skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are signs that Microsoft may be thinking that AR could win out in the end in gaming as well. They've got some gaming demos that are nearly as impressive as their industry demos.

Studies have shown it will always be safer and less disorienting to leave people at least their peripheral vision when playing games where they move about a physical environment, and if you are going to do that you might as well make that physical environment a part of the game.

There's always going to be games that are more immersive in full opaque VR than AR, but games have been immersive in 8-bit on a tiny CRT screen, the small "quality" difference between AR "partial" immersion and VR "full" immersion may not matter in the long run to good games.
Screen Link: Capture iPhone and iPad. Wirelessly
An interesting idea! I think that was one of the original goals of the VPRI project (http://vpri.org) — very high-level executable specs that encoded the meaning rather than worried about performance. IIRC, their 2D graphics library was about 45 LOC (https://raw.github.com/wiki/damelang/nile/socal.pdf)
Is Github becoming a popular place for blogging simply because my coworkers will think I'm doing a code review and not reading about Neapolitan Pizza?

If so, thank you for your service. It's working.
Question about code like this:

fn render_reflection_fbo(
&mut self,
gl: &WebGlRenderingContext,
state: &State,
assets: &Assets,
) {
gl.bind_framebuffer(...);
gl.viewport(...);

gl.clear_color(...);
gl.clear(...);

Setting the viewport and clear color sure look to be mutating, but they are being called on a shared reference (&WebGlRenderingContext).

Why is it designed this way? Is this design considered sound, or is it a hack?
Of course there are FOSS paid developers, for instance Intel pay few devs to work on Linux in order to have the hw they sell work properly. That's good. That's not someone that live on FOSS, that's a company that participate to a FOSS project because it need or desire it.

On contrary there are other companies that pretend to sell "open" product that are open like a bunker (to name a few try looking for business software from ERP to CRM to DMS etc) and those are not contributed to FOSS. Even if they both pay someone to develop FOSS code and publish it.

I hope to have being able to clarify that point in my limited English...

On complex codebase: FreeBSD codebase is not exactly simple and little, but it live on it own foot since decades, for instance? Emacs, Debian, ... the same. I do not intent that a project must run on casual contribution but simply that contributors must be subjects that need/desire such code so they contribute to it for their own sake like the Intel example above.
I learned it this year, with cmake. Then i moved onto go.

I tried rust, but they keep changing it and breaking modules i need to use!
I don't get people's fascination with quines. If your language supports at least two ways of quoting strings and some basic regex replacements, you can cook up a quine just by starting with an empty string and using double-cursor functionality in any modern editor.

".replace(/^(.*)/, String.fromCharCode(34) + '$1' + String.fromCharCode(34) + '$1')".replace(/^(.*)/, String.fromCharCode(34) + '$1' + String.fromCharCode(34) + '$1')

"Take the previous string, print it inside double quotes, then print it as is."

Is this supposed to be profound? I don't see how this has anything to do with biology or life. It's simply a test of how cleverly you can abuse the syntax of your language.
How would one differentiate between say an accusation of corruption (valid or not) and someone just being "disruptive"? Someone commenting "You suck lalalalalalala" is clearly disruptive but another claiming "This politician is corrupt!" may not be.
Linux 5 is on the way
These FEMA stats suggest that only 1.6% of car fires are related to the fuel tank or lines

https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v19i2.pdf

"Mechanical failure or malfunction was the leading contributing factor of highway vehicle fires (45 percent). These mechanical failures include a leak or break in a component of the vehicle, automatic or manual control failures, or the use of an improper type of fuel. An electrical failure or malfunction, such as a short circuit, was a contributing factor in 21 percent of highway vehicle fires. The misuse of a material or product, such as spilling flammable liquid or gas too close to the vehicle, was the third leading factor contributing to the ignition of the fires (13 percent)."

That same document goes into lots of detail about what heat source initiates those fires and what materials are actually catching fire.

"Where the necessary data were available, the leading category of items first ignited in fatal highway vehicle fires was “liquids, piping, filters” (65 percent). Flammable liquids and gases in general were, by far, the most deadly (67 percent of deaths). Specifically, fuel in or from the engine area was the second leading item first ignited in all highway vehicle fires (18 percent) but was, by far, the leading item in both fatal fires (43 percent) and deaths (45 percent). Additionally, insulation around electrical wiring or cables was responsible for 29 percent of all highway vehicle fires, but only 2
percent of fatal fires and 2 percent of deaths."
If you or someone else can do it, I genuinely encourage you to! I do think that ideally battery swap tech could be a big benefit, but I just don't see it taking off for so many reasons.

The major one being your first paragraph. Charging tech is getting better every day, and we are already at the point where 15 minutes can get you a good chunk of charge with current batteries in some cars. I think things will change (no more "gas stations" (or places solely devoted to providing fuel), and a lot more charging spots at destinations that are worth spending 30 minutes at), the bit of charging time every few hours will begin to become a non-issue, and the whole complicated logistics nightmare of managing a fleet of physical battery packs at various depots across the country will go the way of the flying car. That thing that everyone thinks they wanted but it was just never practical to have.
Usually the new XX60's are great because you get the previous XX70's performance at the lower XX60 price. This time you're getting the previous XX70 performance for the previous XX70 price...more than 2 years later. Weak!
You can't create fake transactions[1]. You can reject some valid transactions or reject all transactions freezing the network for some time, and also try to double spend your money.

[1] The idea is that the miner just pick the last block and select a bunch of the current transactions and a random number and makes a hash of all of them. If the hash has enough zeros at the beginning then it is a new block and it is distributed to all the network. The other nodes of the network validate all the transactions and also that this bunch of transactions with this random number produce a hash that has enough zeros at the beginning. Any invalid transaction of a wrong random number make all the other nodes of the network ignore the fake block.

Once the last block and the bunch of transactions are picked, the difficult part is selecting a random number that with them produces a has that has enough zeros at the beginning. So the mines must try, try, and retry with different random numbers until they are lucky (or someone else is lucky). They must try millions of millions of millions (gillons?) of times, because it's difficult to pick the correct one. This uses a lot of electricity to power the computer. The other people just validate with the lucky number, so it's much cheaper.
[putting aside any aesthetic concerns] yes, there are a lot of single people who live alone (+ some set of people who get off on being in a vunerable position). But I'm unconvinced other consumer groups are going to want to masturbate whilst wearing a VR headset
Porting to consoles is much easier than Linux, as each console is a very fixed platform. In my (limited) experience, middleware like Unity works better on consoles than it does on Linux.
And in my experience they focus solely on tech IC candidates, which is not for everyone.
we are also interested in how to compromise an identified AI
> Also, are seriously suggesting that you can only only do organizing on platforms that are blocked by the firewall?

This seems reasonably accurate. The gov has complete access to Wechat's data and can create, edit, or destroy any content they choose. They regularly run ML algorithms across the whole network to identify whatever they want. They can't do this with Facebook or WhatsApp.
And in reviewing quickly, they're making mistakes, denying a man dying of cancer the disability money he was entitled to under the law. Perhaps some people who don't meet the qualifications are being approved, but I think most people would view false positives as less of a problem than false negatives in this case, and the fact that the denial rate is higher in Tennessee suggests to me that it's faster to deny than approve anyway.
The holding isn't about the policies of the private companies, but rather the policies of the elected officials.
I'd be more likely to believe that the publicly-repeated abuse cases are flukes if the officers involved didn't seem to get off with a slap on the wrist the majority of the time.
That's why Proof of Stake is a nice concept. Its like buying 51% of a company and then crashing it into a wall.
Politician running for public office blocking voters vs Facebook enforcing it's terms of service. Pretty big difference actually.
>I don't think this quarter indicates that the devices are too expensive

I don't claim that it does. My point is that there is a trade-off between increasing the average selling price of hardware and broadening the user base so you can sell more services to more people.

Apple's market share is now dangerously low in some parts of the world, including some rich European countries. It makes features and services that are restricted to Apple devices completely useless or far less valuable.
I've worked in several organizations where installations are as described in the not CI/CD fashion. It's not fun. Right now I'm working on a green project, and at least have CI/CD working, by once we start deploying our application to clients, it will get messy because we aren't following the practices set out in the article.

It's been so bad, I've completely distanced myself as a developer because of those that have far more political influence as to the use of the database and the effects it has on me. I can work on the API, Database and other services. I simply don't, I was hired as a UI/UX/JS Expert. That said, it's not always the most pleasant way of separating the people working on an application, compared to full-stack development.

I've been at this for over two decades, and tend to find it in lots of business development. Not so much in typical SV startups, but there's far more business development units out there than SV startups.
Briar[0] on F-Droid[1].

[0] https://briarproject.org/

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/2018/08/16/twif-17-the-reproducible-b...
Well, this should be defined as practicing medicine. (Ultimately, you are controlling whether and what treatment occurs.)

Correspondingly, their licenses should be on the line, as well as liability for malpractice.

Let regulation and tort law take a few of them out. See what happens, then. Maybe even criminal law, as inevitably some patients will die due to lack of proper care.
Oh dear, do you have kids? Well I do, and they understand death since at least age 3.
Virtual Currencies to Go Down as ‘Load of Nonsense,” Says ECB's Hansson
No. And that is also why JS is successful. Newbies with little oversight create new tools. Of thousands of them, one or two become popular because of non-functional reasons (right blog post, right fit, easy use, ..).

Welcome to the mess :)
Anyone willing to suggest a cable that meets cat 6?
> A battery pack has between 500 and 1000 charge cycles,

I am very skeptical of that claim. This seems to hold true for laptop batteries. Not cars.
It's not enough to be running for office; you have to be in office. It's the use of a private service as part of your official role that creates this situation, not some special duty "politicians" have.

(This is obvious but also clear within the first few paragraphs of the ruling, which point out that the Facebook page in question used the Facebook "Pages" functionality, which is used for "businesses organizations and brands", and which the defendant referred to as her "County Facebook Page". The legal good stuff is on pages 18-19.)

We should be careful to use the term "official" or "government official" rather than "politician". There are politicians for whom this ruling does not apply (anyone not in office), and non-politicians for which it does (any civil servant).
> temporarily blocking a critic from her Facebook page, a decision that could affect President Donald Trump’s appeal from a similar ruling in New York.

I would expect Trump's lawyers to point out that blocking on Twitter does not block access to information, as blocking on Facebook does. On Twitter, you can see every public tweet if you aren't logged in. On Facebook, many/most posts are not marked Public and so you have to be logged in (and sufficiently linked to the poster) to view them.

Of course, there's still the issue of the inability to reply to the comment and engage with the poster on Twitter, but IMO (as a former lawyer) the bigger issue is access to information, which is less restricted via Twitter blocks than FB blocks.
I've installed Ubuntu 18.10 on an XPS 13, which everyone tells me is well supported by Linux, Dell even sell it with Ubuntu. It won't come out of sleep. Googling suggests other have this problem.
Sounds a bit grandiose, don’t you think?
Active usecases (games, design, meetings) will tend towards VR and passive usecases (news, info overlay, prompts) will tend towards AR. There's plenty of money to be made in both of those.
I heard Jaron said something like this back in the 1980s. Glad I didnt hold my breath.

We probably need the Avatar of VR- a storytelling where stereo was good and added to the story.
The problem with libel and slander laws is that you have to prove damages. Without an “injury” there is no case. They’re civil torts.
If Progress(A) means taking stuff from a minority group, then sorry you don’t have the right for that either, even if your plan is to equally distribute it for the “good of everyone”. For some people who went through the hell of communism it is the opposite of progress.
I support FOSS - please add some adult supervision here.. some developer teams have gotten angry and upset when someone gets paid (yes you read that), and on the other side, non-profit tax status is sometimes abused in the US by professionals who make management/fundraising a lifetime occupation with little emphasis on programs served. (sources on conviction of fraud are not always available on the net due to restrictive settlements)
> Also, does this mean all politicians ought to be obliged to have social media pages?

They're not required to hold town hall meetings or press conferences.
You should be able to switch job if you have a side project proving your passion and if you are ready to take a pay-cut.
Huawei have contracts from the govt just like lots of the American tech companies. And speaking of govt sponsorship, Samsung is definitely one of them, if you know the history about memory chips competition and how they become one of the monopolies.
It does, if you are blocked on twitter (and logged in) you can not read a person's tweets.
U.S. Government recordkeeping.

The thing that kills me is that if for official Government purposes a Facebook page qualifies as letters/documents/personal effects/etc in terms of official business, why does it not receive the same treatment for individuals in terms of 4th Amendment protections.

The argument of intent to be public seems rather flimsy to dismantle a central civil right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

The level of double standard is maddening.

Edit: While I am harvesting downvotes, I stand by my assertion.it makes little if any sense that our Government can acknowledge the importance of our Representatives to the public record and compel an open non-discriminatory pipeline of communication, yet cannot be convinced of the right to privacy extending to electronic files and communique for non-officeholding citizens.

We agree that the government, and those elected as part of it, by virtue of their power and position are to be subjected to a higher degree of scrutiny in terms of the public's right to know what they are up to and to be heard.

Note: avalue assignment has been thus made. We acknowledge positive value to a Representative being able to be conferred with.

Yet, the value of not-being heard I.e. not having the government able to slurp up every last bit of meta-information/information about you just because it's been handed off to some third-party, is infrequently acknowledged legally. The tests for coverage generally are concocted around pre-digital notions of privacy, and come with an assertion of non-expectancy of privacy just because the content doesn't involve an envelope/bank deposit box/safe and does involve someone else's machine.

These are two aspects of the same central issue. I.e. the citizens right to be assured an opportunity to be heard when they want to, and not eavesdropped on in the conductance of their everyday lives without due process.

If everyone feels that's off topic, fine. But it stands out like a sore thumb to me.
> The fact that this is true, and that simultaneously there isn't a lithium battery recycling industry of any significant size indicates that lithium energy storage is still at an early stage

Where are all these lithium batteries ending up at? Landfills? Many other devices use lithium batteries, namely cellphones.
Oh wow. That makes this even more of a mess than I'd realised. This seems an optimisation nightmare. You'd need to know a lot about the runtime and running environment to be able to figure out whether or not to enable AVX-512 instructions. Seems like something only JIT runtimes would be able to realistically handle on the fly.
Blue Jeans Cable (they wrote the article): https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Blue-Cable-Assembled-Jeans/...

Update: This link is to their Amazon store page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/node/9182265011 .
I'm not sure what you're talking about with "must maintain lift as descends otherwise it will stall and fall out of the sky"...

Wings stall when they exceed their critical angle of attack. A descent is inherently a low AoA maneuver. Heck, in pretty much all aircraft of decent performance, they have devices on the wings to help "spoil" the lift of the wings to help the plane descend more quickly. They're sometimes called speed brakes, sometimes called spoilers.
what about a no return policy?

I was able to return anker products just fine. (i might add im not in the US though)
That was always the case, though. It's just that Github's network effects were always powerful enough to counteract this effect.

But, for one very obvious reason, people have grown more and more interested in finding alternatives to Github, and they're forced to compete.
Companies pursuing ethics will always be a trap.

First, for every ethical pursuit, a company must match it with a similar or greater effort to advertise it.

If the advertising is ethical, well, it might not work very well. But, ethical advertising might be another effort worth advertising about?

The thing is, companies will always be looking to replace material sacrifice with scalable idealism. Ethics don’t work that way.

Ethics concern big sweeping systemic complexities, but approaching them as so is never going to work for a company. If companies want to go big, it’s going to be in the mind, not in the bank.

The best solution for companies is to choose one or two issues and go all in. Why? Because that’s all it takes!

Human beings conceive of ethics as the big intertwined things that they are, and in a world with such little interest in ethics, addressing one problem in a big way is enough to get a company the gold star approval.

Also, companies can just trash everything else at that point!

Companies are for profit. And that’s not changing any time soon.
I hesitate to spend time refuting you because it's pretty clear you don't have a great grasp of the pros and construction of cryptography-systems, but here goes...

>Elections should be independently administered

The key word is "should." Your statement here shows that you either didn't read the paper at all or did and failed to grasp the most basic premise of the entire proposal; using the system elections are not administered by any party. Questions are posed and the system administers the vote collection and tabulating without human assistance or intervention.

>Wishful thinking

Not at all. The tamper resistance is mathematically proven. Unless an adversary controlled 51% of the network hashing power, it's impossible to change history. Of course the voter's client could be compromised but there are measures to get around such issues.

>Irrelevant.

I was responding to your original question of what does this do that paper can't. Now it seems you've moved the goal posts in order to argue with a strawman.

Look, I'm not a "crypto can solve everything" kinda guy, but it seems to me that if there's one area where blockchain tech shines it's in reliably collecting and retaining distributed information in an adversarial environment. That's exactly what voting is so I actually see this proposal as one of the few uses of crypto that's only argument for existence isnt "because distributed."
> Of course, there's still the issue of the inability to reply to the comment and engage with the poster on Twitter

I wouldn't dismiss that as a small issue, given the First Amendment explicitly protects the right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".
RTG's are pretty damn good for spacecraft. But they are dangerous to launch. The nice thing about fusion is that a RUD doesn't matter from a nuclear perspective.
VR is already seeing significant adoption in business for training. Anywhere where training on the real thing is difficult or dangerous, where the real equipment is expensive and / or hard to transport or where the real training scenario is difficult to recreate physically. Even where these factors don't hold very strongly, the combination of immersion and repeatability has value over traditional training approaches.

We're seeing success using VR for surgical training but it's also seeing use for training in aerospace (Boeing both for pilots and maintenance engineers, NASA for astronauts), factory work (Volkswagen), sports (NFL) and retail (Walmart). Training and education is going to be a huge market for VR and for many scenarios VR is better than AR.
Seems like the actual issue is that the specs are way too tight. If 80% of the cables fail the test but virtually all of them work fine in the real world, what does that say about the test?

How common is it for someone to buy one of the retail-grade cables they're discussing in this article, and find that it doesn't work reliably?
The first two words of your link are "If true," and the report it is using four anonymous sources...

Keep in mind, the company contracted to produce this report, Fusion GPS, was also paid to produce "evidence" that north korea was responsible for hacking Sony in 2014... so you may want to spot-check your evidence.
The term monopoly has a meaning in economics and even in normal conversation. Saying they have monopoly because they have lot of mindshare is crazy talk.
And you can hook up a small autoscaling gitlab-runner which will spin up CI VMs on-demand. If you combine this with spot-instances at AWS you can scale very far on the free plan with minimal cloud spend.