skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, watching television or movies in AR/VR has very little appeal. Usually, I'm watching with other people and turning to them to see their face or reaction to something on screen is important.

The short-term killer app of AR for consumers is probably a lot more mundane. I think things like heads-up displays on a car windshields or motorcycle helmet visor is a likely contender. But that could change if they get rid of the need for goggles. AR contact lenses could be pretty wild and a less anti-social.

There are a lot more opportunities for AR in commercial applications (like surgeons, technicians, etc...).
Have you seen the news about Pakistan? A third of the country has turned into an ocean. 1,000+ have died. Millions have lost their homes. This sounds pretty hostile to human life. Don’t you think?
OpenDoc (2006)
You are right, there are different definitions and practices. Some do contradict each other.

I practice vipassana (mindfulness) in the Goenka style. It's a very deep practice, without any chanting, no visualisation or beliefs. It's about staying in the moment and 'scanning' the body with equanimity and awareness. Deep traumas rise up and dissolve, the mind gets sharper, your ability to cope with daily struggles jumps up dramatically.

This practice must be experienced to be understood. I could write all day about my experience, and not be properly understood at all except by other meditators.

The Goenka folk will only let you learn by doing a ten-day retreat (which is free, but a big commitment). This is to make sure that participants have the best chance to settle their minds down and learn how to meditate correctly.

It's not for everyone. I don't recommend the retreats to people any more unless they ask, even though every retreat I've gone on has been profoundly positive. In my experience each retreat was so, so hard; in very unexpected ways.

It wasn't until my third retreat that I really understood what the practice is about. I thought I had it, but there were holes in my knowledge. It's easy to get the wrong idea, and sit there "playing games of sensation", instead of being aware and equanimous. My sincere advice would be to try and go on retreat every year. The experience can change remarkably as your understanding grows.

So, I would tell you not to try and get into meditation flippantly, or expecting an easy fix. For some people it clicks really quickly, but that is not always the case. Either way, it's a life-long practice. Even the Buddha meditated daily; he said it was "like breathing". Good luck...

Goenka course info - https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

Btw, if you just want a 'quick fix' without commitment, check out the Wim Hof method. It's learnable from YouTube, there's an app, and it does have positive quick results at no cost.
The same is true of some existing meds and even meditation is known to trigger psychosis and anxiety. Most antidepressants come with a warning that they may trigger suicide
> Irrelevant. She is a minor.

The relevant California code (§ 6710) is superseded by federal livestock auction law [1]. Also, most contracts require the minor and a parent or guardian sign specifically to avoid this.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packers_and_Stockyards_Act
Can someone explain how this is laid out in memory and what it would look like serialized? It's easy to have an array of N size that fits all bits and just write to disk. You can also mmap a file as a large array of bytes and just mutate it and let the OS handle the disk syncs if you're okay with some data loss of recent state changes if the machine crashes.

What would an array of pointers to X containers which are N size each look like on disk?
The list of measures included seem quite sensible for energy-saving, though I am thankful that I do not live there. The only measure that struck me as very odd was

>"Private pools may no longer be heated with gas and electricity, except for rehab centers, recreational facilities, and hotels. The new regulations will initially apply until the end of February."

I'm not sure how common private pools are in Germany, but I'm just curious how one could heat the pool without gas neither electricity. Is there some other option? Obviously, the sun will heat it in summer, and aside from that? I've never owned a home with a pool, and they seem quite wasteful, but if I had a private pool, how does the government get me to stop heating it?
I wish the mouse itself could filter out these movements and refuse to send a wake signal unless the magnitude exceeded a minimum threshold.
I was downvoted a few weeks ago on a "Rah, rah, rah! Artemis!" post here on HN for pointing out the same a few weeks ago.

People on here sure are fickle.
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I think some people are being a bit too harsh about how the author goes about explaining how you can't prevent all fraud without hurting good users - or in other words, some fraud is just the cost of doing business. Overall it is a good article (that could have probably been a bit shorter) that talks about a topic that is rarely talked about - risk tolerance.

As someone who has worked in the industry for the past 15 years, I can see a few things that I believe are causing risk tolerance levels to increase across the industry.

1. Startups/new businesses that are in growth stage have a large appetite for risk which is pushing the more traditional/legacy companies to also take more risk.

2. High friction experiences that are designed to stop fraudsters require you to provide timely support to any good users that might be blocked by mistake. We all know the trend for most companies has been to move away from providing timely support to their customers as it is extremely expensive. This is another cost (on top of potential lost sales) of creating a high friction experience.
Ask HN: How to hire a leadership team to take over startup?
TLDR; I run a bootstrapped and profitable high margin business and need help hiring a leadership team that can run the company with us remotely.

My two co-founders and I started the company 5 years ago and have grown a handful of products into sizable businesses. We operate in the word game vertical with a few exceptions. Users find us mainly through organic search and we monetize through display ads.

We serve more than 20M users and 200M page views monthly and generate a yearly revenue of ~$5M. We had several opportunities to sell the business but so far we are confident that we can grow the business beyond the current valuation.

Hence, we are looking to hire a leadership team who can execute the growth vision of the company together with us. Specifically, we think that we need to first hire a Product Owner (PM), a Tech Lead (CTO) and a Data Analyst (Data Lead) in the first batch that will make the three of us replaceable and can continue the expansion of the team.

We have a few talented people in our team already (developers, SEOs, COO) and a couple of incredible partnerships with third parties, but we are clearly in need of tech minded leaders who can tie everything together.

I have no experience with hiring at this calibre so my question is how to best approach this? Are there agencies who can help put together a team to help us run the company? Where and how do I find the right type of individuals who are up for the task?

I should clarify the stack we run on: Vue/Nuxt and RoR, heavy lifting done by GoLang, Tailwind and Bootstrap for styling. Hosting on Fly.io, Heroku, AWS, Elastic. We also use Github, Jira, Figma and GCP (Bigquery) for our data needs. Lots and lots of SEO tools and scripts to stay relevant.

We are willing to reinvest significantly in salaries and growth but I find that hiring requires a lot of time which I currently don't have. Any leads or suggestions would be very helpful.
How much I would love a world where most of the people were walking on the street, having conversation with you, etc while watching something on the glasses and how much it would mess up the last crumbles of attention span we have.
It's been ugly forever, and there have been several wholesale rewrites (C++ -> Perl -> Java, and JavaScript and whatever is in native apps)
The article seems to imply that there is a standard revenue/fraud curve.

But what if there isn't such a static condition and you could jump to a less fraud (higher revenue) situation with different technical measures?
So changing the revenue/fraud curve.

Like: 2fa (like an app confirmation) based on heuristics?

Yes, the fundamental statement is the same, but you changed the existing "rules"
Agreed. I doubt the capsule part of the mission.....you know, the actual mission.....will go smooth either.
Back in the PowerPC days (when I used Fink and later switched to MacPorts) it often didn't integrate with any expected paths that were used when building software. This meant that you either have to symlink things in yourself or have a persistent directory symlink to make sure any ports you installed could be picked up by other software. Similar problems happened the other way around if MacPorts was first in your path as your includes couldn't find the system files anymore since it was looking for files relative to the files you found in /opt/local.

Regarding the permission problem: have never had any issue, but that's probably because I don't mix multiple users and developer tools.
I believe you for low skill employees but as a SWE, I wouldn’t trade a job over there in a thousand years. People in Western Europe are likely to think i’m lying when I talk about the kind of lifestyle I can afford.

I’m not even at a FAANG company and I have a 3,000 sq ft newer house, I drive a tesla, I have a nanny for my children. I have plenty saved for retirement, I can vacation to Europe or Hawaii i luxury every couple years.

The average EU employee is what, in a two bedroom with half a kitchen and no yard?
The objective for TeX was good, but not optimal, accuracy and performance, and perfect reproducibility. You are evidently accustomed to domains where you want good, but imperfect, reproducibility, but optimal accuracy and performance.

You are correct that requiring both perfect reproducibility and optimal accuracy requires sacrificing performance, but actually it is worse than that; this change makes some ordinary terminating algorithms fail to terminate.
Which part of Auernheimer do you think applies here, setting aside the fact it was overturned on appeal for improper venue?
Composite CGA was Tandy only. Can confirm stock CGA was 4 color, 4 different palettes which allowed IBM to claim "16 colors*"
None of those things are Ubuntu exclusive. Not sure where he got that information.
> My original comment is my opinion.

Not at all. "The sky is blue, therefore dogs are green" is not an opinion but a statement, factually incorrect, and annoyingly incomprehensible.

The idea that you presented, that if something doesn't solve everything then it is useless is just not true. Maybe you should keep this in mind.
not in the sense where you would always keep in mind "there is one bit of sign and 7 bits of value", and not in the sense that you "can run the sign bit through an ALU adder as data, don't worry, it'll work". It's just a confusing way to think about it.

one place where "the sign bit interpretation" shows up, is still not a slam dunk for sign bits. Using C as the example, when casting a signed char to a signed word, you do have to take the "sign bit" and extend it: but you don't just move it to the new sign bit, you extended it through all those other "data/value" bits.
It looks a bit too simplistic: Blocks with up to 4k items are stored as sorted lists. Having to insert in a sorted list up to 4k items seems very expensive to me.
It's pretty clear they don't care at this point. They were extended by 6 months and no one has brought it up since then. NASA is feeling political heat to just fly this thing at any cost at this point.
Up until about 10 years ago I would have agreed with you. I've been building my own computers since the 90s and I've bought about $100k worth of various computers for companies over the years with more on the horizon. My first computer was an AMD K6-2 but my dad got me into computers with a custom 486-DX.

Lets look at some PCs I've built. An AMD FX-9590 with dual 570HD GPUs in SLI. That's 700w right there. And it was impossible to keep cool, sounded like a vacuum cleaner, and felt like a space heater when you walked by. Not cost effective or efficient. Motherboard failure, but not before one of the 570s quit.

I then had a first gen Ryzen. I had so many HDDs that I had to have dual PSU's for a total of 1,850w, but not redundant like most servers are. That eventually failed due to motherboard failure. Also lots of drive failures. Way more than an OEM box. And when they failed I had to take the system offline and tear it all apart. Modern servers have hot swappable HDDs and even PSUs... so you can replace these parts without tools and without bringing the server offline.

Now lets look at a Dell R700 series server. Dual, redundant PSU's, ECC memory, redundant systems everywhere, remote management that consumer boards just can't compete with, fit and finish is perfect, drivers just work, and if it doesn't you can call someone and they will make you whole again without "troubleshooting first". When a PSU in a server fails, the server sends you an email. When the server needs a hard reboot, you can reboot it from the BMC even if the OS is panicking. There is a little screen on the front that changes colors when there is a problem, and there are color coded POST error codes.

You usually hear the argument "build your own" from hobbyists and gamers, and I do fit into that category typing this on a full tower Ryzen with a RAID 5 array for all my games. However, the broad statement of "
Custom built PCs are overall more efficient, cost effective, and reliable" is simply not true. It doesn't make sense for (most) IT Departments to make, build, or custom order PCs for pretty much any reason. Even when I managed a factory network, the engineering machines were Dell Precision Workstations and they rarely ever had problems. If they were using 10x custom gaming computers I guarantee there would have been problems all the time. Engineers aren't gamers, and most aren't "custom PC" people. The tolerance for problems is very, very low. Time is money. You do a lot of your own troubleshooting that people at work doing their everyday jobs aren't going to be willing or able to do on their own.

The IT Deparment would rather a PC with 9,000 CPU marks and 2 support tickets than a machine with 12,000 CPU marks and 25 support tickets.
This is true for things like welfare fraud (and other anti-help conditions) as well, but unfortunately Inna quest for headlines, taxpayer money is wasted (and injustice performed) in a quest to take the level to zero.
The squirrel killed me. I can't breath, LOL...
FWIW my PC will wake from keyboard input while hibernating but not mouse.
I think seeing a PPP/COL breakdown between major metropolitan areas would be more useful than country-wide averages/medians, the US has huge variations with regards to compensation & cost of living. Most people in the US are not making $100K. Even in tech, many are not making $100K. A lot of people fail at getting those FANG salaries(partly due to the exhaustive hoops you need to jump through to get them), and even if you're getting those high salaries a lot of those benefits can be negated by very high localized costs.

That said, absolutely there is an arbitraged disparities going on where some contractor in India is making $10K/yr while someone in the US is making $250K/yr. Are statically priced global goods fair? Perhaps not, or perhaps the issue is our inability to agree on the worth of a human's labor, and the people who exploit that deficiency. Many US companies are now looking outside the US towards Europe for lower cost engineers, so who knows how long the levels.fyi salaries are going to last in the US.
"Markets in everything".
> a package management system that will literally yell at you if you try to do something about "huh, maybe it's not great my executables are writeable by my account without requiring authorization first"

I assume “asking for authorization” means sudo. That’s a lot more dangerous, since installers can then modify anything on your system, this is the reason homebrew is set up to avoid it.
> world would be a much grimmer place if we all went through it without being flexible in any way

I believe there should have been leeway. But remedy under the law? The parents are suing. They aren’t advocating for a bill providing for pets’ rights. They aren’t raising money for a shelter. They’re litigating on scarce technicalities in civil procedure in pursuit of a payout and possibly vengeance, the end result of which will be minor rulebook amendments and lawyers paid handsomely on all sides.

Accommodations are exceptions. We can hope they occur. But we can’t throw a tantrum when they don’t materialise.
Given how many people reject any decarbonizing plan as political ploy, we might as well need magic to make it work. :/
I'm probably a special case, but I'm only looking at ergonomics and the number of programmable buttons. I want two buttons on the left side of the mouse (mapped to back/forward) and two buttons to the right (mapped to Page Up/Dn). If you haven't tried web browsing like this you don't know what your're missing out on :).

That leads me towards high DPI gaming mice, but I'm not a gamer.
The consequences of 30 years of insanity in energy policy coordinated across the west.
GitOps not necessarily means developers should define every aspect of it. In my current work, SRE uses gitops and they are the main contributors to most repositories. But things like creating an AWS ECR repo for a new project or creating k8s resources is happily delegated to developers.
> Why

"Variance" and "risk tolerance"

There is only one of me, not a Large Number
The way of vulgar skepticism is to assume something doesn't exist until it has been proven to exist.

In cases like the Lock Ness monster or invisible pink dragons in my garage, that approach happens to yield good results (and so would blanket generic cynicism.) But it falls apart quick when you stray very far from the fantastical, e.g. "masks have not yet been proven to work, therefore masks don't work."

A bayesian approach to skepticism is much better than vulgar skepticism. Bayes asks the skeptic to consider the general outlandishness of a possibility P(A), the basic likelihood of apparent evidence occurring regardless of the hypothesis P(B), and the likelihood of there being evidence at all even if the hypothesis were correct P(B|A).
The killer feature was the multitouch interface and removal of the keyboard. The same was with Macintosh, they removed the focus from the keyboard to the mouse. It is much easier to know what to do when you have several buttons on the screen instead of generic keyboard with many keys. I remember Steve Jobs emphasized this during the iPhone introduction event.
What do you expect? That earth is some garden of Eden where nothing bad ever happens? Climate Change is going to make things worse, but it always has been a struggle, and always will be. Remember 2004, when a Earthquake and Tsunami killed a quarter of a million people? Spanish Flu? The Plague?

I don't consider that hostile. Mars is hostile. Or Venus.
The tooling side isn't the tricky part, it's the insane amount of work that is required to create and maintain each package. You need massive community buy in. Because of this, unfortunately, the best package managers aren't the most sound, the best are the most popular.
Electromagnetic pulse pulse
I've always used brew, but sometime in the last few of years (Mojave?) I was plagued with these problems when installing different versions of Python simultaneously. Either brew broke Python installs, broke things like asdf, couldn't build Python from scratch, virtualenvs broke. Hair-pulling stuff.

I decided to use MacPorts just for Python and switching Python versions worked perfectly. Eventually I migrated most of the brew stuff to MacPorts.

I'm not saying one is superior to another, it's just that in my very personal experience and uses, I don't find anything in brew that MacPorts doesn't give me.
Atomic Tanks is an open source clone of Scorched Earth taking it to it's natural conclusion. Then there's the open source 3d version... Scorched3d. Still a good time waster when you are on hold.
> Should a sentient being be regarded as property?

If these parents were raising awareness for a pets’ right law, I’d be far more sympathetic. They aren’t. It’s also unclear what the ramifications would be if livestock someone else has bought can be poofed into a pet at the previous owner’s insistence.
Because it would be wildly efficient and cheap. All your permanently depressed clintee would be gone and with them your profits.
It does not get repeated because it would suggest that sea level changes are natural, as opposed to being caused by industrial CO2 emissions, and limiting CO2 emissions is a huge business right now.
It’s an accurate description of todays launch attempt. They decided to repeat assuming the sensor problem that scrubbed the last launch was a sensor issue only. It was not.
It's also just one single study. Maybe there's more out there, but this article doesn't even remotely make the case that its headline implies.
This is a good point to bring up. I believe that spread spectrum clocking and DC-balanced line coding schemes on differential buses have allowed the rules to be bent somewhat. However there is still an EMC issue present. It would be nice to have a metallized film or plated mesh to reduce the problem caused by glass and plastic. Old equipment used to have copper fingers on all seams and I don't see that as often anymore either.
Sounds like war crimes.
Chair triggers on oscilloscopes are a real thing.
My son was scared as hell because he was hearing voices in his bedroom late at night. I used his bedroom as my office during the day while WFH during the pandemic. The speaker picked up a radio station and played it at low volume when I hibernated the computer for the day.
No new development but it still runs. If you can get by with the older version of python that's embedded, it's a good start for someone who is learning.
Which one of the distros with which flavor of a package manager do you suggest?

And have those package managers manage to work without sudo in 2022?
If you continue by :" Note that all presidents abuse their power and the issue is more about the unearned powers presidents have than being Jewish or from the Ivy league" i would find it weird but Ok, wouldn't you?

Taking a piece from a single paragraph, ignoring not only the context, but also the following sentence because it weakens your argument, how would you call that? Do you think it's fair? Do you just like storytelling so much you also lie to yourself?
> How do you objectively measure that?

Compare the top causes of personal bankruptcies in the USA and France. Medical debt is one of the top causes in the USA. I wasn't able to confirm this with a quick search, but I sincerely doubt that's true of France.

(The other replies here seem to have missed that Marazan's point was about financial ruin from medical expenses, and was not a general point about quality-of-life.)
Sounds like something you could implement on top of an existing OS like Linux (even in userspace) and get mostly the same advantages.
Not really, the rule of thumb most contractors talk about is plan around 220 days per year (44 weeks).
Its good Practice to never use root for any ruby application.

RVM or rbenv with Gemfile do a great job in giving you any version you need and keeping the system clean.

Way back in the day you basically had to reverse engineer each developers environment to let another person use it.
Now it’s common to grab any semi decent project and be up in running in a couple minutes.

Brew usually takes care of any system level stuff. Nokogiri, image magic, etc.
Has anyone paid the $100k? Or do they all drop the non-compete and NDA?