skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Quest owner, and previous Vive owner, if you can get over the Facebook thing, I would 100% buy the Quest 2 over anything else. The Index might be better, but it costs 2-3x more, and only works on PC, and needs the lighthouses.

The hassle you skip with inside-out tracking is worth it on it's own, and the Quest games are honestly pretty good, and I haven't had any issues with Link to PC. Great for PC VR, great for taking with you to family/friends for fun demos (post-covid).

I strongly dislike the forced Facebook integration, but it's hard to contest that Oculus Quest (and likely 2) is a fantastic product.
Play Omnifactory or any modpack with gregtech. It's not 100% realistic but you're doing practical chemistry all the time.
>We want to be somewhat 'backwards compatible' to allow non-AMP ads

It requires some pretty absurd mental calisthenics to be able to see AMP as an upgrade on the open web.
Interview with John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA
Also, the tech may enable wonders but the implementation may suck. If you have an amazing technology but the scenario of all the movies / games using this technology turn out to be the Nth version of the same story (like basically every movie on Netflix) then it is subpar compared to a book.

I think a domain where it can exceptionally shine is the adult entertainment industry.
GoCardless raises $95m to accelerate investment in open banking
Automating deploys to Kubernetes using ArgoCD and jsonnet
Comodo is fine last I checked [1,2].

Congress should probably just listen to Dan Geer and establish products liability for closed-source software. I feel like this might have turned up sooner if there was a git diff to read.

[1] https://blog.erratasec.com/2011/03/comodo-hacker-releases-hi...

[2] https://www.comodo.com/news/comodo-ceo-entrepreneur-of-the-y...
The right picture, with that kind of chamber, seems like it would have pretty limited compression ratios
Also see Enact, the Enyo framework's sucessor.

https://enactjs.com
This is BS -- the game was built for old gen consoles!!! Its intent was never the PS5 period. They failed.
Is this [1] you?

[1] https://www.whois.com/whois/tsundoku.com
> glue software engineers

Where do you put the line between them and “purist” SWEs?

Even Things like

#include <stdio.h>

already make you a gluer.
Easily the most practical car since the Model T. For sheer pleasure driving, of course the 911. But a minivan can carry a big family or you can drop the back seats and slot in a stack of 4x8 plywood sheets without a sweat while keeping them covered, which most pickups can’t handle too well anymore. The high end models have ridiculously comfortable seats. You can camp in a minivan. They’re smooth and quiet to drive. They cost little to maintain. In Toyotas, at least, the leather seats are nearly indestructible and barely take on dirt. The remote operated side doors and elevated floors make getting babies into the car seats a doddle. Tall people fit fine. Moms feel safer driving high. They come with 110v outlets. (The vans, not the moms.) They are easily the most versatile cars on the road. Nothing else comes remotely close.
TTFB is pointless if you throw a cookie notice, a newsletter prompt and a bunch of ads in your users' face. It's not much better if you hide the answers your users come for in a sea of SEO keyword spam. You just annoy your users really efficiently.

I'd rather wait 5 seconds for a straight answer than deal with a really fast, but really annoying website.
Grades can be misleading as well, because they don't necessarily signify that a person understood what they did, but that they managed to deliver within that grading system (e.g. by learning things by hard, by preparing for a very narrow topic, etc).

Working in a very free university/art school (without grades and with little pressure), I often see people who had good grades before completely fall apart when nobody tells them what to do and how to do it. Grades are nice and all, but don't take it for given that they correlate to actual performance. Additionally there are field where this is even truer: how do you grade art? Will a gallerist buy your art because you had good grades in art school? Will a festival screen your film because your professors gave you the best grade?

Grades should be taken with a grain of salt unless you know the system within which they were created very well and what these grades indicate. I think actual projects and experiences are worth more. If you e.g. mixed the sound for 10 movies and there are more people asking you to do it for them (and they are willing to pay), this might be a good indicator that you actually know what you are doing.
Bluewaters coal-fired power station written off as worthless as renewables rise
I agree, I've heard of artificial delays being introduced because some loading of things was deemed 'too quick'- something about the user expects some delay and anything quicker than that gives the feel that nothing has really happened. I can see the logic in it a wee bit, I'll try find a link to their thinking on it.
It feels like Blue Origin is Jeff Bezo’s hobby. A very, very, very expensive hobby.
We just need some enterprising person to add EGLStreams support for wlroots (this actually used to exist in old sway versions). I'm not sure they would accept such a PR though. It's pretty irritating though that nvidia doesn't work with the general purpose APIs.
That's exactly what SQL does. No one ever said it was hard to do business logic in SQL.
> But [they do](https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download). A subscription buys you updates and support. RHEL itself is free.

That's true in a literal-but-useless sense. Developers-RHEL might be bit-identical to real-RHEL at some dates, but as a product it's of course very very different due to lack of interim updates. And that's aside of the smaller speedbumps of registration and having to involve Legal if you want to run in a company.

> In addition, considering that almost all of Red Hat's products are "upstream first", branding is generally a single additional RPM which changes some colors. It is _not_ hard to rebrand RHEL. [...] The "expensive" part of building an EL8 clone is standing up a bunch of Koji builders. That isn't necessary either, strictly. It just makes "turn this SRPM into an RPM and combine it with a bunch of others into a temporary repo we can dogfood/release" easier. As always, it comes down to cost.

I don't know how true that is, the CentOS wiki makes it sound like like the debranding part is non-trivial/manual labour intensive. So according to you the main bottleneck is hardware / buildservers? If that's true, one wonders why even the minor CentOS 8.x releases lag RHEL 8.x by 4 to 6 weeks.

I guess we'll get to see it soon, with Rocky Linux development.

> The problem with this, broadly, is that the "community" is comprised of a lot of Red Hat-employed engineers. This idea that Linux is a bunch of "community" people that RH/IBM/whomever siphon off is completely fallacious. [...]

Sure, I largely believe the long-running narrative that a lot of core Linux development is paid/done by Red Hat, and that most other distros, including Debian/Ubuntu are free-riding to some extend. That's why I not really behind the cheering for Rocky, and think it's fairer in the end to either pay up, or roll up the sleeves and do a real _community_ enterprise OS based on Debian instead of cloning RHEL.

> What customers values is indemnity and the ability to point their finger at someone external, plus normal stuff like a security response team and responsible+timely disclosure during major CVEs.

The first part might be true of RHEL customers, but I don't think it's true for CentOS customers. The customer base is of course diverse, but my guess is that for a very large part of the (CentOS, not RHEL) users, objections to moving to Debian/Ubuntu are practical (legacy/switching costs, maybe followed by maybe proprietary software support), much more than principled/legal.
Maybe they genuinely did believe that masks do not work. If the believe is that COVID spreads simliar to the flu that assumption makes sense. See https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

We did not find evidence that surgical-type face masks are
effective in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza
transmission, either when worn by infected persons (source
control) or by persons in the general community to reduce
their susceptibility

The problem is that it is very hard to assess the real effect of masks, because they are always a part of a broader range of measures. The infamous Danish study is rather inconclusive and there are no other trying to measure the direct effect.
There's no doubt that this is a politically motivated case. As many people pointed out, these are the same states that tried to overturn election results. There's no way this is a coincidence. After all, Google is a powerful anti-conservative force.

That said, a large (if not the majority) fraction of liberal folk also strongly dislike Google. So there's a good chance for a bi-partisan effort to dislodge Google from its place of power.

The real question is how did a heavily liberal institution get so much hatred from the liberal side of the political divide. This especially stands out during these times of extreme polarization, when the principle "an enemy's enemy is one's friend" is very popular.

I suspect the root cause is that Google is torn apart between its liberal beliefs due to its connections to the Silicon Valley, and its conservative tendencies as a for-profit corporation. This conflict causes an enormous amount of internal and external damage.

On top of that, Google (and other big tech) became so powerful that it's in the cross-hairs of many politicians and activists. This makes it much more difficult to maneuver in the political world.

It would be interesting to see whether and how Google executives will attempt to solve these problems.
It's not like saying that at all. It's distracting from the main thread to go on an ad hominem. If you are trying to discredit the people and representatives of 10 or 17 states, then you've got a problem. They have a right to sue and to have their case be heard like any one else. In the meantime, let's talk about the case on its merits.
But it makes sense, doesn't it? Charity can be used for self promotion and anonymity is seen as a seal of sincerity. This is not restricted to Christians.

It is no judgement on the act itself. Of course charity with self promotion is better than no charity in most cases.
Show HN: Block Hooks, blockchain event subscriptions
Thank you! I resolved the www issue. The idea with not showing maxed out images first is a really good one - it does look strange! Tracked it on GH!
Same boat here. I dumped WhatsApp mostly because it's owned by Facebook, which I consider a bit of a privacy risk by itself. On top of that, the app requests access to lots of permissions I don't understand the need for.

Some examples: find accounts on the device, view WiFi connections, retrieve running apps, use biometric hardware.
Thanks for the overview! I'd love to learn and attack this, and I'm also interested in tying it to an ECS for rendering - but so many hours in the day... will reach out if I can see a real opportunity to do something here.

I'd imagine it's also going to be needed by the Ruffle folks when they get to adding TLFText support
>The UK pays a £500 incentive to anyone who gets covid-19

Not exactly anyone. In addition to being told by the NHS to isolate at home based on a positive diagnosis or close contact with one, you must be:

- Currently employed or self-employed.

- Unable to work from home and will lose income as a result of self-isolating.

- Currently receiving low-income benefits.

You need to provide evidence of all of these items.

There are probably avenues for exploitation, but it's intended to be directly replacing income lost as a result of the isolation.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-and-trace-su...
Appreciate it ;)
The problem is that docker pull counts is an int32 so 2.1bn is the max
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25441986
This is certainly done with COVID-19 in mind. Is there any source that shows how effective HEPA filters are for filtering SARS-CoV-2, given that its average size is just 130nm, which is twenty times smaller than PM2.5.
> I don't know how one's life could get destroyed just by uploading a sex tape to a porn website

You people have zero empathy provided you get your porn.

You don't think that a victim of revenge porn feels like being raped everytime a stranger jerks off on her intimate image/video uploaded without her consent and it doesn't take a toll on her psyche thus destroying her life? Then shame on you.
> I have an instant negative reaction to the idea that "if it has defects, it may not be shipped ". Any moderately complex piece of software is guaranteed to have bugs.

Yes, but if there is a known defect in your software, do you release or not?

To me, there is a difference between knowingly releasing faulty software or only after release discovering faults in the software. Unless there is no reasonable quality check in the software development and release procedures, because then you are not doing much better than knowingly releasing faulty software.
Best practices: Java memory arguments for Containers
Yes, American prisons are as bad as this makes them look. Possibly worse. The UK refused to extradite one guy because they said there was too high a risk that he'd kill himself in prison here. Prison rape and assault are common - at least 20% of male prisoners report being assaulted, often by staff. And it's been like this for decades, all over the country, because a significant percentage of people really believe that prison is meant to be some kind of dystopic hellhole.
I find the same with age. I've seen every plot, every type of character.

I have a friend who was working with movie scripts, and he described it like a factory. Generally every movie is a 5 act play, you get an intro to some typical character then something happens to them that's either funny or serious depending on genre, then there's a solution, etc.

But perhaps the thing to do is not to expect surprise in the general construction, but excellence in the execution. That's why I can still watch stuff that's highly rated eg Breaking Bad. Shakespeare is another one of those where you can how it's made, but it's made well.

Food is the same. It's gonna be a mixture of fat and sugar, with some water and flavourings. But some things are better done than others.
Ethics tie directly to the quality of research. Good acting is good acting regardless of whether the actor is acting morally, but research can be manipulated by an unethical actor in myriad ways. It's frankly quite disturbing how much trust there is in the research process and how little that trust is deserved.

There's a broad spectrum of potential bad behavior impacting the results, ranging from straight up faking results on one end to p-hacking to just failing to publish relevant negative results or undesired results. An agenda can affect research in many, many ways, and it's absolutely relevant to whether you should trust a paper.

It shouldn't be that way. Not needing trust is rather the point of the scientific process. But it is.
Nice presentation. More approachable than Reacts docs, so thanks.
A good time to remind everyone to dedicate works (they own) to the public domain or under a non-commerical license through Wikipedia Commons [0] or other such websites [1].

I wish Wikipedia had some form of collaboration with Google/Facebook (like Flickr once did) to let people dedicate frictionlessly their media work under CC-NC licenses since literally everyone with a phone can shoot decent enough media these days. There are several Wikipedia pages that are missing pictures but you'd find plenty on Google Maps (user uploaded) that you couldn't use freely.

In India, all media work published before 60 years is in public domain (< 1960). Here's a nice overview of copyright laws of various countries relegating works to the public domain [2].

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

[1] https://unsplash.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain
I don't like having Facebook apps on my phone at all and I don't like them having the metadata on who I'm messaging and when.
I agree with the first paragraph.

The second and third paragraphs are alarming. Anti-elitism is never a good thing in actual technical fields. Of course, the lead may be from outside CS, but to say that there is not a single CS person or an expert in embedded systems and OS, who was involved in the design and testing of a pacemaker is not very confidence-building.
I can’t find the article/tweet but I believe SpaceX said they’d launch competitors’ satellites.

Of course they won’t get the same at-cost deal SpaceX gives themselves.
There's nothing wrong with it per se. To each their own. I don't see playing soccer or rock climbing as "distraction", on the contrary. I mean distraction as in distracting your mind from the present moment.

For example, I used to go running and weightlifting while listening to music and podcasts for example, because I was in the mindset of physical exercise == unpleasant & time consuming therefore I must distract myself "to get it over with". VR workouts sound a lot like an idea coming from that same mindset.
I like the analogy that English writers don't have to be at Shakespeare's level; even being able to write a shopping list is a very useful. Hence it's a good idea to teach everyone reading and writing at school.

I think the programming equivalent of a shopping list would be something like a simple 1, 2, 3 cron script, or if-this-then-that event handlers. That only needs a very basic understanding of computing (and how to find information effectively online), but opens up lots of really useful automation, e.g. backing up files, sending an email (e.g. a notification/reminder to ourselves), etc. Even without some automated API to use, a sequence of 'print' and 'sleep' commands can be useful to help ourselves/others perform some common task, e.g. a receipe which tells us when to turn down the oven, when to put on the pasta, etc. Hence I think it's a good idea to have simple 'learn to code' classes in schools; whilst more advanced classes would be optional for those wanting to specialise down that path.
Hey HN, for my last side project of the year I decided to build a much needed piece of infrastructure for the Celo (https://celo.org) blockchain ecosystem, an event subscription service.

You can configure it to listen for events on certain contracts (some basic filtering functionality is provided so you don't spam yourself) and receive a webhook when your conditions are met.

It has an HTTP API so you can easily register events from your system and supports custom ABI parsing so you can receive decoded events.

This kind of system is crucial for running any service on top of a blockchain, some quick use cases that spring to mind are:

- building a Stripe like service on the blockchain and watching for transfers

- monitoring sign ups for an email welcome.

Looking forward to any feedback!
It's like the difference between knowing the theory behind combustion engines and driving a car.

But that being said... there are many different types of engineering jobs. If your company deals with low level stuff, requiring low level knowledge is acceptable.
Having a limited supply of empathy is one way to think about this, but another (less immediately appealing) way is as fast moving moral fashions. In your example it seems like the empathy got ‘used up’, because of the order of those two events, but I think that sort of thing often happens the other way round too, in which cases it’s harder to tell ourselves stories about why. Maybe the best explanation is it’s mostly arbitrary. That’s the problem with relying on public charity and the feel-good factor as a mechanism for helping the worst off. Moral fashions are like weather – somewhat predictable, but not definitely not reliable or consistent.
I can't speak about photography art but in the case of coding art, I've learned a lot about linear algebra and algorithm design by making fun art projects.
Whatsapp contents are secure, but who you are talking to - what groups, what time, how often, is all valuable information.

If you are in a group with a lot of Facebook users that have elementary school kids but are otherwise unrelated, chances are you have one too. Facebook might even infer who you are, and your kids, even if you don’t have an account
TACOS – Terraform Automation and Collaboration Software Demo Day
I just can't understand how all these people here use Git clients without a syntax highlighting.
Ask HN: How long until docked phones provide fully featured desktop experience?
With the advent of M1 macs, how long until we see a fully featured desktop OS-level experience on a docked phone? I believe this will be the next big product by Apple. How about Windows? Microsoft imagined Windows 10 as a hybrid platform, but the phones never took off. Will we see a new android based desktop experience from Google? How far from this is the libre community with their solutions (like Pine and Purism)?
I find it interesting that the argument that "X is FUD" is supposed to carry weight.

It's a bit like if I'm in a party, and I briskly walk up to five people and each time I hit them in the face, and then it's your turn and you move away, and I say "what? the idea that I would hit you is FUD".

It's not FUD. It's a pattern of behaviour.

Avoiding overly litigious companies - where other as-good or better choices exist - is not overly cautious, it's just good sense. Where other as-good choices do not exist, it seems perfectly reasonable (depending on your risk profile) to work with others to create the better choice.

Of course, I say all this as someone who has worked in massive multinational corporations and now work in small startups. I'm now likely never going to use Rocky Linux for exactly the reason you've hinted to - in effect, it is not a usecase either of us care about. But for those people who do need this, I'm very happy that someone has championed the cause.
> The demands in the letter include the removal of a Google vice president, Megan Kacholia, from the team's management chain; for transparency surrounding Gebru's departure; and for Google's head of AI, Jeff Dean, and Kacholia to apologize for how Gebru was treated.

I would like to know which role played Kacholia in this. Just a scapegoat for management or was she directly involved?
You can learn the relevant parts of calculus and linear algebra in isolation. I've experienced that knowing the abstract theory of linear algebra is actually just taking away time and resources that could have been spent in increasing your competence in the non abstract parts of linear algebra. A lot of students aren't ready for industry, not because they are incompetent or not smart enough but rather because they have directed all their time and energy on solving difficult problems which meant they had no time for the boat load of easy problems that industry actually needs.
I'm a huge fan of i3 and sway. I recently stopped using sway because these WMs don't work well on large screens or ultrawides. They are optimized for smaller screens, especially laptop screens. I swapped to a 48" OLED and the ideal model really is to center your active window if you can. I haven't yet found a WM that handles this as well as I'd like, although PaperWM is pretty close if a little clunky due to Gnome 3.

The other issue w/ i3/sway is you have to spend a lot of time arranging your workspace. It gives you all the power and also all of the work. In comparison, layout based tiling WMs like bspwm, awesomeWM, and xmonad intelligently place your windows in a certain way rather than requiring the user to always decide where it goes. It's largely personal preference which you like. I think I prefer the layout based WMs but sway is the only real option for wayland as far as I know.