skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on what kind of games you like. From my perspective we've been "there" for almost two years now. I spend a lot of time in Echo Arena and Beat Saber, occasionally Rec Room and various single player experiences.

From a mainstream perspective though, I'm still not sure. I think the Rift S gets us a lot closer with its emphasis on comfort and ease-of-use, and it's definitely a viable consumer product, but I think there may still be a ways to go before we start seeing _real_ mainstream adoption.

The Quest on the other hand, I think has a real chance at being a smash hit. The fact that you don't need a PC to use it is going to be huge for more casual consumers, both for economic reasons (no need for an expensive PC) and ease of use. I expect it'll be a big first step towards pushing VR into the mainstream.
Or independent reporting. Or public information offers. Ads are not a good way of distributing good information. And people who argue otherwise are naive, or doing so in bad faith.
Happens with a lot of stuff, certain American-made motorcycles, for instance. You're in the club now, and the only way to stay in the club is to carry the manufacturer's water. In no case are we to admit that we spent a bunch of money on something that does a poor job of fulfilling its advertised purpose.
Lion Air pilots were looking at handbook when plane crashed
Hopefully her daughter pays it forward by becoming a writer who blogs about her experiences as the daughter of a sociopathic narcissist.

"I can't stop writing about you mom. Your attempt to 'amputate parts of my experience' feels abusive to our relationship."
Flashing Light, Sound Restore Memory in Alzheimer's Mice
Discrete math at 17? But can't visualize more than a simple shape? Quite the opposite from myself. Vivid spatial imagination, but abstract ideas take lots of mental effort to assimilate. In calc 1 at 30; after spending three decades hating math I found an interest in it, had just never been 'taught' the right way. It took an acid trip to see the beauty of mathematics.
The issue is that the way the feature is designed and marketed makes it very easy for the driver to be distracted and not paying attention.
Individual blogs are good if you know the individual author and trust them well. Basically, a blog is great to follow a specific person you trust.

But individuals still only have expertise in a narrow field. I'm not going to be reading Herb Sutter's blog for Java-programming news, or "The Old New Thing" (Windows-blog) for even Linux-ARM news. I read Herb Sutter for C++, Old New Thing for Windows-specific stuff.

To get more information from a wider variety of sources, you end up reading Newspapers. You learn to trust the editor, a non-expert but someone who tries to promise quality of their writers follows a certain code. Even within a newspaper, different editors handle different sections (the OpEd section of WashPo is less factual than other sections)

As long as you understand the trust model of various sites or newspapers, things are good. Some amateurs on "Seeking Alpha" or "Medium" are pretty darn good with their analysis, you just gotta learn their names and follow them specifically.
It shouldn't be marketed as 'Autopilot' then. Less informed people will expect it to do more than it can. It's (IMHO, criminally) misleading to market something as being capable of doing something it cannot do.
Scale has a multiplicative (maybe even compounding in a viral network) effect. Therefore usability * scale means scale itself is part of the problem, if not the underlying one.
For general developers, the surplus of candidates is even more extreme than machine learning. The growth of bootcamps is more about suppressing wages.

For example, $75k for a junior position, fresh out of a CS undergrad program, is a low salary for a major urban area like LA... like 30-50k too low. They can only do this because the market’s flooded.
There are some integration issues between VS Code on Windows and WSL. (there are currently 29 open issues on Github for this.)
Unwilling? Don't buy a Tesla. Don't believe the hype. It's that simple. Granted, there is nothing stopping any ECU from killing you, but I'd trust a company like Honda way before Tesla.
Theres also the Vive Pro, which is better than the Vive 1 in every way but price,.
Linker Throughput Improvement in Visual Studio 2019
That's orthogonal to the article. There aren't that many situations in programming where one urgently needs to adjust the speed (or velocity!) of what one is typing based on the feedback of what they see on the screen.

You, however, must constantly make such adjustments or the entire musical endeavor may fall apart. :)
> but that is so hard to setup!

And sadly, to use. Nix is a great idea but it could do a lot to help itself out if it ever wants to become more than niche:

1. Use a more approachable package definition language; Starlark (https://github.com/google/starlark-go) or Lua would probably be great choices.

2. Make it reasonable to figure out what the "type" of a package dependency is so we can figure out how to use it and/or find its source code

3. Document package definitions. We document source code in typed languages; Nix expression language is untyped and generally less readable--why not document it?

4. Nix tools have a `--help` flag that only ever errors with "cannot find manpage". This is just user-hostile.

5. Using almost-JSON for the derivation syntax, but then providing a "pretty printer" that keeps everything on one line but with a few more space characters.

6. Horrible build output--everything for every build step (megabytes of useless gcc warnings) gets dumped to the screen. Contrast that with Bazel and company which only print errors.

Plus a long tail of other things I'm forgetting.
I'm also seeing claims of 2x faster connect times. They leapfrogged the other bt headphones I had previously tried with the first airpods, but there are still annoying things about bt I hope they're quietly fixing.
I wish you could incorporate rhythm/bars on top of the lyrics along with the chord symbols. I've been playing guitar since 2005, and I still find it exceedingly difficult to play chords along with lyrics without some kind of rhythmic reference, even if I know the song pretty well.
For what it's worth, what I got out of the article was nothing like what you described, rather, it made me think of the importance of reading about history.

By talking about what he did, and why he did it within the context of his culture, it laid bare to me just how much our culture influences our behavior and personality.

I don't think it's necessary to conclude what an article may mean for another person. The article definitely had value for me.
The Rift S has much better tracking and controllers. 5 cameras instead of two, and the Touch controllers are much more ergonomic than what WMR provides.
Personally I've had amazing experiences on AirBnB, to the point where I usually try to make an AirBnB work over a hotel. This of course is due to certain hosts going above and beyond the call of duty.

And then I've had experiences where I wonder why I didn't get a hotel for slightly more. Usually in the city where the host owns 20+ properties and really don't give 2 shits about the experience.

I do think this service needs to exist, if only to improve the overall travel experience, but yea they need to do some vetting or figure out a much better pricing structure. I love the idea of living like a local in some apartment building, but so far this experience has usually been pretty subpar for me.
Well, considering the worldwide body count racked up by the non-private kind over the last century or so, you might have a point there.
It’s unclear to me how the “caper” was supposed to work... the goal, apparently, was to achieve a money transfer.

So... was the plan that the armed group of foreigners would intimidate bank personnel into allowing a transfer they otherwise wouldn’t allow? A kind of “soft” bank robbery?
Crash causes:

1. Faulty MCAS

2. Insufficient pilot training

3. Boeing design changes (MCAS used to be disabled automatically if the pilot applied sufficient counter-input, this feature was removed in the -MAX series, requiring the pilot to explicitly disable the system using a separate button)

Take away any 1 of those causes and the plane doesn't crash. They all had to happen at the same time for these two tragedies to occur.
There are Linux tests in that benchmark. Moreover, you can run xterm on OSX.
Added another example to the repo based on this work

https://github.com/FactomProject/ptnet-zkp/blob/master/examp...
The comments are scary. People defending Tesla's misleading advertisement re: full self-driving hardware etc.

Because clearly "having full self-driving hardware" only means the hardware is there, not that the car can actually self-drive.

I bet those people find themselves misunderstood in pretty much every discussion with people outside their nerdy circle.
I spend most of my gaming time at the moment playing IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad in VR. I've still got an old DK2 which I didn't use for ages until I discovered I could fly Spitfires in VR. Now I'm hooked again, and in the market for a new headset.

I don't think we are there yet. I'd like to do more creative and productive stuff in VR which really wants higher res screens and fine hand control, either through gloves or some kind of hand tracker.

I'd like to see more serious gaming content as well. Apart from sims, a lot of the games I've been seeing seem to be twee and gimmicky. Or maybe I'm just an old git and the market has left me behind.
Here's your chance Valve.
I invested in a HTC Vive Pro when it came out, it's looking to be a good investment as these Gen 2 (I should say Gen 1.6) VR HMDs are pretty lack luster. Pair it with the Wireless Adapter, it would be difficult for me to change to inside out tracking and move back to a wired connection. Granted, I've sold some internal organs and first born child to obtain all of these things.
Very interesting, this made me think of Pareto Principle and then as I read down, Wikipedia cites this. Also, I found it neat that Daniel Dennett uses this as a tool for critical thinking.
Capt. Sullenberger on the FAA and Boeing: Our Credibility Is Being Damaged
Well OK then. I thought new construction had moved on, but apparently not.
Maybe the right way is to start with expensive professional vr-gear like https://varjo.com/ is doing and then gradually get into consumer products years later.
Related: Second System Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

As an aside, I'd love the Twitter engineering teams that fixed the fail whale to one day write about this as it related to fixing Twitter's stability and performance. It seems they simultaneously made major platform shifts and managed to fix things. Maybe it was done in small pieces, piece by piece and perhaps a SOA/Microservices architecture may have enabled that to feel like a rewrite without being one all at once. I'd love to hear the story. My understanding is that in addition to platform shifts, the actual engineering teams cycled out almost completely at least once, too. Really hard changes to manage through.
> we the drivers on the road are unwilling guinea pigs to billionaires’ dreams/goals.

we'll adapt, ie. adjust our behavior to account for that new factor. Police for example have already learnt how to pretty safely stop a Tesla on autopilot with a driver sleeping behind the wheel and not reacting to any signals (because of being deadly drunk for example).
It's an effective method of learning. Expose your brain to the concept, then walk away, come back the next day it later on, repeat. Continue to do this and you'll eventually understand. Repetition is the key to mastery, after all.
React Final Form Hooks
Or just use an angle sensor on the control surfaces? You now have two measurements: What the computer is telling the hardware to set the angle to, what the angle actually is.

These two are very different but very important pieces of information.
Testing at the Boundaries
There's Monado: https://monado.dev/
> HOAs are still relatively rare outside of SoCal, so this issue is unlikely to pop up for 99.999% of the US population.

This seems incorrect. They are more common than you think, especially in neighborhoods built within the last 30-40 years.
I'm on a conference call, what am I going to be doing? Laps? No, I'll be taking notes and looking stuff up on my computer.
I generally have zero interest in cars and don't follow the new models, but my impression from articles I've seen in the last years is that Volvo is actually a top contender for driver assistant systems (when you don't fool yourself into thinking you have an autopilot, but you really want sensible safety augmentation features).

Is that impression accurate?
Trip C++ Standards Meeting in Kona, February 2019
Thanks for the detailed answer.

I seriously like the 2nd question!
I'm not saying you're wrong, but we're on year 3 of this brand new tech and it's "kinda better, kinda worse". Think about the iPhone in 2007 vs 2010. They can call it whatever they like; it's still an utter disappointment, at least to a gamer like myself. If we're going to get to a point where VR actually feels like virtual reality then someone is going to have to push the envelope, and it clearly isn't going to be Facebook.
It could be, sure. But in this instance, anyone who could afford that home could afford any of the other (many) houses up for sale in the area. This is in a touristy area, rather than a major city.

I can see this being an issue in a city, where housing is hard to find. But that's not the case in this instance.
I'll check it out again. I only use the most basic functionality of launching apps (I stretched out and started using the calculator a few months ago!). Years ago I looked at what was out there and used Quicksilver, but as soon as Spotlight started working for launching apps I stopped looking for anything else.

I can't imagine anything faster than Spotlight other than the few times where it's reindexing.
" honestly think atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method. What I mean by that is, what is atheism? It’s a statement, a categorical statement that expresses belief in nonbelief. “I don’t believe even though I have no evidence for or against, simply I don’t believe.” Period. It’s a declaration. But in science we don’t really do declarations. We say, “Okay, you can have a hypothesis, you have to have some evidence against or for that.” "

Oh dear, he should have checked out "Russell's teapot"*

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
- Salary/benefits

- Tech Stack

- What you do in AS FEW WORDS AS POSSIBLE. I don't really care about how you are "changing the world" or other flowery language that tells me nothing about what you actually do.

- Location and/or remote possibilities

Stretch goals:

- Day in the life or list of duties performed by or expected to be performed by this hire

- Break out needs/wants in the technical section. I want to know if you NEED someone who has used React or if my Angular knowledge and my ability to learn are going to be enough. I've seen some postings put this under a "nice to have" section and I can tell you, that section sure is..... nice to have.
Piggybacking on this, please run your ad by your technical staff. They know the position better than you do, and can tighten up the real requirements of the position.
I think if you're looking for a monitor replacement you're going to need to wait for foveated rendering. That's when you'll start seeing mainstream headsets with ultra-high-PPD displays. Maybe another ~4 years or so.
Contrapoints Helps Us Understand Incels (TMBS 65)
I don't dare guess about a specific schedule, but I'd expect the end state to be meat that is safer, tastes better, and is less expensive.

Safer because it can be grown in sterile conditions, which greatly reduces the risk for contamination by pathogens.

Tastier because it can be more directly engineered for flavor, with fewer constraints. Take a look at how crazy things have to get in order to produce foods with the flavor and texture of veal or foie gras using current technology. Not having to worry about how you're treating an actual animal, or even having to do what it takes to keep the whole animal alive, isn't just going to improve those processes, it's going to open up a lot of other options as well.

Cheaper because it'll be infinitely easier to engineer waste out of the process.
Your posts in this thread have been accurate wrt competition law.

It's interesting to see how many people are shocked abuse of dominant market position remedies. I think enforcement has been so lax that many people casually assume anti-competitive behavior is the de-facto norm.
The size/scale of Twitter or Facebook, etc may be an example where it might be better for generic inline advertising over the "promoted" messages. I can understand where a smaller site may do better with random targeted ads... I'm just a little surprised it hasn't been done or tried much that I am aware of.
7 years and 2.5 million per escalator. I really don't think it's an escalator mechanic shortage. For that price you can fly in mechanics and have them stay in nice hotels and have it done in a month. The problem is that the procurement process is totally dysfunctional.
Tesla crashes can injure people who don't drive a Tesla themselves.
Leather is another option for initial development which doesn't involve people actually digesting large amounts of the novel produce. Perhaps there is a weaker business case for producing wool and various custom hair fibers, while synthetic alternatives have become so cheap and competitive for feel and performance.

I hope the days are not too far off now, that use of non-biodegradable materials are taxed or otherwise limited enough to avoid them accumulating and potentially harming our environment, which has not included such materials over evolutionary epochs of natural development.
This is an incredibly important feature to me. It's coming, but I want to be sure to get it right. It will also enable some other really useful features like entire song play-through. Thanks for the feedback!
I think that it's important to note that "we'll fix bugs via live patches" is a deadly decision when it comes to self driving software.

Just discussing the incident in terms of a "software bug" does a disservice to the severity of the issue.
I haven't been using Go modules, to the point where I only have a vague notion of what they do.

I haven't felt the need for them.

At what point do they become necessary? Which pain-points should I be on the lookout for?
This is great, I've got a bunch of hacky tools that do something similar-ish, but not as polished as this! Good work

Feature request: export to MIDI.
Have been trying to do that for many years now first with the EFF scheme "openwireless.org", then with soprani.ca. https://wom.community/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/operatives. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/595zg5/sopranica-...

Even have a good VPN supplier picked out.

But these people are always talk and theory, never a simple blueprint for a standardized design.

Guess it's always like this :( I'm not terribly impressed with the Tor organization either.

The public really needs a way to bypass these lying thieving carriers and these gubmint bullshit artists wanting to keep their jobs. But without some sort of credible leadership - such alternatives will never exist.
This is a bit off topic, but I was wondering if anybody that was given an NDA'd preview of the technology before the first version was released has ever commented exactly what it is that they were demoed? What was it that made everybody so excited to write big checks?
If the guests hadn't spoiled the experience of their neighbors I doubt there'd have been any intervention.

While people have qualms with the effect of short term rentals on housing markets, they usually don't show up on an HOA level.

The real problem is they were being bad neighbors, not that they were short-term neighbors, and once your neighbor starts to ruin your ability to enjoy your home you have a just argument to take action.
I suspect ADA would like those too, if available.
I'm far less urged to translate the 3270 font (I'm a huge fan of it) if you are relying on Terminus. It'd probably be better to support other fonts DEC terminals supported. I'll dig a bit into that. :-)
First of all the 80s were close to 40 years ago. How about the period 2000-2010? What did change after 2010 that wasn't there before? Miami Beach was always a touristy place. Spring Break and Memorial Day were always rowdy affairs.

And when I talked about shop/restaurants closing I emphasized their replacements. It's one thing for restaurants to close in Miami Beach (happens every year).
It's quite another for same restaurant to close and be replaced by a kebab or pizza place. Entire streets that were lined with upscale shops have been turned into cash extraction mechanisms for unsophisticated, drunken passers by. What does that tell you about the character of the neighborhood?

Today's SOBE bears little resemblance to SOBE of the pre-Airbnb past.
Willing guinea pig here. I'm going to do my best not to die, but I'm excited about this tech and willing to deal with the drawbacks of being an early adopter.
You deploy in phases. You only remove data in the final phase. I wrote about this at https://engineering.edx.org/django-migration-donts-f4588fd11....
Is the manifesto also considered propaganda media? What about analysis of that manifesto, or discussions about how to prevent attacks like this based on the contents of the manifesto, especially if they contain excerpts?

Should we ban security companies from using the video for training purposes or to design better security or anti-terror measures?

Should we ban people from sharing the attacker's name?

Should we ban news agencies from even reporting on attacks like this? Keep in mind that news-coverage especially has been shown to incite copy-cat attacks.
I use github.com/urfave/cli, but I almost always end up wrapping it with my own declarative framework. Gradually said framework is becoming more general purpose and suitable for general use, at which point I'll probably open source it and hopefully it will make someone's life better.
Using 3 sensors you can track full 360°, it works very well with my setup
Underground parking is sometimes put in as a requirement for new development. But even with new construction where you start by digging a hole in the ground, it's relatively expensive. It's sometimes a necessity when there simply isn't room in the area for e.g. commuters driving in to park, but it doesn't come cheap.