skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are going to need foveal rendering to achieve the latency/resolution needed. That means they are going to expensive displays and eye tracking, which you might think would add to the price... but eye tracking on that scale is more valuable than any form of advertising information has ever been. It is the gold standard of attention measurement.

You can't even control the location, sequence, or time spent looking at different image content. They will know exactly what you are interested in, how much, and when that changes. They will know what distracts you most, and optimize it (for their customers the advertisers).

In the end I expect these to be given to high value (elite college students) consumers for free so that they can be monetized. Prepare to explain to your future wife why you always have goats in silk stockings on your feed!

Oh, also... compelling Metaverse content?! It will be user created. TikTok to the rescue!
It happened when Tesla stock shot up 12%.

I guess my read is that if Bezos got his title from a company that didn't exist, in modern, sell-everything form, until 22 years ago... (and in +AWS form, until 19 years ago)

And if the current holder got his title from a company that didn't have a physical product until 12 years ago...

It's probably a bad bet to say "Obviously, these people are going to be the richest forever."
> Do you think Google and Facebook are putting every item that they ban through some sort of a scientific

> review were they carefully weigh the pros and cons of all the data of every side of a debate?

You're right, of course, they don't. OTOH, as I said earlier, there is very little scientific value (if any) in posting on social media, so this kind of censorship cannot hinder scientific advance/getting to know the reality better.

Also, they actually only seem to block pretty blatant cases (like if someone says that there is no pandemic or vaccines don't work) and most of the content is pretty primitive and low value anyway. I see a lot of this shit, either because the censorship is not too strict or because they put a lot less effort into the non-English corners of their networks. Actually, most things that FB marks with a warning that you should only trust official sources are scientifically correct posts (e.g. from research labs or experts posting valid research papers). And the stupidity, the "alternate view" seems to go undetected. I've reported quite a few blatantly stupid posts out of curiosity and none of them were taken down. Not even the "5G activates the vaccines" types.

> My best guess at how the censorship process works is there's a bunch of really low

> paid people that censor things based on a narrative page provided to them.

This seems pretty likely. That must be one of the reasons they don't act on most actual misinformation. Though they should be able to use technology, because a lot of the misinformation I see is either some post (or video) being shared a large number of times (they could give those special attention) or reposting of the same content (could be a video, but mostly copy&pasted text). Of course, there are stupid comments too, but those would be very hard to censor efficiently (without actually harming the discourse - even if not the scientific discourse).

There are also well known profiles that are dedicated to spreading misinformation that don't get censored at all. Again, here in Hungary there is a(n ex-)pharmacist who has been cranking out nonsense since the very beginning. He very likely is building his profile for the general elections next year (he did participate 4 and 8 years ago). But he might be simply just an idiot. He would be very easy to take down, given he's relatively high profile (as a denier by all means), FB could afford to have one of their more expensive collegaues to spend a few days on him. But they don't care. Actually, they are even motivated to keep him on the site because he generates a lot of interactions... So to me it seems that if anything, then we need more censorship, not less. (But it doesn't have to mean banning the discussion, even if they would just cut the obvious and blatant misinformation, that would help a lot.)
https://www.artofchording.com/ is your friend for getting started with steno. The plover discord is also a great resource. Learning steno theory can be intimidating, my recommendation is not to set a goal timeline for being “productive”. Put in a half hour a day and just take it one chord at a time.

I own several steno specific keyboards, and the Uni is my least favorite. An EcoSteno seems just to be overall better if you want a solid body keyboard, but my preference is a Georgi if you can get ahold of one.
What we're getting wrong about the 'Great Resignation'
wait, how is that strange? it makes sense given what the company is known for
This feature is not available on Linux: https://www.dropbox.com/en/smart-sync
> If the spending doesn't re-balance again as restrictions are lifted this is not a temporary supply chain issue caused by just-in-time methodology, it's just the new normal.

Even if spending stays shifted supply will be able to catch up eventually. Once people believe there's a predictable level of demand they will be able to plan output for it - or else someone else will capture that new market share.
As dramatized in the television series Breaking Bad
Do you have a real concern with eugenics or is it just because your culture demonizes it?

We already have little bits of eugenics baked into law and culture. Why not a little bit more? It doesn't have to involve death camps.
How can an English teacher transition into web-development?
Hello, I'm Aaron.

I hold a BS in ChemE, but my day-job is teaching English in China - I think I do a good job. Also I write fiction at my website.

For several years, I've made little projects on the web, mostly in PHP and JavaScript, for example: a game where people "invest" in subreddits like stocks [1], a reddit-like-commenting system [2], my own website [3], etc.

How could I transition to a remote web-developer job most effectively?

Coding boot-camp?
Crank through job-boards and applications?
Go through an online MS in CS?

My coding is not strong, but I can get stuff to work in PHP and JavaScript, and I can use web APIs fairly well. I'm lacking in skill and knowledge, but I hope to remedy that.

So, if you have a suggestion for how I might most effectively improve and hopefully even be remunerated, I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts. Thank you.

[1] paaronmitchell.com/karmakarma
[2] github.com/aaron5m/rlc
[3] paaronmitchell.com
I wish I could upvote this more. I would be willing to bet a number of such comments did not even read the article and responding based on impulse with their gripe about modern society du-jour.
Granted, Twitter virality definitely has a certain TED-ness about it: boil everything down to a simple model system, that makes everyone listening feel smart, and end on an optimistic note, without mentioning any intractable nuances.
I think you're conflating biological evolution with evolution as a whole. Technology and culture also evolve. Just differently. Evolution is a much wider aspect of existence than mammalian genetic evolution, or even sexual evolution. I absolutely can simplify my brain consciously, by choosing to remember useful, compact things and by choosing to forget useless, complex ones. And then pass that knowledge through our cultural transfer mechanisms.
> with the exception of meth and opiates

That's like saying "I did a lot of drugs, except the ones that _really_ fuck you up". 100K people will die in the US this year from hard drug overdoses. 93K died last year. This also ignores the fact that several times the number are circling down the societal shitter due to their addiction.

That's not to disagree that e.g. MJ is less dangerous than alcohol when consumed in moderation (although it doesn't have the same effect, so realistically people will just consume both, hopefully not simultaneously).

But don't forget the audience: there's a number of folks on this site who think that heroin and meth should be legal, and freely available, and they will read your comment with that bias in mind. I'd much rather have the old DARE bullshit than allow this to happen.
Unfortunately it is very hard to find a lucid explanation of the idea .. anywhere.. that isn't a bunch of 'just so' explanations.

The 'short version' is that a Lagrangian is a device for book-keeping the interactions in a physical theory. It consists of terms like aBa, where 'a' is some physical quantity, and (Ba) is the 'cost' to change it. B in general is an operator that can depend on all of the other physical quantities around, possibly including derivatives. So you end up with something like:

L = aBa + cDc + eFe + gHg + ...

Derivatives of this function with respect to a given variable -- for instance, a particular value `a` or `c` -- tell you the 'physical law' for that field. The simplest example in classical mechanics is L = 1/2mv^2 - V(x), and the derivative rule is dL/dx - d/dt dL/dv = - V_x - m dv/dt = (F - ma) = 0.

In general including a term like ... + cD(a)c +... causes the c field to couple to the a field, which is how interactions between different fields (represented by the lower-case variables a, c, etc here) are encoded in field theory.

I haven't found out a cogent explanation of why the terms have the form aBa, though, or why this is the 'simplest' way to express the concepts that it encodes, but it seems to be. But it works well in part because of it expresses physical laws in terms of scalar functions (instead of a vector-equality like F=ma, which becomes a complicated differential equation in practice), which somehow means it is more naturally encoding the underlying symmetries of the system (because, I guess, one equation is simpler than three).
> The proposed tax on unrealized capital gains will force founders to sell larger and larger pieces of their companies to pay the tax, until eventually they lose control of their businesses and turn them over to the Wall Street sharks to run their disastrous playbook.

Are the billionaire founders actually better--on a societal level--than the "Wall Street sharks" he's complaining about?
The Mitanni was the one of the most interesting things to learn about in that book!
Would you be willing to back and try to optimize this for pure output speed?

I thought the exact same question, but wondered if FPGA's gate connections are too distant for FizzBuzz to beat 55 GiB/s.
Then I would have not spent so much time showing off silly games that don’t exist / are not even planned, like the hydro foil thing.

They could have talked about how they do innovative tech research across the spectrum.

For example, they can reasonably take credit for react as a major open source contribution. Why not describe plans for doing the same in helping people build for the metaverse.

It felt way too surface level to me.
Drive ROS robots from the browser with teleop-xyz
Uber, a taxi company that exists exclusively and explicitly to circumvent regulations around taxis (see also: AirBNB) is in a different situation relative to expected regulation than Google or Facebook (for whom essentially no applicable regulation existed when they were created).

Having the loophole whose exploitation is your business model get ever-so-slightly tightened is distinctly different than having lawmakers show up 10 years late to the realization that your business model has the potential to exacerbate societally self-destructive behavior (and I'm registering my bet now that neither Meta nor Alphabet will face any meaningful regulation).
Amazon invested so much in IPv4 address space, they have no interest in supporting IPv6.
interesting, is Deno a programming language AND also a service that provides hosting/deployment?
The first thing to note that, given a deterministic program that computes a boolean given an infinite bit string will either run in O(1) time for all inputs or will have an input where it doesn't halt.

Thus if you assume that the function is total and thus doesn't halt, it must run in O(1) time.

To find an infinite input bit string where the function halts, we can just record which k = O(1) bits the function is querying and then try all 2^k possibilities and as calculating the function is O(1) the total time is also O(1). (We don't always have to try all 2^k possibilities).
Can someone explain to me in plain English what this is?

I looked up Cantor Sets so I have a vague understanding... but there are many things I don't understand. Like what does it mean to have a sequence with a bit appended to a Cantor Set? Why is that a Cantor Set? What the heck is a total p - is it a function?
Thinking about your comments on eye tracking combined with the weirdo retina scanning cryptocurrency thing Sam Altman is working on is some fun dystopian nightmare fuel.
On the flip side, a lot of people posit that it's exactly this mentality that caused the creation of the advertising profit model in the first place. Net users were unwilling to pay for content because content is trivially copyable, and the early net was idealistic so "Nobody really likes scarcity other than speculators and collectors". Advertising was a way to sidestep this problem altogether and turn users into the product rather than the product itself, since nobody was actually willing to pay for the product.

Humans want to enforce certain forms of scarcity. Trying to be utopian about it just ends up creating unintended externalities.
Well the point is that it's a shell component, so it's not available from anything other than a shell which is undesirable.

I understand Bourne style (POSIX) shells have the vast majority of the market, but the point is breaking other environments. "command -v" is not available everywhere so it is not a viable replacement for /usr/bin/which.
How does your argument explain the Flynn effect?
> Where will they go when hormones hit and blocky avatars no longer seem all that compelling?

To college, where actual humans will be available for porking at all hours. If this Meta thing is a success, there might not be a following generation.
Efficiency is better for the environment than stockpiling.
I’m a teacher and I’m hoping someone can share some of the best platforms to teach middle schoolers how to code. Thanks.
The Fun in Non-Fungible
I run the biggest international collectors show for my hobby and we always talk about the average hair color and old age.

I think that there are a couple big reasons for this. I think there is definitely an issue with less discretionary income for younger people to spend on collecting.

But I also think that there is a bit of a shift in the information that’s out there. Everything’s catalogued and priced and researched and it can just be really overwhelming for someone new to fit into expectations.
Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The Tweets I read each day? They're single-serving books.
Its distributedness is still worth something even if only a small number of people control most of it. If they go rogue or get stopped by the government, others can take over. That's quite unlike any centralized system.
Vine was almost named Verse
You can see wooden constructions in european churches hundreds of years old & possibly even older in many temples and shrines in Japan.
Interesting but it’s really unclear what I’d use this for or how.

It needs some tangible examples.

It’s also not clear the difference between deno and this, if there is one.
Excuse me. It was this "a society allowing people to suffer from treatable illnesses is completely unnecessary and cruel considering that providing free care to everyone is something many countries do successfully"

I'm saying no country provides free healthcare for all treatable illnesses. And not providing it is necessary because the cost would be too great.

I agree it's cruel though.
Not too late..
I don't know where you're getting this from. We have a relativistic quantum field theory of light itself.
No, it's calvanism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
International Surveillance Machines.
Alternately, big brains are recessive/selected against in all circumstances except those from 6mya to 70kya. We've generally removed most selective pressure at this point, if having big brains is due to a combination of recessive traits we'd expect brain size to start shrinking.
Does anyone 100% consciously choose anything? If you make a decision after drinking a strong cup of coffee, how much of that decision came from the caffeine, and how much came from your “consciousness”?

I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you—addiction is a disease of forces and circumstances, for sure—but the level of “free will” present in any choice (or sequence of choices) is a certainly not amenable to a binary classification.
Kashyap
Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish
HTTP/1.1 527 Railgun Error
Server: Ballistic Research Laboratory - CHECMATE
Date: Fri Oct 29 02:08:03 2021
Connection: Keep-Alive-overridden
Authorization: Rules-Of-Engagement-090624-2021-10-29
Content-Type: uranium/depleted
Content-Weight: 248kT equivalent
What are the plans for preventing people from simulating sexual encounters with virtual likenesses of real people?

It seems that in order to prevent that, we need some sort of security technology preventing me from being able to create computer programs / VR plugins that can simulate that visual experience. If so, does that mean that we're going to need some sort of fingerprinting technology that can determine whether a VR humanoid is a likeness of a real human?

Or is the plan "ban sexual content in VR worlds"?
I started bullet journaling for work a couple of months ago, and I was about to pull the trigger on buying a remarkable because I like everything about bujo except for the book itself.

I was waiting for my next paycheck to buy one, and then this happened right before. Now I’m opting to just stick with my book.

Smooth move, remarkable.

My favorite part is how they tell you that you’re saving money on the hardware, but having just recently checked all the pricing I can tell you that they increased the base cost on everything to mitigate that.
I'm pretty sure that humans are apex persistence hunters - we can run any animal to death, not just prey species. It's a brutally effective adaptation. It's the greatest weapon we had until fire.

Even fat modern lazy humans have it in them - kick in survival mode brain chemistry and enough luck to keep chasing a deer's trail for days, the deer will die of exhaustion before the human.
How is advertising not about consumption?

Facebook enables consumer activity so it's a consumer company. It does not build industrial robots or enable industrial production of any form.
Substitute "PBR hard coffee," then.

Malt liquor drink, 30mg caffeine. Tastes like Yoo-hoo.
> the smoking gun was of course Edison's observation of gravitational lensing during an eclipse

Actually, the fact that Eddington's (not Edison's) eclipse observations were treated as a "smoking gun" was an example of marketing, since we now know that Eddington's actual data was simply not good enough to resolve the effect in question (bending of light by the Sun). The reason the claimed result was accepted without question was Eddington's prestige, i.e., marketing. If it had been someone with less prestige the results might have been examined more critically.
Not in single core. For multi core it’s probably the SMT, but that’s a security risk.
A few of my favorites:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

"Top 10":

https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
p is a predicate, which is a function mapping elements of some type to true/false (booleans). A total function is a function which is defined for all possible inputs. So a total predicate is a function that maps all possible inputs to either true or false.
Sorry for the super layman question, but can someone explain why is this so amazing?
I don't think he's greedy either. He thinks connecting people over the internet is good and that just happens to be a very lucrative business.
Meth is definitely one of the drugs that becomes a public nuisance, since people do become erratic and violent while using. Meth users are the only people that worry me when walking through our city since it can make people who are already unstable become unpredictably violent. I wonder if other drugs were legal would people still do meth?
That wouldn’t be a problem.

The problem would be if tomorrow everyone sold Apple stock for $1000, and the government took that as a reason to tax every Apple shareholder for “income” of over $800 per share in the stock casino, forcing Apple’s current shareholders to divest themselves to new shareholders and hence lose control of the company.
Japan is similarly puritanical about stimulants. Might have something to do with the way those drugs were used in those countries during the war…
Teachers and parents can get vaccinated themselves, no? I thought the vaccine works, doesn’t it?
Scammer prank calls, but for bots
Wow, I had no idea that we even had the technology to produce sounds at that kind of frequency, let alone that it was routinely used!
> What money do big companies need to raise?

For example, to buy some company to improve their business. They can do that in cash or they can issue more shares, e.g. with their Beats acquisition.

> On May 28, 2014, Apple officially announced its intention to acquire Beats Electronics for $3 billion—with $400 million to be paid in Apple stock and the remainder in cash.
That really surprised me once. I was traveling in the states and wanted to buy pseudoephedrine, and the guy asked me for my id, asked me to sign a log book, and then proceeded to unlock a giant safe behind him.
I assume this is short for "metastatic"?

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Ok, acknowledged throwaway line. To try and save this and at least make this at least slightly more substantial -- I'm skeptical of VR becoming seriously mainstream, in the near term or perhaps ever. I'd say I hope FB goes all in and ends up burning up all their money, except I could see it being a profitable niche, giving them money to continue negatively impacting the mainstream non-metaverse online world.
I no longer speak to several family members because they were radicalized thanks to information & groups that Facebook fed to them.

Is it FB’s fault that they fell for it? No. Is it FB’s fault for recommending them very obvious QAnon groups? Yes. Especially since Facebook was aware of the misinformation on its platform: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-documents-misinformati...

Or you can ask the victims of the genocide enabled by Facebook: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

I’m glad it seemingly hasn’t effected you, but doesn’t mean others don’t feel that impact.
this is good. routine, easy-to-ignore, regular noise as a mechanism to relatively suppress distracting, oddball noises.
Cantor space is just the space formed by infinite binary sequences, that is sequences which assumes only the values 0 or 1.

Considered as a topological space, Cantor space happens to have the same structure as the Cantor set, a highly disconnected subset of the real numbers that has some at-first-unintuitive properties.

But you don't have to understand, or even worry about this correspondence to grasp what's going on with seemingly impossible functional programs. Thinking about Cantor space as "the type of infinite binary sequences" is good enough.
Fuck zuck and delete all his apps