skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have met kids, who have never seen a forest in real live and who tried to swipe away real life objects, so yeah, we might get there.
That is sorta how I hope it gets resolved. I do think I'm a quick learner, still. My job sounds extremely impressive on paper though when it comes to nuts and bolts I feel like I have atrophied for several years.
Can you recommend any resource on how to get into writing high-performant C#?
Again, youi are missing the forest for the trees - when you sell old laptop on ebay, where does it go? When you get rid of the laptop and give it to recycling, where does it go?

It goes to a second or third world country, where they will try to repair and use it if possible.

Very few institutions in the west actually recycle anything.
>You can forget about seeing any return above inflation.

That's not true. Here's a calculator you can play with that shows S&P 500 returns for any time period you like. Or you can go to FRED data and play around and get the same information.

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
> The first week I had the Quest I thought it was the most game changing device of my entire life.

Did you own a Quest or Quest 2? Quest 2 is noticeably better.

> That wore off less than a month later.

A major use case for me is cardio exercise. Imo the Quest 2 is better than a Peleton for the variety of workouts. Many games are low key fitness apps. This is what keeps me coming back. I’ve lost 20 lbs so far with the Quest 2

> Using it too much still gives me a headache.

This might be related to Quest 2’s inflexible IPD adjustment. It probably isn’t an issue on higher end XR headsets like the upcoming Apple headset as well as PSVR2

> Plus being teleported to another world, while amazing at first, does feel isolating after too much use.

The trick is to only play multiplayer apps or games.

> The most damning thing though is how little interest there is in VR by the broader gaming community.

There are two major reasons for this:

1. Meta is still a toxic brand. Slightly less toxic than FB, but it still prevents a lot of early adopters from even trying it

2. Other alternatives are drastically more expensive AND complicated. While Quest 2 starts at $299, other VR systems start at $499 - $999, and they need a VR capable PC starting at $1599.
What Is the Langlands Program?
What do you use to display the images? Or, what is required of my terminal so that it can display the images your program outputs? I don't see anything in the README except the recommendation to use kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/).
The Newton handwriting recognition did turn up in Mac OS for a quite a while as Inkwell, although only of interest to owners of 3rd party graphics tablets as Apple don’t offer pen input on Macs. Don’t think it got updated much (barring removing a Newton holdover easter egg). Got dropped during the great 32 bit purge a few releases ago.
oh god, I can see it coming. elaborated analogue music player for a special price. it's using nothing but light. the fuzzy output will be it's feature; sought after by misdirected audiophiles...
I don't know anyone running 5k node K8S clusters. That said, borg (as an end user) appears to just keep scaling, but it uses a different model and makes different assumptions than K8S.
Upvoted for reminding me how good Raidió na Life used to be. I haven’t listened to it in over 10 years. I used to know the Neuromantek DJs back in the 2000s. I’m amazed to see that their show is still running! These days, when I listen to the radio, it’s usually via Saorview but I must make the effort to hook up Raidió na Life and other radio stations to my home hi-fi (now that my Squeezebox has died).
This is where something like OPA shines. Given a context, you can make an up-or-down decision as to whether or not the request is allowed. Then your not having to wedge security into your ORM reshape code.
So his argument is that the text clearly maps to concepts in the latent space, but when composing them the results are unexpected, so it isn't language? Why isn't this better described as 'the rules of composition are unknown'?
We do use Unity that does lots of heavy lifting for you regarding porting to other platforms.

However, it's not always that easy as checking a box. For example some shader optimizations may be specific to DirectX. File system works differently (no "User/Documents" on Mac). Or issues with native libraries.

Our game does work on Linux Proton though, that was a surprise to us.
i'll take it one further and say that having a messenger app that shows "online" or "active" status is not something I like. In addition to the problems with having an app that sends an indicator to the other party that somebody is actively typing.

I like how Signal just shows that the person exists as a contact. Whether they're awake or not, or active, or idle is opaque to me and I'm totally fine with that.

One of the reasons for text based chat/messenger apps, going all the way back to the earliest days of IRC, is the benefit in having asynchronous communications. If I absolutely need an immediate answer from someone or a realtime 1:1 conversation on something urgent I'll call them on the phone instead.

In things like facebook messenger I bet that 99% of users never dig into the settings to turn OFF the "show your activity status to other people" option.

For something like a work place communication tools such as Slack I can understand the purpose of setting yourself active or idle manually to indicate whether you're available for messages, or in a different time zone, or whatever. That's a different use case.
Why are maps so hard to make?
Show HN: Beautiful open-source themes for CodeMirror
Google Chat is Teams
Every one of the insider trading crypto guys just paid attention today. That’s a win for the little guys.
You win today's Internet(tm).
So it turns out using a catch-all domain wasn't a mistake.

Confusing companies by using THEIR name, being completely disorganized with the names and not even saving them in a file, was a mistake.
that means a person can DOS you by typing and erasing text but never sending you a message?
I work for a company that was a hardcore office only. Then covid started. We made a decision in less than half an hour and in just a couple of days everyone was working remote. That was back in 2020. Since then, some heads of departments changed their stances completely and point blank refuse to return to the office. Some didn't know how to manage people,so they ended up getting them back in the office. My department was a perfect example that remote could work,so we were left alone and any further attempts to bring people back to the office were killed before gaining any traction. I ended up moving to a different country. Shortly after I asked if I could get a budget for some office space. The CEO approved.So after more than 7 years in stupid open space offices,I ended up in a corner office. I furnished it with my own money, everything from a fridge to a couch and even a bottle of whisky. O used to get approached every 10 min about some shit. Now I sit alone all day. People still call, email me, but I don't get distracted with stupid shit. My second half never understood why I spent all that money on that office space,but for me it was that ultimate corner of my own.
I have to say, that based on my family and friends who I occasionally watch TV shows and movies with, I'm the only person who is able to focus on the TV screen without my phone in sight. Everyone else I know is constantly half-listening, half-watching, while simultaneously browsing IG, Zillow, YT, TikTok, etc. I think our very real phone addictions are going to play an adverse role in VR adoption until the VR app space fully replaces everything in the mobile app space (plus the time it will take for people to break their phone habits and replace them with VR habits)... seems like a uphill slog for Meta.
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I was thinking more small scale. Someone wants to make an educational youtube video about some obscure landmark and needs a picture but doesn't want to get copyright struck.
I probably should. I think it has been hard for me to find one that is part-time and worthwhile.

I taught myself circuit design/CAD/3d modeling over the last couple years since I've been doing some amateur product design. I feel like I've made progress but also this has consumed a lot of my spare intellectual time and although I had a few people reach out to me after seeing my amateur projects online have not made any formal progress into the business.
The Great Hesitation
> But it's wrong! Try with literally any A.

As I said, I agree that the formula is wrong. I disagree with you regarding where the mistake is and how to fix it.

> Sure but this bullet point is also dead wrong and possibly the start of the scam. If you say A is lowest value, Either it contain A with probability 1/2, or 2A.

I think maybe you have some typos here, because I don't understand what you're trying to say here. In any case our disagreement concerns whether the formula in Wikipedia refers to the same envelope in both parts of the formula, or different envelopes. You kept stating that it refers to different envelopes, and I wrote a long post to refute that. Now you came back saying that the bullet / formula / Wikipedia text is "wrong" and "possibly the start of the scam". Ok, sure, but the EV formula still clearly refers to the same envelope in both parts of the formula, despite the fact that you claimed otherwise with literally "absolute certainty". You were wrong about something that you claimed to know with "absolute certainty", so perhaps you should in the future adjust those estimates downwards with a bit of uncertainty added in?

> Otherwise you are changing the reality of A midway through the sentence.

Nope, A is defined as the "value of the firstly-chosen envelope" in the beginning of the sentence, and A is defined as the "value of the firstly-chosen envelope" in the end of the sentence. The definition for A does not change midway through the sentence.

> But that's a different problem. And if you want to compute the expectation of this problem with A varying in a range you have to write an integral over the p(A) around the (corrected) equation 7. But the equation 7, even in this integral, need to use the same consistency for A: either you have A being the lowest envelope value and you only write 2A ever, or the highest value and then you only write 0.5A

That's not the only way to compute the expectation for this problem. I actually ran some small simulations for this today, representing wagers on this problem. The simulations demonstrate the following claims:

- Steps 1 through 7 in the Wikipedia page are correct, in terms of calculating the "expected value in the other envelope, relative to the value in the firstly-chosen envelope". The expected value for the switch, relative to the firstly-chosen envelope's value, is in fact positive (+25%).

- At the same time, the "expected value for the switch in absolute terms" is zero.

- These claims do not contradict each other.

- The first error in Wikipedia's line of reasoning is step 8 that states "they stand to gain by swapping". This indicates that the player should try to maximize goal "expected value relative to firstly-chosen envelope", which is incorrect. The player should instead maximize goal "expected value in absolute terms".

If you disagree with any of these, let's formulate our disagreement in the form of a wager that can be simulated in code.
> Applying a full manifest is "this is your state now".

It isn’t though. It’s “please make the state look like this eventually”. You do not patch state, just spec. Controllers effect the changes.
Green energy. Windmill software
Spotlight, then, which is the built-in GUI for the same database as mdfind.
Everything in auto sales is a game. The more information on you they have, the more they can "persuade" you to buy at numbers more favorable to them. They look at the status of your car. If it's clean, they think you're more serious to buy and might not have to negotiate as low. If doesn't look like you've made the effort to clean it out before getting rid of it, they might think you're just shopping.

If they know you're looking at other dealers, then yes, they might think they need to play harder. If they know you're looking at accessories for this new car, then they can think you're more ready to buy. Every bit of detail they can get, they will use.
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Why I'm hyped about Julia for Bioinformatics
Silicon Valley is great at rebranding things that already exist. Everyone talking a big game about the metaverse never played an MMO.
Zuckerberg and Google have far more share of responsibility than Sandberg, even though Sandberg is certainly also a morally bankrupt person who enthusiastically contributed to the poor state of modern society.
Thanks! We use C#. The game simulation is running in a custom engine and rendering is done by Unity3D (they are completely decoupled, sim has no Unity dependencies).
I mean, many people would consider her leaving to be an important event. For all intents and purposes, she ran one of the largest internet platforms for 14 years.
This is really neat! A suggestion, consider a user option to obfuscate what matches either a regex string, or more simply configurable options (e.g. obfuscate just numbers, helpful when logging to see bank/credit card stuff at a coffee shop)
> drug dealers selling meth and heroin on the street

meth and heroin are quite criminalized over the whole of the US yet this is still happening.

the drugs are just a symptom -- both on a personal level and on a societal level.
Poll: Loops vs. Recursion
Even after learning to understand recursion better, by reading SICP and similar books, I find recursive code generally more difficult to reason about than iterative code.

I'm wondering if this is only because I learned about loops first, so I thought I'd create this poll.
I learned about loops first. For most problem, I find loops easier to reason about.
I learned about loops first. For most problems, I find recursion easier to reason about.
I learned about recursion first. For most problems, I find loops easier to reason about.
I learned about recursion first. For most problems, I find recursion easier to reason about.
Resonate: An open source music streaming co-op
I should stop going to Tim's. Not just because of this, in fact the thought was already in my mind this morning as I was in a huge car lineup for morning drive-thru that extended out of the Tim Horton's parking lot and into the side street, barring entry to other businesses. And the garbage bins were overflowing with discarded coffee cups and dripping with spilt coffee. A rare but not insignificant minority of drive-thru workers can be downright authoritarian, once you pick up your order from the window some of them will bark at you to gtfo, even if you just take a moment to settle your coffee cup into it's holder.
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Ultimately that's close to what I'm doing! Not jumping ship until something finds my way that is definitely better.

I think I "want to be fired" because it would take some of the stress of the decision away from me. My girlfriend makes slightly more than me now - even though years ago I made about twice as her - and I admit I feel some pressure to keep up.
I've used both and Horizon Worlds' lack of development is mind-boggling. It's positioned as the crown jewel of the Metaverse, the core from which Facebook will build the rest of the concept, and yet it's so barebones it's like no one is even working on it.

VRChat has completely user-made avatars. To support this, they have a robust content moderation system with a fair amount of user control, and bounded performance requirements. Horizon has very limited Mii-like avatars, but with even less customization. This means they don't have to moderate avatars or worry about performance, and also crushes the boundless possibilities of self-expression into a sea of identical corporate art style drones.

VRChat also has user-made worlds. So does Horizons. The difference is that Horizons worlds can only be made out of primitives (cube, sphere, triangle, etc.) This makes it easy to enforce performance requirements and also makes the entire metaverse look like a poorly developed PS2 game. It also runs worse than a well-optimized environment mesh, but apparently Facebook doesn't trust their users to figure that out. Second Life actually shipped with this system originally (in 2003) and later abandoned the system because of these and other problems, but learning from the past is apparently not in vogue at Facebook.

VRChat has a fairly granular safety system, with configurable boundaries, default permissions, friend settings, etc. Horizons has a half-hearted attempt at this but leans mostly on the ominous promise that Facebook is recording everything you say and do, and if someone reports you an unreachable Facebook admin will review your past actions for content violations. This works about as well as you'd expect.

These and other problems are, IMO, all bad decisions, but they're also low effort decisions and that I do not understand. I actually like VR and want Facebook to succeed here (hopefully incentivizing competition), and the department formerly known as Oculus is doing a great job with the requisite hardware. So why, why, given that the entire company has been bet on this, is the flagship Metaverse software of the world's largest social media company lagging behind a random startup making their metaverse in Unity with practically no money?
Thanks for making me find out more and turning this up:

The promotional video of Crane, lifting Crane, lifting Crane:

https://youtu.be/gYpMz63WAjM
As much as people may hate the prospect of putting that many satellites up, the service is so darn useful.

What's the alternative? Force anyone who wants to participate in the modern world to live in a city or suburb along a fiber line? Neither public nor private groups have expressed much interest in actually getting internet connectivity to everyone.

My parents live in a rural area in Northern California and only about 5 miles away from a fiber drop point. However, there are only about ten houses on their street and the local ISP and the big one that actually owns the fiber wants $10k USD a pole to bring a fiber line over to them (there's about 80 poles that would need work) plus connection and maintenance fees after that point.

Needless to say, they're _loving_ their Starlink connection.
I agree and wouldn't turn such a position down :') - I just wanted to point it that it's not a completely rosy skill-building scenario. Depends also on what you want to be learning, and how you learn I suppose. (E.g. I think I learn best from textbooks, at least as a first step, so I might fare better than someone who learns better with instruction, or less theoretical more hands-on stuff.)
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I would take the opposite side of this bet. I don't think she'll run for president. She has too many skeletons in her closet, especially related to protecting Bobby Kotick.
This is a thread about an allocator design, not really about Webkit.
Apple AR is coming..

https://twitter.com/BasicAppleGuy/status/1531737446534131713
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tesla_factories

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From what I can tell, metaverse is just an attempt to make MMOs for "normal" people. So instead of a few million people spending 6+ hours per day in your "game", you have a few billion people spending 6+ hours per day in your "game".
Given that DALL-E is a giant matrix multiplication that correlates fuzzy concepts in text to fuzzy concepts in images, wouldn't one expect that there will be hotspots of nonsensical (to us) correlations, eg between "apoploe vesrreaitais" and "bird"? Intuitively feels like an aspect of the no free lunch theorem.
I agree that using per-company email address to sign up is not a good idea but I love my catch-all email address.

When I'm testing my software (professional or personal) I can "create" emails on the fly for new user accounts. Yes, with Gmail, you can do the base+anything@gmail.com trick but with my setup I never need to rely on that (or worry someone might block it), I just use anything@mydomain.com and I'm good to go.

Same for my LLC, I have a catchall so I can setup things like accounts@mydomain.com and get all those emails to my main josh@mydomain.com email address and then in the future if I need to turn that into a group or it's own email address it's super easy and forward compatible. Just like support@mydomain.com, right now I'm the only one that handles that but I can hand that off in the future if I need to without any issues at all.

Tangentially related: getting your own name as your domain name is really nice in more ways than you might think. Giving my email over the phone is a cake walk, I've normally just given them my name, then I just say "josh at joshstrange dot com" and I never have to worry about spelling or them hearing me perfectly since it's just a combination of the info I just gave them (my name). I get comments about it from time to time but buying that domain in high school was the best decision I ever made when it comes to tech/email. It's stayed the same for well over a decade and I never had to give out an embarrassing email or worry about "what email did I use to sign up for that account?".
"Secret language" is clickbait, but it seems like systematically exploring how it responds to gibberish might find something interesting?

Also, I'm wondering if there is some way that these models could have a decent error response rather than responding to every input?
>guilty

Do we need... App neutrality laws? Ha