skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current setup is strongly based on historic water rights laws.

Touching that would be opening a giant Pandora’s box few legislators want to handle.

And with how broken Congress is in general, do ANY of the states involved think that would produce a better outcome?
As long as you are given the option to decline a request (a real option, not a Hobson's choice), it doesn't cross the line into state action. The distinction in legal jurisprudence is pretty damn clear here, there needs to be some element of coercion by the government; if the government has the same power as private actors (e.g., to flag things), then that doesn't meet the bar.
I automated math education for my 9 year-old. It's a Unity application where a student required to solve basic (currently) math examples.

For 10 examples you're getting a 25-cent coin from a coin dispenser. You can keep it or you can use this money to buy Internet access. My OpenWrt router is connected straight to coin acceptor. For one coin you're getting 30 minutes of Internet on all devices (iPad and PC).

Since it's all automated I don't need to involve too much into education process. Math score in school has greatly improved, the kiddo solved thousands of examples.

Coin dispenser is proprietary (found on ebay, one of popular model), so I literally had to hack the USB protocol. The coin acceptor had no USB interface, so I had to introduce one. I've connected this USB to my OpenWrt 32-bit router, which is also ARM - so I had to hack some USB libraries along the way so my binaries can work with USB right from OpenWrt.

One of the advantages - there is no such thing as unlimited Internet. You always need to do some work to get it. Another one - there is interruption moment when it's over. There are lots of other good things. Like you can control the number of examples that needs to be solved. How difficult they are. Kiddo also understands what money is and how easy it is to spend money and how hard it is to earn.

I'm looking for co-founder to turn it into a business.

But I think even simple button that activates Internet for 30 minutes would work, since it introduces interruption between "consuming flow".
I'm dying at the idea of a maintenance cat. In my mind he's wearing little overalls and carrying a wrench.
That's for sure. My kiddos play with my old childhood Fisher Price and Mattel toys from the late 1970s/early 1980s and they are still in great condition despite decades of abuse. They really were built to last compared to the cheap instant landfill fodder that lines store shelves today.
Not even close.

If anyone tried to use it to do that, everyone would regret it.
I completely agree with this sentiment.

I think VR has the same issue that smartphones had at the start of their cycle, the UI/UX is not designed to intuitively mesh with how users actually want to use the system. Even things like keyboard inputs are just not quite there yet, resorting to clunky index-finger typing at best and type-by-laser at worst.

I think we are moving towards a usable version of AR eventually (with tech still needing to catch up on weight/latency/tracking) but full VR is almost only useful for games.

As much as I'm not an Apple-enthusiast, the one thing they (used to) get right is the sort of UX where you almost don't even need to explain how to do things, they just intuitively make sense and you can just let intent directly flow. Given their current trends though I'm not convinced their alternative AR/VR UI will be that though.

I'm essentially waiting for glasses that go full VR when they need to, and otherwise just allow me to overlay a GUI on reality with minimal effort.

E.g. a video player following me around while I do normal stuff. Helpful, and importantly, optional popups overlayed on real objects to enhance my interactions, not completely replace them with a crude 3D facsimile.
I moved away too, this happened while I was closing all my wallets across multiple plats
best intent assumption that they meant "of the states having water shortages in the southwest". The other 2 on the coast are OR and WA and they are not dependent on the colorado for water, they have their own massive river.
Until last year I worked for a financial services company which was so big it's owner ran for President. While I was there, they were doing a major project to move key, irreplaceable core components off of big iron Solaris and AIX machines, and onto Linux on private clouds or commodity machines. Hell, I even worked a (tiny) portion of the project. It might be finished by now? Maybe?
If it ever gets that hostile we can just scrape the website and reconstruct the social graph from the DOM.
John Carmack leaving your organization with a resignation letter like that is an undeniable sign that it is permeated with the rot of ineffective and self-deceptive middle management. If you've followed John's career you know that he has enough FU money and respect that he doesn't care about performance reviews, your promotion ladders or departmental politics. As he writes, he cares about shipping cutting edge technology nobody else thought possible that delivers exceptional value, and brand new experiences. His ethos is egos be damned, and breaking down organizational and cross-corporate boundaries.

Carmack should have been invaluable at Meta as the speaker of hard and uncomfortable truths. Likely Zuck & Boz have no idea whats really going on with their technology and are insulated by layers of self-deceptive status reporting. Once you step into management and away from the visceral struggle of building and using nascent technology daily, you are likely to make the stupidest and most illogical decisions. Setting that hard shipping deadline to coincide with your conference feels like you are making your team more efficient, but likely you are also forcing them to take on eventually crippling technical debt, or make rushed and ill-informed choices.

Its likely that top engineering talent, the ones who actually know how to build the next several generation of VR technology, already left or will leave soon. Those that remain will drown in so much clueless bullshit that they will pop out another VRML or Second Life and call it the metaverse.
What does that have to do with the Colorado River Compact again?
> This goes for any large web property where people congregate to communicate.

Yes, for example Facebook and TikTok.

> HN is no different in that respect.

Well, Twitter has over 200 million users. I believe that HN is much much smaller. HN also tends to be more anonymous.
That's a good sentiment. But you can say the same for the aws encryption.

I.e. how do you even know it's working and your data is encrypted?
Just because API says so, doesn't mean it's so. There is no way for you to verify. Is there?
Unless you encrypt on your end, you can't be sure.
Happy to hear the issue is resolved. I'd be glad to bring my friends to wish her on her birthday. No one deserves to go through that. Wishing you and yours happy holidays!
Consider moving to a smaller company. You're going to get a lot of interruptions even with the right tools at any large company.
This brings back bad memories. I shouldn’t have reminded myself of what WP code looks like.
It's literally none of those things.

The FBI contacted trust and safety and said 'Hey we have concerns about these tweets'. Twitter decided to take them down in some cases.

Who is corrupted here? Twitter for taking reports and then deciding how to react to them? The FBI for finding misinformation that might lead to crazies creating mass casualty events?

The FBI at no time FORCED twitter to do anything. So it's not violating the first amendment.
It's just dark; not better.
Because light mode is easier for me to read.
Maybe you should try having impactful projects assigned to you instead of not-impactful ones, haha!
HN is a niche compared to Twitter.
That doesn't mean that all parts of the bay area have the same crime rate as SF itself, as the gp implies.

Also, I'm not even sure that SF has a higher violent crime rate than other cities to begin with:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...
It's so low that I'm pretty sure they missed the bulk of the communications between LE and Twitter. But hey, more installments, more eyeballs, more outrage and so more money for Musk.
> There's no excuse for that level of inhumanity.

I think it's like a religion for them... complete lack of common sense.
Not just 'other editors', I was thinking about emacs specifically. I think my point was fairly obvious. Maybe not a million times, but probably hundreds. Vscode and other modern editors use key combinations everyone knows by default, eg. C-q, C-c, C-v, etc., have gui directory browsing- so there is essentially no learning curve.

It takes weeks (at least) using emacs/vim until text editing/movement starts to pay off. There's no learning curve for `M-x package-install`, but if there is some variable that needs to be customized, like the path to an executable or something, that's a whole rabbit hole to go down, and at some point you need to learn lisp or you'll waste a lot of time being confused by errors.

During the only programming course I took in college, one in which emacs was required, I spent as much time learning emacs as anything else (it was also the most valuable thing I learned so I'm grateful in the long run).
Usually because the grade and location of the water is not suitable for residential use.
Ankers charging products haven't let me down, yet. Is there an alternative to those chairing products that isnt CCP managed?
At no point did the FBI order that tweets be taken down.
... and that's relevant how?

I suppose you hope it's relevant because, "the solar power comes just when they need it the most" ?

They don't seem to do the math quite so happily, though. Maybe it's #1 and #2:

First, Safeway buys in very large lots from certified suppliers, who can commit to (almost) always having carrots.

Second, those suppliers have to deliver at a loading dock, and maybe at a central location, too.
Yes you can be conscious about having been unconscious earlier. We do have reflexes. But we also have consciousness about our own thinking.
Read the OP please and don't converse in bad faith.
This is also a very interesting concept/question when it comes to AI writing software for practical applications.

Would a large language model benefit from descriptive variable names when it comes to code understanding, or would this just be for human benefit? My first thought was that a computer (e.g. compiler) does not care what the token is named. But a large language model may actually benefit from it, certainly chatGPT is sensitive to it.

But then, doesn't it mean that it could be fooled by misleading variable names (as a human would), something we would criticize any system for. "Alpha*** is easily fooled by changing variable names, making it completely unusable for blah blah".
One of Yale’s open courses has a lecture that covers The Crying of Lot 49[1]. A good place to start for anyone reading Pynchon for the first time.

Gravity’s Rainbow is my personal favourite, but takes an enormous amount of work as a reader. His far-reaching and darkly conspiratorial view of the world is punctuated by hilarious moments of slapstick comedy, which can help keep you motivated through the more difficult sections.

By comparison I found Underworld and Infinite Jest to be much more straightforward. I haven’t read any Ellmann, so I'll have to check her out.

1. https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291/lecture-12
The conversation internally is obviously very dismissive of the farse, so if I were a betting person, I'd guess bots.
The funny part was when Calacanis was shilling so hard for Musk during the Twitter acquisition saga that Musk told him to chill a bit.
Probably easier to use MySQL as the db layer and have it use SQLite as the backend store somehow heh.
add "failed to reset the key" to the top commenter's list of things to fail.
> the hypocrisy is the point.

I am right wing, and I hear right-wing commentators say things like "for left-wing authoritarians, the hypocrisy is the point" all the time. Seriously, the article you linked sounds exactly like something I would read from "my" side, just with good guys and bad guys reversed.
This isn't true, though? Seems like the coms I have seen are largely either neutral or balanced between benefiting various political parties.
No, they usually don’t reuse the water
Given a large enough transgression they would have gone by a judge and probably gotten an enforceable order, but they chose to first ask nicely. But be assured that if you stonewall such a request and the matter is grave enough that you'll be served next, and rightly so.

This is just an optimization and a way to save everybody a lot of time and headaches, as well as a way to ensure that the genie gets put back into the bottle before something can grow legs and do a lot of damage. And with the degree to which social media has been weaponized that is a good thing.
The NY Post was banned for breaking a story about revelations contained in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden. This was just prior to a national election. The FBI was involved in pushing this narrative through Twitter.

The Babylon Bee is a satire site that was banned for doing satire.

There are many many examples.
Sure, my point was if prepossessing is allowed then arguably so should having a hot cache.

It’s an arbitrary problem, so you could argue that pre computation is fine but you need to assume a cold cache or whatever.
My keyboard autocorrected Google to TLS. Huh.
Is that how Google ended up with eight chat apps while Search gets worse and worse every year?
they were leaked BY FUCKING HACKERS (specifically 'fancy bear')
An entire story lionizing Hot Wheels as historic and seminal and without once noting that the entire brand was created as a cheaper and lower quality knockoff of Matchbox, founded 15 years earlier.
My curated and update list of Computer Graphics resources you can read online for free [0] with every item having a small description.

[0]: https://legends2k.github.io/note/cg_resources/
Aka, won’t happen voluntarily, but may happen anyway - with associated pain and complaints for this impacted.

Sounds about right.
Ask HN: Which Windows? (for vbox with GPU passthrough)
Hi all.

I’m a long time Linux user, and I’d like to install and run a couple windows games, that can in turn leverage my nvidia 2070 GPU.

I’ve tried using wine - and also dual booting - with mixed results.

I’d prefer to keep things clean and simple, so I’d like to experiment with a virtual box windows install.

Is anyone running windows games successfully with this approach? If so, please share your tips?

I don’t even know whether GPU passthrough will work with vbox, let alone which version of windows to go with.

Any guidance would be appreciated :-)
An anarchist who promotes the government taking rights by force?

Im a communist who loves free markets!
He's probably a parent of one of those bullies.

Glad to see the accounts back! Have a great Christmas
Not a violation of free speech to tell Twitter to take down illegal content.
> And the bar owner did what the cop said, because the police department had threatened to shut down bar owners in the city for the last three years.

If that is true, that would make it government coercion. But no one has properly alleged anything with regards to Twitter on that analogue.
> Musk, via his family office, this week privately offered to sell additional equity at the same $44 billion valuation that he's essentially admitted was an overpay.
I think we can only speculate about reasons, so everybody is gonna project. Maybe the Facebook culture is uniquely bad. Maybe Carmack isn't an effective leader. Maybe it's just how large corporations work. Maybe he was dealt a bad hand.

Meanwhile, I admire that he had the guts to see the issue, say it out loud in a self-critical way, and call it quits. Most people don't.
My mother in law is the one writing content for it. She knows Wordpress from working for other companies. In theory I could teach her something new, but why bother? She enjoys what she’s doing now. I don’t want to take away from that.
> How awesome would it be if it also worked for a future version of Windows?

Definitely would be awesome if it becomes the placeholder KMS client key (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started...)
From his Facebook account:

I resigned from my position as an executive consultant for VR with Meta. My internal post to the company got leaked to the press, but that just results in them picking a few choice bits out of it. Here is the full post, just as the internal employees saw it:

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This is the end of my decade in VR.

I have mixed feelings.

Quest 2 is almost exactly what I wanted to see from the beginning – mobile hardware, inside out tracking, optional PC streaming, 4k (ish) screen, cost effective. Despite all the complaints I have about our software, millions of people are still getting value out of it. We have a good product. It is successful, and successful products make the world a better place. It all could have happened a bit faster and been going better if different decisions had been made, but we built something pretty close to The Right Thing.

The issue is our efficiency.

Some will ask why I care how the progress is happening, as long as it is happening?

If I am trying to sway others, I would say that an org that has only known inefficiency is ill prepared for the inevitable competition and/or belt tightening, but really, it is the more personal pain of seeing a 5% GPU utilization number in production. I am offended by it.

[edit: I was being overly poetic here, as several people have missed the intention. As a systems optimization person, I care deeply about efficiency. When you work hard at optimization for most of your life, seeing something that is grossly inefficient hurts your soul. I was likening observing our organization's performance to seeing a tragically low number on a profiling tool.]

We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort. There is no way to sugar coat this; I think our organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy. Some may scoff and contend we are doing just fine, but others will laugh and say “Half? Ha! I’m at quarter efficiency!”

It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I’m evidently not persuasive enough. A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it. I think my influence at the margins has been positive, but it has never been a prime mover.

This was admittedly self-inflicted – I could have moved to Menlo Park after the Oculus acquisition and tried to wage battles with generations of leadership, but I was busy programming, and I assumed I would hate it, be bad at it, and probably lose anyway.

Enough complaining. I wearied of the fight and have my own startup to run, but the fight is still winnable! VR can bring value to most of the people in the world, and no company is better positioned to do it than Meta. Maybe it actually is possible to get there by just plowing ahead with current practices, but there is plenty of room for improvement.

Make better decisions and fill your products with “Give a Damn”!
It’s not available on HN
The FBI would upon such a refusal then most likely go by a court to see if they could get a judge to sign off on an order and those you refuse at your peril.
Not a trick, but yeah saying we should harm certain groups of people is hate speech.
The man went from making the fastest 3D games ever to grace silicon to literally launching rockets. He's been the fastest nerd alive, and Meta couldn't even give him legs (figuratively and literally [1])

[1] https://youtu.be/ouq5yyzSiAw?t=395
You do realize that it's not the job of the FBI to police 1A speech, especially about an election, right?
There are plenty of fly fisherman who would disagree. Most fly fisherman have pushed for protected waters, and protected them by minimizing damaging the fish, with the removal of the hook's barb. Most fly fisherman that I know will not even take the fish out of water to release the fish.

The most horrible form of hunting id have to say is trapping as its much slower in a sense but similar to fishing.

Fishing comes in various forms obviously and I totally think finning is horrible but as they say, "nature is metal".
Genius! Was this an original idea or adapted from elsewhere? Any plans to automate the ¢ to minute ratio when your 9yo begins to establish quarter wealth?
None of the players want the feds involved, including the feds near as I can tell.

It’s got lose-lose-lose written all over it.
I hope he joins Valve instead. Facebook was the wrong choice from the get go.
There's a popular edition of Gravity's Rainbow ("Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, white A4 rocket pointing down on the cover) that, for some pressings at least, is a pretty poor print. Missing lines, haphazard paragraph breaks, etc. Given the writing style, I'd recommend any other edition (Penguin 20th century is good, blue cover with rocket schematics) to make it less of a challenge to read.
BS = bullshit?
>Why do they make it so hard to work for them, just for their employees to play status games?

"We only hire the smartest folks with the highest GPAs from these schools."

That was a hiring strategy that was famously debunked by Google itself. Now they hire folks that never went to college or were not CS majors. As in they can also be physicists, mathematicians, artists.. etc...

However, I guess they still though think leetcode is a useful signal to identify talent. Or talent that can be trained. So it is more of an aptitude test. Like how a college degree is a signal that you completed something. And a PhD is a signal that you can do research. It doesn't mean other folks can't.

We all know this fails to assess actual work performance (which is subjective anyway) but that is presumably proven by your work history itself. Work performance is a better measure of actual performance than the leetcode proxy any day.

It also most certainly does not select for diversity and different problem solving perspectives. This is a big blind side for any corporation. But you have to be an interested and motivated hiring manager to identify those people. Those are probably the best to hire though. I imagine YC is looking for those types since it is sort of a required trait for a startup.

Some of the best software engineering managers and software product types I've worked with are not CS majors and cannot program.

By now Google has the data to run the analysis for these types studies across the board.
They may even have natural controls (people who've transferred roles internally etc...) if they don't have proper randomized controls.
There's enough nothing-burger in this thread to start a nothing-franchise.
I'm surprised/sad he didnt decide to join Valve. VR is a big bet for them as well and I'd assume he'd have more freedom/power there than in Meta.
Has neom fallen already?
It has no purpose right now. Next year might be flooding, and then you’d better believe everyone wants it.
And ivy league liberal arts majors run the country..
The FBI would not pass on something in the nature of a direct order without having a paper signed by a judge to back it up.
Another possibility I considered is if Twitter had been so uncooperative with prior requests that the government stopped bothering sending so many.
I work for a European unicorn and that's definitely not the case. We explicitly reward quality, testing, automation, etc—partially it's on your manager to explain the value of non-product work. We are literally having a pause on feature work right now to focus 100% on QA, automation and testing!
Also helps with kidney stones. Eugh