skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HP Reverb G2 has a 2160x2160 full-matrix LCD. I would say it comes very close to being usable as a virtual monitor, but the virtual screen still needs to be quite large. Extrapolating from this and older generation headsets, I would guess 4K per eye should be enough for a true office experience.

On top of that, the headset itself must be comfortable to wear for sessions longer than 30 minutes. None of the current models are that comfortable.
Ask HN: Is there any way to develop software except sitting upright at a desk?
Yes, that is how a healthy marketplace works and why it should be illegal for Amazon to use its trillion dollars to crush unions.
>homebrew (grudgingly?) supports being installed in a non-standard folder. They just don't suggest it to you up front. It's tucked away in the detailed installation page under "Alternative Installs"

Oh good, another user of an open source project expecting the devs to support their special setup, while (presumably) not contributing anything back.
It is the job of the mayor to look out for their city, lobby for it. They can also sue the state government. An impoverished city like Jackson, that's a hard problem.

I think the problem is quite deeper than just funds. Jackson has been in decay economically.
all those polls where people systematically support their national health services probably used tons of americans to influence the answers; i think you are up to something here
I would argue this is mostly a thing of the past. Properly configuring your production environment is a thing for all languages, and stuff like that simply doesn’t happen with a modern framework, ie. Anything written after 2010.
It's the heavy unrealistic looking make-up which breaks the immersion for me. It looks like they could be having a night out in the city rather than adventuring. No realistic looking mud or sweat. I also think the clutter in the environment is too orderly and the lighting too arbitrary. These things might be fine in a magical realm like Alice in Wonderland but I don't think they suit this setting.
There are cross-platform package managers: pkgsrc and nix for example, and I believe HomeBrew runs on Linux too.

It's not that simple though as certain choices are fundamentally incompatible. In Debian packagers are expected to take "ownership" of the package, backport fixes, apply patches or fixes to integrate better with the Debian system, etc.

On Arch Linux, it will ship the latest stable version from upstream with as little modifications as possible.

You can go with one approach or you can go with the other, but you can't really do both at the same time.

Then there's the design of the tooling itself: apt behaves fundamentally different from pacman.

Some things can probably be unified here and there, but I don't think it's quite that simple.
Local water systems really shouldn't depend on federal funding. Unless there's some kind of interstate impact, that should be entirely a state and local issue. Mississippi could certainly afford to keep water flowing, they just chose not to prioritize it.
even just ‘gem install PACKAGE —-user’ will get you pretty far
Many people in the (few) remaining villages without running water don't want it, and certainly don't want to pay anything for it.
They are barking up the wrong tree, because as far as I know, no developer is paying attention to proprioception.

Not sure what you mean by this. VR headsets know exactly where your hands are and can infer most of the rest of your pose from head height, they rely pretty heavily on that for the immersion.
IRS Exposed 100,000 Taxpayer Data on Website by accident
i am pretty sure that legally any case that is sold with the intention to build a computer has to comply with emission regulations.
Idk, I side with Kant on this issue. Hegel has not convinced me yet. Maybe he has convinced you
You'd still need calculators to run it on with sub-year response times. 100 teraflops times three minutes would 18 quadrillion multiplications of 8-digit numbers. At one minute per multiply you'd need 30 billion person-years of calculation to generate one image.

The training process was indeed slower still, but maybe that is because we are doing it inefficiently, as we did our biological evolution.
Nix, Guix, and Flatpak all work fine without root privileges.

But why is that a requirement? Homebrew doesn't work without root; it only pretends to.
Super ultra wide
Kind of like stopping a volcano or an earthquake. What happens when the problem gets too far gone and the vaunted human ingenuity is utterly impotent in solving the problem? (I mean the point after which there is literally nothing humans could do to react to the problem.)

To get an idea of the monumental complexities of global warming, I recommend reading The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History by David Beerling. He describes a multi-discipline investigation of global warming involving paleobotanists to atmospheric scientists, climate scientists, oceanographers, chemists, physicists, and the list goes on.

I also recommend googling "planetary boundaries" and "tipping points". Climate change is only one of the boundaries whose transgression threatens us. And the boundaries interact with each other and we don't really know how these interactions might affect rates of change.

So, radical changes now -- bad. Human ingenuity and radical changes in the future on the threshold of global catastrophe -- good.
Win+L always put it to sleep instantly for me. Might be a setting somewhere to go to sleep when locking?
How is our inability to converse and work with opposing viewpoints relevant to a situation occurring in a state entirely dominated by a single viewpoint? There are many, many problems (most problems?) whose causes have nothing to do with a lack of unity or civility (relative to when?) in US national politics or whatever.
There's definitely more to this, given jgc made such a public statement here, especially with how their legal team is supposedly unaware of any lobbying (who else "at cloudflare" would have the ability to speak with the FTC?). I'm sure we'll have a public blog post within a few days to address this.
> Does anyone get the point with Artemis? Because I really don‘t.

They want to go to the moon.
It's also not too much trouble (albeit a little annoying mostly because of TCL) but to have local port definitions for anything you need that isn't in the tree: https://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories
This comment makes no sense.

However if a fly goes past.
lucky

well connected

belonging to the 'right' race;gender;social class; nationality
The general positive rhetoric on HN for unions is a jaded. Take it from someone that lives in a country with very strong Unions that ultra strong unions are all they're cracked up to be.
It’s a shift in money and resources. The US is a collection of states. As some states grow others shrink.

There’s brain drains from some states to other states.

What we are seeing is shifting tides of a large country that makes it easy to move from coast to coast
Where I reside..what you’ll call a third-world country (Nigeria), everyone who builds a home digs their personal water borehole and sewage system because our government is too incompetent to maintain city-wide infrastructure.

I’ve always thought it would be much better if we can get centralized systems for these things as they do in developed countries, but I’m pretty sure this is the type of thing we would see regularly due to government incompetence and carelessness.

Needless to say, I didn’t expect this kind of situation from the US, a country with many characteristics I admire…come on, you guys are too rich for this to happen!
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> So is everything fine until Earth becomes Venus?

From Wikipedia[1]:

> The IPCC states that "a 'runaway greenhouse effect'—analogous to [that of] Venus—appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities."

> At 35C in India - it's believed even healthy young people can die in just 6 hours of exposure.

Yet people somehow still survive in the Sahara at higher temperatures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth
I gave up on the cheaper end long ago - too many trials by fire. Raising my rates was the best thing I did for my own sanity. I still run into an odd client here and there that makes my life Hell on Earth for a while. I also stopped giving discounts. And on the advice of good friend who runs a sizable creative agency in Los Angeles, came up with a "fuck off" rate for when I really don't want the work. Right now, I don't charge a sky-high rate, but I've started applying "9am to 6pm, no on-call, no toxicity, no arseholes, no high pressure to deliver at all costs." I am so over client-induced PTSD & anxiety disorders.
Not necessarily. Check out Ergoquest chair http://www.ergoquest.com/
Thanks for the explanation. Does it mean HubSpot as the data source itself will have to maintain these native data pipelines?
Backblaze also has free egress to Cloudflare. Which is very cost efficient.
A follow-up of this tweet indicates that you found the person responsible for this mess, and was not authorized by Cloudflare to do this.

Great. But it also sounds like a reasonably common occurrence, and hence a systematic problem.
Seems to me they're operating on a matter of principle.

The Christians who run my local food bank do similar. Their clients include some of the worst people: rapists, paedophiles, murders - released from prison, with nothing and no-one to help them, other than these kind churchly individuals. Their principle is that Jesus would want them to help their fellow humans in need, no matter what their sins. So they do.

Obviously it's a bit different with Cloudflare as they're a for-profit company of diversely ideological employees, not a non-profit charity of devoutly religious volunteers. But the former type of organisation can run on principles other than making money hand-over-fist too.
> on any federal funds that might help

Why do they have to be federal funds? Mississippi is a poor state within the US but if you look at global comparisons it has a robust tax base. There’s no reason it needs to depend on federal largesse for the basics. It just needs better governance.
Makes me wonder if there’s a huge power surge during late night earthquakes due to moving mice…
You're assuming that the people of Jackson have a voice in their government. The city is majority black, and in Mississippi that's more enough than enough reason for the rest of the state elected representitives to reject any aid to the city.
asdf has been nice for managing programming language versions
Upcoming (or speculative) microchip tech?
What comes after silicon semiconductors? Is there anything promising ahead? How would the world change it we achieved 100x or 1000x the speed of current tech?

Different substrates? Using different physics etc.
Has Common Lisp really changed in the last few time units?
Way less humidity. Look up wet bulb effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
The government(s) in the US have reneged on their social contract to care for its citizens. It's a crime.
I can't even remember the last time I had to look at an xorg configuration file. I think it must have been a decade; maybe longer.

Back in the XFree86 and early Xorg days it could be a pain though, but that was a long time ago. "X -configure" asking you about monitor refresh rates that I never knew the answer to ... ah, old times.
Well, the book was originally published in England under the name Ten Little N⸺s, and in that edition the location was named “N⸺ Island.”

For obvious reasons, that title was considered unsuitable for sale in America, so American editions were renamed to And Then There Were None, and the island and poem were changed to reference (depending on edition) Indians or soldiers instead. Most editions these days have settled upon soldiers.

Incidentally, Wikipedia mentions one use of the phrase “our black brothers” that only makes sense in the context of the original naming.
Chronic blue light leads to accelerated aging in Drosophila
... so is what Khomeini has done, but that doesn't mean it was a good thing.
I utterly and completely hate walking—I walked enough in the army for three lifetimes and don’t want to do it anymore. Had to walk a half mile in over 100 degree LA heat to get food a little while ago and didn’t enjoy it even a little.

Jump on a bike and ride three miles to get some Del Taco, no problem.

I had to get rid of my pickup a few years ago because I was riding my bike everywhere and it had too many problems from sitting. Without a bike I’d have just driven anywhere farther than the corner gas station and would have gotten zero exercise.
Does everyone of you charging quite a significant sum have a LinkedIn?
I’d rather just be the aeronautical engineer who gets paid to do nothing except stay in the U.S.
Well, you can work at starbucks, in a bean bag, on an exercise ball or with a standing desk. People have set up stations to work whilst lying down but I've heard that's actually not good for you.
That‘s exactly what I mean. In their newest plan, they don’t. Someone else does.
which possibly is a good thing

the Judy project seems inactive to me:

https://sourceforge.net/p/judy/bugs/

this short HN thread resonates with the intuition of jude1 being stalled, it's last optimistic comment points to an orphaned comment in the big list above

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32188204
It's been a while since I've looked into it, but last I knew MacPorts was much more aggressive than brew about just not sharing dependencies between packages, to avoid this kind of thing. In effect, trading disk space against fragility.
When they started the project (2011) Starship wasn't even a twinkle in Elon's eye (BFR around 2016). Starship started looking like a real product in 2020. In hindsight, you're right, SLS looks silly, but not many people were betting on SpaceX developing a super heavy launch system in 6 years like they've (apparently) done. They've invested a lot of money in SLS and there's probably still lessons to learn there. If Starship is successful SLS will probably not be deployed very frequently.
Sure I’m just saying smelting ore would probably not be necessary as there would be lots of iron aluminum etc laying around for casting for example
HN is the last place you should ask this question. It's full of tech bros who have never known adversity or alienation.
I am not arguing that California does anything better, but it’s odd hearing Southerners complaining about California whilst also reaping the rewards of California’s success. We receive a great deal of money from California and we don’t use that money responsibly. And then we disparage California. It’s so strange.
It did on mine. I'm on Virgin+ and they do giveaway to their members, and movies are usually there. You could argue that this system it's meant to do marketing, but I'm pretty sure the Amazon shopping app is too.
> for the record my “offense” was saying “Are you for real?” when they screwed up

It's really not hard to just not be a jerk, even when someone else has made a mistake.

Just be kind. Or at the very least, be calm and factual and nothing else. It makes everyone's lives a little better, including your own.
Yes, a drone is the same thing as a cruise missile, so a drone swarm is precisely a missile barrage. But I think you're missing two key points.

First, you're underestimating the importance of things being cheaper. Consider that an iPhone is basically a Cray Y-MP with packet radio, just cheaper. But in the 01980s could you have looked at a Cray and KA9Q and predicted Uber, sexting, revenge porn, Instagram influencers, Russian trolls on Twitter working to influence US elections, and Bitcoin?

In the same way, reducing the cost of a cruise missile from US$2M (Block V Tomahawks) to US$1000 will change the military situation not just in degree but in kind. Current CIWS are designed for gunboats and conventional cruise missiles appearing in groups of 1-16. Current carrier group defense in depth is designed for fighter-bombers that appear in groups of 16-128. They will not be useful against drone swarms that appear in groups of even 256, let alone 1024 or 8192.

Second, you're thinking of brute-force payloads like hand grenades, and that leads you to drastically underestimate the importance of small drones penetrating. But hand grenades are the epitome of dumb weapons: they have a timer, no guidance, and just a fragmentation charge. A US$1000 drone that manages to make it to a carrier deck does not have to be as dumb as a hand grenade. Instead, think of it as being like a frogman who has successfully boarded an enemy ship on a suicide mission, but lost almost all his equipment in the process. How much damage could he do before he gets killed? What if, instead of one frogman, it's 1024 frogmen? What if they're almost invisible?

Frogmen can short out wires, gather intelligence, plant bugs, pierce jet engines, set fires, cut throats, plant claymores, poison food, distract sentries, jam signals, booby-trap small arms, breach reactor containment, disable reactor coolant circuits, release potent poison gases deep below deck, falsify sensor readings, extinguish indoor lighting, frag sleeping sailors, and interchange fuels with solvents. And so can drones: if not today, 20 years from now.
Your opinion is an extremely rare one, if you weren't already aware. The consensus is the opposite.
Institutions and infrastructure aren't supposed to fail at all in a functioning society. The fact that some of the institutions that are failing is still extremely alarming.
Last winter this used to happen to me when changing bedsheets.
They want to keep lots of people employed.
What the OP describes is how I use Homebrew on macOS: non-standard prefix, not on the PATH. The other thing I do is use it exclusively for 'Casks' (pre-built .app bundles distributed as .dmg or .pkg).

If you do this, you can use any combination of Nix, pkgsrc, and MacPorts for your traditional Unix-y package needs.
You have bad taste, sorry to inform you.
People confuse simple with easy. How to quit smoking? Simple. Don’t smoke. Easy? Not so much. Many things require mental willpower to make it happen.

Feels like those kind of therapies help make that happen. I know one person who was borderline suicidal and this kind of therapy helped her move life into a nice direction.
If 51% vote for unionization, what about the other 49%?
I'm worried that the industry is stampeding into lionizing and monetizing another thing that ultimately statistics say may not be working better than placebo and has harmful side effects, but 20-50% of the population is on and is also responsible for a large percentage of health care spending.

SSRIs are that. Opiates are almost that (for long term pain management.) Statins are suspicious (and also held up as miracles by paid experts suggesting that we might add both them and lithium to the water supply like fluoride.)

I see a future of bare clinic rooms filled with beds, and on each bed someone who is being intravenously fed psychedelics (that are still illegal to grow, or take without a doctor's signoff and a nurse's supervision.) Each of them paying a $10 copay, while the facility bills the government and insurance $500/hr.

It'll be like the methadone clinic model, where we decided that to get people off heroin, we would addict them to a drug far harder to quit than heroin.

edit: I wish we would simply decriminalize psychedelics, and not do this thing again where something gets captured by a couple of oligarchs and sends their worth into the stratosphere, while every media outlet is fanning the flames. Really fucking dreading seeing the psychedelic (completely industry-funded) patients' rights organizations representatives getting interviewed while crying on tv about how party/politician X doesn't take depression seriously and is trying to genocide them by not letting five year olds trip.
> ... the thing to remember in that situation is that you're still getting paid.

That's the spirit.
You’d be surprised how much the quality of infrastructure can vary between cities and states across the United States.
I'm not an expert in any way on the reasons, but it seems like all large transportation and infrastructure projects in any state have some level of federal involvement.
In the US states tend to have the most power. The federal government can coax states by offering more money (for instance, funding 90% of highway projects), but can’t usually force states to take any specific action. There are exceptions but in general, if you want an action to happen the state needs to be OK with it.

Cities may have a lot of autonomy or almost no autonomy, depending on the specific state and city. It’s constitutional for a state to take over a city’s services, and it’s not uncommon for there to be a huge overlap in services provided between different political entities.

In this specific case it sounds like the state encouraged the development of suburbs for people to commute into Jackson, but did little to invest in Jackson’s infrastructure. The primary means of fixing infrastructure is through property taxes, and those taxes also pay for roads and parking for commuters who don’t pay (as they’ve moved outside the city limits). Basically from my understanding the suburban development and urban flight is causing Jackson to need to pay more for infrastructure on less income.

Ultimately, a state that allows its most important city to falter has a problem at the state level. Even if the city has problems as well, the state has the political tools to fix city issues, if it cares to. In this case the state could have taken income taxes from the suburbs and used it to invest in city infrastructure, but has consistently chosen to cut taxes instead.
I thought the trick was going to be indirection.

sorted-list/bitmap/runs, in a two level tree. cool.

it's technically missing sorted compliment-list, i.e. only the items that are missing, although worst case runs only use twice as much space, so more complexity without much savings, esp. considering real workloads

performs better with sequential ids than random uuids because you use fewer pages

further research

investigating the effect of adding more layers to the tree

using additional set representations e.g. balanced tree
And here I thought the social contract in the US was "the government which governs least, governs best."
This is a strongly blue city inside a strongly red state. That seems like differing politics could be relevant.
Yeah, I was surprised the author had an issue with using /opt since that's the expected location in *nix for the installation of add-on application software packages. Maybe he's running a multi-user machine and really wants brew in his home directory for that reason.
6.5 is just about where I would rate this show.

It seems like a generic high-production-value fantasy show, not being particularly reliant on source material (and thus not really benefiting from being associated with Tolkien).

The acting is pretty average so far, and the storylines are too early to judge, but seem to gravitate to generic 'Good vs Big Great Evil' narrative. The pacing is also fairly slow to accommodate the TV series format.

Not sure why this elicits such a strong reaction? Is it because of how Amazon is treating its warehouse/delivery workforce?
I can honestly say that I love all the writing work I do. Every article I wrote for Ars Technica was a labor of love, even though I got paid. My novels are as well.

I still have a day job (although I did write full-time for Ars for a couple of years) so this is a luxury I can afford. But I’m still happy to be able to do it.

I would also posit that the only way to be successful as a writer is to write about things you love. If you try to chase popular topics or genres without loving them, this cynicism will show in your writing and it won’t be much fun to read.