skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sample size is, honestly, mostly irrelevant for these 'headline' type analyses. A good sample of a few hundred will get you a strong estimate, while a biased sample of a few million will get you a bad one.

The classic illustration is the Literary Digest poll of the 1936 Presidential Election. They got over two million respondents and confidently predicted a heavy Roosevelt loss. George Gallup got a comparatively tiny but well sampled set of respondents and correctly estimated the Roosevelt victory. The magazine's problem was partly sampling bias (their readers were richer than the average American, amongst other things) and partly non-response bias (they got a return rate of ~25%, which is pretty good, but probably disproportionately from the most politically engaged of their readership, who hated Roosevelt).

I don't know how bad the sample is here for extrapolating to 'all those seeking dates', but the size is a distraction - the sampling is all.

(This isn't necessarily true if you're making individual profiles, searching for rare phenomena, or something else which is more in the 'big data' than 'social statistics' space, and which genuinely needs that much training data. It's also not true if you're studying the site members themselves, for whom the site members are a perfect (non-) sample. The latter is true for the in-house data science team themselves, but we shouldn't just assume their experience will extend to the rest of the world).
Is there a way to enable safe "D" by default, rather than using the `@safe` (what looks to be) modifier?
Putin apologists would say that he's "messing with geopolitical issues" by allowing the Ukrainian military to use Starlink (for free?) in eastern Ukraine at all.

So Elon is far from becoming irrelevant, and that's the problem.

There should be more services that compete with Starlink, so that sovereign Ukraine can't have its domestic policies vetoed by one guy who doesn't even live there.

Failing that, the US should put a universal service obligation on Starlink, requiring Elon to only use the geofence boundaries that the US government approves.
Teams is still trying extremely hard to provide a usable text chat, and now they want to go to VR?

The hubris!
The assertion seems to be that it is not going to end well. If it really is unsustainable sprawl with poorly put together civic functions, why do we expect it to go on forever?

That is, sure, houses are cheap for now. But that doesn't mean you will have a place worth living in, given time.
My Meta account doesn't have my real name and I don't recall anything requesting I add it.
Chicago scientists are testing an unhackable quantum internet in basement closet
As soon as the robo-taxis weren't delivered as promised, it is clear that he doesn't care about anyone but himself. He knows that whatever he sells (even if it doesn't work), his fans will buy it anyway.

He also knows that notoriety and playing the sidelines armchair general act will get the media eyeballs in attacking him again and will get him in the spot light as the provisional villain of the month, bringing him more fans.

A cycle that only benefits Elon.
I am working on a decentralization project and I am dropping HTTP for WS everywhere. WS is faster with far less complexity because there is not a message round trip. Each message is treated as a unique event at each end point.
> The people who study this stuff seriously end up concluding that cultural and domestic factors are the biggest predictor. There are plenty of minority groups who at one point didn't have any stuff, and were discriminated against. ...It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with the culture, family, and values you grew up with.

This might actually be the best plausible argument in favor of affirmative action and D&I policies targeted towards these folks. By making it easier for them to enter especially high-skilled industry sectors such as tech we strengthen their incentive for adopting more effective cultural norms, which has significant benefits in the longer run.

(Unfortunately, this won't do any good if the educational system as a whole is not up to reasonable standards - if you're uneducated, you're still practically barred from the most productive and lucrative careers. And U.S. K-12 public education sucks.)
>Whereas, on Linux Wayland, if you want to support GNOME, _you_ have to care about decorations, or you have no titlebar nor X button.

Does GTK not manage the decorations for you?
2 Years of Writing a Book in 30 Minutes (Ryan Holiday: Discipline Is Destiny)
I think solar makes sense for most who use air conditioning. That's a load matched pretty closely to the timing of PV generation.

Here in the Sierra foothills, it's been a blazing hot summer. About 90% of our PV generation powered our home air conditioning. We shipped very little energy to the grid on hot days. And it was awesome to have a comfortable environment without sucking grid power on the days when it hit 113°F.
Call me when you remove Ganalytics from such "privacy focused service" (1)

Will stick with Simplelogin.io, which is included for free with Proton Unlimited.

1:
https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/1639
Those are all already fixed, or easily fixable.

Nausea only occurs (as far as I can tell) when the motion you see in the headset doesn't match your motion in real life. That's not a problem for a simulated desktop experience.

Sweaty forehead typically only occurs if you're getting a work out in VR, which wouldn't be a problem for office work. But for those who have that issue even when not exercising it seems easily solvable with better ventilation. Hardly an impossible engineering challenge.

Neck cramps are solvable by balancing the weight on your head better. Quest Pro has this.

Disconnection from the world is solved by high resolution video passthrough. Quest Pro has this.

Visual accessibility is solved by prescription lens inserts. That's been a thing since the Rift 1.
I used this technique while cutting in a previous life where I lifted frequently. I'd drink a bowl of "water soup" before bed, so that I would feel temporarily satiated and be able to fall asleep more easily. (My water soup consisted of hot water, a bit of soy sauce to add saltiness, and a bit of sesame oil for greasiness... basically I was making a minimal imitation soup stock.)
> There just isn't enough for everyone

There's enough for everyone, but some large actors are taking most of the water and wasting it or exporting the productive value of that water due to a lack of real market forces on the price of water.

You're absolutely correct there will be water rights issues, I would argue they will become wars in certain places and in others it will result in certain massive cities becoming dead over several decades.
> It feels a whole lot more like a real meeting than a Zoom call does.

I haven't had the chance to try it myself, so can you explain how it's better?

I feel like the main problem with remote meetings is the audio latency. You cannot speak as you would naturally, you'd speak in turn instead. I'm guessing VR allows you to give and receive visual cues about this so it might be better, is this what you had in mind?
He is also a co-author of the posted paper.
Maybe that is what they were trying to avoid but in practice they made it much worse. Oculus had accounts before they were bought by FB, it was pretty much like a Steam account for better or for worse. Then by the Quest 2 you had to use your Facebook account, which meant you had to verify your facebook account on your phone (maybe there was a work around, I didn't find it) and it asked for your phone number and then FB is texting you saying some robot with a woman's name just friended you, and you have this duummy account that is always posting what you are doing on the quest etc. etc.

Yeah I am sure there is a way to turn off all that junk and opt out of installing the app or giving them your phone number but its full of anti-patterns to make you do it. What a hassle.
I'm sure some PM somewhere in Meta is proud it's using that horrid avatar instead of an actual video. But ooft, it looks so goofy on what seems to be a serious conversation.

Their whole metaverse bet seems weirder and weirder by the day.
Second Life is actually better in every way (more engaging and fun) than anything we've seen come out of the Metapharce to date.

FB was never a games company.
Games are challenging in a distinctly different way compared to the $FB specialty- Platform Scale engineering. Even with Carmack helping them they're still not doing a convincing job of pulling it off to transform themselves into .. whatever they're trying to become. I couldn't even say, perhaps they want to become like MS Xbox or Slony PS5?
You don't get nausea from experience where you don't move around in VR. Virtual monitors should not cause any nausea. Same for the sweaty forehead.

The weight issue is lesser with the Quest Pro (since the weight is balanced at the back) and will get better with time with newer devices.

> visual inaccessibility (I need to wear computer glasses)

Quest 2 provides spacers for glasses. I assume Quest Pro will as well.

The disconnect from the world is the only one that doesn't have a solution yet AFAIK.
What does Japan do with its addicts and mentally unstable?
I don't know why you want a significant increase in health. I'd switch over even if it were a mild increase.
Food inflation has soared in the U.S. And now farmers are planting wheat
It is always useful and prudent to see things from the perspective of those attacking you. "Know your enemy.."

You can argue over definitions and terms as much as you want, but the uniform you wear is often defined by your opposition. In other words, it may not be completely relevant what you or OP think diverse is or isn't. It is very relevant what the power structures and people implementing these policies think it means, no?

If someone has a kid that potentially is going to be quota'ed out of jobs or education, why wouldn't they worry about it?
You can't give them credit for solving a problem they created. If Nvidia made me log in to Facebook to use my graphics card, I wouldn't cheer when they gave me the option to make an Nvidia account instead.
Okay it depends what you define as a side mission. Those "real" story driven side missions, like the one with the self-thinking-car-service are well written and quite enjoyable, but I meant all those non-saying sude missions that are sprinkled over the map, where you have to fight against some gangsters, which are everytime the same. But that must not be annoying, you just don't have to clear all of them :D
iPhone Ownership Among U.S. Teens Hits 87%
Yeah this would be a cool product. You'd have to use both the InboxSDK to build your UI in Gmail as well as using the Gmail API (https://developers.google.com/gmail/api) to make sure new incoming emails are correctly sorted by your rules.
Well, Carmack is employed by Zuckerberg and he just pooh-poohed Horizon Worlds as well as the Quest Pro (from a strategy perspective). Both seem to be loved by Zuckerberg.
For me it'll depend on the magnitude of the improvement, especially in resolution. If it's a serious improvement, I could see it as viable for productive work and not just games, in which case it might be worth the money.
Not if you count the ads to activate Apple products like AppleTv/AppleMusic
It's definitely a bad strat for finding love, but not bad for finding company lol.
Don't do it, it's not good behaviour. Or be extremely clear that you're just fishing.
There are different stages of ir which allow for different optimizations.
I had to install three headsets from scratch today and you definitely only log in once.

There is only one account type now.
That's not the only reason. The other reason is that although it's pretty obvious to any one person how it should work, no two people's ideas are the same. Depending on how you are using containers, the answer to a number of questions can be completely opposite to someone else's usage. The theory was that Firefox would provide the underlying functionality, and specialized addons would specialize it to a style of usage.

In practice, it feels like that has hurt adoption. You can't pave the cowpaths if the cows aren't venturing out of the corner of the field.
It's all speculation, but they _seem_ to track a large amount of data to try and check for "new profiles" that are old users starting a new account, supposedly for 3 months after you delete your account. These are the ones I've seen commonly talked about.

- Phone Number

- IP

- Device IDs

- Email

- Photo hashes

- Photo exif

- Facial recognition

- Linked Facebook, Instagram, Spotify accounts
I'd call your ISP, because mine is not small and offers "business" class service which costs the same as residential, reserves a static ip, and slightly boosts uplink speeds.
Do something to get it in trouble and see if you can get back in without showing ID.
I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that we shouldn't consider people as individuals when reading their CV because that's when unconscious bias may lead to their rejection? If the latter is true, then shouldn't we do the former all the more?
IIRC WinSwitch + xpra could do seamless windows: http://winswitch.org/documentation/faq.html#protocols http://winswitch.org/about/ :

> Window Switch is a tool which allows you to display running applications on other computers than the one you start them on. Once an application has been started via a winswitch server, it can be displayed on other machines running winswitch client, as required.

> You no longer need to save and send documents to move them around, simply move the view of the application to the machine where you need to access it.

Wikipedia/Neatx links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remmina (C) :

> It supports the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), VNC, NX, XDMCP, SPICE, X2Go and SSH protocols and uses FreeRDP as foundation.

But no xpra, for which Neatx has old python 2 scripts.
Merely the minutest lag when rotating your head can cause nausea in a statistically significant number of people.

Any VR absolutely does cause sweaty forehead symptom for me. It’s just my different biology I guess.

> The disconnect from the world is the only one that doesn't have a solution yet AFAIK.

The solution is AR. I would use a Microsoft hololens, if it was available at a reasonable price point.
I have to disagree. Elm especially needs to be updated. That’s because Elm limits your interactions with browser. You can’t use browser APIs in Elm. (We can nitpick that ports and web components are some form of an escape hatch)

Internationalization API is a great example. We should leverage the platform but we can’t.
I feel like I've watched videos where people make Japanese and/or Korean ceramic cook pots and I can't for the life of me remember how they kept them from warping, just that they do.

The only trick I do remember is don't glaze the contact point between the two pieces. That not only adds thickness variability, but if glaze touches the bottom of the kiln you fuse to the bricks, so you have to elevate anything glazed, and elevating increases warping.
the store is part of the OS, you cannot delete the app store, you cannot use an alternative app store, and you cannot turn the ads off. Ads are part of the OS.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/control-how-apple-del...
License please!
A Capitol Orchard: Botanical Networks and the Creation of a Japanese Neo-Europe
Wdym? Google didn’t invent this process. It was probably first introduced by the likes of ibm/msft a few decades earlier and then spread over entire industry by the way of mba osmosis
If you don't give 5 of 5 in any gig economy app (from cars to delivery to AirBnB), it's like you're scalping babies.
Or have fewer externalities, since that’s never properly priced into anything.
Slides of talk being referenced[0], not managed to find the video yet.

-[0]: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1027124/Blowing-from-the-West-...
> like he's projecting.

Neo is the one, and Smith is the zero. Zero times anyone else becomes zero.
In the case of static sites, it can be as simple as copying the latest version to a new server and updating your DNS records. I would try to avoid lock-in not only for the reasons you stated but also to be able to freely shop around for better options at any point.
Yes, I'm aware of what they're saying. It is indeed the default for most VR applications. I can't think of a VR application that uses a global volume for voices; it's all local and diminishes based on distance from source. A universal volume for anyone on a map is weird and awkward, and most game engines have sound differ in volume based on distance and location by default. Most VR applications, even the "professional" ones, are built on top of game engines, because it's a lot easier than writing everything from scratch.
No. We had a very long discussion about safe-by-default on the forums but failed to reach a consensus.

As I understand it, for safe-by-default to work, either all C libraries would have @trusted D bindings written, or all of them would have to be assumed to be @trusted. Most of the community wanted explicit @trusted annotations, Walter and others favored assuming them to be @trusted (or was it assumed @safe?) was the way to go. So, no safe-by-default at this time. :/
Show HN: 2etris – the most elegant 2 player Tetris variant
Hey all! I actually made this years ago and never shared it because whenever I was about to, I'd always discover one little thing that I wanted to change.

Anyway, it's a Tetris variant where one player's negative space is another's positive space. You'll need two people to play it. Please let me know if you find any bugs!
Seriously?

I don't understand why everyone is so up in arms about this? Why is it an unreasonable expectation to be prepared to be on camera during work hours. It's so weird that people are in a tizzy about this.
Ask HN:  Systems design interview – in depth or high level
I have a systems design interview coming up, and I've never participated in one before. What can I expect to be asked?
Is it a high level design to talk through, or is in an in depth design, trying to justify different services and weighing up the pros and cons of aws v azure etc?
"it’s not about systemic bias against women or women being bad at computers or whatever. Rather, it’s about women being bad at dusting themselves off after failing"

I believe this might be a direct result of presentation in movies. For example, She-Hulk had a scene where I'm quite convinced that it's hurting women, despite contrary intentions. The male Hulk had to overcome plenty of challenges to become halfway stable. The female Hulk skipped all that. But then, how do girls learn the value of grit if their role models don't need it?
Hope for what? :) Every new thing Big-G launches (or relaunches) is yet another statistically-likely-to-be cancelled thing in the future.

I'd love to have more hope, but I'm observing the same mistakes playing out over and over. If this were a human relationship, I'd respectfully choose to go out separate ways. Unfortunately not a realistic option at this point, the Tech Titans have sunk their teeth into nearly everything on the net and acquired or suffocated the smalls.
> There are many such projects, like Atom.io, whose support ends this year. I can't imagine this project will continue much further, even if I hope so. The only real open source project that is up today is Visual Studio Code, but that will continue to be maintained, I hope.

What do you mean real open source project? I mean Linux is not going anywhere soon I'd say, or blender. Or are you talking about editors? There is Vim, Neovim and Emacs which all have shown that they will stick around for a while, so I really don't get what you mean.
For most people bayou and swamp are basically the same thing, so it seemed like a reasonable comment to me.
I hope a video of the event will be uploaded to YouTube, for some reason it didn't want to play on my MS Edge Android... Only works on Chrome when on Desktop mode, but that's really not usable...
This is exactly what happened to ChaCha.
Isn’t that because of the BLM movement? I’m not seeing how any of these events are connected.
Needs a [2016] tag on this one.
That doesn't mean the product/market fit can still fall short.

I've just never been convinced that VR, at the hardware distribution level, will hit a high enough saturation point to become ubiquitous.

AR I still feel will have a better chance at wide scale adoption, however its just my own assesment of the market now and that could change quickly if something hits that is sticky enough to get the user adoption to snowball.
Waitlist for AI Voice Studio
Waitlist for early access to the Coqui Studio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouq5yyzSiAw
Homes in large cities are almost always more expensive than rural areas. I don’t think median is the right comparison, comparing to other large cities and metro areas makes much more sense.
I can relate to the privacy-focused goal of getting away from google however Google Voice is free. Sadly I think having a competing free Google product that accomplishes most of the same things is going to hurt adoption of the Firefox relay product (which is paid)
Is it just me or is the audio balance set a bit too far to the right? It makes it uncomfortable to listen to this with headphones.
Do you trust that Facebook has neither the capability nor the incentive to develop the capability to track you and combine all that data into a profile? I do not.

Facebook has shadow profiles for people who don’t use the service.
You already touched on it but something that's always in the back of my mind when it's "because drugs" is that the excuse given doesn't even hold its own merit. The implication always seems to be that they're criminals (the dehumanization effect here is strong) and you're supposed to stop thinking critically now. It's incredibly frustrating to me how effective this is with a large population of people.
isn't Gary Indiana a failed city? I would imagine Houston as relatively thriving given work, safety and industry levels?
> Tip #6: Make new friends, cut back on the old ones

I've been told this is one of the hardest parts, because those old friends are often the ones encouraging and reinforcing the addiction. Finding new friends can be hard, especially if one has associated all social activities with alcohol. I have someone close to me in my life that had the perception, prior to giving up alcohol, that non-drinkers are boring and wouldn't spend time with them. Therefore this person ended up avoiding sober individuals and non-drinkers, but has since discovered that this is not the case, it was just the drinker's mind rationalizing and enabling.
The greater Huston area is approximately 10,000 square miles. The city of Huston itself is 670 square miles.

The 9 county area of the Bay Area is 7000 square miles... and that includes a lot of land that you can't reasonably build a city on.

If you take the land area of the cities in the Bay Area ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_th... ) and sum them all up, you've got something on the order of 1,600 square miles.

The land constraints within the Bay Area contribute significantly to the price of a house.
lite-xl just did a new release - it's still being actively developed, although only by a few people; but one of the focuses is the small & maintainable codebase.
Why… why is he bottomless? (He’s represented by a Wii-like avatar. When camera angles change from close up to medium shot he’s just a floating torso in a living room set)