skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how this puts SVG elements directly in the page's DOM; seems like a great way of making interactive vector graphics in a browser. Unfortunately, in Firefox I occasionally get rendering errors when the tile I'm pointing at is highlighted. Sometimes weird things happen after clicking a tile and then pointing at a neighbour[0], but mostly it looks as if re-rendering ‘dirty’ areas and updating the framebuffer are somehow getting out of sync[1].

It's not super annoying, though, because moving the pointer over the affected tiles accusatorily[2] cleans them up.

On an even more hair-splitting note: The tile grid looks slightly wonky instead of perfectly regular. (The borders/gaps between hexes have different thicknesses.) I think this is because the coordinates of vertices are rounded to integer pixel coordinates before rasterisation? I'd suggest trying this: Instead of going for exactly regular hexagons, deform them very slightly so their vertices have integer pixel coordinates. Due to the zoom feature this isn't the most trivial fix ever, but on lower-resolution displays it would look a lot neater[3].

Oh, and a feature request: There should be alternatives to ‘mouse wheel’ and ’middle click & drag’[4] for zooming and panning. Input devices on which performing/emulating these actions is inconvenient (or even impossible) aren't all that uncommon. (E.g. how do you middle drag on a trackpad?) Panning could be done with a regular (left) drag. For zooming, there could be −/+ buttons in a corner, or hotkeys, or right dragging, or dragging while holding a modifier key. Not using scrolling for the zoom function would be nice for players with input devices that have omnidirectional scrolling: They could use that for panning instead. I think it would be fine to keep the defaults as-is, but an option to switch it up in the ‘ESC’ menu would be nice for accessibility.

[0] https://i.paste.pics/AE7L2.png
[1] https://i.paste.pics/AE6X1.png
[2] Fun fact: Firefox's spelling checker doesn't believe that this word exists and suggests ‘satisfactorily’ instead.
[3] https://i.paste.pics/AE7JD.png
[4] Which should actually be called ‘middle [button] drag‘, but I'll spare you the off-topic rant ;)
They pulled it out of existing iPhone lineup.
Best headset for sitting is a inside-out, tethered VR headset.

Until recently, the Oculus Rift S would be a great pick for that.

I don't yet have an HP Reverb G2, but I expect good things out of that headset. The HTC Cosmos would also be a good choice.

The Valve Index (yes, I mistyped before) is an awesome headset, but the lighthouse emitter based tracking system isn't great for seated. Not only is it a hassle to setup, but it's easier for your chair or monitor or whatever to block the laser grid from the lighthouse units. And if you're seated, you aren't taking advantage of the highly accurate room-scale tracking the lighthouses provide. I'd stick with the convenience of an inside-out headset if you're primarily doing seated VR.

For example, I tended to prefer my Rift S for sim games (sim racing, sim flight) for all the reasons listed above.
It's not impossible. The problem is a lack of incentives.

Amazon offers 70% royalties to indie authors.

YouTube offers peanuts to indie film makers. Netflix offers nothing.

Film-making is more expensive than novel writing, and there is a higher barrier to entry. Few indie film-makers are going to stick with it, unpaid, for multiple years. If they can receive funding, then that whole paradigm will change.

Patreon made a few steps in that direction, but I think crowd-funding has limits.

If Google/YouTube were to do what Amazon did, and offer a huge royalty share of profits...? That would turn everything around.
I don't think all USB-A chargers are created equal. I know that if I plug my iPhone in with the official charging brick, it'll charge maybe in an hour or so. If I plug it into the USB outlet in my car ... I'm looking at much longer.

Some background on how Apple "detects" their own charging bricks:

https://learn.adafruit.com/minty-boost/icharging

However, for USB-C, I'm sure any charging brick will do.
The story involves Hunter and his father and alleged family corruption.
I really don’t know what you can really do about it since using a VoIP number is one of the strongest signals the account is for spam.
Verizon is the only carrier with mmWave 5G / Ultrawide Band. Their "5G Nationwide" is what T-Mobile and AT&T have, while only AT&T has the "5GE" abomination which is just 4G LTE.
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Zoom is not a Chinese company. They are based in San Jose, California.

While they may have shut down activist accounts in China before that is more likely because they want to maintain their unblocked status in China for business reasons.

It is also possible that Zoom must cooperate with Chinese authorities in providing local user information to maintain their unblocked status, that is true about all Microsoft and Apple products as well and true about several other countries besides China as well. Your information shouldn't be touching servers in China unless you are communicating to or from China.

That said, personally, I don't fully trust anyone's end-to-end claims unless the client is open source OR protocol is open for third-party clients.
I know he was sad to see his TV/Movies/VOD plans fall through and eventually the 'meh' Apple TV concept was born.
Which isn’t extinction for humans.
That's a good point and I agree with what you said. But I think so many customers are accustomed to working with large, public or VC backed companies where response times are near immediate, product polish is higher, etc. When that's viewed as "the norm" then life becomes harder for bootstrappers.
Removing the charger under the guise of helping the environment was disingenuous by Apple. They said they shipped a billion chargers so they’ll just include the cable from now on. Well, the cable is Lightning-to-USB-C, not USB-A. Apple shipped nearly zero USB-C chargers and many people getting an iPhone will have to buy one. In the end, Apple removed the charger but didn’t lower the price, and people still have to buy a charger.
For sure. Next after selecting a low code monolithic stack we are informed that we can reuse low code solution, which is like a doubling down on the monolithic approach. But of course with 30 consultants.
Very cool. If you have motion sensitivity parts of the video are very intense.
At least when it comes to downloading/updating large games, they can get CPU bound when decompression and updates happen.
The standard definition of 5G is the New Radio (NR) protocol.
good idea. applicable to both sides, actually. libs lied all about russian collusion, for instance.
Probably, the blog post itself is signed by Max Krohn, Keybase.io co-founder.
No.

The Ministry of Truth and the protagonist of 1984, it’s employee, were engaged in revising the written record to make it match what the Party wanted in the present.

They were also the only source of information.

Twitter is not doing the former and isn’t the latter, so equating it with Minitrue is 100% factually incorrect.
Unfortunately I flagged this as being deceptive: this is simply not an accurate summary of the tweets, or even good-faith attempt at one. This is about one intensely controversial story from the NY Post, and not about anti-Biden posts. In fact the overall distribution of Facebook post-sharing still leans dramatically to the right so it seems like this title will give people a very misleading idea of what Facebook's political biases are: https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10/status/131638341877556428...

Given how toxic the NY Post story has already become, it is difficult to regard your submission as anything more than dishonest flame-baiting.
Well, that's why an RNA first world is most likely. RNA can act catalytically as RNAzymes.
Because this is something they have done for many years and now they are claiming they're doing it for the environment when that is clearly not the full story. Arguments that bad decisions only show up in sales numbers are meaningless because consumer decisions do not occur in a vacuum, so pointing to sales numbers and trying to reverse engineer whether "this was a bad decision" doesn't work.
The main goal is similar to other holiday sales -- a handful of loss leaders and a lot of crap they hope you buy along the way.

The first few prime days had a lot of real deals on name brand stuff. More and more, deals on name brand items are less common or supply constrained. Other 'deals' were fake deals (discount off artificially high list price) or deals on random no-name products (or garbage products).
I doubt that USB-C would be more environmentally friendly. I am fairly sure that the vast majority of people buying new Apple phones today are people that currently have Apple phones. Lots of Apple's customer base have been iPhone loyalists for longer than USB-C has been commonplace.
Thanks for the response. My comment was half in jest, but it has been a pain point for me.
FFS it’s just a simple refutation of the “human extinction” bullshit. It’s horrific enough without making shit up.

There is no scientific evidence for climate change being an extinction event for humans so there is no substance backing your “probably wrong” statement.
Saying something "satisfies your threat model" is pretty foolhardy unless you can read Zoom's source code and implementation of this standard.
You think The Kingkiller Chronicles will never be finished? I'd be quite disappointed by that.
Yeah that's a good bit more than the 9-12 average. As a parent of elementary age kids myself, I'd suspect there was some amount of not-sleeping actually happening overnight. My son is particularly adept at playing with legos and such even in the dark. My daughter is fond of waking up at 1am and reading for a couple hours, then going back to sleep until 8:30am.
> So... you've already got compatible earpods?

The old SE had a headphone jack, so no.
This makes a ton of sense—far too few people reach this conclusion and realize that picking one path or another is a key to their sanity and happiness!
And... I can go through the checkout process without giving "extra" money to AT&T and get a function Iphone 12 mini?
"JOE BIDEN SPOKESMAN ANDREW BATES hits back at the N.Y. POST STORY, via NATASHA BERTRAND and KYLE CHENEY: “Investigations by the press, during impeachment, and even by two Republican-led Senate committees whose work was decried as ‘not legitimate’ and political by a GOP colleague have all reached the same conclusion: that Joe Biden carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing. Trump Administration officials have attested to these facts under oath.

“The New York Post never asked the Biden campaign about the critical elements of this story. They certainly never raised that Rudy Giuliani - whose discredited conspiracy theories and alliance with figures connected to Russian intelligence have been widely reported - claimed to have such materials. Moreover, we have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.”

idk, read for yourself

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2020/10/14/...
it's not a disagreement so much as an (perhaps pointed) observation. a priori matters because it's often used to erroneously present beliefs as truths while eliding critical assumptions, for instance, saying "I am pretty confident [distancing recommendations will] have very little effect on anyone's behavior" without providing any further rationale.

it's also erroneous to take objections about that particular restriction as blanket evidence for believing sweden is being heavy-handed overall. that's dichotomous thinking, setting up a false dichotomy and then shoving the opposing position into (what you believe is) the unfavorable corner (for the second time).

the point was that that particular restriction was misguided, not its goal of containing the highest likelihood transmission vector, the large private social gathering. the excuse of being easy to understand is exactly how we get bad legislation with numerous unintended consequences that just beg for more (poor) legislation to patch the ever-incresing follow-on consequences, rather than doing the harder work of being as precise and efficacious as possible the first time (and every other time).

these are not only erroneous but also ineffective approaches to argumentation. you don't get better rationale, better positions, and better policy from employing such tactics. and yes, we do just disagree on what the best measures are, but that's also the important bit.
They're optimizing for their needs, not yours.

Why would they optimize for your needs? You're already a loyal consumer, to the extent that you're vaguely upset about a missed opportunity to go on a spending spree.

It really seems more beneficial for them to just apply a markdown to items that are doing nothing but taking up space in their warehouses. If that's what they're doing, you're searching through the list of stuff they want to get rid of, so that's a win for them even if you don't buy anything (because it's not like you won't look through them next year; you said you've done it three times in a row already?)
I’m very dependent on Keybase and use it all day. The acquisition is major concern but so far the service has remains stable and responsive. Crossing my fingers.
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1 GB = 8 Gb, not 80 Gb
I wrote the story off this morning. The Ukraine stuff didn’t stick to Trump and there’s no reason to think it would be any stickier on Biden.

If Twitter is censoring DMs of it though, then there must be something to it.
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True, but there's nothing from preventing you from using your old phones USB-A to lightning cord and brick to charge your new phone. That is what I plan on doing.
No idea on the veracity of NY Post's claims but, Twitter earlier was blocking any links posted to the article about the HDD @nypost.com as 'unsafe' which is their typical action when a link contains malware. Facebook also has been blocking /deboosting sharing of this article.

I see a great deal of bias in these actions by the tech companies. Any negative unsourced article about the president is allowed to be shared but, articles about his opponent or his adult children are instantly and aggressively de-platformed. It's a very scary precedent regardless of your politics.
It's not bad that it's profit-motivated, it's bad because it is short-sighted, greedy and consumer-hostile.

This is the type of thing that is done because (many) someone's bonus is tied to some profit margin kpi, and they figured out the cheapest, most direct way to do it, customer be damned.
It pains me to say it, but music apps on Linux are abysmal. The last one that wasn't completely crap was Amazon 1.4.
Is there progress on the ratio temperature/pressure?
I feel like every progress on the temperature incur a regress on the other side
I'd guess for starters that an extreme authoritarian centralized state is already normalized in China. USA is creeping that direction but there's still a ways to go
Plant either eaten or decays, closed system.

Methane does not return upstream only, river flows into ocean, open system.

My argument supported by published article and nice picture, look at sediments [1].

Your argument "calculated yearly is not yearly", maybe you should bring some citations, maybe it is you who do not understand what is described.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_storage_of_carbon_dioxid...
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>... was solidly misleading. But they did not "fib" or "lie", both of which mean an untrue statement.

The end result is the same. Being intentionally misleading _IS_ lying, with the only difference being that the liar now has plausible deniability.

If there's anything at all that my life experience has told me, it's that this is actually the worst kind of lying.

NB: I don't have strong feelings about this particular instance, it just irks me when people grant a pass because it wasn't "technically" lying. Even though the intention was exactly the same.

Lies by omission are still lies.
The ideology of IQ is directly related to the ideology of scientific racism, and therefore it's extremely dangerous: https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/macroscope/the-danger...
Thanks for sharing! It's always great to hear about entrepreneurs that have found their way into an ideal work setup. Congrats to you!
Since you mentioned you're a contributor to a similar project, I invite you to check our recently released zero trust service access control solution: https://github.com/seknox/trasa

It's a BeyondCorp like a user identity and layer 7 aware access proxy for RDP, SSH, Web, and Database protocols with privileged access management, native two-factor auth agents, and device trust policies.

Disclaimer: I am a core maintainer of this project.
Even if they were the same a big difference is that Hashicorp tools usually work on prems and are OSS.

By default I expect google to try to lock me in the GCP and do not trust their OSS tools
I believe the only one that stayed the same price was the SE, the XR and 11 both dropped by $100 (but that's a normal yearly move from Apple).

But yeah, definitely boosting margins on the older phones.
That is spot on, yes? I wish more people "on the inside" lived up to their oath to defend the constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

But maybe the rachet had been tightened too far and they, if they even exist, just don't see a way?
Thank you! I appreciate you giving it a read.
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Production-worthiness depends on your needs. The free edition is perfectly good for most people, however there are several features and modules that are only available in the Enterprise Edition. Notably, some of the disaster recovery, scaleout, and multifactor authentication features cost extra.

ref: https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault/pricing
Are you saying that Zoom is recording conversations?
Are you serious? You think the average person a) doesn't know that you have to charge your phone and b) doesn't have like 50 of those stupid cubes and a bunch of cables sitting in a drawer somewhere?

Tech people's continued assumption that they're the only ones who aren't total troglodytes is ridiculous.
You might take a look at some things from e.g. this result[1] around what parts of USA healthcare are negotiatiable and which are fixed. The "$1500 for a gauze bandage" meme makes a little more sense if you view it from the perspective of "we can't charge market price for expensive things like an MRI since Medi___ pays a flat $1.5k/ea, so lets gouge everywhere we can to make up for it". In addition, the business setup of hospitals/providers and lack of a single customer-facing entity/provider that charges you for services makes these even more Kafkaesque.

On top of this, my friends who work at (private, non-general) hospitals work a lot and are not paid what someone on HN might expect for what they put in. This isn't even necessarily ownership vs labor, since afaik the hospitals themselves are not usually in the best of places financially.

To me, the short version is: can't easily negotiate, information asymmetry, and captured regulators. Imo, this isn't helped that in USA we say "healthcare insurance" but what we mean/want seems to actually be "healthcare subsidy/guarantee".

[1] https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/whats-the-latest-on...
It is and it's something I noted, too.
I think your first point gets to the heart of it. Yes, I'd be happy to be able to live to 5000, but there are also plenty of other people in the world I'm truly glad don't get to live much past 90. Until we figure out a societal system capable of reining in the extreme will to power present in some of the population, the dragon taking those people out makes me feel like he's on my side, even if I eventually have to pay the price, as well.

So, it's not that I don't wish for society to eventually conquer the dragon of death, but not until we conquer some of the even more pernicious social dragons that are currently being held in check by it.
they didn't censor the completely made up hysterectomy story.

also: c-f "russia"
Sigh... no, corporations are obligated to chase profit with absolute avarice :(

Maybe we should strive for something better than pure capitalism, though?
Yea, probably many more.
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In fact, it's a really simple app: a height map on a sphere approximated with triangles. With a bit more extra complexity, the app could do raymarching on a interpolated height map: this would remove triangle artifacts around "cliffs" on the height map. It would still be real time 60 fps even on smartphones.

To do something like this, you need to know a bit of WebGL and a bit of JS. No frameworks really needed at this level. The best guide to WebGL I know of is this:

https://webgl2fundamentals.org/

Complexity starts when the height map isn't enough and you want to make arcs or otherwise arbitrarily shaped structures. This is where you'd need a framework, unless you want to implement all the math and glsl yourself.

And as always, the idea is really the 1% of the work. Anyone can say "it's just a height map on a sphere". 99% of the work is materialising the idea, debugging glsl, fixing ugly bugs on smartphones and esotheric browsers, dealing with partial WebGL API and so on.
Support is the oxygen to the brain. Its a schlep if you dont like people in general but its the one time you can personally talk to someone who is validating your business.

I always see a potential relationship there and you know what? People reciprocate. I once got a call and the customer was telling me her company was unsubscribing. She didn't have to tell me. Can you imagine waking up and telling a Mailchimp that you are unsubscribing?

Long story short, support is one of the infinity stones. If you do nothing else --- do that!
I'd been wondering about the accuracy of the probabilities too. It's one thing if your dynamical model produces two state estimates and covariances, and another entirely when they actually match reality quantitatively!

LeoLabs has a recent paper [1] that evaluates the state prediction accuracy. They're finding the right thing (Mahalanobis distance at various temporal separations between their state estimate and an object position). See secs. 4 and 5.

But: they are not getting the chi-squared distribution that you'd want. They are getting log-normals, with significant probability mass out to a Mahalanobis distance of 10 and higher (!) -- see the figure in sec. 5.

That's a very high deviation. It's not unexpected, because this is a hard problem, but the deviations do not appear to follow the expected law.

If their collision-probability takes this into account, that's good. But if not -- if they're assuming a Gaussian prediction cloud -- then their collision-probability will not be well-calibrated. If my cursory examination of their (well-done!) paper is correct, a poorly-calibrated probability would be very wrong indeed.

[1] https://amostech.com/TechnicalPapers/2019/Astrodynamics/Park...
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Facebook spokesman: We’re reducing distribution of the NY Post story on Biden