skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The plan would have seen staff move from traditional government methods of communicating with the public to a more aggressive strategy of using information warfare and influence tactics on Canadians

A remarkably opaque statement and I can't see where the description gets more detailed. Does anyone know what actually happened?

I could some opaque commentary on this whole situation in return: "At the moment when almost every aspect of international political life and a growing number of those aspects that count in internal politics are conducted and displayed in the style of the secret services, with decoys, disinformation and double explanations (one might conceal another, or may only seem to), the spectacle confines itself to making known a wearisome world of obligatory incomprehensibility, a boring series of lifeless, inconclusive crime novels. It is true that the realistic direction of a fight between black people, at night, in a tunnel, must pass for a sufficiently dramatic motive." [1]

[1] Debord http://www.notbored.org/commentaires.html
It’s like telling someone to “be a millionaire” or “be a successful startup founder” without acknowledging the preconditions and low number of available open “positions”.
> The 1st Ammendment may make banning social media companies impossible. It's also possible that allowing Chinese social media companies in the West

The "west" does not consist solely of the USA. Not even most of North America has first amendment protections, and Europe most certainly does not.

Further it's not obvious that "freedom of speech" is even a defence if the US government has decided you shouldn't exist - look at Mega or The Pirate Bay for examples to the contrary.
Oh wow, the comments on here really go into the opposite direction of what I was expecting.
How come people fear chrome becoming the only option for browsing, but at the same time don't agree that apple should be incentivised to better safari?
I mean, who if not Apple has the ressources to compete with google on the browser front.
This is such a great post, and really covers the spiritual aspects of what it's like to work for prolonged periods in VR. Glad to see Immersed getting traction, and taking VR forward. We all benefit from this.

For Linux enthusiasts (possibly the OP as as well): SimulaVR (www.simulavr.com) is working on a portable Linux VR headset with office/programmer productivity as the #1 goal. It will offer the following advantages over the OP's Immersed setup:

1. *More than double the text quality.* We are making a headset with more than double the PPD (pixels-per-degree) of the Oculus Quest 2. This is extremely important for facilitating multi-hour VR sessions without eye fatigue.

2. *Proper window management.* SimulaVR is a fully functional Linux window manager (built over Wayland/wlroots infrastructure). Unlike Immersed, it isn't just emulating screens on another host OS. This means you get an unlimited number of windows, popups can (when desired) behave as new windows, etc. No hacks are required to get this sort of functionality. It will also later on facilitate proper 3D/VR applications being able to share the same space with 2D applications.

3. *Proper portability.* Our headset is going to be fully portable (with a detachable compute pack in the back), and won't require you to tether your headset to another computer over WiFi, or take along an additional laptop just to get your VR computer working somewhere else.

4. *Proper hackability.* Simula is built over FOSS, and is not tethered to the Facebook platform. If there's something you want to change or tweak, you're free to do so.

One thing Immersed has though is immediate availability and scalability (there are an unlimited supply of Oculus Quests floating around :). We're likely going to be constrained on the number of headsets we can produce, at least initially, and will have to queue first to the early users.

We (and the industry at large) also have a lot of work ahead of us to improve upon a VR-centric UX (incorporating proper tiling management, and other things). Very exciting.
What's the most used chatbot to integrate?
What's the most used chatbot that either is decision tree or AI powered to integrate into an HR matching platform where people will ask questions and then get matched? Wondering if there's a list of the most popular in general?
They also advocate that students work 60 hours while compensated for 20. The lack of protections is awful.
That was a previous attacker, not the one now. The article does not give any identifying information about the new attacker except they know who he is, but don't have the data to prove it. Look at the top of the paragraph quoted to see this.
> my big wooden table overlooking the city, nice natural light filtering in, the ability to detach from the screen and pace around to take a break

Nice flex, but not everyone has this kind of setup.
> Thats a very dishonest history of the rights of Canadians derived as subjects to her Majesty.

I assure you, it's not dishonest, it might be ill informed. I'm not a Canadian legal history scholar...

What, pray tell, constitutional rights did Canadians derive as subjects to her Majesty prior to 1982? Also how was the Canadian parliament able to bypass those rights when they didn't have authority over the constitution? Sources would be appreciated.

> And a very dishonest portrayal of the October Crisis

It's not a portrayal of that at all, it's a simple statement that an act and was invoked and a point of law without discussing the events that caused it to be invoked.
> If you need corrective lenses, get lens inserts: it’s superior to wearing glasses, and I find it better than wearing contacts. For horrible astigmatic myopia like mine (-7.5), it was cheaper than most pairs of glasses I’ve had, and a totally reasonable expense since I use them all day for work.
Can confirm. I am Spartacus.
Isn't the focal distance to your monitor also static? Well mostly static, since you do move around a bit.
I am Spartacus.
Vario XR has a very good resolution. Did anyone try to code with it?
Technically FB says they won't require an FB account until 2023. However they make it a pain in the ass to use a Quest without a FB account, and presumably your device will be a paperweight in a year once the FB requirement rolls out
Hi! OP here. It absolutely can cause issues, and the same occupational hygiene and ergonomics apply in VR as they do for sitting at a desk.

So while I spend 8-10 hours a day in VR, I don't do it all at once - I do take breaks, which means walking the dog 3 times a day right now, in addition to bio breaks or just stretching my legs a bit.
> One of my students, we'll call him Bill, in an introductory computer science class said that he wanted to be a biologist when he grew up. What biologists had Bill met? They were all professors at MIT and about half of them had won the Nobel Prize. This is hardly an average sample of people who went to Biology graduate school!

> Fortunately, Bill was a tall good-looking fellow. He managed to score himself a lovely girlfriend during the semester, we'll call her Theresa. Theresa was a biology postdoc, with a PhD from an elite institution and a plum job at MIT. Bill got to see how Theresa was treated in the lab, count her working hours, see the pay stubs she received as a young woman in her 30s with a PhD, wave goodbye as she got fired after her experiment did not work out, and write email to Theresa at her new postdoc at Stanford. By the end of the semester, Bill said, "I think I want to be an architect."

https://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
The remarkable 2 still doesn't support pdf bookmarks? Seriously?

I use a Fujitsu Quaderno (was from Sony). Similar idea, no epub support but pdf links and bookmarks, on device search? These all work.
Bandwidth is a heck of a lot cheaper these days (I remember a previous employer paying $10k/mo for a 100MB circuit in San Francisco 10ish years ago). That said while the prices are much lower, people are realizing that not all bandwidth is created equal, e.g to get good connectivity to some regions can still be ludicrously expensive, for example if you want to deliver to Singapore, Australia, etc, or say you wait to get content from the USA to South America with reasonable reliability and low latency.
I guess you haven't met modern truck owners.
"anticipatory obedience"

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorauseilender_Gehorsam

Sadly the article only exists in German because, well, the most well known example of it is how people acted under Hitler.
This was a very clear explanation of some very serious problems with Apple and the app store. Users who think Apple iOS is secure and private--as Apple keeps explicitly claiming--will be very sorry if their life or well-being depends on being able to have private data.
> This would lead to more social care towards people with children. How would you recommend solving that?

I'm sorry, what's the issue? If we need children and need to incentivize it, it's what we'll do. And by definition, you're talking about advantages only to counterbalance new disadvantages. So we need to solve what?
Yeah, but again, that's an issue that is shared with physical computer screens as well.

It's obviously easier to look up from a physical screen and look around to change up your focal distance, but frankly, this is something that people already forget to do -- and it's just as easy to do in VR if you've got something in the far distance to look at.
The last days of Tartessos
Within a country/economic bloc, it's easy: You tax it where it is emitted, starting with the biggest emitting processes first. Anything fuel burning can be taxed via the fuel, very accurately. Stuff like concrete production is harder to tax, but still doable. Hard to measure emissions like methane leaking out from gas wells or cow burps is the hardest to tax accurately, but even if you don't get 100%, it's a good start.

Smaller processes that produce CO2 through actual emissions will probably fall through the gaps, but they're not critical in the big picture. Most will be covered through taxes on the fuel or energy. I'd expect most of the electric truck battery emissions to come from energy, either during the assembly of the cells or production of the ingredients.

> If you tax only direct emissions you motivate companies to amortize emissions by concentrating them during manufacture.

I do not understand. Indirect emissions are direct emissions at some point, and that's where they get taxed. The cost then gets passed along, creating an incentive to either buy from a supplier that can produce the same thing more cheaply by reducing emissions, or finding a substitute product that's cheaper because it's less emissions-intensive to make.

The real problem is imports from countries that do not follow an equivalent tax regime. I suppose here approximations will be necessary, and by making them overly generous, other countries have an incentive to join the scheme.
A Bonding Exercise
There's a big difference between legacy manufacturers selling concept-plus vehicles never intended to reach scale on the one hand and making their flagship vehicles into EVs on the other.

Mustang, F-150, Hummer, Volvo electrifying its entire line, etc. are legacy brands betting their core assets (brand equity) on electric. They have much more incentive to get it right this time. Which is not saying they will be successful! But it is fair to view these launches as the real initial wave of competition from the legacy makers.
Most of those things are busy work, and provide no actual benefit to a team being productive. I've worked on a lot of teams, and the teams with this amount of planning structure tend to be the ones that perform the worst, while also having the most unhappy members. It sounds like you're spending a pretty considerable amount of time in meetings!

If you need an agile lead, there's something seriously messed up in the management of your org.
How can you stand reading on something with as low resolution as the Quest 2? That sounds painful.
The Elite Strap has some really awful reliability issues; I'd definitely recommend returning it if you can.

If you've got a 3D printer, there's a pretty popular project that allows you to adapt the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap to a Quest 2; I've heard little but glowing praise for it.

However, since you mention the Rift S, as far as I'm aware the halo strap(s, there are a lot of different brands pushing pretty much the same thing) the author mentions in the page is pretty much just a clone of the Rift S strap, and I've also heard really good things about it. It's like $20 on AliExpress, so it's probably worth a try, at least.
Beyond a certain point, test coverage has diminishing returns.

You end up testing failure cases which are better addressed by good error handling. For example, inability to open a file due to file permissions can be covered in a more general way.

Erlang is one of the most effective platforms for making reliable software. It has the concept of "supervisors" which will monitor and restart code if there is a problem. This handles both known problems which are appropriately managed by the standard strategy as well as unexpected problems.

You can also use other static code analysis tools that ensure that you have dealt with every possible return code from a function.

Other things become more useful than testing, e.g. implementing observability to tell you what is happening at runtime.

Instead of more unit tests, I would prefer to have more validation checks when deploying code and in production.
A validation check for Blue/Green deployment prevents bad code from going live. A production check ensures that nothing bad is happening that affects users, e.g. if we would normally get 10 signups per hour, and we are now getting zero, then it's time to page someone. I will take that over an extra 10% code coverage any day.

Put the effort that you were going to use on code coverage into something that gets higher value.
Gambit has some syntax to call functions in the host language (C/Python/Ruby/etc). That syntax is what is used to call Javascript functions that exist in the context where the compiled script is executed (window/node). As far as using stuff like ES6 style imports and the like, there is a project on Github called gambscript but it isn't complete as far as I can see. Someone out there can get closer but I know it isn't me.
I find it strange that everyone loses their mind at the prospect of IG for kids, but no one bats an eye at the already-released YouTube for kids or TikTok for kids. The latter, of course, is built by a company entirely beholden to the Chinese government. That sounds pretty scary to me. I guess it's just a matter of what will make the best headline.
Most of these students have learnt statistics and importance of random stratified sampling. Unfortunately they are not using them in real life to get feedback on an event so important that you might spend a good part of decade of your career on it.

That said, personally I think doing a PhD is one of the worst things a person can do them financially long term. I think gambling is one of the few that ranks higher than PhD. They lose the most critical part of life they must be earning and saving to harness the power of compounding to become financially secure. On top, they learn no marketable skills that can get them a job out in industry or corporations.

Not teaching economics in school and colleges to all students is partially to blame as many undergrads believe just doing a PhD with minimum wages can make them happy. But when commitments increase and when they realize academic jobs are very few they become disillusioned and desperate.
The Jobriath Legacy: Before the Glitter Dims, Artists Renew Interest in Singer
The fundamental ideas underlying the architecture may not be radically different (I mean apart from things like gpu, threading, etc), but certainly our knowledge of programming, and programming languages have changed.

Why is write once run anywhere such a bad idea? Most high end applications are pretty declarative - "this is how the program behaves", and then you run it on a platform that someone else should worry about how it actually manages the state/how the computer does the actual computation with hardware.

Web seems like one answer to this. You can serve macOS, linux, windows, and then someone else worries about implementing the browser on those platforms. Seems like it has come true.

What about unity? You can pretty much just click a button and then you build versions for all the different platforms, there shouldn't be specific code in your unity project.

I feel there's plenty of other examples.
"Every F-150 is proudly assembled at Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, and Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri." [1]

(Obviously, various quantities of parts for all vehicles assembled in the US will be imported. I do not know how Ford compares to Tesla in this regard.)

1 - https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2020...
Their approach is quite simple and effective, it is what I suggest game developers do. For reference, it goes somewhat like this:

The clients connect to a relay server that just forwards the packets back and forth between the client and the real server. The client never gets to know the real server IP, preventing attackers from DDoSing the servers. If the connection to the relay server drops (which can easily happen if the attacker DDoSes the relay server instead), it can easily resume the connection with any other relay server, and the real server never notices it dropped.

This relies on the fact that there are too many relay servers to DDoS at once, and attackers never get to know the real server running the game code, so they can't make it unreachable.
You know, I've clicked on so many things that just popped up while trying to do something else that I'd welcome some sort of global UI setting that made newly-presented clickable UI elements insensitive for 300ms or so.
Gravity-defying mail jumpers of Lake Geneva, WI
> there is stuff that needs to be discussed that shouldn’t be in an email or be discussed out in the open

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it sounds unhealthy to have that much of that kind of stuff that you'd need to discuss it with no record of it on a regular basis.
I talked a little about them in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678568
A good way to get OPSEC data from high-value targets who are smart enough to be quiet on the internet is to go after their wives and children. I'm wondering if someone is trying to cast a wide net here to get information on people.
The in-built browser with large font, and also Adobe Acrobat side-loaded works really well. I'd rather have larger text than usual if it can save me from a sore neck.
Depends on the language/type safety offered.
If your language has a NaN (javascript) and you can assert the expected behavior of x < NaN (false) or if you don't even want to encounter that, then you're able to reason back to the generation of the inputs. Wherever x and y came from, if there was a possibility of an NaN being a value, you want the generating function to exception or cast via some sort of validation before handing them off to other unsuspecting functions.
I wonder if you end up short sighted.
Hi! OP here - the discretization effect is also known as the "screen door" effect. That can be even worse when the VR is trying to provide a picture of a picture.

It's improved a little bit, but still takes a lot of tweaking to maximize readability. I'd say it's "maybe passable" for most users without a lot of patience to do that tuning and compromise in favor of density over beauty.

So it might not be there for you yet - but it's moving in the right direction.
What I found is "Most recently, the US Senate Finance Committee passed a reform bill that would increase the tax incentive to $10,000 for EVs produced in the US, and to $12,500 for EVs produced in the US by union workers."

That seems like a good deal to me, and the bonus money won't go to any mexico-made models.
It's not just the resolution. Lenses get dirty, and you get other optical artifacts (god rays, chromatic aberration, screendoor effect) that mess with the quality of the picture and create eye strain.
I don’t have a definite answer, but it’s not by country of birth. We’ve had too many ugliness in history stemming from that type of grouping. Because if it’s guilty by association (and not even association of one’s choice), then how is this different from the Japanese internment of WW 2?

Edit: also, is there any evidence that banning people of a certain birth place is actually effective? We already do background checks, and if those don’t screen out the risks, why would an additional blanket ban help?
> It values comments very highly as a signal of good engagement, but they weren't prepared for "content" that is this good at eliciting low effort comments and have wide appeal demographically.

Fecebutt was built on content like this. On LiveJournal before it, this kind of personality-quiz stuff was also rampant, but personality-quiz apps and this kind of meme-question stuff dominated Fecebutt from the time it launched the "Facebook Platform" in 02007 for many years, maybe even until they banned personality-quiz apps last year.
But it doesn't, though.

If 9/10 of every fry cooks ended up owning a restaurant, you'd be correct in your claim about upward mobility.

But what you're claiming is that 9/10 owners started out as fry cooks.

Those are wildly different claims.

It could be the case that only 0.002 of frycooks end up owning a restaurant and there is only an infinitesimal amount of mobility, and your claim could still be totally true.
If it's any consolation, there are really good mods for proximity voice chat and jungles next to arctics is being fixed in the next major update.

I don’t quite agree that every update has been gimmicks for kids - I can’t really point to a “childish” new mechanic added. Maybe your perception of the game has changed?
IIRC, this is roughly equal to what Tesla spent from inception through achieving mass production of its EVs (e.g. with Model 3). Ford will lose some leverage on this investment due to their older bureaucracy, but they also don't have to start from scratch on aspects like design (they already know how to make F-150s well).

This feels credible.
The US is an imperial
power and there is a power struggle between it and China.

There is no morality. There is mostly propaganda on both sides.
Reference to the book Snowcrash! It’s a fun book
I also suspect regions like the EU will force Tesla to comply with a standard plug, not unlike how the EU is currently in the process of forcing Apple to standardize on it's iPhone charger connector.
Looking at current real-world pricing, the most basic Tesla costs $10k more than the Bolt. This is comparing a currently in-stock new Bolt from a local dealer to a deeply backordered new Tesla. Self driving adds another $10k for the Tesla. It doesn’t seem like the Tesla is really competing for the same market as the Bolt. Rumor has it Tesla will be entering that segment in a few years with the Model 2?
No one is excluded. Like all tax deductions/credits, this one incentivizes a goal decided on by the legislature. One major purpose of government is realigning incentives. If this makes it cheap enough, Tesla will likely use union labor; if not, they won't.
Wages are lower in the Deep South than they are in the Great Lakes area. Sometimes by a lot. That's why there's so many factories there - Boeing, VW, Toyota, etc.
Read the link which you gave again but this time see who has funded it. It was funded by the Chinese govt which we have already established that it cannot be trusted.

Dont fall for such state sponsored propaganda and stop making personal attacks using a throwaway account, its very unbecoming.