skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ya that's useful. I do like this service. I have noticed more and more that people are asking for phone numbers for app registration and even in person I have seen this. A phone number to me is private and personal.

The firefox service is priced well but 75 texts and 50 minutes of voice is fairly limited. The burner phone services that exist are too sketchy and too expensive for my taste.

I don't like marketing or sales but if you could market yourself as a privacy focused, Free/Libre solution that wasn't a sketchy fly by night operation and offered more than a closed source phone app I would subscribe.

Twilio itself seems to be oriented towards businesses and not individuals which is why I did not sign up with them.
Mark,

you got curb-stomped by Tim

I mean, he literally kicked you in the balls so hard that you lost $50bln

he doesn't care what you think anymore, Meta is now a B-list company soon to be a D-list company
^^^ we have large parts of the country that effectively export water via ag. America has plenty of water, plenty of land, plenty of resources to maintain our current diet and way of life, it is exporting to the rest of the world that we can't do.
obvious outcome. all these NFT sellers are basically conducting ICOs which are basically IPOs. so then rules must be followed.
> Can you provide a source for assertion?

I was thinking of Indonesia, only because I lived there for a while, but those are factors in nearly every country.

> The violence is fueled by two things: income inequality and the prevalence of guns.

I don't think either of these are what cause the violence (maybe they throw fuel on the fire as you're saying though). People can be just as violent without weapons, and just as greedy when they are on the top. They just become more dangerous with money, guns, and lawyers.
I didn't find it too convincing either, although part of that could be priming with the initial unmodulated audio.

I'd be interested in a standalone study of how effective the modulation is at masking.
The article talks about tar.gz for archival, which is scary considering none of tar.gz, tar.xz, tar.zstd are safe formats. Try corrupting a few bytes in the middle and half the archive is lost, even files untouched by the corruption

Repair tools only exist for tar.bz2 and tar.lz, but neither gets much use compared to gz/xz. The most safe compression for tar is something that splits the compression into blocks, such as btrfs compression or LTO tape compression
The almost-recursive screenshot in the README amused me
Maintained & improved fork: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
I don't like Facebook any more than you but to be fair, they're not as bad as they could be. For on-device software sideloading is available and SideQuest makes it pretty functional. Additionally, the device supports OpenVR and can be used with any software you'd like to run on your desktop PC.

It's more the Google approach to the ecosystem than it is the Apple approach, though I don't believe the OS is open-source.
Just use a fake username. What’s so hard about that?
I realize now I totally flubbed on posting the link:

1. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/...
What will the big players do about this?

The Dells HPs, ...

I guess they will have to try to sabotage open source projects that deliver those applications that people on Linux use as everyday drivers. Browser, E-mail client, Libre Office.

Sabotage them in a way that they use more resources, especially CPU time and RAM, driving people to upgrade.

Or they will try to influence media outlets to mostly offer high resolution video content, so older devices cannot play current content smoothly anymore.
The subtle difference between the two ways of communicating the design: There are cases where the reference does not escape, but the compiler doesn't know how to prove that. So saying "if it escapes it's boxed" is subtly wrong.

The default is heap, and only when the compiler can be sure it's safe, things go on the stack.
Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates
the modern jobsecurity haha
Performance is especially important when dealing with time syncing.
How about fps?
It looks like a wii avatar from 15 years ago and the motion tracking is all jittery, FB is trying to win the VR market with this garbage?
If the problem was that the results were inaccurate, there would be no need to suppress what the post originally said. Incomplete data is a fixable problem. No, the blog was a gaffe in the Kinsley sense: they accidentally said the truth.
Makes sense, it is definitely a useful tool. I just think it is insufficient to act as storage. It can be good at producing variable amounts of Watts on demand but not so good at storing enough Watt-hours to keep things running for very long. I can see a great appeal for it to help with load-balancing for a significant amount of choppiness between supply and demand on the hour timescale.

For something like solar, where we will want to store over half our daily energy production at peak storage (ideally 2-3 days worth I think) - I don't think it holds up. Additionally, it doesnt seem like a good bet as a primary mechanism for either storage or on-demand generation if energy consumption continues to increase due to the rather large coefficients involved for scaling it up.

"The United States generated 4,116 terawatt hours of electricity in 2021"[1]

4,116 TWh/year = 11.2 TWh/day

The storage capacities for the largest items listed on the wiki is on the magnitude of GWh. The scale goes kilo-, Mega-, Giga-, then Terra. So we are talking about a need on the order of a thousand pumped storage facilities per country. The US would need over 50 of them per state (on average) in order to keep everything running without production for 24 hours. Doesnt matter how many solar panels we have, if we get 1 dark day then we would run out of power. If we tried to rely on solar entirely, we'd also still need very roughly half that amount of storage just to get through the night.

lithium batteries are obviously much better suited for overnight storage, but I have no idea what the numbers are on how much lithium is physically available to use as such storage.

If we want to get on the order of monthly to yearly storage to allow, for example, solar panels in alaska to provide enough energy for a resident to get through months of darkness - I have no idea what the leading storage options are, probably lithium still

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/188521/total-us-electric...
If you find it easier, you can do the simpler "build a compile-time string and inject it" D-like metaprogramming in Nim with `macros.parseStmt` or `parseExpr`. And just `template` in Nim can go a long ways without all the mucking about with strings.

Nim is choice - in many dimensions. Many things that are built into languages even as flexible as D remain not hard-coded in Nim. E.g., it could be different now, but last I checked, D has hard-coded Associative Arrays. In Nim you can give any user type (e.g. B-Trees) the special syntax (no real meta-programming required..just generics). Also user-defined operators. Etc.

But, yeah - you need to be familiar with a base language whenever you do any meta-programming anywhere. Anyway, if you ever give Nim a try again, maybe `parseStmt` can be your gateway drug. ;-) (But I recommend starting with generics & template...)
Always been my thinking on the logistical side of the equation.

You need everyone to have VR gear at a ubiquitous level similar to monitors and I just don't see that happening.

AR is a much easier sell with a much lower cost to entry
i wonder how often they refreshed it lol
Highly distracted. First time I’ve listened to John Carmack without being able to concentrate easily.
Show HN: Launch of the .ether domain name registration today
> hydrocarbon withdrawals
Parent comment literally said "D&I should be rejected outright" and uselessly categorized the pain of driving institutional change as "pointless problems."

There is a point to trying to change a system that only sees white people at the end of the hiring pipeline. We can debate where it needs to change, but the change is necessary.
Has there ever been a poor person that has succeeded in our society? Of course. Therefore I proved money doesn't matter. (Do you see how stupid this argument is?)
The lack of competitive raises is an hr problem (or sometimes some form of zba style budgeting) not a process problem
Meta just need to partner with Microsoft to integrate it with Linkedin.

Then it's will turn into the one true cringe generator.
I recently had mine in my bedroom corner along with all the network gear.

With all the leds and flashing lights I couldn't sleep.
I am curious do you think if he disclosed that at the start of the article you'd feel differently? I think the issue is that after reading and thinking the purpose was to give genuine advice you (and I agree btw) feel cheated knowing that there is some ulterior motive. Having an ulterior motive is fine but generally less of an issue if put upfront.
Yes, it’s worse. Facebook doesn’t sell your data, they sell your attention and futures on your behavior. Apple doesn’t.
the funny thing is no, this is how basically every organism works. take an invasive species and introduce it somewhere, if there are no natural predators and the environment is good for it the species will multiply and thrive and explode in population. it will suck up resources until it runs out and then there will be a die off.

man is just better at avoiding this last die off part.
> enough better for me to choose it over Zoom in everyday use

It doesn’t have to be better than Zoom. It has to be $1500 better than Zoom. Per employee.

I’m in agreement with you — I like Immersed and I like the idea of VR meetings. But will people/employers opt for this over a hybrid on-site/remote system? How do VR meetings work when half the team is onsite in a conference zoom? I don’t want to put on a VR a headset to talk to the coworker sitting physically next to me in a conference room.

Sadly, I see this as useful only for remote-only teams. As one of a handful of remote people on my team, it doesn’t seem like a workable option, even if I already like/use VR.
I use aerc with o365 via davmail and mbsync. Using imap directly was to slow, but pulling mail to a maildir works well. Davmail handles all the o365 interaction and supports mfa directly.
If your workflow ain't broke, don't fix it. ;)

Honestly, this rabbit hole goes so deep. I started using Yabai on macOS, and when I switched to Windows, the experience of trying to interface with a computer without a tiling window manager was so frustrating that I had no alternative but to write my own tiling window manager (well actually I wrote two, komorebi is the second one).
They were affordable-ish... I don't have insight into the market, other than we're building like crazy and it's still not enough: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2022/10/...

I suspect some of this is market moves (e.g. people moving into apartments during COVID, and business relocations: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/business/20...).
Python 3.10.8
> What if you're bi, but for a long term partner through match.com you're mostly interested in the opposite sex, vs your behavior other places for more casual hookups?

Then why on earth would you put down "bi" in the profile?
i don't understand what you're trying to say?
Internally, the Idris2 compiler uses deBruijn numbering for its terms, which is tricky to get right once you start trying to manipulate terms. To help with this, it keeps a list of the names corresponding to the deBruijn indices at the type level. The type checker catches mistakes as you write code to manipulate them (inserting names, removing names, or renaming things).

I ran through some exercises teaching this technique[1]. My take-away as a beginner was that it was a pain to make the compiler happy and my code that the compiler didn't like was actually wrong.

I remember reading someone had written a functional red-black tree (with proof of correctness leveraging dependent types) and said the delete algorithm naturally followed from the types. That has was not my experience (delete wasn't immediately obvious to me), but I need to find some time to give it another go.

The Idris2 docs have an example of a lambda expression interpreter[2] whose terms have a vector of the types in the environment as a type parameter (erased at runtime), to ensure everything is type safe in the resulting interpreter.

Typescript has added some bits of dependent typing. For example, asserting a function returns true if the argument has type X, that a function throws if the argument is falsy, and I think type level string manipulation. They are fairly pragmatic, it's not a research language, so I presume that specific functionality is useful to a lot of people. I've used it a little bit of it to help the type checker infer non-null after my assert function was called.

All of that said, I think people are still exploring how dependent types can be used in practice.

[1]: https://github.com/edwinb/SPLV20/blob/master/Code/Lecture2/E...
[2]: https://idris2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/interp.html

There is a copy of #1 at github.com/dunhamsteve/SPLV20 that is updated to work with the latest Idris2.
As recently as February 2020 the website referred to it as "The GIMP Toolkit" and did not mention GNOME at all.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200207101350/https://www.gtk.o...
Hence the,

"However, I disagree with the conclusion that adding another flawed metric shouldn't be concerning."

I was tangentially wondering if someone has a good way of measuring merit, objectively.
Sounds like Agent Smith needs a trip to Australia and New Zealand.
I would expect the YOLO housing and environment approach to never be about equality and affordability. I would expect it to be a signal that NIMBYism is through the roof and that they have the regulatory power to inflate prices.
Considering it's the US we're talking about, water will be completely privatized.
I'm convinced that as long as "metaverse" is a thing that involves putting on a nerdy pair of goggles to participate the whole concept is going precisely nowhere with the general population. Its like 3d TV: no one has any interest in putting special hardware on their face to participate in things like that.
I hate to have to say something this obvious but here it goes:

Discriminating against a group of human beings for an arbitrary detail such as the color of the skin is indeed racist. No matter if that human being is a freaking north-europe-blonde-arian-white or whatever. No matter if that human being is or not opressed or whatever. Judging people by the color of the skin is WRONG. This ideological bullshit that US is expelling that pretends to normalice racism against white people is atrocious and must end and everyone, like you, that follows this line of thought must be called out and being exposed as what you are, which is being a fucking racist.

Seriously, it is beyond me.
And general desirability - diverse and well-paying economy, weather, water, mountains.
Not a direct source but https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/yes-nigerian-... pops up as a fact check after the same claim was made by Candace Owens. This link (from 2018) refers to several reputable sources of the time. I would guess that there are updated data from the US Census Bureau et al if you want to double check, but from all sources linked it seems Nigeria is and has been on an upward swing as far as exporting educated, successful people to the U.S. (and perhaps retrieving them to prevent brain drain, but I cannot be sure).

FWIW and from anecdotal accounts of acquaintances of mine (not a lot but in the double digits), this comes down to a cultural focus on education and family structure from a young age. Compare to the culture and family values promulgated elsewhere.
> To give an example, taller men have a higher chance of being promoted. Fortune 500 CEOs are disproportionately tall compared to the general population. As a society we still promote meritocracy, and working hard. Not telling people who are 5'4 to just give up and be unemployed cause they will never be the CEO of Ford Motor company.

Now you're moving the goalposts, which shows you knew your original claim was wrong. "It didn't happen, and if it did they deserved it" indeed.
This is embarrassing for Carmack and I'm surprised he agreed to this.
It's very distracting. Plus I appreciate being able to see peoples faces as they express themselves and ideas.
I’m always shocked that people think supply is the issue…

People will live in the best place they can afford. This means prices will always be driven by the income level of people in the area.

If you suddenly built more housing in SF. You’ll actually just get more people who can afford to live in SF moving there. That’ll drive the prices right back to where they were.

Demand would have to drop, while you expand supply. Remove tech jobs from SF and demand will drop, lowering prices. If enough external people don’t wish to move there and you’re building, then prices drop.

Effectively, demand always massively outstrips supply for living accommodations

As a thought exercise: imagine it was $100/month to live in a 3Bed, 2Br house in Houston. You’d have 100m people want to move there.

Keep moving that number up, at some point you’ll get supply and demand meeting. If you add 1000 new houses, it’ll barely impact demand because you’ll have 1000 people willing to move for a $50/month reduction in cost. Then prices will be right back where they started.

Unless you can build 10k units or 100k units prices won’t meaningfully change from supply side factors alone.
Yep!

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Germs also cause immunity. You do need exposure (vaccines help, but aren't enough).
I think a “just rebrand it and remove all mention of Oracle’s proprietary extension pack” fork wouldn’t require much “low level programming chops” at all. You could probably even automate a lot of it, with manual intervention only required for branding-related changes (which I assume would be rare). My biggest concern about doing it would be the macOS kexts - will Oracle’s trademark policy allow you to redistribute their kext binaries along with a fork, or force you to rebuild them under a new ID? If the later, will Apple approve it (for any special entitlements it might use)? Not an issue for Linux and Windows builds anyway.

Even stuff like RDP, I haven’t looked at the VirtualBox code in detail, but I assume there would be some interfaces to isolate display clients from the low-level technical details of the graphics card emulation-so it might not actually require as much “low-level chops” as you might think.

But your last point about not many people want to spend their weekends on it is spot-on: I myself am not volunteering to do any of this. Between my day job and a young family, don’t have as much time for personal projects as I used to, and what time I do have I’d rather expend towards other goals.
That area is now subsiding at over a meter every year. Luckily the state will bail out the guy responsible for the subsidence by spending billions to fix the aqueducts.
Oh man. I relate so much to this.

When I was 15 me and my friends really liked playing online MMOs. We used to enjoy chatting on VoIP program, but this software required a server which all clients would need to connect to.

We always thought it would be cool to host our own servers for this VoIP software instead of paying someone else to host one for us so I decided to dig out an old computer and set it up in the corner of my bedroom to use as a server.

We got the server software installed and then realised we could probably sell these online if we knew how to build a website.

To cut a long story short, we ended up teaching ourselves how to create a website with HTML, which eventually lead to learning how to program in PHP so we communicate with the VoIP software programmatically via Telnet and send emails, then eventually how take payments.

It took us a few months in total, but we did it. And this back before YouTube tutorials or useful programming blogs. You were mostly trying to work things out on your own so it felt like a real achievement.

One of the best moments of my life was receiving our first paid subscriber. I'll never forget the night my friend called me to tell me the news. And this was back when us teens had pay as you go phones so it was odd to get a call - especially that late at night.

Funnily enough we probably used that old computer in the corner of my room as our server for about a year until one night someone hacked into it. Never really worked out what they were trying to do but they managed to install some remote desktop software on their because because I got woke up one night by the computer restarting then someone remotely controlling the computer. It was kinda spookey at the time.

As you can image we paid for a dedicated server in the end, but it was such a fun adventure and that's why I'm here on HN today. The idea a couple of 15 year olds could set up a server in their bedroom and make some money was really inspiring.

Things are different now I think. We were one of just a handful of VoIP hosts back then. Today we would be buried by Google and people would probably complain about the server taking 50ms too long to respond. You'd need to spend $1,000 on adwords and have EC2 instances around the world just to be in for a chance.
With respect 'common sense' is frequently wrong which is why I was asking for some study, evidence, documentation etc. Along the lines of the articles I provided.

If you just want an anecdote it certainly works for this guy [1]. And he, in turn links out to a ton of studies.

To be clear at no point did I claim that fasting would grow muscle, I don't have any data to back that up. What I said was that your body will preserve muscle when fasting because muscle is useful and fat is not. This is backed up by the articles I cited indicating significant HGH increase, and articles citing the role of HGH as inhibiting the breakdown of muscle and promoting the breakdown of fat.

Your claim requires evidence.

[1] https://leangains.com/
You can get hobby R/C servos for $2.50 each these days. So, $120, plus the interface board(s).
That still contributes to the bad thing existing.
At Google (in Silicon Valley), 7 out of 8 people in my reporting chain were Indian males. Go figure!
I like ngrok
I wouldn't go the way via C or C++, but start by building a thin wrapper over http libraries. In the end what these are are rest apis.
> Disconnection from the world is solved by high resolution video passthrough.

This one will go into my treasure trove of HN quotes.
Does your keyboard have ^ and $ as unshifted keys?
The inconvenient truth about strings is that strings are hard, and even Rust doesn't have enough string types.
> Could D's interoperability with other languages like C or C++ be used here to make use of one of those libraries?

That's what the interoperability is for!
Thanks and yes, not good form to complain about forum meta, was just very frustrated that something so quickly supported by many voters could be blocked so easily, because it has a particularly verboten point of view amongst SV elite. It was definitely a whiny comment.
with a push for "racial equity" combined with an inept middle management and hr who in order to get equal outcome will push people down instead of lifting people up, the only thing i can see from this is a sharp rise in ethno nationalist idiocy across the board.

i dont want to be right about it but i am not going to be shocked if i start seeing such bubble up as a reaction to this kind of short sighted strategy.
I bought a Jura full-auto within a couple months of the start of the pandemic. Coworkers did likewise. So it's probably a real phenomena.
Unless you only used QuartzCore on macOS and asked win32 for no decorations you've also pulled in a complex UI framework dependency on Windows and macOS. I agree it's a mess, but not because things work on macOS and Windows without complex UI frameworks.