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>I’ve been a keen gamer since a kid. Now a dad, I’m in a similar position where I rarely have time to play. But I adore the Oculus Quest 2!

Same here. The Quest put the fun back in gaming for me. I tried some of the fancy new AAA PC games and I felt I just was not having as much fun as I did gaming as a kid since everything felt as the same-old rehashed recipes but with way fancier graphics and different stories, so I was just left yawning and bored quickly despite the realistic graphics and major hype.

But gaming in VR really makes me feel immersed and I finally feel like I'm having genuine fun like I'm a kid again. Why control a 1st/3rd person character on a screen, when you can be that characters and live the adventure yourself ?!.

Even though the graphics have a lot less polygons on the Quest, but since the art style of some games is designed from the get-go to be low-poly, it really fits well together. But somehow, some games on the Quest 2 really do look visually stunning, verging on modern console/PC fidelity, which is insane considering the underlying HW.

Mental health wise, it was a real life saver for me during the 2020 lockdowns as it allowed some quick escapism in new territories when everything was closed and my social circles broke up.

Not to mention, gaming in VR with 360 degrees of freedom is a lot healthier for your body and posture than gaming sitting at a desk/couch, especially if your day job also involves sitting at a desk for 8 hours.

As much as I despise Facebook/Meta, the Quest is a game changer which had a genuine positive impact on my life.
Umm, because politically-elected bosses going to fire them otherwise? At least that's how it should be, right?
Most of the stuff going on in crypto like you state defies analogy, and in the end, will be used as the grounding example of future analogies.
My question would be similar but different: what do you use Gemini for, day to day? Do you read the news, or a dictionary, or blogs? Or is it mostly the meta discussion of Gemini itself (which would also be fine, I hasten to add)?
And Uber has made like $25 billion in losses with no end in sight?
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This was posted today, I assume there is some relation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29289431
If I want to read general news there are plenty of feeds for that. I think some great articles covering non-tech topics deserve to be on the front page, but stuff like you posted does not seem that remarkable.

also note that this is a very US centric view, I'm living in Europe and I have not heard much about this trial, nor am I extremely interested day-to-day politics in the US.
Again plenty of great places to read and talk about north American politics, HN is more than that.
The one I’m most impressed by is the Quest 2. The one I spend the most time gaming on and ultimately have the most fun with is still the PC, as it has been for the past 20 years. I absolutely cannot stand touchscreen gaming.
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I use Voice Dream Reader too. It’s been astonishing watching how the voices have improved over the years. Can’t wait for the day it sounds just like a human voice. That’s gonna be a game changer.
Haha, nice toy, pretty realistic. Next one.
Tesla server outage allegedly leaves owners unable to drive their cars
You can also call Tesla roadside assistance. I believe they’ll also open the car for you.
Yea I was looking at them too but it's hdd based. Not appropriate for my use case
>This is wrong. People (as in regular people) aren't willing to pay millions

"regular people" aren't paying hundreds of thousands for NFTs either.

>they are willing however to spend 20/50/100 dollars to go an see it in person at the museum vs. googling an image of it. All for that 0.0000000000001%

>Consumers decided that for some pieces of art it is worth to spend some amount of dollars to go and see it once, in person and get that final 10th decimal place.

Are they really ascribing value to the remaining 0.0000000000001%, or just to the vague notion that the painting in the museum is the original? I alluded to this before, but the alternate explanation is that they're not going to the museum because it offers the best fidelity, they're doing so for other reasons (eg. social clout). See also: people going to concerts, even though listening at home has superior fidelity (for one, there aren't hundreds of people screaming in the crowd).

>This is what in turn gives the painting value , and then wealthy individuals and institutions are willing to pay millions, because the painting produces revenues for the museum.

This totally fails to explain paintings that are in private collections. Why do rich people pay millions for original paintings, just to hang inside their house?
You get access to the human code,and get one free Git push.What do you change?
This made me think of one of my favorite quotes from “The Wire”: “if it’s a lie, we fight on that lie”

The point was that they can’t stop the war, so it is counterproductive trying to expose that the thing they are fighting over wasn’t actually true.

https://youtu.be/oOQCuRdWt-A
Can you assist us in finding more plagiarism in the PhD thesis of this ethicist?
You can’t pick your favourite bad argument and ridicule an entire field. You are incidentally using ideas from several different old, influential philosophies to even formulate Luther comment

Philosophy includes questions like “how do we decide whether something is true or trustworthy,” or “what constitutes a good or a bad way to make a case for something.” If you’re going to throw philosophy out, you can’t question anything any more
voting is on?
It has been established that most people are motivated by their personal short term gains, they have no real reason to care unless there's a positive incentive for them to worry about the long term consequences of their actions.

Chances are that those managers will be able to deliver their features on time, meeting all KPIs & OKRs, while accumulating a stack of technical debt for future maintainers.
Of course art is heavily used for money laundering. Nobody ever claimed otherwise. That is a simple fact and has nothing to do with what we’re talking about. Nothing that you claim about value is going to change the fact that art is used for money laundering.
Quality conversation on this topic is impossible in large groups.

So it has no place here.
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I see lots of claims out of Wolfram Research about the amazing foundations of Wolfram Language but not actual details. Is anyone familiar with the internal structure of the language. Is it built around a small number of dominant ideas like Lisp/Forth and if so what are they? Are there base language primitives coded in another low level language?

No particular need for this info. I’m just curious.
Not if the definition of computing and uncomputable are from two different models of computation. For example, there are functions uncomputable by finite state machine, but that can be computed by a Turing machine.

One can imagine that someone will find a model of computation that allows to compute more functions than a Turing machine. It's extremely unlikely, but nobody has proven that it is not possible. It may be that our universe is one such model.
The Turing machine was designed by imagining a human-operator. Our Mind has also only a finite state, and no matter if quantum effects are involved, the information in it is always finite, describable in a finite state. Thus, all turing machines are capable do do exactly what we do with information. This argument is incredible.
Seems as superficial and facile as saying machines will never wear hats.
Maybe. My experience included a lot more negatives for no benefit, so I'm not a fan.
don't assume everyone on her is rich. Not everyone on hacker news works in silicon valley but they are more likely to understand compound interest.
OK so fed it an A1200 Kickstart rom image. Didn't work. Had a closer look at the settings and alas, no A1200 emulation.

Fed it a 1.3 A500 Kickstart and had a nice bit of nostalgia for the A500 I used to have's 'insert disk' screen (still have a working A1200).

Didn't have any Amiga disk images to hand, so can't comment further.
The motors make it easier to set a custom height. I just use a monitor mount instead, it’s the same thing with a stack of books or boxes. If you don’t have a good chair first though not much change.
Well TouchID sucked with gloves on - so pick your poison.

Initially when I moved to a FaceID phone I liked it for the fact that it would unlock itself without me having to take gloves off while biking. That was a time-saver. But now in 2021 with face masks the amount of situations where TouchID would have been more time-saving is a lot higher.
Elaho [1] is a really nice Gemini browser for iOS. It’s quite enjoyable to fire it up once in a while and go down that particular rabbit hole.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/elaho/id1514950389
We did not buy a new house. We did a renovation which is likely cheaper than this one.
Or it's bundled by their PC, along with mcafee
In Jewish law there is a paradigm called "this one is benefitting and this one is not losing". Essentially, the idea is that if you're enjoying something belonging to someone else, that doesn't constitute stealing as long as they don't stand to lose anything owing to your usage.

This applies to lamplight, and interestingly, can be applied to piracy as well: if you can honestly say you wouldn't have purchased the movie/software/music anyway, downloading it is not stealing.

As others have mentioned in the comments, this idea doesn't work for wifi: performance is inversely correlated with connected devices, making using your neighbor's wifi a case of "this one is benefitting and this one is losing".
If you are referring to me, I don't see how my excerpt is incomplete or could be seen as bad faith. Libreboot is steering people away from 6300 processors because using them requires explicitly loading a proprietary blob, while encouraging the use of 6200 processors that have an analogous blob baked in at the factory. The real difference is that the former makes you more aware of the compromise.
Regardless of level I now see only negative value in all aspects of religion.
Sure you could, like Solaris did IIRC, zfs snapshot before updates was applied.

What I mean is that a fs snapshot is ”dumb” in and of it self.

If you couple zfs with the nixos rebuild command, then… sure, I guess - but the previous generations are already more or less directly available, unless GC’d.

This is what the fine manual has to say:

Since Nix is good at being Nix, most users will want their server's data backed up, and don't mind reinstalling NixOS and then restoring data.
If they want to make these more complicated, they could also factor in the usage of gpus in each apartment.
So, when will the new version of ZipSlack come out? :)
I think at that point they count as a "healthcare provider"
I answered this in an old post. It is built off of a TRS (term rewriting system). This video shows the fundamentals of the language (like the internals, not how to plot).

https://youtu.be/H-rnezxOCA8
Interesting! I don't think that's what I mean. I don't think I want it to be a part of the language like that, but that's a pretty neat idea. For example, python has an 'X' flag you can use when creating a regex to allow new lines and comments. Here's an example from my code: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/1ac15a48...
> By the way, there is also HCF instruction (Halt and Catch Fire).

I was somewhat recently scarred for life by this instruction, having just discovered that if you execute HCF on the MIPS-based integrated circuits in Stationeers, the simulated IC... explodes in your face.
You can still use a shorter (4-6 digit) pin. That's just as long to type as what we had in the pre-touch/face-id era.
A Hilux and Tacoma are two different vehicles: different engine options, different chassis, and almost zero interchangeable parts.

Try taking a Tacoma to a parts counter outside the US, or Hilux to one in the US, and you’ll just get blank stares.
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Adding on to your first paragraph about dependency on stock market performance for retirement.

401ks that my generation is used to are a concept only ~36years old, even at that most companies didn't start offering them until the 90s.

It's a very young tool that we're only just now seeing play out for people reaching retirement age that missed the ubiquitous pension era.

And roth IRA was introduced in 1997.

No comment on any of this being good or bad, I think it's interesting to look at the historical perspective of it though.
The Global Times is CCP owned. In other words, the three pieces of evidence allegedly proving her well-being are all released by state-run outlets. As for the images and videos, there isn't even a way of verifying whether they were taking this week or a year ago.

I do have to say though that I find it hilarious how the only source she clearly authored herself, a selfie, has Winnie the Pooh in the background (third image, framed photo standing on the desk)

https://twitter.com/shen_shiwei/status/1461715435385020419/p...

The ones claiming it not being sufficient evidence is the World Tennis Association by the way, not the BBC.
Yeah, a bit of that... but they use less of their own heat, since you are heating their apartments too.
Reminds me of the Abilene Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
a breath of fresh air on the topic!
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Armando Iannucci claimed that some of the things they showed in that film were changed to make them more believable because the real events were just too far outside of what would be credible to an audience.
They don't need any promotion. They'll just achieve domination through bundling edge with windows and making it impossible to switch.

I used to have a more positive version of microsoft up until the point they started flexing their evil muscles to push low quality products into technically unsophisticated users. Edge+Bing+Office+Windows feeding on each other is the greatest example right now.

Gladly we acted as quickly as possible where I worked to leave github when they announced the msft acquisition, so at least my part is covered.
Not for me, I can't see the triangles. I normally would see a triangle next to your comment so I could up-vote (I never had down-vote). Something changed and I don't have up-vote anymore :) And that's both for comments and submissions.
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... there is lots of explanation in the link?
this place sounds like a mess. unfit does not mean unprofessional, and you definitely unfit, and they're definitely unprofessional. sounds like quitting asap would be the good move for everyone.
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Developing countries get to avoid the mistakes done by developed countries. For example, the amount car dependency in the US is unsustainable. Developing countries could build their cities with higher density, walk-able, and bike-able. It is cheaper, you get higher quality of life without such a high carbon footprint.
Only if the watchdog also has a CPU that can run programs when the "real" CPU is off. But then we'd need a is_watchdog_on() to know if that one is powered on, in the case where the wall plug has been pulled.
Something is off. I personally haven't posted anything. This would be a nice response to this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29289875

I will only add that big tech companies (Facebook, Twitter) are global and discussing them is expected on HN.
Unfortunately, if they exist, those optimizations are not open source.
"How to find out computer is on fire"
Nitpick: the "sealion" pic at 135m is not a sealion, it's a Hawaiian monk seal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_monk_seal
He probably sees police trucks show up and unceremoniously dump homeless people and their belongings on their street.
My son started gaming on an iPad, then a Wii, then an XBox. A couple of years ago we built a custom PC rig for him, then one for my nephew, and finally one for myself.

I don't game a huge amount, but we have weekly CS:GO games with friends and family, and I occasionally fire up a few favourites on my PC from Steam.

However, TBH, if I didn't also use my machine for work, it would be a colossal waste of money. Prior to building it, I was playing RDR2 and AC Valhalla on a cheap laptop using Stadia, and really enjoyed them.
I’ve heard many WFH setups that record your screen and monitor your camera to make sure you’re actually working. There could be monitoring stuff bundled with the VPN that does consume many resources (or IT dept is screen recording remotely).
It kind of makes sense. If you turn yours really high, your neighbor doesn't need to turn theirs as high anymore because you will be warming up their apartment
“AI research” is largely concerned with automation, not sentience or AGI. This is clearly abuse of terminology, even “machine learning” is somewhat misleading in my opinion. It’s mostly just pattern recognition of increasing elaboration, and the applications thus far are exactly that: pattern recognition.

It’s so difficult to talk about AGI, sentience, consciousness in general because there are no clear definitions apart from “I’ll know it when I see it.”
Do you have evidence for this? Because it sounds like a larger leap of faith than I have assumed in my post.
Have you seen the "interviews" with GPT3?
Is that "actually" supposed to be "accurately"? Kind of undermines your point, doesn't it?
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anything untraceable is too enticing for insiders.
the only way to shift this dynamic is to let everyone know that the companies that are hit are rife with rats eating investor value by using anonymous means to transfer wealth from company to insider.
let them figure it out.
in the mean time, unless proven otherwise, I'd treat all ransomware jobs as insider jobs.
>It's not just possible the ubiquitous SAT was literally created by a white supremacist, Carl Brigham

Literally the genetic fallacy.
People here keep saying I don't understand "how things work" but so far nobody has provided references, while I've provided three links in support of my claims. Could you do the same?
It is what it is, I don’t think I’m an outlier here. Personally I bring sth like 600 grams (1.3 lbs) worth of food a day. Keep in mind that typically you don’t have that much time left to spend on eating. But people are different and there sure are people who carry and eat a lot more.

Also, as I mentioned, when in town you use that opportunity to re-stock. A single meal of 6,000 kcal is not unusual.

And yes, all that is quite un-healthy.
It’s reasonable to assert that NFT’s are about conferring social status in the metaverse.

I.e. they are in-game currency.

People are ‘hung up’ on analogies to physical ownership, because proponents of NFT’s keep claiming they are like deeds of ownership, which is what the linked article strongly asserted before it was amended.

If NFT advocates stopped calling it ownership, I don’t think anyone would be hung up about it.
It's been a few years since I used Maxima, which was at university but without much introduction to the language. The dynamic scoping was a particularly unpleasant surprise, lexical scoping was not available which lead to buggy behaviour. I returned to the warm embrace of Mathematica fairly quickly.
You're missing that nobody is caring about anonymity here, that's what I've been saying the other two posts

The major ransomware operators are not caring about anonymity and are not using that aspect from any payment method they allow including crypto

There is simply no cooperation with local law enforcement

What were you referring to regarding corporations exerting power on governments?
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That was about 15 books, several I've heard of, but it's unclear about academic papers at least on that web page. He's clearly making an impact with his ideas.
^ This is really the point. Human intelligence is based on limited and filtered input, rough analog approximations in processing, and incomplete and interpolated mental representations and internal simulations, and yet nobody seriously denies that we possess some degree of intelligence. I am skeptical that current methods will get us to AGI, but the idea that machines must achieve some level of computational perfection far above and beyond humans is not reasonable.
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> They simply can't do it and rather extrapolate current conditions to infinity.

This is what I think more people should be paying attention to. I keep seeing the FIRE(financially independent; retire early) people talk about the returns they have gotten the past 100 years, not taking into account that the first 50 of those years saw tremendous growth, and the last of those 50 years saw tremendous stagnation and debt that doesn't seem sustainable.

The world's first billionaire was Rockefeller in the early 1900's. By 1970 the world's richest man was Hughes, who had amassed a fortune of $2.5 billion. In 70 years the number doubled. Since then in the next 50 years the world's richest man is now Musk, with a wealth 100x that of Hughes at $290 billion. In 1970 the minimum wage was $1.70 compared to today's $7.25, an increase of 4.2x. 100x vs 4.2x.

When you extrapolate that growth out another 50 years, the world's richest man ends up at $25 trillion. Minimum wage would grow to $30/hour. Another 50 years further, $2.5 Quadrillion, minimum wage is now $125/hour.

It's ludicrous. Have we been boiling frogs the past 50 years? If the wealthy at those price levels tried to sell even 1% of their wealth/year the system would crash. So it's clear from my standpoint that those growth levels will simply not happen. How does it break? Does it break with minimum wage growth? Does it break with everything going to 0? Something else happens?

What happens when interest rates are unable to fall further? Are we already at the end of the ball? How much higher can it go?
From the guidelines:

> "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The explanation that I offer is note plausible than the conventional view (magic souls)

Perhaps I'm wrong, but it at least seems like a step in the right direction where the hypothesis is based on already verified behavior of neurons and their networks
The owners-meetings are already complicated enough, especially when someone old is away from home for a month, and they get a bill that includes heat, and they complain that their radiators were off all the time :) ...then they find out that they're paying for their neigbors heat, and then they start complaining, about "that neighbor above them" who keeps their windows open, even during the winter :)

...former socialist country, so yeah, people complain, and want everything to be "fair", as long as "fair" means less money for them to pay.
Long time jEdit user too sorta "forced" go VSCode for similar reasons and missing the exact same two features.

Any ideas how to get those in VSCode? Anyone know any like plugins?