skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so a VR version of MS Teams might be “compelling”, but does anybody really think that companies are going to supply their employees with $1k VR goggles just so that they can do a virtual meetup instead of just a normal phone or video call?

I think VR has merit and could be very useful in some spaces like gaming, exploring new worlds (with good graphics) or maybe even prototyping architectural designs etc, but these are too niche for whatever Zuck is trying here… for his billion dollar bet to succeed nearly everyone would have to be using his VR product.
> Obviously Egyptians made everything.

Then why did you say:

> We will need to wait for another of our own generations to learn who really made, e.g., the many precision-machined 50+-ton empty stone boxes under Saqqara, and why.

If the issue isn’t who, or why, but how?
It’s great to be excited for the future. Agreed. It’s also good to be cautious about a future where Facebook owns all the Patents to the tech. That sounds like a dystopia to me.
Even with blind reviews, many people cite their prior work extensively, so it can be hard to truly obscure who the paper authors are.
The economy _is_ to blame if your business strategy is to burn VC money at a faster and faster rate, which is the goal of most billion dollar growth stage startups. I know HN likes to rip on these types of businesses, but that is literally the strategy. You can not like it, but blaming it on incompetence is foolish.

When the economy turns you have to adjust that strategy, which is what they are doing now.
Linux distribution is defined by package manager & package repository(/ies).
And there is official instruction to install by piping script to bash under sudo.
Is it a bad joke or what?
Are here 10% sane admins, who install software on Linux this way? To me it is pure madness.

Cherry on top: site with this instruction is named HONEYPOT.
The world is changing too rapidly to plan for 6 months in advance. Waterfall was useful when IT projects were huge and certain. Now you ain't even sure that in 6 months your business will be relevant. A company I was in, 600 devs sales hr etc, had the HR manager say "we are not structured for remote working" just 2 weeks before closing HQ for Covid and opening them back after 1,5 years.
In my opinion, old, veteran, very reflective people do not accept change and accept less criticism than young people do.
It's not about usage going up. It's about the cost of usage going up v the cost of operations going down.

As an example, if we are to trust this site (https://jcmit.net/diskprice.htm), a 2TB HDD was sold for about 160 dollars in 2012. You can purchase 8TB for 130 dollars now.

From this wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics) we can see the amount of English articles has about doubled since then. Chances are that storage costs have not only not gone up, they have gone down.
yeah, many web sites work better in desktop mode on my phone...
Interesting. What's this language? The audio comes with some distortions though. Perhaps limiting the volume and adding a filter can fix it?
Because you do it only once and can use it in any other company you work. It's a highly portable tool for free. What are the chances that your next employer will pay for a JB license?
Nematodes manipulated evolution to produce organisms that would send them to other solar systems.
I think stamped aluminum is much better than this. I feel this is an invitation of hacking the number-plate.
Raindrops don't ever get the feeling that one river looks particularly full and tries to divert their fellow raindrops into another river.

Influencing culture, groupthink, mindshare is the most powerful thing one can do to affect change. This highlights that vegans are not solely interested in minimizing meat consumption but rather also put weight on the burden of their own conscious. A raindrop is nothing compared to a flood.
Was interesting to go through, the tiling is old school, and they've preserved the old car lifts, they're positively Steam Age looking steel girder contraptions.
React (react-dom) is also bloat, though. The only selling point of React is being popular which brings some benefit. I'd say we are "stuck" like having to use a legacy machine just because parts for maintenance is widely available.
Ok, so we distinguish between "good racism" and "bad racism" then? Absurd. Sorry but I do not make that distinction: racism is bad no matter what your ancestor did and it's despicable. Also, *stop* assuming that the whole world has the same historical context as the US.
I think "projector" was a beta/trial thing before fleet. And I could never get it to work. Or... I think I got it to work once, but it was decidedly a not-great experience.
It's not just you.

> While I am a very low income Senior [ live in Gov't. H.U.D. Apt.], I do still try to contribute to certain causes. Wikipedia is 1 such Group. I believe that I have given Wikipedia small donations for about 3 years now. While I do not have much to give, It is important that You know we appreciate the great work you undertake.

> I do, respectfully, need to point out 1 "process" that Wikipedia implements that "disturbs/upsets" me. I just, accidentally, got rolled over to Wikipedia on a matter I am researcing. The Wikipedia "overlay" writing asking for Donations said this was 4th time You have asked me.

> THAT "NOTICE" MADE ME FEEL VERY "GUILTY/BAD"....... Right now, I have $18.00 in my bank account ! That's It !

> Soon, I will get my only source of Income [ a monthly Social Security Check] & will try to make a donation at that time.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2...>

Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32713978>
"benevolent sexism"? there is always a flipside to -isms:
If women are preferred, man are logically dispreferred.

(not complaining, just pointing it out)
Having worked at non-profits a lot, more money doesn't make them better. It brings in exactly the wrong sort of people.

I would never donate to the university I went to, because the endowment is too !@#$$ big. It's more than enough to sustain itself, and the remainder goes into wacky financial schemes which hurt the whole organization.
Yes; people have built these before, so it's not really a problem with the source (I've even cross-compiled it for arm android); it's more just not part of the pipeline yet.

Given the prevalence of mac, this makes sense to support; but apple makes it really tricky to do things if you don't actually have mac hardware; even getting the x86_64 mac build built properly is a real struggle. So, we'll certainly try.
Note that wikipedia is 99.9% the volunteers selflessly putting in their time, not the 0.1% who are getting your money.
Without peer review, publications without names would be untrusted and untrustworthy, and would probably represent a security issue
Protecting identities of panelists in market research
That's not what I was saying, but go hard.
Sounds like an important fact to figure out if true or not. That would inform if our exploration should be purely AI based or if we can transport humans across the stars.
An analogy would be to conclude, after going to a Mensa meeting, that most smart people are socially inept :)
Let me guess, you're the one that decides "frivolous"? I couldn't disagree more. Everyone needs way more energy. Most poverty is energy poverty and trying to reduce demand seems like a fool's errand. Electricity rules, stop pretending like it doesn't. We can figure out how to make more of it without destroying everything
No one has said it's a refutation but it's entirely relevant and not an ad hominem at all - unless you think that his record is something to be ashamed of?

As I said above:

> So when an oil company writes a report on the viability of solar power then that doesn't affect how we should view the report?

> His motivation absolutely affects how he reports on this issue. He's not a neutral observer and so he picks and chooses which facts he includes and puts his own spin around the issues.
I'd say they still don't understand why VSCode adoption is rising.

There are two reasons:

- People don't know better (yes, they really don't)

- Language server allowed languages with abysmal tools to finally have some semblance of an IDE

None of us know the future, but in my opinion Fleet is a mistake:

- It tries to fight VSCode at VSCode's turf (an editor with primitive IDE functionality)

- while trying to be a testbed for new UI for JetBrains IDEs

- while trying to both serve the Language Server crowd and keep JetBrain's vastly superior language tools

- while diluting JetBrains' offer of development tools
This is loser logic. It's possible to play by self-imposed self-hindering rules, sure, but your competitors probably aren't. In business, you play the game that exists, not the game you want to exist. Politics is how you do the "game you want to exist" part.
Another big use case is running the "backend" inside a VM or container that has a well-defined set of dependencies installed while the host OS can be updated and managed by the user.
Regardless of travel speed, it would take a lot of energy to get matter or even any identifiable bits of data back from Alpha Centauri to here.

I don't see any discussion of how they propose to tackle that problem.
"Teams is the most obvious manifestation of virtual reality’s potential from a software perspective."

No one I know likes using Teams, they're forced to. I also temporarily used teams for a previous startup and we switched back to Slack. Basic things were broken, like search, which is a no go from me.

I like VR, am an enthusiast even, but if that's their representation of "potential", I think we're headed down the wrong path. I understand the spirit of Teams having everything integrated and available, but in practice they will have to do far better in user experience and functionality, it's not enough to say you have a feature, that feature has to at the very least not suck in the software world, in the VR world? It better blow people away. Most people are still highly skeptical of VR and they will need to be amazing.
There isn't a single left-right axis. Instead it's many dimensional.
If at some point goggles replaces monitors, I can see this taking off... but i don't see that happening anytime soon. VR goggles are way too bulky and uncomfortable now.
So is the Mixed Reality suite getting folded into the former Oculus platform or vice versa? Or is it neither, and just that some tools are being ported to the Facebook side?
We aren't talking about a situation where we disagree about which third parties are trustworthy, e.g. I am citing the BBC which you distrust. My claim is that Orlowski attacks Wikipedia because its content is sometimes disagreeable to him politically, and I have supported that claim with citations from Wikipedia which are direct links to Orlowski's own opinion columns.

Your point, while valid enough in general, is a red herring in this case.
this was installed in my home to replace a oil furnace (air heating)

https://www.gree.ca/products/ducted-central-heat-pump?varian...

I am not sure if it's available outside of canada though.
> Intersectional Scientific Method

The first page of DDG results doesn't have much to say about this search-term. "Intersectionality" is a term that I think originates in some fields of sociology, referring to the idea that the problems of queer people, black people, and other excluded groups shouldn't be treated as distinct sets of problems.

I haven't the first notion what that has to do with "scientific method" (a principle that I don't happen to think has much to do with sociology).
If you thought Microsoft couldn’t find a way to make Teams even more diabolical they just surprise you with the meta verse.
Maybe this can replace Atom. But for that we need a OneDark theme :)
Bitwise Operations for the Average Developer
Ok, so a PC version of The Office might be “compelling”, but does anybody really think that companies are going to supply their employees with $1k PC just so that they can do a digital meetup instead of just a normal phone call and a letter?

I think PCs has merit and could be very useful in some spaces like development, exploring new productivity (with good keyboards) or maybe even prototyping architectural designs etc, but these are too niche for whatever Gates is trying here… for his billion dollar bet to succeed nearly everyone would have to be using his PC product.
The author of this has a decades long history of really disliking Wikipedia, so it seems unlikely that he's genuinely concerned about their funding levels. It's just another thing to attack them with.

Why he's so consistently angry with Wikipedia is still a bit of a mystery to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Orlowski#Criticism_of...
More than a decade I was a young teen dreaming of immersive experiences offered by the wii. I can even say with some specificity that I thought RED STEEL 2 was going to be the most amazing game ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Steel_2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO91n5phQQY

It's a pretty good title! It's a better VR game than most actual VR games. The control scheme has some interesting motion sword and gunplay. Plus you can turn and dash without getting motion sick because its on a tv. Look at the fighting gameplay. See how much better it is than Half Life Alyx and Boneworks?

But, the immersive quality of red steel 2 fades pretty quickly. As does Alyx and boneworks. Because... it sucks. VR asks you to believe you're in a world, like in ready player one. But you're not. None of the little things are there. It's just a camera on your face with better wii wands.

Having understood this, it's pretty clear that the best possible resolution headset will not fundamentally change the VR experience. Maybe text will be easily readable. That would be nice. But the experience Meta wants you to believe you'll have won't be coming any time soon.
With the normalization of crazy in the U.S. it is getting more difficult to discern parody from things that people actually say or do. Poe's Law and reddit /r/atetheonion are things for a reason.
I don't know, I think as a user this would be pretty awesome. The main thing that fills me with dread is not everybody having the headset, or having trouble getting it to work. (Remember the days with each meeting starting with 10 minutes of futzing around with external display settings and resolutions and VGA connectors?)
Surely the other solution is to improve the work environment such that it’s possible to hire the people you aspire to hire…
You convinced me to donate
Heard from colleagues working in academia that their profs were absolutely strict about the layout, the way graphs look, the colors which needed to be used, etc. All so reviewers could decode who's actually behind a paper.
It indeed does
Which part of the world? Even without civil partnership?

Does it mean that there's a legal battle to define whether a certain person can be considered a partner?
Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops
We may never know, but I would think the results wouldn't be the same.

Mostly because there still is inherent bias against certain genders regarding a degree or a profession, e.g. men as nurses, women as programmers, and those would be way more pronounced back in the 90s.
If you spend most of your time working in it? I think so. My company provided me a 3.5k laptop, in fact every company I've worked for I've used very nice and expensive macs.
I could believe it. Next you see it, can you share a link here? It might be nice for discussion.
> Guy Macon

I have no idea about the other stuff, but I knew the name from The Insult File: https://micans.org/stijn/haphazard/flame.txt

I think he's since removed it from his personal site, but there's plenty of copies, floating around.
Hello everyone! We would like to share with you this podcast (for Spanish speakers) where we talked with our Talent Acquisition Analysts, Avril Cardozo, who is also a graduate in Psychology.

We talk about what it is and why it matters to talk about mental health at work, what are the health risks related to it and which are the ways to avoid them and improve the climate in our teams.
We hope you like it!
Have a good track record and interview well?
There was a recent podcast by ZK Knowledge about homomorphic encryption and how this is different and complementary to ZK proofs. The founder of Zama had some surprising things to say (from my perspective) about how ZK is not something that can be used to guarantee privacy when used with blockchain tech. I'm sure that will be exciting news to everyone on HN. :)

https://zeroknowledge.fm/248-2/

Transcript, look for the timestamp with 28:55 to see that discussion:

https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/tra...
Honestly, it is basically about a 100% chance that the next employer will pay for JB. I couldn’t imagine an employer refusing to pay $120/yr for a JB license for an employee they are already paying $180,000/yr.
Microservices ... laptop user sets breakpoints on a Django/Python API/web server, a Java financial transaction processor, and a golang outgoing webhook queue server.
Re-read your quote, those weren’t Justice Thomas’s words. They are the words of a New Yorker writer. It’s not his quote. Also, DEI is not only about black people. Affirmative Action is not the same as DEI.

== By that rule everything such as encouraging eating more vegetables should be in there.==

Credit Unions, the ones who wrote the principles, don’t have anything to do with eating vegetables. They believe DEI to be topical for their business. Have you run a Credit Union?

I like how you dismiss their opinion on their business practices, while embracing one person’s view of affirmative action as the definitive statement on DEI. It’s quite a stretch.
Companies regularly drop $100K+ on Cisco video conferencing gear.
> Lots of complexity for small amount of gain

Being able to develop on a huge beefy cloud instance, with managed background services, possibly with different architectures, from your laptop is huge.

> But then they say "distributed" so that would mean many backend machines, not just one.

‘Distributed’ doesn’t mean ‘many’ - it’s distributed over two.
Primary source is also a way better read: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/technology/meta-zuckerber...

@dang maybe replace the URL?
It would be a random string for the verifier as he does not know the secret. It’s much like one can sign a document without revealing a secret key. In fact signatures are proofs of g^sk=pk where the document hash is a verifier challenge.
When I see the facial rigs in VR chat, I see incessant youtube face.
Vivaldi has this + dozens of unique features for free and has been around for ages.
If you're watching TV and they interrupt the show to say "Consider subscribing to this streaming service, buying that brand of instant noodles, booking a flight to some holiday destination with a certain travel agent", surely that's still an ad break? and if you walk past a bus stop and you notice something inviting you to buy deodorant or vote for a certain candidate, it's still an ad?

I've never seriously heard it claimed that "ads" are targeted or they're now something different: do you want to maintain your argument? What are these other things called nowadays?
what would you say that elixir does better than anyone else?
Mine is, on my ODroid; though something beefier would be nice :)
Elon Musk and Charlize Theron are African Americans too.
Didn't also a lot of Microsofties leave for FB a decade back or so? Could be an easy culture meld.
I suspect that if physics and/or CS students were required to take part in at least one study per class per semester (like psychology students - this may have changed since I last took a psych course), then I suspect that the results of university psychology studies would have greater representation.

Technically, people participating in those studies are supposed to be volunteers. Although if part of your "class participation" grade is a result of "doing" a study, then it might not be totally voluntary. And if those studies are unpleasant enough, then you really don't want to be a senior or graduate psych student actually trying to run those experiments.
> That is why one has the IT department configuring development images.

Sounds like a nightmare! What do IT know about development to be picking tools?
Disclaimer: Wikipedia writer for a while and I think they're in my will? (Really should double check that thing.)

For me, there are two completely separate arguments here:

1. Is Wikipedia currently run by people that I think have the right strategic direction and priorities?

2. Does Wikipedia greatly contribute to the world and could they contribute more?

On the first point I'm, um, politely, a little skeptical. Trying experiments is great, but mission bloat means that a lot of money is wasted on things that aren't at least presently making the world better.

On the second point I do not know how anyone could come to more of a resounding YES to. English Wikipedia is awesome, the Wikitionary project has helped me in multiple languages ranging from Russian, Greek, Chinese, and of course English. Would I personally prefer if they put more effort into getting Wikipedia English translated into other languages more thoroughly, especially the languages of poorer countries? Yes. Of course.

But the thing is, even if the ninety cents of a donation to Wikimedia is spent on what I personally consider to be less effective projects, the dime that is spent on things that I really agree with still buys WAY, WAY, WAY more impact than even a $20 donation anywhere else on education. So if you're going to donate $20 to your alma mater then I recommend either writing for Wikipedia or donating to it, because the impact is real.
> - Part of me think that Jetbrains should have created paid extensions for Vscode much like Resharper for Visual Studio

IIRC, JetBrains considers LSP to be too limiting for refactoring and code-insight capabilities that they want to provide (I think they said that when there was discussion about language server for Kotlin). So it's possible that such extension wouldn't be on par with a "real" JetBrains IDE.
This looks really promising. But by far the biggest moat that Jetbrains is going to have to cross to get into VSCode territory is the plugin ecosystem. Personally I work on React projects so my first thought was: "is there a Prettier[1] plugin?". Looking through the landing page it looks like Plugins are in the works but until that is implemented, it's going to be hard adopting it.

ALSO I just noticed this but can someone (ideally from JetBrains) explain what this line means: "Requires login and periodic connection to JetBrains servers to verify the project" (specifically the last 3 words of that sentence). Quite frankly this line is extremely alarming, are you saying that you're scanning my project to make sure it's not a "professional" project? I'm going to assume this line means that they are checking the IDE and not your source but I won't be using this product until I get an explanation for this. You can find this at the very bottom in the licensing and pricing section.

[1]: https://prettier.io/
>Truly double blind peer review would likely encourage this. Maybe it would also further encourage people to steal research or peer review outside of their expertise.

How so?

For smaller papers, if the papers still stand up to review even when the research has been cut up, that seems a neutral effect at worse. It might even be seen as a benefit as each paper is more focused.

As for stealing results, the names will still be attached before the printing is done. Only the review process will be double blind. Thus any ability to detect stolen research will still occur.
And it has to spend billions to do anything including mantaining it's production capability. I doubt they are profiting from war. No war is profitable on the short term even when it goes according to plan which definitely isn't the case.