help it.
If you hear your child is reciting the number plates, make sure all recording hardware in your car is off before you lecture the kid that what it does is absolutely forbidden.
I'm sure there's a solution that fits within the constraints of a carry-on option.
>And it's simply not feasible for the vast majority of people living paycheck to paycheck to just up and leave to Raleigh like you imply.

There was a time where people would move countries with nothing but what they can carry at a chance of improving their life. At a time where the only way to travel was by boat for weeks and the only way to communicate to relatives was by mail.

Now we balk at the idea of moving cities when it's easier than ever before, and we can communicate instantly across the world.

To be clear, it's not just "Raleigh" or "South Dakota", it's really any city outside of California + New York. I live in Richmond, an hour and a half from DC, and you can buy 2000 sqft homes for 200k.
Compilers also were relatively large, at least in part because the language is large. For example, it has generics, tasks and inter-task communication. C compilers did not need to have those in the 80s. That mattered at a time when many users wouldn’t have a hard disk.
The reason for this is safety.

If the cabin depressurises, a little oxygen mask pops down from the top. You have a few seconds to put this on your face before you're unconscious¹, and a few minutes after that for somebody else to put it on your face before you're dead. Try doing that while inside a tent.

(I'm don't know whether this conclusion is statistically valid, considering how few non-Boeing's have been depressurising v.s. the proportion of the population with COVID-19, but it feels intuitively right, and that's how these decisions have been made lately.)

¹: read "not usefully conscious"; you might still be awake, but your brain won't be doing much thinking or hand-moving.
Playing the devils advocate here. This browser restriction is what I'd wager is keeping the non-chromium browser market at a substantial proportion.
>Technically, posts that have replies can't be deleted, so what sometimes happens is the poster edits their post and replaces all the text with "[deleted]".

Which should also be prohibited, because it's just as destructive. You shouldn't be able to edit a post with replies either.
Honestly just use GitHub. My (high level) understanding of sync is file system issues file event for every file change, we receive it, determine if its relevant, and then make the appropriate delta. You can imagine with thousands (or millions) of small files this becomes nearly impossible to manage with an OS integrated sync engine.
Part of the reason is included in the statement: "Advise them that these types of PPE are safety concerns, especially tents / pods which can slow access to critical safety procedures, including emergency evacuations and use of oxygen masks"

Note that in-flight crew are generally tasked with getting everyone evacuated, so making their job more difficult endangers more than just the pod-wearer.
Conditional probability is a bit too advanced for the people making these decisions at the moment.

(That's not to say that they're incapable of taking it into account; I'm sure most of them would be able to understand and use the concepts. They just don't.)
Seconded. It's very biased on mideast politics and especially Palestine/Israeli stuff, but in general they do a really great job of covering the global south and non-OECD countries. A slow news day in the US is generally not a slow news day globally.

The global weather is super intriguing. The resolution is so low that I can't figure out for whom it is useful, e.g., "It's raining in sub-Saharan Africa"