skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much like how private chat and gaming servers work, I expect the onus will fall upon the tech-savvy to host content for their friends via services like Plex, Jellyfin, or the like.
A lot of people won't be happy until their phone is just a bash terminal.
I find that to get the superior UX experience, there is quite a lot of work that has to be done upfront. A lot of technical experience is also assumed because many of these “bridges” don't have real guides.

But once you do go through those trenches, it can be quite amazing to see how simple everything can be if things weren't exclusive to a dozen different streaming services.
Yes, there is little value in a press release about research that does not include a link or refence to said research.
This whole thing screams "What problem does this solve?"

It doesn't solve the lack of real face-to-face communication from remote work, I'd argue it's way worse because now you're face-to-face with a bad simulation of a face.

Are displays particularly bad for zoom meetings? Is having something hanging off your face, hurting your neck better? Probably not.

Tech has moved way past actually solving problems and this is the best screaming example.
They haven’t really started trying. Half Life Alyx is still on the top of everyone’s list, but mac/quest2 users can’t play it.

Most quest 2 games feel like phone games. Super shallow, and not amazing.

Meta should bid for world of Warcraft. MMORPGs are the most successful form of metaverse to date.
The Truth About Bill Gates
Seems pretty slick from what I've played with so far. I don't need anything fancy, I kinda just want something to replace my usecase for VS Code which is a quick-to-open text editor that I don't need a PhD in in order to use effectively. For getting work done I'll continue to use IntelliJ, but sometimes I just need to edit a file or open a directory of files and don't want to open a big IDE for that and have it start indexing things.

Slightly disappointed they've changed the default key mappings? I went to open a file with cmd+shift+o but that immediately launched a symbol search and I have to hit cmd-p to open a file search.

Seems like the git comparison UI is worse. Aside from it stacking up a giant list of diffs, it seems very simple, like Github's PR diff UI. Not doing the nice thing where it shows which lines map to which lines in the changes. I'll chock that up to being a preview.
Three Theories for Why You Have No Time [2019]
I think the GP is getting misinterpreted. The devil can be found in how you interpret "emotionally invested".

I try to stay emotionally detached from everything I do for a company. Even recently this helped me through a layoff and transition. I worked for a full year, mostly by my self, to put together a tool the company desperately needed to grow but couldn't afford a full team to build. Some 20,000+ lines of code lovingly put together to do the job exactly as described with full end to end tests and everything.

Then the new guys came in and said the project is scrapped. Stuff is getting shipped overseas, and they're going to instead try to kludge some off the shelf stuff into the role. All my work, a year and thousands of lines of code, gone in an instant. If I was emotionally attached to my work, in the literal sense, I would've been crushed. I wasn't because at the end of the day they paid me to make something that could be destroyed. In this sense, money is the most important thing. I wouldn't work for free even if I was promised what I was doing would save humanity.

I don't get excited by company visions or goals. I don't get excited when the CEO talks a big game, or the engineering VPs tell us how good we are. I don't care about hiring processes, meetings with the PMs, or the exact nature of whatever it is I am building. All I care about is the fundamental act of coding is enjoyable to me - and that's what keep me in the industry. I've been in the industry over a decade now. I realize sprint goals along with everything else a company focuses on is mostly trivia. The people in charge universally lack the ability to understand the nature and motivations of an actually talented engineer.

But it is eye opening that in over a decade I have never had a company say "we need to make this code easier to add to" or "we should make this as flexible as we could need for the future". There's never budget for good engineering. Just getting the product done. So it makes no sense to have any attachment to exactly what you do. But rather the art, so to speak, of doing it. Emotional attachment is how you end up in therapy after getting laid off. Save yourself the trouble.
You can also be the person that downloads things and hosts it privately for your friends. You could even share it via onedrive or similar cloud platforms provided you zip, encrypt/pw protect and rename it.
I like the fleet light/dark theme, can JetBrains put it as a plugin so I can use it in other JB products?
Disagree. Biologically, men are bigger, stronger, and more aggressive.

This is also true for basically all large social mammals (cats, dogs, deer, ...), and seems to be a consequence of the fact that female parental investment is greater than male parental investment. In situations like seahorses where the male paternal investment is greater than the female, it is the females that are bigger, stronger and more aggressive.

Size, strength and aggression are directly related to capacity for violence. Men are bigger, stronger and more aggressive, and therefore have a higher capacity for violence. This is why we separate men and women for e.g. boxing or MMA.
Lab-Grown Human Cells Form Working Circuits in Rat Brains
I wasn't asking about the company position...
What does it mean to be "well-behaved"?
Alpha Centauri aliens who'd be able to detect and intercept that probe would have their Twitter flooded with funny memes made from our hn discussions of the mission long before the actual probe arrives. Actual arrival wouldn't even make it into their news.
> There has been big progress in automated theorem proving lately

It doesn't seem like there has been much progress for anything but FOL?
> I'm sure this is not what people thought they were funding when they donated to Wikipedia

I do not think your argument follows. Wikipedia as a whole is untrustworthy because at one point they donated 1 million bucks divided between 5 NGOs through their fundation?

It would be like arguing that Exxon has strayed far far far away from their mission because they donated 20 million to the Amazon conservation. Exxon is still extracting oil and maximising profit for its shareholders, and wikipedia is still a free open encyclopedia. I don't think miniscule donations (related to revenue) mark a departure from the mission worthy of betraying their core intention.
I don't think it needs to be free for over-represented demographics, just open source so that it is clear that the algorithm is designed in the best interests of users.

I like Andrej Karpathy's (I think) idea of training something like GPT-3 on each person and using the derived personality to identify those that you would get on well with (if the objective of the site is long term relationships). I suspect that a large leap forward is possible with something like this, although the technology is probably not ready yet.
Are you dreaming? Cops are more present then ever

As an example... I was standing in the street to meet my kids... my wife called the cops for no reason and 4 cars showed up in about 60 seconds... they ended up giving me a criminal trespassing warning even if I was on public property

They do like to hide though so you can't see their presence

The previous city I lived in had a population of about 20k and they had two armored military vehicles (mrap / Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles)

They are trying to get to a police state without the majority of people noticing... In the end, it will break the economy.
I did not say it's a requirement, just highlighting what type of experience the author has.
Stands for "Designing Data-Intensive Applications".
Rethink and reform. We still need services that address:

* Federal level police (should be policing state/local too).

* Intelligence gathering

* Cyber security

They need more daylight/oversight and a lot more accountability. The DEA can go to hell (legalize all drugs) and the ATF can pound sand (their subjects of interest could be rolled into the FBI).

We need a happy medium between the excesses we have today and having none of those needs addressed.
Basically US teens/kids assume you're poor and not cool if you have a green bubble. It really is as simple as that. It's exactly as shallow as it sounds and is not actually as big of a deal as the article makes it out to be.
From experience, "Asians are good at math" is often related to the wider (and very wrong, from my own experience) stereotype of "Asians are awkward" or "Asians are shallow" or "Asians are only good for math/work". And even then, "are good at math", by definition of the word "good", means that others are worse (otherwise "good" wouldn't mean anything).

> No, read the wiki again.

My point is that, still, they coined (therefore popularising) only one side (women good), and not the other (men bad).

> mfw 4chan so irun.

;)
I'll check it out!
I'm not sure about a rite of passage but it is a challenge and builds new skills and knowledge. I think I am going to learn alot through this process and have a really cool portfolio piece at the end of it!
Biosphere for sure. Also William Basinski who is somewhat hated but if you love endless loops its great.
> He was getting internal training for the role and claims to follow the policies he was taught.

His posts were being flagged by the PR team.

I suspect it's because he was discussing products without going through the PR team (because they would have told him to stop).

All my arguments are from the article itself.

> He was effectively self-grooming for the position, isn't that what you're supposed to do?

If someone from marketing came down and started force pushing code to production, would that be self-grooming? No, you'd expect a PR and some review process, which wasn't occurring here.
See, I think they'll creep ads into the "adless" tier, and it will become a "less ads" tier in reality.

Paramount+ already does this with their "adless" tier, it has ads. Unskippable ads.
How many organizations have been improved throughout history via removal of funding? Will better qualified police officers get hired with less funding?
What you're seeing isn't consumers failing to recycle, it is councils being unable to fund the infrastructure required for recycling, and the councils are voting with their comparatively empty wallets. So even when you are a good little consumer and put it in the recycling bin, not all councils can afford to recycle it properly, because it is a difficult and costly problem to solve at scale.

So Coca-cola reaps all the benefits, while councils pay for all the cleanup. Being pragmatic here though, whoever is ultimately at fault doesn't matter, because the outcome is clear: councils are poorer, coca-cola is richer, and the earth is full of plastic. So do we wait for the sudden and unprecedented cooperation of consumers across the globe, or do we regulate plastic?

As for how to regulate, I would suggest that plastic recycling is paid for by the companies that produce the plastic, perhaps through levies per-kg of produced plastic that ultimately make it more costly to use than more environmentally friendly materials. This would help councils/countries afford recycling infrastructure for plastic that makes enough sense, and it would naturally be more economical to use less plastic. We need a way to set a "Tradeoff cost" at a community level, similar to how there are taxes on fuels for cars.
Meta has acquired three new VR game studios
I want to address the point that I was "stepping out of line." In my role, I was in constant contact with marketing and PR. We worked very closely together and met every week. I'm still friends with many of them to this day. My manager was also fully supportive of my participation on social media and even wrote it into my goals with time carved out, especially for this task. There was no question about the quality of my work. I was even promoted during this time frame.
I only spoke about information that was already public, and as I stated before, I was PR trained by the company as an encouragement to talk more openly. I was also in promotional material for the company because they felt I was such a good representative of their values. They not only loved what I was doing but repeatedly encouraged me to continue with their full endorsement.
Also, as previously stated, I was a founding member of their social media council. We created policies that determined how and what employees could participate in social media and the associated training. This SVP was not initially in social media management because there was zero established formal presence, to begin with. Back then, companies were not widely on social media like they are today.
I know we might have different ways of approaching work, and I've also changed my views over time, but your read that I was not engaged or passionate about my "main" job is a flawed take. It was actually the exact opposite. I was very good at my job and loved it. I was not neglecting my role but going above and beyond.
I wouldn't call any of those low cost.

Only relative to other Apple products might they be considered "cheaper".
Oh yeah, I treat that question as "what salary would you like?". My current salary is entirely irrelevant, as this question just serves to begin the negotiation, and I sometimes say "it entirely depends on your needs, do you have a range in mind?".
More than likely it would start in California. I say we start a petition that the colors be indistinguishable. Be the change that you want to see, I'm looking at the man in the mirror.
That's why I found useful to mention here the type of experience the author had in his career.

Prospective readers can judge the likelihood for the book to be useful for them based on this additional data point.
And they need to stop thinking that doing illegal stuff is ok for authorities... like parallel constructing evidence / evidence laundering....
>friendly and non-sketchy all in one service to facilitate piracy

I've heard that paid Plexshares are more or less this. You pay to access a private streaming server that has all the content you could ever want. No VPNs, no torrent clients, no parsing formats, no viruses, no running an HDMI cable from a PC to your TV. It's as easy as any other paid streaming service, without exclusive content restrictions.
I don't know if this helps or not, but I actively don't follow any blogs/vlogs that claim to be doing a grandiose undertaking (building an os, making a game, building an mmorpg, etc).

These projects all end up the same-- 1~30 entries and then stale with no updates for several years (or ever again). I don't want to commit to something that will never be finished.

How can you make content like this that I would be engaged in? Perhaps finish the project first, and then blog/vlog the steps. If I knew there was an end (even if it ended up not being "completed"), I would be much more willing to commit to it.
The article mentions Eno did the cover designs. I've always assumed he took the cover images from real maps, but I've never found any mention of what they may be. It would be interesting to find them if that were actually the case.
To be fair, a video of a VR event is way different than being in VR for that event. A comparison is a video of people watching a movie versus actually watching that movie, except more extreme. VR is far more visceral, at least when done well. A video review of, say Half-Life Alyx, is no comparison to actually being in it.

Now, that said, Meta's seems to be floundering a lot for its actual art style, there is no doubt about that!
Isn’t that the exact analog of “Apple can’t release 1+k$ phone in a market where 50$ phones exist”? Which they very clearly can and do.
Acer predator helios 300 (was $1000), 12vcores, 256GB NVME, upgraded to 32GB ram.
I want Darcula back. It's the only dark theme I've ever liked in any piece of software.

It's grey instead of black so it doesn't hurt my eyes, and the color contrasts for symbol highlighting and whatnot are very well tuned.
Me too. My boss is an asshole.
I think there's been a pretty strong upward trend, but not much compared to South Korea for sure.

We had a setback in the 70s, first with the war with India and then 80s where Zia weaponized religion (with western support!) to fight the USSR in Afghanistan. We're still reeling from that. All the nastiest laws you read about in the news (death to blasphemers, rape victims getting jailed for adultery) are from that era.

But I think if you look at poverty, literacy graphs etc, you'll see an upward trend. Even democracy seems stronger than it was when I was a child, though I think we've regressed when it comes to media freedom.
I know it's morally dubious, but I'm completely back in pirateland because of all the changes/price hikes/partitioning in the streaming space. My interests make it so I only watch 1-2 shows per platform so I'd be approaching ~100$/month.

And even if I was swimming in money, it's often easier to just download the shows I want and watch them on Plex/Jellyfin than trying to navigate the (often ad-riddled) interfaces of the various platforms and finding where the content I want is.

One example is Rick and Morty, it's made by Adult Swim, but they don't have a streaming service in Canada. It seems to be on Primevideo but under a different system than their regular content. The other way to watch it is to buy it from my cable provider (I don't have cable). So to watch a 20-minutes animated show I'd have to take a +40$ subscription.
My ex-wife used to physically abuse me (hitting, throwing things). An attorney friend told me to leave the house whenever that happened, because if anyone called the cops (including me), the police would arrest me instead of her. It's called the "Duluth Model" of domestic violence enforcement.
As usual the poorest will suffer worst. In people terms, and at the level of countries and continents.

For those lucky enough to be within clinging reach of the lower middle class, efforts towards energy and food independence will reap huge rewards. Spain and Portugal could be taken as exemplars of embracing renewables. Even the UK, Australia and the Southern US have embraced solar and wind.

The poorest, thinking of Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka will continue to, and escalate in suffering as energy pricing and climate chaos continue to steadily worsen.
I'm in a very very similar position, I got hired to lead a team in a flat style, months later the CEO said to me he will hire someone else to do this role to make me focus on my current project, let's call this GuyA-bigTitleA.
I was ok with it (and it was ok at the beginning) before GuyA-bigTitleA turns into a control maniac who changed the flat into hierarchical, all the way to the point he wanted to sit next to me to tell me what to write in my own ticket, not just I'm a senior and technically miles ahead of him, but I hold several leadership designation and held several titles in the past.

I tried to communicate that with him but with no avail, months forward with all what that accompany including undermining/downplaying/credit taking/etc. in a close coordination with GuyB-bigTitleB, it escalated once to the point he shouted at me, insulted me in the middle of the office, it's when approached who hired me (the CEO) and told him this guy can no longer be my manager or I'm out.
The CEO, being relatively reasonable guy trying all his best to keep the talents in his small business, apologized in his behalf (GuyA-bigTitleA never apologized till now after months of it happening), and promised to make fundamental changes, that was 7 months ago and nothing changed yet, GuyA and GuyB hold the highest rank in our division with access to all resources, communications, team, etc. and work in coordination to either set me up or trying all their best to justify firing me as they cannot do it directly, they even tried to hinder the project progress just to make a point that my skills are not on par (it was successfully delivered among other projects and I’m proud of that with all of what was happening) and I'm still at the bottom of this hierarchy, now they work persistently to “make me replaceable” at all cost.

While I’m usually resilience to stress, It was at some point exhausting in terms of mental health in addition to the stress that come with the work itself (engineering and robotics), and because I love (probably as other mentioned not falling in love is the key) robotics, I'm still kind of waiting for the CEO changes, part of me is saying he is stalling and will never change anything, and other part says otherwise he's just waiting for the "right moment". But I can totally relate to the story as I'm living it right now.
Anyone can do higher level math, the problem is that math education is generally done by people who see math as a tool for computation, rather than a study of deep connections bordering on philosophy, and beautiful insights resembling poetry. I've been in arguments before where someone didn't believe me that the underpinnings of modern philosophy are essentially the same as math!

If the teachers don't love math, how can we expect students to?
I'll just say that not every talking point is directly related to every other talking point.
I've read other people praising this here on HN. Thanks for reminding me that, I'll give it a go!
It’s useless in real life
It means china has to create R&D factories with the right competent scientists and engineers to design, improve and build chip making tools.
Floating point isn't relevant here.

The problem is that human language is approximate and correct math is not, so pattern matching on prose text is doomed. AI trained on exact math does a lot better. But that's not fully generic so fails the weird GPT goal of modeling all of human intelligence through prose. That's not how people solve math at all.

GPT's "Superficially plausible but wrong" math is actually pretty good match for non-expert bad-at-math average human behavior.
Strong disagreement. If there's any problem (which there usually isn't) you bring them into the loop. I've seen this repeatedly even at huge companies like Microsoft.
for me this was infinitely harder than using kodi or just torrenting and saving to library. and i work in software dev with CS major.
If News+ is any indication, your outlooks are bleak:

> Why are there ads in Apple News Plus news feed? Just subscribed to Apple News Plus. I am surprised to see ads in the Apple News Plus feed. Please remove these ads for paying subscribers. I realize that ads in articles that Apple can't control, but it is insulting to have them in the feed itself.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252017203