skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I hope something similar happens for the Quest, but I'm not going to hold my breath.. Zuck spent all that money buying Oculus because he wants his own iPhone platform that he can rule with an iron fist
Many people don't realize that Neal Stephenson is referring to his own novel, Snow Crash
Also from the Wikipedia article:

Urbanization and the shift to mechanization of farm technology during
the past 60 years has sharply reduced jobs in the Delta. People have
followed jobs out of the region, leading to a declining tax base. This
hampers efforts to support education, infrastructure development,
community health and other vital aspects of growth. The region's
remaining people suffer from unemployment, extreme poverty, and
illiteracy.
This is huge, and I hope something similar happens with the Oculus Quest 1 before I'm locked out of my headset for not having a Facebook account.
You have to pay property taxes so yes, getting military protection by a national military for your land is worth every dollar you spend on property tax.
> Chatted with some early-stage-then-IPO-ed engineers yesterday, I asked "aren't your company IPO-ed and you should have retired?", the answer is, after multiple dilutions in rounds of fund raises, his options ended up worth just a few thousands, not useful at all.

Assuming series a engineering role, .30 - .50%, even after dilution, for an IPO'd company, we're assuming 1BN+, to walk away with a "few thousands" is hard to calculate.

A few hundred thousands is more likely (taxes) and even that isn't a worthwhile trade-off for most folks. It'd need to be in the millions to make it more attractive than big tech at the moment.
Where's Captain Nemo when you need him ?
This train of thought is entirely too charitable. The US has the NSA, CIA, NRO, etc. for a reason and it's not to combat domestic terrorism. We don't have to be sponsoring their work to find out what they were doing. But I can understand the need to rationalize this somehow.
> in USA

The first page of the document listed collaborators from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
OTOH life is too short to forgo being able to own a home or raise kids because you forwent a bigger paycheck indefinitely.
Their constellation is < 10% deployed, though.
Have you ever wondered why there are so many aliens coming to Earth for our water? They did this on their planets, and lost all their hydrogen to space. Pretty soon we'll be looking down the barrels of their Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulators... ;-)
HN (Y Combinator) has an incentive to curb posts that could potentially make China angry. Being a forefront Silicon Valley investment company, they have to play the globalist game. Therefore, I suspect there may be policies in place, whether spoken or unspoken to suppress these types of posts. I don't doubt that there are bots or Chinese nationals that also downvote/flag these posts as well.
I got the same feeling reading the "Pompeii wall graffiti". It's not beautiful, but it hit me hard: 2000+ years, and people are the same people! (https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...)
A very good number, some people say great, I don't know, maybe even one of the very best! That's what people are saying.
I’m not sure I follow the logic that their e2e test suite would take an “infinite” amount of time to run by 2021. It seems like an obviously faulty calculation, unless someone puts an infinite loop.
DNS queries are rarely logged.

Ankara reports that the use of the domains in question is consistent with marketing campaigns in the hospitality industry.

I'm still confused where the original DNS lookup dataset came from and why is it trusted. It cannot possibly be a complete dataset of all the requests for the domain in question. If anything, there's way more bot activity happening during a period of 4.5 months. A mere 10 IP addresses accounting for all requests that were ever made during a period of 4.5 months, for a public domain name (proof available from DomainTools per Ankara), is not realistic.
"More rigorous safety tests are still needed, but if a properly designed system is used, the highly explosive hydrogen-oxygen gas can be safely handled for long periods."

What could possibly go wrong?
> Is it possible to provide power to signal repeaters with POE to get around the ~100 meter limit?

Yes, but at that point you may as well just run fiber. These days, the SFP modules are cheap (20km SFP for ~$80).

The loss of signal on a CAT6 cable will be much greater then on fiber. When too much noise is introduced on a CAT6 cable, speeds will drop considerably. Packet loss will be quite high.
1. There is no viral backbone anyone knows of which would have been used in this research

2. There is no spike protein anyone knows of which would have been used in this research

3. The PRRAR furin cleavage site is not one humans would have tried it is unlike any other known furin cleavage sites in coronaviruses

4. There are now many known related sarbecoviruses which have been found with furin cleavage sites

5. Furin cleavage sites have independently evolved in multiple different branches of coronaviruses, probably a dozen times that we know of now.

6. The furin cleavage site is short and can easily happen through recombination with another virus due to coinfection.

7. This is very likely what happened due to infection with the SARS-CoV-2 ancestor and an HKU9-like virus.

It is not particularly suspicious that the thing which we were worried about happening and causing a zoonotic spillover event is the thing which actually happened.
I've come to prefer post-Series A startups. In my experience Series B tended to be the moment where the startup beings to establish "controls" and bureaucracy for things. It is when you start setting OKRs, it is when you start having 2 or more tiers of mid-management and "policy documents" start flying around.

For me, post Series A is the sweet spot when there are exciting problems to solve and you still have good leeway to make things happen without too much red tape.
Not sure I noticed the new hobbyist editions, had stopped looking many years ago. The inital professional version was in the same price range though. As you say, they are "in reach" for a dedicated hobbyist and indeed, my camera has cost more. However, I wonder, how many "dedicated hobbyists" are around who want to spend so much money on software. After all, it still is very expensive. 600€ to use it at all, 1200€ to compile a program, more, if you use more than one OS. I even might be willing to spend so much money, if I was really convinced that this is the product I want to use. But then, I won't be convinced until I had the chance to use the product in the first place. That is the vicious circle I see and this is the point I am arguing from: to break this circle.

To attract new users, you first have to show them, that you have a great product, then you can charge them. I am very happy that LispWorks is still a product and wish them all the best. If their strategy works well for them, great! I can only tell the story why I haven't gotten LispWorks, despite having a good impression of the system in the minimal trial I was able to run. But I couldn't try it to the point where I would have been willing to spend that much money on this. I am a Lisp programmer for over 20 years now, 15 of those as a professional developer. I ended up with the stack consisting of SBCL+Slime+LTk. Also quit nice :). At work, our team uses mostly SBCL and Allegro. None of us has used LispWorks, all for similar reasons. And that is, why no one pushed for LispWorks, when purchase decisions were discussed.
Does apple offer 1-2 person offices for their staff or is it open seating throughout the ring facility? If it’s the latter, I would have difficulty thinking of an environment less conducive to concentrating on a problem or debugging. And if everybody tries to deal with open seating with noise cancelling headphones, silent ringers and baffles to reduce side vision, what’s the point? And without pretty serious air filtration, can companies risk airborne contagion anymore?
I loved my W-735H! Wore it for a long time as it's great for Pomodoro. Gave it to a friend after I replaced my trusty Polar m430 for a Garmin Instinct as it has a vibrating function AND the ability to program multiple countdown timers. After a few months though, I started missing the dedicated vibrating function and bought a used GD-350 off Ebay. It has basically the same features, BUT looks way better, is a G-SHOCK and has a dedicated timer starter button. Still prefer the Instinct as I can have multiple countdown timers already programmed, but the GD-350 is still a gem of a watch.
A Z80 backend could probably reuse our static stack allocation, but that's about it. It's definitely useful, but the time-consuming part of writing LLVM-MOS's code generator has ended up being... writing LLVM-MOS's code generator. The static stack stuff is maybe like 250 lines of code, and I haven't had to touch it in months.
It's probably not so funny from a Western perspective, where companies would drop a press release like this without a second thought.
> a while back

Over 25 years ago, actually! Lisa the Iconoclast, which coined the words "embiggen" and "cromulent" as part of a gag, aired in February 1996.
I had these too, even though I have power nap disabled. But given how horrendously buggy the whole power cycle thing in Macs is I am not surprised. I've seen it after coming from sleep completely forget all display configs, freeze cold, switch displays, refuse to connect bluetooth devices until I remove and re-register them, and so much other fun stuff. So just waking up and wasting a ton of battery is par for the course. The whole sleep thing is deeply broken there, and since there's no transparency there's no way to see even if it's "sleeping" or just staying up and heating itself up.
what he knows might embarrass or reveal dishonesty from others in the government or those seeking positions in the government
Well, that is unclear. Writing from Europe 100-1500 years ago suggests that most people felt quite different about time and did not have the impression the GP espoused. The overwhelming impression seems to be that things had fallen since the end of the (western) Roman Empire; there was a contrast in millenarian movements in the 10th century as the turn of the millennium approached.

However people are not uniformly distributed and such belief does not seem to have been the case in, say, the contemporaneous Arab world.

All that being said: I agree with you that claims that our era is somehow amazingly unique are way overblown.
At least 119 Canadians detained in China and four face execution
It works great on my aging Iphone X though?
When someone is hawking a book and playing up the subject of that book, take it with a grain of salt.
Can we please have a class action somehow? I have oculus gear I would not have purchased had they not promised to tie into a Facebook account that now sits on my shelf unusable (by me)

Edit - even though I could sell the rift, what about the -$1000 I spent on software I can no longer access
We kinda are. Starlink has won $885.5M in FCC subsidies already. However, as others have pointed out, Starlink doesn't have infinite bandwidth.

Starlink works because they're building a constellation of thousands of satellites. Previous satellite internet companies had comparatively few satellites so they needed to restrict how much you could use the internet with low data caps. Starlink still has capacity constraints.

Terrestrial wireless infrastructure is likely to be cheaper for the amount of capacity you get - especially when you consider that most of the cost will be shared with existing mobile networks.

With terrestrial wireless, it's relatively easy to split cells when you need more capacity. Wireless cells can cover hundreds of square miles in rural areas.

That's not to say that Starlink doesn't have a place, but it isn't a cheap service. $100/mo and $550 sign-up cost isn't cheap internet. $100M wouldn't buy a Starlink Dishy for even 200,000 people, never mind the monthly cost and never mind the fact that we're already spending $885.5M on Starlink.

$65B looks like a big number, but if we're talking 25M people it's only $2,600 per person and that pays for less than 2 years of Starlink per person (including the $550 startup cost). Plus, Starlink won't have capacity for 25M people. Elon Musk has said that they'll probably be able to serve the 500,000 preorders and that things get more challenging in the several million user range - never mind 25M users.

If we're talking 43M people like Broadband Now estimates or the 120M that Microsoft estimates, it gets even more clear that we'll need more than Starlink.

Starlink is a good way to serve extremely rural customers who likely won't even get decent wireless signals and it's a good way for SpaceX to get large government subsidies for providing service to rural areas. Starlink isn't a private company solving a problem for the public. It's public money being offered for a solution to a problem and SpaceX wanting to go after some of that money and hopefully create a decent business out of it.
Yeah, the fact it has a camera taking video of your living space outside the headset makes it even creeper.. same goes for their built in web-browser.

I've discouraged many people from buying one and the world is better for it

facebook is the business equivalent of toxic waste, the only notable thing about them is that they help make some people rich
Could be the case. Could also be that the bugs were never in Debian if they were introduced recently as Debian stable is relatively conservative about package updates other than for security purposes.
As More Workers Go Solo, the Software Stack Is the New Firm
You can say that having a working economy props its currency of choice up but by that logic the dollar and other government currencies are propping up Bitcoin which is dependent on infrastructure of the economies of those nations.
11 years is extremely short? As for variance, yes sure over the short term but Bitcoin has 10x’d every other traditional investment on a long-term basis. You make long-term predictions based on things like scarcity, automated inflation policy, and other anti-inflationary properties.

Based on its historical investment returns as well as its inherent properties, I would argue that at this point a zero percent allocation into Bitcoin is objectively the wrong value.
the drop in rent would be more attributable to the WFH policies instituted by many companies rather than any UBI imho.
Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting iOS 15 after six-month wait
OP didn’t say don’t negotiate a salary, they said when you’re happy with it take it. There is definitely a danger in driving a hard bargain just to “win” when you would have been happier accepting what you’ve been offered/negotiated so far.
All my experiences with LispWorks come from using the free versions. But basically the first time I tried to use it for real I was trying to run a program I was developing at the time. It used a modest data set of 50 MB and immediately exceeded the limits of the free version. So my tests didn't get far. If I could have paid a modest sum to remove those limits, I would have done it on the spot.
Daczak serves on the WHO team to investigate the virus origins, but this did not get mentioned in any reports. Instead he warns other not to discuss it. He does not include notes that research was done on modifying bat viruses to make them infectious to human cells. These behaviors look like a guilty person, do they not?

The wuhan and eco-health researchers had already started work on the furin cleavage sites and why would they stop when DARPA blocked it? Funding can’t only come from the US. Did CCP also block this research?

> there is published evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was already engaged in some of the genetic engineering work described in the proposal and that viruses designed in North Carolina could easily be used in China.
I accept the argument that offset schemes have difficult practical problems, but at least theoretically “offset” means “lower”. It just means that your application isn’t necessarily reducing carbon. And it kind of makes sense—for an airline to get carbon neutral it would require immense investment in electric flight and decades of research and then more decades of incremental rollout. Instead that money and effort could be spent helping reduce a lot more carbon elsewhere now (e.g., replacing coal power plants with equivalent solar power).
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> BTW, individual taxpayers used to have this, too, it was called "income averaging".

TIL about income averaging, I've never heard of this before. Looks like it was phased out in 1986? https://www.phillipslawfirm.com/blog/2020/04/the-need-for-in...
What in GPL or MIT is preventing you from selling the binaries? I mean, you'd have to ship the source code along with the binaries in the GPL case, but it doesn't prevent you from charging for it.
Perhaps a device with a movable metal plate that disconnects a wire.. we could call it an 'Off Switch'
> it's blatently obvious that there's more going on right now...

Blatantly obvious? Not to me. I'm a technologist (e.g. wrote a bunch of code the results of which you use every day) with a degree in history and in many ways ancient Greece seems more vital than today.
>Man am I tired of corporate April fools. It's lame and literally never ends.

In general I'd agree with you, as they're usually blatant PR attempts instead of actual pranks, but some of the comments on that Facebook link are glorious.
> and a few other great playgrounds that others have made:

> - CodePen for CSS/JS/HTML
Narrative violation detected. -4 applied to your social credit score. Have a good day, comrade.
The startups that succeed do not generally have average early employees. Remember that founding a startup and successfully taking it to a large exit is a decidedly non-average outcome; the average startup fails miserably.

I think that if you're seeking non-average wealth you should first strive to be non-average. There are a number of pathways to exceptional wealth, but all of them require being exceptional in some way.
The value of the dollar depends on the land and property of the united states which is protected by the army. It takes multiple steps to get to "military props up USD".
You're kidding right? I hate that behaviour of MacOS. If I told the OS to shut down/restart, I meant it. Kill everything and get on with it, I shouldn't have to babysit.

If I told it to update, I didn't mean "oh pretty please but if it's too hard don't worry about it", I meant "I know this ii. update is going to take an hour for a point release for some reason, but I'm going for a walk now - go ahead so IT gets off my back".

Also I've had many issues with my macbook overheating/discharging in my bag because I hit sleep, it looked like it was sleeping, but it was still on/woke up. Admittedly not a huge amount because of COVID but still.
any thoughts on the legality of wrapping your vehicle with this type of material?
never is a strong word but even so I could prove something is misleading making it an objective assessment which wouldn't be covered under opinion exclusive.
> we're still one of the first generations to see major change _within_ our short lives.

One could argue that people were seeing major technological/scientific/philosophical/cultural changes within their lives at least as far back as the Enlightenment (and I'd argue much further back than that), and what has actually changed is just that the number of people affected by those changes has grown (perhaps exponentially). Likewise in the future the rate of change we're so impressed by now may look laughable, and that's even ignoring the possibility of significant lifespan extension in the future!
How do we charge royalties on method of use patents. Do we use prescription data from pharmacies. For the purposes of calculating royalties how do we prove whether and how anyone in posession of a drug actually uses it.
How might we use solar to produce hydrogen at a scale relevant for building skycities? Ok, it takes about 50kwh to produce 1 kilogram of hydrogen from 9 kg of water. At sea level, that makes 12 cubic meters.

One of the biggest aerostatic platforms in history was the Graf Zeppelin, which had a surface area of 27,299 square meters. Let's say the top ⅓ was covered in solar, making 1.2 kWh per square meter per day. In total, that's 10,800 kWh per day.

So, we get 2,589 cubic meters of hydrogen a day. At that rate, it would take 77 days to fill the Zeppelin's 200,000 cubic meter capacity.

Going bigger, 1 square kilometer of hydrogen is 1 billion cubic meters of hydrogen. At sea level, this much hydrogen could lift 1.3 billion kgs (600 olympic swimming pools). But at 20km, it can only lift 1 million kgs (1 swimming pool).

Can you imagine giant bubbles growing in the sea, floating upwards when ready, and assembled as building materials for aerial architecture?
Mhmm, I wouldn't put it like GP (someone wanting to take advantage of...). The large majority of employments DO NOT give stock options. Shit, in most countries that's unheard of (in Mexico for example, someone with a similar offer would think of the stock options as the cherry on the cake).

Nonetheless, given YOUR market, you should check whether the other parts of the compensation they are giving you are right. For example, there was the case of Mailchimp a couple of days ago: They gave no stock to their employees. However, in theory their compensation package was good in other ways. So if the company is offering you a good salary + benefits (what about 401k matching? PTO? sick days? gym membership, WFH and whatnot), that will give you the full picture.
Yeah it helps. I recommend it as well, I have it scheduled to reboot at 5:15 AM every day.
> You remarked that low paying jobs were quintessentially American. If that's the case, we would expect some majority of Americans to hold low-paying jobs when in fact the median American pay is quite high relative to other regions of the world.

A country can be both profoundly wealthy on paper and have a massive indigent population. Statistics like median income don't account for the extraordinary individual debt, poor average healthcare outcomes, or the absence of basic social safety nets that Americans accept without blinking. Compare us to our development cohort on median wage alone and we look normal, but the median American goes home each day with more debt and fewer guardrails against poverty than nearly every other median citizen in the developed world.

> I am saying that your heavy implication that the US has unusually high levels of racism seems factually incorrect. By all means, we can criticize our country, but let's strive to be factual.

I'm not going to claim to know every developed country's constitution or founding documents, but I'm pretty sure most don't have a 3/5ths clause the way that ours does. The US is a deeply racist country, down to our founding principles. It might not look like the kind of racism that passes for normal in other countries, but it's a category error to conflate that difference in kind with a difference in severity or deep-rootedness.
Right. But how many people "really" want it, especially not having used the software? Also considering that there is an excellent free and open source Lisp around: SBCL. The trick is to demonstrate to provide a significant value compared to the free alternatives.
>Here's a list of 14 horrible diseases that you won't get, because of vaccines.

COVID is not on the list. Move on.
You weren't greeted as a convenience but as a form of intimidation.
Why do plebs care about sound money? The more sound money you have the more you benefit from it. Plebs don't have most of the sound money, they'll lose out.