skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference between driving a lowend car and literally not being able to express yourself.

I am well aware that status and appearance are already things in real life, but it becomes a whole different thing when it gets intermixed with your identity. Your actual person is worse because you didn't buy the upgrade. That's way different than not having a cool shirt or whatever.
Come on, a multi screen setup at home is better than some half asses 3D VR attempt: at BEST we ll have multi screens inside the 3D world because we need flat surfaces with tons of written stuff on them...
Apple is about to get into the same ad business as Google so be prepared to lose that trust.
Check this post from a few days ago on HN:

Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025954
Software and Anarchy (2021) [pdf]
I don't think they ever did so it's not like this is something new.

But riffing on the 2019 theme I thought it was interesting that the 2019 Mass unrest was ostensibly triggered by the introduction of The "fugitive offenders ordinance" (the Foo bill, heh) which was basically an extradition bill. The purpose of that bill, which I suppose was much misrepresented, was essentially to allow Hong Kong to provide extradition mechanism for fugitives from jurisdictions where there was no formal extradition treaty extant.

So in a pretty strong sense it was a piece of legislation to try to ensure Hong Kong would not become a haven for such folks.

Of course these kind of sanctions that are the subject of the article are very different legally from some sort of fugitive (I think), but I think it's interesting that almost nobody in the West seemed to support the legal intention of the extradition bill to help Hong Kong not become a Haven for these types of fugitives and, and yet now with Hong Kong not implementing unilateral sanctions from other countries you see the criticism from the West saying "Hong Kong is becoming this Haven". Folks outside HK that didn't want to Hong Kong to implement an extradition bill, now they want Hong Kong to implement their unilateral sanctions.

I'm kind of enjoying that irony but there's plenty of those kind of things, but I think people just have a very short memory plus a double standards attitude where something that's bad doesn't matter if it's not happening to them, and something that's bad can actually be a "good thing" if it's hurting the "right people." To me these kind of things seriously undermine the morality of the people saying this kind of stuff... And often the things they're asking for and doing a based on the idea that they have some sort of moral superiority position...But It seems most people don't really get that or don't care.
it's not. S3/symbian is still leading
The handbook says that employees stack rank each other based on value contribution and salary is adjusted accordingly. Compensation is controlled by the initial offer and then adjusted based on peer review.
Did you listen to Carmack? It's addressed immediately. He's specifically making a point about what is currently feasible and mentions how he wanted it this way since the last Connect (and said as much last time).
What the hell is up with HN today? Why is this downvoted so much? Get ahold of yourself HN users!
That’s a big thing that I find missing. In zoom meetings you can’t talk over each other. Like in a normal room of people there can be a bunch of conversations happening at once (like you can whisper to the person next to you if there’s a presentation, or even during a gathering you can walk around and say hi to different people)
The tech looks great but the landing page is a poster child for reminding engineers that you are not your customer, even when your product is designed to be used by other engineers.

The first full sentence of the first full paragraph on the landing page is "Qwik does not do hydration because it is resumable."

The fraction of people looking for a "zero hydration resumable web framework" is at best minuscule compared to the number of people looking to make their website load faster or looking for ways to convert a higher fraction of visitors into customers.

Even on HN, people adopt products because of the benefits, not because of the hard things you did. Zero hydration is not a benefit - it's a hard thing you did that makes the real benefits possible. Start with the benefits. Understanding the benefits makes people want to know more, including the secret sauce, like zero hydration, that makes the benefits possible.

This page [0] would make a better landing page - it makes a much more readable case for what Qwik is and why it's important.

[0]https://qwik.builder.io/docs/overview/
Which Dropbox thread? Not everyone on HN has been here a long time
How about Bill Gates, who apparently is an expert in public health, viruses, vaccines, epidemiology, etc?

Smart people like Bill, Elon and the CEO of Brave are polymaths and can cross domains quite easily.
You'll appreciate this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzRjtvMQds4
Perhaps a better dating website could be a dating aggregator, call it the Kayak of dating. When I was single and searching in small radiuses for locals to meet, I remember seeing the same people on multiple dating sites. I think having a site like this would have at least saved me some time and allow me to focus on only the dating sites that had singles that appealed to me.
> Also what I really don't understand is how anyone can have anything against them spending $$$ on R&D? Worst case scenario: their whole productivity angle doesn't work out, they lose billions upon billions in the coming decade and eventually scrap the whole thing.

Err well people who own Meta, which is likely a lot of people here through shares, investment funds, pensions, probably don’t want that do they?
I’m glad it’s there.

For decades, every long page had a progress bar. Then, nonsense design fads dictated that the scroll bar should become invisible on some browsers.
What I want to make remote work better is a laptop with the camera positioned behind the screen, maybe two thirds the way up. I don't care if this makes for a small dead zone in the screen. I want to be able to look directly at the person I'm video conferencing with, and for it to look to them like I'm looking at them too. Moving the camera down a bit would get me 90% of the way there, 90% of the time. I don't want to wear a stuffy hot VR headset. I just want a modicum more of a connection with the people I talk to every day.
Nope, you have the wrong understanding. Elon musk is at the head of a company that builds rockets. He has the future of western space endeavor in the palm of his hand, and and will continue to do so for decades at this rate. He has agreements with the US government. You don't get to mess around with geopolitics and play games when you're operating at that level. If he didn't want to be subject to such scrutiny, he should have stuck to making cars and then people would just be upset and not outraged.

He must be investigated for this so that the extent of his play becomes apparent, if any. He may be innocent, that is an acceptable possible outcome, but he really has gone too far this time.
Mining people's user-generated content for their areas of interest and on the one hand serving them content that will keep them coming back while on the other hand selling that "engagement" to advertisers.

Pretty obvious in the light of the above why they want to be the metaverse platform of choice.
You can challenge anyone with this type of arguments. I was doing this kind of programming and delivering successful solutions since the 80s. If you chose to doubt my expertise it is your right. Does not mean your opinion has a shred of truth in it.
I want to know the mechanics of "adjusted accordingly". Who adjusts it? Do your peers just vote on it? If that's the case, how do they avoid that becomes super political or just trading favors?
... when that question of should I leave becomes repetitive enough then the answer is usually then yes but not yet. The not yet part is really the warning that you need to prepare to leave or prepare to change.

If you have doubts about staying then you also have no doubt that something is wrong.
Would be nice to see a picture in the README on how the diff look like in the browser.
I see your point which is semantically valid. But there is something more to it. Consider it from the other direction: You can introduce a bug by making some modification to the code. Then you add another modification which produces the same erroneous behavior. Either one alone would be enough to cause the problem. And two of them together does not cause any more problems than each of them alone.

But now to "fix" the problem you have to undo both of your modifications. You have 2 bugs and you have to "fix" them both. "Fix a bug" as in "Kill a bug".

So "Fix a bug" can mean "remove a cause of the problem". Or it can mean "remove the problem".
I love "Adobe Acrobat" is the first app listed. I've always wanted to immerse myself in PDF forms.
I heard that lobster fact from Dr Jordan Peterson
Obvious reality shaping campaign targeting Elon. There’s been a massive uptick in coordinated campaigns to influence perception negatively towards Musk, and affiliates.

At least it’s obvious on one hand when years ago I would’ve been more susceptible to the influence.

But ya, like senttoschool said : pease just stop. What is the world going to look like when state-actor level perception management is table stakes for even a single individual? Yuck.
> Buys digital property on unsecure centralized blockchain

> Value completely dependent on centralized media corporation

> Web3 is GoInG GrEaT

It's like becoming a vegan for health reasons after eating McDonald's.
Any power consumption figures for a room of X people? I have to bombard my aquarium with powerful lights and co2 injection to get some pearling (oxygen bubbles). I would also imagine the lights to be blue+red peak grow lights to optimize photosynthesis and the glass tubes to be thinner to minimize attenuation of light in liquid.
Burning the midnight oil
wat? no. there is zero guarantee that what you store there today will be available tomorrow.
I solved the Dandelions paper-and-pencil game
They spend every cent (and then some) on growth. The model is to capture the market. You have to spend to do that. Once you do that, you can set the terms.

Also, it happens to bring growth company valuations and a nice exit. What happens after that (ie if the entire thing was unsustainable), honey badger VC don't care.

You also don't have a choice but to play the game. If you don't, your VC funded competition will outspend and destroy you.
I liked this article, what a nice story :)

Did you get into your "hobby teaching" through your school sysadmin job?
Iran helped lebanon resist israeli occupation and defeated isis in syria.

Also what is the obsession with calling middle eastern countries “regimes”? Lebanon has had elections and government changes throughout its history.

Also please dont forget who funded isis. Iran has no equivalent “religious extremists”, isis is on a whole other level.

In syria and lebanon, you have countless christians and even sunnis that support iran. In fact, overwhelming christians support iran since the sunni counterpart has shown itself much more hostile to other faiths.
After spending a day trying out a new framework my junior dev asked me: "why don't we do it the old way? We would have finished the first feature already. We can do everything the framework does already with our old tools"

So I reverted my changes and worked on features instead of stack
You cannot rebuild the traditional family, or a normal society with these laws in place. They’re evil as they’ve traded the family for more GDP.

I know you probably think you’re doing a good thing by championing these laws, but in reality, your support is aiding the degredation of the natural family.

It’s a terrible tradeoff we’ve made, but it can be reversed.
While it might not be relevant to you, it might be relevant to others who might consider picking up the hardware you mentioned.

I get that the FYI directed it to you, but given the HN guidelines I read that more as PSA.
Flexbox not working in buttons is news to me (and I use display: flex and display: grid all the time). I just tested in both Chrome and Firefox and display: flex works just fine inside a button.

I think there was a bug in Chrome a couple of years ago where they incorrectly denied some element the ability to be flex containers (<fieldset> was a really annoying case of this) but I think that is fixed now.

The only case that I can think of where you can’t use a <button> is if you have nested interactive elements (a button within a link/button). There are sometimes ways around that (absolute positioning of the outer link/button) but sometimes there aren’t and then you need to re-implement a fake button from a <div>.
Problem with glassdoor it makes it incredibly painful to browse without registering and giving up your own data!
Allowing CEO Emailing (Samsung)
AKA “not a legitimate transaction”.
You're really leaning your entire arm on the scale here.

People have a visceral reaction to the implication that donning a computer on your head and interacting via Corporate Memphis styled cartoon avatars is any sort of future that we should seek. It's that simple.

That video of a woman sitting lifelessly at her table while her avatar engages in hearty expressive conversation puts a lump of discomfort in my throat. It's a repulsively dystopian outcome for social interaction, but Meta wants to sell it as a future we're missing out on.

People do not like that. I've followed VR since it's infancy, owned most of the major headsets, used it in an office environment, and I will say while VR is cool, the promise of the metaverse is deeply offensive to the senses of most people, myself included.
The original title continues

"showing how war complicates supply chain".

That changes the intention from what appears to be finger pointing to a business story. It's fair enough but not sensational.
Yes, but that's not limited to GS. As I understand it, the title inflation is an unintended consequence of regulations, tech, and cross-company contracts.

Workers are considered cogs in the machine, and only "sufficiently senior" employees are allowed to make any individual decisions at all. As a result, anyone who works with code and is required to actually solve any problems at all must be either "senior[tm]" or have one explicitly authorise every piece of work they actually do. For finance regulators and ivory tower governance people, agency is a terrible thing to allow for a drone.

Meaning? If you are in a role that requires to make choices and implementation decisions that affect production or path to production, you must be sufficiently senior. Ergo, a VP or above.

It's not just the regulations either - the contracts finance industry negotiates with each other also try to impose the same demands onto the other parties.[ß]

ß: I get to review these contracts at work. Some of the proposed clauses would require every possible change to be pre-approved by the most senior management.
But he was not an artist, but a conservator. His job was to restore the existing historical painting, not create a new one from his imagination. He was, by all accounts, extremely meticulous about that in all other assignments apart from this one. Other than that, if he "liked painting demons" there would be notebooks and canvases full of the stuff at home. There were none. So the fact that this is a one-off, extremely serious breach of professional etiquette, combined with an obsession with a subject matter he was not otherwise interested in, does indeed make it rather weird.

I find it really interesting that you are defending against a claim that was never made in the article - the possibility of him being "demonic". Personally I found it strange that the piece speculated so much from a psychological angle but didn't remotely mention the spiritual, while my thoughts on reading were exactly that - perhaps the person or place was under some kind of demonic possession and this is the outcome of a spiritual attack. A little instance of the world we don't understand spilling over into the one we do.

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist." - Keyser Söze, after Baudelaire
Meta's whole vision of the 'metaverse' may be silly, but come on, this is super exciting! The specific use case of using this for meetings aside, it just looks like a pretty huge leap forward in terms of hardware for AR/VR. It remains to be seen whether AR/VR is actually useful for things beyond playing video games, but my bet is that it will definitely be the case. Maybe this sort of hardware won't be quite as impactful/omnipresent as personal computers or smartphones, but it seems like it could be on the same order of magnitude as those things long term.
But regulating bodies could require adequate insurance against losses from hacking.
There is nothing that facebook could do to convince me to pay big money for one of their pre brickable devices
I never understood the hate for Facebook. Everytime someone points out their reasons, usually it has major flaws in 1) Inconsistency 2) Hypocrisy 3) Ideological bias 4) Bandwagoning.

So if someone wants to hate Facebook, if they have principled position, I respect that. But that's hardly ever the case in my experience online and offline.

I am not a fan of most social media companies, but I love the tech scene, and the progress Meta is making in this field. Should be universally applauded even by the harshest critics of Facebook.
Taiwan’s seismic activity has risen this year: CWB
someone has to do the actual job, so there will be some part of purely merit based hiring to meet baseline needs
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Unraid here yet (https://unraid.net).

You install it to a USB, put the USB into whatever you want as a server, and boot it up from the USB. The OS and config gets loaded into a ram drive. You now have a linux server ready to go, with access to thousands of apps and add-ons (which are basically just open source things you already know on various docker containers).

So you can install postgres, redis, whatever, and you are off to the races if you want to host your own side projects. Or you can install Tailscale, plex, and whatever OSS dropbox / media server clones to have access to your media anywhere.

The magic is that it all 'just works' and has a nice web GUI to install and configure things, and you don't even need to know that Docker is handling all the things running under the hood if you don't want to. The only tricky bit can be mounting volumes from the various containers to get things working together, for which there are many many guides and youtube videos. You can always bring your own docker compose config if you you want to keep it in code.

The uptime for one of my servers was up to well over half a year, and only storm & power outage brought the server down...now I've got it on a UPS with automated safe shutoff (again configured in the web GUI, took about 5-10 mins) if power drops again.

Unraid just runs and is rock solid and stays out of your way for whatever things you want to run.
Isn't 4G calling and VoLTE the same thing? A 4G phone without VoLTE uses the 3G network when placing/receiving calls, hence why the 3G shutdown is causing pain even though non 4G phones are really rare these days.
It was very useful in the past, but most of the problems it solved does not exist anymore.

I used it extensively because I never really like the imperative approach, it’s a bit too error prone
I'm the opposite. I find it very difficult to communicate with someone who doesn't turn on video. It's tough to gauge whether the other person understands what I'm saying or if we're still connected as I talk. I can never get in the flow.

I never liked phone calls and always preferred face-to-face communication, maybe that's related.
I imagine you know this already, but hey.com has this as a key feature.

I've even seen an article or two about how to get Fastmail to do something similar, which I imagine would work for Gmail too, e.g. https://www.joshuawood.net/make-fastmail-work-like-hey
Even simpler is tailing the access log into a script that makes sound upon matching the correct path.
Hope everyone hired there chose the all-cash compensation option.
They're saying the mechanism by which you have a provably valid election is solved, not that every country that has a populace that wants that has it.

But I have a feeling you knew that already.
No. The work was created in the 20th century by a conservator going rogue, for reasons unknown, and completely ignoring the underlying painting that he was supposed to restore.
This is precisely what <details> <summary> is for. No javascript required. It gives the correct semantics for assistive technology, correct interactions with the keyboard, focusability, etc. I recommend you use it over the old checkbox hacks or javascripts.
Facebook needs to create a new con to justify their valuation now that the charade is being exposed. That's literally it.
The number of comparisons needed to sort a shuffled array: qsort vs. std:sort
They don’t, and even elsewhere they usually aren’t either.

But don’t let that spoil the comic book narrative.

Poisoning still effective though!
Yes, the DP (data plane) in the demo acts as reverse proxy, it routes the downstream http request to the upstream according to the configuration. The CP (control plane) just translates the json configuration to sql and get it executed in the postgresql.
New reddit has a few different versions they seem to be A/B testing, some of them are lighter/faster, some restrict things like reading comments or viewing nsfw content to people who are signed in or using the app. I like libreddit for browsing, it's read only but I don't have an account so that's fine.
That’s just inherent in bazaar-style of development. There is no cathedral to demand that from now on we go with this.
Putting on my VR headset to get in a meeting with the rest of my team does not sound nearly as unreasonable though. It could be the same as starting zoom.

Like, at this price point, and with these features that isn’t it, but I can see it in a non-dystopian way.

It’s just that it’s Facebook providing the hardware that scares me.
I share your concern... Started as a manager in a successful scale-up and as usual our engineering staff is white & male (we are hiring from European Timezone). In order to secure the funding round, the higher management has introduced a diversity targets, which is driven aggressively by HR.
Funny enough lots of the European laws forbid asking if the candidate is a member of an "unrepresented" group, so I guess we'll be just eyeballing it??? This won't end good, but one must make a living.
It was done in the 1940’s so the demons might be due to WWII.
The experiment you discuss is called "stereotype threat" and it belongs into the huge set of psychological results that cannot be replicated. [1] It seems that there is a bias against publishing studies with null results, which skews the overall picture both among the researchers and in the media.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23743603.2018.1...
To you maybe:)
Seven sins of numerical linear algebra
VR may have been slowed, but it wouldn't have died.

It's difficult to achieve the level of immersion VR is aiming at, that is, complete immersion. A lot of people are happy with the immersion that desktop computers offer and don't want or need any more than that. That's because VR is seen as not been fully there yet.
How can you tell with that level of confidence?
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Apropos of nothing, that article is difficult to read with the short repeating GIFs. They'd have been better with static meme-format images. Also they take up 50-100% height of my browser window which is just wasteful. Give me words! Shove the memes to a sidebar or something.