skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! I'm Oscar, a Software Engineer in Barcelona. I've been traveling around the world for studying and working for the past 8 years (from Vietnam to US, Germany, and Spain).

I remember how difficult it was for me to find a place which was affordable and trustworthy. I tried several platforms, but still it was quite a hassle to determine if the postings I had found were legitimate. If I had known someone where I was moving, this problem would have been solved within a week.

This was when I told my friend and said "let's build something cool and meaningful." Our intention is to help apartment seekers (those who are about to move to a new city) get rid of the hassle and time-consuming process of accommodation verification.

Here are some fun facts for the geeks and entrepreneurs:

- The MVP was built within 40 working hours and fully bootstrapped; pretty much nothing was built from scratch.

- We're validating the idea, so most of the processes are manual.

- The pricing was planned in 1 hour (so yes, maybe it's too expensive!). We didn't want to waste time, so we decided to iterate and decide later.

What do you think? :)
That's what would make it "security theater" as opposed to "security".
Not all extensions are the same.
I understand healthy skepticism since there are a ton of sketchy extensions out there.
We will open source it in the next few hours since 80% of comments here are just about this extension :D
It's 33kB and a dead simple change in one setting.
In general, anyone who has the right to vote can and should be included in the royal "we" of law.
Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving
underwhelming. now if they would roll out a feature that ensures i never reread a tweet and shows me a true 'done'/'inbox zero' after my feed has been consumed they might have something.
For a book pointing more forward, than looking back, I recommend
"The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order"
by Shawn McFate.

Could probably use an update post Afghanistan / Syria etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Mercenary-Private-Armies-World...
Sorry, I just don't see any evidence that Trump political officials, however awfully they handled everything, caused the FDA and CDC to keep everyone from doing disease surveillance. Those agencies' career officials made a plan of their own accord and botched it horribly. The NYT documented it meticulously and even they couldn't find a finger to point at Trump's people.

Better leadership at the top might have scuttled that insanely awful plan, but the insanely awful plan was 100% the creation of FDA and CDC career bureaucrats. Everyone assumed they knew what they were doing, including Trump's people, but they didn't. At all.
There's an insane amount of tooling with varying degrees of overlap. You've got SELinux, BPF, seccomp, AppArmor as different approaches to security. Each of these takes quite a bit of dedicated time to master and most of them have lots of nuance & there can be overlap depending on what you're trying to secure. In a work environment, I'd typically outsource this to security engineers/experts OR spend my time learning those things for what I need them for - knowing the tools are out there are sufficient starting points for research when I need that knowledge.

None of this applies to maintaining my development machine. You might want to revisit your gate keeping.
Honestly if this is how you get in contact with the PAM devs I should have done this a lot sooner.
China is building a whole lot of new reactors, and the ones that came online most recently took about 5-6 years from start of construction to finish, which is substantially less than a decade. Japan, prior to the shutdown, was able to build new nuclear plants in 4-5 years. It's certainly possible to construct new, modern nuclear plants smoothly and quickly, and countries capable of this are the ones that are doing most of the nuclear plant construction. You hear disproportionately about debacles like Flamanville Unit 3 in France (under construction since 2007, with heavy cost overruns), and they're indicative of some serious problems with France's ability to get reactors built, but worldwide they're the exception.
Yes, sorry, the quotes were meant to be air quotes.

I agree that the purchase price seems a little silly. They don't really have too much IP except for the in house tools, and 3d model assets.

I wonder how these assets will get licensed for use? Will it be a free for all (awesome!) locked under a pro/enterprise license (not bad) or under a license that will require a royalty-based payment to Unity?

If royalty based, the earnings from just the assets alone could be in the tens of millions a year.

Some of the Weta software is awesome technology. Weta has a good engineering philosophy, and the ease of use for much of thier portfolio means that you don't require much training to work with it.
Nah, just plain old market manipulation.
Overwhelming majority say cancel culture has gone too far
Not any I know, and I am one myself.

EDIT: while you're implying they have $1500 to put down on a phone what is much more likely is that

a)They're gifted said phone

b)They're buying a used one off of ebay, facebook marketplace or similar for much much less money

c)They're using a "lifeline" phone that they've bought at a discount from their "lifeline" provider.

In none of these cases -particularly if they're getting a government subsidy ("lifeline") is it likely that they're paying >$250/mo
At first I lol'ed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t85TyH-h04 because of the idea that payment reduces burnout. I'm happy to write software at my own pace and focus on what interests me. Where payment implies deadlines and working on things someone else is interested in. I'd rather you keep your money and learn how to write your own software.

But then I realized he's still at the bottom of the hierarchy of needs, while I'm at the top, self-actualized. If he ever does get paid to produce drudgery, he will see it was not the solution he hoped.
maybe anytime people use this argument they should provide an alternative.

so alternatively, how do you point out statistical insignificance, without calling someone a freak? That obviously not what literally happens here, but since you can read it like that, what would be the phrasing that YOU won't read as hostile?
There might be a selection bias here: the interviews were it came up were for juniors and the interviewer was fairly green as well. I think in one case they even had one year of overlap.
> I'm not really sure what kind of value they add beyond looking good on a resume.

To me it adds negative value. And I'm not the only one [0]. Especially when the undergrad was from a weak school or something unrelated to CS.

[0] https://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-compu...
I clearly wrote an exemption for the most complicated cases. There are cases where all someone needs is for someone to point them in the right direction (navigating all the agencies and non-profits providing help is daunting).

My mom ran a daycare that partnered with a women’s shelter. Some of the cases were just a person who need a few months to sort out their life and rebuild.

Other’s had deep emotional trauma, little means of supporting themselves independently (e.g. lacking a high school education) and needed help with navigating the criminal justice system (either as a victim or a defendant). These folks clearly need a social worker with deep expertise in multiple areas.
NASA delays human lunar landing to at least 2025
> Global li-ion manufacturing capacity is poised to triple by 2024

But we need all of that to electrify transportation, so where do you get the ones for the power grid?

Also, what happens to the price of batteries if you get rid of baseload and cause demand for batteries to spike much higher than even the increased amount of battery production capacity?
> All of this machinery to filter out candidates

That's because most of the people that graduate with a CS degree can't code and, what is worse, can't be taught how to code.

As an employer, it is also very expensive and time consuming to hire someone like that, since you're not just wasting money by paying someone who's non-productive, but you're also wasting the productive time of the team (or whoever is in charge of mentoring you) in a potentially fruitless attempt to teach you how to code.

Unless you have work experience, there's no quick way to tell if you'll be able to learn or not. Faced with that problem, a lot of big companies just throw all the cognitive tests they can find at you and hope for the best.
France has great engineering schools that are very math focused.

Anyone with a French engineering diploma I would consider for a data science position.
Mind sharing please? I am in the lookout for game dev libraries and resources as well. I am at the unity stage now and i dont much to share in exchange tho. Thank you!
Yes, someone else pointed it out and that amateur-hour moment is gonna drive me crazy until we can push another update. Thank you for paying attention and caring enough to let me know.
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/mandalorian-season-2-virt...
1. This makes an API request for every keystroke. Perhaps adding debouncing would be a good idea?

2. 500 error when typing a quotation mark - needs escaping: https://api.stovetop.app/recipes?q=%27

{
"statusCode": 500,
"code": "42601",
"error": "Internal Server Error",
"message": "syntax error in tsquery: \"':*\""
}
I am pretty prone to depression and I definitely feel it lifting for a while after microdosing or taking a larger dose. Unfortunately I have never experienced a life changing trip that solved all problems as you may want to believe when you read some of the latest articles about the miracle of psilocybin and other psychedelics. Same for Ayahuasca. It seems to help a lot of people but for me it was more just a very interesting experience.

For example I think a lot of film makers are/were taking psychedelics. During my trips I noticed so much more detail
in my environment and different light reflections which you often see in movies.
I wish Microsoft would have worried that Windows was too good, and never have released it for this reason. Then we wouldn't have had to go through the whole Windows thing.
> In my SO's case, they told her wearing a sleeveless shirt was "inappropriate" during an online exam and told her to put something that covers her shoulder

For an adult how is that not a discrimination lawsuit?
From someone who went from Wittgenstein -> programming, I think this is a good comment.

What I really like about the Tractatus, which I've been reading on and off for 20 years and just dusted off to read in German for the first time for the 100th anniversary, is that it gives a really clear, tight metaphysical picture that in the end pretty much forces one to start asking deep questions about the nature of meaning explored in his later work.

It's a hard book but careful study really enhances not just the "main event" of Wittgenstein's mature writings, but one's ability to follow a lot of the main threads not only in analytic philosophy, but in the broader Western metaphysical-logical tradition.
Please don't be like that. We don't want to install an extension. If your focus is privacy, please understand where we come from on this.
> From here on, no STEM job or honor awarded to a female or an underrepresented minority will be free from the justified suspicion that the selection was the result of “equity” concerns. The pressure on STEM laboratories and academic faculties to hire by quota rather than by scientific merit grows by the day. And the judgment of scientific research now hinges not on its validity but on whether it allegedly causes “hurt” or impedes the achievement of proportional representation in STEM studies.

And now when hiring you hear "You know X went to Y and he's Asian/international, so you know he's here for the right reasons."

That's one of the reasons DEI advocates want to get rid of standardized testing and favor a "holistic" approach.
Makes me wonder if this is not push back from the U.S. submarine deal with Australia.
Bill Gates being Hillary Clinton confirmed.
I bought a Vive when they first came out. I have a Quest 2. My first VR experience I was blown away - but that only lasted a few minutes for me before I got bored.

I hardly ever use the VR headsets even after trying a number of different games. The problem is that it's not so much virtual reality as it is strapping a screen to your face. You run into the limits of the system pretty fast.

One example, you can play poker in a VR casino. But, it doesn't feel at all like playing poker in a casino in reality. It feels like watching goofy cartoon characters play poker while you try to clumsily control one without proprioception. I enjoy playing in my browser much more than in VR.

Another example, I like VR boxing. It's probably my favorite VR game - but even in the best such game I've found (Thrill of the Fight) the limitations are obvious. The game can't really tell where your hands are, what they're doing, if you block or dodge, etc. I can flick my wrist, the way you might playing Wii Sports Tennis and smash the other guy in the face with an uppercut. Or, I can try to throw a real punch the game will decide it missed for some reason though my own sense of reality has me putting my elbow through the opponent's body.

On top of input and accuracy limitations there is the fundamental limitation that you cannot feel what's happening. Getting hit doesn't feel like anything. Sometimes you can't even tell if you are blocking or dodging a shot or getting hit by it - very different from real boxing. You likewise can't tell if you're hitting the opponent.

These things are called virtual reality but aren't there yet. I agree they're making progress and they are okay toys. I'll keep buying new versions because I want to help support the effort and I like such toys, but they aren't like reality. They're missing a part of it.
Can you share the timestamp for that? (The whole video is an hour and a half long)

I wonder the context of the prediction, since smartphones, tablets and consoles have always followed this trend. And even Intel with their integrated graphics.

Also, on the highest-end, I don't think that will ever be the case because merging CPU and GPU creates huge thermal constraints...
Which is the core business problem exactly that you think they should be solving?
Is Unity anywhere close to earning as much as you'd naively expect from a company engaging in billion dollar takeovers or is that simply another venture capital bonfire?

I feel very much incapable to guess with even the tiniest glimpse of "educated" in it, and that's despite usually being far in the "more confident than I should be" corner when it comes to stuff like this. Both seem rather unlikely to me, but it has to be one of them, if not both.
Glad you got some relevant and useful apps.
You're right.
When people dont find sth on Google, they blame themselves for "being bad at Googling".

You can be in private mode without being logged in though nothing gets saved either way on our side when you're in private mode.

We talk about the privacy and convenience trade-off here:

https://youdotcom.notion.site/Privacy-and-Data-Protection-at...
Interesting, the 1860 historical farm I toured as a kid had a balance and they were careful to not have volume measures at all in the house. Most general store exhibits of that time have kitchen scales and no volume measures.
I could imagine this trick helps.

In my experience, when I try to convert a text into tweets, it gets more concise.

I'm often baffled how much I can condense information down to 280 characters.
One of the founders of Simula here. Thank you for your comment.

We're about to update our website (www.simulavr.com) with pictures of our prototype, pricing information, and a blog.

The first blog post's working title is "We don’t want to socialize in a Metaverse; we just want a productive VR computer". Here's a draft of it: https://gist.github.com/georgewsinger/611767c7a5dd63a12f1d93...

TLDR: The Metaverse is jamming VR through the framing of "giant social network". Maybe this isn't entirely bad, but to us what's exciting about the technology is its potential as a "Tool for Thought", or something which can help us create new things and get more stuff done in ways previously unimaginable.
That would imply they have something to hide.

Or, they want some parties to know what they’re doing, but not the citizenry.

Maybe this is overly paranoid but I don’t think we should underestimate the Chinese government.
The trial tested psilocybin combined with therapy. This isn’t equivalent to ad-hoc self treatment with mushrooms.

They noticed a response to psilocybin+therapy in about 20-25% of patients depending on the criteria for “sustained response”:

> The protocol-defined sustained response* up to week 12 was double, with 20.3% of patients in the 25mg group

It’s also notable that about 5% of the psilocybin receivers experienced severe adverse events including suicidal ideation:

> There were 12 patients who reported treatment-emergent serious adverse events (TESAEs). These TESAEs included suicidal behaviour, intentional self-injury, and suicidal ideation
Comfort is the big one. VR headsets are annoying to wear. This push just screams that Zuckerberg is trying to justify the Oculus acquisition.
IT is entirely possible the requirement was stupid, over-specified, and irrelevant, but that is beside the point.
Maybe I haven't watched enough presentations but this is the first time I've heard /etc pronounced like "Etsy". All these years I've been wasting syllables saying E-T-C
> Wind turbine blades and solar panels are almost entirely recyclable, current state.

The article I linked (titled "Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills", haha) indicates that turbine blades are not recyclable. They are fiberglass, which is a mix of glass and plastic - it's long been known as one of the hardest things to recycle. They are currently buried - or burned. The latest scuttlebutt on that is Semens Gamesa has a recyclable prototype. [1] I suspect it will come, but is it priced in?

> "At the end of their working life, most blades are buried underground or burned." [1]

As for solar panels, I agree they could be recycled - up to some 90% based on some digging - but it's super expensive to do so, and I suspect it's also not priced in. 91% of the plastic you throw into the recycle bin makes its way to the landfill anyways. [2]

I don't think there is a silver bullet per se, which is why I want them all deployed ASAP.

My comment was more that I don't think the prices as reflected in your link represent the true cost of the electricity due to the varying degree to which externalities are priced in. Even if accurate, price (probably to your point) isn't really the be all and end all here. The switchover needs to happen, and in time, whatever that looks like. All this hand-wringing around nuclear taking forever to deploy a few decades ago is part of why we're here, now, without nuclear.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90674645/this-giant-wind-turbine...

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/plastic-p...
HDFS supports RS/XOR erasure coding which gives you same fault tolerance guarantees as 3x at much lower replication factor. This is essentially the same method aws/gcp use under the hood - there’s no magic involved here
EmberGen v0.7.5: Realtime volumetric fluid simulation
I've never played that game but it is really pretty. Thanks for bringing it up!
But presumably "the masses" who use Android don't do a lot of sideloading either? I mean, I doubt they're getting adb and fastboot set up. Unless we just mean they're figuring out how to install F-droid or the Amazon App Store?
More importantly, it goes directly to the amount of respect they have for the consumer.

Stick with DDG.
> this includes a memory-safe TLS library...; a memory-safe curl data transfer utility; and memory-safe Rustls, a safer OpenSSL alternative. Next up, Prossimo wants to give Network Time Protocol (NTP) the memory-safe treatment.

Once all network-facing services have been hardened, I wonder what the next lowest hanging fruit is. Perhaps there will be so many layers of defence by then that the cost of creating an exploit will be more than the value that can be obtained from using it.
I closed the tab when I clicked the search bar and it took me to the chrome web store ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> And also, none of these families except the Tagores were fantastically rich; there are thousands or millions of families richer than they are who don’t have any of their accomplishments.

This is reversing cause and effect. Extra wealth doesn't make you smarter. However, lack of wealth can sure cause "dumb".

Wealth is the prerequisite to being smart. It gets you to the starting line.

You didn't get a university degree in the late 1800's/early 1900's without quite a lot of money which gave you the leisure to not be a laborer as a child. There was a reason why there were so many immigrants coming to America in that timeframe--Europe SUCKED SHIT if you weren't wealthy.
Working in a dangerous steel mill in America was an improvement over Europe that people were willing to die for--cogitate on that.

And this is before we start considering things like "pedagogy and teaching did not have an even geographic distribution". We take for granted that if you want to become a baseball pitcher or a violinist, you can be educated in those quite a long way before you hit a ceiling that requires you to change your geographic setting. That was definitely not the case historically.
Would this then force companies to pay according to what universities charge? How are those levels determined?
I don't donate to Wikimedia anymore because they get plenty of donations and have demonstrated that they don't use the funds wisely. Wikipedia doesn't need more donors. Give your limited charity dollars to a more deserving organization.
A background check is run in addition to a credit check.
Who exactly are you replying to?
Oh it's this awesome blog again.

If I understand Tailscale correctly a PAM module that knows which machine it is running on and the username logging in will allow them to decide on a per-machine level if the current client is allowed to go there (to this account), so it could bring their authentication game to a whole other level.

Not sure if they should do that (or if anyone should do that) but it's an interesting thing to think about. Even if it's just to hide away some of the pain that are the PAMs/LDAP Groups of this world.
Awesome to chat!
What I Learnt from Complexity
And then on going wages, Superannuation (3% more), etc. Yikes.
Paywall, so going on the title and lead paragraph:

“Sometimes the worst thing you can say to a person who’s feeling bad is: “Cheer up!””

Well, let’s consider some alternatives:

- Please continue to wallow in your pit of despair and drag me in with you.

- Please bleed way over there, you’re scaring the children.

- Just shut up already.

- Have you considered addictive drugs?

- Have you considered years of expensive therapy?

- Have you considered my personal cult?

- Have you considered suicide?

- Hey, look at my obscenely expensive new toy!

No, I think there are many, many worse things to say than “Cheer up!”

Among the better things to do might be to shout out a rousing chorus of “Always look on the bright side of life”. If you can whistle. Humor can be a wonderful tonic. In fact NYC Jewish humor is purpose-built for these situations.

Erring by maintaining too positive an attitude leads to minor annoyance to the people most deserving of minor annoyance…at most. Erring by maintaining too negative an attitude can lead to drugs, suicide, cults, soul-crippling depression and the like. Always, at least, glance at the bright side of life.
> Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors (reuters.com)

France were about to build new nuclear energy reactors anyways. They had a 5-8 new plants in planning for this decade.