skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes that's correct. lol

It's actually because of their intense manipulation model and penchant for abusing it's users.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...
Intel plans to cut thousands of jobs
Because people don't think this is an innovation that will make remote work more efficient.
Do you have suggestions for finding jobs that support this kind of work arrangement? For example, do the jobs advertise themselves as 100% remote from the beginning, or is that something you negotiated with them during the interview process? Also, how do you deal with the time difference?
>would say that there's a continuum that goes from downloading an unapproved copy (worst) to buying the book at a local bookstore (best),

Because you’re still fixated on bookstores, which tons of people don’t give a shit about. You’re incorrectly putting stuff on a one-dimensional continuum.

>or buy a secondhand copy.

Being a secondary market participant supports a market. If you don’t want to support publishers, it must be pirated.
Alyx was high quality for a hobby.
> but anti-innovations for making the remote more efficient.

I don't personally want to wear a giant computer on my head all day.
I wonder what all of the PWA booster developers feel about the mobile web.
You seriously don't have any issues with virtual meetings that you generally don't have with real meetings?
Yes, literally to the coffee shop, as one example.

And that's why the (optional) mixed-reality feature is mandatory.

I wouldn't be self-conscious about wearing a headset at a starbucks (just like I wasn't about using an in-ear bluetooth headset for my phone ~20 years ago when people thought that looked weird) — but I don't want to not be able to see the people around me in a public space even if I look at them.

I think within 10-15 years you will see about as many solo customers at a typical starbucks using a mixed-reality headset as you see using wireless earbuds today.

(However, I wouldn't invest the time and money to build out a cloud-powered VR engineering workspace just to be able to take it to the coffee shop. I mainly mean taking it on trips abroad, taking it home when I visit my family, etc.)
I'm waiting to see what the rumored Apple headset is like. It seems like minimizing the size and weight of actual electronics in the headset is the missing part of the current round of competition, and Apple is very good at that.
What can 3d interfaces do better that they replace 2D interfaces as the preferred medium for digital activity? Are those benefits worth the additional costs of producing, distributing, and interacting with 3D content?

The argument that VR/AR is a boon restrained only by current technological ability seems to be incomplete. Rather, could there be some other economic, cultural, and practical factors which make VR/AR unappetizing outside its niche use cases? (EG, why did 3D television "fail" despite being available for a long time?)

I don't personally believe that 3D will eventually replace 2D because I know I wouldn't want to develop 3D content when 2D is a chore already. If 3D will replace 2D in some point in the future there should be a greater emphasis on developing technologies to make creating 3D content as easy (if not easier) as creating 2D content.
I think they have a pretty good future in web services. I'd be happy to pay for a mozilla password manager/vpn/email hosting/cloud storage. But for some reason they only sell the VPN and not in Australia.
>it suggests that systemic factors play into this

No it doesn't. This is a false dichotomy. It can be any number of things, including something systemic, but only one explanation of many is eliminated. All that it suggests is that interviewers don't discriminate (against women).
No, unfortunately to use it with a PC you need to have their app installed on the PC as well and be signed in on both.
"Women quitting more quickly than men" could be partially explained by women having more job opportunities than men.

Who is more likely to be more persistent to get a *specific* job: person A who has 10 other opportunities, or person B who doesn't have any other opportunities?

It is a shame the study did not attempt to quantify this aspect by asking a question post-interview ("How many other opportunities did you have?")
Looking into the history of it, I don't think there was any sort of systemic conspiracy, but a loose collection of incentives.

If you wanted to sell papers, you needed to sell stories about AMERICA STOPPING TERRORISM! How did you get access to stories of marines busting down doors and shoving the foreign looking faces of murderous terrorists into the dirt? Well you had to be known as a news source who said the right things, had the right attitude.

At these news organisations there were some editors who were mostly there before 9/11 happened who decided that supporting America was the crap and were pushing stories from any reporter who had "sources" that gave evidence of what was going down. Readers LOVED reading stories about heroes who kicked the ass of murderous terrorists. It was a feedback loop, the more hawkish you were the more you succeeded, the more dovish you were the more irrelevant you were.
If you want to get really pedantic the US is not officially in recession until the NBER says so [1].

[1] https://www.bea.gov/help/glossary/recession
HoloLens had same price point and this price point is where consumer products go to die. I think they are currently looking for early adopters and may be built up volume in 2-3 years (a la iPhone). HoloLens hade strategy which didn't work because utility of AR was far less than utility of mobile computer in your pocket. It looks to me the whole bet here is that VR's killer app would be virtual meetings and it will fix this critical issue. Unfortunately, doing meetings requires two people to have this device and that would be tremendous barrier for adoption. Is no one at Meta thinking of these stuff and learn from history?
It's so that I can play a game with you, and you can look like an orc - with your facial expressions, and I can look like an elf - with my facial expressions.

Except, they want it to be like a giant MMO.

...where I am happy to pay real money to buy virtual clothing for my elf. Which is a thing people do, when they really care about the game.
Related, but not entirely ontopic... I've been trying to find a good gluegun, and have been unable. When I was a kid, my family had a gluegun with a detachable base, where the base plugged into the outlet. When the gluegun was sitting on the base, it heated up. That gave it someplace stable to sit when you weren't glueing, and no cord when you were. I can't find anything like it nowadats.
Did you see this?

https://qwik.builder.io/docs/faq/#can-i-enjoy-the-rich-react...
Intel CEO Pushes to Further Separate Chip-Design, Production Arms
Integrated into Firefox now. Works similar to how the lockwise app did on iOS.
But what if the individual or a group of individuals decide that the best way to protect themselves is to sue Microsoft? Then the question of "should" becomes relevant agai
Why not?

Seriously - I play ping-pong (Eleven on Quest 2) with my Dad across the country in VR weekly. It's a fun, decent pingpong sim that is remarkably good, but extremely low fidelity graphics.

Even though there's just a head and the paddle for the avatars, I can tell it's him playing because of subtle head and hands movements he does when he loses a point. It's this slumping thing with the shoulders that he does, hard to describe. But it's wild how much presence that little gesture gives.
> they could have put "masking voice gender in interviews showed no significant outcome change"

They could have, but that’s background information supporting the article’s topic, not its findings. You and several others will walk away with that finding from their research, and I will walk away having read and understood the interest in better understanding how attrition affects outcomes. I wouldn’t have any clue that I could learn that from the title you suggest. If they’d tried to cram the point of interest I found into the title, it would be derided as editorializing. The title is probably the best they could do: we had a hypothesis. Implicit in that is some findings and some further line of questioning. Sure that’s “clickbait” in a literal sense, but it’s a title. If you could fit the article in the title you wouldn’t have a distinction between articles and titles. You’d have tweet. Just one. Choose your wording carefully!
I think it really depends. If all you're doing is slinging JSON over an API then sure.

If you're dealing with concurrency and distributed systems at medium to high scale you really want your senior people to be familiar with the language.
I’ve actually heard from many friends that even though they are in a “favored” group, because of their skin color or gender, they hate it because they suffer from even worse impostor syndrome than the average developer.

They might genuinely be awesome and yet they sit there and doubt and ask “am I only doing well because of something not related to my work”
What would Žižek say?

"No no no, within which historical context does it even make sense to ask this question? No? You see?"
I find myself using TUIs a lot more because GUIs are always mouse centric. The GUI paradigm is stuck in the 20th century IMO. I'd like GUI applications that were easy to use with more than one finger, but it seems that nobody can figure out a way to do that yet.
Like a cordless Surebonder? [1]

[1]: https://surebonder.com/products/cordless-corded-detail-tip-2...
Also, as an aside, I would really like to have six monitors, or 12 even.

But as a practical matter, adding more than 3-4 monitor arms to a physical desk becomes difficult.

So if your startup happens to sell a-grav monitors that can just float in space above my desk, and be re-arranged by waving my hands at them, hit me up in my DMs!
Gold has likely lost its place as a store of value.

Its value came as a somewhat rare, status consumption good. But today, gold is much less important as a status consumption good. As India modernizes its banking/financial industry I expect to see gold prices fall with a glut of supply.
I made the mistake of buying a Win 11 Pro laptop and despise the UI.

Taskbar icons are always combined and you can't change it. Also right click menu is mostly broken and/or changed for the worse. I hate it.

I can't believe a multi-billion dollar company can't just have a tickbox to keep the old UI that everyone knows?

Why have changes for no reason and more clicks needed?
Eliminating the pilot lets it carry another passenger instead of the pilot. They still have to pay the people at the base station to monitor and potentially take over the flight, which means they probably have to be pilots, unless they've really automated the whole thing to the point where there is no manual control, just up/down, start/stop, follow route buttons. That may be the case since I can't see a pilot manually controlling 13 motors to maintain balance and guide the aircraft. Not sure you need a pilot if there is a "land in any open space" button/remote control.
I took the point as being that you can't see your physical surroundings, so you don't know what's going on outside the headset. Passthrough solves that, at least when it's turned on (which for office work it almost always would be).

If we're talking about disconnection from the world in a more abstract sense then I agree passthrough doesn't solve that. But that's not really a problem unique to VR either.
It’s more than a bubble. The ideology you are arguing against is so elemental to those who hold it that, to have any distance from it, they would first have to process a full-blown existential crisis.
I don't think there is anything wrong with the economy per se, just that there are things wrong with people and the things people do for it. The economy is mostly imaginary... So many jobs and companies basically doing useless tasks in order to try to make more money but their products and contributions a negative to equality and a balanced society.

If we could somehow actually shift the focus to making sure basic needs are met first, like all basic needs, then I don't think the economy would be seen as something to discuss.
It’s sad on a creative level but from a career perspective, many of my friends (from when I worked in film) are earning multiples of what they earned previously, and are doing less work at the same time.

So it’s easy to just give in and do the lowered task at hand rather than fight for the high end work they were hired to do.
What? This is just actually true.
My boss was a woman, my bosses boss was a woman, and my bosses bosses boss was a woman. CEO was a hispanic male
Yeah of course, but the FP stuff is not very complicated in Elixir land. The heady stuff from ML family languages just isn’t there. The process model takes some time to adjust to, but a lot of JVM folks have used akka which is inspired by the BEAM.

The tooling an docs all guide you in the right direction and usually code in the wild aims to be straightforward.

I’ve really never had trouble onboarding people to Elixir unless they had started learning it solo as a Ruby dev, then they typically have to unlearn some stuff.
It's not the same thing. Each of these products have tiered versions targeted at different income levels. If there was only one iPhone version being sold at $1500 then it would probably be dead by now.
A talk came across my screen and a third of the way through a misleading and glossy description of QKD prompted me to stop watching and do something else with my time.

I agree though that kind of optimism can be very motivational, which is great in an education system that is basically a water wheel of slapstick white gloves for you to stick your face in.
1/3rd of a trillion now. There were months in 2016 where their stock price is higher than now.
Not sure if they changed things, but Blender's fluid simulator was[1] based on the Lattice-Bolzmann method[2].

[1]: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.79/physics/fluid/types/...

[2]: https://elbeem.sourceforge.net/
Aren't there several companies that do that ?

Maybe https://wavexr.com/ for example?
Have you also heard of “decolonizing” the libraries?
I'll take the other, more optimistic side of this.

The reason they're spending so much time on reinventing meetings is because they see that the killer use case for VR/AR headsets is to replace your laptop with a device that shows you a screen, or multiple screens, wherever you go, whenever you want it there.

If you start from the premise that eventually people won't huddle over their 16" laptop screens to make calls, but will instead be wearing a headset that shows them as many giant monitors as they like, then everything else flows from that. How do you handle calls in a world where every user is essentially wearing a visor? How do you collaborate? These aren't solved problems yet, but I'm a firm believer that the headset will replace the laptop, and if that happens I'll be glad somebody has put the effort in to make everything else around that as seamless as it can be.
Lua is pretty nice, especially if you can use the JIT. I think there were some elixir consultancies in Brazil other than Plataformatec that did a lot of work in finance so it spread around.
Quest Pro actually addresses those concerns. The head mount style is miles easier than the Quest 2 strap; it looks much more like PSVR if you've tried that. Putting on PSVR feels more like putting on a hat. It rests more on top of your head and doesn't smash your face. In fact, unlike other VR headsets it looks like Quest Pro doesn't contact your face at all, and leaves plenty of room for glasses. There's no charging cable to plug/unplug, no external tracker, and you don't need the controllers for meetings, so the headset is entirely self-contained. It could literally be as simple as five seconds to pick the headset up off your desk and put it on like a hat and it turns on automatically and you're in.

Of course the ultimate idea is you'll be doing your regular work on virtual screens in VR, so you won't even need to don/doff the headset. But I think comfort and battery life and screen resolution will need to improve further for that to be realistic for most people.

As for flexibility, Workrooms supports standard video calling just fine. You can join from your laptop or phone and still participate. To the VR participants you appear on a large projection screen, and you see the VR participants using a virtual meeting room camera. So you lose nothing in terms of flexibility.
Oddly enough, https://github.com/Byron/trash-rs also has this same UI issue (and is also written in Rust)
If there's every a use for provably correct programs, it should be in crypto.
But the question here isn't "can Meta do Second Life better than Linden did?" (maybe). Or even "can Meta do Second Life better than Linden, Sony, VRChat, IMVU, Epic, Tower Unite, etc. did?" (maybe). It's "Why is Meta presenting its vision for Second Life as being something revolutionary that cannot be discussed by analogy with existing products?"

If the pitch was "We make an already popular market segment more user friendly", that's cool. But the pitch is instead "We're making, from the ground up, a new market segment, and it's going to transform the world." followed by a list of things already done to various degrees of quality by dozens of products that already exist and that basically everyone formed an opinion on a decade ago and that at any rate aren't really revolutionary. Pitching stuff like "Universities will make virtual versions of their campus in the Metaverse and people will walk from virtual building to virtual building to take classes" or "The future of stand-up comedy is clapping as a cartoon avatar while you watch a cartoon avatar of a stand-up comedian do comedy in front of you."

If Meta pitched tomorrow that they were going to revolutionize transportation by coming up with a $1,000 self-balancing personal transportation device, I could definitely be convinced that they could spent their way to a better Segway or a better electric skateboard or a better electric skooter or a better wheelchair or a better AirWheel. But if they refused to discuss any of those existing products and their beta looked like a worse Segway and they were promising how the whole world would change because no one would ever use a car or walk up stairs again, I'd be really skeptical.

It's a little bit like Jeffrey Ketzenberg telling me Quibi is going to revolutionize television, while admitting he doesn't watch shortform video content and hasn't looked at any of his failed competitors, but saying "we've fundraised 10x what they have to make this work" and dismissing the widespread negative reaction to the concept and execution as people not daring enough to see his vision.
Just in the interest of balance I am very happy with Starlink, I usually range between 90-120Mbps and 30-60ms latency. It can be a little patchy to play latency sensitive games on (guessing these are the sub seconds timeouts you mention), I swap to tethering my phone for that but day to day (zoom meetings, etc) I have found starlink to be a massive upgrade on the alternatives available in Australia. In 12~ months as a customer I think I've tethered my phone for a zoom call once.
I’m very jealous of people capable of pulling this off. I guess there is no way to do something like if you are not in the right circles.
Theres also the fact that the headsets doesn't nearly present digital content with enough quality to rival traditional 2D interfaces. There does not seem to be a simple way to fix this problem, the laws of physics is a cruel mistress.

EDIT: I had the image of a "glasses" like VR form from the parent comment when making this comment. It is not talking about Meta's product.
> Well secure and rather indisputably valid elections are a solved problem

In some countries people would like to have undisputably valid elections, but can't, so I wouldn't call this a solved problem.
> It's funny that HN is pro-remote work but anti-innovations for making the remote more efficient

This isn’t more than efficient. Emulating real life is worse here.

I want to see innovations that take advantage of not being bounded by fucking office spaces.

It’s like writing an email client that forces you to hand write all of the emails and fill out the to field on a little envelope.
curious what Speech to text you're running on it
links that go to other "pages" (even just conceptually) should get their own route so you can link to them directly. you can use something like react-router to do this, and it's very easy to extract the active route and know what view to render. or if I'm totally off the mark, maybe I misunderstood what you mean :)
I wish I were a little bit taller.
Crypto will be seen during the current tech bubble as a sign of market mania similar to the craziest notions of the .com bubble.
Is there any research (not wild conjecture) on staring at a screen strapped to your face for extended durations? I am already near sighted from having spent a lifetime focusing on a screen an arm's reach away. What happens if there is no chance of errantly focusing on other objects and forcing my eyes even a modicum of daily activity?
Unfortunately he already gotten to the National policy game when he sent start link units to Ukraine.

Is unfortunate that there is no room for nuance or middle ground in public opinion on this. It must be tough to be in a position of power where you have decision-making capabilities for what degree your technology will be used in military operations.

Choosing not to support some military operations will obviously be conflated with actively aiding Russia.
Why respond to a comment that literally contains the text "in case the headsets can become as easy as wearing glasses" with a reply about wearing "a giant computer on [your] head". You could have made your VR-skeptic response to someone who was hyping up the headsets of today, not the headsets of tomorrow.
“Association of popular/celebrity angels with your startup increases the odds of your Series_A fundraise round.”
"How do you let go of a secret without telling the wrong person? You tell everyone at once."
Kotlin devs are everywhere what are you talking about? These 2 are not even in the same tier when it comes to popularity.
> Guess what they are going to do?

Not have the same opportunities as the founders of Google and Microsoft due to the mediocre employees abusing their positions to engage in advocacy in the wider world that serves the purpose of keeping them employed.

Stuffing big firms with idiots is one way you get idiocracy, since those firms have influence far beyond what the idiots could get on their own.
Feels like the 90s again
Yeah, but you don't need that many to start. That knowledge will spread rather rapidly to where it's needed.
A lot of people seem to think that this was an inside job. I’m getting tired of this. So much money has been siphoned away from the market it’s not funny anymore.
In search of lost toast: Paris show reveals origins of Proust’s madeleines
Yup, they could also probably take over the craigslist/autotrader market if they tried.
Isn't it mainly plugs for stuff like their web browser or office products? I feel like the only way around that is using some kind of OSS or linux. Apple is always pushing their stuff on me. iCloud, The TV app, the music app, oh sign up for apple health. Plus if you use iOS, you basically need to use their web browser.
Nooo the typos!
Google does not understand iteration. Like at all. It’s pathetic.
For me it's less about "sucking" or not, and more about understanding the limitations of what could be delivered even if it didn't suck. You could take every drawback of current VR and solve it and it'd still be additive, not revolutionary, because of essentially inherent limitations. Unless someone is proposing a holodeck, and even then I'm not convinced it replaces much of what we already have because there'll always be a basic efficiency to existing pre-VR control paradigms.