skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine where Uber would be today if they wanted to stop losing money so early in the game.
What is happening to ML research that this is what they are working on? Is the problem the field has advanced far enough that the datasets need to make progress are just not viable in academia, and this we see these toy data sets and applications?

What about figuring out how to do more with less?
It is called liquidity preference and it is insatiable.
> specific ground-up custom OS

There are no doubt huge changes made, but Quest 2 runs Android underneath.
That’s a chicken and egg situation. The costs are fixed because they have no incentive to build more infrastructure.

If you live in a place with only one or two ISPs and they only charge a flat rate per month for capped usage, you never get more bandwidth. The system is working as designed.
Kraken, a U.S. Crypto Exchange, Is Suspected of Violating Sanctions
I have a Vive and have played a decent number of hours in VR, and overall like it quite a lot. It's really amazing how readily our brain will "adopt" two floating hands as your own body. I'm bullish on the future of VR gaming.

But I do think there's a big hurdle, and that's our inner ear. Teleport-based controls are jank but it seems really difficult to prevent motion sickness when using any kind of movement that translates the camera in 3d space.

I tried to play Subnautica in VR, and literally only made it about 10 seconds before I had to pull the headset off and sit on the cool tile floor for a bit.

I figured - well, maybe I shouldn't be surprised a sea game gives me motion sickness. And it's not even built for VR anyway.

So I tried - I can't remember the name, but it's a game where you fly around building a base in space. Sounded like an awesome idea.

I forced myself to play for about 5-10 minutes despite feeling ill almost immediately, and regretted it immensely when I did finally bail out.

It seems like this happens to a decent number of people? And why teleport movement is so common?

FWIW I don't get particularly bad motion sickness in other, traditional settings. Being a passenger in a car on a windy road will definitely mess me up, but I don't get seasickness, for instance, and also don't mind roller coasters at all.
Seems pretty solved to me, at least for hard spam. The soft spam of useless marketing messages from companies that do have a legitimate reason to have my contact info is a harder problem.
Translation: The only regulations the tech industry needs are ones that protect their profits and raise barriers to entry for competition.
That's not surprising considering the brand-new price is $299, and refurb units are semi-regularly available for $250.
It's also a threshold for when tenant rights laws kick in.
The very real cost of wearing a 1lb. weight in front of your face cannot be ignored either.
The displacement of Ukrainian children is awful, but also occurred in all these other conflicts. The flow of refugees is also awful, as is the imposition of the conqueror's ideology, but that happened in Iraq too.

All the other effects are speculative and caused as much by US/EU sanctions (which have historically never accomplished their goals and have not had their intended effect even in this conflict) as they are by the invasion.

I'm not saying the war in Ukraine isn't a horrendous war crime. It absolutely is. But it just hasn't reached the scale of the other conflicts I mentioned, and I suspect that the fact that white Europeans are suffering instead of Arabs or central Asians is the root of this overemphasis.
"Let me hold your wallet".

"No way!"

"OK, then just let me hold everything that's in it."
> whenever i sit down to think about anything and try and make sense of anything in my life, I really struggle

I used to feel much the same, but also found after I started keeping a diary in early 2018 that this got a lot easier. Being able to refer back to my earlier thoughts and considerations, as I wrote them down and thought through them in the moment, saved a lot of time in "getting up to speed" on prior context, and also enabled me to test my hypotheses for why I felt a way or what might help me feel differently.

It's made a huge difference, despite that I didn't start with that expectation, or really any expectation - I had a flu and a 102° fever for most of that week and the next, I didn't go into it expecting anything to make much sense at all! I just started, and stuck with it, and that seems to have been the thing that counted.

For you it might be worth a try, or it might not. That's true of anything, and I think it may be worth considering that it's not necessarily possible to know going in what's really going to help and what isn't. More important, I think, is to be willing to give things a try, in order to find out whether they really are useful. If that means working a little less to make space, then sure, to some extent there's a tradeoff there. But on the other hand, if you don't put the work in on yourself, who else is going to be able to?
3D is still TV - with only a small improvement.

VR isn't a small improvement on something you already have. It's a whole new thing. I, for one, expect it to be as revolutionary as the WWW - which also lacked for content in the early days.
This is just a made scenario

lets say more than a million

daily, but putting a number would be hard. But lets assume total image views

would be around 100k

typically an image of 1-2.5 Mb compressed with a ratio of 60%

it's pretty important to serve the image. so, reliability would be important.

it should be cost effective.

The images will be stored for a long while.
Sand is heat storage, not electricity storage. Storing heat can be much simpler and much more economical (considering that heat is the majority of your energy consumption).
"Hardly any games" seems like an exaggeration. Are you including AppLab and SideQuest or just counting the main store? Even so...

Also bear in mind that Meta have been extremely aggressive in restricting access to the main store. Unless you're a big name dev, can show strong sales on other VR platforms or you have good contacts with someone inside Meta then it's very hard to get in.
Please @dang change the title. "The green revolution" usually refers to the 1960-70s crop changes in India, not battery mineral mining.

Actual title says "Chinese Companies Allegedly Trafficking 40,000 Children In Congo, Forcing Them to Work In Hazardous Mines"
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/technology/kraken-crypto-...

First few grafs:

> Kraken, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is under federal investigation, suspected of violating U.S. sanctions by allowing users in Iran and elsewhere to buy and sell digital tokens, according to five people affiliated with the company or with knowledge of the inquiry.

> The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has been investigating Kraken since 2019 and is expected to impose a fine, said the people, who declined to be identified for fear of retribution from the company. Kraken would be the largest U.S. crypto firm to face an enforcement action from O.F.A.C. Sanctions against Iran, which the United States imposed in 1979, prohibit the export of goods or services to people or entities in the country.

> ...In an internal conversation about employee benefits in 2019, Jesse Powell, Kraken’s chief executive, suggested he would consider breaking the law in a wide range of situations if the advantages to the company outweighed potential penalties, according to messages seen by The New York Times. The company has also been dealing with internal conflict over issues including race and gender, which were stoked by Mr. Powell.

> Marco Santori, Kraken’s chief legal officer, said the company “does not comment on specific discussions with regulators.” He added, “Kraken closely monitors compliance with sanctions laws and, as a general matter, reports to regulators even potential issues.”
VR wouldn’t even be a thing anymore without their efforts.

PC Tower VR is a dead end where the complexity and hardware costs will never take it the customer base size that justifies developing non-indie content.

I don’t think Valve would have even bothered building Index without the Oculus threat.
Presumably this would mean if you’re banned on Facebook, that wouldn’t lock you out of your device. That was one of the bigger sticking points at least.
There is a difference between (A) a skilled expert who takes pride in their craft, and understandably goes with whichever employer appreciates their skills and compensates accordingly, vs (B) a middle-of-the-pack journeyman who just DGAF about their work and treats all jobs as equally disposable and replaceable (these are also the types of people who are likely to try out /r/overemployed, cuz why not).

We may all pretend to be more like type (A) employees, but in reality not everyone can be above average and there's a lot of (B) out there. As an employer, it makes total sense to invest in and pay more for (A)'s, but you're throwing money away to try and woo (B)'s or pretending like enough money will buy you better engagement or more motivation from them.
This has got to be one of the worst clickbait headlines in HN history, and this is an achievement. This is what happened. Person A has his tesla serviced, tesla increases his range by mistake. Person A puts a wrong decal on the tesla and illegally and fraudulently sells it as a car with an increased range to person B. The car eventually gets to person C, who takes the tesla to service where they correct the mistake.

So sorry, there is no ransoming. Just a bit of old fashioned fraud, and not on the part of Tesla.
For me, "no one" translates more accurately to "no one I care about." I keep my journal physically on my person, in the backpack with my laptop. If the backpack is stolen, I actually don't care if the thief reads my notes -- maybe he'll find something of value there. More than likely, he won't care about my interior conflicts.

My wife and friends know not to look through the journal without my permission, and I trust them. If I didn't trust them, I would find different friends.
come on... it's 2022, respect youself: get at least an ortholinear/columnar keyboard, and if you are brave and courageous, change the layout to something more gentle for your fingers (3-4 _REALLY_ annoying months).
The first time is generous.
I play mini golf, regular golf, and poker with my brother in law, who's 2000 miles away.
If not working in a mine, these children will be working subsistence agriculture, which is equally as back-braking.

The underlying problem is an excess of manual labor in Africa, caused by excessive birth rates. Take fertility rates down to sub-replacement like they are in the rest of the world, and mining will just be automated.
Funny enough, it was test driving a Tesla that got me interested in getting an EV as my next vehicle.

And like many, Musk's behavior has dissuaded me from purchasing one, and instead likely a Ford.
It's complicated. Sockets are mostly interchangeable with filehandles but there are many exceptions. For example, ReadFile() works with sockets, whereas DuplicateHandle() silently corrupts them.

However, there's another problem: overlapped vs non-overlapped handles. socket() always creates overlapped sockets, while WSASocket() can create both types. Overlapped handles can't be read synchronously with standard APIs, which in turn means you can't read() a fd created from an overlapped handle.

Naturally, in their infinite wisdom, Windows designers decided there's no need to provide an official API to introspect handles, so there's no documented way to tell them apart (there are unofficial ways, though). BTW, it's a proof of poor communication between teams in Microsoft, because their C runtime (especially its fd emulation) would greatly benefit from such an API.

It's frustrating. I'm sure that if Windows was an open-source project, that mess would be fixed immediately.
Probably because relatively few people have access two VR headsets at the moment.
Popeye: Bobby London's Final Weeks (2008)
Though as well not an elevator engineer, I have some experience with cranes, bridge cranes and similar.

Simplifying, any of these are a winch, any number of pulleys and support for them.

Elevators normally are "direct drive", i.e. the winch is right over the shaft.

In cranes there are normally a few pulleys to "move" the cable from the winch to the lifting point, but - additionally - cranes use sets of pulleys to demultiplicate the tension on the cable.

Example:
https://www.zoke-crane.com/posts/2708/

the more turns around pulleys you have the more you increase the lift capacity BUT at the same time you slow down the speed.

In normal operation of cranes you change the way the cable goes around the sets of pulleys, if you have less weight to lift you use a more direct drive (and have more speed) if you have more weight to lift you use a less direct drive (and have less speed).

In theory if an elevator winch (and cable) can lift 1 ton at (say) 3 m/s, it can also lift 2 tons (but at 1.5 m/s speed) by using a set of pulleys (it will also need double the length of cable, that the drum may not be able to receive) BUT you cannot change the cable path on-the-fly, and surely the beams that support the winch were designed for 1 ton, not 2.

So you could devise a smart way to have small (1 ton each) containers of some heavy material (of course not wet sand, which is in practice the worst cause of corrosion for metal) more likely cubes made of concrete be loaded and unloaded (and translated horizzontally to and from storage).

It is not like you can put that many of these 1 ton cubes on the highest floor of a tall building without structural consequences for the building, so it is not just a matter of replacing/retrofitting the elevator winch.

There is a very clever similar idea/experiment using a crane and concrete blocks:

https://www.wired.com/story/energy-vault-gravity-storage/

but at least they built a dedicated plant.
Oil Drop Experiment
Manhattan’s Private Clubs Offer a New Social Lifeline to Remote Workers
The "metaverse" is swiftly fading into the distance now.
This comment is pure whataboutism, you laundry listed other problems to deflect from this one.

Noone here or in the article are saying those things aren't a problem, just this is as well.

Everytime a business (like Hyundai) or industry gets caught using child labor in their supply chain it's an issue and news worthy.

EDIT: now my comment is downvoted, and the article is flagged, ask yourself why can't this site's community accept news for certain topics?

EDIT2: loved this satire posted by another user here that covers this well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGinowoYu4 (use auto-translate captions)
This has been happening for very many years now. It is very common for a shady scam company to buy an enterprise license for remote access software preconfigured to allow unattended access via predefined variables. This is something very very useful in actual enterprise scenarios where you want to deploy remote access software, but equally dangerous in the wrong hands. The only thing you can do to stop it is educate end users.
I do, but I'm not entirely deaf when I wear them. I can hear my surroundings easily if I wanted to. Is there a mode in those VR headsets where one can see what's in front of them without taking them off? I'm ignorant about the tech of VR.
Are you thinking they could structure it internally like, say, Snowpiercer ? No-one is going to be able to go outside the box to move in the second spatial dimension.
> in the US there's a law that businesses can't charge a premium for credit over cash

This was actually typically just part of the contract merchants signed with credit card providers and was abandoned around 2013 after a law suit, AFAIK. There were about a dozen state laws that prohibited it, but most were thrown out after Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman said it might violate the First Amendment.

It's obviously legal to exclude certain payment methods. Costco only takes Visa payments. Lots of places refuse checks or high-value bills. Some places don't take Discover or Amex, especially in the EU. Essentially nobody takes cryptocurrencies or payments in kind. A few states have laws that say businesses must take cash, but otherwise you have the freedom to require payment as you like. I can't walk into your store and force you to accept Iraqi dinars as payment.
That's a pretty good point (and argument), actually: "What's the fundamental difference between the post office and internet access?" I don't see one.
https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1551713024171548672

EDIT: Meant to paste unrolled link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1551713024171548672.html
This sort of problem has existed for some time.

Here’s a 2006 movie about diamonds in Africa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Diamond
That's because WebSockets are more or less just sockets for web apps. You'lll want to use a protocol that deals with messages and their at-least-once delivery, such as MQTT (that can run on top of WebSocket if you need it).
I think it's a little unfair to pretend the quadratic range term dominates the
"linear" density term. If you think about it for a moment, the density describes area, so already has a ^-2 (to the -2 power) incorporated into it.

If we lived in a 3D world, there would be a negative third power incorporated into it (although you'd also have a range^3 term)

In reality both terms contribute equally.

Considering the range of densities and ranges available in the USA, density currently makes more of an impact. Speeds range from 10mph at the minimum (a typical net average speed if you're biking or taking subways and walking connections through Manhattan) to 60mph at the most (a typical speed limit on a rural highway) That's about one decimal order of magnitude.

Density on the other hand varies much, much more. There are rural areas with a handful of people in a square mile, and places with 50,000 or more people in a square mile. That's more like 4 orders of magnitude.

This matches up with the anecdotal observation that in terms of "How many employers/restaurants/people/etc can I get to within a 15 minute trip" is far larger in denser bigger cities, despite travel times being slower. Faster travel times just cannot keep up with the low density needed to allow cars to reach those speeds.
Amazon to Increase Prime Membership Fee by Up to 43% for Customers in Europe
Only the first time and even then not really true. Reassignment assumes that reqs haven't previously been canceled as part of belt tightening in those other groups.

Also, by layoff N, you're cutting meat unless you are a massively bloated company, which is somewhat rare this time around (unlike HP, Cisco, Sun, etc. in 2001).
Wouldn't the private ISP offering 10 gigabits have to lay their own pipes anyway, to support that speed?
Lots of commenters here saying they're surprised by this move, but isn't the Quest 2 a loss leader for Meta? If I had to guess this move is probably to reduce the loss they're taking on each unit sold. The reason they're doing it now is probably because of the digital ad slow down and investor fears around Meta's metaverse cashburn.
Do you mean "heel"?
I assume you meant that the car in question was a 90 by virtue of a "random person's hack". Would you mind describing why you think this?

The car is a 90 (effectively) because Tesla set it up that way.
that's a terrific deal.
I am assuming that's glacier tho, because seems like the even the infrequent s3 would be around 2.5

From AWS (this is assuming no transfer):
200 S3 IA Storage x 0.0125 USD = 2.50 USD (S3 IA storage cost)
S3 Standard - Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) cost (monthly): 2.50 USD
I can already give the refutation for LoC.

Library of Congress Classification Outline: Class D - World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Etc. https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_...
It really comes down to race, but most will never openly admit it. Let's face it, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a white people war.

The 11 million muslims killed (and many more displaced) by the collective west (NATO) since 1990 don't count, because they're brown.

But when a non-western majority white country wages war, as George Carlin famously said "That's Our F*ck!ng Job":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qyG6cmTHco
There were many authors in that era who had practically compulsory books. Stevens is one of the few to have two. His Unix Programming book was referred to as the Bible.
Mainly talking about keeping the machines from being hacked, not the Tor traffic; as this would be the first step any 3rd-party attacker would take; commonly hear about attackers spinning up servers to run attacks, never heard of servers being attacked, which to me seems like an obvious thing to happen.

___

That said, since you mentioned it, if the counter-measure you’re describing are similar to the ones described here:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/215155/how-does...

What’s to stop an attacker from just swapping back to the approved key if a “Tor auditor” connects to the machine — or — routing only a know targets traffic to an mitm key?
From the HN guidelines: “…Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.”
For those without showdead turned on, the article poster left a very unhinged comment as his framing for this article.
They could switch from UTF-8 to UTF-16 to decrease their BOM by 33%.
screens and headphones are already hijacking your senses?
I can’t shake the feeling this is more the canary in the coal mine that by this time next year you’ll be paying more for PS5, Xbox, Switch iPhones etc even if the tech inside is exactly what’s on sale today.
I'm exactly opposite. I don't bother installing Windows on my computers anymore; Just Linux with WINE/Proton for the occasional game.
> The only reason to software lock the capacity of the battery in this manner is to extort customers.

I have mixed feelings about schemes like this, but I don't think they're inherently bad.

You start off making 60kWh and 90kWh cars. Customers are happy buying both.

You notice you can save costs overall by just selling the 90kWh cars at the 60kWh price-- but revenue will fall if you don't lock the pack down to 60kWh.

Would it be better to force Tesla to maintain two different physical pack SKUs and incur more costs if they want different pricing for the different capacities?

And you do save some money, even, with the locking-- after all, the 90kWh pack used as a 60kWh one is far less likely to need warranty service-- it has spent less time at the extremes of charge and it can fall all the way from 90 to 54kWh instead of 90 to 81kWh.

This is just like binning with CPUs-- at first, the yields control whether something is an 8 core or 6 core part. Later, you lock some 8 core parts down to be 6 cores so you can sell them at a lower price.
> Put another way: If you were my boss

If you have a good relationship with your boss, talk to them. Don't whine. Have a solution or a fact finding plan.

Why are they coming to you? How is that expectation being set and reinforced? I don't know how many people this is, or how big the entire org is, maybe you need an org-wide bootcamp. If they don't have basic reading and internet searching skills, how did they get the job? I smell something for management to handle here.
No More Subscriptions the Rise of the Virtual World
Sounds like this should be a lawsuit instead