skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are primarily visual creatures – awful lot of our brain processing power is to do inverse graphics, i.e. looking and understanding what you see. Head mounted display is just another way to display stuff. We will still have recognizable GUI elements because we understand this metaphor. What UI is the best for VR is still an open design problem. Voice and body gestures are going to be important, but all those interactions has to be discovered.
California is not a common law state.

I am not purposing avoiding serious relationships either. I’m proposing avoiding the legal contracts that will not do you any good.
> Temperatures below freezing are bad for batteries.

bad for lithium batteries. even then, it is only bad if you charge or discharge them in freezing temps. lead-acid handle cold just fine.
People will work to survive. The article states people left the work force primarily due to ‘generous government stimulus’
To be fair, Pearson, Spearman and Kendall's tau are the coeffisicent people use in practice. Had I been in the author's position I would have done the same: cite all the interesting developements but compare with what people actually use.

Comparing with something people barely know should be nice but people have a limited attention span so I would push to that anexes at best and focus on the more important parts.
Sure, 60 GHz may be a resonant frequency of O₂ molecules and signals at that frequency may transfer energy to them and thus heat them up.

However, remember that radio signals lose energy to free space proportional to the (distance and frequency) _squared_ [1]. A 60GHz signal is attenuated by 88dB at 10 meters. That means that if it is transmitted with 100 W (20dBW), the RF power that arrives at your position is -68dBW, or 0.000158 milliwatts. That isn't going to heat up much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_path_loss
The kernel is like the ICE of cars. There is so much more than the kernel going on in a distro, that it's amazing there are less mainstream distro's than there are car manufacturers.
As for your other comments, sounds like we are in agreement on (1) and (3), but just weigh pros/cons differently.

> 2) That's not at all clear from your example. Nor does it necessarily follow from the proposal in general

Can you provide a counter-example that will not be conciser when written using the foreign key join syntax?
It's always 'about 5-10 years away' isn't it?...

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/0...
I wonder why Apple sees Tumblr content as problematic where Reddit’s isn’t. Or if they’re compared at all
True. It only takes one bozo to mess everything up. I often see crazy folks passing as they are heading up to ski who think they are impervious to snow / ice on the roads. BTW, Minnesota was much farther east than I meant.
This is a phenomenally poor idea which effectively outlaws cities.
The power levels are low to begin with, so heating up the air is hard to even measure, let alone notice.

It's why 60GHz is license free and used for WiGig, wireless HDMI and short haul microwave links like the ones from Mikrotik.

The heavy oxygen attenuation makes it commercially worthless.

Same reason why there's a license free band on 24GHz too.
24GHz suffers from water vapor absorption and has heavier attenuation than adjecent bands thanks to that.
For example Ubiquiti AirFiber uses license free 24GHz.
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Count yourself lucky that you have such a blessed life that you don’t want to escape from.
How to build my own information feed / front page?
How have you solved the problem of getting a personalized feed of the information you would like to consume?

I would like to have show up on this feed articles from:

- news websites i frequent
- medium stories from people i follow
- tweets from people i like

basically a daily newspaper built just for me.

I'm not a developer, so looking for 3rd party solutions that are basically plug and play. Perhaps an extension or something?
In my country Instagram is nightmaringly popular. I hate it, but I'm forced to use it, because more and more businesses have their Instagram account as their webpage with prices, contacts, etc. It seems ridiculous. UX is so terrible. It's not indexed by Google. I can understand when some girl publishes her selfies, probably Instagram is good for that, but not for business web presence.
Yeah, the way Windows builds are made available at the moment is honestly pretty bad, and I should improve on that. There is the problem that you need to be logged in to download that particular type of CI artifact, and more generally that the archive is somewhat bloated because the build scripts have no notion of what parts of Gtk actually need to be bundled (and so they wind up including an excess of random icons and what-not).

I don't know if I want to reach what you would call the "general public" (at least not until the program is quite a bit more polished than it is now), but I'd certainly want to reach typical Linux-using HN posters who are interested in Markdown notetaking, and the circumstance that this subthread played out as it did implies I haven't yet done so.
Right, I didn't say caretakers. You can hire those to come in daily. Another nice option money buys is a great luxury senior living home. A good one starts at $3500 a month but typically costs more (while the average cost for a senior living community in Santa Cruz, CA is $5,595)

https://www.merrillgardens.com/senior-living/ca/santa-cruz/s...

https://www.dominicanoaks.com/
As if workers were not interested in working for a low salary before the pandemic. This line of reasoning blows my mind.
If ads were just gifs or pngs that loaded from the same site, did not noticably impact page load times, and were displayed alongside the main content (analagous to ads in a magazine) I would likely not bother blocking them (and blocking would be more difficult: how would the blocking software know that they were ads and not part of the main content of the page?)

I block ads when they do things like take over focus, are distractingly animated, slow down the page, overload my CPU, etc.
Free money from the government is the best form that free money can take.

If the free stuff isn't given out by government, it will be captured by plutocrats with no democratic accountability.
I started building a simple app to let golf courses book tee times and process payments with Square earlier this year. It got some initial traction last spring from a few courses looking to change from other providers, then slowed down during the golfing season. I'm hoping to continue to grow it during the winter/spring off season. Right now, it does less than $1K MRR. https://easyteegolf.com/
Not much, unfortunately. File system metadata query and responsiveness is something that I haven't seen matched still. The latter is an exhilarating feeling that I'll never forget. Also, the UI had a “fun” but still elegant feel to it that I was very fond of.
Suffice it to say if it had let me down I wouldn't be using it. Likely most other people wouldn't either.
That really baffles me about CA. The quality of services and amenities doesn’t seem any higher there - in fact in many cases it seems lower than low tax burden states. Where does it all go? Is it too simplistic to say the government is mismanaged and has unqualified workers spending massive budgets? Or is it that public workers are lazy/coasting? Something else?
This suggest a sort of morality that contains the axiom "lying is always wrong", which then demands torturous philosophical gymnastics in order to justify one's actions in circumstances when lying is obviously right. To say that lying is sometimes right does not diminish the merit of truthfulness, rather it is an acknowledgement that communication is a means to an end, and not the end itself.
The Varjo VR-3 is a variable rate display but the zones are fixed, correct? So the locus of fidelity is always in the same spot relative to your eyes? I'm wondering whether VR display technology would benefit from the scan flexibility that some modern image sensors have. E.g. imagine a 12K display where you can select on a frame-by-frame basis which area you want to scan at full resolution, which at half, quarter, ... etc. -- be quick enough about it, and it'll always look like a 12K display but with a fraction of the bandwidth and compute cost.
I'm sorry for your loss, but I stand by the concept that this now means you're not really able to contribute to a discussion on how most people socialise because you've self excluded from it.
I did this, but for a Camera app ;p https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zero-ui-gesture-only-camera/id...
> This is an oversimplification rather than a lie.

When you wrote in another subthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29663197 that

> So no, I'm not a CCP supporter. What I am, is being tired of all the anti-China propaganda that's on the one hand merely biased and prejudiced misrepresentations, and on the other hand a deliberate manufacturing of consent for war. I am tired of my home being constantly misrepresented and villified.

I mistakenly assumed that you would be against oversimplification.
I am guessing inflation spiked because the economy and asset prices recovered much faster than expected. The expectation in April 2020 was that there would be a prolonged slump or a crisis similar to 2008. Few foresaw that there would be such an abrupt V-shaped recovery in GDP, asset prices, consumer spending, and large cap profits even after accounting for the stimulus. Suppliers cut back production in anticipation of a long slump, which never came.

There was a lot of stimulus spending in 2009-2010 and the fed cut rates to zero, but the recovery was slower, nor did inflation spike. So it's not like more spending = more inflation.

However, despite all the doom and glom, Americas have gotten wealthier over the past year thanks to surging asset prices and strong wages and the supremacy of the US dollar, which has surged this year. The same cannot be said for Turks, who have gotten poorer due to collapsing currency and whose inflation problem is far worse.
Both exist; see this for more details: https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Defense_and_resistance
I don't think many doubt we'll be using AR/VR all day, in all fields of endeavor, at some point. Certainly within 100 years.

But what about within 1~10 years?

It's not like 3D TVs in that nobody really needed them. AR/VR is needed, we just lack the tech to make it so far.
100% this. I did it for years. I think I’d rather stab myself than do it again.
5G means so many things to people it gets muddy.

If you are Verizon or ATT, you have lots of mmwave spectrum, so your interest is in dense urban environments and multi-dwelling units where your speed let's you compete against wifi and cable providers. You spent a bazillion on spectrum and you need to give your customers reasons to pay extra for their service.

If you are t-mobile, you have a ton of mid range spectrum. After all, that was the only reason you bought sprint. You will want to go after consumers with a coverage play, since that is better than mmwave from T and VZ. You might also dip your toe in business services like IoT for farmers and factories.

If you are a hyperscaler, you need CBRS (3.5GHz) to take off. You'll be pitching IoT and edge compute like crazy because the radio coverage is better than wifi, the speeds are good and best of all the spectrum is available at essentially nominal cost.

What you won't get just yet, but will hear about a lot, are the toys like vr robots. The ugly truth is that no one really knows what the killer app for 5g is yet, but every operator is terrified that just like 4G theyll miss the value chain and leave apple or whoever to ride their network and slurp up the profit.
Stop spreading FUD. ~60ghz radar has been used by cars for for cruise control and parking for many years now at much higher power levels than what phones can transmit. Some phones have mmWave radar for gestures too. We’d use even higher frequencies if it wasn’t for the terahertz gap.
Interestingly I feel California has gotten colder, especially southern California. It used to stay around 50-60 in winter, now we regularly go down to 30-35 lows and 35-45 highs.
So many negative comments, sheesh.

Many of us run our own small email servers quite successfully, even in 2021. Every time there's a post about it on HN, all these commenters come forward to say it's a fools errand, that it's nearly impossible, nobody should try it, anybody who says it's a good idea is a lying idiot, etc.

Sure, it's not for everyone and there are pitfalls that require effort and sometimes creative solutions to overcome. We should celebrate these projects like we do with other similarly challenging projects that get posted.
> Hell, WA and OR can barely deal with driving in the rain.

I'm kinda surprised by this sentiment. I'm in a program in Oregon, been there for years, and drove down to Southern California. Rained the entire way. I can attest that the differences in driving in the rain are very different and definitely gets worse the more south you go. Going through the grapevine was terrifying and when I was in LA the carpool lane was just completely flooded. People always have more to improve but people in the PNW drive much safer in the rain there than most other places I've lived. People there at least know not to put on their brights in heavy traffic when it's pouring. But also I've never seen heavy flooding, especially on the highways.

As for other areas, The South is hit or miss. They get far heavier rain than the PNW but it's over a shorter period of time (though that means more flooding and so there's something to be said about what the cities could do to make things better). They do have a ton more potholes too so I'm not too surprised though. But they also have a lot less money than CA.
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My Mac is provided by my work. I work in finance doing infrastructure for retail banking. Tell me again how VR is going to help me for deploying networks and clusters and turning off my camera in video calls whilst I go on Reddit
This is very interesting, but should be taken with a grain of salt even inside the US. This is likely not to be very sustainable for much longer, and it significantly skews the perspective of making your "own money" long term. The OP took advantage of a couple of cities in a country where tech is hyper-valuated at the moment. The solution is not to "move to the US", and change your lifestyle chasing abnormal salaries. The US has its own problems, and prices are very inflated here in general. Salaries are already catching up in the UK, and the tendency is that this becomes more common outside the US. Earning 100k pounds in the UK is not the same as earning 100k USD.
Flower gardens cause problems for people with allergies, but we don't ban them. We cannot make the entire world ideal for everyone.
You are disconnected from reality if you think more money is what creates more jobs or homes. The government literally just did that and we ended up with more supply chain problems and more inflation. Money is paper meant to balance resources, money does not magically create more resources. That’s where education and technology advances come in.
I think my issue with that is that it’s not going to be easy to do in the current market. Back then - it was more doable. They were able to buy under market value (when that likely wasn’t very much to begin with) and manage the loan with each other. Now where each person needs to make $250k+ to afford buying the apartment - you’re getting into territory where you’re unlikely to find people who want to buy that apartment and move into one whole place with you. Maybe it’s doable but the virtue of it being so expensive and the incomes required being so high means that it’s very unlikely to be reproducible unless you only associate with very high income people and those people also like apartments.

I find high income folks generally want to move away from apartments as they age and they want to do so at a much faster rate than someone in a much lower income bracket would.
Student Loan Debt Relief Is Self-Interest, and Self-Interest Is Politics
> This is an excellent point insofar as explaining why the bug might have happened. I disagree however that it is sufficient explanation. Such code should still check for the presence of an existing license file for another license and raise an error that requires human intervention to override. That is constructive and actionable.

Sure. In retrospect, that seems like a really good idea. But I'm sure you've done an awful lot of stuff that is dumb in retrospect, too.

Legal asks for tooling to ensure that the correct license file ends up on all developer projects. It's known that developers will often Google license agreements, copy them from places that don't belong, end up with the wrong LICENSE from a templating mistake. Someone builds tooling to just smash the correct LICENSE file in as a first commit on any repo that shows up in the Microsoft org: if it's an active developer and this is the rare case where this logic is wrong, surely they'll notice that this has happened, and this will prevent code from being up with an incorrect license.

Then, the use case evolves: people start to fork things into the Microsoft organization, and this code does the wrong thing an appreciable fraction of the time. But no one is scrutinizing commits on forked repos to the same extent and doesn't notice.

Maybe you do much better and have never made a mistake like this. But real people make real mistakes. Yes, when you encounter a mistake, you try to get better for next time! But that doesn't mean that we should expect a 0 mistake rate out of ______ org or not assume good faith with an ordinary rate of bad outcomes until proven otherwise.

Unlike the GP poster, I am not a MSFT employee-- I am often skeptical of MSFT actions but they get a pass here. Obliterating the license file has no advantage for MSFT, and has the risk of legal exposure and this kind of public black eye. Obviously someone screwed up, but screw ups happen. Now that Jeff Wilcox has had to work on Christmas, you can be sure he will be even more attuned to this type of issue in the future.
The best Tetris player has beaten his record in VR too.

What conferencing software did you use? Horizon Workrooms?
Can we “brain-drain” China?
you’d likely to have to get the nanopore sequencer in the article or find a lab using Next Generation Sequencing to sequence your DNA and give you “raw data” which are usually fastq files
In my experience it's mostly intra-transplant complaints: transplants from the east coast and midwest are annoyed at the Californians.
This is actually possible today but the newest technology hasn’t quite matured and scaled up. See this article: https://news.mit.edu/2020/solar-extracts-drinkable-water-101...

> Existing AWH approaches include fog harvesting and dew harvesting, but both have significant limitations. Fog harvesting only works with 100 percent relative humidity, and is currently used only in a few coastal deserts, while dew harvesting requires energy-intensive refrigeration to provide cold surfaces for moisture to condense on — and still requires humidity of at least 50 percent, depending on the ambient temperature.

> By contrast, the new system can work at humidity levels as low as 20 percent and requires no energy input other than sunlight or any other available source of low-grade heat.
It seems like there are broadly 2 concerns: having rich interaction inside of a single "page", and smooth transitions between "pages". You seem to dismiss the latter in your article, but HTMX seems to support Turbolinks style functionality, correct? Can animations be layered onto that?

I did some experiments around on how to do animated shared element transitions (as well as reactive functionality) within a REST mindset here, if anyone's curious: https://dev.to/eshan/toward-the-postmodern-web-38h (you can just scroll to the embeds)

Ultimately, maybe the browser vendors will do something here, like Google's portal elements, for example. A lot of effort is being spent on that flash during page loads.
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> I'd say that Kotlin actually has almost all Scala features and notably has important features that Scala does not (such as coroutines, reified generics, compile time safe tail recursive, etc)

I really don’t see the point of coroutines, especially when a) project loom is on the horizon, b) higher kinded types make it quite trivial to implement as a library (answering your 3rd point)

I’m not sure about reified generics, they are very seldom a problem and frankly, type erasure is most often just misunderstood. Also, with pattern matching overloading is used less often so it is even less of a win.

Regarding compile time safe recursion, I’m pretty sure that Scala was actually the first bigger language implementing that (with an annotation), so it definitely has that.

So don’t get me wrong, Kotlin is a great language with some nice features, I just don’t see it doing anything novel to be honest (and that’s not a bad thing! Non-research languages rarely do anything truly novel!). I just feel like Scala does all of those with less special cases (eg. extension functions can be done with implicits so you get one feature doing many things)
What's your plan for an extended power outage like Texas experienced?
In my experience, the brutality grows rapidly with the number of users. If it's just for you, and you have at least one alternative account, then it's not brutal at all.

A mailserver administrator is a sysadmin. Being a sysadmin is on the face of it unrewarding - nobody pats you on the back when everything is working normally. They only call you when there's a problem (and it's usually urgent, and sometimes critical, and they'd like to know who to blame). So if you run a mailserver with users, it starts to become a people job, and things begin to matter.

People certainly rely on email to a greater extent than other services - even mobile. I can order goods online without surrendering my mobile number, but I always have to provide an email address before I can complete the order.

But I've still enjoyed administering mailservers. Perhaps I liked the slight paranoia induced by trying to reconcile the boss's demands for functionality with his demands for security.
> The National Smart Water Grid{trademark} will pay for itself in a single major flood event.

That claim seemed... inflated to me. Digging into the report, the project is estimated to cost $82 billion (in 2009 dollars). That's... not a single major flood event. The worst flood in recent US history only managed ~$30 billion in ~2011 dollars, and many of the more pedestrian "major flood events" are managing to cost somewhere around $1-10 billion. (And that presumes it's not something like Hurricane Harvey, that would drench a metropolitan area downstream of any intakes to the west coast, so it wouldn't actually mitigate those events.)
Wesnoth is great and nicely balanced.

Complaining about Wesnoth RNG is for losers. Wesnoth gives you an estimate of how much damage did you do against the expected. In long games, luck always evens out. In short games, it evens out across other games. Just accept it as a stroke of fate, and to your best with what you get.
Report on Key Economic Indictors, Food, Fuel, Inflation. Updated for Dec 2021 [pdf]
Well don't tell Facebook, those greedy bastards. They'd probably provide the people in those countries with Facebook-only smartphones, or Facebook-only Internet connections, or something else horrible and dystopian like that.