skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It seems cool, but as a means of actually going over information, I suspect that a 4K 37 inch monitor on a Mac or Windows or Linux windowing system with a mouse would actually be more useable than this system, and involve far less eye strain and neck strain.

I'm so sick of this trend. Every social researcher just has to have a VR component to their work now because it grabs headlines and funding. Completely ignoring the fact that even state of the art VR is still absolutely useless for any kind of actual productivity. It makes a neat "ooh ahh" moment for about 2 minutes then becomes nothing but a bulky inefficient waste of time.
The item you referred to as "fake passport" is a Swedish national ID card. While not a passport, it will double as one when traveling within the European Union. How did you come across it?
Hi HN, I'm always experimenting with new ways of viewing and interacting with photos and I haven't seen anything like this on the web, so I took it upon myself to make this. It's WIP but I think it gets the idea across. On mobile devices you can try the "VR"-mode that uses the device's camera to look around. Can you see yourself using this, either for sharing or for your own viewing pleasure?
Climate change as a crisis is perfectly threading the needle between human apathy, inability to invest in long term changes, and happening too slowly to provoke a reactionary response.

We build social infrastructure that is incredibly resistant to change by design to protect ourselves and provide stability - but climate change is demanding massive changes which we are ill equipped to deal with politically.

Traditionally we solve these moments in history with revolution to demand change - but climate change is happening too slowly for complacent human mindsets to react that way at a scale that it requires as a crisis.

It is quite horrifying watching it play out in slow motion. This will not end well.
I don't really mind that. I don't like the sort of ads that:

1) use noise or motion to catch your attention, or

2) have nothing to do with the site you're on (spammy), or

3) use sexual imagery, etc. to try to catch your eye

In other words, ads that try to take me out of the mindset I was in when I went to the webpage. Now, ads for developers, at Stack Overflow, might not be exactly what I was looking for, but it's honestly not that far off. I don't mind well-targeted ads, because every once in a while they're useful. I object to ads which are the equivalent of Viagra emails, which is what most ad-driven sites have (ok not literally Viagra ads, but close).
The sentence before that switched to Poland. It's fair to think the last sentence applied to Poland. After all, you were claiming eradication in Israel.
If a massive industry was baffled as to how buildings could possibly be full, pointing out the reason is very informative. Just because the reason isn’t exhaustive, doesn’t mean that it isn’t the best reason we have.

There are massive incentives to keep looking for explanations that are politically convenient, like “it is absolutely not your fault at all that you are fat, we finally found the cause and it’s this environmental factor / pollutant”. Great, I hope we get there, but in the mean while it doesn’t seem crazy to suggest that people are getting fat because high calory foods, alcohol, and snacks have become common, at the same time as everything became automated and lives became mostly sedentary.

No one is going to research the correlation between obesity, IQ and impulse control, or publish that “people are getting fat because modern humans are weak willed comfort addicts unable to deal with even the slightest discomfort like not being completely stuffed 24/7”.

Maybe it is just that people are eating more calories than they burn, and that’s it? Maybe we should be teaching people that that should eat 1500 calories per day, and if you’re still hungry then deal with it, it’s a slight discomfort that you’ll get used to over a few weeks, not some insurmountable urge that is impossible to control. Maybe people are fat because we’ve made the concept of personal responsibility into a taboo?
The last few paragraphs seem interesting...

Looks like the company met the pay demands and the working condition changes the union asked for, yet the workers still aren't happy.

Is there something else up? Is the union not asking for the right things? Are there other unreported conditions or requests?
They do. I’ve been to bars where they verify the 2D barcode on the back. I don’t know if you need to be a bar to get the verification system.
WSL doesn't cut it, it's at best frustrating with all sort of weird problems. Just yesterday, as I was forced to use Windows at work, I couldn't get emacs to save a file because of some weird locking issue when trying to compile some react application that would work fine on linux
Yeah, the argument "If you don't count CI or CO correctly, CICO doesn't work, therefore CICO is debunked" is pretty silly. As an accounting mechanism, it's basic physics. If CI<CO, you will lose weight -- you might not find it easy, you might not thrive, you might not even survive, but the universe itself will make sure that you lose weight.

I don't think that's really what the authors intended to tangle with, though. I agree it came off that way, but maybe we are all just a bit touchy from 1001 fad diet pitches that all begin by trashing CICO in exactly the way the authors did, because if you get good at CICO you are in a position to actually evaluate whether or not the fad diet is any good, which is a big problem for most fad diets.

Here's why I have less of an issue with CICO trashing in the context of this article: the authors are trying to figure out explanatory mechanisms for the obesity epidemic. They are spot on to point out that CICO says nothing about the feedback mechanisms that control CI and CO, and that figuring out those mechanisms is key to figuring out the obesity epidemic. CICO is correct as far as it goes, but it doesn't go where the authors are going.
They should probably get good at Photoshop, though. I've been seeing more and more photo-perfect machine printed tattoos..
CudaText: Cross-platform code editor
I can't describe now baldly I'd love to live above that former Chinese restaurant and operate some kind of eclectic low effort business out of the front. For only the price of one of those gaudy new pickups.
What did the ancient Romans eat?
I don't think I'm infallible. I said in the next sentence we can try to change each other's minds. I mentioned an exception, but in most cases I'm much more comfortable with individuals making their own decisions than enforcing a uniform standard of behavior. Online mobs are just people, but legislation has legalized violence available to back it up and that seems much more powerful to me. And if you let others have a say in what's right, how could you take a stand for anything? https://twitter.com/dril/status/841892608788041732
It's just bullshit marketing for a pause button and a standard reporting feature almost all social sites and apps have already so they can claim they're doing something the next time Zuck gets dragged in to testify again. It's just going to be a absolute shitshow like Facebook.
Why doesn't anyone have legs!?! It's so creepy.
Stuff floats around wildly on the front page. An hour later and when I check at random it's #20. So if we make the question "does this deserve to be on the front page" then sure, why not say it's one of the 30 most notable things today that are suitable for HN.
Ah, you've out-semantic'd me, I was referring to cups as being a more specific term of the different modes of coffee consumption. I'm in favor of the metric system. I did not know that the definition of a "cup" of coffee in the US was under such a broad variance.

Thanks for the info!
What other endeavor could you take a break for a few years and then come back and still basically be at the same place where you left off? Pro golfer? Concert pianist? Physicist?

Hell I forget what half my codebase does in a matter of weeks and have to go hunting through documentation.
> This was not a one off wonder device

It probably was. Mind you the craftsman probably made more than one of that type of thing, but each would have been to order for the customer, and designed to the needs and budget of the customer. Want a different calendar - no problem at all. Want to skip the phases of the moon - that will save you some money. Want to add something else - just a bit more cash.

This was made by a master craftsman, but in there wouldn't have been a large number of people who could afford such a thing. It is possible the craftsman was paid to never made another so the buyer can show off something unique.
I mean that's cool but you are definitely working against the language as opposed to having the language support you. Also this works nicely for self contained dependencies, and much less nicely for not self contained dependencies.
Not on a Mac, unfortunately. I mean, I can place my thumb on the left control and pinky on the [ so maybe you’re correct
Basic rate with 2% raises for the next two years. Frito Lay execs must be puzzled why the plebs aren't throwing themselves at the gate for such a great deal.
There’s also a pretty well tested cloud native buildpack that will work with heroku or just create OCI images here:

https://github.com/paketo-community/rust
My response was in the privilege it takes to assume hiring a tutor is trivial / affordable for generic students, not that things can be gamed by wealthy parents.
According to the company, “This is what the union proposed for wage increases, and Frito-Lay accepted the union's proposal.”
Robust Method to Defend Against GPS Spoofing Attacks Using Off-the-Shelf Chipset
> And what about all the people living in 3bd room houses, driving luxury cars, buying electronics, when they can be saving a life for as little as $3000[1]? Are they bad people for spending $3000 on creature comforts when they can be literally saving lives with that money?

They aren't directly in charge of policies that cause so much misery to so many people.
I don't think this is on CEOs. I grew up pretty poor and now make very good money. However, if someone was always sheltered they are so disconnected from reality they have no idea what is a livable wage. It is capitalism that creates this dynamic, not CEOs or business owners.

This is why governments have minimum wage. Not sure if this is still the case but walmart was helping emoployees get on food stamps....tax payers were literally funding mcdonalds and walmart workers.

The bottom of the work force does not have much negotiating power.
I run servers for one of the biggest open source multiplayer games on github. (tgstation/tgstation)

Everybody asks why we don't do cloud, and time and time again i have to point out that the fastest per-thread cpu on ec2 costs more per month then our rented bare metal server, that benchmarks as faster per thread, and has 3x the bandwidth we need, included in the price!.

Even on a cpu level, the obsession with intel """enterprise""" cpus is leaving money on the table.

"but what about web stuff, surely that could go on the cloud!" the best cpus to run (mostly) single threaded game servers right now come with 8 to 16 cores, and we aren't running that many game servers in each region we target, so what else are we gonna do with those spare cores but load up ansible managed docker swarms to handle the webstuff?

Notice how I haven't even needed to get to the egress cost to point out how senseless going to the cloud can be.
10 years is the ICANN limit but Network Solutions offers 100 years. According to the fine print what they do is actually register it for 10 years and then every year for the next 90 years they register it for an additional year.

They are betting that they will earn more than enough from investing your up front 100 year payment to more than cover future increases in the cost of those one year extensions.

Their customers are betting that Network Solutions or some successor will be around long enough and that domain names will work like the do now long enough that this will be worth it.
Thinking about suicide does not make one suicidal. There are plenty of times where I think “I’d rather be dead” but have no urge to actually act on it. This is far different from thinking “I’d rather be dead, let me start preparing.”
Probably the union proposals were not actually met. NPR uses the wording "According to the company".
How does that work? You’re saying a child being literally homeless can focus on keeping GPA up?
With pubkey crypto you could easily allow validating with a self-contained device. That's just a signature check.

The obvious way to do that has some drawbacks though, the big one being that if the private key ever leaks, your whole system is now useless and needs to be replaced (cards, verifiers and all). And you'd need to either generate all the cards in one place, or the private key would need to be available in multiple places. Not really a recipe for success long-term.
Harrison Schmidt, notwithstanding his title being Lunar Module Pilot, never piloted anything. He was a passenger who read some gauges aloud and flipped some switches when instructed. We still call him an astronaut.
> There is so much cash in the economy, thanks to printing $18 trillion last year.

Good ol' trickle up economics at work.
What prevents someone from checking an ID against a central-authority?

I mean, doing so online isn't necessary -- there're plenty of validation mechanisms that could work offline, and presumably they'd be useful in the odd cases in which internet-connectivity isn't available. But internet-connectivity tends to be pretty accessible in most scenarios where an ID would need to be checked anyway, right?
The last few paragraphs are quoting the company. My experience of labor disputes is that companies are often less than honest when engaged in them. I wouldn't trust their self reported records in this case.

But also, it wouldn't be very surprising if the union drove a weaker bargain than the workers wanted. A lot of unions have gotten pretty toothless.

I would guess both factors are at play here.
> https://youtu.be/Uf_9J_EdzZw

I don't know why the no legs thing seems so incredibly frightening to me. It's like a really bad "uncanny valley" feeling - everyone walking around, chatting normally, but seeming to not realize they've all been sawed in half.
When Ancient Greece Banned Women from Olympics, They Started Their Own
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson Not yet Astronauts, US Says
I have been using stackoverflow for years and this is the first time I saw these type of ads. That's why I correlated it with their acquisition.
Dream on Zuck. Stick to vids of you throwing spears and shooting arrows
Yep. And even if everybody met whatever arbitrary "diligent/hardworking/intelligent" line that the commenter you're replying to requires in order to treat people like fucking human beings there still wouldn't be enough jobs paying a livable wage to employ everyone. Their line of argument is naive at best.
It is sad that even in this case, the orthodox line that "the ancients were ignorant about the movement around the Sun" is pushed by the very people who perhaps ought to know better. This machine would clearly have been a useful predictor of the positions of the planets regardless whether you subscribe to the heliocentric model or not.

It was more likely inspired by the pythagorian numerical model of the universe. Who is to say that Pythagoras was wrong? For example, all of modern chemistry is explainable in those terms.
This new paper still references the Egyptian calendar ring (365 days grouped as 12 x 30 + 5). Budiselic et al propose a 354 day Lunar calendar).
I have seen in every movement that while people share the goal, they do not share the strategy. The strategy often involve trade offs and cultural values that is separated from the common goal, and the stronger people feel about the goal the more convinced they are about their own chosen strategy. The most bitter fights tend to be between people who strongly share the same goals.

Preparing for a hotter world is nice, but what I am hoping is that nations (and the green movement) will realize that all strategies need to be deployed and it doesn't matter if one strategy feels like it is being counter productive to the values of an other. Some people can focus on replacing meat with vegetarian options, other on ecological meat, some on reducing factory farming in favor of local small scale production, and some on low carbon meat like shell fish. Let some build nuclear power plants, other renewable energy and battery. Focus on building bike infrastructure, rail system and electrify all parts of the transport system.
Here in the US you need to be 17 to enlist in the armed forces. If a 17 year-old is mature enough to go to war, to potentially kill and be killed, then they're old enough to drink.
pieces.app
You may be in for a surprise. Starting late and being "slow" aren't actually the big predictors for failure. Particularly in the tech industry we should all remember Apple, who was persistently identified as slow, late and only making incremental improvements until the ungodly profits and overwhelming success of their strategy forced all the grumpy types to quiet down.

And it turned out that as long as there are consistent incremental improvements "slow" is very hard to judge. In hindsight, Apple was moving very fast.

Not saying any particular venture will succeed, but the qualifications for success aren't speed nor earliness. Success comes from clear communication, solving a problem and correctly identifying opportunity.
That's not how science works.

You can't ever test anything in the past, so by your logic nothing in the past can be considered scientific. By your logic, plate tectonics can't explain the past movement of continents.

Which is, of course, wrong.

We can absolutely test aspects of a theory, verify its
general validity, see that it best correlates with past evidence, and therefore infer past causes. Nothing of that is unscientific -- to the contrary, that's precisely how science works.
I am off, you are right. I remembered something vague but it must have been: watching tv while eating (140 calories an hour) vs slow walking at 220 calories an hour.
I see. On a counterpoint, the new owners bought this company for billions of dollars. Don't you think they have the right to show ads to get money back?

And stackoverflow is so important that it's impossible to not use it. I am just hoping that someone improves ublock origin to catch these ads
In this day and age having over 400 actually paying customers is a lot! Even having 400 free users would be a lot. Now the question is - do they play the game ? Any number above 1% is good, so if there are 4 players spending a lot of time - it's a good sign. If possible ask them what they think is good about it, then update the marketing material to showcase what is good about the game.
I don’t care about Branson, but SpaceShipTwo and its pilots are pretty neat.

As far as I know, SpaceShipOne and Two are the only vehicles that leave and reenter the atmosphere under manual control of the pilot since the X-15. the space shuttle had some manual control for landing, but was mostly autonomous otherwise.
What does this report say, as I can't seem to read anymore.

What am I doing with my fingers?!

These sounds in my head, seemingly playing my body as an instrument, are unnerving.

Why am I here?

What am I?

How?

Achoo!
How much is the bonus? Sadly, 150K-180K is not unheard of. If you are single, want downtown living and not save a lot, Toronto could be a fine place to be. The job market is also slowly getting better. However, do note that Toronto is fairly high cost-of-living if you have kids (i.e. aspirations for a house with a yard; houses went up over 20% last year and they were expensive before that), plan to drive (check out the vision zero plan which reduced speed limits all over the city to an unreasonable level IMHO). The elite employers will likely pay you more (e.g. shopify, google, layer 6) but will of course be harder to get a job. Canadian immigration is also not the easiest (though the reputation may seem otherwise).

I have heard great things about Sydney. May I ask why you want to move? To me, Sydney sounds like the place I'd move to after becoming a millionaire (no snow, beaches, nature).
This means that Rust can also die once an "Effective Rust" is published and the author retires!
Jimmy Maher does a great job documenting the history behind these games, but I think he lets in a bit too much personal bias in the second half of his articles where he reviews the game from a modern perspective.

I first started noticing this with his review of Wing Commander III:

"if you ask me whether Wing Commander III is a good game in the abstract, my answer has to be no, it really is not. It’s best reserved today for those who come to it for nostalgia’s sake, or who are motivated by a deep — not to say morbid! — curiosity about the era which it so thoroughly embodies."

Yet his review of the first Wing Commander ends on a very positive note--despite the game's (numerous) flaws, he calls it a "hugely engaging, hugely fun" game that he still recommends to new players.

Being closely familiar with both games, that's a bit of a hard pill to swallow. The gameplay of WC1 (if you can get it to run at the correct speed) is just so much more rough than WC3 that I would never recommend it to any but the most diehard retro game masochists. I would say that WC3, in contast, is still very accessible and enjoyable (if not the most varied space sim ever).

I think what's happening--and this is all too common in these kinds of retro game reviews--is that he's showing bias for the games he preferred/played first when he was younger.

He really seems biased against the later, big production games of the mid-90s: Wing Commander 3, Myst, Full Throttle... and I suspect we'll see more of this bias as these later reviews increase.

https://www.filfre.net/2021/03/wing-commander-iii/
https://www.filfre.net/2017/04/from-wingleader-to-wing-comma...
There is going to be an obvious bias here because a good fraction of those people will be anti-maskers, anti-handwashers, anti-vaxxers, ... basically mentally defective to begin with.

I don't see how you can account for this. It would be unethical to give a random sample of people Covid-19, and measure the cognitive abilities before and after.
Sorry, are you suggesting that the CEO of PepsiCo is somehow powerless to answer the pleas and protestations of the strikers?
So I'm thinking my state-issued driver's license might be fake. Some of its qualities:

- Does not have any raised lettering

- Has weird edges around my hair from the shadows that look just like the ones the author called Photoshop evidence

- The hologram looks like crap. Nice to see that Massachusetts doesn't skimp on it the way $STATE does.

- The aspect ratio of the picture is squished because they just used my last photo. COVID, you know.

- Clearly says "NOT FOR REAL ID PURPOSES" which I know refers to "RealID", but still makes me laugh.
not sure about their motivation, but they made a good point. We need to educate poor working class that there is a shortage of labor so they can ask for more. For capitalists, you can view this as quickly snapping labor costs to actual values. It is an efficiency boost.
This is not the kind of thing that should require striking. The whole point of government is strength in numbers; protecting small groups of people from being abused.

I'm not optimistic, but I really am hoping that we can get our capitalism better regulated some day. At this point, it's not even really capitalism: there's no real competition, and the investments on short term gains are drying up. The field's of opportunity have been ransacked by short cons. Nothing left to do but invest keeping the short cons out.
Hrm... Much earlier 'prior art' :-)

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/philip-k-dick-s-1969-no...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik
It’s just a copy of the info printed on the card, in a standard barcode format.