skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Okay, I have several candidates.

2. Ok. Welcome to life in Linux?

If these justifications were serious, I should have the option to buy just the headset and navigate the compatibility problems if I chose. We're talking about Linux after all.

Having this one option and hiding behind the excuses I've seen indicate they've jumped the shark sooner to consumerism than I would've hoped.
Actually -- Jetbrains is a little different, in that you can buy and own the software (effectively). You just have to pay for updates, once your license expires.
>> Why not?

> I don't like the centralization of the internet. Routing everything through Cloudflare, using Amazon AWS, all of it (in my opinion at least) harms the internet by consolidating power in the hands of just a few large monoliths.
I did a google search for "free tier vps" and sure enough, it does seem like the standard is roughly $300 in credit (AWS seems to do it differently). Which is enough for a small vps-like-thing for 5 years, or 4 large instances for a few weeks.
Doesn't sound like things where you'd want bugs either. But also the rewrites for this kind of thing are usually not that "serious". A few people do it because they can or because they think it's interesting, but it's not like there are large pushes to replace such tools (E.g. there's been "lets rewrite basic tools in Go" projects too, and nobody is surprised that they aren't in widespread use"). The winners usually are not in that category, but tools that stand alone.
Sysadmin $83k
Devops $97k

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I really hope the world starts seeing some standardized mid-sized batteries!!
I tried talking a phone number to my android but hmph nope
We used to say it often in class, and we (or the teacher) would sometimes ironically trip on that very sentence :)
I'm no mobile developer, but why wouldn't stripping out symbols be default behaviour that publishing process performs?
Sorry, fully aware I'm being unnecessarily reductive and possibly slightly rude here, but you get what I mean ... :p
I struggled for years with a chronic misunderstanding of Go. I kept trying to compare it to the usual suspects in the "next systems language" crowd (D, Rust, Zig). That wasn't quite right.

Once I realized that its sweet spot is large-ish services that you want closer to the metal than Java but for which would be silly to go as low level as C++, Go fans started making a whole lot more sense to me.

I'm still not a Go fan personally—my taste in programming languages slants toward the more expressive end of the scale (C#, Rust, Scala). But at least I'm no longer confused by trying to make Go make sense where it doesn't.

It's a very good tool for its kinds of jobs. Other languages also have their points of unreasonable effectiveness, too.
But the equivalent analogy to Wordle in this case would be not implementing the letter check or not hiding the correct answer until you figure it out. That mechanism exists.
I don't know if perpetual hashes will work with full videos though, and linking the hash to a singular frame seems very unreliable, especially considering how randomly lossy video compression is
It's not that scary.

https://www.sugarfina.com/valentines-day-mini-candy-trunk
Then sad to say you will be stuck on Apple hardware for the foreseeable future. It's all a matter of preference, too- I used to have a newer Dell and thought the trackpad was totally fine.
The “right way” also needs to be maintained and refactored over time. That gets increasingly expensive the more in-house or low-level things are.
Here is today's car analogy : well sure, they pollute, but if nobody complains why would car makers invest in cleaner, more efficient motors? Oil is cheap anyway and will be cheaper in the future (that's probably what they thought in the '60). Oh, wait...

A friend of mine told me their company is trying to downsize their flash storage in order to come back to the unit prices of before the shortages.
This is being flagged up by multiple authorities in the context of Russian attacks on Ukraine, NATO and EU members.

Tweet from UK's National Cyber Security Centre: https://twitter.com/NCSC/status/1496500441219276803?cxt=HHwW...
When the cost of selling to such a niche group outweighs the revenue, that’s the premise of this thread.
Rust is a lot newer, for one thing. It was arguably not even generally usable prior to the 2018 edition (which added 'non-lexical' lifetimes). Go has had practically no major changes since its 1.0 release in 2012 or so. Yes, it has generics now but these are very new still.
I missed over the one in the header (I blame header blindness) but realized that there was alternate text on the side to the paragraphs. Now that I understand the plain text swap at the top, that's a neat way of representing it and I understand the feature a bit better.
That's not good! It's working for me and I'm running the server...

Maybe it's something on your end? I've checked the site on online services, three different networks and two different devices.
Basically everything is modular. It's a huge design boon to be able to split things up and it comes naturally with reparability and to some extent upgradability.

About the only thing I would be careful about replacing (but we'll still be offering) is the optical assembly, as dust will be pretty annoying if it gets in. We're planning a clean room just to handle the dust-sensitive parts of our equipment (image sensors, displays/optics, etc)
Well yes, an API call or an encrypted/hashed DB of words so at least it's not casually accessible.

I understand that the costs might be an issue, but this doesn't make the solution "elegant". This is the kind of code I wrote as an 8-year old in BASIC, like I mentioned elsewhere, and even my young self understood back then it wasn't a satisfying solution, I just didn't know how to hide secret literals.

I mean, I enjoy Wordle as much as the next person, but let's not make it into some engineering achievement when it's clearly not one.
I am aware of my shoes and clothes all the time. If someone forced me to wear something unfamiliar, ill fitting, and likely unbalancing, I would be seriously pissed off.

It doesn't seem weird to object to it to me at all.
> I understand there has been a negligible amount of immigration.

What matters is foreign capital flow. Companies and “convenience passport” holders can still purchase on behalf of someone else.
> doesn't have a deleterious impact on our commons

Most of the time it will. Humans will generally profit and succeed by: Mining, Burning stuff and polluting into waterways. If you limit human progress to "art or technology or marketing" you're ignoring all of the things that make a burger available to you impossible. Let alone any quantity of vegetarian food.

Now a world like that IS possible, but not one with nearly 8 billion people.
Apple content caching is built into MacOS. A Mac mini connected to the in-plane wifi would likely do the trick.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/what-is-content-cac...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204675
Well, sure. Mastery is definitely my end goal, and it's worthwhile one. But my goal isn't to make money or receive acclaim.

I guess the most important part is not caring about how it will "reflect" on you or what others will think: that is, trying to reduce the amount of ego goes into it. It's a subtle distinction.

But in my experience once ego takes over, the more subtle enjoyment can fade away and it can become tied to your self-worth, which can be miserable.

I mean, yeah, goals are still important, but you still have to respect the journey.
It's probably true that most work worth keeping on a resume, after some experience, is going to be non-trivial to replicate at best, and awkward to lie about/dance around in explaining purely to accommodate the sensitivities of adults who should chill out. I've worked mostly for companies I wasn't fired from, and it'd be great to avoid talking about the experience directly. Could I re-create the frontend interface for massive auction company? Maybe, but it would take a large amount of extremely unsatisfactory work. Could I recreate the database, backend infrastructure, and conditions that really made the work hard? No
Is that some sort of allocation elision where it's actually on the stack? Or more to the point, what are those two instructions?
I mean, there shouldn't be any, given how many C++ standard libraries implement `operator new` on top of malloc. If anything it should be less efficient once you factor in constructor calls.

libc++: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/master/src/new.cp...
libstdc++: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-...
Hi George,

I'm definitely super interested in the space - to the extent that I've ordered recently received a competitor's product (the Varjo Aero) with the intent that would be used almost exclusively for productivity.

I have to be blunt, the going has been rough. The clarity of the display is more than up to the task of writing software all day. But, the Aero is a windows only product. There either isn't, or I haven't found a productive Windows PCVR windows manager comparable to either SimulaVR or Immersed. This lack of software was completely unexpected, and rather shocking to me.

After the Simula One is available on the market, I may well pivot to that device. But do you know of anyone who is taking on the effort of running SimulaVR on a windows host through any means? I don't mind rolling up my sleeves and doing work, but right now I don't see any path at all.

My current productivity is stuck to a projection of the desktop in a VR space, rather than a true window to window, application level VR window manager.
I just want to remind you all that Azure App Proxy is an alternative to a cloudflare tunnel. It however require an enterprise subscription
Shame it’s not OSS but I get that. The ‘no lock-in’ statement on the site; if we would see speedups in both dev and execution performance by using this and develop everything on it from that point to improve working with data easier across the enterprise, how are we not locked in when we you decide to do something else or sell to Oracle? The latter happened to us, quite exactly and that’s why no OSS is no go for dev infrastructure.

Definitely nice work though and best of luck!
Absolutely! Hydra is 100% Postgres and supports any existing Postgres-compatible tools.
Also I bet his healthcare costs were a lot higher in USA.
That sounds like a reasonable point of view. But it could be that they are just trying to up sale their other services and can more easily do so if it’s bundled in an already used app.
That's exactly the contrarian dynamic—your description is spot on! It's an artifact of the commenting process, not a representative sample of the community, and it happens in many threads. Maybe most threads.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
You do. We sell a tethered edition that's just the headset.
I love this. It's the reification of the Dead-Internet Theory - a tangible artifact embodying the feeling that the internet was replaced by its own simulacrum powered by AI.[1] The existence of Goopt is the culmination of DIT as self-fulfilling prophecy. We can almost see the beginnings of an outline begin to form around an Internet Turing test. How well can we discern the real internet from the fake one. Consequently, what happens when the line becomes so blurred that we lose the ability to perceive the difference?

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-...
Ancient Roman Pollution: The long-lasting effects of the Lead Age
I quite like being able to firewall to their IP ranges and then use client certificate auth as well. Yes it’s almost certainly overkill but it means I can be certain that all my traffic is coming via Cloudflare which gives some additional comfort.
> Fastmail is the only email/calendar app with a reasonable size (just 20MB)

It's because it doesn't contain anything. You can't even see any UI, let alone emails without being connected to the internet.
Has anyone done a separate study to corroborate, contradict, or otherwise update the work of this 2017 paper?

https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...

Also, a suggestion for anyone who plans to do an update: please put a version number on the languages you use, and also note which specific versions of compilers, VMs, GCs, etc. were used.
Now that I've looked it up I'm "Oh sure." I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have thought of it as a dictionary word or something you would write outside of dialog however.
My point is not “there’s no such thing as objective reality”, it’s that for issues with more room for dispute than your example being objective in the sense you clearly mean sometimes requires rejecting ideas inconsistent with one’s understanding of reality.

As an example which recently came up in a local (to me, in Seattle) news context: it will soon be legal to ride bikes without a helmet. Unintuitively, this has safety benefits for cyclists. Pointing this out is often met with ridicule. But it’s true, and once known, a person with integrity must reject that intuition.
That's a generous assessment
> hymenopterologist

Had to look that one up. Wasn’t sure if it was a joke from high school or a real field. The latter, for those interested - bees, wasps, and such.
Just echoing the comment above. Cloudflare email forwarding would perfectly replace the free google apps that is being eliminated if it would allow sending emails as well. Even if it was heavily throttled / limited so people don't use it for transactional emails.
Looking at the 3 cited projects, I don't see anything that precludes Github Pages or similar. At first I thought they were dynamic SaaS services and wondered why he'd run those from his dorm. But as best I can tell they're not - they are landing pages and docs for open source projects (cool looking ones, btw.) Slap those up on a static site somewhere for free or really really cheap.

Glitch.com might be another option - static websites are always-on and free. If you do really need hosting, 8$/mo for 5 linux containers is a nice option. Personally that seems cheaper in the long run than running a bunch of stuff on your own hardware, network, power. Maybe even add a "buy me a coffee" badge or hit up your mailing lists for help covering hosting costs.
The response should be "sure, but it's a lot less than what the football coach at the state university makes". This perception that it's a government job so it cannot pay competitive wages needs to end. Only then will the quality of services provided by the state improve.
What does it take to collaborate on a backend? We've investigated building a Postgres extension for querying SpiceDB[0] and Hydra seems like it could help. What kind of consistency guarantees can be made?

[0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
A sniffed WiFi transmission pattern creates organic sound (real-time)
I’ve been able to download the app over plane WiFi for free. It used to be a little-known hack for free internet once upon a time.
At least spring is around the corner.
> "Never trust a benchmark you didn't falsify yourself."

Stealing this.
And has the appropriate performance
Too many people support policies without considering how they might be on the wrong side of them. Yeah, those emergency powers sounded like a good idea, and so did going after terrorist supporters. When your anti-establishment movement of choice falls anywhere right of the left, you've already given them enough rope to hang you.
I would like to thank VCs for subsidizing our web hosting!
You act like being an investor is like a secret society where everyone is making easy money and the workers are the fools. Investing is a major risk and sometimes fails spectacularly.
It never happened to me in 20+ years of working in France.

I've also almost always lied about my previous pay when asked (which recently has been less than before for some reason) to better match what I was seeking.
Flying anywhere, period, is a luxury
Define "closer to the metal than Java". What exactly does that mean, and how exactly is that an advantage?
The least-visited national parks in the United States
From the discussions I've heard among C-level executives at a <500 person company, it's simply accepted that tech people will move to new jobs after a year or two. There's nothing they can do about it, they say, so we just have to scale up our hiring efforts! The thought that maybe they should do something to retain people is not taken seriously. No matter how many times I expressed concern about the potential loss of specific individuals with specialized (won over many years) knowledge of the codebase and the product, my concerns were always met with plans to scale up hiring—despite how little luck they'd had with those attempts so far. Last I heard, they decided to offshore, but assured us they would only accept the best of the best from [foreign country]. I ended up leaving also, so it's no longer my problem. :)
That was one really good article!

- It conveys its information effectively.

- The controls for the translation are intuitive and aren't distracting.

- Its use of 3 levels of examples is convincing, makes for a rather complete view of the problem and makes the points easy to understand.

- It even links to high-quality resources to learn to write more accessibly in this style! [1][2][3]

I saw a lot of comments here about information being lost in the translation process.

I understand that this may not apply directly to how you write your technical documentation. However, I think you should note that this style of writing isn't meant for everyone everywhere. You probably won't ever see papers written in this style. Its main purpose seems to be in education and communications with broader audiences where accessibility is key.

Even then, its normal to lose some subtleties as you make writing simpler. The important part isn't to keep all the information in your text, it's to make the most important information accessible with as little friction as possible.

Practicing this also helps consider which information is relevant to the message you want to convey. When painting the picture of a complex character in a poetic way, you may want to keep the subtleties of language and use words that make the text flow even if it means increasing complexity. However, if you're writing to communicate crucial information or give instructions, which happens more often in our writing than we would like to admit, it's critical that the text is simple and accessible and contains only the most relevant information.

[1]: https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/One-...

[2]: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/

[3]: https://www.easy-read-online.co.uk/media/10609/making-myself...
What we need is better support "native hybrid" apps.

For example, you can create "app" that is just a link to browser. There are plenty of action you don't want random web-apps to perform due to security/sandboxing issues, but if you can grant explicit permissions that issue goes away. It is one of the reasons think like election exist. But could apple/goog provide a better electron that was built into the OS?
https://hemingwayapp.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29052997 (6 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25125302 (248 comments)
I've always been interested in the technical problems in the adult entertainment industry, so I tend to read all the porn-related submissions here.

Along with the quoted passage in the parent post, I think adding a couple more for TLDR will do justice in relaying much of the author's intended conveyance of sentiment/sorrows (note the original headline's mention of `moderation problems`):

```

When you work at a company that is doing well, that showers employees with generous pay and a sense of belonging, you become saturated with the sense that what you’re doing is right. Even as performers shouted from rooftops that we were destroying their livelihoods and people begged us to remove videos that showed them in their most intimate moments without consent, those negatively impacted [..] were shrugged off as an afterthought, unfortunate collateral damage to a great undertaking.

[..]

I’d like to think that if I hadn’t been “Nate-Tube8” for those two years, the women I tried to help perhaps wouldn’t have had an ally on the other side of the screen to help them regain their dignity. But maybe I’m just trying to convince myself I was the good guy, despite the fact I was tweeting to promote the company in between video takedowns.

```
In many cases yes, but svg support has been available in xcode since ver. 12 and before that pdf had been available. As a consultant I haven't worked on a project yet where vector assets has been chosen over bitmap
Yeah that's my point. If you're running your own outbound email server, you might as well run it for inbound as well. I want a "dumb email proxy" so I can forward all email through a stateless $5 VPS with a static IP and not ever need to worry about scaling or securing its storage.
That is great. This should be stated on your website and not deep in the comments of a HN thread.
You could simply use a single 64 bit integer in, say, nanoseconds. That would give you 584 years of range.

Just convert the integer into a float before passing it into the shader. For periodic effects, apply the appropriate modulo. Fog doesn't change very rapidly, so if wrapping is a pain, you could just accept the loss in precision. You could round the value as part of the conversion so that the precision doesn't change over the range. With 1 second precision, you should be good for a few months with a 32 bit float.
That's good feedback for me -- I've been thinking about other ways to define the API format, as manually editing the yml can be error prone. I've thought about making a simple point and click UI which generates a valid hathora.yml, but having the definition in a typesafe language also makes sense to me.
Thanks. This is exactly why we're making our own device--we even talked to Varjo, but no interest in Linux compat.

The problem with getting SimulaVR (Simula One will be compatible) to run is the lack of a WM API. Your best bet in that regard would be to get Microsoft to expose it or do WMR compatibility? It's a bit out of scope for us, we're focusing on OpenXR as #1 and SteamVR as fallback.
Whoa! One of the few CTOs that you can randomly run into on the internet, but still I have nothing to ask or tell about their service. Thank you for what you’re doing!
My issue isnt it's volatility, which is dramatic and a barrier to adoption. But it's inherently deflationary -- we know how deflationary currency works, and it's a nightmare. The only people able to spend on luxuries are those who have so much wealth that holding it has lower marginal utility than the luxuries they want.

Everyone else spends only when they absolutely have to on necessities, as everything else is irrational. It's just better to hold the currency. This is the poverty trap of human history.

Crypto will never be a currency because it is designed as a speculative asset which transfers wealth to early adopters, in the manner of a bigger-fool scam. The early buyers paid $10/coin, and the fools paying $100k/coin will be the ones funding the cash-out by providing that USD liquidity just before the collapse.

If it collapses to $1k/coin, the early adopters will make their 10,000% return, second phase 100%, and the vast majority of people will be running at -100000%+

You could not design a worse system to be used as actual currency. It is incredibly slow, incredibly inefficient, a handful of early adopters hold all the power, etc. etc.
How to corner a market and exploit it:

- Provide a free or very cheap service without lock-in antipatterns

- Capture a large share of the market

- Create lock-in

- Extract money by charging fees or doing surveillance or leveraging market power

It's amazing how the tech crowd falls for the same tricks decade after decade after decade.
This is definitely something I could see myself paying for --- but only if I could somehow get relational performance for nasty Mongo aggregate queries.