skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, but you specifically mentioned this as a career. You'd want _some_level of success if your passion project is your career.
Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles
Well, yes, that is true :)
Any suggestions for fulfillment on PDF ebooks? My kickstarter for my LaTeX book¹ is almost over and I have enough backers that I think I want to do something a bit more sophisticated than just send people a download link (ideally, I'd like to have individually watermarked PDFs for each backer to act as a social deterrent to uploading the file to download sites). It'd be nice also if they could come back later to get a corrected version of the PDF if I do updates in the future.²

1. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/preppylion/the-preppy-l...

2. I'm working on being meticulous about typos but I know they will happen, plus there will likely be updates to LaTeX that will require some minor changes in the text as time goes by.
What are your cost of living increases looking like this year?
With inflation soaring and the tech market roaring, I seem to have spontaneously been given a 10% hike (I only know so far because there is a precise 10% increase on my pay slip).

Want to know if that is in line with others.
> For example: SF sucks in the summer, but maybe the tourists don't know that.

Actual SF, or surrounding areas? I would think SF is fairly nice in the summer with the ocean breeze. Sonoma county gets pretty warm in the summer as well, but SF proper always felt cooler to me. I can imagine San Jose being just as bad or worse though.
The flip side is job security so it’s not all bad :)
Estuary Flow [1] may be interesting to those in this space.

We're still building, but it's a GitOps workflow tool that tightly integrates schema definition (JSON Schema), captures and materializations from/to your systems & SaaS, rich transformations, catalog and provenance metadata tracking, built-in testing, and a managed runtime. All with sub-second latency.

Flow's runtime uses nascent but really promising open protocols for building connectors to the myriad systems and APIs out there. We're seeing Airbyte's work (itself built off of Singer) as the best steps in this direction and are leaning into that effort ourselves.

[1] github.com/estuary/flow
Got a link to where I could pick up those LFP cells for just over $100/kWh?
As a passive person it took me several years to learn how to push back and I deal with people who regularly challenge me and I push back and challenge them. PM says deadline is not movable, I say I think you can make it happen. And we have a balance in power.

I never worked with Jobs or Musk, but from stories I read about them, they are straight up bullies and sociopaths. Musk told a guy who took one day off to attend birth of his first born to get his priorities straight. That is not normal.
Yes :) I still drive it, it's a 2017 i3. In fact, I did retrofit the 3rd party module (I got the roadtop one)

I don't think the fact that BMW _now_ offers it for _some_ cars (and most importantly, not for my car) disproves my point that automotive companies should be more willing to retrofit parts for you OR offer them via paid software upgrades instead of encouraging you to purchase a whole new vehicle
> Collective bargaining takes away my right to bargain for certain agreements for myself.

No, they don't. Actors are able to negotiate themselves and with the help from their union, and they're all members of SAG-AFTRA.
I am definitely not perceiving your comments as fastidious.
> No one asks why Yeezys go for thousands while you can get an equivalent running shoe for $50.

People spend thousands on shoes?
You see, the problem with Applebees gift card is that the denominations are in the multiples of $25. This creates a dilemma of menu selection - should one order 1) Fish sticks, Caesar salad and an oatmeal cookie for $24.29 or 2) Chicken parmesan and a red velvet cake for $23.99. Other combinations are possible but you'd be leaving money on the table demanding an additional visit to recoup the remainder and you really don't want to overpay. I'd be totally fine if they just offer a VISA card instead.
People still use Facebook?! :p
Information can be accurate or fake based on who said it?
The quality of mainstream journalism is dwindling as those institutions can only stay relevant by manufacturing outrage. The BBC now reads like BuzzFeed.
So, I tried to place my order 16 minutes after pre-orders began. But I did not get into batch one.

I've been on the aspiring developer's mailing list for years. /sigh.

Super bummed that this means missing out on enjoying season one "live".

As it stands I'm not going to order until the unit is in stock. I'm so burned out on the chip shortages.
People on individual market with no subsidies (making over, say $50k) got absolutely raped by the ACA. It's great that many uninsured got insurance, but many people like myself spent years uninsured post-ACA because the cost was higher than a mortgage payment with absolutely zero realized benefit until the massively high deductible was met. People who couldn't afford this were then charged thousands by the IRS as a penalty with zero benefit. I find myself not a fan of it from a policy perspective. Didn't like the way it was passed, written, or implemented. Some good effects, but truly bad effects as well. Scrapping the mandate was beneficial for people in my position (starting businesses), but still the healthcare system in the US is a train wreck. It's neither a free market system nor a public system. It is fundamentally broken unless you are an employee of a larger corporation that offers benefits.
My observations don't suggest that principle holds true for the general poplulation. I fear too many people lack either sufficient knowledge or sufficient critical thinking to independently determine whether strongly-made claims successfully fact-check.

Lacking that ability, consensus of the commons is more likely to be correct than fringe opinion and can back-stop that missing ability.

Much of the Internet-connected world is currently running a fascinating experiment on itself regarding whether a public exposed to a fire-hose of unmodulated opinion can grow in aggregate wisdom or will be dissolved by gibbering foolishness. The results of this experiment are not yet determined.
So much of it is subjective. But assuming you throw out having seasons--especially snowy seasons--and desire for year-round humid or dry heat--the answer probably comes down to some variation of a Mediterranean climate with assorted perturbations. Though that doesn't really match up with the results.
We have a new born and as such, banned from theaters for 3-4-5 years. Glad streaming is an option now.
The Blizzard that made Diablo and Diablo 2 is not the same as the Blizzard of the today, the key people have moved, so I don’t see the issue with playing their older offline games.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here, but consider it noted - I'll take a look at some more up to date statistics soon.
Ohhh Urbancompany.com we know about you guys! Great work! Is it true that your main services are beauty and wellness? I will love to talk to you to share notes.
Are you saying technology automatically doesn't make friendships genuine somehow?
People should absolutely get vaccinated. After Eric Topol's appearance on Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast, the argument has been made and it's airtight... for you, yourself going and getting vaccinated of your own volition.

What should not happen - what cannot happen - is the government or private entities forcing you to be vaccinated, or you lose your means of supporting yourself. It's as un-American as it gets.

Part of being a free society - a truly free society - is that people must be free to make their own choices, even if they're poor choices.
I guess it depends where you are coming from. In not a gamer and find most screen based games a chore but I adore a bunch of VR games. They are simpler and thus require far less time commitment to get into. And the additional exercise is great after sitting in an office chair for 8 or 10 hours.
I used to make these on CD cases back in the 90's. How far you spread the protractor pins defines how deep the point will appear, so you can make multi-layer holographs. You just have to be careful not to cross lines at inopportune places and you can do some spectacular 3D reflections.
FWIW, many fitness watches that are designed for outdoor use (e.g. most Garmin or Amazfit models) still use transflective displays. They work flawlessly in bright sunlight, a backlight works well in the dark, and the battery life benefits compared to AMOLED or similar is an added bonus.
I'm glad this is getting attention.

These ISO standards are legislation in a lot of countries. If you wish to sell a product which falls under their remit you are legally required to be compliant

But the only way to know you're compliant is to give the standards body hundreds of £/€/$ to read the standard. And then it references another standard which you also need to buy. Etc. Etc.

If you actually follow all the references you could easily spend thousands on standards alone, just to design and sell something legally.
I would wager on the Canary Islands never to hot or cold and lots of good weather
I think this is more of a language paradigm problem. Game programming is very much tied up in C++ and C# for historical and performance reasons, ECS is a way to try and graft what is entirely natural in a more value-based language into OOP mechanics and C++/C# type systems.

ECS is so common and easy in lisps that it doesn't even warrant its own name.
'5' == 53 != 5

https://theasciicode.com.ar/ascii-printable-characters/numbe...

have you all ripped down your ASCII posters already
Summer in the PNW is no good - it's sunny every day for months straight! It's terrible!
You will reveal much of your personal information to copyright trolls if you choose to fight things yourself.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6005919
Also a good reason to prefer streaming. My wife and I don't have kids (yet), but fortunately we also like different movies so when the time comes we'll probably trade off kid duties so the other can go see a movie and get away for a bit (when we go to theaters now, half the time we're not seeing the same movie anyways).
That seems pretty dumb. There aren’t competing ideas about how an operating system should work?
> So the software that is called 'FSD' (Full Self Driving) doesn't actually mean what is says or was advertised then?

There is no FSD today the capability you're paying for is a future update, it used to be entirely that - now they include some extra features under FSD that aren't in base autopilot (lane changes, etc.).

They've always been pretty explicit about this - the language on the site today reads:

> The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions. As these self-driving features evolve, your car will be continuously upgraded through over-the-air software updates.

They've also shipped more features toward this goal over time which is what they said they'd do (including a free hardware update if you had paid ahead for FSD).

> We are in 2021. Where are the robotaxis then? [0]

I already conceded he was wrong about timelines.

> Irrelevant. Stay on point.

Not irrelevant - this is the comparison we're talking about the nature of the difference between Trevor Milton and Elon Musk. If you ignore contradictory evidence because it doesn't support your position that's just cherry picking.

> So I am not allowed to say they are billionaires?

>> Ah yes. A certain billionaire promises...

>> This billionaire in 2019, surely...

Do the above quotes sound like some neutral descriptor to you?
Something this doesn't tell you is that summers in London for example are awful because our homes have historically been designed to trap heat.
Forget “App Tracking Transparency”: Facebook is making more ad revenue than ever
A common pattern with beadm on FreeBSD is for the root filesystem dataset to be called "ROOT", and this mirrors what's in the main article. It appears this person has boot environments enabled, but didn't actually explain anything about them.

ZFS boot environments are awesome. You can get them on both FreeBSD and Illumos with beadm. On Linux there are a number of utilities, but I've only used ZSys. It comes working out of the box if you do a ZFS-on-root install with Ubuntu.
There are exclusive games made by some famous people in the industry, and it features a new gaming device: a crank.
> Discussion of value-systems are just hopeless, as there's no common ground.

It boils down to freedom vs. safety, period. It's just that simple.

In a free society, you have to sacrifice safety. The safety people are fine to feel they way they want to feel, but they need to understand that argument is antithetical to American values. America is founded on the ideals of freedom; it was not founded on the ideals of safety.
Wasn't the PS5 severely limited in availability?

If so, this doesn't seem the right comparison.
In the realm of FOSS, I feel like it's not the same comparisons. The FOSS devs created the work, released that work with the express knowing that someone else could update/modify that work. Writing/art/videos are rarely released with copyright that allows this kind of modification. That's a huge difference. There are some FOSS releases that allow people to use for personal/private use while restricting commercial use. This is closer to the books/movies type of scenario.
The volume, and shipping hurdles are sure a part of thing, but there are persistent speculation about nearly every battery maker putting no resale clause on the contract, and enforcing them zealously to keep retail prices high, so their distributors can make a buck.

Depending on your size. Inverter prices vary most dramatically for minor features, and options.

For batteries only, with shipping, and duties, think of a double of alibaba.com price.
Did Covid escape from a lab? True/False please.
I would take this a step further and say that all social media recommendation algorithms should be publicly reviewable.

The claim is that this algorithms are neutral. But we know many contain ways for the owner to artificially boost preferred content. And algorithms tend to have the biases of their creators in them.

Controlling what people see is an important power and one that should be regulated.
Leaks Reveal Spyware Meant to Track Criminals Targeted Activists Instead
Noita also had a fun one during early development: deer drowning in their own urine.

And now that I dug up the Reddit AmA thread (https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/d7cqjz/we_are_nolla_...), there's a comment there about the drunken dead cats ...
I predict it is very likely we will see a court case where a smaller actor will take public available information as training data and get sued for copyright information. It will be interesting to see if, just like in the pirate bay case, the courts will be creative. In the TPB case, the accused was found guilty of an Swedish anti-biker gang law that was written with the intention to shut down biker bars.

When copilot came out, one thing it reminded me of was the ethical considerations of face generators in animation. The output naturally has some similarities with the training data, and it is trivial to use a limited set of actors in order to create faces with canny similarities of the actors. A question that people asked (here on HN if I recall) was if you needed permission from those actors to use in the training set, or if this would allow anyone to "steal" the face of public faces and create semi-look alike that can then be used in anything from porn to advertisement.

The law is undoubtedly going to catch up.
I've never minded reasonable ads, but I don't want tracker ads and cookies. I know people who produce good content deserve at least a chance at making a buck, I just don't want to sacrifice my privacy for it though. So serve up ads related to the article content or generic random ads I suppose.
Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_City,_California#Sloga...
Same here to some degree, but my thought in years past was that I could read a purchased [print] book years later, and still express my appreciation (and compensate the author) with a purchase immediately.
Who defines "polite"? Who defines "agitated"?

One person's "asshole" is another person's "passionate".
Meta-question to the mods: why would you edit the original title of this entry? Feels somewhat interventionist.
Thanks for sharing this! The comments are also an interesting read.
What were you doing when you were 19 that's any better than calling yourself tigole?
> developers don't have to give a cut to the Oculus store and Facebook

That's a good way to make Facebook think it's a failed platform and to stop investing in it.

> for users it will be nearly as performant as a native application

I'll have to see that to believe it. It's never been true for desktop or mobile applications so I can't see it being true on a resource constrained headset.

> WebXR

The new VRML?
There was a point in which the possibility of lab origin was “misinformation” or where accelerating the vaccine timeline to one year was “misinformation” or where face masks being helpful was “misinformation”. And at each stage people look at the current “all smart people agree on these truths” and feel so goddamn certain about banning other beliefs.
Not buying it, author has too much bias, just blaming everyone else

Ransomware is one of the many reasons to heavily rein in cryptos
I would agree that fraud is always going to happen; how much though is up for debate, and I would tend to argue that more fraud makes the world worse at funding revolutionary ideas. More revolutionary ideas happen and get funded in the US, which while I believe has become rife with fraud over the past decade, is no where near the scale the number of frauds in China or Africa or less well monitored markets.

Trust is fundamental part of markets and is basically its own interest rate. The more people can trust one another, the riskier investments people are willing to partake in.
Hunting a bug in the i40e Intel driver
and facebook could perhaps become highly regulated in the same way depending on how politics goes
And private DMs in certain cases as well. The argument doesn't hold water.
Is the IETF a troll organization [0]?

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html
Everyone knows that Clubhouse (The social audio app) got bigger than Clubhouse (the project management tool) much faster even though the latter was there before them.

They also lost out on getting the clubhouse.com domain and instead they bought shortcut.com
A standard that practically no one cares about and is actually used by others as another flag to identify you since most people don't have it turned on. Ideology is great but on the web some of us choose to be pragmatic.
It's also interesting to see it called a "longread" when it is only like 2 pages long. Is the attention span that short?
Amazon ending IE11 support on Management Console and Documentation
I try really hard not to. So far it's worked!
> and they're all members

So, in other words, their rights to bargain and engage in mutual agreements is restricted.

You literally just explained how their rights are limited.

Specifically, it is limited in that you have to be a part of this group, to engage in certain agreements.

And even within that group, people are prevented from engaging in certain mutual agreements.
Because she’s a good person and we split on good terms.
it’s also designed by teenage engineering, which has made a name for itself in high quality niche synthesizers…

Panic is also building an SDK and visual editor, and the games are included and time-released, so there’s a lot of software to fund too.
We landed at this pricing: $3/mo per user (in a basic plan) and $5/mo per user in a standard plan that includes more security features, anonymous check-ins, culture/team values for kudos, API/webhooks, and some other details.

The reasoning behind hiding pricing: we've been running a/b tests for different pricing setups inside our web app. We had to hide it from the public page because of a technical limitation in our a/b implementation. Public site and web app are completely separated and we didn't want to spend time integrating more things to track users/sync info between both apps - it soon will be over.

[Edit] Pricing page is not hiding info now.
I don’t see how Google can ignore DMCA counterclaims because handling them properly is a matter of federal law. There is no way a private party can indemnify Google against illegal behavior.

I would not be surprised if Content ID participants have indemnification agreements with Google related to Content ID, which is itself a private agreement.
Rift CV1 was 1080x1200 per eye, Quest 2 is 1832 x 1920 per eye. I haven't used one (have a Quest 1) but I hear it's quite good.
His channel is awesome, especially the video about the infinity hotel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxGsU8oIWjY
I'd say that the hero variety wasn't a good thing honestly, they never did a great job of balancing it. They shut down duplicate heros, then the game lurched from one overpowered unpopular meta to another until it got stuck on goats meta and they gave up and forced 222 team comps, which is when I stopped playing. There's a good reason other hero shooters kept the scope low, noone knows how to balance a high scope game for all levels of competitive play, and it's likely that you can't.
Neither firefox nor adblock origin are blocking it here.
So that was step 3 all along! Invite DDOS.

Step 4: ...
Everyone loves to mock the flat Earthers, but I believe the theory deserves more respect.

For the typical person, who roams around on some small patch of the Earth's surface, but who isn't launching rockets or traveling between continents, the flat earth theory is more useful than the spheroid earth theory. When you walk a short distance, your path's deviation from planar geometry due to the earth's global curvature is orders of magnitude smaller than the deviation due to local surface roughness, and hence the global curvature is irrelevant in practice. Let's say you walk 5km (about 3 miles); the difference between your path as predicted by the planar-earth theory versus the spherical earth theory is about one tenth of a millimeter. For 99% of what we do, invoking the spheroid Earth theory would be like using general relativity to model a baseball's trajectory in the presence of air resistance.

And if you happen to be far from the earth, on a length scale greater than about 10**9 km, then the point-earth theory is probably going to be the most useful model to you.

In short, it's all a matter of perspective. "Objective truth" isn't a thing; all that matters is how effective your model is at describing the properties that are relevant to you.