skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you wanted a 1:1 with actual reality then you wouldn’t need Virtual Reality in the first place.

What? Why?

A 1:1 with reality that is cheap and convenient enough to be an equivalent to modern smartphones would be an honest to god revolution.

Imagine face-to-face social media where a group of 20 strangers from all over the world and across 13 different socio-culutral groups are sitting down drinking virtual beer (which is actually just your perspective if you prefer beer, the orange-juice-loving person in the group is seeing the whole group drinking orange juice) and discussing the latest celebrity scandal. All of the cosmopolitanism and variety of social media, none of its artficiality and bullshit.

(Off course there is going to be new bullshit in this world, people will go through various hoops to pull idiotic pranks on other people and scammers will have a terrifying field day with the new convincing techniques the new medium will bring, but at this point this is just more or less real life. Real Life In Your Pocket that is. (hopefully eventually, it will have a PC phase first). Who is not excited by that?)

Imagine a professional like an airline pilot or a heart surgeon transmitting a read-only record of a flight or an operation, complete with haptic feedback and a temperature-and-wind reconstruction of the transmission environment. Imagine those records dumped to storage and serving as humanity's Library Of Crafts, a correction to our ancient shortcoming of only being able to capture in symbols what could be said (and with photography and microphones, what could be seen or heard), but not what could be felt or experienced.

Won't this absolutely revolutionise learning and communication? There is a very clear path from here to eventual Greg-Egan-style post-singular communication where
you are roaming freely in abstract structures residing everywhere from your head to a server in orbit.

Every thought or system or structure ever dreamt up by the human mind began with a 1:1 snapshot of reality that was then further filtered and compressed (Hume's golden mountain). The ability to arbitrarily construct, store, transmit and reconstruct 1:1 ever-more-convincing sensory representations of the world at will is nothing short of a revolution comparable to the invention of language.
> Looking at the case results the prosecution lost the case for reasons that would be apparent to anyone that understood how IT systems worked.

Can you share any details, even in a very abstract way, on what it was?

I'm curious as to how weak their case was - because if it was something as asinine as thinking that filesystem file modification dates are trustworthy or that any activity in the Windows Event log proves that a human user was physically sat at the machine then I'd like to know why the prosecution didn't have someone on their side to tell them they didn't have a case so they wouldn't waste time with a trial?
Powertoys for Windows is an excellent tiling manager.
I agree that high dimensional cubes are "spikey", but consider this.

If you stand on a high-dimensional sphere, then slice off the "cap" where you are standing, then in high dimensions the resulting cap has virtually no volume, unless your cut is a long way towards the centre of the sphere. In other words, the piece you are standing on has a very, very small volume, unless you cut off a lot of it.

That's the same intuition as if you are standing on a spike. Cutting off the spike results in a solid with nearly no volume. So thinking of a sphere as being "spikey" with a spike at every location does give a better intuition for some things.

But not everything ... high-dimensional stuff is just generally weird.
Reminds me of the story of the professor who died during Covid but had recorded all the lectures. One of the students randomly learned they were being taught from beyond the.

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/22262230/online-colleg...

Great Halloween story?
> So there is, in fact, a performance level that's good enough: faster than doing it manually, or as fast/slower but more correct.

I would not call a 30 minutes website load time good enough, even if it takes 31 minutes to travel to visit the company's office physically.

That's because I know that it could be much faster. Traveling for 31 minutes is acceptable because maybe it could not be done much faster.
We evaluate and adopt new technology
There are 53 shared libraries that our small app depends on (this is not strange on Linux). Getting them set up to all be built independently by our build system would be a large task, and a large thing to maintain. Technically it's probably the best way to go, but it's probably a week solid of work, and probably not worth it to support our small number of Linux users.
yeah thats why there isn't a string of leaks and whistleblowers, and even former upper management decrying what is going on at fb. oh wait..
>"When this thing goes up and becomes an extreme success, which is absolutely inevitable, I think there will end up to be more buildings like it on the UCSB campus," Munger said.

Regardless of your opinion on the merits of the idea itself, this is a fairly staggering amount of hubris. I guess humility is a lot to ask from a century-old billionaire.
> predicting future from the flight of birds

Well, to be fair, we can - to the extent that when I see birds fly-off from my back-garden I know it's about to rain...
Lastly! You only need 1 device. So spending $5k+ on a device that could provide a better experience than your TV, iPad, laptop, desktop, monitors, headphones, and everything else would be reasonable.

The way we interact with tech today is a semi-distracted state. There is always some sort of "real world" going on, and we're not immersed. It would take more energy to be fully immersed, but we would be more productive from it. It could make using "old" tech very boring and not worth the time when you could do a much better job, or have a better experience through VR.

And people say "well people watch TV or movies together". Sure, maybe. You're in the same room, but you could both throw on headsets, enter the same virtual room, and "watch" together, whether you are in the same room or not. And it might highlight that there are higher quality forms of recreation than sitting and watching TV together.
Roblox is pretty open about being all in on Hashicorp stuff so that would imply major issues with their Vault implementation. Going to be a very interesting postmortem...
If intentional, would China shoot itself in the foot by releasing a deadly virus in its own major cities and infect potentially millions/billions?

Or would the US and its allies release a virus it knowingly funded (for plausible deniability) in a state it constantly calls its 'greatest adversary & threat' during the 2019 war games?

One of these seems more likely than the other to an objective observer since this isn't the first time the US and its allies have engaged in chemical & bio-warfare against the Chinese.

The foreign aircraft carriers and war ships surrounding the Chinese coast are perhaps yet another clue...
Web3: Come for the Assets, Stay for the Experience
This looks like mostly the same thing except the grid itself was rotated 45° from what I had. I did look into alibaba shortly after I made my bed when I was discussing this with a friend. The limitations of alibaba I found at the time were:

1. The HxW dimensions didn't necessarily match anything I wanted well. I needed four toppers to make the original mattress and offhand it looks like I could probably make it with four gel sheets from alibaba but the cuts would be more complicated to lay out and attach.

2. The thickness was listed at 4cm vs the 2" thickness of the buckling gel from intellibed. 2" is about 5cm.

3. Despite the intellibed toppers coming with a useless amount of foam, it wasn't actually any cheaper per square inch to order the gel from alibaba at the time, not that either was especially cheap. Numbers may have changed by now.
You can't have a car that behaves like the real one in vr...especially not in oculus quest like set ups. Its just bullshit for advertisers.
They may use return to SERP rate as a stronger signal. If a user views a page for under X seconds and then returns to search, one may assume that it wasn't relevant to their query. It acts similar to CTR as a ranking factor, but with an extra step.
I think this is exactly their aim. Zuck mentions "links" to other places and making it a standard. I'm very nervous because Facebook is the last company that I want leading this yet they are the only ones who seem fully invested.
I miss my Psion series 5. The screen cable between the two halves is bad. The keyboard was amazing for a pocket device.
We are working less: https://images.app.goo.gl/SMmv3m9K6UaLinpQ6

People forget that agriculture is hard. We have it good now in comparison, but lots of changes are needed to make it great.
Here's the long term history and forecasts — it's definitely going to be cheaper but I wouldn't expect 5x to exist on a long-term, especially when you consider the impact of the switch to renewables against the cost of constructing new liquefaction plants:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/252791/natural-gas-price...
I suppose that's true. I usually live in college towns, where buying apartments is rare or impossible, so for me apartments were always rented.
> after removing lead from virtually every other source

Not even remotely the case.

Removed from new paint sales, with measurable positive results in the population.

Removed from motorgas for car use, with measurable positive results in the population.

That's it. The other remaining uses, of which there are many, seem in infinite studies to show no measurable effect on the population, so its going to be difficult to remove them then show a measurable improvement.

The money is better spent elsewhere, somewhere with more bang for the buck than measurably provably zero.
All the pictures in the article are in B&W. Maybe if humans had grayscale vision brutalist architecture would be more tolerable.
> The internet could have been like this.

Is it not? I used chipdrop twice this year with reasonably good results, and that's pretty similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilAv8SzB_Aw

(If you haven't seen it, they have probably the best startup video since dollar shave.)
A Tech Millionaire’s Guide to Philanthropy
Not necessarily, it could be a way to get away from constraint that forbids you to grow your life better.

Even with money, staying into western dense urban cities only give you one kind of life.
Jfc, dude, don't you think you are projecting a bit? The article contains photos of, in order, an office building, a theatre, another office building, a TV tower, a small office building, a bridge, a bank, a metro station, a shopping centre. These are not buildings people lived in, and in any case these are some of the more beautiful buildings of the period. Certainly no worse than the average office building of the period (including those in the West). Like, seriously, have you ever seen what ugly commie architecture looked like? The commie blocks built in the 80s when cost cutting was the norm? The ones that are hundreds of meters on the longer side?

You say you've been to Prague, well, have you ever been to the rest of the country? How about eastern Slovakia? Poland? Compared to some other places, Prague looks like an architectural masterpiece.
Hay there.

(I'll get my coat.)
Three is better than four
I think the issue is that you cannot test 100% of your SQL queries the way you can with a compiled language.

What if there is an “if” branch taken 1 in 1000 times? You would not encounter the error during development.
Testing Regression Coefficients in High-Dimensional and Sparse Settings
Realistically only an issue in places like Singapore or Hong Kong.

The scarce asset is not actually land but infrastructure such as roads, water, sewage and electricity. These are usually financed publicly, but the increase in land value usually befalls the lucky house owners. Here is one of the justifications for property tax.
API Monitor is an amazing tool that I've used a few times in the past when procmon wasn't enough. But I wish the author would either return to working on it or open source it. As it is, many calls it can capture are opaque because it only captures the address that a parameter is pointing to instead of following the pointer to get the actual data.
It may also be used for some very old cars. "This should be in a museum" (and maybe is) level cars may have been impossible to adapt to unleaded gasoline. So, one option is you just don't run them - after all these are very old cars they're both unsafe and inefficient by modern standards with few creature comforts. But if you're exhibiting cars in working condition you've got two practical options:

1. Add a lead additive, you don't need very much, and since this isn't exactly your daily driver it's not so terribly inconvenient, you can buy this over the Internet. You just pour a measured ammount in to the tank each time you re-fuel. I don't think this is illegal in the US, but I don't know if it's common. At population scale it isn't a big nuisance.

2. Choose a substitute additive, which is likewise added to fuel. There are several, but whether they work for you is a question and of course the manufacturers are not interested in insuring your potentially unique 100+ year old car for damage from their cheap additive product. If you suffer mechanical problems that's your problem.

There's a lot more piston plane flight than there are people still driving a classic era car on any particular day.
im not too poor to stay in the system. but i am building my own tiny house right now. i just do not think being dependent on the system is a good idea for my future. maybe it is for yours.

i document some of my adventures here. https://www.instagram.com/l_eonine/
It seems that your argument throughout this discussion is based on two assumptions.

(1) Software already has acceptable performance.

(2) Further work to improve its performance is likely to have large development costs but deliver only small benefits.

I’m not sure either of those assumptions is safe. As the early parts of the lecture we’re discussing today demonstrated, sometimes there are dramatic performance improvements that can be made if you know what you’re doing and they can make a similarly dramatic difference to how beneficial the software is to its users.
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The entire topic is a virtue signalers paradise. Insert unscientific outrage in the vending machine, get free karma. No need to know anything about the specific topic or the environment or chemistry or aviation or statistics to get that sweet karma.
When people say you need soft skills to succeed they mean you need to have empathy for your manager and make your manager happy, nobody cares about the user. You see software riddled with bugs everywhere etc that would get fixed easily if anyone related to that project actually cared, but hey if the manager doesn't notice the problem then the problem doesn't exist so better not bring it up!

What you'll find is that many of those said to have bad soft skills actually just cared way more about the users than their coworkers. Steve Jobs or Linus Torvalds for example, if you sacrifice the user experience then this kind of people will get angry at you. If you are the top of the company it works, but if you want to climb the corporate hierarchy it doesn't matter you just need empathy for your boss, so you will get nothing for getting upset when your manager and your peers sacrifice user experience for no reason.
Activist lawyers provide some value, no?

Can you elaborate on why you've stopped supporting EFF? I'm just curious as I've basically been a blind supporter of them for years, and this removal has reminded me that I should actually pay attention to what's going on in the organization if I'm going to donate to it.
Couldn’t you go to a medical library and look up ‘desquamation’?
From the data I have seen, it does not look exponential.

Anyone interested in real estate should check out the CalculatedRisk blog (or substack for only realestate). Guy has been doing this stuff for a very long time.

https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/real-house-prices-pric...
And as a result most small aircraft engines are naturally aspirated and have carburetors, even though turbo/super charging and fuel injection make even more sense in airplanes than they do in cars because of constant ambient pressure changes.

It's hard to find a car with a carburetor these days; fuel injection is ubiquitous and cheap. Not so in airplanes. You can actually find fuel injected and/or turbo airplane engines but they're priced as if they're made of gold, so they're strictly for rich pilots.

GA aircraft electronics are quite modern. But GA engines use 70-year-old technology. It's ridiculous.
I’ll take the liberty to copy a comment from an earlier thread:

I don’t really care what OS other people choose. There will probably never be an OS that everyone will love.

So my stance is this: Just let people use whatever OS they’re happy and productive with. And where they can find applications they like. IMHO, having a nice selection of applications is just as important as the OS itself. For me, that is a compelling argument in favour of macOS. But if people can find applications they enjoy on Windows and Linux, then bully for them.

And when it comes to regular users who just want something that works – then it might be wise to not even use a traditional desktop OS. iOS/iPadOS and Android/Chrome OS are much more user-friendly than Windows/Mac/Linux will ever be.
I can speak as somebody that's been working off of a 2010 MacOSX up until now, and briefly tried Win10 for two months this summer - I brought a linux-installed machine from System76 and should be switching permanently over to linux if all goes well(1).

Apple continuing to censor erotic artists was the last straw for me, and I've heard encouraging things about how solid Ubuntu's UI is in particular. Windows? Their UI plus accessibility is hot garbage and I'd rather go back to a M1 MacPro than ever touch it again.

All of this to say -- I can't be the only one that's finally had it with both companies, and I'm not particularly "techie". As much as one can be when posting on HN, at any rate. ;)

(1)I say if all goes well because I and a more geeky friend had a disastrous time attempting to install kubuntu on an Asus that plain refused it. I see the ol' linux curse is still effective.
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That's the thing - when the plant is outside it will get sun from multiple directions as the sun moves, but when it inside the light will only be coming from the window.
And even outside the sun is shining more from one direction (south here in the northern hemisphere), since it is below the horizon at times, which will often cause plants and trees to have more branches and leaves facing that direction.
You don't mention the current disputes with YouTube and Amazon. If we look at top streaming players Roku has had a dispute with, they've almost collected the whole set!

And do consumers benefit from access to 300 "screen savers" but no HBO Max or other service they've paid for but cannot access on Roku? (Note: the HBO dispute was resolved and is now fully supported on Roku, but during its launch, was not available on Roku) Roku wants us to think so, but my family simply says "Let's just get a Google or Fire stick".

The partner count is specious. The real question is whether Roku provides access to the partners each person wants. Removing, or threatening to remove, top players for whatever intention does not engender trust.

Every TV in my house had a Roku a year ago. Post covid, we now have just one. All those tiny partners and apps on the Roku catalog couldn't offset the fact that what the family wanted to see either wasn't on Roku, or was on some corporate gamesmanship countdown.

And it's so disappointing. They were the player without a bias, providing open access to the TV screen to any tiny niche media player. But they changed. Can't blame them, but it feels like this short term money grab of making media and forcing higher fees for access is the first step on the path to being the next Tivo or WebTV.
Didn't that drawing also have a square inside the circle?
>who wants to devote a serious portion of their life to studying ...

She's teaching classes that are being attended by students. Doesn't that mean she has a product that has some demand? Maybe she should be better compensated? I guess the problem is there's really no way to sell education products outside of the two sided markets that universities function (with one side being sort of captive...).
*using tricks :)
If I recall correctly, wasn't that because WinModem was a software modem whereas USR modems were hardware modems? The WinModems were a glorified single chip on a board (analog <-> digital converter), with all the actual work being in the Windows Drivers.

Which on modern computers wouldn't be a big deal (see modern onboard sound) but back then a slower computer actually could mean slower data rates.
Doesn't that also flush out any fertilizers added to the soil?
What does it mean that lots of the hay is listed as not being "tested"?
I had a hayes 2400baud and a hayes 9600 baud. Once speeds got up to 14.4k , Hayes kind of disappeared.
This is to say, that the baddie's intent is not to sell us on this vision.

Rather they are attempting to provide us with a consolation prize that we accept as if we wanted it. Because they plan to make real reality so unbearable we will want an escape!
Not just that, but the dog’s indication is used to do incredibly invasive searches that the government does not have to incur the costs of the damage done.

They will essentially toss a home or vehicle like a burglar, even going as far as cutting open things like seats and removing parts.
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Meta buys Within, the studio behind VR fitness app Supernatural
Startup That Wants to Let You Fly Helicopter with an iPad Gets $200M
I wouldn't consider Windows 11 until there is a LTSC version out, and I haven't seen one on MSDN yet.

It looks raw enough that it needs another year or so for Microsoft to finish it. Operating systems are down to the standards of AAA video games these days.
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I don't think that applies to all PhDs. People studying things in computer science can often put in practice their skills, because big tech companies do a lot of research. But no big company does research on "minority ethnic groups in American literature". That's for studies in general. In my country lots of people study psychology, which doesn't have a lot of jobs opportunities, because way too much people study psychology. In software, it's the opposite, we're missing people.

Lots of young people seem to follow a "do what you love" way of thinking. My parents always told me "try to find a balance between doing what you love and earning a living", which I think is a bit better advice.
They changed the game spamming algorithms from insane to useless. It was many orders of magnitude less traffic so I’d imagine most of those games are in life support or shut down
Similarly naive follow-up: how much hay is needed per animal per month, assuming no other sources of food? (or does one always provide hay plus something else?)
Not enough resources to support third party dev, but plenty enough to invest in their own programming language seems like odd priorities to me.

But it does seem like they are fairly successful regardless.