skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agreed previously there are differences. And clearly these are differences you find intellectually exciting.

But that was true about previous generations. 3D TV was going to bring the experience right into the home! It was a game-changer! Not just movies! Not just TV shows! But live events like sports, where 3D perception would make a big difference!

And still, it sank like a stone.

There have been VR-specific experiences since the 1990s. I have tried many of them. They are neat! But take Superhot and Beat Saber, two "only in VR examples". I rented a Quest and they were indeed cool. But Superhot sold more non-VR copies, so obviously the experience works well enough without VR. The kids really loved Beat Saber, but they played it by sitting on the couch, staring straight ahead, and twitching their wrists. And when they got tired of having a sweaty, heavy thing on their head, they went back to their Switches and the PS4. When I sent the Quest back, they never even noticed. Whereas if I'd gotten rid of the PS4, it would have been armageddon around here.

The truth is that existing games are already very immersive. Getting the kids out of Minecraft or Roblox or Horizon takes a crowbar. if you want do demonstrate that this new technology is truly more immersive, you'll have to show not just that you think it's cool, but that a mass audience actively prefers it and won't go back.

That has certainly happened with entertainment technologies in the past. Look at color film and later color TV: people were willing to pay up, and the new tech almost entirely drove out the old in short order. Compare that with 3D movies and 3D TV: people care at best a little.

So far, everything I see suggests that facehugger VR is the latter category. If you have data otherwise, I look forward to it.
My children's school communicates a lot of information through their Facebook page. I had to reactivate my dead account after years when my kid started kindergarten. There was particularly important information that they did not send out anywhere but on Facebook. Meanwhile, they have a "news" page on their actual school website that has not been updated in years. I hate it and I think it should be illegal to force the use of a private, ad-driven platform for public/governmental information.

Facebook may count me as a user, but my account has absolutely no information listed about myself and the only pages I subscribe to are for the school.
As an aside, as I understand it there is general consensus now that that the proof is flawed: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12220
Developers praise the Steam Deck: 'It just works, for real'
> Do you think he doesn’t know, or do you think he doesn’t care?

I don't know, and I don't care.
Even without Houdini, we could have always written a piece of JS to read all the CSS on a page, and if it contains an SQL query, execute it. This implementation has nothing to do with CSS, but is obfuscated behind a new fancy api.
You might be able to do something here along the lines of row and column addressing of DRAM.
Id be shocked if people pitching startups and research grants etc all started saying "yeah this stuff isn't going to work for a couple of decades in any kind of sustainable manner" even if these types of unknowable unknowns were known.
Nowhere in my comment did I say those things were "the source" nor did I say that Adorno claimed they were; I said they are/were susceptible which is something else entirely.

Find another strawman, maybe.
You seem fun.

It's funny because it's something many, many people identify with. A good chunk of Americans with the ability to do so leave small, provincial areas they grew up in for better opportunities in larger, more diverse cities. This leads to a pretty huge disconnect between them and those who, for whatever reason, stayed in their hometown.

It wasn't something that you noticed as much until Facebook exploded, and then everyone got re-connected with people from high school that, in some cases, you'd neither seen nor thought about in 20 years. And then the sort of post that prompted the joke happens, and you see it clearly.

And I assure you, as someone who grew up in and later left arguably the MOST racist state in the US south, the articles these archetypes are sharing are often quite explicit in their racism.
Agree. Reading the whole article was painful. Especially the US trucks that reach "137km/h". Clearly a direct conversion from mph, but it doesn't read great.
Yeah seen that too. Six years here and I’m walking and running 50k a week without a problem. More energy than I’ve ever had.

I actually just ate home made vegetable paella and chocolate cake for dinner.
Ok, maybe stupid: why the core is in C and not Rust? Easy to targeting?
I wonder how bad this actually is. Things like new ships tend to get bigger and bigger as time passes. Even if Bezos pushed the problem forward in time, it seems the shipyards behind the bridge will run into this problem again and again.
Thanks but still confused. I'm a little familiar with Lovecraft as an author, but what is "K&R" and "C"?
What will happen to the International Space Station when it is retired?
Yes, everyone in the region was (I live near Kelowna). BC Wildfires last year were apocalyptic.
This is not true at all as most investments have some intrinsic thing of value.

A stock is a predicted stream of future earnings. A Ponzi scheme produces nothing and only survives through new investment. Stocks don’t need future investment as they can just pay out dividends forever based on the companies earnings.

Equating these two things seems fraudulent at worst and stupid at best.
Best practices for S3 web hosting and explaining why
Man, I haven't thought about Symfony in awhile.

I took a job at a subcontracting about 9 years ago, where I was mostly doing Node.js work, but there were some projects using Symfony, and even after using it on/off for a month, I have to say I never really "got" it. I could tell there's something there that's fairly cool, but I never really was able to wrap my head around all the folders.

I've become a way better programmer since then, so I have thought about trying it out again, but nothing in my day job uses PHP anymore, and I've moved away from web since then.
So why is that rule there? The article describes the cultural and geographic reasons why the eruopean design is feasible and preferred in the EU, but makes less sense in the US.
Here in New Mexico, when I connected our 6.6kW PV array to the grid, I had the choice of net metering or not. But there was a wrinkle: if I chose net metering, the power company could use our installation to count towards its own state and federally mandated shift toward renewables.

Being a cantakerous old geezer, I said hell no, and opted for no net metering. Works out OK from my perspective: still pay small electricity bills for the excess that we need for 3-4 months a year, and just the $7.70 connection charge for the rest.
We shall see!

I find its a tiring gimmick that is just being reused in every game. The novelty is less for every subsequent title. People like fast movement and action. Nobody walks in games. People won't like game design that encourages slow walking for long. Your human meatbag is not particular dexterous and it shows in the VR games coddle you with their enemy design. And the experience of shooting and taking cover is very hard to differentiate in VR across titles.

I think classic controller games will end up being a popular format for VR when the motion control gimmicks wear off.
I've never heard of the O-1 Visa, but I do know of the L-1 visa and the E series visas.

People should really read about US visa types. Well, for any country they want to get into. There are often times some really obscure paths prescribed by the government that even people working for that government don't know how to process because so few people (sometimes none) have used those paths.

The crux of this article is that there is way more than H1B / wage slave visas that allow you to be present for a long time and support yourself.
I was only addressing the situation where nobody is vaccinated and the vaccine is being distributed.

With booster shots it should never be an option to shut down society.
> they wouldn't be able to systematically control literally hundreds of engineers without anyone noticing what's going on.

cough Theranos cough
I am sorry but I have not seen that. Are there example threads you can point to? This is the one place where I see reasonable arguments. Of course, like reddit if you say anything controversial reason is out the window and I have seen CCP ..."advocates" (to avoid inflamatory language) on controversial threads but a well thought out and reasoned comment I make gets a healthy response and when I fail to do so, not so much.

I really have to question this sentiment and wonder if confirmation bias and bandwaggon effect are at play here. I was commenting the other day how HN makes it hard to convey emotion to begin with due to pure-text and no-emoji or text-speak etiquette. Some people may consider a strong disagreement angry but in reality there is nothing more healthier for a group than for people to be comfortable to voice their disagreement strongly(but respectfully).

I don't buy the angry part unless there is also disrespect in there somewhere.
Gotta have those belts and suspenders.

So many PRs people ask, why should we add protective measure X, when we already have protective measure Y? Defense in depth, my friends.
"Not sure why you think a load of extra moving parts is going to be more reliable than some solid state electronics.“

Because cars can go anywhere including right outside tow truck range especially where I live. Here, being rescued can be days away. Then there's the adverse conditions, temperatures well in excess of 40° C and from my bitter experience, the electronics fail much more frequently under these harsh conditions than do the mechanics.

Then there's the issue of make-do. When one is hundreds of miles from anywhere, one can often improvise a mechanical repair whereas it's nigh on impossible to quickly sort out an electronics problem (unless it's trivial).

I recall being in a convoy of four cars in central Australia when the computer failed in the one and only Volvo in the group. What an unholy mess that was. None of us could fix it.

Note, everyone in the convoy was skilled in electronics (we were all radio amateurs on a field trip) and almost everyone had a full-time professional job in electronics. We even had lots of electronics test equipment as well as various electronic components with us
- semiconductors, resistors, capacitors etc., as they were to service our HF transceivers when they failed.

That's just one instance albeit one of the worst cases.

My car chucked a universal joint on the same trip and although very inconvenient, we fixed it on the spot. Similar repairs were made on the spot when my petrol pump was ripped clean off the bottom of my car by huge ruts in the road.

From what you've said, I'd guess you live in a temperate climate in the suburbs of a city and only a few kilometers from a service garage.

The fact is, electronics and harsh environmental conditions (high thermal cycling) are not good bedfellows. Moreover, most electronics faults are thermally related (caused by thermal stress). I know firsthand as I ran the electronics department of a large corporation for years, before that I worked in the prototyping (design) department of a large US corporation designing professional electronic (not domestic stuff).

First rule of design: 'keep it simple stupid'.

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Edit: "1970s, the typical car reached its end of life around 100,000 miles (160,000 km)."

Uh? When I was younger all I could afford were cars with over 150k on the clock - and that's miles not kms - and I usually drove them to about 300k. The usual reason for getting rid of them was was rust - not because of mechanical problems. Sure, there were 'junk' cars around but you'd have to be mad to buy one.

One final point, around the time the Volvo broke down I was averaging 44,000 miles per year (~70,000 km/yr).
> Is it really worth as the hype to go through all these burdens and immigration process?

Money and career opportunities. Silicon Valley is to software as NYC or London are to finance. Working there will super-charge your bank balance and future career path disproportionate to your ability (meaning: you will work far harder for far less reward in other places).
Hard agree with comment sections being predictable. Based on the headline, you can deduce the greyed out, the top voted, and high engagement comments. Reddit has been this way for a long time as well, and it’s just so damn boring. I’m not sure if it’s just the fact that I’ve been around these platforms too long or if everything is so charged that it’s impossible to have anything else happen in this kind of environment.
I am not denying your experience, but I was talking about my own. I lost power for over 3 hours just 2 nights ago. And since the horrible experience we had in February 2021 we (me and everyone I know) have been living in fear it might happen again.

A quick look at Centerpoint's own outage tracker[1] shows outages everywhere in different parts of Texas.

1. https://gis.centerpointenergy.com/outagetracker/?WT.ac=OC_Im...
I don't even like the Frankfurt School that much, but Marcuse had a much bigger impact on what we see today.
I've been making an intentional effort to be that kind of poster. I've found no benefit in responding to replies most of the time.
Interesting list. I think you can ignore the first 2 or 3 as places that have one 1 or 2 winners and have a small population skew it.

However that doesn’t move Israel up much.

The Scandinavian countries are looking good as per usual.
You seem to be saying, not that you find the concerns inseparable, but that you are not being given the opportunity to separate the quality of the podcasts and that of the app in your rating - which is the point of the article.
If someone cares about a piece of content's availability on IPFS, they can host it and anyone in the network can pull it from them without having to know a priori that they provide the content. That's what I mean by "anywhere". Anyone can provide any content they want, from anywhere, on whatever infrastructure they want, as long as there's a communication channel open with the rest of the network.

If you care about high availability of a piece of content, you will dedicate infrastructure to hosting it on IPFS, just like you would on the Internet.
Meta – the moment the bright star dimmed?
If by "under the influence" you mean alumni of. They're similar to the staff of military contractors in the US, roving from company to company to use all the skills they learned on the inside for massive profits privately.
Often the cabs don't go on the ferries. They drop the trailer at the dock, a separate crew driving yard tractors loads the trailers onto the ferry, and they get unloaded on the other side, where another cab picks them up to continue. This can be more efficient as you don't need space on the ferries for the cabs, and you don't have dozens of drivers waiting around for the ferry to arrive. The yard drivers at the dock are very skilled at quickly getting the trailers on and off the boat, while road drivers would take a lot more time with these manouvers.
Symfony seems to be going strong still other than this issue.

Laravel is the other big MVC framework for PHP.
Got nothing to do with myself. I self-hate myself for lots of other reasons than having grown up in a particular place, as does anyone with a modicum of self awareness.

There's a lot of things I love about Alabama. Even the state government occasionally gets things right, like universal pre-K. But they have a long way to go.
Veganism is not about suffering (if it were about suffering, suffering-free animal consumption would be acceptable, and it is not) , it is about a rejection of the commodification and exploitation of nonhuman species. Fake meats partake in that commodification, albeit as an imitation.
This sounds a lot better than the Single Responsibility Principle that is often quoted and IMHO often misunderstood.
I've done this in Portugal, but on a smaller scale and pretty much with only my own labor. I purchased 6 hectares (15 acres) for mid-5-figures.

I've built an A-frame studio house for around €10k (excl tools), and installed a 5kw solar system for about another €10k. The house has air conditioning and underfloor heating (water-based, heated using wood from the land).

I've also brought a 50-year-old tractor and started a rural ISP.

AMA, I guess?

House: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sx8hj9s4u7n6ef9/My%20house.jpg?dl=...

ISP: https://gardunha.net/en/

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Just to add some thoughts that the questions below prompted.

I've realised that I really enjoy infrastructure projects. I get to be sat in my little house and phone up huge telecommunication companies and ask for things. Our provider lit up 250km of fibre to our local single-track train station. I get to do lots of stuff where I think, "errr.... am I allowed to do this?", and I love it.

The large providers are skeptical at first, but once they realise you are registered with the national telecoms regulator they realise that you're actually serious and get onboard. They were bemused, but they went with it. I think they actually found it nice to work with a mom-and-pop organisation for a change.
Colin and I have both spent a very long time doing this kind of work. I promise, I'm factoring in the hustle premium when I say that he's significantly under-bidding the market.
My understanding is that all that technology can slow the influence of the existing damage of climate change, not solve it. This is partially because climate change is an ongoing phemomenon that 1) has already happened; 2) is currently happening; 3) will continue to happen. In order to "solve" climate change one would have to go back in time.
I'm just laughing at a flat roof in Pemberton... It's a pretty ridiculous house.
Well, whether the SC2 bots are "good" depends on how you squint at the problem.

The framework being used was developed for Google DeepMind's AlphaStar, which is a learning AI approach although obviously very different from their approach to chess.

But today the framework is used by rules-based bots largely competing against each other. This means unlike AlphaStar, which set out specifically with a human-like approach to beat excellent human players, the amateur bots are entirely focused on winning versus other bots by any means necessary. The most successful tend to have sprawling multi-theatre conflict as their end game, maximum army size, and a half dozen or more different small skirmishes happening at once, hard for the human observer to be sure who is better until suddenly there's a decisive outcome. That wouldn't be compatible with AlphaStar's mission at all, obviously human players can't fight these battles with success.

Their most obvious defect is they don't resign. A competent human player resigns hopeless positions in SC2 knowing quickly that they have lost, but most bots will stay in the game until destroyed which would be very rude for a human. They can be indecisive, attacking then pulling back, then attacking again in seconds, and they are much more easily thrown off by unexpected situations than a human - but overall they're a match for a good human player unless that player has prepared specifically to exploit a known weakness of a particular bot. (e.g. there are bots that do not understand why an enemy Nydus Worm in your base can't be allowed to complete... since that basically never happens)
> Board games are easier to understand the whole system from early design docs

That doesn't make them any more reliable. Check the disaster it was the crowdfunding of "HeroQuest 25 anniversary".
Also cargo rail is supposedly not a prevalent in the EU as it is in the US. (Vice versa for passenger rail.)
I feel like that logic could be used to excuse every historical term with baggage.

Plus, it's not really stirring up controversy saying "hey, we should probably change the term to ~this~, which is equally or more descriptive, in a way that doesn't rely on historically problematic contexts". I think what you're focusing on is chiding people who still use the older terms; I've never seen that happen. I've seen people mix terminologies when discussing something, and oftentimes that has led to the person using the outdated instead using the updated, possibly with a conversation in between, but I've not seen someone call out "how DARE you use (technically-correct-but-outdated-term)!"

That said, I've also never seen anyone dispense with the word 'master' -except- in contexts where it is used to differentiate from 'slaves'. The parent post also only references in that context (though the great-grandparent calls both out separately, though one right after the other, which is likely what is muddling things).
So... what would you have those people do instead? Agree that we should restrict freedom of speech, for fear that if they disagree we'll... lose freedom of speech?
I won't argue whether it's accurate, but I think you missed the point. You can swap words around, and get the same for any demographic.

The friend's perception of the poster would be "HEY IT'S ME your facebook friend from high school who went to New York and thinks is better than you. Anyway, here's a woke article."
Let me tell you about how my great grandmother traveled from Germany in the 1930s in a mail carrier to bring this cookie recipe to the new world.
> I want to opt out. I've never used a chargeback in my entire life

Why don't you just use no-fee debit cards then? Or a bank that offers no-fee credit cards? Pay it off on time and you won't have to worry about contributing to their profits.
I went to jail in 2013, not long after I donated to the Kickstarter. I recently got out - hoping an old game like Star Citizen would still be playable. Found out it wasn't even released yet o_O.
If you are using an up to date version of Firefox, Edge or Chrome it defaults to Lax. The exceptions are Safari, IE and Safari for IOS. I don't think this is worth a 8.1 CVSS.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Se...
Kind of different in germany. I work as a dev team lead for a company that develops billing software for the german energy sector. Its super regulated by the government. For example, depending on the year you got your soloar, the amount of money you get for your energy you bring back into the grid, is different. All has its pros and cons tho
Some things on HN seem to have become more polarizing over the years I've been browsing this forum. Some examples include blockchain (and all related technologies) and anything related to Elon Musk. Both are tech-related, so frequently appear, but the conversation around both has become more polarizing, and I think we see that on HN.

In most threads involving those topics you find skeptics arguing with proponents. In general, this discussion is what we want on HN, however, due to the polarization, it comes off as more angry/intolerant/reductionist/etc.

That's my 2c.
Yard tractors or terminal tractors. Sometimes called "yard dogs"