skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He seems to do an annual "update" video from wherever he's at, about minutiae of whatever he's working on at the time. It used to be QuakeCon keynotes[1] when he was at id.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/john-carmack-quakecon-keynotes
I think Discord's use of the word server is misleading, and it leads people to think they own something when they don't. Discord owns it and can pull the rug out from under you at any time, regardless of how much hard work you put into building a community, and that hurts.

I understand that "server" is an abstract term and just means "something which provides a service", but most other uses of the word relate to something owned by the person operating it. E.g., if I run a Matrix server instance, it's mine to administer, manage, destroy, etc. If I start a Discord "server" it's a glorified chat room or set of chat rooms owned and maintained by the company.

Language is powerful and helps shape our world, and by redefining "server" to mean a segmented part of someone else's website, it's another nail in the coffin for the concept of real ownership.
Wow, I never thought of that, i think it's even worse then you're letting on. She Hulk didn't need to because, by suggestion of the dialogue, women already have to control their internal anger to survive in the world we live in.

It's a proclamation that you should already have everything figured out, because you're dealing with it every day. Yet, what if you don't have shit figured out? What if your confidence is cratered? What if you have crippling anxiety?

These are not women specific issues, and the male role model "grit and hard work" model doesn't convey to men that you can lean on others. However, there are so many more male role models with different ways to grow and improve, whereas women are really treated as not needing to.
What is the most fascinating thing you learned when you read ntpd's configure script? What is the most interesting thing you learned reading glibc?

Were you at all concerned when you discovered that the sources come from http-only servers and only have un-signed md5's for checksums?

Did you find the support for HP-UX distracting?
I tried out Horizon Worlds recently and I was honestly amazed by how immersive it was. I genuinely felt like I was out socialising with people while sat at home.

I can definitely see the use cases, especially as the technology improves. If there were live VR music events that me and my friends in different cities and countries could all attend to feel together I imagine I'd use it quite often.
D is more capable as a systems programming language than C or C++ is. Not only can you do whatever you like with pointers, but it has a nice symbolic inline assembler, too. The code generator is shared with C's and C++'s, so there is no difference in code quality.
Every device is sold at a loss though, as far as I know.

Meta got here in the first place because Apple filtered them out. So they want to be in control of the new device. Tried Facebook mobile, didn’t pan out, too strong competition, so trying VR. Bought Oculus and here we are.

What is the alternative? That they honestly want to become a VR-end-user-centric company? Have you seen their track record?
Show HN: Rmt an alternative to rm with trash written in Rust
> OS is much better than Windows and, frankly, macOS at this point.

... for a discrete set of tasks, maybe. As a general purpose OS, not a prayer. I know Chrome is trying to become its own OS, and seems to be making pretty good headway, but don't cheat yourself thinking "and I'll just ..." unless that task runs in Chrome. I'm aware of the Linux containers on approved devices but just like WSL2 has some grave impedance mismatch with its Windows parent, so too does Linux with its ChromeOS parent
I can start with some of the challenges we have encountered while using Go plugins.

1. Versioning. We have a public SDK repo for users where our API definitions live. The private implementations are linked with plugins. The SDK version a customer might be using has to be an exact match to the SDK version that the plugins were built on. In addition, the Go version they were built on also has to be an exact match to the one being used. Maintaining support for the combinations of these two versions implies building and keeping a lot of .so plugins.

2. Cross compilation. Doing `GOOS=foo GOARCH=bar go build` works great, but not when doing `GOOS=foo GOARCH=bar go build -buildmode plugin`. Cross compilation doesn't work with .so plugins. We have to compile natively on the target arch-os combination, which is challenging during CI/CD. One strategy we have though is to use zig to cross-compile from linux/amd64 to linux/arm64. For the other platforms we support (linux/amd64, darwin/amd64, darwin/arm64), we have to compile on those platforms to get the .so plugins working.

3. Debugging. When an application uses our SDK + .so plugins to run, setting a breakpoint and debugging does not work. Delve doesn't work out-of-the-box and we had to do some workarounds to build with debug flags. That means we have "normal" plugins and "debug mode" plugins. We ship both of those to the users.

4. Path. When compiling plugins on a computer, the file system paths from the resulting executable are stored, thus using those .so plugins on a new computer does not work. For this we build the plugins with the `-trimpath` flag, meaning our command looks something like this: `go build -trimpath -o $slug-$sdkVersion-$goVersion`. This also means that we have to accompany any Go command with the `-trimpath` flag: `go run -trimpath main.go`, `go test -trimpath ./...`, etc...

5. Generics. Type parameters do not cross the .so boundary. We had to come up with workarounds where a generic symbol is never passed.
:D Thanks for mentioning this! I hadn't noticed it and it is an amazing touch.
Out of curiosity, would you ever support rewriting an existing memory-unsafe program in a memory-safe language?
At big companies, leveling is sold as an objective/descriptive measure of one's skills. An engineer is at level L if and only if they meet the expectations at L. If you aren't at that level, it must be because you lack certain skills from the rubric.

What you are saying is true but it contradicts that model. It acknowledges that leveling has extrinsic criteria such as finite number of spots.
reddit deletes anything and everything
Have you tried to meet someone at a bar that wasn’t a part of your group?
Meta Quest Pro, an Advanced VR Device for Collaboration and Creation
This is wrong. There are plenty of ads outside of the App Store, like:

- There are adds for iCloud in the Settings app.

- There are ads for Apple News in the Stocks app.
> unsustainable sprawl

13 million people living in the Los Angeles basin seem to disagree.
> I’m seeing a lot of R&D solely focused on giving them the chance to extract rent through future silly things like buying artificially scarce houses in fbs metaverse

An example from FB please?
$1.5m houses is a signal that a ton of people want to live there, and are willing to pay a premium for doing it. That's not a signal that you're doing something wrong.

Of course, it would be nice if you could keep everything you're doing right and bring housing prices down (largely by building more of it). But on the whole real-estate being valuable is generally a positive sign.

On the flip side, the cheapest houses you could find for awhile (maybe still?) were in detroit, that's not a sign that Detroit was doing well - but that demand had plummeted to literally 0 because it was doing so poorly.
I mean open source IDE's, real full featured developer environments for writing code. I don't talk about Open Source projects in general, but about competition for VS Code or Eclipse. There is something like Sublime Text, but it's not really open source and free.

Edit: With Vim and stuff I get your point, but I would say it's not really comparable to an UI-based IDE, it is command line stuff. Even if many people prefer that, it may not be as convenient as a GUI-based IDE for some of us.

Or am I missing something here? I really love(d) atom.io, but I need to find something else... (https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/)
Spam calls are not the reason it is bad to give your number out; it isn’t related to calls at all.

Your number is your permanent cross-app, cross-company tracking identifier. It is a lookup key for your name, address, income bracket, email, spam history, etc.

This is why so many apps require it during signup.
Also, the facial animations are so limited in expressiveness it makes it look like he's suffering from blunted affect.
It's whiplash how Meta VR is putting out demos that look 20 years old, while Meta AI is putting out demos that look like they're from the future.

https://makeavideo.studio
> you wind up with a better, more productive company when you put forth the considerable effort necessary to increase diversity

Diversity, as everything else, has a sweet spot. Too little and too much are equally bad. Of course nobody knows where the sweet spot is, but merely increasing diversity is not a guarantee for improvement. I mean, you can hire someone who hates your gut and doesn't speak your language. This will definitely increase the diversity, but you probably not going to like it.

> will also explain that trying to increase diversity in the workplace is terrible. It’s almost like there’s something else going on there.

I think most of those folks just despise hypocrisy. "Being anti-racist by being racist" makes me cringe.

If you're making a diversity hire to get alternative viewpoints, you're doing it for your own benefit and being honest, I don't think anybody will have problem with that. It's the virtue signaling that makes it despicable.

There's also argument to be made that if you're allowing diversity hires, you might have to allow "cohesion" hires. Justifying one but not the other seems disingenuous.
You could set up a Tor bridge with an obfs4 pluggable transport. That works even in China, because it resists DPI and probing. Does your VPN protocol resist probing? If not, that may be how they are blocking it. Also if the government goes hard enough on manually requesting Tor bridges, you will have to distribute bridges yourself (which you seem to already be doing with VPN server addresses).
This is google, they for sure aren’t releasing the weights
A couple thoughts here. First, politics is inherently divisive. Just like facebook figured out that divisiveness drives engagement and so have politicians. The craziest voices end up most amplified as everyone who opposes them loudly shouts about how crazy the other side is. Just like I don't believe there is widespread support for book banning on the right I don't see the support for SF style school boards. If you want to know what dems actaully support just listen to a biden speech on education or better yet read the platform here https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/providin.... You'll notice that the main focus regarding race is funding for bussing programs and other methods of integrating schools, and that the focus is on income more than race. The republicans decided not to publish a platform in 2022 for whatever reason but they gave us this to explain themselves https://ballotpedia.org/The_Republican_Party_Platform,_2020. I will say that recent laws in Florida have been concerning, but obviously the same is true for SF, and I blame presidential posturing more than ideology for the Florida stuff.

I realize it can be difficult to separate the rhetoric from the actual bills and laws being passed, but it is extremely important to do so, and to call out troublesome ones no matter where they come from. I think taking pundits with a grain of salt is about as much as we can do as individuals, but it sure would be nice to figure out a way to better inform people(on both sides) of facts, because more and more I just see people parroting their talking points past each other instead of steelmanning. Because if we forget about the pundits we end up with stuff like common core. Common sense rules that can make everyone better off aren't what pundits are selling, their incentives aren't properly aligned unfortunately.
There was also this whole D1 vs D2 where some of us (I was involved with Tango) though D1 more of as a 'better C' (not related to actual better C) and D2 more of as a better C++. Personally, I was more interested in D1 direction. D took the D2 route with Alexandrescu onboard at a time. The whole thing then was also lacking support. Even if D was a better language (D1 was, I guess D2 might be as well - haven't dabbled in a decade with it), you had to do everything from scratch. No libraries, abandoned bindings, etc.. instead of doing work with it, you had to do the plumbing first. That's true for most niche languages. Rust was like that as well, but not seems to have a momentum going on for it and is growing / has grown out of that phase D never did. D has been around now what, 15-20 years? How sweet would it be for someone of Walter's caliber to join the ranks of Rust team? Dude is incredible, but D seems to be a dead end ultimately. Sorry to sound so harsh, but it didn't happen on a scale it needs, why would it now or ever?
One minor but interesting exception - farmers have historically often put domestic water tanks on top of towers to ensure even water pressure. Direct pumping leads to cycles where the pressure in the system rises and falls as the pump cycles on and off, which is very unpleasant if you’re trying to take a shower!

I believe modern off-grid home water pumps use more sophisticated motor control to avoid the need for the raised tank.
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2022/demo/income-poverty/...

You may be thinking of poverty rates or proportional percentages if you think the above is untrue. The data is there for you to manipulate for your purposes as you wish, though.
It's extremely common beyond the new grad / junior level, from my experience.
sounds like a great way for folks that utilize a simple curl your site to see if things are working right to get on the block list lol
meh only sorta. like, yeah oil is obviously a big deal because it's a valuable resource. but like if something is a huge part of the state's economy and a ton of jobs is working to keep that industry healthy/growing really "being run by it" or is it just good policy?

the good thing is we're stealing all those nice cali tech jobs so it won't be true forever ;)
There actually are plenty of cartoons and shows with female role models in positions where they have to overcome something big, much of which became more prominent since the 2000s. Specifically older shoujo anime feature female characters with arcs spanning more than a few episodes, akin to what most shounen anime is like. Even female characters in shounen tend to go through those arcs.

The whole girlboss thing isn't that omnipresent, though there are still some leftovers of the whole Disney princess "just be as you are and it will be fine" era.
> They often have other side hustles and pursuits, and don't want to spend 100% of their working time for Uber or DoorDash.

I've always been under the impression that one could have multiple W-2 jobs that don't have to be classified as full-time. Also I read all the time on HN about side hustles developed by folks with full-time jobs. Heck I can even recall some folks gaming the system with two full time SWE jobs at the same time. Does the proposed legislation seek to enforce some kind of single-employer condition?

> This isn't some grassroots effort, this is being pushed by politicians and union organizers (more members = more $$).

I won't argue with your premise because I can't think of any federal legislation that reflects grassroots desires (even if advocacy/lobbying started at that level). However, in my experiences with gig drivers, there are two types: (1) those who are trying to make some extra cash on the side, but would be okay if they didn't drive, and (2) those who are driving whenever/however needed to make ends meet. I wonder what other types are out there, and how all the types are distributed amongst gig drivers.

But I think it's the second group that makes Lyft/Uber work. I just don't see a fleet of flexible, entrepreneurial gig drivers being able to meet the 100s or 1000s of edge cases that must be met in order for ride sharing companies to maintain their value proposition to customers in various markets. These companies know who these non-stop gig workers are, and might not be in the current situation if they'd taken earlier steps to offer them FT employment with benefits.
I like FancyZones too, but it's all mouse-based.

You can't even bind a shortcut to send a window to a specific zone.
I don't know what metaverse is, but I feel a lot more comfortable just playing a game like ESO and hanging out with people dancing and sitting in chairs near me. /sitchair
AR is where the future is. VR is a major stepping stone. He is being paid obscene amounts of money to work on things he finds is cool.

So of course he's not going to trash talk it.

> But I thought they weren't interested in the whole thing because of the 'Meta is dying' narrative? [0]

I am happy to listen to a smart person who is very clever talk about things I'm interested in, even if I disagree with them on key points.
> This is the sex-ed argument all over again. If we don't mention underage sex, it doesn't exist. Talking about gay people doesn't turn someone gay.

Democrats nicknamed it the "don't say gay" bill but that isn't its name, its goal, or its outcome. It's about the age appropriateness of the introduction to the topic.

The issue, to the parents who campaigned for the bill and the politicians who passed it, is gender. Unlike homosexuality (LGB), talking about gender does turn people transgender - or rather has the school hook the child up with hormones and body modification without the parent's knowledge.

Just fyi, about the news renaming and reframing things before you hear about them, Florida republicans protected women's sex-based rights by making male-bodied people play sports on men's teams and the news called it "denying transgirls their human rights to play sports".

> [To WonderWonder] Did you feel shame? If I was told that, and didn't feel shame, not sure I would have dwelled on it so much.

WonderWonder is thinking of their children, and how they'll be told they're racist - and to sit in their shame - just because of their race. That's a pretty regressive outcome so I understand them wanting to avoid it.
>> Parent comment literally said "D&I should be rejected outright"

> Nope, they didn't. A direct quote: "If D&I is operating at the wrong end of the pipe, it should be rejected outright because it won't work".

Yeah, it's also worth noting that "rejected outright" is actually omegaworks's own language, which he is now taking issue with. I was only echoing it back to emphasize a point in his own terms.

Also, I suspect there's some sloppiness with definitions going on here. When I was using "D&I," I was referring specifically to kinds of corporate hiring polices the OP was talking about and this thread is discussing. I suspect omegaworks may be interpreting the term more broadly at times.
If you don't have an open position why are you wasting your teams time by soliciting and reviewing them. Do you and your team not have better things to do? If you do actually need or desire another "diamond", why not actively recruit?
portfolio projects are the best

for designers it could be dribbble stuff

for devs it could be github stuff

everyone can write things on a resume but i want something more tactile, more tangible, more itneractive. something that communicates your pursuit of your curiosity.
But how often do you have exclusively remote collaboration?

I’m sure for many people that is common. It’s not for me. Normally I’m talking with a few people remote in zoom and the rest of the team on site in a conference room.

For remote exclusive groups, this makes sense.

But does it make sense for businesses to buy this for all of their employees — if they have a hybrid workforce? I would expect most employers will or are shifting towards a hybrid setup.

How many remote-only employers are there? Is it enough of a market to make this more than a gimmick?

I get VR for personal use. I get it for one-to-one communication. But I’m skeptical for business communication.
Makes sense, I'm pretty sure that's where the majority of their US car manufacturing is located.
This is correct.

A couple hairs to split: I wouldn't say more "prone to risk", I'd say they have different risk preferences. It's not like one or the other attitude towards risk is better or worse, they're just more or less adaptive given a certain environment.

I also wouldn't say men are disposable, as the story you tell at the group level is weak selection compared to at the individual level, but the gist is correct. Another way to look at it is: it's possible for males to win the genetic lottery, but impossible for females. The most reproductively successful men have had thousands of children, but women are limited to ~13 max. The upshot is that men have evolved to prefer risk more than women because the ceiling on payoffs is very high (i.e., you could get really rich, have lots of kids, multiple wives, tons of cattle), but for women the benefits of those huge lottery-winnings payoffs are much smaller in comparison to the costs (because you can only have 13 kids, and only slowly).

In my head, this is the explanation for ~80% of the differences in behavior by sex.
Not only that, in a sense it's true that serpent helped "creating" us, al least our visual system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory
Why even have the video? The lips aren't in sync, the movement stutters. Its horrible to watch.
expat, sigh. openssl, sigh again.
You're missing the point. They are saying Houston having lower housing prices is not an indicator that Houston is "doing something right."
Meta can announce whatever they like. Does it really matter at this point? I believe the public has spoken. Try again, Mr. Zuckerberg.
Not sure why this is downvoted.

The kids of today were implicitly groomed for virtual reality by way of 1.5+ years of Zoom-based educations, where they were already communicating as talking torsos displayed on a screen.

This is the same generation who is also being subconsciously prepared for greater state-sanctioned surveillance by way of their parents affixing AirTags to themselves and their belongings.

It’s not about what you catch in the wash…but what you catch in the rinse.
yep philippines. i guess agree to disagree, i think people should absolutely be able to trivially circumvent financial fraud regulations because preventing them from doing so removes their ability to transact privately. similarly for guns i don't trust the state to know who owns what, like e.g. i want to make sure they don't know who has an AR-15 or standard-capacity mag so they can't actually enforce against existing guns if they pass a feature ban.

just principally i'm opposed to putting additional requirements on how ordinary people operate because a tiny minority might do something wrong. and something about requiring an entity to retain information for potential seizure by the government just rubs my sense of due process the wrong way i guess.
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It will be a lot cheaper and moral to help Ukraine now rather than when WW3 starts because Putin feels empowered because the West looked the other way while Putin genocided a nation and a culture.
Synology deploys it in their products