skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me in 2004 it was all the content that we had played in Warcraft 2 and 3 - that was now open to explore and laugh about with friends… it was a huge leap forward in experience like nothing before it
53% is pretty good! I believe Stanford and MIT have O/H over 100%
What is an "education plan" in the context of a grant proposal?
its actually really cool to see something my team and i pitched as a concept a couple years ago for a grad project now turning into reality with drones.
The later zones (of Vanilla Wow) were pretty boring and ugly, assumedly because they ran out of time to develop them further. They definitely put a lot of iteration into the earlier zones and it paid off.

Looking back, there just wasn't anything that looked like WoW, but a lot of that included the perspective of running around in a comparatively polished world with a ton of comparatively polished game systems, with friends. The first long flight I took from two major cities across most of a continent (that I was familiar with from experience with the IP) was absolutely nuts to me.
Did you mean the amazing article from SF2 Platinum author:

https://sf2platinum.wordpress.com/2020/10/15/row-scrolling-f...
85 grams of DNA contain around 8 * 10^22 base pairs, 2 bits per pair, so around 2 * 10^22 bytes. So you need about 75 bits to address all these bytes.

I do not know why Laremere chose 85.8 grams though as these are quite above the 64 bit limit, unless I got my multiplications wrong :P
If you spend a lot of time exploring any virtual world in your formative years, that world will stick in your memory.

World of Warcraft is only unique in how universal it was.
> these aircraft shouldn't be in the air at all with a radar altimeter that is so dangerously defective

A radio altimeter is not required equipment for flight, nor does lack thereof make for a dangerous aircraft.

It is required for certain approaches used during periods of poor visibility. The FAA has correctly published NOTAMs and ADs prohibiting those approaches.

There is no need to ground aircraft over this.
In my experience, no. I’ve only gotten pulled over when I was pretty much asking for it. When people say they get pulled over often, I usually find stuff out like they were doing +20 on a residential road. But this is in nicer parts of the country.
correction: Lepidoptera is correctly "scale-winged". What I get for relying on memory rather than checking the etymology for the name of a family I rarely study...
It is a dangerous belief that anything you publish can be 100% reliably unpublished, even if you use a centralized platform that grants you the button to do so. Information does not work that way.

However, a centralized near-monopoly grants itself certain power over the spread of information: if everyone uses it and it bans your video, the video may essentially be unknown—despite your intent. That is losing control, both for you personally and for us as a society: we lose control of our videos by using one big centralized platform, which lets it hide them from us.

An interpretation of PeerTube’s slogan could be that switching to it you take control of your videos by making them less liable to become hidden due to e.g. censorship—but also in that publishing something useful on it you by extension also bring viewers into the ecosystem and thus help society as a whole take that control back by reducing its dependency on a centralized source.
CompuServe (1989) [video]
here is the report
https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In...

which i have posted a bunch of times.

I am 40+ year experience in this area, I have run the calcs, the thing they are worried about is the phones on the plane, the phone would have to be less than 2 meters from the radar antenna and at full power to come even remotely close to the interference numbers they are talking about to give a false reading, and that would be without a lot of body loss.

The airlines want the telcos to pay them to swap out their old radar units, it is about money of course.
Thanks for following our progress. I think this is a good question.

Before getting into "reasons for NixOS", I just want to note that our headset is still an open-source Linux flavored project, which means that if you don't like our choices, you are free to install whatever Linux distro you want on it. =] You'll probably want to use Simula's window manager, but even here there will be other choices as well (xrdesktop, Stardust's display server, and so forth).

NixOS is definitely an opinionated distro, at least in terms of how it allows developers to configure a system. However, as builders, we view it as our job to make informed, opinionated choices on what the defaults are. (To be clear, not saying we can never be wrong or learn from these choices). Here are some reasons we chose NixOS as the basis for our VR distro:

1. *NixOS allows us to provide the best support to our users.* Simula itself (https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula) is built over nix build tools, and we have the most experience and comfort with that ecosystem. This means we are able to solve other people's issues much easier using our own familarity with the system if things go wrong.

2. *NixOS allows for system rollbacks if something goes wrong.* If either we or a user accidentally torches a headset, NixOS makes it so that all they have to do to get things running again is rollback to the most recently working configuration in the boot benu, and the problem is solved. This is particularly important for a beta/early adopter product like ours, and makes it more manageable for us to support things if things go wrong.

3. *NixOS allows us to iterate faster/release headset updates more quickly.* Using NixOS allows us to push frequent (and non-breaking) system updates much more easily than other distros, which is important for an early/iterative product like ours.

4. *Using Nix[OS] allows our software components to work on other distros.* Building all of our software components over nix allows us to support as many Linux distros as possible. This is important so that we can support, e.g., our Tethered headsets when users connect them to different Linux hosts. It also makes it easier for us to support users who change their Linux distro, but still use some Simula components (e.g., our VR window manager).

5. *A disproportionate number of existing Simula users run NixOS.* Despite NixOS being a "niche" distro, we've noticed a shocking number of people (at least in our Discord) run NixOS already, which makes us more comfortable with the choice.
This lines up well with my theory that most people know so little about the military that they think what motivates a person's decision to join must be support or desire for imperialism.

I joined after 9/11 and watching live on TV while fellow humans had to choose whether they wanted to die from leaping out the window or die from fire and smoke inhalations. I wanted to help make sure that something like that never happened to my friends again. The idea of colonizing a foreign land never entered my thoughts.
Thanks for this. I had never seen the Python library before, and I will probably use it now. I really liked being able to attach multiple databases and the SQL query format for supporting that.
Does emacs still have slow mode? I haven’t used it since the old TECO days but you could edit quite reasonably with a 150 baud line.

Of course back then you could also use emacs on a printing terminal, which surely won’t work any more.
Meridian 59 was the beginning of the MUD -> MMORPG transition as far as I can remember.

Any TDome players here?
since they removed the downvote counter, wasteland.
Would also be curious to know this. I had heard (anecdotally) that Ada is commonplace in aerospace tech.
I don't disagree, in part.

Those links shared weren't from the book, just a quick search to show that its not a totally fabricated scandal.

I will admit that there may be plenty of outrage, hyperbole, loose play with the facts in the book's AIDS chapters, but it does seem like a fact that (according to the book):

Children of color in the New York foster system were experimented on with a toxic drug often against there will with dubious or missing consent and consent was often granted via the foster system for children that had no parents or guardians.

That much is admitted outright and referenced in your links.

The book does take it further and cover things that don't have official documentation and includes testimony of people who worked at the facilities. Just because there is no official documentation doesn't mean we should discount the the word of the people who worked there.

Absolute Truth is indeed a tricky thing.
Interesting. Were the emergency powers in effect without the confirmation of the house and senate? Is confirmation required or is there only a power to veto.?
Well, the title is actually "Why we are acquiring Area 1".
as someone who couldn't manage getting hired by an R1 university, and also had three NSF CAREER proposals rejected, it's a bit sobering to see someone get it all so easily and then walk away from it.

Not that I necessarily blame him, fairly burnt out on academia myself currently.

Not getting a CAREER award can really set one back, both in time wasted applying but then having to compete with those who have them. I often felt like the NSF asks for so much these days, including excessive (and possibly unrealistic amounts of) K-12 outreach. I am always curious if you go back after 5 years, how many of the winners actually did everything they promised in the proposal.
Would this be possible using SQLite:

- I point it to a bunch of JSON files on disk. They have similar schema but not exact (slight variations)

- I SQLite import them into one virtual table (I would rather not literally import them - think PostgreSQL JSON FDW)

- Then index certain fields so looking up records by certain fields is very fast (faster than having to "FTS" through all the files)

- Allow fuzzy text search on certain fields (say a field was company name and other fields were city, street and human names)

All the while (best case) not actually having to import the files into the DB (it's ok if the indices need to be rebuilt everytime)
The motor is only 2400W with sufficient cooling, which this design does not appear to have.
I’m at a small software company that does lots of smallish (500k-1.5M) contracts like this. The government does audits to determine our overhead rate. Our is 2.8. That is my billing rate to the government is 2.8 times my hourly rate as determined by my salary. That pays for rent, benefits, and for things like the employees who aren’t on direct labor (e.g. accounting, HR, etc)
Don't forget "exploited the hell out of the people who lived there before England dumped them on the continent."
While I still remember, it'd also be great to preload images — iirc in some other of your articles there were sliders that flipped through images and it was kinda annoying to have to wait for them to load.
This is about money, the airlines want money from the telcos.
The telcos paid off the Incumbent Earth Station operators to vacate the spectrum, now the airlines have their hand out because they are cash strapped after a pandemic lock down.

I have posted this a bunch of times
https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In...

I have read this carefully, and run calcs myself, the issue they are raising is the phones on the plane. But even at full power, very unlikely, but read my other post on this for more details.

The real issue is that they want the telcos to pay them to swap out their radar but are asking for a large amount beyond what would be needed to do that.
That's somewhat a different definition than the comment I was replying to. There are plenty of people who may want to fly somewhere who aren't going to upgrade their phone to the latest and greatest every two years (which is what the comment above was implying: that since flying is supposedly a 'luxury' item it can be assumed that the customers have the latest and greatest phones).
Half of them support a Ukraine invasion when asked in an anonymous cnn poll. There is a lot of support unfortunately. Don't be naive, they have been brainwashed and many actually buy into it.
For the environment design aspect, I'd add that in the earlier iterations of the game something that inadvertently added a lot of appeal was the somewhat "organic" nature of zone composition, where there wasn't a 1:1 match between what the quest writers needed and what got put on the game map.

There were all sorts of things in each zone that just existed to exist, with no connection to any quest or player objective. It felt like the map artists were given a lot of latitude to design as they pleased, with the quest writers coming in after them and writing quests to match the map as it had been designed.

This was flipped on its head at some point around Wrath of the Lich King or Cataclysm, where instead nearly every square inch of every map existed for some quest or player objective. It made the game more convenient, but also made it feel a lot more like a game than a lived-in world.
It was the fishing tournaments for me.

How cool was it to wake up at 6 am before class started and fish by the giants fearing for your life!

All for +5 gloves…
Russian troops are in these regions and therefore the conflict would primarily be between Russia and Ukraine if Russia pushes forward.
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This has been submitted a few times in the past. Here are some with comments (skipping ones with no or few comments):

Sept 30, 2010 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745322 (39 comments)

Oct 1, 2010 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746916 (11 comments)

May 31, 2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7825054 (41 comments)

Oct 24, 2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777852 (28 comments)

Aug 2, 2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20590439 (29 comments)

10 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30327437 (3 comments)
Hi @inconshreveable, happy user for many years and have done some crazy ngork remote setups to make systems like gitpod / docker work with ngrok.

Question for you - do you have a plan in mind for handling teams?

Right now it seems like the only way to handle it is with a manual naming convention:

https://{my-team-name}-{my-name}-api.ngrok.io

And then every single team member has to copy this convention by hand and you have to register webhooks, etc with these new routes.

It gets tedious fast.

Do you have ideas to work around this or register team members behind the scenes and still route traffic appropriately?
The whole SAAS sector have gotten killed lately. If Area 1 wanted an public exit via IPO they'd probably have received the same reduction in valuation. It's an odd time for an exit with how the market has been.
I suppose "good performance" is subjective. I run VS Code on a 4k (well, 3840-by-2160) monitor attached to a ThinkPad T440, and the performance is acceptable. The CPU does get busier, but not by much.

Though, the biggest limitation is that the framerate is only 30Hz since the HDMI version is older on that laptop, so maybe that has something to do with it as well.
In particular I've found that using one Space per Jira ticket is a great way to juggle multiple ongoing tasks at once. Each gets its own code editor and Chrome window, with the ticket, merge request if applicable, any relevant research tabs, etc

Unfortunately macOS still doesn't let you name Spaces, but I figured out you can just create a text edit window, make the font gigantic and put it in the middle of the screen, and it can be readable from Mission Control
That, and how many millions was spent on the artwork…
I’m surprised the segments were designed so they cannot be removed and replaced in future.
I'm suggesting this may be a viable alternative given that this has been a known potential issue for quite some time now and the aviation industry appears to be dragging their feet on replacing the faulty gear. It seems to me premiums that approach or exceed the cost of an upgrade would encourage them to get moving on the fix.

On the other hand, maybe it makes more sense for insurance carriers to simply refuse to assume liability for flights on airplanes with altimeters that are known to have issues with 5G tech. That approach seems to work for discouraging new construction in floodplains.
Very rough analysis using numbers that are probably wrong, so please don't kill me:

Cloudflare stock trades at a huge multiple of revenue. I'm guessing very roughly that Area 1 probably earns around $10M/yr based on their LinkedIn headcount of 96. Cloudflare trades at roughly 30x revenue. So Cloudflare just paid 16x revenue for Area 1 and it boosted Cloudflare's revenue by $10M, which to Cloudflare investors is worth $300M.

In other words, you'd expect Cloudflare's valuation will go up by $300M as a result of this acquisition, less the $162M that was paid to buy Area 1, for a net increase of roughly $140M or so.
It's not as convenient out of the box but I use frp. With the deployment and configuration automated it's pretty good.
When I read the title, I had a very different idea in mind for what the content of the article would be.

I think it's interesting to apply a sort of topographical analysis to the virtual regions of WoW to try to understand why they're so important to us. Kudos to the author, I enjoyed reading his analysis. However, as other commenters have noted - I believe it's impossible to understand the allure of the game independently of the social elements.

To me the most important part of what made these environments compelling was the ability to actually quantify my interaction with them, exactly. Almost 20 years ago - god, has it been that long? Going into this virtual world with a counter that exactly captured how 'well' or 'good' I did was some kind of revelation. To people who played: these were the first DPS meters or counters. The foundations of quantitative gaming analysis for these kinds of games.

Of course, in the real world we have tests and races and everything else. But it wasn't the same. In World of Warcraft you could bend your entire intellect against the goal of maximizing some number which summarized your interaction with a virtual agent in a public way. This wasn't the first game to do this, but it was the most successful. If you were were good at the task (of interacting with the game environment), this gained you prestige in a highly visible way. For a million faceless and lost teenagers across the world, this mechanism was an indispensable lifeline.
The "Noteboard" is just the current view. If you're in the "Home" view that is a collection of all your cards, so exporting from there exports all of your cards in one go. We also have an API[1] that allows you to easily fetch the raw data (as JSON) directly if you want to export Supernotes-specific metadata that is not encapsulated in the Markdown.

[1] https://api.supernotes.app/docs/swagger
Hopefully it entered your thoughts after Iraq and Afghanistan?
Gtk4 and QML sure do (QML still (?) uses SDFs, Gtk4 uses atlas textures like WebRender does). Older frameworks don't.
There was a pretty strong pivot in the first hour of this being posted from everyone saying "that's to much money!" to other concerns. I felt compelled to respond. I don't think the 1000 of these or so that are made are for everyone, and I have no doubt a v2 will be better.

I'm just ready to give my money to someone who wants to build on openXR, has a vr window manager in development, and the chops to build ambitious hardware (on Linux).
This line of thought is so wrong on so many levels ...
How do you know it "is completely offline, that includes Eyesight." I believe this is false. Also, the "repair issue" is concerned with (service bay) RF access to the proprietary sensors and memory attached to the vehicle's computer systems --not necessarily Internet connectivity to them.
Because the expensive art market is entirely fraudulent, and on top of that it’s a 0 sum game.

Art has no intrinsic value. It’s only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it, and in auctions it’s not unusual for the sellers to bid the price up themselves, to artificially increase the value.
The developes are planning and building roads too.
If there is no measurement, or limited enforcement - then I'd bet it's approximately equal to one or two visits.

Whenever someone tacks on way more requirements than could possibly be met, there is a natural prioritization. If after 5 years you didn't deliver on the core idea - then the NSF probably won't care that you completed all of the k-12 outreach. If you hit the research objectives out of the park, then they are going to demand you max out the k-12 outreach.
If you do a campfire in a high-risk area you probably deserve your fire to be put off.
I wonder how much of this is misdirection, hoping to distract from the following issues:

* Phantom braking;

* Autopilot colliding with emergency vehicles;

* Plenty of errors in the last revision of the UI, including making the defroster feature clumsy;

* Perenial, 'later this year', availability of the so-called Full Self Driving;

* Sloppiness in growth and supervision of the solar roof business;

* Voice recognition that has all the robustness and durability of 1990 Microsoft products;

* the other 12 features that are born as 'beta', and likely will die as 'beta'.
Yes, the RTCA did a study back in 2020 which identified the interference from 5G towers was outside tolerance for the aircraft equipment:

"The extent of the RF interference is summarized by the worst-case exceedance of the safe interference limit of radar altimeters by expected 5G signals in the 3.7–3.98 GHz band: 14 dB for commercial transport airplanes, 48 dB for business, regional, and general aviation airplanes, and 45 dB for helicopters. Further, the impacts are not only limited to the intentional emissions from 5G systems in the 3.7–3.98 GHz band, but also the spurious emissions from such systems within the protected 4.2–4.4 GHz radar altimeter band directly. In this latter case, the worst-case exceedance of the safe interference limit is 28 dB for business, regional, and general aviation airplanes, and 12 dB for helicopters."

https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In...
Is there a risk of fire associated with various drone failure modes?
Really great and informative blog post, as usual, John. Congratulations!
>[Fabian] gets around that by cycling between 2,000 pre-loaded public keys so that the tracked person’s device doesn’t realize that it is seeing the same tag over and over.

Heh.

I should point out: what's insidious about these devices is that they use your own hardware, as well as that of your neighbours and friends, to track you. This is what enables them their great accuracy, long battery life, and small size. So there is a real responsibility for apple to not enable surveillance, which they apparently aren't living up to.
Is there any similar advice for getting NSF or other agency SBIR grants that provide for a greater chance of success?
This is the hardest problem to solve IMHO. I agree completely with you, but I also realize that people behaving like us could cause the product to fail, whereas otherwise it might succeeded if we'd got in and support it sooner.

After losing $500 on a bet on kickstarter though, I'm pretty weary. I don't want to get screwed again.
I would love an app which rates all my photos and then allows me to sort by aesthetic. I have 10’s of thousands of photos, most of which are garbage, but the good ones, I rarely notice when scrolling through them.
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It seems to me then the owners of the offending equipment are responsible for the bill. I don't see how you can come to any other logical conclusion.

At least I know why cell service at the airport is awful.