skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds me of a similar quirk where scaling by a single pixel extra in either dimension can introduce disproportional blurriness, so one solution is to pad by a 1px wide border on the would-be odd dimension.

This has saved me a lot: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53024964/511200
As someone who has been in the position of being guilty until proven innocent, I'm elated about this. I hope it signals a shift in our zeitgeist toward requiring cogent evidence instead of assuming guilt.
> but the obstruction of physical world signals is basically non-existent. If it were, then we wouldn't have people in chronic pain.

The key one, the vestibular system, is overridable non-invasively:

Galvanic vestibular stimulation
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_vestibular_stimulati...

Vision and sound covered too, though vision can get better with more res and variable focus. Sound can get better with 3d scanning for custom HRTF's matched to the user's ear shape and body (sound reflecting off shoulders etc.).
Full color means false colored images, like is also done for the Hubble who images in black and white.

http://www.mcwetboy.com/mcwetlog/2010/04/falsecolour_astroph...
My team used to buy location data that we packaged up into reports for equities investors - the premise being the more foot-traffic your brand had, the more revenue you're likely to have.

Tons of apps sell this info. I think a lot of the 3rd party weather apps have been the traditional worst offenders because everyone wants to know the weather where they actually are in the moment.
> Anybody without academic credentials relevant to the subject matter is "the help" no matter how much you contribute, and it's flat-out demoralizing.

That's my number one advice regarding academia: unless there's a path toward a valuable visa, or it's paid work while getting a valuable degree (read, something that will have the prestige to open doors) or your co-author at a good university you're much better building something for yourself somewhere else.

> no individual accomplishment was close to technically innovative enough to warrant a novel white paper [...] But the professor overseeing the project didn't even mention me or my role in his launch party speech for the folks in our building, let alone anywhere that would have provided career visibility. He thanked and spoke about the contributions of every other major contributor

That's because papers are the metric by which visibility is measured. Pretty much the only way to move forward is getting your name as author on the main papers.
Hence 3-5 mils are only roughly 1/10th of a millimeter.
This reads like a love letter to her work husband
It's hard to post to a platform when you know whatever you say that's controversial, or even whatever you say that becomes controversial, will follow you the rest of your life.
I suspect the theme is "but electric cars"

And those only pay out if you don't consider the mining costs to make the batteries. If you do, they're significantly worse

We should be sticking to combustion cars, atmosphere sourcing the gasoline (we said "it's too expensive" back when gas was $0.79 a gallon; things have changed) and mandating 10% inefficiency into something chemically stable, so that road trip driving becomes part of the solution
TomTom started as a small software company named "Palmtop Software" and was doing exactly that. Random software for palmtops. I'm not sure, but I think they might have changed their formal business structure along with the name once they discovered that they created killer app for palmtops that makes customers buy palmtops as fast as they were made so they can use just their app on them.
Yes, but there are plenty of internal connectors as well.
My problem solving skillset is different.

I'm slower dealing with large volumes of detail or tasks, typing, reading, etc.

I'm better at deeper work involving higher level concepts and how it connects to lower ones, inter-related domains, reducing the solution space while covering the problem space etc.

I find the best way for me to improve is avoid being clever for its own sake. Instead tackle each problem and produce the simplest thing that does what you need it to do. This doesn't mean the easiest way to get the result making additive spaghetti, I mean the most compact representation that covers all cases old, current, and immediately foreseeable. You'll know that you've done it well when someone sees the whole thing and goes 'meh'. Or when they ask what about A, or what about B, and you have a quick way to describe how each fits in that might not have been immediately apparent to the asker.

The great advantage of working this way is that when you do actually need a big solution, it will be solving a huge problem because the big problems were solved with small solutions.
I've wondered if garmin is vulnerable to the apple watch.

That said, I love my garmin watch - it's and offline device that is useful without selling all your data.
HPC computing is a good one. Solve the world’s major scientific problems
>With a critical mass volunteering

Is it really volunteering then?

I'm not programming to 'get involved with the community'.
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As much as I really loathe Qualcomm, they placed an enormous existential bet on QAM and that they could make the linearity requirements work.

For a long time, the power amps to make that work had an absolutely abysmal yield and only a single company (Rockwell Defense) could fab them.

The company walked a tightrope and could very well have died. This is the kind of tech advancement that absolutely deserves some level of patent protection.

The fact that the patent system allows this to be parlayed into a multi-decade shakedown is different from whether Qualcomm should have been granted patents initially.
Wow! Looks super well polished. Did you create the art assets in house or contract them out? What 3D engine are you using?

PS. I think I could just watch the excavator digging holes all day.
Having thousands of boost-phase interceptors already in LEO actually puts a real damper on anybody trying to do something about it, the economics of the game favor whoever implements such a system first. They will be able to use large rockets to efficiently launch huge numbers of satellites, while the boost-phase interceptors in LEO (constantly replenished via that capability) prevent the enemy from doing the same.

Big picture, even if Russia and/or China managed to turn LEO into an impenetrable barrier of debris before the war was lost for them anyway, what would they actually have accomplished? The satellites that previously acted as America's shield would now be debris that would continue to shield America, and America would still have Aegis BMD around the world. Symmetrical war with America is beyond stupid, there is no balance, no fair fight. The purpose of these systems is to ensure that it stays this way, so that nobody tries in the first place.
sure it does
That's just the date when the article on it was posted to the blog. C'mon.
I feel that you need to actually try out the Quest 2 before you pan it.
The two likely possibilities are that you have enough background in utility/optimization/portfolio/whatever theory to reverse-engineer my thought process, or you need a lot of additional background that I can't feasibly provide in a single HN comment. Either way, linking to some random economics journal article is unlikely to help. I might as well link to a bunch of textbook pages defining all the words I used. As I said, this is an original thought of mine, so if an article reiterating what I said exists, I am in not much better a position to find it than anyone else on here.

Apologies if this seems harsh, but people's habit of asking for a source on every original or propositional claim on this website really bugs me. Sometimes people are sharing new observations!
Augmented reality will beat virtual reality.
Ads have been around for as long as we had economic activity as humans.

They’re past as much as selling is past.

Now, is their ads business strong enough to survive in more privacy aware world? That’s a different story.
>What people want is an escape from reality.

I still don't understand what's the difference between MMOs and Metaverse. Like it's on mobile? That's all? Peak WoW _was_ a social network something Zuck is dreaming about (and that's while you also have to pay a monthly sub). I've read around and some people say that the difference people can _create content_ in Metaverse but... sandbox MMOs are also a thing for a long time (or just look at Minecraft/Roblox/Fortnite). Or the whole point just to attach your persona to your real name + Meta can monetize everything? But that still just sounds like some F2P korean MMO or a japanese gacha game.

Maybe there is more to that but to me at least 1, the Metaverse sounds more like a "vision" than an actual product (yet VR Chat already exist too if the main selling point is AR/VR) 2, if it's an actual product then it's an MMO reimagined for non-gaming "normal" people
I think this is missing a giant factor, which is let's say 'inflation leverage'.

Inflation will hit some parts of the economy differently than others.

Consumer goods, homes, stocks, bonds - different kinds of inflation.

Quantitative Easing and other such policies, may impact the stock market differently than others.

As interest rates drop, the amount of leverage goes up dramatically, causing bubble.

Recent increases in valuations were not commensurate with profits, ergo, an ugly kind of inflation.
Don't forget the ITU, that's where the regulation starts.
You need to check out "Metaverse Twitter". You're missing out on a lot of fascinating developments.

The field is in its "90's internet phase" right now. The tech is still immature, but is rapidly growing in capability and ambition.

Just like most people in the 90's had no idea how "internet" would be used, I think our ability to conceive of VR/AR/XR/metaverse is similarly myopic.

I would give it a 10-15 year timeline before it fully eats the world. But now is the time to build.
Facebook has a view of the world on two axes: medium and audience. Audience here means if it's 1 to 1 (eg DMing) or 1 to 1,000,000 (eg Twitter). Format is seen as a progression: text -> audio -> video -> VR -> AR.

I personally am skeptical that VR will ever be anything other than a niche and there are lots of reasons for this. Most notably after 10-15 years it's still yet to find that "killer app".

My interpretation of this situation is that Facebook is directionless but this began years ago.

This was most evident when Facebook decided to try and moderate objective truth online in response to the misinformation that really went mainstream in the 2016 election and since only ballooned further. It's a noble-sounding goal but a thankless one that you will never succeed in. People will disagree on what it's true. Additionally, Facebook's DNA is to optimize for interactions and nothing generates interactions better than misinformation, hate and preaching to the choir.

The next misstep was to merge the online messaging platforms, probably to challenge the supremacy of iMessage. Nobody was happy about this. People don't actually want interoperability between FB Messenger, WhatsApp and IG Messaging.

Beyond this IG lost its streamlined production direction in service of propping up other products.

The Metaverse is just the latest iteration of an idea wildly hoping to find a product market fit. Many of us have read Snow Crash and VR is a common theme in sci-fi but I think it's just not going mainstream for a long time if ever.

So we can only read the tea leaves here about why Sandberg left. Chris Cox famously left (and later came back) and used words that seemed to indicate he wasn't energized about the company's direction (when that direction was fighting misinformation).

Sandberg obviously has generational wealth at this point so doesn't need to work. Is this departure a judgement on the direction of the Metaverse? It's really hard to say. But Sandberg is widely respected so this isn't a good outcome. It's even more interesting that she won't be replaced. I do wonder what the organizational impacts of this are.
Is there any sort of app (android) I can download that will tell me what other apps are constantly tracking my location and reporting back when they are not open? I'd also love that for anything that's constantly listening to what I say and reporting back.
The way to get around this is just to have multiple projects - at my employer, we regularly have projects written in C# and F# in the same solution, and depending on one another. That will work just fine.
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It's pretty widely used in "traditional" engineering, at least in mechanical/civil/nuclear/aerospace. My impression is that it's probably a holdover from the good old days FORTRAN-IV.

See for example Code_Aster (as in, "a code"), which is one of the largest projects for open source FEA (and it mostly rooted in academia).
The entire internet subsists on ads. Even Amazon retail, a store that sells physical goods makes its profit selling ads. If anything they're only going to become more important as to internet becomes more accessible to low resource individuals around the world.
At least enjoy the free food and drinks! SAFe is bonkers. Let me guess the field... Automotive?
The middle tier does not have to be a GQL server; it can be REST or some other protocol like gRPC. The middle tier has a GQL client that calls the PostGraphile backend.

Yes to your question overall.

As another reply states, it's exactly a backend for a frontend.
> annoyed they were too early to profit

"na na sore loser" is quite the angle for someone bemoaning a lack of "thoughtful criticism."

Do try and grow up.
These kinds of changes always start in some sort of localized group or community. While it's wise to not assume that every small movement is going to turn into a large one, it's still worth paying attention to what's going on at the fringes so that you don't get caught with your pants down.

As another anecdote, Facebook has died out amongst my peer group, it used to be heavily used for event planning amongst friends but now it's been abandoned despite no good replacements in the wings because nobody is on Facebook to see your events. Instead we are back to using text messages and emails.
You don't necessarily have to put those claims into a JWT (other than the user ID). You can just store the "XYZ" that the user has into a table.
> Microsoft study aside (I couldn't find it either, mostly redirects to Teams), there are tons of studies coming out over and over pointing out how capable the ordinary person is when put in the right environment.

I'm skeptical of what Microsoft considers an "average contributor" considering they were known to have a pretty high bar for recruiting (they were notorious for rigorous algorithmic interviews even back in the 90's). And the comp was also pretty strong especially considering stock performance back then.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
A big company acquiring small things and developing them successfully is a pretty common tactic. Many of Google's product, if not most, were also from acquisitions. This includes Maps and YouTube, and some of the less successful ones were not acquired.
> There's also some kind of distinction between tree organisms and tree individuals

Now if the Ship of Theseus used wood from that tree organism...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Yes! I suspect (but I don't know for sure) that C# has the highest performance sealing of all the VM-based languages with a tracing garbage collector. structs, Span<T> and ReadOnlySpan<T> for type-safe access to contiguous regions of memory allow us to do a lot without touching the heap. C# also has hardware intrinsics for non-cross platform SIMD instructions if you're interested in that kind of thing.
Why is it so hard to believe? NetBSD was a fully mature operating system by the time the WWW was developed. The serious options were Solaris, AIX, HPUX. They weren't free. NetBSD was under active development and runs on literally everything, plus it has pkgsrc, massive amounts of source code available for free that pkgsrc managed. Maybe I am biased because I already know, but it makes a lot of sense NetBSD was so popularly widely deployed for webservers for so long.
Samsung will soon stop making traditional LCD panels
Congratulations and all the best for your venture!

One of my favorite aspects of Factorio was that the environment constrained your scaling. Grow out too fast and your tech won't be able to hold back the evolved hordes. Build too far away before you can defend it and it you'll be defending too far and wide before you even know it.

@iliketrains May I ask if this game will have an environmental component/conflict to constrain the player scaling various concerns and prevent it from becoming a uneventful sim?
> Many people in the US are reluctant to have open borders because of racism.

And most people tend to speak in forms where their statements can be technically correct yet misinformative, potentially missing out on the opportunity to improve upon the tendencies you point out.

For example, if you were to convert "many" to a quantitative term such as "% of people in the US reluctant to have open borders because of racism" or "% of people in the US reluctant to have open borders, by reason (of which one is racism)", it would be much more difficult to be correct.

I doubt you speak this way with malicious intent, but the unknown effects remain. And this is just one bug among thousands.
I prefer the way my ethics professor explained what I believe is the same, or at least similar, topic.

Imagine you are not born yet. You do not yet exist. You can be born at any location, of any race, with any birth defect, of any gender, of any societal class. Now, what kind of societal structure would you like to exist if you had to be born into such world? Would you be ok with large wealth/social inequality if you could be born into the bottom rung? Or about survival of the fittest without collective support with the chance you might be born with a inhibiting birth defect?

There was a lot I didn't like about how that class was taught, but this thought experiment alone made it worth taking.
You need a design spec for something that big. You also can't review 5K of lines of code without stepping through it in an editor with tagging enabled.
Giant gas field in Algeria found to be leaking methane for decades
I'm not sure what my boss does. He could be a deep-fake AI Zoom bot, only existing for our weekly 1:1 calls and I don't think anything would be different.

Also the principal engineer on my team insists on well optimized solutions for new features when I just don't think it will matter. And it would take the same amount of time to implement later as it does now, except we'd have more understanding of the problem then.
onsite? what is that? i dont think i have that dlc.
VR Chat is Second Life 2.0. Horizon Worlds is shaping up to be VR Chat 0.8. People Make Games interviewed people in VR Chat [0] and gave great examples of how behind (intentionally in some cases, in terms of not having lower halves of avatars) Horizon Worlds appears to be.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHT-zBxKQQ
I hadn't seen this before today, but NY Times claims that around a year ago (after the Jan 6th insurrection), Zuckerberg and Sandberg started to go their separate ways.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/business/mark-zuckerberg-...

"The pair continued their twice-weekly meetings, but Mr. Zuckerberg took over more of the areas once under her purview. He made the final call on issues surrounding Mr. Trump’s spread of hate speech and dangerous misinformation, decisions Ms. Sandberg often lobbied against or told allies she felt uncomfortable with. Mr. Zuckerberg oversaw efforts in Washington to fend off regulations and had forged a friendly relationship with Mr. Trump."
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I can't help but think discoverability for a fungus would be much lower.
What a coincidence - wherever I go on the Internet, high or low, Mark Zuckerberg('s business) is already there.
Sandberg coming back as CEO when Zuck takes a break from leading the VR effort will be textbook Board of Directors.