skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So all someone has to do if they want to bomb an airplane with their shoes is cough up $80 for a Precheck pass. Very secure.
'Whatever makes the rich richer is what they're doing' is probably a decent first order approximation, and under that logic corporate espionage does seem very likely.
Wow, great idea! Nice to know you are taking care of so many people. Are you planning to use data from wearables?
I tried to do the math on the Quest 2 hardware, and they definitely cut corners to bring the cost down, but not to the point where I think they have an attractive margin. (On the $300 headset, but the accessories/storage increase definitely have a decent margin). They’ll also get some margin on software sales presumably.

That’s important because I believe the revenue generating model is entirely from data. Even if I’m wrong, it’s Facebook, so we know they’re after data for profit.

And consider the kind of data that VR is capable of collecting. It’s biometric data at its core. If you take the data involved in VR, tie it to a person under the real-name policy, and give it to some crafty software engineers, you can get some crazy intimate results.
Good point, it's likely different for different networks.
Bug report: during the game, the scroll left swipe to go back gesture is broken on macOS and it zooms in instead.
Increased power for the people that control it.

(With a bonus side effect of lots of government dollars funneled to certain Contractors.)
> What political statement are they making aside from saying 'I would like to vote'?

The comments I've heard are to the effect of: "I want Trump out of office so badly, I waited in line for 2 hours to vote against him!"

> Even the densest election board recognizes this year is not based on historical trends and that early voting (which has been touted on national news) is one way to solve the issue.

Agreed. In their defense, we are currently in the "early early voting" stage in most areas (meaning very few polling stations are open), with the "early voting" stage starting up in the near future (with more polling stations opening up), followed by orders of magnitude more on election day.
I'm a registered Democrat and have massive issues with both lobbyist dominated parties FWIW. Politics in California is fscked up because there is no opposition and increasingly incompetent, autocratic rule. The homeless 'non profit' industry is huge and growing.
https://hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/homekey.sht...
Has details of the crazy Homekey spending on hotels. There is very little housing being built it is extremely expensive.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/homeless/article245547415....
It seems that most of the heat impact of global warming is absorbed by ocean waters (https://e360.yale.edu/features/how_long_can_oceans_continue_...)
Coral reefs typically live in rather shallow waters (less than 500ft according to wikipedia), because of their dependency of sunlight. So at this depth, there is already a strong daily variation due to day/night cycle, and I imagine a 1 degree average warming on earth is much potentiated in this environment.

Perhaps there is something to be done actively in short term in those environments to prevent this warming, but its so fragile as there are countless interactions between all the microorganisms that I that must be an enormous undertaking, if even possible.
In most countries outside of Japan any vending machine wouldn't last.. the only place I still see them in my own country is inside airports and the like. The vending machines disappeared from outside years ago when some people started breaking them to get at the money.
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I would think the opposite: If the program was greatly effective, I would want a blog post just like this to capture the bad guys' attention. That way they might tend to be less careful and make it easier on me.
The real achievement here is how you were able to convince clinics to try your software. The biggest problem in healthcare is inertia. It is not that the tools don't exist but people in this field don't like change. I run a telemedicine startup Tangerine Health https://www.tangerinehealth.co/ and we want to approach self funded companies and their independent Third Party Administrators to provide a subscription base business model and it's so hard to meet the decision makers. We know employees will be more satisfied with on demand and unlimited services and save the company so much money.
I am so tired of this fetishisation of the easy way. It is something only available to the privileged and is, in this case, nothing short of abandoning the rest of us to the fascist takeover occurring in the USA.
I'm saying the discount code tests have the change from 10 to 11. this entire thread isn't about the discount code tests though it is about the shopping cart. There is a lot more to calculating price than just discount codes, tax rates for example. The cart needs to show regular price, the discount, the tax, shipping costs, and then total. Each of those is tested for multiple edge cases, so if we do it all in the shopping carts there are potentially hundreds of unrelated tests that need to change when the discount factor changes just because they happen to check the total.
Its relevant - albeit a little out of the purview, because without the rise of sensationalist based media creating the distractions, none of this is possible.

The lies, the distractions, the propaganda, the amplification of issues that simply-do-not exist, allows the power brokers the opportunity to do these types of things without the oversight and regulation that the Constitution and history used to have in place to contain such acts.

Its no different than a magical or illusionist using distraction and human behaviors against the audience so that they can paint a picture of what ever they choose. Or the infinite number of psych tricks used to fool people into giving up their money....

If the media was still beholden to facts and held actual integrity, and were not instead chasing a false metric that benefited them, the power brokers could not get away with these types of acts.

It goes deeper but the checks and balances of our Republic are no longer in place because we whored out our Congress and allowed the Foxes to buy their way to the front of the henhouse...
I'm fine with "mandatory like the flag code".

I'm not fine with "mandatory like the speed limit".
But I thought Medium was a self-contained site... Why is it redirecting to another site? I don't understand.
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room temperature in a diamond anvil doesn't sound as useful as plain room temperature but i guess having a kitchen variety refrigerator instead of liquid helium makes for cheaper experiments :)
The context of this EWD is somewhat lost to history, because Dijkstra's point of view in many cases won so thoroughly that we cannot conceive of what he was describing.

The BASIC he is describing had no call stack, nothing that would resemble a function in today's languages. FORTRAN at the time handed masses of state around in global variables and the latest version had just added subroutines and functions. This is after ALGOL 60 had established the model that we all take for granted today.

I think the bulk of practitioners today would absolutely agree with him.
I think he mixes 2 aspects. There is security and there is reproducibility/traceability/reliability.

For security using the latest versions of both base images and packages is typically a good thing. The cases that the newest package is more vulnerable since something 1, 2, 3 years old are not that common.

However, if your process requires reproducibility/traceability (medical and other regulated domains) you cannot just deploy the latest and greatest. You need to pass it through some release process first. That should not be an excuse to run outdated, vulnerable software though. The same holds if you require high availability. Even if you might not need to document what you are using, you want to test whether it causes performance issues (zero performance is the worst one...).
I didn't argue with the support people. I stated my concerns for what they were doing as feedback. I was going to leave it at that, but it turns out that two things are important here that continued the conversation:

1. Their response was awful

2. They require you contact support to delete your account... which, is yet another anti-consumer policy.
There is no catch-22. Usually those decisions are made well in advance. The OA from the article aired in March 2019 and was cancelled in August.
This is interesting for a couple reasons.

1) While I agree with the article's assessment that superconduction along huge distances is a likely no-go given pressures involved, it's not out of the realm of possibility that we could find a way to apply massive static pressure loads to small high-performance circuits.

2) If the pressures are 75% the Earth's core, that raises interesting geologic questions about what's going on in the Earth's core. Perhaps the model for Earth's magnetic field (or the material that causes it) will need to be adjusted to account for the possibility of naturally-occurring superconductors.
This, except for geoengineering. Developing the infrastructure to apply it at planetary scale will take years, and then actually applying it will take trillions of dollars. If by some miracle it turns out to not be necessary, we have plenty of time to cancel it, but now (really, 10 years ago) is the time to start spending 100s of billions of dollars preparing (and 100s of billions reducing emissions, of course).

FWIW, my preferred approach is ocean-powered olivine weathering, as in Project Vesta. But we'll need multiple approaches.
If by cancelled you mean "ended", then it was cancelled. But the reporting at the time by the network and the creatives was that they decided in advance of writing and filming the fourth season that it would be the final season (and that the approximate length and arc of the entire show was worked out years prior to be around 50 episodes), and so the ending was written deliberately as a series finale, thus making it not an example of what the upthread people are talking about.
Yeah, I don't think we're in disagreement. Buying a commodity personally, and then using an institution under your control to buy that commodity and create publicity/network effects is just great business (for personal enrichment). It probably isn't even illegal!
It's a raster painting application, so it's not comparable to Inkscape.
Still more efficient than the alternatives.

USD is controlled by an entity which spends $680 billion / year along with countless lives and 270k barrels of oil a day in order to defend it.

Gold dug out of the ground, then put in high tech vaults which must be similarly actively defended.
The TSA was always a jobs program, never had anything to do with security.
As much as I love VR (I even backed the Oculus kickstarter at the time), I can't justify spending money developing for a system that can brick the devices of my users on a whim.

They shot themselves in the foot by having this FB account requirement.
Room temperature superconductivity itself is not revolutionary for anything except academic papers. Lossless power lines and frictionless trains are a gimmick as those losses are small part of their operating cost. Resistance of copper cables is very small and acceptable already. When price of superconducing cables is comparable to copper cables, then it becomes interesting.
Didnt that change 2012 Olympics?
Incorrect. For an additional $2/month Backblaze will keep one year of version history.

They also have a "Forever history" offering, which is essentially a plug-and-play integration with B2, priced at $2/month + $.005/GB/month for versions deleted more than 1 year ago.
In general, no. They assumed people would just wait until more polling stations opened up closer to election day (or on election day itself) to avoid waiting in these lines.
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These kinds of things always read like someone trying to let everyone know that they're smart by holding a factoid over their head. It's like when a health nut tells you something like, "You know, 90% of people are dehydrated every day."
"and I am totally not making this up" which unfortunately is also lost.

The problem is Godelesque. There's no way to form a consistent language that includes lies.
Crazy opinion. Thing is that if you have such problems you maybe shouldn't use WP. Well IMHO in general I wouldn't recommend WP because of this whole mess with plugins to gain some functional enhancement. I would recommend some CMSs which have a good core functionality by default.
Why would you assume I think that when the rest of my comment is about the difference in valuing the long tail of streaming vs broadcast content?
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Relative to content creation for Dev Blogs -- historical antecedents can be a terrific source of ideas.

Example: On this day in history, Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier aboard a Bell X-1 rocket plane. > https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history

Juxtapose this with the recent Boom Supersonic rollout > https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2020/10/13...

Often interesting to compare and contrast where we are today.
> “ And by far, the biggest problem is that election day is always on a Tuesday and is not a national holiday. IMO this would be the best change to make first, to enable more people to be available for voting.“

that would be nice and i’d support such a bill, but it wouldn’t likely increase voting rates drastically, as many (esp. working class) folks still work on (most) holidays.

to increase participation materially, the motivation to vote needs to be intrinsic (duty, patriotism, solidarity, optimism, etc.), and we can foster that through better voting mechanisms (score voting), more choice (election finance reform), proportional representation, less corruption, and more fairness and honesty. a tall order for sure, but something we need to be pushing and making progress toward every single election.
It needs a PC in addition to spending another $500 - 600 for the headset.
If you have a publication on Medium, you can apparently get a custom URL: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036093373-Chang...
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> You can't prove that would-be terrorists weren't dissuaded by the knowledge that PRISM existed.

This is the tiger repelling rock theory of anti-terrorism. I have a rock that repels tigers. There haven't been any tiger attacks when I'm around, so it must work.
Achieved at 267 GPa, 15 deg C.

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2801-z
Product I support is free, my paycheck comes from a non-profit.
> However, blanket statements like "Hardware requiring an online account to work must be outlawed." Would ban very legitimate products such as Amazon's physical buttons for restocking supplies.

OK, rephrase it slightly and say that it must not require an online account from a specific provider. If I can come up with an API endpoint that I want to use instead of Amazon, and I want to reconfigure my Dash button to use it, I should be legally and technically allowed to do so.

The regulation doesn't need to ban any categories of products, or mandate any features. It just needs to say that if your product depends on online connectivity for a significant part of its functionality, then it must not employ technical measures to prevent interoperability. Hardware that's sold to consumers already needs to meet various compliance standards, such as RF emissions testing; this doesn't seem like a heavy burden in comparison.

Of course, such a policy is very unlikely to be enacted in the US any time soon, but hey, I can dream.
But it does! Your orbit is defined by where your velocity vector is pointing at the moment. If you add a sideways component, you're a) increasing the magnitude, and b) rotating the vector.
Timothy McVeigh begs to differ (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/13/oklahoma-cit...)
Huh? Do you mean the corruption of "sleeping with"? Or did you mean "someone else"?
I got so excited by the news about Quest 2, I was certain would by it, until I learned that "Quest headsets best accommodate IPDs between 56 and 70 mm, or about 95% of adults". My IPD is 74 - no luck this time.
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That is a fantastic comment. I was reading through Google SRE stuff. Lots of good info. Lots of very, very bad ideas too. Lots of it is "at scale, you can't make everyone happy, so don't try." You end up with SLOs and SLIs based on percentages of availability, errors, etc. If 99.99% of requests are good, don't worry about the rest. However, at scale, 0.01 can be literally millions of real, breathing people with feeling and priorities and things to do. When you give away your product for free, these are good trade offs. When you sell your product, the same assumptions may not apply.

I cannot afford to ignore 0.01% of incoming requests because we charge per request. At a certain point, yes, money and pros and cons yadda yadda yadda. It just feels that, once again, people are saying, "but Google does it!" -- and that does not mean you should.
It triggered HN and Apple fans and the comment ultimately got shadow-banned by moderators.

No, the moderators appear to have done no such thing. But with that opening sentence, and closing with the equivalent of "wake up, sheeple!", I can see why it got downvoted to a light gray.
I'm in america, and never had more than 30 minute wait to vote. But I'm in Massachusetts and we have early voting and a election commision that seems to want to make it easy.

Mandatory Voting actually seems like an interesting idea. Work/Government would have to make accommodations.

Voting rules here are handled by local entities (cites, counties and states). So sometimes sadly it gets gamed to try to favor one group of voters over another.

Its kinda a mess. Lawsuits are common.
The first room-temperature superconductor has finally been found
Besides the Docker practices - does someone have experience with OPA? This is the first time I've heard of that tool, but an extensible policy tool like that might solve a lot of challenges we have at work.
I doubt $2/month is a disincentive to a hoarder whose only alternative would be to pay per GB for the storage space they are using.
Please bring back mindhunter for a new season
Ask HN: Are lifetime app licenses a good strategy?
Isn’t superconducting a requirement for fusion reactors (for plasma confinement)? I think all the cooling required for that is a major impediment to both the design and the efficiency.
You can prepare a pair of photons in a state such that when you measure the polarization of both of them along the same axis, for whatever direction you want to choose, you get the same result. But they are entangled, each photon considered separately is not in a well-defined state.

You can also prepare two photons in the same state, so the have the same polarization for some direction chosen at that time. But the measurements along other axis won't be perfectly correlated (if they are correlated at all).

The red/blue color example is too simple to be interesting.
Adding geographic areas is such a nice touch. Well done!
I would add one more general security tip. Always restrict your mapped ports to localhost (as in 127.0.0.1:3306:3306) unless you really want to expose it to the world.

I think it's counterintuitive, but I learned the hard way that 3306:3306 will automatically add a rule to open the firewall on linux and make MySQL publicly accessible.
Unfortunately for each of these cases going public there will be about a hundred poor souls being unnoticed.
I feel incredible dissonance about John Carmack working for Oculus and by extension, Facebook. Especially when things like this come to light.
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I’ve been getting hit by this for years. How is there still not a setting for this??

My workaround for this is to go out of my way to make sure the iOS app is closed before I resume playback on my desktop.
Your options list supports my assertion:

Identified developers = signed

FYI: frogs actually do jump out of water as it gets hotter.

You may be right that this changes in the future, but for now I am correct.
There are so many languages available today that I'm sure there are plenty he would have approved of. For example, I think he might have appreciated Zig. If you read his work it's pretty easy to see his top priority is managing complexity and limiting surprise.
Facebook Communications Chief: We are reducing distribution of anti-Biden posts
I’m not sure what bearing a court opinion has on my criticism of your calling the events that happened in Texas “fake”; regardless that said court decided the impact of Abbott’s proclamation was de minimis.
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Mandatory voting doesn't preclude writing in nothing if you prefer. And for people who are uninformed, well, having to go through the motion helps that some. More than anything else, this would force the government to make it possible, easy, and routine for current non-voters to vote, which would dramatically shift election results to the left economically.
Well said, and couldn't agree more. An actual democracy is a terrifying prospect.
Automatic netflix previews are the thing that infuriates me the most about it. (And the reason I'll probably never pay for it.)

Other than opening the settings screen, or playing a video and hitting pause, there is no way to leave netflix alone and not have it make noise/play video.
Three seconds after you stop hitting buttons, whatever's selected on-screen becomes a full-video ad for that thing. (with all of the annoying traits of ads, like loud attention grabbing sounds)

I've idle-mindedly mashed buttons to prevent this on console-netflix while trying to have a conversation about what to watch, with no attention being payed to what was actually on the screen.
Right a figurative use of "literally".
Hopefully you'll understand the meaning.

Next let's debate what "hopefully" means.
Why would Facebook spin off anything? I see that happening only if congress forces a break up. Spinning Oculus out of FB seems like a low hanging fruit of a forced break up.
I have made some projects with my daughter using the micro:bit with the Scratch programming interface.

We have also done a few projects using the Microsoft interface and the cutebot addition to have fun making a track following robot.

I could see voice control being a really cool feature for kids to have fun with.

I hope they offer some additional interfaces in Scratch to support some of these new features.

Does anyone have any idea when this new version will be for sale?
if your code is correctly designed the business case that change doesn't require most of the tests to change. I have modules that haven't had any changed in 7 years, and I don't expect there to ever be a business case to change them. Even the modules that change, most of them are changing to add a customization in a place/way where we normally add them, so no existing test needs to change to support the new business case. There are exceptions, but tests that change because the business case changed are a design smell in general.
Full tweet:

> While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.

Hard to fit in the HN title length limits but my read is it's "guilty till proven innocent" for anything negative against Joe Biden.