skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a proponent of VR for 30 years and have noticed that there is strong resistance to it, not because of clunky headsets or field of view or graphics quality. The objection seems to derive more from concerns of a Matrix style world, where one company controls a form of reality where people spend significant time. And the control really is complete, the worst dictatorship is nothing compared to the control the owner of a virtual reality has. I have no proof, but my suspicion is that this is why people in power object to the very idea of virtual reality, it usurps their power. You could say facebook or twitter or Youtube are already like this, yet there is something different about an immersive environment, perhaps a suspension of disbelief because we generally accept what our senses tell us as real. VR is closer to a direct channel into peoples brains than text or video is. It is a synthetic reality. If a bat flies towards you in a video you do not duck, in a VR environment you may very well duck.
This happens all the time in the entertainment industry.

For example: TV show X licenses pop song Y for its initial broadcast. The group that owns the syndication rights didn’t buy the right to use song Y, consequently they have to replace the music with generic Muzak in subsequent broadcasts.

You pay for Netflix, start watching show X, and when it gets to the big dramatic moment with sweeping music (that you remember from when the show originally aired), it’s replaced with elevator music.

Same goes for a lot of movies.
> it implies things like freedom to hate and freedom to lie that y'all don't have

Am I supposed to want that ?

Also, no. You have libel/defamation/slander laws in a lot of US states, "b-bu-but muh 1st amendment"

> as long as there is no server or physical office what can brussels do but scream into the wind about it?

Hm, ban these websites out of europe lol ?

> where we support "American's version" of free speech despite local laws?

I know the US think they're the center of the universe and the world's police but what "we" defend there is called "human rights"
For me, that’s always either been bars I drank in (years back now) or more recently, coffee shops and restaurants I eat in, friendly staff and chit chat with fellow customers has lead to good friends. Also - neighbours - but that can be a limited number!
Oh yes, an old colleague made many good friends at various online arranged meet-ups - namely a whisky appreciation group - he found himself a large social circle beyond his professional circle that was most stimulating- so explore your interests, maybe chess club or gaming groups - something with social potential
Twitter isn't a publicly traded company anymore but is still a company that can receive lawsuits. If anything will be changing they need to start with the Terms Of Service since that is the set of rules that a web company uses to govern users, what they do with their data, etc. and what might be challenged in courts.

If the TOS changes to allow a lot more content that was previously prohibited, un-ban users, etc. we may find out where actual laws may or may not apply to purely user driven content and what party can be held accountable should actions happen as the result of content.

I would expect him to do things to try and get back the $44B he spent/borrowed to purchase. Un-banning people could get more eyeballs and that is ad money. It may be a short term play to increase ad revenue, un-ban people, let them run amok to get more eyeballs until lawsuits or Federal organizations step in - with the goal of extracting as much of the $44B as he can.

If they built the ability to have private groups with a simple timeline based feed with ads on the side (i.e. not in the main feed) they could probably steal a ton of users from FB. Go back to basics - people wanting to share things with people they know while also allowing them to view the circus that is public social media. I would be very surprised if this happens. I'm more expecting what I said above - let people run amok until some entity says no or the lawsuit settlements are greater than the run amok profits.
Someone who doesn't care about the detail can and will stop reading. It's important to get your main point across early because of this fact. The inclusion of detail is helpful but it needs to be in the right place. I think this is why traditional business writing evolved to have an order like summary, recommendation, then supporting evidence.

If you've written things well you can get the best of both worlds. I noticed this in the author's review example. The first paragraph gets a reasonably high resolution description of the problem, then the detail follows in the next paragraphs.
Love that channel!
I'm not sure why anyone would trust random Geekbench database entries in any case, there's no way to authenticate anything. I suspect you can just edit the process memory after running a benchmark and before submitting the results, to save yourself the trouble of reverse engineering their web API.
Microsoft's Xbox chief on the future of gaming
Music channels are this weird, broken mess; some channels are weirdly split into two under the hood and which one you get depends on where in the UI you click ( try it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aajhC6GjK30 -- the icon and the artist name right next door under the video go to two different YouTube channels ). Playlists are sometimes replaced with Albums except it doesn't work right, and there's a bug where the infinite scroll repeats the first chunk of options forever when browsing albums. I assume the lack of sorting is just an oversight in the Music Artist template, because it's not like they tested anything else about it.
Yep, that's exactly how human communication ought to work, and the world would be infinitely better if it did. But it doesn't, actually.
> I don't like how this article wants you to waste time getting tripped up and frustrated with basic problems just for the sake of figuring it out on your own.

It does make the point that some novel and useful wheel applications have arisen very recently in the wheel's overall history, e.g. putting wheels on luggage. Clearly, finding something new to do with a wheel is quite a challenge, but in general developing a new application for an existing thing can be very profitable. There's a commonly quoted observation that taking an existing product to a new market is much simpler than taking a new product to a new market.
I'd say that the author's intent is only relevant to the question of what the author intended their work to mean. I don't see any reason it would be relevant to any other insights or significance that a reader gains from the text.

It's similar to how the fact that the cat command was intended to be used to concatenate files is irrelevant to it's more common use to dump a file to stdout.
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Linux on it is very broken in any number of situations, its basically at the level of the M1, which is at the moment probably a better choice if you want a 1/2 working machine.

Things you take for granted as working, and performing well, won't. Putting it another way, its at an early stage of bring up, on x86 you buy a laptop it will tend to mostly work in linux with a problem here/there that will likely get resolved over the next year or two. This is the same, only the level of busted is much worse, enough you probably won't want to actually use it as a daily driver.

It's a fine windows machine, and virtualizes linux just fine, but the same can be said of the M1 as well.
> It's actually kind of disturbing how there are basically only a handful of countries on the planet without systematic corruption. Maybe there are none. Perhaps it's a human trait.

More disturbing (to me) is how easy it is to eliminate corruption in any given area - without any brutality or anything else extraordinary. Just setup the process correctly, incentivize workforce - and the same people who were building roadblocks to milk money will switch to earning money by helping you get your task done.

There was a “widely known in narrow circles” libertarian setup in Troitsk, Russia - of all places. The setup was related to the topic of the original post - registration of businesses. The post-Soviet business registration law was rather liberal. The amount of documents needed was not zero, but doable. But there was a catch - businesses should have been registered locally, and each locality was allowed to add their own requirements on top of federal ones.

You can imagine what followed. Our own city, the I was a counsel member was: just prove to us (“us” in reality means -a clerk) that your business will be useful to the city - and we will register you. But there was a small city named Troitsk, home to some physics scientific institutions, which elected a libertarian mayor, Gennady Lebedev. The city council decided not to ask for any additional documents and just register any business that complied with federal guidelines.

But - any clerk has any good intention in his own hands, right? Mayor said: register everyone? but I am too busy, come tomorrow, and by the way go to… uhm police station, do a background check on yourself for me, I feel a sudden need to be extra cautious in your case. Why not? Seen it everywhere, like you’ve said.

Here comes handy a proper construction of checks and balances:

1. Salary for registration office clerks was paid from a percentage of the (federally fixed) registration fee, nothing else, no safety cushion. If you delay an application- your salary will be delayed too. In the starving Russia that percentage created a - potentially - extremely well paying job.

2. The clerk will be fired if he asked - not just for any unnecessary documents, but just for asking any legally unnecessary question.

3. The clerk will be also fired if he accepts a registration that does not confirm to federal guidelines.

So clerks have the incentive to work fast, help people correct their documents to comply with the federal law and the opportunity for any additional “milking” was too risky and simply not worth it. In short time - small Troitsk had more businesses registered than any other small city in Russia, and comparable to Moscow. Imagine a tax base they’ve got?

First-hand account by Gennadi himself here (in Russian): http://www.sapov.ru/g_v_lebedev/texts/gvl1992_12_troitsk01.h...
I find myself returning to this blog post about once a year. It think it has aged pretty well in the decade since it was written.

One thing that definitely did not pan out is being able to understand the source of a website/web app because it is written in JavaScript. Transpiling/minification/etc. without the corresponding source maps makes that near impossible for any app of a reasonable size.
let them use mastadon!
That will often be a short in the thermostat wires; old thermostat tech worked by just dead-shorting the two "T" terminals together, so any degraded insulation could be calling for heat if it allows a short to develop.

If it happens enough to be annoying, consider setting the T-stat to NOT call for heat and then go moving wires around until you find the place that has the intermittent short.
The future promised by the Windows XP era was so optimistic. Multimedia editing was truly becoming mainstream and democratized, and the future for independently created media was bright. "If this is what iMovie and Windows Movie Maker can do, what does the future hold?"

Now we're talking about making colours DLC for Photoshop.
Pending home sales fell 10% in September, much worse than expected
Who do you think enforces a book ban at a local school?
I think you're trying to have your cake and eat it too here where you are tossing up government and government employees as ephemeral but not giving the same consideration to corporate entities. Is a janitor at Exxon Mobile responsible for climate change? How long do they have to work there before they're at fault? A day? A year? If they're not at fault and it's just the executives, why would we also not place the same blame at the feet of government leadership?

My main issue here is that I don't believe blaming "billionaires" or "corporations" actually helps address climate change. Regulation and reduction of personal consumption does, but since we have been unable to regulate and we refuse to reduce personal consumption, we instead lay blame at the feet of corporations who get confused. Do you want to fly or not? You say no but you keep buying tickets. Funny enough I think out of all three of these entities, corporations are doing the most to address climate change, typically in spite of what people demand.
I think the post was referring to Musk, not those companies.
> The government is not banning any books

The local township library and school board are both literally the government, and the book banning is largely happening based on local election results (typically county positions and/or school board positions -- both from election ballots)

It's not wrong at all to say the government is banning books -- that statement is objectively correct, it's just happening at the lowest levels of government.
Totally agree! Peer review is the only valid feedback in many situations. You don’t see many ultra-successful serial entrepreneurs doubting on Elon! You see many of them driving Teslas.

As someone who has been in the kitchen since childhood, I can appreciate how difficult great food is to create! If I taste something inferior I’m going to be specific with my feedback for improvement, highlighting the good points not just focus on the negatives.

Drives me nuts when at a restaurant with friends/family who haven’t put in the time in the kitchen and couldn’t hope to create a delicious meal dissing the food … if you can’t make something better, either shut up or try to be helpful with your feedback! Being critical is so easy and cliché.

The world needs more optimistic Elons not more doubters.
Could also be noise from the construction site of the Goe D. Glurkz Intergalactic Tunnel. A notice about this unfortunate disturbance was posted 7,700 years ago in our local municipality Galaxy Hall in downtown Mu Cephei.
And if you want a more direct analogue if you assume that the problem with 4chan is the culture and not the moderation that the absolute worst most vile Mastadon servers are no moderation to the point where major servers had to just completely blacklist them. If you want to lose all faith in humanity peruse the Gab database dump.

No moderation is a loosing game because any platform that offers better moderation will be attractive to the masses leaving the people whose decorum is so abhorrent that the "free speech" servers are the only ones that will take them.
Are you saying the Tesla valuation is only due to the cars that have been sold?
Real question: What year? I notice there are lot of stories online about "20 years this crazy thing happened to me in India", but now no more. Example: You can do eVisa for India travel. Super easy online. Most train tickets you can buy online or via "concierge" (minor fee). Hotel booking? Yeah, that too, even smaller places via Internet "aggregator" websites. Travel in India is not so backwards as people think!

I think the funniest and most embarassing story I have about travel in India: The first day in downtown Mumbai, I go to the train stain to buy a ticket for a Churchgate station a few stops away. Honestly, I have no idea what the price will be, but I assume 20-30 rupees. I only have 100 rupee notes. I go to the ticket window: Lady tells me: "5 rupees". I gasped, and looked at my 100 rupee note. She rejects my 100 rupee note! (She was not disrespectful; said: you will take all my change! Wait here; after next person, I can sell it to you.) Next person pays with enough change, then me. All good. We both laughed. To put that in perspective, that is about 2-3 Euro CENTS to ride the train!
He has to start somewhere.
> why is there such a mania for reducing sort/finest options

Apple started the minimalist, option hiding, functionality axing, 1984-ish control freak movement. They even got away with selling phones without chargers, making $40 billion on lightning cables sales.

Just blame Apple.
I think Elon will succeed _and_ I agree with almost everything in this verge article. But Elon has been very inconsistent in what he’s said.

It’s impossible for Elon to accomplish his current vision because it’s not internally consistent. You can’t only moderate what is within the law and make Twitter a more friendly place and make it more attractive to advertisers and grow it to a billion users, and make it the defacto public square and make it the free speech public network and eliminate bots, and make X the everything app and fire 75% of twitter employees.

So while I think Elon Musk will succeed, it’s also interesting to point out the paradoxes and difficulty and in doing so elicit curiosity in how he will accomplish his goal. Conservatives seem to be taking a victory lap today, but it’s one of those things where compromise means no one ends up completely happy.
I loved it, aged about 20. Leila, not so much. It's a bit Marmite
(people I think should love it hate it and vice versa). ZAMM came into
my world just as I was figuring out (and mortified by) the fraud
academia is, and the breakdown of his character Phaedrus was
life-saving parable. His themes and ideas remain strong for me. The
article author seems jaded with it (no doubt the recent notes are
tedious and disappointing). Yes, Persig's style seems a bit laboured
now. But it's a book of its time.
Yeah, I think this absolutely nails it, and what I find interesting is that in all the time this acquisition has been up in the air Musk has failed to ever engage in the detail of how to address these issues. Elon Musk is interestingly probably the worst person to run Twitter, because whilst the previous guys running twitter weren't very competent, they had their product and they were navigating through issues under extreme pressure. Musk on the other hand, has 1,000 pain points to press on that everyone who previously tried to coerce twitter will now be looking at. Whether it be the federal government pressing on SpaceX, Union busting at Tesla, or whether it's Texas coming after Twitter for abortion information, he is going to be so much more exposed.
Strongly agree with what you're saying. I think they've brought out a good game with a solid foundation for turning it into a great game with tweaks and expansions. I've put 26 hours into it since Tuesday and I'm loving it, so they've definitely done something right.

Agree with the tech tree, it's too short and you likely won't vary in the techs you get if you're playing a country with reasonable research points. I'd love some more country-specific flavour and actions; I understand folks don't want to be railroaded (having options to play a country any way you want is great), but it feels a little empty at the moment. Of course this can be modded in and filled out with DLC down the road.

If you enjoy this era of history or enjoy other Paradox games, I'd strongly recommend giving it a go.
What is there to even talk about or discuss? A rich man bought a social network. How is that going to affect my life? Who cares (outside of Twitter employees)?
Thanks, i'm going to check this out.

I hate how youtube doesn't just show whats new from my subscribed content creators, it's insane to me that instead is a bunch of random crap and I miss content from the people I have already told the algorithm I want to see.

Hoping this has a way of just showing the content from the creators I want to watch, trying to have a more balance digital life and remove the crap these companies put on you, while keeping up to date with stuff that is interesting to me, it's always a difficult battle.
Sorry, I totally missed this thread. I'm speaking to the inside baseball around the App Store that was reported in The Information. Link here: (but it's behind a paywall) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/for-apples-app-boss-...

I think that stepping down is probably a strong word, but Eddy's ownership of "services" and "services revenue" is twisting his arm in lots of ways towards how the App Store monetizes. I can't really imagine Phil's entire philosophy around the App Store doing a 180 so quickly if it wasn't for some pressure.

Some quotes:

Yet while it’s hard for Apple to deny how lucrative the App Store has become, people who have worked closely with Schiller say he has often left money on the table in the past, making decisions on advertising, privacy and content based on what he believes is best for users.

Meanwhile, Schiller was less willing to compromise when it involved other categories of games—for example, social casino games, which allow players to bet on virtual prizes by purchasing virtual currency. After Schiller took over the App Store, his editorial team refused to feature such games over concerns that they were addictive for some users, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The policy frustrated some Apple business management employees who were advocating for social-casino developers, as that category generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue annually for the App Store.

Schiller was originally opposed to Apple’s search ads business, which displays a single ad at the top of search results on the App Store, and for years was against adding ads to the Today tab and app product pages, as he believed this would degrade the user experience, according to two people familiar with the matter. Apple hasn’t announced when the new ads will show up in these sections of the App Store.
Yeah, this is basically what I mean. Personally, I think the performance of SBC boards with Celeron N5105 is my baseline for "acceptable" performance for a desktop. Anything slower I will deliberately avoid due to the jank and inconvenience factor.
It's also got 4x LSI SAS9211-8I HBAs, so it's running 32 drives from the HBAs and the remaining 10 drives from the motherboard. I saw the original thread and couldn't figure out from the pictures how all those drives were wired up because I didn't know SuperMicro made motherboards with 10 SATA ports onboard. That's what got me curious about the exact MB. There's a link to imgur with the POST screen showing the model:

https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/yddi1t/what_would_...
That happens a lot with music channels, which tend to aggregate videos uploaded across multiple channels but are labeled as coming from one channel. I’m not sure they opted to remove the option.
Windows is not secure, it doesn't have any proper permission system, any process can read/write files, send network requests to anyone without the user noticing anything

It can even change system settings without you noticing

You should feel naked when you manipulate sensitive data with Windows, because you are indeed naked

Hence why most companies forbid their employees to use windows with public internet access for work
Python in Indonesia swallows 54-year-old woman
An event would be any change in the representation of an individual entity in the data. We understand that it's not trivial to estimate the overall cost, so we offer a free evaluation period so customers can estimate how much will they be spending monthly.
Funny references alone will get down voted. It's just the culture of this board. If you want to joke you'll need some more substance as well.
The image on this article looks amazing. And it was AI generated. I would not mind seeing art like that in my living room.
Two anecdotes from me (based in USA).

1) India's IRS still owes me tax-refund from 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001. I gave up trying to recoup long ago.

2) I inherited an inheritance in India from someone passing away (who died without a will). A family member managed to have everything put in their name.

Mindboggling.