skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a park near me in Southern California that is 400 acres and was recently converted to be de facto residents only. Technically anyone can get in, but all of the parking spots are "residents only" except for legally mandated handicapped spots. The street parking was also converted to "residents only", allegedly to reduce COVID risk which IMO is total bullshit. Hopefully there's more of these lawsuits in the future!
Android emulator Anbox runs on Librem 5
It's every consulting firm. Given that consulting doesn't scale, I would not be surprised if consulting firms represented the majority of software engineering employment.
Right -- in those "civilized" countries (you probably mean the higher income European countries?) the total pay is just 20 Euros an hour net of taxes, so software engineers' salaries even with overtime don't match the US. But at least your boss can't play these games.
My guess: The simple answer is they want to be the VR platform of the future so they can show ads on it, however that may look. Selling ads in VR apps/games/homescreen is obvious - selling AR ads is probably on the horizon (so, if you look at your fridge in the Oculus Quest 5 AR you'll see an ad asking you to upgrade to the latest Samsung Fridge).

I kind of doubt we have anything to worry about now, but there is a terrifying future on the horizon where everything you look at, everything you do, is measured and any value is extracted and sent to ~~our new overlords~~ FB.
TIL McAfee® Gamer Security is a thing...
This seems like an obvious and fairly low cost solution (in terms of both money and CPU). I wonder why this wasn't integrated into commercial headsets yet?
Why GPT-3 AI Will Not Take Your Job
Well, then that'll be $287.65
While I primarily use my Vive Index with base stations, I love what the Quest is doing for the VR industry as a whole. While I really like my prosumer VR setup with base stations. It also sucks for the following reasons:

1. Sure, nothing beats it for visual quality and performance, but it is expensive. Minimum $999 AND you need a beefy PC with an equally beefy Nvidia GPU so the real minimum is really around $2499 with PC vs $299 for a Quest 2. That's a $2200 difference.

2. It is a pain to setup. You either have to deal wires and wire control on the ceiling, or if you have a Vive Pro, then you can spend another $299 to install a wireless option bringing the total cost to $2798. Let's not forget the base stations. While nothing beats them for tracking accuracy and the fact that they're the only option for full body tracking, it's yet another pain to set up. You might either drill holes in your walls, or you might buy camera tripods as a pricier alternative $25-$79 each on sale. Of course, once you set it up it's a dream, but the initial hill to climb is high.

What Oculus and PSVR are doing is expanding the market for VR and democratizing it so that it's no longer a niche hobby for a select few techies. Also, it is 'Apple'ing' VR. You just plug and play. You don't have to go through a convoluted setup that even some techies will balk at. i.e. I can buy this for my mom as a fitness machine.

Facebook and crossplay will also fix the problem of empty multiplayer games.

On a side note, I believe Onward devs are working to revert the PC VR Steam graphics. It's also good to note that it's just one game.

I will definitely be buying an Oculus Quest 2.
Everything is harmful to cells. The dosage makes the poison.
I don't think it's 90%. I'm saying there is a very, very low bar, but I would say it's hit by 20%-30% of candidates that reached me, not that many. Obviously this depends on much you offer, whether HR prefilters, and the like. But this is not 90% of candidates, I think.

And I'm quite confident it's not the interviewer. Usually the panel is quite anonymous when it comes to calling a "bullshit" candidate. We ask panel persons individually to avoid the "no one wants to contradict someone calling X bullshit'" effect.

I don't think tech interviews are _any_ worse than the ones outside. If anything, we have less standardization than other industries. I work for a engineering company first (software second) and the engineer interviews are basically _manufactured by HR_ (not engineers).
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I'm not touching that update with a 10 foot pole. Not until it's been live for at least a week, and developers have had a chance to actually update their apps for it!

Honestly, that's just good policy on all Apple updates lately. It seems that more and more of them have been plagued with issues and are trailed by hotfixes. I've learned to just wait a while. Other people can be the test guinea pigs!
I’ve really enjoyed the RiftS because of its zero setup but wouldn’t buy it’s replacement if there was one from Oculous because Facebook.

G2 next for me I think.
Enjoyed the read very much, thanks.
What was it that Dr. Malcolm said?
> I'm sure they'll give you a togo box if you don't finish

In the UK restaurants don’t do this so your surety is misplaced.

> When you "buy" a book you should be able to read it whenever you want forever and not rely on the company you bought it from not going out of business.

That’s what you care about. What I care about is most convenient access now. Why is your priority the true one and mine a result of abuse?
50 years ago it was cooler and everyone grew up without AC, they were used to it. That's not the case today. It's hotter and people grow up with AC and are not accustomed to living without it. The bar has moved.
It’s not like the dichotomy is so stark. Like the parent comment said: Raleigh is cheap but still bustling with plenty to do, Richmond, Baltimore, Atlanta, and so on are bustling but not stupid expensive. It’s not just “ghosts town” vs “expensive modern city”
Somehow this post was on the front page of HN 5 minutes ago and is now at #59 on the second page (3rd if you do 20 per page). WTF HN?
Or my anecdotes of when cyclists swerve into me when I take my right of way at a crosswalk.
On that note, if the university library in question is a Federal Depository Library (and in my experience must are), they need to make at least those materials available to the public.
In my experience many (though not all) deadlines are simple mitigation of Parkinson's Law[0], not exploitation of workers. I don't work in the commercial game industry though, so YMMV.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
I don't know if I agree with the word "design". In my experience most managers aren't trying to design a way to force people to work for free (though that may be the unintended result). Most managers seem to fly by the seat of their pants and make up deadlines based on what will make the client/stakeholders happy and not as some sort of malicious design.
>> for cyclists the most common reason is personal safety, followed by saving energy, saving time, and increasing one’s visibility.

Ok... that is a very strange sentence. Time and energy (ie speed) are basically interchangeable (ie rolling through stop signs). So too are "safety" and "visibility" intrinsically related. Being seen by cars is like 90% of bicycle safety. The real question is whether lawbreaking for (time+energy) is greater than for (safety+visibility). The article doesn't give us that data.
I may be misremembering my graph theory class, but isn't the necessary and sufficient conditions for an eulerian path just that every vertex needs to have even degree?

I'm not sure how it could work if any nodes had odd degree.
Is it really all that surprising?

The Middle East is an important region to the US. Israel has friendly relations with the US. Israel is also surrounded by hostile neighbors.

Why wouldn’t they have close relations?
I worked in office without AC under roof in summer and it was not just less comfortable, but productivity really went down measurably. I dont know how hot it gets there, but it can be so hot they are at disadvantage against students who dont live there.

I also stayed in house with bad insulation and it affected my health. 100 years ago, my health would be affected the same way whether better house would be available or not.

Maybe they are all irrational. Or maybe those dorms are really in bad shape.
Content, price, and experience. It's fun to talk about SoC's and pixel count, but at the end of the day those don't matter as much as we like to say that they do. You can have the most amazing hardware in the world, but if it's hard to get content made for said hardware, and it costs too much, and it's too difficult to use... then it will fail.

Facebook is doing the boring work that people don't like to talk about in tech forums, and that's why they're able to make a compelling consumer product.

The only other VR company that seems to get this is Sony, and they're married to a 6-8 year product cycle.
> But unless you have the potential to become an L8 at Google (or equivalent), it makes no financial sense to choose to live in the Bay Area instead of Raleigh. It's like somebody who works as a back office bookkeeper insisting on buying custom tailored Seville Row suits for his work attire, then complaining that the costs of clothes has gotten out of hand.

Buying a custom tailored suit requires extra/better labour and materials, so it makes sense that the costs associated with it would be higher.

For this analogy to apply to housing, the cost of constructing and maintaining housing should be higher in the Bay Area too. However, almost all the increases to rent in urban areas has come from increased land values. This isn't a result of the landowner putting in "extra work" to make it better; they get to extract the added land value that the community created while putting in no extra labour or capital.

The fact that private landowners capture all this extra value the community created is not inevitable! It's entirely a result of the economic system we've chosen to stick with. There are solutions that are both more fair, and economically efficient [0].

[0] - See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
> Quest 2 requires your Facebook account to login

That's a strange barrier to entry. I haven't had a FB in years, and have zero interest in going back, not even for some great hardware.
Interesting, thanks for the links! I use a pretty shallow set of vim features so even if it's minimal but more stable that would be a big boost.
My personal explanation for the others is that we are pattern recognition machines. One of the patterns we train to recognize every single day is a human shape and figure. On DMT your pattern recognition goes into overdrive, and you find these patterns out of nothing.

What I find interesting though is that almost everyone has nearly identical experiences with this. Almost everyone goes from sober -> geometric shapes -> "the others", advancing between the levels dependent on the dose.
X Compose Key Instead of Swiss Keyboard Layout
IMO opinion there's only one reason to choose Python and that's the size of the community. In every other aspect it's inferior.
Ask HN: Any good UI/UX design resources for founders?
As we’re designing our UI/UX for our analytics platform, wondering if there are any good resources, articles, etc. to help guide us.
>>Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook?

Tim Gerard Reynolds and Moira Quirk have done really good work and I'm more likely to buy books that have their names attached. Some other commenters have mentioned other favorite narrator's of mine as well, so yes, this English speaker can.
Shapes of Recovery: When Will the Global Economy Bounce Back?
You can't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24201306
The last time I read the stats for the London, UK, the number of cyclists seen jumping red lights was in the single digits of all cyclists counted and motorists accounted for 95% of total red light infractions.
I'm an Oculus CV1 owner and I still love it.

The next one I'm buying is the HP Reverb G2. The resolution is phenomenal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZvPnd_xTBs Consider it when you're deciding on a headset.
That's very possible. The Python interface for writing prediction APIs makes it pretty easy to switch between models, so it shouldn't be hard to test.
It's mentioned in The Body Keeps The Score
It has a cool name, so you know it is more scientific.
How many heavy metals are actually in the body? And wouldn't the dirt absorb them just as well as the mushrooms? Wouldn't the mushrooms eventually degrade and turn into dirt? Aren't coffins commonly made out of metal anyways? And who exactly is trying to plant shit on top of graves anyways?
You can read the ordinance: "Foothills Park may be accessible to the general public for the purpose of using the Bay-To-Foothills trails."

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2008/07/29/from-the-bay-...
Cyclists break rules because the rules were not written with us in mind.

The tired straw man argument against cyclists has them saying "treat me like a car!" one minute and "treat me like a pedestrian!" the next. But really, I just want to be treated like a cyclist. There are three major classes of transportation, not just two [@].

Here are some road rules that I regularly break for my own safety:

> In most places, it illegal to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk. However, most roads near me have no bike lanes. My city (Atlanta) has a notorious problem with highway traffic spilling out into the city, and as a result drivers are viciously impatient and I've had too many close calls while riding my bike on major roads. I ride on the sidewalk when there is no other safe option.

> In some places, it is illegal for a bicycle to pass a red light, even when it's all clear. However, when I'm riding on the road, there is usually a pack of impatient drivers waiting behind me. If don't accelerate quickly enough, they will honk at me and/or pass me within inches. Usually, I can put a safe distance between myself and the cars behind me if I start moving a little before the light turns green.

> Regarding sidewalk riding again: My city has too many one-way streets. This is fine for cars, who travel a longer distance on average than I do. But for short bike trips, not being able to use the sidewalk would increase trip time by 3-4x. This is a problem solved by separated bike lanes.

Not to mention the fact that we rarely hold drivers accountable for their rule-breaking. As a bicyclist, my mistakes can are only lethal to myself. A driver's mistakes kill other people.

Here's also a list of dangerous traffic behavior that SHOULD be illegal but ISN'T, because the law is written for the convenience of drivers, not the safety of pedestrians and cyclists:

> Right-turn-on-red should be illegal anywhere there is a pedestrian signal. When turning on red, drivers are looking to the left for oncoming traffic, and rarely look for pedestrians to the right until it is too late. When the pedestrian light is on, there should be ZERO chance of being hit by a law-abiding car!

> Left turns should have a dedicated lane and signal. Left-turn-on-green puts drivers in direct conflict with pedestrians, for the same reasons as right-turn-on-red.

> Speeding is too pervasive, and speed limits should be strictly enforced. Failing to use a turn signal should also be ticketed more often. I would support camera enforcement if I didn't think it would leak into public spaces beyond just roads.

> Freight trucks and other vehicles pulling a trailer too often swerve outside their lane. This is extremely dangerous and should be punished.

[@] Really, their are four modes of ground transportation, but Americans don't believe in trains.
Oculus has always allowed side-loading third party apps on the PC, which you can connect with Quest.
I’m using developer beta since the first release 0 issues both system and app wise.
Guess it’s either my exit node or something in the networking setup.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

-Hanlon's razor
But clearly not if you can’t even afford a place to live. Richmond and plenty other cities have TONS of economic opportunities, but not as many as NYC or SF - they’re also much cheaper. Clearly there’s a balance here so the answer isn’t so obviously “there’s a housing crisis because I can’t afford to live in SF”
They actually have a kind of strange app ecosystem at the moment. They have their own very restrictive store which is hard to get into and a thriving sideloading community [1] which allows you to run anything you want and is actually inoficially accepted by FB. It's very easy to list your game there and you can reach ~1Mio Quest users with it. I developed my own full-body fitness game [2] there which would never make it into the official store

[1] https://sidequestvr.com
[2] https://vrworkout.at
Maybe you don’t understand the system very well? Those states matter because they could go either way.

It’s not like the other states don’t have a say (often bigger than the states you listed) it’s just that they are firmly in one camp or the other.

Just because you don’t understand the system, doesn’t mean it sucks.
This seems to be describing a particular problem of working at an engineering consulting company. I have never had this experience in my career.
Inner cities often see escalated violent crime compared to rural and suburban areas. However I can't find a source suggesting inner city minorities are single issue voter for gun control.

I did find several where minorities refused to vote GOP due to racism and related issues but I'd consider that decency not single issue.

Meanwhile I can list my Grandma's entire church as mostly single issue related to abortion rights, or at least that's what the current leadership preaches.

By voting against their interest, I'm considering that the GOP has had platform planks, policy options, or new laws/rules related to reducing farm subsides, setting up tariffs that bring counter actions that destroy entire US farming groups, refuse to acknowledge climate change is real let alone human driven, curtailing regulations around safe pesticides or environmental efforts in general, and reducing rural outreach like cuts to USPS, voting access, and more.

It seems odd that a group of often rural and farm related folks would vote for a party that has succeeded in reducing their subsidies, axing their crop values internationally via revenge tariffs, refusing to acknowledge why droughts are sweeping the nation and doing nothing to counter them, and reducing their access to mail and levers of democracy would be against their core interests.

But hey, the rich have lower taxes and the poor can't get healthcare, jobs, retirement, home ownership, and the chances of preventing massive droughts and climate change related issues are nil so all is right for the GOP.

What's the Matter with Kansas is a deeper look into the Kansas aspects of this. It's an interesting read and very relevant as just back in 2016 they tried to ax taxes across the state and schools closed, hospitals started to shut down, roads fell apart, and more until the state supreme court ordered the legislature to fund basic services and the GOP dominated state legislature had to override the governors veto to pass higher taxes. At this point, cutting taxes seems to be the biggest right wing driver apart from protecting Trump.

Of course, if the GOP gets into office then floods you with more subsidies because their actions would otherwise destroy your entire national industry, perhaps its more about selfish people being selfish than voting against their interests. If US farmers didn't have tariffs shredding their markets and driving demand to Brazil and other nations, maybe they wouldn't need more bailout money than the US auto sector in 2009. So far I think they are up to about 2x the auto bailout but that was a year ago.

So much for person responsibility and fiscally conscious conservatives. The deficit hasn't mattered since Obama left office apparently.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/21/trump-teases-more-t...

https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/john-gallagher/20...
Yes, let's mock the cyclists for their bicycles and not those folks driving $30,000+ condo-sized pollution machines (and the leading cause of death for people under 30) so they can save 20 minutes on their commute and go to Costco once a month.
The file just stopped playing at 30%? Did you try redownloading the file?

Looking at the reviews for the book on Audible, I'm not seeing anyone complaining about a shortened recording.
TFA specifies the bridge problem in the form where you have to "end up back home", so its conclusion is correct.
Occulus Link allows tethering to a PC via a USB cable, and Virtual Desktop can do SteamVR over WiFi. When I first heard of Virtual Desktop I was dubious, but on a good quality network it’s ridiculously good.
Watch out BBEdit!
If you're going to ignore 2X the price, why not compare to Pimax 8K?
And can you get the same services, community (people of similar circumstances/values as you moving there), opportunities, schools, safety that these in demand areas provide? Travelling around only reinforces my desire to buy in an in demand area. I cant just shop at panera, five guys, and walmart for the rest of my life.
A) But that’s how I read books - I read and then I’m done. Am I reading wrong?

B) Last week. You can’t take leftovers home where I live it’s considered gross.

C) I don’t mind the lock-in because the value with it (convenience, price) makes it worthwhile.

People here can’t accept I value convenience over abstract rights.
> such as Apple was from 1998-2012, this effect is employed in a way that compensates engineers very well via the gains in stock price.

As nice as equity compensation plans are, they definitely don't make up for the gains.

The divisional VP gets the lions share of the gains in stock for properly managing/motivating the engineering talent (the engineer is lucky to get a raise above inflation).
Would you be able to call the police and tell them a non-resident is trespassing if they are just on the street? Either the street is privately owned, in which case it makes sense for the trespassing charge to stick, or it's public, in which case it doesn't, no?
There aren't studio or one bedroom below about £1200 a month in London, closer to £1500 toward the center.

You're talking about Kensington in London? That's the center and one of the most expensive location in the city.

Where the fuck do you see a place for £737 in there?

Either it's a flatshare (that's a bit low, must be 6+ people) or you confused 737 per month with 737 per week (that'd be £3000 a month, possible for a luxury 1 bedroom in that area the size of what people consider a 2 bedroom, typical ads that come at the top of rightmove).
The older major versions are likely not getting bug fixes, and might not get security patches if they are old enough.
Why do care about the Facebook link? You needed an Oculus account previously and a Facebook account now, but there's no forcing of Facebook on you.
"Spatial" is, I think, a term of art. It refers to conceptual objects in the software having a 1:1 correspondence with a UI element with a single, stable location.

The metaphor is with the real world: If a put an object somewhere, it stays there. My notebook is in the front-right corner of my desk and nowhere else.

Notably, the "Finder" application in Mac OS used to be spatial. Opening a folder opened a window, and that window would be exactly where it was the last time you opened that folder. Conceptually, the window is the folder.

Here's an article about it from John Siracusa, who is a proponent of spatial interfaces: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/3/
Fair, but i'd say the 6% assumption is suspiciously high in that case. I think you might be doing something like ({mean SPY return} - CPI)

Except that CPI is a deviously misleading number. I wonder if the same approach applied in 1980 would come close to aligning with 2020 numbers (including healthcare, college, rent, energy, etc.)

Please be brutal in your response, I want to understand if my understanding of this is all wrong!