skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really got into VR earlier this year with Quest 1.

Managed to put together a small skunkworks team to develop an application to view data - goal was to gain insights through manipulation and viewing data in an immersive space. We had a novel approach to do this.

Problem is COVID-19 hit so getting other people to try it became impossible and most target users do not have their own headset. We used video's to showcase but its obviously not the same.

Project on ice (for now) but we felt there was definitely something there. What we developed was not the final killer product but it got people talking a lot.

Its (VR/AR) time will come, that's for sure, but we need more 6DFs, lighter, capable standalone headsets.
It's a little frustrating how random the process is. I'd consider myself to have a decent resume for an undergraduate. I've interned at a "big N" so to speak, I've done side projects that are relevant in my field of interest and I'd consider myself to have amassed some domain specific knowledge. Yet my resume gets random rejected/ghosted from a remarkable amount of places. It's especially bad when I don't fit neatly into a category for recruiting. So many places wouldn't hire me because apparently "I want to work during COVID cause online school sucks" is too confusing.
Critical Golang XML parser bugs can cause SAML authentication bypass
How Apache Pulsar Is Helping Iterable Scale Its Customer Engagement Platform
I don't disagree. In fact, I'm assuming that's a major reason they've not done this sooner.

Intel tried to setup a different more efficient architecture with IA64, but they failed there.

That being said, with major players like Amazon and Google tinkering with ARM in the cloud and Apple getting ARM into the hands of a lot of developers, we could be on the eve of seeing ARM make a big entrance into the server realm.

IMO, a big reason ARM hasn't taken off there in the first place is because most devs aren't using ARM machines for development.
How does it handle column and row based permissions?
Yeah, why weave animate things out of pure thoughtstuff in cyberspace, bounded only by your imagination and compute resources, when you could be messing with plywood in a shed?
We have to make it compile on RHEL 5 and RHEL 6¹ because some obscure SCSI drivers only work on those platforms, and you need those if you're going to virtualize the hardware (P2V). You can't just use modern Gtk on those platforms partly because it doesn't compile and partly because carrying the whole "G stack²" on those distros for a 3 dialog wizard would be a nightmare.

¹ 2007 and 2010 respectively, not sure off the top of my head what versions of Gtk those have, but old.

² It's not just Gtk, but glib and dozens of other libraries.
The consensus is that white is only guaranteed a draw if it plays perfectly. [1] But that's neither proven or a universal opinion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess
>1. Where do the upstream RHEL sources live? CentOS sources are in https://vault.centos.org/8.3.2011/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/, but where do they get them upstream? I believe they're only available to RHEL subscribers, does this give RH a way to block clones?

How'd they used to do it then? I assume they just became a subscriber?

Edit: just thought about it, couldn't they get them from CentOS? Would be pretty funny.
I agree completely. Have you found any good resources for acquiring books in pdf?
"Why anyone treats PDF as anything but a write-once format is beyond me."

Some of use work in print publishing and being able to edit PDF's is critical.
And Norway's Prime Minister says they acted too harshly: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/30/coronavirus-norw...

You can find news articles that spin anything positively or negatively.
I can't help but think of the stark contrast between this call to protect people with Down Syndrome and the fact that babies are almost universally aborted currently if their Down Syndrome test comes back positive.

I guess it's good that once they are born we care about them, but it seems that as a society we've decided we'd prefer they just not be born.
Mars lander spots deep layers beneath surface, offering clues to its formation
Don't know if it has been mentioned, but the name Rocky is from Rocky McGaugh, co-founder of CentOS. He passed away and they named the new effort after him.
Clickbait headline as per textbook exercise. Next in line: 50 ways to improve your life.

The article is substantially better than expected, though.
I was coming here to say the same thing. I'm in no way a good chess player by any means, but the equalization of Fischer chess appeals to me. I'm not going to lose because I didn't memorize as many openings, I'm going to lose because I suck.
I really didn't expect this to be posted here, it's just a job change, and not even that big of one, as my work on Druid and Runebender was getting financial support from Google Fonts already. I sometimes wonder if I posted my shopping list whether it would make the HN front page. (Ooh, I see Impossible burgers, let's have a discussion about that)

But as long as we're here, feel free to AMA, and I'll do my best to answer.
I read that article, and it doesn't seem like some grand revelation. It even explains in the article that people with Down's syndrome are more susceptible to respiratory viruses (the person discussed in the beginning of the article got hospitalized with pneumonia multiple times and got put on a ventilator due to it years before COVID pandemic was even a thing).

So it seems to be less about something special about Down's syndrome that makes COVID more deadly to someone with Down's, but that it is just a subset of people who tend to have increased severity of respiratory infections in general. And COVID, being a somewhat respiratory virus, naturally hits those people harder than those without extra susceptibility to respiratory viruses.
You could probably extrapolate the infant, child, adolescent, and adult's growth and development model (with hormone increases and decreases) to find evidence. I think your hunch is pretty cool and spot on for my experience as well. Surely, too, do external events either speed up or slow down some parts - but the core idea of new stage change, stasis, then redefinition could be worth exploring.
I’m building a startup that aims to help with this - but as others have mentioned - who wants to pay for two computers?

One solution is re-purposing an old PC into a home-server - once that’s setup, tools like Skaffold start to shine - local network speed, a cool laptop, containerized development, and a platform for home-hosting!

Anyways I’m very excited about this future - much more than paying AWS for another machine!
Amazing. I found a documentary about the aircraft on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfENcznI8e0. The flight across the English channel starts at 41:33.
> I personally have found FP hard to debug.

I can very honestly say pure functions are the easiest thing to debug and test: Inputs, outputs. Trivial for unit testing.

I can't speak for MLs/Haskell, but debugging pure functions in any language tend to just be glancing at the stack trace, seeing the values on the stack going in, and then seeing where the unexpected wrong output came out, and being fairly confident knowing the issue is going to be in that function.

> The "naked state" of imperative programming

Are we including OO in this definition? The fundamental design pattern of OO is to encapsulate state. It's anything but naked, always being wrapped in object instances, only accessible via getters/setters, scattered into a million pieces across many instances of the system.

Conversely, Clojure has the most naked state ever. There's usually little to no state, and the current state is right there on the stack. Most simple Clojure programs with state have a singular atom aptly named "state" which is passed around, easy to inspect and modify as it's a simple data structure.

I think, ultimately, there's a common conflation of "Functional Programming" meaning "Declarative Type-Driven Functional Programming", when the reality is there are alternatives to ML/Haskell, aside from applying Functional patterns in "non-functional" languages.
States Accuse Google of Abusing Monopoly in Online Ads
LibGen, SciHub
>My reaction was "Fantastic!" as it was such a relief to escape boredom early.

I know it is time to leave a job when my reaction to the idea of being let go is "Yes please!"
Semicolon – I'm remaking Twitter with my own features
Before the current crisis Germany had several years of budget surpluses.
Yes. Mozilla couldn’t get the mobile operators to sell a phone pre-loaded with FirefoxOS. And no one is going to buy a phone and reimage it.

> I can't understand how Mozilla failed to execute on Firefox OS.

This is naive. They did execute, and failed. That’s different than not executing at all. You can’t break into this segment without cooperation from the mobile phone operators... even in India and Southeast Asia whom were the primary target markets (less disposable income than Americans)

I had a Firefox OS phone. There was nothing great about it. It was average (by intention in order to work on restricted devices). I never used it to make calls, I used it for development. And it only had a wifi connection because I did not buy service for it.

There was nothing really “disruptive” about it as I recall. $20 Android phones destroyed any hope after the mobile operators turned a blind eye.

p.s. I still have the phone.
The first thing I'd miss is pockets. Working with your hands, e.g. conducting experiments, usually requires a number of items to be close at hand, and you can't put anything on a workbench at zero g.

The second thing is individual thermal comfort. Say, 20°C is usually "fine for everyone", but some people would feel that it's quite warm to wear a T-shirt, while other people would find it barely warm enough to not wear a coat.
I hope eventually I can find the time to contribute some kind of graphics enhancements to ardour. (Maybe this means using GPU acceleration or using a newer GDK version, I don't know) I've noticed scrolling the view can get somewhat laggy on my system when there are a lot of tracks.
Except this was a company R&D project not an individual. When I was at Michigan State in the early seventies there was an EE prof who drove a battery powered VW that he built himself in his garage. I thought that it was cool, overwhelmingly everyone else thought he was eccentric.

He told me the entire industry will go electric once someone invents a better battery. He thought it would happen by the year 2000. Sadly he passed away before the birth of Tesla.
When you say that they depend on CentOS, are they using something CentOS-specific. Centos is supposed to be compatible with RHEL (minus the logos/trademarks) and shouldn't have additional fixes or features. ("bug for bug, feature for feature" <= centos wording :)). No?
There's an old story about a GM who wound up with bishop + knight versus king and realized he'd forgotten how to do it.
Why do you think TSLA will drop with S&P entrance? I've heard people yammering that many of the funds / etls that mirror SNP will have to buy TLSA to balance correctly. Do you mean once this has happened?
I do support regardless of the product in question and I don't think the fact that Visa and Mastercard are huge is the primary issue here. There could be 10 payment facilitators rather than two, when the NYT breaks a major abuse scandal about a platform such as Pornhub they would all jump ship.

You see this all the time with these industries, there are countless of advertisers, but almost all of them avoid the porn industry, because nobody wants to be associated with it. It's not a market power issue, that's only tangential in this case.

People don't want to be commercially associated with scandal plagued porn sites, any business would lose most customers or suppliers if it acted like this, and I think that's fine. IF you think the American people are too harsh on porn sites then you gotta take it up with them.

It's comparable to say, Google throwing Alex Jones of YouTube. Yes, Google is huge, but that's not the reason they're doing it, it's because they're anticipating public backlash which is bad for their business. If there were 10 youtubes, 8-9 of them would have thrown him off too. It's way too simplistic to say that a large company is exercising undue market power every time it makes a decision about who to do business with. That's only true if the size is the actual motivation for that decision, not if they're just responding to consumers.
> Why anyone treats PDF as anything but a write-once format is beyond me.

sigh These kind of ignorant statemens really annoy me.

The massive part of PDF spec is dedicated to editable features (annotations, form filling and digital signatures) which are used by massive industries daily because it brings them a lot of value. It's REALLY not that hard to think for a second and remember why having a single file which can be:

- Edited, annotated and commented

- Approved with explicit markers

- Digitally signed by auditors and reviewers with tamper protection

- Rendered on anything that has a semblance of interactive UI with graceful degradation

- Archived on any kind of file storage

is insanely useful and valuable for massive worldwide industries.
> and because they never mastered it they can't really use it, and because they can't really use it they find work that doesn't strictly require it, and then conclude it's useless...

But isn't this statement too specific to apply to the generalization that you're disagreeing with? "Most 'real world' work doesn't require CompSci" is a generally true statement, because most "real world work" is incredibly mundane and repetitive.

So, isn't your take kind of the inverse of what you're talking about? "I enjoyed ____, so I sought out industries that required ____". Almost as though computer science is a specialization within "real world" work?

I guess I think that most industries are not the industries that you're seeking out. Most software developers are employed to combine already-solved problems with new inputs for money.

What do you think?
Looking forward to give this a spin at home to see if it'll be the future of non-RH based linux servers, although it'll take a long time before people are willing to throw it in prod like they do with CentOS. No way to change that except time.

Also it's interesting that some people defined Rocky as being 'unstable' when others read it as being 'solid as a rock'.
I'm with you there, but that's one application to one sphere (gaming)of VR application.

That being said maybe that's all "3D interface with 3D objects" is right now?

So might be more accurate to say: When our current 2D interfaces like file systems/operating systems, entertainment (movies/tv), socializing, etc are addressed a 3D objects in a 3D space.
M1 Docker still needs a Linux VM, Virtualization Framework is just a different way of doing that. I'm not aware of any VM that can share memory with the host, but maybe Apple has some black magic up their sleeve.
It’s not like Zuckerberg asked to have his name on the hospital, he donated a bunch of money and they named it after him. All this politics around a donation is ridiculous
"The sequoia-openpgp crate (Rust’s terminology for a library) is a low-level, policy-free OpenPGP implementation. Our goal was to implement all of RFC 4880, and provide an API that can be used to access and modify pretty much everything, but is simultaneously secure by default."

This is pretty exciting. Hope this gives the OpenPGP ecosystem a long needed push and more attention!

"Sequoia was started 3.5 years ago by Justus Winter, Kai Michaelis and me, Neal Walfield. Prior to working on Sequoia, the three of us had worked together at g10code on GnuPG."
Counterpoint: you have entrenched your opinion and are unwilling or unable to update it, despite acknowledging that your inputs are 5 years out of date.

To point to specifically inaccurate or misleading statements of yours:

1. "still requires controllers" - incorrect, hand tracking is a thing, and on its way to a user friendly input. It's not clear why controllers are a negative - do you similarly criticize the PS5 for having a controller and not meaningfully changed?

2. "The product hasn't changed meaningfully" - here, 'meaningfully' is a weasel word. 50% more pixels, for a device where pixel density is important for usability. A 25% ($100) price drop, in a device that is now significantly cheaper than gaming consoles. The ability to drive better graphics with a tether to a video card. (BTW, this is a < 2 year product cycle for a bleeding edge device.) What do you consider meaningful?

3. "nobody is buying these things" appears to be incorrect, literally and directionally. Expectations are for 3M units sold in 2020. Pre-orders were 5x for Quest 2 versus Quest 1. Perhaps you meant to say "me and my friends haven't bought one"?
Would there be any reason that people with DS would react poorly to the vaccine (not because of the DS but because of the specific immune issues the article points out)? I really hope not, because wow is it clear that they should be near or at the top of the access list if we are going based on risk.
> Yeah, until the developers decide to release only for Arm targets and when you search issues for x86 build, the maintainer says "just compile it yourself"...

Until we start seeing reasonably priced, performant ARM desktops and laptops, there is little worry of that. Right now outside Apple, performance on ARM isn't good enough for any kind of great developer experience (or any kind of pro experience). Unless that changes significantly, x86 is going to be dominant on non-Macs for some time.
It was the official CentOS wiki; it sure looks official to me.
Complicated moral territory indeed.
Google's new Blob Opera lets anyone create your own adorable musical cartoons
Here's is one good reason: My company uses digital certificate signing on PDF. It is a very common usage. We have yet to migrate to DocuSign.
Bitcoin hits 20K
David Graeber absolutely would not blame the workers for the situation he describes above.
Thanks, I was just trying to find out where to download Windows binaries, and had no idea I already had it!
Ask HN: Is copyrighted material limiting the creative potential of AI?
Ask HN: To what extent is a lack of copyrighted (i.e. protected or non-public) creative content (i.e. novels, screenplays and movies) in training data limiting the potential sophistication of AI-based computer generated content?

Example:

GPT-3 may be able to superficially impersonate Tyrion Lannister or describe the world in which he inhabits, but because OpenAI can’t (lawfully) use George R.R. Martin’s novels as training data, it will never be able to generate a convincing persona/interactive experience with Tyrion.
People should be able to opt in to what they want, but as far as I’m concerned if a company can only exist by subjecting me to constant surveillance it doesn’t need to exist.
You can do the OCRing as a part of the original scanning process. You define a blank font and place the letters at the appropriate points to allow text selection. This is also done for documents that use fonts which are not licensed for embedding, it reduces on screen rendering quality slightly as you have lost any hinting information but it’s fine with printing and reserves the intent.
580TB Tape Storage
Governance of Student Data
Isn’t RH paying for most of the developers?
Good for them, and good for all of us. If there was only one provider of satellite internet, it’d be priced out of range for all of us.

But both Amazon and SpaceX look like they’ll be able to ship viable products. This really is a game changer though, because it makes rural areas much more attractive places to live in. With access to stable, fast internet anywhere, remote workers could live wherever they wanted to.

But more than that, once this becomes affordable I’m excited to see how getting nearly everyone internet access changes the internet.
Org-mode supports attachments and links to external documents. So I can create a file link or use org-attach to connect a file to an entry.

Org-roam has some additional integrations like cataloging references specific URLs or bibtex references.
Wow. I think this may be the first time in almost 2 decades that I’ve come across someone ego finds that Zoom actually works for them.
Microblink raises $60M Series A for a AI-powered computer vision software
I wonder how they'll feel about amazon's use of bots to scrape the internet for other retailers using the same UPC codes registered to sellers items on amazon. Amazon penalizes sellers who offer their amazon items for less on other online retailers.

Also, UPC codes are entirely controlled by a single company called GS1, start at $25 each. It's also worth noting that GS1 has been compromised multiple times, allowing overseas hackers to list "copycat" products with cloned UPC's defrauding legitimate sellers. Ironically, invalidating the whole reason UPC codes were invented in the first place.
Cryptographers Unveil Breakthrough in Achieving Indistinguishability Obfuscation
A console linked VR headset that has local multiplayer would be nice.

The PSVR and camera doesn't even have an upgrade for PS5 yet. So that's too bad.

Something more advanced like the Oculus Quest 2 or HTC or Valve, but for powerful enough hardware people and brands people already have would be the right move.

Also an ability to ditch the external camera requirement.

and also ditch the cords, but we can revisit that stretchgoal later.
Looks like the hoards of small businesses didn’t see the ad. All the posts tagged with #SpeakUpForSmall, I found, were written by FB, unrelated, or showing support Apple.
Is there any way to embed raster graphics into an svg? If so, maybe svg could be used as a text-capable container for raster images.
I like to hear from a legal expert if Texas’ arguments here are any better than in their recent election lawsuit.
What is Feedly missing for you?
Google Maps is really expensive compared to the other GIS providers. Amazon's just reselling those same services. Google seems to coast somewhat on the strength of their map (including the unique and very hard to replicate StreetView).
I was actually convinced by the stoics that social and public life participation is some kind of human imperative :P

I also believe humans are social animals, but really actually most of what society or civilization pretends to be is bullshit to me, but I think when you dig there's always more to it to discover and etc(+sometimes you appear to have found gold ie.: epiphanies), the thing isn't maybe that you'd want to interact with it on your terms instead of doing the play along game? I was never the play along type but for example lately a big topic of interest to me has been language, culture and communication.. I don't know I just like getting stuff from the root. But anyway your take might be completely different.
> they've lost control of the spread with current measures

They are reporting this as "lost control" even though their spread continues to be lower than any Western country has had since mid-March? That tells a lot.
not true back then, not true today :)
i'm still on quest 1 and it's honestly amazing, it's a great workout for me, someone that is/was fairly unfit and hates exercise. Using FitXR and Beat saber (with some additional handles that add a bit of weight) really get my heart rate u p and feeling great and most of all I really enjoy it. It's amazing.

I also enjoy watching movies in it as well, I don't watch a lot and was considering buying a TV but this has really delayed me doing so.
Like Minecraft, Garry's Mod, LEGO.
Scientists digitally rebuilt this dinosaur's brain
https://medium.com/swlh/sorry-react-but-i-cant-keep-up-anymo...
I hope this will not be the (slow) death of druid/piet as it is by-far the very best multi-platform Rust GUI framework at the moment.
Something as simple as Wikipedia disambiguation pages would work...