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At some point the language becomes so small that the true featureset is hidden in libraries or extensions.

Prime example: Lisp. The language has the smallest possible syntax, but its semantics are mostly in special forms. If you don't know the exact meaning of all special forms, you don't know the language.
Yep, I was there! Switched to fully use DDG (mostly bing backend), Fastmail, iOS, Apple Maps & document suite, and Bitwarden, which used to all be Google products for me.

Due to both privacy concerns and the general decline in quality of the Google versions. I just don’t use their products anymore. The only one I can’t get rid of is YouTube!
Note to self: if you put your name on a business and the business goes bankrupt, your name could go to the creditors.
Once a software engineer always a software engineer when it comes to management perspective.
I'm holding out for XR2 based Quest competitors. But they will be more expensive for sure.
Why in the world would we link to the crapfest that is the website makeuseof.com instead of the actual source article?
Not really. There is value in exclusivity and/or being the first owner.

You can get a perfect copy of the Mona Lisa at your house. You either print a high definition picture or have someone paint an exact copy. Will anyone confuse the one in Paris with yours? Will the Mona Lisa in Louvre lose value?

Regarding the authority.. you don’t need men with guns. You just need to prove that yours is the original. The registration date is a strong indicator.
So were electric vehicles but we are getting there now.
I just went through house construction. Pretty much all contractors insisted on coming in super early. Like 7:00 early. Apparently these days fancy lightning is cheaper than sitting in traffic. On top of that, I was able to come over to make arrangements before my work hours.
With 10k engineers you would think they could task a couple of guys the remove the forced Facebook account use to use the Oculus products. /s
> I love how rust does interfaces (traits) and allows implementing outside the type.

Then it might be interesting for you that Rust copied this (like a few other things) from Haskell, where they are (somewhat confusingly) called type classes.
What Do Fighter Pilots and Incident Management Have in Common?
No, why would I do that? a piece of land is cheap for a reason- nobody wants to buy it.
How does it remain to be seen with Tim Cook. Cook is and has been knocking it out of the park on all fronts from product strategy to share price.
Many businesses already have winter and summer hours.. I remain unconvinced that changing the definition of time for all of society is worth it because some people benefit.

For every edge case, the better solution seems to be that they adjust their schedule seasonally.
Numbers seem to be a bit off here because author is conflating total headcount with number of engineers.

If we go by ratio at similarly large FAANG companies, say 1/3 or 1/5 of the company's employees are engineers.

> At the start of 2021, according to Statista, the social network employed 58,604 people (a huge increase from the 18,000 people that Facebook employed back in 2017).

OK, so maybe 12,000 to 18,000 engineers max at the whole company?

> And of that number, according to a new report from The Information, about 10,000 engineers have been tasked with significant AR and VR development work.

"10,000 engineers" would indicate more than half its engineering workforce is working on AR/VR, not 20%! Something seems a bit off here, let's go to the original story from The Information to have a look. Luckily it's linked from the article: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-people-with-powe...

> The seriousness of its ambitions is reflected in its headcount: Nearly 10,000 people are working in its group developing augmented and virtual reality devices, or nearly one-fifth of Facebook’s total global workforce.

Ok, phew, that's better! The Information says 10,000 people are working in it's group. Doesn't mean they're all engineers. And the ratio is closer to 1/6 or 16.66% assuming Facebook's latest headcount.

And if we go by the same FAANG engineer-to-workforce ratio, that would mean something like 2,000 to 3,000 engineers in Facebook at working on AR/VR.

It's not a small number, but seems more realistic.
Why pay to comment on site when someone can just repost it to social media and you can comment there for free?

It's a sweet idea, but I don't think it's at all in line with how people think/utilize comments sections.
I was always very unimpressed with VR until I borrowed a headset to play Half Life Alyx. That game convinced me VR is the inevitable future of gaming. The rest of the industry may not be there yet, but it is an obviously superior experience.
"Most of what Facebook does today, he [Zuck] said, is "building on top of other people’s platforms."
There's a $39/month paywall on theinformation.com.
The issue you raise is the opposite of what the day to day concerns are.

Clinical systems, in general, are much too permissive and allow too much access to too many people.

There's absolutely nothing in HIPAA that prevents coordination of care or cross functional team communication.

HIPAA is actually a very well written law, and very reasonable.

It says things like, you can't use an EHR to mine patient data for marketing purposes.

You have to take privacy seriously and build safeguards.

You have to document that you did that.

You have to do risk analysis, and document breaches, and follow notification protocols.

I'm a former HITRUST auditor, and CTO of healthcare company. I've been deeply involved with this law for many years, and to date, I haven't found any part of it that I disagree with.
Max deadlift is a very good indicator of overall strength.

Keep in mind no body form checks you...
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The US has cut down and destroyed three quarters of a billion acres of primary forest.

Plant a lot more saplings before you point a finger at nations in different states of development.
Fagbems Selling Water Instead of Fuel
Nice. I will be using competitor products.
I was also surprised to get better results using Bing in more than one use case
Why is Africa still so poor?
Why? Free Pascal should be able to compile a lot of TP almost unchanged. See for https://www.freepascal.org/port.html some suggestions on what to look out for when porting. See also https://wiki.freepascal.org/Mode_TP for a brief note about Turbo Pascal mode.
Thanks for giving back to the community in the form of these meditations on Postgres, real world business scenario analytics and keaaons learned.
Obviously VR is miles away from mainstream adoption–it’s the fusion power of computer science–but FB are mad keen on not having gatekeepers like Apple moderate their power.

Btw, anyone who lets FB that close to their eyeballs is a stone cold moron at this point. They couldn’t be trusted to run an online photo album, giving them the ability to actually control your sense of reality is nightmarishly awful.
I don't get it -- did he sue Lenovo because Lenovo didn't honor the part from Windows' EULA that the user is free to reject it and refund the OS? Or did he sue just because he bought the wrong product and didn't like some part of it?
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From Facebook's perspective, why would they? They've got the VR market by the short hairs, no competitor comes close.

I really hope Valve works on a mobile VR headset of their own. The Index is fantastic for PC VR, but mobile (with PC VR optional, via Virtual Desktop or USB cable) is clearly where the users are. Facebook's already sold millions of Quest headsets:

https://www.roadtovr.com/facebook-rec-room-2-3m-oculus-quest...
The Contact field can point to a landing page.

> A link or e-mail address for people to contact you about security issues. Remember to include "https://" for URLs, and "mailto:" for e-mails

Using a landing page should improve the signal/noise ratio. Google, for example, points to a landing page [0] and GitHub points to their HackerOne profile.

[0]https://g.co/vulnz

[1]https://hackerone.com/github
I don't think the LM used wax for thermal management, but the Lunar Roving Vehicle did, as a "thermal capacitor" [1]. That is, heat was stored in a block of wax while driving, and then radiated away between uses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle#Wheels_an...
I think what you’re missing is that solar+wind can’t do what nuclear can, which is supply reliable power 24/7.
May work well in your latitude, but go far enough north and it’d just get ridiculous over the year.

Sunrise is also gradual and long enough around the solstices to become quite arbitrary
Is there a serious risk of patent enforcement in common open source repositories ranging from GitHub to PPAs and Linux package repositories located outside any relevant jurisdictions?
> Turning clocks back is terrible for kids. A week of schooling is next to lost.

FWIW, my kids (~8yo, ~5yo) didn't even notice the time shift in the Netherlands let alone be affected by it. For adults, (me and my wife), it was a mild surprise. We first suspected that clock had gone bonkers only for me to realise the DST change. We were moving to a DST country from a non-DST one so the net effect for us was amusing, at best. Otherwise I don't remember any disruption to our schedule at all.

Maybe it's a big enough of disruption in the North America?
It does make a difference: only some professions are harmed from the lack of light, and only those professions would need to change their schedules to follow the sun.

When you change the clock, it affects everybody. But people can change their own (business's) schedule without affecting anyone else.
Unpopular though it may be, I’m pretty sure it’s an intended feature not a bug.
Sharing Images, Canvas and HTML Using the Web Share API
It's defined on RFC before Let's Encrypt. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785
I don't know for Shell, but for airlines; maybe it's having a website/app that actually works.
No, we get all of that with time-worn traditional methods which work well, are documented properly, and conform to standards. I’m not interested in beta testing Red Hat’s replacement for Linux.
I think this is about creating an Excel XLL: "The primary reason for writing Microsoft Excel XLLs and using the C API is to create high-performance worksheet functions.[0]" If I'm not mistaken, this API predates COM Automation and COM add-ins.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/exc...
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No. At least not if you're part of a free trade union like europe.
As someone who's followed VR for decades, and was underwhelmed by every Oculus headset from the DK1 to the Rift CV1:

VR is here, now. The Quest is it. It's the real deal. The combination of standalone wireless play, precise inside-out environment sensing and hand tracking, heightened graphics quality, a substantial software library, and an attractive price point have finally hit the sweet spot.

It's a shame that Facebook is the sole proprietor of this revolutionary device, but the device IS revolutionary. I've demoed VR for three non-technical friends in the last month who all promptly ran out and bought Quests of their own. I'm very excited for the future, and present, of this medium.
That’s a dumb idea.
I did say that a counterpoint was in that 2013 Philadelphia Magazine piece. The headlined article says that nothing tried worked. One has to actually look up what was tried, and beyond that what was not even attempted, over at least a decade.
Every school shooter has a serious untreated mental illness which is the more likely cause.
Agreed, it is a thing to consider. Problem is (at least in the EU) there's no requirement to put any of the ingredients on the label, other than - I believe - "contains sulfates". It's hard for consumers to know this is really some pseudo-wine.
I think OP perfectly explained the trade offs of buying a 2$ bottle. I wish it was so well explained for other things!
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GW Apps lets you create custom applications in just a few hours. It is a drag-drop and configure application development platform that lets non-programmers create powerful, secure and highly functional applications. Add forms, workflows, views, filters and more in just a few steps.
> Take color, which can trick us into tasting a nonexistent flavor in food in the same way it tricked the wine critics tasting white wine dyed red.

When I put my phone in the pocket I don't usually use, I feel it vibrate in the pock it's usually in. It's freaky-disturbing.
I just bought an M1 Macbook Pro (my first Apple laptop) because I didn’t have anymore reasons to stay with PC. For a long time I was looking at Macbooks like shiny overpriced gadgets, but with its 20 hour lifetime, great screen and performance, amazing touchpad, while Windows 10 being buggier than Windows 7, I stopped having reasons not to switch.
It's kind of terrifying to think how Facebook expects to make that money back. If I believed they were making a platform play I would not feel so uncomfortable about it, but they seem intent on locking onto turning it into a social media device. There's just no way to pay for that scale of investment on a subsidised device without some seriously invasive / and or creepy practices. Please Facebook, prove me wrong (fastest way: make the FB login optional ...).
The exact same information can be held by two different companies, yet only one of those companies is obligated to protect it.
Because you reach roughly the same audience as the original article with your comment when it's published directly below it, whereas your social media post is read by your contacts only unless it's exceedingly successful.
If what applied? They don't sell DIY kits, they sell products. You're free to erase macOS and hack Linux into your MacBook all day, but why should anyone get a refund for this?

Do I get a refund if I want to hack my smart TV? The nav system in the car?
The problem is calling those highly procesed products as being wine. I would call those wine-like drinks in the same way McD burger is burger-like product.

Personally I would be worry of pesticide residues in wines. Not just those bottom cheap bottles, but from all mass and non-bio certified producers. Few years ago there was high level of arsenic found in two-buch Chunk, but it is very common across the board: "Together the 34 bottles of conventional wine contained 148 pesticide residues. All 34 bottles contained at least one pesticide, while the mean number of pesticides per bottle was more than four. The highest number of residues found in a single bottle was 10."[0].

Those traces are probably not going to kill you, but let just not see all wines as being created equal.

[0] https://www.wineanorak.com/pesticideresiduesinwine.htm
GDP is a bad predictor of living conditions. Consider also that most EU police will never be victims of assault, let alone with a weapon like a knife or a gun. With or without guns, there is a higher tendency for violence in some places in the US, even though it's been decreasing steadily.
Do you not crypto? It's clear which address mints an NFT, and that address can be provably linked to the party with the keys. And they can put that proof on their website. You do know your favorite artists website, right?

So yeah, by looking at both NFTs we can clearly determine which is authentic.

If they're supposed to be unique, as opposed to 'we both sponsored the same art', then there are easy ways to ensure that.
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That is precisely why Socrates did what he did. And the truth is certainly important for living better—but there is knowledge in philosophy that goes beyond verbal truths.
Giving any sort of context in order to destroy FUD is now whatabautism? I guess you just have confirmation bias, huh.
Because philosophy is the precursor to science. The idea that one needed hypotheses which were then verified with rigorous experiments was not yet popular. It's the paradigm that came before science.

They were trying to do the same thing as scientists but did not have as strong of an approach.
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Not the GP, but I sense a bit of facetiousness from them. They do care about it, but not as much as they propose, I think they simply mean to express their annoyance with DST.

I now live in a country that doesn't honor DST, and I have to say, it is a convenient thing, and my only annoyance is coordinating with countries that do honor it. The idea of 'more /less' daylight is not the factor people make it out to be and it is adjusted to fast.
With debt you can still switch jobs or move or switch banks etc.

This contract as presented was much stricter.
People might enjoy the craftsmanship and concrete results of fine art restoration.
It’s also a little misleading because Facebook includes Portal (its smart home devices) as part of AR/VR.

Plus you have all the other HW and OS teams that other companies like Google and Apple would account for elsewhere, since Facebook has no other consumer hardware development teams.
Coding really does teach something that I've never learned anyplace else. I've also done just about zero in the arts, so maybe there are some parallels there, I should try music or painting someday to see. I know for sure that math and engineering classes didn't teach me what coding taught me.
Yep. I hope the best for VR/AR, and the worst for Facebook.
"Contains sulfites" is awesome label as it is impossible to make wine without it: small amount of sulfites are created as by-product of fermentation.
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Okay, I've quickly added the new wyhash to ahash's benchmark suite (the original C version converted to Rust with c2rust so that it can be inlined by the compiler) and reran the benchmarks; here are the results on my machine:

1kb string:
- ahash: 23.0ns
- wyhash (rust crate): 54.2ns
- wyhash (new): 34.8ns

u64:
- ahash: 0.69ns
- wyhash (rust crate): 1.6ns
- wyhash (new): 0.97ns

So the new version is faster, but it looks like ahash is still state-of-the-art when it comes to speed.
It seems the article suggests piping around and querying tabular data in postgres. I don't see a need for the data lake part.

Data Warehouses are used to store and process anything which looks like a structured table, or nested tables, so called semi-structured data.

Data lakes are for everything else. Your SQL warehouse can't process or is not ergonomic for processing of:

- purchased data, shared as a zip archive of csv files
- 10 level deep nested json files coming from api calls
- html files from webscrapes
- contents of ftp containing 100s of various csv and other files
- array data used for machine learning algorithms
- pickled python ml models
- yaml configs
- pdf documents such as data dictionaries
- materialized views over raw data

Besides your DWH, you need to have a storage layer, where you store these files and raw data. This is the main reason for why companies have data lake projects. Without some centralised oversight and discipline it only results in a big mess. Note that the centralisation doesn't have to be company-wide, each team or department can maintain their own data lake standard. The more centralised you do it, the more economy of data scale you get, but the harder it gets to enforce and maintain with higher chance of turning into mess again.

I think Data Mesh concept is proposing structuring your org as a bunch of data producing teams, each maintaining their own data lake, instead of having one huge ass lake mess in the middle.

Tools like delta.io and Databricks are giving data lakes full capabilities of a data warehouse, so the difference between data lake and data warehouse is diminishing. These days you can get away without a dedicated DWH and just store everything in a blob store and plug in short-lived processing engines as you wish without vendor lock-ins.
A popular newspaper in Malaysia was fined recently because of their readers comments [1]. It is wise for the Inquirer to do this. Newspapers are regulated entities and it is more sustainable for comments to migrate to 3rd party sites like Reddit / Facebook / HN.

[1] https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2021/02/19/malaysiaki...
Tanks for the amazing article! I wonder if you met any performance annoyances / bottlenecks when doing actual GUI / game dev with this?
That's because using non-binary mode is bad, not because variable defaults are bad.

> An inconsistent and variable default would be significantly, unfathomably, worse than a "bad" default.

Even if you're right on that, I will still say that defaulting to no compression is significantly worse than going "error missing library" for people that have a partial install.
We are building Web Crypt which can be used for encryption purposes in web browsers. https://github.com/Nitrokey/nitrokey-webcrypt/
The GP stated that they live in "the North". Depending on which country that is, that may very well indicate that quite a few foodstuffs are more expensive (and environmentally damaging) due to transport from areas where it can grow, or it may simply not be available.

I couldn't have a balanced and nutritionally complete diet without mean, if I stuck to what I can obtain from local sources or what's available at the same or lower price than meat. Also, most of the stuff that is available seems to be based on Soy produced abroad, and then shipped here.

With that taken into account, I'll stick to having some meat in my diet and keeping both costs and the CO2 footprint down. After all, simply reducing the meat consumption would probably have a large effect on it's own.
So now VR is 'here, now'.

Cool. Can we stop calling it 'the future' then?
+1 Planetes is amazing. It is not available on streaming service in the US though. If someone has $100k lying around, they should aquire US distribution rights. Could probably make it back easily if it gets a million views an episode on YouTube.
Yeah, the Quest 2 looks like a great piece of hardware, but I'm getting one if and only if a jailbreak comes out.
> there is no way to refute or evaluate philosophy.

That is not true at all. Much philosophy throughout history has been shown to be incorrect by later science, for example.
Pardon the "Snappy Answer...," but the NYTimes Sunday Crossword not only has Al Jaffee as the keystone theme answer, but all the other main answers are humorous inventions in his comics that in fact became reality years later. In particular: Automatic Redial on telephones (1961), Spell Checkers ('67), Snowboarding ('65), Three-blade razors ('79), and Graffiti-proof Buildings ('82).

I haven't independently verified these, but I do recall other items that appeared as jokes in Mad, and later turned up for real: "Shpratz(sp?)", a spray to give your car the "new-car smell"; also an unnamed device that would keep your car from running if you weren't paying attention to the road (as depicted, for instance, because you were ogling someone you were passing on the sidewalk, though come to think of it, maybe it just snapped your head back to face forward).
> if IT Law is precedent

Common law as this system is referred to is specific to former British Empire colonies. So it never applies to continental Europe. [0]

[0]: https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_law
It doesn't have to be specific. Warfare has driven human technology for millennia. It would be great for our species if technology were driven by a lofty, unifying goal as space travel/colonization instead.
Indeed. What would happen to FB if for some reason both Apple and Google simultaneously removed their apps from their respective apps stores? I'm not sure it would destroy FB, but it would be a huge blow.
Their job isn't to kickstart the VR revolution, their job is to ensure Facebook owns it.
Are you looking at the paper or the image in the article?
The "original reasons" barely applied when the practice was started. It was meant to save energy, but study after study has shown that, on average, it makes little or no difference.