skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, this is an ad for a specific experience, but they're generally actually high-quality experiences as other commenters pointed out. There is a limit to what will run on the quest 2 - a sub-$500 all-in-one VR platform that runs on a multi-hour battery. A beefy 3090 based system could render something better, but you couldn't wear that on your face and run it from a battery.

I'm sure you didn't click through the details of the tweet you shared (is it still a re-tweet if it's off twitter?) but the demo actually runs in browser and the location is algorithmically generated based on your stated interests.

The environment in the example looks like it was made in Horizon, their VR sandbox world-building game. They surely could have made it look fancier by using actual 3D modeling tools that games actually would, but this "VR Mainstreet" has the potential to be re-created by anyone using simple (IMO) tools they provide. If the goal of "VR Mainsteet" is that brands can make their own storefront in VR, showing what they can do with "non professional" seems like a good ad for the brands building things. The injection of insta-posts is because its trying to share the insta-profiles of small businesses. Its a weird demo, but its a web-rendered demo so it seems fine to me.

It's just an ad, they only have so many resources to dedicate to it. Marketing teams do what they have budget for, this "quality" seems more an MBA issue than a technical issue.

Ps: It sure is fun to shit on meta lately :)

PPS: It would be really cool, and an exciting development if they got Horizon to run in browser, it could make it easier for people to develop 3D rendered worlds and share them.
Deflation is just as bad as inflation so the average inflation rate is meaningless.

It’s less obvious, but the point of currency isn’t simply to have more value stored as currency which changes nothing. It’s to facilitate the exchange of goods over time. During inflation sellers are reluctant and during deflation buyers are reluctant, both of which are problems.

And while it’s easy to think of yourself as a buyer or a seller every transition requires both in exactly equal amounts.
> Please explain me how things would have turned after more than a day, and how the country would have been run by a bunch of guys with viking hats with 300 million other people not doing anything about it.

The United States of America has a very real and very well understood domestic terrorism problem. These are not all cartoon characters wearing dumb costumes.

I mentioned Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma city. In case you are unaware Ruby Ride and Waco were both standoffs between the Federal Government and anti-government groups they went sideways and innocent people died. This motivated two men to build a bomb in a truck and blow up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people. This was in 1995.

Ruby Ridge and Waco are often cited in militia circles as examples of why our government can’t be trusted.

More recently than Oklahoma City there was the Malheur standoff where some tax dodgers occupied a federal building for 40 days. In the end one of them was killed resisting arrest. The leader in that standoff was Ammon Bundy, who has also led other standoffs and the armed mob I mentioned in the Idaho Capitol building.

There is a delicate peace between the US and these terrorists. An event like taking over a state or national capitol or especially a military response to such a takeover could easily trigger a revolution.

You don’t appear to be an American. I encourage you to look into the domestic militia movement. Especially post-Oklahoma City. This is a very real threat.
sorry, but the either-or false dichotomy is introduced here by your comment above.
Even after FAT was cleared up, exFAT was under patents until, like, 2019 before Microsoft declared they wouldn't enforce them on Linux. That was kind of an issue for a while as exFAT is the mandatory file format of SDXC cards. If you had a SD card >=64GB before then, Linux wasn't mainlining support because the situation was too risky.
This is not at all what those right wing "news" articles are talking about.

For one thing, this is Rubio. Wrong senator.

Another thing, did you read his amendment?

This is again, nonsense posturing by people disinterested in the truth. Read his amendment vs the original. The original literally says the Secretary of Defense decides what legacy semiconductors are which aren't protected by the act. His amendment makes congress play a role in that decision in addition to the Secretary. That's it.

It adds no meaningful protections. Unless you think the Secretary of Defense is a Chinese spy.
I get that you can softwrap. Usually that means though, that when some code is indented, the content of a line that gets wrapped starts at the beginning of the next line (not indented). That just looks bad. I guess one could get used to it. If you can change that and make it continue at same indentation, then you need some additional marker, to distinguish softwrapping from an actual line break. Probably all possible in editors like VIM and Emacs. Just a question of configuration. I would claim though, that softwrapped lines are a bit more difficult to read, when it comes to code, than having short lines, all properly indented.
> and actually failed because they decided to rewrite from node to go

Interesting. What did golang do so badly that they failed?
If you ever know a subject well you'll see the Canard has the worst journalist and article for it, also they create controversy and outrage over the most minor thing.
It's a short parable, of course it doesn't stand up to pedantic nitpicking.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf isn't a tightly tuned narrative either - why wouldn't they just put a more reliable shepherd boy out with the sheep after the first couple of lies? But that's hardly the point of a parable/fable.
You’re suggesting that buying free lunches for the 92% of students who don’t need it [0] is more efficient than just paying teachers more or hiring more intervention specialists or counselors?

[0] https://www.schooldigger.com/go/CA/schools/2961004596/school...
Been my daily driver for quite some time. Great dev tools for working with CSS Grids too for those front end folks out there. Download, install, disable everything related to pocket, install my password manager, and then I've got my ideal browser.
"Premature hyperbole"? Interesting choice of framing.
The FTC almost blocked the instagram acquisition. I doubt they would let Meta get away with that trick again.
Secret Briefing Zeroes in on Suspected Russian Spy Station in New York
You can't view the video from the web but you can from the Home app on Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

Technically yeah you need to leave the Apple TV running (or a HomePod) but it just stays in standby mode anyways. But I don't know 100% how that works power wise.

When I look in my Home app at the hubs, I see all of my HomePods and Apple TV's there. The living room Apple TV is marked as "Connected" and the others "Standby". Assuming that means the Apple TV is the one processing things, it does not appear that the Apple TV is doing a ton. The light isn't on and it isn't generating really any heat.

To my knowledge Android can't use HomeKit but maybe there are third party ways to use HomeKit with an Apple hub. But I would be surprised if those third party ways could access the secure video. But I honestly don't know.
You clearly haven’t seen what passes for a school lunch.
"Adam and Ava are awakened, and achieve awareness."

I'm going to say this when waking up from now on: "I have achieved awareness."
Do you have data to substantiate a strong majority of support for this bill among voters, and adjusted for voting power? I'd assume a lot of voters would be indifferent to this issue. It seems quite complicated. It seems it's a tradeoff between freedom and saving uniformed people from losing their money.

I'll have to look into it more though.
Search text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket
The problem is that when someone breaks into your house, you have no idea what they are capable of. Are you willing to give someone performing a home invasion the benefit of the doubt? I'm not advocating for blindly firing away at anyone in your house, but I'm also not judging someone who has firearms in the house to protect their family.
I quoted a small selection of relevant paragraphs from chapter 9 of the book, which covers precisely this topic, as can be deduced from its title Powell and Trump.
And MS Windows 8 was horrific in the same vein as GNOME 3 and Unity. It looked at the time more like follow-the-leader from the most ambitious Linux vendors (Red Shat and Ubuntu.)
Show HN: TypeScript Editor that generates structured forms from TypeScript types
Hey HN!

I've been doing a lot of work with the TypeScript Compiler API[1] recently as part of my work on Preview.js[2], an IDE extension that lets you preview React/Solid/Vue components.

One thing I noticed is that even with great autocomplete and type validation, creating/editing JS values that match a given TypeScript type can require a lot of typing. This is especially the case in Preview.js, where you can edit the props you pass to the component you're previewing in the bottom right panel. For example, quickly switching between different variants of a union type can be a hassle.

To solve this, I decided to try creating a tool that generates a structured from for a given TypeScript type. For example if you pass it `type Foo = { bar: string, baz: number }`, it will show you a form with two inputs `bar` and `baz` with the appropriate types, and it will output the equivalent JS code (or JSON) as you type.

You can try it at https://tseditor.fwouts.com

I built this as a standalone tool so that I could debug it easily (and indeed, I found a ton of great bugs!). As it took shape, I realised there might be other use cases for it than Preview.js. Imagine for example using this in Postman (or whichever tool is better than Postman these days!) instead of inputting JSON values for your request payloads. Or perhaps using this for ad-hoc forms (the form is effectively encoded in the URL).

I'm curious what you'd see yourself using this editor for? Any feedback welcome of course!

Thanks

François (@fwouts on Twitter)

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Using-the-Compi...
[2] https://previewjs.com
Nobody has posted this yet, but you can play around with these models on Sim Earth, where he is credited along side Will Wright and Fred Haslam.

This link[1] runs at the time of posting.

[1] https://www.myabandonware.com/game/simearth-the-living-plane...
I quit and am pursuing my own interests with the nest egg I’ve built up over the years (am also mid 40s). It’s been incredibly invigorating to finally be able to think for myself again, and have time to explore.

Just my experience, don’t underestimate how much working a job limits you and your creativity.

Unfortunately this will get me further from the line rather than closer (unless I somehow strike gold) but I figure the only thing I can’t make again is time.
4, 5, and 6 also exist (but to my understanding aren't really used): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...
When 90+% of the kids don’t need it, wouldn’t it be better to use the money to hire more teachers?
The game is notoriously fair, given the fact there are players who have runs of some hundred ascension or so.
This was a really good read. Does anyone have any book recommendations to start reasoning about valuation in the same way the author did?
he was also a self-made immigrant who came to USA, called it home and deeply cared about it
That's an interesting contrast with places that are important but not honored - I know that some concentration camps have been preserved as museums to the horror but the Berlin wall is kind of a great counter example because not only does the city not want the wall there anymore (obviously)... but Berlin is also specifically opposed to trying to preserve the path of the wall since it'd reinforce the division in the city.

There is, from the Berliners I've spoken too, a strong desire to make sure the memory of what the wall did isn't lost - but all but the most minute physical presences of the wall were actively removed.
At the time, both Novell/SUSE and Red Hat were significant contributors to GNOME. Novell acquired Ximian around the same time they bought SUSE and merged the two. That effectively made SUSE into a GNOME shop rather than a KDE one, though it didn't last as SUSE bled out all of their GNOME developers...
Debris from a Chinese space rocket is crashing toward Earth
If they did any research into tiling, I think a lot of their case studies would be about how to get the users to adopt and learn it. Learning a good timing WM can be very productive but you only see the benefit of it after you've already put in the work. It's not instant gratification.

Though on the other hand, MS has a habit of dumping bad UI design on the user and then having to scramble to revert amid all the commotion. Windows 8 being a prime example. So perhaps they don't do this.
The Register had an article building off this post with some more conjecture: https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/27/apple_networking_traf...
“Due to the uncontrolled nature of its descent, there is a non-zero probability of the surviving debris landing in a populated area — over 88% of the world’s population lives under the reentry’s potential debris footprint,” Aerospace said Tuesday.
They should name them like viruses...
Official Announcement:

https://blog.google/products/chrome/update-testing-privacy-s...
I love it too. It works so well on my machines. I hope it sticks around
A good read about why golang does badly: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...
Good to know. Thanks for providing this viewpoint as a customer.
Yes, it was a crazy time for Ubuntu, especially for someone who first got introduced to it in 2007 and really enjoyed using an eeePC with it
> umpteenth time, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence

Repeating nonsensical statements does not make the statement clearer. Paying attention to what you want to pay attention to is fine, but it is not a robust way to process unreliable data.
But we're not talking about smartphones with their dozens of tiny apps. We're talking about desktops. How much desktop software does a typical user run?
Too many ads for me to make sense of it on a phone
Also change the name and make sure people who screwed it up are not allowed anywhere close to the new thing
Signal is a more realistic compromise.
Yeah I wish I could make it default to stereo, it's very annoying
There was a talk I went to a few years back where the speaker (Genevieve Bell) discussed the idea of "systems of delight" - that most recommendation engines fail because they just tell you things that you know, or that someone wants to sell.

What they're bad at is working out what you don't know what you want: the example that she gave was: you land in a new city, you're on your way somewhere. A recommendation engine might already know that you drink coffee and point out the cafes on the way to where you're going - but will it "know" to suggest that there's a public sculpture and that you wouldn't think to look at ordinarily, but you would be happy to see.

TikTok seems much closer to that notion of "systems of delight".

(However, for a great deal of social media I want to be running what I look at anyway.)
The barking sure (though I set up my office in the basement because FAMILY LOUD and so when they go off, it's pretty well muffled and people on zoom calls don't even hear it), it was the "bringing a squirrel inside and then setting it loose in the house" part that I was wondering about, ha.
I find his writing to be very interesting. I hadn't realize that most types of horses used in Europe had evolved to be large enough to not get enough calories from just eating grass, and needed their food to be supplemented with grain.

That was the very first thing I thought of when I read this article about horse bread.
I hacked the code, built my own version so I wouldn't take damage. I still kept dying of starvation. That game does not mess around.
you are correct that snapshot isolation is a consistency guarantee. But I'm guessing the grand parent was really talking about MVCC-style database implementations, which are conceptually similar to some of the STM approaches.

MVCC implementations are indeed fundamentally about concurrency, but they also tend to make snapshot isolation easy to implement. (Far easier than implementing snapshot isolation with classic pessimistic locking!)
I don't have much experience with Haskell, but Clojure also has STM out-of-the-box. I don't know if it's the approach described in paper, but it's quite fast. It's probably made faster by the fact that almost all data in Clojure is immutable.

"The Clojure STM uses multiversion concurrency control with adaptive history queues for snapshot isolation, and provides a distinct commute operation."

https://clojure.org/reference/refs, for the curious and brave
For others who didn't know:

> Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican-American programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza
Petra was abandoned and rediscovered in the 1800s and has really only emerged in the last 20 years as a destination, after being featured in Indiana Jones movie. Similarly Machu Picchu was abandoned and forgotten only to be rediscovered in 1909.
Sure! It's just a classification of events that each person has.

Testible prediction? Socially close people will have similar classifications as opposed to randomly chosen ones (I will leave defining metric space over possible classifications as an exercise to the reader)
I think that, now that DALL-E exists, we'll think that everything is DALL-E.
Many activities generate emissions that have nothing to do with the sale of fuel.

Who gets to decide what counts as emissions?
Yeah, you're right. Even my reaction at Google software finding it's way into public schools is too extreme.
I guess that my knowledge of these companies manipulative business practices does fire me up.

As long as there is a public competition, and the decision is well formed, intended and transmitted transparently, there shouldn't be a problem.
Was it necessary to use Ninja?
I felt that way when I first saw it, but there are so many other cathedrals, bigger ones even. and the others have fewer people so more peaceful etc.
Interesting, and what speeds can a average customer on the top tier actually get?
In the UK the fastest profile used is 17a, which is then capped by our telco at 80 down 20 up line rate. The reality is that only a few percent of users actually achieve these speeds; the median speed is just over 50Mb and 30Mb or less is not uncommon.

We do have Gfast in some urban areas but its only useful if the cabinet is less than 200M or so away. We are actually making good progress on 1-10Gb FTTP coverage now though.

Just thought it was a interesting if not suprising note that Internet from space which travels hundreds of miles through free air to the ground station where it hits fibre is faster than we can achieve over a few hundred metres of twisted copper pair with a consumer level budget.
Getting a paycheck is the fastest way, getting lucky is probably second place
> Nobody does that with smartphones for a reason.

Smartphones combined Applications and System into one app drawer, and don't have Places. It should have been an even worse idea, yet it worked.
For every technology there are scenarios in which it is a poor fit.

You don't want to install Postgresql or Oracle on an embedded system nor would you want the extra weight of administering them for a system that has few users.

The SQLite site runs on SQLite and it has considerable traffic.
> We expect third quarter 2022 total revenue to be in the range of $26-28.5 billion. This outlook reflects a continuation of the weak advertising demand environment we experienced throughout the second quarter, which we believe is being driven by broader macroeconomic uncertainty. ...

"Macroeconomic uncertainty" is almost certainly code for "fear about an impending recession." An advertising company like Facebook is especially vulnerable given that ad spending is one of the first things to go when companies start losing customers/revenue/investors in the early phases of a downturn.
Impossible to tell.

With modern technology, we could probably take any building and through regular maintenance, keep it forever. On the other hand, we have weapons that can vaporize any man-made structure in an instant.

It is more about how significant it will be in the future, and we don't know. Maybe some random university building will be preserved for centuries because that's where the cure for cancer will be found. Maybe ITER, if it delivers on its promises, it will be of great historical significance, and maybe a bit radioactive. Maybe an airport or train station being built today that will become a major trade hub. An office building that miraculously survives a nuclear war. Some ugly structure that will be seen by generations as the most representative of 21th century art. Anything, really.
Thought I'd posted this as a top level comment too. If you are interested in his Gaia world hypothesis he worked on Sim Earth. You can play it online at various locations if you search "play sim earth online". He is credited on the title screen.
I’ve had Mozilla developers tell me they have no interest in getting rid of all the phoning home Firefox does, not even as an advanced or hidden config.

I wish they cared as much about privacy at the technical level as they do in their marketing.
but these innovators were rejecting the broader norms of the time. On the whole, renegades were rewarded by the market.

there was definitely a lot of back and forth innovation.

I see your point though and perhaps debate is the wrong term, more like freedom to blaze your own path and challenge strongly help positions.
I strongly recommend working for a FAANG. Even a few years are going to give you lasting benefits:

- You make significantly more money at a FAANG than most of the rest of the industry

- The klout of a FAANG on your resume will open a lot of doors to more interesting, higher paying, or more prestigious jobs

- You will gain a professional network that will be useful for the entire rest of your career

- Most SWE teams at any FAANG are using state-of-the-art tech, tooling, and patterns, which will be very useful experience to draw from in future jobs, even if not applied in exactly the same way

There's plenty of downsides to working at a FAANG, which every blog post can tell you. But in my experience those downsides are exaggerated and it's rarely so intolerable you can't last at least a few years.

So even if you have a terrible time, those lasting benefits are worth a lot of trouble. It could be a life-changing career move, and if you hate it, you can always quit whenever you want.

A relevant Dan Luu post: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
I disagree. The actual paper shows it was approved by the ethics boards of two universities. Here is a quote from the paper describing the actual methodology for creating the articles:

> The experiment featured Wikipedia entries authored by faculty and by law students under faculty supervision, who each had access, through their university library, to all the relevant primary and secondary legal materials available to judges and their clerks. This assurance of accuracy and of informed analysis in the content of the entries — though short of that offered by a specialist textbook — indicates that judges or lawyers would be unlikely to be misled by what they might read.

I find nothing ethically questionable at all about publishing accurate legal analysis on a case anywhere, including Wikipedia.
Basically Edge is Chrome with all the privacy features other browsers have but Google refuses to implement.
China provides free school lunches though, isn't it a problem if American schools can't compete?