skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The idea of being painted as a literal second class citizen if you have lower end hardware is gross

This is true for cars, houses, PC gamers, console gamers, mechanics, chefs, etc etc etc
The 2 academics I know aren’t bought and paid for. Either could make far more money in the private sector than they make now. They work in their fields out of love of research.

This was my impression of most of my professors years ago too, especially as we saw so many quit for high paying engineering jobs at companies year to year — the ones who stayed aren’t in it for the money

I suspect it’s the same at the top: most senior administrators I bet would make more in senior Fortune 500 jobs
I really can’t understand why there’s so much time and resources being put into re-inventing virtual meetings.

This is supposed to capture subtle facial expressions. I’m sure every generation will capture more subtleties and have increasingly realistic avatars. So why not just see real faces then?

I always see mentions of virtual sticky notes on a whiteboard. That sounds awful. Do you need to squint to view them from your virtual seat at the table? Do you need to walk your avatar to the board and avoid bumping into others who might be posting their own? We don’t have those issues today with sites like Miro. If the metaverse will somehow avoid these annoyances then how would it be any different from the non-metaverse experience?
Pittsburgh Airport installs an algae air purifier
But should Microsoft be using this data like that?
Who did your pentest? Was that your first one? I'm guessing our codebase is older and bigger if you were S20, and we've had several pentests at this point, so maybe they are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I like the AWS suggestion. Then I thought about hosting with Google instead. Then I had a good chuckle to myself - no one would be that foolish :)
What's pretty surrealistic in this discussion is that MacOS in comparison cannot even run on all that hardware.

And Windows won't either because driver support ended a long time ago when you use old hardware.

Of course Linux sucks, but it only does so because it has the issue of trying to run anywhere with no default settings enforced, because those would fail anyways.
By nature, dudes will want to work with dudes. It takes immoral legislation to force them into doing something different.
IIRC, Hillary was among a group claiming "stolen elections" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUqxX0YAafg and that her opponent was an illegitimate president... so, you know, it's not a unique claim. Also miss Abrams seems to make similar claims. These claims happen a bit in local elections.
Kotlin is actually booming in backend, especially in financial services/fintech. Most are converted Java programmers ofc but many are also new to the JVM coming from Ruby/Python/etc.
Salganik MJ, Dodds S, Watts DJ Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1121066
Not really? I mean maybe dumpsys window might give you a hint if the memory address of an activity changes, but it's not really an intended usage and I'm not sure it's fine-grained enough for that

But this is like ground-truth stuff about Android, about as immutable as it gets: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime...

The best time to fix it was before the G1 launched and the 2nd best would have been right after, but here we are more than a decade later paying for its sins.

12 years ago people were asking for this stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/djp18/i_know_its_s...
How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
This does not necessarily help. In many fields the reviewers will be familiar with the prior work and therefore recognize it, anonymized or not.
Are people in general bias based on reputation?
Any idea why it was forked?
In the paper the authors describe using a blockchain to store the results. The blockchain is only mined in private, by an administrator, where voter id information is removed after the election. What is the benefit of a blockchain over a table (csv, JSON, database, excel etc) to store the data? Blockchains application is when you need to reach shared consensus without trust. We’re not in this situation that the paper describes.
This! Somehow diversity at every office means 50% diversity + 50% indian
Maybe you have issues with the synaptics driver? In case you do, I wrote an in-depth configuration guide for it a while ago [1]. Maybe this helps?

[1] https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/synaptics-touchpad-o...
I would love an answer to this. They look like bad mobile games because it has to run on mobile hardware. Interactions, latency etc. are all worse than on some average PC game.

You could just log into, I don't know, ARMA III server as a department and host your meeting there instead of this torture.
My god, I find simply scrolling down on that site incredibly janky.
the billionaires decided that it’s recession time, so we’re gonna recess.
It would be possible to respond to your comment in earnest but ad hominem like this is more of a psychological cushion than an invitation to genuine discussion.
I'm confused because of your second sentence but according to this site https://mindmatters.ai/2020/05/einsteins-only-rejected-paper...

". Albert Einstein only had one anonymous peer review in his career — and the paper was rejected2. This happened in 1936."

How is just one paper submitted anonymously being rejected an indication of a trend?
NASA's DART impact changed asteroid's orbit forever in planetary defense test
Discussed is not the same thing as reviewed though. I agree it is not odd. It is a good thing to know about though and be mindful of. It might be advantageous in closed circumstances, i.e. you can skim a review of a more trusted developer.
Because we desperately need something to keep the party going, computers/internet tech can't have fully matured, that means the war for market share and labor will have finished and we'll all be where mechanical engineers are today in terms of compensation.
Don’t worry, it won’t happen. This is just a desperate attempt by Facebook to not be the website where your insane Aunt posts QAnon stuff. It’s not appealing enough to last. It’s just like crypto, a solution searching for a problem to solve. Eventually it will spike and then fade when people realize they get no real benefit from it.
Thankfully, it is not ONLY taxpayers, but rather, all market participants that make use of the US dollar. Which, considering it is the reserve currency of the world, is a lot more than simply US taxpayers. Admittedly, the Federal Reserve does purchase primarily securities that do end up in one form or other as the obligation of the US Government (either treasury securities, or agency MBS's), but by and large, they don't seem to take much issue with payment in the form of principle and interest through issuance of further debt. For an illustration of this in action, see here: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren....

Ultimately, does this mean the taxpayer is getting a higher and higher national debt? Sure. But if it's never something being paid off, then the cost of this arrangement ultimately falls to those faced with an ever larger growing money supply, which, again, is the population of Earth. Though, a curious thing happened this year, when Russia was kicked off of SWIFT, and an alliance of those willing to do business with them outside of the dollar markets started to emerge, which does threaten to throw quite a bit of turbulence if suddenly the percentage of the globe we're spreading out the cost of inflation to shrinks drastically. We've fought wars to protect the dollar's reserve status before (just ask Gaddhafi), and it does seem that sooner or later there'll come a breaking point -- but this is hard to say for sure, as we are ultimately in uncharted territory.

Basically, like it or not, most of the rest of the world is wrapped up enough in this that the taxpayers can hardly be said to be alone, except for those who seem to be in the process of crafting lifeboats for themselves. Whether that's a consolation to anyone is a question I leave up to you to decide for yourself.
Google did support XMPP, but they dropped it.
One reason to sell a side-project is the developer lacks effective marketing ability and is not making any money. Basing the value of a project on revenue, suggests such a project is worthless. Clearly that is not necessarily so. Relying on revenue to determine value is a cop-out avoiding the difficult task of envisioning the future. Unfortunately, people who can envision the future are hard to come by.
> All that being said, I desperately want one of these to try out as essentially a 'replacement' for my monitor at home.

I’m very much in the same situation. I have a Quest 1 and 2. And they were great during lock down to have something for my kids to do to be active indoors. I had a few meetings that way too and liked Immersed the few times I used it.

But, this has me excited. (But not for meetings)

I’m very interested to see how this new headset will work as a monitor replacement. Especially if I can take my “work” environment home with me, or when I’m working in the car while waiting for my kid’s $SPORT practice.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments. You may not owe billionaires better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
okay grandpa, time for bed!
Why weren't you?
About time. Fraud is synonymous with crypto. It’s time to label most cryptos as securities.
It is buried, but they say that women that were modulated to male did slightly worse than unmodulated women. Men modulated to female did slightly better than unmodulated men. Men did better than women on average, regardless of modulation.

To me, this suggests the interviewers are slightly biased toward women, but the interview process is strongly biased toward men.

In a throwaway comment, they say that ignoring people that dropped out after 1-2 failed interviews eliminated the gender gap. To me, that suggests there are confounding factors at play.
"diversity of the candidate" doesnt make any sense. Or are you looking at the candidates ancestory and deciding what their diversity is?
A single person isn't "diverse." I know some people are trying to change the meaning of "diverse"to mean "a minority."
Seriously, there are so few circumstances where a good developer absolutely requires deep experience in a specific language (or framework) on day one. Smart people can learn, and they can learn pretty quickly if it's not radically different.

I'm currently doing a ton of C# work and it's great - my relevant professional background is basically all C++, with some Java in the very distant past.
It's interesting, I love it, really want to do it, and am waiting impatiently for it.

I have a desk with 3 big monitors on it and the idea of being able to take that workspace with me in my backpack is incredibly appealing. Working on my laptop alone (a 16" MBP) is awful in comparison.

We are far away from actually being able to effectively simulate my full-desk workspace in VR.

But even the Quest 2 was enough to make it easy to imagine how it will be when we get there, and obvious that this is how I want to work in the future. And for me, the future can't come soon enough; I'm ready!

That's why I skipped upgrading my phone this year and ordered the Meta Quest Pro instead. I know it also won't be able to replicate my desk setup (and I really hate giving money to facebook too) but I want to experience for myself how much closer we are.

To me, a VR work environment (with mixed-reality option) is the holy grail, and while its clear we aren't technologically there yet, it is equally clear that we will be within a decade or so (maybe less).
This looks really good, it checks all the requirements I need for a project. Previously I looked into NextJS and Remix, but found them lacking. The only pet peeve, is that it looks like its 99% react, (JSX, functional components, hooks, etc) but isn't, making the entire ecosystem built around React incompatible. Really wish they could've made React work for them instead.
Shrug the last laptop we purchased was a boring Dell Inspiron. Wiped Windows and put Arch Linux on it the day we got it without even checking any compatibility stuff. Everything worked out of the box, nothing has ever needed to be configured or crashed. This is 11th gen Intel, nothing old.
There is a guy out there who spent a few years investigating this. He traced back the term in the scientific literature. He calls it Race Marxism. His name is James Lindsey.
There are some TTS products on clickbank. May be worth trying them:

- https://speechelo-offer.com/

- http://newscastervocalizer.net/

- https://humatars.net/

- http://getscriptvocalizer.com/
How recently? I remember there was a referendum to make the age equal in 2017 or 2018, but the proposal was rejected at the time.
Thread: https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1580000350626799616
The main reason I don't see it working for meetings is because it's relatively a hassle to put it on and going into meetings I want everything to happen fast and painless. Every delay or extra step is to be avoided. Sometimes you have a series of back to back meetings where things really need to work fast.

Besides, haven't tried the Pro but everything else I did try isn't there in terms of comfort. A lot of people wear glasses and it's just a bad experience for them.

The last point that seems to be unaccounted for is the flexibility of current voice meetings. You can connect from almost any device anywhere. You can join a meeting from your car. I somehow sense that's going to be a tad problematic with a VR headset.
I like to keep an open mind, but really… I don’t get it. Or at least I don’t get it yet, and I’m old enough to remember the first demos on SGI hardware a few decades ago.
Related:

Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090950 - June 2019 (264 comments)
The data is objective but the quality of the research is subjective. For example if my sample size was 150 for some study that's subjective whether it was sufficient of size
> There is no reasonable explanation of electromagnetism that doesn't logically imply special relativity.

In other words, the experimental confirmations of Maxwell electrodynamics can also be considered as evidence for SR. That's fine, but it contradicts your claim that SR's acceptance was purely "theoretical" and abstract.

> These theoretical explanations were adequate by itself and did not need experimental verification to be celebrated.

Einstein took a similar position. As one story goes, when he was asked what he would think if experimental tests contradicted the predictions of relativity, he said something like "Then I would feel sorry for the Lord, because the theory is correct."

All of which does not at all change the fact that, unless and until a theory makes accurate predictions, it cannot claim to be "scientific truth". "Solving theoretical contradictions" is fine and a worthwhile endeavor, but it's still not the same as making accurate predictions. String theorists wax lyrical about the same wonderful things you mention, but that doesn't change the fact that, unless and until string theory makes accurate predictions, it cannot claim "scientific truth".

> the physics community always knew that the Higgs boson existed. Otherwise, they wouldn't spend billion plus dollars on speculation.

By the same argument, supersymmetry would have been discovered at the LHC, since the physics community "knew" that supersymmetry was "right". But of course this prediction by many physicists is now notorious for its wrongness. Beautiful theories sometimes get spoiled by ugly facts. Nature doesn't always do what theorists expect.

As for professorships, obviously a professorship in theoretical physics is going to be based on someone's theoretical work, which might be judged by different standards than the standard of "scientific truth". Many theorists have come up with theories that didn't turn out to be right. That doesn't make them bad theorists. It just shows that theories need to be tested to see whether they make accurate predictions. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Nobody gets it right all the time.
Here's another hot take: no amount of evidence will dissuade someone from believing a narrative they want to believe, no matter how compelling the evidence
Overbye used to do better.
Are you suggesting that Japanese founders might be more likely to use Ruby?
Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights is pretty cut and dry:

> ARTICLE 14 Prohibition of discrimination The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

I suspect the fiction of fitting a “male breadwinner” exception into this clear language became unsustainable.
Yeah, but good CS conferences have diverse reviewer pools, including ones from industry or different subdisciplines. Such reviewers often haven't heard of the lab, or paid attention to which grants are currently funded, the movement of students into postdoc positions at other labs, etc, etc.
Same thing in the new Mulan movie
They definitely are.
Let me guess, the others wanted to push their political view and that's why I shouldn't trust experts?
When I was an undergrad in college, I helped design a study on the role of gender perception in expertise.

We had a piece of text that the subjects (undergrads) would read and rate the expertise of. We had the same text but we randomized whether the name would be a commonly male name, a commonly female name, or initials.

We also randomized if they'd watch a clip of men's sports beforehand (men's basketball), women's sports beforehand (women's basketball), or no sports. And finally we randomized whether the person giving the subjects instructions would be a young woman (one of my classmates) or a young man (me).

Our small study showed what you'd expect- students- men and women students rated male writers more highly than female writers, and initials were right in the middle, though they tended to be more like responses for men.

The tester's gender made no difference that we found.

The sports thing made a measurable difference, but it didn't reverse the skew.

My 18/19 year old self was somewhat skeptical we'd find a difference, but I was totally wrong. It taught me a lot about bias and perception, which this study also shows.
I really wish these things had prebuilt near/far sight corrections. As someone who wears far sight glasses nearly entry minute of my waking hours I feel left out of these VR experiences
I'm saying it's not "by definition" of a business that it's purely profit driven. You could imagine people starting businesses for other reasons.

Some people are not aware that this was not always taken for granted, but has been the topic of court cases in the past.
Right, nothing is really. The parent is saying that this is a common human flaw and exists everywhere
Last month. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/pension-reform-vote-targets-rai...
I regularly suffer homophobia. (I still visit regularly). I’ve been spat at, intimidated on public transport, stared at, pointed at, ignored in cafes etc. Never experienced that anywhere in the UK…or anywhere else I’ve traveled and lived.

Your concerns about anti English sentiment are valid. I got tired of the “we’re just joking” excuse.

The housing crisis is extreme. Foreigners often think it can’t be that bad. It’s 10x worse than you think.

Car centric society (understandable - it’s been built that way).

Similar issues to the UK when it comes to landlord politicians, housing policies, healthcare, transport, prices etc.

Hard to make true friends. That’s from my friends who have lived there over 10 years and are very sociable people.

I could go on but it’ll be opinion and not direct experience and I don’t want to offend any Irish people reading this.
All those annoyances and complaints will be forgotten if it's possible to give people the feeling like they're actually together
I would like to know more details about how the UI is build. So far I have found this [1]. A tutorial-like post will be welcome, though.

[1] https://rxi.github.io/lite_an_implementation_overview.html
Why bother with offsites when video conferencing is ubiquitous?

After working in an extremely remote friendly workplace prior to the pandemic, and then with everyone working remotely for two years, I think the results of the natural experiment is in. There's zero benefit to being physically together in the 2020s.

Even when I've been offsite before, it's just a waste money. Sit in a room with my laptop? Uh... I was already doing that. Look at this person's screen? Already can did that. Go out and get Thai food and cocktails on corporate account? Well, I couldn't do that.
Ditto the gunshots in rural Vermont. A neighbor a mile away likes to try his bump stock once in a while and there were occasional paintball wars on the hill behind my house. The middle of nowhere is fantastic though if you want to make noise, like playing an electric guitar or drum kit at 3am.
The Creator Economy will look like the Music Business
rxi, lite's original author, considers lite to be complete, and isn't accepting new feature prs, which is fair enough.

lite-xl was forked to keep the same general principle of simplicity but going a bit further with features.
Dart mission successfully shifted its target’s orbit
Respectful of the democratic process? I get opposing the Roe reversal, but Roe wasn’t created by the democratic process any more than it was just overturned by it.

And the democratic process could pass Roe as law tomorrow, if it so chose.
Who wasn't mindful that the concept of bias and popularity exist?
In 89 we had 9600 baud direct connection from the dorms to the computing center…
We’ve come a long way.

Though I did have a Linux ppc box serving website under my desk in the early 2000s.. until they blocked port 80.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020124163137/http://www.linuxp...
Promising but pre-profit VC-backed companies don't want to raise in the next 2-3 years since there is a huge risk of down-rounds. Everyone is trying to squeeze their runways out over that time period.

Unfortunately, if your customers are mostly other tech companies, they are doing the same thing.

It seems like a bunch of healthy companies are putting on the brakes hard enough to collectively cause the recession they are trying to avoid.
Which it won't.
You assume too much. This could really mean anything, including that their meds were next to too much cash for the cop to resist taking, or that the person was annoying.
This is completely untrue.
Even if it can, Google Play services won't be allowed to function within it.
"An apple a day," what apple sellers say
I was brought into this world with the instinct to back the hell away

- Open Mike Eagle
Very common for anyone who has ever spent time in academia. When I was still in grad school I noticed a trend in some major mathematical and CS journals where a lot of time it would be the same N people writing articles. This was driven home when my advisor told me "without such and such's name this paper has no chance of making it past review".

Non-sense. However, for all the people that say "trust the science" this is the science you're working with. It's politics all the way down just like everything else. For example, if Knuth decided to post some utter garbage chances are it would accepted based on his name alone.
I can't even get the page to load.
You managed to say that immediately. Were there other serious explanations that came to mind? If not then you need to have more self-confidence because you do know!