skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hate to take Meta's side, but enabling video is inviting discrimination and hate speech. Enabling audio alone has proven to be enough to bring out the worst in people online.

Virtual avatars already work in video conferencing apps, and any voice modulation software will work there as well. They're even easier to use, because tracking facial expressions and mapping them to a virtual avatar can happen with just a webcam, you don't need a complicated extra set of hardware.

I really just don't believe that privacy/anonymity/anti-discrimination is the reason Facebook is making any decision with VR. And I would base that on mostly just on the entire history of the company.

This is the company that has pushed harder than any other mainstream social network to force people online to use their real names. They've repeatedly had micro-targeting bugs in their ad-system that allowed targeting people based on race, and there have been multiple instances of people having parts of their identity leaked to friends and family members through advertising. The whole facial recognition thing they're planning to get rid of was a system that would tag your real face and correlate it with your real identity online, outside of your control via other people's accounts. I know people online who's literal first experience with Facebook was as soon as they signed up immediately getting doxed/outed by automated systems that sent suggested friend requests from their alt accounts to other contacts based on their address book. This is not a system or a company that in any way cares about digital autonomy, anonymity, or user-controlled identity, it really never has, and I don't believe Mark when he suddenly starts claiming that the company has now suddenly done a 180 on user autonomy.

I'm not anti-VR; I don't think it has the workplace value that Facebook is claiming, but it does have some benefits. And there is some potential for self-expression in VR that is genuinely exciting (see platforms like VR-Chat, but notably, Facebook is doing nothing in that space). But VR is definitely not a technology that's designed to decrease the risk of abuse. When you strap a VR headset on, you're putting yourself in a vulnerable situation, and Facebook has no controls I can see that try and mitigate the fundamental problem; they don't have tons of control over avatars, they don't have voice masks.

If they're claiming lack of video passthrough for faces is a privacy feature, that's an excuse, I don't believe it for a single second. None of the rest of their setup reflects a company that honestly cares about any of that stuff. You bring up audio as being a problem on its own -- Facebook isn't helping that problem; it's moving away from text communication, and then not enabling audio filters by default in VR. It's making that problem just straightforwardly worse.
For my personal desktop, I use Arch linux, and I'm perfectly happy. However, for a work laptop, I am pretty sure I'd take a new M1 Macbook Pro over a Thinkpad/XPS w/ Arch Linux.

A MBP can get 15+ hours of battery life, supports suspend/resume, and in the case of the Intel models, smooth GPU switching between dedicated and onboard.

Linux does none of that well. On a desktop, none of that matters, but I wouldn't take those tradeoffs on a work laptop.
I'm not arguing VR is the future or anything, but people with rich social lives in SF or Manhattan aren't a great measuring stick. Doubly so during pandemic times.
I wish that were remotely true. We continually have to ask people not to shorten our toddler's name from Jacqueline to Jac or JacJac, and I'm pretty confident that once we leave the room they go right back to Jac.

I have a somewhat unusual name that's related to a common name. Think Jeremiah. Even though I have that as my email address and sign off as Jeremiah, people frequently reply to me as Jeremy or Jerry or even Jer.

Yeah you sort of have ownership of your name, but people are still going to butcher it or abuse it if there's opportunity.
> throw away all of the community and things that they've built so far.

The sad truth is probably, that Rusts complexity is just a mirror of the entire industry.

If we, as a profession, placed a lot of value onto tiny, simple, yet well thought out (and therefore powerful) things, rewriting everything once a year wouldn't be as much of a problem.

No codebase would have more than 5kLOCs, Browsers would only do layouts with the thing we build after learning from Flexbox, Grid, and Column, and Rusts language spec would fit into a white-paper like Scheme did.

At least Rusts borrow checker uses such a tiny, well thought out, piece of code with its datafrog engine.
I came across this interesting post touching on Haskell just recently:

https://www.drmaciver.com/2015/04/on-haskell-ruby-and-cards-...
Since the first comment, the thread has been about how "Yesterday I worked on X, today I will work on X" is pointless. That is the canned response. It is not something a thinking person would logically say on their own accord. It gets said because it is the answer to two of the three questions that the book on Scrum indicates should be asked in a standup. The third being the equally useless "Do you have any blockers?"

Sure, you can say that in 10 seconds. More likely even less time. That doesn't mean you should. It provides nothing of value. Setting a specific turn aside so that someone has to say something useless is even crazier.
Extracting tritium between pulses seems to be the key approach to reducing degradation. One of the company's patents [1] explains:

"The D-3He fusion reaction produces no neutrons as well (D+3He→4He (3.6 MeV)+H (14.7 MeV). However the D-D side reaction, while not as frequent, can generate 14.1 MeV neutrons through one of its fusion product reactions (D+T→4He+n+14.1 MeV). There is also the D-D reaction itself that produces a lower energy neutron (2.45 MeV) which is below the threshold for activation of most nuclear materials and is thus far less detrimental...Example systems and methods described herein may employ a 3He fuel cycle which may reduce or suppress a dangerous D-T side reaction by extracting the tritium ions as they are created. The extracted tritium is unstable and may beta decay in a relatively short period of 11 years to 3He, a primary fuel for the D-3He reaction. Accordingly, example systems, reactors and methods described herein may enjoy a self-sustaining fuel cycle where the required 3He to operate the reactor may be generated by the decay of tritium ions extracted from the reactor itself..."

The FAQ on the website [2] acknowledges their process "does create some 'activated materials' over the operating life of a power plant. Helion’s plants have been specifically designed to only use materials that would result in low activation, similar to what might be created by medical devices or other particle accelerators.

Our expectation is that a Helion plant could be fully decommissioned within a week without any lasting environmental impact."

[1] https://patents.justia.com/patent/20170011811

[2] https://www.helionenergy.com/faq/
Chicago.

Friendly people , cheap housing, great public transportation. Tons of things to do.

No visa issues, it's much easier to move cities they countries.
Interestingly, in 1999 my father worked at Microsoft on the Windows NT kernel but at home he had a Linux server and taught me to install Debian from floppy disks.
The lightning example isn't really analogous. Sure, one or two people might get struck by lightning, but they're not then going to continue spreading lightning strikes once they leave my house. Moreso, those (non-existent) spreadable lightning strikes aren't going to mutate to get worse as they propagate.

There isn't an easy or obvious answer to where it stops and how to determine that, but that goes both ways. We can't just have zero laws for fear that the laws might overextend themselves.

Unfortunately, we have to deal with nuance either way.
Here in San Francisco, a.k.a. East Germany the Stasi are very strong.

Even 5 year olds now have to show proof of vaccine and wear a mask to enter most private companies.

Either masks work or they don't. Either vaccines work or they don't. Pick one asssholes.

The mayor herself won't follow her very own draconian covid orders.

The governor of California won't follow his very own draconian covid orders. He also won't vaccinate his own daughter.

FUCK EVERY PIECE OF LOW-LIFE DEMOCRAT LIBERAL FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT IN SAN FRANCISCO.

I know you all are reading this so please go jump off the big beautiful bridge of ours or jump in front of Cal-Train. You people are FUCKING LOSERS.

I hope you all get FUCKED! If you somehow survive the next year just wait cause the right wing death squads are coming for you.

We will throw you out of planes at 30,000 feet over the fucking ocean.

LIBERALS: You ARE FUCKED!
...however, does not mean it doesn't work similarly in hoomans.
If they are using an XPS everything should already be working on linux.
I went looking for more information about their technology, and found the top thread on this reddit post from a few days ago interesting. It's a debate between two people involved in the field about whether or not Helion's approach appears to be viable:

https://old.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/qkvzjs/fusion_energ...
In 2018 I built a privacy-friendly open-source consent manager (https://github.com/kiprotect/klaro) which is used on many websites across Europe. From the beginning I never liked the IAB, didn't implement it and told people that I regard it as unlawful since e.g. a user cannot possibly make an informed decision that involves thousands of third-parties. Still many of our users kept asking me about it since it was "the way" to become compliant.

So I finally asked the IAB how one could potentially implement their framework as an open-source framework. Their answer was basically that it's not possible. You have to register as a CMP provider and ensure that your users are using your software in their compliant (ha ha) way, which is of course impossible to enforce with an open-source software that everyone can self-host. In general, in my opinion the IAB is mostly a framework to shift liability from the advertisers who steal the users' data to the publishers and CMP providers. Therefore I'm quite happy we never got around to implement this "feature" in our CMP, and I hope the IAB will quickly die and takes all those alibi CMP providers down with them.
> Helion has a clear path to net electricity by 2024

That seems impossibly ambitious.
Allegedly they can turn bat viruses into a human pandemic. Good luck to us all.
The posting makes the job sound pretty fun! I like the examples.

I don't really like the use of the word "badass" in the ad; it feels kind of unprofessional.

Also this is minor, but...

/s/acutally/actually
What on earth are you talking about?

Yes, obviously in order to make an apple pie you must first create the universe. In order to be gifted you must first be born, have a basic level of food and shelter, be mostly free of disease and so on. That's not a relevant point of discussion here. We're discussing a case where all things are equal.

"But all things aren't equal!" You scream. "Those evil white people grew up in the lap of luxury while the poor, repressed minorities had a life of scraping, miserable poverty!"

First, this isn't always true. There are poor white people and middle-class (or even rich) minorities, and to suggest that every minority is hopelessly disadvantaged because they all grew up in the ghetto is its own kind of racism. But second, this is a separate discussion. To answer the question "Are some people naturally gifted?" you have to adjust the other variables to equal first in order to tease out the answer to that specific question. Having discovered that yes, indeed they are, you can then conclude that this CONTINUES TO BE THE CASE in situations where "privilege" is not equal. The fact that some people are handicapped or helped by their economic or racial background does not magically erase the fact that they are ALSO helped or held back by their innate intelligence, and tendency to understand or not understand specific concepts.

Some people are smarter than other people, in a way that has nothing to do with economics or racism, but is purely biological luck. In direct contradiction to your assertion, THIS is self-evident, in the same way that "Things fall to the earth when dropped". and "Eventually, everyone dies" are. To deny this is to deny basic, readily-observable and reproducible reality, in a way that suggests either disingenuousness or mental illness.

Everyone is not equal, never has been, and never will be. It is an inherent property of the randomness of nature that some members of a species end up with abilities superior to others, completely independent of economics, race, social class, or any other human construction. Stop pushing this inane Harrison Bergeron gibberish.
My point is I think it's a shitty investment. You're welcome to celebrate it and I'm welcome to criticize it. I don't take back what I said about Sam and think he deserves more criticism, not less.
thats a rather large oversight. makes me doubt their expertise.
I've got maybe $4500 for investing. How do I get in on this?
I've spoken to people who have been through that department at Facebook, and they report the scale of use of Haskell is wildly exaggerated.
Well, you can statically link and just include the functions actually in use; here is an example of a Win32 Qt GUI application with only 6.8 MB: http://software.rochus-keller.ch/CrossLine_win32.zip (just download, unzip and run; works also well with Wine)
Mac can never come close to xmonad + any linux distro.
This seems to be the story for many dynamic scripting languages. TypeScript obviously, but also Ruby and PHP. Lisp folks seem to be the most steadfast in preferring dynamic typing. But even that’s not universal.
This is fantastic - I hesitate to show it to my wife because it will induce baby fever.

I have a feature request for a naming contract option between you and your partner.

When you begin the name search you outline an agreement on key issues i.e.:
-Veto rules
-No Later Than Date for settling the name
-Method(s) and timing by which you will release the name
-Family name considerations

In my experience with 5 kids it's these things that end up taking the joy out of naming.

Congrats on the coming baby!
because almost all of the others are unfixable shitty laptops?
Old Thinkpads are really serviceable, I am still using my X61 because I could update so much of its internals. This is not the case of anything else apart from frame.work, which is not available outside of US unfortunately (for me).
This - please don't burden your child with a middle name or even worse, two middle names.
people who need that kind of hardware don't give a fuck about 0.05$/hour it costs to run it at 100% load.
US offers $10m reward for Intel on DarkSide ransomware gang
I didn't have much of a change in energy or mood, but my allergy issues showed an immediate improvement.
Never Mind the Great Reset. Here Comes the Great Reject
As the article points out, a great many people - usually completely innocent - ask questions exactly like this.

I don't know if you assume that malicious actors wear hoodies and sunglasses and use voice-changers all the time or what, but in my experience, the best covert operations happen in plain sight.
Grapes are poisonous to mice as well. Dose makes the poison is very relevant here.
Little Adolf is so cute!
You are just racist. Shut the fuck up libtard.
> The fact that an unverified and completely fabricated political smear campaign ravaged a US presidency for 4 years is so unbelievably corrupt and disturbing. I

I’m not sure why you are bringing up Birtherism now but, FYI, it lasted more than 4 years.
>Plasma is actually very lightweight and snappy

Not in my experience, though I have pretty high/less realistic standards coming from i3.

It's plenty usable on modern hardware (anything midrange+ from the past 10 years or so), but it is worth noting that I've still run across folks running core 2 duos in recent times. (Although fwiw they were running plasma, just complaining about it not being very responsive)
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> I am not sure it generalizes

I guess the marketing best practices they ignore wouldn't be best practices if it did :)

Still, it's nice to see that the model can work. As a happy customer, I'm pleased to see that the model is sustainable. When a product decides to stick to word-of-mouth alone, incentives are very aligned for them to make the user experience good enough to tell other people about (as I have).
The timing of this post is too real. I'm so sorry to hear that. It's likely not any solace, but I've gone through and am currently going through something similar.

I'm working as a software engineer and I love solving problems but in this situation I'm absolutely helpless and I'm incapable of contributing in the slightest. It feels horrible. It can be hard to focus at work, but it is a distraction.

My mother just beat breast cancer not too long ago, it was a very long road, numerous surgeries, chemotherapy, an insane amount of pills, appointments, it's been hard. In the spring she was declared cancer free, we threw a party, everyone had a great summer, planned a few trips, but come this fall noticed something wasn't quite right with balance.

Dropped her off for a simple checkup. Maybe she just needed some physical therapy? Didn't hear back from her for a few days. They did an MRI and some tests. I get a call from her a few days later. Turns out now she's got brain cancer. It's in the pons. No surgeon will touch it, they can't even biopsy it because any mistake can prevent breathing or other critical functions. They still can't figure out where it came from. She got sent to Mayo for research and pulling at team together.

Her symptoms quickly got worse, blurred vision, losing control of her entire left side, so they immediately started radiation. We don't know where it's going to go from here because they don't know what to do. To make matters worse she's a teacher that almost got to retirement and is fighting every day with paperwork and countless calls and administrative offices to deal with insurance benefits, COBRA, pension, and disability. She used up all PTO and whatever benefits to get through breast cancer. It's a mess.

To answer your question, I don't know. I spend a lot of time at the gym and trying to occupy my mind with other things but it doesn't always work.
Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers
I have been using plausible on my small personal site for about a year now. When I emailed their support to ask a question I got a helpful response from one of the founders within an hour. Good experience overall, and I appreciate their efforts to protect the privacy of visitors while still providing useful data for site owners.
As opposed to those verified and completely unfabricated events that a US presidency ravaged the US with for 4 years...
> It’s often forgotten, but prior to credit cards, many Main Street retailers like e.g. pharmacies maintained hundreds or thousands of credit accounts for customers individually, necessitating their own back offices, accounting, and collections headache.

This article is a great history of how the modern credit card came into being https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/19...
Out of curiosity - how long (days/weeks) did it take you to notice your allergy improvements?
Maybe that's why they could only hire Haskell devs.
I mean, it is because you can look for another job or start your own business if that's the hill you want to die on.

But in general society has rules and we must abide by them if we want to participate. For instance I'm sure most people wouldn't appreciate if I walked around naked, which does not harm anyone unlike needlessly having an increased risk of contracting and/or spreading COVID.
If there is no law against it, who is going to stop them, and why would they care?
We have used middle names to place our kids within their family, they are in some sense family names.

Common uses of middle names in the UK include to give a child a name of a God-parent or other significant non-family person, or to record the mother's maiden name, or to give an alternative name a child can use (if they prefer that name) later in life without having to change their name, or to disambiguate (John Frederick Smith, son of John David Smith, son of John James Smith -- they might all go by John outside of the family and be Freddy, Dai, and Jim at home, for example).

Middle names (especially unusual ones) make name collisions much less likely.
The Game Master 1 and 2
Yeah, I'm sad we're still seeing comments like this in 2021: "I normally work using an external monitor, so I started looking at my options to configure the external display including the external keyboard and mouse."

Trying to use linux on a laptop is how I ended buying my first Macbook a decade ago.
Thanks for the share. Great stuff.

I used to scrape websites to generate content for higher SERPs.

Ended up going into the adult industry lols. (https://javfilms.net)
Also doesn't mean that it does.

More importantly probably, this test was a standard diet vs. a "junk food" diet, so it makes many more changes vs. the control than just swapping sucrose for HFCS. It doesn't (and wasn't intended to) really reveal effects of HFCS specifically. Obviously you could look more at the specific differences between the diets used here in future research.
thanks, indiehackers needs an invite code to join and it's pretty hard to get one so it's a blocker.
The term nuclear and that energy is a highly regulated marketplace
Plato’s Allegory Of The Valley.
Good article that makes a good faith effort to discuss tradeoffs rather than glorifying or demonizing decentralization.

> The first downside to "Anyone can build anything" is that "anyone" means anyone, and the people to whom decentralized systems are the most attractive are the ones who are banned from other systems, often for good reasons.

This is an often overlooked point from the user perspective. Decentralization sounds great when a website censors content you didn't want it to censor, but most users don't realize just how much unwanted spam and abuse content gets quietly removed from public platforms on a daily basis. The sheer volume of spam or even just angry/abusive users on public platforms these days is hard to describe if you haven't been on the spam/abuse prevention side of a popular website.

Worse, the most abusive users tend to be the most persistent. They can become very good at gaming things like IP blocks, reputation systems, or voting systems. The best users can quickly get frustrated with even small levels of abuse and leave a platform.

Decentralization seems to work well for cases where individuals are privately interacting with other users they already know. It seems much more difficult to solve the problem of public forum websites where anyone can contribute content. That's a dream come true for spammers and abusers. I'm interested to see how this space evolves as these platforms try different solutions.
The site appears to be down for me right now. Here's the post from IAB Europe: https://iabeurope.eu/all-news/update-on-the-belgian-data-pro...

And another article on the topic: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/iab-europe-tcf-gdpr-breach...
I find that people approaching woke but not “there” yet are the best.
Friendly reminder Fauci authorized "research" where they physically ripped out puppies vocal chords so they wouldn't have to listen to them cry while they fed their faces to insects and slowly were murdered over the course of 2 weeks:

https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/outsiders/utterly-disgust...

Of course, that isn't even the most grotesque that piece of shit did. They also threw acid on monkey brains to induce terror.

Seriously, if you support Fauci - at all - I hope you get shot in the fucking head.