skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had access to Oculus dev kits back in the day and am now a Valve Index owner, which means that

1. I've been closely following VR for almost 10 years now

2. I've invested some money for the best VR hardware available (at the time).

My take on Facebook and why I am fully on board with the skepticism here:

- VR hardware, at least on the higher end, is pretty good. It has been "there" for many possible applications at least in terms of fidelity since ~2019. VR being so uninteresting is mostly a software problem in my opinion, not a hardware problem, even if the hardware development is important to make adoption more realistic without the need to invest a ton of money.

- The novelty of VR wears off rather quickly. I barely use my VR hardware nowadays, and right now I can't imagine a scenario in which VR makes anything in my everyday life easier and more efficient, quite the opposite. While I don't doubt that it will happen, I very much doubt that Facebook will be involved in the next important step forward. They are just too out of touch with reality (outside of the investor/silicon valley/zuckerberg bubble) for that.

- The software is just lacking, and everything Facebook is presenting when it comes to software is in many ways a step back compared to VR products from as early as 2014 (e.g. VR Chat)...Acting as if Facebook is pushing anything forward here is just naive following of buzzwords at best, dishonest parroting of marketing talk at worst.

- Anything a company like Facebook might plan with VR is just uninteresting, because it will ultimately have dark patterns, manipulation and monetization baked into its very core, be it directly or indirectly.

Rather than developing VR as a "next step" in personal computing, Facebook is just racing to build an ad infested dystopian walled garden as fast as they can, why would I get excited about that in the slightest?

I'm still generally very interested in VR, but the only thing I'll get excited about is VR device from a manufacturer that doesn't have backstabbing me as his ultimate goal and will base all his decisions on being Facebook.

And yes, I still remember "Oculus won't require a Facebook Sign-In", and while that has been reverted for now, I won't believe for a second that the people working at Facebook aren't eager to get something equivalent back as soon as enough users are on board.
I'm not a psychologist, I have nothing but that BA in the field, but if I had to make a guess, my guess is that "wonderful" is not the same as "competent".

Even at the time, there were studies that showed traits associated with women were rated more positively by men and women than traits associated with men.

The way you study this is you'd give a list of words:

gentle
caring
assertive
stubborn
aggressive
loving

(ideally you'd randomize the word order too)

And then you'd have a group of subjects rate them as more associated with men or women on a scale.

Ideally you'd get a big sample and replicate this study.

Then either in the same study at a different time, or another study, you'd take those same words and you'd ask your subjects to rate them as positive or negative.

That's where you see effects like the one mentioned in the wikipedia article.

That kind of thing's been done a bunch of times.

But studies on gender and competency have been done too, and at the time they showed the same pattern as we found.

I say "At the time" because this is >20 years ago.
What if that treatment is a necessary counter-weight to being taken less seriously?
I would suggest first identifying what you find confusing and starting there. What are the features that keep fooling you?
The box model? The cascade? Flex axes? Specificity? As a declarative language that is really intuitive to start, so simple to get so far, and one which must maintain perfect backwards compatibility with twenty years of web design, so many elements of fundamental functionality are never really studied by casual practitioners.
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I just downloaded the Fleet beta from the App toolbox. First impressions is that it is very clean.

This is essentially Vscode but with Jetbrains language and refactoring engine.

Quick thoughts:

- It needs a bit more autocomplete e.g automatically close tags for React components

- GUI run configuration - they have made it so it uses a JSON file like Vscode to configure, GUI is quicker and easier (can still click run on gutter for package.json scripts so not that bad)

- Sometimes you want to use Vscode to make some quick changes/play around instead of firing up an IDE. Fleet replaces that for me

- Part of me think that Jetbrains should have created paid extensions for Vscode much like Resharper for Visual Studio
*dominated

(But to answer your question, not a clue.)
This is a hit piece by someone who hates Wikipedia. It should be ignored. If and when someone with far less bias writes an article on Wikimedia finances, I might be interested.
More useful questions to ask are how much good they do and how much harm they cause. I use wiki daily. I gain so much from it that the 10 quids a month seems like a bargain.

The wiki outrage looks like a variation of bike shedding, the more people know, they more opinion they have
Porting the Solana eBPF JIT Compiler to ARM64
> Anyone talking about "dog whistle" gets an instant ignore from me.

I take it you think a "dog-whistle" is something the left criticizes the right for doing; and I suppose you are of the right. In fact a dog-whistle could be uttered by a politician of any colour; it's simply a message that is more likely to be heard by one particular political group than others.

There are evidently what you might call "anti-dog-whistles": messages that are not likely to be heard by some group. Apparently you belong to the group that can't hear messages containing the term "dog-whistle".
Lobster bro has not done well, either, so I wonder whether this is a 'fact' worth taking axiomatically. I suspect the reality is more of a dialectic between lobsterism and the intelligent undermining of hierarchy, because systems work better when the system thrives, not when the system is beholden to the biggest lobster in the pot :) the system's goals must surely be on a different level to the lobsters, and the system has to compete in turn with other systems… in a sense it's lobsters all the way up, but in another sense it's always necessary to balance the lobsterism with intelligence.
Has anyone here played Stray?

It’s a wonderful game that came out this year about a city that’s on permanent lockdown. All the humans are gone, but the AI and drones just continue to keep the city “safe” from a virus that has long since vanished.

Also you play as a cat.
Ok, so I could kind of understand the use case of running the UI on one machine and the backend for the UI on another machine. Lots of complexity for small amount of gain, but somewhat makes sense.

But then they say "distributed" so that would mean many backend machines, not just one. What on earth is the backend doing where one instance is not enough for one client? How could one client UI possibly need more than one backing instance? Sounds horribly inefficient.
Well it makes it easier to manage rather than wrangling with multiple stand alone IDEs and versions
Having thousands of wealthy relatives helps. “Tenuous” is a stretch
I can name a dozen people who, for anyone in my field, are extremely famous - to the point of if you meet and talk to them at a conference, it'll be the talk of the lab for weeks afterwards and everyone will gush about how cool it is that you got to meet them and talk to them.

If I walk two corridors over - still in my department, but just a slightly different aspect of the field - they won't even recognize the name.
Batteries is not an alternative to firm energy, you still need firm energy to balance the grid wether it's from nuclear/hydro/geo or fossil.

That's why all decarbonized grids have hydro/nuclear as their main source of energy.
They do not have to be noisy. Gardermoen is not noisy, Arlanda is not noisy, Copenhagen is not noisy. They just need to be designed deliberately to be quiet. Adding green plants won't make it much quieter unless you plant huge hedges indoors.
Wow thank you. This is a great gift you have passed to me. I so thoroughly enjoyed his ambient works that I've burned them into my memory proteins inside my head. To the point of maybe not enjoying them so much any more.

It'll be very good to hear some new tracks.
Trefethen's video lectures are also superb: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/scientific-computing-dphil-...
Not sure if any technology can make something real or less isolating.
You can mimic with with audio, video conferencing and now XR but it's till fake bits which can be manipulated by you know who or make you pay or watch ads which is what it will be. Should have named it Adverse.
No. The serialization of state from the server to the client is the only parallel. The serialization is simpler and more efficient and doesn’t round-trip. And you get rich interactivity and a first class component model and (presumably) TypeScript.
Scrapyd – managing a fleet of scrapers via web interface
What if the black woman is privileged, and went to a prestigious college all expenses paid by parents...you know, like most of the white men you meet in tech?

Meanwhile, the person who is self made (real diversity in this situation) and successfully bootstrapped themselves gets passed over because thier skin color is too bright.

Qualified diverse people are rare (no relation to skin color "diversity"). That is why everyone is cracked out over skin color and gender because there is an actual population of people that the HR secretariat pool can EASILY identify by just taking a glance. Thier mission, of course, is to please thier white male executives.
aws-vault is an amazing tool that really simplifies working with lots of aws accounts in a secure fashion
But in the comment I'll responded to you said and I quote

" It depends on the some who are being harmed"

"There will be winners and losers"

That doesn't sound to me like someone who believes eliminating private schools harms nobody, That sounds to me like someone who is being a little bit reactionary and doesn't care.

You aren't harming anyone, but there will be losers?
Can’t help myself from thinking that this insane zero-covid policy is more about the party conditioning its population for a coming war than fighting a virus.
Is it legal to parodise in an official document (?) to the US Supreme Court like this?
None of that is likely to happen in the airports I occasionally visit.
Inertia.

See https://thecodest.co/blog/why-kotlin-is-awesome-but-you-will...
Batteries are not cheaper than nuclear.
> But everyone is waiting around for SpaceX to solve the hard problems (cheap tonnage to orbit, and multi-planetary landing systems)… because NASA didn’t. (Admittedly NASA funds are funding a lot of SpaceX)

I don't think you're giving NASA enough credit here. The Commercial Crew and Cargo programs were innovative bets that paid off in spades. I hope they do more like it.

I tend to blame the floundering period on Congress.
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Wikimedia is based in Silicon Valley (San Francisco, really), so they're competing with other employers in the region for talent.

The reason they shouldn't move their HQ somewhere cheap is the same reason Apple or Google shouldn't: there isn't the concentration of tech talent there.
Shanghai says water supplies 'normal' after shortage scare sparks hoarding
Well maybe not slower than anything from the 9x era, but it is definitely slower than it was on Vista for example.

Also e.g. the "Whiteboard" program which replaced the older "Sketchpad" program in Windows 10 tablets. The Sketchpad opened even before I released the button on the pen, while the Whiteboard crap just takes forever to open, then takes forever to "login to Microsoft account", then takes forever to load anything...
That's super helpful, thank you! I'm a SaaS marketer with over 10 years experience growing SaaS companies from $500k to $5M ARR. So I can definitely add value.

I hear you that finding a co-founder is based a lot on trust over time with a person. My issue is that I've worked remotely almost all my life, so while I have built relationships with team members, it's hard to sustain those cross-border relationships over time.
I think it's more that there are now many large companies that now deploy VSCode as a shared, distributed editor. When I was at Google they were starting to replace their proprietary "Cider" web-based editor (for Google3) with a "CiderV" which was a modified hosted VSCode. A hosted VSCode instance makes a lot of sense for a company like Google where source-code-on-laptops is generally forbidden and developers are often issued Chromebooks etc. It solves & improves the distributed/remote development problem without requiring organizational changes. And it's much faster and smoother than RDP, etc.

So those are potential customers that JetBrains was/is losing. My brain is almost 20-years-wired for JetBrains products. I would have been much happier to be able to use a remote JetBrains IDE vs a remote VSCode.

There are also people for whom the existing JetBrains IDEs will always feel big slow and bloated. They have a lot of features packed in and come with a lot of lifestyle assumptions. I can see the value in JetBrains rolling out something that feels lighter-weight.
Slightly offtopic, but the image of the periodic table is "just blurry enough" that I got very distracted with "are my eyes ok, is this just bad quality?".
I give money to Wikipedia occasionally and will gladly continue, thanks.

Wikimedia makes the world a much better world place. They should have the funds to do whatever they want.

You’re mad at them for some reason because they have 400 mil? That’s not even half a billion.

I want a world where the Wikimedia foundation is a multi-billion dollar entity.
Encountered this yesterday, the friend who had replied in support of this seemed to be doing so in a serious manner. Are folks really suggesting GOTO is a valid alternative to nested IF in high level languages?
I think this landing page could use more "why" instead of "what". Why do I need no hydration? Why do I want to remove 99% of javascript from the main thread? I only rarely use frontend stuff, but when I do, I like to use sveltekit. Why would I want to use qwik?
Agreed. That nonsense is tiring.
> Fleet is an opportunity for us to provide a different user experience for developers

Given they're presumably spending a lot on this development, it would be useful to give a bit more detail than this. What is different?
Analysts Have No Idea How Many Macs Apple Shipped Last Quarter
There’s a video documentary somewhere about a big one in NJ I believe.

There’s a company in Canada that specializes in making them too.
I love this topic. Are there any industry fields or sub fields that make heavy use of this content?
Ouch. :/ Thanks for letting me know - I'll see if I can fix this. Message being however: AWS is super complex where things should be simple. :)
This and Untitled by Sigur Rós[0] are my go-to work albums.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(_)_(album)
I've never heard anyone from the US or Europe claim that plastic will degrade back into the ground. Somehow they changed their "entire culture" to put trash in cans.
Much the same applies to the Mozilla Foundation.

You can't contribute donations to Firefox; you can only contribute to the Mozilla Foundation, which spends most of the money it gets from donations on things that aren't Firefox.
This was inevitable, the activist class never sleeps and are obsessed with these kind of take overs
Explains a lot on the recent Musk dealings with Putin. Follow the money.
A job board which truly understands software developers
The GTX 1080 launched in 2016 at $600. With inflation that's $740. The RTX 4080 with a relabeled 4070 die is $900 and the actual RTX 4080 is $1200.
Likely not. Saying "we will only hire women for this position" would be illegal, but saying it implicitly would not be. True quotas are unlawful, but there are many loopholes there.
If you put millions of people (higher percentage than countries in Europe e.G) into prison there are less people unemployed. That doesn't say something about your economy though, for which, beside GDP, the unemployement rate very often is a proxy.

The biggest other reason:

Unemployement rate in Europe is mostly calculated by the number of people getting benefits and looking for a job (roughly) (+ in Germany if they work less than 15h/week). The US calls a sample of housholds (some 10k) and asks if the people in the household actively look for jobs but don't have one. In that case they are counted as jobless.
"The Wikimedia Foundation defines racial equity as shifting away from Eurocentricity, White-male-imperialist-patriarchal supremacy, superiority, power and privilege..."

from the knowledge equity fund page. what the heck
Many climate tipping points are closer than we thought
>self-proclaimed cultural Marxists

(X) Doubt

"The term "Cultural Marxism" refers to a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory which claims that Western Marxism is the basis of continuing academic and intellectual efforts to subvert Western culture" [0]

No one "self proclaims" that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...
It's weird that none of the answers here mention slavery and segregation. It's really not a long time ago, and not surprising at all that this trauma leaves permanent cultural marks. These people are peoples grandparents, and many of them are still alive: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/archivesphotos/results/item....
research has found a bigger correlation with indoor time in early years than computers
I don't intend for this to be critical. You've created something pretty impressive and are giving it away which is awesome. But since you've acknowledged the decision as controversial I'll say it - web technologies for UI kind of suck compared to just about anything else. They are hard to reason about, they are fragile, slow, and heavy. They are a house of cards build on shifting sands.

Now I know there are people here who hold the exact opposite opinion. They've worked extensively with Carbon/NextSTEP/Cocoa/UIKit, or OS/2 PM, or Win32/WinRT, or even Swing/JavaFX and then moved on to web UIs and love it. I don't get it though. I sometimes wonder if the web UI fans are mostly people who want to work and play on Linux and that's about the only way software makes it onto or off of that platform these days - as Electron apps.
Toyota Exposed Secret Key Publicly on GitHub for Five Years Causing a Data Leak
Well, if the business owner himself engage in world politics it is relevant to follow the money trail. Musk is not any businessman. His influence goes far.
Here’s a small list of what Valve invented or developed over years:

Counter - Strike

Steam (and numerous innovations within it)

Dota 2

Portal 1 and 2

The entire VR industry as it exists today comes from Valve showing Oculus their far more advanced prototype and giving them the tech, which later led to FB acquisition

CastAR which was initially developed at valve - so far not successful but I think it has potential.

The best VR game currently available - half life Alyx

Gaming on Linux through Proton

Steam Deck
Because the vague plan at monopolization IS the value.

That's pretty much the point. It doesn't matter whether it's a GOOD plan. In a sense it matters much more that it's an evil plan, because that would hurt everybody else more and lead to more capital accumulation and return on investment.

Sometimes these things aren't that complicated. Whether the company's beneficial in other ways is a much more difficult question. Valuation isn't: valuation is more or less a gamble on how much the company can crush everybody else.
Slow version of the Death Star. 1) Send Cyanobacteria out. 2) Wait a few billion years for a competitive animal to evolve and nuke the planet to pieces. 3) Profit! (mine the asteroids).
> - GUI run configuration - they have made it so it uses a JSON file like Vscode to configure, GUI is quicker and easier (can still click run on gutter for package.json scripts so not that bad)

And better auto-complete for that. I tried to add my golang project, but had no clue what it wants from me for goExecPath or buildTargets. Why not show the help inside the editor? I had to google and look around (goExecPath is the actual link to the bin, not GOPATH or something) and buildTargets means files (main.go). The naming feels weird.
Here's a site with faceted search on WikiData:
https://wikipedia.peerdb.org/

And here's an alternative way to browse Wikipedia and WikiData:
https://conze.pt/

These sites are possible because the Wikimedia Foundation puts a lot of effort into making it easy for others to retrieve the data and reuse them.
The way I read this is that the more desirable a city is to property devs, the lower the cost of housing, which seems true. Affordable housing = Less scarcity, less scarcity comes from building more
JetBrains trying to fight back Visual Studio Code taking over their market share.
I love futurist content. Isaac Arthur's channel on Youtube is a fantastic resource for this. I'm convinced that a Dyson Swarm (ie orbitals around a star to near-fully capture the energy output of the Sun) is our inevitable future because it doesn't require any new physics or exotic tech. Specifically, solar power and stainless steel get you most of the way there. It just makes too much sense.

This has all sorts of implications but an important one is how do you travel between stars. The rocket equation is bad news for interstellar travel. Getting to any significant percent of light speed (and decelerating at the other end) requires an insanely massive amount of energy that we really don't have any likely feasible method without exotic things like antimatter or black hole propulsion (yes, this is a thing). Even on vast timescales, you almost need viable nuclear fusion, which is far from a certainty.

But these all assume you carry your fuel, which is the real tyranny of the rocket equation. Photos of course have momentum. Enough of them can be used as a form of propulsion, which is what the Starlight project is about.

So one proposal for interstellar travel is so-called interstellar highways where energy from a star is concentrated to provide propulsion. You then only have to carry fuel to deceleate. Alternatively you can pre-build infrastructure to use the same technique to slow you down at the other end.

Personally, i think this is likely the only viable method we've thus far conceived. I encourage you go watch this [1] if this interests you.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDR4AHYRmlk
> Historically recessions are very profitable for the rich, as they are able to buy assets (property, stock, etc) at vastly deflated prices because they had cash or equivalent before the recession began. Lower income people just lose their jobs, and as a product often have to sell their homes at deflated prices to the rich

its why i'm very skeptical that a recession will "fix" the housing (prices/supply) issue...
Why would racism affect the family structure of non-white families?
They kind of are, because they sponsor research and conferences.
If the tech is so interesting then why is the "tech specs" tab filled with no substance? I can barely begin to speculate what would make this hardware stand out over the competition, let alone make confident conclusions. The hardware having the potential to be cool isn't a strong point to make because the people selling the hardware aren't even making it.
https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
Side note: No VPN needed, the video is not gebolocked, at least ffrom NL.
Chinese city of Shenzhen offers free money to boost chip industry