skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there is Github Pages, where you could host a static site, although I'm not so sure it will still be around in 30 years time. Then there's the 10 year ICANN domain renewal limit, which means you have to 'be there' in two other 10 year intervals to renew the domain.
Hmm interesting. I checked up two other sources[0,1] and those ones have US / UK / Israel / Canada / Australia etc above Norway when it comes to Startup environment. So I still don't see enough evidence for the original point (healthcare and cheap housing being essential). A lot of those countries (esp. UK / AU / Canada) apparently have a housing situation far worse than the US. And yet, they are thriving compared to other countries.

Btw, I will also admit that France is ranking much better per those sources. So now it seems evidence for "cheap housing being essential" is all over the place?

[0] https://about.crunchbase.com/blog/trends-global-startup-ecos...
[1] https://ceoworld.biz/2021/01/03/worlds-most-entrepreneurial-...
If everyone around, except you, sounds angry about something, it might just mean something is wrong.

Whether this goes against your comfy-in-my-relaxed-state attitude, or you are not ready to face the negative information, does not mean everything is fine.
Thanks for the feedback. Holloway's platform makes it easy to make revisions, and I plan on updating the content periodically based on feedback like this. Comments from readers in the book itself also help as well to adjust the content over time.

I had a feeling this topic would be a bit controversial on HN :) I tried to address this in the book in the first section of "What Makes You a Senior Engineer?" by talking about the different meanings, and how the software industry doesn't have a standard definition of what a senior engineer role entails. Everyone will have a different opinion on what makes a senior engineer, so I'll try to add more info about the nuances involved in the senior title in future revisions.
An average human isn't overweight enough to make this matter. That's why it's an average.

For a morbidly obese person they burn more calories standing up and walking around the house than I do. The thing is once you're past this phase of being overweight or obese your caloric expenditure drops precipitously. When I was working out 4 days a week my body adapted such that my caloric consumption had to go from 3200 calories a day to 2500 calories a day to maintain weight.

Running is not an efficient way to burn fat. It never has been, and never will be. The reason marathon runners are so rail-thin is because they run a lot. Running preferentially burns muscle as well due to the quickness of conversion after glucose is gone. Worse yet, there's no increase in calorie burn via muscle gain and hormone stimulation. It's just a flat consumption of calories.

In summary: being overweight is an edge case and not an average. Any mildly trained person will realize a drop in overall calorie expenditure as their body adapts to exercise. This is why modern exercise science emphasizes "confusion". Otherwise you plateau (and pretty hard, usually).
Is there some feud here? I see a lot of crossover in the 2 seconds of googling I just did but know nothing about these people.
I’m sure this had no bearing whatsoever on the fact that they weren’t charged but their father just so happened to have been a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice who (coincidentally, I’m sure) retired the same year the scheme began.
Any chance Firefox support is on the roadmap?
Quest was purely Facebook. Even their last PC only headset Rift S was essentially a rebadged Lenovo headset.
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MB failures were a thing back in the oughts; I think it was some new mandated lead free environmentally friendly solder used at the time in the BGA slots for their GPUs and at least some CPUs...granted, they either replaced the MB or the entire computer for free for me...
There is currently only one theme. I do intend to add support for custom themes though.
I still use google voice like that, give it out when I absolutely have to give a phone number (because they verify by text or whatever) but have the app set to silent.

Google does a really good job of filtering out the telemarketing calls so the rare message is usually valid.

Pretty much the only time I have to open the app is this one stupid company (coughWalmartcough) which insists on doing 2FA via text every single time I want to check the balance on my prepaid debit card.
The piece feels a bit fluffy, but I agree that if it excites a new generation, a new bunch of physicists with a new way of looking at things, it's completely worth reading.

On the other hand, I feel like it really missed the boat when it comes to the relation of entanglement to other properties of the macro universe. The notion that "geometry of spatial dimensions as emergent from networks of entanglement" is such an evocative idea that I don't understand how people aren't thinking about it all the time.

What if certain systems are in fact in the same "place", even if they appear to be light years apart? What does "appear to be apart" even mean?

To overuse an adjective, it's evocative. I do realize my understanding is barely that of a sparse layman, but it's still a fun mental toy to play with.
Nice reminder that killing your darlings is needed more often than not!
https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_...
>>> In some ways Reddit is worse than Facebook because it is influenced by anonymous entities with zero checks and balances.

Couldn’t one say the same about hacker news? Great quality content, from possibly anonymous profiles.
From The Verge's article:

> I was told the headset would last between one and two hours on a single charge, then take around two hours to recharge

That's...not great for a device targeted at enterprise? Especially without any sort of fast recharge or swappable battery pack.
Boo this man!
not the OP, but my logic board of my 2020 MBP has been replaced twice already to solve problems. Always under warranty, so I did not pay myself, but I can attest that they do like to suggest these replacements if they can't solve it any other way.
From the article

> If you find yourself receiving too many unwanted spam calls or texts, you can easily turn it off for all phone numbers or select the specific ones you want to block.

So it sounds like if your aliased phone number has issues, you can block those specific ones. In theory, you can do that now from your phone, for individual numbers, but it isn't applied if you switch devices. So it's a very moderate improvement.

Additionally, your existing phone number is probably already overwhelmingly accessible to robo-callers, i.e. the cat is already out of the bag.
OT but does anyone have this quote in what I presume is the original Russian?

edit: Found it: Если б это было так просто! — что где-то есть чёрные люди, злокозненно творящие чёрные дела, и надо только отличить их от остальных и уничтожить. Но линия, разделяющая добро и зло, пересекает сердце каждого человека. И кто уничтожит кусок своего сердца?

From https://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BF...
Well, it's not a description, it's a name. Names are allowed to not be accurate to the thing (a girl named Sandy is not necessarily made out of sand, and light is not light, it's weightless).

And itself is based on two things: that they're absolutely black as in they don't reflect anything (that's what they believed when then the name came about), and that things can fall into them.

>A hole is not something, it is a cavity in something else

Well, and black holes can behave like cavities in the universe. They bend the surrounding area with their gravity so much that they end up forming a kind of cavity.
Maybe this is a good place to ask: I'm a British expat living in the USA, and for a while now I've wanted a service which provides a British phone number, and forwards calls and texts to my US number, while also allowing me to send texts and make calls "from" the UK number if I want to.

It looks like I might be able to do this with Twilio, but I'm not a developer, and quickly got frustrated trying to build what I wanted.

Is there a service that will do this for me at a reasonable price?
The Raspberry PI is attached at my home router (1Gb fiber connectivity), then I can access it like a local server (so even by SSH) from everywhere with Tailscale[0]. The rest of the world is proxied by a Cloudflare Tunnel[1].

Yes, remote dev work is done mostly with Visual Studio Code Remote SSH[2] (but I wish something similar would exists for Sublime Text).

[0]: https://tailscale.com/

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...

[2]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

Edit: Yes, I hacked together the status page, something similar welcomes me when I ssh into the machine.

Edit 2: Some benchmark here: https://pibenchmarks.com/benchmark/62022
Trying to order it from Canada and it tells me my postal code is an invalid zip code. I tried 2 separate addresses.
only for certain regions, as always.
That's fake too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33165975 https://twitter.com/swodinsky/status/1579847763499847681
Begs the question of why Russia started it.
Spending $1500 per employee for a fancy gadget might not be a big deal for Facebook and Microsoft, but they are in for a shock if they expect the rest of the corporate world to cough up the cash.
Microsoft Partners with Meta to Bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox to VR
Must've been a Rust developer working undercover
I read the comments then read the article, then came back to find it dead. But why? This post contains new information that is relevant to the tech industry. Its claims are not outlandish. And it brings receipts (screenshots). If this is what a major tech company is doing, isn't it worthy of discussion here?

I hope the comments can be civil, and I've seen more contentious topics surface high-quality comments on HN.
I couldn't get past its build systems. I ended up looking at pulp, npm, bower, yarn, webpack and parcel but couldn't figure it out. Someone said 'use spago' (hooray! another package manager!) but no luck either.
Ahh, miss understood the price. hahahaha
"I want to see its resolution!". Click on tech specs. "...with resolution 4X higher compared to Quest 2". Thanks Meta, that is super helpful!
i would like this too. i think you can do it with apple email relay.

currently i have example.com as my email, which i use with mailbox.org, would it be possible to keep using it with mailbox.org and then for mozilla to allow it to be used for email relays? e.g.

name@example.com goes to mailbox.org

3859dhtog@example.com goes to firefox relay

(not currently ofc, but a future thing)
>> need to hurt Chinese people

Excuse me? Calling out a dictatorship that's committing genocide has exactly nothing to do with American nationalism nor with "hurting" people of some ethnicity.

I'm also Jewish. Your statement is equivalent to saying Jews still talk about the Holocaust 50 years after it happened as a way to hurt German people. Or that Blacks talk about slavery as a way to hurt white people. These were groups that were victims of racial genocide and you're using the oldest cheap trick of holocaust revisionists to blame them for making some other racial group feel guilty...?

It was the communist party, the nazi party, the institution of slavery. Not the Chinese, the Germans, the whites. We call the truth out to try to prevent it from happening again. Racist propagandists and the peddlers of denial, who are also the ones to commit genocide, come up with the shallow excuse that the victims are racist.

Pretending that people talk about CCP concentration camps to "hurt Chinese people" is an explicit propaganda attempt to cover up or change the subject from an actual racial genocide committed by the Chinese government, by using an imaginary, nonexistent racist response from the west that makes "Chinese people" into the narrative's victims. Keep polishing that, one day it might sound as good as Putin's version about victimized Russians.
That would explain the 12GB RAM
Sad to see it's still LCD so you don't get actual blacks. Any word on if it still feels like having a scuba mask on or if you can see in the periphery?
Really? The Quest 2 is definitely a Facebook-made device, but I believe the original Quest was inherited from Oculus's design labs (even though Facebook ultimately took over).

Edit: I did some digging, and the situation is actually pretty complicated. Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, but they continued operating as an "autonomous subsidiary" for a few years before being absorbed into Meta and rebranded as Reality Labs. I guess it really depends on your frame of thought, but I seem to be wrong here.
Bad link; OP pasted URL in the field twice:

https://decrypt.co/111640/google-cloud-let-users-pay-bitcoin...
This isn't a Quest 3 because it's aimed at a different audience. This isn't for gaming and entertainment, it's for productivity. Look at the list of software they are highlighting. It's design and business stuff. When they say "Pro" that's actually an accurate modified. Unlike the "iPad Pro" which is just a more expensive iPad.
There are currently two mechanisms:

- A weak CAPTCHA that will be replaced with something stronger (probably image-based)

- Disabling registrations
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> opinions aren't illegal

The correct opinions aren't illegal. Reddit is not a bastion of free speech [0].

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/14/reddit-ce...
I searched Amazon right now and I see an RX 6600 for $230.

That GPU is plenty fast for most gaming, unless you're trying to push 4K or very high framerates at 1440p.

Nobody needs a $700 GPU to play video games. Look at the averaged charts: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html An RX 6600 still puts out over 100fps at 1080p medium settings on their 8-game average.
Ask HN: How many devs are coasting at their remote job?
There's been lots of talk lately about quiet-quitting, over-employment (having 2 remote jobs), and coasting 1-2 hours per day (or even per week) as a remote software developer.

I see two ways to think about this:

1. The company is getting what they want out of the employee, so why does hours worked matter? It's about outcome, not output. If the company is none the wiser, that's their problem.

2. The company and the employee entered into a contract that often explicitly states hours-per-week worked. The employee is being dishonest by intentionally misleading the employer that this is how much work they can accomplish in a week.

The common arguments for (1) that I hear are:

A. It's not possible to do more than 4 hours of mentally intensive work a day on average (everyone is different). That's fine but 4 hours a day is a far cry from having 2 fully remote jobs, or working only a few hours a week.

B. Devs only did 1-2 hours a day of real work in an office environment anyways. The rest was interruptions. This might be correct, but you were still "working" - ie. using mental cycles, having discussions, and guiding others, as pedantic or seemingly useless it may have seemed. Now that you have mental cycles freed up, shouldn't those go towards your work?

I want to hear HNs thoughts on:

* How common is this scenario?

* Do you think this is a growing problem in the industry?

* How are employers handling these situations?
There are multiple reasons why someone would prefer to date only one gender while actually bisexual. I know a person who is bisexual and only dates the opposite gender because they don't want to deal with backlash from their conservative family and because they prefer to start a traditional family one day. I do feel like that may be a popular issue so I wouldn't expect that a bisexual person would message both genders equally, like this article absurdly claims.
Space elevators are lame. Launchloops and orbital rings are where it's at! :D
Well a postal code is an invalid zip code, so not sure what you are expecting. If you select Canada in the "ship to" field it will work.
This is also possible in typescript which is a little more mainstream than Idris.
Hah... Maybe they've figured out that most of their readers are the same pseudo-intellectuals that will misunderstand things like Schrodinger's Cat and refer to it like magic, quietly hoping that other people will look up to them as all the wiser for having referenced it. Like a bartender I met a while ago that confessed to me that he and his wife interpreted quantum mechanics in a way that borders on religious, using it to discredit the concept of free will altogether.

> Take gravity, add quantum mechanics, stir. What do you get? Just maybe, a holographic cosmos.

Something tells me I'll be hearing a lot of confused misinterpretations of this over the next few days... A lot like the confusion over entanglement after this year's Nobel prize.
I think you've hit on an important point. What does PC mean? Obviously not "something in the lineage of the IBM PC," since we're talking about an ARM desktop PC. And we're not talking about off the shelf computers that have ARM chips, because we have the Mac and Chromebooks.

I'm guessing it probably means something like - why isn't there the equivalent of the x86 hardware world, but using ARM? Why can't I buy a CPU and motherboard with modern standard interconnects that I can use for a video card, SSD, etc; or maybe get a beige box computer, but it's ARM-based?
2160x2160 per-eye according to https://vr-compare.com/headset/metaquestpro

1440x1600 per-eye is valve index, and 1832x1920 per-eye for the Quest 2

No idea where the 4x comes from, but I'm guessing that the mixed reality cameras are just better and it's a semi-misleading statement.
If you assume the misery of the users is constant between the drug zones and the prisons, everyone.
> And who would take their place moving Java forward?

The fleet of companies who use Java extensively and care about it's future.

Java has a huge ecosystem to put it lightly. Oracle is not the single point of failure.
Impressive how much processing power you can fit into such a svelte headset in 2022.

The price, while steep, is not outrageous compared to something like an iPhone. But I still haven't seen a "killer app" for VR so it's not a "daily driver" like a phone would be. The association with Meta is also a huge downside for me personally.
If it solves the “only one conversation at a time” problem with online meetings then yes. I’d rather be in a virtual room with proximal volume than a Zoom meeting with people yelling over each other
Also, you couldn't buy a 3080 at launch, it was never in stock. Now, the real 4080 16 GB is too close to the 4090 in price to be worth it. For the moment, it is the best to wait for AMD and hope it will be good.
I never use my laptop's built-in keyboard. I've probably never even pressed certain keys on it once. I do this to preserve the keyboard's lifetime, since I do a lot of typing, and I don't want to get it repaired a year later. I get a new keyboard once a year, typically mechanical, although I sometimes enjoy 'low profile' or thin keyboards if I'm going to typing a lot and don't want as much clickety-clack / noise.
I'm most interested in the readability of code and the long term comfort of wearing it.

Would love to try a pair programming session with it.
All you've done here is to repeat lies and propaganda popularized back then.

You would need to explain why so many parts of the US Constitution are based on Iroquois Confederacy law if Native Americans are so barbaric. And you'd need to explain why the Iroquois Confederacy is still in operation today - one of the oldest participatory democracies on earth. Having been founded in 1142, it makes European countries look far far behind in terms of civilization.

https://www.pbs.org/native-america/blogs/native-voices/how-t...
Faster, more comfortable, self tracking controllers (each essentially a Snapdragon 662 phone), better optics, higher resolution.
is this usa and canada only?

i can't see any option when i log on from the uk.
Some studies suggest lead-free solder has lower stability long term than leaded does.
Probably will support being used connected to the power, no?
In general, if you will use more than two hours straight probably you will sit at your chair. If not, yeah, it will be a problem.
100%. The reality of moderation on Reddit is absolutely horrifying, like flipping over a rock and finding a pile of decomposing rat carcasses underneath. It's unbelievable, for instance, how often comments going against the grain are "shadow removed".
Currently not at all. All comments in a thread are loaded.

I do intend to add pagination but I'm not sure what a clean implementation would look like.
I'd rather have unpaid megalomaniacs and teenagers (read: people who care) than a faceless souless corporate bureaucracy.

However both suck in very real but different ways.
$2300 and their top-billed "experiences" are Adobe Acrobat, Dropbox, and LastPass.
Huh, whoops. Is your username a reference to the cossotat river?
Again, it's not that simple and if we're concerned about "political purposes" consider that a right-wing commenter's opinion piece arguing against against his political opponents is perhaps not exactly the complete historical consensus. For example, note how he left out things like "No Irish need apply" signs or anti-Jewish quotas or social stigma because those undercut the point.

Many of the groups we now consider white were not originally fully accepted as such. If you want to argue that we should have a different term than "whiteness" to describe that, fine, but there is plenty of scholarly usage of the term and it doesn't change the intended meaning that different groups had different levels of acceptance and, most relevantly, joining the anti-Black side tended to be an effective way to avoid one's own status being question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_th...
Doing your desk job in VR seems like a gimmick. Meetings in VR are a gimmick. Collaborative real-time design and creative work in 3D - that sounds like it's worth $1500.
Does anyone know if you can get corrective lenses for these pancake style lenses? They seem to be closer to the face. One of the things I actually enjoy about the Quest 2 is that I have lenses for them so I take off my glasses to use it, which is very nice.
The Quest was running into hardware problems running things like VRChat and some games. I think this headset is supposed to be able to run those.
> What's even better than [effective drugs and vaccines] are public health measures that are taken even more broadly and don't require individual actions. In the industrialized world, we took many of these a long time ago, things like providing clean water without pathogens floating around in it. It comes as a shock to us when that layer of defense breaks down, because we're so used to it that we take it as part of the natural order of things.

If disinfection with 222nm light or a similar safety measure becomes so commonplace that we take for granted, that would be a remarkable shift and a small silver lining to the COVID pandemic.
I was toying with my own espresso set up but I think of it as a large upfront platform commitment with high switching costs and costly subscription fee (beans). On top of that I have little control over the various subscription fees. And if ever I decide that I want to no longer drink coffee (unlikely) I will have this investment to re-consider.
The apps section says: "enjoy your favorite games, entertainment apps and more" and then highlights Adobe Acrobat, Dropbox, and LastPass.

Think it's clear who Meta wants to buy this! It will be great if companies buy their employees a $1500 headset that they use to play Beat Saber.
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