skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is important research to get the definitive answer, but I'm not surprised. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23120719
We aren't all Boltzmann Brains that just snapped into existence knowing this stuff. Nor is the title clickbait. He's literally another guy named Michelangelo.
Fortnite is better metaverse as far as metaverse go
Apple iCloud New Web Interface
Ah, survivor bias.

The vast majority of things that are ignored, laughed at, or fought, go on to lose.
The virtual monitors stuff looks pretty in tiny Internet videos, but doesn't hold up on the actual headset. The resolution of both of the display and passthrough cameras is still abysmal, barely better than Quest2 and a tiny fraction of a real monitor. You can compensate a bit by making the virtual monitors much bigger than a real one, but even that only goes so far. At the end of the day, it's about the same experience as putting a big old 720p TV on your desk.

Resolution aside, going with virtual monitors also just shows how primitive the whole thing still is. From a 'workspace in VR' I would expect to get actual window management and UI elements in full 3D space, not just my 2D monitor projected to a virtual rectangle. Microsoft's WMR Portal had that five years ago (not without faults), Meta's attempt feels quite primitive and basic in comparison.
Pre-iPhone smartphones catered to a niche audience. Tablets weren't very popular in the market pre-iPad. Bluetooth headphones were around for over a decade with a lot of people ignoring them before Airpods popularized them. Personal media players weren't nearly as mainstream before the iPod. Almost all of these product markets existed and mostly catered to niche audiences before Apple jumped in.

Of course, those are mostly their successes. They had stumbles too, no doubt.

If there's one thing Apple excels at, its convincing the mass market to adopt technologies that currently only cater to a niche audience. I have no idea what their plans for VR are, but I do imagine if they do something in it they'll make some waves. But maybe it'll turn out like the Newton. Maybe they will never launch a VR product. Who knows.
TailwindCSS Showcase
When you don’t have to wear an absurd headset
Looks pretty nice :-). But why does changing the theme reset the weather location?
Beyond Catastrophe a New Climate Reality Is Coming into View
I think the rest of the developed world provides good evidence that you can punish people for crimes without abusing civil asset forfeiture. It's pretty bad-faith to conflate the two.
As the sibling comment says, the number is not authentication, it's just an identifier. That type of fraud works exactly the same way as sending a letter to the tax agency in any other country does: trust that people won't be so daring as to write fraudulent letters and sign off on them very often. Obviously it will happen sometimes, but they have processes to deal with fraud.
You should tell people when you you're going to buy that way they can short it.
All Solid-State Lidar Sensor That Sees 360°
Would you say the same about houses instead of pods?
Hmm, I think I was wrong. The post says "we will evaluate all content on the web page to ensure that we're not limiting the availability of other information that is broadly useful, for instance in news articles" which does make it sound like they would be removing the page from all search results?
I think he's claiming that showing drano ads to kids could have a positive ROI based on lived experience. To be fair, while the parent post was compelling, it didn't have any "references" either.
> I am sorry, was it you that wrote

HN lets you see who wrote a comment - it says above each one.

> If that’s not putting moral and social burden onto tracking blockers, I don’t know what is.

I mean you don't have a burden to visit their website if you don't want to. If it was a government organisation then yes.
I actually think tons of people want virtual experiences. Concerts seem to be a great use case for VR. Exercise is a great use case. Meetings probably are too, certainly better than zoom.
not in most companies they arent
It is even more simple than that. Apple has kneecapped Meta's advertising business with their privacy controls.
The fact that there's now an ad campaign for Only Natural Diamonds just shows how desperate they are.
> And you can get into VR for much less than $500. Have been able to for years now.

Which isn't good then, it's so cheap yet barely adopted?
Would it be possible for you to expand on Signal not being dependent on donations?
Staring Down the Twitterpocalypse
Microsoft has not done this recently.
1000% THIS.
The trick, of course, is knowing when it's time to abandon shell for something more powerful, but that usually comes with experience.
A chair isn't sentient. A sentient being that you make out of anything is definitionally your child.
That's one downside. :( I am slightly worried that someone could exploit my public details in Sweden to do ID theft on me in the country I moved from, and there's nothing I can do about it.
I’m not so sure the advertising parasite hasn’t killed the host. At the very least, I’d say it’s winning, and that it evolves much faster.
Not very good. A much much better option is the Supernote a5x https://supernote.com/products/supernote

Remarkable just has a much larger marketing budget.
Meta share price collapses after Mark Z. says he will not give up on metaverse
> there is no alternative to replacing fossil fuels. At some point the public will realize the lie of solar/wind as a replacement.

What lie exactly? Scotland had produced enough to power itself twice on Wind alone. [1]

How is nuclear a better alternative than Wind or Hydro when

- Nuclear is extremely dangerous with toxic waste needing special storage facilities. Criminal & Environmental contamination risks.

- Disaster if the plant is to be damaged - Chernobyl / Fukushima / Ukraine-Russia war

- You need an external power source to kick-start a nuclear station on top of requiring uninterruptible power supply - Fossil Fuels

- You need a large water source for cooling, extracting, processing - Limited Resource

Thorium reactors are a dream away, nice but not feasible as of the moment.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/scotland-w...
GDPR already tightly regulates the use of AI for automated decision marking affecting consumers, and other regulators aren't too happy about the directions taken by either AI companies or advertisers.

So there's a very, very big "if" on future ROI.
Because they are two separate skillsets.
Russia has hit hospitals, apartment complexes, and nuclear power plants during this war. There's very, very little that they could designate as legitimate targets that would surprise me.
The thing about the Drake equation is that it sounds like science, but we do not know the numbers that go into it. We have reasonable guesses for star and planet counts but the rest of the variables are a complete guess. And all it takes is one of them to be zero to make it all moot.
It depends on the country and tax law. What you said is true for the US.
React Arborist v2.0 – The Complete Tree View Component (Keyboard Nav and More)
Start every script with the boilerplate

#!/bin/bash
if [[ `wc -l $0|cut -f 1 -d ' '` -gt 100 ]]
then
echo "No, this is too long!"
exit
fi
"It's common" is not a statistic. At least in the US, coal use for power generation has dropped precipitously over the past 40 years. If whatever coal we do still extract is extracted using wind or solar, that seems like a net win (even if not a net positive, for the reason you mentioned).
Features

Drag and drop sorting
Open/close folders
Inline renaming
Virtualized rendering
Custom styling

New Features in Version 2

Keyboard navigation
Aria attributes
Tree filtering
Selection synchronization
More callbacks (onScroll, onActivate, onSelect)
Controlled or uncontrolled trees
What is the best way to find beginner friendly issues/start contributing to the core?

There ins't a issues tab in the main Postgres repo:
https://github.com/postgres/postgres
Information exchange ("talking to them") is vital, but directly performing the role simply isn't necessary (however valuable it might be to try it sometime). If it were necessary to directly do a thing in order to gain the perspective, we wouldn't have fiction or pretty much anything else. Brains that cannot perform this function will not successfully perform Success or Support roles, underscoring the point. :)
Things to consider:

- These are cache servers they don't need to handle the whole library, just what's most hit.

- They cache, video and audio in mutiple formats

- This thing lives inside telecom infrastrure, near their users. A content available in South America should be to no use in an european location.
You can build solar or wind plus some energy storage or long distance transmission to even it out for less than the price of nuclear and with income beginning quickly, not after 10 years. By the time nuclear projects started now complete, solar and wind will be mopping the floor with them ROI wise. Far from being a lie, we're in danger of them becoming the only game in town, for better or worse. Nuclear had so much potential, but we stopped investing and stopped innovating and it's unclear if it can ever catch up again. For our sakes, I hope so. More options are better.
I had reviewed this before, but went for ONYX instead and never looked back. Having a general purpose machine has served me really well on countless occasions including various unforeseen use cases. I think reMarkable is branding away their lack of good software integration as "distraction free" but the reality is it is very easy to use ONYX without distraction.
UT99 is still being maintained by the community if you want to give it a try!

https://www.oldunreal.com/

You can find the latest patches on GitHub.

https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches
Diamonds are actually quite abundant -- hundreds of kilometers below the surface of the Earth.
I think you are confused by what Apple did with ATT.

Apple did not do anything to really prevent "deep tracking" and profile building.

In fact, the single primary casualty of their changes is the exact thing that you say you do want: visible conversion tracking.
Longest nonstop bird flight: A new world record
>It's a recipe for a lot of people swapping jobs just to keep their incomes at the same level.

Job swapping assumes these tech companies are no longer under a hiring freeze. It also assumes that these companies won't recognize why the mad rush of job swaps is happening and just lower the salaries for new hires.
It's definitely a subpar experience, but for the first time it feels usable. Each screen is about the equivalent of a 55" 1080p monitor 5ft from your face.
I think it's just that the scanner doesn't look straight up.
Basically what everybody else said: tests and a static code analyzer.
https://twilio.com/verify
Not the person you're replying to, but my take is that the website is giving away information for free on an open protocol without requiring a login and I'm just choosing which parts of it I want to download. I see no moral implications to that other than an implied "thank you for providing that information or service".

The parts I choose not to download are designed to psychologically manipulate me into buying something I likely don't want, they run code on my system I don't care for them to run, and they grab what data they can in order to profile me. I don't feel like I'm the one that should be feeling shame here.

If the advertising companies showed any kind of restraint and respect, maybe I'd feel differently. From what I've seen, it's been getting progressively worse since the "punch the monkey" days of the web.

If the person or entity hosting the content can't support the creation and hosting of their website without trying to manipulate me and track me and without opening my system up to potential malware, then good riddance, I guess. If all they did was show ads as text or static images without any of the tracking nonsense (basically the old print magazine or newspaper model), then I wouldn't care that much. But they don't, so I do.
As many others have commented. My first thought was "Amazing!"

The only thing I encountered is that my mouse wheel scrolling was a bit too touchy and I kept accidentally zooming too much into a 3D scene while scrolling the text.

But that doesn't really matter, because this is amazingly cool.
Culture at Google: Part One, the Movies
Camera limitation – it doesn't capture a full sphere. That's exactly the spot where I also noticed it.
True. I was talking about Meta specifically (but failed to be explicit about that).

The refreshers at Meta are mostly mechanical based on your role and level, and they’re allocated in dollars even though the grant is converted to shares at a specific date.
Complete newbie here, but wouldn't it be possible to affix some marks on the walls to help with the stitching afterwards?
Tons of things have taken more than 10 years to stop sucking. Digital cameras, MP3 players, "smart" phones, arguably laptops...

I am not a VR believer by any stretch, but this is such myopic thinking.
To the German Green party, who indulges itself in blaming everyone but itself for all kinds of problems in the world, there is only one thing that is worse than global warming, and that is nuclear energy.
I have bash and perl scripts that keep major business critical services running that are about that age. Why would I think scripts I write today won't still be running in 20 years time?
I used to be really depressed about this sort of thing. It caused me to severely limit my lifestyle out of a desire to "do the right thing". I didn't own a car. Very low consumption and minimal waste (no takeaway food, coffee etc., very frugal, didn't use things like paper towels and napkins). I cycled and walked everywhere. Didn't go on holidays abroad or even very far away.

Then I looked around and noticed that everyone else was enjoying themselves at my expense. Worse, I was often a second-class citizen as my bicycle couldn't stand up to their cars.

So I said fuck it, bought a car, fly several times a year, use paper towels, drive to the air-conditioned gym so my body looks like it's useful, don't care about my waste as much. Can't beat 'em, join 'em. I still reckon I use and waste less than the average person (certainly less than the average American), though.

I can be happy with this because I'm not going to reproduce. I honestly don't care if humans die out a few generations after me. I used to care but I just don't think we are worth it any more.
Solar and wind have many issues. Intermittency, the need for rare earths, and low energy density leading to ecological impact are some. It’s also under-recognized that as those technologies are built out beyond a few percent of global power, supply issues will likely lead to large cost increases and potential scarcity. Then there’s the waste/recycling problem, which is worse than nuclear.

I also was clear that fusion is a future solution.
> If you're paid 50% in stock, and the stock falls by 24%, you just took a 12% pay cut.

On top of this, my experience is that a shocking number of people getting a large part of their comp in RSUs don't diversify when they vest.

I don't work at a FAANG, but 1/3 of my TC is RSUs. Most of my coworkers look absolutely aghast whenever I mention that I liquidate all my vested shares as soon as the trading window is open.

Many of my friends that do work for FAANGs, getting >50% of their TC as RSUs likewise don't diversify as soon as possible, but hang on to it.

What's crazy is if I ask my coworkers "If you had that same amount of vested RSUs in cash, would you invest in our company?" They all laugh and say "no!", but then immediately claim that they won't cash-out and reinvest.

Point being I suspect that individual net worths of a wide range of tech workers are getting absolutely destroyed right now.
Plants do. And they only need the sunlight they have where they grow.
catch

{

state-level attack

targeted attack

mass targeted malware/rootkits

}

If it works some of the time for state-level, it should work almost all of the time for anything below.
Well here's to hoping they don't fall into the same trap.
In most cases, you can send to a mailing list without subscribing, and people will include your email when they respond. I've filed multiple bugs this way. It was as easy as sending an email and attaching a patch.
From Lua to JSON: refactoring WirePlumber's configuration system
I think you've misunderstood my position. You mention:

> that poor people are buying over and over, more so than wealthier people

Not only is this a line of argument I disagree with, I even explicitly said I disagreed with it in this part of the comment you are replying to:

>> I think the idea is that if more people were middle-class, we'd see consumers make better choices (personally, I don't see that happening without government intervention of some kind
appreciate the advice, and I'm sure Beyond is much better than it was back in the 4E days but I'm actually playing Call of Cthulhu now, so I might give this thing a shot

EDIT: nevermind, I now see that the "$279" price tag is not at all what you're actually going to be paying for this product. going to have to think about it a bit more.
I don't think solar panels or windmills are a trick, but I think OP was referring to "net zero" initiatives, which are not much more than accounting scams. Most carbon credits, if even verifiable, don't involve reductions but rather promises to not cut down existing forests for X years. Western countries are trying to do what they do best: buy their way out of a problem that takes actual effort.
Yes. I'd say any 25+-year-old game where 99% of gameplay knowledge is transferrable and they still have a large playerbase fits the bill for "immortal" games.

There are opensource reimplementations of many of such classics anyways. Civ games definitely pass the test. The classic Doom style boomer-shooter, the mario-style platformer, the Arena-style Quake3 shooters also have many opensource reimplementations. Some may not be rule-for-rule bug-compatible reimplementations, but they're definitely "close-enough" variants of the game that scratch the same itches and could be picked up quickly by a player who enjoys the classic.

What's more surprising are the giants of gaming that don't get this kind of treatment. Like, there are reimplementations of classic RTS games like Warcraft 2 and Red Alert, but the but the art in these games are all asset-rips. You don't have something like Xonotic or Unciv that rebuilds the game fully from scratch. The only RTS game to get that treatment AFAIK is Total Annihilation thanks to Zero-K and Beyond All Reason.
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I'm on a laptop (using Firefox). I see a remove result option after I click the dots next to the respective search result. I experimented and I can see it regardless if I am logged into my Google account or not.

I just searched for the term "foo" and clicked on the second or third result.
I don't think advertising is moral. I don't feel even the slightest ounce of responsibility to consume advertisements. Do you really feel this way or just trying to have a debate?
I used PHPDoc to document stuff, now there is native support to declare types. Then my IDE (Intelij) will highlight type related issues as errors or warnings.
It will also show you lot of other errors like using the wrong parameter count, the wrong parameter types etc. With PHPDoc you can also document "magic" stuff like objects that are auto-generated from DB tables, so you get error checks and autocompletion on column names.

But I work on a small team.

We use PHPUnit for unit testing, but this is not related to types.
Irrelevant. Even you discuss it as a necessary evil
> Even when it is end-to-end electronic, it doesn't at all happen "in the app".

This delineation still seems unclear. I might write something in an app, and someone else read it in the same app, but it doesn't all happen in the app either. There's a backend, and the app is a glorified typist.
Yeah that’s reasonable. I’m confused at the kind of customers you guys had though. Even my parents (tech illiterate baby boomers) know enough basic PC knowledge to try to type “www.google.com” into the address bar to determine if they have internet.
wait, so a row major stored matrix should be multiplied by extracting the columns first? Or what?

Is there some sort of animation that illustrates Ax and xA for both row major storage and column major storage?
Essentially, what I'm claiming is that the only thing RM2 does better than a device like BOOX is that the writing feels better. It's not even better organized, the note app is not better in any way AFAICT, it just feels slightly more like paper.

In other words, the RM2 marketing can dress this up as whatever it wants. In the current market, the only person who's better served by RM2 than by its competitors is a person that loves the feeling of writing on a paper and is willing to trade it for a number of features.

You can have a BOOX full-on digital notebook as well.
My greatest concern is that all these virtual experiences are behind a paywall, first hardware and then pay-per-experience. Going for a walk should be free.
I'd like to combine and expand on a few answers you got. Firstly:

> bugs that a typed language would prevent

This sounds like you think PHP isn't typed. It is, and with 8.1 (and even more so 8.2) the type system isn't exactly Haskell (ha) but gets much stronger than it historically has been for PHP.

You enable a feature called strict_types which enforces these rules.

Then you have a layer of even more powerful type checking and analysis which, though not enforced at the runtime level, is picked up and validated against by your IDE's real-time (or async external) static analysis tools. This is partially in phpDoc and there are various ways to do it.

Then, besides static analysis with popular tools like PHPStan or Psalm, there are nice inspection tools like EAInspections, Sonar, etc that check for hundreds of possible errors, code smells, style issues, etc.

Large, professional PHP codebases are not a big wild west of implicit coerced dynamic types. For my own projects, I consider any avoidable reliance on PHP's dynamic typing a bug, i.e. casting null to bool in conditionals.
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> It's morally acceptable to block intrusive ads, in order to force advertisers to adopt better practices. Isn't that the way of the free market? To vote with your wallet, I mean, with your eyeballs?

Yeah by not visiting sites with bad adverts.
https://www.pypy.org/
> Because one side wants to treat the underlying causes, which it sees as poverty, inequality, lack of good education, and lack of opportunities

Well hold on, you're leaving out one critical component. That same side will -- in the face of certain demographics committing the overwhelming about of street crime (like said shoplifting) -- do things like eliminate cash bail, increase the threshold for felony shoplifting, and the like in order to not "destroy minority lives" by throwing them in jail despite repeated violations. There is such a thing as TOO MUCH compassion, but I'm not sure if SF has figured that out yet.
Yes, there are threshold cryptography schemes with "distributed key generation" [1] in which the parties end up holding shares but the full secret is never known to any party. Then, to your point about "the only time they key was known was when the parties reached quorum after the fact": in these schemes, some threshold of the parties can cooperate to compute a function of the secret (e.g. a signature, or a ciphertext) without any of them ever knowing the secret.

FROST is one example of such a threshold scheme, for computing Schnorr signatures: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/852.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_key_generation