skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's always a good lesson, but you have to consider the alternate path. When I look at the list of top shipping VR headsets, every one is from a major company, and all except the Oculus are from hardware companies:

https://www.pcmag.com/article/342537/the-best-virtual-realit...

If Oculus hadn't sold, where would they be? Would they have been able to raise enough money to get even this far? Would they be able to afford to continue? The founders not only got fat paychecks, they got 4 years of backing from one of the richest and best-known companies on the planet.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who turned down or didn't pursue acquisitions, got crushed by better-funded competitors, and now wish they had sold out early on.
agreed. it has nothing to do with hardware. all the games i've played on my oculus lose their allure in less than 20 hours.
A source contacts a journalist offering sensitive information with the expectation that their anonymity will be zealously protected. Then the journalist comes back to the source asking they risk compromising their anonymity further by talking to an entirely different news organization. This would qualify as 'dicking with sources' and no sane journalist would normally do this, for both professional ethical and business reasons.

What you're suggesting involves both violating the trust of the source and creating the impression the news organization needs its competitors to establish its credibility. I can't imagine this is anything short of a complete non-starter for Bloomberg, an actual serious news organization.
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I reject this premise that every CoC must "promote inclusion" i.e. be approved in full by some social marxist Politburo notionally intended to protect everyone's "feelings" by expunging and banning everything that might be considered "offensive". If you want that for your own project, fine, but you have no right to force it onto others.

In any case, western civ has deep roots in the christian tradition and I don't know any atheists that are so extremely fragile or sensitive that they are "offended" by simply seeing people repeating 1500+ year old fragments of it. Especially when they use the disclaimers that were used here.
[...More diverse crops, less pesticides, less damage to soil, less energy use, mixed instead of mono cultures.]

We already can do all of that, we don't need..

Question: If we can do all of that already, why isn't it being done (edit: assuming it isn't) ?
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> You can even get a Tesla without remote connectivity

Does it lack the hardware for the connection or did Tesla just disable the features that use it in those cars?

A car only lacks remote connectivity if it lacks the required hardware.
Any reason you didn't scale up horizontally with more python instances?
I'm optimistic for the future of Rust. I currently program in Go for server side web stuff, but with the proposed changes to the Go language, the decision to choose Go over Rust becomes less compelling; Rust already has generics, a competent module system, better error handling, and ADTs. Go had a very narrow scope and very clear oversights, which are now bigger issues they are trying to shoehorn solutions into with the go v2 proposal.

I've been following rust for a while and have known it is not web ready, but early next year I think will be a different story.
> You can even get a Tesla without remote connectivity

Does it lack the hardware for the connection or did Tesla just disable the features that use it in those cars?

A car only lacks remote connectivity if it lacks the required hardware, like a cellular modem.
It appears that he's trying to argue that we haven't tried hard enough to deregulate healthcare, and therefore we haven't proven it's "impossible to create the conditions necessary to make competition effective". Which imo shows a startling amount of specious reasoning or delusion.
It comes down to trust. You already _trust_ your internet traffic to your ISP. If you trust a 3rd party VPN more than your ISP, then VPN is the way to go. You'll never be completely free of reliance on a 3rd party, except with TOR and the alike decentralized internet models. But, even those have caveats too
You've already got 2 co-operating languages - JS and whatever is compiler to WASM.
Are any of these issues handled better on Android phones?
> not to read this blog post as a diplomatic pushback to the current efforts of SO leaders to make it more welcoming

Not at all, at least, that is not my intent. I do feel like the key items articulated there (SO as wiki, duplicate danger, competitive system of peer review, for practicing programmers) are not well understood by outsiders and peripheral members of the community, though.

Note that the Stack Overflow tour (which was and is quite good!) that explains what Stack Overflow is was perma-demoted to the footer... well, that used to be true, but actually I just checked now and it's gone altogether? The word "tour" doesn't appear on the SO homepage in incognito mode, at all. You can visit "help" (which is in the footer) and then, and only then, will it appear as a topbar.

https://stackoverflow.com/tour
> Moreover, what would the Pentagon gain by running a UFO psy-op?

Space Force
No because the average person can afford a lot more bread now than they could in 1950. But bread is not the best argument as it’s cheap to make even in the 50s. Go buy a roast chicken and compare that price and you’ll see a difference
The device in the photographs is essentially a fancy multi-layer ceramic cap. It can't contain a silicon die without a manufactured cavity and a lid. There is no way to do that in such a small package.
That's funny because I remote start my truck in my tiny garage every day. Literally 2 feet perimeter around the thing. I couldn't believe it fit.
I guess I'm curious how Polynesian islands manage it, but one thing about Hawaii has a robust economy while Palau does not unfortunately. Palau is heavily reliant of foreign aid, although it does have a tourism industry, it has faced some struggles. In a curious contradiction, HI is a US state, so federal funds being spent there are not really considered "aid" since they pay federal taxes, while Palau does not pay taxes to the US. Also, scale is different, Palau has less than 30K people, which makes it much smaller Hawaii and even many other Polynesian islands.

The curious thing is the cost of living isn't that terrible for things like land and food (which can be grown on the island). Of course, anything else including gas is expensive.
Chrome team has also announced intent to implement WebGPU on most platforms

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...

In addition to rich applications for 3D modelling, photo editing, etc. Adoption of WebXR as a distribution platform for VR/AR content could drive development. MagicLeap's Asset Builder Web Tool for example is built on top of NextJS and ThreeJS
I would say the something to see here is that Facebook is betting on stand-alone VR and not PC based VR going forward.

I think this is a good bet as the main reason most of my friends have not gotten into VR is the necessity for a high-end gaming PC and the associated costs of VR in general.

The Quest, while not cheap, is priced around the new norm for gaming machine which is much more palatable than the current VR cost/PC approach.
This is fascinating to me. When my kids don't want to eat what we are serving they will often have carrots or broccoli with ranch dressing instead. I never stopped to wonder what kids in other cultures eat in similar circumstances.
Some are (drag and drop, multi select) and others aren't (discoverability, some UI/UX choices)
Because bloomberg failed at basic jounalism, we will likely never know.
Its being done all over. The biggest ecologists were always farmers, who pay the first cost of soil erosion, soil damage and energy. They fail only on the mono-culture front, though its extremely common to mix crops in hilly ground but that's for erosion control.

And now the potential to use less chemicals with robotic application is taking off even with large farm equipment. Cameras identify a plant off-row as the tractor traverses the field, and either plucks it or spritzes it with a microdose of herbicide.
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And includes sales tax

And you don’t have to tip the cashier

/s
It reminds me a story in rare no-nonsense books on stock trading about 90% people losing money or doing less than stock index because of trading fees while activelly managing it. The ability to make good money in stock markets is a rare talent and hedge funds only make hedge fund managers rich, most of the time.
Iuniores diligere can mean 'love the juniors' but I suspect St. Benedict used the verb 'diligo' in one of its other meanings:

diligo: love, distinguish by choosing, regard above others, esteem highly, value, prize. Romantic love is 'amo' in latin (and Italian), St. Benedict is not telling you to get into problems with HR when loving anyone.

Iuniores means just what it says, 'the younger' so 'iuniores diligere' does mean 'love the younger' and as such fits perfectly in whatever 'age silo' doctrine you want Americans to accuse of professing. There is no mention of gender at all, nor do Pence or sex jokes come into play here.
Hi everyone! Now that JavaScript is TAKING OVER ALL THE THINGS, we've got some really great tools like webpack and the npm registry to help package, bundle, and reuse JavaScript. The combination of these tools is a force to be reckoned with. After working on a few projects that utilized these tools, I recognized a gap in the way we were measuring success.

Long ago in a land far far away (circa early 2000s web development) we would obsess over the size of the code we were forcing our users to download. Public CDNs and dependency free libraries seem to be becoming the exception as we continue to lean into the lie that bandwidth is cheap and compression is good enough.

Many times we can't even answer how any given package is going to effect our delivery size before getting it in front of our users. We've traded in our size conscious, delivery performance obsession in for the admittedly high upside of module systems and bundlers. Cleanly separating and re-using our own code, and making it easier than ever to distribute and utilize code as a community. This is a huge win, but ignoring the delivery profile of our code can cost our users time (especially on that vital first-run experience!).

The goal of packtracker.io is to bring a delivery performance benchmark back into your process and consciousness. To make front and center how your use of webpack and npm affect your delivery profile, and to make those optimizations gratifyingly visible.

I'm currently doing a closed beta with a few people that want to get involved, so feel free to request early access if that sounds interesting.

Hope you'll want to help me kick the tires and see if this thing is useful to you!
If you let the app bar show above the keyboard, you should be able to select photos by tapping on the appropriate icon in that row, which will show your latest photos. I agree that it is a usability regression but this option was better than always having to tap twice to attach a photo.
Consumption taxes are paid by declining demand (due to a price point movement) but in the case of an inelastic good that ends up being forced on the consumer. So in this specific case I think a tax would be a mistake and end up being regressive in practice, but adding a large tax on automobiles might be a good alternative, with the aim of slowly decreasing the demand side and encouraging alternate transportation...

Honestly though, the US could just start funding public transit properly so that the alternative isn't so dismal.
Phones are computers now. We can't expect everyone to know AND USE all of the features. Many of the features are obscured on purpose.
> And yet the number of times I've seen beginners completely discouraged or even give up programming forever because they have conda and pip and brew and pyenv installed and can't run a basic script after 4 hours of trying because environment mess-up is ridiculous.

Definitely true. Getting Python to run correctly is not only one of the hardest parts of learning to code, but comes right at the beginning so before people have experienced any success. It's gotten less bad in the last year or so thanks to pipenv, but it's still not a great situation.
It's not a bad idea, but speculative questions (will anyone really ask this?) lead down the path of the "documentation" effort which was hugely risky and eventually got pulled. https://stackoverflow.com/documentation
Or neurochemically it just doesn't have the typical effect. Sensitivities to substances and actually in-vitro effects vary widely from person to person.
I just got a pair of these recently: https://www.reflectacles.com
considering the market share in the US for android at above 80% what do you think the reason might be other than the one you just asked about?
I had no idea there are over 3000 active oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico!
Learning Rust at the moment and Pony looks really interesting too. I think at this point in time it's safe to say Rust is here to stay so the investment of time into learning it is well worth it as it will stay around for a long time.
I'm pretty sure that John Leyden works for The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/Author/John-Leyden

I could be wrong, but that seems exceedingly unlikely given the amount of stories he authors. Very much seems like either he or The Register got paid for this article.
Because you cannot have high-quality image, especially with good spectral content, both day and night, without an IR cutoff filter. Some cellphones do have IR filters, others can't take decent low-light photos. And many "secured areas" would actually have IR lights on to facilitate, well - visual surveillance.
Can you please expand on how it made you a better developer?
I'm glad there's no obvious tagging on the front / new pages. I open way more links because something sounds interesting in the title. I'm sure if there was tags it'd bias my clicking...
Why feel bad for people that choose their own fate?
I'm not too familiar with Android phones but having tried out my parents' Androids (and watched them use the phones) I gotta say everything is hidden there as well.

Maybe Android is a bit more consistent, because there is universal 'undo', plus the idiom of three vertical dots on the top right for 'more actions'. But subjectively I've found that Android has even more 'randomness': you are trying to get something done, something else opens, then something pops up... it's all deterministic of course, but not intuitive, so it feels accidental.
The NRO requirements were a huge part of what sunk the shuttle. One requirement was that the Shuttle should be able to launch into a polar orbit, launch a reconnaissance satellite (to replace one that the Soviets shot down), and then immediately land after coming once around (so the Soviets don't also shoot down the Shuttle). This is why the Shuttle has that massive, heavy delta wing--because you have to do a lot more controlled aerodynamic gliding to land from a polar orbit.

Of course, the Soviets never shot down an American reconnaissance satellite and the Shuttle never launched into a polar orbit. Also the military and NRO figured out that you could just launch a reconnaissance satellite even into a polar orbit on an unmanned rocket anyway.

The Soviets, of course, were a lot more inclined towards unmanned solutions anyway, and concluded that the only thing the Shuttle would actually be useful for was orbital bombing, since it could launch nukes, do a burn to change its orbit, and repeat until empty to confound any kind of ASAT system. And then they panicked, invented their own space shuttle, and then collapsed as a major superpower and abandoned the project. I don't know of any clear evidence that the USAF even considered this, but if you evaluate the Shuttle design from a perspective of already having different and arguably better solutions for all of the stated requirements, it was probably safer for the Soviets to think, "this must be a secret orbital space bomber" than to think, "wow, the Americans made a lot of really weird and nonsensical design decisions". Among other things, they probably didn't account for the fact that the American space program held onto the mythos of the heroic astronaut even when manned missions weren't the best technical solution (e.g. satellite launches).
price :)?
Cost. Variety of devices.
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Worse. I think "getting oxidized" would mean getting better.
Two reasons:

Portability - you would need to know what you're compiling for, in the same way you need to compile a different version of your program for your PC and your phone. You could imagine a system where some pre-compiled versions exist for certain browser/host combinations to make life faster for the majority case thought except:

Security - the primitives that WASM has available are limited and only affect stuff in the sandbox. The browser then compiles that to machine code and can know that the machine code will only affect stuff in the sandbox. This is exactly how JS works - unless there's a browser bug, JS can't write to an arbitrary place on your harddisk (for instance). If machine code was provided directly, then the browser couldn't easily verify that the machine code only did safe things (because machine code can do anything, unlike WASM).
hmm do u really know how eff'd up it is?

US Oil gets income subsidies some as great as 95% of income taxes not paid but given tax credits instead..no big Oil in US pays over 5% in income taxes
Advent of Code[1] - A set of 50 tasks, released annually, with increasing difficulty. Each task is a short, Christmas related, funny story which makes it easier to follow and complete. You can track your progress so it'll give a sense of completion and satisfaction. The drawback may be that challenges are language agnostic so they aren't crafted for learning specific features of any language.

[1] https://adventofcode.com/2017/events (3 editions has been released so far)
Per the wiki comparison, there's an edit button on every answer and question -- it works even if you're not logged in. Try it!

I'm starting to think that calling the edit button "improve this answer" and "improve this question" was a mistake..
Before you got the drop down on the front page that you now see on repl.it/languages. I admit I didn't look too hard at the list of languages that are there now, but just that one change to sign up instead of dive into the repl was a little annoying.
>the quest is the real rift 2.

They might consolidate the Rift and Quest into one device in gen2. The Quest with an PC interface or some kind of 5g dongle.
NSA Finalizes $6.7B in Classified Tech Contracts
I’ve been slowly reading through Steve Awodey's Category Theory, but as someone with not much math background it’s a bit dense. He does have some nice lectures online which help, but I’m not sure how far my understanding would have stretched without reading Bartosz first.

To be fair, I’ve come to CT through Haskell development, which Bartosz caters heavily towards. While it is absolutely not necessary for the daily aspect of my job, it really helps drive home the underlying mechanics of the language.

That all said, now it’s brought me in a roundabout manner to wanting to learn more advanced math, although while I am grasping CT I can’t understand what people are talking about when they compare it to pure mathematical concepts (Sets, Groups, Rings, etc), which tends to be frustrating. I am attempting to find a path to understanding all of this without having to grab another 4 year degree.
ah there it is. This feature resonates well with the article - 'iphones hide their functions'
Nice tool. It made me think of when I wrote Self Organizing Map (SOM) [1] in Go a while ago which has a batch algorithm implemented that can scale the unsupervised clustering across multiple CPUs; I never tested it on clustering personal images, but I will give now that I read about your tool :)

[1] https://github.com/milosgajdos83/gosom
I've got a Toyota Camry 2006. It's such a functional car. mid-early 2000s was such a beautiful time for car user interfaces. No crazy screens, no touch UI to control radio volume with millions of menus, no painfully slow third party navigation systems that became deprecated by the time cell phones came out.

The only modification it has is a bluetooth receiver instead of the CD part of the radio. It's so wonderfully low-tech that the key fob doesn't even work anymore, only manual keys for me.

I bought it when I could have purchased a new vehicle for a similar price using a GM employee discount. Never regretted the decision, and now seeing all this coming out, I feel even better about my camry. I'll drive it until it dies and then hopefully never own another vehicle.
Unless there's enforcement, it's useless as a code of conduct.
Because its the rich who choose; the masses of normal people are stuck
> I'm still waiting for "virtual monitors" in AR/VR so my entire office wall becomes a giant screen.

VR displays need to be far higher resolution for that to work. Your monitor is likely only 2,000-4,000 pixels wide and doesn't completely fill your vision. Even Vive Pro is only 1,440 pixels wide and is expected to fill your vision. We need a minimum of double the resolution, and would probably need triple or more to make it work well.
We just get to work at the office on a docking station, at other company sites, on customer premises, home office and while traveling to customers.
What makes you think that I haven't?

For a long time I thought that the comment that I left in 2011 after the PHP bug was sufficient. Remembering it today I edited the answer at the same time that I posted here.

Now I could be faulted for not having responded to the comments in 2015. However I was taking an extended break from stack overflow after getting annoyed at the moderation of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11314077/algorithm-for-e.... When I came back, dealing with the variety of things that could have further annoyed me while I was gone did not seem worthwhile, so I didn't. (It remains a pet peeve that a lot of moderators remain quick to close algorithm questions because they do not recognize DP-type problems as things which are more likely to be answerable by people with a CS background than a math one.)
Entirely possible .. but I desperately hope that the /ask page is reworked from the ground up to be a much more engaging sort of dynamic tutorial. Most of the friction from people colliding with the SO system is on that page, and it hasn't materially changed since 2011.
Individual companies will set up bankruptcy remote subsidiaries for each oil platform. Instead, they should be required to purchase insurance. Yes, this will increase the cost to produce where it is most risky. But isn't that the point?
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