skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fire sprinklers appear to be required. https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.as...
Theres more than 2 VR headsets, Quest and Index, available at the moment. Just have a brief look.
https://www.vr-compare.com/

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Eg. If you want wireless one like the quest, the HTC Vive Focus or HTC Vive Focus plus have similar specs to quest 2.. they can play games by themselves without a pc and are wireless

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If you have a pc and want higher resolution / framerate like the index then DecaGear and HP Reverb G2 look good.

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I would not get a quest cus of fb, and apparently atm the build quality of index is atrocious.
Bingo. Refreshing to come across this level of social awareness on Hacker News, which is not to put down Hacker News. I love it here. I just don’t expect to come across comments like this on here.
Yes, but only a part. It’s not just about having something akin to actors for concurrency and execution. It’s also about having a dynamic system - one that can update its behavior not just by manual request, but automatically as the system is running.

One way to think about this is propagators. I’m still learning myself, but a compelling example is lisp. With lisp you can write macros that essentially allow you to treat your code as a tree and arbitrarily modify that tree (aka arbitrarily write code). You can then compile that code while the system is running and execute it. It’s not just about macro expansion at startup or a single compile time step at the beginning of execution. The system can be designed with this in mind.

It’s also about introspection, the ability to ask questions about the system at runtime as it evolves.

Sussman and Kay both talk a lot about DNA and biology, and the ability for systems to dynamically expand, change, and repair themselves.

When I think about this kind of stuff nowadays I picture something like lisp with an execution environment like the BEAM (so basically LFE) and an introspection system powered by a declarative constraint solving query language (something like Datalog-style RDF found in things like datalevin and it’s predecessors). I think that lends itself really well to these kinds of systems, including another point that Kay talks about pretty frequently. The ability for two systems (and in our cases two actors in one environment count) to negotiate with each other via some shared fundamental language to understand each other’s purpose. SOP style approaches seem like a compelling way to do that, but the main problem to me is identifying entities as globally unique as part of that negotiation process.

Also don’t listen to me, I’m a monkey.
Regulator paves way for NHS e-cigarette prescriptions in England
Applications of smart contracts that go beyond DeFi
X/Y "Cusper" (I think most cut that off at '82?), or just an early or "elder" Millennial if you're slightly past that. Some like to add an "Oregon Trail generation" that covers the tail end of X and the beginning of Y, basically for the kids whose first computers (their own, a relative's, at school, whatever) were not connected to the Internet. I think that cut-off's around '85 or '86, usually.

[EDIT] I think there's a tendency to have a bunch of names for that set specifically because the latter ~half of Millennials had a very different experience than the early ~half—the early half did have a childhood more similar to Gen X, and they grew up immersed in Gen X media on top of it—so lumping them together doesn't seem right to a lot of people.
TL;DR It's the stupid $20 polishing cloth.
I would think that, you being a former firefighter, you’d know that exits (for regular use and, even more so, emergency exits) are not the same thing as (are generally a superset of) entrances.

Yes, I've already addressed that point multiple times in this discussion. Emergency exits are a factor, but not a be-all / end-all.

State building codes in California have for new construction for more than 30 years (heck, California has, for a decade, required them for new single family homes, too.)

Thanks for sharing. I'm not a California resident, so I'm less familiar with the particulars of their regulations out there.
That quote really resonated with me, I appreciate you sharing it. I think it's something I'll stock away and read from time to time.

I don't think I've ever seen someone so eloquently paint the picture of the world I see.
Then we don't really have anything to discuss.
Our collective obsession over "natural" light is the main driver behind things like open-plan offices.

The sun isn't magic; why don't we define natural light by its spectrum as a function of time, and then replicate it with LEDs and a bit of software? This wouldn't even cost much to run, because the demand curve matches the supply curve of solar energy.
I, for one, like the idea of having the OS kernel as part of UEFI.
You have the right to require accommodations for a disability, you do not have the right to demand the same accommodations just because you would prefer it that way.

Many types accommodations add extra burden or cost on the service provider, so if someone with e.g. perfect sight asks for a vision-related accommodation, they are allowed to refuse.
Yes but DuckDB is optimized for analytics (columnar data and vectorized computation). Take a look at the comparison in https://shell.duckdb.org/versus.
Evolutionary pressure, what? This isn't a situation where people who just happen to forget a pen one day deserve to not breed.
No. There are other parts of a business besides developers/engineers.
> My college roommates had blackout curtains on the small windows in our rooms. Not sure how this is different.

I'm extremely confused. Were your blackout curtains made of sheet metal and welded to the walls?
As someone right in between Millennials and Zoomers ('92), I find myself really empathizing more with gen Z. I really appreciate that our weird puritan-work-ethic-meets-corporate-capitalism economy has finally produced a generation that is just fucking done with how out of control it's gotten.

People are finally realizing that "the hustle" is a fucking scam if you don't have enough equity in your "hustle" that you're on its Board or in the C-suite. Which is almost nobody at this point. We're finally rejecting this glorification of labor at the expense of ourselves, our society, our environment, etc.
I suggest the concept that the risk is fundamental to all systems of trade, fiat/government included. All suffer from theft by insiders as well as theft by outside attackers/exploiters.
Erlang incorporated some of the ideas of the Actor Abstraction

but missed a few things. See

See article and video here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJP1VL7shiI
Commendable for being non-violent I'll give him that, but I think it would be a leap to call him a Robin Hood. He was stealing for a narcissistic rush and he ditched the cash out of pragmatism. I doubt even he believed it was for any kind of altruism. As soon as it could get him an even bigger fix, through drugs and lifestyle, he kept the money.

I'm trying not to be cruel, he served his sentence and I don't exactly care that banks lost a few thousand here and there, I hope he's found some kind of peace now. It's just not quite the feel good story that Robin Hood was, this was more a story about unchecked narcissism and substance abuse.
Only if they are over sixteen. Same for buying at the supermarket, gas station, or such. No sale without verification of legal ID. Of course there are ways around that, but it isn't that easy anymore.
My comment is kind of unrelated to the content of this, but just wanted to say this is the type of stuff I love seeing on Hackernews. The business and tech stuff I find on the platform is nice, but I find this type of really specific passion work is what keeps me coming back to hackernews.
It's great to see this stuff get bubbled up to the front page. Yesterday this got to the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29031488 (55 GiB/s fizzbuzz), which was such a good read, and just so specific and niche.

I guess it's just nice to see people so passionate about things.
If you were an architect who was concerned enough with the design to quit, wouldn't you both know about and publicize potential (or real) safety concerns?
> Get informed about the case.

Sure except for attempting to brute force the LM hashes and offer to get Manning a burner phone Assange provided no material aid to Manning at all. [0]

You don't get to vacillate between James Bond and Bob Woodward as it suits you. Assange has no reasonable claims of protection that an actual journalist might.

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/886185-pe-123.html
In the punnet square of "works/doesn't work" and "fits/doesn't fit" we have.

1) works, fits
2) doesn't work but fits
3) could work but doesn't fit
4) doesn't work and doesn't fit

I still think avoiding (3) is worth (2).
Monitoring alerts and where to send them
>Nobody calls Google “Alphabet”

of course not - because Alphabet is not Google

Google is a subsidiary :)
Or, you force socialization on a population that's increasingly turning inward, to the detriment of society in general.

It's hubris that on one hand HN can bitch about how egomaniacal companies like Facebook and Google are, and yet on the other complain about how architecture designed to promote socialization is unfair.

Where do we think those social-deaf, micro-optimizing engineers come from?
In the always-on space where it is rather energy inefficient to run normal hardware.
The brain as a universal learning machine (2015)
Not everyone can do it, but I recommend ignoring ridicule that's not well founded.
To reduce discomfort, I propose the government to support research in developing tools and devices to reduce discomfort due to said audio, while also subsidise such products on market.
No, I wouldn't say that category theory is a prerequisite for domain theory in general.

I'm most familiar with domain theory from Winskel's "Formal Semantics of Programming Languages" (great book, cited as Win93 in the linked PDF), which has a whole chapter on the subject with no reference to category theory.

If you get deeper into domain theory (e.g. by working through this book) surely some category theory will be useful, but it's not a foundational prereq.
We use react, flask, neo4j, elastic search and it's all hosted in AWS. Integrations are from scratch
I wonder, is this purely a compile-time thing, or is the Qt binary library capable of switching between the two depending on whether you have a remote display or not? It seems like something that should be possible without forcing you to choose whether the performance of local or remote users is prioritized with a compile-time switch.
> It's survival of the fittest code.

That codebase has a name: it's called Bitcoin.

No discernable hackage seen in the wild for the better part of the last 7-ish years.

And the incentive to find one grows exponentially with time.
I’m hesitant to respond because I don’t know that I can really add anything meaningful other to say that I think one day history will change the way you and others view some of those comments you’ve considered flamebait. Lab leak is one example. I think that’s now acceptable as a topic of discussion amongst educated adults, but it was deemed a “groundless insinuation” at one point and I believe something that would get moderated here, maybe I’m wrong about that. Meanwhile many comments get posted that make fair and strong criticisms of Facebook, or apple or the surveillance state in the USA, five eyes and so forth. I think you and others do a great job of moderating and I’m not trying to argue otherwise, just that I think flamebait is subjective and it’s possible to be overzealous and that criticism of the CCP is no less legitimate than criticism of the NSA, FBI, the prosecution of Julian Assange, etc… I say that with great respect and gratitude for the generally excellent work that you do.
If you don't have a trustworthy API, you will get blocked because you repeatedly send the request from the same or untrusted IP address. The server will detect you as a bot. Scraping through a trusted Proxy would solve the problem as it uses a trustful and pool of proxies, so every request gets accepted by the targeted websites.

Proxycrawl is one of the best tools to crawl and scrape data without worrying about any restrictions and blocks; they handle everything and allow seamless web scraping. They do offer various products related to every web scraping need; check them out proxycrawl.com.
I've not used the tech, but maybe you could reduce some languages to something lower-level than words, but higher-level than letters. Like syllables. A dictionary of syllables might not be useful, if it's a 2-3 letter syllable that's looked-up via a 2 key chord. Dunno, that might be too simple. But I'd say there's a lot of space here for something better than regular stenography or QWERTY.
I'm not assigning blame though I can see how it would look that way.

Seeing how these discussions go today, however, and looking forward - I fully expect the millennials to be an easy target before long. Gen X isn't big enough to shoulder the blame after boomers die out.

You're right of course, I should have said plurality. I'm currently reading a biography of Hitler so you'd think I'd be particularly sensitive to the difference.
Also see offerings from Lightbend and Microsoft.
I Googled around for this some time ago and found quite a few grid-storage projects in the US and Europe (both public and private), but I don’t have links handy at the moment. They all seem to be pretty early-days IIRC. But yes, mostly you have to sift through a lot of results related to transportation fuel cells.
wow so you're essentially making a comparison between a.) a person who exposes serious war crimes by the leaders of the most militarily invested country in the world - where those leaders essentially committed mass-murder from a distance (let's be honest, Assange/Mannings's Collateral Murder drone strike footage is probably not the only footage that exists/existed, and neither is this the worst event in the US propertied class' illegitimate 'war on terror', it's just one of a few 'unlucky' bits of evidence that has leaked), and b.) sex tourists and pedophiles in south-east asia?

serious question: how do you justify this in your mind?
In short - don't be stupid

Pick things that are memorable and/or "mean something" (like the Good Old Days™ when people'd make www.domain.tld their website while mail.domain.tld was for mail, etc
Are you arguing that grammar is not part of usage? I'm not sure I understand the point.
https://ourworldindata.org/optimism-pessimism

The tl;dr of that is that the world is getting better at a rate that's almost impossible to believe. In fact, it is impossible to believe, which is why so many people don't. It explores the psychology of that a bit.

https://fee.org/articles/average-americans-today-are-richer-...

200 years from now, when the average American is incalculably richer than Elon Musk is today, we'll still be having this conversation. Or capitalism may have ended and the phrase "richer than Elon Musk" may not mean anything. Or we may all be uploaded to the central core. I don't know, but if I had to bet, it'll be better regardless.

Climate change is admittedly a pretty nasty problem. But we have lots of solutions (geoengineering); it's just a matter of whether we give up on the idea that this particular crisis is the end of capitalism in time to use them.
A context-free video purposefully edited to remove, for example, the presence of weapons[0]. Guess what? Mistakes happen in war all the time. There are sometimes clear cases of criminal behaviour, such as in Abu Ghraib, but most of the time the ultimate responsibility lies with whoever orders the troops into the combat zone where they will inevitably mistakenly kill civilians, not with the troops themselves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstri...
Hard times also bred the Nazis.

And to say those were the hard times conversely states that prior to that were the so-called 'good times.' This might be generalized as the roaring 20s in the US (and similarly for Weimar Germany.) However, this generalization fails in two regards: 1) contrary to popular belief, the roaring 20s weren't roaring for most people in the US (or Germany). 2nd) the members of both eras were primarily composed of the same individuals; there is no distinct line of generations divided by 'good times/bad times.'

Lastly it implies that by definition all 'good times' are predicated upon holocaust.

EDIT: And that strength can only be continually cultivated through perpetual war.
The "windowless dorm rooms" sound terrible at first, but the rendering shows what's described as a "false window." Is this a problem we can solve with technology?

I'm intrigued by this idea a lot, since I am moving to a house with a small finished room in the basement.

Does anybody know the current state of "false window" tech? It seems to me you really need several things for a true false window: first, a large amount of light production that matches the color temperature of a typical outdoor environment at the given time of day, and second, something that displays some kind of plausible outdoor-seeming scene.

You'd also need physical depth and movement to facilitate adjusting the directionality of the light source to replicate the changes that occur as the sun traverses the sky.

This sounds really difficult to me - is there an example of a device that can pull this off well?
"The only truly debatable word in that claim is "large.""

The difference between 'this has popular support' and 'there are a few nutjobs' is kinda key, don't you think? Otherwise you might as well write 'a large section of leftists cut off their own penises"
They think it’s better because interest earned on their deposit is much higher than in a bank. Of course, that doesn’t account for this sort of risk.
Not the person you replied to, but I hadn't thought about that particular difference and I take it for granted, so thanks for bringing it up!
Thing is, people are barely competent themselves yet still have various degrees of power over some lives - children, neighbors, elderly relatives, pedestrians...
Ideally, no team has to answer the same question twice once they start using Secoda. In reality, there's times when are question looks similar but is defined differently. We're trying to suggest resources to people who ask questions so they become more self service. Similar to Intercom knowledge hub for data.
The Exorcist and the Terror of Unbelief
Looking forward to showing you around the product! :)
> I don't mean include a TTS engine in your game, just send the text to an application , or local port that the user specified and the user can't use it's own TTS program with his preferred settings to listen for the text.

How does this kind of thing work? I'm only (passingly) familiar with the “official” accessibility APIs, e.g. IAccessible, AT-SPI2, but these are clearly inadequate; I'm very curious to know how real people use computers.
Only in the sense that the concept of race was deployed to serve the ruling class. There is a wonderful book called Racecraft by Karen and Barbara Fields which lays out how this was achieved and how we got to where we are today. Highly recommend.
And mathematics is just applied philosophy, philosophy is just applied language, and language is again one of those "social studies"...
I think even if you take a wildly more cynical approach, a substantial amount of welfare is still worthwhile. When people run out of money, society ends up paying for it, whether it's because those people steal and go to prison or end up in the hospital. If you spend $1B in welfare and half of it gets stolen, it's still a great investment if it take down the societal costs of dealing with poverty by $2B.
Is the American Dream dead though? You can learn the basics of coding in a few months, score your first dev job, invest in your career and live a rather lovely rest of your life in some of the nicest parts of the country, working from either a cushy air-conditioned office with a big monitor, or from the comfort of your home wearing PJs. You don't even have to be that good, to be fair, the industry is infinitely hungry for people able to stitch a few paragraphs of javascript together while also having some basic fluency in English. You first job won't be at Google, but your second or third just might, and then you're practically set for life with that sort of luxury brand name on your resume.

Yeah, you won't have it easy in other industries that have plateaued or shrunk over the years due to technological shifts, but social mobility towards a very acceptable lifestyle is still plenty possible in the US.
Anything can be hacked. Bank, paypal, DeFi.

DeFi allows for a lot of unique and flexible things...and people are re-discovering that writing bullet proof code in such an environment is really really hard. i.e. No training wheels and lots of footguns available

>How can people still think that it's the future?

I'd view these events more as growing pains of a complex technology rather than an indication that it has no future.

People are learning though. See Cardano and their choice of Haskell and emphasis on formal verification.
Excited for your update after a few months of usage.
Making it standard is a lot of hard work while you make a lot of people argue and act in a way that makes sure that some part of the thing will work everywhere.

Standards exist on the real world, you can't just define them into existence without doing the work.
I found the post didn’t have enough substance to even be irritated by.
> All businesses now complain about employee loyalty, but have we earned it?

I'd say that business schools have been for the past few decades teaching that management has to be outright militantly hostile towards any employee, going through great lengths to work them to death and drop them at the drop of a hat.

Thus, these people have been leading by example on how everything and everyone is replaceable, even creating and validating the temp agency industry as a legitimate employer, and once the lessons on how everyone and everything is replaceable are applied by employees towards employers... We have a crisis?
Context of this thread/conversation vs original context of the quote.
> What do y'all do with stuff like this?

eBay.
> is the Qt binary library capable of switching

yes, that's how a single Qt binary can run on wayland, x11, raw EGLFS, or even expose itself over VNC (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qpa.html)

you can force a platform with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=<...> with <...> being one of the plug-in names in your /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforms

The only limit is that it can only be chosen on startup but not changed "while" the application runs if e.g. for some reason you wanted to switch a Qt app from X11 to wayland without restarting the app.
Strontium-90 has better power-density per unit mass than Pu, albeit with larger volume. Half-life is comparable. Safety is better: less gamma, no neutrons, no shielding needed.

Overprovisioning is needed in every case, and excess power has to be dealt with the same way.

Low cost to orbit means more fuel / more ∆V is practical to provide, thus much shorter transit times, translating to less up-front decay.
They should make the outside more brutalist to be honest about the intentions.
Bob Beck also covers this in his talk about the first 30 days of libreSSL. The entire talk is amazing, even 7 years later.

https://youtu.be/GnBbhXBDmwU
Alternate plan: Raise taxes on the wealthy. Use that money to fund the University of California. Spend money on dorms that actually adhere to modern standards and are designed by actual experts and innovators in architecture.

Frustrating that universities have to rely on the whims and quirks of wealthy individuals like this.
I've had a couple Gen X'er friends tell me the generation is collectively stuck in the past. Are there any plausible theories why that might be? Was it a lack of meaning in the general narrative that made growing old too painful for many to face or something?