skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they require accounts. A while ago, FB were saying the FB account must also be “in good standing” in response to people who had purchased the Quest 2, created the compulsory FB account, and were then banned immediately rendering the device totally useless.

There was a fair amount of bad press about the issue and how there was no way to get unbanned. The bad press forced their hand a bit, but I wonder if it’s an issue again now that it’s not such a hot topic.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/oculus-quest-2-users-banne...

https://screenrant.com/oculus-quest-worthless-facebook-accou...
yes, but the government spending from collected taxes is only a small fraction of the taxable economy and thus over time the money still accumulates in the coffers. It's only when money is stagnant (or exchanging without profit) that it becomes in accessible from taxes.

Removing the long term investment incentives (Long term capital gains) and introducing a penalty for not spending it during your life time (Estate tax) is how you ensure even those avenues of protection are gone.
Tesla switched to CCS in Europe a couple of years ago:

https://insideevs.com/news/343728/most-tesla-superchargers-n...
Which models are you asking about, do you mean RGB & the color wheel? I feel like I just did explain my position in depth on both, did you miss it? The color wheel is an abstraction and RGB is useful but flawed. It would be silly to call either one “wrong”, but neither one was invented to chart wavelength or human cone response. Rob’s invitation wasn’t particularly genuine, nor is yours, the question is an attempted trap and his was a failed attempt to appeal to authority.

In any case, to stand by your claim that either red is close to purple or that all these models are wrong, you must first define what red being close to purple means. Rob couldn’t do it, can you?

Rob has now defined the proximity between red and purple as what’s on the color wheel. It absolutely is circular logic, because it’s a fact that the color wheel is not a physically accurate representation of color, and Rob already knows that. Purple is the only named color on the color wheel that is not a color of the rainbow, the only one that is a mix of two mono-wavelength colors. The color wheel is not naturally a circle, purple’s a synthetic addition, used for the purpose of making the colors of the rainbow into a circle by tying the ends, red and blue, together. Rob knows all this because he’s made diagrams of it that call out this fact and posted them to Quora.

This doesn’t seem to be particularly helpful here. Do you have an opinion on the left-hump of the red response curve? Do you believe Rob that it has nothing to do with the perception of purple, or any perceived closeness between purple and violet?
uBlock Origin for Firefox Mobile (Fennec on F-Droid) is a killer feature. I cannot remember the last time I have seen an ad on my phone.
I was part of the above article. Happy to answer questions.

In terms of accuracy, it totally depends on the resolution needed. We can get >99% accuracy of L2 waaaaay faster with 1/10 of the memory overhead. For what we are doing that is the perfect trade off.

In terms of LSH, we tried projection hashing and quantization and were always disappointed.
So many smart people commenting, yet so many dumb dumbs think you can tax enough rich people to pay off the deficit and tax carbon to save the earth...sheesh.
Well that was the fastest app purchase I ever made. Never been so happy to fork over $3.
Some people are just not great. It sucks. This kind of thing saps the energy from the devs and makes it a job instead of a hobby.
Got a source for the "forces you to subscribe" bit? Everything I've seen says that part is optional.

Also, even disregarding the extra focal-spot screens, you're wrong about the resolution. It's the highest of all headsets that don't have insanely wide FOV's like the Pimax8K, by a long way.
2880 x 2720 per eye (Varjo VR-3) > 1832 x 1920 per eye (Quest 2) > 1440 x 1600 per eye (Vive Pro 2) ~= 1600 x 1440 per eye (Valve Index)
Hi ptom.

1. Simula is planning on adding a window tiling/window grouping dynamic to its UX. Agreed this is a useful feature, and we've heard from other people as well that this would improve things.

A short-term hack though, since Simula is a fully functioning window manager, is to simply launch another window manager inside Simula as a client (e.g., launching i3 or xfce4 inside Simula, and using it as a way to group applications together).

2. We've been unable to get Linux support from other VR manufacturers in order to run Simula on other hardware. In fact, our initial goal was to only do this (so that we could focus on the software only), but eventually decided it was better to just build our own headset (in particular a high-fidelity one that is uniquely suited for office/programmer productivity).

Would love to stay in contact. Your office VR setup really captures the spirit of the VR age.
If you just go on Tesla’s website, click the model 3, switch “potential savings” to “purchase price” you find that the model costs $40k before tax incentives. If you go on Chevy’s site you’ll find that the Bolt price is $31k before tax incentives. So, it looks like I was off by about $1k in my initial estimate. Let me know if you are seeing different numbers. Maybe Tesla has some kind of hidden option to get a cheaper Model 3?
Firefox still supports mobile plugins but, a while ago (IIRC last year), the plugin API changed, as a result currently the selection of available plugins is much smaller than it used to be. I should add that I haven't checked in a few months, maybe it's improved now.
Im trying too... But in reality, anything thats popular will be seized on by capialists looking for a quick buck.

Thats how the world works, right? Sport does not exist on TVs unless it has sponsorship. No matter how fast that runner is, unless running was a way to sell products, you wouldnt see it on prime time.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way, Apple let you register URLs to redirect to your app, so I'm assuming they've just done this for AMP URLs and strip it back to a proper link and then open that using the system browser (whichever you have set).
I hate speech to text on my phone and never use it but works really well in the Tesla. Was shocked frankly.
In my uni days a flatmate made "wine" like this, surprisingly drinkable with a mixer.
All the animals tested died for Sars jabs.

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> Said who? There are a lot of people out there saying all kinds of things on the internet.

Coverage like this (from 2016 in this case, well before either car shipped) was pervasive:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-bolts-range-is-a-buzz-kill-...

Just read that and keep in mind the actual cars that shipped, and their sales volume. Also keep in mind how the framing of the argument ("Tesla's clock is ticking") is almost identical to the grandparent post written five years later!

I don't know that it's really worth arguing that the tenor of Tesla coverage in business and auto press has been outrageously negative for years and years. And... it's been wrong basically every time.
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I’m open to the possibility that I’m just being a Luddite about it, and tbf ICE cars have also been slowly adopting some of the same design patterns. But I don’t think I’m ready to gamble on buying an expensive new car just to find out whether I’ll get used to it.

Perhaps I’ll be forced to adjust one day. Perhaps the world is just leaving my preferences behind. I do complain even more passionately about touchscreens on blenders…
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That will charge slower and be an extra thing to buy and carry around. It's better to have a CCS plug on the charger and a CCS inlet on the car.

All other EV manufacturers have standardized on CCS in North America so there's not much value in Tesla not going CCS at this point. Doubly so because Tesla is supposed to be opening up its network to other brands:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22596337/tesla-supercharg...
Credit card issuers in India have not been as proactive as they should have been to protect consumers from scammy subscriptions. I was bitten by such an app on the play store that charged my card $50 after a 3 day trial. Google wouldn't do anything about it, and my card issuer said "if you willingly entered your card info then we can't do anything about it". Only I entered my info into Google, long before I downloaded the app. Google should have asked me before charging the card. Consent to charge and the charge itself should be done at the same time.

So I'm OK with this. Either behave responsibly or get regulated. Sounds fair.
What do you mean? Are wages in those states equal to Mexico?
In chemistry at least, the PhD is the entry card for non-technician work. Post-docs are seemingly required for the academic path, and are of some use for pharma, but the union card is a must.
Their COO pretended to work for YouTube. After something like that, you lose the benefit of the doubt.
The program is open sourced.

https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pvvi83/googles_amp_p...

The author also created a popular app for Reddit called Apollo.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/787rtu/introducing_a...
Technically wasn’t a rollback but my understanding is it was a state change, and was done with community consensus via carbon vote.

Let’s not mention what Satoshi did in 2010 with the 184 billion BTC hack though ;)
This is, in fact, a very obvious and well known facet of management technique in the white collar world. Often, when faced with a hard or completely distasteful call, it's possible to structure your communication on a way that you never actually tell anyone to do the thing, but it gets done anyway.

It is a cornerstone that marks the difference between an exec who can and an exec who cannot CYA.

This is also why "Can I get that in writing", or asking something outright in an email is a fantastic way to corner a squirrely exec.
> It's unfortunate, as I'd consider myself "leftist".

The news media doesn't generalise and it doesn't lie, you are a 'far-right troll' that 'trusted Epik' - silly you!

Seriously though, whatever your political stance, I am sorry you had your details leaked. What you do or don't do privately is entirely your business, and is certainly not of the place of some news media to go sharing about.

> After Alayon’s name appeared in the breached data, his brokerage, Travers Miran Realty, dropped him as an agent, as first reported by the real estate news site Inman.

Perhaps, we should consider that despite many right-wing persons using this domain service, that doesn't mean they _all_ are - and that headlines like this are actually insanely irresponsible.

> Asked why his name, email address and other personal information were listed in company invoices for the “racisminc” and Holocaust-denial domains, Alayon said the data was “easily falsifiable,” that he was the possible victim of extortion and that The Post was “fake news.”

Maybe he was more extreme in his views in the past, and later changed his mind and became less radical. Do these people not believe in reform? If they don't, then surely the only purpose of this article is the sadistic destruction of this man's life without a fair court?

Perhaps he believes in these things in his private life, but exercises separation between his private life and work. I hate to remind people of this, but there's a very good chance that you do not agree with _everything_ your colleagues, family, friends, etc, do. Differences are okay, they are even quite healthy.

> The spokesperson said the company “offers its services to everyone” and that “domains affiliated with right-wing politics comprise less than 1 percent of users.” Epik said it is not aware of its users’ intents and “does not consider its role to be censors of free citizens.”

I'm not sure I want my domain registrar to be political either, even if it means an extremist gets a domain. I fully respect Epik's stance on this. Forcing companies to become political is incredibly dangerous.
Sounds like your team is lucky to have you. I know not all teams are in a good spot in this regard. As you mentioned, not all engineers want to end up in your role. Good managers create the conditions necessary for architect/staff engineer roles, and engineer career growth in general, in addition to achieving business goals.
> F150 is positioning itself as electric truck for people who buy Ford trucks... which could be reduced to a lifestyle choice.

It’s almost funny how backwards you have this
A decent size table, natural lighting and room to pace is a flex?
Genuine question: what is the advantage to the end user by seeing non-AMP versions of webpages?
Most employees aren't even aware of what a union is or does. When something isn't part of your experience, you don't even have a preference one way or another.

Your comment is evidence: it sets up a false dichotomy. The whole point at a workplace that chooses to unionize is that they want to work under a different, better contract, and they're willing to invest in the organizing that it takes to get there.
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The author of this app made a post on Reddit a few days ago.

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pvvi83/googles_amp_p...

The program is opensource.

https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion
I one time posted an album on Imgur of my hobby project. I was hoping it would do well on the niche subreddit it involved.

It did ok on reddit (100 upvotes) but a few thousands upvotes on Imgur and made the front page with hundreds of thousands of views. I was shocked since I didn't even know that was a thing. But my guess is popular with people who are on their phone a lot, are not as tech saavy, or international.
I don't care what my manager does all day, but I fully expect them to own the situation when things go downhill, to take responsibility and to make sure that the team is shielded from pressures from outside.
AdGuard (I think?) gets about 80% of them on Safari. But I agree uBlock Origin is amazing. It’s kind of Firefox’s killer feature.
I use Google because i) it displays stock price right on the search page. ii) it does match right on the search page.

If DuckDuckGo did smarter results like this, I'd quit Google. Heck I'd even throw in a few bucks.
It is sad to find so many folks have been brainwashed without being aware of it …
Pretty darn inventive hustle. Doomed to failure, but I wonder what their take $$ was.
Tesla switching to CCS would mean their customers get 4,683 extra charging locations without having to buy an adapter:

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html

Kind of a no-brainer for Tesla to switch to CCS.
one the cia likes, the other cia doesn't like. all you have to do is see what the blue checkmarks on twatter like and compare to what they dislike to find the official cia consensus.
> What is it that China offers that is making so many western companies go and do business in China? If it is cheap labour then India has it as well. I feel like I'm missing something, but not sure what. Can someone ELI5 please?

It's not just cheap labor, a robust supply chain, etc. Those are definitely factors, but today, a lot of companies invest (or remain invested) in China because it significantly helps them access the Chinese domestic consumer market.

India, of course, has a huge population too, but China's consumer market is a lot more developed and therefore attractive.
Very nice visuals, but "procedural generation" does not seem to be the right term for this code. Maybe it should be called an "algorithmic technique" instead, or something like that?

Procedural generation normally is a randomized process that does not try to get an optimal solution. Instead, it typically aims to be a generator for a large diverse population of "interesting" outcomes, where "interesting" is often a subjective metric, but does not really have to be.
Mine came with one in 2019. Never use it. There are at least 4 different J1772 plug types though so probably one of the others is what people are missing. The Tesla connection is slim and sleek compared to the ccs boat anchors
Elixir/Phoenix - no brainer, all the batteries are included, and it greatly simplifies deploying and maintaining you app.

Phoenix with LiveView is pretty great, one language for the frontend and backend. Deploying your app with Fly.io or Gigalixir is pretty easy as well. The Phoenix framework is a realtime framework, I find that for other web frameworks, real time features often feel bolted on to the existing framework, and feel awkward. (I'm looking at you ActionCable!)

Checkout https://fullstackphoenix.com/boilerplates for a SaaS boilerplate that includes your choice of emailers, auth, frontend framework, css, DB, job runner, etc.

I do like Crystal though!
I'm inspired. I'm gonna spend a month on this.
Mozilla has refused to fix the stealth URL rewriting on mousedown/onclick behavior for years[1]... it's super toxic and harmful to user privacy.

Why do they bother not implementing pings when they allow an equivalent privacy invasion to continue? Either way the user's privacy is invaded, but at least URL copy/paste still works correctly with the ping functionality.

[1] e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229050 though I'm sure there have been many other bugs filed on it.
We are in an age of FOMO. In the crypto world, FOMO is a reason to invest in a coin or nft.

Advertisers are getting the same thing they always did, the same people, just in different ways. Advertising in this form has very little effect on people long term. Thats why product placement in the hands of celebs is so important.

FOMO or consumer confidence? Do people fear they are misisng out, or are they comfortable with what they have?

FOMO is the bubble.
According to Zerodium, iOS exploits are cheaper than Android exploits because iOS exploits are so plentiful[1][2] in comparison.

It should also be noted that the #1 vector for malware installation on Android is the Play Store itself[3].

The issue isn't Apple or Google's mobile app distribution implementations themselves. The issue is that the app store model was only adopted because of its profitability, and security was an afterthought. Despite this, the companies' PR departments try to paint the app store model as necessary for "security" and then fall short of actually securing things because that might cost money or decrease revenue. There's no competition, so who is going to stop them or force them to improve?

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/14/zerodium_ios_flaws/

[2] http://zerodium.com/program.html

[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/play-store-identified-as-main-...
Man, I just want a t-shirt with the app icon artwork on it...
> Looking at current real-world pricing, the most basic Tesla costs $10k more than the Bolt.

That's because of demand curve effects though! They launched at pretty much the same MSRP. And one has been getting more expensive as lead times got longer and longer and the other one had to be repeatedly discounted.

You're citing the price difference as if it's evidence that these don't compete for the same market, when it's actually evidence that they already did compete for the same market. And one of them lost.
Yeah they can always coordinate, but these things are never so clean. They'd also need to be convinced it wouldn't undermine the network faith in a way against their interests, beyond being a well hated figure. And that no fork would emerge reinstating the person (as their deed is far from hidden)
I want to see Babylon 5: The Next Generation.

Use everything he’s learned, etc… but pick up the story a hundred or three years in the future. What are the new challenges they face?

What secret things did the Shadows leave behind that we are only finding out about now?

What if everyone’s a telepath now, and they all have telepathic defenses, so being a telepath now just means you’re normal? What happens to those who aren’t telepaths?

What if there was a technological reversion, and there are now problems that could be easily solved if you had Whitestars, but there aren’t any Whitestars left?

What if some of those problems come about because now the ships that were sentient have decided they don’t want to be slaves any more, and maybe it’s a crime to have sentient ships now?

There are so many new problems and questions that could come up.
Broad addons support is still locked behind the Nightly version, and you gotta do this weird dance to achieve it

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

Still the same a year later..
Is this really a problem? To extract blood the nurse must aim for a vein, and it's a long process with many steps, and sometimes they must retry a few times before success.

And I think for the vaccine they use a part of the arm without major veins, to avoid complications, bleeding and bruises.
I've got to say I've done a few long (>1000 mile) road trips in my Tesla and I've never once had to wait for a spot to plug in. There's also usually at least one other Tesla charging at the station. Which means they're successfully walking the line between underbuilt and overbuilt, capital efficient while also satisfying their customers. Most non-Tesla charging stations I've seen are under-utilized and often broken.

I think Tesla could build Superchargers faster if they wanted to. If you overbuild, the chargers will rot (the plugs can need maintenance and replacement from weather exposure after 5-10 years if for no other reason) and you're paying expensive utility connection fees.
I think in general you'll get out what you put in. 1:1 should be your time, your agenda. If it's a status meeting it's being done wrong. If you aren't setting the agenda and bringing things to talk about, goals to discuss, questions, etc. I think you are missing out. If your manager isn't pushing you to bring those things (many don't, but should) take it into your own hands. Shows that you own your development plan, and that is always a plus.
In my view, an issue for modern science is that much of what we do is already very close to being a narrative of itself, such as program code and the generation of data and meta-data by computerized instruments. Keeping a separate narrative will always require time and discipline, and can suffer from lack of upkeep.

I know scientists who still use paper notebooks. They are quite common in chemistry and other "wet lab" sciences, where it's actually hard to narrate at the keyboard while also wearing rubber gloves and writing with one hand while holding something with the other. I'm sure there's also a mental discipline about it, that might help them think.

When I was a science student, my notebooks were a disaster, and I paid the price by having to repeat work when I couldn't figure out what the hell I did. Writing was always awkward and painful for me.

Today, I use Jupyter notebooks. They are not a strict timeline type of narrative, but have the benefit that I can see if they are complete before taking a break by doing a "restart kernel and run all cells." And they are suited to the kind of work I do, lots of data and computation. And they are at least crudely searchable.

For my work I don't need time-stamping or an immutable record. I need to be able to figure out what I did, hours or years later.
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