skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That looks like a really cool game :D. Carmack mentions a couple of things that might explain the difference in graphics at 20min.

TLDW: Horizons is optimized for UGC and being dynamic. Horizons stuff isn't built in modelling tools by professional modellers.
>Why not? Simple: I don't trust Meta.

Absolutely correct. There’s a meme going around saying “Meta” is short for “metastasize”
Didn't they already to try to copy linkedin once? I forget which string of names it was under. Something work face business link book ish.
>Which gives them superpowers in understanding tech/algorithms...

does it?
>the business of pronouns and stuff, and regardless of the merit of that sort of
>thing, it's not anywhere near the top of causes people expect their hospital
>donations to go to

If I received a complaint along these lines, I would earnestly explain that we are looking into an electron recycling initiative to compensate for the extra letters in email signatures.
And if someone finds a match but doesn't inform the site you lose out, no? I expect a lot of people to be dishonest if it means getting a bunch of money back.
Would love to pay a premium for having V2H functionality for my next car, but most manufacturers don't support it yet, and the utilities don't easily either. It would save me from buying an additional battery which in addition to the high cost will take up more space inside the house and is also a fire risk.
This is pretty out of date (I remember when they first released it). The org chart stuff is wrong, in the last few years (around the time of Alyx) they moved to a more normal corporate structure so they would actually finish projects instead of people bouncing when the project got hard.
fascinating: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:%5Egith... implies it's "Wireguard over TLS" which unfortunately seems to have existing precedent: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=wireguard+tls&ia=web

Anyway, it sure is misleading to say "We designed our Stealth protocol from the ground up to not have these issues." when it appears to be standing on the shoulders of Wireguard. I'm glad they didn't roll their on VPN protocol quite literally from scratch, because "don't roll your own crypto," but this messaging could do with some clarity (and a less SEO opaque name, IMHO)
The cognitive ability required to be an RN is nowhere near that required for programming, degree or no.
Anyone have a link to a recording that has speed control?
Old news from 2016

Jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon, easy to pronounce and common names are the most likely to get to the interview stage compared to candidates with unfamiliar names, according to research by the Australian National University published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/unusual-nam...
It's a hard fight to fight, certainly, but a common tactic I've employed to counter this is "Web standards exist for a reason and we don't want our website called out for being inaccessible to the blind community. Additionally - these standards have been revised and refined over decades and I don't feel comfortable subverting some of these rules without considering them all - it may break our compatibility with some browsers."
The Vive is just as good as the Oculus (VR games with a decent gaming PC hooked up is a much better experience than the all in one stuff that's running on mobile hardware).

I'd also look out for the PSVR 2 when that releases - just as walled garden as Oculus but it's not Facebook.
> This reminds me a lot of the Earthship community … I was always wondering why … there are no water storages on the roof.

All the standard Earthship designs I've studied do store their water on the roof, but they use batteries instead of water pumping to store unused electricity, because to run a conventional house's electrical systems at night you need to store tens of megajoules, and lifting water three meters only stores 0.029 MJ per cubic meter. A cubic meter of water weighs a tonne. So you'd need hundreds of tonnes of water to store the requisite amount of energy that way.

A 12-volt 24-amp-hour deep-cycle lead-acid battery goes for US$61 at retail, and that's nominally a megajoule; it replaces 33 tonnes of water at 3 meters of head, you can pick it up in one hand, and it doesn't require an electromechanical pump/turbine to convert the energy into a useful form. And if it shorts out, though it might cause a fire in your electrical room, it won't flood your house.

If you're building on a plain, you either need to support your upper water tank with earthworks (say, 2 tonnes per cubic meter of earth) or dig out a hole for a lower water tank for water to flow down into (also 2 tonnes per cubic meter of earth). If we want to store 700 cubic meters of water in a 2-meter-deep water tank whose bottom is 3 meters above grade, we need to pile up 2100 tonnes of dirt covering a water-tank-holding area of 350 m², a tank area with minimally a diameter of 21 meters. And you need a similarly sized tank down at grade level for it to drain into. You can cut this in half by putting the downhill tank in the hole you dug to get all that dirt, but it's still over a thousand tonnes of dirt. Aside from the 1400 square meters of water tank top and bottom surfaces, this would increase the earthmoving effort involved in building an Earthship by over an order of magnitude.

Then you need to pump the 700 tonnes of water out of a well, because that's four years' worth of rainfall on the area covered by your giant water tanks (assuming 250 mm rainfall per year). This is a feasible thing to do, and it's less water use than what cattle ranchers evaporate from their windmill-fed water tanks, but it would probably clash with the sensibilities of many Earthship types.

Alternatively you can put 20 deep-cycle batteries on shelves in a closet-sized concrete room. So that's what they do.

If your Earthship is situated at the foot of a 100-meter-tall mesa, the situation changes, because now you can store a megajoule per tonne of water. So you could use more reasonably sized tanks, like, 20 tonnes. But Earthships are mostly not designed for that situation, because it's rare.
I remember reading through this 8-10 years ago, I don’t think it’s meant to be internal only. Probably helps attract the type of people that would enjoy that working environment.
Except it doesn't seem to mean that (at least not anymore). Hence the exasperated comments you are reading on this very thread.

All people (including whites and heterosexual males) can be the targets of negative discrimination. No one wants to see themselves or their kids be intentionally disadvantaged based solely on the colour of their skin or their sexuality. Any attempt to create ANY exception to this rule is disingenuous and does nothing but further damage the very thing you claim to be trying to resolve.
Copyright 2012.

I wonder where Valve stands on WFH.
Yes, I understand the point you're making that sufficiently audited C code is as safe as Rust. No, it isn't. Where that sufficiently-audited C code is feasible to replace, it will all be replaced. Browsers may take a decade or two, but C/C++-language NTP servers had better head for the bunkers and hope for some global cataclysm to halt all progress in the industry.
If it was supposed to be confidential, it's been discussed on here ever since it was written: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463
This needs a solid [2012] in front of it
> VR is going to be where almost everyone spends almost all their time

I believe that (current, conventional) VR will always be a niche that only sees widespread use when conventional AR headsets can deliver VR experiences

>There was a time when humans lived in the wild, and nobody knew any different, and any talk about living in cities would have been met with derision.

Cities have been an integral part of the human experience pretty much immediately after a society got farming down, and switched away from the hunter gatherer model.

>it's not even that many years away.

> I'm talking about a version of VR where it literally feels real.

This is transhumanism. We are so incredibly far away from being able to do high-precision prosthetic limbs, a fundamental baseline for understanding human/animal i/o signals. The state of the art for ocular nerves is something like 32x32 4bit grayscale - and that's not even being shipped as a product! Evenfollowing a pace of technological development that exceeds conventional televisions (a much simpler technology, that doesn't require surgery to install), you can expect to have full color and high dpi visual prosthetics in the 2040s - at the very earliest.

The timeframe for delivering this a transhumanistic experience is, in my opinion, so far down the line that talking about it in anything but the abstract doesn't contribute at all to the current discussion about AR vs VR.

> A really good VR world solves basically every pain point of the physical world.

This is not a really good VR world. This is a transhumanistic future that requires decades more research. I actually personally believe we'll get there as a species, and I'll be lucky if it's towards the end of my lifetime.

What you're describing is not "virtual reality" in the conventionally agreed upon sense, but rather something called "transhumanism".
There are multiple different default layouts and you can even define your own custom layouts[1] and set rules on when to activate them[2].

In any layout, you can always use the `komorebic.exe move <OPERATION_DIRECTION>` command to place a window in the desired tile to achieve the desired size.

[1] https://lgug2z.github.io/komorebi-custom-layout-generator/

[2] https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/#dynamically-changing-lay...
Have you tried https://jmp.chat ?
Are these the same Houston suburbs that were built inside of flood reservoirs?
That expectation goes against human nature. Although I too wish it was true.
There is evidence that it provides some benefits, but I’m not aware of any research indicating why that is. The best guess is that certain microbes confer benefits, but I don’t believe they’re exclusive to kefir and the mechanism is unknown.

If it’s milk kefir, I’d say that there’s a wealth of research showing that dairy isn’t particularly beneficial to your health and my gut feeling is that you could replace milk kefir with other foods which are known to be health-promoting as well as flora-promoting and you’d be in a better place.

I’d also guess that sugar-free kefir would be ideal if you did decide to use it. Sugar seems like it quickly becomes harmful to gut flora and its diversity, so limiting it would be well aligned with the intent of building up better flora.

Overall it’s one of those things where you can ask: is it replacing something worse? i.e are you drinking kombucha which has very weak evidence of benefit, but some evidence of harm? Then it appears kefir is a good decision.

However, you can also ask if something better could take kefir’s place? This is a very individual thing. For some, they might be replacing Coca Cola with fruit juice, and if that’s the best they can manage than that’s fine - it’s still better.

If in your case it’s replacing milk with milk kefir, that’s also better. On the other hand, if you could replace milk with eating more greens for minerals, avocado for fat, and a blend of whole grains and legumes for protein, I suspect your baseline of health would increase and your gut flora would benefit more than from the kefir alone.

It’s all about “could I do something better?” because there are no silver bullets. Kefir, when added to a poor diet, will probably not provide a fraction of the benefit that simply improving the overall diet could.
If they actually spent as much time as they claim hiring great people, you'd think a few of them would actually stick around on a project long enough to ship it.
He has been, and continues to be, a huge jackass. You're just seeing his true form.
I actually stopped watching TV because of a series of insights I discovered via HN.

https://adam.nz/2001/zen-tv-experiment/

I don't agree with everything written in that essay and reject the Zen aspect but it was definitely a life-changing moment for me.
This might be the most honest comment over ever read on THN. Thanks for posting it.
Ok... double the space allocated to the cities and you're still at about 1/3 of the greater Huston area.

Pave every single square foot of the nine counties that make up the Bay Area including Marin, Sonoma, and Napa... and you're still 3,000 square miles short of the greater Huston area.
These devices weren't designed to stream video, end of story.
This is what motivates people to seek out other people.
And some of those times, the parent still navigates so you get duplicate tabs. Ugh!
I've seen exactly the same dynamic happen in hierarchical organizations—the hierarchy and bureaucracy might have ameliorated some of the pathologies, but it just as easily magnified others while also bringing in its own. It definitely made the core organization more legible but that isn't healthy in and of itself and has some steep costs both in direct overhead and, worse yet, in decreasing the organization's flexibility and adaptability.
But isn’t it a discrimination towards men too when companies hire men for low paying and hard or dangerous jobs presumably that they’ll do it better?

EEOC says “33 qualified women” but did they check how they would perform after a week, a month, a year. Just how they exactly understood that they are qualified?

There is no answer to the root question “why?”. Why it’s a male only position? Did they hired before and had a bad experience? Is just easier for them so that males feel more comfortable connecting? There is no clear dialog about it maybe it’s in the lawsuit but not there.

I see nothing bad in terms of “male only” or “female only” in terms of business. Because why they have to hide it? It’s honest and people don’t have to lose time applying for it because they are not meeting a requirement for that specific company. If I’m a “female only” company and hiring only females because I believe that they are better than men for me and my company then it’s fine but at the same time if I’m a “male only” company it’s they can put a lot of labels on you for that.
This is a very good point that often gets overlooked. Empty lots in desirable inner loop Houston neighborhoods cost $1M. That's not really any different from Austin.
If you want a review to be truly double blind, you have to start censoring the paper -- things like "in previous work [1-10] we showed..." makes it obvious who the authors are even if you remove the names from the top of the paper.
> 3% more/less likely is a tiny effect. What is the power of this result? Isn't there always noise in this type of thing?

A result does not have "power". An experiment has power -- the ability to detect a a given effect size a certain percentage of the time -- but a result is either statistically significant, or it is not.

As for "noise", statistical significance takes random noise into account. That is the point of the calculation -- it asks if a given result exceeds the threshold of what you'd expect to find at random some percentage of the time. If it does, the result is deemed significant.

A 3% difference could be enormous, or it could be miniscule. We can't say anything based on this information alone, and certainly can't say it's "likely a tiny effect". On a sample of thousands, a 3% difference is big. On a sample of tens, a 3% difference is small.
The data in a paper can be objectively measured, the methodology used to conduct a study - like sample size, cohort composition, cohort groups chosen for comparison - could go both ways, the conclusions drawn are often subjective. If two of the three component parts of a paper are arguably subjective, not surprising that Nobel Prize winners get a pass on the quality of their papers.
A single person can be diverse relative to a group, though. Like a black woman would add diversity to a group of white men, for instance. When we talk about diversity in recruiting, usually we mean diversity of the candidate relative to the makeup of the company.
Then they have 70 minutes to recover. It never happens, though.
Clicked through. First thing that I read was "Starting at A$2,449.99". Closed the tab.

First/only impression: expensive toy for rich people.
What is the “intersectionality” hypothesis? I felt intersectionality was a concept so obvious, that intersecting identities create unique experiences that might not be shared by other members of the constituent identities, as to be unremarkable.

The example frequently given is the proverbial workplace that in order to hire enough black people and women, hires many black men on the factory floor and white women in the offices while black women don’t get hired and despite this people declare that equity has been accomplished. People paid attention to women’s issues and black issues, but not the INTERSECTION of those issues.

My criticism is that intersectionality is that it’s
blindingly obvious and there is limited value in literally deviding up identity groups into an exponentially expanding amount of subgroups. Once you start exploring the intersection of 3 identities you’ve already kind of lost the plot and may as well start talking about issues on the personal/individual level.

I have no idea what people THINK intersectionality means. I think people who know what that word means keep using it without explaining it and people get really confused and think it’s just a general term for woke ideology and never stop to think what the “intersection” they’re referring to is.
> I think it's much more a facet of limited performance (as mentioned in the talk itself) on these platforms rather than anything else.

VRChat avatars have personality. On hardware now 6 years old.

People are reacting to the lack of personality, not the lack of immersion.
Peterson's advice isn't undisputable, absolute basics. There is no shortage of parenting advice, much of it specific to their own kids and not backed by reproducible research.

Obviously some parents are undeniably negligent, but let's take care not to blame them as a homogenous cohort.
I agree. I wish the thread had stopped two or three tweets in. The random right-wing "culture war" ramblings are not cool and they detract from the important message that Wikipedia has solved the problem it was aiming to solve and is now hopelessly lost as an organization.
That's a quite fair point, but as a counter point in most business cases you do want specific views (even specific searches and user applied filters) to be addressable - it's one reason why I think the history/location API is such a necessity for SPAs. And if you do have an address like example.com/#widget/view?hideWhitespace=false then you can bind your link href to that address and then, if the link is engaged without modification, do your fancy SPA stuff.

I also think in the modern world that as long as your assets are all properly versioned with good cache control headers using actually web requests for navigation instead of a self-contained SPA makes a lot less sense. Once upon a time an SPA was a solution to shifty internet, limited bandwidth and rich web experiences - those arguments have become a lot less valid in the modern world.

(this is a topic extremely near and dear to my heart as a (eh-sorta) full stack developer that needs to suffer through many poorly built applications as a user)
Refugees are pretty much the only category that doesn't have some kind of wealth filter, if only because immigration paperwork costs a fair bit of money (esp. when you look at it from the perspective of someone in a country where cost of living is much lower than in US).

And the majority of immigrants in US aren't refugees.
Previous discussions over the years since its original release in 2012:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463 (April 21, 2012, 168 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818893 (Dec 31, 2014, 17 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250527 (March 23, 2015, 14 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12157993 (July 25, 2016, 198 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17935030 (Sept 7, 2018, 31 comments)
Not surprised to see this unanswered.
Propositionally true but misleading.

Ads are only in the store, not the OS in general.

Your eyes are part of your head, and your head is part of your body.

You have eyes in your head, and not in the rest of your body.

We don’t say you have eyes in your body, even though you can make the logical case for this truth, because it would be misleading in the same way.
This doc looks pretty old. The timeline ends in 2012. I'd be they were mostly hardwired connections and just mapped network login events, DHCP records, and physical port maps. You could probably do the same now with WiFi records.
Species are somewhat arbitrary, basically at the time of species categorization was it common to think reproduction within this fuzzy group was more common than in some other proposed categorization, or something like that. Probably even less effort was put into it than that in some cases, some people just want to name a "species", no matter how dubious it is. Your definition must not say various sub-Saharan African groups are different species, despite their genetic diversity, or for that matter that there are more than one currently existent Human species, otherwise quite a few people will get mad.
> the current wokesters are the grandchildren of klan members

uh, what?
The Steam Deck is quite excellent. And it just shipped.

Though I would love to see a game come out of there again sometime. :)
You do not have to censor: you simply refer to yourselves in the third person to make your shared identity plausibly deniable. A work that is worthy of being of publication should largely be able to stand on its own anyway. This may have the effect of reducing minimum publishable unit (MPU) CV spam papers as a bonus.
I own a htc vive original which I don’t really use anymore. And I think the idea is still solid, it’s just the current products are too cumbersome, expensive, and limited.

I really enjoyed Pavlov VR. A Vr shooter sort of like counterstrike combined with Garry’s mod. But I was not able to be even semi competitive with how blurry the screen is and how jittery the hand tracking is.

I could shell out thousands for the valve index if it’s even in stock, but I’m just waiting for someone to release something that doesn’t have a bunch of cables, lighthouses, etc. and doesn’t come with Facebook lockin
Draw a radius outside of Boston/Cambridge for an hour drive (not in rush hour traffic--where many of the jobs are anyway) and there are many housing prices that are pretty reasonable. Not depressed ex-steel city in the Midwest reasonable but $300K for a single family home reasonable. And this gets into pretty rural areas without a lot of regulations. Of course, many especially closer in towns are much more regulated.
It might happen unconsciously. But in my experience it's not that easy for a reviewer to consciously use writing cues for anything useful.

Sometimes it seems very obvious that a given paper is by specific authors (either because of style, or because of how familiar it is with their previous work) but I've had many experiences where I later learned that my supposition was completely wrong. Similarly, when you encounter a paper that doesn't have any obvious cues (which is the overwhelming majority of them) then it's pretty much impossible to tell whether it's an author you admire or someone you've never heard of -- and this is a good thing.

Some conferences don't use blind submissions, and yes: I have felt an awful lot of influence there. "Surely [famous Turing-award winning authors] don't need me to double-check their proof."
Making plant beverages requires a lot of science: Plant milk
Large low density objects are more susceptible to the wind.

A large enough airship could overcome it, but this is a surface area to weight issue.
Book: Refactor Like a Superhero