skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4th out of four? And it can't even hack time.

My money personally is on Famicom to own this space.
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Doing a few chess puzzles a day (and aiming to get them correct, rather than trying to get through as many as you can) has done wonders for my move speed. For example, I recognize forks much faster now.

Lichess lets you pick several themes as well, if you want to focus on particular situations.
They took it down because it didn't have microtransactions aimed at children, and doesnt require you to purchase Microsoft subscriptions to play on servers. Only Microsoft gets the opportunity to exploit kids.

Eaglercraft from what I understand was a very old version of Minecraft no one plays. "Mojang" (actually Microsoft don't be fooled), is not in any way threatened by these. The time they've spent paying lawyers is more loss than what these would do.
This one, for example, just posted:

>3D printing living cells inside human body could become a reality

https://interestingengineering.com/health/3d-printing-living...
>around quiet quitting

Please do not use this phrase.

Working 9-5 is called "doing your job"

IT in Europe here and we work 8-5 with 1h lunch...
According to the ticket I got, the VPSes are going up 20% but the backup price isn't changing, so your new bill will be around $696/mo, an increase of $1,152/yr.

The main alternatives in the budget cloud space are Digital Ocean, Vultr, OvH etc - they're all similarly priced for the equivalent servers, but I wouldn't be surprised if they all start increasing their prices to match - DO especially as they recently laid off a load of employees.
> “We should be able to run a very good ads business,”

As someone who works in research for AR and related stuff, its really _awesome_ to see a leader thoroughly piss in the well before its even launched a practical device.

We all know that AR is a privacy issue, and if handled badly, will hamper society to huge extent. Yet, here we have this preening shit overriding all the privacy lessons the industry has learnt over the last 10 years.
The message being sent to customers claims that they “remain more aggressively priced than our peer providers”, which is nonsense as far as I can tell—unless they now consider their “peer providers” to be the likes of AWS, Azure, and GCP?

Hetzner Cloud’s price is ~40% of Linode’s new price[0], OVHcloud ~50–60%[1], and Vultr ~80%[2]. Of the big-name VPS providers, I think only DigitalOcean is more expensive now[3], and so they will be the same after this change.

A “bold new approach to the cloud”[4], indeed.

[0] https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

[1] https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/compare/

[2] https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

[3] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets

[4] https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/a-bold-new-approach-to-th...
I work to provide food for my children and me. I am not my work. Even if I like development, I do more interesting types of development outside of my job.
I've played both Cyberpunk and Red Dead Redemption on my Quest 2 via pc link, using Luke Ross RealVR mod [1] and they were amazing. Setting up the tech is fiddly and even when you get it running updates constantly break it, so it's not quite consumer ready, but if you hack together experiences they will blow your mind.
[1] https://www.patreon.com/realvr
Note that it says “track conversions” not “track conversations”. Tracking conversions means that they will know if they displayed an ad to you, that you bought the thing advertised. If that’s not what you misread, then carry on.
Most hobbyists will use the $5 machines which are not changing, though.
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DO also raised their prices recently. I think Linode is just following the suit as both the companies have similar user base.
obligatory lichess.org plug! best site on the net.
Interesting, ty. I never thought of the Chromebook option.
Or SML, I think. Python in general is not as easy and simple as people make it out to be.
I thought that was very interesting from a Product Management standpoint. You are right, there’s way more to do in Quest than when it was released. And games are getting much better at playing to VR’s strengths.

I suspect the answer is friction. I bet that the early adopters were enthusiastic enough to actually put the damn thing on. People who bought in later maybe tried it and thought it was cool, but don’t have enough motivation to use it past the “wow” period.

I’ll give a friction example. I am playing a VR game now called Barbaria. It’s a fantastic clash of clans meets physics based combat game that really plays to VR strengths. It has a mechanic that encourages you to log in each day to collect more points that would work extremely well on mobile with a push notification. On VR, first there’s no notification, and then what could have been a 5 minute interaction on mobile turns into 5 minutes of headset setup and app loading for the 5 minutes of interaction. And you can only do it when you are home!

Basically you only bother with it if you know you are going to have at least 30 minutes of 100% dedicated distraction-free time while you put your phone away, a high bar these days!
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You see, the question you're implying with that answer is different from the original one posed: from "do we put this cable down or not?" to "what else could we do with our time and energy?"

You're not wrong, but in the context of this conversation it is an incorrect assessment.
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It was easy: I took some time off to interview elsewhere, accepted the new job, and submitted my notice. I've done that a few times, and they never followed me.
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I don't think 20mm thru was ever a popular axle type. It should be possible to adapt that to a 15mm thru axle with endcaps or a sleeve in the hub though.
And with FOSS software you can remove the telemetry.
Problem is that people greatly prefer the low result study techniques since they requires less mental effort. It has been known for a while that they are bad, but since doing those allows people to study more hours for same amount of effort they do it anyway.
Just another reason to put Cloudflare in front of your website so you can have ipv4 and ipv6 with SSL and a WAF for free.
Whaaaaaat? I thought

> margin: 0 auto;

would be the way to go for centering divs...
No, Teen Suicide Isn’t Rising Because Life Got Objectively Worse
Ha yes, always the freeways! That’s such a common thing 9 times out of 10 something looks too good to be true, it’s the freeway driving down the price.

I grew up in OC and it’s not bad, depending on where you are exactly and what your interests are.

Honestly, I don’t blame people that get up and leave for another state. But silly me, I’m not willing to leave my friends and family (and of course the weather).
DigitalOcean is already more expensive for the same performance (as in, when you actually benchmark machines). I moved my workloads to Linode and cut my prices in half, so a 20% increase still leaves it as cheaper.
I agree that codes aren't the biggest part of the total, but just find it interesting to think about low costs which are widely applied to protect against rare events. .

What is the ROI and total cost of increasing every roof price 1% statewide to account for a rare and localized 1/700 event.

There are aprox 100k new home starts per year. At say 50k for a roof that would be 5 billion in roofing costs/yr. 1% increase is 50 Million. over 700 years that is 35 Billion dollars in new construction costs

Houses are also repbult or reroofed. Say a house or roof is replaced every 100 years, with 15 million houses, a 1% increase is ~53 billion in 700 years.

So over the 700 year period, that is ~88 billion in costs, or 1.8 Million new roofs.

In conclusion, a 1/700 year wind event would have to destroy 1.8 million roofs, >10% of all roofs in state, to break even on a 1% building cost increase.
"Wanna be co-founder"

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>They have a decent system to enable them to review quickly and the core team does a ton of code reviews.

Are there other open source projects like this? My biggest blocker from contributing to open source have always been the slow to never happening code reviews.
Akamai doesn't have a reputation for being interested in the bottom of the market. They announced this price increase with 31 days' notice. Future price increases and policy changes can be expected to be announced on a similar schedule.

Do you really want to wait until they announce a "hit the ejector seat button" change and you only have 30 days to make the move?
This "gifted Linux user" has set up a couple of Linux laptops for my >80 year old mom who lives 8 hours' drive away. They've been a lot less PITA than Windows! Things have come a long way. They do have one "gifted Linux user" type hack in them - an always up SSH connection to my home base, with reverse tunnels for a couple of ports. But the tech support I've had to give is of the "accidentally changed the sort order in Thunderbird" variety. The Linux platform has been flawless.
I was reminded of this sketch as well, quite fitting.
Are your strawberries bland? Pesticides could be to blame
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That's not the point though. You would still have the same underlying issue (no way to intrinsically tie the size of the memory addressable using a pointer to the pointer) and the disadvantage of code being less clear (are you actually passing the pointer to just one element, are you trying to pass a pointer to the beginning of the whole array?)

The key takeaway is that the implicit conversion from array to pointer to first element is not the problem with C. The problem with C is that it's a very limited language which would require a re-design (e.g. fat pointers and implicit range checks everywhere, which, while solving one problem, wouldn't really solve ALL or even most of the problems with pointers).

I think that, for its time, C was a decent improvement over assembly programming. I think that in the current day and age if you are writing C and use modern tooling as well as follow a set of good guidelines (as well as have the right mentality and don't ACTUALLY treat is as high level assembly) it is possible to write more or less safe C in small doses. For anything else I think the correct solution is not to ponder how to fix C, or pretend like there's just one problem with it, instead the solution is to use a better language.
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Up until recently, I avoided buying a VR headset because of the lack of support for AAA titles, but with the PSVR2 supporting Gran Turismo out of the gate that changed. My kid is able to play games and enjoy herself. And I get to race at night with my friends. For me, it's worth the investment, even if I only find a few games a year that I'll play.
It's towards the bottom, but there's a good quote that shows the perfect example of when this makes sense:

> “For example, if someone is removed for a serious safety incident during an Airbnb reservation and we need to remove them and cancel their future reservations, and we then find that someone re-books the exact same future reservation with the same credit card number, we will remove the second account,” the company said.

So I can see how this is absolutely necessary in some cases, but also how there's always going to be a confusing gray area no matter where you draw the line.

It feels particularly crazy because if you travel together with a romantic partner who damages a property, and then you basically have to convince AirBNB that the two of you have broken up, and that the two of you aren't just using your account now to escape the other's ban.
> Maybe the country you moved to was also rich and with a functioning free-market economy?

Yes, but the economy of the old country, while poorer, was not exactly state-run. All grocery stores were private businesses created by entrepreneurs. Same with taxis. Yet neither accommodated people with disabilities. It was not like grocery stores were owned by the government and those who ran them were disinterested government employees. They were private businesses who made their own decisions and still they did not accommodate people with disabilities.
I've been a customer since 2011 (moved away a couple of years ago). Even though they didn't increase their nominal prices, my prices raised steadily during all that time. Usually with some minor amount of extra resources added without me requesting them.

Also, most of the time, reverting the increases would take renegotiating things with support. Recently, it changed into requiring destroying my machines and creating new ones from scratch, what besides an improvement, is still as hard as migrating to another provider.

Anyway, I was not entirely dissatisfied with them, but this one is a sleazy behavior.
Your comment and mine are compatible.
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All patients with private insurance will receive a $35 per month price cap on insulin, Eli Lilly said on Wednesday. People without insurance can enroll in a program through the company that will allow them to receive the monthly price cap, the company added.

Ah, OK. Private charity to get around public oversight.
You've already gone from globalist agencies to putting a person's name in there, do you want to go just that one step further and suggest anything "those people" have in common?

You can willfully misread and misinterpret public documents all you want, but at least be honest about why you keep referring to "Soros and WEF people" like they're a shadowy cabal.
Most non technical white collar sit in front of a computer all day too. Trades like electrical, plumbing, mechanic etc wear out their bodies.

Other jobs that emphasize relationships like sales is something I wonder if might have been a better path. In your old age you have a nice rolodex to market yourself with instead of a decaying skill set that gets more difficult to refresh as you age.
Amos (Rust's fasterthanlime) has pointed out that opt-in causes a problem which the "Eh, they can always opt in if they care" crowd don't spot until it's too late.

The telemetry is collected at time T, and your decision that you care must come before time T if it's to have any effect on the outcomes. After the telemetry is collected, and decisions are taken based on that telemetry, it's too late to opt in.

This reflect a common problem with humans that what they don't like is regret, but what we offer them as a fix is informed consent -- it turns out what they wanted to be informed about was really whether they would in future regret it, which we cannot know.

Now, as a democracy we "fix" this by just deciding that even if you refuse to participate in the process we don't get to claim that your interests don't matter. That feels like a reasonable price to pay for very important decisions like "Should we build a freeway across this land occupied by the people from this weird religious sect?" but it feels way out of proportion for something like, "Should I add more animated Emoji reactions to version X, or should I work on enabling the text-to-speech feature in group chats as well as one-to-one ?"

Laws like GDPR can help organisations stick to collecting only what they actually needed to know and not just "Everything because why not" - GDPR is why not. Did you just collect the full name of every user? You'd better have a damn good explanation of why you did that. Whether user has <4GB, 4GB-8GB or 8GB+ of RAM? Very easy to justify.
There is a huge demand knee for EV's at price parity with ICE's. VW, Ford & Tesla all plan on being able to sell EV's profitably at price parity in 2025 or earlier. If your startup isn't planning on selling a hatchback for $20k, a small SUV for $30k or a truck for $40k after rebate it's likely not viable.
It's very true that the American myth of the triumphant (and embattled) individual is a predominant socio-cultural model. But some of the major immigrant waves came as communities and continued to be so in their diaspora.
But intention has nothing to do with it!

All of the corrupting forces you listed are foreseeable, even inevitable given a certain corporate structure and position in a market. It is simply bad business, naivete, that made them think they could realistically achieve what they wanted with a company that survives by making money.

Maybe, just maybe, it's not always wise to blindly take people, in positions of power, with much to gain from your believing them, at their word...?

(And if it was true naivete, I don't understand why the consensus isn't "let the company die, a better one will take its place, these people can't run a company" a la the vaunted free market principles that imbue the community of sycophants rooting for Musk et al.)
Not really, that's why I'm reviewing other providers as per the second half of the sentence.
If only there were some way to make git distributed!

/s
This theory seems a lot more convoluted than "it's hard to scale production of a new vehicle and they haven't figured it out yet."
2024 headline: "Qualcomm sues Apple for patent infringement"
Even with the price increase, DO looks like it would be 2x Linode's cost for what I require.
During the time I owned a Quest 2, probably every 2 months I'd put it on and check out what the latest enhancements and releases were, say "neat", take it off, and not touch it for another 2 months. Friends would come over, try it out, and generally arrive at the same conclusion. Such a weird thing - the potential is clearly there, and it was a really _cool_ piece of hardware, but nothing it ran made me want to actually use it regularly.