skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>garbage humans

There will always be people without a place to live, and people with substance abuse disorders. We can both agree that they do exist, even if we are upset by that fact and wish it was not so.

So, what do you think a good plan would be? Turn them into soylent green? Tut tut at them when their suffering mildly inconveniences our day/their presence upsets us(the current situation)? Improve life for everyone by having good public toilets? Something else?
Laundry is one of those things I've lived without comfortable access to for long enough to appreciate what I have now.
Everyone is eventually disabled sometime.
Why was this flagged? If it’s that bad, wouldn’t we benefit from construct criticism?
> Low THC/high CBD cannabis was best for reducing perceived symptoms

Would be interesting, then, to compare it with (semi-) pure CBD, which is more widely legally available at this point.
1) the screens are really close to your eyes, which is an issue for your eyes to focus on
2) the screens need a high field of view
3) the headset need to provide 6D pose feedback to the computer
4) battery
I’d assume this is the case, but is there actually any evidence either way, or are we all just speculating?
It's not about the quality. But about the interaction with others you can get lost in. Some of the users said this after engaging in a complex workshop we had set up as a test.

Of course they didn't literally forget that they were in VR. But that adjustment to the real environment was there.

You can also tell when people start apologising for running into other people or entering their 'personal space'. Eg standing too close with their avatar. In VR that doesn't matter technically but it feels wrong. That's when you know it 'clicked' and they're really there with a person half a world away. I get that myself too, it's great. But I love seeing it in people that try VR for the first time (and by this I mean real 6DOF interactive VR, not Google cardboard derivatives)

But yeah there is a large component of suspension of disbelief. I'm sure that will always be there no matter how good the tech gets.
Well this seems extremely specious. To presume the entire history of life must remain in existence on a heavily life-colonized world is bizarre reasoning. Any "simple self-replicator" would have long since been exterminated by it's more sophisticated next generation species, not to mention the multiple ages of radically different environmental pressures (i.e. the oxygen apocalypse) in the Earth's history.

You're essentially arguing that the absence today of simple replicating amino-acid organisms somehow implies that they must spontaneously form far far more complex systems to do so: yet the evidence says otherwise - we know for a fact and can observe the existence of purely RNA-based enzymatic systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world) which are curiously involved in things like protein synthesis in our cells today.
Now that Facebook is Meta – we need a new acronym for FANG
The point is that some innocent was killed. Discussion whether he was right or far-right seems a bit unnecessary given the context.
Yes, it's weird seeing the X is dead sentiment considering some of the most popular distros are still using X, and Wayland has only recently caught up with comparability for workflows like screen capture. I'm unfortunately stuck on X because of my NVIDIA system, but I hadn't been all that interested in Wayland until recently. AFAIK there is also some work to be done on the gaming side no?
I'd agree with you if Congress wasn't the biggest offender of wasting resources. At least you can sell Facebook shares or sue Zuckerberg if you feel like he's wasting your money. A Senator gets reelected when they waste money because they waste it in their home state.
There's no lack of VC spending on startups in this world, some of them are quite ridiculous. I'm not sure what you would propose would make any difference to anything.
Translation convention.

Pub is just the best English translation for 'Kneipe', and whether you drink a UK pint or half a litre of beer doesn't make too much of a difference.
A fun Postgres extension to require this: https://github.com/eradman/pg-safeupdate
Probably the people who spent months setting up an experiment to explain the behavior didn't consider this notion that occurred to the dilettantes thinking about it for 30 seconds.
and that doesn't work
tertiary amines, man. That's the reason I couldn't be an organic chemist. If you don't like the smell of decaying fish, it's tough.

Also pretty much everything in OC ends up being a yucky resin at the bottom of a flask you can't remove.

When I visited my grad school for the first time, there were ambulances and firetrucks outside the building. I went to the main office and there were EMTs everywhere and firemen. Turns out, they were doing spring cleaning of a fume hook and accidentally touched a bottle of ether. The ether had formed free radicals over time, and just touching the bottle caused it to expose, popping all the windows out 20 feet away. The chemist's face was permanently scarred (although his life was safed by the safety glass). That was later my office, although I did mostly computational work.
AR has the potential of being the next "smartphone" kind of technology.

When the hardware is useable and portable enough, it could be a daily-life game changer.
When AI and automation come to work you stress less – but hate your job more
Toning down would probably prevent your post from being flagged.

Being right and being able to bring it across in a non-offensive way are two different shoes.
> the amount of jokes I have seen

Mark hasn't seen them.
I own an iPad with the Apple Pencil precisely because I was excited to take notes with it, but the handwriting recognition is awful, and without handwriting recognition there isn’t much point in using the iPad versus paper notebooks for notes.

Anyway, if as much as I enjoy handwriting, taking notes via keyboard is much better: you can type a lot faster than you can write and you get all of the benefits of handwriting recognition (searchability, editability, etc). And if you’re using an iPad, your keyboard experience is significantly poorer than with a laptop. The only compelling advantage for a stylus is diagrams IMO.

As for “learning curve”, I have a hard time believing that children will have a significantly harder time with macOS versus iOS. Kids seem pretty smart when it comes to technology.
I've taken to using "echo" and then when I run the command run it with a space at the front - you may have to run setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE or similar to get this in zsh, for example.

That way ctrl+r won't bring back a destructive command.
One man gets to decide the direction and has ultimate control.

This is one of those statements that sounds pithy and is theoretically correct but in practice. The person at the top has far less control than people think they do and it's incredibly difficult to wield what control they do have with any kind of precision or accuracy. What actually happens is the the organization is full of people who attempt to do what they think they are inferring the people above them want and the result is an aggregation of all those little inferences of varying quality and accuracy. The bigger the organization the less control the person at the top actually has.
Sounds like he was considering re-inventing SSH tunneling, which is built-into SSH.
Self-replicating machines already happened once, in many varieties. It's far from an assumption unless you want to appeal to the idea that they were intentionally created, but that really only pushes the problem further down the stack.
It was received that way because Republican propaganda is very effective (see the way they reframed "fake news" as an example,) but no reasonable person reading the actual text of the statement would interpret it that way.

And obviously it was self-serving. Hillary Clinton was giving a speech running for political office, not having a casual conversation. Every word coming out of Donald Trump's mouth was self-serving as well, for the same reason. Yet (again, due to the effectiveness of Republican propaganda) it's a sign of arrogance and elitism when a Democrat does it, but virtue and strength of character in a Republican.
I consider any SQL client that doesn't have implicit transactions as broken. Just too easy to make mistakes.

However even with that, I agree with your second point. I always type

-- commit

in my SQL client and then highlight "commit" and execute only the highlighted text. That way I don't commit anything if I accidentally trigger the "execute all" action.
Antarctic marine conservation park thwarted by China, Russia
If some of the illicit processing has reached a level of sufficient sophistication to enable removal of the l-enantiomer then I wonder how they go about it. Anyone know?

As this article shows, there's any number of ways of making MA but separating out it's racemic mixtures has always been considered hard for backyard-ers.

If this is now commonplace then it does seem to represent a somewhat of a seismic shift in the illicit drugs business model.
It depends on the laws of the country. I believe in the USA it means uncorrectable 20/200 or worse vision.

The eye is a remarkably complex organ and thus it can fail in many different ways. There are many people with eye disorders who do not fit the legal definition. Either their condition is correctable (not curable), or their usable vision is above 20/200. Since many conditions are degenerative a person with an eye condition may become legally blind over time.
The Pragmatic Programmer – Andy Hunt – Swings by the Artists of Data Science Pod
Another concerning thing I've noticed is the ease in which some aspect of a person, such as if they are hesitant about getting the new vaccine, are tied to this group of other personality traits, such as anti-science, racist, conservative, Trumpist, anti-lgbt.

It's ridiculous how easily we are able to draw lines in the sand and push other people to the other side. I wonder what the attitude towards vague personality groups of the 'enemy' were like in countries that engaged in genocide and if this is a stepping stone to something worse. If you combine fear of economic failure or physical health and a group of people to blame for it, it seems a dangerous mixture.
Index: €1100 + the cost for a VR-capable PC, if you don't already have one

Quest 2: €350, standalone

They're not really in the same class at all.
Of course he avoids discussion of any topics with a direct material impact on working class people and instead engages in the same “culture war” crap he’s trying to rail against.
We are also at a point where people whine that $5 for an app on your phone is "vastly overcharging". You get what you pay for.
Correct, but Slack is based off electron and is widely successful.

End users are used to tolerating a basic chat application eating an indefinite amount of ram.

From a business pov it doesn't make sense to spend time optimizing since most users don't seem to mind.
That looks neat, I used to use a ESP8266 to rickroll people that were looking for free WiFi: http://kaspergrubbe.com/esp8266
I fail to see how secure boot is worse than nothing. I don't need to even begin to think about supply chain attacks when the hardware in my house doesn't have trust between its components.
It does however tell us that the "easy" steps are easy, which was never a foregone conclusion. The other steps will remain what they are. It doesn't mean the trend will continue.

I find it weird to use a deliberately rigged game as an example. If one of the previous letters was wrong, the last letter being right means you don't win either.
It's like saying the difficult steps are going to be extra difficult because other steps were found easier than expected.
Transcript[1]:

> And as we’ve focused more on work, and frankly, as we’ve heard your feedback more broadly, we’re on making it so you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account.

> ... I know this is a big deal for a lot of people. Not everyone wants their social media profile linked to all these other experiences.

To me this strongly suggests that it is a separate account, and is not required to be linked to a Facebook account.

[1]: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/meta-facebook-connect-2...
I apologize if I'm being too pedantic, but actually facebook closing would affect lots of companies who use fb ads to reach customers.
"Blizzard is being ransacked by the Woke Mob that doesn't actually care about any alleged abuses towards any employees", "Real wealth is actually shrinking" (while not mentioning climate change), "The Elite are fabricating a casus belli against Regular Working People" (after blowing trillions to help them)?

I'm sorry, I try to be charitable, but this guy reads like a well-written National Review comments section nutter.

I'm in the pessimistic camp too, but the quasi-Stalinist revolution this guy sees coming seems profoundly unlikely.
Similarly in research group the easy way to prevent criticism is to make your approach look as complex as possible, with as many math equations as you can cram and a healthy dose of lingo. That way people are too confused to ask relevant questions and management usually lacks the background to form an opinion so they will take the team silence as an endorsement.
The average commute in the US is apparently 27 minutes one-way. That's what people have settled on when they're spending their _own_ time. If you get paid for commute time it incentivizes people to commute even longer so they can get even more square footage per dollar, or whatever they're optimizing for.
In civilized countries, public toilets in places like highway rest-stops and train stations get 24 hour maintenance.

The best way to fund that is to have everyone pay a nominal fee to use the facilities.
It’s really nice to see X11 slowly die out.
At least now it will become possible to use Oculus without being forced to have a Facebook social media account. Just like it is possible to use Whatsapp without a Facebook identity.
Would anyone recommend the Oculus Quest for getting exercise? This might be what pushed me to get it.
It is justification. The fact that some consider Pim Fortuyn far-right, makes the murder less bad. Understandable perhaps.
In evolution things usually persist for multiple reasons. It seems possible that the gesture is both functional (in terms of the dog's hearing) and attractive (to humans). An attempt to perceive correctly and a signal of openness and willingness to do so.

Steven Pinker on the evolution of the shrug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPN2717RMLY#t=30s
What do you even mean with "if we allow this precedent to be set"? The precedent has long been set. This man's life is completely ruined, and so is his health. They hunted and imprisoned him for a decade, based on complete bogus claims and fabrications. The rape case that is now dropped. The espionage case with a crooked lying key witness. The ship has already sailed, the evil won this time, no matter what the court decides. They will make up bogus charges until he shuffles off this mortal coil.
This was probably more useful in the past but nowadays even local traffic is usually encrypted. All you'd catch is DNS lookups.
Network Capture with Process Name and PID on macOS
I have heard it called language but, notably, by people from outside the UK
>Modern progressivism is in danger of becoming dominated by a relatively small group of people who went to the same colleges, live in the same neighborhoods and have trouble seeing beyond their subculture’s point of view.

I think that this small group of (highly political) people's voices are getting quieter and quieter. The citizenry is very keen today of BS detection, and very skeptical of traditional news; rightfully so. Traditional news lives at the mercy of advertisers. Russell Brand recently did a segment about Pfizer and CNN with a montage that was pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5xqP-aPwOU

A lot of this is thanks to the loosening of the stranglehold of traditional news outlets in solely defining narratives.
I’m not so sure about that. There’s always the danger of making someone a martyr: I’d argue that both Snowden and Assange have passed their “impact peak” for want of a better term. They aren’t going to be able to repeat previous acts because they’re simply too well known now. If they were freed they would probably make public statements that antagonise folks but not much more. On the other hand, if they were killed they’d become a rallying cry. I’m not exactly tuned into batshit crazy circles but I can’t imagine there being all that much focus on Assange these days.

You’re not wrong about the general danger of this hyper-politicised era, though. To my mind the biggest danger is if a Supreme Court justice gets targeted. Feels entirely plausible, I have to assume (hope?) there are extensive security precautions taken behind the scenes.
Do you think it would be private citizens or the government that would kill him in the US?

Honestly I think it’s too obvious for the government to kill him while he’s in the US and they’d be much more likely to do it overseas. Plus some rando crackpot probably couldn’t even recognize him on the street.

He could live a rich person’s life in Manhattan for years and barely be noticed once the initial media frenzy died down.
If you're a proponent of written communication- you'll argue that 100 'turns' of written communication will have significantly more valuable discussion than 100 turns in a meeting. Most of the turns in a meeting can usually be avoided by a google search beforehand
One quick trick I use a lot in the shell is to run a known safe command with the argument first, and then run the dangerous command with the the !$ variable (the last argument of the previous command) so there's no possibility of a mistake in copying and pasting. Something like: `ls /tmp/junk; rm !$`.
Citing rotten tomatoes popularity numbers when internet vote stuffing on behalf of whatever axe someone wants to grind is extremely common is not particularly valid.

The problem is that there's a tendency for everyone to stake a philosophical/social position and starts defending it to the death, demonizing the opposition, and not really talking or understanding differing opinions - they're just blather to be yelled louder than.
Everything Facebook revealed about the Metaverse in 11 minutes
I don’t remember where I saw it, but I recently read that an overwhelming majority of gamers prefer subtitles for cut scenes.
When working in prod, first I write a select to grab all of the data I wish to modify, confirm that is correct, then add the set portion, then add the UPDATE last. Never had a issue and I work in prod all the time.
What Working at GitStart Has Been Like
Pundits be pundits – through the process of claiming that there is a perception of "X" they try to engender perception "X".
America is just too big. Time to split up or cede power completely to the individual states as originally was intended (but not really since Federalist vs Anti-Federalist was a thing). Ultimately geographic and socioeconomic factors are what fuel the division. No amount of politicking can override reality. Either America strikes down dissidents (whatever that means to you) or we accept the oscillations that is the never-ending American culture war (not to imply other countries don't have similar problems).

When one group believes in big government and the other believes in small government in contradictory and circumstantial ways, there's no reconciliation.
the original article was used in my graduate program as a list of all the things biologists shouldn't do when working on origin of life. Like, "they got the basic details of the atmosphere wrong". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#Evolution_...
Fact is that Xorg is more or less effectively abandoned, so yes, while distributions don't deprecate them yet because there's still a lot of places where X11 is required this is where it is going.

Hmm, I guess you should let Fedora know that GTK+ and Qt don't support Wayland given they ship with Wayland by default and these... just work.
>only further intensify the propaganda against him.

There does not need to be propaganda against him. His collaboration with Russian intelligence seems fairly self evident and speaks for itself.
Indeed. And this is also one of the things that would most quickly lead to a firing if the behaviour doesn't change at companies I have worked at (much quicker than poor output).
Reading the article, and hearing them bang on about code quality and security, this reminds me. Is there any good modern book on C development with today's best practices? I have K&R but I've been told that's very outdated.
I clicked expecting more context and found a great mentorship opportunity: please provide more context when you’re asking for advice.
I thought the more important fact was that the original experiment produced a bigger variety of aminos than previously thought, discovered by re-examining the original material with modern tech.
> Let's be serious. He wasn't going to get a fair trial by any means whatsoever, absolutely zero chance of that happening.

We'll never know that and there is no way to know. What we do know is that instead of surrendering to the justice process of several countries, he sought asylum. Any claim that his justice process wasn't speedy has to factor that in.
The question becomes what do you think the hard step is?
How many frogs will fall for the scorpions plan?
Beat saber is a surprisingly good cardio workout - lots of squatting, moving around etc.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm pretty strict with the level of quality of the screen time consumed normally. Roadblox kind of gets around that by being a platform with tons of stuff so harder to moderate. I think I'll block it today.
No “fuck off David Brooks” is correct sentiment.
I imagine that historically, sending draw commands would have been highly efficient and quite responsive— show these form controls, this text field with these contents, etc. But as common use-cases have gotten more and more graphical, it's made more sense to just render a buffer and send that instead.
It doesn’t really matter where the user uses the Oculus, it matters how much users use the oculus. It can find success outside of the pocket.

Look at cable TV advertising.
I'd love if they clarified if not being directly linked to a Facebook account would mean it's not being harvested and shadow profiling the user to end up linking to whatever is their definition of a "person" in their ad systems.

This corporate-speak makes me very cynical and I hate it but given FB's history I would like a completely clear statement that data harvested from Oculus is not immediately linked to an identity of myself in some system of the FB colossus.
If you never learn where a few molecules came from, how could you possibly make progress on the problem?
The irony is you are arguing the same point as him, but took it to heart in some odd agressive way.

Cheaper healthcare and worker's rights are universal left wing qualities.

The isolation he is pointing out is that instead of these principles, most discussion has been captured by fringe issues which alienate more people than they attract.
I agree with you that, "Old and functional does not mean deprecated." but what you asserted is not what deprecation is either. It generally means the developers are giving notice that new development on a feature/feature-set/api is discouraged. That notice was given for X a while ago.

I understand the idea that it would be better if the replacement were 100% ready when that notice was given, but I'm not surprised that wasn't the case with X, it's big shoes to fill.

I can't speak for normal users, but I have seen some reporting, that they have been on a Wayland for a while now without knowing it.