skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I think Facebook is really onto something, particularly if you see Oculus as the main tip of the spear. They’re playing a very long game.

My high school and college friends and I are spread across the continent. The pandemic and a mix of Discord and Tabletop simulator brought us back together to do regular board gaming. This is effectively a VR environment without the headset.

My 12 year old hangs out on VRchat or Minecraft , simultaneously watching YouTube or Twitch streams at the same time with his friends when he is home. Today this is a mix of FaceTime , Discord etc, but all-in-one will be used if it’s better.

My younger daughter likes to explore VR worlds, and interact with them.

We are seeing what’s coming years in advance, but many aren’t looking. Facebook is going to eat this space up completely at their current rate of success, if Apple , Microsoft or Valve don’t step up.
I might be projecting some after seeing how a close relative was pushed into STEM. She didn’t really want to do it, but she was given scholarships just because she was a female, and provided with extra “stuff” to succeed. She was mostly into horses and riding, so she did that on the side. Eventually she left STEM behind, but if she’d been in this mentioned study, she’d have shown at least two high-knowledge areas.
Yes, if a 56k modem was running at full tilt you could get around 5kbytes per second.

Downloading SG1 episodes back in 2000 over a 56k modem was not quite the streaming experience we take for granted today :D
I was always looking for a mentor. I joined a website for LoL that wanted to update it's website to a modern framework. Initially there were 2 senior web devs and about 3 "junior" devs.

After about 3 months of learning react and picking the seniors brain about web dev, they stepped away due to IRL things. So I volunteered to step up as a lead.

I had maybe 3 months of total web dev experience. But stepping up as a lead forced me to learn quicker, and having junior ask me questions helped me learn quicker as well. For example I could always just give them a stack overflow link, but that's no use because they probably did and didn't understand it. So I tried to break it down for them which meant I had to learn the concept to explain it to them.