skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good racket if you can pull it off. Start some kind of "disruptive" company, raise a shitload of money off being 6 foot 4, hire 1,000 people to "disrupt" shit (they don't even have a banking charter!), cash out tens of millions of dollars at the Series D, write a tearful mea culpa when it all falls apart, buy the estate in Hillsborough and the Bentley Continental and try it again in five years.
I'm not sure that's the solution. The 2020 election cycle saw political figures casting doubt on paper mail-in ballots.
I think many people. Everyone knows. Not everyone is mindful.
So even longer! I was under the impression, for whatever reason, that it happened in the 90's. Looks like 50 years would have been closer to the mark.
Anyone want a Bananaphone? I tried to use it for a while, but AT&T shut down their 3G calling network and it doesn't have the radio for VoLTE, and AT&T isn't doing 4G calling - they jumped straight from 3G to VoLTE. It also doesn't do MMS for group texting. I'm easy enough to find, I can toss the thing in a box. On the plus side, I got a Flip IV out of it. I ran with it for a year or so before the keyboard got so bad I gave up - when you can't dial a phone number without having to correct multi-presses and such, texting is damned near impossible.
I miss google wave. I don't have any good reasons for missing it. A couple of friends of mine and I had one of the largest public waves and added all these extras where it would crash most people's browsers. Shit was dope.
I think you are overestimating how much reviewers care which grad student wrote which paper, or who their advisor is.

Reviewers are generally overworked (for other reasons), and the main goal is to be constructive and somehow not sound like an idiot (in front of the other reviewers, who might be subject experts and definitely know who you are!) in any of the pile of reviews you need to write after reading a pile of papers.

Also, reviewers declare conflicts ahead of paper assignments, which makes accidents less frequent.
I encourage everyone to peruse Valve's Glassdoor page.

I think the ideals are noble and clever, but the results may not bear out as well as they did at the peak of success.
Thanks iPad
Pretty good article that explains the facets. I feel like the article undersells Houston zoning a bit though. You still see far more bizarre stuff in Houston than you would see in other places. The article makes the point that you don’t see churches next to brothels, which is a pretty extreme example, but you definitely do see some stuff you would not see in other cities: residential lands abutting churches on one side and industrial locations on the other with some retail location right behind. It’s a bit of a crapshoot in a lot of places and even if it’s not when you move in it could be later.

Decades ago my aunt and uncle moved into what was at the time a pretty rural neighborhood in northwest Houston with only residents around but years later a church bought the property adjacent to their land and Sundays and Wednesdays moving forward there were noise and parking related issues.
For the record, you can purchase corrective lenses that fit over the ones on the headset. I have a pair and they’re great, the only downside being that any new prescription you get needs to be updated on your VR headset too…
The modern web us utterly broken in this sense and the culprit is SPAs. At this point it seems like the road has no return as the new generations of devs will have no idea how the web of even 10 years ago was behaving. Maybe it’ll all come down under it’s own weight one day.
Russia got chips despite previous export restrictions. The entire global industry is going to have to go through some reorganization if big countries want to get serious about export controls.
I don't think those avatars have enough human likeness to really trigger the uncanny valley effect.

I think it is weird for a different reason: it looks like 1990s tech - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds
It's unlikely that we would include that in core lite-xl due to size and complexity, but we aim to have an extremely robust plugin system (all current syntax definitions come from plugins).

It is totally possible to integrate an lpeg and scintilla plugin which could drop in replace the existing syntax support.

We already have a community member doing this, but with TreeSitter, though I'm not sure where that effort is at, at the moment.
You trust science because it has the highest probability of being accurate. What's the alternative? Most people aren't capable of analysis scietific research to see if it's correct.

What makes something political? If new research shows that X product is dangerous and republicans, who that company donates to, come out and disagree with the research they just made it political. Now, someone like you, can just say "This research is political"

You've created a way to dismiss scientific research simply by disagreeing with it
“Should” questions rarely matter in practice.

They are, and they probably won’t be stopped, so each of us at the individual level have to decide if we are okay with it and what additional action to take to protect ourselves, if necessary.
-betterC is the way to go for embedded. Checkout this blog as well: https://dlang.org/blog/2021/06/01/driving-with-d/
Allowing elected officials to control the money supply is a bit like allowing children the decision to determine how much candy they can eat. These are people who have shown time and again willingness to take short term gains that come with long term expenses because of the fact that ultimately it'll be their successor's problem (who often is a member of the other party anyway). The whole point of the Fed is to attempt to have an adult in the room that can decide it's time to put the bag of candy back in the cabinet, or bring it out when it's use as a motivator is helpful in ramping up an otherwise sluggish economy.

At the end of the day, the premise that infinitely growing debt isn't the end of the world is probably sound, provided that its rate of growth is kept in check. Avoiding a situation where the money supply goes exponential is crucial. Unfortunately... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL looks a lot like some charts I remember from 8th grade algebra. That we likely just need to fix the trajectory rather than actually bring down the money supply should offer some solace, but those used to the sugar high of the last decade or so are likely in for a rude awakening over the next few years -- and whether that awakening is enough to rip apart civil society may ultimately be something that remains to be seen.
The two richest men in the world make an arrangement. I predict Elon will find financing now, twitter will greenlight the next President, leave NATO and we will return to The Ukraine.
First of all, Knuth would never publish something "garbage" because his reputation would be on the line for everyone to read (forever).
In what world is a daft attempt to psychoanalyze your interlocutor not ad hominem?

My comment was snarky but not remotely playing the man. I meant it quite literally as a criticism of the thinking at issue. Economistic thought is riddled with confusion, and being surprised that scientists don't behave normatively (ie. not as those engaged in peer review are "supposed to") exhibits perfectly one variant of said confusion.

I'm not 'astonished' that non-blinded peer reviewers are influenced by social status. No-one I know would be surprised at all, let alone 'astonished'.
You can hire devs for any $LANG ... just pay more, be a good place to work, and train people.
Yeah, fair enough. I didn't think about starting it off with my own. I should have, good point.
I have had lots of great experiences in VR.

I used to be a 3d modeler, so I've found sculpting and painting in VR to be excellent. Tilt Brush, SculptVR, Gravity Sketch, Medium. To scale up what you're working on, sculpt out a building while truly feeling like you're inside it. It's great.

Then there's gaming experiences. The first game I tried was Vader Immortal. It was a surreal experience, by far the most immersive gaming experience I've had. It sounds insane, but the first time you encounter Darth Vader, it actually made me realize for the first time that this is a terrifying person in front of me. It was the first time I didn't think of him as a cartoonish villain, but an actual hulking presence.

Then I tried SkyrimVR. At first I was unimpressed, as I was playing a melee character. Swinging weapons that are meant to be heavy and attack with respect to their weight felt extremely silly when I could just wiggle them around as fast as I wanted. But then I tried bow and arrow, and the game did a complete 180. I became fully immersed and played all the way through. It was indescribable the degree to which I inhabited this world for about a month, in no way comparable to my previous playthrough a decade ago in PC.

Then there's Beatsaber. Best cardio I've gotten in years. It doesn't feel like exercise because it's genuinely fun and extremely hard, and you come out drenched in sweat.

The horror experiences, like with Resident Evil 7, absolutely terrifying. There is no genre more enhanced than horror.

And finally, the gimmicks. I brought VR to a few family events where kids and adults alike were trying the gimmick games. We cast the screen to the TV so everyone could watch, and they proceeded to try Richie's Plank Experience. Again, it's gimmicky, it's not meant to be lasting fun, but it was a great introduction for everyone, and they loved it. Watching adult men crawling on the floor out on a virtual plank.
Even with double blind reviews, it’s often very clear who wrote the paper.

Authors regularly cite work by themselves or their team, so a statement like “In a previous study[1] we established a relationship between X and Y” renders double blind pointless.
> I really can’t understand why there’s so much time and resources being put into re-inventing virtual meetings.

Because Meta needs to find new revenue streams.
Facebook had their chance. They failed. Call yourselves whatever you want. Buy other people work and improve it as much as you want.

"We will never sell ads."
Then sold ads.

Nope. We already had a generational curb stomping by Microsoft.
No more Zuckerberg.
Is it a sign of neuroatypicality if I find faces just generally distracting and useless in meetings? IMO there are more than enough non-verbal cues in voice and real-time conversation flow like response speed.

(Plus people have way too much control over body language and facial expression for it to be useful in work setting)
The exploitation, radon, and toxic sludge in the drinking water is one of many sufficient reasons to not go with nuclear (providing copper, niobium and silver mining for PV and wind is less bad which I understand it to be about an order of magnitude better with current tech), but it's important to keep perspective when talking about GHG and criticise based on things that are true.

Using your numbers and 3000t of uranium per year at 3.5% burnup you get about 2g of CO2 per exported kWh of Uranium. This is well into 'completely fine' territory and depending on enrichment is cosistent with nuclear lobby claims about being lower emissions than wind.

Lower yield uranium mines are worse, and this is a concern if nuclear energy is increased.
Looks cool, but...how would anyone working with proprietary info be allowed to use this?
Ask HN: How are you, a dev/programmer, preparing for climate change?
How are you preparing mentally, financially and otherwise? How are you dealing with the anxiety of ever increasing news about the likely negative events?
HN isn't a journal and so academic sources of evidence really are overkill. However, I'll throw you a bone. Go to your favorite major journal and start looking at the "conflicts of interest" and "grants" section.

Once you take money from someone (except for NIST, in my experience) you're basically beholden to try your hardest to get the results they're looking for. Some scientists are moral enough to still return bad results. A lot of scientists aren't. There's a lot of garbage out there, and the worse the journal, the more garbage it gets. Famously, Phillip Morris studies "passed" the scrutiny of several major journals. It's amazing what greasing a few palms will get you.
Volcker wrote in his memoir that when he told Carter about the 2x4 solution, he followed it by saying 'I can fix stagflation, but it'll cost you re-election'. Carter told him to do it anyway, initiating a several year recession (basically the country taking it's belated lumps) indeed costing Carter re-election. In comes Reagan - who had opposed this ultimately effective strategy during the election - and gets credit when it finally pays off. So Carter gets blamed both for causing stagflation (Nixon's fault) and for failing to resolve it (which he actually did).

Doing the right thing is for chumps.
> 37% greater pixels-per-inch. And 1.3x larger color gamut

Is referring to the display resolution inside the headset

> Full-color mixed reality, with resolution 4X higher compared to Quest 2

Is referring to the camera resolution on the outside of the headset

> slimmed down the optical stack by over 40% compared to Quest 2

The are using a new technology, pancake lens, giving effectively the same (or better?) performance but taking less space to do so.

> Real-time expression tracking

You can turn it on or off as a user. I don't know if they've optimised it to only "run" when the software you're interacting with is setup to use it or not.
There are solutions, but with tradeoffs. In theory DWARF debugging metadata is Turing complete, so you could bundle an exact copy of the unoptimized program and fall back in that when someone requests something from the debugger. The JVM actually exposes this kind of level of access as API and it goes through astonishing amounts of effort to make sure that when you’re debugging the code gets shunted into the paths where this information is available rather than the highly optimized view that is normally executing.

In practice, well, things are complicated. Maintaining sane debug information across optimizations is pretty hard, and nobody really holds compiler author’s feet to the fire to make it happen. There’s a lot of low hanging fruit that should be fixed (for example an index→pointer conversion should be easy to undo, even though most compilers don’t generate the debug information for this). Likewise variables that just happen to be alive by chance should be made available. But I doubt we’ll ever get good support for things which have been fully optimized, though I think most programmers will forgive this.
I mean it was an example I chose because the name recognition in HN. I would doubt Knuth would publish garbage. Then again, how would you know? If you've never been in academia it's understandable to think that way. But if you have, you realize the immense pressure, self-doubt, and scrutiny you'd have even making a bold, well researched, attempt to prove someone like knuth wrong even if it was obvious he was. I recall several instances in mathematics where this happened and it bordered on starting a war between mathematicians.
While I agree with most of your comment (I don't have space — it's ridiculously expensive! Wouldn't mind another monitor but it's also a bit expensive…)

> absurd amounts of money on fancy mechanical keyboards

Fancy mechanical keyboards aren't really expensive? (compared to monitors, or space, or even really VR headsets…) Most of the people I know who have them also have them because RSI. That forces you into being an enthusiast whether you want it or not. But a single trip to the doctors saved and the keyboard pays for itself.

But they're also just better keyboards too.
Thanks for your patience on this! This issue has been fixed.
On the Internet, by default, I have no idea how nice your car, house, computer, or food is. We're talking on a website that would comfortably load on 1990s hardware.

Meta is just one small corner of this and as such doesn't perhaps deserve particular blame, but it's sad to think about how we've slowly eroded the Internet's fundamentally democratic, equalizing nature.
See also: the clique that has evolved between wiki editors.
> People just won’t put on world-occluding headsets to talk to cartoons

People already do with VRChat (current average about 19,000 users/day on Steam, likely much more on the standalone app on the Quest 2), and it frankly sucks in a ton of ways. Take an app that captures the same user interest, fix all the shitty parts, and put it on better hardware and I would expect user numbers to explode.
The UI is done using an immediate rendering model.

It is entirely composed of two rendering operations, drawing solid color rects, or rendering text from a true type font.

You can read a bit about the underlying technology here: https://rxi.github.io/cached_software_rendering.html

It's quite brilliant.
It’s inconsistent and unintuitive
why is microsoft even working with them on this? dont they have their own ecosystem going, i wouldve expected them to keep office exclusive to their headsets.
Voice and accents are very identifying, and some are indeed associated with gender (e.g. the “Valley” accent of California). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_profiling
Related:

Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in Lua - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28669439 - Sept 2021 (60 comments)

Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126458 - May 2020 (256 comments)

Show HN: Lite – A lightweight text editor written in Lua - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22987195 - April 2020 (3 comments)
Sometimes the peer review is the one asking for citing him/hers work, not anybody else's...
Yes, quite. And that the blind spot is characteristic of economistic thinking.
Yep! I’m always sitting 2-3 gens back. My current is an iPhone X which is more than capable and I’ve felt no need whatsoever to upgrade.
Here’s my guess: Pinker writes sometimes on evolutionary psychology. A controversy I heard around the atheism plus days was that evopsych should be banned. Therefore it’s likely that Pinker has been declared cancelled. Thus, to mention his name is to sin, and a sinner must repent, so wash your mouth out with soap and divert yourself from this path of heresy lest you join him.
There are a few common problems in your analysis:

- as is frequently noted here, programming positions do not always require CS degrees.

- companies that produce software typically are composed of lots of roles. Microsoft has 100k engineers, but even more of their staff is not engineers. (That is: less than half the jobs at Microsoft are "engineers," and some of their engineers do not have CS degrees.) Many/most of those other roles translate quite well into tech. Just to take a few functional examples, the Finance function under the CFO, the HR function under the top people officer, the sales function, and the marketing function are not typically run by CS grads or staffed with programmers. Companies do not have to hit their DEI targets solely in their Engineering functions.

But back to your assertions, you seem to agree with me.

> So of those 12, you'd expect perhaps 1 to be black, and perhaps 2 to be women - optimistically.

Yes, if this is your slate for a programming role (again, assuming you are not somehow running a pipeline that somehow misses the enormous Latino population), you are probably doing okay. (Microsoft et. al. are able to aim for better than okay, but that's a business decision.)

Edit: I want to expand a little on the Latino/Hispanic component as well, as it's common in debates on this site to exclude them. But add them back in using the numbers on your first link. So we could expect 1 Black applicant, 1 Latino applicant, and 2 women (optimistically!). That's a third of your set of 12, using your data sources, for a programming role. This is optimistic, but nobody managing a F100 is asking their leadership to do easy things.

But it does sound like you generally agree that if you get sets of 12 applicants and they are all consistently white men in each set that there is a process defect? Similarly, if you are hiring for another role, your definition of a "diverse" set of applicants would be different.

> Qualified minority candidates rarely come through applications - instead, they're recruited

This is the activity that management is trying to encourage. Given industry history, it is not surprising that companies have to put in extra effort to try to change the perception of who is welcome. Microsoft is not new to this, having spent tons of money rehabilitating the image of Windows as an insecure, unreliable OS. Fixing a business process takes work, this is not surprising.
When did Facebook ever say they wouldn't sell ads? You mean user data? FB launched their ad marketplace in 2007, and it's the reason they nearly hit a $1T market cap nearly 15 years later.
If I got a phone for a kid, it would be an iPhone. It has way fewer creepy privacy issues than other phones

(I would also seriously consider a linux phone)
I'm not sure Twitter is currently a NATO member.
https://archive.ph/Mcsmk
> I didn't see it in this page, but previous announcements put the battery life at 1-2 hours (unverified).

I still find it weird they haven't shown any mention of incorporating the Bobo VR solution to battery life problems, where there's a secondary battery pack on a magnetic mount and you can swap it out without taking the headset off.
Well, maybe there will be many IceCube's later? (Probably not, but I'm routinely shocked when I learn about new giant testbeds in my field...)

Alternatively, when IceCube 2 comes out, the old IceCube crowd might be focusing on other stuff, and not paying attention to the IceCube 2 politics. That makes them great peer reviewers (no horse in the race, but knowledgeable).
Has anyone found a link to a therapist working app that showcases the performance in the docs? I looked around but haven't found anything.
Maybe it's because the VR space is still young, so they're working with Meta to make it more popular. My guess is they're betting on once the ecosystem is more mature, they can crush Meta with a better model and integrations.

Something Something Embrace, extend, and extinguish
> I don't care about many apps. I need maps ...

As someone with a hobby project in this area I can confidently say that's not simple.

Either you implement a new simple map app (very hard), or you add a comparability layer to run an existing map app (never done it, assume very hard and also not minimalist).

Edit: Here's an example of an impressive 10k LOC attempt at a new map renderer. Look at what it supports so far. (This map is representative, the renderer just doesn't support things like text yet) https://webgl.demo.maplibre-rs.maplibre.org/
You can hire any senior dev and give them the elixir book and a week to read it. You can also pick up someone junior who hasn’t learned anything wrong and coach them for a few months. I’ve successfully done both. The org I work in was one of the Elixir lang case studies and we still love using it, and have very little trouble hiring. It would be different if we had to hire 50 devs in less than 6 months, but we just don’t need to do that.
Is proton actually a good provider? What else is good besides Mullvad? It seems proton has some nifty features - are they unique?
(Shrug) He owns John Carmack...
If you find faces to be useless, you can hide them on your computer monitor while in a meeting and no one would know. In the metaverse the avatars will not be faceless and you won’t be able to hide them from view
I don’t personally think that meetings would be the same without any smiles.
Any eli5 why these work well?
I've found the opposite. I don't want to hear version 10 of a paper from 2005.

Besides, invited speakers are a thing for a reason.
Your response perfectly illustrates the point OP was making