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I don't think this is it at all. I never read facebook/twitter posts (I just use FB for the messenger), and I know I'm not missing out. In my late 20s I took jobs in the South Pacific and spent a year backpacking through Asia/Europe. I've also done a 5 month drive across the US.

I've literally done the world travel thing (and loved it) but I still often feel lonely. Part of that is moving and starting in new cities a lot, but part of it is just difficultly in finding a partner. Within two years of being in a city I usually have a strong core group of friends, but romantic partners are much harder to establish (distinguishing between friendship loneliness vs romantic loneliness).

By your argument, maybe I'm part of the problem. :-P I only use social media to promote my own blog with details about travels or my photography, so maybe I make people feel left out. But then again, I still feel lonely myself.

I think your statement tries to narrow down something that's a much more complicated issue. And what you said may be true for some people experience loneliness, but not all for sure.
Dark themes seem to be very popular but I've always preferred light themes. I can see how dark themes would be better in the, well, dark, but I've always felt that lighter themes are easier on my eyes when I'm in a well-lit location, which is most of the time. I tend to use fairly plain color schemes as well, and although the rainbow schemes with different colors for every type of token look really cool, I tend to get distracted by them when I try them. Maybe I just haven't given them enough time, but I'm happy with my current setup!

As far as fonts, I've gotten used to Consolas, probably because it was the default font in Eclipse and that was what we used in my first comp sci class.
> Seems to me like if, in practice, JIT provided better performance then by now people would be rewriting their C/C++ code in Java and C# for speed.

It's a little bit faster, not faster by enough to matter. If you're going to rewrite C/C++ code for speed you'd go to Fortran or assembler, and even then you're unlikely to get enough of a speedup to be worth a rewrite.

New projects do use Java or C# rather than C/C++ though.
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It's always nice to see new CPUs and new ISAs with interesting new architectures. The overwhelming commercial success of x64 and ARM seems to have reduced the investment in these areas (except to further the performance of said architectures), so this is really refreshing to see.

I still have my R4000 and R10000 SGI systems running IRIX. I'd love to get an R16000 one day.
> I've long since learned how to interact with the Kindle

Occasionally my Kindle jumps forward or backwards by a large number of pages, and I've yet to figure out why. It happens when I put it down to talk to someone, someone a shortcut of jump around gets activated. I am not sure how to quickly and rapidly jump around the text on purpose, but I do dread it happening by accident far too often.

I pull up the UI with the page preview and skim around using that, but obviously there is another interaction method that allows for the same thing. Rather than learning it, I want to disable it, since it causes me nothing but frustration.
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The Oculus subreddit seems to have a decent writeup:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/8g7ypb/the_answer_t...
It’s already bad enough excluding oneself from messenger.
yeah. gotta have that "third place"
Because the current generation is not doing any of that much less. In fact they continue on the same downward slope on these regards.
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This doesn't make any sense. This would mean that my C code compiled for a Cortex-M0 is low level, but for my x86 laptop is not. Or even more stupid, that the same assembly code running in an old 386 is low level, but for an i7 isn't.

Low level is about how close to talking to the CPU you are, not about how close to the silicon you are. The CPU is a black box and the programmer communicates with it. What that box does inside doesn't matter.
> This is fundamentally a politically motivated suit.

Let me start with saying I agree fully with this.

But I don't necessarily agree with it being a broad attack on the idea of a class action settlement. [1] and [2] give decent breakdowns of why this settlement was problematic. The charities chosen were themselves political choices - it was distributed to convenient charities to both sides. Some were charities Google were already known to give funding/donations to, and the other were law schools which had ties to the plaintiff's lawyers.

If you're going to invoke the cy pres doctrine on a class action settlement, don't make the recipient selection of the charitable donations so obviously politically motivated. If you're just going to leverage cy pres doctrine to divert class action funds to favored recipients, then be ready to potentially have the cy pres doctrine re-examined and criteria tightened.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/google-involved-in-supreme-cour...
[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-will-take-a-close...
Let me tell you how my conversation happened. I stepped away from Twitter for several months. It was always such a dumpster fire. But I had been making these little funny memes about this book I did. Where would I put them? So I went back to see what it was like. (#info_ops hashtag if you're interested)

I saw a couple of friends making a joke about gendered pronouns. I think people trying to control languages are silly, whether it's the Academy Franchaise or some other group. I love language. I collect idioms and quirks of various languages. It's emergent, unpredictable, uncontrollable. That's why it fascinates me.

But this is not something I joke about because some people find the topic terribly serious.

So I saw this tweet between a couple of friends talking about trying to remove gender. Without thinking much, I tweeted to them "Perhaps you should make a manual. Dang! Did it again!" and didn't think any more of it.

I woke up this morning with 40+ notifications on Twitter. Holy cow! My hashtag thing has really taken off!

Nope. It was thousands and thousands of people hearing my name first because of that joke.

I apologized. I tried to mute the conversation. Finally I deleted the Tweet. Suddenly I was in the middle of a discussion around women in tech -- as an example of some jackass who could take things seriously enough.

It still continues.

I had quite a rant about it this morning. My friend pointed out that women in tech was a good cause. It is worthy of discussion. I agree. But this did not feel like a good experience to me. I had spent a lot of time trying entertain and engage people with little pictures and nobody cared. (Fine with me). But accidentally entering a conversation with a lot of emotion already loaded in? I had attention I didn't want. Yikes!

We started talking about cause and effect. The interplay of emotions, intent, and actions among large groups. The internet is turning life from being active, participatory, and requiring observation to one of simple cause and effect. I create this stimulus. I get this result.

I think #metoo has been a great thing. Way overdue. But you're answering a different question. You're answering the question about do some groups overall find social use out of the net? I hope so. I think they do. That's a top-down question and answer. My question was bottom-up and more in line with the article. Does reducing our communication to typing and bits moving around, overt and binary stimulus-response in a tightly-controlled pipe make for each person becoming a slightly better person the more it is done? Or is it fundamentally isolating and cruel, no matter what the content or who is doing it?
It might be difficult to catch depending on the how macro attributions they could make on you, depending on the time scale - say over 20 years, if you cleared the history every year, it might give them insights that might be hard to correlate to earlier history.

If there were strong whistle-blower laws and pre-set rewards however, then might get a whistle-blower who could earn themselves say $1B+ (based on size/revenues of Facebook) for outing the deceit - which then Facebook would be fined for.
Maybe it was just the people I interacted with, but the more time I spent on twitter the more I became convinced that a lot of people were proud of being lonely and miserable. It was big part of why I quit.
As if Go as word wasn't already too much overloaded.
I find this article insightful, but missing the points it tries to deliver.

What the article is very good at delivering is that current CPU's ISAs exports a model that doesn't exist in reality. Yes, we might call it PDP-11, although I miss that architecture dearly.

C was never meant to be a low level language. It was a way to map loosely to assembler and provide some higher level abstraction (functions, structures, unions) to write code that was more readable, and structured, than assembler. And yes, it is far from perfect. And yes, today is called a low level language with good reasons.

But this article is all about exposing the insanity that modern CPU have become, insanity that is the sacrifice to the altar of backward compatibility -- all CPU architecture that tried the path of not being compatible with older CPUs have died.

I am pretty sure that once we'll have an assembler that map closely to the microcode, or to the actual architecture of the internals of a modern, parallel, NUMA architecture, we will still need to have a C-like language that will introduce higher level features to help us ease writing of non-architecture dependent parts. And it will most probably be C.
A bit of chatter here about "it eventually catches up to people anyway" that I think misses the point.

You want people to learn when the stakes are low. This is better for them, and it's better for all of us. School should gradually go from low stakes to higher stakes, not be a low-stakes zone the whole time that then tosses people into the real world. Otherwise you're presented with terrible choices like expelling a 20 year old for a habit they learned when they were 8 and never got called on, vs letting them get away with continuing to cheat.

Making it easy to cheat and lie when the stakes are low helps create situations like "we can't trust anyone who says they know how to program so we have to waste a lot of interview time on tedious crap."

The first solution that occurs to me seems to be smaller class sizes and differently structured assignments with more of a "tell me about why you wrote this" type interactive stuff. The same way you'd do when looking at someone's github, to see how deep their understanding of the code there goes.
I don't mind too much if some link from a decade ago is no longer findable by someone I posted it to. That's what email is for. Activity records on a shared platform should be batch purgeable.
What legislatures would those be?
you can find the specs on bestbuy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/oculus-go-stand-alone-virtual-r...
I could say that "black is white" and yet it won't be so. The EU could say it, and afterwards black would still be black and white would still be white.
Surely there are many areas of functionality that depend upon gaining GDPR consent?

Trivial example: I can't email you if you withhold email consent.
Is a scandal a huge issue? Despite the recent #DeleteFacebook and everything, Facebook wasn't really impacted all that much and is still making tons of profit even without the 1% of users who did delete it. A future hypothetical scandal where another 1% deletes it would be worth it considering all the data and revenue they made from abusing people's data before the scandal.
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I want to see a jigsaw puzzle that results in a mobius strip.
What I think Oculus really nailed down was the controllers. Playing Robo Recall, I can sometimes even believe I'm holding an actual, although lightweight, weapon on my hands.

That said, resolution is not the greatest asset. I doubt this device improves on that – if anything it will probably be worse.

What blows people away is not the display, it's the head and position tracking, of both the HMD and the controls. It's amazing how you can "see" them and accurately pick them up on a table. I hope this device has that.
I agree this probably won't make Facebook as good. I relate this to the time before spam filters were good and 50% of my email was penis enlargement pills and money wire fraud. You dump all this data and we go back to a time where I'm not known, and Facebook shows me my active "friends" and it's just my aunt sharing her latest Bejeweled score.

I'm all for better control of my data, but there needs to be some balance so the ads I see are still relevant and not acai berries super juices and Hot Local Singles In My Area.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16968819
Great tactical move. FB will get:

- another income source from the same data. (ads and dating)

- even more information about their users and in a justifiable way. Users want them to make good matches.

- another costumer lock-in. It will be even more difficult to quit FB.
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I agree with a lot of this thanks for the response. What are your feelings on some kind of regulation around local protections? I know regulations are generally percieved quite harshly on HN. But in a highly efficient market it seems like you may at some point no longer have local access to goods. Which seems like a dangerous recipe if so&so location becomes no longer worth the cost of shipping goods there but the local stores have already perished.
They have enough location data to show UK pricing (I am in the UK), but when I ask about where I can trial a headset they silently fail and show me somewhere on the east coast of the USA.
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> Sounds like they designed this feature explicitly to show people why they need to provide facebook data. Facebook is making moves to explicitly show how on Facebook privacy is at odds with utilitarianism of their product.

In all seriousness, how is that possible any other way? Take the example he gives about log in. If you want a website to automatically know who you are without logging in, please let me know how that is possible without automatically sending identifying information to the website.
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How many people really met in record stores or arcades? I'd usually just go there with friends. I knew one person who met their husband in a comic book store.

As for transit, that is a huge US problem for sure. But don't blame the Internet or phones. Look at videos from the 50s/60s and you'll see just as many people silent on the train/tram/bus reading magazines or newspapers. By the 80s they'd have newspapers and the nerds would have walkmans. By the 90s it was more common for even-non nerdy types to carry discmans and now, everyone wears headphones. But that's always been there, it's not really new.
OpenMP is a bad approach for the types of problems commonly encountered in games and graphics programming in my experience. Matt Pharr's excellent series of articles on the history of ISPC gives some good explanations of what programming models actually work well for graphics particularly: http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html

At the time I was doing most of my SPE work (helping to optimize launch titles at EA prior to the launch of the PS3) most titles weren't taking much advantage of them at all. We were a central team helping move some code that seemed like it would most benefit over, I was particularly involved in moving animation code to the SPEs. There weren't really any options for libraries to help at that point, other than things we were building internally, so it was almost all manual work.

Later on in the PS3 lifecycle people moved more and more code to the SPEs. To my knowledge most of that work was largely manual still. For a while I was project lead on EA's internal job/task management library which had had a big focus on supporting use of the SPEs but my involvement in it was mostly during the early part of the Xbox One / PS4 generation. The Frostbite graphics team in particular did a lot of interesting work shifting GPU work over to the SPEs (I think some of it they've talked about publicly) but I wasn't directly involved in that.
The whole point of the article is that by a definition like the one you quoted, modern C is not low-level, though PDP-11 era C was.
> ...they literally know who's best for a user...

That's what I'm genuinely wondering about: Putting all the privacy issues aside, will some machine learning algorithm really be capable of predicting “functioning chemistry” between people?
The real villain is the ignorance of the population at large. Marketing/Propaganda work surprisingly well though.
Likely, you will see a bunch of random ads instead of targeted ones of things that might actually be interesting to you. Whether or not that's better is up to the user.
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I can't speak to this specifically, but generally HMD screens are too low resolution to show text well enough for programming. Also (from what I understand), every virtual screen requires a corresponding HDMI port on your machine
It's a fundamentally important problem to solve. If to get rid of my old and no longer wanted public activity record I have to sit for hours upon hours manually deleting stuff, I'm going to be much more judicious in how I post in the future.

Also, it's Facebook. They can figure it out, they just don't want to.
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Can you replace the lenses?

My desktop Rift's lenses are all scratched from normal use (people with glasses used it, etc.).

I couldn't imagine having a "on the go" device with lens that you can't replace.
>South Korea has had the highest suicide rate in the industrialized world for eight consecutive years. Their culture doesn't glorify/promote individualism, but conformity.

Did they used to have those suicide rates since forever? Because in the past they were even more conformist (or you think e.g. 50s or feudal Korea was more individualistic?).

And of course they chase after work and money like crazy there...
shrug. some people would rather be addicted and feel like they are a part of something than be independent.

sure, my social life has been hurt by refraining from facebook for a decade.

but there's no question i'm a stronger person for being free of the flowing river of babble that's there. now, when it comes to OTHER rivers of babble...
Your body has automatic reflexes to wake you up if you start to inhale water or lack oxygen. If he didn't wake up, then there was probably some underlying health issue that actually put him into an unconscious state.
Not to hijack the achievements of Oculus, but there is also a project to bring Linux to standalone VR headsets: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

Get an Oculus Go for now. But show SimulaVR some love for the future :]
Probably why they say "your call may be monitored or recorded"
Stuff can still be deleted, it just has to happen one item at a time (which is stupid and user hostile).
You can check whether it not it does if you're interested - it's been published. I can't be bothered to check but I'd be very surprised if they tried to dictate functionality.
So... yes?

I guess I'm challenging you to justify this policy without naming greed as your justification. You are exploiting people for what amounts to slave labor. You're saying that because someone has the unfortunate luck of being born in a third world country that they deserve a smaller salary than you. Admitting that you are not ashamed of yourself for exploiting poor people for cheap labor I mean.. what else is there to say I guess.
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> But I don't necessarily agree with it being a broad attack on the idea of a class action settlement.

That doesn't really square with the evidence though. I mean, the points you cite are in fact arguments in this case, and I agree they're interesting legal arguments. But they don't explain why the case was brought.

I think it's reasonably clear that the plaintiffs here (not the ones in the original suit!) don't really care about whether or not millions of Google users get compensated a few dollars. What the plaintiffs want is a broad SCOTUS precedent putting a new requirement on class action settlements, and thus making future class action cases harder (i.e. more expensive, more risky) to pursue.
Yes, and nullipotency requires x = f(x) = f(f(x)), and four of the methods defined in RFC7231 are expected to be nullipotent, otherwise known as "safe". The point of mentioning that is to highlight the relationship between idempotence and nullipotence.
FacexWorm targets cryptocurrency users and spreads through Facebook Messenger
You thought they didn't have backups of their data?