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Sure, sure, you have exhaustively-researched articles by professional investigative journalists, but where's the proof?
Paperplane Hack
Is this for Oculus Quest yet?
right? just tempting fate.
I don't think the article is trying to justify what the guy did. It is trying to explore the background and specific experiences that made him do what he did, from the point of view of someone who clearly isn't thrilled about evangelical Christianity.

Although this kind of explanation can and are often used to apologize for bad behavior, it can be valuable to learn the mechanisms by which people are pushed toward those kinds of behavior. Learning what encourages people to commit certain crimes in our own society, for example, can help us reduce the incidence of said crimes.

Instead of just pointing fingers at religious fanatics and blaming them for everything, we could do something more constructive and try to reach out to troubled kids when their dad loses his medical license (which is what happened to this particular guy) so that they don't need to seek refuge in a fantasy project. That's the kind of insight that a detailed post-mortem can bring, both in technology and in the society.
I mean, I think there is one sense where you can define evil only as the intent to be evil. In this case donating money to orphans would be evil if somehow your intent was to do harm failing to realize that you were doing good.

My argument is that from a utilitarian perspective, people with good intentions doing [bad, evil, unethical, whatever] cause much more human suffering and misery than those people whose intent is evil and yet they so often are given a pass on their actions.

And then either way, you could make this argument like: "why did person x choose to be evil where as person y chose to be good." That seems almost more arbitrary an likely to be biological from a detached perspective. I'd much rather judge people on their ability to deeply introspect and evaluate the world and come to good conclusions.
According to the article, these experiments have already been done in the US before.
On Rock-Paper-Scissors and Random
Good point. I got the two flipped in my head, but I think the rest of the comment applies.
What _is_ it? A new headset? A new browser? What?
With that rationale you literally can't change anything ever. Version 1.0 ever after.

It is better if it ultimately just takes time for them to like it. The same people who initially hated it will most likely grow to like it. When we migrated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 last year, my boss was extremely upset--but he was just as upset a decade ago having to upgrade to Windows 7 in the first place.

Users come around eventually.
Very nice! I suspect the economy of Cloud will soon change in such a way that Cloud providers will be focusing more on Enterprise, which have very little capability of doing similar things. And then, a lot of companies like Hakuna Cloud (reported here) will emerge, just like what happened in the last iteration of IT infrastructure.
I don't really feel The Matrix went into any kind of philosophical issues beyond referencing them, to be honest.
What the article fails to mention is just how much tech has changed people's lives in the past decade. People spend more time staring at their smartphones, order more through Amazon, are more likely to take an Uber or rent an Airbnb, etc. With tech companies being a much bigger part of people's lives, it's only natural that the industry will be more valuable.

My only real fear right now is what happens when funding contracts, and how much of the growth in the sector is a synergistic circle jerk? Is Amazon only worth a lot because of AWS, and only because AWS makes a big chunk of its revenue off startups?
For human organs the most likely host species is pig.

Pigs are big enough and apparently quite similar to us. And also the slaughter of hundreds of millions of them every year is already well accepted...
In my experience kids younger than 7 don't do well in VR.

Part of that is using the game controller blind, and having small hands as well. A controller designed for younger kids might help.
Cognitive biases used to improve UX
The Time When Donald Trump Didn’t Seem Like a Moron (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Sorry for trying to be helpful.
Switzerland was third world under this definition?
Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition,Examples in JavaScript: Tech Reviewers Wanted
Not sure what the situation is for tabbed browsing in this.

"Viewing multiple pages concurrently" issue repeatedly mentions tabs as something that needs to be designed https://github.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality/issues/635, in May saying "Will keep this issue open for designing Tabs. Feel free to make changes to track the design + engineering."

But then in June it's "Closing this in favor of new meta bug #1319"

And #1319 does not mention tabs anywhere. https://github.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality/issues/1319

Maybe tabs have been implicitly bundled into "multiwindow" when they're talking about that? Can't check myself because the Quest version doesn't have any multiwindow support, it looks like they're working on a crash issue for it.

I tried a dev build sideloaded last week on the Quest and being in a single-window no-tab environment where you can only have one page open at a time is very limiting. But as soon as that's worked out, I'll be switching to this as the main browser.

I wonder if it will be possible for someone to patch Oculus Home so that the Browser button opens this instead.
Reminds me of the Bene Tleilax and their Axlotl tanks - presumed to be advanced technology but in reality female humans.
Yep

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/app/2180252408763702
I think there shouldn't be change in a software project just for the sake of change. It should be okay to just maintain a project without changing major parts of it. Unfortunately there are some projects that just go the opposite way. Major UI changes every few months just for the sake of it. As for myself I am not opposed to changes, but only when it's meaningful.
Monte Carlo Integration in Rendering
> Well, fuck you too, friend!

> Why the visceral hate?

Pot, kettle.
Funnily enough, I watched it the other day. Morpheus mentions that the machines use a combination of “human batteries” and fusion. First time it stuck out - humans purely for energy purposes seems daft with access to efficient fusion. Growing and harvesting humans seems like a lot of overhead in comparison. Maybe that was what was left of the original “matrix as creativity farm” concept.

As I said, first time it stuck out so most people, including me at one time, must have just took it at face value.

Still love the film to this day though. Sounds sad but had goosebumps at the end when Neo actually turns out to be the one.
What if those morals are evil?

(Philosophical question I suppose)
Even adding features is fine (and to a lesser extent, removing them), as long as you don't change the workflow users depend on.
I think modern CS could benefit from more claymation videos.
This isn't really a problem. America can just wait for somebody else to take the risk and show the benefit, and then popular opinion would change. And we have the back-bench to develop these technologies once somebody has shown it possible.

note that many parts of the US enthusiastically adopted stem cell technology (https://www.cirm.ca.gov/about-cirm/history) but unfortunately federal-level policies set by conservative leaders have ameliorated the ambitious plans of that project.
Reducing China’s CO2 Emissions Would Curb Deadly Air Pollution in U.S.
I want a multi process GUI architecture that lets me send messages to a native rendering process from a bundled sub-process which can be written in any language. Is it a bad idea? I don’t see anybody trying this…
I just had a conversation about this product idea a couple days ago. How long before Amazon acquires it and cripples the functionality? Could be a good exit strategy, at least.
Once you get to the point where pretty much every new feature serves just a niche, plugins are the solution.

If need one of a hundred niche features, it's great to have software that has it, and it's also really great to have softare that doesn't have the other 99 features; it's better from usability perspective if they don't get automatically added for me.
Metaphors We Believe By
Because a web-app is the only way you can monetize a desktop app like functionality in 2019.

Linux desktop toolkits and dev environment utterly sucks.
You'll have to develop 3 different codebases for Win, Mac and Linux.
Worse still, you'll have to reinvent app updates technology if you go with Qt or will be tied into a different updating technology and still have to deal with piracy problems.

Or you could go with web-apps:

-> Easy to develop code

-> Can't be pirated

-> In built model of regular payments

-> One codebase for all platforms

It's not even a close fight.
I've seen World on a Wire. It's pretty awful.
No E.T. Life Yet?
Savings and Loan Crisis: ~ 1000 convictions

Dotcom bubble: 3 convictions

Great Recession: 0 convictions

The system has failed.
I liked Windows 7 so much more than Windows Vista I probably can't express it. Same when Firefox moved to a slimmer UI. Anecdata, of course, but "users will unfailingly hate ever major redesign without fail regardless of how much better it is" seems impossible to substantiate.
All of the above, plus the lost wars, thousands of people killed and displaced, broken dreams and promises, broken economy, huge rise of crime, mob bosses and crime-connected tycoons, one of the greatest hyper-inflations ever, nationalization and then organized pumping out of banks money and people's savings out of the country to the secret accounts on Cyprus that left millions without their life savings, the whole social and moral structure of society got turned upside-down in very short period of time... the list is quite long, Milosevic was a typical dictator who used force and propaganda to hide his own incompetence and crimes. Contrary to common picture painted of him in West, I don't think he was ever a real believer in communism, nor he was really a hard-core nationalist either, he used the both simply as a source of power when it was convenient for him, but then also made moves that were completely opposite when it was needed. He was really just an opportunist greedy of power. And unfortunately in 90s most of other political leaders in Yugoslavia were pretty much the same, and the old system was broken and unsustainable anymore...
Does Technology Spell Doom for Close Relationships?
Not by default yet, but you can enable it for testing. Requires a recompile with a properties file to make the option appear.

>Experimental Servo support

>To compile with Servo support, create a file called user.properties in the top-level project directory and add enableServo=1. Then to enable Servo in Firefox Reality, go the Developer Options panel in the Settings, and toggle the Servo option. Then a new button will be added to the navigation bar. Clicking that button will reload the current page with Servo.

https://github.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality
Yes, we used to call these 'basic computer skills' but many people don't have them.

Do you think you could buy a car that needed new piston rings and replace them successfully if you've only ever driven a car? Someone can give you the manual, but you'll be like "What's a torque wrench?" Why should PCs be any different?
Yes! There's an active Servo Layout 2.0 project going on right now, which is a revamp of layout to make it production-quality. Anthony developed some Rust iterator magic to allow us to write sequential-looking code that actually runs in parallel, which is a major improvement in maintainability over what we had before.

Most of the work is currently going on out-of-tree in Simon's victor project, if you're interested: https://github.com/SimonSapin/victor
Current Warming Is Unparalleled in Past 2k Years
While Standpoint is culturally conservative, the way you've worded it implies that because it is British it necessarily mean that it is culturally conservative. A version of this could equally have appeared in a publication from any English speaking nation.

However, the author -- Theodore Dalrymple (not his real name) -- is a particularly interesting character.

He is almost exclusively pessimistic about humanity, with a particular dislike of anyone less fortunate than himself. He seems to believe that everyone ends up in life where they deserve, taking to an extreme the idea of personal responsibility, and draws on his experience as a prison doctor to try to excuse his writing career of finding ever new ways to look down on others.
What if the other side's morals are evil? What even is evil? Is there an objective "evil"?
>1945 was a long time ago and a very different Japan

Japan is currently sanctioning Samsung because it wants to avoid responsibility for WW2 sexual slavery.
Magnet and Neuron Model Also Predicts Arctic Sea Ice Melt
> We don't still force Germany to have caps on its army.

You pacified the German psyche so thoroughly that the Germans do it themselves now.
Would love to see a more detailed write-up, if one exists, on your experience. We're nowhere near your scale but will probably ramp up in the next year or so.
Maybe this is a stupid question but how would you click on something like this ? With your eyes or your hands ?
You're probably right and this is a total 100% dichotomy between naked, machine like capitalism and Soviet style central planning with Gulags etc.
Einstein's general relativity theory is questioned but still stands for now
I don't have any numbers so this is a genuine question: Is a big chunk of AWS revenue from startups? My intuition says most startups have small cloud footprints unless they're dealing with massive scale.
That's basically the ROI curve of software.

Beginning: Slow and almost no return. Slow being a lot of intellectual effort to lay the foundation. No return being the foundation does not do anything useful, yet.

Middle: Fast and linear return. Building on a sound foundation allow adding feature that is simple and with high quality; and the return is linear to the effort.

End-of-life: Slow and almost no return. Bloated software eventually is dragged down by historical burden (tech debt, legacy features, etc.). Massive effort is needed to add feature, and the return is almost painful to stand.

A lot of recent software took the approach of forced update to extend the middle life. Like the chrome today is considerably different thing than its beginning. Py3 tries to demolish its historical legacy, and embrace new foundations.
After reading articles talking about this, I felt dumb for never noticing it before. There are plenty of articles that talk about it, but this is one of my favorites [1]. The connection to Lana's suicide attempt as a young adult and the subway scene is really powerful.

[1]: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/03/26/my-name-is-neo-trans...
Reading the comments in this thread and others, it seems to me that a lot of people want to argue about how many canaries have to die before the threat to the miners is taken seriously.

That any of the Schengen information made it to the US at all is a dead canary.
Yes, and customers do very much vote with their wallets, even when the costs of switching exceed the benefits of switching!

What kind of bike, or most other physical products, get updates or upgrades for free whether one wants them or not? Certainly physical products with software and networking can, but people are often upset when that happens anyways. I'm pretty sure almost all bikes are not in fact automatically updated or upgraded after they're purchased. And that's essentially a 'feature' now in comparison to a lot of software purchases.
Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research
Not at all. Its an unprovoked insult versus the retaliation.
hilarious - this is the incarnation of a psuedo joke that will never die on the internet. remember the dog? this was his font. now it can be all your coding too LOL
Why aren’t we stopping kids from getting them?

Changing the flavor sounds needlessly draconian, as adults like apple and bubblegum, too.

You can flood your system with caffeine using over the counter caffeine pills, or ultra-high caffeine drinks.

You can flood your system with alcohol with everclear or unconventional ingestion methods.

Neither of these behaviors are as common as this article is trying to push about nicotine, probably mostly due to education and possibly due to the relative addictive nature of caffeine and alcohol.

This whole article, though, talks about teens, presumably underage ones, vaping. Isn’t that already illegal? Shouldn’t we get better at that part before we add more things?
This reads eerily like the articles about endless money right before the massive dot com crash
I'm pretty sure that's not true. But maybe I'm wrong. To know the answer, we'll have to discover the monetary cost of doing so and calculate how long it might take to save up money, and what must be forgone, to acheive it.
re: childhood development - Arguably the more interesting work on this is how particularly intense acute periods of stress that would register as "trauma" predispositions an individual to things like much higher rates of ischemic heart failure, diabetes, and other health conditions that we might not typically relate to trauma.

Then there's all the standard stuff you might expect, emotional dysregulation into adulthood, drug and alcohol abuse, suicidal behaviour, etc.

See Dr. Vincent Felitti's Adverse Childhood Experience studies for more info.
T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Finally Wins Justice Department's Blessing
That link does not describe the EU collecting fingerprints it just reports that their is an EU requirement for passports to contain biometic data. The EU do not collect or store that data national governments do.
Trump agrees to prompt responses to license requests for Huawei sales
I believe it was discussed in Cologne, 'Enabling Constexpr Intrinsics......' - http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p166...

Quite a meaty document, should provide you with help for material on the subject.
Hey fellow hackers, I think you need to work on your sense of humor.

As someone who is inked, I not only found this hilarious, but interesting and well-written, and the author actually has experience with prison tattoos, which makes him more expert than 99% of us, easily.

Also, this may shock you, but I'm going to go out on a limb and agree with the author that your tattoo is neither original nor cool, so if that's what you find offensive then you've totally missed the point!
Nah, dunno if you're italian man, but "esterovestizione" is kinda peculiar.

I would like to experiment (and pay taxes on profits, if any, as a person), then open a proper italian company.
Agree on the politics part, the one thing that wears me down the fastest. Hope you recover quickly, it might take I guess so...
I take a view in between of the quoted article and the video it criticizes. There are costs to changes. The key, to me, whether those changes are outweighed by functionality improvement, as on average perceived by users. There will always be folks who do not like the change, but if the majority of the users like new functionality (maybe after a bit of griping), or most strong advocates among users love it, this is probably a change for the better.

Unfortunately, many software changes are done without bringing the benefit for the users (e.g., "we are switching to framework/model X, so UX is now different; deal with it"). Those changes are pretty hard to justify. Not always impossible (e.g., you may have reached the limits of older design and have to spend a lot on devops, etc.), but hard and for those cases the company should bend over backwards to minimize pain for users. My 2c.
Personally I’d say: separate data and interface logic to the maximum possible level and then write a truly native interface for each platform that matters to you.

This does not apply if your application has so many custom controls that being native does not matter that much (for example a music creation software or a highly advanced raster editor)
Personally, I find that most modern UIs that explicitly do not conform to an OS’s opinionated UI design style (for example: the majority of web stack UIs[1]), are often better in almost every way vs apps that do conform to OS style!

When I’m using an advanced UI to do some specialized task, I generally appreciate when the UI patterns I learn on one OS transfer seamlessly to any other device and OS I may use to do the same task.

But I especially appreciate that apps can choose the UI style and design to suit the task at hand, rather than some notion of conforming to OS style patterns that may or may not work in its favor. For example, I prefer that Visual Studio Code looks the same on all platforms, because I find its UI to be superior to the default style of any OS!

What do you think about these thoughts? Am I alone in preferring custom UIs per app, with consistent app experience across devices?

[1] For the sake of this argument, I’m not counting differences in runtime performance and efficiency, since that’s a whole other topic, and one theoretically orthogonal to the UI design.
Note that multi-window support isn't released on Quest yet, but should come once they get to the bottom of this: https://github.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality/issues/1459
In this case the dream was making a bunch of people sick and kill them.

Hitler also had a dream. Sadly he was not killed fast enough.

So before you die following your dream, you should run a sanity check on it.
> VCs aren't going to invest in a product because some top 10 list on a website says so.

More visibility of being in the Top 10 as opposed to a lower slot => higher EV
You're too clueless to understand that the number one thing that is extremist is emitting so much CO2. It's pointless to debate anything with someone of significantly dissimilar intelligence.
Game engines live or die based on how they adapt to the constantly changing landscape. Unity made sense of the mobile landscape first and that led to their ascendancy. With mobile gaming on the decline and a looming new console generation, Unity will be put to the test.

Even when game engines don't fail themselves, they can become obsolete. As a general rule: love no language, engine or platform. They all come and go over the span of a career and that's especially true in an industry like gaming which constantly sits at the bleeding edge.

Some of Unity's innovations like the asset store will endure no matter what engine is on top. But the next iteration will probably just look more like a package manager.
It's pretty cool that utility computing is large enough to spawn 3rd party companies that further increase effeciency of the pool.

It's layers upon layers of technical progress in parallel.
Sounds like something GCP support would love to help you troubleshoot. The disruptions I'm aware of have no correlation to load balancer traffic paths.

What's the actual reason listed for the 502s in Stackdriver? That's a great first step.
> Forte VFX-1

Man I remember seeing those in copies of PC Gamer as a kid. You can find modern reviews online. They had a lot of issues; mostly due to low resolution leading to motion sickness.

There were attempts at 3D web standards in the past. Who remembers VRML?!
https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-doc/blob/master/helper...
At Hakuna we use our own service to start and stop our Jira and NPM servers; the instances are automatically stopped at night or whenever nobody needs to do `npm install`.

In our use case, the EC2 instance starts in about 50 seconds, with another minute needed to start the Jira service.

We have a demo, deployable directly from our CLI, that starts a Nginx server on an Oracle Cloud instance in less than 40 seconds.

If the instance is being stopped and a new request arrives, it will have to wait shutdown + startup, yes.