skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know for sure! But when I was reading about HOAs and private/public roads, I came across this:

>With regard to law enforcement, the Texas Penal Code defines a “public place” as any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access and includes, but is not limited to, streets ... In Woodruff v. State, 899 S.W.2d 443, 445-46 (Tex. App.–Austin 1995, no pet.), the defendant was arrested for driving while intoxicated on the grounds of Bergstrom Air Force Base. The court held that Bergstrom was a public place, even though it was fenced and the only entrance was through a guarded access gate. Is a gated community a place where a “substantial group of the public” has access? The answer is unclear. Some city police departments may adopt a policy to respond to certain types of calls from gated communities, but not others. Again, the problem involves the provision of public funds for private purposes, which is prohibited by the Constitution and state law.

From http://www.jgradyrandlepc.com/local-governmental-entities/ga...
The review really seems like a takedown piece, so I don’t trust it too much on subjective measures, especially when they are mixed in with factual errors.
Apex Twin claims he's using lucid dreams to make songs:

> [...] it’s a technique James claims to be responsible for 80% of the tracks of Selected Ambient Works Volume II. In a 1994 interview he explained, “I go to sleep, dream I’m in my studio with imaginary bits of gear and do a track. Then I wake myself up and recreate it. I can do this in about 20 minutes.”

https://www.factmag.com/2017/04/14/funny-little-man-the-fact...
The cloth headstrap is absolutely more portable than Quest 1. The $50 upgrade cost is more than compensated by the $100 discount on the headset itself.
Sure, on Android you don't have to worry about updates because you don't get them. (Coming from an Android user)
> If you think the right choices are more at the extremes

There are plenty of questions where the correct answer is extreme. Ironically, you're making a categorical claim that doesn't hold up.

The ideal amount of violent crime is none at all. The ideal amount of deceptive advertising is none at all. The ideal amount of slavery is none at all, despite that there was a time this idea was considered extreme. The ideal amount of sexism is none at all, even if some regressive people today, and virtually everyone historically, would contest this. The list continues.

It's not enough to accuse someone's opinion of being extreme. That's not an argument, it's just expressing a preference for the status quo. Plenty of extreme opinions are perfectly reasonable. Sometimes it can even be abhorrent not to hold an extreme opinion.

> Heaven help you if you ever start a family.

Don't do this on Hacker News.
> all the games you bought for the Rift S have to be bought again for the Quest.

Wrong on 2 accounts.

1. A lot of games support cross-buy between Rift and Quest versions.

2. For those that don't support cross-buy (or games that only have a Rift version), and you already own them for Rift, you can play them on Quest just fine by connecting it to your desktop either wirelessly (using software like VRDesktop) or using a cable. Just like you were previously able to with Rift (minus the wireless option, iirc it wasn't a thing for Rift).

Tl;dr: Quest is a superset of Rift's functionality. You can do everything with Quest that you could do with Rift. Officially supported, without any hacks or workarounds. If you had a game you purchased for Rift, you can play it on Quest just as if you were playing it on Rift without paying anything extra.
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I wonder if a uv-c light would be considered an ozone generator. Not that I ever would recommend people bring one onboard a plane.
I'm not sure where you're getting your data but median house prices have risen significantly in Houston metro area since 2012 (over 50%) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATNHPIUS26420Q
Sinewave oscillator-based PRNG discovered
Basically, every point on a sinewave is a random number.
https://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4640768/Xbox+one+greent...
From a user perspective, this release is super solid. I'm not going to be updating to Big Sur any time soon, but I'm running iOS 14 everywhere now and haven't had any trouble
Data from a VR is extremely useful.

First it measures your fitness level. Those devices have high quality acceleration and gyroscope sensors. They could know your visual and acoustic acuity.

They measure what games you play, for how long, at what time.

With these data and processing done by AI created by engineers they can extract and know more about yourself than you do.

We know from Snowden that places like the NSA collect and save data expecting technological changes in 5-10 years in the future for processing that data. The technology for processing does not need to be ready yet.

This is extremely useful for Advertisers and secret services. This is not what you say you are, this is what you are.
I’m going to be that guy: I would kill for a Java IDE that looked like this.
I refer to their screenshot they show at the home. I was once fond of IDEs that had lots of information on-screen, but now I find it distracting.
[1] maybe. How do you counter a fast follower with a knack for getting onto your development network?

Misdirection and rapid development would be my guess.

[1] https://warisboring.com/collision-course-china-claims-f-22-a...
I figured this out shortly before I started my career and screen out these kinds of employers.
Buyer beware? Were you under the impression whatsoever that you were buying 'free' hardware?
What happened to that little handheld console with a crankshaft Panic was making?
Machine-learning helps sort out materials' databases
In a lot of places you can buy passes that cover multiple parks in the area
> Who do you think pays for that?

Employers. Or the government - via subsidies. And the insureds themselves.

Have you considered that many millennials are OK with paying more if it means everyone is taken care of? People don't always vote for policies that benefit solely themselves.
They have spoilers which do allow a fairly steep angle, combined with other techniques can get you down very quickly, though not quite 45 dergees IIRC.

Some transport aircraft like the C-17 can deploy thrust reverses in flight to achieve those attitudes. I'm told the people riding in back don't enjoy it though.
Facebook doesn't sell user data. Advertisers have access to targeting that occurs in a black box to them
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>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.

They went to a place that is better than their hometown. What you are suggesting is that people should leave their hometown for a place that is worse at everything except housing.
Obviously it's rare for us to intervene in a comment that way (and never without letting them know), but in this case it was the lesser evil compared to compromising another user's privacy. Copying what they posted along with their username is basically overriding their deletion, and that was their choice to make, not yours.

I'm sure it wasn't that big a deal and I'm sure your intentions were good, but I'm also pretty sure most HN users would want us to protect them in this way, if only for the rare occasion on which it actually is a big deal.
Consumers in theory would punish Apple by not buying Apple products. But they don't and I can only guess why (they don't care about browser rendering engines).

If you're trying to narrow your punishment to be specifically "the crime of not letting me pick my own browser rendering engine" then I can't help you. This is not a hill I even remotely interested in dying on or spending more time on.
Oh wow, I didn't realize you couldn't save locally, I assumed that was a given.

This is disappointing because I just started to pick up Fusion360 for woodworking projects. I guess it's good I haven't put more than a week or so into studying it.
Then move. But remember, if you do business in California, you must still pay the franchise fee if you have a company that is NOT a sole proprietor or general partnership. Incorporating in another state will not save you, you must register with Secretary of State as a foreign entity.
I've seen this many places I worked. Probably most.

It's especially prevalent in agencies, because the are two or more layers of this crap happening simultaneously.

First, the client does it to the agency, then the big boss does it to the managers, then the managers do it to the programmers.

I think it is also [connected with|the primary reason for] ageism in the industry:

As you gain experience, you learn to not fall for this kind of crap anymore.

When I was new and insecure, clinging to my job thinking no one else will hire me, I put up with all sorts of crap I wouldn't put up with later in my career.
Investing $10k a year at 6% (average stock market returns are 6-8%) gives you $368k after 20 years (net increase of $297k over inflation at 2%). Even if you just saved it for ten years that's $100k. Neither are enough to retire on, but it gives you a lot more options. Even if housing increases faster than the stock market, that $10k is $800/month which could be going towards a mortgage (in addition to the rent they are already paying).
If there are collective hallucinations then some of these article theories don't work. How can there be a personal entity and a shared one.
Literally pod-people https://utwpods.com
Looks pretty, but is there really no Vim extension? I couldn't find one on the Extensions page. This is a deal-breaker for me, I can't use an editor or IDE without Vim bindings, this would kill my productivity.

Is one planned, maybe?
> and if we don't do what's in our power to avert it, we'll wipe a large fraction of us off the planet and precipitate world war.

This is definitely the approach ("avert") that is assumed in almost all discussion of this topic but there is also the choice to mitigate the effects (infrastructure, relocation, technology).

I don't think it is at all clear that we can "avert it" without a tremendous cost and I think it is entirely reasonable to discuss ways of mitigating effects and that approach may be much less costly.

The costs associated with averting global warming ultimately focus on reducing greenhouse gases, which means reducing fossil fuel use. But accomplishing that means expensive energy (i.e. carbon tax approaches, expensive power grids based on intermittent renewables) or extraordinary economic slowdowns (think COVID-19 global reduction in economic activity permanently, for example). More importantly instituting those changes to an extent that would actually reduce greenhouse gases would require extraordinary global enforcement mechanisms. How are the more industrialized economies going to force less industrialized economies to use less energy? to build fewer fossil fuel plants, etc? The reductions that are required can't be accomplished by a subset of world's economies.

All of this assumes that our knowledge of how the global climate systems work is substantially accurate. What if it isn't?
Wow, okay, that's not the response I expected to come back to. I'm trying to understand how you interpreted my comment that way.

To be clear, there were no intentional dog-whistles in my post. I thought I was saying something strongly positive, about a phenomenon which I've observed and have great admiration for.

However, your response and the thread that followed, reveals some things I clearly didn't consider. There is surely a lot of anti-semitism out there, and that my comment was mistaken for it, I think shows how pervasive it must be. And it's important, as has been said, to call it out wherever it appears. And I guess that means looking for even tiny hints of double meanings. Which, logically, includes meanings that someone may not be cognizant of when speaking with one meaning in mind. I honestly thought I was being "cute" with the deli thing.

I'm astonished and saddened to see a well-intentioned comment identified as just the opposite. I didn't mean to play into any negative stereotypes about money -- I didn't say anything about being obsessed with money, and if I got near it at all, I was talking about being recognized for _doing good things_ (with money), and how this cultural pattern does that. I think that's pretty clearly positive! (The whole point of the article, after all, was that more people with money should be committed to doing good things with it. Money's a pretty unavoidable aspect here.) But clearly my comment exists in a world where a lot of terrible things also exist, and I guess I can see how it could be mistaken for a vague hint towards one of those terrible things.

Especially on the internet, where tone and nuance are notoriously tricky.

So I'm honestly looking for input. Is there a better way to say what I was trying to say?

Regardless, I'm sorry that you saw something negative in what I said. I'm even more sorry that anti-semitism is so insidious that you had reason to look for negative interpretations in the first place. That sucks.
That's the first thing I looked for - Java support. Looks like it's not available... for now?
Or go full Chinese typewriter and have a 2-axis cursor that you position over a tray of glyphs.
Here in Australia the thin bags were free and people used to use _a lot_ of them. Now they sell bags that are thicker and re-usable, but a lot of people bring their own bags.

I read a study that suggested the total plastic usage has gone down, but not by as much as you would think.
>Making public parks an over-policed, over-regulated, time limited and admission only "adventure park" is a uniquely American obsession.

Having seen the huge amounts of homeless drug addicts in parks all over (in San Diego, LA, SF, Seattle, and Salt Lake City from my personal experience, and I'm sure it's similar elsewhere) I can definitely understand the motivation behind trying to limit access to parks. Whether or not it's right to do is a different matter
If you have $6,000 then the Varjo VR-2 headset has a 60 PPD (pixels per degree) display embedded in the middle of a 15 PPD display.

https://varjo.com/products/vr-2-pro/
Its has a slick ui like lemonade.
You could imagine a future where VR/AR is the equivalent of Mac or Windows, iOS or Android. The platform is the asset
Yeah, I kind of wonder if it might have been savvier for them to do something like "$29 for new users until the end of September and $49 until 1.1 ships." I appreciate that'd be a scary proposition revenue-wise, but I suspect the difference between "surprise hit" and "also ran" is going to depend almost entirely on how quickly they can get their extension ecosystem up to speed.
I can never be certain whether someone is arguing in bad faith on purpose, or as a consequence of letting the Perfect be the Enemy of the Good.

Do you think refusing to visit grandma because you don't think your face mask will protect her is a self-actualization need? Sounds like a group safety need to me. Your choice of examples reads more like equivocation (conflating two things with similar features) which is generally a no-no in public debate circles.

The evidence still supports the idea that prophylaxis at the point source is an order more effective than prophylaxis at the sink, and they are not mutually exclusive. The Precautionary Principle means you do cheap things that may not work or even be necessary, but the cost of being wrong is so high that it doesn't matter how low the probability is. It's not a waste of resources. It's hedging.

If I had to be in a room with her and there was only one mask, I'd wear it instead of giving it to grandma. But why the hell am I in this situation to begin with?
They're all still online if you follow the image URL to its destination

https://i.ibb.co/MgzRRbk/7.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/dQqqtgB/2.jpg
That’s Apple’s fault. You could, say, dedicate an old Mac to Sketch and keep it on an old OS, and the setup would work basically forever.

I do think Apple could do much better with backwards-compatibility. They don’t need to go Microsoft’s extreme. I thought they’d found a good compromise for years on the Mac, but it’s tipped much too far towards just breaking everything lately.
hell of a MRI they got over there. The jealously is real.
Maybe if your screen real estate is limited (e.g. laptop) that is true.

I work on 3 monitors; two of them are 1920x1200, the third is a 40" 4K "TV". Nothing about the Gnome model is useful to me. I appreciate that my setup is unusual, and that I do sometimes find myself on a laptop. But I prefer to keep the paradigms consistent, and so 5 named workspaces at all times, thank you very much. I never move windows between workspaces. All of the windows in a given workspace are visible at all times.

And yes, boomer.
If you haven't seen it already, you will love this video by Cabel Sasser:

https://youtu.be/8ZXWdR7RzV8

Cabel, and Panic in general, are true heroes of mine.
Alyx is a PCVR game, not an Oculus Quest standalone game. You aren't expected to be able to run it standalone, you are expected to run it the same way you would run it on any other VR headset - by connecting it to your PC using a cable (or using wireless solutions).
People go to those places because they chose to not be poorer.
Yes, but this way, you don’t end up punishing people who got in at the end of a release cycle!
How to “Turn on” Your Metabolism in 3-Seconds to Burn Stubborn Fat Like Crazy
They don't necessarily contradict - one could create a couple of 80/20 districts for the political boss of the region and 51/49 (or 60/40 to be safer) for the rest of the region.

Also, I've mostly heard the second argument made, not the first. A large party's leadership should probably lean in that direction anyway, not caring as much about the individual official.
> So they hire a developer who was just like you "if it can be a web app then should be a web app"

I can see arguments and I am not like that, you're portraying your predisposed view about me onto me.

This argument you have is not really saying a lot to me actually since you could use Rpis with a web app as well? Tbh I don't think you save that much battery on just making it native. You complain about battery, but fail to mention that Android phones needs to be switched to be able to use the newest api:s in android development. So if you want to use new shit, your client needs to update their phones, something they would not have to do if it were a web app. But in your case, I would probably also have made a native app but that app you built don't really describe how most apps are. You are talking about an exception to the rule IMO.

I can give you a pretty similar counter example:

I worked for a client once that made a newspaper. This client has a list with all shops, kiosks etc that sell their newspaper in a database. To save fuel and to be efficient, they used an old Java Swing application that would every day calculate the most efficient route for each driver. It did a lot of other stuff as well, but that isn't important for the story. The app was fine, it was just a pain to develop and release. Because it was still actively developed. In every release, a jar file had to be distributed to each user of the app since there was no good way of auto updating the app since it was so old. Any way, the users of the java swing application would run the calculation functionality and it would give a result that was printed out and given to the drivers.

What happened later was that the app was remade and presented in a web page. Each driver didn't have to wait for a paper printout of the result of the java swing app, they could simply open their phone, visit a specific url and see their route for that day. There was nothing to install for each driver, since drivers was often changed, no need to wait for some guy that had to print out a paper for them and everything was basically automated.

The benefit here of a web app was great, since as you say truck drivers aren't the most tech literate people in the world, managing a native app here would be a great pain.

So what can we learn from our examples? That the needs are different. I get that. I never said every app should be a web app. But if you can make it a web app, you probably should at least consider it. The benefits usually outweighs any negatives. My entire point was never to not make native apps, it was to avoid them if possible.
> So you are making someone else unsafe, possibly a woman with a stroller, to keep you safe?

No? If I ride my bicycle on the sidewalk it is at basically walking speed so as not to endanger pedestrians.

If I lane split my motorcycle the woman and stroller would have to be in traffic to be at any risk.
The rust belt cities are booming.

Akron, Ohio is up 7%. So is Cleveland, Madison, and Toledo. Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Scranton are up even higher. [1] These are figures from before the pandemic.

The idea that the rust belt has lots of cheap housing is outdated. That was true in five to ten years ago. It is not true today. You can expect to pay around $200k for a house in any given rust belt city with decent jobs -- and quite a bit more if you want to live in a nicer neighborhood or a nicer home.

[1] https://www.kiplinger.com/article/real-estate/t010-c000-s002...
> Language Server Protocol

This was the first thing I looked for on their feature page!
Show HN: Tracking the Digital Yuan, in Chinese, with 50 lines of code
Please don't cross into personal attacks in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> No checked luggage? To use at the other side? To deliver to someone else?

"No checked luggage" is a choice. I've checked luggage specifically and only to transport something I couldn't bring in the cabin. It's not unusual.
Well in that case, #1 is a misinformed argument. #2 is the reason districts are gerrymandered.

The party in charge of drawing the lines will—as a side effect–create some safe seats for the minority party. And in doing so, will retain control of the legislative body, by having a larger number of districts they can win.