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I was so optimistic about VR technology when the oculus cv1 (edit: dev kit actually, cv1 was already fb as pointed out below) came out. Now that facebook owns it, I can't find that same optimism.

This looks like a sweet piece of tech, but it feels like these big tech companies have too many priorities that come before the end user: investors, the companies own ambitions, governments/politics. If the product decisions they make happen to benefit us, it's only because those other considerations were met first.

I think the best thing to happen would be for FB to solve all the really hard and expensive tech problems, and then go tits up. Then a smaller company that can actually put the user first can step in and reproduce the tech for cheap.
Will they answer questions like..
Why have I been waiting weeks for a review?
Why was my app rejected?
Why was my app taken down?

I would imagine these would be like 99% of devs questions.
NATO was created to fight against Soviet Union/Russia so I don’t think that this will be a case. Long time ago Putin they’ve asked him about it in the interview and replied that he asked Clinton (I think) and he just laughed.

No one knew his plans for a fact but since NATO betrayed him multiple times and growing up in the SU he probably romanticized it a lot which eventually created this situation.

If everyone is in NATO who are they gonna be fighting against then?
Solar hot water is great, but that's not gravitational storage, e.g. pumping water up a hill with pumps and later using the flow of water back down to generate power.
It whips ass
No varifocal?
You can, personally I never felt the need to tether myself for better battery life. 1-2 hours is about the perfect length for a game session, and I don't think I've been able to run down my Quest 1 past 40% battery before getting sick. It seems like a good tradeoff in retrospect.
What process do you use to select between world-models? I'm curious if you have a coherent answer here, or if you just can't accept what I'm describing because you don't like the way it sounds.

Do you know anything about employment law or the current state of title VII jurisprudence? I'm guessing not if you're reacting this way to a pretty uncontroversial claim.
And yet, I'll bet you the majority of your corporation's management layers are white males.
> Another benefit of Rust is that we can use its standard library and package ecosystem, so our NTP implementation is much smaller (hence easier to validate) than the alternatives

It might be easier to validate the code in their repo, but I feel like they are ignoring the effort that would be needed to validate all of the very large number of dependencies.
I’m Asian-American, if you can’t tell by my username.

My point is that very often the success of Asian-Americans even though they are a disadvantaged class has been used to justify anti-Black rhetoric. In the context of this HN thread, which is specifically about D&I and hiring more Black people, bringing up a “better Asian culture” can be interpreted as a racist dogwhistle, even if it was unintentional. This is the myth of the model minority.

It’s a mistake to assume that “empirical,” “objective” observations cannot be racist. In particular, white-supremacists often intentionally present “facts” and “data” in order to paint a misleading picture. For examples, see 13/52: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1352-1390. The missing context in 13/52 is that Black people have suffered much more economic and social injustice, Black areas are more likely to be policed, Black people are more likely to be arrested and convicted for the same crime, etc. It would be dishonest to simply say “Black people make up 13% of the population but commit 52%…” without supplying this additional context. I.e. even if the data itself is “objective,” the context and presentation also matters because those will affect how people interpret that data.

Again, not trying to say that you were intending to be racist. I just wanted to show you what your statements could imply and that you may be unknowingly repeating white-supremacist rhetoric.
There's a thing called Big Screen VR. I'm wondering if your comment is saying that it's not viable for you (don't have the time, equipment, not a good enough experience), or that you've not heard of it. I'm not trying to be snarky "I think you'll find" just wondering if you've considered and rejected Big Scree.
Please look at yearly averages to avoid cherry picking.

Maintenance is planned every autumn to make sure that all the nuclear plants work when they are needed, ie. during winter.
What did you do to deal with those nastygrams? I'd probably try to feign ignorance, blame it on a computer virus or something, and avoid that kind of massive transfer in the future. I run my own server from home so I'm curious if I could get away with that, or if I should consider alternative solutions.
That does help, thank you.

I like this because I could do the script parts in whatever language I like.

I've been trying to cobble together a linux dev system that's almost entirely configured in lisp.

Getting pretty close now, in theory, with Guix for a distro(Guile initscripts and system def), Stumpwm(Common Lisp), Nyxt-browser(also CL), and of course Emacs with evil-mode for editing/org-mode.

I realise I could Emacs all the things, but I have too much of a love-hate relationship with Emacs for that to be bearable...
The problem isn't with device trees. And actually, ACPI is just like DT really (but more complicated because it has "methods" in addition to just properties).
The difference is that you don't see it so much because the PC vendor has already written the ACPI tables.

The major difference on X86 is that it is (for historical reasons) much more standardised at the hardware level than on ARM (at least on embedded ARM, there is more standardisation in the ARM server space). It also makes more use of discoverable busses like USB and PCI so the parts that need to be described in ACPI are smaller than the parts that have to be described in DT on ARM (as much is either "implicitly standardised" or on a discoverable bus).

And that is because all PCs are basically the same whereas there is a huge variety in ARM SoC hardware and boards, mostly for understandable reasons (there are a huge variety of use cases and price points in embedded systems).

If you were to build an embedded X86 system not using a PC architecture (North bridge, South bridege etc) but using the processor and your own design you would have exactly the same problem.

That said you don't have to have "hardcoded firmware images for every single device" in the embedded ARM world.

I build an in house BSP for a product family of ~15 devices based on 3 different SoCs and we have a single kernel and userspace (Debian based) for all of them. All the DTs are on the boot partition and the bootloader selects the right one based on hardware information (typically a small EEPROM).

The only part that has to be different is the bootloader itself (and then not different for every device but for each SoC) - so we have 3 bootloaders all supplied as part of the BSP and when building the install media we say which one to write.

Even that, in theory, could be avoided, at least on SoCs with the same ISA by improving u-boot a bit to make stuff like clocks configurable from data (the u-boot device tree) like the kernel already does. This may one day be possible once u-boot completely adopts the driver model.
it's seem a case of "build an audience and monetize later" except they gave the golden gose itself to the audience instead of the egg,

now they're in "monetize later" and some rando's internet repo is more usable and has a better pipeline than their "dreamstudio", and to boot now these rare gtx aren't rare anymore thanks to the bitcoin crash, so enthusiast can readily use the model at home.
It's not a red flag. No console list the battery life of their controllers as they usually last a long time.
I've never been a fan of the grid system it uses but I think recent versions are better than how it started out.
> When you find the love of your life, you delete the app forever. Therefore, everything the app does to help you find that person works directly against their own goals (user growth, “engagement”. subscriptions).

I'm not sure this is a fair modeling of how an app must work -- think of other industries that have extremely long sales cycles like, say, a realtor. Realtors are incentivized to match you to a home in such a manner that you might recommend them to others (and leave positive reviews), perhaps even use them again on the buy/sell side later on if their career is long.

Mind you Realtor is closest to professional match maker, but there's no reason an app couldnt take a middle ground between tinder and a highly involved match making service.
Sounds like something you'll read about in modern physics.
no, but I dearly wish the three-dimensional look-and-feel from 2.3.2 had been kept around as an optional theme.
They are justifying the rewrite by saying that it is memory safe.
I don’t think its a bad goal but if they don’t do the work to maintain and package these for distros it wont make it very far.

However im always surprised by how many people are fanatics of rust and they do contribute a lot to packaging at least for Gentoo which is my daily driver. I could see a lot of these taking off if it does show a reduction in attack surface and it works seamlessly as a replacement for existing solutions hopefully not forcing a new config on everyone.
89.9999% has five nines too, just sayin' ;-)
When they account for less than .01%, I will say we are almost there.
Yes, it could be a trade secret, but if the trade secrecy would still apply is extraordinarily fact specific.

If they were negligent in handling it, e.g. left it on a publicly accessible share and some member of the public stumbled into it, then trade secret protection would likely be lost.

If some employee violated their NDA and snuck it out-- well that would be a different matter. etc.
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In this release we are making a small selection of images available for free, as we keep scaling up the training to generate more and better images. There is still a long way to go before we reach the level of professional photography!

Down the line, the major innovation we want to add is simple and intuitive image editing.
In my experience, talking to a mac user about macs is like talking to a smoker about smoking.
U can explain with facts how it's expensive and harmful, but u will never convince them to stop.
Thanks for that info! I think nested tab are lame as it wastes some of the tab title length. I use a browser window for each high level topic, which mimics the advantages of high level nests.
Oh, c'mon. I haven't worked at either but I have interviewed several engineers from both, and honestly nobody at Google seems to do anything. I met someone who spent three months just fixing some minor CSS issues on youtube.com
how do you do work from VR without that?
I stream my desktop, with a few virtual screens, using ImmersedVR [1], but other options are available, like VirtualDesktop [2] (over local/remote network), which can be used with something like ShadowPC for full cloud. Others I know code completely in the native browser with the multi-screen interface you see in Meta commercials. Native is still a work in progress, but you can sideload android apps to put them into their own windows.

For desktop streaming, you can use your desktop keyboard/mouse, or a bluetooth keyboard/mouse connected to the headset. For native apps, you use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse connected to the headset. The headset sees/tracks the (supported) keyboard with the passthrough cameras and shows a passthrough window/overlay, where it is.

I have no doubt that virtual displays are the future, but probably not until form factors are like the nreal air [3], which I think is still too limited for resolution. Next gen, I'll probably switch over. People will probably be happy enough once PPD triples.

1. https://www.immersed.com/

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/de7ojk/using_v...

3. https://www.nreal.ai/air/
Yes, I strongly think in the end VR will be huge. Massive online multiplayer games will be huge (think Ready Player One type of stuff). I think lots of people will use VR for work and hanging out with friends and maybe even dating.

However, in the end I doubt this will be on a ~Facebook~ _Meta_ platform, hardware, and or game. It will be funny because Zuck and crew will be the ones who accelerated this. I predict they'll lose in the end.
Don't forget Middle East.
I’m surprised I had to go down this far into the conversation before I saw someone bringing up legal liability.
> Two people growing up in different places (not different cities, but different neighborhoods within the same city) have lived in completely different worlds.

The top comment doesn't care about that at all, skin color is all that matters. It's about group identity, not differences in backgrounds. They'd give Obama's daughter "a foot in the door" over the daughter of some white hillbillies that is the first in her family to finish high school. Because obviously: group identity is paramount.
When you frame it like that it becomes the tale as old as time; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The best explanations that the field of physics can offer are systems of equations. Which make a lot more sense than the eli5 woo that popular science turns it into.
If you dig a hole and toss something in you don't really consider the thing part of the hole (it's in the hole, but it is not the hole) but with the "black hole" the meaning of "hole" is "the volume enclosed by the event horizon plus all the stuff inside it".
The problem is not dating, the problem is visibility. If you have tons of dates with tons of people you'll end up with someone who aligns with you (also will help you to learn what you really like) but these apps, as funny as it sounds, make you invisible by oversaturation. The amount of people is so huge that you spend less than a few seconds to decide if you want to match or not with someone and you never know about this person ever again.
I remember when Apple first launched the System 7 Helpline. It was 13 May 1991. And it was the first time in Apple's history they took direct consumer questions. [I worked on the System 7 Helpline with the initial cadre of support reps.]

At the time, they had some sort of developer support line which was considered practically a state secret. They didn't want anyone trying to reach Apple developers directly. Not even the people from the System 7 Helpline. I remember making a new version of the "System Errors DA" for System 7. Apple users considered me a god. The actual Apple developers were creatures from beyond time and space.

Apple also only wanted to take limited calls from their dealer channel, and most of that was for hardware issues only. Supporting software at the developer level, unless you were at the Microsoft Office level, was anathema.

So here we are thirty one years later and finally Apple is opening up a direct developer relations line. How might Apple's history have been altered had it actually been less standoffish towards developers in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s?

Did I miss other iterations at something like this over the decades? [I have to admit it's been years since I've fallen off the Apple wagon other than as a user.]

Also, why is this limited to mere "one-on-one 25-minute consultations?" Why can't it be a team Zoom call? Why can't it go for an hour? Where's the Slack channel?

What would an annual team developer support agreement look like? (Scalable for individual developers, small teams, large teams, etc.)

I guess this is a step in the right direction, but it still smacks of decades-ago thinking. Long overdue. But perhaps not sufficient for this day and age.
If I could expense that I would :(
I'd add that "link me up" isn't a standard idiom in American English -- a US speaker would probably say "send me the link" or "link me to it".
> Next, you will be prompted to verify your true phone number where the calls and texts will be forwarded to via text message. After verification, we will generate your phone number mask.

Doesn't feel necessary to me really. I've never ever been in the need for an incoming call, just for sms. And I'd much rather have them sent to an email rather than my actual phone too (and then I wouldn't need to share my phone number with this service either). That would be a real use-case for me. But paying a monthly subscription for that twice a year sms isn't that great either.

I currently have a pre-paid sim and an old phone for this usecase. It kind of sucks and I don't have access to it when I'm not home (sure, there are ways to sync this but haven't felt a big enough need for it yet).
If Russia returned the annexed lands to Ukraine the war would be over. No need to join NATO (which is a hilarious/insane idea). Just war reparations to deal with. They will be large. Very large. And we will see to it that they are paid in full, with or without Putin as the dictator de jour.
Out of curiosity, if I may ask: where do you live?

(Because I've never heard of such a thing.)
ISIS kinda did that, minus app. But the whole process was absurdly abusive and exploitative.
My bad, thanks for the correction. I am surprised though – I thought higher frequency waves were more dangerous, but clearly that is not universally so.
Some relatives of mine have internet-connected RGB lamps that they use in a similar fashion. When one sets the color, the others automatically synchronize. It seems like a pretty neat low-stress way to keep in touch.
I'm surprised at how negative the reaction to my explanation is. It's not even controversial to anyone who keeps track of the current state of title VII legal strategy.
Something about this page just feels dated. I can't put my finger on it, but if you compare the meta quest pro page:
https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-pro/

To the iphone14 page (similar price point):
https://www.apple.com/iphone-14-pro/

You can instantly see what showcasing a pro level product should look like given that Meta is all in on this. There is so much white space and weird scrolling resizing and what not.

It looks like I'm viewing a product page on a Dell website.
Rockfish are among the least-expensive fish at our local market. I stopped buying them when I learned that there was a very good chance that they were older (1-200 years) than I am. Eating my elders simply seems like an incorrect thing to do.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/rockfish-gettin....
Looks like a bug you would expect to find in JS. ;) Seriously, I think the bug is apparent. But I have done time in C.

Closures btw is a sucha horrible pattern. Added in many langs. Always banned by corporate guidelines. The fib example on the GO site is a good example on how confusing it can be. It is right up there with promises and other trash.
I should clarify - I think the value of VR is creating transportive experience.

Opening up Google Earth and watching the sunset on Mount Rainier with a friend is transcendent. Sitting around a virtual boardroom talking to an avatar is not.

Meta's value proposition should be the a) the quality of the experience they provide (video games with friends included!) and b) the seamlessness to use. But a slightly more interactive video chat is not going to sell units.
Ugh, can we please stop with these damaging stereotypes about bi people?

There are plenty of acceptable ways to be bisexual, and while some people might fit the boxes you described, there are lots who don't.

These antiquated views are a large part of why, as a bisexual man, I mostly keep that to myself. Coming out is a big deal with a significant amount of associated emotional stress, doubly so when others try to rationalize how you're not a "real" bisexual ("you've only dated women, how can you be bi!?" or "oh you just like fooling around with dudes, you're not really bi" etc).
there's a few studies regarding resume names and getting call backs
These days the ESP32 could be good enough. It could host a decent website, which could be a portal to do fancy intercom stuff and make photo's on the press of a button.
The Plan to Pull Third-Party Cookies Could Change the Game
Ultimately they killed all of GCP when they kept depreciating products and features.

This is despite clients telling them it's a huge block to them investing in using the platform.

Idiots.
Read a paper: The CHERI capability model– Revisiting RISC in an age of risk
Motion sickness depends on the individual

I've played a lot of VR with the HTC Vive and Quest 2 and never had any motion sickness (I also don't get motion sickness in cars/boats fwiw)
I had a i740. The driver make it a piece of crap. Too many bugs! I remember seeing how half of the polygons were missing on a lot of games
dm-integrity solves the problem of identifying which replica is good and which is bad. mdadm solves the problem of reading from the replica identified as good and fixing / reporting the replica identified as bad. The filesystem doesn't notice or care.
People find vulnerabilities in old software all the time.
> "somebody say penis"

Edgy...
In the '60s the common way programmers were interviewed were through aptitude tests. The standard at the time was the IBM Programmer Aptitude Test, but in the 70s and 80s that shifted to a new personality profile that inherently favored men [1] [2] [3] by Cannon and Perry. This became the new institutional standard and was used to determine who was a 'viable' programmer or not. This is where the traditional 'programmers are anti-social and hate people' thing came from and took root. In turn, advertising became male-focused, men were given more opportunity to become programmers and that's how the industry shifted. There's a bunch of very blatant advertising in the late-70s and early-80s that shows how this shifted.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/sc/how-bias-pushed-the-compu...

[2] https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/born-it-how-image...

[3] https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-...
A Facebook account is a Facebook account.

They're a bad actor, having demonstrated this beyond a shadow of doubt.

A sensible person would need a strong signal to believe they've switched to cooperating, and no such signal is evident.
- Russia's intelligence can't compete with all the intelligence and counterintelligence that multiple more capable countries are providing to Ukraine. Not to mention that all those intelligence sources are not target-able by Russia obviously because they don't want to fight NATO directly. So Russia can't even exhaust those intelligence resources.

- Ukraine is a huge country and they are doing a good job defending their critical assets and don't forget they have best in class training and intelligence to help them just do that.

- Russia has destroyed many military targets during the conflicts. Obviously both sides lie about their casualties.

- Ukraine is backed by west and receives new supplies every day. Much more than publicized. The 12 HIMARS is not real. The actual figures are never shared, as it would be too foolish to give such information to the enemy.
Years ago I had /var/www/lights_on.sh that turned lights on in my room. Only hardened against RCE by Wi-Fi password, but was possible. It broke later. The real problem was that browsers sometimes prefetched it.
VR in the 2010s: My decade with things on my face (2019)
Russia would love to join NATO quickly and returning the annexed lands to Ukraine would be worth it just for that.