skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I think a large barrier here is there's no pre-existing platform yet. When developing an application for a computer with a regular screen, you have all sorts of supporting software (e.g. window managers, browsers, ui frameworks, etc). When developing for VR, you have to start over almost completely: you have to deal with controller input, different kinds of headsets, designing a UI.

For XR to take off, I think something akin to the metaverse needs to exist first, so applications can develop within its framework.
> Possibly one could complement PCL with another book

I found a very good complement was Edi Weitz' "Common Lisp Recipes" from same the publisher.

http://weitz.de/cl-recipes/
Why does it have to be all or nothing? 10% to 15% of your portfolio is more reasonable. Adjust the percentage based on your bull/bear feeling towards the market.
The latest on scaling is that not much has happened for years.

Lightning cannot scale on it's own as Bitcoin will be the bottleneck, and when fees rise Lightning will stop being efficient for small transactions (since you need to pay an expensive Bitcoin fee to open a channel). Even the Lightning Network whitepaper says it needs much larger blocks.

Yet the Bitcoin devs are focusing on Segwit and Schnorr, which are woefully inadequate for any sort of scale. At this point it seems clear if you're looking for Bitcoin scaling, best look at other cryptocurrencies.
From the post: “...I myself was part of 25% of the workforce laid off in August 2020”
you (and the other commenters) are ignoring the time component, which is quite important here. when quarantine started, most people thought it would only be for a few weeks or a couple months at the most. obviously some people are resisting, but most are willing to make a short-term sacrifice to help slow the spread. telling people they need to permanently reduce their level of consumption to combat climate change is a much bigger ask.
It's from a bygone era when Vercel would charge for serverless invocations. I think it still might be possible to run into the problem in overage so I can describe it a bit.

Basically I was polling an API endpoint on our SPA client. Maybe one hit every second. We were getting over 10,000 (non-signup) users a day, so it ended up being a lot of requests. Our functions were configured with the default amount of RAM and CPU allocation. When I saw the bill shoot up, I reduced the rate of polling and adjusted the serverless functions to have a lower amount of RAM. This got the price down to $50/mo. Later, Vercel would make pricing per developer seat so the price dropped even more.

The traffic dropped to more reasonable levels after that. But it was a very good week and the traffic remained nominally 2x-5x. I'm sure google's algorithm played some part in the traffic spike.

(also, I am not an employee of Vercel, just a customer :)
Just because the title the audio as RAW AUDIO does not mean anything.

The source completely unreliable. It's more likely to be edited and false than real.
The real reason is that people are too poor to care about pollution or those dead people, same as anywhere else in the world. Actually, the poorer the country the less people care about the environment or infections.

It's the same with covid too, it's the government which had to force close the economy.
To me this is clear indicator that Amazon itself is entering the transport business, like the company has also already stated.

Geofencing, tracking and location is of course key to their own delivery services they are building.

I would be very interested in this if i was still in the transportation and shipping business
Externalism About the Mind
GTK 3 worked pretty well for a side project on Linux and macOS. I like C, so I went with GTK as opposed to C++ with Qt.

I suspect that Qt is a slightly better (both look and dev ergonomics) and more portable solution, but not sure.
Glad you found a vehicle that worked for you.

Minivans have locked this market segment up for years. Honda Odyssey & Toyota Sienna are the market leaders.
The air pollution is at such a high level that people are dying from it.

I do count myself lucky that I'm not contending with levels in places like Delhi but personally, I don't want people to put it in perspective and conclude that comparatively it's not so bad.
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I use to believe in UBI, but I think introducing UBI now would be an absolutely and complete disaster. UBI makes sense if there is zero resource scarcity. If we had working Fission reactors and were pulling asteroids into orbit to mine, it might make sense.

I think UBI implemented now would turn into the "Basic" seen in The Expanse books. We'd just see people with no incentives continue down the road of poverty.
I explained it a bit above :) generally Vercel works really well for high-traffic sites without worrying about auto-scaling. But you'll run into unique issues whenever you're dealing with two many digits haha

I think my problems were always more pronounced with Kubernetes fwiw :)
I love how 90's his webpage is. Void of javascript and css and an earthlink email address.
The change address is usually different from the other two.
I don't see how that would be a reason to stop the lockdowns. Remember that there is a severe respiratory contagion going around that spreads from breathing the same air as infected folks.
You can't conveniently pay with it so after the "digital cash" idea didn't pan out people settled on it being "store of value". But if that was what people really wanted, they'd be cheering for less volatility, not more; people really want it to be a get rich quick scheme (and I get that).

There is no decentralized social network in spite of people being dissatisfied with the centralized alternatives. The last time I tried an IPFS website it didn't load. The last time I tried Scuttlebutt it couldn't connect. It's been 12 years now and everything in crypto feels perpetually broken, unusable, beta-grade and stagnant, and it's very disappointing because I really wanted these solutions to exist.

Ironically, I think "crypto" would have fared better if it was without monetary value, and its development was optimized for utility (like most other computer programs) instead of buying Lambo's. The way I see it, BitTorrent is still the most successful and useful decentralized tech of the last few decades. It's useful, ubiquitous, safe, clients can be maintained by a lone hobbyist out in Nebraska, and it requires no propaganda whatsoever to prosper because its value proposition is evident to anyone. With crypto, the perpetual funding of technologies that are never going to work ironically makes it a very un-libertarian economy.

That said, I like having it around as an emergency payment system, and with the devaluation of fiat money and general downturn, BTC provides an attractive asset class next to stocks, gold and real estate.
Throw in one kids best friend who is always around and maybe a grandparent who lives alone, going up to a 7 seater starts to get appealing pretty quickly.
Deadlock in the government is only a bad thing if there are any problems or anything changes or happens...
Banks (especially banks in the same country) can send funds back, that's not the same thing as reversing the transfer. Both SEPA and SWIFT transfers are irreversible. It's even possible to steal money from a central bank by transferring money away with SWIFT.
The only real difference is that it's not legal to keep mistakenly sent funds, making irreversible mistakes less likely to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery
All the proposed solutions required a third party service or am I reading it wrong?
Okay... how does bitcoin differ from an unstable traditional currency? Both are subject to high and low swings to inflation and deflation. The one thing bitcoin has not been in its history is stable. This still ends up to being the equivalent to "there are 14 standards, let's make a standard to unify them... there are now 15 standards". Plus, all you described was a currency exchange with an extra step. You could replace bitcoin with rice commodity, wheat futures or Tesla stock and achieve the exact same thing. Again, "redistribute to my pocket" with extra steps.

Look, I'm not trying to be a dick, but bitcoin was sold on the lie that it helps poor people. You're not wrong for wanting to help poor people. But people need to come to the realization that bitcoin has been Theranos-like the whole time. It's a waste of time if you're goal is to help the poor.
Are diy filters effective at removing smells or only removing the measurable particles?
This is a great point to raise, but it's worth noting that it directly contradicts the GP's anecdotal observation. Had they instead found greater severity on birthdays and attempted to statistically correct for it, the two would be compatible. Instead, they looked, and found that there was no underlying difference to correct for. The question then becomes whether the GP is wrong, whether the hospital in question didn't have such a policy, or whether the measurements used in the study were insufficient to pick up the difference in severity.

I don't know which of these is true, but despite the apparent statistical significance of the finding, I wouldn't be confident assuming that the result is generally applicable. While not impossible, it strikes me as suspicious that they found no differences whatsoever in the surgeons' birthday vs non-birthday schedules. I somewhat wonder if by "no difference" they really meant "no statistically significant difference", which in this case wouldn't justify their lack of adjustment.
In general there's a strong negative correlation between development of a society and birth rate. Also income. It's extremely powerful, and applies literally all over the world. I suspect that in America over the last few decades, development continued. Child-safety laws came along for the ride. [1, 2]

Income is a less compelling argument in America as wages have remained totally constant on an inflation adjusted basis for ages.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Total-fertility-rate-TFR...

[2] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link...
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar, and especially not on classic flamewar topics that reached dead-horse levels years ago.

Surely we're not going to be repeating the same angry arguments all the way until we die?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Minivans seat 7-8, which is 6 kids.
I have one kid and a wife.

Right now, we're at ~$1.1M net worth right now, most of it liquid.

Not too long ago, I remember taking out a $10,000 loan and feeling overwhelmed by this number. I had no idea how I'd pay off such a huge amount.

At that point, I thought $30,000/yr was enough to live on.

Right now we're building a house, that we'll have paid off in ~4 years, worth $700K.

Not too long ago, $450/month for an apartment felt like an unneeded extravagance.

All of this to say... this number is a moving goalpost. At $1M, your mindset may have changed. Your life situation may have changed. Your priorities may change.

In fact, most likely they will.

Right now I'm struggling to define this elusive number for myself. I don't know if $3M will be enough, nor $5M.

Instead, I'm turning inward to figure out what is joy in the present moment?

If I can achieve that, nothing else will matter, since joy will be my reality every day.
Makes me wonder about the effect of car reliance in general
Back when I was a teenager I owned a .nu domain. Glad I don't anymore!
eh, I dunno. I used to do that, thinking that I "needed to get my money's worth", but I've started bailing on games if I'm not having fun after 2 or 3 hours and don't ever regret it. The way I look at it now is that paying for a game is like paying the price of admission to a museum. If I'm not liking the show on display, I'm not going to stay there for longer just to feel like I got my money's worth. Paying the price of admission isn't a promise of enjoyment.

but like, I'm not really trying to convince you of anything, I'm trying to get clarity on what you're saying, because your original comment is so ambiguous that it doesn't actually help me figure out whether or not I want to play Cyberpunk.
The brownouts is something I’ve never seen done and announced like this before. It’s a great idea, triggering awareness and a sense of urgency without completely breaking things.
Dreamcast uses El Torito for booting as well, I bet you could make that work too. Possible issues are that I don't know if the Dreamcast will inspect multiple boot images to find an appropriately labeled one, and I don't know if the other platforms will accept a bootable disc that's prepared for Dreamcast (must have at least two sessions, first session audio, second session data with el torito for booting)
Bitcoin's value is fundamentally monetary in nature. Bitcoin itself (less so the cryptocurrency space as a whole) is about financial sovereignty, stable monetary policy, robust uptime guarantees, and resistance to manipulation in the governance.

You are _supposed_ to buy and hold Bitcoin for a long time, because Bitcoin is most important where it gives you an alternative when government money is poor (or even just as a threat to governments that are making monetary decisions - they need to know that their population has a viable alternative if their currency doesn't add enough value).

That necessarily drives a big focus on price.
I have to simultaneously agree with you (and even go further and state that the existence of 3-degree-of-freedom devices like Samsung GearVR which was cheap enough to be passed out and demo'd everywhere) really gave people terrible first experiences, both in terms of giving them low expectations in terms of motion sickness and also resolution.

But the reason it's really bittersweet is you _don't_ have to get motion sick in VR, if you just try experiences that don't take control of your in-game/in-experience "camera" and move it without any input from your physical head. In other words, as long as the camera in-game only corresponds 1 to 1 to your real life head movements, there is no motion sickness for the vast vast majority of users. I've given tons of demos and beat saber won't make new users sick. Superhot won't make new users sick. Echo VR, Skyrim VR, anything that doesn't map head movement -> camera movement 1:1 has a 75% chance of making a new user sick, whether immediately and badly or after a medium duration experience and mildy.

But people who are early adopters and have overcome the hump of nausea and forgotten how it feels continue to expose new users to poorly chosen first experiences with joystick movement or even worse - just straight up camera movement entirely unmapped to user input. That and naive users not realizing they need to limit their first experiences to non-joystick locomotion experiences.

It's a bit like if everyone who tried alcohol for the first time took 10 shots of vodka and then span in circles for 10 minutes straight instead of sipping an alcopop or a beginner wine or beer.

There are also hardware solutions like vibrating motors you place on your wrists (or neck/near-the-ear?) that could help as well.

And vignetting and tunneling approaches to keep a fixed frame of reference in the users field of view for those that are advanced enough to begin with joystick movement.

But anyway, in 2020 the most compelling use-case is still porn. And laughably, many people who may have tried VR porn in 2016 or who only viewed free/old/poorly-made files have also had that well poisoned for themselves as well, while newer, higher quality VR film (and porn) is incredibly more realistic and immersive than early attempts or that which you could find on pornhub.
You are that saying herd immunity would be the only option?
Bitcoin can’t technically handle casual use. Perhaps the new ethereum will achieve that. The price is the only changing thing about Bitcoin.
This. I was a FireFox long time supporter, but switched off when I started using Mac as my daily driver. It crashed more, used more resources, etc than Safari, Chrome, and Brave.

I also stopped recommending it to randos when they started coming back and complaining about weird behavior. Now if I don’t know someone and want them to just have the simplest working experience I recommend Safari on Mac and Brave on windows.
This and i3 on the front page right now, is there some reason hn is exited about tiling wms today?
The government (maybe unknowingly) took a huge chance when they allowed acquisition after acquisition to transpire, now there’s genuine concern that that might have been bad for competition. I genuinely hope those same risk takers allow this to play out, too. If this is bad, it’s bad for Facebook along with the other businesses downstream; but just how bad — we should get to find out. And, if that happens, it will be great to see how Facebook will be able to quantify the impact. What data will they reveal about the small businesses? Will the data be of the variety that small businesses might not expect Facebook to have?
Would you do engineering interviews in VR as a candidate?

I had wondered if larger companies would do VR technical interviews to remove biases in their quest to "hire the best". You can have a whiteboard, and the usual schtick, but you can disguise the voice, height, gender, ethnicity, etc of a candidate, so the interviewer can focus on the communication and the solution.

And then the interpersonal part of the interview can be done in person and unmasked. After that, both parts of the interview can be conjoined during the committee evaluation.

I never went down this avenue, because I thought sourcing candidates was a bigger problem than evaluation accuracy, and all but the biggest companies don't worry so much about their interview methods.
"Going from two kids to three, you have to switch from one-on-one to zone defense."
Yours is a Randian analysis and it has been the sole argument from Republicans for not giving people UBI.

What do you think about the concept of "trickle-up economics"?
Mozilla doesn't have a real sustainable business model right now.

FireFox OS could have provided such model, in fact, its successor kaios is doing very well and one can imagine that in the future, it will be the primary OS of half the mobile users on the planet. 'Feature phones' aren't dead. They provide a cheap alternative to touch phones, are usually more robust, and allowing them to run web apps instead of MIDP stuff is a giant opportunity for any web actor.

Ditching Rust as a core component of the future of Firefox is also a demonstration that Mozilla isn't a tech focused corp anymore. Rust is going to yield a lot of result when it comes to security, memory saftely and maintainability and firing Rust devs was terribly short sighted.

So yes Firefox was always enough. Leadership at Mozilla doesn't get it.
> At this stage, it's not "some sketchy things", it's a mindset at top level.

Of course working there requires sharing (or having rationalized) at least some part of that mindset.
Reminds me of the Darwin Award urban legend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car
Because we don’t want to be Japan, which is about to become an expansion state of immigrants since their birth rate can’t support their future population.

Africa has a high birth rate. Should we crack down on that? Or are you just saying it’s a problem when rich, low-crime nations have high birth rates?
Right, the type of games matter a lot. I do like first-person RPGs, but those are only a little appealing to me in VR so far. And most of my gaming (4x, strategy, builder) don't benefit much from VR as far as I can tell.
It is not easy to fit three car seats in the back of seat of the average vehicle in the US.

I bet this is not a hinderance in the rest of the world because many of those other places have either:

1. a lack of child seat laws

2. effective public transportation.

It's not like Europe is full of A-segment cars with 3 car seats in the back.
I think this is an important point. So many people compare bitcoin to a regular stock. While there are ways you can compare the two, there aren't as many use cases for stocks as there are with bitcoin. If people would focus on that we could really change the way the underbanked access capital. It could be the thing that tips the scale to build equitable access to capital.
The reality for a lot of families is that having children is frighteningly expensive.

The twin costs of childcare and a reduction in parental work hours (often mom's) and as a result future career and income advancement potential can be substantial drag on a family's income. Each additional child just prolongs this drag.

Multigenerational households where grandparents provide childcare are one solution around this problem that I've seen.
If you're looking for scaling, look at cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin. On-chain scaling is far from explored, and it's really the only way to solve it properly.
I like the way you put it... "Better Tax Treatment"...
Sure but when I was young it wasn't mandated for children to be in car seats until the age of 8 like TFA mentions. I was sitting in the back seat but I was definitely not in a car seat once I was around 4-5.
Thanks so much! Didn't know that there was now a single window mode.
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It doesn't matter if it's priced incorrectly and because of the scale of manipulation being carried out by Tether and probably other large actors cooperating to influence price, btc cannot be priced correctly.

The pricing mechanism for crypto is always going to be screwed by PoW, I think, because it naturally concentrates power into the hands of a few that can coordinate relatively easily.
There's a great article that investigates this and presents a more refined analysis so separate out factors like child-safety laws:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/28/...

It was recently discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25445643
This reads sort of tone deaf to me. There is a clear definition of what it means to be impoverished. In the US it's income relative to dependents, [defined by HHS](https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines). TO say that someone isn't impoverished because they are living rent-free (legally or illegally) or don't have obligations to pay bills misses the point altogether; and quite frankly, is flat out insincere. It doesn't matter if the child moves back in with their parent and doesn't have bills to pay. I'm curious to know, what if the person that loses their job is 40 and moves in with their parents? My point is, I don't think it matters if it's a child moving in to their parent's second house -- they may never be able to recover from this, and that is the larger, systemic problem at hand.

How we, as a collective society, address issues pertaining to the poor, disenfranchised, forgotten, downtrodden, speaks volumes about our priorities and interests. And I think, given the types of relief that has happened during this moment, and looking at how society answers this historically, we are not doing well.
Sorry, your wishes are secondary here.

This attitude is a great way to keep people from taking the test, which would be a net negative towards society.
could be on the books but not enforced. in my city helmets are required when riding those electric scooters. you're also exposed to the same DUI laws that apply to actual cars. doesn't stop a bunch of drunk college kids from riding them around with no helmet every night.
Cash on the internet. Basically, the ability to send money to someone else without any intermediary, in the same way that you can hand cash to someone else when selling something on craigslist, etc. This is particularly helpful in cases like gift cards where fraud is a problem, and margins are thin, and industries that are blocked by other payment processors [0]. We can argue about whether or not all of the opportunities are a good thing for society or not, but crypto does solve a problem for them.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/business/mastercard-visa-disc...