skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is its biggest backer and you can find more at https://jibe.google.com, along with the usual Internet searches.
It's playable, but it's nowhere close to being a complete game. It seems like most of the value people get out of it at this point is fucking around with its half-broken systems.
> Nope, that's not a real choice. I also can't move very quickly.

That sounds like a personal issue, and not a VR problem.

> Running in VR is not advisable, but walking in video games sucks.

There's obviously not enough space to run, but that's not to say that you can't move quickly within your designated physical space. It's not like you can't run in place, or buy a movement rig either.

> Go to a VR warehouse and watch people play with a warehouse scale game with no physical limitations. They still just kind of walk around slowly.

1. Those games usually have 1st time players or players not familiar with the levels. Of course, they're going to move with caution.

2. Run & gun doesn't work in reality. In real life, you can't effectively shoot while running or moving fast.

3. Contrary to your personal experience, people do run in those games when they have familiarity with everything.

> I already got the standing still experience with the wii. But I'm not going to trick myself into believing that its substantially different than what we had before.

I can't help to think that this is just disingenuous. 6DOF VR is no where near comparable to Wii games. With Wii, it doesn't track your position so you can play everything sitting on a couch; the amount of movement needed isn't as drastic. It also doesn't fully envelop you visually. This is just a really bad argument. Beat Saber and other VR "single room" games like ping pong still count for movement.

> It's more like someone trying to convince you that video games are completely different with vibration, when in fact, they're more of a nice touch.

That's a bad analogy to VR because vibration is no where near as immersive, which is why I mentioned sound in mine.

This is going no where. We'll just agree that we're probably never going to reach consensus. imo the issue is that for unknown reasons, that are likely personal, you have problems with moving your body which is the real underlying reason for your issues with VR.
It's quite neat, but I think that a major downside with this approach would be the extra memory consumption from including BASIC in the DOS. The demo uses 34kB (out of e.g. 64kB) for the OS.

Not sure how that compares with PC-DOS 1.0, but it seems high.
> It starts to become clear that what I want my web discovery tool to do is less find individual pieces of good content but more find content from good creators.

Bingo. What's interesting about this is that while maintaining a list of all useful content on the web is probably intractable, maintaining a list of all useful content producers might be doable.

You could have moderators for each niche, and as the list of producers for a given niche grows, it could split into sub-niches which would get their own moderators responsible for keeping track of quality content producers.

Sort of like an awesome list for content producers.

I'm certain this already exists in some form. The original web was build around curated content like this. But people aren't used to looking for content this way.

EDIT:

Saw dmoz.org mentioned below which sounds like exactly what I'm talking about. Apparently they're called web directories[0]. Sadly DMOZ is dead but appears to have a community fork called curlie[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_directory

[1]: https://curlie.org/
Google certainly does a lot of security in house.
Well, there are a couple components to that:

- Because of my focus in particular industries, I tend to start projects already having a baseline of understanding of what my customers need.

- You can write a fixed price contract that leaves room for a customer to change their mind / not know what they want. If you articulate very clearly in the SOW what you will deliver for the fixed price, then you leave yourself open to issue change orders as the scope evolves. Of course, you need to be careful how militant you are here, because issuing a change order for every minor thing won't help you get repeat business. To hedge against this, I tend to include a bucket of hours for arbitrary changes. This gives the customer some room to change their mind still without allowing them to derive and negotiate against an hourly rate.

- In my experience, fixed price allows me to 2x or more the hourly rate I would otherwise be able to charge, so if I do a bad job at writing an SOW then I have a lot of breathing room between what I'm getting paid and what I likely would have gotten paid had I billed hourly.

RE: Pandemic: I don't develop the work product on customer sites, so I'm only really there for meetings (so a lot during discovery and a lot during delivery). I've found that it's been pretty easy to migrate this to Zoom/Meet albeit with a bit more friction. It's a lot more difficult doing discovery remotely, but I find running workshops in Miro has been invaluable to ensure I'm capturing everybody's voice.
Likely from this SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/482129
Seeing chess bots play as fast as possible isn't all that interesting - play gets better the longer they have to think and the more resources they have to use. They could potentially do what you're suggesting, but unless they buy a bunch of new/better hardware the play would be worse because the engines would get less real time to calculate their positions, which defeats the point. And even if they did get better hardware, they could keep doing what they're currently doing and get better games due to the increased hardware.

Basically, you're asking why they're not playing blitz instead of classical - it's just fundamentally a different format.
Don't forget the embodied energy of the overbuilt solar system!
A Teenager Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet on Twitter. Then Came the Direct Message
There are two environmental costs to this setup.

The first is that if he weren't frivolously moving electrons through his heater, there would be more to feed to the grid for other people. So there is an opportunity cost of reducing CO2-generating energy production elsewhere.

The second is that he installed a much bigger array than optimal, due to regulatory requirements, and that too has up-front environmental consequence. Since he's burning off that excess electricity rather than feeding it to the grid, there's really no redeeming value to an array that's too big.
Master is used in many context like master key, mastering a song, master copy, having mastery in something.

To stir up controversy because one interpretation is "problematic" just emphasizes that interpretation and reminds everybody that they're not suffering from enough guilt about past events they had no personal involvement in.
I recommend unix ed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)
I think I paid $80 in the original kickstarter. I've spent maybe a total of two hours playing the game, but the entertainment I've got out of the development has been well worth the money.
Target open sources scanner for digital credit card skimmers
That's probably what makes me uncomfortable with these mandated word changes.

I could argue the linguistics, and the racial connotations never occoured to me then and don't convince me now. But what really makes me uncomfortable is the feeling that I'm surrendering part of my soul to some larger conscience that could turn on me at a whim.
I don't know who told you this but I own a 100% off-the-grid property in Mono County that has solar and battery banks (and a generator).
After 2 years of work, we launch our open-source React, Next.js e-com storefront
I hope the even younger people reverse this trend of treating online as different. They have grown up with social media, and know that digital communication has a real life impact. I could imagine them growing up with healthier norms about on-line behavior than my generation.
The reason they accept PDF is not because of the difficulty in getting tex files to compile on different distributions that I mentioned. Indeed, as they say on the page you link to, PDF files created from a tex file are specifically rejected by the arXiv.

Rather, PDF files are accepted for the (fairly small minority) of papers that are written using alternative editors like MS Word.
Zachtronics has a lot of good games in this area. I haven't played this one, but Shenzhen I/O might scratch this itch too: https://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/
Making WhatsApp into a payments app is going to lead to the most difficult content moderation problems ever known. Everything from content by casual OF performers to extremely illegal and damaging content would be on that platform if it was easy to make payments and still fairly easy to send pictures and video privately.
he said non streaming.
Object pooling without GC has the same use-after-free problem as with it.
Well, not right now in the dead of winter, no.
I read /new and /comments first. I also search to see if there’s anything new in topics I’m interested in.
Lake Kivu
It really should be applauded, you own this thing and can fully control it, but that means you can do things with it we can’t save you from and will refuse to even try.

No need for a “security” team to lock away access from you, a very stern warning will do.
How the video game industry is reducing its impact on climate change
That is genuinely one of our dilemmas. The product makes enough to spend an extra 20x on machines (and it scales horizontally). So does the impact to developer productivity of Rust offset the 20x cost savings? New features mean new $$$, and more than enough to offset the extra runtime cost of Java.

Personally, I'm now doing hobby projects in Rust because it just feels right. But I've done entire systems in assembly, so I am a bit of a control freak. YMMV.
Aquaponics is pretty cool. I've always wanted to do something like this on my own but it's so freaking expensive.
I think that, as the site grows bigger, it becomes more worthwhile to post here with an agenda, because you can influence more people. So as a large-scale trend, posts went from more thoughtful and having-a-discussion to more dogmatic and oratorical.
Criticizing Israel is a big no-no when it comes to certain issues, but I’m not sure it’s the case here. In this case they seem to be an easy foil to place the blame upon, when other governments are either doing the same thing or are collaborating with Israel to export the development.
Its interesting to me how the customer service mindset between Elon's companies and a company like Amazon is so opposite.

Amazon has a almost militant drive to optimize customer experience, will take anything back, will do just about anything to please their customers. They state so.

Tesla, Space X in the form if starlink, solar city all seem to have pretty piss poor customer service and experience. They get away with things you'd never tolerate from your local grocery store, car dealership or ISP. But we hold them up on a pedestal and say it's a necessary evil, part of the process. Why do they need to hold onto millions of dollars in pre-order fees from average people when they have so much investment from the rich that they could use for that purpose. It's because he isn't selling products anymore. He doesn't make his money when the product ships, he makes it when he announces a new vaporware product, collects pre-orders and stock benefits from the hype and press, and then never delivers on the actual product. Its no matter to him, by that time he has already made his money and cashed out.

The only difference between Theranos and Elon's ventures is that his ventures hot the bottom 25% of the goals and timeline so its not a total lie. At the same time, it's also not totally honest.
Instead of HN lawyers, there was actual a real case with a real judge that said otherwise.
The customization process becomes part of the UX though. That doesn't automatically make it good.
VR Poker is a HUGE upgrade from online poker on the web or an app because a poker game is a social experience that benefits from the sense of presence you can get with VR. Chess, not so much.
This is what the article should have been:

> Maximum length of a truck with a semi-trailer in Europe is 18.75 meters. Some countries have some exceptions, but generally that is the rule. In order to use the maximum of this length for the cargo the tractor unit has to be as short as possible. The best way to achieve that is to mount the cabin over the engine.

That's it. Headline with a question and that one paragraph. This article to me is an example of why articles on the modern web are bad. All the rest is there to keep you on the page longer and get better SEO.
Ask HN: How did dark mode win?
In the past 2-3 years basically every major, modern piece of software I use has added dark mode. Everything from macOS to the Google Maps app has added a dark mode, and many websites have a toggle as well. GitHub has added like 3 different dark modes!

If you've ever worked on a mobile app or website before you know that going from one theme (light mode) to two themes (light / dark) is a huge task. You have to make all the colors in your app super generic. And it's even harder than that, because you can't just switch colors one-for-one. In a well-designed dark mode you have to rethink a lot of UI concepts (mostly around light, shadow, and contrast) in order to make things look nice.

I am not opposed to dark mode at all, I think it often looks nice, but as someone who has spent some time in big companies I am really shocked at the level of engineering resources that have been spent on this relatively frivolous feature. Most engineering teams have a huge backlog of features/bugs to fix. Dark mode has somehow made the top of the stack.

So I'm asking HN. Have you worked on a major app that added dark mode? Who within your organization pushed to prioritize it? How much time did it take and was it harder/easier than you expected?
Reviews of the physical quality of the book are much more useful to me than reviews of the content, by the time I'm looking at it on Amazon. A poorly printed book should get a 1-star review. Packaging or mis-handling, I could even see factoring in (like half the new books I've received from Amazon have had some amount of damage on them, such that I'd definitely have selected a different copy if I'd bought it in a real store). Rude delivery person, maybe not.

The only thing that sucks about it is that Amazon seems to mix around reviews of "the same" book (different printings, possibly even slightly different content since some may be expanded, have different forwards, et c.), plus sometimes ship different products with the same product page, so you can't be sure whether the review that says the binding fell apart or the paper felt crappy was for the same product you'll receive if you press "buy now".

Which would be why I basically only buy books on Amazon if someone gives me a gift card (still safer than buying electronics there). Their product pages at best suggest what you might receive. I continue to be confused at how the shit they pull doesn't put them on the wrong side of several laws.
The only reason that sounds bad is because fuel is under-taxed. Gas should be at least $9/gallon.
But 200A in EU is roughly 44-50 kW, a common contract for a flat (here in Italy) is 3 kW, if you have a heat pump and/or conditioner it goes to 4.5 or 9 kW.

I have seen (largish) villas with 20 or 25 kW, but everything more than that - like 100 A or so - is definitely beyond common use.
Yes.

In factory built home parlance, generally, a 'mobile' home is built to HUD building codes (which are the same nationwide) and is not considered a permanent residence - often time it stays on wheels even when put in place, and can theoretically be moved at a later date (although they rarely ever are). These are also sometimes referred to as 'trailer houses'. They used to be built very cheaply and were a depreciating asset (think like a car or an RV), but there are higher quality options these days.

A 'modular home' will be built to spec to the local building codes wherever it is being placed (which is usually IRC + whatever peculiarities local government officials have tacked on). They are placed on a permanent foundation, cannot be moved, and are generally treated as equivalent to a site-built home once finished. Again, you can spend a little or a lot on these, some factories will do fully custom designs that would be completely indistinguishable from a high-end site-built home once finished.

Many factories will build either variety, some specialize on one over the other. In rural, higher cost of living areas both varieties are often quite a bit cheaper than a site-built home, both because of the efficiencies and economies of scale a factory can provide, and also because they can be built in an area with lower labor costs and shipped to your land.

In populated, growing urban areas, the cost benefit diminishes a bit because production builders can approximate the benefits a factory has by building 100s of homes in the same neighborhood at the same time.

edit to add: My information pertains to the US, the article references land in Canada. I don't know as much about factory built homes or building codes in Canada.
It's this, but it's also more direct and indirect regulation.

For example:

Natural gas compressors now need to be electrically powered instead of NG powered. Added cost, but doesn't reduce total gas burned.

Oil companies are forced to do things like build equipment that captures 100% of vented gasses (instead of burning them off), even when the embedded cost of manufacturing said equipment exceeds any gains. Ie, it creates more emissions than it will ever capture. But still raises the price of oil.

Some of the Texas power plants last year could only generate at the power levels that maximized efficiency (or minimized certain emissions) instead of at maximum output. Asking for an emergency authorization to produce at 100% was granted by the feds, but only at a minimum market price of $1500/MW. (Typically ~$30, with normal extremes ranging from maybe $20-150.)

CAFE standards are essentially quotas that increase the cost of regular ice vehicles in order to subsidize green, hybrid, and electric vehicles.

And perhaps the most direct influence on oil prices is preventing auctions for new federal mineral leases, limiting exploration and extraction of o&g offshore and on federal lands.
"DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED" is a running joke at Facebook, used when soft-deprecating a field or method where you can't immediately get rid of all users. Sometimes it migrates into open source products.

It's iconic enough that Facebook HQ has a conference room by that name.
It seems intentional. Possibly in order to continue the collection of money from people thinking they need people to keep investing. As soon as they release an actual game and development can come to an end then they can't profit much its continued dependance on investment money.
Why Deepfakes Cannot Currently Convey Subtlety of Emotion
Yup. But like you said many respiratory viruses do that. Does that make the flu virus many of us catch every year novel? How about the common cold? Is each specific virus also novel?

Why did we decide to throw out everything we knew about viruses for SARS-CoV-2? It's like society discovered "OMG I could catch a virus and die!". Not realizing that virtually nothing was new about SARS-CoV-2. It's just a respiratory virus like any other we've had passed through millions of generations of living beings. Oddly enough the "broader human species" managed to survive and thrive through all of them.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60241145
MATTHEW CHEN (SOFTWARE DEVELOPER) $585,320

MOXIE MARLINSPIKE (DIRECTOR/CEO OF SIGNAL MESSENGER) $575,275

SCOTT NONNENBERG (SOFTWARE DEVELOPER) $523,376

JOSH LUND (SOFTWARE DEVELOPER) $522,412

TREVOR PERRIN (SOFTWARE DEVELOPER) $514,986

MICHAEL KIRK (SOFTWARE DEVELOPER) $504,466

ARUNA HARDER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER) $315,733

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Holy moly, more than half a million bucks each except for the COO.
> They literally mentioned nothing about societal issues

I guess you missed the phrase "extensive societal advantages" in OP's comment.
Canada promised to do that and the proposal was still wildly unpopular and abandoned. If you've build your life around no carbon tax (e.g. you live far from work and need to drive) you will personally suffer from such a change and will vocally lobby against the change. We end up with things like the Yellow Vest movement in France or the political instability that happens when any government tries to reduce fuel subsidies. It seems that voters are more sensitive to the price of gas than any other issue and any political party that causes the price of gas to go up gets voted out of office. Paul Krugman wrote a post recently showing that US consumers' inflation expectation exactly tracks the price of gas. I've concluded that any consumer impacting carbon tax cannot work in a democratic system. We need subsidies (both explicit and hidden) to reduce our carbon emissions.
Amazon is working on this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/26/why-amazo...
I have noticed a couple of things lately about Hacker News that go to mood.

1. There seem to be more political topics appearing, for example around handling of COVID or effects of social networks on society. The best comments on these topics ferret out a priori assumptions or find real data to illuminate tradeoffs. But they tend to be drowned out by more shallow comments. I think that's in part because these issues are hard to discuss in a dispassionate way and most of us are simply not very good at it. I'm firmly in this camp, unfortunately.

2. HN commentary seems more predictable than it did a few years ago. For example, you post something about how a big company has changed licensing of software you'll likely get a fairly predictable (and long) discussion about the evils of capitalism. I don't think this is a real change. Some HN readers have a more binary view of the world than others and it has always been this way. I think I just notice it more.

I still think HN has some of the best commentary available on the web. For all the silly arguments we have (and that I have contributed to eagerly), you still get those gems where somebody who truly understands an issue deeply weighs in and tells it like it is. They have helped me understand countless articles that I would never have understood on my own. I love those comments and hope they never go away.
I had a heated discussion with a friend in 2013 about StarCitizen and that it was a scam. They believed it was real and that their early investments would pay off. They bought stuff multiple times and were very mad that I would insult what would be such an awesome game.

It was so curious to me back then. I need to ask them about this as I can’t believe people still pay any attention to this as I think it will never happen.
>US Americans

This is a side note, does this bother anybody else? I'm at least a teensy bit bothered by it. I know the point is to reduce ambiguity between the U.S.A and Latin/North/Central/South America, but it still feels a bit condescending, like we're not even allowed to have a unique name anymore or even have a say in we should call ourselves/be called in our native language (and it doesn't help that the only time I hear "US Americans" is when someone is talking shit about us). There's only one country on the continent with the word America in its name. I'm curious if I'm the only one who feels this way or if I'm overthinking it.
There are a lot of dimensions changing here, so it's hard to figure out if it's the audience, the content, the comments, the environment in which HN exists or you. Probably some of each but tough to determine which is the first-order cause.