skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not take marketing around things like VR and AR very seriously because nobody knows whether any of them will catch on, and their track record isn't very good. Oculus, for the most part, is a niche. A lot of people have an Oculus but it's primarily for games, and it hasn't reached the level where everyone's gotta have one.

Only time can tell whether Metaverse has something that Second Life did not. My guess is that it will be considered a joke in 5 short years, but I don't actually know. Overall, I think Silicon Valley is overestimating people's willingness to wear headsets and paddles for extended periods of time. Just because 12 year old boys will do it doesn't mean that everyone else wants to.
Thumbnail sized cat indeed. They also chase laser pointers
> doesn't that require the company to have/pay out dividends?

If you make money along the way, as opposed to when you sell, then yes. The prevailing corporate playbook seems to prefer stock buybacks over dividends, which accomplishes roughly the same thing but only triggers tax liabilities for the stockholders who “cash out” by selling.

Obviously there is a limit to this process, but in a frictionless world of perfect financial knowledge a stockholder would always prefer the buyback approach since it defers taxes on the gains as long as possible.
> reports and studies that I've seen.

What studies look at the impacts of COVID on the brains of vaccinated people?
Things that are not inserted are ok for a while... excepting the presence of open wounds or etc.
I don't understand who can afford these with gas prices so high. NFTs aren't some typical trading card market. I think it's mostly tax evasion and some wealth posturing.

You create an NFT sell it to yourself, the price tanks you deduct it from your taxes and then sit on a pile of USD coin in another wallet that no one knows about.
Define "vulnerable" for children? Please. Using actual data.
I think people are correctly stating that desktop Linux problems are not correctly addressed, and their own desktop environment is unlikely to make a positive difference. Its essentially a hobby rust project of a tech company, no different than something like project ARA in google except its in software. System76 made it easier for some users to use with simple QOL features like by bundling the nvidia driver, and some addons for gnome, but their hardware is nothing special (Clevo OEM with 1080p screens, their laptop doesn't seem to have good aftermarket or even the option to replace the keyboard, the battery is internal only, the aftermarket for repair is going to be very expensive), not priced competitively, Windows default hardware like the Thinkpad I use don't lack any compatibility and I never had an issue with any Intel computers in the last decade. A business class laptop with a good aftermarket from OEMs such as the Thinkpad, Elitebook, and Latitude will allow your Linux laptop to have a very long lifespan since you can supply it with cheap replacement parts. They are not going to be able to replicate that aspect unless they sell as many laptops for years, although its possible they could just have computers that adapt to those parts I doubt that will happen.

I support their removal of Intel ME, its probably a reaction to Dell offering the same for their hardware, but its differentiation that is refreshing is that its a company sells a coreboot computer. https://blog.system76.com/post/168050597573/system76-me-firm...

The Linux desktop has a fragmented problem and this is going to fragment it more. Linux for servers rallied around universal CLI interfaces, and the most usable and successful consumer Linux is android (you can install launchers but they all hook the same way and there is a default).

Pinephone and Librem do the opposite and are essentially imitating ways that failed desktop Linux and are doomed to fail by fragmenting phone GUIs. Every problem will cause a fork and nothing users care about will be fixed, but you’ll be able to and essentially forced to make decisions about the many interfaces, how every fork has another way of doing it differently, and because they’re all essentially nothing more than patches that didn’t get upstreamed they’ll be abandoned.
> The cell network should not get to determine what people attach to it; it should just pass data back and forth.

I absolutely agree.

> And it doesn't require a smartcard either.

There are many good reasons why a counterparty does not trust you (fully) with a set of keys.

The biggest one is keys that allow financial transactions or billing events to happen: It makes the "I lost my password" defense for friendly fraud much less credible. Another can be to discourage sharing of a service (i.e. "account sharing").

Now there's two ways to keep "your" keys safe as a service provider: You build a fully locked down platform and only allow devices sold and made by you to attach to it (and play your content, use your phone network, transact on your payments network etc.), or you standardize the interface to the "key jail", keeping the rest of the device open and accessible to independent security research.

You can call such a tamper-proof device holding some issuer's private or symmetric key any way you want – functionally, it will be very similar to a smartcard.
>How can a few days of viral infection deplete NAD for months?

That's a mystery. A longer than usual disease progression fully depletes the NAD, while a flu does this partially? A more involved attack on mitochondria?

On a general note, metabolism is like a self-supported recursive function. But when one stack frame collapses, the whole calculation breaks like a house of cards causing the interlocked dependencies of pathological phenotypes.

>Also shouldnt tissue hypoxia be quite evident?

Not at all. For example, not all the labs can test for lactic acidosis. And even the ongoing lactic acidosis may be
so localized that the measurement is negligible up to the error of measurement.
Your software just copies what others have written. This is q tool to create blog spam, this makes the web worse and punishes people who create original content, that you just copy
The bachelors is the whole pink part not just the bump. It looks like more volume overall than the masters. It’s meant to represent the additional breadth.

But yeah masters programs do vary widely. When I was in undergrad there were students doing a CS masters coming from other disciplines. They mostly took classes with us and had to write maybe an extra paper to “make it a 6000 level class” (granted I did take more of the theory heavy CS classes than was required).

In that case their masters was basically equivalent to just the bump from the bachelors.
Name and shame them, please, this practice needs to be called out to prospective employees.
Huh, that's a neat idea. What if Zuck is this generation's George Lucas?

For context, after the success of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, it's said that Lucas surrounded himself with yes-men who agreed with whatever he said. Anyone who wasn't one of those didn't last long in his inner circle.

The end result was "Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace". There's an hour-long review video by "Mr Plinkett"[0] that dives into the all the major issues of the film, along with some honestly-not-great humour (imho) but at the end it really explains what the problem was: Lucas had absolute control, and everyone did what he said. And if the original Star Wars had been that way it would have been a disaster.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgWcNsdmoyE&t=3677s (The whole video is good, but linking directly to the important bit I mentioned).
Lol you’ve been shown to be wrong by the original commenter. Get your head out of your ass.
Ask HN: Is collecting your data cool if it is available to everyone?
Thought experiment.

Let's assume that a number of services only work well/are viable when the app collects a lot of information from its users.

What if we make all app's collected data available publicly in a database - with user identity anonymized.

This would make me a lot more comfortable to use the service. I would have less of that feeling "they are profiting over me". And it would incite competition since all companies would have access to the data as well. Something like open banking [1], but for user data.

The challenge is to ensure the data is published in a format where you can not trace back to the users, while still allowing ML apps to use it [2].

I'm curious to hear community thoughts on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_banking
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
Where I tend to get stuck is somewhere between the “make something similar to tic-tac-toe, like bingo” and “make a level editor for beat saber”.

It’s a difference both in scale, and in divergence from the known. While I’ve built large systems for work, it’s usually on the scale of ~1000 development hours and 10-100k+ LOC. Most of my personal projects are basically toys, a few hundred LOC and do-able in an afternoon. I’d like to be able to build medium-scale things without dedicating a significant chunk of my life to them.

The other facet, divergence from the known, is the other sticking point. Given a tic-tac-toe board it’s pretty obvious how to build bingo. I don’t even know what I don’t know about how to build a 3D editor, so it’s hard to get started. (I have this problem with math, too; since so many concepts build on each other, it’s hard to jump in and do something interesting.)
It's a hyperbole.

Virtually everything is designed such that there are different versions for people if different skills. Golf clubs, bikes, skiis, you name it.

University is about education. Learning about computer science concepts, not churn out Java eclipse programmers.

There's no reason to use a tool designed to do work on an enterprise codebase to teach the concepts behind a linked list.
I don't understand why they don't encode the image in base64, so it appears as a alphanumeric string instead of a .png in the DOM. You could still screenshot it, I guess.
McDonalds in particular is becoming very poor value.

I've noticed something very odd lately with their pricing as well.

The value menu meals are advertised as $X on the drive through menu. You order one, and they ask you what you want for a drink, and the POS rings it up as $X meal + $1 drink.

If you don't want the drink, they scrub the meal and enter it as $Y sandwich plus $Z french fries, and $Y+$Z = $X + ~$3.

I do not know the incantation required to get a value meal at McDonalds for the advertised price.
Could you expand on the content performing well? If it is useful and informative and accurate, I wouldn’t consider it spam. Someone who gets targeted ads for a brand in their email and finds those ads useful for sales probably doesn’t consider the email spam. Similar line of logic here for me.
CFA has this unusual model where operators are buying the job of running a location. Hardly any locations are "Corporate Owned" but that's more technicality than reality.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-costs-to-open-a-chic...
What do they mean by Desktop? File manager and other tools? How will Rust help in this specific case? Or is it a case of the developers like Rust?
This is not about SEO, this newsletter and you may also like serve no purpose for this. It's user acquisition.
I'd suggest that any article written "without any knowledge of the topic" is of zero value. I'd define spam as zero value posts/messages. Ergo, it's spam. Not sure how you can argue it isn't.

Not attacking you, I'm just interested in your defence of this sort of thing
Charities call for easing of zebra crossing rules to promote walking
Not spiders but crows in our area have cars open nuts for them by dropping them onto the busier roads and coming back every few hours to collect the goods.
That Oracle-Fujitsu SPARC acquisition rumor is fascinating. Do you think Fujitsu's A64FX line can hold its own against Ampere's stuff and the AWS Graviton CPUs?
That just means that physical NFTs will be booming in 10 years time.
It's all about how you define self-interest and whether your pursuit of self-interest is so short-sighted that it's effectively suicidal; which is what the trend has been. I think it's best to drop the term capitalism all together.
No, it isn’t.

I really don’t have a major problem with this, after all you’re just another in a million.

But I have a problem with you trying to sell yourself as a good guy all full of virtues.
He’s not a native speaker, dude, chill.
System76 developers like Rust. Many of their tools (daemons, CLIs, etc) use Rust. It would also help in this case because if it’s safety.
American relative[1] abundance was also a thing around 1940 after the Great Depression was over and before Perl harbour lead to increased government debt.

At this time there was low government debt and roughly no cheap Asian imports. Therefore, I don’t really believe your hypothesis.

[1] I mean relative to peer countries in Europe before the war—obviously abundance in 1940 could be attributed to the impact of war on those European countries.
Twisted because a contagious virus is not just a personal issue. The virus will continue to mutate and weaken the efficacy of both natural immunity and the vaccine if its spread is not halted.
Do you think GPT3 is spam? Where does it get its information? Are Google quick answers spam? While all A.I. be considered spam? Interesting questions.

The way that I see the value is that it assists the user with research by pulling together answers across thousands of sources, doing work that a single person would struggle with.

Then the user can change, add on top, or modify the research however they want, saving a lot of time in the process.
Evasive witness or very effective tactic during cross, depending on who you are.
I would just like to remind folks that depositions are a hostile form of communication. As many other lawyers can tell you, choosing to adopt these techniques with friends and loved ones will generally be perceived quite poorly. And without an actual judge to force both parties to be there and a fact finder and standard to apply, everyone involved will lose.

That said, this was really excellent and concise advice. I hope it might be obvious how much preparation time this takes, which is just one of the many reasons litigation is so incredibly expensive on non-corporate financial scales.
“Let’s talk about the dangers of ML for analysis when you don’t have data”
Article title: Biden’s $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Hastens Beacons For Bicyclists And Pedestrians To Enable Detection By Connected Cars
Does it add value, at any level?

If you get the info in front of new eyes, I'd say yes: IF it's good info!

You have a lot of intellectual liability, here, and that's a huge thing to throw into the wind for $5k.
But when it comes to deaths Covid is more of an opportunist than a pure solo killer. It does far better against the weak/weakened (e.g., elderly, those with preexisting conditions, etc.)

That's generally true for all disease. Disease preys upon the weak.
Good morning. I'd like to make 3 points
> I think people are correctly stating that Linux problems are not correctly addressed

For example?
!!

I opened https://numair.com in a new tab so I could stumble on it in a bit (figuring this info would turn up there), only to discover a parking page (and TLS cert Chrome did not like). Double-checked the spelling twice.

Is it just an email domain? Where can I eventually read about this? Very idly curious :)
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair
I’ve seen that template applied to every technology now considered bog standard (utterly mundane & normal).
I would love to use OpenSCAD, just seems to have a really steep learning curve that I can't get up. Even though I write code professionally and have no professional CAD experience, Fusion360 just clicked in a way that OpenSCAD didn't for using my 3D printer (Prusa Mini).

I agree about FreeCAD, lacks a lot of polish, but there's a big update coming from it seems basically one maintainer that looks pretty promising. I found it looking for a way to save in a git-sane format (which this branch/fork has). Main problem with Fusion360 (for me) is the lack of Linux support.
Some day there will be a novelty browser that simulates the old dialup modem screech when you launch it.
Looks like a good case for a DMCA (but we all know that's not what they are for) it's pretty much copy paste rip...

You wouldn't steal a car......
> It’s honestly hilarious to me, that Packard ever said any of this considering how absolutely shit HP is in my opinion.

Are you talking about your opinion of the company “HP Inc” today?

IMO it is not surprising that companies change a lot in 60 years (or 40).

P.S. the original HP is now Keysight, they are still premier for test & measurement equipment.
I assume you're "tone deaf" comment refers to recent societal relations in the US, and the response from organizations like Github to rename master branch to main branch. The master/slave duality is certainly an important notion to be worked through in the US. Respectfully, in the context presented here I disagree the "master" context always requires a slave to be a complete concept.

This has a good discussion on it: https://www.etymonline.com/word/master

It's simple to ban (antithesis) the status quo (thesis), but ultimately embracing the nuance leads to a more useful harmony (synthesis) that helps society grow and expand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic)
I think the late 20s self-taught php freelancer is far less common than big tech engineers. And 120k that is still only a small fraction of what such engineers typically make at the same age. And FAANG jobs are far more secure against recession than freelancing. I don't think it's that complicated why someone would want a FAANG job even in this market. There are other routes to moderate wealth but few as easy and reliable.
3D print a master, sand it, cast a negative mother mold, cast a platinum cure positive
No, thank you. The dirt alone is disgusting.
How often do you see Europeans work remotely for US companies? Is it extremely rare in your experience?
Stop creating problems where there are none. Homonyms exist, words have multiple meanings. A master is " a person who shows a lot of skill at something".

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
Computers still aren't people: USPTO says no legal personality[2021-02]
Absolutely. The link contains research, screenshots, etc. to show how the final content looks, how it is performing, etc. Feel free to take a look.

If you create a webpage that has 10s or 100s of different answers to questions for a topic, and it saves everyone time researching; then I would consider that useful and not spam. Just my opinion of course. And I'm not saying this is a substitute for creative content, and I don't think it is an either or. Informative content vs creative content is just different in my opinion.
Hewlett & Packard left the board in 1992. Until then, HP (mostly) had an excellent reputation both for its products and its working environment.

Quite a few HP products - like its programmable pocket calculators, and some of the test equipment - were legendary for their engineering.

HP Inc is a completely different outfit and seems to have none of the original spirit left.

Whether it's even possible to create a broadly positive company culture that can survive contact with modern MBAs and investors is debatable.
Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance
So this reminds me of an amazing situation during a deposition for a case involving voice actor Vic Mignona suing some people because their tweets and calls[0] caused him to lose work. So a guy called Ron Toye is being questioned over some tweets and Ty Beard (the lawyer conducting the deposition) just needs to get him to authenticate that some tweets are his:

Ty Beard: Look at all these pages, are these all your tweets?

Ron Toye: I don't recall making them, but that's my twitter handle yeah

TB: Are those your tweets?

RT: It looks like it, yes

TB: Yes? Is that a "yes"?

RT: It looks like it, yes

TB: I need you to say yes or no [1]

RT: ... or it looks like it

So this goes on for pages, the frustrated lawyer (who appears to be pretty poorly equipped to handle the situation) being given the runaround by just A Guy. There is a really funny discussion of this - including more of the deposition transcript - in the ALAB podcast's episode "Weeb Wars Pt 2" @ https://soundcloud.com/alabpodcast/episode-5-weeb-wars-pt-2 (deposition chat starts 28 minutes in, lasts 10 minutes). It even escalates, it's great :D

edit: to be clear, I think the person being stupid in this scenario is Ty Beard, not Ron Toye :D

[0] - arguably Vic Mignona's own general creepiness caused this, but these guys tweeted about that

[1] - he really doesn't
Stupid sjw bs. Just ignore that.
chiefalchemist,

I do not understand your comment and it is probably a result of your misinterpretation of what I have proposed.

I understand that my idea seems simple, but what I am proposing is that many people could have an inability to handle the extra burden of oxidative stress that COVID puts on them, and yet have no current signs of disease. These are the so called "healthy" people who end up hospitalized with COVID.

It is just that people with diabetes and much more likely to be sick because the underlying disability is a poor diet has lead to their inability to handle oxidative stress.

This would link why people with mood disorders are also at higher risk from COVID.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12640-018-9906-2

And the ten fold increase of poor outcomes in people with Down's syndrome:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089158499...
Skypack: Load optimized npm packages with no install and no build tools
> This is the reason I left the whole app ecosystem.

How... Uh, how do you use computers then? Isn't everything we do with them in some way through "an app"?
Would you mind expanding on "intellectual liability" a bit more?
While learning the process that enables you to do that.
Same, for the record.
> Go to your local MtG shop that runs Friday Night Magic and ask(people playing, not necessarily the staff)

Make sure to ask the store employees if this is okay first. I know my store at least has a "trade only" policy on the property. I am not sure how common this is however.
An interesting style of questioning for adversarial situations. Engineers are usually taught to use very open questions (why/what/who/when/etc) so as to not inadvertently steer the situation to a predetermined conclusions. This is very useful for cooperative situations, such as a team trying to find the root case of some outage so that it can be fixed.

In more adversarial situations such as pitching your manager on a raise, I can see how using many short and closed questions will steer the conversation much more effectively by closing down options for the counterparty to evade. It's very similar to the "yes ladder" used in some sales courses.
Perl harbor was indeed a great tragedy.
I kinda view TikTok, Instagram, etc as part of a metaverse already - it's all basically fake online personas in one way or another.
> Someone who is having extreme difficulty quitting smoking could benefit from working with a doctor to discuss quit-smoking aids or even seeing a therapist to work through their addiction.

Oh—absolutely! As I said, it’s hard, and frequently requires professional help, strategies, etc.

But, it ultimately comes down to, you have to find a way to quit! You shouldn’t let yourself off the hook.