skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> artificial locomotion

That's the biggest culprit. Some people even get nausea without VR headsets. There was a presentation at the California Academy of Sciences where the camera was panning as if it was travelling. A few people nearly barfed.

I wonder how much of it is training. Lots of people are ok with flight simulators, or simulated cars, train rides, etc. It's mostly when they think they are moving that the problem presents itself.

> At this point, in my opinion, the utter uselessness of any text based applications (ie what people actually DO all day long) is what is holding VR back.

In non-gaming scenarios, yes. Resolution could be better. However, it is not so bad at all. You need bigger "displays" in VR than what you would have in real life, but you can code alright.

I would personally prefer lighter, less intrusive devices, even if the resolution was the same.
I think it's an interesting refutation to Google's "one search box to rule them all" philosophy. Over the course of Windows Vista through 8.1 Microsoft attempted just that at a consumer scale that Google could only wish they could impact "where they live". (As much as people assume people live in the browser, Windows is still Windows.) The evidence mounted up overwhelmingly that people didn't want just one search box, that Google is wrong (they've yet to unify their search boxes like they claim to philosophically anyway), and that the context of where a search box appears matters, and so Windows 10 has seen the re-separation of search boxes.

One of those "context" switches that Microsoft finds is a useful context to know is "power user" versus "regular user": regular user Start Menu versus power user Win+X, regular user Search and Run versus power user Win+R/PowerTopys Run. (At one point in Windows 8 Microsoft tried to use the Win+R shortcut for something that wasn't "power user run a thing" and nearly saw a revolt.) It becomes a self-selecting "reveal" of different feature sets to match what features the user thinks they are ready for.
Would you please point out the fallacy?
With a profit of more than 10 billion per quarter, I find it hard to believe that Google can't hire more people to handle cases like this. It's not a manpower problem.

And 2) is a really interesting question. The most obvious answer is if you can't manage (curate) a platform, you shouldn't run one.
I can see why this would be useful than reading a 400 page instructions. This is simulation and it adds value during training.

As I said, there are edge cases where AR/VR makes a lot of sense. HUDs in fighter jets for example are tremendously useful. But my complain is mostly about people wanting to jam some new tech in, take on a lot of tech debt, spend $$$ in a fortune 500 company only to find that there is no real problem to be solved.

Should we spend $120k consulting with a software company to develop an iPad based checklist? Not to mention yearly maintenance of that codebase. Printed paper + pen works just fine in 90% of the cases for 99.99% less cost! You have to ask - how many people are going through this "old school" paper trail? 100? 1000? 10 million? I've seen AR in manufacturing roadmap slides where there are like 13 workers and they are all with 25+ years of experience and the management wants to do their AR boondoggle. Frustrating.
cool. This serves as a reminder why both human intelligence and machine automation to control weapons of mass destruction from launching and killing us all are so vulnerable and need to be denuclreaized before its too late.
This video is so good! I truly couldn't care less about cars (I live in New York and ride a bicycle) but this video had me hooked.
"But missing the point. If I am worried about privacy from cloud players, why to trust another cloud player?"

The workflow I am (not quite finished) setting up is as follows - I run a caching, recursive nameserver (unbound) in my own colo space. That DNS server, not me or my devices, is the nextDNS client.

Then I set all of my own networks and devices to use my (unbound) DNS server.

My goal is to receive all of the benefits of a paid nextdns account, but on the nextdns side, all they see is a single, fixed IP, in a fixed location, owned by a corporate entity, doing a bunch of DNS queries.

In fact, I am a bit worried about this exact setup because although I am using this for my own, personal use, consistent with their expectations, I could just as easily be a full-blown ISP passing through my nameservice to nextDNS ... how do they deal with that ?

Do they care ?
It's great to see that GitHub is working with repl.it. When GitHub Codespaces was announced earlier this month, there were some musings that it would hurt repl.it adoption. It seems that there are lots of choices available.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092904
This dark pattern is particular bad when extended to critical things, like national politics. Political think-tanks did a mass campaign like this to build the narrative for the Iraq War.

Heritage Foundation is one of the really bad actors here.
I dont feel sorry for them at all.

> "I also see a lot of people complaining that YouTube/Twitter/etc aren't doing enough to take down false/immoral/illegal content quick enough"

I dont want these companies touching false/immoral take downs. who are they to decide? sorry, I dont want these people in charge of the moral police. illegal stuff, like revenge porn makes sense.

> "YouTube is doing it's best to blend automation (fast but inaccurate) with human curation (more thoughtful but slower), and sometimes it gets it wrong"

I feel like they usually get it wrong, they are closer to being a blind man swinging a chain saw than a surgeon with a knife. HIRE SOME PEOPLE. they have huge margins, it would take very little for these companies to hire some people to review content.

> " feel like most of the time I see posts like this, the situation is resolved favorably and relatively quickly."

Tell that to people who have been shadow banned or demonized. most of the time, there never is resolution, their channel and all the hard work they have put together is ruined forever.
> automation ... does a very piss poor job at it

I don't think this is true. I expect it gets it right 99.9% of the time, but in this case someone is against a determined blackmailer who can put a lot of effort into exploiting that 0.1%. The automation will win for a while, but then the attacks will evolve.
...huge geopolitical bargaining chip...

Ummm, I'm not sure how to break it to you, but USA is already laughingstock of world due to our comically misguided reaction to the "pandemic". Everyone expected Trump to screw up (and he hasn't disappointed), but there isn't any person or institution in USA that hasn't totally whiffed on this. CDC mandated tests that didn't work, news media remained unconvinced until late in the game and now jump from one conspiracy theory to another, in-person elections were held as late as April 7, some states required that diseased patients be forced into nursing homes for the elderly, effective masks are still somehow difficult to acquire, Congress has passed numerous "bailout" laws representing trillions of dollars yet has somehow not been able to arrange healthcare for every citizen as most comparable nations have had for decades, our deaths have passed 100k and seem certain to pass 200k as well, etc.

It's difficult not to see this "investigation" and especially this silly press release that purports to inform the public about it as just more of the same. Furious pretend activity with no view of long-term strategy or of benefit to anyone other than the bureaucrats who wrote the release.
I think this is a fair point, but in my experience, having a concrete replica that people can start from (and compare to the paper) can make a year's difference in speeding up progress.

Many times, I've read a paper, thought something was great, and then implemented the paper and failed to reproduce the author's results. In the cases where I've been able to compare my implementation to a reference on github, I often find the paper doesn't match the code, or a subtle data processing step was left out. Having a replica (a commit hash and a pointed to versioned input data) can often make a huge difference in time.
I don't think that "user-agents" are the hard part either. At this point, I think any grad student would happily write a NN implementation that took various posts as input, and returned to you a sorted list based on your preferences (with input layers like: bag of words, author, links, time, etc, that the user could put more or less weight into just by simple upvote/downvote).

The problem is that no one has the incentive to host such a service for free, and users wants the content to be available 24/7. So it's not as simple as just setting up a peer-to-peer network. Users who just use a phone as their primary computer will still want to be able to publish to their millions of followers, and so it wouldn't work to have those millions of people connect directly to this person's device. Maybe you can solve that with a bit-torrent like approach, but the problem gets harder when you include the ability to send messages privately.
Unfortunately, not every device supports Vudu's 3D!

The important ones, PS3 and PS4, do however.
Are we are going to have to wait for a generation to die and for millions of lives to be lost (indirectly, say, through a demagogue's botched response to a pandemic needlessly leading to the infection of millions) before the average person is comfortable using a protocol (say, ActivityPub and RSS) instead of these parasitic for-profit platforms?

As long as the search for truth is burdened with advertising on platforms democracy and freedom are doomed.

If you don't see these things are linked, then you're part of the problem.
I agree - wasnt the browser intended to be the user agent? And counterpoint to some of the replies to you, surely people can just pay instead of sites being ad-based, what other industries operate in this absurd way? The public must think there’s no cost to creating software if everythings always free.
Nortel, actually :-) I spent a fair amount of time in Silicon Valley North (which I suspect is no longer referred to by that title, or has moved to a new location...)
One place where preprocessors shine is where the language itself has changed in an incompatible way, where "language" can be interpreted broadly including calls to external libraries. For example some function you need to call added an extra parameter:

#if LIB_VERSION_GE_3
lib_f (1, NULL);
#else
lib_f (1);
#endif

It can be difficult to do this with other mechanisms where the compiler is actually compiling and therefore type checking both branches.

OCaml is a pretty rich language with many features, but we fall back on preprocessors like cppo (or even cpp) to deal with these kinds of cases.
Would they set up a crypto mining scheme to obfuscate the origin and intent of the attack though?
What's the difference between using the macOS app or just setting the DNS on a router level? Just the attribution to a specific device in the dashboard? I couldn't figure that out by reading the (actually very well written) FAQ.
Self care counts as productivity now?
Yes, but the response to my comment was simply negativity as well. No attempt to contribute. That was my polite way of saying that.
> 6. Schools and jobs are mostly remote

I guess you forgot kindergarten and primary school. (And probably secondary school.) I just finished a Zoom video conference while one of my children was climbing me and other was screaming that wants chocolate milk. (The third one is old enough to run away from the mess.)
Thanks, I might give "Connect FORTRAN" a go next
Those should be replaced by web apps or mobile apps. Its 2020.
I have nothing to add except some commentary describing why or why not certain issue go viral.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...

The summary is that controversial issues are the ones that go viral. Not the ones that necessarily deserve to go viral. That is the theory of the post I linked -- I do not make any commentary whatsoever about any individual event.
Lua debugger-monitor for the Mako network server
Since the beginning.
I mean, if they wanted to reserve the use of this common animal name across all industries, that’d be ridiculous, but it would seem pretty reasonable to worry about confusion between a cloud notes app and a cloud blog app. Certainly easier to think about it now than if this service takes off.
Thanks I'm very honored.
Stop Fear-Mongering: Kids Are Safer from Covid-19 Than Everyone Else
* Use a texteditor

Where? On my iPhone?

* Hit save

Where does it save it to?

* Let Hugo/Jekyll/Pelican/whatever compile

Where does that happen? If I want to write on my phone it won't compile on my phone.

* FTP/SCP onto a server

From my phone? Also I specifically don't want to run a server, or more specifically, I don't want to pay for a server to run all the time.

* It's a blog, nobody needs a CDN for that

If you're writing about high scalability, it's a bit embarrassing and ruins your credibility if your site isn't speedy worldwide.
> in what shows up in the tags where us admins share block recommendations

Things like #fediblock you mean? Most of the block suggestions there are

- against instances because they federate (as in, they let their users view and reply to posts) with certain other instances (gab, kiwifarms, etc) even if indirectly <https://tabletop.social/@host/103308182908324413>

- against instances that host anyone who kyzh doesn't like

- against instances that host someone who got tagged by someone else that resides in an already blocked instance <https://toot-lab.reclaim.technology/@djsundog/10402250286634...

- against instances for no reason given at all <https://tenforward.social/@guinan/104015065073049864>

- against instances for made-up reasons

- against non-instances <https://mastodon.art/@Curator/103768019516091512>

Seeing an instance on a block tag does not mean anything other than that certain extremist elements are finding said instance to not strictly follow their party line at the first glance.

> Watching anime is fine by me, I’ve enjoyed the hell out of a lot of the stuff in my time.

What was your intention by focusing at the anime avatars then? To promote prejudice? To focus on the fact that they are introverts? To make fun of them for being unmanly and having cute avatars? There seems to be a lot of bullying directed at people just because of their avatars.

As I said before my experience is exactly the opposite. I started making all of my statuses private because I was getting stressed every time that someone from mastodon reposted or replied to my status. There seems to be an endless supply of mastodon users willing to jump on random threads just to insult, harass, and shit-talk people behind their backs.
I don't actually think the celebrities are contributing purely out of an altruistic desire to 'give back'. I think that's _great_ marketing by Masterclass, but the primary thing celebrities get by associating themselves with Masterclass is helping continue to build their own brand. Masterclass has positioned its self as "the best in the world teaching their craft", so by agreeing to be on their platform a celebrity is getting publicity that reinforces the idea that they're the best in the world at that thing, and that they're still socially/culturally relevant.
Android still looks 1.4 to me. Are you talking about ios?
In the developer console, I can disable the internet connection for a tab. I wonder if that could be leveraged somehow.

I think it might take quite a few changes though. Very interesting idea.
> The mainstream news didn't really seem to think it was a huge deal mid-February.

I have to disagree, or maybe we have a different idea of what is mainstream. The New York Times front page was making a big stink about the coronavirus in Wuhan as early as mid-January. By mid-February they were already quoting experts in European countries telling people to be prepared for a pandemic.

> Even then, what was anybody really able to do to prepare?

For me, more critical than stocking up on anything, was just more time to adjust to the new reality and grieve for what would be lost. I cancelled a number of trips ahead of time, and correctly called that our office wouldn't reopen in two weeks as it had originally been planned to do. I think it's just made the adjustment easier.

> Do you have any recommendations for good monthly magazines that do this well?

The Economist is solid, and in the last few years they added professionally recorded audio versions of their content available in tandem with the digital edition that drops every Thursday. It's like a podcast, except fact checked and with a good sense of perspective. I put it on when I'm cooking or cleaning. I'm also a fan of the Financial Times's Big Read (their weekly magazine stories) and they too put those out in audio form.

When I have more time, I like reading Harpers, the Atlantic, and the NY Times magazine.
Why would we have such a term as AI, if not to distinguish it from algorithmic?

I thought the whole point was to get out of the business of having to write down procedures for everything, to have the computer approach novel problems like a programmer does.

Is this only a contemporary perspective? Seems like that's where the goalposts were at least 15 years ago.
They don't actually use trees in the paper though.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01412

They express everything in reverse polish notation, exactly so the transformer network can work on streams and not care about the nesting levels.

It's a bit odd that this article doesn't talk about that.
https://mms.businesswire.com/media/20200521005268/en/793115/...

It apparently can.
The Australian doctor who proved ulcers and stomach cancer could be caused by bacterial infection was dismissed until he inoculated himself and cured it with antibiotics.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-doctor-who-drank...
Any reason for this? Just off the bat, this would probably be a good fit for Elixir/Erlang, given the languages' pedigree.
That pretty much sums it up!

It needs to have some sort of awareness of file changes to expire items from the CDN too.
I'm also getting 10 - 43mbps and 75ms+ ping w/ 60ms jitter on speed.Cloudflare (vs 550mbps and <10ms on fast.com).

I've confirmed the 500mbps speed I pay for in Montreal is accurate with my own iperf and iperf3 tests to physical servers I own in NYC, so it's not a "your ISP is colluding with the speedtest sites" thing. I've also confirmed I have a 1ms rtt to 8.8.8.8, and a 10ms rtt to 1.1.1.1 with ~2ms jitter by pinging them in terminal.

These CF test results worry me somewhat because I host a bunch of traffic on servers in my closet over Cloudflare Argo tunnels, does this mean those services are only able to push ~45mbps with 60ms ping via Cloudflare? Or is this just an artifact of something weird going on with the test methodology?
Here's an article which discusses it, and it appears to explicitly not be lenticular.

https://www.engineering.com/ARVR/ArticleID/17613/In-Through-...
I think you can enjoy the movie for what it is without getting into, as you put it, a "self-indulgent intellectual pissing context" - it's absurd, doesn't quite make a whole lot of sense, but that doesn't mean people can't enjoy it and think that it's good.
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It sounds like an honorable goal, doesn't it? But when you build a community that becomes simply a place for shared anger, you allow that anger to be amplified and seem more legitimate.
I can see how those two philosophers can well-equip you with a good metaphysical framework for life. I haven't read Aurelius's Meditations but it's lying around somewhere - in due time, I suppose. I failed an existentialism course not too long ago and it partly focused on Kierkegaard. The particular books I like from him are Works of Love and Fear and Trembling. If you are interested in more of his thinking, you might like the Danish drama film entitled Ordet (1955). Also, if you want to know more about his personal life, I liked this read: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/keeper-loves-flame-regin...
Fovi3D (http://www.fovi3d.com/) makes this kind of light-field display based on microlenses.

One challenge here is the tradeoff between spatial and angular resolution. If you're generating a 4x4 lightfield starting with a 2160x1440 display, you only end up with 640x360 superpixels.

The company I work for (https://www.leiainc.com/) makes a display that can switch between light field and 2D, so you can have the best of both worlds.
What I don't get about DNS, is why doesnt every device just run its own recursive caching resolver. Why ask ISPs and hotspot providers to resolve your requests?

What would be the downside outisde of corporate networks?
I have seen a few instances where companies start down the trained models/supervised learning path and then realize it won't work for their use cases. Next, they switch to assisted learning/training using less human labeling, more heuristics, model ensembles (fast learners + slow learners), adversarial models, and so on. Finally they scrap the trained ML classifiers and use other numerical/data science methods.

Basically they discover that training effective models takes too much time or too much data or both.
Protecting the User’s Privacy
Right, and this reduced expense is the one that is in fact reflected in the GAAP numbers. But it might be useful for investors to know how much salaries would cost if they had to be payed in cash, which would be a higher number.
Social media is an addictive substance and should be controlled. End of story.
- Encrypted DNS (DNS-over-HTTPS)

- Ideal routing (low DNS latency)

- Bypass DNS-level censorship (inside a country, from your hotel Internet provider, your school, etc.)

- Being able to identify your device in the logs (if you choose to)

- Hardened Privacy Mode (if you are into that)

Edit: this goes for all our apps (iOS/Android/macOS/Windows/Router client), not just macOS.
Platforms, Distribution and Audience
How well does that work with mysql 5.5 in 2012?

Exactly.

(It's not actually simpler when query execution over 100s of millions of rows is a perf bottleneck, and each tenant has several billion rows in the main tables. Then you're grateful you can schlep them around, and keep small tenants fast, etc. Even now, Postgres would still be a dubious choice due to the unpredictability of its query planner, though I use it for all my hobby projects.)
Yeah but there is a good way to pull it off, and there is a bad way to do it. E.g. the Room also has the premise that it is SO much more about than what is on the surface, but we all know that's a delusion and that the Room is a shallow piece of movie. M. Drive doesn't give that impression, we're left with "wait... what was this about?" feeling which, to me, means it's a great movie. If I left the movie with "this doesn't make any sense, someone must have had a stroke editing this movie" then it would be bad. I think Predestination is an example of movie that is done in a similar vein but is significantly worse (than M. Drive) as in if you hold it to some scrutiny it's clear there is no deeper meaning and it's just intended to be "mind-blowing" or whatever it means.

Another example is David Fincher's 1997 movie The Game.

Many directors tried this, yet none pulled it off like David Lynch. IMHO.

Just my 2 cents. I'm a movie layman.