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It's its size that makes it difficult to move. Some major ecosystem stuff is designed around the svn infrastructure. When the will arrived to make a change, it seemed natural to migrate not just to a different VCS but a different host. And this seemed to spawn a new debate: monorepo vs multi-repo. [still open AFAIK]

At the recent 2016 US Dev Conf, there was a consensus to move to git and that the new host would be github.

Really subjective IMO part: In general, there's tons of really smart folks working on really awesome stuff in LLVM+clang+etc. There's a handful of folks also focusing on the general "plumbing" software within and among those projects. The meta-plumbing job of the dev infrastructure is "kinda interesting" to several folks who want to improve the way the project is developed. But "kinda interesting" doesn't pay the bills and so it's a second (or nth responsibility) for the folks volunteering to work on it. Add to that the "no good deed goes unpunished" rule that they'll get the responsibility/blame after making a sweeping change, it means it will require extreme patience and caution.
I run a VR-focused VC firm (Presence Capital). We've done 25+ investments in this space, so you can say that we believe in the long-term potential of VR. Even given that, we're bearish on how quickly there will be a profitable/sustainable VR consumer business and have advised most of our portfolio companies targeting consumers to keep burn low.

That being said, almost all of the comments here are taking a singular worldview: consumer-focused VR for a western market.

VR for B2B or enterprises can make money today and doesn't require mass-consumer adoption. If you make someone 10x more effective at their job (tools for sales people: OssoVR) or onboard employees faster (training: STRIVR), you can overcome the cost and rough edges on the hardware.

In China, VR-arcades are going to be how most consumers first experience high-end PC VR. Culturally, people there are already used to going to internet cafe's to use computers by the hour and seek out 3rd spaces. VR-by-the-hour rooms fit this mold. Additionally, the short length of most VR experiences makes it easy to have a 15-20 minute session and not be disappointed by the lack of content. More info on this here: https://medium.com/@amitt/vr-will-be-huge-in-china-41de0c758...
That use does exist, but it's a (popular in the mid-90s, still occasionally encountered) ironic use that derives from the older (and particularly common by the American Right against the Left in the late 1980s and early 1990s, its peak before the current resurgence among the same political faction) use as a pejorative. So, the modern popularity of the older and original pejorative use isn't "losing meaning" from that use...
To be fair the article is not about an "obsession with an even split" at all. It's about Lever's practices to promote diversity and inclusion.
(Re-)verify the safety number out-of-band, like you hopefully did initially.
We might also have inter-car communication which could make this easier. [eg you don't have to worry about one car's sensors failing as long as it can still hear from other cars]

I'm curious about what corner cases exist that eg Google hasn't seen in millions of miles driving in a city. [I'm sure there are some, I just don't have a good imagination. Nor can I really fathom what a million miles of city driving is like]
Partially inspired by the soundcloud post here: https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/lessons-in-resilience...
There was a scene in Demolition Man as well that dealt with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80UQWWUIYs
For many people, health care is a service that must be consumed or they will die, or their children will die. Demand is highly inelastic. People in this situation are looking for a way to stay alive.

Your selection of the best auto insurance policy is qualitatively a different kind of choice. Many millions have no car or need of one. You could live without one. I mean that literally -- it will not end your life if you don't have a car. There are alternatives to owning one, even if one of those is moving somewhere where you don't need one. Likewise, you may never use your auto insurance, and auto insurance doesn't pay for maintenance. But everyone needs health care, including its "maintenance" form. There's nowhere to move that obviates the need for health care.

Insurance is not the right model.
That doesn't protect you against a malicious developer.
I visited The Library at Night, a part-VR exhibit by Robert Lepage in Québec City:
https://www.mcq.org/en/exposition?id=425961

Alberto Manguel narrates the history of 10 of his favourite libraries. One of them, the Vijećnica library in Sarajevo, had a particularly striking history from the civil war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vije%C4%87nica

That got to me.
You should talk to a doctor about what your knee and elbow joints will be like in twenty years.

(Supposing you care, and surgical replacement won't be trivial by then.)
It kinda is - you could add it to the description.

App stores seem to be getting progressively more hostile to this kind of thing though - you can't just download an APK / iOS app, you have to do it through a device. This lets the stores do "app slimming" (and per-country / per-carrier customized apks) to remove resources you don't need (like binaries that don't match your architecture), which would change the checksum. Which is useful, but inconvenient for this goal.

Something like fdroid may be supportive of this, which would be cool. But I wouldn't expect the mainstream ones (or Apple) to ever embrace it - it'd be a bad user experience / wasted UI space in the vast majority of cases.
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I can already imagine multiple wearable mechanical contraptions to enhance the VR experience injecting orientation and acceleration to the mix. This is huge.
Is it supposed to have that slightly different cast to the aluminum? I almost wish they'd make it an entirely different color or material (black polycarbonate ?) if that's how it's going to look.
If resending undelivered messages to new keys waited for confirmation of the new key when safety number change notifications are enabled, then users without those notifications enabled would continue to immediately resend undelivered messages to new keys while users with the notifications enabled would not resend until the user manually OKed the change. The WhatsApp servers know (or can know) whether users have outstanding undelivered messages and can observe whether users resend them immediately after a key change. As a result, if resends after key changes waited for user confirmation with security notifications enabled, whenever a user changed keys, WhatsApp would be able to tell whether any of their contacts who had undelivered messages to that user had the notifications enabled by observing whether those contacts immediately resent the messages or not.
A problem there is that some of the most expensive chronic conditions (CVD, Diabetes) can be substantially improved by preventative care.

Hence: The actor paying for chronic care is the one incentivized to provide great preventative care, separating the two will create incentives with negative patient outcomes and cost for chronic illness.

Another less obvious issue is that by splitting healthcare payment between actors, they are weakened against an increasingly monopolistic healthcare provider market. One key reason US healthcare is expensive today is that insurers are weak vs. healthcare providers - splitting them up would further reduce their ability to negotiate better prices.

While there's some truth to the argument that US healthcare is expensive because it pays for much of the worlds medical research, there is plenty of truth to the argument that the rest of the west gets better prices because their single-payer insurance is a massively strong negotiating party fighting for good prices for patients.
Land and capital are not interchangeable as factors of production.

Next: let's please not confuse accounting and economics :)
I think that just misconstrues how IM apps are used. You have conversations on IM apps: you send one line of text to a person, and then you don't send another until the person has at least seen the first one, if not yet responded. Otherwise you're being rude.

And, presuming you are seeing reply-messages from your peer and having a back-and-forth conversation, I don't think it's actually possible for those reply-messages to not implicitly also be ACKs of your own sent messages—the Axolotl ratchet underlying the protocol ensures that (I think. Crypto people chime in?)

So, yeah, you can probably get a retransmitted transcript of one person talking into a void without seeing any delivery ticks in response. You can't really get a conversation.
The logical complement is more reasonable: "If everyone is happy with you you're likely doing things wrong."

And the more general: "If idiots are happy with you, you're likely an idiot too - or just acting like one."
You mean someone publishing source code and then falsely verifying the binary checksum?

I mean, at the end of the day, it's very easy to verify - if the binary doesn't match what whomever gets when they compile, there better be a reason for it.

Regardless, I don't think this is the biggest problem facing open source.
I agree, perhaps a further version of the signal protocol could implement a definitive solution that better addresses this kind of scenario the way HSTS did for ssl certs. And combined with a friendly UI solution (like the new padlock | Secure string in chrome) would lead to easier detection of possible eavesdroppers by the lay person.
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If you ask me, "essential" is something that removes the bloat of questionably useful "AI assistants" poking their noses into every conversation in order to better advertise to you — not to mention a lot of the other junk that clutters up modern smartphones inside and out.

I don't think we should all return to feature phones by any means, but people still struggle with basic usability and you can't count on, for example, a phone to last all day doing regular stuff, or to be relied upon to work anywhere in the world.

To me trying to outdo the bleeding-edge devices and services is not a valuable proposition, since small advances here and there mean 1st place in whatever area (payments, notifications, accessibility) is passed around like a football.

Why not focus on the "next billion users" or whatever people like to say? Why on the top few percent of existing users, who will only get a fractional improvement to their experience? It strikes me as shortsighted. But I suppose that's where the money is today.
It's just barely good enough to be a compelling experience.

VR games are a lot of fun, but this is going to drive GPU development for a long time to come.
Yes and I do think more needs to be done to incentivize people to live healthier. It's one thing for all of us to cover the costs of others for congenital defects and accidents outside their control. It's another thing entirely if they cannot be bothered to exercise at all, eat even remotely healthy, or smoke cigarettes (I think you do in fact get charged a higher premium in a separate pool in some/all? states if you're a smoker; but smoking mitigation is not subject to any co-pay fees or deductible it's 100% covered including some reasonable number of psych eval) or engage in very risky activities. This can't be a life guarantee for the old either. After a certain age, you kinda need to stop looking for problems or you gonna find something and it's pointless to do anything but manage quality of life rather than remaining quantity.
It's like a docking hub. Personally I see no need for anything other than larger disk (is it too much to ask for 4TB?)
that is disingenuous... as you said "a trial is there to experiment and find out about possible safety issues". You have to test drugs before you can feed them to everyone safely.... but you obviously already knew that and just wanted to be contrarian.
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That's a fair point; the entire point of VR is that it isn't reality.
What would a checksum add over the app binary being signed by the author (which is currently the case for both stores)?
I think that, much of the time, in a journalistic setting, apps like WhatsApp are used to report. If WhatsApp is used to report conditions at an event of political upheaval in a totalitarian state - and the receiver isn't routinely and quickly replying, this is a damn serious problem.
GP is correct: no notification of key changes by default.

Even if you enable the key change notification, it is "non-blocking" in WhatsApp as outlined by the blog post: when you get the key change notification, the WhatsApp client will automatically without user intervention resend undelivered messages (unlike Signal, btw, from what I understand).
The "3D" effect is one of the least exciting features of VR headsets. If that was all VR had to offer it would be just as much of a gimmick as 3D Video.
You will still get all the benefits of moving your head around, motion controls and so on.
I will just cross my fingers that you eat a bunch of untested drugs then... for your health! :D
> Altman acts like buying insurance was impossible when self employed pre-ACA. Give me a break.

It was impossible if you had any pre-existing conditions, no matter how trivial.
People seem to think that without ACA, the US healthcare market is free, which is why it has so many problems.

This could not be further from reality. We have more government distortions in our healthcare market than countries with completely socialized healthcare. For example:

Medicare: socialized medicare for the elderly, which alone creates more distortion than a universal program would cause by inflating demand/prices for non-qualifying citizens.

Medicaid: socialized healthcare for specially qualifying poor people, which creates the same distortion as Medicare.

An oppressive FDA: which, coupled with overly-powered IP laws, grants de-facto monopolies in the medical product industry. We have an incredibly expensive and subjective medical equipment pre-approval process (as compared to a less-terrible FDA that would just be in charge of labeling, preventing fraud, and maintaining accountability in the event of incidents). Then there's the length and flexibility of patent protections in our current system (maybe we could cut those protection times in half, and patent trolling would not be a lucrative industry).

Oppressive occupational licensing: It's way too hard to become a doctor of any kind, even the kinds that don't manually put things into your heart. This will be a major battle as AI comes to the point where it can better diagnose conditions and largely replace generic/non-specialized pediatrics. Of course, the government will not make this easy.

Plus a slew of more minor things like malpractice regulation, and now the ACA (which is not so minor).

If we cleaned up/removed all of the problems in the above and replaced it with single payer, it would be OK and we would have something similar to Canada/other countries with long wait times, not much access to specialists, and a system where the government gets to decide who gets the last liver transplant and who dies.

Or we could try going the free-ish market approach and try to find a much freer balance with the FDA/USDA/occupational-licensing/scrap Medicare/Medicaid,etc., which we do not currently have AT ALL.
That's not the full extent of what's proposed by AI safety.

But actually, if you gene-spliced a baby to only feel pleasure at following parental orders, most would consider that pretty abhorrent. Or even if you took an adult and shot them up with morphine every time they listened to an order.

So even in your restricted case, I think it is.
States have autonomy in creating any kind of sanction they want, as long as it is constitutional, but more practically as long as no judge finds that it is unconstitutional.
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I've been thinking about this and it's bad for active entertainment, but maybe it would be fine for futuristic productivity uses where you have factory workers remotely controlling heavy machinery that still can't be fully automated through a VR interface.
fMRI is not mind reading. Not even close. Functional fMRI is making repeated observations of a proxy for neural activity (blood flow) until you have enough data to potentially localize task-specific actions to some part of the brain. Resting-state fMRI is trying to extrapolate basic, enduring networks in a given individual or group's brain while trying to silence all the noise from breathing, head motion, etc. Did I mention that not all slices in a functional scan are acquired at the same time, so you also have to make interpolations so that the data looks like it's all acquired at once?

So no, not mind reading at all. Only in the vaguest sense at best.
Or, why not just go to a full single-payer system? This would basically be medicare for everyone, but you get rid of the insurance companies which add no value to the system but consume massive amounts of it's resources.
Can you provide stats on "Clojure's impressive adoption"? By my understanding it's still a very niche language.

The TIOBE index [0] fwiw (please debate) suggests by going from JS to Clojure you'd be switching from the 7th most popular language to the 47th.

In that 'top 47' there are only 3 lispy langs present, 'Clojure', 'Lisp' and 'Schema'. That suggests programming in lisps is a very unpopular idea.

[0] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
> It could also pass back Bob's answers, and so Alice could have what appears to be a normal conversation - except that Alice only sees single ticks, instead of double blue ticks.

No, it can't do this, because Bob's answers contain the "delivery receipt".

Hence, the attack doesn't work on conversations.

EDIT to reply: messages are sequential and "delivery receipts" are messages, so it would be visible if the attacker dropped some but not all messages. AFAICT.
> Does it really matter if that cute girl at the check-out is an anti-Semite?

This matters rather a lot if you're Jewish. You're arguing that "it doesn't matter if you don't look up", Star Wars passim.

Similarly it matters if your hairdresser is an anti-vaccer and spreads something contagious to you.

A certain amount of difference can be looked past, but when it comes to matters of life and death - and it can come to that surprisingly easily when things get heated - it matters.
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You can aks the other party to resend you a message from before (one that doesn't matter).
Ie. Can you confirm this is you: send me a message from 5 messages back using the quote function. (you know what is said 5 mssgs back so you can pick a non sensitive one, and they can do the same to you)

edit: nvm, if this is man in the middle then that doesn't matter because you still exchange with each other and its not a hijack.
Sorry, I made a mistake.
In that scenario, are your interests served more by spending via medicare increasing or going down?

If your incentive is to maximize the absolute amount of actual profit you earn and the ONLY way you can do that is to push more money towards healthcare providers, then what do you think will actually occur?

Because once you have achieved that spend level on provider care, you're in the clear. The ONLY way for you to increase profit is to ensure that more procedures happen.
I guess we'll find out in 3 days after the Great Supercharger Unbundling occurs.
> people frequently argue that it is impossible to build a gender-equal team.

No one argues that. What is true is that it's impossible for everyone to have a 50/50 teams (because most fields don't attract precisely 50/50 men/women), and it also makes recruiting substantially more expensive if you hope to maintain a high and equal standard for both men and women. This is a consequence of the fact that, assuming skill distributions are roughly the same across genders, there are simply much fewer (in absolute terms) women of a given skill level than men of a given skill level in CS or engineering.
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No; so far as I know all of economics ( eru covered Henry George ) considers land, capital and labor as three independent elements of production. "Independent" in the sense of orthogonal, as if they were x,y and z planes in a coordinate system.

One of the things that's interesting about this - if you can substitute capital for it, it's not really land. "Land" also means something abstract, in a manner similar to the ellipsoid used in GPS calculations in aviation. Its a "where", less a "what".

But then again, we tend to conflate rents and profits, which creates a lot of confusion.
> This would basically be medicare for everyone

Except that Medicare more like ACA with a public default option than true single payer.
The 'let' should have made me re-think the problem.
> The argument here is that open source code can be verified where closed source is explicitly non-verifiable by nature.

This is not a belief that people who actually do software security audits hold. Verifying binary only software is table stakes to a security audit of a third party application as you cannot trust the source provided.

Having source is a bonus for security audits not a requirement.
Caveat: I have never used WhatsApp and do not know anything about its interface or options (default or otherwise).

>>[The choice to make these notifications "blocking" (i.e. to require manual verification) would] leak information to the server, etc., etc.

>Why should this option exist at all?

The option does not exist, and should not exist. That's the author's point there. You agree with him and with WhatsApp on that.

All you disagree on is implementation:

Author: "[Non-blocking defaults] provide transparent and cryptographically guaranteed confidence in the privacy of a user's communication, along with a simple user experience."

You: "Enable notifications for everyone and demand verification; if you don't want to verify, just tick "verified" without actually verifying."

How are these two substantially different? They look the same to me in terms of security and WhatsApp's implementation doesn't make you click anything.
But it should be straightforward enough to see if text messages or UI elements (suppress key change notification) are being change depending on the output of those libraries.
Humans come with competing low-level drives for self-control and autonomy (which counteract and override our drives to seek rewards from humans).

Most of the safety literature proposes removing or suborning those drives in AI, which seems like building a mind meant to be a slave.
To provide some references for my assertion that "3d user interfaces are just not that effective for most applications," there are a lot of systems that have been tried in the 1990s and 2000s, most of which you can try out today to see why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager) (Free Software clone: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fsv/)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project

The one big non-entertainment application that 3d worlds are good at has been teleconferencing. There are a bunch of what are essentially 3d chat clients around, and many more have gone out of business.
Oh. I've completely missed/forgot this. Thanks for pointing out.

Yes, now it's all clear - they have contacts, but only ephemerally. Good.
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Can you explain your process of completing this? How did you do this without Three.js?
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