skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple of you asked how to set up headtracking. So here goes!

Head tracking 6DOF on compatible trackIR games.
Should be able to work also with none trackIR games using joystick emulation to map to the head tracker.

So this is an entry level tracking method and will hopefully
cost you nothing to try as long as you have...

A webcam or phone with a camera.

Ok next
Grab this!

AiTrack Software for webcam facetracking.

https://github.com/AIRLegend/aitrack

and this!

Open Track, Headtracking Software download.

https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack/releases

That's basically it.

How to use :

Install both software follow instructions in the links provided above.

There are ways to improve the experience by using higher refresh rate cameras
A cheap way is to buy a PSEYE ( old playstation camera ) for $5 - $10
Which has 120hz refresh rate for smoother tracking. You can also take it antother step forward and
mod the camera by removing the IR filter lens from the camera to get superior tracking. I've personally
not needed to do this with my PS Eye camera because it works ok once you've tweaked the above software settings.

You can create a more immersive experience by using a 3D display/projector and using reshade https://reshade.me/ (Just make sure to tick the 3d depth shader when installing). Now your flatscreen games are 3D with 6DOF headtracking.
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> The HP EliteBooks (and the new Dev One Linux variant) also have trackpoints.

Are those supposed to be any good?

I have an EB Gen8 with one, but I find it horrendous. I'd like to know whether it's because I have no idea how to use it, or if my Linux setup is broken, or if the hardware is actually shitty.
Tornado Cash is a protocol. It targets EVM, and has been deployed on Ethereum, Optimism, Avalanche, Polygon and other networks. It happens to be open source, the code was mirrored on GitHub for research and contributions.

They are setting a precedent that any forks or similar implementations of this protocol will also be sanctioned.

A comparison would be sanctioning the Matrix protocol because it facilitates end-to-end encrypted communication for terrorists.
Didn’t SBF make his fortune in the crypto space? By definition this would mean capturing real money from retail investors, right? It’s possible that this money can be reallocated more “effectively” according to some quantifiable measure identified by SBF, yet this doesn’t sit well with me.

What happened to the Golden Rule? Or to Sartre’s “in choosing for himself, [each man] chooses for all men”? Surely if EA leads some to causing such wide-scale short-term pain in its name, at the very least it cannot be a humanism.

I realize this isn’t a strong argument, but when I hear about an EA champion, there’s often this dynamic where how they made money doesn’t matter. They’re wealthy, so clearly what they do is valued by the market and we should ignore externalities that aren’t priced into their income. It’s like Big Oil pointing to specific green outcomes that they fund; these outcomes are quantifiable yet funded by hard to price but reprehensible practices.

It all feels like Catholic indulgences… Maybe this is still a net-positive for society in that it provides people who wouldn’t be humanist anyway (e.g. libertarians) with a well-intentioned philosophy?
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In terms of quality, the difference between quality of ray tracing engines is mostly up to the user at this point. People who have zero experience with Manta Ray won't be able to do better renders than people with non-zero experience with Cycles, and vice-versa. Same goes if you use Renderman, V-ray, POV-Ray, Mental or any other renderer. In capable hands, they can all do absolutely wonderful renders, but again, mostly up to the user rather than the engine.

In terms of user experience, if you're using Blender, it's much easier to use Cycles as it's already integrated in Blender, while Manta Ray is a standalone renderer.
I believe Intel 12th gen is not properly tweaked yet, currently the benchmarks show that the battery performance is worse with 12th gen than 12th gen. But if you 'limit' the chip and force the usage of the efficiency cores then you should be able to beat 11th gen.
How do you know that a lot of people want that? I personally see a few people in a few communities with a confirmation bias. I’m not saying that you are wrong, just genuinely asking
People like this and Malcolm Gladwell need to stop putting out this kind of perspective. The WFH revolution is putting more power in the hands of employees vs employers. We have more time and flexibility now to work how we like. Employers and big companies are self-interested and aim to maximally extract profit from you the employee and you the consumer. We should not feel guilty about the luxuries that WFH affords us at the expense of our employers.
> Jury nullification is one of the strengths of the jury system

I personally find jury nullification as the ultimate form of democracy.
Great writeup about Personal Programming: A user-focused future of computing
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If what comes after the check is a write or any other destructive operation, then the check is not so easy to mask away. I don't have actual numbers, but my gut is a strong 'no'.

That said, a lot of pedestrian code that isn't running particularly hot would probably be better off including runtime checks by default.
>Will there be enough charging stations to avoid the problems of queues that take longer than a day to recharge all the cars that need it?

I dont know where you live but practically everywhere I ever want to drive has level 3 chargers available. I also tend to find most chargers arent in use. There's a surprising amount of chargers now. Fueling up at home is even possible, if not preferred. Charging wont really ever be a problem. If Chargepoint sees some location is popular and always busy, it's good business to build more chargers. They profit off what they can charge per kwh and what they pay for the kwh.

>Is the fast charging technology likely to improve fast enough to make this problem disappear?

Oh ya, level 3 charging while keeping the battery between 20-80% means you can charge full speed. Call this around 200kw, which means generally you're charging at 1000km/h. Which means about realistically speaking your time to charge 20-80% is really only about 20-25minutes in current cars.

>Are there alternative to horizontal (load balancing over multiple stations) and vertical (faster chargers) scale ups?

Charging isn't really a problem. True years ago but not anymore.
Because I have visual studio open, a solution loaded and organized with all the files I need for this sprint, SSMS with the servers all connected that I need, all my tabs open to see my jira board, support tickets, etc, a notepad doc i was using to take notes on a phone call, my ssh key loaded into pageant, and if my computer reboots, i'm going to forget half of that when it starts back up and lose 30+ minutes trying to get set up again the next day.

edit: i would legitimately quit a company that made me reboot every single night.
Exactly. Being from a place where food is important: they are already starting to go back to the country side. Your regular accountant / dev / office employee is proud to grown eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, milk for fun.

Some culture care way more about food than the US can imagine.
is there any physical evidence to - unreliable motivation that 'comes and goes' ?
Honestly, I haven't tried Xvfb in years. That said, I did have another motive by keeping things simple. Even though xwininfo is very X11 specific, I hope that it's easier for people to work out an alternative for other platforms and adapt the recipes from my post to their situation.
With the prevailing westerly winds most of the radio-active dust, debris and fallout would travel across hundreds or even thousands of miles of Russia.

I don't think the Russians are that stupid.
Not only probably. It created the gold standard.
A bombshell. Clearly the walls are closing in.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ab6uxg908
We’re all well aware of the additional factors, though some of those you pointed out (like shade for your car increasing visitation time) are a bit weak. But reality sets in and the world isn’t without scarcity yet. Therefore we have to pay attention to things like cost.

You also assume that their savings won’t be needed for something else. Who’s paying for the next installation after this one needs replacing after 25 years? The $2m they save over 25 years isn’t enough.
"Trump's Mar-a-Lago Raided by FBI (bbc.com)" is a dope of "GitHub accounts of people who contributed to tornado repos just got deleted (twitter.com/bantg)"?

Either I missed something vital (Tornado developers being associated to Trump somehow?) or you pasted the wrong link here.
I kind of like it tbh! Great talk, I have barely any extensions installed right now and look forward to using some of these.
The nefarious people were probably on a unix system or a windows system. Should we go about and delete their contributors accounts as well?

I’m not at all pro crypto but this enforcement does seem extreme. I do understand that Microsoft is just following the sanctions.
Now Object Pascal and Modula-2 are scripting languages....
> What did they do wrong?

They wilfully contributed to the upkeep of a money laundering service. They should be thankful losing their GitHub account is the extent of the fallout, take it as a lesson that code can cause real harm, and act more judiciously in future when it comes to contributing labour to suspect projects.
Expect to be grilled on this subject, including being asked to cite instances where you’ve taken actions (protested, worked for legislation, volunteered, etc) based on those beliefs.
Each film he does one very public stunt for real; for the other stunt shots he does them as well, but not hanging off the side of a building or whatever, he's 5 inches off the ground with a landing pad in case someone slips. Remember that whatever is in the background was probably not there when the sequence was shot; background replacement is another "bread and butter" effect.
I don't think you could do [0] in Rust, but would be very interested in finding out otherwise.

[0] https://capnproto.org/news/2015-03-02-security-advisory-and-...
Minutes in an hour, seconds in a minute, and something about degrees.
Like many things in life YMMV. For me, the time saved on commuting has directly translated into more time with my son. This far outweighs the downsides discussed in the article.
It's a joke about the term 'enlightenment' coming from a Zen saying: https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/15921/what-is-t...
This seems off topic per HN guidelines

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
People played Runescape, WoW, StarCraft, many others to gain items they could swap for cash — I see the issues that come along with giving publishers more involvement, but, to say it's a new concept etc seems wrong.
Unless they are females
The only way to real achieve progress in systems programming is through generation change, one person at a time, the problem isn't technical.
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what did you go for instead?
Having a very short window of opportunity helps. In this case - they (investors) had only days to decide. There is just so much due diligence that can be done over the weekend. And the target was already making good money.
note that the c++ built-in hash table is known to be really bad.
It seems its in relation to some 15 boxes of classified materials making its way to Mar-a-lago.. I remember hearing about that months ago..

There really is no excuse why there should still be a single piece of paper still down there.
I like Zig a lot and think it hits precisely the right niche for a C replacement. Rust is a great language, but it’s definitely not C like when it comes to the overall UI and philosophy.

I’d like to use Zig a bit more, but the standard library is still going through some significant changes (it seems) which makes it slightly harder to commit to at the moment.

In general I wonder if some of these languages would actually benefit from Jai’s approach of deferring availability until the language is ready. While getting early adopters is great for getting feedback early, it can also disuade potential users that try the language before its ready and decide to leave it alone as a result.
You’re right, when I say they get a certain number of dismissals, it’s “no questions asked”. But getting a judge to dismiss someone who you don’t feel is sympathetic to your client isn’t going to fly.

So the “no questions asked” dismissals tend to be people who may be sympathetic to either side.

If it’s a murder case the defense may want people who are pro-self defense while the prosecution may not.

Being pro or anti-self defense isn’t in itself a disqualified as long as you can follow jury instructions.
Florida man complains about a missing email server for years and then turn around and violates the Presidential Records Act…
This. The best things I've made have required that level of generation to get good results.
A Github repository is decentralized among everyone who has cloned it, nothing about Github changes that.

The other parts, like issue tracking, obviously are not.
You mean like https://www.fivetran.com/files and https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/sources/file/ ? what do you mean by "support for loading files sucks so badly"?
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> I really think her life's legacy deserves better than this discussion.

Absolutely; we should just be able to focus solely on her accomplishments. But that's not the society that we're in, and ignoring reality because it's uncomfortable will do far more of a disservice to her legacy than actually discussing it will.

She did face extra obstacles and hurdles because of sexism, and that's a bad thing that should be changed. Acknowledging it is the first, very minor step towards ensuring that brilliant researchers in the future don't have to spend as much time battling bias. They'll be able to spend more time making contributions to the field.
Undefinable Behaviour
Disclaimer up front: I work for Snowflake but do not represent them here - I'm not in Product and have very little influence over direction.

What language and loading capabilities would you like to see us add?

I personally doubt we'll ever aim for postgres levels of extensibility, but Java has been in for a while and Python just went public preview - with great reviews from everyone I've spoken to.

Plenty of activity on the loading side too, although we don't really aim for visual ETL - you're pretty much correct that we're happy to let 1000 flowers bloom in that space.
The point is "marginal costs from switching languages may outweigh any benefits in plain programming productivity".
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The defendant in the US has the choice of a jury trial or a bench trial. It is not a requirement. The latter has no jury, only a judge. If the defendant chooses a jury trial obviously they think that’s going to have a better outcome for them.

If a verdict is “blatantly” classist or racist, there may be more going on than you’ve read about the case. This is pretty common, US journalism is not great and when cases get reported internationally it usually gets even worse.
I was curious how the abstract goes about classifying fake news VS mainstream news (which they seem to imply means non-fake news)...

> There exists no general consensus on a list of false news sources. We follow Allcott et al. (2019)’s compilation of websites (that they call “Fake News Sites”) that regularly produce false news stories

> We further identify as mainstream news sources those that are acknowledged in surveys as authoritative websites that possess major national readership and produce false news content exceedingly rarely

> To compile mainstream news sources, we searched under the keyword “news” in Alexa. From the results categorized under “news”, we selected for our study the top 12 websites in Alexa traffic

I disagree with their classification method here, as well as their usage of the term fake news. Their classification model implies that all content emanating from fake news sources are false and that content emanating from mainstream sources are not false. For example in answering their primary questions (cited below) they assume that merely because someone has viewed a fake news website it implies that the content they consumed was false (or visa versa, that if the person viewed a mainstream website the content was true). Oh, and they dont define what true/false news content even means.

> how prevalent is false news content? ... we study the behavioral antecedents behind news readership at the household level ... we prescribe how online platforms should tailor their content moderation policies to
manage false news exposures at the individual household level

So that last question really shows their hand imo. This entire abstract is about how the system can get people back onto the mainstream propaganda train - you know, where all the "true" news content can be found. Heavy eye roll.
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I personally did not look at them but also think it is a minority that will switch: first the price and I second I am not sure if labgrown is that appealing to most people.

Agriculture revolution doesn’t only mean labgrown stuff. Crop rotations, resistant plants, derisking a good harvest etcetc. And the approaches are endless: Predictions, tools, robots, satellite imagery etcetc.
This alludes to an existential worry I have about machine intelligence. I worry that we might emulate the human brain approximately, to where it manages average human-level tasks but fails to accurately mimic the brain's full complexity. It'd be like a Nintendo emulator that isn't cycle-accurate; passable, even good most of the time, but inferior to the real thing in many small subtle ways. It's not clear to me how to test for such a condition. IQ tests maybe? College-level exams? Poetry contest? If a limited AI were to succeed humanity as the dominant life form on Earth, or as the being we send out to explore the stars, and if its flaws ultimately made it just too dumb to self-improve, that first biological spark would be lost for good.
I still miss the possibility to `console.log` functions and have a clickable log that automatically open the right source at the right line, something that it's still not available on "native" `console`s
Are windows laptop users not allowed into coffee shops and MacOS users never have corporate meetings?

They're just tools ffs, no need to romanticize or stereotype them.
We need a decentralized and permissionless github
Yeah you can and I mentioned I curios who exactly Github has banned. It's possible they only banned people who created PRs under their own account.
> People on Twitter are either wilfully dumb or simply ignorant.

You'd think after 16 years I'd be used to it, but it still kinda blows my mind that the social network designed for context- and detail-free hot takes is the one people use for political discussion.
The task of the jury is the interpretation of the various evidence to decide the facts of the case. The task of the lawyers is to present the evidence. The task of the judge is to decide the law of the case.
Odin is pretty much alive to JangaFX customers,

https://jangafx.com/
Our brains are like wireless radio receivers in that way:
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2012/12/our-brains-are-rad...
The baking thing is real. People think they're helping you by loading you down with carbs and sugar. It's like someone buying you drinks - no, asking you to drink another round of his homebrewed beer - when you've already had enough. Upon reflection here, I think the best thing to do is probably to say "great, I'll eat this later" and feed it to the wild beasts.
I thought this part was interesting:

Formally, if one expands <math>(x-r_1) (x-r_2) \cdots (x-r_n),</math> the terms are precisely <math>(-1)^{n-k}r_1^{b_1}\cdots r_n^{b_n} x^k,</math> where <math>b_i</math> is either 0 or 1, accordingly as whether <math>r_i</math> is included in the product or not, and ''k'' is the number of <math>r_i</math> that are excluded, so the total number of factors in the product is ''n'' (counting <math>x^k</math> with multiplicity ''k'') – as there are ''n'' binary choices (include <math>r_i</math> or ''x''), there are <math>2^n</math> terms – geometrically, these can be understood as the vertices of a hypercube. Grouping these terms by degree yields the elementary symmetric polynomials in <math>r_i</math> – for ''x<sup>k</sup>,'' all distinct ''k''-fold products of <math>r_i.</math>
Flag it then and move on. If it's truly off-topic, enough people will flag/downvote it and it'll fall off the frontpage.

Personally, an ex-presidents home being raided by its own intelligence/security service is of interest to me, as a hacker. But I don't speak for everyone and would let the HN voting decide.
> going to open a huge can of worms if you are going to start prosecuting people for software pull requests

Tornado is sanctioned, not the underlying code. Contributing to the project is legally tantamount to coding for a North Korean entity. This isn’t a start to anything, it’s established law and practice.

Simply pulling shouldn't be a problem. But I can see law enforcement getting a subpoena for a list of accounts that pulled that repo to find and stop copycats.
I agree with your analysis. Ex post facto criminal laws are barred by the constitution for good reason. Retroactive punishment leaves people guessing what actions might or might not be punished.
Thanks for enlightening me. I live in Europe and just rarely get a NYT article recommended. I was curious to see axios beeing successful in such a different media business, also on how they focus on the local news.
In my experience in Afghanistan, it was other countries that performed more "war crimes" than the US (as in violating Geneva Conventions). Why do you think they make it such a big deal when the USA does it? Is it only because the US just prosecutes their own and doesn't recognize the international court? The international court does a much better job of keeping their decisions and the soldiers being punished, private. The US makes quite an example of theirs.
It certainly is, especially because without serving justice the law loses its raison d'être. But on the other hand there are reasons why members of the judiciary need to interpret the law to the letter. If the laws are wrong or unjust, legislative forces need to change them because it is their responsibility.
Agree with the cultural value of dinners. I do that too, just eating the dead packaged food 2 out of 3 meals. I don’t need to go grocery shopping every day, don’t need to count nutrients and so on.
Can't you click on the filename/number on the right hand side? That works for me in Chrome. Source maps even allow it to open to the correct file inside Chrome.
for what its worth, we've been offering compute based pricing at Airbyte, and recently published our learnings here https://airbyte.com/blog/introducing-volume-based-pricing

does this match the size-based pricing you are thinking about?