skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe 4k or 8k gaming won't be sustainable due to production costs, but what I'd call 'high-res' is even more viable today than it was 5 years ago. Be careful of moving goal posts. Top-end hardware has always been and will remain silly money. I agree there is a broader market now, but think it is in addition to the existing 'gamer' market and you are not going to see Ubisoft, EA or Rockstar pivot away from the obscenely profitable markets they dominate.
> Land is what should appreciate, not the building built on top of it, which should deprecate.

That’s not entirely true. A home structure is worth what the materials + labor - depreciation are worth. A home can depreciate far more slowly that the cost of labor and materials rising. Not to mention that renovations will occur over time essentially removing some depreciation and adding to labor + materials to build a similar structure.

A well maintained home should hold its value well over time.
Same here. We lived in a grid system suburb where the roads next to us were used all hours of the day by cars. There was a constant stream of illegally modified trucks screaming past us and waking us up all hours of the night.
Why is time-of-use annoying?
That’s not really true. New high efficiency heat pump water heaters - as one example - often have a 1-2 year ROI, which is pretty dramatic. HVAC is actually often the most expensive from an ROI standpoint because of larger upfront costs.

Market forces will lead us down this path eventually but they are not instantaneous, and we don’t have much time to wait. Policy can help 1- accelerate, 2- bootstrap emerging markets (eg creating demand for more induction stoves turns that market from a niche to mainstream, with more competition, more choice, and reduced cost, all of which will serve to boost demand) and 3- finance infrastructure investments that may be beyond reach for many.

On gas infrastructure, yes it is in place but it still requires significant ongoing maintenance costs which would be eliminated if it was shut down.
> their tech support team. It is by far one of, if not the best, technical support teams I've ever dealt with. (...) Yes, I have to pay for that support.

My experience is very much the opposite of what you wrote, both with free support and paid Amazon Managed Services. Their support can often be as helpful and truthful as their piece of crap parody of a services health dashboard[1].

> I also pay for tech support for other things: my automobile

When your vehicle is under warranty, you've already paid for checks and repairs upfront. Just like you pay for amzn's services. You can buy additional support for your car and cloud stuff, and better private healthcare, but you don't _have_to_ if you've paid for warranty or insurance. Depends of course on use case and what you need: help building stuff or help figuring out why isn't stuff working as you'd like it to. When you want Amazon to simply fix their shit, paying for support smells like an extortion and pushing you to forums will give them more time to not provide fixes.

Therefore I think that the commenter you are responding to is right: Amazon seems to be attempting to acquire free workforce and pushing their customers to "community support" or whatever shitty phrasing they'll use to set up a barrier between a customer and their actual employees. And they do have a long history of exploiting and even destroying their customers (diapers dot com etc).

I believe that the problem Amazon has right now is that they created certification-based business model which was one of factors raising salaries in the sector but they would still like to pay shit and overwork their staff paid in peanuts.

And while I know what salaries can an engineer expect for working for AWS in the US, I don't remember when was the last time I dealt with non-Indian reps.

[1] status.aws.amazon.com
Author is unable to run decent email service that scales, and somehow thinks nobody is.
Okay.
The article explicitly points out that the shed they originally lived in would certainly be illegal now (and quite possibly also at the time, but it was easier to get away with then); building their own cabin would also be a lot more difficult (maybe it's not flat out illegal, but there are a lot more requirements about what kind of qualifications you have to have to sign off on a design, do wiring/plumbing/...).
I’m curious, how does it fit your daily workflow as an engineer? Is it somewhere where you get the “news” for the day? Or do you use it for getting information relevant to your current work projects?
Impressive, but it lost me at "start in the market slump of 2008"

Like that was the time in my life where I was literally the most broke. I had a neighbor try to practically give me his home if I could just take over the mortgage. But I was fresh in school and staring down combined debts well into 5 digits, no assets save for my car and a bunch of tech junk, and no income.
For beginners, this is the last book to start with. I'm a big fan of Doug Crockford, but this book is opinionated and the examples are often not well explained.
For folks interested in a more basic, low level, open source approach to this topic, check out Electrodacus [1]. I built a small system using the SBMS0 in my camper van and have been pretty pleased with the results. If having access to schematics and source code is important to you, have a look.

[1] https://electrodacus.com/
They were lying through their teeth then, too, and knew it. It has become a tradition.
Islam's whole jihad shtick causes both wars and independent acts of violence. The religion itself is a violent culture.

Literally ranking things on "the most violent" or "greatest evil" is silly and shouldn't be taken literally. The point is just Islam causes a lot of violence and oppression. It's a cultural system that reproduces a lot of horrifying evil and it's very successful worldwide.
Can you say more about the physical activity aspect of an Oculus? For the benefit of the non-VR people
I know what you mean, but this is actually not the case. I had a wonderful childhood and my parents are caring, loving people who supported me throughout uni and have always been, I believe, quite proud of me. Somewhere around 2019-2020 they both got hit by this huge wall of Qanon, pro-Russia and later anti-vax propaganda all mixed together into one clusterfuck conspiracy theory and they've been riding that wave since. That's the most terrifying thing about all this, they're both very normal and above-average intelligent people, my mum even has a master's degree.
Yes, I thought the title was a bit misleading.
They kinda do. About 30% of people only feel they're winning when they see someone else worse off (even at cost to themselves), so the knowledge that they're annoying people actively gives them life.
> you can’t get [...] the encrypted form (that is plaintext equivalent) by watching the network or by posing as the server.

Not by watching the network. Because the outer protocol is PEAP, which is similar to TLS I understand. So not completely broken. But when you pose as a server?

Of course the definition of "easy" might vary. What some world-class experts presented at Defcon 9 years ago, is it considered easy?

https://web.archive.org/web/20160316174007/https://www.cloud...
It's an interesting question you posed last time. It made me wonder:

- Is it maybe not such a big part of HN's commenting group that is spending time debugging

- Or is coding a small fraction of their daily grind in the first place...

- ...or at least, are they not tracking debug time very closely as a proportion of time spent coding?

- And what is considered debugging these days? Running a debugger only? Something else? I often find myself debugging only to get thinking deeply and end up evolving the activity into something more like new feature development.

The audience would seem to be people who are analytical, full-time coders who are also taking and consulting measurements of their own work. This is either a really conscientious population or a population really focused on an annoying concern for the time being. Bugs everywhere, every day, with no relief maybe.

So, just some ideas. I hope you get the answer you are looking for.

If I was going to ask a super serious question here I think I would try painting a picture, so to speak, of what I'm doing and ask what I'm doing wrong. A little bit similar to this Q in some ways.

We have access to a lot of critical thinkers here who are interested in improving systems, human or otherwise, and hopefully helping others help themselves. So this "hey what's wrong with me" approach is one that seems to get a lot of sympathy and traction. Perhaps in contrast to "Hey what are your measurements saying."

Good luck to you in your learning journey.
The short summary is that both your head via the headset and your hands via the controllers are tracked.

The result is that to dodge items in the game you must make the corresponding movements like ducking, tilting, bending, etc in reality.

Many games like super hot and pistol whip take advantage of this. The result is that playing oculus games is much like exercising.

Other games like audio trip and synth riders explicitly make it exercise focused.

I own most of the oculus games and I’d say audio trip on cardio mode is probably one of the most physically demanding. Unfortunately it’s not super popular so there aren’t a lot of songs.
Its Time Travel.
If you're new to programming, yeah. If you're an experienced programmer, and you've used multiple languages, you're more likely to just write something that's not idiomatic than to get totally lost like that.
Tell that to all the people that got their lives ruined. How is the pay rate going on here?: https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/441480-ins...

I only get paid 50 cents by the yellow menace and I am not a rapper.
People who wasted fortunes on dead ends will be seen in a rather worse light.

We already know what we need to stave off climate catastrophe: solar and wind, with storage and hydrogen synthesis, might be enough. Each cent pissed away on useless frivolity incrementally reduces our chance of success.
Thanks for posting. Forwarded to a friend who might be eligible.

Here's looking forward to a general UBI
Hey Dan

Pretty surprising and sad that you would ban me for a comment like that. Reading it back three years later I’m not wildly proud about it but I don’t think it’s ban worthy.

But I want to push back against the idea that this is not a shadow ban. I see now that you replied to my comment to let me know. But there’s no notification mechanism on HN for comment replies! So I didn’t see it until just now.

A ban mechanism that eventuates in the banned user logging on and participating for 3 years before realizing no one can see their comments is a shadow ban! If you wanted it to be clear there should be some messaging besides a comment reply. Just my two cents
Not much slower than some websites today!
Phones need to have high refresh rate displays to be usable for VR without contributing to motion sickness. That's becoming a standard for the high-end phones now, but a lot of people still have phones with 60 Hz displays, which is just not enough for VR.
The right questions I think! Merry Xmas to you too.

Yes I enjoy writing code for the most part. Was one of my more enjoyable classes in university and is satisfying to see little hack projects start to come to life. I dislike most debugging build / package dependency issues, but I imagine that gets better once graduating past my amateur stage.

I think my personality is better suited for development. I enjoy the problem solving of my current job and the broader cross-discipline considerations, but interaction actually drains me, and that's such a big part of the PM role.

I can switch jobs to find a better work life balance company. Yes I know plenty of devs that have great balance and been in company cultures that generally protect theirs much more than the PMs'.
Electricity goes out here semi-regularly, but the gas has never had any outage in the 20+ years I've lived here.

It's certainly very nice to have gas even when power is out. Means I can cook just fine on the gas range, the water heater is working so I still have warm showers.

And, while I haven't done this too often, I can run the house heater fan off a small generator, it doesn't take that much power. So I can even heat the house when needed if power is out, with the gas furnace.
Question -

I get that your run-of-the-mill paper saying "Here we present a novel algorithm for xyz" will usually have the algorithm defined in simple psuedo-code, maybe with an implementation in a "real" language as a proof of concept.

But for the many papers describing novel ML models, how does that work? They seem to use images that diagram out the different layers of the model. But is that truly "universal" the way that a psuedo-code algorithm is universal? As in, if the authors use PyTorch (or whatever), can I take the exact model they describe in their paper and apply it in MyFavoriteMLToolkit and achieve similar results?

I guess my question is, what are the "primitives" of papers describing ML models? Is saying "convolutional layer" enough, or do they also describe the dozens of hyper-parameters, etc?
> if you remove that license key check yourself, you have to make it public...

...for the users of the modified software, not everyone. If the only user is you, having the source code on your own machine is enough.
Whilst true, you do lose the capability of using a single document source to generate multiple output formats (or at least do so easily) once you do that.

A Markdown + LaTeX file processed with Pandoc will generate LaTeX or PDF outputs fine. It will stumble (or more likely: create incompletely formatted outputs) when you try generating other output formats. I am often using single source to create a number of output formats simultaneously (typically: PDF, HTML, ePub, possibly also plain text and PS).

So long as I stick to a single markup language, Pandoc has a much easier time of it.

Yes, you can embed multiple native formatting bits with some clever playing around with comment characters (I did manage to get both HTML and LaTeX going in one document I was working on, with Markdown as the nominal primary). That's ... not very elegant and tends to be fragile and error-prone.

(I've a StackExchange post somewhere detailing how to do this for those interested.)

My experience is that LaTeX is sufficiently simple and powerful that it's arguably the best underlying universal source.

Using Pandoc, you can still produce HTML or ePub from LaTeX source.

You might want to include or exclude some different front- and back-matter elements or other enclosures. For that I'd recommend developing a good standardised template model and build system (e.g., Makefiles).
You don't strictly speaking need indoor plumbing, a private bedroom, windows, or paint that doesn't have lead in it. If you're rich enough to afford windows, a bedroom you don't share with another family, and to not have your kids die from heavy metal poisoning, then good for you! But indulging many of these wants is hardly economically efficient.
So if I bought a Quest, tested it and sold it, it get counted as two sold Quests.

If I have to try multiple smartphone to pair Quest each device counts as a Quest.
I agree with you and it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Personally, I purchased an Oculus Quest 2 and a Valve Index about nine months ago because I couldn't find a Playstation or Xbox system in stock. I wasn't expecting much from either system (especially the Quest 2, since it is basically a cell phone with goggles and a couple of hand controllers) but they've both grown on me. I love the Quest's portability and the Index's screen resolution and adjustability are excellent. Meta's customer support for warranty issues has also been excellent (much, much, MUCH nicer than Sony's). I've also found a lot of games I like, such as:

- Death: Unchained
- Alyx
- The Room VR
- Obduction
- Myst VR

I've enjoyed both VR systems to the point that I haven't bothered to check the availability of Sony's or Microsoft's offerings recently. I'm enjoying what I have.

I don't know why Sony and Microsoft never seem to be able to predict the market and create enough products to meet demand, but they always seem to struggle with this (I know there's a global chip shortage at the moment, but Sony especially has had this problem for years). Now that decent enough competitors exist, Sony and Microsoft might find their marketshare eroding due to their inability to satisfy market demands.
>no one is going to tear up their cities and reorganize them around some untested ideological idea

that's exactly what they did for cars in the first place.
I sure wish Homebrew would cease being cited as a standard or defacto package manager for macOS. It is a recent development, leaves so very much to be desired while also leaving a mess, boxes permissions, takes its annoying metaphor too far and has no advantage over any other package manager. Why the constant advertisement for adoption? Give me MacPorts any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
This comment is a little ambiguous. Is the shame, in this case:

a) that there was an allegory in the matrix that people don't know about

or

b) that there was an allegory in the matrix?
I flagged this post. Not credible enough for HN front page.

Really ridiculous. Surely no one can believe Vr headsets out sold Xbox consoles? Who here honestly actually believes the concept that VR headsets are outselling xboxes? No one.

Where’s the actual proof?

And even if it’s true it’s just because of the chip shortage which makes it meaningless.

Fake news.
The name reminds me of the Krazam sketch "Microservices" [1]

[1] https://invidious.osi.kr/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
Oh hey! There's quite a chunk of code in the Linux kernel to support this protocol. I hope that people here find some use for this "useful" old technology, otherwise it's just taking up space.
My house is pretty quiet, except on occasion a jet or two flies overhead at around 1000 feet. They used to fly the FA-18, but have recently transitioned to the F-35. I believe, from personal experience, that the F-35 is quite a bit louder. I've seen inconsistent reports on the web though.

They're doing construction on a bunch of new houses closer to the base. The planes fly lower than 1000 feet there. Part of the new development's area is deemed uninhabitable because of the bases noise study. So they put commercial developments (restaurants, shops, etc.) in that area.

I don't want to sound like a NIMBY, and I think building housing is more important, but it was interesting seeing how sound studies and regulation works. Also looking to see if the future residents will be complaining about the noise.
Also, people often don't realize that the temperatures that matter thermodynamically are degrees Kelvin, not Celsius. 30 below 0 is 243K; 20 above (room temperature) is 293K. The coefficient of performance for a Carnot heat pump at those temperatures is 293 / (293 - 243) ~= 5.86; that means that one joule of work will transfer 5.86 joules of heat. This isn't great, but it's less of a difference than people would expect given our subjective experience of how cold -30C is. The coefficient of performance for a heat pump trying to heat 0C ambient temperatures up to room temperature (or alternatively, an air conditioner cooling 40C temperatures to room temperature) is 293 / (293 / 273) = 14.65, so your heat pump in Calgary will be maybe 2.5x less efficient than one in NYC. Drill below the frost line, like you suggest, and you'll get similar efficiencies regardless of where you are.
I want to love this! but it's currently suffering from some packaging issues.
On Linux, I get an dependency error:
"./esse: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found"
On windows, the system defender eats the .exe before I'm able to run it at all.

I really look forward to trying this out, good luck, god speed, all the best, happy holidays :)
> packet switched Internet Protocol designed to maintain connectivity even during a nuclear war

Source please?
It really annoys me that so many of these "markdown" editors use double brackets instead of actual Markdown links.
That would be horrendous. As an Indonesian, losing a major country for left side driving would be a huge loss. No more used cars from Britain, just Japan.

Scientifically, the majority of drivers drive better on the left too, due to dominant right eye.
Calling this kind of manipulation "inconvenience" is insulting.

It's a hostile manipulative act. You wouldn't let such people around your children.
Yeah, I don't buy it either. But you said it more eloquently than what I could.
Just do a less-than-legal presale on BSC or ETH. Build reputation in the crypto trading market, join Telegram and find the trading groups. Don't try to find angel investors.
No they simply don't work either.
> takes its annoying metaphor too far

It really does!
I have a very naive question: What are the downsides of estimating mutual information instead?

I have a math (but not statistics) background, and am sometimes bewildered by the many correlation coefficients that float around when MI describes pretty exactly what one wants ("how much does knowledge of one variable tell you about the other variable"?).

So ... what am I not understanding?
A lesser-known feature of Pandoc that I love are filters [0]. They allow you to manipulate the document tree mid-conversion before the output is generated. I've been working on a forked Pandoc filter that executes code blocks with Jupyter kernels, and then inserts the output [1]

[0] https://pandoc.org/filters.html

[1] https://github.com/jacobwhall/plaited
It was the "so good they can't ignore you" book of his.

With that said, both books are excellent. In my opinion "so good they can't ignore you" explains why you should want to become very good in something, and the "deep work" explains how to become good in something.
Can you explain more? I've looked at Nix but haven't extensively used it
The point is that it is trivial to find character flaws from people of the by-gone era and it only satisfies one's need to ostensibly feel morally superior. It wasn't too long ago that women weren't allowed to vote in Switzerland (1991).
Yes, notation seems to be critical. I wanted to see how well it can recreate the training data; so I picked Kyle from South Park and put in "they killed Kenny". I assume this should be in the training set, being a running theme in the show. The inference puts it in a question-like tone, not like the original.
oh great another markdown editor, I've never seen such a complicated format as markdown. So complicated, that you need to keep inventing dedicated editors for it.

Still waiting for that editor that comes with autocomplete
Electricity prices are plummeting along with the prices for solar and wind power production systems. Storage cost is falling even faster.
I see my children not giving a crap about graphics. Their favorite games being Roblox and Minecraft. And Fortnite lately because they play with school friends over discord. I think I'm from another age, of Doom and Quake, when changing computers every 4 years was mandatory. Maybe one day videogames will even be more than just a time sink, who knows.
How come there is so much fragmentation in package managers? Is the on-boarding experience for dev contributors bad for existing options?
Thanks for trying, I will keep tracking this issue. Happy holidays
Legal Systems Engineering 101: How to build a legal-advice bot
800k to be more precise. And they're not working age adults, the vast majority of covid deaths happened in elderly population (70+). And even the 800k figure is disputed as Covid being the primary cause of deathin all of those.