skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask Google Fiber. Its because getting access, permits, and everything you need takes a very long time and has very high costs. The incumbents won't just let you just run cables next to theirs, they might need to make changes to allow room for you, etc. Incumbents and their influence make it nearly impossible to compete. Government has an advantage here since its permits itself for example.

Edit, link:
https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-...
The Vive Pro 2 is absurdly expensive ($1400) compared to the Oculus offering.

The Vive Pros are at its name implies, for pros, or for people with big budgets who want the best. You simply can't compare.

I think that if you don't want to buy Oculus and have a reasonable budget (~$400), WMR headsets are the only alternative.
Doesnt more recent Docker versions use HyperKit?
Disliking Soviet architecture doesn’t make one a philistine. Especially when much of it was forced upon the populace at the point of a gun.

Regarding Warsaw specifically, most of those monuments are still in existence because they didn’t depict actual people, only generic workers. There were plenty of other monuments of individual political leaders that have been torn down since the collapse of the USSR.

In any case, many of these buildings are interesting but I’m not sure I’d ascribe a positive aesthetic opinion to them. Most of the best urban design in ex-Soviet countries is in pre-Soviet cities.
Is it preferable on PyPy to use a libpq wrapper over a native solution? As far as I can tell, even though CPython C API is in some way supported on PyPy it's really only advisable to use packages using it as a last resort for performance reasons. Aside from psycopg2cffi, which you should be able to use with PyPy, I'm pretty sure I saw other PEP 249 implementations for PostgreSQL the last time I checked (which admittedly was a few years ago).
This piece is a bit of a meandering mess. The author uses jargon to obfuscate rather than clarify, makes assertions without proof as he jumps between thought-experiments and descriptions of the universe.

> These freebits also have to be quantum in nature.

Why?

> That means they are also “qubits”—the version of plain old 1 and 0 bits that applies to objects and systems exhibiting quantum behavior. They are fuzzy, undetermined things until called upon and snapped into focus. That’s a complication that I’m going to avoid really dealing with, because it will really make our heads hurt.

Hmmm. I've got plenty of Advil. Try me. What are you possibly trying to say here

> Suppose you want to track back the chain of events that led to a specific incident—something interesting in a physics experiment, or a chicken crossing the road. For some incidents there will be a chain that goes all the way back to the original freebits.

For some incidents? Shouldn't literally everything have a chain going back to the original freebits?

By all accounts the author seems like a really bright guy, and I can only hope this is a half-assed condensation of a portion of his latest book because this is not good.
Americans travel with their cards, too
This bubble is not speculative. It’s defensive.

There is a small X% chance of the USD failing catastrophically. So assets that are backed by cash flows in any denomination have a premium of (? something huge ?) * X%.

A lot of people got burned by staying ‘safe’ after the 2008 crash. The 2005-2007 bubble was caused by derivatives expansion up to $2 Quadrillion, without much money supply growth. It was easy to pop that bubble because of razor-thin excess reserves, so small losses leveraged into bank failure of Bear Stearns. There’s nothing like that today. Valuations feel stupid-high, but reserves are at record high, indicating there’s a lot more air to go into the bubble.

In USD terms, the fed has absolute power over pumping and popping bubbles.

But if you denominate assets relative to each other, or relative to something you actually need or want, like housing, they have zero power, except to denominate tax gains in an arbitrary basis.
Brave does it natively. It's surprising to see how many pages return 404 before redirecting to a live version.
If anyone's interested, this was the issue of Byte magazine that wrote about Sun's Java CPUs:

https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1996-11_OCR

I actually owned that copy, but sadly and stupidly gave it away with the rest of my Byte collection that dated from 1983 until Byte's demise.
I previously made a post about this topic: https://galambo.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/avoid-news/
There are a bunch of other VR headsets. Buy a different one.
He Went from Homeless to Raising $64M for His Google-Like Attribution Engine
Come up north to Michigan where the air is crisp. Ohio is the worst.

People need to vote with their ballot, wallet, but also with where they choose to take residence.
Ask HN: How do you find iteresting stuff on the internet?
There is so much interesting, cool, and entertaining stuff on the internet, but I feel like I'm falling short on finding it. Any suggestions on how to do that? No constraints on what the material is. I just want to know how you find cool stuff online!

Also, please refrain from posting advice on how I shouldn't do this because it's nothing but entertainment. I realize that and am doing this purely for entertainment where I probably might learn something.
Which will prove that with enough effort even the mountains of goodwill that Google and Amazon has kept piling up for it's first decades can be burnt through with effective (ab)use of bigdata, ai and "UX".

Amazon and Google have replaced mountains of goodwill with mountains of cold, hard cash that they can use to either buy the competition or pay engineers a lot to build just-about-good-enough versions of things that will keep people from leaving to go to the competition. Either way, competing with Amazon or Google in their main profit centers (retail and cloud in the case of Amazon, or ads and search in the case of Google) is virtually impossible unless you're an already exceptionally big company like Microsoft.

I don't believe any company that doesn't already exist will ever compete at scale with Amazon or Google. Competition in those areas is essentially finished. I would love to be proved wrong though.
FWIW, the ads are not on the platform level, but inside individual games and apps. For now. (I also despise ads)
Chris Hadfield's Snapshots from Space (2013) [video]
By parallelism do you mean something different from multiprocessing? [1]

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html
Are you arguing with a particular part of my post or was your goal merely to be insulting?

The set of early VR adopters naturally intersects heavily with the set of facebook skeptics. This website is composed mostly of relatively young, high earning men with interests in technology, which is to say almost the exact target demographic of VR. Do you see the general sentiment here about Facebook and this move in particular?

BTW if you're going to complain about people not doing adequate research to back their points you shouldn't follow it with misinformation you copied from another comment. Sony has by far the largest market share in VR, not oculus.
I was talking purely of the "compiler" part, not about any "standalone executable" part that may or may not have been implied.
If how to pay your bills is everything you want to know about the universe, then have fun with it.

But to many people, including friends and family - the question of the meaning of it all is a frequent and important one. Influencing directly how we live.

The more we know about the universe, the better we can answer. We have gathered very strong indications, negating the old "answer" that life is a bit older than 6000 years, meaning also an effective powerloss for those people in charge, who made society run by the literal guidance of an old myth book.
In the use of aspectj that I have ever seen, it was always an annotation based thing. I could annotate a method as getting logged to get a trace level log. Yes, the logic of doing the trace was somewhere else, but I couldn't place a trace on any invocation of a named method. Say I wanted to log all calls to (make-hash-table), in elisp, that is an easy advice call. In java, I didn't think that was really doable.

That said, thinking on some of the tricks I'm ok with in tests, I guess it has to be possible. Not sure what the code looks like.

It is amusing, as even the annotation based stuff I've seen is near universally disliked by engineers with experience from it. Seems a very common foot gun, in practice.
There is no real alternative to the Quest, unfortunately.
Seattle man died by suicide as a result of cop’s lie, mom says in new lawsuit
I just wish it had an ability to do Markdown or at least let me drop a code block into my notes
Ziply was awful. We got screwed by them when they bought the fiber network in our area, canceled our autopay, and then didn’t bill us for three months until we had racked up a bunch of late fees. My wife spent hours on the phone with them getting the issues sorted out. It was the worst customer service experience I’ve ever had with a broadband provider. I’ve had Charter, Qwest, and Comcast.
Modern-day “Robin Hood” inspires Georgians in debt
Books like that are my favorite. Built to Sell by John Warrillow is a perfect example, and one that I really enjoyed. It teaches the reader how not to run a business via a fictitious story and really opened my eyes to all the things I was doing wrong in my business.
Could you provide a source that shows "differential" being used in such a context by the Datalog community? Regardless, the proper term for this in the general CS/algorithms literature is "dynamic" as I've shown above. "Differential" is used for something else entirely, and "kinetic" covers the notable shared aspects of the two problem domains.
> Fairlawn's city-run FairlawnGig network has consistently ranked as one of the fastest ISPs in the country, serving residents and businesses in Fairlawn, Akron, and Bath with affordable gigabit Internet services. The slowest service tier delivers 300Mbps symmetrical speeds for $55/month. The municipal network has resulted in more businesses choosing to locate in Fairlawn, and at least 700 jobs can be directly attributed to the network. In recent subscriber surveys, 95 percent of respondents rated FairlawnGig's service as "very good to excellent," with some customer testimonials referring to the network as "a life saver" throughout the pandemic.

From the article. That is very impressive and a really bad sign for private broadband to be beat out like this.
I'm thinking that the less value that Apple delivers to the customers, the better it is for their bottom line, don't forget, adding value costs money, plus its not like Apple fans are going to suddenly quit buying their products right?

Apple seems to be really good at maintaining their profit margin.
Intellect addiction is an interesting way to put it. Because the brain has so much capacity you have 1 of 2 options. Use your brain to explain nature or disconnect and absorb and have nature connect with you automatically. I’d argue you’re putting yourself into connection with the universe when you don’t put your mind to it (that much).
This looks really awesome. Congrats on shipping to the founders.
>in any meaningful way

Whooohaaa! Where do you think that the mechanisms that allow us to build atomic clocks and telescopes and quantum computer come from if not from the human mind?! Are angels doing it for us?
Page 404. Why do we give a damn about details in desing?
I expected to see x-rays of unusual objects stuck inside a human body, but this is also pretty cool!
It's fairly clear why: after Steve Jobs died, there was no one left to rein in Jony Ive's self-indulgent tendencies and advocate for the user.

Fortunately now that Ive's left, some of his more boneheaded decisions are being quietly reversed, from the butterfly keyboard to the AppleTV remote. Who knows, maybe we will even get cables with proper strain relief in the future?
Internet access should be considered a utility and explicitly NOT subject to "free market" territory. It's a core driver of our modern economy and essential for pretty much everything these days. It should be mostly if not wholly subsidized by the state like the interstate highway system.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

On a serious note, this comment resonates so well. I actually bought a RM2 but returned it since the transcription & syncing was nowhere near what I expected. But, also what you wrote. Turns out, I'm near a laptop often enough that typing in Notion works pretty damn well for me. Coupled with all of Notion's rich document structures and fast navigation there's no way a RM2 can compete.

Also, for the record I have an iPad Pro and basically have one, very specific use case. I'm a private pilot and use the iPad extensively for flying. Writing down instrument flight rules clearances which I get over the radio from the tower has been the only persistent use case for the stylus that I've found. Cockpits are too cramped for the keyboard and there's too much information to write it with a finger.
Yeah, but the naming of the objects is a pretty important thing. There is no 'galaxy' or 'star' or even 'atom' without a mind to put a name on them.
How to Choose the Ideal NAS System for Your Needs?
In the end, it doesn't really matter who inserted the language. All of the Republicans in the legislature are voting for it, so pick any one of them (without loss of generality) to serve as an example.

The way the accountability aspect is supposed to work is that voters are horrified and hold their elected representatives accountable by voting them out. As it turns out, though, most people are profoundly ignorant and have no idea who/what they're voting for and lack the intellectual curiosity to figure it out. These voters will just keep getting reamed by their ISPs and if the GOP tells them it's somehow Democrats' fault, they'll probably believe it.
In my new world order we'll vote to fire people in charge, not to hire them
Distribute my cli app + gooey as a stand-alone binary for windows users
Nice to hear from you again, Carl. Your comments about inconsistent foundations brings to mind the Univalent Foundations approach to mathematics--can you comment on how your research relates to univalent foundations and homotopy type theory?
I heard a while ago that Ohio wrote into the Constitution a monopoly on casino gambling.\

Not knowing if I was remembering correctly, I read through the state constitution, and holy hell, they dedicate like seven pages of the constitution to casino gambling for four gambling facilities. For reference, most other sections are a few paragraphs, at most.
I think it's an interesting thought experiment. Would applications improve their capabilities around caching, local processing, spooling of transactions and treat the internet as the "optimal" state but not required? What services are impossible to process locally? e.g. cache map data, road conditions locally, present a "last updated" time on maps.. purchase things over encrypted sms with some token mechanism, etc...
Most of the open source developers who created 'most important software in the world' were paid to do it. There are very few oss projects that were developed only by volunteers.
A little off-topic - does anyone know why Steam takes screenshots of VR content played in a headset? I've noticed multiple times that Steam's Screen Capture process ended up hanging with HP Reverb G2 and am wondering why do they need to take screenshots? I'd have expected that from Facebook (privacy lol) but don't understand why Steam bothers with it?
Show HN: Saga-query – data synchronization using koa-like middleware
Operation Titan Rain also comes to mind. It was so long ago that hardly anyone knows or talks about the massive IP theft happening late 90s and early 2000s.
Cool URIs now return a 200, redirect you to index.html, and then show a 404 page.
Couldn't find much about notion.so, is there specific reason people here avoid it ?

Is there any similar tool for managing notes via Dropbox/self-hosted, I mean with some control over your notes, but similar interface.

Notion I hate is you don't have any control over your data.
A lot of people can’t even afford to put down a security deposit on a new rental. Moving is completely out of reach for them.
I think that’s simplistic. The CIA (not saying they did stand up things) tried the opposite and supported a failing regime that was more open but did little for the lower classes so the revolutionaries came in took over and showed the previous regime how to really be tyrannical.

Most Iranians would depose the current leadership if they had free elections, so it’s not as if the population wants them, but like China, and North Korea only one party can have legitimate candidates and they have the guns.
Pretty sure they're referring to the GIL.[1]

1. https://realpython.com/python-gil/
I can't help myself when it comes to trying new notepads/notetaking tools, so obviously I just signed up for Notion, but:

My own setup is pen & paper first, and then into emacs orgmode. The trouble with this is that, well, it's not GREAT on mobile. The bonus with this is that it's the only tool I've yet seen that can give me a corpus of notes that can ALSO contain intermingled complex TODO items.

It seems super dumb that OneNote doesn't do this. You CAN mark something as a ToDo in OneNote, but it's just decoration; it has no semantic meaning. If OneNote had the ability to show a "ToDos" tab that was generated automatically based on the todo-tags in the notebook, it would be a much more powerful tool.

I mean, there are reasons to avoid it (MSFT, proprietary files), but it's a really powerful and well-distributed tool. Lots of folks in corporate jobs probably can't get access to arbitrary things, but OneNote is part of Office.
Facebook kept the promise(in airbquotes) though. Whoever behind Palmer’s Reddit account said he _personally_ assure that _Rift_ remains usable forever without an account, IIRC.

Facebook killed Rift few years later.
Do municipal ISPs have to operate with positive revenue?

It seems like reasonable people could object public services competing with with private companies if not.

A middle ground would be supporting nonprofit NGO or Co-ops, which seems to be an underutilized option in the US
I guess you are saying that the universe implements a particular BQP function in the minimal QC required to run it on the power that was put into it at the start? What does that mean though, if I write down something like an Eager Beaver function and start to try to solve it?
That's the issue in many (or most?) countries' politics.

Rather than focus on the issues, just keep shouting about how bad the other side would've been if they had been in power.

Somehow, UK tories always found a way to make it Corbyn's fault. Trump ads showed pictures of Trump's america, claiming that's what would happen under Biden.
Oleander a garden shrub, and pretty much anybody who would put it in a garden also knows that it's toxic. If you don't know it you'll learn, especially if you don't wear gloves, because you'll get very itchy. Bad things happen if you burn it or put it in your compost.

It's very bad to eat, though kids are unlikely to: put it in your mouth and you'll regret it instantly. They are more likely to touch it, because it's very pretty, and that can cause some serious skin problems. If you rub your eyes, it can be really bad.

If you plant oleanders, you wouldn't let kids play with it. But it is a hardy shrub, so you could easily move into a house with them and not know what they are. So the statement is still a little weird.
Nice work! the government does not need to control my internet.
(Standard reponse)

Python does support parallelism, so long as you're calling into a C library to do the work, because they (usually) release the GIL while doing the work. That sounds like a cop out but using C libraries is very common to do CPU intensive work anyway. Examples include numpy (e.g. you can call np.dot from multiple threads in Python and they will genuinely use multiple cores) and all the rest of the scipy stack, and even modules in the standard library (e.g. when using zipfile, even to process an in-memory buffer, the GIL is released).
Because Much Evil has also come from unions, devs are in high demand, and unions are political structures instead of technical ones.
Some of the coolest stuff I've found is by putting a niche topic into YouTube and either sorting by newest first or filtering by "Last year."

The "new" tab of HN also gets honorable mention.
The only reason people hate graft more than they hate boondoggles is because in the former case it's nearly impossible to bury your head in the sand and pretend like the money was smartly allocated.

No matter how you cut it at the end of the day the tax dollars are being squandered on lining pockets they shouldn't be.
Even a lot of otherwise die-hard conservatives have seen that privatization and agglomeration of local utilities isn't all rosy. At least local government is reasonably accountable to its constituents.
> it's just that no one is actually interested to use it anymore

Heeey, I'm learning Dolphin right now! It still looks like one of the easiest ways for doing Windows front-ends to stuff. A shame it's not been updated for 64 bits yet, though.
A fundamental problem with Wikipedia is that it doesn't have

proper accountability for material that it publishes.

Furthermore, Wikipedia is heavily censored by an anonymous group.

See [von Plato 2018] on how Gödel deceived von Neumann in

developing one of his fundamental proofs in [Gödel 1931].
Agreed.

One interesting approach that took place in Johannesburg was that a suburb took matters into their own hands to get an open access fibre network installed. They formed a ratepayers association, got a critical mass of the households to sign up for an installation fee and a promise to join, and appointed a company (Vumatel) to install and run the network.

It was transformational: Within a few years average internet speeds in every neighbourhood that adopted the approach went from 5-10Mbps to 100Mbps-200Mbps, with some areas getting 1Gbps. And being open access, it means that you still get competition between commercial ISPs offering their services over the shared infrastructure with a small amount of their fee going back to maintain the network. What's more because the barrier to entry for ISPs was lowered there were a bunch of new and extremely competitive options.

I thought it was a really smart way to overcome the chicken and egg problem of high speed internet infrastructure.
> What America needs is more intellectual + centrist + pragmatic conservatism to counter Trumpist BS, not necessarily more government programs....

I don't think this is about Trump, GOP governments have failed to reduce government programs for 5 decades now, and almost always resulted in more deficits: https://miro.medium.com/max/700/1*pqIXolEpzpTNktAgIclA-A.png

From the outside (I'm not from the US) it looks like the small government talking point has been empty rhetorics since inception.
Most professional engineers are using some sort of virtualisation (docker or vagrant) with the language inside it.

I never use the OSX standard version of PHP or Python
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