skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Games are only the surface here but for me at least VR games are the only ones I play now. My steam library had been gathering dust for a few years since I had started to see the endless grind of modern games as nothing but a time sink, they had lost their flavour.

With VR and multiplayer it’s opened an entirely new world of immersive and emergent gameplay. I’ve had more fun playing silly custom maps in Pavlov than I’ve had in decades of traditional gaming.

I wouldn’t call VR a disruptor so much as a replacement for current displays and an addition of a new form of human interface device. People will probably still play pancake games in 10 years time using a keyboard and mouse or a game controller but they’ll be wearing a headset so they can have their game displayed at whatever size and fov they find optimal. There will also be a huge number of VR games and gamers and probably also a lot of mixed games where you can play in either VR or on a (virtual) screen.
Part of the problem is that people tend to use words very loosely. In particular they often use words that anthropomorphize computers and when they use such words its hard to tell whether they intend for them to be taken literally or are just using them as a figure of speech.

Your example starts of by telling us that the computer is known not to have qualia, which I understand to mean that it does not have subjective conscious experiences. First I don't think its ever possible to know, even in principle, whether something other than one's own self has or does not have subjective experiences, but I'll ignore that objection for the moment.

A few lines later you say:

> We, and the computer, just know that we're seeing red.

Now much hinges on what is meant here by the verb "know". If you are using the word in a loose metaphorical sense then I could accept that. For example you could say that a computer "knows" that the word "red" means an RGB value of (255,0,0) because in its memory there is a hash table that maps some strings to RGB values. So behaviorally you can ask the computer what "red" means and it will tell you "(255,0,0)". But there is nothing in such a description that implies that the process of generating that output is associated with any kind of subjective experience on the part of the computer.

On the other hand when you "know" some simple fact the process of reporting that fact is always associated with some subjective experiences, specifically the experience of thinking. How do I know that ? Well technically I don't. All I really know is that whenever I know something and am asked to report on it the process is always accompanied by a subjective experience of thought. I am simply making the conventional assumption here that the same is true for all other humans and that you are a member of that group. Of course that assumption might be false. For all I know I could be having this conversation with LaMDA.

To get back to the questions you asked here:

> Do you disagree that the computer in my hypothetical example would have the intuitions it does about its own senses?

Yes, because you said it didn't have conscious experiences and for me the word "intuition" is strongly linked to certain conscious experiences.

> how can you trust your own intuitions about your sensory qualia, no matter how strong?

Because I have them. I am not a black box to myself, I get to look inside and when I do I find that there are conscious experiences there. That's just not something I can, even in principle, be mistaken about. However once I start making assumptions about the nature of those experiences, such as that there is some external physical world that is ultimately responsible for them, I am already on very shaky ground.
The climate renegade: going it alone to fix the climate?
With Tailwind CSS standalone Python people can use without NPM
This reminds me of

http://web.archive.org/web/20071224022523/http://shlang.com/...
I want to see every extension be forwards and backwards compatible.

Ie. a binary should run fine with or without a processor extension.

To make that happen, every processor extension should either be implemented in hardware, or be emulated by software.

None of these extensions to the ISA have software implementations. Sure, someone could write one, but I don't think the RISC-V standards group should allow any extensions to make it into silicon without a software implementation being published and freely available.

The RISC-V group should publish an official binary (and source) which can trap and emulate every possible extension.
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>Basic NLP starts with simple techniques like stemming, synonyms, typo correction etc. But many users expect more, e.g. contextual disambiguation or broader synonym/similarity resolution. These users would see a search engine as dysfunctional if it could not even find pages in which a plural form or a spelling variation of a query term occurs.

Any morphological variation would already be covered with stemming alone, so this particular point doesn’t speak in favor of more advanced interpretations, does it?

Having an path which uses advanced AI powered tools doesn’t necessarily imply one should drop any ability to search with more technical query interface for advanced users. And it’s doubtful big companies wouldn’t have the budget to maintain even two completely distinct tools, would it be required.
How can the state of consciousness of a worm be evidence for anything, if you can't observe the worm's state of consciousness?
(un)fortunately, even the Java shops do have to follow Java trends - let's not forget the Java world is quite a big world with many islands. Example: I develop lambdas in Java. It's just those trends are less seasonal than other (Javascript?) trends, maybe also because they aren't usually startups but rather enterprises.
Sure, I wouldn't recommend anyone ever take any writing guide as some kind of scripture to be followed dogmatically. As with any art, there are no real rules, only guidelines.

Unless, of course, you're taking a class, in which case the rules are whatever the professor says they are. There's a reason academic writing isn't often very enjoyable to read.
Valid transactions are enforced by nodes, not miners (there are WAY more nodes than mining pools). All of a miner's incentives persuade them to mine on the longest chain, lest they lose out on potential profits. A group of nodes and miners can certainly fork if they please, but the network simply won't care. e.g. BCH/BTC
You say that like it's technically easy to transfer assets between games that might use differentl engines. It's not like a database entry.

Also it's bad for players, as the visual identity of the game would be destroyed by items coming from other games. Yikes.
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Interesting thing I learned about historical battles: the most important part of the date is the season. In my country there were no battles during winter, early spring and late autumn, most were from April to September. It does not mean month is more important than year.
Oh hey that’s me. I have a soft spot for those “juicy” interfaces that popped up frequently in late 2000s Mac OS X. This is completely impractical but I’ve wanted to get this idea out of my head for years now
Leaving Horizon would jeopardise research in Britain and the EU
I think you're missing some context about (what is now called) Bitcoin Cash.

Look up the debate between big blockers and small blockers if you're interested in learning more; a quick summary, many people wanted larger block size so bitcoin could process more transactions.

I believe several newer core developers staged a coup to prevent this from happening, despite several of the longer-term contributors being in favour of it. The original contributors (sans satoshi, who was mostly inactive at this point), had their access to the git repositories revoked.

This video goes into a bit more detail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcvX0P1b5g) but basically the people opposing a larger blocksize had financial incentives.. a lot were in bed with a company called Blockstream which benefits from their development on sidechains (now the lightning network). Had the block-size been increased, Bitcoin would be much more useful as a means of exchange (more transactions would be processed, and they would be cheaper).

This is where Bitcoin Cash is now, but it doesn't get the BTC ticker symbol because Bitfinex and other CEXes have a lot of influence as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_meridian_(Greenwich)

> The actual reason for the discrepancy is that the difference between precise GNSS coordinates and astronomically determined coordinates everywhere remains a localized gravity effect due to vertical deflection; thus, no systematic rotation of global longitudes occurred between the former astronomical system and the current geodetic system.

Cites https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00190-015-0844-y which breaks down the reason for the approximately 102 m difference ("In Sects. 2 and 3, the authors show that the deflection of the vertical (DoV) can account for the entire longitude shift at Greenwich.") and some of the alternatives. For example:

> Crustal motion from plate tectonics is also much too small to explain the observed longitude difference. Britain and most of Europe are moving toward the northeast at about 3 cm/year (a longitude change of 0.1 arc-second/century) with respect to the WGS 84 terrestrial coordinate frame (Altamimi et al. 2012). The accumulated effect relative to other monitoring stations amounts to only a few meters since its designation as prime meridian in 1884.
I find that the term "woo" suffered a semantic drift in the last few decades. It used to refer to things that pretend to be scientific by using the terminology and aesthetics of science without being grounded in real empiricism. One classical example of "real woo" is homeopathy.

Nowadays, "woo" is being applied to anything that science cannot model or explain. Science cannot explain consciousness? Well it must be woo then! You tell me that you experience your own consciousness, and that you are sure it exists? No, it's an illusion my poor child. An illusion of whom, you ask? That is starting to sound like philosophy, which is not science so it must be woo. Careful.

Woo is becoming synonymous with "heretic" and "science" no longer means what I thought it meant. In my view, the defining aspects of science, the ones that make it such a splendorous endeavor, are modesty and doubt. All scientific theories are under the permanent risk of being falsified, otherwise they are not serious theories. There are many things we do not understand, and it might even be that this will always be the case. Some things defy our current understanding or reality, and consciousness is one of them. That doesn't make it woo, and those that pretend that it does are like the fearful religious people of previous ages, as they shout "woo"/"heretic" at those who have the temerity of harboring doubts and questions.
This is really the one challenge in Germany: High fixed costs and high taxes making it hard to sock away seed money yourself.
I don't think tech or porn is the main culprit. It's that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.

Back in my dad's days, they were poor so the only entertainment options in their free time was drinking cheap home made alcohol, dancing and sex, while now we have gaming, Netflix, tic-tok, porn, traveling to the infinite Instagramable places around the world, plus the grind of keeping up with spiraling living and real estate costs, which IMHO, is the real bummer here.

Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals, has largely moved from clubs/bars/the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.
Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes of MobX
The Quest 2 already has passthrough. When you exit your guardian, which is an area you defined as "safe", it will use the external cameras to essentially act as thick glasses.

Not to say that it is some kind of blissful experience, but it works reasonably well to go get a glass of water.
1. Be born (and stay in) the right part of the world, too.

I'm fairly lucky to be in my 40s with all my wisdom teeth intact and zero cavities, in spite of not flossing, never seeing a dentist, and only brushing once a day with a plain toothbrush. That is clearly genetic, since out of my entire immediate family, one sister has had one cavity and that is it for all 6 of us.

But we've always lived in first-world cities with fluoride in the water. My ex-wife had impeccable dental health for a long time until she did a military deployment to Djibouti for 12 months, and came back with 8 cavities. In the 15 years since then, she's never gotten another.
The one difference by language is the day: some languages say 1st or 7th, some just 1 or 7. In mine, except for 1st we use the day number, full reading is "day month, year" where the comma is a small extra space.
Probably not satire. He's got a history of excitability over security issues: look at the things he said about sendmail.
My pet peeves: No dark mode, sorely lacking for me for reading in the dark, then there is no indication at all that you've got replies (at least a tiny number next to threads perhaps?) and the up/downvote buttons are too small to reliably tap on mobile. Oh, and enumeration support would be fantastic, the workarounds tend to be hard to read.

Other than that, I think it's delightfully ugly and lightweight.
Why You Could Switch from Redux to Apollo in React
10% is the best case depending when exactly you measure, but even then it's still actually lost 15% purchasing power.

Even against CPI, which must at this point be decisively regarded as fake news.

For example, apparently your TV is much better now than 10 years ago, along with your your PC etc, thus you're better off with the same $$, and so in theory inflation is lower by that 'hedonic adjustment'. But let's be real, you still need to buy a TV, and the market no longer offers 2012-era specifications at the same relative price. And the slightly -cheaper or stagnant prices of what is on offer, if we ignore meaningless specification inflation, are a result of everything getting crappier (Eg Ads built into the TV!).

Meanwhile DJIA and SP500 have almost doubled in 10 years, and almost everything essential; healthcare, tuition, housing, etc, has vastly outpaced 'CPI'.
How will the headsets not get lighter and better battery life? That'd be the easy part to bet on, don't you think? Computing devices have shrunk dramatically over the years. I'm surprised people are so impatient about how this is developing.

And while I don't use Facebook and feel uncomfortable about Meta owning the dominant virtual space, I absolutely think it will happen and prove very popular. Have you seen how much time people currently spend scrolling their phones with the little interfaces and small viewports? Lying on the couch with goggles between dinner and bedtime will be the norm soon enough, IMO - watching TV/movies, experiencing spaces, browsing content, socialising, learning, etc.
Thanks for this! That being said, I think that makes it an even better slogan. Taking something that was well known and using it in a new context where the meaning was, in fact, reversed. Kind of brilliant.
Plausible comes into my mind: how Uku found his co-founder in marketing and how things took off from there.

They're now at $1M ARR:
https://microfounder.com/blog/cofounder-in-marketing

(also open-source btw)
The royal family of Britain has occasionally changed over time. Is it decentralized?
Full text search on the entire web index is not feasible in terms of latency and compute cost
Puritanism has returned.
Is it the case for anyone else that searches on DDG are not returning results?
> That's 2->3 implementations or 3->4 implementations to target everything instead of only SSE and NEON or only SSE, AVX2, and NEON.

Where are you getting those numbers? I think situation is much more complicated, than your give it credit.

> I agree, but as I said above I think the level of difficulty is a lot lower than people expect.

See

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/simd/2018/10/19/fearless-si...

It's still dropping down to assembly and having to worry about arcane details like endianess and byte alignment.

> This is a common misconception

Is it? The more you use arcane features of code, the more computation you put out, and hence more heat.

Also games which are "fast" output more heat.

Servo that used CPU+GPU also pegged CPU a lot more.

> I don't think so, because games don't usually use GPGPU.

I didn't say they do. I said they leverage CPU+GPU. And for average program to achieve the same, you need GPGPU.
4 new specs

1. UEFI

2. Supervisor Binary Interface

3. Efficient Trace/Debug

4. Zmul only. This is the one that confused me.

> “For many microcontroller applications, division operations are too infrequent to justify the cost of divider hardware,” explained Himelstein. “The RISC-V Zmmul extension will benefit simple FPGA soft cores in particular.”

This doesn't look like bloat to me. But I have no experience in RISC V.
Can confirm, I tried the virtual desktop thing and was somewhat underwhelmed. The pitch sounds amazing, but it practice it just hard to read code in VR.
It's the same paper in the title
That seems to be the proposal, yes. Rather than possible future problems, let’s cause them now!
How Animals See Themselves
It's because people in their 20s are living with their parents and don't want to have sex in the park.

When I was younger I wanted it badly enough that I did stupid things like that but I can understand why people like me are in a tiny minority.
a related long read: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23121356-your-brain-o...

I thought it was a decent book, seemed to cite a good number of sources, but I'm no scientician. But Gary makes a pretty rational argument -- If you're finding yourself in a certain situation[1], without a known underlying medical cause (as ruled out by a doctor), then cutting out porn never killed anyone, and anecdotally has cured many. So why not just give it a try?

[1]: I'll keep it PG here, but the book is clear what this situation is
> the original WireCutter article showed such stark differences between the performance of the Förnuftig and the Levoit Core 300, over a 30 minute span. If you were correct, over those 30 minutes, the amount of particulate in the test room would have been roughly equal for both purifiers. It wasn't. The Förnuftig removed only 64.5% of the particulate while the Levoit removed 97.4%.

Note that you are talking about the 0.3 micron measurements: if we look at larger particles the difference is smaller. But that's fine!

There are two big ways that that comparison is different from what we're talking about here:

* Those two purifiers have very different capacities: 135 CFM (CADR) for the Levoit, 82 for the Förnuftig

* The filter on the Förnuftig is much less effective against very small particles. The math above is comparing filters that are 99.5% vs 99.95% effective, while in this case it's more like 70% vs 99.97%.
Given the proliferation of anti-satellite weapons, agile launch capabilities have become just a basic requirement to win any high-end conflict. Satellites aren't survivable so we have to plan around a high level of attrition, with replacements stockpiled and ready to launch within days or hours.
> I'm just puzzled by your comment of "doesn't mirror real world applications of your body"; as if boxing, squats and cardio in general weren't "real world" :)

It depends, a bit, what your fitness goals are.

If you're doing squats because you want to be able to lift 100 lbs boxes confidently, or boxing because you want to fistfight in the real world, you might be limited by the fact VR can't provide resistance; detect if you're putting enough force in; or punch back.

On the other hand, if you're looking to get your heart and lungs going, burn some calories, and generally compensate for the fact you've been sitting at a desk all day? Anything from ballet to bodybuilding will do, including VR exercise.
That reminds me of a friend's address in South America, which is "1200m up from such and such cemetery" (up as in above).
Musk believed he needed to compel people back into the office to get what he wanted. These employees believed it was worth it to speak out. Both parties were capable of understanding the consequences of their speech. And none of those consequences were unethical or or even disproportionate to their cause. I'm not sure there's even anything to talk about here. There's no right or wrong to people's preferences for their workers' jobsite presence. And there's no right or wrong to public disagreement. In fact, this is a public market disagreement that will happen for years to come.
That was popular understanding until Spacex used normal intel chips for most of their flight hardware. They have the computers generally in triplicate do a bit flip in one doesn’t cause issues, and it is many times more cost effective.
The real culprit isn’t porn, it is mainly the change in societal expectations and the ease of changing your baseline expectations. Our relationships have become extremely disposable. You are one Instagram DM away from moving onto the next one. Dating websites and apps largely have the same problems.
HTML is easy, it’s css that is hard.
A good team is worth its weight in gold.

This is great advice, also take the time to find people that are passionate about what your are doing.
What defines mass market? Meta has sold over 15 million Quest 2 units in the past two years.

In that time they’ve debatably eclipsed the entire VR headset industry units sold over the past decade - about 10 million mostly PSVR, but some Samsung, Vive and Valve.

The PS5 has sold 20 million, for reference.
That still leaves you with the chicken-and-egg problem of how you get to the point where "every games company is allowing users to resell their items", when it's not beneficial to any of them to start with.
Both that and online porn has ruined us. It is an major epidemic that is still under the radar for how massive it is, in my opinion.

And it's sad, because sex is very fun and porn is a very poor approximation of the real thing.
If you absolutely hate it, it is still fortunately possible to have SBI without UEFI.
Spent ages wondering why my search criteria was apparently too specific to return _anything_.
Holographic lenses - something I'd not heard of before. I am glad there's big R&D efforts in lenses as I think that's both the hardest and most important problem to solve. Moore's Law and software will solve all the other problems fairly quickly. But fixing the lens challenge requires hard-code physics. My bet is still on the arrival of visible-light meta-materials that have a negative index of refraction and therefore make flat lenses possible. That'll be a step function transition for XR, and open the path to mainstream adoption.
The US economic policy in the 10s and 20s is a candidate for the cause of the crippling depression in the 30s. I note from the wiki article that once the 30s roll around they all but stopped having notable anti-trust cases.

The US's industrial policy for the last 50 years has successfully pushed a lot of manufacturing out of the country to the point where the US is arguably being out-competed by communists. It isn't obvious that US government economic policy in living memory is succeeding in promoting a healthy market. The argument for why that is going to change and their intervention will help needs to be more clearly articulated.
Agree but tech is not like this. Especially with the rise of remote work. Unions can also hold down wages by reducing flexibility in conditions to suit different employees preferences.