skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Halo 3 and Gears of War were must have games of that generation and the big hits from Sony (e.g. Last of Us) didn’t come till a bit later. These games were so successful that many looked past the RRoD and loved the 360. In this context I think buying studios makes sense.

I wonder if CoD will become XBox / Windows exclusive?
I've worked 8+ hour days in VR for weeks/months at a time over the years on an original Vive. There are a ton of benefits over traditional monitors (physical space, infinite monitors, text/output scaling, more interesting work environments, isolation from distractions, etc), but there are also some sizable drawbacks too (resolution, battery life, mad thirst, being unaware of your surroundings, etc). I imagine a lot of those tradeoffs have improved in newer headsets, but I definitely enjoy working in VR over just sitting in an office 90% of the time. FWIW I sit, use the wireless adapter, and just touch-type on a real keyboard though; I definitely don't try to type with wands on virtual keyboards!
In a far-right rag.
It's nice to see that they do call out the AŽ hive, it's a super interesting design.

It has a few advantages over the Langstroth hive that is overwhelmingly the default. Obviously the benefits aren't without cost, because otherwise it would be more common commercially.

The basic difference between a Langstroth and AŽ hives is how frames are removed. In a Langstroth hive, a hive is made by stacking some number of boxes, each box containing some number (usually 8 or 10) of frames (a frame is the thing that contains each comb of brood or honey). To remove or exam the frames in a hive, the frames must be removed by lifting them out of the top of the box they're in. As the hive is created stacking boxes, examining the full hive requires lifting entire boxes from the top of the hive to access the boxes beneath.

An AŽ hive is constructed a single box, that is multiple frames high. The back of the hive opens much like a cupboard, providing access to the full hive. Access to the frames is achieved by having them slide back out of the hive.

The benefits of the AŽ hive derive from this mode of access - a full box of honey frames can weight 30+ lbs, so lifting them can be challenging. Simply opening a door and sliding frames out is clearly easier. Because the hives aren't accessed from the top they can be stacked. Finally (and my favorite) because they are accessed from the back people can make small huts (often on trailers) where one "wall" is made out of many hives. Subsequent examination and management can be performed in a comfortable little cabin - this makes it easier to maintain a warmer temperature and allows examination in cold or wet weather. Some people claim that the not needing to deconstruct the hive causes less stress on bees, but I don't know of actual research on the matter.

There are downsides, the hives cost more than Langstroth, and they are less efficient overall: there's functionally a maximum size a hive can be relative to the swarm, after which they cannot keep it sufficiently warm and will leave. The design of AŽ hives means they can't be expanded (Langstroth hives can be expanded by putting another box on the top), and so are limited by the relatively small size of a new swarm. This means keeping the same number of bees will require a greater number of hives, reducing the space efficiency, and increasing the amount of harvested pollen + honey that goes into maintaining the hive rather than being harvestable.

There are other advantages and disadvantages, but these are the things I remember.

I tried to find a useful resource but most of the google first page hits are companies selling them, or that are clearly super biased as to how awesome they are, but this one seemed to at least have a good set of pictures showing how they can be set up and aren't actively trying to sell them: https://www.heathwing.com/slovenian-beehouse
Well, I apologize if it came off as rude, wasn't the intention.

I was just trying to say that different people have different amounts of tolerance for VR, and it could just be that your isn't that high for whatever reason. Nothing wrong with that, but that it doesn't work for you specifically doesn't really mean much for VR as a technology.
This is really great to see!
To quote the philosopher Costanza: “we live in a society!” Not letting people know what you’re thinking is good advice if you’re in the mafia, not if you’re trying to raise a child or work at a company.

After reading this article, I sincerely hope I never encounter the author in any kind of professional or personal setting. His view of humanity is borderline psychotic.
"...recall that the AMD Ryzen is now used instead of the Intel Atom... It uses more power to increase computing power..."
I don't think there is actually a good solution for connecting a regular H2 gRPC client to a gRPC-Web server currently. Envoy's gRPC-Web filter only seems to go the other way. I haven't tested it but the old HTTP/1.1 reverse bridge might work. [0]

[0] https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/ht...
> We now have headphones that only work with Apple phones.

AirPods can be used with any phone just fine.

Engineering work has been done to make them to integrate deeply into Apple's OSes, but you can definitely use them on any phone.
Curious why did you go with cat 6 and not 6a or 7? Thinking about doing similar but want to make sure I’m not missing something.
The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block ‘Unlawful’ Traffic
> Having a currency which gains in value will take you there.
Until it doesn't.

As a matter of fact crypto "currencies" are a rotten medium for saving due to their volatility.

Sure, they may go up in value. But then that's pure speculation, certainly not saving.
Designing for a right to repair
IIUI for that trick they need to make those futurist tweets protected AND not allow followers, or we'd see them too? So try following and see what happens?
If the Allies had started bombing German civilian targets more as they were gaining an upper hand, or even had they not subsided in their bombing of civilian targets, then yes, it would be the same, and it would not be excusable.

When fighting against a dirty enemy, it is mostly acceptable to be dirty in turn. But as your enemy is close to defeat and is losing any power to harm you, you're supposed to stop the dirty tactics that were necessary and (somewhat) justified earlier.
> And that might take centuries to do

How many efforts at international cooperation have survived for centuries?

A lot of the comments upthread seem to be assuming that we live under some kind of World Government.
It's interesting that the UK didn't see anything quite like that, more like ~150k in one day. Although I suspect many are avoiding testing in the UK so that they don't have to miss work if it comes up positive because of our meagre sick pay policies.
Noah: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews
Thanks for this post.

> The benefits of the AŽ hive derive from this mode of access - a full box of honey frames can weight 30+ lbs

I’m running Langstroth 3/4 boxes, and I get 15-18+ kgs of honey out of each box. The weight when lifting them off an 8 or 9 tall colony is high.

Full depth boxes must be truely awful to lift when full.
Yup. I started playing Minecraft on Xbox 360 which my kids and I loved. We still love the game, but it's so different now, it's not the same game at all other than voxels and biome themes and some of the original music. We have a ship of Theseus situation. It's no longer the same game. I'd love to be able to pick a version to play like you can on PC.
I need to achieve this level of zen
So, still a wrong procedure. They should have told everyone to renew their password and view them as compromised in August.

Edit: typo
I second this. Huge Neal Stephenson fan. I remember trying VR with a huge bulky headset in the Air and Space Museum in DC when I was 8 year old, back in the 80s. I bought an Oculus Rift when it first came out and really fell in love with it. But I am vehemently, violently anti-Facebook and social media in general, and refuse to have an account. To be locked out of the Rift for awhile just because of that... what a terrible play on their part. They're basically a trash/spam organization focused on spreading fear and conspiracy garbage among demented old people like my 80-year-old father, who should just be left alone, not manipulated into a state of rage and hysteria every day by his news feed. Zuckerberg is the world's biggest POS, and I say this as a similarly aged son of a Jewish lawyer, as opposed to a POS dentist. Zuck's not even a fucking dentist. And he has less than no right to try to claim the Metaverse.

Apple, at least, is smart enough not to try to claim the technology. But I'm sure in the next few years they'll try to wall off their own garden in VR/AR.

Neal's whole idea in Snow Crash, although it wasn't explicitly stated, was that the heavy processing was happening client-side, so different clients saw different things (a vague semi-transparent blob on a cheap headset would be delicately curling smoke rings on an expensive one) and it was easily degradable based on connection speed, and the protocol was essentially open source, and infrastructure was distributed enough that there were no vertical monopolies operating in that space unlike the rest of Snow Crash where pretty much everything from the franchise restaurant to the police force protecting it were vertically organized. So any attempt to vertically create a metaverse within a particular stack or corporate ecosystem is likely bound to fail, and VR as a popular technology will track with that until someone builds a portal-to-portals. I'd put my money on a new startup if it ever were to happen, because they could at least build something platform agnostic.
Exactly. Theft happens every day, orders of magnitude greater values get stolen from people, often by corporations, but when people steal some packages from a train or shoplift from Walgreens, that’s somehow the horrible and shocking news story.

How many “OMG people are stealing from corporations and getting away with it!” news stories have been published in the last 30 days?

I guess it only counts as societal breakdown when there’s viral video of it.
> That is why I call [smart] devices 'dumb' devices

"Dumb devices" is already an actual term, already used to refer to non-smart devices, so you are confusing anyone that has not learnt your custom vocabulary.
That does not work in general. Some sounds just do not exist in some languages. Also, for example a name can sound quite different pronounced with an Irish and a Yorkshire accent, and there are similar distinctions in most languages. Which one becomes the canonical prononciation then?
Quotes apparently allow nesting. That said, serializing trees in linear form isn't really a problem: each node simply specifies parent's index. The problem is that these nodes are polymorphic, protobuf doesn't like that.
You think nature isn't "making" such computations all the time? Say like a virus "deciding" how long to let a host live to spread it before finishing him/her off?

We live pretending we are rational, intelligent beings but in the end we aren't very far from nature and its processes which created us.
Apple Health has period tracking, and they don't share the data with anyone without your permission.
KeepassDX (Android) has a really nifty keyboard feature which allows you to even put passwords in apps, which the regular Firefox Sync doesn't support. Maybe that's the use case which makes you do the switch?
I find this open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy most welcome.

I have already had my say about setting the record straight in the light Monica R. McLemore viscous attack on E.O. Wilson in an earlier HN story so there is no point repeating it here.

For the sake of completeness I'd suggest readers of this page take a look at those posts and consider them an adjunct to these ones:

All HN posts to the story The Demise of Scientific American: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778348

My own critical post about Associate Professor McLemore is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778348#29785417
No. Always had to stay masked.

Politics removed and money removed. The best way to just end this is to simply:

get every vaccine or booster that comes out.

Limit exposure entirely. Only leave your house for essentials.

Mask when around people outside your immediate home.

Everyone can do that last one. Pretty much everyone can do the first one. The hard one for the wider population is the 2nd one.
It’s $420 for headset and 1 year subscription. You can’t buy 5 comparable monitors for that price. Or 3 like I use.
> It says somewhere that there is nothing new under the sun...

Ah yes, that's most of Ecclesiastes. Everything is meaningless. King Solomon sometimes comes across as a bit of whinger, but then what do you expect if you're ultra-rich and bored and questioning the meaning of it all.

I agree that many aspects of Christianity have precedent. The one rather novel thing that it introduced was the concept of a God who would voluntarily suffer excruciating punishment so that we wouldn't have to.
probably my favorite open source project in years, together with Lichess. No idea why people still throw money at proprietary password managers.
I don’t support or agree with the far left, or any of the identity culture warrior / critical theory / wokeness or whatever other adjacent thing you wanna roll up in that.

But this comment is just unhinged nonsense. This is akin to the claims that Jan 6 was a coup attempt. “The left” is not a homogenous organized force (rofl, come on, the trope is that the left eats itself) which has organized militants on standby.

Antifa and Patriots are both larping idiots alike. It’s the contagion and mutation of bad ideas that’s a bigger problem. A semantic pandemic.
Someone once told me "If you're not using a framework, you're building one".

I thought a lot about the many implications of that sentence, one of which is relevant for this article. Understand that you _WILL_ always use a framework, whether it's an external one or your own. Knowing this, when choosing not to use an external framework, you must show consideration to the design of the one you're inevitably building, and chose to build it intently, rather than by accident.

I'm entirely in agreement with every sentiment of this article, not only does it make software that will last longer, but for some of us at least, makes for a much more fun, interesting and enjoyable development experience.

Writing a program from scratch actually feels like programming, it feels like doing the thing we're here to do, rather than laying the plumbing that ties together a multitude of third party, constantly-changing (if not just randomly disappearing from the internet) frameworks together.
I think this could be fixed easily - no cash bail first time, cash bail if you are caught again.
> The filing also [notes] that Arm faces stiff competition from emerging RISC-V competitors.

It seems like only yesterday that Arm was telling the world that RISC-V was a non-starter: https://github.com/arm-facts/arm-basics.com/blob/master/inde...
> probably do not have the time to develop the technical competence

Or the ability.
Just as an aside, I feel like "Scots-Irish" is a fairly uniquely American phrase which you don't really hear in Scotland or Ireland. There are a couple of possible interpretations and always I wonder which is meant:

1. Ulster-Scots, i.e. the Scottish people who moved into northern part of Ireland (now all of Northern Ireland plus a couple of counties in Ireland)

2. Some Irish and some Scottish, i.e. they have ancestors from both places and want a word to describe this

3. Generally celtic, i.e. they know it's Ireland or Scotland or maybe both and want to cover their bases

Neither is particularly harmful, but I kind of wish some people understood that #1 is a distinct thing
Yeah I had the same problem too at first. I could only play about an hour max before I had to stop. Got better over a few weeks then was able to play like 4-6 hrs straight one time.
There was a paper on HN just a last week. Park a floating wind turbine on a buoy out in deep water, to be paid for with carbon credits. The amount of CO2 sent down is exactly measurable from pH and volume. The wind turbine doesn't need an expensive generator with 6 tons of rare-earth magnets, it can couple straight to the pump mechanically or hydraulically.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29912896

Except at certain well-known places, very little mixing happens naturally.

Of course we need thousands or tens of thousands of them, not just one, but there has to be a first one.
Shameful? A bit much for what is essentially a gift to the community? They are building a free product and are entitled to their opinion on how to go about building it, and decisions on taking up scope is very much an integral part of it. In engineering, every decision is a tradeoff that might benefit one set of users while impacting another. Free software is all about choice so that different users can find that thing that is most suitable to them.
> [0]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

nice tool, thanks for making this available.
If it wasn't for free and if you wouldn't be able to afford it, your government might see the need to provide this as a public service, as in my opinion should be the case anyway. Or projects like peerTube would take off. Or... countless other options that currently aren't really options because some company already has a monopoly-grip on the entire market.
> I have Facebook's Oculus strapped to my face

I know many people call their Quest 1 or 2's just "my Oculus", but I didn't expect a large site to do the same, really shows how dumb it was to scrap that name.

It is also a smidge funny that they used both Facebook and Oculus when "Meta" doesn't want you to use either anymore, in the context of VR.
Burnout: Definition, Symptoms and What Organisations and Individuals Can Do
My first company was using MySQL’s OLD_PASSWORD() function in 2013 — straight, with no salt or spice of any kind — in its 64-bit glory. Horrified, I did some research and threw bcrypt up there right away. Not sure if it was my my first commit, or the branch fixing 20 or so SQLIs was the first. I became my company’s software security expert out of sheer terror.
Show HN: I made the simplest, distraction free pomodoro app
Some sort of global disaster appears to have occurred around 12,000 years ago, with evidence of massive flooding and wildfires and dramatic shifts in climate happening over the course of days and weeks all over the world.

Agriculture and advanced culture may have existed prior to the event, but it looks like the source for flood myths. Aside from Gobekli Tepe and a handful of other sites, it appears most knowledge and culture was lost. People had to start from scratch, so agriculture begins at most 12,000 years ago, comprising almost every plant we eat today. There's no way to know what might have been utterly lost.

There's evidence of modern humans going back almost 300,000 years. (Crazy to think we were without dogs for ~260k years. Humans are better with dogs around. )

Humans probably invented language and writing and all sorts of proto-sciences many times over those hundreds of millenia, but everything before 12,000 years back is gone. There's virtually no evidence of the vast majority of human culture before then. Entropy sucks.
The nice thing about 2.5gb/s is that you can still use existing CAT5e/6 cable runs (albeit at shorter distances).

I really want to start seeing 2.5gb/s becoming standard on Desktop motherboards asap.
Although, similar facilities were already available in other systems such as Solaris, Windows NT, FreeBSD.
It's a "can't win" scenario in that the presumed advantage of a large org is that studios can share tech and therefore get an edge in deploying it across all titles - but they can't do it in a way that's really optimized to anyone's particular situation. Depending on the structure and communication flows the game teams can feel like code was "thrown over the fence" at them, or they feel chained into a method of asset production, builds and testing that is, for their purposes, extremely costly. Generalizing an engine has always been a very hard, two dimensional problem:

1. If you're pushing the platform, you need every part of the asset pipeline to be optimized for it, and probably lower level runtime optimizations too.

2. If you're doing something well within the constraints, your bottleneck is on implementing the specific types of assets that will make your game unique. As games get more featureful more and more micro-categories of assets show up - bits of UI text, custom behaviors, scene transitions, camera movements and so forth.

3. If you do 1, then 2 becomes more challenging because you made more optimizing assumptions, so the game production may fall off schedule due to lousy tooling making it hard to actually test anything in-game. If you focus on 2, you don't have as many reusable parts, and you're adding pressure to optimize near the end of the dev cycle, which can result in catastrophic bugs from changing assumptions in the asset-code mix, like "we tightened when we load in streaming assets. This broke a cutscene trigger because now it loads at the wrong time."

And then you add in an external tech group and you have another layer of communication to deal with, so the design or art teams can't just grab a coder and say "hey, this workflow sucks, give me a little support on this." Whether it's in the org or third-party, it's the same problem: you really need engine coders on staff to handle some things.

But the case can always be made: "if we have an internal engine group we can put all the smartest people in one place and have them develop the next-gen graphics." And once you have that group, it's politically necessary for the management to make its tech as widely deployed as possible, otherwise, why budget for them? The engine teams at large publishers who follow this kind of hard separation are known for having relatively cushy, high-profile gigs, while game teams are disposable bodies that churn out necessary but low-value features. Conflicts of interest and fiefdoms emerge from that. Some of them do enforce rotations and other protocols to lower the barriers.
I believe webauthn requires end users to perform key management. I suspect that is currently a harder task for the average user than a memorized or written-down password. Special hardware tokens may help, but I'm not sure how we'd convince average users to care or buy them.

Are there any webauthn only sites, besides demos?
Not to nitpick, but totally nit picking. I don’t think people of NA heritage (in NA) would be considered a diaspora
You are right, I should call them stupid.

But calling them smart is also confusing when most of them aren’t, with the "smart" part being on a remote server.
> You can only win in poker if you recognize how your opponent deviates from the optimal strategy and then play a strategy to exploit him.

This is not true. If you play optimal strategy, you will win against any opponent except one that plays optimal as well, in which case you'll break even.
But, of course you'll win a lot more if you are able to adapt your strategy to exploit any weaknesses that you have detected.

And detecting weaknesses in your opponent(s) in live play is something that humans will remain better at than AI for quite a while. Because it requires not just careful analysis of your opponent's actions but some contextual information as well. E.g., how old is your opponent, is he experienced or not, is he drunk, have you experienced similar players like hime before, etc.