skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valve has the best immersive PC gaming platform in the world (eg not things like Farmville, but games pushing the limits of immersive 3D tech). The only real competitors to Steam are consoles. Games have traditionally been the main driver of home PC hardware, so I wouldn't count Valve out easily.
0. Walking out the window is kinda cringe
One could argue Elon Musk's style of working and personal history is in some ways similar to Steve Jobs, and Musk is doing fine in the 2020s.
Anecdata: I use and appreciate it every day. I'd be happy to contribute to sponsoring further development.
>where I say, "Hey, let me show you something."

So... what you like is making it harder for other people to work by forcing them to pay attention to you according to your whims. I much prefer a coworker reaching out to me on Slack and saying "When you have time, let me show you something." And then I get back to them when I've finished what I am working on.
Performance doesn't scale with memory bandwidth, SM count or any other spec that is known to me. RTX 3090 and 3080 are not just similar cards from the same generation. They are the same GA102 die with some configuration differences : 3090 does have 24gb VRAM while 3080 has only 10. On 3090 82 SMs of initial 84 are active and on 3080 it's 68 SMs. And they both perform only marginally better than 1660 Super, while usually the difference between this cards is in 3x range. It's likely just poorly written software.
Yesterday.

You're welcome!

I've gotten requests to handle them in JS so they don't go into the browser history, and am working on that bit.
Facebook is still going to be called Facebook, this is just renaming the parent company to more accurately reflect its portfolio - Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Occulus.

Most Facebook users will never even know about this renaming.
Russian remote programmer here. The language is a small part, cultural difference is the most painful one. Americans never give direct negative feedback and expect this from you, for example. Many US companies hire only people from US and pay them more b/c cultural and timezone difference is another hidden cost and not every company wants to pay it - they rather pay 200k more in $. But personally for me that's fine, even miserable salary by US standards is great, and it has grown significantly in the past year thanks to covid. Some companies offer salaries close to 100k$/yr which was unreachable 5 years ago.
Those goods are cheap and abundant.
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1732/
> Wayland lacks some X features like network transparency.

There is waypipe for that:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
https://mstoeckl.com/notes/gsoc/blog.html
The problem isn’t that by the age of 4 most kids don’t understand boundaries (they totally can and do).

It’s that as a parent it’s hard not to just have some part of your brain constantly scanning for any sign of your 4 year old trying to get themselves hurt or break something (as 4 year olds naturally do).

In other words, the boundary crossing is done by the adult and is really hard to turn off if you have any interest in your kid staying safe, fed, and entertained throughout the day.
Well in an agrarian society property produce money though, right?
What sort of projects are 10x engineers working on?
Fairly simple. I have a folder called "jail" and all emails go there unless in the whitelist.

jail is just another folder. I can manually go in and whitelist with a keystroke. Or if they go through the hoops, the system automatically whitelists them and moves the mail to the inbox.

OK, in reality my mail is tag based, so I use tags instead of folders. Minor difference.

And no, I do not whitelist banks and MFA emails. As I said, it's still a folder. I can go in and read the MFA email without needing to whitelist them.
> And I'm not talking about disinterested centrists, but more like people who are interested in the meta aspect, the fact that approximately no one is interested in what is actually true (that they do not know, that both sides typically do have some merit)

I think you can find plenty of that kind of discussion the academic/professional sphere, though it's small in proportion to the greatly increased radicalized chatter. That's part of the point of radicalization and propaganda - to politicize everything, to the point where there is no truth, just partisan claims and suspicion. They are doing an effective job, but we don't have to go along with it - I simply refuse to read the partisan stuff; there is plenty to read, especially from the entirety of human history before the last several years.

> we've been having these sorts of issues for decades

Polarization and, IIRC, radicalization, have increased dramatically recently.
And they were right. Mid-income people in the rich world were the losers of globalization. There are fewer jobs now where you can buy a house and support a family by working 40 hours/week. Especially for those with no specialized skills.

The same may hit some highly-paid professionals in the future. If tech keeps making things easier while the rest of the world grows wealthier and more competitive, they may find that their skills are no longer in demand. The job is not as demanding as it used to be, and there are more people in the market capable of doing it just as well.

Those at the top are safe, but the top is slowly getting narrower.
From my 20+ years of experience working the spectrum from fully remote to fully in-office - there seems to be something primal that happens when you make a real human connection with someone. In person > zoom > phone > email.

It doesn't matter much in the good times when everything is going smoothly. But when the crap hits the fan and you don't have that connection - things tend to get contentious a lot faster. If you're the only one on the team without a human connection to the rest of the team, you're set up to be the scapegoat when things go wrong. It's just human nature.
We're initially focusing on private images available on one of the major registries (AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker Hub, etc.). But on-premise is definitely one of the options we want to offer in the future.
Thanks! that's a great idea.
We are finishing up a major project right now. At the last zoom meeting the business lead excitedly suggested that we should all get together in real life once it is totally completed for a celebration. All of us engineers slacked each other and said that we had less than zero interest in this and wondered how we could tell the business person thanks, but no thanks. I've been in the industry for 20 years and I still don't understand the desire of business people to go get a beer together or go eat together or whatever. I do have friends I'd like to do those things with, but that is not you. Please don't make this awkward.
AWS vs Azure vs GCP: Comparison of Top Cloud Providers in 2021
There is only antitrust scrutiny on the app store. They have a lot of other growing revenue sources in their various services businesses.
I don't understand the question: You don't understand what qualifies them as experts? Look at their bios.
Successful off-shoring isn’t about enabling a bandwith-hungry HD cam streaming your team in 4K. Neither back then nor nowadays. The right communication tools for the job existed back then but that wasn’t the reason why it didn’t work out in 2000 or in 2009. Management isn’t dumb and would happily off-shore to the cheapest remote workers all those last years where nothing of that was a major issue but the problems aren’t primarily about tooling, protocol or bandwith.
This is the mode that made the whole structural editing stick for me. Tried paredit and then lispy but never got the hang of it. With this one I find that I try to use it all the time even in modes where I do not have it set up.
Plus the soja farmers. The whole jungle is gone
> nay-sayers from ROC might be concerned about losing political significance with their western trade partners

It's more than that. TSMC's competitive advantage is their volume. It allows them to experiment and iterate faster than everyone - some say it's a big reason why Intel fell behind. Moving production into the US and out of TSMC's hands kills that.
I don’t see it. Cultural barriers and lost in translations are huge, I’m surprised anyone who’s worked with foreign teams doesn’t think so. It’s not cheap or easy to collaborate with people you have a hard time communicating with.
Experience doesn't equate to skill though? Tons of 20+ years devs can't even do what OP achieved here.
No. This is the HN execution of a lame joke on my part...
Doesn’t Facebook use Hack, a PHP derivative, internally?
Jury Awards $10M to White Male Executive in Discrimination Case
Why do you think laptops are low margin? The margins have always been good and since they switched to Apple Silicon, their margins can only have improved.
Your standards for an Internet forum post are pretty high!
That's how I feel and VR and it's form factor has been around for decades... strap a sweaty headset to your face and isolate yourself.

Maybe it will be big for games but gluing a computer to my face for longggg periords of time no thanks.

AR glasses though they could be truly be the next big thing like the iPhone ...subtly enhance the world around us and our social interactions with each other through a form factor we are accustomed to.
https://www.wechu.org/reports/oral-health-2018-report

In the 2016/2017 school year, 18,179 children from 119 schools were screened for oral health issues. Between 2011/2012 to 2016/2017, the percentage of children with decay or requiring urgent care has increased by 51%.

This is a terrible statistic. Out of such an exact number of children and schools there is no numerator or denominator for the increase of 51%. I suppose a minimum number would be an increase from 100 to 151 and a max of 12,039 to all 18,179.
Thanks! I appreciate the endorsement. :)

And, hey, makes it extra suitable for this time of year.
I don't think it will. The pricing is still too high for it to become mainstream. I've worked at places that have those systems and it really does make debugging an incredible amount easier, but Sumo Logic is $93/GB for data. That says with a 30 day retention period, so I'm assuming that's the charge to store a 1 GB of data for a month.

It's just too hard of a sell for management. I don't even want to calculate how many times the cost of S3 storage that is. And then add on top of it that you can't gauge how much data you'll generate until you've actually started implementing it.

I don't think distributed tracing will become mainstream until there's something like ELK for it that lets you start out in-house. Then people start to see the value, and you have a solid case when maintaining it becomes a full-time job.

I haven't seen anything that seems production-ready enough to use at work, but also doesn't involve running an entire Cassandra cluster or something. Is there an implementation that can run using Postgres? I have no doubt that it wouldn't scale well, but I need a foot in the door to prove the value before I can justify paying $93/GB to my director.
Im on webpass and for a while, I only had v6 connectivity
No, it is a comment about overcrowding. The point is: there was no way to move lots of people into these areas to do work and maintain living standards. Buildings also cost labour to produce, now that society is rich, can everyone just buy infinite building materials?

Correct, the ones we have now that only rich people can buy and which exist during a shortage of housing. Assuming that this can just scale up to house millions of people makes no sense (and has never occurred anywhere, the reason why public transit systems are so important is because it has never been possible to economically build enough housing within cities).
Yeah I totally agree, OP is definitely further off in delivery and self-drive than most developers, senior or otherwise.

I just meant to give him fair feedback to keep him growing. Design is subjective, so if most here people love it, it must mean it appeals to its audience!
It's not just speculating, there is even large-scale IPv4 address allocation fraud going on:

https://www.internetgovernance.org/2021/08/19/a-fight-over-c...
Oblig. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Potato_Head
My naive guess would be using hardware perf counters and checking cache misses
We all know very well where it leads, and knowing that, it's hard to escape that it's the intent of such comments. Protests to the contrary and disingenuous arguments are well-worn, unconvincing, and part of the usual routine.

Maybe I'm prejudiced though!
Price has never been a limiting factor in TVs. People will throw down thousands each year for the big new 8k. Or projectors. 3D tvs just weren't popular because people didn't like them. It was the first 'major' TV advancement I ever watched fall on its face, and get swept under the rug like it never existed.

I'm not sure the general public at large will like VR, either. It's disorienting. And if strip mall Lasik wasn't enough to tell, we don't like wearing things on our face. That will -never- change.

I remember going to a real 3d movie as a kid, but I forget where. Some movie studio park, probably. It was only 10 or so minutes of Hitchcock's 'The Birds', but wow was it amazing. Too amazing. I remember feeling real fear to where I'd take the glasses off for a few seconds, people were screaming, many took off their glasses before it was over.

Not sure if this relates to the metaverse, just sharing an anecdote.
They are adding features they 'took' to put it kindly from other existing, mature implementations without giving any credit or acknowledgement.

Not only that, they expect people to test their beta grade software because they keep releasing it half baked ever since the release of Swift itself.

It's embarrassing and it also angers me because these companies have wall gardened their ecosystems to proprietary languages and tools that all do the same thing poorly, differently and in ways that prevent sane cross platform development, on purpose, this being yet another apple-only 'thing'.

Here's Swift's roadmap: copy C# and other languages for the next 5 years while making sure you can't write cross platform code by adding arbitrary garbage like SwiftUI or this 'distributed actor' implementation that will surely differ and not be compatible with existing features of other languages and their tooling.
Addendum. Now that I go back and read it, it was that I remember loving it back when I read it, and offhand for me I'm realizing it was before I discovered Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who does most of what this guy does, but way better; e.g. the basic prinicple of "skin-in-the-game" very easily does the plodding work of "Beware The Man..."
Mark the date. Facebook has now had their "jump the shark" moment.
> This "watercooler effect" myth may seem important to some, but I know my team members closely because I am talking to them all day, whether we're staring at each other face to face or not. I already know their kids are in college, or the sports teams they are interested in, or the typical company rumor mill.

That doesn't just happen. I'm glad your company/team has apparently figured it out; mine certainly hasn't.
If stimulants and depressants are balancing each other out - what's the appeal in taking both?

Why wouldn't you only want to take one? Or do you usually only take the other, recreationally, when you get too stimulated or depressed?
After using a data structure first framework like Dask I can’t imagine ever going back to an actor oriented approach.
Transfer on and off the GPU is limited mostly by PCIe and the latest Mac Pro that performs almost like M1 Max in rasterization has only PCIe3.0, while PCIe gen 4 with double the bandwidth is available on many PCs. If you look closely at the benchmarks performance doesn't correlate with PCIe bandwidth, and even if it did, it doesn't explain nearly 3x difference between 3090 and W6900X.
Just incidentally, a RTG powered by strontium-90 works as well as or better than a plutonium-powered one. Strontium-90 builds up as a waste product in ordinary uranium fuel rods, and can be (pretty) cheaply extracted from what we call nuclear waste. I suspect the use of plutonium for RTGs in spacecraft is mainly because people already had a pipeline for extracting and concentrating plutonium for the weapons industry. I don't know of any other use for strontium-90, outside RTGs.

An industry delivering strontium-90 on demand could be very valuable for space operations, despite or even because of its uselessness as weapon material.
Who knows?

I've found I tend to tilt my head when I'm trying to find a different angle mentally, alone and when interacting with other people.
> if they showed the actual experience almost nobody would buy it.

Some of the pieces are real. Everyone has their mouth open, because it's real hard to breathe with your nose with all that stuff on your face.
You bring up a very interesting point: Lucasfilm would have been sold for the scrap value of the furniture it owned had Star Wars never trickled down the monetization hierarchy all the way to free to air channels and instead remained in cinemas forever.
You mean bad neighbourhoods like Wall Street in NYC? :D
> U.S. military officers were selected to serve on a jury [...] Unknown to the jurors, Mr. Khan and his lawyers reached a secret deal [...] his actual sentence could end as early as February and no later than February 2025

so that why have the court case at all?
So it means they are trying to understand, basically the same thing humans use it for.
Current TSMC dominance is shortsighted happenstance that is not in any major power bloc's interest, least of all US. Yes the silicon shield protects TW, and exploiting it as silicon lance can inhibit PRC, but ultimately it's better for PRC for TSMC fabs to be within PRC rocket force ranges, on TW soil without explicit US security commitment than say Samsung Fab on SK soil. US could be pressing PRC a lot harder if not for these fabs.

There's also the broader consideration of East Asian IC supply chains in general, PRC/TW/JP/SKR accounts for ~75% of global IC capacity. Losing TSMC in war over TW will set the world back 1-2 nodes and 10 years, losing regional fabs in a broader war over TW will knock out decades worth of capex. Global semiconductor industry is 500B market, trillions in terms of industries affected, most of which benefits west. TW GDP is ~600B. TSMC concentrating fabs on TW is more liability than prize in that regard. East Asian semi supply chain in aggregate is more or less IC mutually assured destruction, and everyone of them can be directly threatened / leveraged by PRC if Sino-US competition goes hot.

TW losing semi leverage in medium / long term is forgone. The interesting development ahead is whether US will be able to hold on to IP dominance in the space and convince others to block tech to PRC. Recent high level talks in this regard is happening while US is pressuring non-US fabs for supply chain info to direct investments in US for the semi reshore effort. Ultimately goal is to undermine east asian semi industries the same way US killed Japan's semiconductor in the 80s. Right now every party is reshoring fabs while working towards de-americanized supply chains because everyone wants to sell to PRC and fears US sanctions that still gives preferential exemptions to US companies. EU/JP/KR car industry were not happy about TW/TSMC preferencing US companies while barginning for political gains with semi supply. Ergo recent pressuring of TSMC to spread fabs around with carrot and stick. While fabs are raking it during covid due to extreme demand and double booking, that will level off eventually. Latest Semiconductor Industry Association report is guestimating self sufficient local supply chains will cost at least 1T and 35-65% increase in prices. The strategic IC moat is eventually going to exclude a lot of smaller countries. Who will want TW as part of their blocs' supply chain if their fabs are existential risk? Queue Morris Chang.
It isn't a good article. Some of the things don't make sense. And it shies away from anything in depth. It really may be a GPT3 blog post, as others suggest.
MAANG
I mean, San Francisco has always taken a more principled position on defining the boundaries of freedom and civil rights. It wasn’t so long ago that homosexuality was considered antisocial, could be “treated” in an institution, and was considered offensive to see in public.
Is it useful to anyone? Or it's some super edge workload? Very doubtful that it's a general enough benchmark to be useful.
But the temporary rule change is a quality of life improvement. Less trucks idling on the streets, less ships idling offshore means better air quality. Less ships anchored means less chance of another oil pipeline spill. More cargo hauled means more prosperity. A few months of eyesore are an acceptable cost.

The thing is, there is no fix to the root cause. You can either have cheaper products with just-in-time supply chains, or you can pay more for storage. The trade-off will always be efficiency or redundancy, and most industries have already chosen the level of risk they can accept. Real world systems have tipping points and bottlenecks, and it’s okay to use government to push them back into steady state.
“It’s likely just poorly written software” sounds completely glib to me, it sounds like an intuitive leap rather than a reasoned-out conclusion.

Again, it sounds like an unusual workload. I don’t see why performance must scale with some spec in any particular straightforward way—I think we all remembered seeing workloads that would get faster once you added more CPU cores, then slower once you kept adding CPU cores—because back in the day, most of us didn’t have experience with systems that had lots of CPUs.

GPUs are optimized to suit common workloads and, quite predictably, aren’t optimized to suit uncommon workloads. Modern graphics uses a mix of CPU and GPU work. The back-and-forth, especially returning results from the GPU to the CPU, has historically caused all sorts performance problems.

We don’t have the explanation for why here, but I see no reason to conclude that it must be poorly written software just because the performance characteristics are unintuitive.
Ontario school board undergoes review of every book to remove ‘harmful’ books
Sorry, I misunderstood you about what you read. Now I'd like to know how you have time! If you have any highly efficient curated news aggregation (high value information, generally non-partisan), I'd love to know.

> My point is that the "filter of politics" is exhausting and not necessary (to this degree). I do not think it's okay to propose legislation without explaining why it will do what you say, rather than some other thing. We're needlessly rushing the process

I agree with all that, other than rushing the process. These bills have been discussed for a long time, the tax debates are old (even if not appropriately explained), and the impact of delay is substantial, including reducing the chance of getting anything at all done. The alternative may be 'nothing'.
Phew, all they were really missing was a good name.
Reminded the old movie from the same period about a Revolution hero, him using potatoes to teach tactics
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rS64aAQEgME