skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Allowing somebody else to harvest it is money straight out of Facebook's pocket.

Facebook has roughly 3Bn active users per month. Let that sink for a moment because that's more than a third of the world.

I'm pretty sure Facebook (as in Mark, or the employees) do not have the slightest idea of what is going on Facebook.
Indirect emissions are direct emissions somewhere, but probably somewhere else under a different tax regime.

That electric car battery might be manufactured in China using coal power and shipped over the ocean in a diesel fueled ship and yet pay no tax, making an American-manufactured battery even less competitive.
if they had some form of e-ink like backing it could block the light on the external side and the. render the emitting light on the eyes side
That isn't historical data

This is
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/changes-visitors-covid?ti...

Shows the trend becomes clear on March 12th, which is 7 days before the first lockdowns in New York. Are you suggesting that the one week delay when everyone bought out all the toilet paper because they thought the world was ending is evidence that the lockdowns weren't needed to affect mobility?
At the time that CCrane, Grace and others started offering internet radios everyone was using Reciva and articles at the time referred to it as the Microsoft of internet radio so I don't think anyone at the time could have expected its downfall. This was really regarded as the safe bet. Also Grace has not offered a Reciva based radio for quite a few years so you must have quite an old one and have gotten many years of use out of it.

The CC Wifi 3 I got to replace my CC Wifi does have some anti-obsolescence features. It can be used as a bluetooth speaker and it has a built in web server that you can connect into from a browser and manually enter the URLs of streams so even if the Skytunes backend goes defunct like Reciva did the radio should still be somewhat usable.

If your radio can receive bluetooth you could put your media on a uPnP server, access it using vlc on a smartphone and then from there send it via bluetooth to the radio using it as a bluetooth speaker. That is probably more convenient than mucking with the radio to select audio files since you can do it on your smartphone with a better user interface. Anyways, that is what I do.
Hard roads and highways are ones where lots of cars need to change lanes in not much space. For example sections where entrances are quickly followed by exits always end up with more hard braking.
Everyone starts a PhD with love for knowledge, the trouble is to sustain that love if your bowel is hungry, your clothes are old and torn and you are unable to give your kids a decent accomodation. People under-estimate how bad is the PhD/postdoc pay and how long they need to sustain it. They are better off with a Masters and having a good career and then spending spare time on pursuing knowledge.
Damn, I love geeking out over testing.
Yes, but the problem is that not the EBGC per se but the fact that many companies do not sponsor them for foreign workers but only for the workers who are already in the country and on a nonimmigrant work visa.

EBGC, not H1B is a pathway for immigration for a skilled worker yet, because of the unethical practice of many tech companies, many people even on HN honestly believe that one cannot possibly get an EBGC without working some period of time on H1B by law.
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Fuck You Dang
Hacker News is a propaganda tool. It flags posts that are true. Fuck dang.
Perhaps a parallel would be with successful athletes advocating doping substances. This would be logical, but not something beneficial on many levels.
I'm questioning the logic of having a workflow with a not-uncommon case of "this is on fire now everyone stop what they're doing and help me fix it" which is exactly what you'd have here.
> And one nagging question in this era of spectacular booms and busts is where, exactly, the line is drawn between fake-it-til-you-make-it hype (Tesla!) and possible fraud (Theranos!). That line is often blurry and comes into focus only in retrospect.

I'm getting extremely sick of the media continually trying to imply that the "line" between gross, outright fraud, and overly optimistic deadline setting is somehow "blurry". It's not. I've worked for startups my entire career, and while yes, I've seen execs many times spin things in a positive light, I have never seen anything approaching the clear, blatant fraud as was the case with Theranos, or as is the case here with this bizarre "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" impersonation skit.

Elizabeth Holmes didn't just overpromise on a future vision and then fail to deliver. She actively lied about the current state of her product, saying her product did something when it unambiguously did not. To contrast, I have many issues with Elon Musk, and he certainly over promises, and I certainly DO believe that some of his tweets ("funding secured" anyone?) have crossed the line, but I don't ever recall him saying "I have a rocket that can fly" but instead just throw a rocket out of an airplane and videotape it, which is basically what Nikola did when they rolled their truck downhill.
Yes yes yes yes. I try to be very clear with my students about the risks in "following my path", because I was stupendously lucky; if they want to go get a PhD just so they can teach college (as I did!) the odds are overwhelmingly against them successfully doing so, and the fact that I tell them this is always very surprising to them. My students that have gone on to grad school have done so knowing what they were getting into, and I'm proud of their success and also proud of the ones that tried it and decided they wanted to do something else instead—because they had a better picture of what "sticking it out" would look like and what would await them on the other end.
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Almost worth it
CS PhD is the outlier and not the norm. Most fields even in STEM its impossible to get a high paying job in the field of your thesis.
Author of the article here - these are really cool, thanks for sharing! I'd not seen these at the time, they were definitely working on good stuff - the technology is taking a while to catch up.
So far as Afghan refugees go, incidents like this are disturbingly common

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-investigating-after-so...
I like the ideas presented here. I wish more people understood that VR has purpose outside gaming, almost anything you do on the web can currently be done in VR. Perception of VR seems to be more focused on virtual worlds, or seeing it as just another gimmicky toy for computer people.

My largest gripe with this piece is if you're going to write about comfort in VR, you need to mention the Valve Index. The base model is, in my experience, the most comfortable headset even without modding. If you wear glasses you can find many prescription lens vendors online for ~60-90 USD. Not to mention the top of the line specs on the Index compared to it's competitors.
If the UK hasn't been doing the same thing I'll eat my hat.
My solution is simple: I don't ever use Google Search. DDG results are good enough for me.
Why don't AR headsets use variable tint sunglass lenses to dim the incoming light?
It means that upward mobility is possible for those who are the best (generally, obviously it’s not always purely skill). Not everyone can be hugely successful in any given field.

And you’re arguing a silly point. Do 80% of accountants become CFOs? Upwards mobility doesn’t mean that everyone rises up — it means that those who are highly skilled do though.
iOS 15 changed the default text color of <button> elements to blue. Thanks Apple, it is very helpful and certainly not defacing many apps and sites at all! /s
Quest 2 original strap + cheap strap pad significantly improves comfortability.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001657071604.html

Add a weight on the back is also good.
Now to seduce you further into expanding my 2GB/month limit. ;)

Nah, in all seriousness - looks like a good service. Happy to be aboard!
> Humans aren’t built to work late

What are humans build to do? And do we have an obligation to do what we are built for? Should I start persisting hunting [1] my meals? Should all my decision be dictated towards minimizing physical and mental health issues?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
Good point. Thanks for that!

I stopped reading when I saw:

“Although the reported annual increase was dramatic, the total number of homicides last year – 21,570 – did not surpass some stunning totals in the early 1990s, including the nearly 25,000 murders recorded in 1991.”

then I went down the rabbit hole of why they would compare to that total (and looking up per capita rates, in anger), but you’re right, they got to the point later, and on reflection their comparison is that the 90s were worse, but since the absolutes are so close I find it confusing and distracting, and I suspect others fall for this in bad ways, starting with the per capita rate would have made the same point without any confusion.
Every US Tesla comes with a ccs adapter. Zero chance that any material segment of customer makes a buying decision based on the shape of the charge port connector.
> To be fair, FPV equipment has always been made largely for outdoor use, hasn't it? I wouldn't be surprised if they found some way to mitigate it.

To my knowledge, they have nothing to them that would mitigate damage from sunlight - and I can’t think of any way to do that, given how the lenses work. Certainly it’s a common thing that is warned against in forums and other online venues.

> By the way, do you know the vendor of the panels in Skyzone hardware?

Sorry, I don’t off the top of my head. I don’t think they’re terribly easy to disassemble to that point, either. I wouldn’t mind popping them open to check for you… but I have ~$600 in my set at the moment, so I don’t want to void the warranty on a whim :).

You might send an email to the folks at Fat Shark, though. You can often get their older goggles, like the HD3, used on Facebook for ~$200.
This article isn't even anti vaxx. It is advocating making sure the vaccine isn't injected into veins. That has been shown to cause heart problems in mice. Instead of banning it, maybe you can actually save people from harm. Fuck you dang.
Its more than just survivorship bias, its a toxically optimistic culture, imposed by somewhat rigid social norms. No one likes an excessive realist, even if they're speaking to fact. For an illustrative example, look at any sampling of questions tagged impostor syndrome on academia.stackexchange. You're guaranteed a dozen encouraging answers about how its normal even for the best of us to succumb to unwarranted feelings of inadequacy.

But you're unlikely to find a single one discussing even the possibility that maybe the OP is, in fact, an "imposter".

The imprints of this sort of toxic optimism are all over western culture. There is a hesitancy to criticize and without sufficient criticism you are unlikely to make sound choices/policies for complex systems which are liable to breakdown.
This is a good thing if you consider the price of not having them. I have worked in shops without tests. It's a great way to hand out free money to unsuspecting customers.
I’ll watch it
> The US is also more likely to maintain human rights, which China absolutely does not care about.

No nation genuinely cares about human rights, especially the US. They have toppled way too many governments and installed way too many dictators to claim otherwise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...). The US is relatively "nice" right now, which means that we're skip the second step of appointing a dictator. Even then, it's not because American leaders suddenly became nicer, it's because unlike their Chinese counterparts, they don't have any real long-term goals. If they get into another Cold War or feel the need for a canal in another nation, they'll go right back to being evil again.
So, the issue is that the "innovation" Safari is often accused of "holding back" is privacy-invasive features proposed by Google engineers.

Which is to say, Safari (and the requirement of iOS users using it) is the last thing holding back Google from complete control of the web at this point.
You can still pick and choose, EIP-1559 forces miners to burn part of the fee, which means it's no longer "free" to the miner to include these transactions. In the case of this transaction, Bitfinex also included a very large tip that went to the miner.
An English lit major can't get an English lit job, and postdocs are finding job opportunities via networking with peers, and we're supposed to regard this as a sobering finding indicting the state of modern science?

Slogging your way through postdoc indentures isn't the only way into scientific research, just like starting in the mail room isn't the only way to become captain of industry. Science can also happen outside of acedemia, and you don't have to be a tenured lecturer to be a successful scientist.

Careers in science are just like careers in anything else: you can demonstrate your value to an organization, or your can start your own organization. There's no point in positioning yourself at the very top of the bell curve and then complaining that your career is unremarkable.
Yeah, Plain text email.
I’ve test driven a few higher end EV, and the objection I can’t possible get past is the lack of physical controls. I guess Tesla made “everything on a touchscreen” popular, but I really hate it. I hate it in the Tesla, but it’s even worse in other models. The screen in the Tesla at least seems decently made to me, but the one in the Taycan I drove was a laggy PoS.

From the drivers seat of the ICE car I currently drive, I can use my hands to control basically everything without taking my eyes off the road. This hasn’t been possible in any of the EVs I’ve driven. I think some of the more affordable models have more traditional central consoles, but I don’t really want a low end EV…

I expect all my sales objections to EVs will disappear over time, as the technology and infrastructure improves. But that’s one I’m never getting over. I just can’t imagine I’ll ever buy a car where everything’s controlled by touch screens.
Looking at something “far away” in VR doesn’t change your eyes physical focal distance. You need to physically remove the headset to rest your eyes.
> Interesting that there are at least three 'Medialab' brands, one is the management platform for healthcare, one is a department at MIT, and then there is Medialab the holding company

This really confused me. The logos of the management platform and MIT are practically the same as well.
The doctor links to an actual medical study.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

Oxford Academic
They don’t produce more because they lose money on them and only make enough so the don’t have to buy credits from other manufacturers
And there is a lot less union strength.
To be clear, I am not arguing in favor of teachers unions or short-sighted politicians. I am not arguing that our education dollars are being well-spent since it is clear that we are spending more to get worse results. I am not arguing that increased funding has a bigger impact than improving discipline.

But it does seem logical to me that given a set of students, some of them will end up costing more than others. To give a trivial example, a student who repeats a grade costs more to educate than a student who skips a grade, just by virtue of spending an extra two years in the system. Similarly, it seems logical to me that students who can't afford lunch, need additional ESL or special-needs teachers, are physically handicapped, are violent, etc will cost more than the average student. (And sure, kicking that violent kid out lowers your costs, but it simply shifts that cost to the juvenile detention system.) Assuming the above is true, any school that is able to attract slightly more low-cost students or discourage slightly more high-cost students (however they are able to do so) should enjoy substantial cost savings.

> some charter schools are working phenomenally well for the underprivileged and doing so with less funding

I do not dispute that there are positive examples. From the statistical analysis I can find the overall effects seem mixed: in some states charter-school students do better (on average) than public school students, in some states worse, and in some states like Ohio there's simply more variance between charter school students. And since I do not know is what this effect is due to I'm not sure to what degree this approach scales. For example, do charter schools work equally well in a region where there are no more public schools left for them to dump difficult students onto?

One way to test this would be to randomly assign a population of students into a public school system and a charter school system, give them the same funding, and require that each system accommodate even the most difficult students who have special needs or disciplinary issues. (Not necessarily in the same classes, just that they are responsible for their education.) If charter schools have better educational outcomes in such an experiment then I would find that truly compelling.

I think it's absolutely useful that states are taking such different approaches to charter schools though, and I think eventually that will give us the data we're looking for.
As a complete aside. 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?
In fact the doctor advocates taking the vaccine. Also, the method the doctor is advocating for is what the drug makers recommend. It just isn't what the CDC and WHO recommend.
OP here! I've been keeping a very close eye on the SimulaVR project for a while. I agree with most of what you've got here, and would love to be able to try it out in the future.

One question I've got about the window management system - I make heavy use of virtual desktops so I can swap several windows out simultaneously (all my source code on one screen, my database GUIs on another, etc.). I'd run out of room using a spatially tiled VR interface unless I had "sets" or other groups of windows (or different vantage points); how is that being approached? Is there a "virtual desktop" equivalent?

Any chance of coopting other hardware as part of your development/deployment strategy? (Vive Focus 3, maybe?)

I'll definitely continue to watch the project - please let me know if I can ever be of service in the endeavor. You guys are building an awesome future.
Here are a couple of relevant quotes from Freeman Dyson (who did not have a PhD):

“Well, I think it actually is very destructive. I'm now retired, but when I was a professor here [Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton], my real job was to be a psychiatric nurse. There were all these young people who came to the institute, and my job was to be there so they could cry on my shoulder and tell me what a hard time they were having. And it was a very tough situation for these young people. They come here. They have one or two years and they're supposed to do something brilliant. They're under terrible pressure — not from us, but from them.

So, actually, I've had three of them who I would say were just casualties who I'm responsible for. One of them killed himself, and two of them ended up in mental institutions. And I should've been able to take care of them, but I didn't. I blame the Ph.D. system for these tragedies. And it really does destroy people. If they weren't under that kind of pressure, they could all have been happy people doing useful stuff. Anyhow, so that's my diatribe. But I really have seen that happen."
Not illegally firing them for trying to unionize would have put them on the right track.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/business/musk-labor-board...
>> but scheduling 30 mins, and leaving the subsequent 30 mins free in case something significant comes up during it, feels right.

Yes! this is an obvious (in hindsight) but pro move. You never want to cut off a direct report in the middle of an important, emotional discussion because "Hey, sorry got another meeting, peace out!"

To the GP: 2 months is too long between real 1:1s, this sounds like more of a career direction discussion or a skip-level with your boss's boss. Or if you're in a really small team/org you might be discussing 1:1 material far more frequently/casually without realizing it. I STILL like explicit, strict 1:1 schedules though because it's time owned by the IC who guides the conversation while the manager listens and figures out how they are going to solve the questions presented. I do very green juniors, people on performance improvement plans and those I'm mentoring for leadership positions every week; everyone else on 2-week schedules. Longer than that makes me nervous, out-of-touch and it's really hard to build personal relationships.
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>I would hope that deploying the military against your own citizens is against more than just an executive branch policy that can be changed at any moment.

That's not reality
My wife and I are not particularly outdoorsy, having both grown up in cities/suburbs in the US. So actually both of us probably should be at least somewhat wary of being alone in semi-wilderness. But maybe it's an example of male overconfidence that the suggestion calls up images of Walden for me, but probably Unsolved Mysteries for her. I'm certainly not saying women should be afraid of being alone outdoors, but there is a pretty pervasive cultural perception that lone women are more vulnerable than lone men in many situations. It doesn't help that, for the majority of people, the most famous female "adventurer" they've heard of is Amelia Earhart, whose disappearance overshadowed all her pioneering achievements.
Supposedly Tesla already has one but they barely have capacity for there own fleet let alone everyone else’s and they are building superchargers at a rapid pace
Printers are getting less and less relevant, how can they get away with this? I'm really happy with my cheap HP LaserJet M15 B&W printer though...
I've rarely had managers that did not have technical chops.

Did they know the ins and outs of fashion in the latest JavaScript frameworks? Not always. Were they sometimes rusty remembering the method signature of standard library functions? Yeah.

But they typically had deep knowledge and experience with architecting systems, maintaining those systems, making important strategic tradeoffs, planning and estimation, reviewing code, and interfacing with the business.

Having a manager with these skills is invaluable for a productive team.
So, here's an incredibly annoying thing about the fiber situation in Japan. An apartment building can advertise that they have high speed fiber internet, if the fiber is run to the building. They don't actually have to provide high speed to the apartments within the building.

My building was advertised this way, and my apartment has 30Mb ADSL, because that's how the complex was wired when it was built.
This is a really interesting point, and an issue that Bitcoin will likely run into as the block reward nears zero, and transaction fees provide the majority of the miner revenue. Miners could be incentivized to reorg blocks in order to get transaction fees.
100% or you suck. You need 100% and then some for FULL coverage.

I work with people who turn in 80% PRs...these people are bug factories.
the same thing happens on Reddit with the AskReddit. they have bots ask simple questions and then the answers I think are being used to train algorithms. Reddit is such that if you scroll on their app in the main feed for long enough it will always be ask Reddit's and they will all be those kind of questions