skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My ISP simply gives everyone a static IP by default.

I know of only one ISP in the Netherlands that uses CGNAT and there you can ask support to fix it, which takes them 24 hours. I learned that the hard way when wanting to have a gaming night, hosting a factorio server in my student room. No gaming night for me, or so the ISP thought while rubbing their hands. It took me a bit but I eventually managed to proxy the UDP traffic somehow, not sure anymore if I used hole punching or somehow encapsulated it in TCP and reverse SSH tunneled or something. (Edit: on second thought, pretty sure I asked the other participants if they had IPv6 -- they did not -- and then proxied the traffic from my server via IPv6 using iptables. /edit)

We are quite fortunate with having had an early ISP community that managed to gobble up all the IP addresses we'd need for a good long while, and our population is relatively stable compared to other parts of the world. I know not everyone is this fortunate. (Hello ipv6...)

Even in a place like Germany, it seems one needs to be a business connection to get this service, it's simply not offered for consumers at all that I could find in some town in NRW. This is why I'm so happy the Netherlands has ISPs like Freedom (successor of XS4ALL) and Tweak who not only care about being cheap. Even if you don't use Tweak or Freedom, I feel like it keeps the local competition sharp.
But because of its 1-2 hour battery life you would have to keep it wired and hope it doesn't suffer from the same issue that Quest 2 suffers from where even wired it slowly looses battery life.

However, the Quest 2 could still last a whole work day while wired, the Quest Pro might not.
I wonder whether this, unlike my Quest 2,.will let you set the separation between the two screens wide enough to accommodate my not-even-really-that-big head.

I put up with it but it makes me crosseyed. (I use the buffer thingie to keep it farther from my head, which helps somewhat.)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti $699 (2016), ~$862.57 (2022)[1][2]

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti $899.99 (2022)[3]

*$200 GPU price point:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super $209.99 (2022)[3]

[1]: https://benchmarks.ul.com/hardware/gpu/NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+10...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/nvidia-gtx-1080-1070...

[3]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MHTVDAyU7i8oXYAlmGPE...
I maintain database and object-storage clusters for a living. Dealing with failing storage is half my job.

> Especially when it’s the filesystem metadata which gets corrupted.

We're not talking about filesystem metadata, though. Filesystem metadata is all "of a piece" — if you have a checksumming filesystem, then you can't not checksum some of the filesystem metadata, because all the metadata lives in (the moral equivalent of) a single database file the filesystem maintains, and that database gets checksummed. It's all one data structure, where the checksumming is a thing you do to that data structure, not to individual nodes within it. (For a tree filesystem like btrfs, this would be the non-cryptographic equivalent of a merkle-tree hash.) The only way you could even potentially turn off filesystem features for some metadata (dirent, freelist, etc) nodes but not others, would be to split your filesystem into multiple filesystems.

No, to be clear, we're specifically talking about what happens inside the filesystem's extents. Those can experience corruption without that causing any undue issues, besides "the data you get from fread(3) is wrong." Unlike filesystem metadata, which is all required for the filesystem's integrity, a checksumming filesystem can choose whether to "look" inside file extents, or to treat them as opaque. And it can (in theory) make that choice per file, if it likes. From the FS's perspective, an extent is just a range of reserved disk blocks.

Now, an assumption: only storage arrays use spinning rust for anything any more. The only disk problems consumer devices face any more are SSD degradation problems, not HDD degradation problems.

(Even if you don't agree with this assumption by itself, it's much more clear-cut if you consider only devices operated by people willing to choose to use a filesystem that's not the default one for their OS.)

This assumption neatly cleaves the problem-space in two:

- How should a filesystem on a RAID array, set up for a business or prosumer use-case, deal with HDD faults?

- How should a single-device filesystem used in a consumer use-case deal with SDD faults?

The HDD-faults case comes down to: filesystem-level storage pool management with filesystem-driven redundant reads, with kernel blocking-read timeouts to avoid hangs, with async bad-sector remapping for timed out reads. Y'know: ZFS.

While the SDD-faults case comes down to: read the bad data. Deal with the bad data. You won't get any hangs, until the day the whole thing just stops working. The worst you'll get is bit-rot. And even then, it's rare, because NAND controllers use internal space for error-correction, entirely invisibly to the kernel. (See also: http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/19/apfs-part5/)

In fact, in my own personal experience, the most likely cause of incorrect or corrupt data ending up on an SSD/NVMe disk, is that the CPU or memory of the system is bad, and so one or the other is corrupting the memory that will be written to disk before or during the write. (I've personally had this happen at least twice. What to look for to diagnose this: PCIe "link training" errors.)
Well there goes any lingering guilt about not supporting Wikipedia
One night in the 90s I woke up at 1am because the server next to my bed started making a lot of noise! I quickly login and see a process by user "nobody" taking up 100% cpu! I'm being hacked! Quickly pull the network cable out of the wall, wide awake.

Turns out there is a cron job that updates the locate command's index.
Can you share some of these greenhouse channels? I’d love to follow them to learn about how to better take care of my greenhouse.
They understand their customers. Who are advertisers. Meta’s users are its product.
Yes definitely. However, in the case of the Ukraine invasion, I see a lot of the fault in the West too. Very much reminds me of the first US-Iraq War in the early 1990s.
Rice is commonly eaten mostly because it's easy to grow in wet climates, and it's a cheap source of calories. I eat rice myself, but let's not be fooled into thinking that rice and other grains are particularly healthy. Small amounts are fine, but if you get the majority of your calories from grains or consume large quantities in a single meal that cause blood glucose spikes that certainly isn't ideal from a health and fitness perspective. Everything in moderation.
As a queer socialist (or communist) I agree, Wikipedia often excludes content from the Left.

I'm not familiar enough with the political or religious right, but I'd assume the same is true there.

If you are a neoliberal in the vein of a Reagan or Obama politically (so, most modern day Democrats and many current Republicans), odds are good Wikipedia will let you post without much trouble.
I am interested, nice to meet you!

I live abroad from many friends and family. If there was a way to casually hang out and replicating the in-person social experience better than video chat, I would jump on that. I already have regular Quest 2 sessions with close ones where we shoot the shit and also shoot zombies - it feels like having a friend over for playing video games.

I for one am looking forward to being able to hang out in the same room, or discover new places, while feeling like we are sharing the same physical space. I am happy Meta is investing to make this closer to a reality!
I disagree, since a single user would only experience a single if statement.
“ it's pretty inconceivable that the model could become copyrightable”

If it costs $10 million to find information/weightings/etc., our current legal system would consider that intellectual property which might not be copyrightable but would be considered IP theft if stolen.
this reminds me of the Yo! app
> So minority candidates are given an advantage in getting their foot in the door, but still have to prove themselves qualified for the job by doing well in interviews.

I’ve heard from diversity candidates who work at Microsoft and interview at other companies that this part isn’t even true. I’ve been on the hiring side and seen how it isn’t true too…

The bar is truly different at all levels. Recruitment, interviewing, hiring, offers, and management are all very different. To act as if there isn’t this is to truly be naive or just happen to have only worked and interacted in a very small group of people. I’ve worked with hundreds and talked to thousands - this shit happens a lot more than HR wants to admit.

I’m not saying someone always get the preferential treatment - I’m just saying this happens more than people think it does.
> curious why you focus on whites despite Asians being far more overrepresented, by the way

I picked your example. Also, I'm not in the US. Apologies for failing at the intricacies of US-centrism.

Anonymous CVs are an interesting idea, and indeed how most of the studies measuring biases (not just on gender, but also things like perceived origin of name) are constructed.

But you're not going to get everyone to do them.

> Interviewing.io did an experiment relative to gender with anonymized phone interviews

If voices were so representative gender, we wouldn't have a severely worse pay gap for trans women. These are more systemic issues that start with gender roles and expected acceptable behaviors themselves.
Wordpress has been around for 20 years at this point... this sounds like FUD
I have been spinning my wheels on personal backups and file organization the last few months. It is tough to perfectly structure it.

I think directories or volumes having different properties and you having it split up as /consumer-media /work-media /work /docs /credentials etc may be the way to go.

Then you can set integrity, encryption etc separately, either at filesystem level or as part of the software-level backup strategy.
There are a lot of people pooh-poohing this who haven't tried a meeting in Workrooms. I was skeptical going in, even as a VR early adopter, and it exceeded my expectations by a long way. It feels a whole lot more like a real meeting than a Zoom call does.

I don't know if it's enough better for me to choose it over Zoom in everyday use, but this was on Quest 2. A meeting where everyone is wearing Quest Pro will be significantly better. I expect that the combination of the better screen/lenses, better comfort, much better AR passthrough, and of course the new eye/face tracking will make for a very compelling experience.
IMO that's up to the agreement between the creator and the person they sell/license their creations to.

I offer product "A" with defined conditions attached. It may be as simple as "it's 100% yours for $X", and anything beyond that. If we both agree to the conditions, you get the product. If you disagree with my conditions, then you don't.

That's where piracy falls apart ethically, IMO. Proponents argue "well it's not technically 'stealing' by the definition", "I would buy it if [it were cheaper; it were released sooner; it didn't have DRM; it didn't have X restriction, etc.]", but in the end all those arguments fall apart for the very simple reason stated above. Namely: the creator has the right to sell it with any conditions they see fit, and if anyone disagrees with them, their resource is to not buy/enjoy the product, NOT to take it by other means.
Seems this is a sensitive topic for you; is there perhaps some cognitive dissonance at play? If so, it’s probably worth teasing out the details and reassessing behaviors or beliefs.
I've done this for 10+yrs. Started with a single core Intel Atom powered netbook when those were still a thing, then moved to a quad core Atom desktop, to now where I have a 2nd Gen Core i3 desktop that will soon be combined with a similarly old 2nd gen i5 laptop. Runs half-a-dozen VMs, and like 10 or so different services, probably half of which are custom. At one point when I was still in school it even had a 5 person heavily modded Minecraft server (barely) running on it.

I'm basically the only user now. Its been a great learning tool.

Public access used to be through exposing the proper ports to the Internet, but now its through a Cloudflare tunnel and Tailscale.
Thousands of years of evolution and billions of drivers later, I can still barely make a left turn. Honestly, some intersections are just terrible.
These use integrated batteries and does full on inside out tracking on each controller, each controller having its own snapdragon 662.

They also do not list how long the controllers last, not found any source mentioning that yet, which is a huge red flag.
Good question, the new controllers have multiple cameras and are doing inside out tracking now, I'd guess that they use a lot more power than the Quest 2 controllers do.
Saudi Arabia got awfully good at making science fiction websites, pushing technological optimism to delay the actual transition from fossil fuels. They have way too much money and no sense. The only thing they are good at is human rights violations and building tacky mirages in the desert.
The correct figure, as noted elsewhere, is 146 km.

But literally the only thing holding up almost all of the span from geosynchronous orbit down to the ground is the pure strength of the cable. Centrifugal force would act usefully mainly on parts of the cable that extend out past geosynchronous orbit, to support the whole structure through tension in the cable. The cable inside that orbit would absolutely not be weightless. Its weight per unit mass is of course lower close to geosynchronous orbit, but most of the cable is very far from it.
workplace.com is owned by Meta. So who knows if they are running their own intranet instance for themselves. They dont need to pay big bucks to anyone to cause a fake redirect.
I’ve been married since before Tinder so never used it. But I think the “Dating App problem” is something of a head scratcher. The reason the apps all have problems is because Dating is the problem. It’s hard. Always has been. Finding a lifelong partner, very hard.

I might be wrong but these types of conversations about how bad the apps are make me think y’all are expecting some sort of technological easy button. It will never exist. These companies are probably making it worse because of their profit motive but there’s definitely a reason nobody has “solved” dating.
If it's to put an animal out of misery when there's no way of treating an injury or illness surely it qualifies.
But I agree the word "humane" gets somewhat abused when applied to situations where animals are more useful to us dead than alive. I don't mind "cruelty free", and that really should be a minimal criteria for how we treat other species.
How about a bell, Pavlov?
In a boat, you can always look to the horizon. Works for me. There doesn't seem to be a comparable "horizon" in VR.

Interestingly, I had a similar motion sickness experience the time I went skydiving.
The claim is that there may be a lack of availability. Lack of availability does not imply lack of merit. Prior discrimination, for example, could explain a lack of availability.
Controllers do full on inside out tracking, each controller being equipped with a snapdragon 662.

They also do not list the battery life anywhere, which is the biggest red flag.
Where can you "look up" your number?

There was something recently around a game which was able to detect if a user's phone number was on a prepaid or postpaid plan. I had no idea carriers share this information with others.
You can buy a phone that isn't powered by iOS or Android too, but you probably won't.
> Any unique product that they did not steal or acquire (and some that they did!) have been colossal failures or run into the ground

Workplace, portal, and the glasses? They're still developing as I understand it and they haven't given up on anything. The only failure I can think of is libra, which was killed by regulators
There's still something missing on that concept, Metaverse is just a higher resolution version of Second Life. It was exciting in the first few hours but there's nothing in it.
You're attempting to use a war that started in March 2022 to justify the position of the clock... which was set in January 2022.
Yes, the difference is visible. I use AWS day in and day out with nary a complaint, whereas the GCP and other Google stuff that I have to interact with, as someone whose enterprise relies on Google, is just a f*cking nightmare. For enterprises, AWS is the clear winner over GCP/Google OAuth/Other APIs.
Why are you interested in casually hanging out with your friends and family under surveillance from an advertising company that will subject your private and personal communications to their censorship systems?

Doesn’t that make you somewhat of a bad friend?
I get that, but that is because they have built businesses off the backs of IP exploitation. You cannot get people to understand your argument when their paycheck is derived from it.

That we allow (even encourage) such blatant violations of natural laws and physics is one of the more contemptible attributes of us as a people, IMHO

Just because an industry exists doesn't mean it's valid. Like living things, business entities have a survival instinct that will fight anything that that threatens it. And the dismantling of their business plan is a pretty big threat. Like cancer, these things start small and metastasize until they endanger the life of the host.
Performance reviews don’t assess performance
>4. Must the individual personally perform the contracted services? (should be no if independent)

>Not sure what this one means, so I'll give it either way.

This means, can the uber driver sub out his drive to someone else as long as the customer gets from A to B? Answer to the DoL question is yes.
Efficiency isn't the only factor. I'd say the most important factor is enjoyment. We each have a finite amount of willpower. If you're using it up on exercise you hate doing eventually you're going to hit a day where you don't have much willpower, skip the exercise and break the routine.

The most time efficient exercises I know aren't ones you can sustain for longer periods of time. I can consistently walk for hours but only run sprint intervals for a few minutes. Sure every minute of sprinting burns more than a minute of walking but if I can walk significantly longer than I can sprint it will probably lead to a higher total calorie burn.
I have and enjoy the Quest2. I'm not seeing much that would make me want a Quest Pro for an extra $1100. The pro looks more comfortable, the color passthrough is cool, and I respect the new lens and resolution upgrade, but again, $1100? Not worth it to me.
I still say, only as opinion of course, do not pretend you are hiring when you aren't. What you are doing is collecting personal information under the guise of a potential gig that does not exist. There is a clear moral aspect, and a clear legal one besides.

Doing this for people who applied for, but didn't get, the real job is fine. Continuing to do it when the job is no longer available is a kind of surveillance.
IMO if the business model is to pay for impressions, I wish they'd be up front and just state and charge price per mille (or hundred or whatever). Instead you get an ambiguous "boost" with no accountability/metrics about what even happened? They could literally show you to no one and say "Oops, guess your profile sucks!"

The match rate thing is also kind of a lark because you don't care about matches. You care about matches with people you want to match with... in fact that kinda understates the ultimate goal -- you care about matches with someone who would be good for you (and you for them)... everything else is just vanity.
You can also use VRChat on a Meta Quest. It's not one of those platforms that locks it's users out of choices.
they do it a lot in NZ. Solar hot water heating.
see black mirror
It was pretty simple for me to convert my Facebook account to a Meta only account. The first time I put on my headset after that change it asked if I wanted to unlink my facebook account and create a new account. I had to pick a new username and password, and re-enter my pairing code. But that was it. I was actually surprised it asked me.
If you're lucky and your ISP supports dynamic DNS updates: Get a router/gateway capable of running OpenWRT (alternatively some routers might support this natively, or you could setup an old PC for routing), use the appropriate client and set it up to adjust the DNS record [0].

[0] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ddns/client
Wow, that seems pretty extreme. What's your ISP?
Luxuries such as shampoo, yeah.
Did you try any of the modern VR headsets? Because it is mind blowing
And I agree with you!
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I can't claim to be any kind of expert, but there are a number of TikTok accounts that get into this kind of thing, like Eric Explains. One of the biggest principles is that many women come to an environment like a dating app with a lot of preconceived notions about the men they're going to find there— that they're all going to be sleazes, pathetic, desperate, bland, immature, out of shape, whatever.

So your #1 goal with a profile is to use the pictures to tell a story that challenges these preconceptions. For example:

- Overall, favour photos that other people took of you over selfies (communication: I have good people in my life and am not looking for a support system)

- A picture of you being domestic, like cuddling your pet, cooking, or even cleaning (communication: I have my shit together, can take care of myself, and am not looking for a substitute mom)

- A picture of you doing something active that you love (communication: I already have interesting passions and will have worthwhile things to talk about)

- A picture of you giving a presentation (communication: I'm a leader, people listen to me when I speak)

- A picture of you in a suit at an event (communication: I clean up nice, I get invited to fancy parties)

- A picture of you in an exotic location (communication: I travel and have varied experiences)

But the main thing is that the pictures tell a story far more than the words do, so use the pictures. Don't make the words a bland list of assertions about your personality, instead use that space to tell a joke or give a conversation prompt.

And then there's a few sort of obvious turn-offs to avoid, like the shirtless bathroom selfie, the fish pic, the pic with your ex, the joke that you're willing to lie about how you met. All of that just makes you blend in with the crowd rather than stand out.
You have to stop using them and let them charge.

Unless they release a proprietary charging cable that is.

They also do not list the battery life anywhere, which is a red flag to me.