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I did not down-vote. I would guess that those that did in this case are doing so because your comment is about replacing current government and companies with something completely different, which is not really what the proposal in the article seems to be about. They see it as off topic.

What the article seems to be talking about is a government that is a lot like existing governments, except it is run by a company. The company would, according to the article, "carry the same authority as a county, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and justice courts and provide government services, to name a few duties".
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We already have one of those on land in the US.
Google doesn't, I know I worked there. I'm pretty sure Facebook doesn't either.

Some teams at Google uses standups, extremely few uses scrum with sprints. At least from message boards I didn't hear of anyone even talking about sprints or anything related to scrum. Google focuses more on individual responsibility and project/task ownership. Junior engineers gets to own small tasks, and as you move up the ladder you get larger and larger projects.

Edit: A "small" task at Google could be a multi month venture btw, so not really "small" in the context of scrum. It could be to implement and deploy a service designed by a senior engineer etc.

Edit Edit: The ladder even says that as a junior you independently complete tasks no longer than 3 months long or something like that. So giving a 2 month project to a junior engineer and letting him drive it and work on it on his own is expected. That sort of project ownership and experience doesn't exist for juniors in any scrum setting.
To augment something you need to have whatever is there to begin with - so they either need a camera or you need transparent screens. An IR structured light depth camera is still ... well ... a camera.
A mobile device strikes me as different here - it's more consumer centric where VR right now at least is more hobbist/professional centric. I think they could away w/ the higher price.

I'll add when the iPhone came out it was way way more than it's competition. It was effectively the first $100/month w/ 2 year contract phone bill as compared to other devices where $35/month was common.
video of the shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jYOubJmfM
This seems to offer a criterion to decide the value of a business - if your business ceases to be one by publishing all your source code free to use, then you should look at other business models?

Is ElasticSearch (the company) then just a "bad business model"? Won't Google suffer if Amazon just waits for them to release their code and turns it into a managed service in competition? (Both companies are eminently capable here).
The cheaper devices already exist. An Oculus Quest is basically that. However I don't think the refresh rate or image quality is really up to scratch.

And if this were just a question of image quality, I wouldn't make a big deal about it, but poor image quality means something resembling motion sickness will set in pretty quickly, even if you're just watching a video.

One time I tried to do some yoga while watching TV with an Oculus Go and I stopped immediately, huge mistake, never trying that again. But based on my knowledge of the tech it seems possible that such a thing might be possible at a $3000 price point.

If the external cameras are low enough latency that I could basically have a TV floating at the perfect viewing distance while walking around and doing chores or exercising I would buy one in a heartbeat. Though I'm not sure that's even possible or if that's just guaranteed motion sickness. I would say if it's possible, it's definitely not going to be possible for under $2000, at least not for 3-5 years.
I read it the same way. I guess the phrasing ("I would be willing") should have made it clear, but it's an understandable misunderstanding: it's used both ways:

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/16-bit/

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001557.htm
fzy[1] is a less bloated alternative, written in C. fzf is neat, but it does too much.

[1]: https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
And I know people who have been effected by big pharma. Anecdotal evidence doesn't fly in the face of a journalistic documentary. There's tons of docs on the crisis and the blame is squarely on big pharma.

Do some searching there's tons of articles/video interviews on addicts who got addicted because of pain killers. Here's one: https://www.healthline.com/health/doctor-addicted-opioids
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These platforms amplify things way too much. Before you would have simply complained to your family and friends but now you can start a suburb wide witch hunt on someone trivially.
I agree, but at least for me, this did not diminish the value of the article.
As a casual gamer who pays $2k for a TV, $3k sounds ok for something better than a tv. Sign me up.
Ok so what is your solution to this problem?
the reason this is a conversation is because of how massively successful Python has been at the intersection of "reasonably simple syntax, reasonably simple language, reasonably simple runtime, reasonably simple builtins".

Python is the biggest victim of its own success. There have been warts in Python since the beginning, but they mostly only look like warts in retrospect because of how much Python has shifted the conversation about what a language _could_ be.

I hope someday something truly better along all the relevant axes will replace Python. But Python has maximized utility along so many of those axes that it's an (observably) uphill battle for everybody who is currently trying.
freaking lasers attached to the head because every consumer deserves a warm-UX?!
I'm on the edge of my seat - what was the ultimate solution to your sliding door catch-22?
Scala is nowhere near as approachable as Python or Typescript
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> It's difficult to do a ski day trip to the places mentioned, admittedly, but there are still plenty of spots closer to Zurich that are suitable for that.

Sure, Flumserberg is close and there are good roads to Laax or Arosa.

I was just thinking that Grenoble, Innsbruck or even Munich have better access to skiing and probably have hosting providers, you can do day trips from all of them.
This is inaccurate. Unlike IRL in which objects can appear at varying focal distances, requiring the eye muscles to constantly adjust the focal distance of the eye, the two images in a VR headset (one for each eye) remain at a constant focal distance as determined by the lenses.

The 3D illusion in VR comes from stereoscopy. The objects that appear in VR are actually all at the same focal distance.
Nah, they have fixed focus (I think at infinity, but that might not be true). You use other depth cues in normal VR systems, but not focal depth.
I don’t have macOS. I’m talking about iOS/iPadOS devices.

I have contemplated a KVM/qemu VM but, there are issues with iCloud services, including iMessage, when going that route.
> Larger companies often have to have a ccp representative, these aren’t agents

Larger companies must have a CCP cell in the company. Whether you call them reps or agents, they're CCP.

> Founders are not PLA... you mean Huawei in particular... the founder was once in the army?

The Huawei founder was a member of the PLA, and likely still is, since generally ex-military can always be recalled.

Technology companies in China are dual-use (both civilian and military).
I can get that sensation once in a while when I'm driving for an hour or so in my car. My brain kinda makes the car an extended part of the body so it's a bit of a strange sensation to suddenly "rediscover" your arms and hands as your actual limbs. First time I experienced it I thought it was because I needed a break from driving but I wasn't even remotely tired or unfocused. I was maybe too much immersed like what happens in VR?
Tryna build this rn, and this was an incredible resource! Mind if I reach out with some questions?
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Interesting, are there other languages that they find easier to read and write?

And ... very interesting... what are the pain points when interacting with compiler/interpreter messages, in your experience? Are they introduced early on?
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Yeah; I think the distinction with runtime types among dynamic languages is that you can always emulate any other system's dynamic type system with some amount of constant syntactic overhead in any other system. E.g. you could write a CLOS system or Julia's multiple dispatch in Javascript if you wanted. It would just be extremely ugly because you would have to wrap every function and every function call (so as to intercept the native function call and substitute your own).

Nonetheless though that's "only" a constant amount of (painful) syntactic noise per call, which means that it is conceivable for a library to provide this functionality. And in fact occasionally libraries will require users to wrap all functions in order to give those functions certain "superpowers."

It is of course nicer if it integrates very nicely with the language rather than being full of wrappers everywhere so there is still a lot of value in these runtime type systems being built from the ground-up with certain features in mind.

But it's a very different world from static types, where usually if one static type system is missing features of another, no amount of emulation will get you there.
That triggers Heisenbergs cat problem - the uncertainty in its position rapidly decreases (converging towards your location) while momentum becomes highly uncertain. Brace yourself
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> incredibly heavyweight runtime

The apps may be heavyweight, but the runtime was designed to run on set-top boxes 25 years ago.
A "killer app" for eye tracking on modern hardware is foveated rendering. A cheap webcam can be a huge force multiplier for a graphics card.
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> Changes for the better will necessarily be extreme.

It’s long been my loosely held belief that _extreme_ change to a political system will _necessarily_ harm the average citizen. I think history has shown that to be true fairly consistently.
i'd honestly ask, why not?

when you paste this code, it's infinitely more readable out of its original context with those hints.
If the golf ball only traveled 40 yards, using motorised conveyance to chase after it would look rather silly.
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I think we should do both.
The feed in my neighborhood might be a little different, but I think you forgot to mention real estate listings and ads for surveillance cameras.
An A12, or even an A14 chip can’t push dual 8k video streams today. Maybe an A14x or M1x with way more GPU cores could pull it off, but even then I think we’re talking about another huge leap over what we’ve seen out of Apple Silicon thus far.

That said, this excites me - I wouldn’t be buying a gen 1 at 3k, but down the road I could see replacing a laptop or two with this kind of thing.
Have you been there since the change in ownership? Has the quality of the ice cream changed?

Hadn’t heard of them before now and wonder if it’s still work checking out next time I’m in one of those cities.
They dont need to be good, they need to have real competition and realisation that is they break the law they will be slapped hard

Also, we wont have functional society without Dysney and Nestle? What, society will collapse if we run out of chocolates and movies? People won't have diabetes?
Now it’s really going to be abused…
Very much disagree. I have a Vive Cosmos Elite which has 90Hz refresh rate (pretty standard apart from the Index) and 1440x1700 resolution, which is a bit higher than the average. IMO it has the most comfortable halo ring design for the headband.

That said, I can spend about an hour in it. I can be having the time of my life but after an hour, I need to take a break if I want to jump back in.

I'd laugh in your face if you told me you planned on working 40 hour weeks in this thing.
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2004 for me. Almost makes up for the fact that I have basically no pictures from HS or college.
> I can't tell if the previous comment was ironic, but it seems to me that developers seeing things that way is a sign of immaturity or unprofessionalism.

It's not ironic, it's the new snowflake culture.

It's pervading HN too. I made a comment a couple months ago about respecting the result of an election, and one reply was, "Yeah but what if you lose and you don't accept the result?" It was bizarre.
> they don't deeply care about the addictiveness of their products

Apple products aren't inherently addictive. It's the applications that are.

Also they do provide Screen Time and other features to control your usage of their devices.
What's another layer of abstraction on top of _Kubernetes_. #yolo

I haven't actually used k8s-backed Dokku, but I imagine that it would be worth at least experimenting with if you're already committed to running stuff on k8s.
I don't remember local or small-town papers to [generally] being toxic or cesspools of hate.

However, one of my True Jokes is "NextDoor: Hate Your Neighbors" just as "Facebook: Hate Your Family & Friends" and "Twitter: Hate Your Heroes".

NextDoor sounds good, but it generally proves not. Everything from "suspicious teenagers on the sidewalk again" [meaning: local kids walking to their local home from the local school but Nosey Nancy is too busy "Taking Notes & Reporting To Police"] to "if public transit comes here so will the meth-head homeless pulling the rug out from under my overpriced house" [reality is baseless fears about recycling, commuting, and less cars on the road].
Thanks! The photos are quite impressive - I was thinking of buying a new one but having seen these, I'll probably also look for a good quality used one.
In the future there may be an integrated display technology that physically cannot display an arbitrary combination of pixels at high speed, but can only do so for the space of "images which humans are likely to see" which I suspect is an unimaginably smaller possibility space.

I suppose something like a neural representation of a scene that is directly rendered on the underlying hardware, without first being converted to a raw bit stream.
I love MOBA. They were one town over from me, in Dedham, then I found it right down the street when I moved to Somerville.

The art is hilarious. But what really makes it great are the little blurbs near each piece. Exactly like the explanations you see in a real museum, but ... sublimely ridiculous. Great deadpan humor.
The eye doesn't care about pixels, the eye cares about the smallest detail that it can distinguish. If you specify a particular distance you can figure out how small the pixels have to be at that range so that you can't see them. It's around one half of an arc-minute, which is to say, 1/120th of a degree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_acuity is a really useful overview.

Now, we know that human eyes can only cover a little less than 180 degrees horizontally, and about 135 degrees vertically, so we could multiply each of those by 120 and get:

180 * 120 = 21600 across by 135 *120 = 16200 down. That's a screen where every pixel is guaranteed not to be distinguishable from the ones around it. If you had this on a hemispherical screen 10cm from your eye, your square pixels need to be no larger than 0.0145 mm on a diagonal, or if you prefer have a dot pitch of 0.0145 mm. Current state of commercial availability smartphone screens have dot pitches of about 0.045 mm, about 3 times too big.

Does that help?
IIRC the Norfolk Broads (an interconnected series of lakes and waterways in the same part of the country as Norwich and Ipswich) were dug by the Romans who burned peat to make salt

We get the word salary from salt too
> One employee pointed out that fascists are often quite public about their activities, as the recent insurrection in broad daylight at the Capitol showed

https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...

Thanks to olah_1 for this reference
> Everything old is new again. They tried this with FB-DIMMs in the early 2000s and it didn't go well:

IIRC, Rambus RDRAM was also serial, or at least less parallel than conventional DRAM.
I feel really bad for the people that put their savings in. Reminds me of the prosperity gospel :/
I would argue it's less readable, substantially. Type hinting was never about readability, it was about getting IDEs/tools to do type checking for you.

def max_width_of_vertical_area(points):
xs = sorted(x for x, _ in points)
return max(x2-x1 for x1, x2 in zip(xs, xs[1:]))

Just seems easier...
We have about as much chance of changing politicians by talking about their parties as we do of changing the outcome of a sporting event by yelling harder for our favorite team at the (30-second-delayed) TV.

Maybe we should be more interested in what people can do, than what politicians can't.
I don’t think it’s out of line. Oftentimes comments like this do come with jabs at the language being discussed, but this one was pleasantly free of snark. It makes me more curious about D.
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I feel as though many problem spaces are already expressible in human language, but that “code” is just a more concise expression of the same thing.

The main issue with common language encoding is dialect (this happens in code, too, especially “common” languages like C++, Java, or JavaScript). That is to say, the assumptions you bring with you about what for example a “schedule” is affects all subsequent decisions based on it, but there are many possible interpretations for the semantics of such a thing.

It seems to me that most programming languages of today are better than “human language.” They more concisely AND precisely express the decision space.

I assumed “better tooling” meant some deeper heuristic wherein you might expect an AI to interpret your meaning based on your own enculturation, accepting the high subjectivity of any request/definition and producing an output formed by these assumptions.

I would still call this “source code” however, in much the same way that legal precedent is the source code for the next legal decision.
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This is the best and most generous description of NextDoor I have found so far.
Spot on. We have a direct ability to not just vote but also run for office in Australia. Even if you live in a safe electorate your senate vote certainly matters. Australian governance isn't perfect but it basically works, and Australia objecitvely has succeeded as a result, even when compared against nations with similar contexts e.g. Argentina.

Foreign-owned corporations are in no way subject to Australian citizens other than commercial motives. I don't blame them for that, but I support my government's desires to regular them on my behalf.
Well, you're lucky. Where I am, the education report appears to just rephrase whatever they get from the teachers union.
Yeah, every time I’m playing with typing and mypy I start yearning for Swift’s type system instead.
Whenever I hear a story like this, I always ask:

Have you taught a similar crowd any other language and gotten a different experience?

Because what you describe sounds like the students in my introductory programming class, which was in C++. Sure, they didn't have whitespace issues, but did demonstrate a similar lack in rigor, and giving up easily.
Agreed, I’ll pay $3000 just to keep Facebook from invading my (VR) life.
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Your comment reminds me of this book:

https://time.com/3910020/the-over-parenting-trap-how-to-avoi...

> So imagine how surprised I was to discover among my more affluent, well-connected students a growing number who seemed to be lacking the ability to make their way independently in the world, as, frankly, 18-22 year olds always had been able to do and just as crucially, used to desire to do. I’m deliberately being vague about what exactly was missing in so many students because frankly I couldn’t quite tell at first. Something was just off. Odd. It took most of my ten years as dean before I figured out what exactly the problem was.

For starters, each year my students were more and more and more and more accomplished. The grades, but not just the grades: the scores. And not just the grades and the scores but the awards, and the accolades, and the activities, and community service, and leadership, and, and, and, and, and, every other prospect for perfection. Yet each year I noticed that more and more could tell you what they’d done but not so much why they’d done it.

I’m old enough that helicopter parenting wasn’t a thing when I was a kid. I find the whole phenomenon incomprehensible.

But, yeah, I imagine people used to accomplish more before everyone got so damned risk adverse.
Dragon works very well for dictation, and a Wacom style tablet works great as a remote substitute for whiteboarding.

There are also voice coding solutions like Talon voice that work well (I use it regularly).
Funny that the video contradicts the article, showing him hitting 3 shots.

He also has little trouble with the mechanics of the shot that he is able to take with the suit on.
These blocks tend to be reactive, so if a blocked app starts using Tor, Iran will block Tor fairly quickly. So in return for a short-lived regain of the use of Signal, all of Tor gets blocked.

This proxy arrangement is better because folks who start them tell their friends in Iran, who tell their friends, but it isn't listed publicly, like most Tor entry nodes are. When the authorities find a proxy and block it, they only disconnect a subset of Signal users, who hopefully have other proxies they've learned from other friends or friends-of-friends. So now the blocking is trying to put out a thousand small fires that they have to find one-by-one.

<I have consulted for the Signal Foundation in the past, but not recently and haven't talked with anyone there about this>
A super common solution to the problem of too many ideas packed into a clever solution is just naming intermediate things. For example, naming the zip(...) is a little change that goes pretty far in making the second one more obvious:

def maxWidthOfVerticalArea(self, points: List[List[int]]) -> int:
xs = sorted(x for x, _ in points)
neighboring_coordinates = zip(xs, xs[1:]))
return max(right-left for left, right in neighboring_coordinates)

or even naming the width generator:

def maxWidthOfVerticalArea(self, points: List[List[int]]) -> int:
xs = sorted(x for x, _ in points)
neighboring_coordinates = zip(xs, xs[1:]))
widths = (right-left for left, right in neighboring_coordinates)
return max(widths)

Same thing, just with more built in explanation. It's easy to go overboard, of course, but it's a useful go-to to make stuff more obvious.
You are confusing optical focus (like a camera lens or the lens in your eye) with stereopsis - the mechanism by which your brain detects depth information through parallax.

The VR headset shows each eye a slightly different image. Objects appear in slightly different locations in each image. When you look at these virtual objects, the relative angle between your eyes changes which creates the illusion of depth. (This is my layman understanding. I am open to correction).

The optical focal distance remains constant, however.