skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's so much better than the 1m for 14 hrs/day I get here at home.
HN for example. I find this community conforms to my own notions of informative, open, and smoothly moderated.
I really don't get why we haven't figured out how to do controlled burns properly, lots of indigenous cultures had been doing it successfully for at least hundreds of years. And they did it all without fancy technology. I think it might just come down to the arrogance of trying to exert control over a forest rather than work symbiotically with natural processes.

I never thought about the liability angle, hopefully legislation can address that to make controlled burns more viable.
Security Ratchet
It's mostly just a shitty version of VRChat with people you don't like.
Not to say tech doesn't pay fantastically well but it's seen as a trade within law/banking/media circles, especially by the older crowds. It's definitely not in the same category.

In regards to FAANG, it will help but it's way more fluid than some law firms that only hire Ivy League.
Kavka's Toxin Puzzle
I remember reading a similar deep-dive on the rowscroll trick used in SF2's floor, but I can't seem to dig it up with Google anymore.

It's not an extremely complicated effect, but it's certainly one of the most notable early uses of the trick and very well thought-out.
That's a more interesting article, so I've changed the URL above from https://cloudflare.net/news/news-details/2022/Cloudflare-to-.... Thanks!
I disagree. I'm not trying to be inflammatory but it seems like your statement is similar to saying "rape is so harmful specifically because of our society's attitudes to sex". Yeah, social stigma can make the consequences of rape a lot worse, but that's not at all the only reason why rape is bad. I think the same logic applies to involuntary porn.

Among other things, involuntary porn is a massive violation of privacy. Maybe some individuals don't feel that this area needs to be private, but what matters is whether the _victim_ wants it to be private. If your solution is "the victims shouldn't make such a big deal of this", that's wishful thinking not a solution.
First, congrats on all the progress you've made. I've been part of your mailing list and watching from the sidelines for a while. I really do hope you succeed, and i love the idea, i just don't have the spare cash to pre-order.

> At a high level, SimulaOS is going to be NixOS + our VR window manager.

I don't know all the technical details about Nix and the various VR development SDK/tools available, but when i see something like "it'll use NixOS" when i know NixOS is very opinionated and unique in how one uses it and develops for it, i immediately assume that it is 100% is some engineer on the team's tech pet project technology, and not necessarily the best tool for the job.

Is there any reason to use it over eg. Debian/Ubuntu/etc that has a lot more use and people are more familiar with tweaking and developing for it?
Here's the RCTA report where they reproduced those conditions and showed they were feasible: https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In...

The way you test this stuff is get a rad-alt and inject known amounts of RF and see how much is needed to give false readings. Then you go and measure how much RF you'll see in the environment and see if it exceeds those levels.

Here's a choice quote from the summary: "In the worst case, the safe interference limit for the fundamental emissions is exceeded by over 47 dB, and the safe interference limit for the spurious emissions is exceeded by over 27 dB."
Vaccination Side Effects Totally Underestimated
I seem to have violated the community guidelines. Apologies...
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/database-count-limit...

Says MySQL has no limit on the number of databases, although InnoDB has a limit of 4 billion tables. If you run into that, I guess use a couple servers.

If there's no connection between tenants, you have lots of options. I don't remember if you can easily do replication of individual databases, but even if not, you can replicate the whole thing and then drop databases as needed to separate tenants. You could also run one mysqld process per tenant and move it to a separate machine if needed.
I don't know, and the information's hard to come by --- I'm not finding a ready answer via search. There might be information from E-ink themselves (the display vendor), though they're also pretty tight-lipped.

It's battery powered. Consumption depends on usage patterns.

The battery on the Max Lumi 2 is 4300 mAh. Under my typical usage which includes much Web browsing, use of frontlights, and WiFi, 1--2 day battery life is typical. Optimized for e-book reading only (no radios or lights, periodic page turns), up to a week. If you're just looking at a static image ... forever.

Running as an active display, I'd expect battery usage to the lower end of the range and for the display interface itself (HDMI) to account for a good chunk of that, though this is pretty uninformed speculation.

Specs: https://onyxboox.com/boox_maxlumi2

Cutting out the middleman, if you're looking at e-ink monitors, there are the Mira and Mira Pro:

https://onyxboox.com/boox_mira

https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro

Again, neither offer a specific power consumption rating.

The Mira is effectively the Max Lumi display in a monitor package. No power draw spec that I see though it's drawn over USB-C.

The Mira Pro is a 25.3" E Ink Carta display with a lower dot pitch (145 dpi) at 3200x1800.16 bit greyscale.

I'd suspect that the major draw would be in the HDMI interface itself, as well as whatever the update frequency was.

With e-ink itself, persistence is free, colours are few, paints are expensive. Pagination or cell updates (e.g., text terminals) probably fare better than raster graphics. Running additional processing (e.g., Web rendering, audiobook processing, frontlights, WiFi, Bluetooth) cut into battery life, though it remains excellent.
I think one of the key flourishes of the game has to do with intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. The game never presents a locked door where there is some key elsewhere, and the key goes into your inventory, and now you can open the door. At all times, all doors are openable. But you may not know the rules to the puzzle on the door yet. Once you learn them, the 'key' is knowledge and the 'inventory' is your mind.

If you're keen to this then you will find it surprising how few games work this way.
I would guess that YC founders typically come from a far more 'elite' subset of four-year colleges than the top 25%.
Honestly this post is like complaining my new car only has manual windows.

Everything else with Unity is pretty easy. I hate Blueprints or any visual scripting. In the long term Blueprints don't build any real skills, and I learned to program with Unity.
For electric bikes, that also require the user to pedal to get propulsion, the limit is 25km/h.
Wilderness Land
To further muddle it, though, those were very much a set of good/better/best machines! (Or arguably "bleh/good/best" re: that 6100.)

At the time, I saaw Cold Fusion as an aspirational codename for the best of the first-gen PowerPC boxes.

Sagan's inclusion is still weird, though, as the others are things, not people.
I got the gearbox used on eBay for about 100€. There are plenty of them available.
I think there’s a few newer factors at play over the last year or two in addition to the usual problems (anecdotal of course).

* Unless incredibly niche, subreddits reach that poor quality threshold so fast now.

* Marketing firms have learned how to use reddit with a huge amount of thinly veiled advertising, SEO Spam, Karma farming and bot presence.

* Discord, slack hacker news etc. seem to have eaten away at some topics, programming community engagement for example feels like it’s dropped off a cliff.
> Why do we even need 5G

Everyone complains about the lack of choice and competition and quality among internet service providers (ISPs.) 5G is fast enough that you can use it to replace your wired internet, just as cell phones displaced "land lines" over the past two decades. 5G, and hopefully Starlink, will be ISP game changers.
How is this different than including any other group who by their nature rejects others not in their group? Is the Nazi thing just to shut down any further contemplation?
I wouldn't be surprised that the reason the Netflix app is so much smaller is because the app is Netflix's core business, and UA's app is an afterthought.

(If the Netflix app is too big to fit on the phone, Netflix loses a customer.)
I love Carl Sagan but come on.

The internal codename for a project is not something to get worked up about. It was probably intended as a sort of tribute by whoever called it that.
Roads are already full of zero-person-one-car traffic, too. It's called on street parking
Everyone on Reddit is a bot except you.
Except it wasn't 10 years for the US' C-band, and for all the world outside of USA there was bidirectional cooperation.

If we keep to the stadium metaphor and you want to use radar altimeter as the stadium... 5G is someone deciding to build a house after it's been known for decades that the stadium is there then deciding to complain about noise.

The radar altimeters are not the ones leaking, and no corners have been cut in fact. It's effectively "spec was changed without coordination, and now we have to do extra tests to verify that it's safe"
Open Peeps
You're not. If anyone is first it is me. I made some toast first thing this morning.
This was common for the anathemas written at the time, it would list all the positions, and then at the end say “anyone who holds these let him be anathema” - basically a “not” applied to all of them.

So if you read one out of context it’s confusing.
> If your solution is "the victims shouldn't make such a big deal of this", that's wishful thinking not a solution.

That’s a really twisted interpretation of what I wrote.

Rather, I believe that we should strongly condemn those who further victimize these people by voicing their puritanical views in any form.
> When it comes to radar, they cannot increase the TX power and have to detect a lower RX power.

other radar altimeters tolerate this just fine - it is a few specific models that have problems with rejecting signals that (according to design specifications) they should easily be able to reject.

> It’s like saying you should never be able to hear a whisper from your neighbours house

if local code says that a house should have noise insulation sufficient that a 100db noise source located at 30 meters away should produce no more than X noise level inside the house, and a 100db noise source at 60 meters away (twice the original specification) is still significantly greater than X - then yes, your house fails to meet code. It's defective.

nobody is blind to the problem of radio interference. Design specs for what level of noise needed to be tolerated were standardized in the 70s. That spec hasn't been reduced, actually it has been relaxed to over twice the original guardband specification, and certain altimeters still fail. They're defective, end of story.

Replace them with the models of radar altimeters which meet the original spec, done. They exist, it's not a universal problem, it's a few specific defective models of radar altimeters. Boeing just doesn't want to ground their fleet again, and the FAA is humoring them because of regulatory capture.
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Michelangelo, Venture Capital, and Permanence
Goopt is an experiment in what the "procedural web" could be. This new web will use procedural content generation to create varied content, completely synthetic, since these are generated by algorithms and artificial intelligence. For now, the content is only text that is being generated automatically with GPT-3, the recent OpenAI model.
Goopt works as if it were a search engine, allowing us to search for any term, obtain related results and access their content. Simulating in this way the experience of browsing the web.

I started working on this because I think the idea of the procedural web is interesting, I think this technology will come in the future maybe not too far away, so we have to start thinking about the possibilities, problems, dilemmas, paradoxes. Well, I think this is a big change, which has a direct impact on the information we consume and how we do it, the online experience, it could even shape our behavior as it is our information, reference, entertainment system, etc. We must be ready for a change of this size, so I invite you to give life to this topic and put it up for discussion.

What is Procedural Web?

This is a term that has not yet been treated as such, so I have tried to give my vision on the matter. The procedural web will be the future of the web. It will offer us infinite content, since it will not be necessary that someone has written or created it before. All the content will be synthetic and generated at the moment, with infinite possibilities. From informative text, articles, images, videos, to games, applications and services with interfaces and functionality that are automatically generated. All this adapted to our queries and needs, and increasingly personalized to our preferences.

Web 4.0 could be the propitious evolution for the procedural web. The automation that this new version of the web poses about applications, services, interfaces, APIs, devices and others, could be exploited by connecting them with the procedural web. These reality data interfaces would help empower and enhance their generative capabilities, as well as connect their functionality to the real world, having services and devices on which to execute actions. This makes the procedural web even more interesting, because it endows it with cybernetic capabilities.

The procedural web is based on natural language processing (NLP) and procedural content generation (PCG). Advances in these fields, as well as in the field of computational creativity, will allow us to generate increasingly better synthetic multimedia, thus nurturing the procedural web with more and better content. It will be interesting to see if this content comes to satisfy us more than the traditional web and human creation. Maybe one day we won't ever be able to distinguish.

Demo video and usage guide in the GitHub repository:

https://github.com/jokenox/Goopt
The fact that they feel this is necessary is a matter of Apple not understanding the needs of the people who sell their products.
The bike itself doesn't look cheap.
https://bellard.org/tinyemu

Looks fine to me.
Ahh, Golang UI stuff... now that is a dark alleyway!

But I think Java comes from something rather older, designed for interactive television, way back before anyone outside CERN had really seen a web browser. In that way the JavaStation is philosophically much closer to the roots of Java than the Java applet.
Try https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/set/set
Agreed. And while I doubt this is what the author of the comment actually had in mind, I think it is important to notice that porn, by large extent, takes advantage of women, and so it’s women who naturally have bigger issue with it than man. And I assume the CEO who sent the apologetic letter was a man. In other words, the author inadvertently exemplifies how sexist IT can still be.
Personally I'd like it a lot. I think applications half of the screen can make sense. It'd be great to use to place things off screen that I may not need to use actively like Chrome devtools.

Accessibility is an issue though. If i could three finger scroll context horizontally that would be nice.
Revenge porn often has devastating impact on the emotional health of its victims[1], with half reportedly considering suicide. But it is not strictly an "emotional crime", since publication loops in many people beyond the victim and the perpetrator — there are frequently reputational, professional, and economic consequences for the victim as others become aware of the published materials.

There is a huge variety of potential problems which require the attention of legislators, law enforcement, and the courts, and priorities change all the time. It's not as though the only recourse we have is to increase the system capacity.

[1] http://jaapl.org/content/44/3/359
why is your State DOT planning and executing projects in the city of Portland at all? Doesn't portland have its own planning department? The state DOT is car centric because they take care of all the highways and highway bridge structures in your state. Your city's transportation or public works section should be planning and executing public works for multimodal systems within the city.

Unless you have some kind of information to explain it, my bet is the Oregon DOT only provides grants for some related projects that the city of portland executes.
> 3-4 byte unicode characters will not work

That's a tad too simple
> I mean many TOS are unethical and/or shouldn't carry moral weight

Surely, some ToS are poorly written. Still, the owners of the service decided that those were the rules they want to play by. If they go against some law in a certain country, I'm sure a court would invalidate them in specific cases. Do you have reason to believe Youtube's ToS is unethical or shouldn't carry moral weight (specially the #2 paragraph I quoted)?

> But the majority of companies (web or otherwise) have excessive and dense TOS to which the average person cannot give informed consent to anyways.

YT's ToS seems pretty straightforward. Do you think the paragraph I quoted which talked about obstructing the service is written in excessive legalese? Was it unclear somehow?
Bank debtors are very downside oriented, and want to see a conservative track record of cash flow coming into a business before they are willing to go anywhere near it. (Not necessarily saying this is always bad).

Venture is a better fit for our project, but from the outside we look like we're way too niche to ever have a big market. Great VCs will know that small markets can turn into large markets[1], but we had a very hard time finding good investors in the past. We tried to raise money from traditional institutions and failed, and decided that the best way to proceed was to just focus on our product and carve our own path.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3V-toy-markets
I haven't gotten too far into this article, but I've long thought it would be a good idea if people had their "stuff" on devices they control, then they "subscribe" themselves into networks. You choose what's visible, and every other joiner of that network sees it as part of their "wall" (or whatever other display there might be).

[time passes]

And now that I've read it, yeah, this is getting closer. You could have an app you can write in, centralized in your stuff (Syncthing style, maybe), then everything that's tagged e.g. "work" is made available on what here is a Slack puller, but could be anything.
That seems like overthinking things. I've named things after myself (and also other people), and I'm neither a narcissist nor sociopath. It just sounded nice.
The Quest doesn't have a 2-3 hour battery life if you're doing anything past staring at the welcome lobby. A bit over an hour for most applications is standard. Source: I am VP Eng of ForeVR Games, we make games for the Quest
Is there a major market for your major scale? How much competition is there for that market?
perhaps the answer can be found in the 'motivation' section of the linked website.

"The base motivation was just simply that i wanted to have a
look into OpenGL and doing GPU accelerated things, i did not
plan to create a text editor from the get go.
After starting to experiment a bit i decided to call this a
small side Project and implement a proper editor."
Recently? I would say no.

IMO reddit reached peak dumb a few years back and has floated there since. I'd imagine this is its final resting place.
> It is illegal for an individual to knowingly use interactive computer services to display obscenity in a manner that makes it available to a minor less than 18 years of age (See 47 U.S.C. § 223(d) –Communications Decency Act of 1996, as amended by the PROTECT Act of 2003).

> The standard of what is harmful to minors may differ from the standard applied to adults. Harmful materials for minors include any communication consisting of nudity, sex or excretion that (i) appeals to the prurient interest of minors, (ii) is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable material for minors, (iii) and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-fede...
I mean, you chose to browse an instance that describes it self as "a censorship-free Youtube alternative". What did you expect? Browse https://joinpeertube.org/instances and for the "Sensitive videos" option, choose "Hide". Assuming you may be interested in tech/science, https://tube.tchncs.de/ is quite a popular instance.
Good luck eating digital goods.
Within covid lockdown, plenty of restaurants have moved their seating into the street parking spaces in seattle, and they seem to be doing fine
https://www-nordkurier-de.translate.goog/politik-und-wirtsch...
FreeDOS puts out first new version in six years
> Way back in 1984 I was writing a Ph.D. thesis... My fellow grad student Tony DeRose felt the same need, and together we sketched out a simple Lisp program that would handle this as a preprocessor.

This is how to fail to become an academic and instead become a computer programmer.
No. With money comes contracts and consent. The contract (offer and acceptance) creates evidence of intent. Then after things go horribly wrong and courts get involved, money is used to provide compenation for wrongs done. The system exists. It is an imperfect answer but it does function.
The torque is not adjusted I any way. I really designed it in a very simple way - you turn the throttle and adjust until you get the assistance you desire. The human brain is an excellent controller and after a while you stop thinking about it.
The average rural USPS route is 45 miles. Non-rural routes are closer to 20 miles. Low average speed (lots of stop and go) means they would likely beat what we are used to for EV energy usage per mile.

A 30kWh battery could probably handle most use cases even accounting for range loss in cold weather.

Edit: Also the USPS estimates the new gas-powered trucks will get ~8 miles per gallon with the A/C on, and ~14 miles per gallon with it off.

That would make your estimate closer to $16 per 300mi for the EV and $64-$112 per 300mi for the gas truck.
Because sex is intimate and personal. Today getting involuntarily filmed kissing is more harmful than involuntarily filmed playing golf, and kissing is socially acceptable in most western cultures.
Well you can just have different scrolling, eg hold the super key and scroll with the mouse or use four fingers at once on a trackpad. I feel like this is asking the question of whether the TAB key will indent or switch controls or switch to a different window or whatever when you have an ordinary wm.
Basically, we do not.
Hahaha we could all be bots here. Bip bip.
Some support for WMR headsets is available in https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD but without 6DoF / inside-out controller tracking so far.
Stealing a few more GitHub Actions secrets
> You wrote "Citation needed" on a topic about malware

Asking for a citation isn't itself denial

> How is that relevant to this discussion? Nobody even mentioned twitter.

The CEO of sourceforge is so desperate to say it doesn't contain malware that they butt into twitter threads to do unrequited PR.

> But they did make an attempt to improve it, here is how it looked when they bought it (some random project page):

Which is objectively more usable from a UX standpoint than it's current interface.