skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You earned my upvote with the PKD 3SOPA reference.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Luckey: an evil alt-right-wing extremist pulling the wool over people’s eyes with his robotic right hand, artificial eyes, and steel teeth, who returned from an expedition to the Prox system in possession of a new alien hallucinogen Chew-Z to compete with Can-D, to perpetrate an uncanny creepy plot about adults on drugs playing together with physical miniaturized doll houses in order to escape their dystopian existence by retreating into to a mega-corporation controlled virtual reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_E...

Silicon Valley Keenan Feldspar's VR (S4E8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MAV9jhf04

Silicon Valley (HBO) - HooliVR Goggles (Phone Exploding) S04E09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUAnN-FXcdE
As always, the desires of the shareholders come first and foremost, with the people spending their lives doing the actual work merely considered a resource to exploit the labor of.
Weekly obviously /s

Of course with a bajillion worth of stock options to go with it.
> Firefox OS, also known as Boot2Gecko from the "Gecko" rendering engine of Firefox, was a surprisingly clean and smooth experience, and its official deprecation in 2016 was probably more of an adoption issue than a technical problem.
>
> Even Firefox OS's user interface was very nicely designed, with visible inspiration from HP WebOS and Palm OS. Clean lines, a lively flat design, and an easy-to-use app development toolkit made it a compelling alternative to Android and iOS. Except nobody adopted it seriously, and it died in 2016.

…did the author ever try to use a FirefoxOS as their daily driver, or did they just play around with it for a bit?

• The SDK had constant breaking changes

• Update policy from hardware vendors was worse than Android's (Alcatel never updated their "flagship" FxOS phone outside the US)

• Together, it meant that most users couldn't use the app store

• The UI/UX was very obviously just half-assedly cobbled together. It was flat only because that's easier to do when you have no designers on staff, and none of it was clean compared to stock Android 4

I never tried writing an app, so I can't comment on the quality of the SDK, but since it broke constantly and most app authors apparently gave up, going by all the incompatible corpses rotting in the app store, I also question the "easy-to-use SDK" part.

The default apps were also kinda awful, I still remember the camera app having an overflow issue where too bright pixels were rendered as black, e.g.

Overall, FxOS failed not because people didn't understand its hidden genius, it failed because it was awful.
Who said ‘should’? If that’s what the creators want what business is it of yours?
¡Hola, tocayo! Mind if I ask you a Question?

I've seen a talk of yours about Stencil and how it was compatible with other things because of Web-Components.

How is the compatibility of qwik with Web-Components?

Cheers.
Where's a good place to find interesting worker co-ops to join when you're tired of the corp grind?
I think your understanding of hydration is correct.

The 100ms -> 1% line comes from amazon.
https://dexter.agency/blog/100ms-faster-1-more-revenue-how-s...

I feel time-to-interactive is more important than just the page load as a user, so I can see why it would matter.

There is a trick in remix which improves user experience somewhat. https://twitter.com/ryanflorence/status/1547959632663961602?...

Qwik also saves on network bandwidth.
The benfits of qwik will be felt most on slow network connections and old mobile devices.

Feel free to correct me if I got something wrong.
> It's strictly based on skin color. That's the problem. You have no idea if they are disadvantaged or not.

We do know that skin color is a decisive factor in discrimination. You suggest to let this continue to happen (do nothing) because some specific individuals of a discriminated skin color do not seem to be discriminated.

So you just need one token black guy, not even in every company, just one, promoted to near executive-level, so that people like you can say "look; if they want to, they can!"

And then you can all go on with your lives pretending you're there because of your merits.
Sony changed the PS5 1200 chip
> When most people think "ad", they think that third parties are collecting data about the computer or user attached to it, and then those third parties respond with a bid and an ad

No, that's called "targeted ad". Or spyware which happens to also deliver ads, depending on your tolerance for privacy violations.

> but hardly nefarious

Harmless ads are annoying and distracting too.
Scraping legacy ASP.Net sites with Scrapy: a real world example
Yeah, this article tries too hard to appeal to all audiences in a way that ends up making it confusing for everyone. Starts off with the clumsy maze example, then hops over into graph theory and NP-complete proofs, then hand waves something about sharing bits and quantum computing... But enough about that, it turns out blockchain will prevent nuclear war!
Wow, this is really good news for Coinbase. And I mean that, because I'm utterly convinced Coinbase is going to 0. In the second quarter they had $800m revenue, and made a loss of $1Bn. The only good news is they had $5.6Bn in cash. All their financial statements are like "We all know crypto is cyclical blah blah blah" as if the macro situation today is the same as the macro situation in 2018. The company is just way too fat compared to its competitors, it moves too slow, and it'll run out of money before crypto comes back - if it ever does.

On the flip side though, Web3? Hey guys, come over here and use Coinbase and Google for your decentralized project. I don't understand who thinks "Web3" and decides "let's outsource key parts of our infrastructure to Google".

All-in-all, a very strong signal for Coinbase, once it drops around the $5-10Bn market cap it makes a very interesting acquisition target for Google.
No, it's actually a single application OS that accepts plugins, so instead of buying a spreadsheet, you add spreadsheet functions to The Text Editor, you learn one application, and add features to that instead of buying new applications.
As a side note, this made me realize just how underutilized thumbs are when touch typing. Fingers are each responsible for around 4 keys (including the numbers row) while thumbs are each responsible for 0.5 keys (they both are responsible for the same space key). It's unfortunate these additional thumb keys didn't catch on back then.
Vivaldi 5.5 on Android: New welcome flow, auto-close on inactive tabs and more
I think it's problematic that most security features (configurable by the user) are switched off by default and require some effort to set up. This is getting better though and for S3 buckets specifically a lot of additional features have showed up lately to "solve" this.
Engineers develop a new kind of shape-memory material
These figures should be interpreted as lower bounds, because organizations using Datadog may not monitor all of their AWS accounts, such as those used for testing or development purposes.
Not only “compile expensiveness”, but you quite literally have to prove your types in the program, which is seldom easy.

E.g. if you were to write a merge sort, and have it in the type that it will output a sorted array, you will have a very hard time actually proving it correct, akin to algorithm analysis.

Though to be fair most dependent typed languages allows for types without proofs, and having it in the type that an array is sorted for example can be valuable even without formal verification.
Same here, I don't get the whataboutism some folks here try to spin off, like we are some luddites shaming VR concept itself.

No, its purely FB, clearly long-term amoral company, that gets all the (well deserved) hate. I stand behind the statement that humankind is worse-off long-term with FB existing and trying to get into all aspects of our existence to sell more ads.

I wouldn't care about it at all if US had good regulators re privacy and other aspects of these sneaky corporations. But it clearly doesn't, cash flow is the king, hence one should be reasonably warry of such behavior, with company wielding so much power.

The above more or less applies also to ie Google and Apple, but based on behavior FB is in its own category.
"Trust the science" is an oxymoron. Please do substantiate why grandparent's claim is false. There is a massive literature on the shortcomings and, yes, even potential for malice, of current peer-review practices.

https://sigbed.org/2022/08/22/the-toxic-culture-of-rejection...

https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news-blog/research-misco...
Entertainment is not time wasting and VR is not just for entertainment.
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Full disclosure, I say this having spent days playing my Steam Deck now.

It's a hardware channel to deliver you an ad platform selling you video games. Steam has better vertical integration (they are selling the games they are advertising), but it's the same idea. I haven't seen Steam OS telemetry reports, but I would expect they're basically the same as every other tech player. The platform _is_ open and hackable, but the OS is immutable and it's still an ad device.
There are objective measures of statistical power, given an effect size a priori ahead of time you can estimate the power of a particular procedure. The trouble is that what a "reasonable" effect size may be is subjective and requires prior knowledge; post-hoc power calculations are widely regarded as misleading and conveying little additional information beyond a p-value.
Houston‘s sprawl pushes up transportation costs so poor people might have a cheaper car but they are paying more in gas and maintenance. And of course average people care about affordability not just the poor.
> a new grad straight out of undergrad makes like $150k at Amazon (which is the low end of comparative companies)

and a new grad at non tech / non banking makes ??
Computation, sure. Aviation? Not really: helicopters today are not much different from those in 1977, and not much safer either. When they crash (and they do), it's just as bad as this 1977 crash.
I think there needs to be a few things solved:

1. The lenses. Fresnel lens are a pain, if you aren't dead centre of the headset slips because of sweat, you get blurriness.

2. The weight. I have a Quest 2, and while light, it's still noticeable, and I definitely wouldn't want to work on it.

3. Resolution. You're trying to replace IRL UHD Human Vision, a resolution of 1920 x 1832 isn't going to cut it.

I enjoyed the stuff I tried in VR when it was novel, but mostly now it sits on the side, doing nothing. It just didn't hold my attention for long enough.
Good advice. These are all of the right answers.
For google cloud.
GP is kind of downplaying the real horror of Facebook which is that they (allegedly) enabled genocide.
Stoutchain
If you want a quick way to install Arch, Endeavour OS works really well. Got me up and running with what is basically an Arch install in about 10 minutes.
Same here - Samsung or Google keyboards same, they must have secretly agreed on doing this crap. I disabled correction and by looking at the word suggestions I'm positive I will never reenable it. Any usable Android keyboards out there which do also swiping and don't suck all your data?
There was no need for him to inject himself as "negotiator", yet he did it. And now everyone is surprised that he is targeted. Poor stupid Elon fool.
Explanation how it works around 3:30. You press (or hold?) the key, and it's basically CTRL-F backwards or forwards (based on which key you press) from your current cursor position.
> I've never heard anybody propose this approach before.

Some people do, some people just talk. Noone proposed don't mean noone did.

> Usually durability / continuity of business conversations focus on having backups in other accounts

That's quite poor quality of conversations then. Continuity of business is much wider than having backups.

> how long would it take to build that and what else could you have done with that time?

Lesser than you may have expect. What could you have done with your time is certainly a good question, the best asked when your infra is down because cloud provider blocked your account. As I mentioned in original comment, if you ignore probability of that, then you are just not experienced enough.
These companies are increasingly hiring in non-SV offices, but I take (particular) umbrage with “gamify your career to get there”; that’s not remotely true.
>My grandfather told me shortly after Kitty Hawk, posters appeared in Manhattan claiming "Soon! New York to Paris in 15 hours by air!" with glamorous people walking toward a Concorde-like airplane.

To be fair, the posters were absolutely correct. It was soon after Kitty Hawk that it became possible and even commonplace to fly on commercial passenger aircraft from NY to Paris in 15 hours or less. Of course, this depends on exactly how you define "soon"...
What is it with this recent trend of people posting their projects before they've done any work whatsoever on them?

Last week we had libsql with a disparaging blog post about sqlite but zero code written, this week we have someone who says he's going to build a Linux distribution but has only penned a single blog post that says just that, nothing else.

Can we get back to posting and upvoting things where some actual work of interest has been completed? Doesn't have to be a finished product, but like, anything at all would be nice. Thanks.
> How is this related to DEI?

The words of a black man regarding affirmative action? In pretty much all the ways.

> Credit Unions (and co-ops) also employ people, so it makes sens from that angle, as well.

By that rule everything such as encouraging eating more vegetables should be in there. The guiding principles should be minimal and topical.
> Only if by doing so you remove vegetation to plant them.

That is not correct. Read the article I linked that explains it. Biology isn't as simple as "CO2 => biomass".
Well Silicon Valley on Twitter expect you to be CTO at at 3x and retire by 40. And this has been going on for quite sometime.

I mean they aren't wrong, after all a Fresh Grad gets $200K Total Comp from FANNG. That is nearly double ( adjusting for exchange rate ) the "Senior" software engineering roles in the blog post.
Indeed - I'll be polite:
I just cannot falsify the "showing off" thesis.
What value to the community does it add posting this single data point under his own name?
Aggregates like Glassdoor are much more valuable.
Is Glassdoor skewed/misleading? Then make that the post (and quantify).

PS: And always be very careful with individual anecdotes! There were whistles blown - from multiple sources - about extreme abuse at a famous science institute in Germany [1], and the single review on Glassdoor about it at the time was one guy singing it praises.

[1]
https://www-sueddeutsche-de.translate.goog/wissen/belaestigu...
In Praise of FFmpeg
Funnily enough, that sounds like a ChromeOS phone.
I hope your soy overdose wears off one day, for the sake of the people that have to put up with you in real life.
Writing about your own work in third person has nothing to do with using the passive voice. You can use the active voice just fine: "Papers X,Y,Z show that ..." works regardless of the identity of the authors of X,Y,Z So the style argument is wrong.

The other argument you have is also questionable. It doesn't matter at all the identity of the citer when using citations to argue that a topic of research is important. If you cite 20 papers and they are mostly from the very same author, it doesn't matter if you're the author: any reviewer will realize the claim is shaky -- or not, if all those papers happens to be actually outstanding.

Double blind is imperfect but miles better than single blind. And we shouldn't list made-up defects that don't stand to scrutiny to it.
I'm debating whether I should give up and disable all auto-correction. It does save me time when I fat-finger words, hitting the letters directly adjacent to the ones I intended, but then it wastes me time when it does what I described before.

Honestly, it's been decades now. How hard can it be to make auto-correct not suck? There's so many utterly stupid things it does which should be fixable with a few lines of code. For one, how about not auto-correcting proper names (which you can tell because they're in the middle of a sentence and start with a capital)? And how about making a lone 'i' capital? And how about not auto-correcting at all if the user has backspaced over the auto-correction and fixed it?
Exactly how fast is the startup time?

Faster than Sublime Text? Faster than gVim? Faster than Notepad.exe?

I don't like the word "fast" when it comes to describing the startup time of a text editor. Cold boot startup is a reasonable metric to benchmark reliably.

Some text editor out there is being marketed as "blazingly fast" because of the sole merit of the language they used to write it. But on a personal level, I found it to be as fast if not a bit slower than VS Code.
I had never used Kotlin before but picked it up day 1 of the job easily and was committing and pushing PRs immediately. There’s always a few gotchas with any language but Kotlin to me was basically JS/Python meets Java. Pretty trivial to get going - always some nuances to learn but contributing was trivial.

I have no idea about Elixir but it doesn’t look as conventional.
Search is not something that requires interoperability. I can use DDG without any of my friends using it.
Is the "owned by an ridiculously evil corporation that makes it's money by creating social strife, ruining society, destroying lives and brainwashing people"-problem on the path to being solved?
I've just about given up on autocorrect on phones. iOS, Android, doesn't matter: every single one I've tried is absolute garbage. Much easier and faster to just type everything manually than to rely on autocorrect shortcuts that seem to go out of their way to ignore everything that should be corrected while "correcting" everything that shouldn't be corrected.
> I already said:
> >>and implementing client and compositor support for it. It's exactly the same as X.

Not quite the same. X11 (notably the xfree86 project which maintained things for the last decade or so), was always quite free-wheeling about allowing things.
They subscribed to something similar to the linux kernels approach of "mechanism, not policy".

No, I don't think there is any conspiracy. Nor do I think they are bad people.

Nor do I think the whole thing is over-engineered. It's mostly pretty impressive.
This is an interesting article but it contributes a bit to terminological confusion about reviewing modes.

First, the article talks about "double-blind reviewing" as being "logistically hard" because reviewers can "find the paper in a Google search", and talks about a "price tag". By contrast, many conferences around me implement so-called "lightweight double-blind" reviewing, which takes zero effort and just means that the authors and affiliations are not mentioned on the copy of the paper that reviewers read. I think this form of double-blind is a no-brainer, eliminating some bias with essentially no downside; and that discussions about the cost and complexity of double-blind reviewing are a distraction from this immediate improvement.

Here is a typical paragraph from a call for papers (here, STACS 2023) describing the policy:

As in the previous two years, STACS 2023 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process: submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. The purpose of the double-blind reviewing is to help PC members and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult. In particular, important references should not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web, submit them to arXiv, and give talks on their research ideas.

Second, the article talks about "open review" as meaning "everyone’s identity is public". This is sometimes what the term means, but not always -- for instance the OpenReview.net platform <https://openreview.net/> supports forms of open reviewing where the reviewers are still anonymous. Here "open" means "the discussion happens in the open, and everyone can post comments about the paper and reviews and contribute to the discussion". Here again, I feel that the discussion about "open reviewing" with non-anonymous reviewers is drawing attention away from this model which looks like a net improvement over the status quo.
You can't if everyone is using the same tactic, and if everyone is using it more successfully than you then you'll be a lot worse off. A different approach would be preferable.
I said the "best" way, not the "only" way.

Multiple approaches are needed, but it's far cheaper and easier to avoid CO2 production than to sequester carbon (even if plants are used to capture it).
Often the problem if you develop something as a SPA then your framework probably has different state management solutions built in that you will develop with, without any way to easily tie that state to a particular url or to pass a bunch of state to a new window. Thus opening new window puts you in default state of the SPA.

This is of course maddening if the site should not be a SPA but was developed that way because when you are running a company and need to build things quickly it is easier if you just have one toolbox labelled SPA-building tools and pull that out and get going.
Wikipedia is not short on cash
It's basically the only way to install Arch. The USB stick just dumps you to a root console of a Linux system and you have to do the rest.

I've been using Arch since 2003 and am still salty about the loss of the text guided installer.
Original lite is a clean and elegant Lua implementation of text editor with quite a few features. Lite-xl does the last mile to better integrate with OS and does many features that were out of scope of lite, for example multiple cursors. In that sense lite-xl is like you say a bit more complicated, to make it actually useful for everyday tasks.

I use lite embedded in my own application, and lite-xl as a quick and competent note-taking application (with custom plugin to set filename to date + document header). Both are great to me in their own ways.
Where do you work? Are you hiring?

(I am an Elixir dev)
Add to it:

* Your Firefox can't read the HTML attachment you opened from Thunderbird because we messed up the sandboxing.

* Popup: Close your Firefox to update it. Oh, also, unless you manually run the update, it will just tell you to close it as soon as you reopen it. Some variants of the update command will also tell you no updates are available unless Firefox is closed.