skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Meta "stack" or core competencies they wish to align in this product domain, set up a profoundly dystopian world.

Their interest in being the platform is to own next-level surveillance of you for as much of your waking life as possible. They intend to track every gesture, your gaze, and (soon) your biometrics,

so as to feed their other big build out area, ML and similar tools for making superhuman insights about you and your interests,

which they they marry to their bread and butter, selling you to any and all comers regardless of any ethical concerns or concerns about societal consequence whatsoever. (That's not even hyperbole, it's a simple statement of fact.)

I don't believe they're ahead on this, but we can also expect to be ever more successfully manipulated by AI-powered chat bots increasingly well-tuned to provoke "engagement" and emotional response, through which to steer our beliefs behaviors and limbic system. C.f. Blade Runner 2049 and Ex Machina.

A friend made me try his rig against VR porn once, and picked a scenario which leveraged gaze and similar monkey-mind cues like whispering in one ear up close, to trigger all the "intimacy" responses.

Or: made me try the "walk the plank off the top of a skyscraper" demo. I knew perfectly well I was 1" off the floor on a 2x4. I could not step off.

We are utterly defenseless against what is coming,

and if there is one company in the public consumer sphere which has demonstrated that it utterly untrustworthy as a steward of our individual and collective wellbeing, it's Meta.

I dearly hope they crash and burn before they can foist this hellacious future on those of us unable to get out from under it.
good god, what in the hell does dropbox need a VR client for?

this entire VR push reminds me of the days when IE and Netscape were competing with "push" browsers, which were equally pointless.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/netscape-releases-beta-of-push...
I've never really worked at a place that expected insane hours. I try not to get hired at places that suck.

I'm not looking to climb the latter or make a career transition.

I personally wouldn't be quiet quitting in a recession. I would try not to be in the bottom 10-20%

On the flip side I think there's still a lot of opportunity for good developers over the long haul.

personal bonuses would fix quiet quitting too.

Too me it's still about fair work for fair pay(whatever that means).

I look for work if I don't have any on my plate and if there's a meeting after 5 I don't complain.

If a company sounds too exploitive(or too many piece of flare aka coming into the office for no purpose) then probably not the best place to work for me.
Fantastic, just ordered a copy!

I would be interested to know how you found self-publication? What did you use to write it, and where did you market it apart from HN?

How many are you hoping to sell?
Japan has way more brutal prisons, but you can also leave your bicycle unlocked outside of your office building all day and reasonably expect it to still be there when you go home.
I see a "vouch" option below the linked post, so probably someone flagged it as soon as it arrived in the queue.
I've actually detailed an idea like this a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27474424
I'm sure you'll be eager to consider that the reverse is also true, except in that case it's the majority of the pool getting aliened by open favoritism toward ethnic minorities and people with bizarre sexual proclivities. If the outcomes of explicit neutrality aren't good enough for you then you'd better start thinking up a new pretense, because people can see through it quite easily and they aren't going to put up with it forever.
Kea has worked great for me, for quite a few years now. Few hundred various devices tops. I tried dnsmasq as well, but that caused anomalies I couldn't solve.
If I fall out of a rollercoaster, should it still call 911?
Additionally, the UV radiation produces ozone, which is harmful to breathe.
How to Choose a Zero Trust Architecture: SDP or Reverse-Proxy
Interesting thought: Keyboard layout should be a setting scoped to the specific hardware gadget, and everyone does that wrong because it's easier to do it wrong.
It's quite sad to see this. Brex was founded by Brazilians (like me) and I've heard great things about one of them, Pedro Franceschi, on Filipe Deschamps' YouTube channel.
Why not the way forward? Depends on the "some" being "harmed."

This is a systemic problem, systemic measures will be taken, there will be winners and losers.
I like how Jobs is just using his WWDC voice the entire time
Didn't VMS have this baked in? My memory is that all 8.3 file names had 8.3[;nnn] version tagging under the hood
Why don’t you just leave it installed?
I worked on the Rift S, it was very much not a rebadged Lenovo headset.
> Fire is a natural part of the forest lifecycle.

Apart from ecosystems with Eucalyptus trees, I can't think of another environment where fire is a natural part of the forest lifecycle.
Having read all comment (54 atm), none seems to share my concerns: heat. My current card, an RTX 3080 (stock everything), runs so hot that I hate using it in the summer. The noise of cooler is also unpleasant.

From the physical appearance of the Intel Arc, it looks to be a much more power efficient card. I hope they keep evolving it and maybe their next, or next-next, generation will be in my shopping cart.
Zero Trust architectures: An AWS perspective
Learn UI Design – Course Reopens This Wednesday
I am posting this because I know how amazing Erik's (the creator of the course) tips are, so I can only imagine how great his course is. I will likely enroll this week and can later give feedback if anyone wants me to.
I didn't think it was so crazy at the time. I can absolutely see things heading in that direction over the next century.
TL;DR: if this guy is on your team, you're hosed.

At a place I worked a Colonel came in to give a pep talk about the IED work we were doing. He was talking about his time in Iraq/Afghanistan: he was in a jeep and his driver was killed by an IED. A few years later his jeep was again blown up by an IED, and his driver was killed.

My takeaway was: don't drive with this guy.

There was an article a few years ago about people that buy products that fail. They bought an IBM PC Jr, a Coleco Adam, the Zune, etc. They are like toxic customers...not that they're bad customers, just they choose products that die in the market. They're basically negative influencers.

I never thought there'd be employees like that, but I'm wrong.
You are right about language, with contronyms and oxymorons. Especially in nomenclature, many things are named incorrectly or have contradictory names, such as Koala Bear, Whale Shark, Killer Whale, Starfish, Prairie Dog, King Cobra, Red Panda, Guinea Pig, Bearcat, Flying Lemur, Flying Squirrels, etc. Also, asteroid, which are not at all particularly "star like."
It’s probably still relatively brittle at room temperature.
Lots of empty assertions. Why generalize and imagine that a precedent is set. Trump committed crimes, he should be charged. Anybody who did the same should be charged. Hem hawing about polarization makes no sense.

What's the argument, crime is ok because if we prosecute crime then the other side will prosecute crime too, but they'll prosecute irrelevant crime and so politics will be broken. So instead all crime is ok because we need politics with crime ????
> That comfort doesn't last very long

Low resolutions aside, headsets are still way too heavy and bulky, at least in my experience. Some even get quite hot. I can imagine that the weight and heat could be solved over time, but the bulkiness seems like a very big hurdle. When using lenses you need the distance, so it's hard to see how we can miniaturize headsets without a brand new technological innovation.
Boy, what a captivating title. lol
Landscape of molecular contacts: How SARS-CoV-2 communicates with human cells
Oh I see what you mean. Yeah, it’s tribal knowledge unfortunately.
I also use CUPS on a Pi to put a dumb printer on the network, but I still routinely have issues with my devices not finding the printer or not scaling the page properly.

This is why I was thinking that a plain web app with a known good driver could solve these problems.
There's also the occasional direct or thinly-veiled threats of death, doxxing, tyre slashing or public stalking for removing an off-topic post where subby knows better.
Here’s a highlight reply

https://twitter.com/fobwashed/status/1575943899478380544?s=4...
Kullish: A “Bring Your Own Links” Comment Aggregator (HN, Reddit, Lobsters)
In Canada the definition of "visible minority" is essentially anyone who isn't a white male.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/jobs/serv...
Maybe one of the various Github "Awesome XYZ" lists that exists out there.

https://github.com/terryum/awesome-deep-learning-papers

https://endymecy.github.io/awesome-deeplearning-resources/

You might also track down the website for a DL class from a reputable university and mine the syllabus for a list of assigned readings. Do that for two or three such instances and you could probably come up with a pretty solid list.

Or may just ask Carmack to share the list he was referring to? Does anybody know if he responds to Tweets / Twitter DM's, etc?

EDIT:

Also, check out https://paperswithcode.com/

EDIT 2:

Also, not reading, but.. Andrej Karpathy has a Youtube channel now and has been putting up some videos on ML topics. Might be of interest?

https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrejKarpathy
100K, Senior Developer, Singapore (Currently, subject to change)
The calories-in calories out approach would work if people could drastically lower their caloric input and increase their output. But that is the "sledgehammer" approach. Far better to understand the underlying processes, and develop a more targetted solution that is easier to adopt, and has fewer side-effects.
And pure thermal uses are not good storage for high-grade energy forms, e.g. electric, because of conversion losses. In Norway, pumped hydro is a good place to park high-grade energy.

That said, for rarely drawn-upon storage, conversion efficiency doesn't matter very much. It is why back when hydrogen electrolysis still lost 40% off the top, it was considered fine for long-term storage. Now that it has exceeded 90%, it is useful in more places.
Microsoft was always on my blacklist
Getting downvoted is not at all the same as having comments deleted, or getting banned, which is incredibly common on some subreddits.

Also not giving new users access to downvotes hopefully means that those downvoting are somewhat good citizens.
> I don't understand how it's legal but it is.

Are you sure?

Many countries require being harmed by an action and then bringing that action before a court, before anyone ever compares that action to any specific law at all.

So you can see how many actions become de facto legal if nobody ever does that.
And yet, McDonald's and many restaurants in general have been almost permanently short staffed since Covid. In spite of attempts at automation.

I have yet to see anything impressive from Copilot. You still can not describe a set of business requirements to it and have it translate that into a full stack application that factors for performance, security, GDPR, usability, etc. It's at best a form of auto complete.
In theory it is, in practice it is not. The intention is to let in talents that the US native population otherwise cannot provide. The reality is that the US tech visa have been heavily abused and let in people that shouldn't be let in.
It’s pretty normal that if you want to use the developer tools on a platform and you are not a developer for that platform, you are going to have to figure out how to install the tools.

This is true for Linux and Windows too.
Let’s create greekpunk. Like steampunk but with togas and sandals and temples, in a Mediterranean setting.
I was banned from r/streetphotography with my first post because, despite it being a street photograph, the moderator on the clock at the time thought it was 'too derivative' - It was a permanent ban.

Since then, I have taken tens of thousands of street photos, and the fact that I cannot post them on the most-used street photography subreddit is confusing and shitty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/opinion/race-admissions.h... whats his race?
Anecdotal of course but I believe this is very much true. I'm Latino if it matters much.

I'm the oldest of three brothers and was the one who was most pushed/expected to excel in education. My parents became a lot more lax on my younger brothers because they thought they pushed me too hard growing up. I think they changed in part because our relationship was very strained as I was growing up and even today isn't anywhere near as close as my two siblings are with my parents.

But on the other-hand, we're all adults now and I am the only one to graduate college and have a career in a typical "high-paying" profession/job. I don't fault my brothers for this and am close with them, but it is pretty stark the difference in career path/"traditional success" between the three of us simply based on this emphasis/value.
he probably heard somewhere that 'espresso roast' is dark so figured that's what you have to use
What I find funny is that both Jobs and Rogan sounds like they're doing stilted readings off of teleprompters at some points. The AI must have been trained on canned sponsor ad reads for the latter.
Because explicit quotas are illegal, they're often conveyed ambiguously. "You don't need to hire X% of Y group. But hiring X% of Y group would demonstrate inclusivity, which is one of the core company values. And upholding our core company values is crucial to advancement."

Also, as per "Diversity Slating Guidelines" quotas are indeed being used. They require at least one Black or Latin candidate, and one female candidate. If there's only 4 people
on the slate, this could mean that 50% of the pool is subject to racial or gender quotas.

There's more context behind Microsoft's diversity initiatives. Hiring managers were given bonuses for hiring diverse applicants. Or conversely, they were penalized for hiring non-diverse applications: https://qz.com/1598345/microsoft-staff-are-openly-questionin...
"they have done a lot for me" ...

Okay, so maybe disclose what they have done for you? Because the only thing that would make sense is financial support. And if that is the case why spend time writing something that will not change the course of things.
TypeScript's type system is not consistent though.
Managed crop monoculture, which ~half of farmland is - is not 'something similar' to natural forests, plains, grasslands, scrubland, etc.

Even grazing land rarely looks anything like it does before we've shaped it for our use. And even when it does, at first glance, it gets a monoculture of animals, instead. Farmers are not keen on seeing their herds deal with competition or predation from the wild.
it screws up my darkmode extension i tell you hwat
Have you tried CLion? That or Visual Studio have been much better for C++ in my personal use cases at least.
Most modern phone OSes today try to limit background services to squeeze battery life out of idle states. Even though "always on", some of the idle states are extreme battery misers. For instance, even the iPhone 14 with its "always on display" is doing some really interesting idle stuff, the "always on display" itself refreshes as 1 frame per second or slower (sometimes one frame per minute! as the clock is the only guaranteed to update, once a minute). It seems like the device is always responsive due to how "instant" it wakes from idle states.

All of which are a lot of very interesting reasons why you can't just run a web server on your current phone with its current modern OS and expect it to have 24/7 up time even though it feels to you like your phone has 24/7 responsiveness uptime.

It's a solvable problem if there were enough interest: light web hosting is something that could be added to the list of system services that can wake the device from idle states (in similar ways to how notification services get prioritized, or trickle data feeds like Find My Services). It's not likely a problem that current phone OSes are incentivized to support, though, because there's currently no reason for millions of people to want websites served from their pockets.

Maybe one day there will be an interesting P2P data "hosting" protocol that would be useful for modern OSes to prioritize in that way.
Switzerland discriminating against men on pension benefits, ECHR finds
What is your use case? And is vr popular in brazil? If so why? Sorry, genuine questions. I love the idea of vr and made some rather nice looking experiences in them, unpublished, and was amazed. PC linked tho, and soace related. I built a bunch of ships interiors that made me want to literally live in them.
Err, what? You're not aware that we're destroying the planet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
It's not worth driving away the vast majority of potential end users to cater to a small number of hackers through, even if the hackers were there first.

When it comes to wide appeal, linux suffers from paradox of choice on multiple levels. But there are a huge number of people who want the stability of windows/mac/etc without the violation of privacy, as long as they don't have to spend ANY time configuring their system to keep it working. To them, just like fixing their car, that's someone else' job/hobby that they don't have time for or get any enjoyment from.

I don't see any reason why Linux can't offer that experience, but only if we have a windowing stack that is very opinionated about the user experience. Maybe it's time for an X12, but the Valves out there trying to make a competitive experience on linux for consumers will be dumping their money into Wayland.
You’re correct of course but my sentiments are with GP
In many ways HN is worse than Reddit because comments get flagged way too easily here for being unpopular or off topic. That’s what downvotes are for. It feels really gross and censored in a way Reddit never does. Bury it under downvotes fine on Reddit but it is never just flagged and removed for the tiniest reason.

I do agree with you greatly though that Reddit mods have way too much power. The /r/movies subreddit is pretty garbage because of it. I wish they had just a daily thread for people to discuss movies. They refuse any sort of thing like this and persist their perverse love affair with movie posters.
Pixel density high enough for acceptable text is already possible, just prohibitively expensive. See Varjo's headsets, for example - at the center of the display they have 70 pixels-per-degree (for comparison the Quest 2 has about 20).
Early retirement won't be an option for anyone under 40 and retirement for anyone under 30 with the way things are going.
Evidence that one is going to be consistently chosen?
Commodifying software was a mistake that resulted in all sorts of perverse incentives. We first saw Microsoft succumb to it, then Amazon, and are now watching Facebook, Apple and Google all create a mustard-gas-miasma of dark patterns and rent-collection. Really, it's our fault for not recognizing these threats during the dotcom boom.
It’s not in Meta’s best interest to obsolete the Quest 2. VR is already a tough sell, and like other “consoles”, significant revenue comes from selling apps.

If they tell the regular users (who spend $50 per game) that they can’t purchase new games without a new headset, I bet most would ditch the technology.
That DMZ is fine already, assuming they can't start hacking your routers.

What you ideally want is network segmentation, use VLANS and put devices in their isolated network, only allowed to talk to the router/firewall, which only allows incomming traffic and doesn't allow the web server to initiate connections to the internet, except for NTP, software updates and DNS (fixed ips).
Check out MySudo. It doesn't _forward_ the calls and texts, but you can have multiple numbers that you can call/text with from the app.
I'd be very interested to know if they work for SMS-only applications. I guess it's only $5 to try and find out. If anyone has tried, please report back!
I want a smartwatch, but I don't want to have to stop using it after less than 5 years because it stops getting security updates. For anyone who says the old processor is an excuse, remember that the Intel 486 from 1989 can still run the latest version of Linux.
Musk Denies Report He Spoke with Putin Before Peace Tweets
I find "throttling" or "shadow banning" to be far more objectionable than simply banning / removing comments.

At least if my post is deleted I can tell. But when companies artificially limit the reach of content they do not like, you might never know.

Facebook openly admits to doing this. They are playing god by curating which information is worthy / unworthy of being seen, as well as presenting a warped view of reality to their users.
> Reactionary, anti-intellectual.

"The Cultural Revolution: A people's history" is a good read. Lot's of people got called reactionary and anti-<insert phrase> then too.

Yes, you can measure merit. But then, I'm not a Communist.
Depends on how you value pass through MR features, face/expression tracking, and removing controller dead zones.
With all due respect, the core language still has open issues the look valid and are unaddressed and no real code has been added for over a year, and in the case of elm/html 3 years.
Yeah, very good points. I hadn't thought of the "which number did I give" complication.
so do I, but my ISP after getting eaten by another larger ISP made it impossible to access remotely.

long live the free market. free for institutional-entities to step on individual humans.
IIRC, the US government's contracting rules are so byzantine that it gets shut results and wastes all kinds of money on incompetent contractors whose primary skill is compliance with the government's byzantine process.

If you want to ignore requirements like that (or similar DEI requirements), you're going to have to forgo those kinds of customers.
Professional level CAD software.
The normal user really doesn't care about his
I wonder who is the audience for this nonsense. People with disabilities? I can totally see that, but then if that is the case, perhaps these companies would do much better if they actually embraced the fact.
Elon Musk wants to moderate Twitter with 11s
I would also support a policy that supports at least considering disabled or impoverished candidates.
Most of the top comments are literally recapitulating all the received unexamined "common sense meritocracy" talking points which are systematically examined and dismantled as the first order of business in such training.

Depressing, but not suprising.
As I like to say, "software eating the world" is just the first step of digestion
A vehicle whose chief feature is that it can take off and land and be launched again not landing and being launched again tells us all we need to know.

If it is just changing orbit while up there, it doesn't need reusability. Just launch another one.
Enforce antitrust legislation and caselaw, and force manufacturers to stop artificially limiting competition and consumer choice.
Especially laptops, their current pricing is absolutely crazy.
I thought they solved this on that Silicon Valley documentary?
I would think it would turn Facebooks business to resemble Apple's, which I think we should all root for if we want to get away from the ad centric product they push on everyone today.