skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a bit of VR around 1995. I added CAVE support for the molecular visualization program VMD and had a key to UIUC's CAVE to test it out.

The CAVE approach projects images onto wall-sized screens (eg, via back-projection), and can be 1-wall up to 5- or 6- walls, if the floor/ceiling is categorized as a "wall".

This is massively expensive compared to the VR that's widespread/affordable these days.

But it's also far more social, where multiple people can be present, though at least in the 1990s the head-tracker only followed one person. And they could easily see each other.

Handwaving, with the right synchronization on the glasses and high frame rates, I could imagine multiple head-trackers. Back then our frame rate was limited by the decay rate of the green phosphor in the projector. These days I suppose a wall of large displays, edge-to-edge, with very high frame rates interleaved for multiple users, might work. Again, I haven't followed what's going on in VR, but it might be a technology which addresses at least some of what you correctly point out.

Carolina Cruz-Neira, the developer of the CAVE (and at the time with the email address "cavewoman"), has some lectures on the social VR and her research, on YouTube. Don't remember which ones specifically talk about it, and couldn't find one in a quick look.
Look, if you suddenly get a new interest that is pretty flashy and you also have a cohesive family unit and kids, people will say you have a midlife crisis. If you don't, you are just cool guy successful enough to do your own thing.

That's it.
That’s what I don’t get about this whole peloton thing.

Why aren’t people just getting bikes and then putting them on trainers?

You can get the whole trainer workouts and still have a bike that you can ride outside.
> It's nowhere near a replacement for X.

It is for me and many others. Emacs works great under XWayland but Chromium HW video acceleration doesn't.

Emacs is a community project whereas Chromium has billions poured into it. Even Wine's getting Wayland support now and that ran under XWayland fine.

I don't think it's that unfair. Firefox on Linux is just better. Leaves some to be desired, sure, but a lot less than Chromium.
> Yikes. The front passenger seat is not an acceptable place to put a car seat anyway.

That's what my pickup trucks says. But it only has the one row of seats, so it's put the car seat in the front or put it in the bed.

My understanding is it's legal and reasonable to fill up the rear seats with children in child seats, and then put the largest child in the front seat. Bonus points if you can disable the passenger airbag (many cars will do it automatically and indicate it, a very small number have a manual switch).
Nonsense. If a residential area has illegal levels of toxic air pollution then the solution is to limit the amount of motor traffic allowed into that area. The government must provide alternative travel options (walking, cycling, electric buses, trains, etc).

We are not talking about a manufacturer hub here, but zones 2-3 of an deindustrialized city in one of the richest nations on Earth. How we can't find the means to solve this is beyond me.
Ships That Sink When Their Cargo Suddenly Liquefies
The subtitle of the New York Times article is misleading if not flat out wrong: "The suit focuses on the advertisements that generate a vast majority of the company’s profits." The DoubleClick ad exchange most certainly does not generate the vast majority of the the company's profits. Search ads are completely independent of this lawsuit.
Thanks for the mention John.

Co-maintainer of Pelias here so I'll chime in with some more background info.

Pelias came out of Mapzen which (sadly) shut down about 3 years ago, but we had a great team of people working on it for 4 years before that, and the project has continued to grow since then. We have contributions from my company, Geocode Earth, which I plugged in another thread so I won't repeat, other contributors like Jawg(https://www.jawg.io/), and of course individuals and teams from many other places.

The core architecture uses Elasticsearch, Node.js, SQLite and some Go to build a fully featured, modular geocoder.

Geocoding is both a fascinating and incredibly frustrating challenge so we are always looking for more people reporting bugs and contributing fixes or other improvements. We truly believe a quality geocoder can't be built outside the large bankrolls of Google, etc without growing a strong open-source community around it.
Relevant comment from a few days ago about Linus Torvald’s code handling of linked lists and the theory behind it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25327683
All the major chess websites and organizations use a similar Elo-like rating system where 1500 is about the 50th percentile. So, roughly speaking, 1700 probably means "when you're at the 70th percentile of active chess players".

One example: https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz
> What good do these witch hunts accomplish? Punish the senior leadership

I believe this line of thought and justification was addressed for good in the Nuremberg Trials.
RHEL and CentOS are both server and desktop. The desktop is just not flashy or shiny or bleeding edge. The default install is/was Gnome 3 shell (For RHEL7 and CentOS 7).

I am not sure if this is still the case, but Redhat used to require 100% of its employees to use RHEL Workstation as the desktop.
I can’t speak to it but just because something is tested occasionally doesn’t mean the testing budgets are the same or serve the same purpose.

For example, the feature set required to support the HTML page could be frozen and the APIs backing them stable with no need to change. So testing isn’t really necessary. Alternatively, there’s just API changes being made to remove dependencies on deprecated code and so the testing coverage comes from the testing that happens of that API surface through other means. Finally, it could be that the HTML page is even fully staffed to support emerging markets. That’s a different budget potentially than the budget for the “rich” UI.

Again, my point isn’t to argue over the specific business pressures and practices Google has for their email UI. This requires a level of knowledge I don’t think either of us possess. All I’m trying to do is illustrate that there could be all kinds of pressures why the system is the way it is, but dismissing it as “laziness” or “stupidness” on the part of the designer is itself a lazy and stupid conclusion to make without concrete evidence. I generally assume that’s not the case and look for the incentives/pressures those people are under until there’s overwhelming evidence those people are actually stupid/incompetent (and even then, the question becomes what structures, incentives, pressures were in place to put those people in positions they shouldn’t occupy).
This sounds like a Halt and Catch Fire spinoff.
I phrased that poorly. However there is also a difference between what these rules require and what you are stating. A proposed balanced budget isn't the same as a balanced budget in practice. And to quote your linked article:

>State balanced budget requirements in practice refer to operating budgets and not to capital budgets. Operating budgets include annual expenditures--such items as salaries and wages, aid to local governments, health and welfare benefits, and other expenditures that are repeated from year to year. State capital expenditure, mainly for land, highways, and buildings, is largely financed by debt

It is much easier to balance the budget when you ignore all those capital expenses.

Also there are other complexities involved. You can look at what happened in Illinois a few years back as an example. They basically didn't have an official state budget for multiple years. That didn't stop them from racking up costs and debt. It contributed to a debt crisis that the state is still trying to claw its way out of.
Doesn't Ubuntu 20.04 have a kernel with Wireguard built in? You shouldn't need to use DKMS.
Is zerotier FLOSS? I have been looking for something to fulfill this need, but especially after the Solarwinds hack, I am unwilling to run a closed-source agent on any of my hosts.
Also, I know people have done experiments where instead of washing, they have been freezing their clothes and that gets rid of the odour. And surely, freezing things on ISS should be trivial.
Seems like they both have a lot of potential on the roof of vehicles (airplanes included). Or even as a 'ground station' for a neighborhood or village (but that depends on the latitudes they cover, and their billing structure).
I've been using CentOS for at least a decade and only learned today that it was short for Community Enterprise OS.

I think, especially around Linux and open source projects, people care much less about naming than we tend to believe. Product reputation and the endorsement of IT/developers matters far more, in my experience, than a name.
Edit > Preferences > Appearance > [ ] Disable Graphics Hardware Acceleration

Edit > Preferences > Appearance > [ ] Possibly Improve Slow Graphics Performance

We will not be moving to a new version of GDK at any time in the foreseeable future.
> PDF is one of the best things IMO - it's like a docker container for documents. The way the original authors intended it to be, including fonts and all the things that go into making a document.

Sounds like you want the PDF/A standard for archiving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

It forbids embedding audio and video and JavaScript, requires embedding all the fonts, forbids encryption and patent-encumbered compression. It's basically the PDF format with the most regrettable features stripped out.
The distribution and difference in hash power speaks otherwise.
> We lack a moral framework for talking about this problem.

Actually, we don't. It's right there in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. What we lack is a willingness to engage with moral frameworks that go against the prevailing culture.
X86 support is a big one for me. I deal with a lot of customer projects; typically with some kind of dockerized stuff as part of their tool chain. So, being able to run those things as is, is important for me. And I don't see those build systems being updated any time soon to be able to accommodate some Apple only hardware.
A lot of people move away from home to find work, especially if educated, and don't have access to grandparents. Also, as people are waiting longer to have kids, the grandparents are older and not as capable -- or may even be in need of care themselves.

In addition to childcare, there's also health care and education to pay for. Middle class families get virtually no help on either front.
Then you probably don't use Acrobat enough. PDF is a finicky mistress.
Nobody talks about anything but price and manipulation in gold bug forums. Bitcoin in digital gold, not digital money.
Hopefully this doesn't work. That will cause enormous harm to consumers, particularly as compute and bandwidth costs continue to fall.

Free to consumers is generally a net good, since it gives them access to things they wouldn't otherwise have.
Anyone who says "JavaScript" is "huge" needs to be asked to both qualify and then substantiate the claim (along with the implicit suggestion that they have any idea what they're talking about, instead of just trying to participate in the pile-on with cheap remarks).
I applied for some academic-related software development positions a couple of times. In the interviews they never asked a single software development question and each time revealed they had decided to “just let IT handle the software details.” I am not certain that much of academia understands the complexity of the systems they want to build except from the viewpoint of their research
Hey, so the air quality sensor is a Purple Air PAII https://www2.purpleair.com, after you mount & register it, the sensor communicates to a 3rd party (wunderground I believe), processes it, and updates the map & API, which I consume. It only tracks particles in the air, and not gases. I've been trying to secure an air quality sensor that does PM2.5/PM10 + gases, but they're all very scientific, and come with a very high price tag.

The boat/ship tracking is provided by Fleet Mon, I host one of their AIS trackers. Air traffic is provided by Aviation Edge.

There are other monitors in the region, but not in my community: https://aqicn.org/city/usa/indiana/gary-iitri, but I have no information about them, their data, or anything. If it was open source, I probably would trust it more than I do now.

Thank you, I'm still coming to terms with it, but life goes on I guess, just gotta take the lows with the highs.

edit, just realised I never answered your question, the source code is on github: https://github.com/kingsloi/community-airmonitor
I remember many years ago distributing PDFs as part of course material, that Adobe's official reader would open just fine, but Mac's built-in one wouldn't (and simply fail with a useless "an error occurred" message.) Only a small subset of the class was using Macs and the built-in reader, so it took a while to discover. The problem eventually turned out to be some oddity in the way it treats whitespace[1], that Adobe and a few other readers were perfectly fine with, but not Preview.

[1] PDF is one of the strangest file formats I've worked with. It is a bizarre mix of binary and text, and some of the other design decisions are also perplexing.
I can't wholeheartedly recommend anything right now. There should be a standard text layout library with pluggable back-ends, but there isn't. If you go to the #text stream on xi.zulipchat.com, there's a lot of discussion under the "Skribo: lifting the curse" topic and a couple others.

It's definitely possible to build something yourself using Allsorts and other pieces, but making it all work well is a highly nontrivial task. Part of the problem is that there are a bunch of projects out there, each with their own subset of requirements, rather than one good one.

I'd like to mentor work to make this situation better, but it's too much for me to take on single-handedly.

I'm also hoping that WebGPU catches on, and we'll be able to run piet-gpu on it (through wasm). That would, I think, be compelling for a lot of interesting use cases.
I'm wary of doing that, because in near future, Microsoft is likely to take over Canonical. You don't put all eggs into one basket. Always plan for escape, always have a plan B. Preferably one not relying on crystal-balling whims of a for-profit corporation. Rocky Linux, Alpine Linux, Debian, Gentoo, BSD, etc.
Exactly something that I used to do about 25 years ago when working on UNIX, and keep doing regularly on Windows systems over Citrix or RDP.
Question: Is the storage temperature a specific value, or is it an "at least X or below" value?

I.e., does -92˚C damage the vaccine in any way?
> This is why it needs to be subsidized by the government.

If it were subsidized by the Government, they'd be charging 10x that per test.
The Pros and Cons of open source Tools (2019)
> Could very well be that Preview.app is actually "improving" and fixing old bugs/cruft, breaking things that worked before but never should have in the first place.

Exactly this.

So the question is, whose responsibility is it? Apple’s to magically support the intersection of all the broken sofware?

You essentially have argued that ABBY is popular enough that Apple should have tested it.

Maybe it is popular, but the implication is that Apple would need to regression test against all this popular PDF generating software for any change to the preview engine, since they wouldn’t be able to know for sure what software’s PDFs would be broken by conforming changes.

What we know they did, was to make a copy of Big Sur available for ABBY to use to test their own software. That’s pretty standard practice in a case like this and is them behaving responsibly.

If Preview really was at fault, ABBY could have raised the issue with Apple, and or put a warning in their own software. If it’s that popular, you’d think they would have an incentive to do this.

What isn’t obvious is that Apple should somehow introduce workarounds every time a third party doesn’t fix a bug.
that seems like the nature of tech stacks, going all the way back to Flash and Dreamweaver... at least with Vercel it's pretty agnostic — I can easily switch a node app from Vercel to Digital Ocean or whatever. Never used Docker before ha, tried to get into it but the install tutorial flow was completely broken :/
I recently finished reading Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley, which is excellent and well worth a read if you are interested in this area.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/clearing-the-air-9781472953339...

> ...a detailed blueprint for saving our cities. Suggested measures include a ban on all petrol and diesel cars in city centres; the replacement of diesel buses and trains with electric vehicles; and an end to the use of wood-burning stoves and coal fires. It’s an achievable vision, he insists. “However, whether it happens in 10 or 100 years is down to public pressure and political will.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/31/clearing-the-a...

I also built a few monitors to add to Sensor.Community (a contributors driven global sensor network that creates Open Environmental Data), which are pretty easy to make.

https://sensor.community/en/
Even on my 20.04 box, I seem to have wireguard-dkms auto-installed in response to "apt install wireguard". Perhaps they are doing this to allow for faster wireguard module updates? Or perhaps this is just a bug.

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1890201

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireguard/1.0.20200513-...
I can never get wall eyed to work. When I was a kid I’d play around with crossing my eyes though.
It's a career path that maximizes people helped rather than personal intellectual enjoyment.
That's my main concern about a child with a disability.

I don't mind taking care of them for the rest of my life, but who takes care of them after I'm gone?

People with down syndrome end up homeless all the time.
People like you who make a profit but refusing to pay for a license is exactly why Redhat shut down CentOS.
> If that's the way you see it, then who do you look for to data?

The subject of discussion wasn't data, but an abstract behavioral generalization that isn't drawn from data.

But I wouldn't generally look to economists as my first source of data on things that aren't the economy, either.

> Seems like you can't trust anyone if you can't trust your own evaluation of an individual paper based on statistics

When did I ever say anything to which that would even approximately be relevant?
Bicycles can even be considered carbon negative if someone combines their daily exercise with their commute.
If you're comparing their rocket to Falcon 9 1.0 from 7 - 10 years ago, that is concerning, especially when they were founded 2~ years earlier.
I agree. If you look closely, you can see certain patterns repeating, they’re just not English letters. But it definitely looks like natural language, and not random binary dump.
Which is a good reason someone might choose a RHELish distro over Debian, no?
If they have helped the user through A, B, C, D and E, and hurt them through F, you can still take them to task for F specifically. The fact that they funded the rest from profits gained through F isn't really a valid defense.
You are thinking about XPS, Microsoft's OOXML-based page description language.
big +1 for inoreader, esp when searching for new feeds.
Amazon investors if there was preferential treatment given to the owner of the company's other, unrelated company. I don't know why the above comment is so downvoted - Elon Musk recently had to field a similar set of lawsuits for Tesla's solar city acquisition.
What kind of fetuses? Dogs have fetuses. Cows have fetuses.
AlphaFold: Protein folding, beyond the hype
Parent explicitly mentioned next/image, which is not supported by next export static site generation.
I'm the article of the referenced article on chess openings. I'm also one of the authors of the Wikipedia article on Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess); you can see the information I wrote about it here: https://dwheeler.com/essays/Fischer_Random_Chess.html

I think Chess960 is fun! But many people want to play "traditional chess", not Chess960. Also, knowing a little about traditional chess openings also helps when you're playing Chess960. Memorizing a long list of opening moves isn't helpful, but seeing examples of good openings is helpful even when the starting position is different.
The title is technically accurate, but it's misleading to non-mac users like myself. I assumed the author was using functionality called "Preview" only to view the documents, rather than save them.

There's a big difference between "read-only operation is mangling files" vs. "PDF writer is buggy".
Switching distributions is an uphill fight when the company has used a version of RedHat for 20 years.

Most developers use Ubuntu in their laptops. Virtualized on Windows, but Ubuntu nonetheless.
It is funny how I seldom see these articles become relevant either in HN or mainstream media, issues like these always get buried in favor of hype.

As long as people get their Apple magic, nothing else matters...
Looking at wikipedia KaiOS seems to be the second mobile OS in India now, ahead of the iPhone. I don’t think those rules apply to a system which relies of web technologies, because you have such an enormous base of developers and development infrastructure.
It pays off in interviews to drill that stuff. If you want to be good at your job though, you just need to write a lot of code and understand design and architecture. The best book on this I read recently was “game programming patterns.” Ive had cause to use about a third of the patterns in the book in the last year alone, and my code base got simpler and easier to modify each time. Big payoff. Don’t read it start to finish though, use it as a resource for when you get stuck

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
I'm looking at doing something similar: does the server actually need an IP address assigned to its wg0 interface, or can it work without one? I only need peer-to-peer.
In the context of the article (which also talks about the other separate case brought against Google) the fact that this goes after advertising - which does "generate the vast majority of the company's profits" is accurate in the emphasis on Google's income. The fact that it only goes after one part doesn't make that untrue or misleading.
Whatever happened to station wagons, with all those extra flip-up seats in the back bay?

This is the new Wagon Queen Family Truckster. This is a damn fine automobile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXN5sQ5g-U&ab_channel=Foste...
I'd imagine the majority of cases involve modifications to the existing powertrain and drivetrain, which is highly regulated in California. I think since the original engine is intact and (probably?) unmodified, it can be street legal as long as the jet isn't actually operating.
Alaska Health Worker Had a Serious Allergic Reaction After Pfizer’s Vaccine
Apple usually stays pretty quiet about things like this, but I think so videos from Craig Federighi demonstrating the feature would really help to illustrate what is going on here.

We’d be able to see whether it’s an opt-in or an opt-out or whether there is no default, and how scary the language is.