skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying, but right now, in the current state of the industry, here's the thing:

People are free to "innovate" and experiment and invent on Android and the PC, and if an innovation is deemed desirable on Apple's curated platform — which they are perfectly within their rights to control, and millions of users continue to be happy with that — then Apple will make a provision for it.

On iOS, there would be a whole host of problems with allowing third-party browser engines and app stores that the people clamoring for looser restrictions have yet to address:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24469664

Not the least of which is: How would you enforce a user's settings for privacy and parental controls on third-party browsers and app stores?
Microfront Ends Survey Evaluation
Yes but as above even with high rates the payment was lower.
It's used (historically) because household income is one of the best determinants of living standard for a great majority of individuals under "typical" living conditions.

I.e. if you have one high income earner, married to a low income earner, supporting one or two no income earners living together in a household, its inaccurate to split those out and consider or calculate those statistics as individuals. Most households historically live a lifestyle more akin to pooling and sharing income and resources.

But, as you rightfully point out, when I was calculating them, we also tended to use equivalised-household incomes (to take into account the different resources and structures used by the number of children vs adults living together). 'Course you also then have to worry about things like imputed rent and drawing on access to capital/resources that don't turn up in economic or monetary flows.

The short answer for why its used is probably like most economic statistics: its calculable and easily available and people think they understand it (even if they don't).
The best solution to gerrymandering is to make it instantly mostly irrelevant, by using the popular vote and ranked-choice voting.

And indeed, that's mostly a social solution in it's implementation.
Perhaps, but fear of COVID-19 can also damage the brain.
Patrick Tull, Aubrey/Maturin series. Stefan Rudnicki, scads of books.
I asked Norm from Tested in his post-review AMA today if he also felt the tracking was worse in the Quest 2 and he said he did not feel that way. In the AMA he also said that the refresh rate was the same but had the option to go to 90 hz if developers programmer for it and the option was on.
Surprisingly yes!

Or rather, the answer is "no" right now, but I will bet you $500 that it'll be "yes" within ... hm ... 2 years max. And if I lower my bet to $100, I'll do 1 year max.

Let's just say it's a very lucrative, very active area of research.

One observation: facial detection gives you landmarks, and those landmarks are essentially UVs for a texture. So if you do that process repeatedly, and rotate the face slightly using latent directions, then you can back-project the result onto a 2D texture.

EDIT: Some leads: https://twitter.com/Zergfriend/status/1283954193946906625

A video from July: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvk3dtdeXBE&ab_channel=Compu...

And I saw someone use Unity to learn normal+bump+diffuse+ambient occlusion maps using ML, but sadly haven't been able to find the link yet.

This search gives lots of useful results: https://twitter.com/search?q=stylegan%20texture&src=typed_qu...
Seems like the text is removed now and the link just goes to NIN store homepage. Here's the archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200916172127/https://www.nin.c...
Not saying that fitting people into a small space isn't hard.

However, children of immigrants are especially keen to assimilate into the receiving culture, so much so that they often go beyond what natives do. For immigrants and their children, a clash of cultural values may be a larger driving factor than what's the natural for people in general.
Ironically your trite answer exposes the substance-free nature of this argument. If eating when you are hungry makes you selfish, then what is your anti-selfishness re-education supposed to accomplish? Are you going to stop eating? Defining "selfishness" in such an absurd, all-encompassing manner renders the term itself meaningless. This sort of mania reminds me very much of the idea of "original sin" put forth by the Catholic Church. You can spend your life repenting, but you can never wipe away the stain on your soul! Reasonable people can skip this sort of faith-based nonsense by avoiding church but its becoming more and more difficult for reasonable people to avoid this kind of nonsense at it seeps into the workplace and every other facet of society.
That's why democracies generally divide districts by population. Geography is largely irrelevant. This was actually a deliberate choice in order to skew the electoral advantage into landed men.
Really, how? I've got a Kaleidoscope merge open right now and I can't edit text. Is there a mode I need to toggle or a button I need to press? I've looked through all the menu items, preferences, all of the toggle switches in the UI, and searched the documentation. I'm running version 2.3.2.
Incredibly interested in diving deeper into this. Can you point me to the best papers you've read on the topic?
I dont "need" to agree with you on anything, and I dont agree with you on much at all.
I am not sure if VR is really ready for prime time I have owned a cv1 and a oculus rift dev kit and after around a month I stop using it. it was fun playing games like eve railjack and fps but it doesn’t seem to grab me. VR still needs a killer app.
I never buy discs because I just hate having to swap them out. Games aren't that expensive (at least, for me). I'll just pay the PS Store price. I mean, I deal with switch game pricing, PS store prices seem downright cheap in comparison.

Saving $100 is just the cherry on top.
I use and like both. I don't do anything fancy with my email, though, so YMMV. For my use case they are equal.
I wonder if corporate D&I initiatives would be more successful if they allowed for genuine debate. When no debate or challenging of the initiative's assumptions is allowed, I suspect that:

- Intelligent employees become cynical, and assume a hidden agenda.

- The opportunity to change the minds of employees with reasoned doubts/objections to D&I claims is squandered. In fact, it raises (reasonable, imho) suspicions that the D&I proponents know that some of their stated positions are weak, and don't want them subjected to scrutiny.

- Proponents of D&I may remain sheltered from valid counterpoints. So they lose an opportunity to refine their positions based on productive discussion.

This is based on my experience working in corporate environments for a few decades. And IME, the problem is definitely more pronounced at large companies than small ones.
Crowd-Forecasting Consequences of America's Choice
There is latency and in VR latency is more noticeable to begin with than it is with normal gaming.

Also, there is a good amount of compression involved so the graphical fidelity takes a massive hit.

They claim that they are going to be improving both of these issues, but given that they still exist in largely the same state as they did with the Oculus Link Beta with the V1 Quest, people should be skeptical about how much improvement they are going to be able to accomplish. Carmack talked about some ideas on how it can be made better, but I don't know if he's still assisting them with anything at all.

I'm very happy with my v1 Quest, but its PC support has some significant drawbacks.
Quest 2 should have a big upgrade in graphics and processing capability. It is feasible Onward could detect this and look better in the future.
Sorry to be contrarian, but your claim of health might be supported by direct observations. Are your vitamin D levels in a healthy range? Is your weight close to your ideal level? Do you have any evidence of glucose sensitivity or intolerance? How does your grip strength measure relative to others your age? It is quite possible that your experience is related to your level of health not being what you think it is.
I'm seeing the same issue.
Sure, but integers are passed by copy in C. Obtaining an integer is not a reason to think you can access the original memory address.

Unless you return a reference to an integer that's been malloc'd.
There's enough for 65535 different usages in the keyboard page alone, and there are more available in the consumer and system pages. But nowhere near all of those have definitions.

There are defined usages for function keys up to F24, and for all of the dedicated function keys that one could find on Sun and IBM keyboards, such as Stop, Again, ExSel, and CrSel.
Interesting... ok maybe so then.
I'm not sure why people think $400 is so expensive. You're buying two 1080p (or higher) miniaturized monitors, motion tracking, some fancy glass optics and a set of headphones. Honestly the experience is incredibly lousy if you don't spend quite a lot of money and that should be expected indefinitely.
It's not even necessarily a Europe thing. Or Asian. Though yes there are these tendencies. Italians, even in the US (North America actually) from my experience tend to stick together as a family unit for a long time. There's a lot of pressure on the young folks as well in some cases I know. Every situation is different in its own subtle way but I can definitely see how necessity (money) has made it so that kids stay with their parents until they're married. Catholicism will play a role too. Seeing that in many Spanish friends as well. Both the money and religious aspects. Germans too. I have a good childhood friend (yep I grew up there) who was always very close to his mum and built his house right next to his parents house for money reasons (free land so more money for the house). They are just constantly fighting over this or that. His SO really hates it now. I never understood why they did that. Sure, be in the same city, maybe even same neighborhood but right next to the parents especially after marriage? You're crazy! Same household? Way beyond crazy!

Personally I have healthy 6000km between myself and the parents. To be honest something like the 300km we had a some point is nicer and for taking care if the kids from time to time something like a few kilometers is best but same houseld is just stupid and I have yet to meet someone (even Asians) that will willingly do that for longer than necessary if they can help it. If they do it, it's for one of the reasons stated above like a Vietnamese colleague who did move back in with her mum for like a half year while trying to find a new place. They're close but same household is just way too close.
My point is that all people are selfish in some way and that is ok and natural.
The earth is a big ball of metal. Of course it will be fine. The creatures that live on it won’t. And many haven’t in the many times in the past that the earth dealt with like climate changes. Sure something will survive, but that’s not really useful as a declaration for humanity’s survival.
Are you telling me it's illegal to reverse engineer [DRM] software that I paid for and installed on my PC?

That's like making it illegal to open the bonnet of my car and take the engine apart.

Or are you saying it's illegal to build a crack using my private computer?

Or are you just saying it's illegal to publish that crack?
The article is pretty vague.

It is another item in the long list of uncommon effects of Covid-19. They admit they don't know much about it but it is worth investigating.
Population Genomics of the Viking World
Sony Playstation 5 will launch on November 12th for $399 and $499
Actually... I've been recently through sexual harassment training which explicitly said that asking another employee out, going with them for a weekend and making compliments is not harassment, unless either (1) the recipient unequivocally said "no" or (2) there's some quid-pro-quo involved such a promotions or pay raises.

So you've probably missed your chance to have a nice weekend.
Pressed on by your certitude, I tried googling it again and yep, you definitely can't.

https://twitter.com/kaleidoscopeapp/status/34193087090041651...

(But you can when dealing with merge conflicts? Wow. Quite remarkable for a seemingly basic bit of core functionality to stay humming on the to-do list for seven years, despite the very same feature already implemented in a nearly identical context!)
If you disagree we might be using the word selfish to mean different things. That’s also possible, and normal, these conundrums can only be discovered and addressed with communication, and a willingness to listen.
It does mention it on the product page[0] though.

>Quest 2 requires your Facebook account to log in, making it easy to meet up with friends in VR and discover communities around the world. You can explore as yourself or choose a new name by creating a unique VR profile.

[0] https://www.oculus.com/quest-2/
But does it make sense that there would be a huge jump in that for 2019 but not 2018? This data smells.
Not really; part of the point of a status page is that it lets you distinguish between "their service is down" and "the route between me and their service is down".
Actually you mainly have to just go at the rich and regulatory capture. Carbon and plastic taxes/cap/trade to capture those externalities and most of the problems go away on their own. But then someone might not get another yacht.
I tried WebStorm and made myself use it for 2 months. I went back to VSCode. WebStorm had its positives. I realized how much I hate setting up debugging environments in VSCode and how well they work in WebStorm, especially Node. I really liked the refactoring. But in the end, I preferred VSCode. I had performance issues (the team was fixing them and fixed some), scroll wasn't as nice, it ran worse on large files, the extensions weren't as nice in my opinion. Maybe I'll try it again in a few years.
Stallman's Law
It would certainly be an interesting project but, in the end, a fruitless exercise IMHO.

Think about how hard it is to get traction for a great new game! The only way a dating app gets popular is by gaining a large number of participants in many communities. The only way that would realistically be possible is with pretty deep marketing pockets.
Could you think of a worse company to be managing your 3d porn viewer?
I find that extremely offensive, honestly. I'm not allowed to play a god-damned game that I purchased offline when nothing about the actual game requires network access? That's ridiculous!
A simple explanation of the “for await of” statement in Node.js
> You explicitly claimed it wouldn't be worse. Consider applying your own standards to that claim.

Having a choice is always better than not having one with regards personal preferences. That's my standard. What's yours aside from "I don't like web apps"?

> Your entire objection, which seems to carry some unusual assumptions about the power and utility of thought experiments and the extent of the value of comparing similar, but not identical, things. Notably, it appears to reject them as being to any useful degree, even for evaluating a user-facing OS feature valid or enlightening.

For example?

You are needlessly complicating the conversation with all this meta-drivel. It's pretty simple really: You want everybody to have no choice. I want people to have a choice. I stated my position pretty clearly. You're just giving opinions and philosophizing.

> Making them opt-in and off by default, ideally with no way for the app to tell whether they're enabled, would be an improvement...

Good - we've moved from zero choice, to some choice. We're making progress!

> because I do not like webapps and prefer an environment that makes me less likely to encounter them for any reason.

That's not a reason. That's an opinion and a personal preference. You didn't state the reason for your opinion that nobody should be able to get PWA notifications.

> I entirely get disagreement with my position on a variety of grounds, but I find such apparent failure to even engage with it, and rejection that it is a position, harder to understand.

You still haven't stated anything other than your opinion.
And a household pays a single rent. This means I’m average ppl can afford 6% increase to rent.

Afford might be poor choice of word though
I started seeing this while running Terraform and immediately went to Twitter to see if it is down for everyone or just me. Same experience. From now on I will go to HN :)
From a legal risk POV, yes, assuming US-based. It is not fair use at all, either.

CFAA and DMCA are quite nasty in this regard. It gets significantly worse if, in the course of your inspection/EULA violation/whatever, you have to interact with any third party DRM [online] services for authn/authz. Then you bring even more crime into scope.

Ianal, but I'm fairly certain the answer is 'yes' to every single question, even individually (the act of cracking and the act of publishing it might even be two separate crimes)

EFF:
> The anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, 17 U.S.C. 1201, prohibit circumvention of “technological protection measures” that effectively control access to copyrighted works. The law also prohibits trafficking in tools that are primarily designed for circumvention, have only limited commercially significant purpose other than circumvention or are marketed for circumvention. While section 1201 can arguably apply to any security researcher, those studying digital rights management (DRM) of music, movies or other creative content are most likely to face section 1201 claims, since Congress intended to protect these copyrighted works when it passed the statute. Researchers looking for vulnerabilities in authentication handshakes, code signing, code obfuscation, and protocol encryption also have to worry about section 1201 because vendors have argued that these also qualify as “technical protection measures” covered by the DMCA.
In my experience, the model that most people railing against undefined behavior tend to end up proposing is a vague, "read-my-mind" sort of model.

Semantics are hard, and undefined behavior makes it especially so. See the voluminous threads on llvm-dev trying to pin down what "undef" actually means for an example. In the context here, the linked article is a response to someone who is describing why defining a memory model is actually more difficult than it seems. The linked article is basically saying "screw that, it doesn't have to be hard, just use the obvious model" without specifying what the obvious model actually is.

After you've been in a couple of hour-long meetings where everyone is arguing over what the "obvious" model actually says, it's painfully obvious that "obvious" isn't obvious.
> I think it speaks mostly to the general trend of police militarization, which is both enabled and normalized to the extent that basically every law enforcement agency is expected to have a tactical unit, even if it's a relatively obscure and small agency.

In some ways have these types of teams/units could be useful, as it could allow more 'aggressive' tactics to be standard operating procedure (SOP) for only certain officers allowing others to be trained for other things.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/am...

* http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/06/29/many-countries-po...

It's like in the UK where most officers are unarmed, and only a select few are trained for firearms:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_Firearms_Command

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_unit

In Germany, where all (?) officers are armed:

* https://www.dw.com/en/why-german-police-officers-rarely-reac...

* https://www.dw.com/en/when-are-german-police-allowed-to-use-...

Perhaps putting all the "warriors" into special units that are only deployed in certain circumstances could allow for the beat cops to have different mentality:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Warrior_Cop
Universities offer preferential pricing (in-state tuition) for state residences. University libraries typically disallow non-students from entering. It's an important example because it raises the question of where we draw the line as to what extent government institutions can restrict access to public property.
> Because not everyone agrees with you and web apps have many advantages over native.

But I don't care about those advantages (to the extent that they exist for users they're secondary effects of webapps being very cheap to make as cross-platform apps, so more likely to be made in the first place if cross-platform is a requirement) and like being able to choose a platform where it's hard to deploy a webapp instead of a native app, forcing the choice of "native app" or "no app at all" on the part of the developer, because I think it leads to fewer total apps but way more native apps than there'd otherwise be.

So why would I prefer PWAs become more capable on the platform? I see why PWA developers and maybe some users would.
Having people prepared to deal with a wide variety of situations is highly advisable.
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You'll see a lot of empty claims that the US has practically no social safety net. That's plainly false. That it's not as good/effective as eg France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, etc., that much is true. Poor Americans get free healthcare, around just over 1/4 of all Americans receive free healthcare. ~24% of Americans are receiving Medicaid.

The US spends more on its social welfare programs, as a share of GDP, than Canada does, and it matches what Australia and Switzerland are spending. The US is close to the OECD middle and a bit behind the UK (OECD figures below):

https://i.imgur.com/5GnDdTp.png

And when it comes to improvements in poverty thanks to our vastly expanded social safety net, you can see that very strikingly represented when you drop out those programs from the calculations (childhood poverty shown below, with and without government aid):

https://i.imgur.com/hqTS3Ck.png

https://i.imgur.com/9aEi2sL.png

The same thing shows up in our homelessness improvement figures from the past 20 years. The housing first program implemented by the Bush Administration and sustained by the Obama Administration - aka a government program - was almost solely responsible for the huge decrease in US homelessness.

The US social safety net has expanded rather massively in the past 40 years. Structurally the biggest problem the US has when it comes to its social safety net, is it's all haphazard and often poorly administered. The US isn't very good at running social safety nets, it's chaotic and critical parts of it are managed in very different ways state to state. We're not getting enough bang for our buck on that spending, we need to do better. We're spending a lot of money and the results are often not good enough (which we frequently see with government spending in the US). For example, if the US were spending per capita on our healthcare system what the UK is, we could nearly double - maybe up to 40%-45% - the number of people we're covering with free healthcare at minimal additional cost.
The same part of the constitution that the ACLU thinks makes public parks for residents-only illegal.
>I can't imagine the world of hurt, discomfort and frustration of developing against a lib set I can't read source code of or improve.

Thank you.

It boggles the mind that anyone who can write code would ever use a closed source operating system.
> The 2019 real median earnings of men ($57,456) and women ($47,299) who worked full-time, year-round increased by 2.1 percent and 3.0 percent, respectively (Figure 4 and Table A-6).
Still no way to make Maps put north at the top while you're driving.

Grumble, grumble.