skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to disclose a bias I have here: I run a video startup, so I'm pretty incentivized to believe VR will become a standard in several work contexts.

That said, when I try my hardest to think objectively about the future of work, I think VR is going to be everywhere.

Workers going into factories will become exceedingly rare. The cost of humans is high both from a safety and headcount perspective, and more and more of manufacturing pipelines are becoming automated end-to-end. Service repairs will likely happen remotely and only require humans to be onsite if absolutely necessary in the future. It's good for business.

There is a ton on "dark factories" to be found online. Also, there are many startups that have significant traction which are bridging these two worlds via AR:

https://www.mirareality.com/

When it comes to knowledge work, I think anywhere where you have to work with visuals will become a predominant VR stomping ground. If you need to be working with 3D models (lots of engineering + manufacturing) or flat UIs (being able to point and pan and modify is more natural with hand gestures), VR will likely win out. I also think VR will create a space for completely new ways of constructing software architecture. This could be a bridge to creating architectures visually for the first time (want to define a service that automagically becomes a kubernetes service and node on the backend? create a box here and give it some parameters!). The interactivity of this kind of build feels very natural, and it's how we actually already do things in a more limited 2d context. My guess is the killer feature here with VR is the immersiveness allowing for better synchronous collboration.

I could be totally wrong about this stuff, but I think a lot of our lives will change with VR. There are some serious hurdles we need to get over, most notably form factor, weight, and nausea. I feel like these are solvable problems, but honestly that's mostly a hunch more than anything. Would love to hear from others who know more than me!
I think for there to even be a crisis there would have to be consensus on that.
> If you believe that ethics code is appropriate, then you believe those studies are valid and don't need to be run again to re-verified or falsified.

This would only be true if the hypothesis being tested in these experiments was "psychology as a field needs a code of ethics". That wasn't either hypothesis.

"We need a code of ethics" does not imply "Milgram and Stanford prison proved ___ about authority figures".
> he nonetheless felt deeply unnerved by state-sponsored hackers targeting him personally—and by the lack of any visible response from the US government.

> Aitel agrees, though, that the government response to North Korea's campaign has been lacking.

From a certain perspective I'm not surprised: We're accustomed to the US government being hands-off the Internet, going back to the Internet's early idealistic libertarian days, and in the past lacked the technical abilities.

But we need to be surprised: Fraud, scams, theft, damage, hacking, ransoms, etc., etc. are commonplace. The Internet is highly insecure, yet the US government hasn't yet taken responsibility for enforcing the law and protecting the innocent there. It's just crime; it's not a special situation anymore.
But much more insulin than appropriate will lower blood sugar. This would be more of a question of whether or not aspartame causes an insulin response from the taste.
> Facebook is betting the farm on the metaverse stuff but without meaningful financial results that’s not going to placate market concerns over what looks like a downhill future for the core businesses.

Unless Zuck can pull a Bezos with convincing investors, Meta's stock will be in trouble for a few years until their metaverse division starts becoming profitable; which will be at least a decade if they're focused on growth.
Balckberry, Treo, AIM, XMPP, and Windows Mobile blazed the trails. Apple's role in ramping up data usage likely helped, though I suspect much of that change would have happened eventually regardless.
For SNES:
Goof Troop
Kirby Super Star
Wild Guns
Turtles in Time
Sunset Riders
Secret of Mana

Also check out this site: https://www.co-optimus.com/
Facebook’s Stock Plunges After Profit Declines
I don't get how this concept can work with non-hourly exempt positions, especially in the software/online services world. If engineers on this team get paged because Amazon.com is down, can they simply say "sorry we don't work Fridays"? Will their individual and team targets be adjusted down accordingly? When it comes to performance review time will having 80% the output of a full-time colleague be considered okay?
The existence of this code simply says this guy has an engineering degree, not necessarily CS. Shocking.

What are people trying to make out of this? That he is a tech expert and and therefore should be trusted with tech policies?
Just from a cursory search, nobody has really talked about "code is law" on ethereum for many years now since the dao thing, the only people who are zealous about that are using ethereum classic. In my experience, its become a sort of meme that people parrot whenever something like this happens.

Unless you are talking about cryptobros on twitter or something, but I don't think anyone considers what they say important.
It's not about hardware really. The hardware is just to sell the service in the best way possible. They had to make it. Because there was no good affordable standalone headset so far. The metaverse idea is all about the platform/service.

I'm a big VR fan and even I'm not sure whether the metaverse will take off. But without hardware like the quest 2 it wouldn't have a chance.
i am thankful to turn autopilot on as soon as i reach a highway entry ramp. Even if i'm in no rush and fully capable, i want the assistance merging onto the highway. I don't want to constantly look over my shoulder for a window to get into the fast lane, I want one selected when it becomes available.

The hard parts are the whole point of autonomy.. the parts so hard that humans still fuck up and kill people. that's the ideal of autonomy imo and short of that its missing the point.
They don't contain nearly enough oxygen to liberate all the stored energy.

Also, especially since gas tanks are no longer directly open to the atmosphere, I wouldn't be surprised if the oxygen concentration was too low most of the time for combustion to be possible.
https://archive.is/MOYi6
"Writing a game nobody plays discharges your energy and creates the feeling of achievement, but it's all empty calories and then your car falls into a sinkhole."

I love this quote. However, the correct interpretation is not that too many people are making (or playing) games, but that too few people get any sense of achievement from the stuff they get paid for. My trick is to spend some creative energy on optimsing my shitty job. Then at least I get the sense of achievement AND get the crap work done quicker. (I kid. My job isn't that bad. Mostly.)
Mozart Data YC S20 is hiring a Partnerships/BD Manager familiar with data space
If there is any meta advice I've learned from developing good sleeping habits it would be "Learn your own nervous system". Anecdotally I've seen varying responses to different lifestyle factors, so experimentation should be part of your plan if you want to optimize your sleep.

I've personally found a lot of success with:

- Deliberate relaxation - I found the muscle relaxation technique incredibly valuable ( https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-sleep/fall-asleep-fast )
- Sleep in a cold, dark room
- Limited phone time - mindless scrolling is fine if it helps me relax, but not if it amps me up

What I haven't found matters for me:

- Strenuous exercise - I've found that training late at night (I compete in powerlifting) and going to bed immediately after leads to very deep, restful sleep
- Caffeine timing - to an extent timing matters, but daily amount is by far the biggest driver for sleep quality
- Meditation - it affected sleep adversely and even though very calm and level, I felt substantially more awake after meditation
FB has Audience Network which extends their targeting off platform.

But yes, Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick and investment in video through YouTube has allowed them to capture the publisher and buyer side of much of the open web (and use the data to cut out competition - cf. Project Bernanke)
It for sure does. Where I live, Oxnard it fails so badly I don't know how I was allowed into the beta. But if I drive down a few cities over it works well enough that if I didn't know better I'd say it's ready for public. It's just wild.
If you replace math with (experimental) physics, you get an inductive framework, yet physics doesn't have the same problems psychology has.
> AWS started because Amazon wanted to lease out their spare infrastructure capacity.

No, it really did not.

The reality is even if Meta has the best data center infrastructure in the world their infrastructure is focused solely on solving their problems and operates under the constraint that it is not consumable by any arbitrary company. aws was built more or less in isolation to amazon's original infrastructure and gcp was built as a layer on top of google's internal infrastructure. there is use in what exists internally but only to (re)build the product you'd sell.

The lead time for them to get even basic primitives out the door would be significant, not even considering the depth of features that more sophisticated cloud customers want.
I have meaningful conversation with people on other social networks. Discord, Instagram, Twitter, even TikTok. Facebook is the exception: it throws content at me that I explicitly don’t want and as its user base ages the content becomes less and less interesting. Topic-based groups are good but other networks simply do them better. And the idea of keeping up with what Karen from high school is doing isn’t all that fun at least to me.
> I own an Oculus - it sucks.

Why? Which model?

> I dont have a FB account, but it sounds like it's an ad-driven hell-hole.

Don't you need a Facebook account for Oculus?
In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether
Humans in general may be prone to all sorts of erroneous mathematical reasoning but the speed and consistency with which mathematical concepts reproduce in the minds of mathematicians can justifiably be called mysterious imo, at least until we better understand human language faculties
Let me guess what the line is
Can you give examples? I see a lot of hype but no actuals. Becoming super productive in any language requires a lot more skills than just learning the syntax and semantics of a language. So why do you think Lisp is different? It would help if you could point at real world projects that demonstrate your claims.
> I block ads at DNS level so I can’t even imagine what it looks like for most people

As a random aside, there is a Facebook ‘experiment’ (a/b test basically) that disables all ads for your account permanently. It was customary, for a while at least, to opt your user id (and that of a few friends) into that particular experiment on your last day of working at the company. Best leaving gift ever!
Both you and the parent comment are correct.

Some states (Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut) ratified the Constitution before the Bill of Rights was formally drafted[1] and initially without requiring the Bill of Rights. The Massachusetts Compromise was an agreement that the Bill of Rights would be packaged with the new Constitution (with the BoR being active at ratification, before the Constitution) and was required before some of the remaining states would ratify the Constitution.

It's worth pointing out that the Bill of Rights was ratified 2.0 years after the first elections for national office and 1.5 years after the constitution was finally ratified. [1]

[1] https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog...
Here's how GNU grep detect binary files, good to know sometimes: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/276028
Flexport is hiring engineers to uncork global supply chains
> Yes I know there's a sign on bonus. No I don't care.

But why? The sign on bonus makes it almost 40%/40%/40%/40%.
How is Amazon part of Silicon Valley?

Bezos worked at Wall Street for almost a decade in roles like VP at a hedge fund, then started a company in Seattle.

If anything, you might say that hedge fund experience qualifies one to dominate industries — if one extreme outlier is to be believed anyway.
A Tesla vs. a Lamborghini is a peculiar comparison. What self-respecting Tesla fan would keep quiet how their Model S does 0-60 quicker?

Seriously:

2021 Lamborghini Aventador: 2.8 seconds

2020 Tesla Model S Performance: 2.4 seconds

(Car & Driver figures)
> If you believe that ethics code is appropriate, then you believe those studies are valid and don't need to be run again to re-verified or falsified.

Why? The experiments would still be unethical, even if they led to the opposite result.
No.

I’m arguing that it makes no difference whether the admins and law enforcement are working for an authoritarian regime; either way, the regime will just as readily be able to identify its citizens, voiding the theoretical protection that Internet anonymity supposedly offers their citizens.

So, then: Setting aside the theoretical value of “protecting citizens of authoritarian regimes”, what other reasons underpin the continuing support for prioritizing anonymity over the accountability of legally-protected privacy of identity, as I propose upthread?
for now. I'm pretty sure they will want to protect their trademark.
while i'm sure they could get something out the door in 6-12 months that would satisfy somebody somewhere, I'd say more like 3+ years before you'd have anything that any companies would start betting the farm on.
There's a classic cocktail party icebreaker related to this: when you ask the usual awkward intro question about what somebody else does, and they tell you "X", reply with "wow, that sounds really hard!". They'll almost certainly tell you "yes!", explain a bit about why it's hard, and now you have a genuine conversation going.
Listen, I am really glad it works for someone! I miss those days. It just feels like a total loss for me and starting to sort through why just feels like a seriously daunting task for a dubious result. I have found ways to keep up with friends that are better (mostly text messaging) and so that’s what I stick to. FB was that for a few years but whatever happened to my feed feels like it can’t be undone.
> How did you get these users? They signed up on their own through the app or website?

Users install the app from an app store and sign up on their own.

> With such a small amount of users, you should collect a phone number and just call them.

I'm not sure what reason I'd give to ask for their phone number as using the product doesn't really need that. What do you think would be a good way to request users for their phone number during sign up, when the sole reason would be for me to contact them for feedback? I'm not averse to the idea, just can't think of a good way to ask.

> we had dummy tabs for promotions, competition, social media, and learning.

Wow, that's an exceptionally good idea. Something I can easily test out. Thank you!
Spotify's completely reasonable healthcare content policy
I agree that it's easier to have more hidden options in software than in hardware, though my recollection from my IT days was that the "Advanced" section in the settings panel seems to attract the kind of people who have no business changing advanced settings. (Personally I like how Firefox hides them under "about:config" with a warning.)

Having said that, hidden/advanced settings still have a nonzero cost.
That has been true for Amazon for a long time. They rely on having a revolving door of engineers. Managers have firing targets they must meet. New hire stocks vest on a 5/15/40/40 schedule over 4 years (over the standard 25/25/25/25), so it's directly beneficial to the company to replace engineers before they hit year 3.
Nothing in the article says that knowledge cannot be acquired. The examples that you mentioned aren't cocktail party ideas, but groups of smart people working 100 hours weeks to figure out a new market.

I can give you a ton of examples of founders trying the same but failing very hard because they don't take the time to learn and just use cocktail party ideas.
Someone else has probably said this already, but I think what you'd find is that none of the people who think themselves morally pure enough to gather against "hate" are anywhere near as pure as they think, and might even find themselves targets of an equally powerful hypothetical thought mob.
The crimes that you listed are destruction of property, disturbing the peace, and intentionally causing bodily harm. Using a gun is incidental to the actual crime. The same arguments can be made about knives, baseball bats, or other things. Consequently, this is not a legitimate basis for restricting their availability or usage of guns themselves, any more than such potential crimes limit the use of those other objects.

Of course, prosecutors love to double dip with charges, tacking on a weapons charge or two. These extra charges usually result in a far more severe sentence. Again, hard to see the legality of such practices, but this is the status quo that we have today.
The service is key, but I somehow doubt they will open their platform to 3rd party hardware like Valve. imo The hardware is just as important.
But isn’t Zen2 a MCM? It’s not a single uniform processor and there is another level of abstraction on top of a socket
If AMZN posts bad earnings tomorrow markets are doomed.
This is a fantastic idea, i.e. refactor the timeline of automotive electronics to backport modern technology options into old car branches, retaining supply chain control in the hands of a individual human mechanic-sysadmin-owner. Reduce the false conflict between technological convenience and security/privacy.
Maybe you're thinking of the "I'm So Meta Even This Acronym..." line?
What’s fascinating to me is how rudimentary some of its mechanisms are—social engineering, using well-known officially supported interfaces like LaunchAgents/LaunchDaemons—juxtaposed with a portrayal of (increasing) sophistication which, while true in the sense discussed in the article, feels hyperbolic depending on the audience’s understanding of that nuance. And while Ars is another tech site, with a disproportionately tech-savvy readership, it’s positioned for a significantly more mainstream audience than (say) HN. (As in Ars articles frequently explain concepts that are often taken as prior/trivially absorbed knowledge here.)

This isn’t necessarily a criticism of the article, it’s clear and balances the details well. I just find it interesting.
Which presumably is different that Cadbury chocolate. . . ;-)
Maybe. The motivation may have been lost to history.

bash added `:` to the list of completion word break characters with bash 2.0 [1][2]. Bash 2.0 was released in 1996. NTFS-3G started in 2006 but it was "forked from the Linux-NTFS", and I can't find any history for this project. NTFS itself was released in 1993.

HFS+ seems to have been released in 1998, so it can't be the reason. But even regular HFS had resource forks and it was released in 1985.

No idea where to look in ksh's source.

[1]: https://github.com/bminor/bash/commit/ccc6cda312fea9f0468ee6...

[2]: https://github.com/bminor/bash/commit/ccc6cda312fea9f0468ee6...
While some ads drive impulse purchases, much ads are getting brands into your decision consideration.

E.g When you need something of you have 100's of options. If you saw an ad previously it now might be 1 of several products you compare as you are aware and familiar. The product still has to impress you on price and quality etc but the ad drove you to consider it. That is hugely important in a crowded marketplace. Also that ad might have shifted you perception of quality or features.

And ultimately 'need' is a very subjective thing. I highly doubt if you look around your house there is nothing you couldn't throw away and not get on with life as normal. Ads can make you feel like you need something at the time. That's why so many ads rely on fear based propositions, this emotion is strong in creating need like showing negative events for insurance.
Every time an application (i.e Firefox) removes a feature due to "low user adoption" I feel the extents of this kind of UX misunderstanding.
Given close to zero chances of a safe AI, I'm optimistic that AI is a much tougher problem and we are not significantly closer to the solution than e.g., in 60s when computer vision was a summer project.

There is a progress in certain domains (such as image recognition) but (outside specialized tasks) gigantic language models look like no more than impressive BS generators.
Yeah, I didn't stick with it (it's really hard to resist the temptation, including temptation to try to be productive at night) but because I tried it I do know now that I'm not a night owl, at all. I'm just a normal person in the West in this century. Which manifests as living like a night owl.

I admit my speculation that this explains at least 50% of modern sleep difficulty in developed countries is not based on hard data, but I'd say it's a pretty damn solid hypothesis. Yet everything's all "take magnesium" or "exercise more" or "use redshift" or whatever. Which is probably helpful, but seems like it's ignoring the elephant in the room, which is that we might have too much and too good always-available entertainment (and our lighting situation... after I got used to using candles, which was much faster than I expected, normal electric room lighting was shockingly bright, like I couldn't understand how I thought it was desirable or even OK before).
I'm a big Chrono Trigger fan but I haven't tried any mods. Are there any others that are recommended? I know there are some that function more as sequels, but I don't know how good they are.
Is it possible that Microsoft is processing the content of messages in Teams and using it to enhance targeting (by salespeople and recruiters) of the conversation participants on LinkedIn?

I expect ridicule, but I've seen some peculiar coincidences recently.
I disagree, Libra had absolutely massive potential with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp behind it. Stabilized by multiple fiat currencies it would hold value well, and it could power a global Venmo (via WhatsApp), capture a large portion of the entire remittance market, simplify e-commerce payments, and maybe even support micro transactions at scale. I’m sure I’m missing other large benefits.

The West is mostly so far behind on payment processing it’s a joke. Stripe charges 2.9% + $0.30 while WeChat Pay is 0.6% and Alipay .55%.