skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like a lot of project farm's videos but his electrical tape video was far off the mark of what actually matters. They were good tests for tape but bad tests for Electrical tape.
oof, the situation can be even rougher than that. At 9000 MTU on IPv4, you have a 'safe' NFS-over-UDP data rate of roughly 18 megabytes/second. Plenty of room at 1GbE, but not enough for 10GbE or greater. I suppose using krb5i/p mounts or some other integrity-providing GSSAPI/crypto implementation could help with this, but thats a different pile of worms. You would also get issues with not-strictly-necessary retransmits impacting your effective bandwidth.

Thankfully, IPV6 can help mitigate this problem by extending the fragment id length from 16 to 32 bits. This gets you up to roughly 1.18 trillion bytes of 'safe' NFS traffic/second. There's plenty of reasons why IPv6 adoption is still fragmentary, but if you're running a high throughput network, this is certainly a motivator to move at least part of it to IPv6.
I don't like head-fi either, but scientific testing/measurements are (mostly) worthless. Really, the only useful test is an in-home trial in my view. If you like it, buy it. If not, don't.

Here's a good video detailing some of why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa1y9JRip68
There was probably a time when a label was useful as both distributor and curator of a particular kind of music, and that could've been useful. Like, I dunno, 4AD records.

But, having been born at the tail end of the 80s, I personally have never found labels to be anything more than an annoyance. Like: "Oh, you can't buy this band's first two albums anywhere because the label is pissed at the band for leaving and won't re-release them."

I can think of maybe one or two smallish labels that I actually follow on Bandcamp because they specialize in niches I like, and there's a good chance that whatever they release will at least warrant a trial listen from me. But those are few and far between.
Infinite Descent into Pure Mathematics
The mathematician Lillian R. Lieber wrote a number of expository books in which the text had one phrase per line. I found this extremely easy to read, and I write my LaTex this way, which makes it very easy to edit.

Here is what the previous paragraph would look like in her style:

The mathematician Lillian R. Lieber

wrote a number of expository books

in which the text had one phrase per line.

I found this extremely easy to read,

and I write my LaTex this way,

which makes it very easy to edit.

I highly recommend the wikipedia article about her and its references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Rosanoff_Lieber#Unusua...
Maybe. I don't see many people working in VR though.
The interview with Norm from Adam Savage's Tested gives a lot of good extra details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AOwDttBsc
The screen being a fixed distance is the issue. The holy grail would be a system that fools your eyes and makes you think that it isn't at a fixed distance- something like eyeball tracking that detects, instantly, what you're focusing on, and adjusts the perceived focal distance based on how far away the cluster of pixels you're looking at is meant to be. This would improve immersion.

HDR is trickier than you think because devices like cell phones can improve their dynamic range by just making the screens brighter- increasing the range by raising the top end- but there's a certain cutoff on how bright a VR screen can be and still be comfortable.
Isn’t there problem the people cramming those things in?

We use jira as a way to track ongoing tasks, we use subject, description, comments/attachments, and assigned to.
What is the actual underlying technology powering this? I read several of the blog posts, the Colab notebook, and the GitHub page, but couldn't find anything saying what is actually being used? Sounds pretty great and I'm very curious to know a bit about how it's done!
I've backpack-traveled extensively. I think I'm pretty good at minimizing my gear. My limiting factor is clothes. I'm a big guy, and my clothes and footwear take up easily 3x as much space as the author's. Same for sleeping bags and blankets and even towels. Even if I were less fat, I'd still have above-average gear weight and volume. It usually means that I have to pack fewer changes of clothes. Can be a real pain in the ass, and often the difference between a carry-on and a checked bag.
> Most people just ignore the second and third sentences in a paragraph.

The military expression is BLUF - Bottom Line Up Front. (It works for paragraphs as well as for entire documents.)
The German consumer reports are also quite good: www.test.de

In many countries there are similar consumer reports organizations.
The new design of the last one has a headset that you turn to mount on your head looks nice. That's so much better than the straps that comes with Quest 2, I hope they make that the standard.

The after-market Quest head kits for ~$20 make it much more comfortable.
Ask HN: Why do you use ids as translation strings?
Earlier this week, my son was unable to purchase a new Minecraft world because (I assume) they didn't expect a non-well-defined locale (en_NL, to be precise). The marketplace is essentially "offer.category.upsell," etc, and so long it fits in exactly 0 buttons.

On everything I've ever worked on that required translations, we always wrote the original text for this exact reason where (for whatever reason), the translation failed. At one place I worked, we had an "en_US" to "en_US" translation set up to quickly change strings without requiring changing the code and breaking other translations. Where I currently work, we have a function like __fixme("not yet translated", "translated") that will use the latter translation if the former isn't translated yet, allowing us to change strings rather easily.

However, after looking around for a bit, I noticed that it has more-or-less become very common to use "opaquish keys" and then provide a translation for every language. This surprises me since AFAIK, every i18n library will default back to the key if it can't find a language to translate to, ergo, opening yourself up to experiencing the app exactly like my son is currently experiencing Minecraft on his Switch.

I'm curious why devs do it using keys vs. the original text? Is there some inherent problem being solved or is it just a personal preference kind of thing?
Yeah that's a good point - I'm wrong here to suggest that the rules are set in stone for every (or even most?) project.
> The focal depth one I didn't understand.

I think the idea is simulating depth of field by blurring different parts of the image based on where the user's eye is looking.
Yeah definitely. My comment came from my understanding of what the author wanted the union to do rather than how unions could operate.

As an aside, I’m slightly skeptical about unions in the US. The US’s economic model seems to be based around innovation and unions arguably make making decisions slower and more difficult.

If you look at Germany’s economic model, one with very strong employee protection, it seems largely based on pre existing industries. Yet the US’s seems more based on innovation and failing fast. And German political culture seems more consensual compared to US political culture.

Of course, this doesn’t mean I don’t think unions are possible or a good idea in the US—for certain industries I think they could alleviate the US’s problems—but I just doubt they’ll readily get government backing, support or favorable legislation in the short term.
SimulaVR is working on it!
There's no inherent reason that is - websites can be added as icons on the home page and can feel just as nice to use as an app for things like Tumblr or Reddit. The only reason the Reddit web interface is no fun is because Reddit makes it horrendous on purpose. I got a notification today in the Reddit webpage saying the app had more cats, whatever that means.

A big thing would be notifications, which at the time of writing is still an issue but slated to be corrected next year.
Yes.

https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula
Hey on my business’s website we currently use draft.js for our user discussion product and we convert the user input to markdown for storing in our db. How hard would it be to switch to Lexical and does it support rendering from markdown syntax? Do you recommend any other approaches for safe storage and rendering of rich text? Thanks!
>If a company is trying to use JIRA for more than state communication they are doing it wrong IMO.

This is why tools that don't allow this kind of doing-it-wrong are significantly superior to Jira.
I agree. I routinely explore JIRA replacements b/c of various JIRA annoyances, but none of the ones I find will hook into our process as neatly as JIRA.

JIRA is a lot like agile though where everyone is using a different version ranging from this works fine, to this is a dumpster fire.
No I'm pretty sure his only interest in VR is to control our dopamine channels as completely as possible. He may be a nerd, but he's Machiavellian to the core and will do anything he can to amass power to control other humans. Things like legality and morality merely provide guidance to him on how other people will react to his efforts. His biggest challenge has always been convincing his employees that what they're doing has merit and is not pure evil. Generally that has worked by paying them tons of money and telling them they're special snowflakes.
I've livestreamed with ffmpeg and Icecast fanned out to a layer of cheap VPS and that worked ok. Yes there was enough lag to be annoying but not anything like 40 seconds.
I wasn't aware of this, TBH. Well that's a little disingenuous.
Am I the only one to be put off by the fact that the value for filter performance - clean air diffusion rate (CADR) - is stored in the second value of the list structure?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR
> Cap the amount people can charge in rent to some %s of purchase value (incentive to have high purchase value)

Landlords will figure out how to setup wash sales, or as close to a wash sale as they can legally get, or trade property between entities owned by the same real people, or engage in swapping behavior with other large holders in a cartel-like fashion, etc. Closing all the loop-holes would be difficult.

Tax the net proceeds of rental properties at 90% and slap a 100% capital gains tax on any property that is not owner-occupied. Also, simply rule out renting for huge swathes of property (especially single family homes).
A lot of those prototypes seem to cater to common complaints from first-time or casual VR users - eye strain, focus, fatigue, and weight. I think iterating on these aspects of comfort is important for VR adoption.

Personally, I don't really want or look forward to a future where people spend a lot of time in a headset, but if there were a lightweight, comfortable option it would be fun to explore experiences every once in awhile.
So, I do have two VPN servers running, one on my home connection, and one on AWS, for just the reason you state.

That said, I got back from a week long trip a few weeks ago. I kept my AWS tunnel up the entire trip. For the set of websites I visit for personal and work reasons, it was never an issue. I'm sure I could find some website that doesn't work, but for me, it's just not a problem.

It's also super useful, since I can whitelist my AWS instance's IP on services that demand such things, and never have to worry about where I am as I move from network to network. I've also reserved the Elastic IP so I can stop/terminate my server when I want without needing to whitelist the IP again when I spin it back up
I think you mean the book Snow Crash, which John Carmack is a fan of

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1454230235847688200...
This kills me aha, I bought a computer with 16gb of ram in 2011, started getting OOMs in 2014/2015. My laptop has 32 gigs and desktop 64 and I still have the occasional OOM in media creation work (and no doubt I'd have the same editing a large 3D scene, making a detailed part in a CAD software, editing a detailed SVG or 8k image with 35 layers, running a complex electronics simulation... All the things that people buy computers for lol)
Honestly, IPFS is one of the very few things I would vouch for from that ecosystem.
"If you want to simulate your location, you'll need a VPN with servers in those locations."

While I did omit that justification, it is still just simulating location.
> a year of unrestricted travel throughout the (almost) whole country on any train

Any train, or boat, or tram, or bus,... :)

Source: expat in Zürich and loving it!
You'd think so but I keep hearing more and more people trying to do this. Never made sense to me but it apparently works for some people.
Didn't the kickstarter folks successfully unionize to ban monitoring software and no CoL downgrades in pay?
Wish they'd go into a bit more detail given that they have actual prototypes...

Slightly confused as to why they stuck the zuck into what looks like a plywood shed though?
100% this. YouTube's fantastic for real reviews.
Traveling light is an enjoyable feeling, at least for me it was. I traveled around the world for quite a few years on an Osprey Escapist 20L, which I just used last week for travel as it's still my main bag.

Those packing cubes are indeed great, as is folding clothes. Packing light comes with the acceptance of doing laundry, otherwise for me at least it was quite easy to do and I much preferred the mobility it gave me.

I had started traveling originally with a Osprey Kestrel 38L but slowly whittled down my necessities to 20L's.

My travel gear from mostly a decade ago when I went to 50 countries: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dustinbrett/albums/72157626006...
The counter to this is not extra interviews but increasing the importance of the people in the interview. A one pass, 60 minute interview with the CEO and/or CTO on the call tells me a lot more about the kind of company.

One of the reasons I went independent consultant/freelancer is because I no longer face hiring bullshit like multiple interview rounds. I don’t charge to discuss the problems, sign an NDA if need be, and I get to talk frankly with both technical and business people to work out if I’m a good fit, zero pressure. I’ve turned down work and recommended other people I know would be better.

I fit the “senior” role here and honestly I’d be ok with the 4hr take home on one condition… pay me.

One tactic I know people are trying is to “flip” a freelance contractor by gradually offering work and then pitching the full time gig, convincing them to jump onboard when everyone already knows it’s a good fit and no one has d as any risks.
Can someone explain what makes this different from Jitsi, Nextcloud Chat, and other stuff of that sort? I get that this is a useful software category but it would be good to have a guide to what is what.
Seriously! Grains, sugars, and alcohol are pretty much no-nos if you want to have teeth when you're older.

I've had a dentist comment on how he wished he had so few issues.

I brush like once a day just for hygiene/bad breath or whatnot, and that's pretty much it.

Without the sugars and starches, the bacteria that would cause cavities just don't cause cavities.
I don't know why you think it is unambiguosuly right to apologize for past crimes.

My Finnish friend is super into history and he basically remembers the events of history by it's relative position in time to a European war. There were so many horrific wars.

The stories of past highlight the worst parts of human nature, but many people got by in love without murdering the locals next door.

We should turn away from evil and denouce it. The apology for it, suggests a naive belief one is separate from that human nature which drove the crimes.

Maybe with more lead in air from leaded petrol, or more internet radicalization, or an end to our local agriculture, we might be the 1% that turns toward evil. Examining past crimes can lead to more crime, as we have seen with internet radicals lately and copycat people following news media stories.

Studying that sh*t and mulling it over in apology for crimes one never did is dangerous, we should move towards loving the good things done, past and future.
> this sort of directly lays out "Here are 3 difficult technical problems we need to solve for a VR headset"

It lays out the problems Meta had most progress in. Another very significant VR metric is FOV which was not discussed.

> He says normal monitors are a fixed distance, whereas in VR and AR you need to focus on different distances. But these VR headsets are just a fixed distance away, so how is that really a problem?

You want dynamic focus to convey the feeling of real world eye focus, and make the projected scene more natural/believable.
JIRA is the medium that cranky devs interact with disinterested managers. It's just a vessel for data and metadata. And as far as I'm concerned it's one of the best at doing what it does. There's no tool I prefer to JIRA. Asana is a joke by comparison. TFS is just Bad JIRA. Issue trackers like Trello or GitHub issues are fine for creating a dumping ground for ideas but not for organizing.

If you can get away with less structure than JIRA affords then congratulations for not having a budget or timeline but the rest of us need some deniability. Every other problem in the world of software projects is human and can't be solved with tickets.
Works great for any government as long as your government is the Netherlands.
I would pay a lot of money for a Crypto Punk, the very first NFT collection. The floor price is about $50,000 currently. I would pay around $10k, but maybe in the future I’d be willing to pay more.

Owning a Punk is a status symbol in crypto. I know many wealthy crypto people who have them. It’s like an expensive watch or classic car - I want it because of what it signals to the community I’m part of.

But at $50k… a bit too expensive for me at this moment. However I know people who have paid hundreds of thousands for them.
Is this a US thing related to identity theft, or is there a deeper reason?
The focal depth thing is related to a human vision system bug/feature - Your eyes want to change their 'vergence' at the same time they change focal distance. This is sort of a hard-coded geometry solution. When you want something close your brain crosses your eyes a bit, adjusts the image to your brain, and changes focus. When you look far away your eyes uncross a bit, apply another transform to the result, and change focus again. Getting the eye-crossing and simultaneously trying not to change focus is one of the things that gives people eye strain and headaches when using VR.
Take a look at https://gitcoin.co/ and try and tell me that is not a "real productive use".
That’s not what I’m saying. He’s been in the company for 50% of its lifetime. He’s done real work for you in that time.

He feels ownership in the company. I don’t have the context to why, maybe he has helped build or direct the company from his perspective. Maybe not.

Seems to me like you don’t want to give him that portion of the company, so I’d be expecting that employee to leave. Do you want that?
The long ditch is argument against a food source as the supply (where the people dumped the bones, etc) - but it COULD be a water ditch or something and they'd throw the frogs in when "weeding" them out of something, but you'd expect the ditch to be deeper or the frogs to show evidence of being crushed or similar before being thrown in.
For me, the worst part is how the search feature naturally defaults to searching over the entire organization and there is no setting to preserve space preference. I'm sure a product manager or sales person pitched this as a wonderful thing, but in a massive organization I really only want to search within a small number of spaces, over and over again. I rarely, if ever, want to access the entire company's confluence but that's what the search bar does.
Depends on the destination perhaps, but even here in the affluent Netherlands I can buy safety razors at the chemist. And the lower the GDP, the better the availability of no-nonsense safety razor blades.
Your brain puts together multiple 3-d cues. If you are looking directly at something the angle of your two eyeballs is a little different dependening on the distance and this is vergence.

Your eyes also focus like the autofocus of a camera and the cue from that is called accommodation.

The two should match to provide perfect perception on reality. Certainly a VR headset works with a fixed focus for everything, but to get the ultimate perception of reality without eye strain a VR headset should be able to simulate focusing distance.

(Who knows, however? Meta’s Super Bowl ad might be revealing their real intentions. In that ad a discarded animatronic Android gets to relive its past with VR. VR is good for the elderly because you can enjoy it without learning anything new. I think one of the worst things about getting old that I experience is presbyopia where you can’t focus over the whole range so you have to wear two pairs of glasses. Maybe I’d find it easier just to have it all in focus all the time.)
10 years ago I thought we would all be driving in autonomous cars by now, I was seriously concerned about the impact this would have on the trucking industry. For context I have a background in ML/Stats so I was reasonably familiar with the research going on in this area and had many friends working on it.

In that time I have relearned an old adage that people before my generation would know well "the last mile is the longest mile". In R&D this feels far more extreme than in running.

VR seems very similar to autonomous driving. Quest 1/2 are light years ahead of what we had a decade or so ago. At the same time it's nowhere near to the point where it's going to be a major part of my day. The Quest was mind blowing when I first used it, but I got bored remarkably fast. Most importantly, none of my problems with quest are the problems that are being solved here.

The biggest one, in my opinion, is still space. I want a 10'x10' area to run around in to even start having fun, and even in a house I still don't have an open space that supports that without moving furniture around.

The mobile phone took over our lives because it's so small and convenient. Large TVs work because we've been building homes around them for decades, and TV spaces are also communal, family/friend spaces. This brings up another issue, VR is fundamentally isolating. I get annoyed enough when friends don't look up from their phones.

The remaining obstacles for VR to conquer seem to be arguably bigger problems than the ones that self driving cars need to tackle to take over the roads.
This is neat. It’s like Mac internet recovery mode but for everybody else
It's still kinda that way now. Eastern Europe has VK, China has WeChat, Japan has LINE. The 2 billion people in those geographies count for something