skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this brought back an early memory of my sparkling new brain examining the mechanism of the original version of this toy with my eyes and fingers without any words to describe what I was learning. Just some kind of sense of mastery that I couldn't communicate, but made me feel more confident about my understanding of the world.

It seems pretty cynical to market this in order to appeal to people like me with memories like this, with a huge dimension of the enrichment value stripped away.
> Why do they need to spend billion of dollars en VR development and then the user will have to spend hundred (thousand ?) of dollars to buy the VR headset, expensive computer just to have an activity that will be worse than a jog.

For better or worse, most athletes even at the college level are more interested in doing entertaining workouts than actually getting better at their sports. And among non-athletes who just want to stay in shape, it's even worse.

I personally agree with you, but at the same time this kind of thing is clearly what people want and are willing to pay for.
Sorry, I must have misunderstood the question! :)
Whenever someone says crap like this to me I feel sorry for the dog because its clearly poorly socialized and thats entirely the blame of the owner.
I wouldn't consider myself super in love with terraform, but Cloudformation has been nearly 100% unpleasant experiences for me, though I will admit to not being an expert. Mostly it seems like it's harder to know your changes don't have any mistakes and will do exactly what you expect. Is there a CF equivalent to TF plan? We've also found TF seems to apply changes faster in many cases.
To be fair: The article says that was awarded multiple fellowships. So it was not the PhD but the rent she could not afford after being forced out of an affordable place after starting.
Plus everyone, even dogs, can have a bad day. I feel I'm a pretty judge of dogs, having grown up around them all my life. I know when a dog is barking to alert an owner vs when a dog is barking and is about to bite.

But even with that in mind, I remember the one time my dog was playing with another dog, and suddenly the play turned to aggression on a dime, and I had to pull those dogs apart, and one ended up with a piece of it's ear gone. Neither dog had a history of aggression, neither has done anything like that ever again. There was no warning, it just happened.

Why? I have no clue, and I never will, because dogs aren't people. I can't even know what another human is thinking when a violent outburst happens, much less another species.

So are drug-sniffing dogs reliable? I bet they are, but just like people sometimes they can be wrong, or they can have a bad day, or they can give the answer they thought the trainer wanted. Who knows? We don't know how they experience the world enough to even make a guess.
> Metaverse is not bullshit. It's a sign of desperation.

Ha ha, so, in fact, bullshit.

I'm so happy someone called it out. Being a developer, tech-savvy person, I should be all into BitCoin, VR, meta ... but I have recoiled from more or less the last decade of crap (including, I might add, "social" and maybe even phones — although they are great for navigating).

Maybe I am just getting old (that is true) or maybe this is in fact a load of bullshit: just Big-Internet trying to make "meta" a thing.

Pass.
I do remember seeing the K56flex AND the x2 firmware upgrades available on Geocities warez sites of the late 90s... I was too scared to brick my modem.
Thanks for sharing. I'm not a regular Roku user but I do have one and I was thinking about hacking on it. Knowing that Roku can ban you from installing custom apps on the device I purchased is enough to make me spend my time elsewhere.

I'm really glad that companies like pine64, frame.work, and purism, etc are starting to emerge. The Roku, Apple, John Deere etc user-hostile approach of "you don't own it, we do. You're renting it from us and we will tell you what is permitted" needs to be defeated.
How the pandemic has changed the weather in the technology industry
Have you ever played Beat Saber? It's incredibly fun and a great workout. I didn't think much about VR until I had a kid. I couldn't exactly bring an infant to the gym or on a run. So I used the headset (Oculus Quest) during naps and was instantly hooked.

VR has evolved since then since now. For example, you can connect it to stationary bikes, rowing machines, etc., compete with others, adding a whole new dimension.

Video games and fitness are multi-hundred billion-dollar industries. So why not combine the two? As someone who used to be an avid gamer but no longer has the time, I would love a way to combine my favorite hobby (gaming) with fitness, especially during the winter or other times when exercising outside is inconvenient.
Minecraft, Roblox, Second Life (probably, not sure whether this counts as game). Pretty much every Multiplayer Sandbox-World nowadays is able to scale up to MMO. At usually out of the box they are not RPG, even though they can be modded to be RPG. Similar things happening at GTA5 or RDR2, where the basegame is not RPG on a technical, but RPG by world-setting and gaming-style.

Then we have the endless amounts of wargames[1], shoots[2] and old browser-games[3]. Or the newer genre of battle royale, where we have hundreds of players per session in some game. Though, there is not much richful interaction between the players outside the game, it's all just simple chat or even none at all. Though, I heard Fortnite has gained some persistent world-aspects outside the game-sessions?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massively_multiplayer_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massively_multiplayer_...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massively_multiplayer_...
voice calls don't scale to beyond a few people either
Or people just tired of all the snobs and pseudo intellectuals that had infested the platform and went back to their podcasts?
In addition to your points here, I found the hypothesis below very interesting. In a nutshell, American governments are incentivized to zone for expensive land that doesn't require much infrastructure. So we get giant, sparse suburbs and institutional opposition to affordable housing because that reduces the tax base.

'Local German officials, like local leaders everywhere, seek bigger budgets to provide more and better services to their constituents. What’s different about Germany is that the way to get bigger budgets is to increase local populations. And, as Professor Buettner says, “Ultimately, to get people, municipalities will need to support housing.”

The result is a system of incentives that is the opposite of “fiscal zoning”—the US practice of zoning land in ways that maximize local governments’ income and minimize their costs. In places with high sales taxes, such as Washington State, leaders zone more land for shopping centers. In places where residential property taxes are capped, such as California, they zone less land for homes and more for offices. In affluent suburbs, they often zone land for houses on large lots, excluding low-income people.

Maximizing property values is such a central concern of local government in the United States that Dartmouth economist William Fischel developed the notion into an entire political theory. His “homevoter hypothesis” holds that local governments are almost single-mindedly focused on maximizing real estate values, because homeowners typically vote their home values in local elections. German jurisdictions gain financially by maximizing population, not house values, and because renters outnumber homeowners in the country, homevoters are not the dominant electoral force in local German elections. Renters are.'

https://www.sightline.org/2021/05/27/yes-other-countries-do-...
You can live just miles away from a farm and never drive past it. I don't get the cross state lines sales but this seems like a reasonable replacement for a one line ad in the weekly paper/notice at the bottle shop.
Yes, I do, absolutely.

The activity is absolutely not worse than a jog. It's easier on my knees (less impact), more fun (as in I'll actually do it), uses more of my body (things like dodging objects requiring engaging a lot more muscles than the few ones I use over and over when biking or jogging), isn't hampered by the weather (as in I'll actually do it in the winter), and has the potential to be more social.

It's like sports in a lot of ways, except cheaper, easier to organize, and not requiring commuting to a shared facility to play them.

All your criticisms could apply to any exercise equipment, not just VR. Your gym membership almost certainly costs more than VR, and at least speaking for myself, I would make a lot less use out of it.
Overcompensated
Indeed! I wonder why more people don't see the equivalence between L. Bob Rife and Zuckerberg.
That's great but I hope we can agree that most of society wants a house with a garden and a family dog. Trying to put those people into a tiny house or camper would lead to the revolution Marx dreamed of.
The Spirit of Seeing
ive noticed all(?) of the things you describe here and i find it interesting to see them put into words like that. Curious that you notice that caffeine has an effect too. Something ive never considered before.

also, i tend to agree with your conclusion, i think what i described are normal human errors, not necessarily signs of dyslexia.
That may be a reflection of your circle. I say that all the time, and many of the people I talk to about it agree completely :-)
I live in the US. When I was done with my Bachelors, which I did in the evenings while I worked full time, I had a choice of two local universities for graduate study. The CS grad course in one was really a PhD that granted a Masters part way through. Classes were in the day and students were expected to TA. The other school's was a Masters-only program and offered classes in the evenings. I had a wife and two young children, there was no way I could support them on a TA's salary. So I went with the Masters-only program. Tuition has skyrocketed, educators' pay rates have not.
Tijuana doesn't have those problems, and yet for some reason people that can afford it prefer to live in San Diego. Maybe ultra high density isn't that great? It certainly isn't if you want to swim anywhere near the Tijuana river.
Towards Open Source Sustainability
Yeah, they have sweat guards you can add and the VR head pads are usually replacable.
> Direct Hit, a search engine pre-2000, used click data for ranking purposes. It didn't really last

Odd bit to add. Almost every search engine almost certainly uses click data.
The PHP docs make a pretty clear statement:

PASSWORD_DEFAULT - Use the bcrypt algorithm (default as of PHP 5.5.0).

(from https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php)

and then there's also the source code:

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/bf92bddb878dbd86d23db290...
> It depends where you live, sadly. In some places it can be downright dangerous to exercise outside.

Where is it so dangerous(or really bad weather) than you can go for a run or to any gym/club ? (and add to that you can still do burpees or jump rope in an appartment)

I don't think they are developing VR fitness for people living in the middle of Sahara desert or Himalaya.
I think there's a difference between CDOs and other instruments as a financial tool in general, and between turning them into speculative investments.
Roku has a market cap of >40billion, and >1.7billion in revenue. They have the resources to do whatever they want.

These are also not reasonable comparisons since the vast majority of the numbers in the other two companies are not on the software/hardware development side.

I would actually guess if you compared "the size of the team working on Google TV/Amazon Fire TV/etc", Roku is probably bigger (or the sizes were very close).

I would be shocked if it was "tiny" in comparison.
Do broker fees and taxes drive this as well?

In NYC, there's a 6% broker's fee, and another 2% in taxes - and some buildings charge another 1-2% flip fee. So transaction costs eat 10% of the value, meaning people need at least a 10% appreciation to cover for this.

At the very least this leads to a much less liquid market, but I could see it leading to run away price increases as everyone tries to break even.
It is a good idea (the metaverse) but you can not take this shift seariously because they are trying to reflect the bad press of the whistleblowers of the last weeks.
They cannot be mass-produced. But they can be produced. What's the newest city you've been to in the USA? When was it founded?

Living in New Hampshire in one of the most desirable historic villages, where in the village house prices are quite high, it is not lost on me that I have seen 20-30 strip malls and innumerable cul de sacs built in my life, but no new villages. Despite everyone agreeing that they are the one of the most desirable places to live.

There are no shortage of coordination problems yet to be solved, here.
Seems you relieved yourself in the wrong place. The straw-man you regurgitated here is not the point in the least.

It seems the combination of "oil" and "execs" is your trigger under which some ball of dark emotions freely bypass any reasoning capability you might have.
Every city used to be countryside once upon a time.
>We actually have no scientific evidence either way.

That's how we know it's nonsense. When there's no evidence for something it doesn't mean that it's 50% Likely to be true.

If I told you there's a dragon in my garage you should immediately think that I'm lying because you've never seen any prior evidence of dragons anywhere.

Mathematically, things with no evidence for their existence don't exist.
This is because while we chat with people in-person, we're not as aware that people are looking at us. We feel more free to react with body language, or expression. We can interrupt without the awkward, "Oh, I'm sorry, you go first". The communication via Zoom/Google is very synchronous. It's so unnatural to the point that most hate it. I agree, my mom loves seeing my kids on video though.
Living in EU. Please tell me what should I do with my money, so I won't starve when I'm on pension in 20-30 years? Current situation is, that my lifetime savings are being eaten by inflation due to rising wave of social benefits given to everyone in exchange for votes. Real estate is virtually only option, that does not require additional part-time work, in order to turn profit beating inflation.
> having it print out a deprecation warning without considering what that means to all the people that use it

Virtually every command can fail in some way, and they will all write to stderr (or worse, stdout, but that's not what happened here). How is that unexpected at all? How else would you communicate the change? (For the sake of argument, let's say the change is going to happen regardless, since you're arguing for the irresponsibleness of showing a warning.)
this is exactly the stack I have used for my project, would have saved a month or more if I would have found this earlier. BTW, when my project did not have many components things were easy, but soon I realised the importance of type-checking and started learning TypeScript. I know there are a lots of discussions about to TS or not , but since you have almost covered everything that a SaaS needs , TS would be a good add on too. I loved your project , would definitely give it a try for any upcoming projects.
Another confound: students with more self control will both sleep more and study more effectively.
No they aren't, though they like to try to make people feel this way.

Again, I'm not sure how you can consider a company with a market cap of over 40 billion, and making 1.7 billion in revenue, some sort of "underdog competing against giants".

In their space, it's more like giants bumping each other around.
Jape (Software)
Sorry, have you seen their profits? Facebook is not going away any time soon.
Desirable living locations are a limited resource, the population is increasing, people haven't stopped wanting houses, so the relative supply is decreasing. Increased prices are more about that than in investment potential. Just look at "manufactured homes". These tend to be less desirable, in less desirable locations. The house itself often depreciates in value. Although the land it's on may appreciate in value.
Indeed. Sometimes the LACK of information or streamlined systems is the feature. It keeps things simple and flexible.

I need hay and you have the right kind in my region.

Okay let’s have a _conversation_ and figure it out.
“I wish 2006 Camrys were for sale and everyone would buy them”, says man who only ever buys the latest car.
Well, I think Wayland is going to avoid the "second-system effect" as it was intentionally designed to be smaller and less grandiose than X. http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html
There’s a small (5 acres maybe) field by me where the farmer keeps horses. He moves the horses from one half of the field to the other and grows hay in the opposite side. I see him cut it down and bale it about twice a year. Looks like it’s pretty self sustaining. I’ve never stopped to talk to the owner about it.
خرید و فروش ارز دیجیتال سندباکس Sand
بیت نوین فقط بخشی از موجودی خود را به صورت آنلاین نمایش می دهد که در بالا قابل مشاهده است. چنانچه مقدار سفارش موردنظر شما بیش از موجودی ذکر شده در بالا است لطفاً ثبت سفارش کنید تا کارشناسان فروش با شما تماس بگیرند
Footnotes That Work in RSS Readers
As a name, “Meta” is so asinine and vague that it actually takes my brain a whole second or so of focused thinking every single time to remember that it’s bloody Facebook. No way that’s an accident.

Well played, Meta.
>And the algorithms are ultimately going to optimize for profit, and not "quality content" or even "content that isn't harmful".

If people value quality content, quality content will be rewarded. If people don't care it won't. Some people just want to have a laugh and don't care about the production value of the video.
The metaverse needs to steal some of the realestate market investments into metaestate
The original Macintosh had 128k and managed to load a graphical OS and an app in that space. The ROM certainly helped, but it was quite a feat.
Dogs are cuddly AI. The first time we make a Convolutional Neural Network warm, cute, and fuzzy we will have created the perfect tool of the police state.

Which naturally means that we already have created the perfect tool. It’s a dog.

Nothing wrong with police in general. They’re just like dogs in their own way. Dogs get treats when they say there’s a drug, irrespective of the actual presence. Cops get treats when they a guy gets arrested or convicted, irrespective of guilt.
Even setting aside keywords, the real verbosity with Ada is that nearly everything is explicit, not implicit. In C you have many implicit conversions between (similar) types, in Ada these are always explicit. In C++ you have implicit instantiation of templates when they get used, in Ada you must explicitly instantiate a generic before it's used.

On the other hand, arrays carry their range information with them and you don't need to pass that explicitly like in C. And having types with explicit ranges means you can use them and trust that they'll work correctly (which may include erroring out when used incorrectly, like adding 1 to the largest value), but in most other languages you'd have to include explicit range checks at (potentially) numerous locations throughout the code (did we start with a correct value, did we end with a correct value).

Tradeoffs.
It's science!
Pretty gross that a billionaire is using his wealth to force a university to build something that is designed to be hostile to those who live in it. Disgusting display of control over others. Why not pay to give them all a beach view? I don't understand why someone with so much wealth would force this--the induced socialization scheme is just dumb. Someone should have told grandpa his idea sucked.
FAA Launches Solicitation to Design Air Traffic Control Towers of the Future
I feel like you need a balance there. If your programmers cannot put themselves in the shoes of the users at all, you need really really good specs. If they can, your specs don't need to be as... specific, as you can rely more on the programmers to make reasonable design decisions.
If you read the paper, From Modula to Oberon by Wirth, I already linked in a pervious comment when answering the question about subranges, you can also find the reasoning behind the removal of enumerations.

"Enumeration types appear to be a simple enough feature to be uncontroversial. However, they defy extensibility over module boundaries. Either a facility to extend given enumeration types has to be introduced, or they have to be dropped. A reason in favour of the latter, radical solution was the observation that in a growing number of programs the indiscriminate use of enumerations(and subranges) had led to a type explosion that contributed not to program clarity but rather to verbosity. In connection with import and export, enumerations give rise to the exceptional rule that the import of a type identifier also causes the (automatic) import of all associated constant identifiers. This exceptional rule defies conceptual simplicity and causes unpleasant problems for the implementor."

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.578...
Probably because it makes extreme sense to treat, provisionally, in practice and within one's set of tentative hypotesis, that correlation as a causation. Well functioning individuals increasingly behave erratically under sleep deprivation. Inductively "billions" of humans presumably got it as an experience, that rest dysfunction "correlated" with imperfect performance, with clear direction about which side may have conditioned the other. The warning is all on the size of the effect, not on the correlative factors.

Secondary factors such as vicious circles of struggle, anxiety etc. aside.
There's some info on MyRocks here:

https://engineering.fb.com/2017/09/25/core-data/migrating-a-...

Of note is that it halved the storage requirements for the user DB tier. That's a pretty big win.

As for why MySQL persists: I no longer work at FB so I'm not up to speed on the current thinking but one thing to remember is that TAO isn't the only thing that talks to MySQL. The web tier itself still has (or had) data types that were backed by MySQL and memcache. Lots of other systems for data processing, configuration, and so on stored data in MySQL. Replacing all of that would be a huge undertaking. I doubt there's a 10% win laying around just waiting for the taking with all this work, especially after MyRocks rolls out.

Also note that MySQL isn't the only storage system at Facebook. There are several others that were specifically written for specific use cases (e.g. ZippyDB, https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/06/core-data/zippydb/).
If you picked up the phone while using 300 baud, you could make out individual keypresses.