skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure this makes much sense. All the top end VR headsets are constantly sold out and require waiting months to get one (Index and soon the HP Reverb G2). People want to play Alyx but they can't.

Also a PC only game is niche enough, no PCVR game will ever make VR mainstream. Really, the mainstream VR game is Beat Saber - that alone has probably sold more VR headsets than any other app or game combined.

The only way to make VR mainstream imo is to offer it at console prices or less and make it standalone, which is exactly what the Quest is doing. It's really unfortunate it requires an FB account. I guess they justify it because Xbox and PS5 both require online accounts too.
The same basic thing but slow enough it doesn't quite reach some threshold for just outright being ablation cascade I guess?
Price-discrimination and tying in support of monopoly?

Seems like an anti-trust nightmare for Apple and the relevant telecom. I guess they figure they're in the green since the conspiracy is slightly trans-industry and not simply telecoms fixing telecom prices.

However, to me, it's still price fixing when AT&T and Verizon agreeing to fix iPhone prices.
You’re assuming competing services at the same price points are offering better customer service, which is doubtful.
That 84 is based on 20 years, on a 100 year timeframe it’s 21, and a 1 year timeframe it’s approaching 200.

All the methane for the last N years is decaying as you move forward. Say at day 1 you released X methane that’s being directly added to the global total. Now move forward to day X0,000, in some ways your adding X methane but because a little methane is decaying from every prior day the net result is not an increase of X, but an increase of X * 1/2^(some number that keeps increasing).

So, sure the hover dam is adding net methane. But after 84 years it’s less than 1/2 ^(84 /9.1) or 0.17% as much as directly measured. Further, the GWP of methane is calculated under the assumption it released from the ground where most sources like cows are releasing Carbon and Hydrogen that used to be in the atmosphere in the first place before photosynthesis etc eventually turned it into methane.

Also, unlike CO2 it’s really easy to reduce considerations simply by lowering emissions.

PS: I have seen several estimates around 7 years, I used 9.1 because the exact number isn’t that important.
I looked at the Apple Website for iPhone 12 Mini and I see this [0]. If you click on "Compare all Pricing and Special Offers" you will see $30 instant discount for AT&T and Verizon both. T-Mobile and Sprint cost $729. I notice the same for iPhone 12 too. The iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max have no difference in pricing amongst all providers ($999 / $1099).

[0] https://imgur.com/rKNDwyd
Because Quest 2 is a stand-alone VR headset. It is not a display device for a computer, it is an all-in-one. So you install games on it to play them.
Szívesen :)
A quick look through the paper doesn't leave me very impressed. The data is lacking, and the categorization of the antibody assay signal is arbitrary at best.

There is also little to no information on the test. It seems that the authors did not try to actually validate it, or they did not write the results of such validation.

I wouldn't trust this study, to be honest.
I don't think they'll be paying for most of their bandwidth. Most of their content is served from Open Connect devices deployed on ISPs' premises.
Well “starting at 799” nothing wrong with that
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Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
What they typically do is takeover an existing YouTube channel, rename/brand it so it shows up in all of the people who subscribed to the channels feeds.

It’s even more maddening that there is no way to report that a YouTube channel has been compromised, there are only report options for inappropriate content of various sorts.
> because ratings for TOS were so low, it became a cheap filler 5 nights a week in syndication

It also lacked the standard # of episodes required for syndication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_episodes
Digital gold is a better analogy for BTC than digital cash. As a value reserve BTC has a lot of desirable properties over gold (try moving $10m of gold around...). The fact that it's fairly easy to spend BTC is an additional positive point.
Ah. That's more common, but also not required. Usually colleges will be looking for extra curriculars, of which sports might be one. But it would be just as well or maybe even better to be part of a debate club, the school newspaper, etc.
That’s not what happened. Cingular was jointly owned by SBC and BellSouth. The two companies merged, and SBC also bought out AT&T and rebranded themselves. Once Cingular was solely owned by a company named AT&T, it was rebranded to match the parent company.
> breaking bad or GOT

You're skipping over something really important about these shows.

Build up and word of mouth. If either of these series' seasons dropped all at once, I'm 100% certain they wouldn't have been nearly as big.

BB Season 4 was the absolute peak of "what's going to happen next???" for the internet communities I was involved in, my family members who were watching, my friends who were watching, casual chats at work. There was suspense in waiting week to week and discussions carried on while we waited.

Netflix releasing episodes all at once has completely destroyed momentum and build up. With everyone watching at their own pace, there's no collective presence. The episodes might have your mental space for a couple days/weeks while you binge, and then it's gone, and people who are also interested are going to be on different timelines.

You're less likely to recommend the show to others 6 months later, because you literally haven't watched or thought about it for 6 months.

I like AppleTV+'s move of doing weekly episodes. Everyone is on the same page again, and you get to share something together.
This is still a one time design cost though. And nothing about it means that you should iterate the design every other year. Materials maybe.
The U2 album has some evil way of popping up and finding its way onto my Apple devices (and then auto playing) no matter how I try and remove it from my library. It is my albatross.
I just cancelled my Spotify (maddening playlist/album "play" button, queue management, music-start issues on iPad) and I have Youtube Music (via Premium), which I don't like because they mix "subscribed" music content on the Youtube "Subscriptions" feed.

And, a year ago, when I was subscribed to 1300 artists on Youtube Music, it killed my Youtube subscriptions feed graph -- meaning, it took more than 60 seconds for it to refresh when first starting up or switching back to Subscriptions to see if any new content was available.

Soundiiz is an interesting way to evaluate music services, in terms of which services allow/support "transfers" of artists, albums, playlists.

Apple Music doesn't really allow for it.

I was able to transfer my Spotify albums to Youtube Music, which lets me "follow" artists via [albums in library] without subscribing.

I did like Spotify because it was supported on Roku & Alexa, but I can also live with streaming stations there if I needed.

Pandora might be interesting, have to try it and may have to try transferring music to it.

Slacker LiveXLive seems to have a lot of apps on platforms...
Being an introvert as a teen my experience would not have changed much except less exposure to people at school I didn't really interact with anyway.
Ending senescence would not hinder human adaptation.

First of all is there any evidence that death is biologically planned, rather than simply being the result of degrading bodies for which nature never found a solution?

More importantly, we have other means of information transmission between organisms such as language, such that DNA is practically obsolete as an adaptation mechanism.
I’m not wrong.

We know they respond to fisa warrants. Nobody claims otherwise.

But - also know from Snowden we know that that PRISM is not just an aggregation of responses to fisa warrants.

PRISM also involved intercepting Google’s bulk traffic from their fiber without Google’s knowledge, and various other kind of interception.

If you equate PRISM with aggregating fisa warrants responses, then what you say is true.

However it is not actually accurate to make that equation.

And even if court ordered data was aggregated as part of PRISM, that doesn’t constitute ‘participating’ in PRISM in any by the most semantically stretched way, since they didn’t know about it.

If you are going to argue like this, you may as well say that the end users ‘participated’ in prism, by giving their data to these companies. In a way that’s true.

But it’s not true in the common understanding of what it means to participate.
For me it is unusable because default zoom level is completely unreadable and there is no obvious UI to change it (although somewhat surprisingly ctrl-scroll works).
Was looking at buying the quest 2 today and decided to wait until the weekend to see how the launch would go and then I saw this. I won't buy a quest 2 unless the account requirement is removed
What speeds are you seeing? 1Gbit internet is sort of like having LAN speeds for internet access and most machines deal with that fine. 100ish megabytes/sec is something most old SATA SSD's can typically do. But that aside, if phones are fine on LANs, it seems they ought to be just fine on WANs running at LAN speeds.
What kind of service would you expect if you ask them to give you a list of every LP you've ever purchased from them?
It's not collusion, it's a natural consequence of the way healthcare billing is structured in the US. You don't get to comparison shop but also have a captive audience (you're not just going to decide to be blind right?) so there's no pressure to keep prices reasonable.

This makes a lot of money for powerfully connected companies, so don't expect it to change anytime soon. This is why our congress and mass media treat Medicare For All as a joke or something to attack politicians on even though it's popular with a majority of Americans.
Fair. But I think there is a lot we can learn about sustainability and what humans really need by putting them on an empty planet with zero natural resources except the minerals in the ground and some frozen water.

Mars will build up to sustainability, while on earth we try to cut back to sustainability.
Do you have a source for this? I'd love to read more.
Luckey was at least already out of Oculus by the time Facebook altered the deal, right?
In germany there are laws regulating the opening hours of businesses such as grocery stores (and separate ones for restaurants). The previous federal law allows for opening between 6 until 20 on monday to saturday.

Since 2006 the states can overwrite this law locally and most did. But they are only allowed to open on at max 4 sundays each year. Many allow 0-24 but it's culturally barely used. Out of the shops i lived closed to only one even opened from 7 till 24, which was right next to the biggest student housing.

Besides that, there are additional costs for employees after midnight, so it is not very attractive to open for the stores at those times.

This is vastly different in industrial production factories where shifts covering the full day are much more common.

For opening hours see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laden%C3%B6ffnungszeit#Regelun...
At the same time price transparency & monopoly restrictions is fundamental for a working capitalism.

Without that there will be no proper self regulating marked and all the points why capitalism is supposed to work will not uphold anymore.
Let's also not forget that Apple also removed a $20-30 accessory from the box under the guise of saving the planet. Then not only decided to not pass that savings onto the customer, but actually secretively raised the price $30.

I am not suggesting that removing the power brick doesn't have any impact on the environment. What I am suggesting is that I don't buy for a second that it was the primary motivator for removing it. My guess is that the primary motivator is shipping cost. This has a tangible and significant impact on their profit per unit and that was the driving factor. The fact that they could spin the removal of this device as a painstaking decision they toiled over because they wanted to save the sea turtles is really just a PR spin and was a happy coincidence that they could use.

And all those tangible cost savings thanks to the removal of this accessory... not only have those savings not been passed onto the consumer, but they actually increased the price!
AT&T also has the same "Special Offer" as Verizon for iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Mini. No difference for Pro and Pro Max models.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780791
Yeah to be fair, Bitcoin recovered pretty well after the pandemic dump.
I think the biggest threat to Bitcoin will be a technological failing.
At unprecedented depths of up to 7 mm with millisecond precision.

That right there is the huge problem. Personal opinion only but using organoids [2] would permit that 7mm depth to become something useful. [1]

[1] The $100-million-plus effort aimed to develop new technologies that will produce a dynamic picture of the human brain, from the level of individual cells to complex circuits. (https://www.livescience.com/29365-human-brain.html)

[2] https://journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/research/organoid...
I agree with you, but since Docker is kind of a given, how can one learn the necessary stuff about networking as to not make these mistakes?

I always see best practices like this, but they don't really help in grokking what's happening and why. I'd like to know more about the networking stuff, but whenever i look something up it's very specific, so you don't really learn why it's bad.

How can a regular user understand how the network stack works? At least enough to get an instinct why something would be bad.
"I love computers and programming but modern office life has become unbearable for me."

1. Have you thought about trying to build something on the web as an independent creator? There are many solo founders who pay their salary with small internet products (I list them on my website https://makehub.io/)

2. Maybe try working remotely? Most remote jobs are in programming!
It would be helpful to understand what this means:

> Applipy is an application development framework that allows to define the
application by installing modules and registering application handles.

Maybe a bulleted list of high-level use cases? I'm a Python developer but not sure what problem this solves, although it sounds cool!
No, it is not. Even though the goal at "room temperature" is technically met, it is misleading, because the goal "room temperature" meant superconducting under quite normal conditions to be of practical use.
And when you have to apply that immense pressure it means we did not really come closer to superconducting in the normal world.

Still a success, yes, but probably not a milestone, unless that discovery leads to other findings, but I do not see anything indicating such.
Seconding this! That finale is almost more perfect never pursued; what it implies about the show's future direction is so bonkers, maybe it's better as a beautiful mystery. It's a hell of a coup de grace for a show that always had a lot to offer its audience even while it kept them guessing.
It is more annoying than misleading. The pricing is clearly "From $699." You choose your model, choose your color, and then choose your carrier. The price is listed next to each carrier with an orange "Special Offers Available" on top of AT&T and Verizon. The Sim-free device also has the $729 price.

As soon as you select your carrier the price on the top of the page adjusts to $729. I noticed this last night when I was prepping my pre-order.
The website desperately needs to be demolished and redesigned. I've been swiping for like a minute and the animations just would do nothing, because stuff was timed for you to wait. Also viewing another member of the team needed a full reload of the page.

And I still haven't understood what they're trying to develop/sell/raise money for.
Please stop trying to invent a legend of a perfect Steve Jobs.
It’s an incomplete statement if you leave out the “why”. Lobbying. If that were regulated and corporation money didn’t indirectly buy votes through ad-spent but votes were won through actual policies and independent voter thinking, representatives would represent what voters (or a slice of them) wanted.

As it stands, they win elections by catering to a very, very small slice that can bring them into power: Corporations. Their donations are a more sure-fire bet to winning elections than trying to win over regular people.
Yes, I ended up writing as if they were different when it's a direct translation, except that quote transforms the visible syntax into a different hidden syntax, which is what makes it non homoiconic.
https://zany80.github.io/documentation/Z80/UserManual.pdf
I definitely won't be starting any new Netflix series, that's for sure. Only if one gets to several seasons and has an end.

Syfy is another source I now avoid, after what they did to Dark Matter (criminal) and The Expanse (saved by AMZN).
Could not have said it better. Would like to add that Netflix's high turnover for shows is breathing precious oxygen into the creative world. New stories and new plots with stranger or darker characters, more twists. A good break from the trash remakes of classics.

Not a huge fan of SW but Mando gave me the feeling of wonder about the universe that the OT gave 11 yr old me when it ran on a Sunday special. So there is at least one point I beg to differ on.
Followers are power
It begins to muddy the water about what you’re buying. It also leads people to spending more on a phone than they set out or budgeted. It doesn’t seem like much, but it is a shady practice-the kind “old Apple” wouldn’t have done.
> Nobody is being hurt by these practices.

Price obfuscation makes it nearly impossible to do a like-for-like price comparison between two manufacturers. If the consumer isn't being hurt by these practices, then why do car dealership groups need to continue lobbying the government to uphold laws preventing direct-to-consumer sales? They know that open-pricing would drive competition and erode their middleman profits.
Honestly I'd rather everybody got used to rude people on the internet
When I was a teacher, most of my obese male students were on the football team. It was not a great football team.
Not really. Sexism is a prejudice.
Truly it's bizarre.

Because the thing is, we can. Remember how in the early days of Expedia, flights were listed as crazy cheap, and then when you clicked through to buy, you discovered they'd tack on another 30-50% in fees and taxes? But that changed in 2012 when advertised airfares were forced to include all mandatory charges.

Why they don't do that with all industries -- the ones you've listed, plus making it so cell phone and internet providers can't start randomly tacking on new "network maintenance fees" and other BS -- is beyond me. It shouldn't just be airfare, it should be everything.

I mean, you'd think one of the political parties -- presumably Democrats -- would say, hey that'd be a popular move with voters, and make it part of their platform? But no.
Meh.

Cellphone pricing and cell carrier shell games are not unexpected. There are like 49 different ways to pay for phones these days and I don’t have the energy to tell the difference. The only thing that irritates me is the fee my carrier charges if I’m not paying off a phone at the moment that is equal to the amount I would be paying them if I used one of their payment plans for a phone.

I was also worried when I started reading that it was like $100 we were talking about, not $30.
Google seem to be doing pretty well to me. Search, Chrome, Android etc all seem to have dominant market shares, all the stuff seems to work quite well.
In terms of production The Mandalorian is pretty amazing.
In terms of script it is predictable, fairly boring and drowning in various "the plot needs to happen" moments.

For some reason I cannot phantom, Netflix and others seem to have tons of money to throw at the production, but don't seem to want to spend more than a few pennies on script.

I tried watching Cursed on Netflix, and had to force myself past the first episode due to the horrible writing. It never got better. The pieces were there for a fairly interesting show but it clearly needed more work on the writing side. Instead they pushed it into production and made another predictable flop.
Nice to see discussion on this topic! I worked on software to design floating wind turbines in my last job. Fun coupled dynamics/hydrodynamics here.
I would agree if it wasn't for duration neglect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duration_neglect
You want fast adoption? Drop the price 10-20% and roll it into a loss lead. This $30 knock off is a cash grab against the other customers.
Absolutely.

But until we do, there is no evidence to support these claims.
Yep, it’s a definite ying and yang. Sapiens (the book) spends a few very interesting chapters on the inner workings of this dynamic and how it shaped the world as we know it.
Context: https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-cites-hacked-materials-policy...

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-post-hunter-joe-bid...
I think “misleading” is the wrong word to use here, but if it’s misleading to look at the drop in costs for offshore wind without talking about some of the challenges of deploying it, shouldn’t it also be “misleading” to talk about France’s nuclear fleet from the past as if they would be able to do it again? The future of France’s electrical grid is unlikely to be nuclear because their attempts to build replacements have been failures. I just came across this audit today:

https://www.montelnews.com/en/story/more-pressure-for-french...

Of the five attempted new reactors, only two have completed and have not been impressive financially. The auditing team found gross project mismanagement, but also found that there has been difficulty completing welding properly, and the large nuclear reactors inherently require massive amounts of high precision, high quality welding as a basis for the entire endeavor.

Finally, it is quite misleading to generalize Germany’s renewables path to other countries, because they consciously financed the creation of an industry that now has exponentially falling costs. The entire world owes Germany a debt for kickstarting this virtuous cycle of product innovation and falling costs, as we will all benefit from their early work.
What are these cultural reasons?
The core is computing the ultimate question.
The article in question can be found here: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...
It should be easier to not pollute than to add more industry to clean it up.
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"only 40%"

Step out of your bubble and think about what it would mean if 40% of Americans worked from home full time.

It can be done, we've seen that, now people are running the numbers and seeing what that means. Pre-covid it was something like 3% that worked from home at least half the time.

If 3% turns into 40% - or even 20% or 6% - that starts to change things.
Twitter locks nypost account for reporting on Hunter Biden HDD
They also locked the NY Post's Twitter account

https://twitter.com/noahmanskar/status/1316459416414302208?s...
Thanks xypybd! Mind giving me a snippet? (not quite sure where)
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the majority of people buying an iPhone 12 already have a mobile phone plan.
Quanta does some of the best science reporting. They have a knack for making highly complex and technical concepts accessible to the general public without sacrificing accuracy.
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