skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtually every first person VR game that isn't a driving or flying sim needs turning or it kills immersion:

- Alyx

- Boneworks

- Blades & Sorcery / GORN

- Skyrim / Fallout 4 VR

- Onward, Zero Caliber, Population One, Contractors

- Racket NX

- Minecraft

- Lone Echo

- holopoint

There's really too many games to name, and I can name more. A huge pain point for me prior to getting the Quest 2 was tangled wires from too much turning.

The only games where there's no turning involved are fitness apps like Fit XR and ping pong. Even Beatsaber and SuperNatural have 360 degree levels. Your comment makes me wonder if you've ever used your Index, or if you even own a VR headset because it sounds bizarre.
The brave-hate meme is self perpetuating at this point. Brave is privacy-oriented out of the box. You have to opt in for the ads and crypto. Isn't that what everyone has been asking for? opt-in instead of opt-out? I'm convinced that Google is behind a smear campaign against Brave. If Brave got real traction it could be a serious threat to their business.
The remaining useful 10% probably only does the "mundane" server administration that nobody wants to do!
How is it evil at all if it's opt-in?
You quoted me saying I'd be on call ... ?
The Hidden Engineering Protecting Getty Art from Earthquakes
Alternate perspective: if it ain't broken, don't fix it.
Ask HN: Any Recommendations for Books on Sales?
> where bugs in one implementation effectively become part of the spec.

Isn't this basically how HTML5's parsing rules came out, except instead of bugs in one implementation it is based on bugs on all implementations? :-P
From what I can tell, pay transparency (“a company wide email with the salaries of everybody”) is considered good because it’s a lever towards pay equity. That people doing ostensibly the same work are paid differently is a dirty secret; sunlight will force the bosses to fix it.

I can see the attraction in that idea! But when people aren’t actually, in their hearts, quite that committed to solidarity, their ambitions and inequalities find other, costlier ways of expressing themselves.
I cracked all the passwords in my MS-DOS based computer programming class by modifying the boot floppy. It was pointless since the assignments were easy and I had perfect grades in that class, and the only thing this allowed me to do was steal other peoples' homework. But eh, boredom....

I also figured out how to auto-crawl the networks of all the schools in our district, which, as a self 15 year old whose only experience was non-networked DOS, is still a proud accomplishment. The only things I found were a bunch of printer management, some office form templates, and a cool video game that was like sim-moonbase.

But then my teacher found the file in my home dir called passwords.txt, and I was busted. Oh well. Instead of an FBI file, I got a detention, and I had to teach him how to write-protect the boot floppies so no one else could do what I had. (he didn't need to know that you could reverse the write-protection with a piece of electrical tape)
I was exposed to this aspect of math through proofs, which are sadly given short shrift in K-12 math today. The schools in my hometown used a math curriculum that actually introduced basic set theory in first grade, and eased us into proofs. High school geometry was all about proofs. First of all, it was a good education. Second, proofs were what made math come alive for me.

I have a lot of opinions about K-12 math education. ;-)
You are of course correct and with respect to the claim "you can't be a good programmer without understanding indirection and recursion" I don't believe that holds water. I think different techniques allow for a deeper understanding; whether or not that deeper understanding translates to a "better programmer" is fairly subjective. For me, a good programmer is one who writes readable/understandable code and that's a different category all together.
> You can very comfortably have instant and virtually unlimited snapshots with zfs/jails

Yes, but that both requires manual scripting it and remains local to the server. Compare to scheduled RDS backups which go to S3 with all its consistency guarantees.

> There is a lot of choices for configuration management (saltstack, chef, ansible, ..)

Sure, those are an improvement over doing things manually. But for the recovery they can do only so much. Basically think how fast can you restore service if your rack goes up in flames.

> I don't know what this is, but I'm curious and looking it up :D

It means - who deals with kernel, SSL, storage, etc. updates, who updates the firmware, who monitors SMART alerts. How much time do you spend on that machine which is not 100% related to the database behaviour.

I wasn't recommending everyone use RDS. If your use case is ok with a laptop-level reliability, go for it! You simply can't compare the cost of RDS to a monthly cost of a colo server - they're massively different things.
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I wonder if most will be (0,0).
I don't think you are necessarily wrong, but I'm not sure what this adds to the discussion.

There are plenty of competent people in non-programming domains.
If "no-code" solutions can help these people build tools useful to them, that seems like a great thing to me.
Vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 clinical outcomes up to 9 months
How many servers out there named gandalf? I've got one in my own house.
My early years were in rural India, so even Motorcycles were rare to sight. However, I did my dumpster diving with Books and Magazines, and collected a lot of relics.
I recently read, via HN, that the sunlight that helps produce vitamin D is mostly taken in via the eyes.
Ask HN: Catastrophe happens, What would happen to all of the world's knowledge?
Let's say that for some reason or another, a catastrophic event happened where we had no more access to the internet, essential resources, and a good chunk of humanity was wiped out.

What would to all of humanity's knowledge, how hard would it be to build back society?

If there are people building rockets to make our species multi-planetary in case something goes horribly wrong, we should protect our knowledge if that same scenario happens.

I mean, something like a bunch of bunkers all over the world with offline data centers storing most of our knowledge. Is there something like that that exists?
lol, clearly we're not living in the same climate :D
> How are you seeing ads in Brave

I don’t, I’ve never used Brave.

From https://brave.com/brave-rewards/

Brave Ads do not replace current web page ads. By default, Brave blocks privacy-invading web ads and trackers that are embedded in page content. Joining Brave Rewards and viewing Brave Ads does not affect your current blocking settings for each website you visit. The ads you see as part of Brave Rewards are shown separately from your browsing experience and are not the same as the invasive, performance-sapping ads embedded in websites.

But I can already block ads with uMatrix and other ad blockers. So why do I need another browser that does essentially the same, but adds more complexity to the mix, potentially more browser bloat? So instead of funneling ad spend to google, it’s funneled to Brave - but that doesn’t really make a difference to me as a consumer. I can donate or buy products of creators I want to support w/o dealing in BAT.
I would recommend using a different and more explicit
phrasing in future. ‘Hoarders’ is a needlessly loaded term though. It sounds like you want to punish individuals using houses as investments.

How would your scheme deal with larger multi-occupancy dwellings? Would they need to be demolished, or would they be appropriated by the state?
Looks like the number of net funded accounts increased by 300,000 in Q4, so they're still growing their customer base.
I like this trend of cancel-culture people cancelling themselves instead of others.
Israel did not need bullets or cruise missiles to shut down Iran's centrifiges twice. But I generally agree that the US 3 letter agencies are better funded and have more sophisticated cyberwarfare tooklits.
GP manages puppeteer team at Google
The media made it a show case for Biden's infrastructure plan, but it almost proves the opposite.

It was first rated poor in 2011, from Pittsburgh Post Gazette [1].

The collapse came in the wake of troubling inspections dating to 2011 that show the aging span has been rated in poor condition, according to the National Bridge Inventory.

Records from the inventory show that the bridge was consistently found to be in poor shape during inspections from 2011 to 2017, with estimated repairs at $1.5 million.

Mr. Gainey said the bridge was last inspected in September 2021. A statewide report from last year noted the bridge was still in poor condition.

The repair estimate was $1.5 mil in 2011. As someone posted in another comment, they spend 4 times more on public safety than on public works: $250 million vs $59 million. This seems like a failure of the city and state governments to prioritize. I know that Pittsburg has lots of bridges, but if they can't support it, then they should close some. This issue is neither unexpected, not a global or cataclysmic event. If the city needs constant maintenance help from the Federal government to maintain its infrastructure, then it simply can't afford it.

[1] https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2022/01/28/pittsburg...
Here's the tweet you were referring to, I think: https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1078885655634157569
Ah, cool, a red herring. Where did you get your atmospheric science degree? I got mine at UC Davis. Can you explain to me how the radiative forcing is less because it reaches steady state so quickly? The regime in the upper troposphere around the 250mb level is poor in ice condensation nuclei and the phase change is an irreversible thermodynamic process. Most of the time those parcels don’t condense easily, and the forcing is quite large as we observed in the 9/11 studies.
I mean I guess I expect to find replies from humans? I follow AP because getting raw reporting is valuable. I don’t get a lot of value from the comments section, I just used this as an example because I’ve noticed it.
Strikethrough and the Power of Defaults
Were you not so engulfed in righteous outrage, you might have noticed you're replying to a different person.

Maybe you should take their advice after all, and exercise some tranquility.
This is true of literally everything that’s ever been important before it was important. I love naval but I feel like sometimes he gets away with tweeting ethereal nonsense
The ease of sending it.

Stocks and bonds are not bearer assets, so you have to sell them before spending them.

Commodities are inconvenient to carry (though in some cases maybe more convenient than wheelbarrowing cash).

Real-estate is much less liquid, you can't sell or spend 0.01% of an apartment.
Long term hold out group?
> Are there really so many people casually stealing a giant box with a heavy power-tool

Sadly, yes there are.
I got most of these when Humble Bundle was running a 35% off sale on No Starch Press (here's the book set: https://nostarch.com/manga-guide-13-book-set). Still a splurge, but it saved me a good chunk of money.
https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=europe

If you don't want to follow the rules (against anti-competitive practices) of a certain set of countries, perhaps you shouldn't have offices in that set of countries? Just an idea...
I'm talking strictly from the standpoint of a user of web-based social products. For any product with a substantial communication and/or community aspect, you inherently can't use most of the product's functionality if you don't have an account. And if the product doesn't do a good job of explaining its purpose, you won't even fully understand what functionality you're missing out on.

Going back to my Tumblr example, I've had a lot of conversations with people on HN who fundamentally didn't grok that there's substantially more to the product than the public-facing blog network, in part because there isn't a login wall. A few examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607197 (interesting quote further downthread "I never felt the need to make an account since I was just reading. They didn't make it clear that the service was incomplete without an account.")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700519

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29958173
What to do if you get a question you've already seen in a coding interview
The common advice you'll see is "Tell the interviewer so you can get a new question"

I disagree.

You should take every advantage you can get. The whole point of studying ahead of time is to prepare yourself for the inevitable interview question, if you've seen it before you are likely in a really good place to answer it well.

My take on what to do if you've seen a question before

* Don't get overly excited, if you let out an audible "YES I know this one", the interviewer may give you a different problem.

* A lot of the time you think you've seen a problem before but you really haven't. When you get overly confident and then realize you haven't seen it, it looks really bad. Don't introduce that opportunity to get hit

* If an interviewer asks you "Have you seen this one before?" you should say, "I don't think so!". Why? Because it's the truth, you probably haven't. A lot of the times you've seen a similar problem, one small tweak can result in a very different solution. You should be cautious!

* You want to be sure you walk your interviewer through your thinking even if you know the right solution out of the gate. Spend time analyzing the problem, really quickly coming up with a brute force solution, and then showing how you can optimize it to the real solution. This will show a clear line of thinking which is what the interviewer is looking for. As long as you have structure in how you solve interview problems you shouldn't have an issue. Here was my structure: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gy9cmPwNhZvola7kqnfY3DElk7PYrz2ARpaCODTp8Go/edit#gid=0

Tldr; I firmly believe you shouldn't throw away any advantage you have
Student says he was offered $5K by Elon Musk to stop tracking his private jet
The 737 MAX has had a tendency to crash despite having two working engines. Thus the joke: it doesn’t fly with both engines.
In smaller stores (fast food restaurants for sure), when the cash doesn’t balance, the employees pay the difference i think. does it hurt walmart or does it hurt the employees in that case?
... posted on Twitter.
> _backed_ by cryptocurrency.

Governments have fallen for the siren call of inflation ever since Nixon. They won't give it up and adopt any standard, gold or otherwise, because it would imply they have to be accountable for finances.

This is why private individuals have to use more creative ways of storing their value.
Not so easy. You don't want sink a bunch of cost into replicating a competitor to just get sued for copywrite infringement.
> It sounds like you want to punish individuals using houses as investments.

Yes, that's exactly the goal.
I'm a lyrics person meaning I listing to the lyrics. If I don't like the message/story I can't listen. Cecelia is one of those.

. Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia

. Up in my bedroom (making love)

. I got up to wash my face

. When I come back to bed

. Someone's taken my place

Seriously? You're in love with a girl who cheats on you in 5 minutes? I guess if you're polyamorous but if that was the case the song wouldn't exist. The fact that they person sticks around for this mental abuse is a complete turn off. I love how catchy the song is but I can't take message of such a bad relationship and that fact that he's digging his own hole by continuing to hope she'll stop cheating.
> I don't know of any large retailer that eats the cost of unsold goods.

Trader Joe's does this. Though they also rebrand the products they sell.
The "circuit diagram" of a biological process, complete with quantitative parameters, is known as a "kinetic model," and I think these are slowly growing in popularity.

Quantitative reaction kinetic constants are quite hard to obtain, hence the qualitative "A raises B and lowers C, B raises D, C raises D" mess where even that simple sentence I told you gives you nothing about the relationship between A and D.

I don't think anyone looks at a process diagram with zero known constants and says "that's the way that things should be," but at the same time, it's so difficult to tell what those constants are that the uselessly unconstrained diagrams are still, oftentimes, the best that can be done.
> bunch of stuff I don't need

And that's fine. People should make choices like that. I was objecting to saying people paid X for RDS and others paid Y for one bare metal server. Those are not in the same category, there's no point comparing those prices without a lot more information.
> I hold that virtual reality is genuine reality.

Ok, but one cannot do science in virtual reality. Is that not a necessity of "genuine" reality?

(Certainly some science can be done entirely in a virtual world, but I would say definitionally not all of science.)

It's clear that what he seems to be saying is "there is no reason VR won't be an acceptable place to live". Which is fair enough, but that seems like a much weaker claim than that VR could be on par with "genuine reality" as a blanket statement.
Differences between Telegram and Facebook:

- Telegram is non-profit.

- Telegram did not originate in the U.S., it originated in Eastern Europe.

- Telegram is not really a social media platform but more like a chat/conferencing platform--e.g. more like Discord. There isn't much in the way of "pages" or a profile. No one is going to know about your group unless you tell people outside of Telegram and provide the link.

- The only thing I know of that Telegram does to groups/channels contentwise is set a flag that they host pornographic content, and the only consequence is that the iOS app blocks the group. The PC desktop and web version are unaffected. Easy fix is to use Nicegram instead, and following the instructions to update a setting to allow all content.
A companies brand image does not give them the right to effectively infringe/diminish property rights of people who now own the hardware.
Floc was not enabled in Europe, and was probably never going to be enabled because of its high incompatibility with GDPR.
Full comparison

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-G_PUU25wjCwBfPjAbp77_r...
This whole blog is a hoot.

https://www.jumboframeinternet.com/post/2/
Okay, so they spin off a bunch of shell companies holding all these offices and stop displaying them on the Google website in order to address the EU requests. But the mothership still gets to remain a single company.
Here is another way to disable "FLoC":

https://firefox.com
Thank you for sharing!

Google returned these photos, which look both desolate and gorgeous: https://confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=62&lon=7

Particularly #5 here https://confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=6821&pic=5

Though in photo #6 that looks mountain fed, and she looks tough.
What? It's the sum of all of those reasons. Getting close to what? I just point by point listed the things about the link that made me leary. Good lord, why is it so hard to believe that I felt the link was just odd and definitely worth hesitation on validity.

If you feel it is hunky-dory to just click willy nilly never think about it lalalala all the live long day, then click away. You do you. Me, I tend to see links like that and take pause on if I feel the risk of following that link would be worth the potential reward. I make these types of decisions all day long while traversing the web, reading emails, tweets, etc
For the first part your statement was

> parents cannot govern friends and romantic partners.

With absolutely no qualifiers. Unfortunately there are pro-pedophilia people out there, and some are quite public about it (for instance, Richard Stallman at one point). So I think it's important if you take that stance you clarify.

For the second part let's say that there is no question about it (maybe they were convicted). What if they are a violent person? Are you willing to let your child potentially harm themselves or others by being in the influence of violent people?

Lastly you misunderstood what I was saying. From your comment I assume you are against xenophobia and racism (rightly so). What if your child wanted to spend time with another child who openly hated black people or Jewish people?

What I'm saying is as a parent you do have a duty to take care of your child. You should prevent them from being hurt and hurting others. You need to instill in them moral values that make them a good person. If you do not have any power to say, prevent them from spending time with soemone who openly hurts them, then they aren't going to listen to you. They have to learn some things through experience, but other things would hurt them on such a great level that it could be permanently damaging. Yea they might not like it, but when you are a child you don't always have the mental capacity or experience to make all of these decisions logically. True love for someone is not always pretty, it sometimes involves telling them "no" to protect them.
> I don’t, I’ve never used Brave.

In this case your entire comment is pure FUD and a cheap shot at Brave.

I’ve been using Brave for 2 years, never saw a single ad.
All the technologies you mentioned do undergo large component rewrites and refactoring very often. It's true that e.g. the JVM is sometimes hemmed in by decisions from the past. But it is a decades old project and it is not clear that more up front design and deliberation would have future proofed the project for the language and VM conventions of the 2020s.

I have applied incremental design to concurrent applications and a compiler + stack VM project that runs in embedded environments. You don't go in blind. You do need domain experience and broad strokes knowledge of the conventions. You make some major architectural decisions up front but these don't involve much planning or design. Contrary to your point about CRUD apps, API design is harder to achieve incrementally since it is an interface and requires cross-team (sometimes cross-organizational) iteration. It's still possible, but your organization needs to be equipped for incremental/agile work.
I don't think it's fair to call this DRM. Real DRM imposes some sorts of restrictions on what you can do with something you bought, but this seems to be completely and permanently deactivated upon purchase.
> …you'd resist the urge to jump to conclusions, you'd find with a couple of minutes of research that its energy usage is comparable to a few average households.

>> …uses an estimated 11,051,066 kWh per year. This is the equivalent of the average electricity usage of 1038 American households.

>>> How much does AWS use for a comparable number of transactions? Your numbers don’t mean anything without additional context.

lol
One of the problems with advice is that some of the best advice people cannot say publicly as it clashes with the imaginary world where people are good, companies are fair, bosses are great, and human resources people are more than lying sociopaths.

I have given up anything other than playing for maximal advantage. I would let a billion dollar company fail for an extra few thousand bucks.
I really need to look into whether there's an ecosystem of customized Win7 builds with ongoing user-created security patches. I'm so weary of hating my operating system.
Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, I have gotten tripped up wondering whether I should be calling encode() or decode() many times. Using the str() or bytes() constructor would be more intuitive for sure.

Interesting thought on subscripting strings. It would be hard to make it fly after all these years of habits, but I see your reasoning.
"in solidarity" kind of makes it sound like Young got kicked off Spotify instead of asking to be removed.