skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot of commandline I don't normally have to bother with. And if I'm not living in the commandline then I only end up running git when I reach some milestone I want to back up... which I can do just as easily with 7zip without installing anything I don't already have, and I can copy archives to my NAS without having to set up some remote repo.

You can try and convince me until you're blue in the face dude, but I've tried it and I just don't like it. End of story.
No, 'reflective' was the right word.

'Transflective' means that display has both backlight and reflective layer (Pebble used such technology). Playdate has no backlight, only reflective layer so it is 'reflective', not 'transflective'.
https://youtu.be/Yq4jdShG_PU

Here is the CEO of a big brokerage explaining how bad of a situation the hedge funds (shorts) were in, they made a terrible trade.

All you need to know. Shorts made a terrible bet and had Robinhood cut off retail to save their asses.
If you don't need distribution then sure host it on S3, or Vimeo, or anywhere really. If you need distribution, you're going have to find it somewhere and Youtube is a great place for that.
Or you could build up an audience on some other network (email, facebook, twitter) so that you could then get an audience for your video, oh and also think of a business model where you can make money off of said video using that audience. Which many people do and make plenty of money off of.
Making the content (typing on a keyboard) is not nearly as difficult as getting distribution for that content.
`fzf` can be combined with `find` (or `fd`) and then you can just press Ctrl-T and have a fuzzy searching prompt for all files in and under the current directory. It's super convenient.
I had a conversation with an Israeli guy about smart grids and the iron dome while watching old Bond movies. Highly recommend Big Screen. Eye contact, hand gestures and the occasional air drawing go a long way to connect people.
Isn’t it like watching potato quality? We had the first oculus rift at our office many years ago and there was an app to play video files in a movie theatre. But the resolution was so bad it was like watching a VHS. I see the potential here but the quality/resolution is going to have to take a huge leap.
Yeah, that really shows how much effort they (had to) put into supporting the variety of PC sound cards - although by the 90s most (affordable) cards were (or claimed to be) "AdLib/SoundBlaster-compatible". But I still like the video I posted better - I mean, there were (and partly still are) other systems out there than the PC, let's not forget that! And I originally played Monkey Island on the Amiga, so that version has a special place in my heart...
Absolutely zero. People would find another way to communicate, socialize, or whatever. The loss of Facebook would be a loss of jobs and income for people, but that’s it. Facebook serves no positive purpose in society, and it seems the best thing a person can do, is to delete their Facebook account.
...tied to a horrid service. Do you really want Facebook having full access to your VR activity log? All of it?
We have this functionality over at vrland.io as well, and it doesn't require going through FB's walled garden Oculus store.

It's like a web-based VRChat, so it will work on any device with a browser. If Apple ships WebXR when they release their headset next year, it will work by default there too. Universal, decentralized, and free of walled gardens. That's the definition of the metaverse! Our team is on a mission to build a immersive version of the web in 3D and VR.

Check it out here:

https://vrland.io/cinema
I completely missed the news that Microsoft acquired Citrus back in 2019.

I noticed in their MIT like license it referred to Microsoft and was confused until I learned they were acquired.

https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover/blob/master/LI...
Hi, thats amazing! I was trying if it would be possible to find the software or the cables somewhere hidden on web. But it's looks like there is nothing. This was actually the motivation for the blogpost in case someone want to the same thing, so he can get the informations.
I've seen it used quite a few times in HN discussions of unethical business practices. My favorite is when the meme "corporation's sole responsibility is maximize profit to the shareholder" gets mixed in and folks argue that it's a moral imperative to take the dirty money
It was the developers that made those games, not "the company".
The implication here is that there were not any "extenuating circumstances," and by that I mean that the circumstances were artificial and were the result of a direct action made by Robinhood as a result of their own poor business practices. It is not an uncommon occurrence for a retail broker to deal in high-risk securities on their clients behalf, and for those high-risk securities to vary wildly in price and liquidity. Collateral requirements are posted to all clearing members every morning during pre-market hours, and they do increase and decrease with respect to the DTC/NSCC VaR (Value-at-Risk) models. Brokers and clearing institutions maintain cash reserves and additional avenues of funding for this very purpose and we can see that Robinhood had no trouble with that aspect of their business - just like every other broker.

Likewise, it is not unreasonable for investors to expect that a broker would actually possess the shares that the investor has purchased, and it is expected that the broker would make a timely effort to procure actual shares after acknowledging that an order was filled. It seems that perhaps this expectation was broken by Robinhood's bizarre book-keeping practices. The "extenuating circumstances" are simply a result of Robinhood deciding to play a game of brinkmanship, and rather than owning up to the problem and paying out of pocket for their mistake, they decided to hurt their own customers.

EDIT: I'd like to cite some articles which hopefully provide insight into Robinhood scrambling to locate shares on transfers to other brokers, and the unusual amount of reported fails-to-deliver that immediately occurred at the time that Robinhood took action.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/05/ftc-sees-surge-in-robinhood-...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/sec-data-...
If you have a forum with 100 people and your opinion is downvoted by 50 your opinion is (within that forum) the minority opinion.

That doesn't necessarily mean this opinion is a minority opinion in the real world. In fact it doesn't even have to mean those who downvoted don't share your opinion, they might have downvoted you for a heap of reasons (maybe you were rude, or they saw your comment as pointless, maybe they downvoted every comment except their own, etc.)
I am one of them and I have been blown away by my first headset. Most of the news about Quest revolves around mistrust of FB. That's fair, but it's still going to take billions in investment to make this tech hit it's full potential, so I am glad it's at least a US company. Maybe I would pay the Apple premium if they ever release a decent competitor.

In the meantime, I think this is the most promising new consumer technology since the iPhone. There's huge potential for social, exercise, gaming, media consumption, general purpose computing, business, art, and education. I have had many magic moments where the human-computer interaction was as natural as waving to a friend or hitting a ping pong ball. AR is going to share in most of this potential, so I view this as an early iteration of a device that will have AR and VR modes and can be used both in every day life and in the VR bubble. Eventually our phones will be obsolete.
My favorite TIL about this game is that it is developed completely without VCS like git.
Can you play roblox on it?
I was once working on a micro site for some under eye highlighting roll-on, essential titanium dioxide suspended in various petrochemicals and emulsifiers. The premise of the ads was that bags under the eyes make you look old and tired, and I have to say all the weird beauty speak worked and I did start to wonder if I did indeed need their product that fixed a condition of being human that no-one noticed until their ad created this sense of lack in the people viewing it.
Is there no penalty for submitting false copyright claims? If so, that seems to an oversight, to say the least.
> I’m not going to tell you how to live your life, but IMO, if you are at work just clocking your 8h, you should consider switching.

Fair point. I don't think I'm at work to "just clock my 8h". I actually enjoy what I do most of the time; it's just that I don't fight anymore against, imho, pointless company bureaucracy. But above all, my philosophy is: work is work; sometimes it's enjoyable, sometimes it's not.

> Also, if you think you are attending too many useless meetings, it’s your responsibility to let them (or at least your direct report) know. They might not be aware that you aren’t needed.

Sure; I never said "don't give feedback". I was just assuming the scenario in which pointless meetings are "inevitable" for whatever reason and we have to come up with (although I know it's a joke) apps like the one we see here in this post.
These limits are in your favor, you are free to negotiate contracts within the limits. I fail to see how the right to work for less pay than what others see as the absolute minimum fair pay is a right that's worth keeping.

This is a bit like saying that criminal law takes away your right to be mugged, beaten, and murdered.
Facebook will delete your account without notice, even after they've messed with your account once and reinstated it after making the issue public.

https://github.com/wit-ai/wit/issues/1946#issuecomment-88337...

Facebook employees will ignore your calls for help, and there is no proper way to contact them regarding a disappeared account.

You have to pretend to be an active Facebook user in order to access services tailored to developers, such as Wit.ai.

Imagine having to like YouTube videos and subscribe to channels, maybe post a comment sometimes in order to not wake up with your Google Cloud instances gone without notice.

That's how Facebook developer services operate.
As an add-on to protecting your time. I will help just about anyone that needs help but be wary of people that send you direct slack messages.

Often they are messaging you directly because they are stuck. That is fine as we all get stuck sometimes. If they directly message you often they:

- are lacking the skills/time/training to do their job. Been there.
- are under pressure to get results quickly. Been there too.
- are lacking the people/resources on their team to get results. Yup, been there too.
- more horribly, they are taking credit for your knowledge and using you to get ahead. This has happened to me and I was pissed.

You have to break out of this cycle.

- In your standups/scrums/reporting, make it very well known that you 'spent X hours helping Y with Z'. You do not want to get in trouble for missing deadlines because you were helping someone else. You also want to be known as a helper/fixer because those are useful to teams.
- Move the chats from direct messages to private channels. You need to let others know what is going on and more importantly you need to spread the knowledge that you are an expert of.
- Moving to a channel also publicly sells your skills and knowledge to a wider audience.
- Moving to a channel lets all managers know that something is lacking somewhere. Either their team doesn't have enough training, people or docs to get the jobs done.
- Start writing documentation or updating the current docs. There is a gap somewhere in the docs if your knowledge is directly needed. Even 2 paragraph FAQs are useful to everyone. Having a doc will save you time in the future as you can just point people to it.

Note: Always give credit where credit is due. If someone helps you out, let the world know how awesome they are. This will help you out in the long run because you will be known as someone that is humble, human and a growing.

edit: the formatting is always terrible for me
I got that, but the question was why someone would risk that; I am pointing out that there is a strong positive that maybe outweighs the negatives for a number of users.
> Boy, I hope somebody was fired for that blunder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_timeline
Not OP, but have had similar experiences with VR. I absolutely LOVE VR. It makes all forms of gaming 10x more exciting / interesting / immersive.

I still think the content isn’t nearly as mature as say, the traditional PC gaming or PS/Xbox games, but it’s slowly getting there. Hopefully as more people adopt VR, bigger and bigger publishers will see it as a profitable domain.

If you’re a Skyrim fan, check out some recent Skyrim VR (with mods) videos… It’s a truly mind blowing experience!
And? For better or worse Android is an open platform. It's the vast majority of phones world-wide, it's extremely functional and can be a very good experience depending somewhat on the handset maker.

Apple can control their quality to the degree they want, but it's also not an open platform and there's limited hardware choice.

I'll take Android any day, and most people I know do too.

Also, while we're talking about user experience, Google's cloud everything is far better than Apple's. Google services are amazing too.
Well, sure. They're looking for legal support for their position. They're not pretending to be an unbiased, disinterested observer.
if therac-25 didn't do that in the eighties, i doubt anything will.
Then find them or build them housing, or distribute compensation to landlords temporarily. The government tried to distribute money but the poor implementation of that effort killed it before it started.

Laying the burden on landlords for more than a few weeks is unconscionable and inequitable. I wonder how many small landlords sold or lost previously profitable properties due to their cash flow being decimated.

The long term rental market is damaged; landlords will now be hesitant to rent long term without significant protection like larger deposit requirements or even rent for less time to avoid being susceptible to some of these government actions.
Union busting is an historic and recognized practice of limiting the freemdom of association of workers and collective action.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Union_busting
> My licenses say, basically, "Sure, training is fair use, but distributing the output is not."

Licenses basically by definition cannot say what is and isn't fair use...
Who else puts Elixir in their Tinder bio?
If there's anything that flat Earth theories prove then it would be that there is no objective truth that can be universally agreed upon.

So sure we can suppose that there is an objective truth (ironically this point is also debated), but who do you trust to be its arbiter?
These discussions lack a lot of nuance. I think all of these things are worth considering:

* FB is a company, not a government, so they can more or less do what they want.

* It's concerning that one company has so much influence. "Just go somewhere else" is tough with the network effects that a system like theirs has.

* FB is responsible for tons of misinformation spreading and is very toxic in a lot of ways.

I'm not really sure what, if anything we should do, but it'd be nice to read a bit more elevated discussions about the problems with social media.
Besides scented substances on our skin, I also cannot stand things like scented candles or scented air fresheners. The scents don't smell natural at all, are generally overpowering, and they occasionally give me headaches. I'd rather have good ventilation.
Neurotransmitter Levels in the Brain Predict Math Ability
This is fantastic but unfortunately it reveals compensation information for attendees.
I hadn’t thought of that point before. You really can’t leave while pumping gas. So electric charging time is more productive.
I've read this 3 times trying to figure out how you didn't just pose a self-refuting rebuttal.
The unsustainable economy we are in currently is less a function of market failure and more a function of excessive government interference, globalisation and technological plateauing. In a race to the bottom everybody loses. The industrial revolution took place in the context of cheap energy, new science and engineering, expensive labor and higher interest rates. Since perhaps the 1970s-1990s all these trends have been reversing.
This makes it much less surprising that they picked WH to represent them. He would know the firm and their specialties, and they would have pitched him for this business.

What's really surprising is that a former BigLaw attorney is now the director of WoW!

https://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/ion-hazzikostas-1414500
>Robinhood, along with half a dozen other banks/brokers who were well capitalized

They weren't well capitalized. What gave you that idea? Just to preempt the "but DTCC said so" reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28000185

>and continued to do so until the price was 1/10th of the high

Because the price isn't a relevant factor. GME being 1/10th the price just means that people would buy 10x more shares, leading to the same deposit requirements.
Sums up the state of data science
Takedown of Towards Data Science sums up the data science landscape.
I imagine they flagged it as false not because of the link, but because of who shared/posted it.
I've dropped many in the bath, and one or two down the loo - they still worked.
Thanks!

Can relate to feeling like there aren't apps out there that really focus on this specific problem. Happy to see Doppler resonate with a lot of people today.

I've thought about incorporating music-focused podcasts into Doppler. There's a lot of really high quality ones out there (e.g. Resident Advisor). It's not something planned for the short term, but it's definitely on my radar.

Good to know I'm not alone in thinking it would be useful!
This is WSB logic. More than one entity can, and usually does, make bad decisions in a volatile market.
And yet it received enough votes to be on the front page, meaning enough visitors were aware of it or interested enough to spend 5 seconds investigating what it is!
I did follow the whole adventure online. I will buy this bokk for sure.

Thanks, Bob.
You did a wonderful job.
Congrats on the launch!

I work in the "realtime" space too (founder of Fanout, low level push infra).

Liveblocks looks like it's somewhere between Firebase and Sendbird, providing live updates and state management, but for specific use-cases and stopping short of the UI. I haven't seen too many products operating at that level of abstraction, so maybe you're on to something. I also like how you solve for more use-cases than chat, the dominant "block" in the market.
And it can't deliver 280 characters without JavaScript, because HTML can't deal with text, presumably.
I'm an OQ2 owner and am pretty happy with it especially compared to my PSVR which broke after less than a year of intermittent use. But the thing is, I really don't use it that much, other than for exercise or as a way to virtually meet up with my young nephew (who also rarely plays it). We spent far more time on our PS4s.

Some of it is old habit — and form factor of course, as light and wireless as the OQ2 is, it's still magnitudes more "work" than just plopping on the couch and turning on the TV. But for me, the big thing is game quality. Other than dedicated rhythm games (basically, Beat Saber) or ports of successful non-VR video games (Skyrim, Superhot, Tetris Effect), very few if any VR games for the OQ2 (I do not have an Alyx-capable PC) feel more than a half-fleshed out tech demo, with the possible exception of multiplayer freemium (e.g. Rec Room).

I've basically bought every Oculus game with an average rating of 4.3 (out of 5) or more, and nothing has really hooked me. And I can understand the lack of fully polished/thought-out games given what I thought was a very small and niche audience. So I was genuinely surprised to see that 4M OQ2s have been sold...that's obviously smaller than a traditional console, but not at all bad for the first year of non mainstream tech.

I wonder what the active user/game purchaser rate is?

edit: actually since I've been very physically lazy lately, I get the most use out of my OQ2 by watching Amazon Prime video. The resolution is just barely good enough for an immersive experience, and the Prime app (unlike the very basic Netflix app), allows you to resize and reposition the screen exactly as you like.
Facebook Horizon is not the metaverse. VRland.io is the closest to the metaverse as any platform I've seen out there, it can be described as a web-based VRchat that not only works on headsets via WebXR, but on mobile phones and computers via WebGL. The metaverse needs to be a spatial, immersive layer that's architected off the back of our current 2.5D web. No 30% fees from walled gardens, and interoperability due to the platform-agnostic nature of the web.

Try out VRland here: https://vrland.io/
Pascal does, at least in all the more common dialects.

VBA (and VB in general) overloads "+" for strings in addition to providing "&", the difference being mostly in what gets converted to what in various situations: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/language/referen...
I feel like this is a meta commentary that someone who posts articles like

- ‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-Gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack

- Siri plays dumb about documentary “Hillary's America”

And posts anticlimate change articles.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of paternalism and micro-managing going on there either, on the part of the US-based scrum master.
Is there anything in the SteamVR world that does what the Quest 2 does? A completely self contained, inside-out tracking experience? I love my Quest 2, but I don't like knowing that I'm one algorithmically determined bad Facebook comment away from losing access to my device and everything I've paid for permanently.
I'm discovering PeerTube for hosting my own vids I want to share, had anyone received claims to put down self-hosted content?
So far Kaplan hasn't shown up as even an incidental participant in any of the photos or group chats, and hasn't been named as someone who brushed off requests for help. The Titan team that he lead prior to it turning into OW was by all reports a toxic mess for totally unrelated reasons, though.
Correct. More information here https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/04/incremental-static-...
Why web based? Wouldn't native versions be better as far as performance and latency goes?
I filmed a live concert in the basement of a friends house, and someone from Brazil had the audacity to claim copyright over it. Weeks have gone by while they monetized my video and there was nothing I could do about that. I disputed it, and they were forced to release their copyright claim, but I should be entitled to damages. They knowingly and falsely made a claim against the video I recorded, and it got to the point where I had to tell Youtube That I can produce the actual camera and the original footage before they would believe me. YouTube content and copyright system is garbage.
I don't monetize my videos to begin with, so I wouldn't be making any money anyway. My creator revenue (for my work on the Asahi Linux project) comes entirely from Patreon and GitHub Sponsors, so I can afford to laugh this off, as it doesn't affect my bottom line. However, not everyone is lucky enough to be in this position.

I've heard countless horror stories of creators ending up in Content ID hell and losing huge amounts of revenue. Whatever systems YouTube has to try to make this work, they obviously don't, not in practice, and real people are being hurt by copyright trolls like this one.

One thing I have no recourse for is that there are now incredibly intrusive pre-roll ads running on the video and annoying my viewers, where there shouldn't be any. No amount of escrow is going to make up for that problem.
Also https://www.reddit.com/r/NonZeroDay/