skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mint prepaid now requires a payment card (identity linked) to issue an eSIM (required by iphone 14) in the US, even though the eSIM is free.

There is no way to get payment cards in the US without strong identity, thanks to PATRIOT/BSA.

Germany also requires ID for SIM cards.

Boycott services that demand a phone number or payment card.
Fwiw, Carmack spends the vast majority of his week working on AI as he is a VR/AR consultant now, and has stated it’s around one day a week (he announced a new AI startup recently), so it seems he’s more bullish on AI.
Canadian eBook Price Fixing Class Action Settlement
To be honest I think its more the content with this one. Check his medium profile. Guy gets in to Google then writes 9 different articles about it with clickbait titles. It's obvious the point of these articles are not to actually help anyone but exploit them.

I think if goal was to write an honest informative article and then plug their product thats fine by me.

And the articles itself isn't really saying anything. It's just a surface level description of some loosely related things that are different between the two companies and then a statement thats says that Google's way is better.
There are so many bizarre jumps in logic here it's actually impossible to address. All I can say is you need to speak to an actual (or better yet, several) epidemiologists about vaccine efficacy and the efficacy of the covid vaccines.

For anyone impressionable reading, I just want to point out:

> We're witnessing a large increase in non-covid excess deaths of young-to-middle-aged persons in countries with high covid shot uptake

This is false, the CDC is not lying, the vaccines are safe and effective. I recommend reading: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/sa... and the number of studies linked inside if you would like to read further.
At a web startup I worked at in 2008, we had some automated emails sent to all our users. We didn't have sendmail or postfix or whatever properly configured and so the emails came from nobody@ourdomain.com. Our CEO was pissed because he didn't understand that it wasn't like some intentional joke by our engineering team.
Did you try looking on Blind?
I haven't been paying close attention lately, but for the last few years, compilation looked something vaguely like this:

* AST - abstract syntax tree, created from lexing/parsing

* HIR - high level IR

* THIR - typed high level IR

* MIR - mid-level IR (this is the one that enabled non-lexical lifetimes)

* LLVM IR - given to LLVM to generate the final binary.

If you want to learn more, the rustc dev guide has a bunch of details https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/hir.html

> I would've thought rustc outputs only 1 IR?

Yeah, I mean these are in stages. One goes to the next goes to the next, and there's only one output, but that doesn't mean there aren't a bunch in the middle.

Different IRs are good at different things. MIR is based around the control-flow graph, which is also what non-lexical lifetimes are based on, so it's much easier to implement against MIR than it would have been against HIR.
You should try the original Oculus Rift dev kit.

It didn’t do any head (other than rotation) tracking, and it’s extremely disorienting to move your head and have the view be static.
They're probably right. No one else is providing a headset as good as the quest 2 at the same price point, because no one else has $10 billion a year to burn,
I believe this is correct. The vast majority of my modern "swipe era" dating experiences fall into either 1) Woman makes up excuse to bail within ~2 hours of planned date 2) Woman ghosts/un-matches just as conversation begins to gain momentum 3) Woman tells me she is "overwhelmed" by the attention she's getting from the app and is going to delete it, leaving behind her cell number. The effort/attention ratio for women on dating apps is literally unnatural. This ratio is tempered in the real world because it takes circumstance and balls to approach a woman.
I support this as more entrants into home energy solutions can only serve to make products better at a lower cost, but at the same time I'll remain hesitant to partake in any of their products until reviews come in, especially around the UX related to all of this.
Is it absolutely required to provide a solution when you highlight a problem? Is it possible some people are better at seeing problems than coming up with solutions to said problems, and vice-versa?
Phones work because they are so simple, unobtrusive and easy to position and use contextually. They are the argument against VR.
I wonder if they managed to solve the text blurriness issues. On my Quest 2 I tried using Immersed, Virtual Desktop, and other software to create virtual monitors in VR.

Text was always very blurry no matter how much I played with resolution, monitor sizes, or distances. Images and video always looked great but for reading text it was completely unusable.

For $1500 coupled with them marketing it for work, I would hope they've solved this issue.
Owning a coffee machine to make espresso (and potentially other drinks) is frugal.

My Setup:

Breville Dual Boiler $1000
Baratza Sette Grinder $500
Various accessories $100
20 bags of beans per year (drinking a coffee a day) $300
= $1900 first year
= $2200 cumulative second year
= $2500 cumulative third year

Vs paying $3 for an espresso at a coffee shop:

365*3 = 1460 every year + the time to get to the shop
= $2920 by second year (i.e. $720 more expensive)
= $4380 by third year (i.e. $1880 more expensive)

I for one am fine waking up, drinking great espresso before putting my pants on, all the while saving a bunch of money (after the initial investment).

And yeah, I've tried other variations like aeropress, pour over, french press, etc. A proper espresso made well beats them all
Most of the dependencies I see listed in this project are upstanding, household-name crates. Personally I'd feel more confident using those (which have many other eyes on them) than maintaining custom in-house implementations of complex (but standard) building-blocks
There are over 20K full time employees in Meta’s Reality Labs working on metaverse tech… this is not a marketing exercise.
> If the Proposed Settlement is approved and you do nothing, you are automatically included in the Settlement Class (if you qualify) and you will be legally bound by all orders and judgments of the Courts.

I’m confused that citizens apparently need to manually “opt out” (by Nov 11?) of this if they don’t feel informed enough to want to participate. How on earth do people end up involved in lawsuits without their consent?
It looks like they're trying make corporate Memphis art meets DreamWorks movie character design into just the standard avatar. Insanely goofy.
Zed talks about those two IDE's I mentioned in their FAQ, so I really would like to try it. But you can't as a normal user for now. But I'm looking forward to try it some day.
I think that's confusing between two issues in opposite directions:

1. Accusations that AUTOMATIC1111 (the web frontend developer) copied code from the NovelAI leak relating to the loading of hypernetworks

2. The leak revealing that Anlatan (the company behind NovelAI) had copied code from AUTOMATIC1111's repo (who, as above, Anlatan are accusing of copying from them) relating to the weighting of words. AUTOMATIC1111's repo does not have a permissive license to allow this

The third party MIT-licensed code is relevant to #1. Some code AUTOMATIC1111 was accused of copying from the leak (https://i.imgur.com/r1AkvBG.png) actually already appears in multiple older permissively-licensed public repos (https://github.com/lucidrains/perceiver-pytorch/blob/main/pe..., https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/main/ldm/mo...), one of which was credited in the readme by AUTOMATIC1111.

For #2, the Anlatan CEO blamed it on an intern (https://i.imgur.com/BFjKG1V.png). The leak shows that the offending code was committed by the CEO (https://i.imgur.com/aLiA2tr.png), which doesn't necessarily rule it out originating from an intern (e.g: "send me the code over teams to review and I'll add it") but doesn't look great.

From other examples I'd say AUTOMATIC1111 did get a bit sloppy in terms of not following clean-room design regarding the leak, but I'm inclined to give some leeway to a solo developer making a hugely popular public tool for free.
I’m more than a touch aspy myself which makes this faux-biting rebuke that sounds cool in only my head a bit meta: but nerds figured out how to sell tech stuff to normies quite some time ago.
exacerbates
Agree, in fact I think too much focus on not papering things can stifle innovation
Yeah but I thought it would be interesting to get a more HN centric dataset
I live in Gary and there are many factors that can factor into the economics here, mainly a single employer planning the entire city and that employer collapse. A house is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it
He's from Australia ;)
To solve the redundancy problem I wonder if running something like Hashicorp's Nomad on a few raspberry pis split across some friends houses could work nicely. Each site gets hosted at multiple houses for redundancy but no one person needs multiple devices.
I think it was because it was a live transmission.
I find it very inspiring to be able to express your thoughts in such a clear and concise manner.
Most people are usually either very charismatic/good presenters, or highly technical. But Carmack does both while still sounding friendly and just in general excited about tech.
This seems to be forbidden to say, but for all intents and purposes, “diverse” means “not white”.
The latter, because in this case the bulk of the "what is a face" function is determined by that data.
Vouching for this, because while the wording was confrontational, the points being expressed are valid. Apart from the water kinda. West Texas where they depend on groundwater for irrigation is screwed, but the rest is really well planned and run reservoir systems that catch several states worth of watershed.

Agree with the politics or not. TX isn't going to grab talent from states with strongly pro-choice workforces at nearly the rate it used to.

And the climatic extremes are bad and seemingly getting worse, anthropogenic or not. This summer was brutal, the last was as well, and both winters were fairly horrific as well. Partially because, as pointed out, the power grid isn't up to the current load.

I love TX, but it is because of the friendly people, the power infrastructure and climate situations are atrocious, and TX abortion laws are absolutely going to affect the influx of knowledge workers.
I'm honestly sick of these posts. VR is a thing. It's a really cool thing, and it is totally underappreciated for what it is.

A single company controlling the metaverse is what's stupid.
He should be in jail for treason
Holy cow and he said this was a CUSTOM BUILD to maintain frame rate! So it can’t even push this level of graphics normally. For what it showed I’d expect about 600 FPS. And the arms are jittering..Wtf?
Selling a Side Project
I am looking at selling a side-project for around $25-100k. Is anyone here experienced in doing something similar? The technology is quite valuable and would cost 3-4x that amount to build.
Self-Hosting with Cloudflare Tunnels (Feat Raspberry Pi)
The overwhelming majority of NTP deployments should probably not be running NTP in the first place.
Oh yah and he said there is a part of me that wants to "burn it down". omg I was laughing so hard.
So garage made pandemics are on the table! Also maybe DIY personal genetic replacement.
They are working with low bandwidth graphics, I wonder if that is part of their global strategy…
Please note I didn't write this but found this after reading the thread on self hosting.
Same. I've had my team and adjacent teams calling me a tech lead because I was filling that role like a natural. No promotion though.

I switched to another department and had that team and members of other teams think I was a senior dev. Also I was filling a role earmarked for people above my level, and getting rave reviews for it. Still no promotion.

It's all political BS.
Objectively, early stage private equity is the wild west. The law in most cases is that the investor took a risk knowingly, ceded control of the capital, and does not have the control of the company to do anything about it. If they have a near-majority of board control they may attempt to acquire one. If they don't, they're effectively powerless.

However, the reality is that you may have gentleman's agreements or reputational concerns to uphold. "Intentionally bad-acting" vs "failed" founders will be blacklisted from one or a cluster of funds. Sometimes there are other concerns. For example I have, due to informal agreement, personally returned capital to small scale investors in past ventures.

In an extreme case, I have even seen investors screw over inexperienced founders demanding they work to pay back debt and that they "owe" them the capital invested, even after a venture collapses. This is absolutely unfair and not the sort of thing founders should put up with.

I would encourage anyone asking this question to educate themselves as to the standard mechanics by taking TechStars' course Venture Deals https://venturedeals.techstars.com/pages/coming_soon
Because if he had legs, he might also have genitals, and you’re not allowed to do that on Facebook’s Metaverse.
My experience is that spacers or not, using these with glasses is uncomfortable. Adding prescription inserts are more comfortable and provide a better visual experience. I bought some very cheap glasses and 3d printed the inserts. They have magnetic mounts and you can remove them easily.
Deja vu almost, as i remember many eons ago, blackberry popularity catching on with ever younger demographics.. right before the iPhone was introduced...
San Jose CA also suffers from subsidence as a result of water withdrawal[1]. There is also a seasonal aspect to it.

[1]http://explore.museumca.org/creeks/z-subsidence.html
Or, here’s an idea. They could just not require an ‘anything’ account at all. That’s how my PC works, and it’s fine.
They could maybe hire some engineers and, I don’t know, have them work on that? Every other game in the world seems to have figured out a solution.
we were like 14 my friend
They achieve that "natural equilibrium" by starving en masse.

It's why I started hunting deer in my country - no natural predators, so they'll breed until they outbreed the carrying capacity of the forests they browse, and then they'll suffer long and agonising deaths, and in their desperation will devastate the forest, eating anything that's remotely edible, seedlings gone, bark stripped from adult trees.
What level is this for? Mid -> Senior?
He’s Audi 5000 to work on AGI, right?
> You can, otherwise we would select leaders by rolling dices, however we don't tend to do that.

I would disagree. First of all, just because we think we have ways, doesn't mean that they're good ways, it may be that our ways are the equivalent of rolling dice. I mean hilariously there are all like endemic complaints about interview processes. Why is it that all of a sudden you turn against the criticism and act like our decision making is sacrosanct?

Second of all, I'm not talking about a recent grad and someone with 10 years of experience, but having been in leadership circles. It's often "trust" and "reputation" and other sticky things like that that make the decision. I seem to hear all sorts of stories of people hiring leaders because "I had a good feeling about him"

> I guess your narrative is that it doesn't matter who we select as leader, they all have a chance of doing an equally bad job.

This seems like an overly broad interpretation. Among relatively equal candidates I think this is true. i.e. take your pool of 60 senior managers, there's one open director position. Find your best 15 senior managers. You could probably roll the dice among this group, otherwise, maybe you're not that great at training senior managers? (assuming there aren't specific technical skillsets involved)
I think it's much more a facet of limited performance (as mentioned in the talk itself) on these platforms rather than anything else. Performance on headsets is a challenge on pretty much all of these apps, from VRChat to Rec Room. I also think a lot of people that look just at the pictures don't realize that presence in VR adds a lot and can compensate for some loss of graphical fidelity. It's like how the first 3D games were quite blocky and a lot less refined than the best 2D games of the era but just the ability to move your character and the camera in 3D compensated for the bad graphics, to an extent.
it's checkbox compliance all the way up to the top. it's only for show as if people wanted a rigorous solution the problem, the mechanisms in play and each possible solution would have been documented in autistic detail before anyone put it out. this is a kind of issue you would keep junior talent and HR far far away from at all costs. this is software after all, people who care about something specific, care a LOT. this topic is a real issue but it has been tainted by racial political framing. imo, start with women in tech first, then go from there.
It’s a blatant euphemism that anyone not invested in the oil industry wouldn’t use.
> On the other hand, AI can also be used to generate code, and I'm optimistic that technology like this can accelerate humans' ability to encode complex processes robustly (as transformations of data) and would 10 or 100x less work than no/low code.

Ah right, lots of angles to consider! A hybrid system would certainly be interesting. Let the AI runtime generate and evaluate code to perform tasks (e.g. selenium/puppeteer in python/java). Upon failure, "escalate permissions" to enable DOM control, or full mouse/keyboard to complete the task (probably best not to let the thing open up a code-editor with M/KB controls though heh)
Wait till your profile gets temporarily blocked somehow and then they ask for a photo of driving license or passport to unblock it.
The Rise of Co-Living: Designing for Communal Life
Did I post this and forget I did?
If you like Meta but don't want to admit it, downvote this comment!
Couldn’t tell you about Pacsun’s popularity, but SHEIN is the fast fashion of fast fashion. Absolutely dirt cheap copycat apparel shipped from China with a very liberal return policy.

Lulu and Nike seem very status-oriented and I believe they don’t list on Amazon directly so makes sense there.
I totally get that, but my stance on the matter is that some of the software we're talking about is just as memory safe as a new Rust rewrite because it doesn't do anything unsafe, but the rewrite could introduce other bugs and differences that could break things.

I would say I don't stand on the side of "rewrite nothing", but I'm more of a realist here, in that we absolutely cannot "rewrite everything" perfectly in a memory safe language, and we should first determine if a particular tool should be rewritten in a memory safe language by doing some analysis and testing on that tool.

Certainly, even though I know no Rust and am not an expert in memory safety, I would say that in the future we should try not to write totally new software in memory unsafe languages, but I'm not everyone so I can't make that rule and ensure it sticks.
I think consistency is more important than actual execution time. Python will certainly have more latency responding to time queries, but it will be consistent and likely indistinguishable from a faster program.
Shein has an interesting story behind it.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/04/05/welcome-to-the-dar...

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/05/06/business-shein-fast-f...
If there is a correlation, it's probably the opposite. That if women don't value grit, female writers aren't going to make it an important part of their story. But I'd guess its probably just more overcompensating for "damsel in distress" being the default narrative device for most of history.
Another commenter links to a great video that explains the same thing about the spec and how confusing the environment creations can be: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33160373
Technically, the answers to those two questions also answer a third:

Should I leave?
A deflection from what? A predetermined conclusion?

When I'm troubleshooting a bug, the first thing I do is to enumerate the possible ways in which the bug might occur, then devise tests to rule out most of those possibilities. This doesn't seem to be any different.
5 hours in and 326 points to 520 comments. This isn't a good sign from the HN community (ratio going wrong way, not too many points for a brand new flagship product), which I would assume would be the most inclined audience to drop $1500 on a VR headset.
Two recent books by historians explore the crisis in biological psychiatry
Ask HN: 500+FPS in CS:Go
Why can most modest gaming desktops easily pull multiple hundreds of fps in CSGO when modern games of seemingly similar visual complexity run at a fraction of the speed?

Are there any crazy optimizations happening in this game/ engine that aren't present elsewhere?
High prices aren’t necessarily an indicator of the quantity of demand but more so that >= 2 people with that amount of money want that home.

For instance: nice homes in very low demand areas may sell for large amounts of money and only have a single offer.
A proper Mii would have been better. They are purposely cartoonish and can’t move in human ways.

This is trying to be vaguely human in hand and lip movement and it looks like bad marionette.

Hopefully it gets better but right now I’d rather just listen to the audio.
For the purposes of American HR Marxists, Indians are Indians, but Indian women are just a little better for the optics.

Smart dudes need to opt out of the game entirely.
not in the usa, "no child left behind" did a lot of damage on the futures of the generation going forward here.
You'd be surprised how hard it is to not be tracked by FB/Meta (and a bunch of other organisations), even if you don't sign up at all.
yeah, GM is currently knocking it out of the park with its BEVs...

"Sales data indicates that GM is nowhere near its ambitious production goal of making tens of thousands of Hummer EVs. The company sold 371 units of the Hummer EV Pickup in the U.S. in the first half of 2022. On June 30, 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that GM was making just about 12 units a day. A GM spokesman said that the deliveries could grow to thousands later in 2022."

And how about that Bolt recall which cost GM an estimated $1 B.
Having spent some time looking at DWARF data closely, I get the impression that there is an insane amount of information generated and the format can handle way way more complex scenarios than a simple "X is in register Y" - they got a full state machine and all in there. But the tools available.. simply do not consume it? I'm not entirely sure what the disconnect is.
True. Why point that out? I get paranoid. :) Was he scripted this time? The avatar video was to hide reading from the prompt?
Is being imprisoned an effective addiction treatment or therapy program? Would the threat of prison manage to turn people away from heroin or schizophrenia?

There is no publicly funded drug treatment or mental health program to send them to. Prison is just a temporary lockup before they’re returned to the same environment they came from. Where are you proposing we send them?

FWIW, I think we’re saying close to the same thing. I’m fine with disallowing people from openly camping in cities, but only if there’s a massive safety net to send them to that will actually help. Currently the anti-homeless sentiment is just being ginned up by corporate prisons who want more money. That’s clearly not a real solution.
Have you seen the cellphones of the late 1980s? https://techcentral.co.za/the-cellphones-of-the-1980s/191544...

While phones now are "simple, unobtrusive and easy to position and use contextually", they certainly weren't then.