skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good specialized site and YouTube channel is Garage Gym Reviews [1]. Their reviews are clear and thorough and should be useful references for people buying gym equipment for the home.

The owner can go into obsessive detail about equipment features that I, at least, have never thought about, like knurling on barbells [2]. I have learned a lot from his videos.

[1] https://www.garagegymreviews.com/

[2] https://youtu.be/5rFSsUx_KDI
> One of the reasons the bank charges you interest is that they're taking a risk that you will not pay back the loan. AFAIK this is not possible in DeFi.

That's why there are options markets like, Nexus Mutual [1], that allow third parties to take on that risk.

[1] https://nexusmutual.io/
coins are just a reserve for excess dollars. When people want dollars, it goes down.
> It doesn't really make anything new possible

How are you actually defining "new" here? Have you considered that you are defining "new" in an amorphous way that allows you to reject everything new that VR/AR offer?

AR allows one to create virtual objects with actual position and shape in the real world. We can see these objects in their location in the world, and interact with them. That is the abstracted case of what is truly new -- the thing that simply does not exist without AR.

From this abstract case, we can give concrete examples. When buying products online, one can discover what furniture will look like in their house, or what clothing will look like on their body -- they can better see it from every angle and the form it will take. In terms of "adult entertainment", one can literally experience a virtual person up in your face and on your body, something that is just not offered by any existing form. Shit, we can attach a virtual note to a physical object (that only select people get to see!), we can use a ping pong table without needing to own a ball, we can see "subtitles" next to a person who is talking, we can see a label next to our friend in a crowded place without having to constantly cross-reference a map on a phone screen... honestly. Have some imagination.

If you can see this list of things and say "none of that is new", then I seriously challenge you to define "new" for me, because I'm willing to bet you are not applying the same rigorous definition to smartphones.
Satire?

I mean, it has it's uses ...
Either I’m having a stroke or GPT-3 needs some serious work when the topic is human nutrition.
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> This article actually makes a bunch of claims itself that are false.

There's this howler:

> This passage implies that a (“true”?) HEPA filter is designed to capture particles that are 0.3 microns or larger. But an H13 filter must, by definition, capture 99.95% of particles of all sizes.

According to this guy, an H13 filter is required to capture 99.95% of neutrinos that pass through it. He's not in a position to accuse anyone of not knowing what they're talking about.

Moving to wikipedia, we see this text:

> Common standards require that a HEPA air filter must remove—from the air that passes through—at least 99.95% (ISO, European Standard) or 99.97% (ASME, U.S. DOE) of particles whose diameter is equal to 0.3 μm

I know which of those claims is more plausible. The standard described by wikipedia is theoretically capable of both being measured and being met. Neither is true of what dynomight.net says.
For EU standards, a filter removes X% of the hardest particle size to remove (called the Most Penetrating Particle Size or MPPS). That size varies between filters, but is often around 0.3 microns. Filters will do better than X% for particles both larger and smaller than the MPPS. So for the EU standard, we're saying "it'll do X% worst case, and better than X% for all other cases, meaning it'll always filter out more than X% of all particles, regardless of size".

If X% is 99.95% or higher and below 99.9995%, it's technically HEPA; 99.9995% and above it's ULPA, and below 99.95% (but 85% or higher) it's EPA.

So let's say you've got an E12 filter that removes 99.6% of particles. Technically not HEPA, but after one pass through the filter and you've got 0.4% of the particles left. Two passes and you've got 0.0016% left, three passes and it's 0.0000064% left.

An H13 filter might remove 99.97% of particles. One pass and you've got 0.04% left, two passes and you've got 0.000016% left.

Or in other words, one pass through a technically HEPA filter might leave you with 25 times more particles than two passes through a technically non-HEPA filter. So if the air is cirulating back through the filter (as it would in a closed room), what matters is both how good the filter is and how much air it can filter. And since at the high end the filters are all so good, the volume of air processed dominates. A filter that processes twice as much air is vastly better than one that filters out an extra fraction of a percent of particles.

(US standards are similar, but the cutoff for HEPA is 99.97% of 0.3 micron particles, not 99.95% of "whatever the filter is worst at". But the difference is generally irrelevant.)
I was born about 1970 and spent the next 11 years of my life learning to bake with my mom. 1 teaspoon from the 1968 girl, who seemed so very much my peer, was all my chocolate chip cookies needed.
I don’t understand the point or relevance. Can you expand?
This seems better than the experience at any other big tech though. Even filing a bug is considerably harder on a Google/Amazon product because there's no unified Feedback Assistant app. The experience of firing a bug report off into a black hole and never knowing if/when it was seen is universal as well.

It is frustrating but hardly newsworthy or a surprise.. if you feel all feedback requests should be personally investigated by devs/PMs and replied to, maybe talk to the support teams and get a sense of the volume of these reports? It really is impossible.
I believe it’s all of them.
You are arguing shades of grey.

1. You only have so much effort to spend.
2. You won't be able to please everyone with it. IE result.

Sure, for any large enough building (significant effort anyway to spend!) expecting a reasonable chunk of the population through the door a wheelchair ramp(decent chunk of populace affected) should be du jour. Hell, it is a wheelchair ramp not rocket science, I'd be happy to see them in a home building code for anywhere 2 or 3 steps are used. Little extra effort over the alternative (stairs) and get a result.

Alternately, I love my mum but it is unreasonable to expect the world to bend to meet the sheer levels of disconnection-from-reality that mental health paranoia can go to. We can't treat everyone like they are Truman from the Truman Show.

People have to be able to cope with change. When they can't, it is sad. But the world will keep changing anyway.
"can't upvote this enough" because you think the cryptography is wrong, or because you didn't read the description?
IMO a “switch” from one to the other is the wrong way to look at it. There are plenty of people who legitimately care about the environment for the environment’s sake, like myself and probably anybody else on this website. What you should be looking for are the secondary and tertiary effects of climate legislation with a mind toward ideologies besides your own which would benefit from those effects.

As always, correlation is not causation, but check out the inflection point for environmental interest among “American English” publications at the time of the first civil rights act in 1964: https://i.imgur.com/kP8ugvH.png

Since we’ve been picking on California in this thread this is also a good time to remember 1964 as the year California passed a state ballot proposition with the explicit intent of nullifying a state-level fair housing act passed one year earlier in 1963: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_California_Proposition_14

Obviously California is a huge state with a huge number of conflicting ideologies, but I think it’s important to be mindful of ways one’s good intentions may be misdirected and misused.
Any mature and great resident area would be expensive. With network and mostly work at home may be it helps. Otherwise look around it is always expansive for city cf rural … I am not sure there is a solution. When the house value comes down … it is more trouble.

Of course $1m is still quite high, btw.
> Google was an internet superpower before they released Chrome in 2008.

Okay, so how exactly do they pose a threat to the internet and how do you propose we regulate it? Google is certainly no saint, but their liability to protect the privacy of their millions of users' data is exactly the same as Apple. Hell, same goes to Amazon: if you asked most people if they preferred to have their Amazon info leaked or their iCloud leaked, and I think most people would jump at the chance to get their shopping info and Twitch history doxxed. Apple owns all of the data these companies collect and then some.

> At the end of the day Apple is a hardware company [...] so they are beholden to their branding as the most luxury/conscientious/privacy/hardware/etc-focused company and create lock-in through synergy between their products.

Right, but as a hardware company offering software services, they are also beholden to making them play nice with others. That means accepting common, secure chat standards when people make them, adopting the open-source graphics API that you contributed to, and not using proprietary connectors on their phones that are used on literally no other device on the planet. You know, common sense stuff. Regulation can help fix these things, and give the consumer what they deserve with zero potential to meaningfully harm Apple in the long-run.

> Search is used by 92.5% of users [1] and that gives them power to do nearly whatever they want with how people consume and find information.

Apparently Apple doesn't see anything wrong with that, since they're happy to leave Google as the default search on Spotlight, so long as Google writes them a fat paycheck in exchange for violating user privacy. It's the under-the-table deals like this that are prime examples for why all of these companies deserve strict regulation on data management.

Furthermore, I think you're missing the scale of the figures I posted: Google is an ad company, and their entire advertising revenue is overshadowed by one of Apple's side-hustles (not Airpods, not iPhone, not Mac, not SaaS subscriptions). That's a sign that something is terribly wrong here, and I don't think you can make a reasonable argument otherwise.

> Combined with their data collection abilities and AI I'm surprised there hasn't been any scandals or leaks around data manipulation.

Again, which is worse than Apple how? Apple also can collect all of the data off your phone, encrypt it, then send it back to their servers. They regularly do, even with analytics turned off. On top of that, they can get all this data off your Mac, too, which also regularly phones home as soon as you connect it to a personally identifying iCloud account.

Apple publicly admit that they cut out the middleman and just directly process data for the CCP now. iCloud servers operate on Chinese-owned servers operated in government-owned datacenters. Who's to say they don't do the same thing in the US, with more smoke and mirrors?
> Yes but there is a way to fire anyone who sets an arbitrarily high LVT

Yes but that requires a majority to want to abolish said LVT, whereas the majority would stand to benefit from an LVT as close to 100% (of economic rent) as possible.

> Property taxes do go into the cost of business by the way; and that would be true for an LVT as well.

Most businesses (last I checked) lease from commercial landlords, which means property taxes and LVT would both be part of rent - which, again, can't be raised to account for LVT without violating supply v. demand constraints and hurting profits as a result.

Even for those businesses which do own land outright, land prices are also currently a factor in the cost of business; they're no worse off by replacing a giant lump sum with LVT.
Next-door is filled with dark patterns.

Some, I actually admire. For example: Debates about national politics are against the TOS.

Makes sense, they don't want a locally focused forum turning into the usual partisan cesspool.

So when inevitably threads turn to national partisan politics, there seems to be some flag which is toggled. You might get notifications about replies to your posts, but click yields "This comment has been deleted". You have to use one of a few workarounds to catch up with the whole thread. Boom: Fewer shitposts by virtue of slowing down the whole discussion to a near-standstill.
Apple: Additional TSIs are available for purchase in either a 2-pack for 99 USD or 5-Pack for 249 USD (or in local currency where available) in the Code-Level Support section of your account. TSIs purchased separately expire one year from the date of activation.

Seems like you save a few pennies per incident with two packs unless you really need an odd number.
Raspberry Pi actually made a model that is built into a keyboard. I think it’s called the 400. And it’s less expensive than the PC linked above
tl;dr: SSO seems like a big risk to me, from being a single point of failure, and I think we could use signed certificates instead.

So, I may be completely uninformed here, but I don't see SSO as a good thing. I understand the advantages it has, but it gives an outside party the ability to restrict what your employees can do, should it so decide.

For example, we hear of Google banning people from accounts all of the time. Perhaps your company uses Google's SSO for all of its vendor accounts. If Google decided to ban the admin accounts of your SSO, all of your employees are now unable to work. Perhaps that happens during an outage caused by a DDoS (maybe the DDoS effects were why Google banned you). At that point, your employees can do nothing to bring your systems back online. If they can't, chances are you will go out of business if your revenue depends on your systems being online.

This seems like an enormous risk.

I'm no cryptographer, but here's my design of something to replace SSO: instead of each vendor supporting SSO, they support "certificate checks." When a user, your employee, logs on, the vendor contacts a pre-determined server, preferably controlled by you directly, for a certificate for the employee. Your server can either return one, cryptographically signed by your master key, of course, or refuse to return one.

If it returns one, and the signature is valid (maybe they expire after certain amount of time), then the vendor will let your employee on. If not, the vendor refuses access.

I believe that this system has the upside of SSO that access to all vendors for a particular employee can be revoked at any time by simply telling the server that you control to not return a certificate, but it also does not have the downside that centralized authentication for your business is controlled by someone else.

Of course, this also means that the employee cannot use one username and password for access to everything (unless they do it manually, of course; are you training your employees to not do that?). However, I think that that is actually an advantage because that single account sign on becomes a single point of failure. If that account is compromised, perhaps by phishing, the attacker now has access to all of the vendor accounts for that employee. Having separate username/password pairs for all of the accounts is much better (you are having your employees use password managers, right?).

Am I right? If not, why? What am I missing?
Fantastic news, looking forward to more progress in this area. TBIs are extremely disruptive of neural functions
The VR was really cool! Totally unexpected.
That was when I stopped using Facebook. Facebook had a single edited photo of me that (at the time) was 10 years old, and I didn't care to give them another. I decided that I didn't use Facebook enough to care, so I just stopped. One of these days I need to go in and officially delete my account.
Frown

Some wp admin ban this clown
The worst part is that they regularly add new notification topics that you also have to go back and disable.
He said one of his interests was "blockchains" so he probably doesn't care, at all.
What is it with these corporations randomly running experiments on people anyway? It used to be that there was an opt in buried somewhere in the settings. Now they just assume we want to be their unpaid guinea pigs?
https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/

> Additional TSIs are available for purchase in either a 2-pack for 99 USD or 5-Pack for 249 USD (or in local currency where available) in the Code-Level Support section of your account. TSIs purchased separately expire one year from the date of activation.
The day I needed to bookmark the url to manage my options list because I couldn’t get to it intuitively due to probably be being wrong (like 90% of their current customer base I guess) was when it started to go seriously south for me.
Unless I'm missing something here, this is insurance, not lending.
Contra wirecutter is clearly invented for this article. But in short I take it to mean that it asserts a point of view that is in disagreement with the point of view asserted on the popular wirecutter.com product review site.
Sounds like high school me buying a zen creative and a zune because they were "better than iPods" and hating iPhones when they came out because physical keyboards would always be superior.
Ok I would encourage you to Ask other engineers if they feel like taking 2 months off would affect their focus on a long term project.

Reacclimating to work after a long weekend is hard for some people. 60 days off can be mentally jarring for others.

Startups move quickly. Coming back and finding out what’s going in the company, the people, this all adds complexity.

Finally, not everyone is an engineer making $320k and suggesting 2 months off. Some people genuinely enjoy work and don’t want to take more time off. What works for you as an engineer might not be what others in sales, product, marketing and operations want.

I might feel like I do better work high it doesn’t mean I’m going to subject my team to a mandatory daily edible.

All that said if you end up starting a company and are taking 2 months off in cycles - there will be people who don’t do this and will wonder “where is our boss / when are they going to show up?”
Independent of Apple, I think we need an industry wide of saying "I'm not an idiot, this bug report is real". I've been on both sides (in a moderately used OSS project). The main problem is that the attending doesn't have a good way to filtering the noise from the signal. As a result, the likes of Apple (and the other FAANGs) implement these aggregate-and-discard blackholes for bug reports. "Only a 0.1% increase in crashes? Ship it" is the way the story goes sadly.
> Second, and a minor point, the 0.3-micron standard related to the US HEPA standard, not the EU one. It is true that acording to IKEA it doesn't meet the EU standard for HEPA (barely), but we don't know whether it meets the US one.

Wikipedia cites this statement:

> Common standards require that a HEPA air filter must remove—from the air that passes through—at least 99.95% (ISO, European Standard) [...] of particles whose diameter is equal to 0.3 μm

to "European Standard EN 1822-1:2009, "High efficiency air filters (EPA, HEPA and ULPA)", 2009". Have they made a mistake? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA )

The same sentence goes on to note that the American standard is similar, but more strict, requiring filtration of 99.97% of 0.3 μm particles. As such, it is not possible to meet the American standard while failing to meet the European standard, so there's no need to discuss the American standard separately.
Curious. I know exactly what I’m talking about, but you seem to be mixing up some things here.

I specifically spoke about free soloing to take away the impact of better climbing gear. I implicitly ask - why couldn’t El Capitan be free soloed a century ago? Yeah sure, the shoes are slightly better but that’s about it. The main difference between Honnold free soloing in 2018 and a hypothetical climber free soloing in 1918 is knowledge. Honnold speaks a lot about the various routes through El Capitan mapped over the decades by others. Their freely shared knowledge is his productivity gain.
> No.

Yes. Or do you believe land titles to be magical artifacts that the rest of society obeys for the hell of it? Land ownership would not exist (and therefore wouldn't need taxed) if not for the state using its monopoly on violence to enforce your piece of paper; given that state-issued privilege, it should be entirely unsurprising that you might be called upon to pay accordingly.
Honestly, given I kept my last machine 7 years, and given the ridiculous power of this one, I think the reason I upgrade next is simply going to be new-tech-envy, not because this machine can't keep anymore. This thing will probably last a decade.
It seems like Apple waits to see what other people do and then come out with a product that works for normal people. When I see Apple come out with iVR, then I will start to believe that VR might actually go mainstream.
The last time I was actively looking for a job (instead of being recruited via my network), was in 2016. Looking at my spreadsheet, I was somewhere in the process of interviewing (phone screen -> in person -> waiting for an offer) for 15 different companies. Why would I ever have jumped through hoops if they were all paying about the same.

I took the first one that met my compensation/technology/commute requirements. Back then, one Enterprise CRUD job looked like any other.
If these are powerful use cases, you probably won't need to inform us about them; we'll all be using Filecoin instead of S3, or Radicle instead of Gitlab. Instead of "here are some popular use cases", you'll say "you rely on crypto every day, in order to access this structured knowledge graph thing everyone uses". If replacing S3 and Github are the strongest cases you can make, I'm dubious: I don't doubt there are people who really want to replace S3, but I very much do doubt that there's a critical mass of them.

The question being put to crypto isn't "can you come up with something that it can do"; it's "can you come up with something that will see mainstream use that eclipses the toxic speculation that's perceived to characterize every crypto application".

I don't claim to have a dispositive argument here, but I also don't think crypto advocates do either.
The macOS Preferences System
Okay, so what changed about the Simpsons that got Apu cancelled? I’m pretty sure that was on national TV when I was a kid (and offended neither me nor any other brown guy I’ve ever met).

Cancel culture indeed has always existed. But when John Ashcroft covered up the nude statues in the DOJ we made fun of him.
The first desktop computer I and everyone I know used, they could not put it down and dreamed of when they could get on it again.

Everyone's VR I know is in a drawer.

They aren't remotely the same.
Who is your theoretical empowered user? A CS major?
It seems to me that any job paying $140K is a lot harder to get than something near minimum wage, so it's not all that obvious to me that your choice of comparison implies anything about unions.

Has anyone in this discussion actually applied for and got a union job? Preferably in the last five years or so?