skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid that I don't understand the link between people dropping out of VR and a lack of good games requiring physical movement. As you said yourself, the top lists are dominated by those games. Not because they're superior, but because you can already play non-physical games on other consoles (PS5/Switch/Xbox, computers, phones, etc).

I'd even go so far to say that the lack of non-physical games is the biggest detriment to the continued adoption of VR. Stick with me for a moment as I reason this through.

Even the most fit player can only spend an hour or two playing physical VR games. What we do when our body is exhausted from exercising in VR, yet we want to play games some more? We go play more traditional games on a monitor or TV (or phone).

Why do we change which entertainment device we're using? Because the non-physical games we want to play are not available in a VR setting. We can't play angry birds, Call of Duty, Hades, Genshin Impact, or FFXIV in VR. Thus, we must have at least two consoles. Which for most people means they'll have just one console, because consoles are expensive. And logically, that means most people will go for the non-VR console, since it has more games, by several magnitudes.

In contrast, if our entire library of games was available via your VR headset - even as a "you're sitting in a theater" experience - I believe many would be happy to play them there. They could get their full experience with one console.
I don't think the rules imply any of that.

"No one has ever solved this problem before and I'm not sure where to start" seems like an important unknown/risk to let your manager/lead know about. Likewise, the backup plan can just be "we scrap that feature" or "we solve a much simpler problem". The point is to be deliberate about what you're doing and communicate potential setbacks.
Just train on the output of existing models minus any photos with watermarks - being twice removed is sure to make it even harder to claim copyright :)
Holy sql injection Batman
And the risk vs return is baked into the trade setup and fairly bounded.
The Chicken McNugget Monoid
This is also a nice description of the stock market over the last few years. Buy high and quickly sell higher. Works great until the music stops.
For decades, fear and failure in the hunt for an RSV vaccine. Now, success
I did try that, but I don’t think the pytorch Vulkan backend is complete enough. I never did get a working install going down that route though, so I could be wrong.
No, it's just a trajectory towards inflation (all other things being equal; it can be the right choice in certain economic environments).

A central bank (that issues a sovereign fiat currency) can definitionally not go bankrupt, since its liability is the issued currency itself.
The only thing I would add to your comment is that it was all on purpose. As you note, the inflation was on purpose. But also the not repairing our infrastructure. That was on purpose too. It was the greatest wealth transfer from the common people to the wealthy that has ever happened in the history of the planet. The biggest mistake people make is believing this was all just "incompetence." Mistakes of this magnitude are not made innocently.
Licensing will fix exactly none of that.
Yup, BlackRock specializes in closing failed banks. That's why the US gov't gave them all the bad banks from 2007 and also why they are a huge company. They'll only get larger at this point.
The article is nothing more than a rant. That is absolutely okay as long as it encapsulates some beautifully written outrage and at least some portion of self aware wit. Neither of those were detectable while reading. As a philosopher myself (though I left the university many moons ago), this is unfortunately the de facto standard of internet philosophy,

The field seems to attract mostly curious people and overthinkers but also a very vocal minority of people that don’t seek answers or even very good questions but want to ramble in a seemingly eloquent way about very broad topics - so broad that philosophers seldom dare to write books about them without decades of sincere chipping at academic details under their belt.

This blog post I just dragged myself to read until the end has nothing to do with philosophy - that’s not a dig at the author, more at the audience which assumes that a post about moral philosophy obviously has to be philosophy. By typing this out I hope to be able to illustrate the logical error that lead to this top comment along its children.

It’s just a blog post that was obviously crafted with a certain audience in mind and more of a cheeky rambling than an honest attempt to talk about moral philosophy in a way that transcends the discussion of pretty well read people with too many alcohol in them at the ugly and tired end of a drawn out social event.

The rant is at times funny to read because of the use of so many exclamation marks, italics and whatnot. I imagined a person gesturing wildly with a counterpart gasping in the pauses to try for a rebuttal but finally nodding apathetically while swaying his glass of wine.

TL,DR: This is not philosophy but a blog post and you guys should keep that in mind while discussing its content.
I wouldn't say so. It's taken so long because it hasn't been a priority for the developers, and nobody else picked it up.
> You can "message" anyone you want, except that if you aren't friends it will almost always fall in some weird secret hidden bucket that most people never look at, and is hard to find even if you try. If you share a direct connection it might go through, but in my experience not always.

YMMV! In the very recent times, I've sent countless messages to members in various Bronco groups and sellers in the marketplace, I've almost always got the response.
oh yea, this or just x/x
There's also an English implementation of this same layout concept on Android and iOS called MessageEase[1]. I've been using it for almost 10 years now and have been quite happy with the support over time.

You can consistently type without looking at the keyboard once you learn the layout, which I've found to be great for note-taking

[1]: https://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php
Even 700k would be ridiculous; it implies that not only has the ASL population roughly doubled in the last 50 years, but also that that population is entirely incapable of reading written English. That's clearly not true.

700M is simply ludicrous. Even if that's only taken as the number of ASL signers, that would still make ASL the third largest language in the world, ahead of Hindi and Spanish.
Ok. But Andrew Jackson definitely wasn't an urban legend.
A lot of different people have come up with metrics for the optimality of a given keyboard layout. This has given rise to various unusual layouts that are the optimal layout for a given metric. [1]

I wonder if the same could be done for a swipe based phone layout. Seems like you'd end up with something very different than Dvorak and probably quite different than Qwerty as well. Perhaps part of the metric could give a bonus to layouts that were similar to some other layout, thus creating Qwerty-phone and Dvorak-phone alternative layouts.

As someone who types with Dvorak on the computer, I'd happily attempt to learn a new layout for phones. My error rate is extremely high with swipe keyboards, even though I use Qwerty.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220926205948/https://mkweb.bcg...
In the context of a past generation of government sponsored entities, the answer was 'yes', they could go bankrupt but the political branches will bail them out. The issue here is that the political branches are in the middle of being bailed out themselves by the central banks, and it's been going on for a decade or two, so conceptually there is a serious problem with politicians bailing the bailer. The fact that headlines like this are being written, regardless of the answer, should put everyone on alert for the possibility the can no longer can be kicked further down the road the way it has until now.
There aren’t even 700 million people in the entire world who have any form of hearing loss.

The rate is 5%.

OP should clean up that marketing pitch. I think it’s a good service that doesn’t have to be sold by shaming the potential customer.

Source: https://disabilitease.com/percentage-world-deaf/
Text and spoken language are extremely linear.

Visual and sign language are extremely spatial, like in Arrival / Story of Your Life. ASL is not signed one word at a time.

Automated translation is difficult, because ASL is not Signed English, it doesn't translate word for word.

Deaf people can (and usually do) learn to read and write the local language.
Which you conveniently not linking because you know it's going to be controversial at best.

Get off the high horse, static vs dynamic has been a never ending debate since the dawn of time.

Just because you side with one religion doesn't automatically make it "well known". Learn to recognize your own biases.
I've submitted PRs with many more LOC devoted to tests than shipping code. Am I doing TDD? Most of the articles that I read about TDD doesn't describe anything like what I tend to do though, and I usually don't sit down to write narrowly focused unit tests these days (although every now and then I do).
And how is the profit distributed?

If you live in Europe, and specially US, you are already part of the shareholders and will profit from it (on average). More or less than other actors in the country, but definitely more than those ones not being under these central banks policies.
Automatic1111's webui is what 90% of the StableDiffusion community uses but he recently made the decision to use a company's proprietary code after it was leaked by a hacker and when confronted about it, instead of removing it as requested he chose to lie about it despite the git history evidence and the fact that the paper he claimed to have used as reference wasn't related at all to the techniques used by the stolen code.

The company whose code was stolen works closely with the man behind SD and the decision was made to merely ban him from the community instead of torpedo-ing the repo via DMCA.
> The answer to how to keep it going is to run it like a grocery chain with experienced leaders and good board governance.

PCC is also known to treat employees relatively poorly, just like grocery chains. There are also complaints about an "old boys" culture, familiar to anyone that worked retail long-term.

In the Seattle area, there are better coops like Central Co-op, with similar prices and better worker treatment (since all employees are owners in addition to opt-in shoppers)

At this point, PCC is just Whole Foods with higher prices...
I mean, fair, but does it follow that someone who dislikes utilitarianism or feels it's disprovable must consequently dislike EA? Because that seems to be the thesis of this essay.

I guess it comes down to this: when people argue with utilitarianism, in my experience it's specifically the part about treating strangers and friends equally, i.e. the idea that it might be better to save two drowning strangers than to save one drowning friend. I don't think EA relies on that or is based on it; you can have a value system that says it's better to save your drowning friend than to save ten or a hundred drowning strangers, and still find EA valuable.
Like IceWeasel? https://github.com/adonais/iceweasel
Maybe you can explain it to me like I'm five.

I've been occasionally watching the Turkish Lira this past year. The rates against the USD are still sinking. Against the EUR it's pretty stable. Yet allegedly they have something like 80-150% inflation in Turkey, while the EUR-zone has 10%. How does this work, why isn't the Lira becoming "worthless" with that amount of inflation?
You only implement the Plan B if Plan A fails. Plan B doesn’t have to be elaborate. It can be as simple as, “I’m going to look into using this third-party service to solve 99% of this problem, but if it isn’t a good fit or it’s too expensive, I think we can put together a home-grown 80% solution in a couple of sprints.”
Yes and no. BitTorrent uses two protocols. One of those protocols is highly centralized and advertises users and their requested data packets as well as their available data packets to a centralized registry. A second protocol is used to transfer available data packets between users.

The appeal of BitTorrent is not that it is decentralized but that it, in a narrow legal context, doesn’t violate the law as copy protected materials are passed between users on a secondary protocol without touching the centralized system advertising data availability.
Plausibly they could get around it by doing a dlsym() or something. In general it's not possible to prevent private APIs from being used if they underly public APIs, but perhaps if Firefox tried to evade the rules they could be sanctioned.
> Normally, id should be a number. However when id is {"to_s": {"bytesize": 2, "to_s": "1234REDIS_COMMANDS" }}, we can inject additional redis commands by using bytesize to limit the previous command when it is constructed....

This class of bug cannot happen in a statically-typed language. When I deserialize something in Java, I know what it turned into. If it wasn't what I expected, I get a stacktrace, not an RCE vulnerability.

I could write an interpreter to do weird stuff with my custom class and that could lead to an RCE, or I might have a library that does so. But barring severe malfeasance in a trusted library (like log4j) I'll never think I have a plain number and actually have untrusted code.
>I have nothing bad to say about other languages. This is simply the option that makes the most sense for SerenityOS, which is fundamentally about having fun and implementing everything ourselves.

Kinda was expecting this but would've also liked see some critique of other languages.
The office is handy to confer with others when necessary, but you waste a lot of time just getting there and back. So much easier and less stressful to grab coffee in your boxers and just get on the computer at home. I realize some people need the brownian bounce of personalities, but a lot of people just don’t and managers and execs need to realize this, especially for work that is not people-facing.
Roland Moreno, yet another great hacker!
Edited based on info from an anonymous source at the company saying it’s unclear if it will be 10% or 15%.

BTW this is Noom.com
There seems to be a lot of countries that are culturally homogenious, and yet they are poor and miserable. So it does not seem to check out.

It is also not clear how one should calculate this - for example you could have white americans of german dissent violently disagreeing in issues of Trump, or hell, this about civil war. You could have people of different background hold very similar opinions.
That's all good but it's nice to give credit where credit is due. I like how they do it in the README.
In a word: no. Efficient locks can only be implemented with significant involvement from the kernel. The best locks that can be implemented entirely in user-space will still suffer from the problems described in the article. Locks have complex interactions with scheduling and the only place where informed decisions can be made about them is within the kernel.

That doesn't mean that good locks don't need a good user-space component - they do - but it's only one side of the coin.
Airbnb did not establish this business model. That was done by VRBO. Airbnb had an app (instead of just a website), looked much nicer (in my opinion) and suspect was easier to use particularly by the hosts.

Your offering is Airbnb but cheaper. It is possible that it can work (the market seems large enough that there could be room for three competitors), but I would suggest trying to understand why Airbnb charges 17% while still losing money. Are they simply inefficient operators or are there hidden costs that you haven't been thinking about. Also, talking to hosts about what aspects they do not like about Airbnb (other than price) is likely a good idea.

Also, I would suggest making it easy for hosts to list / operate their properties on Airbnb, VRBO and your system (if that is possible - I'm not certain if exclusivity is needed). If you can beat Airbnb at this, then you will automatically create a market for your system and can eventually start eating away at VRBO / Airbnb market share. Basically, commoditize the space and be the lowest cost participant. Just some thoughts.
A central bank operates within a framework of rules that, among other things, allow it to operate as a central bank. If those rules require it to raise capital before continuing to operate, and the capital cannot be raised, it is effectively bankrupt.
> Bhatt tells Nature News that the researchers took most of their samples from databases that didn’t aim to minimize fungal contamination during collection. So, she’d like to see if other studies can get the same results with samples taken in a sterile environment.

For me, this is the real question. I expect for a certain level of bacterial and fungal contamination in sequencing experiments. Hell, I've even seen sequencing reads contaminated by the sequencing facility and not from tissue collection lab.
This reads to me like criticising ski resorts because some people don’t like the cold and are afraid of heights.
How Wine works 101
That's actually part of the (intentional?) design of the Android framework underneath. By default, if rotation is allowed, Activities (basically a "UI screen", but not exactly) are destroyed and recreated when the screen is rotated. If the data structures AndFTP uses to manage/track the download are stored in the Activity, then they'll be destroyed on screen rotation as well.

This is something you learn very quickly once you start building Android applications -- or, at least, I did when I started back in 2011 (I haven't done much Android dev in the past decade since then). While I do think this behavior is a pretty terrible default behavior for the underlying UI framework, it's pretty bad that the AndFTP developers have not fixed this bug in their application -- and yes, it is a bug in their application.

The UI development paradigm has changed quite a bit over the life of Android, making "Fragments" more popular to use in some quarters than "Activities" as the "unit of UI screen" (though Fragments are still underpinned by Activities), but I believe the fundamental issue is still there: if you don't explicitly handle rotation properly, and store state in your Activity, it will get destroyed whenever the screen is rotated.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy gives a characteristically good (and easy to follow) overview:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/
Correct, government pay scale is a huge problem for talent acquisition. Your choices are either someone who is so ideologically devoted that they're willing to work for 5-25% of what they're worth or "work for us or you're going to prison for a long time".

Citations:

https://apply.intelligencecareers.gov/job-description/119486...

Cyber Mitigations Analyst/System Vulnerability Analyst - Entry to Expert Level (Maryland)

Network Cyber Mitigations Engineers and System Vulnerability Analysts analyze vulnerabilities and develop mitigations to strengthen defenses. They produce formal and informal reports, briefings, and guidance to defend against attacks against network infrastructure devices or systems. NSA analysts' competencies run the gamut of data transport possibilities. They work with traditional wired networks, wireless transport, including Wi-Fi and cellular, collaborative platforms such as video teleconferencing, and the hardware and software that support it all.

Pay Plan: GG, Grade: 07/1 to 15/10

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

In a very high cost of living area, that means that entry level is $31K and the absolute top for expert level is $176,300.

Compare that to what FAMG are paying new college grads.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Delhi_riots

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_(Amendment)_Act,...

You're welcome
"I feel like you are living in a fantasy world where people are "good" and "legal" all the time."

"The sad part is just that people have opinions about things from a theoretical point of view who have never lived out what happens in the real world."

You don't know me or my experiences. It's sad to see someone on HN blindly attack someone. Because from my perspective, you seem to be the one who is uninformed. Please do some research on the methods of taking and verifying confessions.
> Citations?

Frech's "Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care" says the original motivation for licensing doctors was driving the Jewish and Black doctors out of the profession.

https://www.amazon.com/Competition-Monopoly-Medical-Care-Fre...

Today, the motivation is to restrict the number of physicians in order to increase their pay.
Really interesting business, just signed up for the waitlist
> Sawyer is a crazy class that converts a hash to an object whose methods are based on the hash's key:

For those not familiar with Ruby terminology, "hash" in this context means what other languages would call a hash map, associative array, or dictionary. At first I thought it was referring to the hash of a value, and couldn't grok it.
Sign language is more like watching a movie than listening to radio. It's extremely spatial, with space around the body used to indicate grammatical elements and their relation to each other.

Spoken languages are far more similar to each other than to sign languages.

Subtitles are like watching a movie with the green screen instead of the scenery filled in.
No specific hardware support is needed to implement a lock. The atomic operations are all accessible from user-space - they are platform dependent though. The problem with locks is that they interact with scheduling and that's where the kernel comes in, that's why you need an OS-specific component too.
The joke here is that the bond traders could not foresee 9/11 and did not predict the response to 9/11. They were forecasting the recession based on predictable indicators.

And 9/11 itself couldn't possibly have caused a recession. 2 buildings just isn't enough damage to be measured in a system as large and complex as the US economy. If you want to argue that the Afghanistan invasion contributed to the recession I am sympathetic to that idea, but the general consensus seems to be that war is helpful for the economy (which I don't hesitate to argue is a stupid consensus - but it is what it is).
This reminded me of how the British Parliament still prefers to archive its debates and legislation on calf skin! (Why is the UK still printing its laws on vellum? - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35569281 )

On another similar note, say what you want about the muslim invaders who eventually became settlers and rulers in India (especially the Mughal empire), but their dedication to patronising all artistic form (art, architecture, music, dance, drama, literature etc.) is something to be genuinely admired. (Ofcourse, that doesn't mean that Hindu and Buddhist kings didn't do so in the past). Even the Urdu language (it's foundation and vocabulary is built on Sanskrit and Hindi, with Persian, Arabic, and even Turkish words and uses a Persian-Arabic script for its written form) they created is truly a language of the artists in how it can be written creatively and artistically in various forms without losing its meaning (examples of Urdu Calligraphy - https://yandex.com/images/search?from=tabbar&text=urdu%20cal... ), and how pleasing and natural it sounds in poetry or songs.
Is there a SteamVR driver for TrackIR-like setup? It feels there ought to be.
And SpaceX showed a non-winged recoverable first stage can be a winner. (Compare to the proposed flyback first stage for the Space Shuttle.)
Didn't they do that a few months ago too?