skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the median per metro? Because if so then I'd very much like to know what % of the population lives in a 'cheap' (i.e. below median) metro.
I bought a rift S exactly one month ago. Disappointing to hear they are discontinuing it next year.
Never mind Californa, Oregon has a long and violent history.
Have you tried the Quest? I've owned many different VR headsets in the past, the Quest is pretty fantastic. "can't do VR titles" is such an exaggeration it doesn't make sense.
You are some kind of special. I have heard tales of creatures like you, but they are very reclusive and tend to run back into the woods when spotted!

I am no vim ninja, but nor am I a vim novice. I can use it to write new utility scripts on remote servers, or updating existing files. However, when it comes to long coding sessions with multiple files in the package, I do enjoy a good UI with tabs and drag-n-drop.
I've always arranged my homescreen to be a single screen with folders for each category of app. makes it much easier to find things. I'm always befuddled when I see ppl with 30 pages of apps.
This is like the third (maybe fourth) mention that i've heard regarding downpour (not only within hacker news). I guess i'll have to check them out; thanks for sharing!
Or just a frontend developer.
Sweden experienced a spike from ~7% to ~9%. US has experienced a spike from ~3% to ~14%. Sure, some of it might be attributable to social attitudes, but I don't think that such a big discrepancy can be explained by this. I think it's mostly lockdown policies causing this.

Sweden: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LRHUTTTTSEM156S
US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
There is more than enough blame to go around, in these as in all cases.
You just had too much THC. Edibles are nothing to mess around with - you have to know your dose. You have to know how you will react to the dose. You have to work your way up with a known source to gauge your reaction to it. If you just eat whatever cookie someone hands you, you're almost certainly going to have a bad time.
John Lee is another popular audio book narrator.
> It's new, hyper-fast, and flexible, with all the features you want: [...] a Minimap

Do people actually find the Minimap useful for coding? If so, how? And why is it better/different than just a scrollbar, or searching?

I've always thought of Minimaps as a thing that seems like it should be adding something to the interface, but actually isn't at all. Seems like pointless eye-candy, to me.

What am I missing?
That was the only reasoned justification I could think of.
> if they use DRM and force you to consume it in their garden

Like a restaurant without a takeaway service? How evil.
I occasionally wake up half way during the night and experience glorious intensely colorful geometric hallucinations. It definitely feels and evolves like feedback. There are sometimes beings and encounters. The colors are hyperreal, impossible to see or display on a monitor. Normal dreams don't have colors at all really.

This is a natural part of our brains I guess.
sorry i heard there are some issues with the site but i haven't been able to reproduce to fix :(

please let me know if you hvae more questions!
Pretty scathing review on Ars:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/review-we-do-not-reco...
What data?
Movement range, size, speed,reaction time.
With touch controllers you can even track the stress resistance, because people tend to tighten their grip if stressed.
And there a lots of companies like Cambridge Analytica that can use that data to push their agenda even better.
Easier game for people like the Koch brothers.
You might want to know that Dropbox Passwords hogs the CPU On windows if the browser is running but the Passwords native app is not.
You will see high CPU usage from the Windows Delivery Optimization service, but the culprit is DBP whose extension is trying to contact with the host app in a loop, constantly spawning processes that die.
Sure, then you can move back - maybe mid to end of 2021?

Still a year or so where it's not worth it.

Maybe that's not enough for some people to be worth the effort, but if your lease was ending and you don't have a ton of stuff it's pretty easy to do.
But given the choice between smaller and cheaper houses and larger and more expensive ones, they almost always choose the larger, more expensive ones.

The university in town is over a hundred years old, and many of the dorms are that old too. Most have no air conditioning, and have insufficient power for a resident to add a window air conditioner without special approval.

And the parents and students describe them as, "practically unlivable", "bad for the students' education, and all of that. There are numerous schemes around to get that special permission. And many scheme to move out ASAP. These are folks borrowing tens-of-thousands of dollars to go to school, and yet still go even deeper into debt for better housing, when the cheap option is right in front of them.

100 years ago no one would have thought twice about the exact same conditions. I doubt anyone would have thought twice about it even 50 years ago.

People just expect a certain level of amenities, and are willing to pay to get them.
My experience with public libraries (and university libraries, for that matter) has been that they allow anyone to come in and browse the stacks. True, usually only local residents are eligible for library cards, but outside residents can usually request books via inter-library loan.
Good places to follow startup industry news? Funding rounds, aquisitions
Hello,
I'm wondering what are your favourite newsletters, blogs, websites, etc. for following funding rounds, acquisitions, VCs, accelerators, etc?
Right now I check Techcrunch here and there, plus HN.
What else is good? Ideally something thats a short and sweet summary (i.e. doesn't take a long time so I can't procrastinate over it).
On another note, how was Panic able to get a registered trademark for "Nova"?
USA in 1945 was 91% white so it kinda makes sense that government did it. Homogeneous countries have no political issues with welfare because everyone is alike.
Fascinating paper. It seems that if you were to have a number of VOIP phone numbers (say a four or five different Google Voice numbers) and used different numbers for different services, it would defeat the correlation attack but you would also need to scramble other personal data (avatar Etc.) in order to prevent that from being used for correlation.

Of course if you have access to the telephone network real time localization service[1] you could do correlation analysis that way.

[1] Allegedly "LEO Access Only" but operated by people who think $50 is a lot of money.
As usual you're probably better off waiting for iOS 14.1 that will be out next week to clear up whatever UX breaking bugs they didn't catch during beta in this version.
But i guess the point is that it sorta sucks that such a thing even has to be done/considered, right? I happily pay an author for their work, but dislike drm and other similar controls.
Not yet available in SF Bay Area and looks like others not seeing in Pacific time zone.

Edit: iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are available now as of 1:08PM.
Yeah I appreciate the honest review from Ars here for sure. Really disappointed by the downgraded controller tracking. Superb tracking was one of the surprises of the first Quest.
You're comparing yourself to the wrong baseline. The opportunities now are different than they were 30 years ago. You also might be comparing yourself to a specific data point (your dad), vs statistically.

> I'm a 90th percentile earner. Will 95+ percentile earner in a few years time. Yet it feels like I am not as well off as I should be.

You should correct your attitude then, don't you think? You are a 90%ile earner. I don't know what "should" implies, but put it in terms of where you "are". You'll be happier.
I feel a lot of software is like this before all the SaaS crap.
>> I recently got a 3D Printer and have been learning Fusion360 and designing my first parts. Guess I'll take another look at FreeCAD.

Also have a look at SolveSpace. Version 3.0 is nearing completion but if you can build from source or use the snap store you can use it now:

http://solvespace.com/index.pl

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace

There are also a few great YouTube channels with tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEvJVXu3VfGMSOdpA0jrG...
US won't ever buy COMAC. It's much too protectionist. Other countries will.

I expect Ethiopia will be happy to buy COMAC. As will most other countries in the world that witnessed this shitshow.

The plane is pretty much ready. It'll start flying in 2021.
The operating system is open source. You are trying to say Google apps and services are part of the operating system, but they aren't. I take it you've never installed a custom Android ROM before, who frequently don't package gapps? Are you suggesting that before you have an operating system, you have to install the gapps APK?
The FAA insisting the plane was airworthy even after two crashes from the same cause eliminates outcome bias.

And no system is so broken and corrupt that you won't find plenty of people willing to insist that it is all just fine as it is.
The Electric Bike Unicorns Nobody Is Talking About
You can certainly get into a school without being a resident. They might ask you to leave if you are disrupting classes or whatever, sure, but there's nothing that says you can't come from out of state and pick up your grandchildren after school, for example (provided that the parents have provided prior permission). Or just talk to the faculty, etc. Journalists do that.

Another example: before Covid, my kid's school provided parking spots in school grounds for a nearby festival as a fundraiser.

And in many schools, events like science fairs are open to the public.

As for landfills, I'm not sure there's a distinction between residents and non-residents. AFAIK, they're treated in similar ways to preservation areas, where mostly everyone is forbidden from entering, except the people who are working there (and happen to live nearby by proxy)
No, there is no subscription :)
Well, sure, anonymous donation is that. Then we want to encourage that so we find anonymous donors, deanonymize them, and canonize them. That makes more people want to be anonymous donors, a thing we want.
Maybe you have a spec of dust under one of the keys on your keyboard that is causing the site to think you are trying to do something?
>the battery downgrades

I haven't seen anything about this. Only battery news I've seen is they have a new strap system with a battery pack in it.
I seriously doubt the Quest 2 will be able to run Alyx. My mid-range PC can't handle it on the Oculus (I think due to some heavy lifting Steam had to do to integrate with the Oculus)
There is a big "ugh, Electron apps" contingent of Mac users.

Or at least, there's a loud one, and I guess they figured it's also a big-enough one...
>> both the $200k and $60k are 2020 dollars.

This is the problem. $200k in 2020 dollars wont mean much 40yrs from now. Similarly, $60k sounded like a huge figure in 1980 for retirees planning for 2020. For a proper comparison, you'd need to compare purchasing power of $60k to a retiree today vs $200k to a retiree in 2060 -- i'll bet it is about the same!!!

Inflation is a huge unknown here. My parents' home in 1981 was $35,000. The same exact house today is over $1,000,000. Rent used to be $150 to $200/mo. The same rent today is over $3500.

I re-ran your numbers here:
https://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calcula...

I did a monthly $100 contribution at 6% assuming tax free comounding for 40yrs and came up with your figure of $200k. That is right -- you'll have $200k at this rate. But in the year 2060 that might be just a year of rent and you're broke!
It's a publicity thing, more than a problem solving thing in itself. There are other platforms, but many (most?) people are unaware of them (or only vaguely aware) and they don't have the same issues wrt DRM. This seems to be a way to draw attention both to those alternative platforms and Amazon's use of DRM.
> the job isn't to write clean code, the job is to create product that people love.

Note however that as a person, your job is also to keep yourself mentally well-balanced. If your mind is crushed under the weight of un-encapsulated complexity, then thats a problem.
Automate by sending helpful email to new users stuck in onboarding
A tip for those affected. Set up an account on fastmail or protonmail and set them as secondary MX in DNS. When your main site stops getting attacked, then disable the MX record. If doing this, remember to update your SPF DNS records as well. Both of these providers give instructions, but keep the MX number higher than your main provider that is being DDoS'd. You could temporarily set up a catch-all account on the secondary rather than setting up all your aliases.
> The downgraded controllers and the awkward IPD adjustment system are the deal breakers for me.

This is not true btw, their review is wrong on that
Give SolveSpace a try too.
There's one major difference: taxes and the social net only help those in your country. And if you're in a western country (where most people with wealth are), the people who most need your help are elsewhere.

Concretely, you can help a lot more people with the same amount of money if you focus your giving on the global poor (ex. Africa), rather than those in the US. One way to do this is https://www.givedirectly.org/
Agree! Can't speak highly enough of Regolith.

I'd actually somewhat given up trying to keep i3 working nicely and reverted to XFCE (which is at least far less obnoxious then Gnome 3) until I discovered Regolith and have been using it happily ever since.
Optimistically? I think they're definitely betting on VR being "reality adjacent" eventually and hence social interactions might actually be more meaningful in VR than they are on a website.

Cynically, I think they just want even more datapoints on what everyone is doing. If people start to use VR the way they use the internet even a little (accessing content provided for free with ads), then data from a person's VR headset will have valuable information about how to target ads to that person.
"public" almost never means literally anyone can use the thing without restriction. I can't drive any vehicle I want on a public road, and I can't drive a motor vehicle on them at all if I don't have the proper license. in many places it is a crime for me to cross a road on foot if I don't use a designated crosswalk. most of the parks near me are closed from dusk to dawn, though I doubt this is an enforcement priority.

I don't see any inherent reason why it would be wrong to limit access to a public service or property to people who actually live in the jurisdiction that maintains it. the history of who lives in a particular jurisdiction and why is often sordid, but that's a separate issue.
I'm surprised that AirPods didn't support automatic device switching until now.

I assumed a lot of people with AirPods would want to switch the audio seamlessly between their iPhone and an iPad or Mac.

Any idea why it took so long to ship this feature?
A few years back I got very excited by the advances in electronic paper displays. I still live in hope that one day I will be able to buy a roll of e-paper (at a reasonably cheap price), hang it on the wall, add a receiver and watch TV on it.

Is there any hope that such a technology could become reality in 10 years?
Pretty much everyone I know is being priced out of market in the tampa bay area. Rent under $1k/mo means looking on the extreme periphery and suffering a long commute.
I just swipe down for Spotlight and use that as an app launcher, so I'll probably love the app drawer. I'm equally baffled by people doing it any other way :-) Do you organise your applications on your computer by category as well?
“Security safeguards, by their nature, are capable of circumvention”
Push notifications on PWAs? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apple seems to be at least 3 hours behind schedule as there's no sign of it here on the East Coast, yet.
Not necessarily. Since the Rift S launched and Oculus Link released, Facebook changed the branding of games that require a PC to "Supports Rift Platform" to signify that they can also be played on a tethered Quest. I expect they'll change the name in the future though
> In a decompression event, the air is sucked out of your lungs

Correction, sir. That's "blown out."
Yikes! That's too close to the user for my liking. I'll stay in the shadows in the backend
All the extra angles of FOV are very distorted, and there is a red static constantly fuzzing away in the display.

Plus, you have to deal with the Pimax company, which has to be one of the most incompetent companies I've ever met when it comes to taking money and delivering product without stepping into the realm of actual fraud. When I bought mine, it was 3 false "it's shipped" announcements, 2 months, and a threat to reverse my credit card charge before I finally received it.
Finally a Mac-native code editor with Language Server Protocol support! Been clamoring this for a while.
Depends, chemistry looks very differently simply because in such environments it is better to think of an electron gas that moves in a magnetic field, and is slightly perturbed by the presence of nuclei, rather than thinking of electrons being bound in atoms and being slightly perturbed by a magnetic field.

So you certainly have to recalculate all your reaction rates compared to laboratory conditions, and my guess would be, that in general the chemistry should look a lot more than reactions in plasmas, rather than normal (nicely stable) chemistry.
Im getting it here in Norway, but I had the previous betas installed. Not sure if that is a factor or not.
Anyone who buys into the Facebook borg today has blood on their hands.

There's no way to sugarcoat it, hand-wave about business units, make puppy dog eyes about such smart well meaning people...

The culture and company behavior is fundamentally compromised, irredeemable to all appearances, and is the bedrock of the contemporary severing of a significant number of people not only from the political mainstream, but from consensus reality.

It's a shame they bought Oculus. That renders it a non-option.
I’ve installed most betas and this was the most stable ever.
Currently not available in Germany. I wonder how their rollout mechanism works like.
Ongoing Expenses vs. One-Time Expenses
Evolution can handle some of the species dying, just not all. I was in flaming Gorge Utah this week, found 3 dead birds on the trail of a short hike. I've read enough of the old testament to know a bad omen when I see one though. Very concerning.
It's not all dumb cultural expectations. It's hard to chase opportunity & follow the work if you don't leave home.
On investigative and objective journalism in the US
The disparate impact is surely an outcome of historic policies of racial exclusion. But equally surely, it's not unconstitutional in general for Palo Alto to have nice things because of nasty policies they had in the past. So there has to be some middle ground.
You can put the .git directory outside the working directory. Might be helpful. Sync the working dir with a sync service, but the .git dir with... git.
Request Timeouts
"Cashless" is full of fees, especially for credit (not debit) transactions. https://www.google.com/search?q=rent+on+credit+card+points

"""thepointsguy.com › guide › paying-rent-credit-card
Mar 9, 2020 - There is no publicly available, fee-free way to pay your rent or mortgage with a credit card. Due to bank interchange fees, accepting credit cards..."""
Now run and update your app... we're caught by surprise on this release
https://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-oculus-quest-2-the-n...
This is the first iOS release where I decided I wasn't going to update immediately. I'm really looking forward to some of the new features but I'm tired of dealing with Apple's day-one bugs.
> The default editing experience is lightweight, and that's a good thing. But the plugin story is dire. Plugins like ESLint and Prettier crash constantly, requiring an app restart. Prettier has a format-on-save behaviour that seems to format after save on some file types. Typescript cmd-click definitions are broken, cmd-click import filepaths are broken.

This is all fair. I've been using the beta on and off, and so far it hasn't compelled me to switch from VS Code yet. But this is a 1.0, and Panic has a pretty great stellar track record — I can see them closing the gap pretty quickly.
That depends on your skills and / or what you're willing to do.

The rust belt is rusty in the sense that easy to obtain and hold down factory jobs are no longer a thing.

If you have marketable skills, there is work pretty well anywhere.

Just like how if cushy tech jobs someday dry up in Silicon Valley there will still be work there, it just won't be a sure thing like it is now.
Because recent news items on plane evacuations, when the thing has literally been on fire, have reported that people will delay to collect their carry on luggage despite it being strongly and explicitly forbidden. Therefore expecting Mr Tent to patiently wait by the window for everyone else to leave first seems like a bit of a stretch.
The inserting of capital letters is really annoying.
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Excellence is not evenly distributed anywhere in the world including Canada, right? But the goal post seems to be walking away from me a little here. I'd agree that the US has social issues between rich and poor. Weren't we discussing actual stated policy restrictions to public access above? That's what the article is reporting on, and what @Arainach was talking about, isn't it?

What would be the solution to the much bigger problem you're bringing up? Perhaps the problem is that we allow our citizens to become poor in the US, not that we have some of our public facilities located near rich people?
As a user, please no.
Well, Amnesty do not think that their trial monitors should be treated as "public-at-large", otherwise I doubt they'd be concerned by this development. They've stated that they've observed trials before in other countries without trouble. Shouldn't the onus be on you to prove that they're wrong on this?

I found this in one of their documents:

"Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have for many years sent observers to significant political trials. The acceptance of international trial observers (whether sent by foreign governments or by non-governmental organizations) has arguably become an international legal norm. The practice is well established and accepted within the international community." - https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/156000/pol3000219...

You write:

> Otherwise, it adds burden to all trial judges to have to decide who's a "trial monitor" at their discretion.

I'm sure if the judge in the Assange case was facing an influx of trial monitors and finding it hard to decide which ones to let in, she would have made that clear. She hasn't said anything of the sort.
> Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook?

Loads of audiobooks of bestsellers in English are narrated by big-name actors. Often ones who also do a lot of theatre and bring that dramatic flair to their readings. Look at the Chronicles of Narnia, for instance: its narrators are Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, Lynn Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Northam and Patrick Stewart, all known from stage and screen for their powerful voices.
Types of Encryption: Symmetric or Asymmetric? RSA or AES?
That's silly, any desktop app can implement a license check mechanism and decide not to run anymore, even though it's 100% located on "your computer".

The real lesson here is: that's what happens when you use software that's free as in beer.