skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they can deliver on presence, where I can look into someone's eyes in VR and have a conversation and feel like I'm with them in the room, I'll buy everyone in my family on day one.

I get giddy thinking about being able to have weekly dinners or watch movies with my family across the country and have it feel like we're actually there. This feels far off, but it seems like zuck is getting the pieces together, like the Codec photorealistic avatars [1], to make this happen.

Facetime, Zoom, etc, it's just draining not being able to hold eye contact because of camera placement. And people get distracted. And the current products, BigscreenVR and the weird cartoon avatars and VRChat, just don't do it for me.

FB will probably fuck this up, but I see the vision.

1 - https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22751177/facebook-meta-c...
Yay, another person who keeps an eye on the landscape of search engines and tries different ones. I thought I am the only one with this hobby.

I made this page to be able to use a different search engine for every search I do:

https://www.gnod.com/search

(Click on "more engines" to see the full list and chose the ones for which buttons are displayed. But you can also search right from the list by first entering a search query and then clicking on an entry in the list.)
What would be the advantage vs DIMMs?
I guess, in an ideal world, our tools could ~pair code and comments introduced adjacent to each other in the same commit, and then ~visually surface how many commits have touched the code without touching the comment (or whether it has been orphaned).
HaGRID is a large image dataset for hand gesture recognition systems
It’s there under bing
I use it very often to view google streetview. Static images don't cause nausea. I think i ve already gotten enough return for my investment and they keep shipping new updates all the time (last one was quite buggy).
They’re just traditionalist

> When first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a sensation. Many have called the first-night reaction a "riot" or "near-riot", though this wording did not come about until reviews of later performances in 1924, over a decade later.
Do you think an Australian Emporium might do okay in SF?

Australian in that context could include a very wide range of Greek, Italian, Croatian, and Lebanese, goodies to pad out a small goods shop with more traditional Australian fare.
Click "ready" then wait for the "Go" to go green. Then you can start racing, and here at least, I was able to click through the Set light
It is also much faster and allows p2p networks
Ah yes, because we can't make racist jokes about black people, they must rule over us
I am an owner of grocery shop and for me it is super easy to have a talk with my clients or to observe their behaviour. Somebody don't like our goods or service, somebody use to fall down before even entering because tiles on stairs become slippery on winters. Somebody use to steal something as expensive as possible without any real needness. Well, software business is different but find a way to get some talks with your clients and try to find a way to observe what they are actually doing (please look at people but not spyware trackers).
Apparently you don't use Tiktok. Facebook is bad but TikTok is next level bad. It damages a whole new generation's dopamine system and their mental health and who knows what. FB is a declining empire which is less relevant day by day . Time will take care of it. But TikTok is the real bad boy. If you put chinese communist government into equation , then it is even worse.
We have an Excel report generating code at work.

It's extremely straightforward to read... once you understand the requirements and limitations, and some intricacies of Excel format.

So there's a 5-page accompanying document that explains those.

Code is very, very rarely self-documenting on its own. Because more often than not you need to know most of the code, most of the context and history of the code, and the business domain this code is intended for to understand it.
Let me guess, the juniors are filtering the seniors out because they don't subscribe to the latest fads or are opinionated/more realistic about somethings that the juniors take as gospel

Also, the issue with most technical assignments I see is that they're judged much harshly than the actual work would be (including by the ones doing the assessment) and the fact that actual work is interactive and not a fire-and-forget (as the assignment is)
What's a "very high LVT"?

Estonia has an LVT of 0.1—2.5%.

https://www.emta.ee/en/private-client/taxes-and-payment/othe...
Hardware companies manage to hire people without giving them assignments all the time (lets not even talk about management, HR, counsel ...), what makes software companies so special that they have to do it, except maybe that they can?
Please provide one example.
I made all my friends at work on my smoke breaks with them. Come to think of it, once I stopped smoking I stopped having friends at work…
This was added in back 2018, so we've had a while to start using it.. anyone have experiences of other tools using this information?
Suggestions for additions:

Kagi.com
Neeva.com
On the website of a big merino wool clothing store they write [1]:

> Unbound Merino clothing can be washed in a regular washing machine at a normal or cool temperature setting. You can use regular detergent, and avoid fabric softener or products with bleach.

According to you this is wrong which is surprising because they should know what they're talking about. Could you clarify? Do you have other sources?

[1] https://unboundmerino.com/blogs/help-center/when-i-do-wash-m...
This sounds like it works as designed, unfortunately.
I find it curious that the group decrying cancel culture most prominently, conservatives, are also the group who tried to council rock music, rap music, gay people, gay marriage, abortion, people of colour, abuse victims, businesses making business decisions to change the names of their products etc
My tool-assisted speedrun (0.001s):

let setGo = document.querySelector(".setGo");
let observer = new MutationObserver(mutations => {
if (setGo.classList.contains("going")) {
for (const { target } of mutations) {
if (target.checked == target.disabled) {
target.click();
}
}
}
});
observer.observe(setGo, {attributes: true});
document.querySelectorAll(".theSport input").forEach(checkbox => {
observer.observe(checkbox, {attributes: true});
});

Explanation: instead of messing about with timers, it asks to be informed when any attribute changes (could use attributeFilter to only hear about "class" for setGo and "disabled" for checkboxes, but I didn’t bother). This is faster than can be acheived with setTimeout, setInterval or requestAnimationFrame, as timers are deliberately speed-capped. (Whereas mutation observers create microtasks, so we can go through this whole thing in one frame.)

When the observer gets notified (in a microtask), it checks if we’re going (in order to avoid false starts), and then goes through the checkboxes it’s been told just changed, and checks if they’re enabled and unchecked, and clicks them. In practice, the first mutation will come in with mutation records for setGo and the first checkbox, which we’ll click, which will trigger an event (a task) from the page code which enables the second checkbox, which will trigger an immediate mutation notification (a microtask), &c. until it’s all done, without ever rendering a frame in the meantime.
> The largest cities are all within 100 km of each other.

They're not.

Zurich is 225km from Lausanne and 125km from Bern. Geneva is 254km from Basel, 371km from Lugano, 265km from Lucerne and 277km from Zurich.

I think the opposite of your claim is closer to the truth (though it also has exceptions) than your claim.
Shouldn't code-reviews make sure that comments are relevant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
I've got over 10k of them. ;-)
I went with a manual-mix approach:

var boxes = document.querySelectorAll("#root > div > div.sportsWrapper > div.theSport > div:nth-child(2) > input[type=checkbox]")

Then "start", wait for go signal while getting the code below ready on console. on go run the code:

boxes.forEach(b => b.click())

Got: Time: 0.268
Those are mild. In my nextdoor feed, there’s an elderly woman who angrily replies to every post telling them to stop emailing her. She apparently doesn’t know how to turn off notifications. People have tried to help but I guess she doesn’t read the replies either.
Exactly. Senior devs have choices already. Another nope on the assignment.
dollar value is only one part of valuation.

a ranch somewhere vs a shoebox in the middle of manhattan quite likely will not be considered "equal" by prospective owners, even if the dollar valuation is exactly the same.
Offering someone you don't know a senior position without some kind of insight into their level of competence is just a lottery.

I've screened a number of very senior developers with impressive CV's applying for senior C++ positions. When I look at their code, usually it just sucks. More often than not it's just plain old C code with C++ dressing. For example, using pthreads in stead of C++11 std::thread, and mostly avoiding even the C++ standard library.

When I interview people, I usually ask them to write some code, for 4 to 6 hours, to solve whatever problem they find interesting, to show me; a) their level of understanding of the C++ language and libraries, b) how they solve problems (I prefer low complexity) and c) what they find interesting.

The interview + the code they show me, give me an idea about their qualifications in this specific area. It's still a lottery to hire someone, but the odds for a winning ticket is a little better ;)
The best way to file feedback is to 1. file a good report in Feedback Assistant, then 2. tweet about it. The second step is crucial.
There is the saying that a poor workman blames his tools. (Sorry for the sexism, but let's assume were all guys for this.)

I claim something more specific. A totally powerless workman who's afraid of his bosses blames his tools.

An individual in the face of indomitable authority blames anything else.

Jira is a wonderful proxy for all the bureaucracy and *managers you hate. So hate Jira, because you're powerless to change anything that matters.
This looks great, thanks for posting. Hopefully I’ll get time to read it all.
Wow Four Tet is a stalwart in his scene and only made £10k per year from streaming. Wonder how 'big' you need to be the make median pay
You started this subthread with the comment:

> The idea that the difference between 0.9005 and 0.90005 is "small" is … weird.

When you use the author's numbers, 0.9005 and 0.90005, the implication is that you're taking the parameters of they hypothetical as given. You then go on to say that the difference between those numbers is significant. Remember that in this abstract, idealized scenario, the air filters are only able to process 1/10th of the air in the room (hence the shared 0.9, the dominant portion of the magnitude). Perhaps the room reciculates with its environment at the rate of one room volume per day, and the filters can only process 1/10th of the room per day. Given that, do you still think the difference is significant? Or are you just outright refusing to participate in the thought experiment at all? Because that's what it seems like now that you're trying to broaden the scope of your contention to the other sections of the article.
We got a leaked look at NASA’s future Moon missions–and likely delays
> don't see why this is so far fetched at this point

Because you've fetched it far with "I can imagine someone gladly accepting tokens for a house"
How about the glaring biological “marker” of the XX and XY chromosomes?
I can’t speak for the others, but Godoc is IME way better than JavaDoc, which is both hard to write, and hard to read inline due to all the f*ing HTML.

More to the point, just because some platforms provide equivalent functionality doesn’t make the GP wrong.
EU Digital Services Act: How it will make the internet safer for children
How does this compare with Google's software defined far memory: https://research.google/pubs/pub48551/?
No silver bullet. It helps to write thoughtful comments. It helps to pick thoughtful names. It helps to weave a story out of the names you've chosen.

I have been picking at some thoughts on the ~naming side of this recently... https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/what_functions_and_why_function...
The thing that turns me off of VR the most is rumors I've heard (sometimes here on HN) of eye health issues from excessive VR use. Is anyone working on that?
Hossenfelder disagrees,
https://youtu.be/cZ9YAFYIBOU

Pro athletics have never been fair. Born women pro athletes are the top of the top and have higher testosterone and muscle development.

For a MTF athlete to compete they have to actually be tested for hormone levels over years of time. Yes, they will still have physical superiority over the average women. However, this is pro sports.

There are very few trans athletes, and the stories of MTF competitors being unfair are either 1. Fabricated, 2. The sports org did not implement proper rules. Or 3. People are looking to hate on something.
This is very interesting.

So basically, have a similar approach to a physical business even for a software business.

Thanks for sharing.
I don't think they are EEE-ing C#. I think what is going on is that there are middle management in the Visual Studio Full team that are very protective about the product they have help made and these manager are the ones that have a hard time adjusting to open source. Their salary is probably based on that VS has to make a profit or they simply don't understand open source of the benefits you (can) get. I dont think MS upper management has a formal EEE strategy. I simple it is some stupid middle management that f. up things

I dont know if c# has a future outside of games and big corps. I face palm everytime I see Microsoft launch something open source and cross platform and leave linux out of it and instead say that "the community must create something amazing for linux". If Microsoft starts to build the first version of shiny new thing for linux and launch it at the same time as the launch it for windows, mac, android, then i cam move outside those niches because doing that will create good will
>all the people who shill Mullvad over everything probably just use them for web-browsing or adjacent activities, and not anything that requires a specialty product like p2p or bypassing national firewalls.

On the contrary. Mullvad gives you more flexibility than PIA in that regard and doesn't limit you to whatever features are built into the client like PIA does. You can build tunnels to whatever endpoint in whichever country you want. You can associate multiple ports to your tunnel or separate tunnels for inbound connections. It's very convenient if you want a P2P tunnel where you can get a wireguard interface on the client and then configure your P2P application to only use that tunnel so that there's no chance of leaks (Up to you if you want to also configure the P2P service to use DNS over the VPN or just the system resolver if you don't care) and you don't have to tunnel everything over the same VPN. You can have multiple interfaces going to different applications if you wanted. You have the flexibility to configure your client in whatever way you want without having to deal with proprietary endpoints to request a temporary forwarded port for the connection like what PIA makes you use.

I used to use PIA before the owner hired con artist Mark Karpeles as the CTO and jumped ship when that happened. Even though I only picked Mullvad because it was recommended on HN and wasn't PIA, I much prefer it from a technical standpoint. If I knew how much better it was originally I never would have went for the cheaper more popular option of PIA. People shilling Mullvad are probably doing so because it has many technical advantages over traditional VPNs used by more casual customers. Mullvad also supports bridge servers for shadowsocks. I've never had an opportunity to test it but I'd expect Mullvad to be more reliable in China than PIA.

PIA is cheap, and they don't seem to keep traffic logs. That's basically all they have going for them.
Shouldn't a CS degree from a reputable university then just replace all the screening that is made for people without relevant degrees?
> It assumes the market and landscape stay static. That the entire industry will not go through huge waves of change and huge levels of innovation will be needed to survive.

Collective bargaining doesn’t assume that though?

You keep saying that “companies that suck should die”. This is just the worst kind of approach to solving any problem: do nothing, let it sort itself out, “trust the market”. Well, we’ve seen what the economy is like with strong labor and without it, and the people that are involved in the economy should get to choose the system that they prefer.
You can post collateral, borrow coins, convert to Fiat and spend the borrowed money on what you like. Sounds like a (collateralised) loan to me?

As a peer comment says, collaterlised lending is very popular in traditional finance to avoid taxable events and gain leverage.

There are plenty of critiques around Crypto but this isn’t one of them.
Try writing a version of ruby or python or rust that lets you just write something meaningful that _evaluates_. Let alone the list of stuff you mentioned above. It’s far harder than for lisp.
Amazing!

An (old!) electrical device which performs roughly the same function as a transistor or a vacuum tube -- yet is constructed in a way similar to a transformer...

Perhaps this device would offer a way to understand the electrical switching that a transistor does, not in terms of NPN or PNP junctions/dopants/charge carriers/etc. -- but in terms of more fundamental electromagnetic concepts, i.e., coils of wire, iron cores, magnetic fields, electrical fields, etc.

In other words, what can be done with NPN/PNP junctions/dopants/charge carriers etc. -- should also be able to be done at a more fundamental level, using only wires, inductors, coils, iron cores, etc.

This device (the "Mag-Amp") seems to do exactly that(!), and for that reason, I consider it worthy of comparative study...
> This avoids all of the capital controls and knowledge the state has

So. Illegal movement of money.
Reminds me of this House MD episode:
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Act_Your_Age

I'm in my mid 30s, healthy but a bit lower than avg. testosterone. Experimented with these gels a bit, self-medicated since no endocrinologist would recommend it as a booster as there were no evident issues.

The first couple of days I (and the gf) noticed a boost in aggressive energy but then it quickly faded. Did bloodwork before and three weeks after starting, free and total testosterone went up but the difference was very slight; I've gotten higher levels in previous measurements during summertime while doing more exercise (daily dose was low, one pump from the dispenser rubbed on the shoulders)

Could try an aromatase inhibitor, just don't want to go greater lengths with these experiments, as in anabolics, pellets or injectables, with all the risks that they carry, just something that I can purchase off a pharmacy or supplement store.

Hormones are complicated.
Accepting tokens isn't the issue. The issue is you can't put up the house you're going to buy as collateral for a DeFi loan. You need to have other crypto assets worth 1.5x or more than the house you're going to buy.
We'll have to agree to disagree on whether we are past that point. I have seen no evidence of major corporations or banks refusing to serve LGBT people. Companies are simply hoping they can attract more customers by appearing relevant.
Dunno quite what your idea was with canceled: your comment doesn’t match behaviour at all. As for dispatching a click event, you can just use .click().

Your speedrun code can be reduced to this:

setInterval(() => document.querySelector('input[type=checkbox]:not(:checked)').click(), 100)

It would be significantly improved by the addition of :enabled and then reduction of interval time.
Show HN: Blame.email – client-side one-way email generator
P2P transactions is one way. There are crypto ATMs all over too.

I have a lot of experience in the Vietnam market. Most people there don't have credit cards, but they do have bank accounts and can easily buy crypto from a variety of sites... binance, remitano, localbitcoins, bitcoinvn, etc...

Once you get outside the US, a lot of things open up quite a bit. Especially in developing nations.
You can certainly get the big picture if you abstract the codebase in such a way that top level operations are abstracted by functions.

But of course it depends on the context and what you're trying to do.

React/Vue is a good example. You have some Application component that has a set of sub components representing different regions of the page, which have their own subcomponents and so on.

Makes it very easy to dive in from top down and drop into lower level abstractions as needed.
Like others have commented, I too am very certain Youtube uses IP address. My family and I are behind the same cable modem, and oftentimes my family's Youtube "related videos" will start popping up in my Youtube home page, and vice versa, even though I have no interest in or have watched those videos.

Interestingly, I seem to recollect this happening only in the past few months or so, maybe a feature they turned on recently?
Definitely lots of feedback from everyone possible. Try and have someone other than you ask in some cases, because people will be deferential and kind to you as inventor/creator.

Sometimes you can get small grants to cover professional advice, which can include feedback, or sometimes there will be events where you can get such advice from experts for free.

I also help run an invetors' club, and that is another good venue for advice.