skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was not the attitude of top guys in mathematics when I was at university.

Instead, one guy, who won a bunch of major scientific prizes in mathematics was of the view that people when they get scooped by people publishing in 'obscure' languages or non-English journals, were still scooped and that they can just shut up about proving things. Another guy of similar caliber was happy to read and figure out the ideas of papers in Russian and French maths journals, when it was relevant to his work, even though he couldn't read Russian.

Meanwhile, I've heard people speak of Schmidhuber's stuff as obscure because some stuff was in German, which is of course much easier than Russian for English speakers.
Remote Edit requires installing a node server to connect to. That would crash my router.
> That was the point of them buying Oculus. They never tried to make money on the hardware.

They're not trying to make money from the hardware just like most gaming console companies don't make money from the hardware initially. Meta is trying to dominate the VR app market and make money from the Oculus Store. They'll probably take a similar approach to the App Store and Play Store.
ahhh thanks, now that makes more sense to me
I could imagine the shelf life for these are rather short.

Pair that with the efficacy of a 4th dose, and it is not surprising what is happening to the demand.
> (I thought they also launched then cancelled another hardware product, but I don't remember details and can't find anything, so my memory may be playing tricks on me? Maybe I subconsciously mixed up the Nvidia Shield and Valve?)

There was Steam Link, another little hardware experiment that boiled down to an ARM chip in a black box that streamed games from your PC. I heard great stuff from the people who used them (Ethernet is a must-have, obviously), and they were priced really competitively iirc ($25 or something?). In any case, the product never really saw mainstream success and ended up going the way of the Steam Controller, getting excess stock sold-off at $5/piece just to get the units out of their warehouse.

Nowadays, much as you've highlighted, Valve takes a lot of caution with their product releases. Back in the Steam Machine/Controller/Link era, I think Valve forgot that they aren't a lifestyle company and ultimately make highly-desirable niche products. With the Valve Index and Steam Deck, though, I think Valve is finally settling into a groove. Part of that groove is probably not mass-producing products that don't even have pre-orders open yet, the Index and Deck are pretty good examples of learning that lesson.
So just post the amounts actually billed/collected instead of a "price."
We tested until our ears fell off; in particular, we had also to test all the stuff that the compiler (or linker) would otherwise have told us in a statically typed language; there was no other way; might explain why I directly switched to Ada for some time after ST; but how do you test for dead code (i.e. things in the image not used but still there for some reason)? It is not for nothing that people speak of a "Big ball of Mud" in the context of image based languages.
Flu vaccine has zero side effects for many and if you do have side effects you are free to skip it. Otherwise, I like getting a little less sick statistically with no downside. Current COVID vaccines are different in that many have days of quite significant side effects. Absolutely worth it for initial 2-3 shots without preexisting immunity, not so much once one's immune system is already trained through vaccination and repeated exposure.
> An ape because it is non-thinking

First, you're an ape. As am I and all other humans.

Second, the other great apes score high IQs:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060801231359.h...
Yes, they do, but they do it pretty quietly - think messenger, or their dating service, or their games section - these are all parts of Facebook, but they used to not be. Messenger and Games are the oldest ones. They're huge, they keep building stuff into what "Facebook" is, but it's really, *really* subtle.

Also, off topic, but I'm fairly certain you're a former co-worker of mine :)
Can You Answer These Sex Ed Questions?
Let me repeat myself for the thousandth time, just because something is new it doesn't mean that it's useful or valuable. Charting new territories, experimenting inevitably gets you the wrong answer most of the time. Innovation implies both invention and commercialization.

Registering a domain called p2p.ai to lure venture capital trying to show up early for a new potentially lucrative Ponzi scheme is not innovation, unless pumping and dumping is a commercial activity.
NewAccount.source = Meta
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Correction here -- Roblox largely does not have whales. Most of the long-time successful games just rely on quantity of players (with logged gameplays reaching into the billions). That may change / be changing but among Roblox devs you still don't see the "target the whales" mentality of, say, mobile game devs.

It's also an absolutely wild assertion to say that a platform with in-game currency is encouraging pedophiles by design. I think Roblox is seriously screwing up here, but the way you're phrasing it, that's an inevitability rather than a series of mistakes and bad judgment.
Pour one out for those with ADHD who aren't able to do this and haven't installed an adblocker.
It seems like the "article" was compiled from the facts stated in the lawsuit. I don't think their suit would cover what actions they privately took in between hospital visits.
The Value in Starting over from Scratch
I think Among Us quick chat is actually the best example of this. There are hundreds of combinations of messages you can send along specific templates - “The body was in (location)”, “(player) was chasing (player)”, “Vote (somebody)”.

It’s enough to have a full discussion in the emergency meetings without any possibility that I can see for abusive communication. The only weak link is the player aliases themselves.
ed is a derivative of QED, specifically Ken Thompson's versions for CTSS and Multics that added regular expressions.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED_(text_editor)
Somebody working with this server-side way, what is your opinion? It makes development easier? faster?
My Thinkpad X1 Nano also runs Linux quite well. They come with Windows pre-installed but are certified for Ubuntu. Qubes/Xen also runs pretty well, although Xen doesn't support hibernate (only suspend).
Every best practice can be overused - used where not needed, used where it doesn't fit, used in trivial cases. And if you've got people who haven't developed sound engineering judgment yet, they'll start by not using those practices. But once you convince them that they should, they'll use them everywhere, even the wrong places.

This is why best practices are needed, and why they are over-rated. Where they are used, they are often over-used.
Conversations with Tyler (with urbanist Alain Bertaud)[1]

COWEN: Next question from the iPad: “When you arrive into a city you’ve never been to, what and how do you prioritize what to see?”

BERTAUD: Before Google Earth, I will just walk randomly through the city and usually start from the center, and to have a cross-section toward the suburbs. I will just walk for hours. Just as my father recommended, look with the idea that nothing in this city is random.

If you see a barbershop at the corner, it’s because the owner of the barber shop found that it was the best place for his business to be there. If you see a tall building next to a short building, it has a reason, too. You have to try to understand why it is there. Do not think . . .

One word I hate that the World Bank use all the time in a report is, urbanization is “haphazard.” There is no such thing. Urbanization is done by people, and they have a very, very good reason for doing it. Sometime distorted by regulation or something like that, that’s true — discrimination — but you have to understand why the city’s it.

After Google Earth, then it’s very different because now, I look at an image of Google Earth, and I select some neighborhoods in AdSense (sic) that I want to visit, which intrigue me. Why are they that way? This seems particularly dense or not dense at all. So rather than going at random, I will select the places based on my interpretation of Google Earth.

[1] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/alain-bertaud/
"The space is more interesting than just jpegs."

So is gravel.
They pack the gaps with snow and the blocks are cut on an angle so they are larger on the outside than the inside. Also, igloos aren't built out of ice. It's compacted snow. Much easier to work with.
Babies learn power of voice through experimentation
fear is mostly irrational, as people are generally bad at perceiving risk objectively. statistics show that nearly all cities and neighborhoods are generally quite safe for casual visitors and residents alike. vehicular accidents are more likely than violent confrontation, for instance, yet no one bats an eye at getting into a car.

even in the rare occasion of some type of confrontation, most people want to resolve it without violence, and certainly not death. people have varying strategies for such confrontations--congeniality, causticity, evasiveness, etc.--and it's worth developing yours through practice, rather than living in fear. as alluded, most of the sketchy characters in the tenderloin are druggies, not thugs, and really don't care about you at all.
It is contradictory and any mental gymnastics to prove otherwise are just moot. You are either against the government/politicians/bureaucrats/democratic majority dictating what you can do with your body and your private healthcare data or you are not.

Everything else is just trying to convince (yourself mostly) that using authoritarian power to dictate to society what YOU like or YOUR ideological preferences is ok because "You are advocating for good things".
There's user accounts for almost every software business out there that has any form of online component. You have a user account on this very site. I don't get the complaint.
It's not automatic, you have to do it manually. If you don't the device won't work anymore.

> After January 1, 2023, you’ll need to set up a Meta account to continue
using your VR device. When you update your Oculus account to a Meta account, the Supplemental Meta Platforms Technologies Terms of Service and Supplemental Meta Platforms Technologies Privacy Policy will apply to you.
Scientists have known about immune compartmentalization and the how to evoke the different types of antibodies since the 1960s (and T-cell residence in 1980s). It just hasn't made it into public messaging about vaccines for aerosol spread viruses until recently because it wasn't a world stage issue.

There's no doubt intramuscular vaccination still does help against infection in other immune compartments. It's just not the best at it. This has been shown in large scale studies re: sars-cov-2 from Israel in terms of likelyhood of being infected if someone in your residence gets infected. ref: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl4292 "Vaccination with BNT162b2 reduces transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to household contacts in Israel"
This quote seems to be about using face/eye tracking to improve the VR itself, not something about ads or data mining.
This article is a little confusing, so I just want to clarify something for the audience. It makes it sound like OOM killing is asynchronous, but it is not. The OOM killer kicks in as soon as you try to realize more memory than your cgroup's limit. The kernel will first attempt to reclaim memory and if that fails it will kill something. There isn't some grace period during which your cgroup can skate along over its limit.
Tell me you've never had medical problems without explicitly saying you've never had medical problems
Quite a number of American presidents would have told you that the Supreme Court is very much a political organization: Jefferson, Lincoln, and both Roosevelts come to mind.
I know a dozen people that have had it in the last month, including my whole family, and everyone's symptoms were mild, less than the flu. Not trying to discredit, just wanted to share other points of view.
I recall in a previous hacker news thread on a similar topic, one commenter said that their hack for this was to put every sentence on a new line, and that it actually helped with people who would otherwise just skim over what he wrote.
> it should be assumed insecure against state sponsored actors until proven otherwise with overwhelming evidence

Everything is always insecure. Like in toxicology, it's a matter of degree.

If you're really facing state-sponsored actors, you shouldn't be using an iPhone. You probably shouldn't be using a mobile phone. But that isn't a tradeoff most people are willing to make.

Lockdown Mode existing is unequivocally better than it not. Those who would have air gapped aren't going to be tricked into using Lockdown Mode instead. Instead, those who would have reluctantly used their iPhones in normal mode and e.g. turned off location tracking will now be better protected.
Being Mortal, also fantastic
http://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/
When I realized many meetings were just an interchange of dominance gestures between two or three people, with the rest as passive spectators, it all made more sense.

It didn't help me enjoy the meetings or remember one thing that was said.

You can tell they are BS because there are never minutes or notes released after the meeting.

Some meetings are OK. One job the quarterly meetings were masterpieces of clarity and transparency. Times were tough, they told us. Times were good, they told us. Product dev on ZXJ-50302 was lagging, they told us.

Even group meetings were variable and some were OK.
Because you told them while you were creating your Meta account, and because the credit card you entered matched what you told them.
> This just in: A wrong thing become right when famous people (allegedly) do it. More at 9.

I'm pretty sure the claim was that it's not so "fundamental", not about right or wrong.
> It the bullshit echochamber of journalists and politicians that ended up defining the vaccine “working” as stopping transmissions, rather than serious cases. But that was not a claim from the manufacturers of the vaccines.

Pfizer stated[0] on Jan 26, 2021 that their vaccine "has been authorized for emergency use to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 16+." [emphasis added]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210126223727/https://twitter.c...
It's the age old tale of society paying the cost because it has to.
I said it with the stipulation that the kids are kept within the confines of Roblox. Note that kids were lured elsewhere for anything serious - instagram, porn accounts, webcams, discord, whatever.

It also goes without saying that they need constant guidance, reminders, and monitoring.
> why would anyone trust Meta/FB on anything they say or trust them with your data

You should probably ask the ~4B people that use their services.
also https://github.com/photopea/UNN.js
> What we need is …

What we need is a vaccine that works better. Everything else is just speculation until it’s tested in well-designed trials that test the right thing in actual humans.

Sure, you may think we need an intranasal vaccine and I may think we need an attenuated-virus vaccine stimulating a T cell response against ORF1ab peptides, but we could both be entirely wrong.

Keep in mind that the measles vaccine is injectable and produces excellent durable protection against the airborn measles virus. The chickenpox vaccine is an injected live virus vaccine that appears to provide excellent durable protection against chickenpox, which, while it sure looks like a virus that would be transmitted mainly by shedding from blisters, is apparently also airborn.

Meanwhile, a hypothetical intranasal vaccine that raised an awesome IgA response with the same affinity as the the IgG antibodies in people vaccinated with the current mRNA vaccines but did nothing else seems unlikely to be especially effective against BA.4 and BA.5.
Yes but for how much? The Oculus 2 is crazy cheap and more accessible to a wider audience. I doubt that will be. I imagine ~Facebook~ Meta took a loss on every headset sold.
paranoia isn’t a virtue
That sounds awful. Especially noticing it changes you as a person.

I hope you find a way to deal with it that is acceptable.
- why would anyone trust Meta/FB on anything they say or trust them with your data

Because people don't care about what is done with their data, because it doesn't affect them. This is why FB is still the most used social media site in the world despite all the negativity. People just want a good product and that's what FB gives. That why Instagram and WhatsApp are also extremely popular despite being owned by FB. People just don't give a fuck. Google is still by far the most popular search engine despite many people trying to create search engine that don't track you. All of them failed to take any market share from Google because Google gives people a good product compared to the rest and that's all what people care about.

People just want a good product, they don't care how you do it.
It’s a pleasant surprise to see this shared here, I am the author of this piece. Honestly I wrote this post for myself more than anything else. I also find that my knowledge in a lot of areas is very “surface level.” It’s really easy to regurgitate definitions, but it’s definitely harder to get to the core of those ideas. I hope you enjoyed!
How is that different from what I am saying? It's just that if you already had 3 shots and 2 COVIDs, and you had significant side effects from previous shots, the equation is different going forward. But new vaccines that are ahead of circulating variants / tend to not have noticeable side effects would be worth considering.
My kid plays Roblox. I disabled chat on it years ago (I spotted something and was 100% not having it.). She's still asking for it to be re-enabled and I'm still "thinking about it".
Yes, zip code/geo-location plus a few other points of personal data are often enough to identify an individual. Then tie that to a browser fingerprint and you can tie together all their "anonymous" screen names.
That's an extremely contradictory position to hold for the GOP - they're hypocrites. Do you have any other arguments except for whattaboutism though? Telling me that it's ok to be wrong because the GOP does it too is not a very convincing argument.
I think Machiavelli had it right: fortune is more important than anything else. Secondary to that is the capability to adapt to or take advantage of fortune. To do so (or to advise others so), Machiavelli studied history and drew conclusions.

If you invest time in learning things you can't apply, that may seem unprofitable to you. However, if your attitude inhibits learning, whatever fortune does befall you may as well be useless.

But I think "attitude" here is code for the unreasonable optimism that keeps one trying again and again despite repeated failure. It really seems intended as a religious tenet of faith to replenish the entrepreneurial spirit.
It’s not just misleading it’s flat-out wrong. Someone skimmed the article, saw “40%” used in a completely different context, and decided that was the price increase.
The title made me wonder if they were going to include the new Houston TX ordinance that requires 360 surveillance of sexually oriented businesses with video data retained for 30 days and made available to city / cops at the drop of a dime, and no warrant required.

although the record all the things rule also includes: The rules apply to all Houston bars, convenience stores, game rooms, nightclubs, or sexually-oriented businesses.

https://reason.com/2022/04/21/houston-says-businesses-must-i...

How can this even happen?
Marvellous. Always wondered exactly how ed was useful :)
And vice versa: getting banned on the Oculus side won't kill your Facebook account
Why Be Synchronous?
> The commentary is accurate that's is messed up to have a "price", like something is being sold.

Services are being sold, whether it's private or government ran.

> Having hospitals run off funding by taxpayers isn't a price any more than the military buying an F35 having a per-American price (and no one thinks of it that way)

It is a price, so is the F35, and yes more people should think that way. Whether it's being paid for via taxes collected or paid directly is irrelevant.

The problem is not the method of collection of payment (taxes or direct) but the corruption of administrators.
NFTs are a receipt. There are some areas where having a receipt/proof of purchase in hand is useful (ticketing/licensing), but that utility is separate from the thing you are proving to have purchased.

NFTs can be interesting if you're interested in novel licensing schemes or safe secondary markets for concert tickets, but it's definitely niche. The "interest in NFTs" beyond that is just everyone's natural inclination to try to make a buck before the music stops.
It just means that when entity A wants to buy entity B, they have a general 'cost of capital they use to determine whether or not they want to buy something - and it doesn't matter if it's with cash or debt really.

If you're an employee worrying about stuff, well, I wouldn't unless you're the CEO and have the power to make huge investments ...

If you are a very profitable company, i.e. 'cash cow' without a lot of debt, then private equity may be interested in buying your company with heavy borrowing, using the profits to pay for the debt.

Another way to look at it is, the company is not taking enough risk given the price of cash available in the market.

One thing a company might want to do is take on debt and extend the business.

If it's a private company with strong board control, and the shareholders don't want to sell, well, then you don't have to worry.

As for companies that do get acquired, this notion that PE just wants to screw things up short term etc. is a bit bullshit. Burger King was acquired by that famous Brazilian outfit, and they turned the company around. In that case, probably some execs got fired to clear the path for the new vision, but it will vary case by case. The company might get split up into components. Maybe there is a garbage part of the company dragging on revenues. Maybe that supposedly crappy part of the company is actually more 'long term' and killing R&D would hurt the company, but that's surprisingly hard to establish. A lot of R&D is a waste.

With rising interest rates, debt becomes more expensive, and companies have less to worry about getting bought out like this - of course, companies that are carrying debt have a greater burden.

In summary, companies probably need to adjust a bit given interest rates. This is where a good CFO comes in.
but you can't create lock-in and an app store out of that.
Yes, as an American living in a city (even a safe one by American standards) almost every city I travel to is safer than default (except for some travel to places of great natural beauty like Madagascar, where I did not wander the cities).
Crook appears to be ramping up NPM crypto-mining campaign
Great, can the Linux heads now finally excise all of systemd along with it's monstrous scope creep, .ini files, binary journals from Linux, or will they continue to find excuses for their tastelessness and corporate slavedom?
Valve has done the right thing here and made it possible to use the Deck and Index without a Steam account. Granted, they haven't made it easy, but it is possible and they clearly haven't deliberately locked down their hardware.