skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imho right now the immersion is "good enough"... but what I notice the most is the lack of light. So HDR or some evolution of that is what's most lacking in my opinion.

Even with the crappy compression on YouTube, you can watch a scene where you are on the beach in VR. After all, isn't that the dream? Of course you can't feel the waves splashing on your feet, but you can definitely enjoy the feeling of being in that space. However, the lack of the bright deep blue sky is really noticeable.

Likewise in games. I definitely preferred Skyrim VR on Quest via a cable over the RIFT because the blacks are much deeper (oled), but on the other end of the spectrum, the sky is always lacking in brightness.

My hunch is this is going to be hard to solve... I mean most homes today don't even have any kind of lighting that remotely reproduces the outdoor lighting.. I doubt that the small screen inside the headset will be able to simulate a bright blue sky... I mean I don't think it's just a matter of "intensity".

But who knows I am clueless, it could be that the pixel density is what prevents the screen from giving the "bright blue sky" depth of light.
Yeah, so?

The quotations, are critics close to the "release" date of the work. Let's say it was "jarring" back then as a fresh listen.

In our case, it's been 60+ years, and in some cases 80 or 100 from unlistenable "contemporary classical" music and listeners didn't come around as they did with Beethoven.
We managed to run a successful bootcamp school LMS on a single cheapest 1gb ram hetzner vps with rails app, redis cache, postgres, backups, staging env and near zero production issues.

Not hi loaded of course, but still hundreds active users every single day interacting with the app.

Recently had to upgrade to the next tier because of growth.

Modern servers are super fast and reliable as long as you know what you’re doing and don’t waste it on unnecessary overheads like k8s etc.
Mystery still surrounds what happened to the bodies of Waterloo militaries
I have an original Vive and I hardly use it, mostly because of how it takes a while to set up and put on, but also because of the depth-of-focus issue that gives me headaches. I still haven't heard about any viable solutions to this.

And of course I'm not going to get a product that needs to be tied to a mandatory Facebook account.
But >90% of people are primarily motivated by money even if they overtly claim not to be.

If you are ok passing 90% of qualified people that could do the job you need done then you have, of course, the right to do that, but don't complain that you have trouble attracting senior talent.

I don't even begin reading an ad that doesn't post salary and I don't really need any more money. Just a force of habit.
lol, I'm using webassembly vm for training neural networks in browser by using webgpu. Sometimes, you need to copy data from vm's heap to gpu by using my awesome tinygrad based framework. In this case, vm is sort of limited and it needs to have 64bit adressing.
I don't see how your example of querying elasticsearch has anything to do with the above. I do agree that it requires the developer to at least understand the basic concepts of kubernetes, if you are running your application in kubernetes.

I rather like to think of it that certain things that was handled by other professionals are now managed or automated with cloud technology. Take Google PubSub for example, a message bus with pretty much zero operational overhead. You simply create your topic and subscriptions and it just works. Compare that to running and maintaining a system like Redis or Kafka on your on-premise hardware.

As a developer you still need to understand the interfaces of the products you are working with, regardless if it is a database, a messagebus, a REST api or kubernetes.
Certain cookie opt-out dialogs are a good training ground as well.
That might matter for people trying to live of those videos but is not really important for educational institutions making their lectures avaialable online.
Fair enough, if you only want to avoid Google for the hosting you could just copy their fonts and be done with it, yes.

(And in my case that whole effort wasn't actually so much for philosophical reasons, i.e. to try avoiding to use Google at all costs, but rather because Google Fonts was serving an outdated version of the font I was wanting to use, and was missing either some additional characters or bug fixes that were only added in a more recent version.)
Anything particular I should look out for when picking an electric toothbrush?

Also, I'm intrigued by the rubber pointy tools. Are those the gum stimulators with replaceable tips?
Thanks for the added info.

> Their first attempt at rocket building was the Challenger

>> No, it wasn't. Thiokol was the contractor for the SRB motor segments from well before the merger

I don't see how that differs. The first rocket made by Morton after the --partnership-- merger was the Challenger.

My great uncle was the CEO of Morton, and from him I heard (as a child) that the decision to make the engine was a direct result of the huge markup they had on the fuel. But the details are obviously fuzzy [like, maybe he was really CTO...], and its good to have some more facts.

IMO, The whole "Morton makes rockets" is interesting, no matter how you spin it.
Dartmouth Eliminates Student Loans for Undergraduates
One of the use-case is to unfriend friends.

Basically, you over-hype a crypto to your friends, then they invest huge sums of their savings, then immediately a crash occurs, wiping 90% of the saving.

Next use-case is to recommend stables.
Cloudflare usually works great. That doesn't mean they aren't a central point of failure.
Isn't everything harder at scale? That's not a barrier for entry though.
It IS down occasionally: https://twitter.com/hnstatus

Not all "downs" are reflected there. Last time I remember having really bad perf or non-workable, don't remember - but opening in incognito, you would get cached results fast.
In Chrome on a Note 10+ Set is covering the second checkbox and is uncheckable
> There are areas in the world that are simply no man’s land. (Terra Nullius if you want to sound smart at the next cocktail party). Bir Tawil is an interesting case to study: This area between Egypt and Sudan is claimed by neither of the two bordering countries. It is the only geopolitically disputed area on earth in which both parties state “Nah, this is not mine, it’s yours!”.

In case you're not familiar with this particular quirk, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil) explains it better than I could:

"Its terra nullius status results from a discrepancy between the straight political boundary between Egypt and Sudan established in 1899, and the irregular administrative boundary established in 1902. Egypt asserts the political boundary, and Sudan asserts the administrative boundary, with the result that the Hala'ib Triangle is claimed by both and Bir Tawil by neither."

So because both countries claim the Hala'ib Triangle (which is much larger and has sea access), neither claim Bir Tawil (which is smaller and in the middle of the desert).
You also unionise to prevent exploitation, it's not just a reactionary option. Yes, it can get unnecessarily adversarial. We'd be better off if unions were the default but were only adversarial where necessary. I believe countries like Germany do a bit better at this?
As some other people have pointed out in the thread, P2P delivery is a great use-case for live video distribution. I'm not convinced the discovery latency and overhead from p2p is worth it to distribute simple HTML pages, but for video it's just perfect.

I've heard of single instances of peertube running on a small VPS scaling to hundreds of livestream viewers. The ability to scale "instantly" by leaving a web browser to seed is a plus. I'm not sure how cross-instance redundancy/seeding works with livestreams though.
I remember playing a version of this on the (386?) PC. Bashing the various keys did not go down well with my dad.

https://www.freegameempire.com/games/Summer-Games
Disclaimer: I'm not a tax consultant, check with your accountant

If they don't have an ABN, they'll need to give you "Statement by a Supplier" [1], otherwise you're required to withhold tax at the top marginal rate.

[1] https://www.ato.gov.au/forms/statement-by-a-supplier-not-quo...
VR will be a dud for a long time. We need a lot of tech advancements and then we need an actual business model (i.e. killer app).

AR is the real deal for the immediate future. AR has direct applications in a lot of environments.

To put it shortly, AR is something that will be truly useful within the next 5-10 years, VR is something will be truly useful within the next 20-25 years.
Users might enter data from different sources than their own GPS. I don't think that 1cm resolution is possible with GPS (the signals can have systematic errors for example caused by reflections).
Thanks for the pointer to Korngold's work, yes can certainly see the resemblance!
Thank you for taking the time to write this out. My partner had a haemorrhage a number of years back, and has many of the symptoms you explain. The extreme tiredness doesn’t come on in the middle of the day, however at night it comes on very suddenly, as if a switch has been flicked. If you don’t mind me asking, how has your wife been with flying? My partner wasn’t fond of flying before, and we were advised to not fly for a number of years after.
Best bet is to pay via App Store subscriptions instead of a credit card. It obscures the country so you are free to use a VPN without worrying about being banned.
> Imagine how lifelong law abiding citizens felt!

I like to think this implies that they had committed countless crimes by the age of 6
> How to Win Friends and Influence People is still a good foundation

I think a lot of the advice in the book is quite dreadful. Although I could imagine this to be an interesting read for sales people
Is he actually closing the discussion on crypto as money because eth>usd ? Does this mean we should be using Berkshire shares as money ? Or platinum ? Or are there criteria besides "value" that make something good as "money" ? Shouldn't he be looking into those instead of whining for half his blurb that people are being simplistic, while being incredibly simplistic himself ?

Is price the only criteria for file storage ?N What about performance, resilience, availability...

Are in-game NFT any more tradable than regular in-game items ?

His blurb actually took me a step further towards thinking that crypto is just a bunch of baselss claims. He sure does string them enthusiastically, with zero critical thinking.
The (Welcome) Death of the LeetCode Interview
> Kids are legislatively forbidden from riding motorcycles. Just let them do AM or another form of certification for small bikes that get to 50ish kmh. It's not like they can't get to 50 with a bicycle.

Can you explain to me how my 4 year old who can barely use her bicycle can reach 50 km/hour? I can't even do it myself on our city bike or transport bike. An electric bicycle is far more expensive (you calling 1000 USD cheap), and they are legally not allowed to go quicker than 25 km/hour. An electric transport bike new goes for 4000 EUR here (NL). Its all fucking expensive.

But regardless of the latter you're out of your mind if you believe young children are able to drive 50 km/hour on a bike, let alone safely. The issue I have with electric bikes is that they often cause accidents (usually elder) on specific bike lanes. I really don't want anyone to drive more quick than 25 km/hour there. Speedbikers and sports bikers are another problem, they're inconsiderate and don't give a rat about other users of the public space.
I learned that it has nothing to do with proxychains, it is just tor being stupid.
There's an even more fundamental false assumption: that the ground doesn't move.

Earthquakes can displace large areas with respect to each other. E.g. https://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/news/archive/2010/darfield-E...
I think he, personally, is largely entertainment. His company does produce some genuinely useful (as in, not total SEO spam) reviews etc. though.
> Having a union form at your own company is an indication that you failed your employees in one way or another.

This is absolutely untrue. A kind of propaganda talking point that paints unions like some kind of vicious weapon that you want workers to have if they absolutely need to defend themselves against assault, but you'd rather not have the assault take place at all.

Unions give workers concentrated power to balance against the concentrated power of corporations. That's it. They are one side of the scale.
Show HN: Writing a simple Tcl interpreter in Golang
This comment might come a little bit too late, but I wouldn't want to give the impression that these numbers suggest using urine as fertilizer is self-sustainable. It is not self-sustainable, and it might not be sustainable in the long term. For many reasons:

- First of all, urea as a fertilizer is not completely effective, because some of it will be drained. Urea can be treated for slow release, but this requires processing. And even in this case, some of it will just be degraded by bacteria (some bacteria will turn it into compounds that plants can use, but generally urea content will fall with time).

- I used total nitrogen from urea, but in reality a part of that nitrogen does not come as urea.

- I also used average yields, which depend on the usage of more powerful fertilizers. Fertilizing with urea alone will lead to smaller yields.

Let's say that average yield woud drop to 50% and that I would need not 53 bu 80 people's yearly urine. That would mean I would only provide enough corn for 120 people each year, for a input of 80, which gives a ratio of 3:2. Seems good enough. Unfortunately this is not the case.

Human urea is the result of human diet and metabolism, which gets nitrogen from many different protein sources. Self-sustainability means that those 120 people would have to eat only corn and meat from corn-fed livestock, or trade this for other protein sources (which would only externalize this unsustainability: some other people's diet would have to change). Even if it were possible to keep up with the same urea output without severe weight loss, this would not be enough:

- First of all, plants use nutrients to grow many inedible parts, and that is an important drain of nitrogen. This also means all plants, not just the ones we eat.

- Livestock would still need food sources other than corn. The above assumptions assume well-fed cattle.

Finally, as someone already noted in another comment, human urine contains a significant amount of salt, and without its removal this could lead to excess salinization that would render the soil infertile in the long term. And the higher concentrations of urea needed could also worsen the already present problem of eutrophication.

But using urine might still be a great help with local, temporary unavailability of better fertilizers.
And the latest commit is "shifted all indentation per linter" by someone who didn't write the code. Viewing the history of a file is vastly more a pain in the ass to a useful "why" comment.
Scientists Used CRISPR to Trace Every Human Gene to Its Function
Continental drift, subduction, new volcanic islands being born, long run out landslides, meandering rivers....the list is much longer than just earthquakes.
The point is exactly that we don't know which of the infinite possibilities consciousness is.

If we (like I do) assume a materialistic world rather than a dualistic one, then we can make the assumption that a complex structure is needed for reasoning and sensing. Even if we postulates that this is true, then if you limit your definition of consciousness to the combination of a subjective experience and that, then indeed we are talking about different things.

(Ironically, the authors argument pushes things towards a dualistic interpretation, because in a purely materialistic universe there appears to be no other possibility than computation to produce a complex consciousness, irrespective of what adds a subjective experience to it - e.g. any unknown physics allowing consciousness would in a materialistic world just be another form of computation -, but a dualistic interpretation would undercut his entire argument - with a dualistic conception of the world, none of the arguments he use would prevent a possibility of some out-of-universe "spark of consciousness" imbuing anything and everything irrespective of in-universe logic)

But we have no evidence to suggest whether the subjective experience - I used that term for a reason - part of that, which is the very core of what would distinguish consciousness from "dumb" computation requires complex structure or not.

Part of the problem is that a whole lot of complex structure is required before we can interrogate something about whether or not it is conscious, and even then we struggle to find ways of telling whether it is "just" mimicking consciousness, because we have no measurement to apply to tell us whether something is conscious or not, just whether it appears to be.

I have aphantasia. I don't see things in my minds eye. I went decades before I realised this is unusual. People who hear about it get confused about how I can e.g. remember what something looks like, but I can sketch out in detail what things looks like (I used to draw - not great, but better than average), and I can "visualise" complex relationships that I can't visualise - I know how they link together even though I can't see it. To me, that experience makes me perhaps more willing than average to accept that reasoning and the subjective experience of reasoning might be surprisingly separate, and to at least be open to the possibility that the reverse could be true as well - that entities that lack the complexity required to reason might still have a flicker of subjective experience.

To be clear, I don't believe that is the case - I simply don't know. But I also don't deny the possibility, because we don't know. We have no data to point in either direction, and so when someones argument requires ruling it out in order to support their argument, that argument is on shaky ground.
VR being a pain in the ass is VR's problem.

Making it indistinguishable from real life should be easy then.
Here is my experience with "public" unions. When I was working at a public research institute, employees were kind of forced to enter a union. It seemed ok because union's cut was paid by government. Government just wants to look cute to public eye and EU. That union were more or less useless and just collecting huge sums of money. Where does that money goes nobody dares to check. My wife also had to enter a Teacher's union and that is a much larger scam. IMO, Most public unions are parasites living on free government money.
"The thing with 4hr technical assignments is that you're saying no to anyone with kids". - or maybe they're saying "Yes" to someone who works from home and will do it while being paid by their current employer? ;). Which could mean (a) their current employer has mistreated them and "deserves" this to a certain extent, or (b) they'll do the same kind of thing and other naughty things on work time, if they get the job?
This doesn't seem to model gravity - planets don't appear to exert any force on each other and the orbit is exactly a circle.
Great!

Your post didn't link directly to Microvium, so I give it here:

https://microvium.com/

https://github.com/coder-mike/microvium
Look up "etymological fallacy".

Words don't have a "true meaning" independent of how they are used.
Even k8s only costs about 10% overhead.

It's kind of incredible that "a few hetzner dedis running k8s" still has better reliability than the Cloud™ does.
Maybe the curse of personalized search results struck for OP
I agree with you that salt is necessary. But currently, much more people suffer because of too much salt rather than too little.

My point is to watch one's salt intake. The relative mortality risk from 5g of sodium per day is 1.0 to 1.1 (most likely a 5% shorter lifespan).
> This is manifested by turning the URL bar into a search bar by default

I'm so far gone at this point that I can't even imagine an alternative.

I use search for basically everything - even just going to websites that I go to frequently.

I have maybe 10 - 20 sites I visit everyday, followed by technical questions that I Google, followed by general questions that I Google (with "reddit" appended).

I sometimes browse the web (clicking on link after link), but it takes some effort to find a piece of yarn to follow that doesn't end up in one of the walled gardens.
Adding to this: If you use dedicated servers rather than VPS, you can also squeeze out a lot more performance of the boxes as you have dedicated CPUs just for you, instead of shared (vCPU) that others use too.
So what's the allocation pattern like (regarding malloc/free)? Last time I used scripting language in constrained environments it was Duktape and one of the issues was wildly varying allocations ranging from few bytes to kilobytes depending on usage. We ended up implementing TLSF like allocator which worked well in the end.
VR is the "supersonic jet airliner" of computing.
It will never be a thing. Give it a rest, sometimes technology is complete and doesn't need to be "disrupted" anymore.
Can I ask out of interest (most of my projects are high perf/low traffic) what kind of traffic you are dealing with at the point you decide you need a CDN?
Automated Decision-Making Systems and Discrimination [pdf]
I don't think OSM data are actually that precise.

Also - I think moving data with some model is highly impractical. Location shift of 1cm is very small - things can move this small for various reasons - erosion, wear of material or construction nearby.
I switched from Java to Python and liked it. The downside was mostly navigating existing code bases. But in general, well designed code trumps static/dynamic. Also, when I think back to products I have worked on, I mostly think of what the code did, not so much about what language I used.

https://henrikwarne.com/2014/06/22/switching-from-java-to-py...