skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Iceland has the cheapest electricity in the world.

Come again? If the parent post about about $0.139/kWh for households is correct, I can assure you there are many places in the US cheaper than that.
The Other Immigration Crisis: Endless Visa Waits
Given that the articled discusses 222 nm light being harmless to humans, and acknowledging that 254 nm is known to be dangerous, I am concerned that wide/universal deployment of such systems might lead to situations where poorly constructed or serviced equipment might emit dangerous wavelengths.
Effectively weightless. The weight of any part of the tether must be entirely counteracted by centrifugal force, otherwise the weight of the tether would pull everything to the ground.
> just fills me with endless dread nowadays

News inherently captures attention through fear. "Everything is fine today" doesn't sell papers.

But if that's the story you're choosing to tell yourself I would dread that future too.
Russia confirms Meta's designation as extremist
I think VR is already amazing for games. And maybe there will be some amount of social networking that occurs. But I have my doubts that there are enough people who would prefer hanging out virtually to significantly move the physical hardware in enough numbers sustainably.
Labor Department proposal could change gig worker and company rules
>Not necessities, luxuries such as cigarettes. Prisons must provide necessities (relatively bare ones, but still)

Federal prisons banned cigarettes from commissaries in 2006 and smoking in general in 2014[0].

And many states have restricted tobacco use in their jails and prisons[1].

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/12/05/smoking-offi...

[1] https://prisonroster.com/blog/can-you-smoke-prison/
> Chances are, these are in different sectors, and also require re-reading in all the other data in the block to compute the checksum. Anywhere in that process is a chance for corruption of the original data and the update.

Not much different than any interrupted write though. And a COW needs to reread just as much.

> If the byte changes the final compressed size, it may not fit in the current block at all, causing an expensive (or impossible) re-allocation.

Something that you must always pay in a COW filesystem anyway? Is handled by other non-COW filesystems anyway.

Just because a filesystem isn't COW doesn't mean every change needs to be in place either. Of course, a filesystem that is primarily COW might not want to maintain compression for non-COW edge-cases and that is quite reasonable.
There's nothing about this that will come close to competing with my own imagination.

In that respect, telnetting into a EW-too talker back in the 90's will be a superior product offering.

Sorry.
Yep, I've thought something like that:

For every month that you use the app to a certain degree (number of viewed profiles, page loads or whatnot) I will give you back 1/nth (1/12th) of your deposit. If you don't use it enough, then I'll "keep" that month's budget as a subscription payment. The idea is that once you match with someone, you will stop using the app, and the rest of the money will slowly go to me.

I am convinced it could be a good model, of course as with everything, there are several things to be solved before making it a sound business.
> Facebook (sorry, Meta) is the only one continuing to advance the VR industry. I respect them for that

I would argue Valve is the main driver of VR in terms of actual software + hardware + platform building. Facebook is just the biggest spender on VR right now.

> Who would actually use this?

Which is funny to me, because I can instantly think of over a dozen use cases for this stuff -- if Facebook was never involved. Use it for training, especially on-site training, use it for conferencing, use it for 3D visualization (basically half of the Hololens demos cross over)

But with Facebook owning it, the value prop of Oculus Quest is zero. It's no longer a hardware or software platform, it's a console, effectively no different than a Nintendo Switch or a PlayStation. Doesn't matter if the Quest was the best thing ever invented, no one reading Hacker News could deliver any products or solutions on it without Facebook owning/controlling it, so there's no reason for anyone to try.
Zelensky asks G7 for 'air shield' as rockets rain down on Ukraine
> Did you know that GCC take an unknown time to download

Why do I need GCC for git?

> Macs are sold as consumer machines that don’t include a full tool chain out of the box.

It wasn't that long ago that Macs had server software out of the box.

Still doesn't explain why I need to download 670 MB of something to install otherwise separate tools.

And why the hell things like git break when XCode upgrades a version
Holes are made of space by definition, therefore spacetime is a hole.
I've made some testing, and installed it on a secondary system that in the beginning mostly hosted unimportant files. Then we added more things, and as after a few years it posed absolutely no problem we went further (and added a backup procedure). Then we migrated to new hardware, and it's still going strong (it's quite small, about 15 TB volume).
>The article points to a rising black employee population has some kind of evidence of injustice

I agree, it is incoherent for people to say that certain racial groups being over-represented doesn't mean the system isn't fair, but blacks suddenly being hired is evidence the system isn't fair.

>So a good thing to do is apply some pressure on the funnel

With racism... and honestly this entire process is annoyingly indirect... just apply a racial quota and don't BS me.

> Now obviously the best thing would be to fix all the other environmental factors that led to an all-white candidate slate.

People sure are obsessed with this narrative that affirmative action is all about preventing too many whites from getting jobs. This isn't the 60s, most of the people who are getting the bump are asian not white and it's not even close. This narrative doesn't work because it's nearly impossible to explain how asians ended up in the span of around a century ended up way behind whites and getting discriminated against to shooting past them in income.

> Unless we think that skin-color is a predictor of performance (ugh, I hope no one actually does)

If you claim that people can get worse healthcare, worse schools, worse safety, worse opportunities, and know less connected people and still think they perform equally at a job? Well you actually are still predicting performance, you're predicting that certain groups are stoic supermen. Whereas other groups are a bunch of losers who couldn't even be better at their job despite growing up with every advantage in the world. So not only have you not gotten away from predicting performance based on skin colour, now you're also predicting privilege based on skin colour, so you've doubled your race based assumptions.

Personally I'm just so done with the racist theories and the mental gymnastics people play around this data. If people want to reserve jobs for people of different identity groups, fine, lets do it for the sake of racial harmony so we can all sing songs together holding hands interracially in a circle.
> "Gravity well" is a better descriptor, but not when considered a hole [...]

But a well IS a hole in the ground and a pretty deep subject.
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Reality isn't fighting against their argument as long as a single white or Asian poor person exists. It still means an approach is punching a part of the population further down.

These things aren't mutually exclusive, stop trying to project them as such.
We can do that later – or can we?
If you've ever bragged about "I left the project and it exploded a year later", then I have news for you. You are probably the reason.
I only mean not to waste energy by emitting light. Or sound, I suppose.
There was a small overlap after all, I was a bit off. The first 64-bit version of Windows XP (for the Itanium) was released in October 2001, while the support period for Windows 3.11 ended in December 2001.

At the same time, the existence of those types is not really about application support (which, as you note, you can get even today), it is about toolchain support, and AFAIU the last Microsoft toolchain to be able to target Win16 is VC++ 1.52 as bundled with VC++ 4 (1995). I don’t know at which point you stopped being abls to graft new SDKs onto it. Of course, the Watcom and Digital Mars compilers can still do it, but they maintain their own headers I think.
I feel like there is this giant chasm between the AWS engineers and the actual Amazon engineers. I swear that some of the Amazon apps/services are some of the worst things I use on a regular basis.

It feels sometimes like amazon proper doesn't want my money, vs AWS side where its like... oh, you wanna spend like $500 spinning up services to test, sounds good, knock yourself out!
Actually it seems that the evidence is against you.

In the most unequal societies (Russia[0], India[1]) the tech industry is much closer to gender parity than in the west.

Sweden has gone further than any other nation on earth to be equitable across gendered lines yet remains extremely unequal in the actual working model. (In my former employer 14% of applicants were women, yet they constitute 20% of employed staff due to excessive D&I initiatives).

I should be self interested, we’re talking about competition for work. It would be death to roll over. Jobs are absolutely zero sum-

However my argument is backed by statistics, so I think you need to face the reality in front of you.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39579321

[1]: https://go.451research.com/women-in-tech-india-employment-tr...
Can’t edit the comment now but meant to say sensationalization.
There are free dynamic dns services available. dns.he.net is one.

Try not to worry too much about what happens when your IP is reassigned before you can update the name.
Wow cool but that’s bizarro world to me. In my days college was where everything awesome was happening because it had fast and basically unrestricted internet. A lot of the Napster and other P2P stuff that followed was being seeded from someone’s dorm. The best game servers, etc. On IRC in the early 00s, I did a lot of trading of video (live music footage) and one kid in a dorm somewhere could host an enormous amount of content by most home internet standards. Once I got off dialup download speeds, I could easily download more than I could afford to store. The cheapest thing for me to do was buy a massive stack of CDRs and start burning. If I remember correctly, the largest HDD at the time was about 40GB.
Already there! Code could use a refresh but had fun with it many years ago https://github.com/kfarr/jurassic-file-navigator
Hospitals apparently under attack in western Washington appear to be part of the Franciscan Healthcare System and are using Epic software. My provider, Virginia Mason, is currently merging with Franciscan and uses Cerner, which is not affected. I'm not sure what the timeline is (or was) on merging the two IT systems.
I'm running https://text-generator.io from my house, two 3090s right now powering it. It allows the service to undercut OpenAI around 10x on Text/code generation and Google over 8x on speech to text.
A Cloudflare tunnel is pointing to it running locally. It makes development very fast too. Its a bit tricky to keep purchasing new hardware to spin up new instances but that's getting easier with practice and autoscaling cloud providers doesn't necessarily work that well either.

I think co's should seriously consider this or at least adding everyones development machines to the prod cluster during when they sleep, which is what we did to render movies when i was at Weta Digital. 1000's of developer machines are pretty valuable if put to good use.
Understandable. Logic is a massive program.

If you don't have anything against it, I would recommend Audacity for doing voiceover work. It is free, the interface is a little simpler, it comes with plugins that can help you clean up your audio and add effects if needed. (Don't overdo it though as that is a surefire way to make the audio sound amateur, just clean record, remove pops and clicks, light compression and a little barely noticeable reverb is more than enough for a book or story reading)
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I thought I had made a mistake when I calculated the cost of 100W incandescent lighting to be the awfully coincidental number of almost exactly 100€/year. Finding this to be correct was quite the revelation: makes estimating the cost of anything in the house so easy because I already knew the wattages :)

(The landlord had installed these sensor-activated ancient bulbs in the hallway, where I pass through to to the cellar / power meter, and I was trying to track down this mysterious 100W that seemed to be always running, without fail. Turns out, it was only running when I was checking the meter! We then did the math with a better runtime estimate and still went out to buy LED bulbs at our earliest convenience. They're brighter than before (we erred on the high side), just as warm light, and use 2.5x less power.)
Novelty that wears of super quick. I know people who bought Oculus out of hype and then just after a week it’s sitting on table collecting dust.
The text of the bill says that CHP makes that determination.

> The alternative device is subject to the approval of the department and the Department of the California Highway Patrol and shall not be used in lieu of a device issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles until that approval has been granted.
> considering how generous the free tiers of cloud providers are (Google Cloud in my case), why waste your home internet bandwidth for a personal site?

Because arbitrary ToS "violations" are a thing, and good luck getting that fixed with them.
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The Last Psychiatrist:
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/01/no_self-respecting_w...

>I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic, bickering, easily manipulated and powerless, and I'll risk the blowback and say that those are all stereotypes of women. Easy, HuffPo, I know it's not causal, I am saying the reverse: that if some field keeps the trappings of power but loses actual power, women enter it in droves and men abandon it like the Roanoke Colony. Again we must ask the question: if power seeking men aren't running for Senate, where did they go? Meanwhile all the lobbyists and Wall Street bankers are men, isn't that odd?
Have you read Marx then? I'd love to hear about the core dialectics of the "race theory of value" in your words if so.
They are both prototype-based languages influenced by Self.
Nothing "edgy" about kids finding words that describe genitals funny. It is like that everywhere on the planet and it always has been.
I am so confused by all of these comments/articles, they're clearly created before actual benchmarks have come out (and also seem to have no real world experience with intel GPUs, etc).

Intel Arc cards are dead in the water because they have extremely unusably unstable drivers. To the point of the word "broken" being applicable. This hasn't gotten better with the A750 (in fact, it's gotten worse it seems?).

The 4090 is extremely expensive, but it is ludicrously stupidly comically powerful. It's 10x-20x more powerful than a 2080, nearly 100% more powerful than a previously more expensive MSRP 3090ti and this is BEFORE DLSS3, which is not a gimmick. Check out the GN review of the 4090, the metrics are ridiculous. F1 at 4k gets 230 FPS vs 135 for a 3090ti and 41 for the 2080. Total War at 1440p gets 235fps vs 135 for a 3090 ti and 47fps for a 2080.

Yes, its extremely expensive, but it's Nvidia's HERO card. You're going to see downward movement with the 4080 models (one basically being a 4070 in disguise) next month.

These cards are too powerful for anything out there today (they do cyberpunk at 4k at 80fps without DLSS and 135 fps with it) but this is a card you buy if you're looking at 3-5 year upgrade cycles.

Comparing this card to Intel's Arc is crazy. It's like comparing a Ferrari to a Civic. They both serve a purpose, but their markets are completely different.

That being said, I bet you the 4090 will outsell the intel arc 750 by a stupidly large margin. It has to suck if you spent $2000 MSRP on a 3090ti in March though.
I do almost all my computing through Xpra these days. Being able to combine windows seamlessly from multiple VMs is a much more usable way to segregate workloads, and Xpra doesn't suffer from the same security (and increasingly compatibility) issues of X forwarding.
NILFS is absolutely wonderful; it was very unfortunate that Linus chose to dub btrfs as the ext4 successor all those years ago, because it cut off a lot of interest in the plethora of interesting work that was going on at the time.

A decade later and btrfs is still riddled with problems and incomplete, people are still using xfs and ext4 for lack of trust, one kernel dev has a side hobby trying to block openzfs, and excellent little projects like nilfs are largely unknown.
Even Apple has ads in iOS now, and nobody complains about it.
Are there many apps or games that only work on the Quest 2? I have the original Quest and I still use it several times a week. It's basically the Beat Saber machine an this point, but it's still pretty fun.
A big chance for science at the heart of global policymaking
> That's a systemic disadvantage women suffer.

That's, perhaps, a systemic disadvantage mothers suffer. Tilting the tables advantages childless women most of all (and would be illegal discrimination against men, were the law to be enforced). Similar to how Ivies' affirmative action helps the children of African despots more than disadvantaged Americans.
That kinda makes sense to ensure users don’t click on something that they didn’t have enough time to interpret.

I’ve encountered some interesting situations where clicking and hitting a mouse’s scroll wheel would scroll the point of focus on the next screen…
The Quest Pro adds eye tracking and inward-facing cameras, high-quality color AR passthrough, foveated rendering, and new controllers that are fully independent of the headset. These things are unambiguously better and exciting.
+1 in my use cases as well, XCode was good for nothing. I was feeling punished whenever I had to do iOS development with XCode.
Not necessarily the same for their hardware division. Their VR division is still primarily funded by device and software sales.
I think this really varies for each position, but most SWE positions really don't require special skills beyond a CS degree from a 4-year program. Sure, there may be special industry knowledge that you need to know but I'm not talking about languages, frameworks, databases, etc... if you studied CS, I expect you to have the capacity to learn this shit. You can learn the problem domain in well enough in 6 months and rely on your PMs and boss to fill in the details.

If you are truly in a domain where you cannot hire CS graduates, then D&I is going to put a lot of burden on your recruitment team to find candidates to meet slating requirements. But you probably aren't...
If you get motion sickness after 20 minutes of a seated experience that is running at full frame rate, with no artificial locomotion, you are decidedly in the minority. It is not impossible, but it is far from common.
Artificial Stupidity in “The Ancath Chronicles” (Dr.Peter Denning, 2007 [pdf]
MS Engineer: "Five years in and the Teams user experience is still garbage. At least there's no way to make it any more terrible, right?"

Meta Engineer: "Hold that thought..."
Week over week, or day over day values that are more then x deviations from norm.
Iff it's only a glorified CDN, why noone yet did the same and have taken their market share? Epic Store was kind of a fiasco.
I’m prepared to believe that those differences exist wrt reproductive role ie that humans have some sexed instincts around mating and child care, but, as per what right-thinking people believe about about race and intelligence / personality / emotionality (viz ‘races’ don’t actually have different characters or abilities) I don’t think the sexes are fundamentally different mentally.

It used to be the case until fairly recently (my lifetime) that “women are suited to be nurses, and men to be doctors” but no-one believes that kind of thing now. It should be possible to culturally evolve past expectations of significant psychological differences between men and women, just as we have between white and other races.

(There’s a discussion to be had about the value of preserving cultural differences between groups, particularly at the expense of individuals within those groups, but it’s a massive can of worms)
Quest 1 hasn't been sold in over two years, so I'm not sure it's a good benchmark.

The quest 2 has had official 120Hz support for a while now [1], and I don't imagine they'll regress for Quest Pro. I don't think FOV, beyond 90, is all that important for productivity. Peripheral vision is extremely useful for immersion, but probably not really for reading code on an adjacent monitor. I personally agree with the comfort of usual ergonomic guidelines, keeping eye movement within 30 degrees or so [2]. As a quick litmus test, observe someone working with multiple monitors. You'll see they move their head, not just their eyes.

1. https://www.pcgamer.com/oculus-quest-2-120hz-on-by-default/

2. https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/office/monitor_po...
My ideal state of the internet is companies sell powerful all in one servers. Each household will have that server for their daily needs - email, messaging, social network, gaming, etc.
I have never been in an interview with 3+ strangers. Is that common?
Me: let's not do <thing> unless we have a reason.

You: We should continue doing <thing> because we already do <thing>

"carry on" is not a reason to do anything. I literally can't understand how you are thinking to post such a non-justification.
Good point, I did remember that wrong. I should have said the dev kit. I remember now that I begrudgingly bought cv1 from facebook because I wanted the tech badly enough to hold my nose.

I don't mean to disparage any of the folks at fb that contributed or their work. I just don't think that companies like fb are capable of putting the user's needs first, as much as many individuals inside the company probably would like to.
It's "disallowlist" or a "blocklist". ;-)