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Anecdotally, I've got a PC that is VR-capable. I've tried VR as a curiosity, but it hasn't been compelling enough for me to buy my own headset. However, Half-Life 2 is my favorite videogame of all time, and this announcement will probably get me to reconsider and shell out for an Index or similar.
This is not funny my dude
Just signed up, I hope this really takes off.
I think the design needs a proper face lift, then again the first version of FB wasnt a really eye candy either.

I hope in future they implement messaging system and events.
I believe a separate room (sealed with automatic closing door) and an air extractor/scrubber is required for indoors usage. Where I live, you can offer a smoking section outdoors, but honestly, the air extractors are pretty cheap and help avoid adjacent non-smoking patrons from being bothered. They should be used both indoors and outdoors in my view.
The occasional war comes to mind.
The level of infiltration of the 50 cent army on YouTube is absurd. I don't know if you can post links in comments, but try this video on decoupling and read the comments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSbAZGd_Dj0

some comments from pro CCP:

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decoupling is good, US collapses faster.
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Why accuse China of nationalism? In the past they said "Good Christians" and today they say "Patriots". It's the same old trick
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The US started this trade war, and now it's starting to hurt the US economy. Can economists foresee the dark future that lies in store for the USA, if it should continue down this path of confrontation?
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I want can see as top dog by any other country except evil US empire.
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My friend and I have been analyzing this trend for a long time. You can spot the 50 cent army on youtube on any video that has US and China in the title. The three go to arguments are

1) American imperialism in the middle east, as a counter to belt and road, hostile debt traps, or human rights violations

2) American prison population, as a counter to human rights violations

3) Referring to the past ie "china was the biggest economy for 2000 years" to explain why it will dominate America
Yes, Racket uses Git. Which things are and aren't a derived work of other things is a complicated question which is, for example, the subject of a big lawsuit between Oracle and Google, and I won't pretend to give a final answer here. But we did follow the advice of our attorneys as part of the Software Freedom Conservancy (one of the big benefits of joining SFC is having such attorneys who know about free software copyright law).
In some games you can at least move some meters around if you have roomscale VR. But for every bigger movement than that you have to use teleportation.
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While i'm not a fan of Steam, with it you can still keep the files around and some games are DRM free or rely on a DLL that you can easily replace. See Scott Ross' recent video about Trackmania 2 Nation for an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulp99wSUNgk

But personally i prefer GOG where i have hundreds of games (though it isn't the only store i use - any that give me DRM-free games, like Humble Store or GamersGate - is fine) and i keep my own offline copies (including games from stores that have long gone - another reason i dislike DRM schemes and prefer to have control over my files).
My thesis is, that proclaimed functional programmers spend more time on mathematical structures than implementation details. Hence a sum type and not a tagged union (how the target evaluater distinguishes should not name the type).
From YouTube's perspective this makes total sense. Their takedown system is heavily automated because they deal with hours of new video every minute. There are two possibilities for error:

1. False Positive -- Video is brought down despite it being technically legal. Creator is mad, but YouTube suffers no more liability.

2. False Negative -- Big corporate lawyers sue YouTube for hundreds of trillions of dollars for copyright infringement. Also, these corporate lawyers would very much prefer it if you didn't believe in fair use at all. They will try to convince the court that fair use isn't a thing for weird technical reasons, and they might succeed.

So naturally the system is tuned to error on the side of generating excessive false positives. Unfortunately the enforcement side doesn't seem to understand how bad the false positive problem is and hits creators with draconian punishments for errors on YouTube's part.
Sure, you shouldn't "always" escape like you say, but I don't think the people the author is criticizing are watching marvel movies 12 hours a day.
This talking point had been soundly debunked. Sweden kept up the threat of charges and demand for extradition for nearly ten years, but dropped them like a hot potato when the US charges became public (when Sweden's charges would only get in their way).

Never mind that Assange was ridiculed for most of those ten years for claiming that US would seek his extradition.

His understanding of the world, including the assessment that Sweden is extremely servile to the US in security/foreign policy matters, has been vindicated again and again.
I'm really happy to see a social network that makes costs clear and allow me to pay for its services in exchange for not having my data sold.

It probably won't grow to hundreds of millions of users but that's fine. Closer connections with people that care are much more interesting.
>I know that this is an ultra liberal community

It isn't. HN is actually very far from even a mildly liberal community in the correct sense of the word.

Unless you use the word in the same way people from rural Kansas do when what they actually mean is a leftist.
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The numerical tower is one of the features of Lisp that the Algol descendants have not yet stolen, and I don’t know why not.

“Efficiency” is tough to believe given all the other inefficient yet nice features that have been universally adopted, like Unicode, variable length lists, bigints, etc. In many dynamic languages, every method call is a hash table lookup, yet we’re expected to believe they don’t use Decimals by default because it would be too slow? In C++ I’d buy that excuse.
If the media groups apply violence (by using the law enforcement agencies as goon squads) even though you did nothing wrong, give the media groups back violence - that's self-defense.
> please stop saying that

This is the first time that I said that...

> He was arguing that the definition of rape should not change based on the country you're in, or to put it in other words: if you are 16 in Italy, you can give consent to have sex, if you are 17 years and 364 days old in U.S.A., you can't.

Yes, just because having consensual sex with a 17 and 364 days years old is illegal in some places and the law there calls it rape it does not make it rape in reality. Same thing applies here. Just because the Swedish law calls it rape it does not mean that it really is rape.

> That's not what she says.

This is what Guardian says https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange... - can you show me your source where she says that he raped her?
I have the same concerns and it's very important to be skeptical. Social media is now the perfect way for governments to control how people perceive something and brings us much closer to an Orwellian world. I think that every government (including the US) is engaging in this disinformation campaigning & psychological warfare, and it's ruining the vision I think most of us had of what the internet would become back in the 90s.

Amusingly, when you look at the comments to yours here in this thread, they try to shift the conversation to "Look at what US does in <region>" without actually talking about what you specifically are bringing up. I see this pattern a lot now, whenever you bring up any thoughts such as yours in this realm involving China, a lot of whataboutism in reply happens. Sad to see this happening on HN.
Pistol Whip (just came out) seems to have nailed it pretty well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bae9EykifVk
Woah. Slow down there.

Maybe 6 max.
Whoa, cool! What sort of work did you do during your internship? Pixar is definitely in my top-5 list of companies I would love to work for.
I've been wondering lately whether Steam will be able to hold onto its large commission and market share, given the rise of competition like the Epic Games Store with a much more competitive commission rate. I can imagine these stores will have to increasingly differentiate themselves as technology platforms going forward (e.g. VR on Steam, or Unreal Engine licensing on EGS). In this way VR exclusive games make a lot of sense for Valve, to encourage people to buy into their platform.
Would you consider the recent Joker movie to be a superhero movie? I do absolutely consider it cinema.

If we define cinema to exclude boring and predictable, then a lot of US cinema stops being so, super hero movie or not. The same goes for most Hollywood comedies and tons and tons of love stories. Guess it is time to switch to French arthouse.

Guess my point is, whether a movie is considered cinema or not has little to do with whether it is a super hero movie.
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Was “the boys” meant to be any of those things? I found it entertaining and well done, who cares about categorizing the people in tights

If anything it is a satire on the trope and that’s it

I like the anti-hero in tights trope, it makes them more grounded

The new recruit going through with sexual harassment while being praised by her family and fans for being recruited? Wanting to be mad but also being a sexual being?

There is no grand lesson just a story, one relatable to a broadening audience
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I think the recent Joker movie was a good counter-example, of a comic book character study that was not comfortable to watch. Most people I know left the theatre with a lot of questions and/or a sense of unease, not with a spring in their step.

On the other hand, perhaps Joker is the exception that proves the rule. It was certainly unlike every other superhero movie thus far.
I personally wish CoffeeScript had taken over JavaScript. Anyways, I'm in ClojureScript world now.
Yeah, now Assange’s extradition to the U.S. is ensured, there’s no reason to keep the sham investigation going any longer.

Sweden’s involvement in the extrajudicial persecution of Assange is downright shameful.
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> And, of course, "run Solaris" just killed the whole thing instantly, so instantly it baffles me how they didn't stop the project on day one. In 2004 nobody could use Linux except programmers— you struggled to run office suites on Linux— and Solaris was one step harder than Linux.

I dunno about this. My dad was a research chemist and when I was a kid I would occasionally go into the office and check out the computer. They were all using Unix workstations (Solaris I believe) and seemed to get their work done fine. There was Lotus Notes, there was NCSA Mosaic... all the things you do with your computer today, they did with Unix 25 years ago. My dad wasn't a programmer and neither were his lab-mates. That was just how computers were then. This was not 2004, though, this was like 1995. But I was 10 and figured it out with 10 minutes of screwing around on "take your kid to work day", so maybe it wasn't so complicated that no mere mortal could ever hope to compute in that environment.

I agree that office suites circa 2004 were bad. I used Linux all throughout high school and never liked Abiword or the competition (I guess OpenOffice might have been a thing back then). I learned LaTeX and used that. Looking back, I don't think I would have liked Microsoft Word, either. WYSIWYG was a big deal back then, but I didn't really care what I got. (I ended up tweaking LaTeX to double-space and use thin margins to look like Word, since teachers demanded it. I personally didn't care; whatever Knuth decided looked good, I was fine with.)

Using Unix or Linux back then was really liberating. I remember that if you wanted to learn C or C++ on DOS/Windows/Mac at the time, you had to spend hundreds of dollars on an IDE (Borland C++? Visual C++? I don't really remember.) Or you could just install Linux, and it was all free. Sure, Emacs had some warts, and wasn't really integrated with GCC... but if you were willing to push through, you could do your homework at home, while your classmates had to stay in the computer lab and do it.

I dunno, I don't think it was all that bad. We ended up using the "software runs on a server" model anyway, with web apps. You open Google Docs to type something and if your computer blows up, no worries, you can just keep working from another computer. Very much like the Sun smartcard-based system the author describes, just with more "material design" instead of "some UNIX geeks were excited they figured out how to draw shadows efficiently." What's old is new. Not much has REALLY changed.
This is fine, people can do what they want, but they're deluding themselves if they think small companies are perfect stewards of data. How exactly do these people know that Fitbit wasn't already selling their data using it in a way they don't approve of?
> his theories of psychosis are considered nonsense these days

They were considered nonsense when he first put them out, too. That's what happens when you challenge a field at its foundations.
> Also, it's not clear to me that your proposed wraparound addition operator is actually fully associative in all possible cases of overflow.

Proof sketch: write out (an/ad + (bn/bd) + cn/cd)) and ((an/ad + bn/bd) + cn/cd) symbolically, and apply the fact that twos complement arithmetic is associative, commutative and distributive in all possible cases of overflow.

> An addition operator where adding two positive numbers results in a negative number can hardly be called "the mathematically natural" variant.

It's exactly how integer arithmetic works on every CPU designed after 1980, to general satisfaction. In any case, it's mathematically natural because it's exactly how you would construct the field of fractions of an integral domain.
First of all, sorry, but I'm Italian and I don;t get all the nuances.

The difference between stealing and theft was unknown to me.

Secondly: no, it's not guilty until proven innocent, Manning has been proven guilty, she never denied of illegally obtaining those documents.

third: in this case Manning confessed. There's no much debate we can do about it.

fourth: no, I don't put any particular fate on courts, is just how the system works.

I'm not a sex offender until a court says so.

And after that people would say "he's a sex offender" not "the court said he's a sex offender".

Unfortunately I don't make the rules.
These movies--including V--are violent power fantasies for people without agency.

This is "anime was a mistake" tier clarity on Alan Moore's behalf. Good on him!
But superheroes provide convenient excuses why we don't do that: they're super. Oh sure, you can argue that some of them don't have magic powers, like Batman and Ironman, but that's ignoring super-wealth (and impossible engineering).

What we need is a superhero who's just a guy with a crappy office job who wants to make the world a better place, and his only tools are his sense of justice and a costume he bought at a garage sale. Someone so utterly unremarkable that they just use their regular name as their superhero name.

That's right, I'm saying we need an Arthur movie.

...more realistically, I think we could use more stories about regular people who made a difference just by be being good people.
Well, since you brought it up... My MBP was actually one of the most expensive things I had ever bought, at that time. I've been pretty poor my entire life (e.g., sometimes had to skip meals as a kid because we had nothing to eat), and I worked harder than you can probably imagine for many years to be as good with computers and tech as I am now. I bought the MBP using a few thousand dollars that I had saved up from some odd freelance jobs, which was the most money I'd ever had, and the purchase of the MBP took a significant percentage of it. However, I knew that the MBP would be a good investment (and I'm now aware of just how good of an investment it was, compared to newer models) to help me find more work, be more effective, and make more money. I am very lucky to have chosen this path, for sure, but don't assume things about people.
And here's Jeff trying to save himself from going through the same thing.
"Thousands"
That's a bridge to cross when it's arrived at. As it is impossible to foresee every eventuality we can only deal with the problems at hand taking reasonable precautions in the process.
Bought a device that uploads data to the internet, surprised when it's not used for their benefit.

Stop buying devices that require internet access, you have a supercomputer in your pocket that they can connect to. And a home network.
This might help explain why the dominant statically-typed languages are so hated. It's easy to choose Python when those languages are too clumsy to express a closed tagged union. This gives an undeserved bad rep to statical typing as a whole, when the solution is obvious to anyone familiar with algebra. Sum types are to product types what addition is to multiplication: if your language has one, why not have the other one? Answer that one, Bjarne Stroustrup!
> Is his only current crime skipping bail on charges he believed were fake?

No, he's already served the time for that. He's held strictly for extradition by now.
Doesn’t it make more sense if google buys this gpu and shares it among, say, 50 users who have maximum an hour of gaming every week? It almost certainly has to be cheaper sharing hardware among users instead of having each single user owning a piece of hardware which is idle almost all of the time. Unless of course hardware price is neglect-able with respect to game price.
To continue your line of reasoning. And I think it's what makes XR so immersive, with immersion being a hallmark of the HL franchise. Is the opening of a possibility-space in VR of having any human player "thought" made manifest as "material" in the virtual world.

HL:A possibly represents a watershed. The 40-hour, single-player narrative action VR experience (not to mention a Counterstrike VR mod). What recently released Asgard's Wrath referred to as "God-scale" gaming

https://uploadvr.com/asgards-wrath-review/
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He isn't suggesting that the movies don't reliably make people feel things. He's questioning to what end are these feelings being evoked, and the absence of other probings amidst those archetypal evocations.

A hallmark commercial can also evoke loss and make people cry, but that doesn't mean it's more than a commercial or that its only motive isn't broad emotional manipulation employed to sell product.
>I have thrown away several macbooks and I know several people that has too

This seems like its explicitly your problem given that apple will take and recycle your old macbooks for free if they are worthless and if they arent they will take them for a credit.
>the evidential situation has been weakened to such an extent that that there is no longer any reason to continue the investigation.

This is bullshit. Either they had real evidence or not. Evidence does not "weaken" with time. The truth is they never had evidence because the charges were BS in the first place. The only thing that has weakened is the fact that that the U.S. and other powers that want him dead already have him... so they no longer need trumped up charges to snare him.

He should be freed immediately and damages should be paid to him by all those involved in his illegal detention.
A is an important question, but a completely different subject altogether.

B would follow from A being true, and how the question is answered depends on the nature of the creator and his relationship with his creation.

Some might the Deist route and say that the watchmaker wound the watch and walked away. I argue for a creator that cares deeply about human flourishing on an individual, interpersonal, and societal level, and would thus want to regulate something that is immensely consequential for all of these spheres.

There's an idolatry angle as well, but I don't wanna branch this thread too much.
It is in the business of assassinating visible targets. By probability and behavioral record. Unless you have special evidence to contrary.
Didn't tear up per se, but they are extremely well executed movies. The characters mostly have a distinct character arc (except for Captain Marvel), and their actions follow their character development. Weaving so many movies and so many characters together into a cohesive story line is an impressive feat. Some of the choices seem obvious now, but were really risky. Like a sci-fi movie featuring a talking racoon and a walking tree. (Closest I got to a tearing-up moment was when Starlord's mom gives him the mix tape.)

Ending Infinity War with Thanos triumphant rivals "Luke I am your father" as the emotional twist to a major blockbuster movie. (Even knowing from the comics what was going to happen, it was still a weird emotional state walking out of the theater after that.)

I think the reason the success of the Marvel movies was so universal was because even people not normally interested in comic book stories still recognized they are executed so well.
I think the main difference between the Engelbart work you cite and Turing, for example, is the ambiguity of their ideas. It's a lot easier to come up with some futuristic idea about _what_ is being done, then a specification of _how_ that futuristic thing is done. There are so many interesting ideas that can be found in science fiction (and many of them end up being implemented decades later), but they are not very useful without the knowledge of how to actually build these things.
Reddit with Wikipedia-style moderation does not appeal to me.
There was no evidence, just two women accusing him of sexual misconduct (if memory serves, it wasn’t even rape in the classical sense, but Assange not wearing a condom when he’d said he would).
Wow, this was really useful. Thanks for that! :)
It will sell like hot cakes for the first week then plummet. Then a non VR version will be made.
It’s cool to have options. Hope Stadia works out and a lot of people enjoy it. There’s something really fun about building a pc and overclocking it and modding the games though :-) Also, having all your mods and saves on your own backups is great too.

That being said, it’s quite perplexing that a 1080ti can’t keep a stable 60fps in 1080p on a game built on unity on ultra settings reliably. For instance, The Outer Worlds. If Stadia can crack that, they’ll make a _lot_ of money.
There are people who try to archive Flash and Shockwave games and if anything, this is a good example of trying to fix something after the bad situation has already happened: the best time was when things were new. But better now than never.

PowerPC and 86k macs can be run under emulation so not everything is lost. Similar for games for DOS and ancient Windows versions, though from my personal experience 99.9% of old games will work on Windows 10 with some tweaks and/or wrappers (like dgVoodoo2, dxwnd, otvdm, etc and of course user made patches). It is extremely rare that i find an old game i cannot get to run.
Actually, if you put kids in there you will probably need barb-wire, armed guards and metal detectors at some point. I mean, who seriously expects that NONE of these kids go mental? "Best" case this ends up with a trauma, worst case one of them will eventually grab a gun (at least the odds increase a lot).
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A classic essay on this phenomenon: "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
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