skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alibaba or Aliexpress? I've got tens of packages off Aliexpress and have had no problems other than slow delivery (although it seems to be improving).

Yes, you have to know what you're looking for and you'll occasionally run across very low quality products (motorcycle gloves), but you'll find the same on eBay - where do you think most of those sellers are buying from?
Any thoughts on the Wowtac A2 vs Wowtac A2S?
Horchata varies by region. The one I'm familiar with, from Spain, is based on tigernuts. It's a very traditional summer drink and frankly you won't find a different kind of horchata in Spain, unless you search for it in ethnic stores (and even so I'm not sure where I would look for it). Apparently horchata in Mexico is based on rice, and I don't know if there aren't any other versions. I haven't tried rice based horchata, but it soudns very different from the Spanish one, and I'd like to try it some day.

I don't know about how has the term evolved in the English speaking word, but no one in Spain will refer to horchata as milk, nor do we use it as a milk replacement (nobody would mix it with coffee, for example). Also we don't use the term as a generic word for vegetal milk at all. Milk and horchata don't really have anything in common aside from being white drinkable liquids.
Eight or nine years ago, I lept off a tower from about 800 ft. After opening the parachute and scanning for my landing area I turned towards it to the left, which was slow and felt off. "Maybe I'll turn to the right and come around from the back", at which point the parachute collapses and spins violently from behind. I reach up and grab the left riser, the strap that connects you to the harness, and stopped the spin. When I let go the spin started again violently I again grabbed the riser and got the parachute over my head. I was descending fast below tree top level and I saw my shadow in my peripheral vision. Knees together and crash.

I immediately pat myself down to check for compound fractures. Safe.

On the ride home it was all really brought into perspective: if I didn't want to deal with such life threatening situations I'd of stayed at home. I made another couple of jumps that weekend.
I might even be convinced to shell out $600 for it, but to me the price is actually $600 + a high-end gaming PC, since I like most people these days just have a laptop with mediocre graphics. PlayStation VR looks interesting from that point of view but I haven't really heard good things about it.
got any service manuals for the POS computer or kiosk?
A friend of mine died on the Stanislaus before New Melones Dam was built (and not even in a rapid).
You're correct. In the past the Firefox updates were very late sometimes (based an anecdotes I've read), but the situation has improved and should keep improving as more people adopt Void.

(I manually install Google Chrome and Opera. It's difficult for package managers to maintain them because of licensing and other issues.)
It would be like if the first TV programs were barely audible but they had images.

VR thus far has been a bit of a step back. Devs have for a long time been under the impression that tech > gameplay (which is dumb when you think about it), and now a lot of devs are under the impression that doing something in VR excuses games not getting the basics right. The fun part is the studios who are used throwing 100 artists at a job pumping out the highest detail models, but that doesn't work so well, so they're either gonna go back to the basics or keep floundering.

The best games I've played in VR have been ports, and they're just as enjoyable without VR and you aren't hot and sweaty after 5 minutes.
Of course, systemd is not the only option on Arch nowadays.

* https://framagit.org/taca/archnosh
There's a site called Radiooooo that does pretty much exactly that.

http://www.radiooooo.com
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It seems so insane to me that we have a company that is spending billions of dollars per year to break the law all over the world by undercutting while making a loss to corner markets, that is breaking labour laws all over the world, is a horribly toxic place to work, and this is just... okay and fine?

Why is this a thing? Imagine all the useful things those billions could do. Feeding and housing all the homeless people in the USA, for example.
From what I've read, Void was created as a testing distro for XBPS before it was merged into a BSD.

Might be wrong on that though.
I don't really understand why they play up the current state of AR. To me, it seems that AR is a fundamentally harder problem than VR. To do AR right, you need to solve all the problems of VR, then make the headset transparent, make the entire system portable, and give it the ability to understand the world around the user.

Pokemon GO is a cited example of the success of AR, but literally all the AR does is render your Pokemon over the camera feed, using the gyro to keep it mostly in the same orientation. It does nothing to make it feel like it's actually in the world. It moves as your perspective moves, and its perceived scale changes wildly. That doesn't even deserve to be called AR.

Most players also seem to turn the AR off, too, so it seems weird to attribute success to the concept. It's a gimmick that makes for cool concept videos like the one pictured in the article, but it's not nearly as interesting in reality.
The real thing holding back the Vive though is not any of that. It's the small room. Every game has to operate from a very tiny room, and most game creators have not been able to do that effectively.

If we can figure out how to make game worlds bigger, perhaps even with AR, then we will probably have a lot more interesting things to do.
Right now we are using bindings to JS promises: https://www.npmjs.com/package/bs-promise

We also have Lwt compiled with BuckleScript: https://github.com/mzp/bs-lwt

But, bs-lwt right now is not compatible with promises--it is a straight port of the OCaml implementation. I'm told that someone is working on an Lwt backed by JS promises for BuckleScript.
Consciousness is a very interesting epiphenomenon. It piques intellectual interest across the board, from first year psychology students, to Nobel Laureates like Francis Crick [1]. I still cringe whenever I remember the time I boldly announced to my would-be undergrad thesis advisor "I want to study the origins of consciousness!" Thankfully she was wonderful advisor with a knack for cultivating more practical research interests, and within weeks I was decapitating rats in the name of science.

I've been studying biological neural networks (bNN) for about ten to fifteen years, and artificial neural networks (aNN) for the past four or five (aNN were something I first learned about in Kutner circa 2005[2], oblivious to their future utility in machine learning). It's been interesting to observe how fast the field of machine learning has progressed aNN theory and application. IMO it has basically caught up to neurobiology - not so much as a body of knowledge but in the elucidation of the key components that allow NN to acquire and retrieve information (the modulation of synaptic weights, and efficient functions to update these weights). Machines are now smarter than ever, and have the capacity for adaptive behavior. A triumphant feat, no doubt.

But within all that progress, we still have no fucking clue what consciousness is about. We don't have a roadmap to get there. We don't know where it resides in the brain (somewhere distributed among cortex presumably). And we don't have a solid strategy for ML attempts at AI consciousness. The best we can offer is: "just keep building these things more powerful and more parallel and maybe it will eventually pop out". Who knows, maybe it will. But it probably doesn't work like that. For all we know consciousness may be a dirty trick, or nothing at all. Sure, we can think about thinking; it's a handy tool developed by billions of eukaryotic cells working together, to keep themselves alive (or at least to proliferate their shared dna).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astonishing_Hypothesis
2. https://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rkulik/mat3378/mat3378-tex...
Actually it's English, where octopi is a perfectly acceptable and widely-understood plural.
Hell if you are a lurker it's not even social, some people just scroll through without ever contributing. The addiction is in the continued novelty of a new headline, comment or post every few moments.

Although I can see why once you do begin to invest and contribute you can begin to really solidify the addiction and start to integrate it into your personality and sense of self.
The big question is whose investors are willing to go for the big prize.

If both companies push for profitability, then the market slows to the pace they both push it while remaining profitable.

If however only one company pushes for profitability now and the other has investors willing to fund growth for the foreseeable future we could see one emerging as a winner.

Personally, barring an economic downturn on the horizon, it's foolish to go public now if their competition doesn't also go public.

Because there is still plenty of growth opportunities across their various products globally, they can get at least 1-2 more private funding rounds before they truly need to turn to public markets for funding. They should take that money while it's still there.
And it only gets worse with time. Over the past decade, I went from no adblock, to a blacklist, to a whitelist, and finally to just blocking everything except a very very short list of sites I consider trusted (Reddit being one of them) that I no longer update. If a site doesn't let me view content without ads, I don't visit it. I have yet to run into a situation where the content was worth the exposure to risk and the financial cost of ads (mobile data caps).
If you download a Mozilla build of Firefox into somewhere user-writable, like ~/opt/, it will update itself.
Quantifying the performance benefits of Go 1.9 on bitsets
the fact that acceleration = instant nausea makes VR pretty much doomed imho unless there is some magic anti-nausea injection being developed that would come in the mail with the thing. Not saying that games can't be built that don't give nausea, but severely limiting acceleration (including turning) really constrains the design space. Only being able to teleport or stay in place or at constant speed is really poor
Devuan also, although their initial release took ages...
I've been saying for several years that VR was the next 3D TV. I got a lot of hate messages for that. One "thought leader" threatened to ban me from his blog. I wasn't wrong.

I've tried most of the VR headsets from Jaron Lanier's original rig to the HTC Vibe. Over that range, the tracking is far better, the resolution is somewhat better, the headset clunkyness is slightly better, and there's still no killer app. It's great for FPS games. Rollercoaster sims are fun once or twice. There are virtual worlds; Second Life and High Fidelity support VR headsets. But virtual worlds never caught on, even though today they could run in a browser. Then what?

Augmented reality has potential, but the alignment with the real world has to be very good, it has to work in the real world, not rooms prepped for it, and it has to cost a lot less. Those are technical problems that can be solved. Then you could play Pokemon Go, so there's a killer app ready to roll. Whether the borghead thing will fly socially remains to be seen. Remember the glasshole problem.
It is written somehwere that this was the motivation for creating this Linux distribution. The author wanted to work on his own package manager.

What makes this "distro" more interesting than all the others IMHO is that the author is a former BSD committer.
I met Richard Stallman in 2013. He used a Lemote Yeelong which was powered by a MIPS Loongson CPU.
Daiya, like all vegan cheese producers I've heard of, use a very different process to achieve something similar to cheese. The end result is very good (I've tried it) but the original comment I replied to asked if you could use plant-based milk for making cheese, and I don't think Daiya's production process uses plant-based milk in that sense.
Threat Found in TrustZone; Affecting ALL Android Devices
Researchers named Yue Chen et al. from Florida State University found a threat in ARM TrustZone, which is widely used in today's Android devices for critical applications like payment and fingerprint (paper title: Downgrade Attack on TrustZone; http://ww2.cs.fsu.edu/~ychen/paper/downgradeTZ.pdf).

The threat is described as follows:
Due to the lack of proper rollback prevention, and using same key pairs across different firmware versions for TrustZone trustlets (trusted applications), if an TrustZone exploit works on an out-of-date device version, but the vulnerability is patched on the latest device version, a attacker can still use the same exploit to compromise the latest system by downgrading the software to an older and exploitable version.

They did experiments on several devices, and found real-world TrustZone exploits (e.g., CVE-2015-6639) that can use this threat to compromise Android devices. This threat potentially exists in all the Android phones on the market, including Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy S7, and Huawei Mate 9.
I believe it was inspired by Mathematica which created the concept of notebooks with cells backed by a kernel in 1988:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica#The_Notebo...
> Are you aware of how the only people in the US to ever be successfully censored from the public internet for political (as opposed to legal) reasons are far-right websites?

It wasn't the GOVERNMENT that did this. That's the only thing that freedom of speech laws give you freedom from.

And, those sites weren't suppressed because they impacted politics; they were suppressed because they impacted profitability.

It's almost like the right needs some sort of "neutrality" laws that guarantee that internet websites and internet traffic they need can't be restricted.

I'm pretty far left in my politics, and I find the idea that these websites got kicked off quite worrying. However, I also find the centralization of internet services quite worrying.

I'm still old school enough that I run my own servers for exactly this reason.
It's pretty popular, and there are daily reports of new players in the industry approaching VR (Today it's Dave Jones of GTA fame)

There's nothing to imply a downward trend, but everything to imply an upward one.

At previous price points I could see cost being more of a factor, but at 400$ I'd say anyone not interested is probably not going to be (in PC headsets at least). They can't really get much cheaper than that (one of the Windows ones is 300$). And the next generation is 2 years out so it's not like there's a fear of getting outdated hardware. And to top that the sale at 400$ has driven the number of users up significantly so there's currently a fresh influx of new users to setttle in with.

The only thing I see changing is the cost of a VR-ready PC going down, but only if resolutions don't increase at a pace that nullifies cheaper performance
>You could expect Congress to authorize the military action or declare war though.

Yeah you could. But that's a constitutional procedural issue. It's very separate from whether it was in practice a war action, and it was.
I don't think it's sad, VR just doesn't provide a compelling enough experience for many to be excited over it currently. I think for it to work next round, it must have as close to photo realism as possible, it's what we expect when looking around. I do agree with the sentiment about 'social', an internet wide replace-all with 'narcissism' would be great.
I like how it takes them six paragraphs to say "VR is underperforming." I really need to learn how to speedread...
That doesn't make it any less confusing in 2017
Here comes the "I told you so" crowd. The main difference to 3D TV is that 3D TV barely added anything of value to the customer. VR actually does offer a lot of value, but is bogged down by its current technical limitations.

> But virtual worlds never caught on

Maybe in its odd-ball Second Life version, but WoW and Minecraft would like a word with that statement.
>Got any ideas? Nobody has come up with anything that works so far.

I believe snowdrift.coop has a chance. (I'm a volunteer on the team).
> in VR it's rather....blurry

I wonder where the issue lies; is 1080×1200 per eye just not high enough (considering the wide FOV)? Or is it the optics? I used to play E:D on somewhat of a potato machine, and it was pretty sharp on a standard monitor, with relatively low resolution.
I maybe wrong but some people in my team were building a Customer HUB at a point. My understanding from the project was you could buy third party data to help you out with this.
If you stand 6' tall then double overhead is a 12' wave (generally). Kinda depends on Hawaiian vs mainland scale, but pretty good size to be sure.
Sounds great, I'll give it a try!
VR actually does offer a lot of value, but is bogged down by its current technical limitations.

Isn't adoption by consumers a measure of value? Maybe it's not actually that valuable for most people.
They are far from abandoned. In fact they are used in production to power Triton cloud's docker emulation. In fact the latest LX-related commit was made 4 days ago (see the commit history of illumos-joyent linked below).

https://github.com/joyent/sdc-docker
https://github.com/joyent/triton
https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commits/master
The cars aren't polluting because of defeat devices, they're polluting because the standards are lax.

And this is still all NOx emissions, not total emissions.

And this whole tangent really has nothing to do with the original point. If anything is emphasizes the benefits of moving pollution generation for cars to centralized points out of the hands of the manufacturers
Thanks for that. It says: "In other words, one can benefit from existing systemd unit files through automatic conversion in many cases." I'm worried it means, "many, but not all" cases.

There is also Manjaro Openrc. But, my buggy experience with it made me decide to go with a distro designed from scratch to use a different init system. Do you use Archnosh on a daily basis? Any issues converting systemd unit files over to nosh?
Three things:

1. The experience itself is there and "real" in a way it hasn't been before. The issues seem to be those of the hardware being too big, expensive and wired. All things that are rapidly being improved on in general computing and crucially not just niche VR (for example the awesome display advances driven by mobile phones are pulled into VR headsets).

2. We're definitely still in the "figuring things out" on the software side. An absolutely fascinating video is this walkthrough of all the UX attempts that a developer tried for getting guns to work and feel good in VR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrkXK3V2ik&feature=youtu.be

And everything with VR is this way - there's a half dozen different movement methods with different quirks that people are trying, there's tons of optimization and framerate and interactions attempts. Heck even the controllers are seeing a rapid evolution (stick like the HTC Vive -> Oculus Touch -> Knuckle Controllers).
Is Superset mature enough? We have been exploring a lot of BI tools so much so that we near scraping the bottom of the barrel. But Caravel/Superset never came up because it is still under incubation and that doesn't go well with the enterprise managers. It doesn't help that there have been constant name changes.
There seems to be a trade-off between immersion and casual-ness of the game, and I'm not sure people are that dedicated to immersion to want to trade-it off long-term:

- Wanting to slouch on the couch without it affecting your gameplay

- Wanting to pick up your cup of tea or soda in slow moments in the game

- Wanting to hear & see if other members of the family have got home

- Not wanting to look like an idiot with a thing on your head making strange in-game movements

- Feeling antisocial because as you only have one head-set others in the room can't see what you're doing (making it feel antisocial to go into that world)

We're pretty good at getting "immersed" in things without VR, so I wonder if the immersion gains just aren't worth the social & convenience costs (as well as the real costs) to most people. A little like even if GOT was on at the local IMAX, the vast majority of people would probably still watch it on their smaller screens at home. Maybe even on their tiny phones and iPads...
I've dabbed in elixir and clojure for some time now and the ability to gain a REPL into a live system opens many opportunities for live debugging and introspection. It's a great tool when dealing with unknown states and bugs in production.
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I would say that value is also a function of price and ease-of-use, both of which VR currently sucks at. Still, put a VR headset onto someone and have them compare it to 3D TV, I guarantee that everyone will say that VR is way more impressive, immersive etc. Does that mean that they'll buy it? No, because it's pricey, bulky and cumbersome, but the core value proposition is there and it is bigger than just "here look, fixed angle stereoscopy".
I wish people like you took a look at human history before you advices people on how to survive the "doomsday". We've actually been through a lot of "doomsdays" in the past and yet your advice falls awful short of what successful survivors actually did.

Because a lot of the times going to your farmland cottage is the best option you have. Especially if you know basic farming, a range of macgyverisk skills and how to genuinely become friendly with anyone. (Pandemics, climate change disasters, local riots, social break downs).

Then you have a thing like war or civil war, where you're best option is fleeing to another country as early as possible. Both to get a head start on the other refugees but more importantly, fast enough to beat the eventual border wall.

Which is really the problem with your "guide". You need three things, knowing when to get out and when to hide. Knowing how to live without being dependent on scavaging/stored food/modern society. Knowing how to get along with other people.

If you're an oddball with a lot of guns, food and what not, people are going to murder you to take your shit or they are going to burn you on a pyre for being weird/unliked/different.
Yes I am in the process of creating a light weight app which would mostly compose of a webview. Hence would want to know how best to achieve this lightweightedness.
"CSP" and "sync" in one sentence leave no space for confusion.
It's a lot closer to your face. Your conical vision is seeing like an order of magnitude fewer pixels as when it's looking at the same resolution screen but 18" away.
Here is a trailer for a great short film on the topic:

https://youtu.be/X6zxtGyZFSE

What struck me about the profiled jumpers was their calm, sane demeanor -- not the showboat thrillseekers I expected.

BUT, most seemed unsatisfied by the experience when minimizing risk. To me, being 100 or more feet from terrain would be the experience of a lifetime. But many leaders in the sport keep pushing the envelope to a fatal degree (and in each example it was terrain, not equipment failure or weather).
Your analogy to 3D TV doesn't hold water.

We are in the early days of real consumer VR technology. There is a lot of low hanging fruit to improve VR, not just in hardware, but in software too.

The technology will continue to iterate and improve. There's no stopping it.
It's amusing watching the rating change on this post.

Up to 5, down to 3, up to 4, down to 1, up to 2, up to 3...
> Remember the glasshole problem.

Back when mobile phones were new, people made disparaging comments when eg a businessman would take a call in public. And there was a trope in comedy where people would pretend to take a call just to show off the fact they had a phone.

The technology will become normalized.