skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If history is any indicator, Apple is no where near releasing an AR/VR headset. They are never first to market, they have always waited until the tech is mature and people are ready to deliver a cohesive amazing experience. The argument that iphone was first to market could be argued for first without a keyboard, but just about everyone had a cell phone and most had some form of smartphone at the time.

Where would VR even be if Zuck hadn't bet facebook on it? I'm not sure it'd be getting the attention it is, the hardware isn't ready, the software isn't ready and frankly users aren't ready.
How do you use dmenu for your shell script? to launch it? to prompt the user for input while it's running?

Do you have an example of a script you wrote?
When did Github get play/pause controls on GIF images?

Pretty neat! I've always had a gripe with GIF's autoplaying after the page loads so the first time I see it it's halfway through the animation.

VHS looks like a pretty neat tool! Not sure if I'd use it, but definitely some use cases out there for tutorials, guides, etc.
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russel (1915) [pdf]
> I think the odds of a planet developing life by random chance in the first place is astronomical, and then the odds of that developing into intelligent life - that happens to have the necessary appendages to build things and lives in an environment amenable to creating tech - almost certainly an astronomically small portion of life bearing planets.

Let's start from what we know: homo sapiens has been around for 300 000 years, but technology only kicked of less than 300 years ago. So we could say that of 3 billion years of terrene life, 0.01% of it have sported a species susceptible to develop technology, and of this short span only 0.1% of it actually developing it.

So from Earth example, so far we can only posit 1 chance out of 10 millions of developing technology, nothing more. That's not much, and that's markedly lower than Drake's original optimistic numbers. Also, we can't suppose technology will survive for a very long time; so we also need a very fine time-alignment to receive a message (or get someone to receive ours). If most high tech civilisations only survive barely a few centuries, even if there are 100 000 of them across the Galaxy but scattered along 10 billion years, most messages simply will reach long rusted antennas...
Thank you! This is something I've encountered in every tutorial on language design. I've been trying to build a DSL for years, but I'm stuck because everything I read isn't suitable for my use case. Part of me wants to just say "fuck it, I'll learn how to build a GPL, then hopefully by the end of it I'll have enough on-hand knowledge to transfer over". But I really would rather not spend that much effort.
Can't speak for those customers, but I know people today, younger than 35 who think whatever is set to the homepage IS the internet.

Some had Google as their homepage. Some Facebook.

I learned this when they would be like "Josh, the internet is down, can you help me?" and I'm like wahhhhh? Come to find out Facebook had an outage. "I just opened the internet and its not working". :facepalm:
The diamond industry generates about $110bn a year (although most of that isn't shiny gemstones). You can see why companies might be desperately clinging on to that...
"I want to go for a walk, but not actually walk, and pay for it, while being bombarded by ads" said no one ever.
Super exciting news -- shuttle has been a really nice breath of fresh air after dealing with containers and such. I write a lot of rust-based backends and it was a pain that even for a simple service like fly.io I still had to manually write docker files... shuttle made that a LOT easier. Love to see them moving forward!
The part I like is that it basically _forces_ GraalVM on everyone who is currently using a JVM with Oracle lineage. It would be not unlike PyPy and CPython agreeing to ship together, not really but kinda.

GraalVM is going to see adoption go up > 100x.
It's a shame the torrents don't seem to have any seeders; they're very good lectures, and fairly small file sizes.
Born in 1919, he made it to 103. Lindbergh hadn’t yet flown across the Atlantic, people were watching silent movies, and only 35% of US homes had electricity.

https://gizmodo.com/how-the-1920s-thought-electricity-would-...

Many people born today (10%?) are going to make it to 2125. The world is going to change even more in the next 103 years than in the last 103.
An athlete doesn’t go from couch potato to immediately scoring touchdowns just after a few attempts at trial and error. You can do that in video games because everything is synthetic and linear.

In the real world you actually have to overcome real pain (both mental and physical) to achieve success. Video games are incapable of teaching that on absolutely any level.
yes, this is one of many examples of gnome 3 deferring to MacOS's UX language
You could say federal democratic republic or federated democratic republic if you want, but it being federated does not remove the democracy portion
Awesome work! I've been in there and one of the things missing is the change it humidity and temperature that hits you, maybe on the next revision ;)
I want to hear more about how advertising is a doomed business model. We've had advertising for centuries... But I'd love to know it was going away...
How sure are we about "never" beyond recent geological history? The impact that finished of the dinosaurs must have brought some pretty rapid changes without killing off the entire biosphere. My understanding is that the stressed parts of the biosphere collapsed pretty quickly within a few generations. But I might be wrong.
But how many of those hella-profitable games could even use VR? Pretty much just the "Core" genre. A VR 4x game is going to contain a lot of fluff.

I guess mobile will be the proof of the future of VR one way or the other. Mobile game companies have the funds to conduct the research to determine if VR increases profits and customer spend, and by how much.
Excellent point. I'd say there are edge cases to viewing a website too, but the claiming the general case falls under some sort of copyright-adjacent protection is bunk.

A bit more nuanced: not loading in the ad on a news site is akin to ripping out and throwing away the subscription card in the magazine. The contents of each might be subject to copyright, but that doesn't invalidate my right to separate them once delivered to me.
I mean you got it but it's something a lot of people want. The semantic reason for it is so you can look up an arbitrary path on a dict and if it's not present get a default, usually None. It can be done by catching KeyError but it has to happen on the caller side which is annoying. I can't make a real nested mapping that returns none if the keys aren't there.

d = magicdict()
is42 = d["foo"]["bar"]["baz"]
# -> You can read any path and get a default if it doesn't exist.

d["hello"]["world"] = 420
# -> You can set any path and d will then contain { "hello": { "world": 420 }

People use things like jmespath to do this but the fundamental issue is that __getitem__ isn't None safe when you want nested dicts. It's a godsend when dealing with JSON.

I feel like we're maybe too in the weeds, I should have just said "now have two expressions in your lambda."
Doesn’t help.
If an app breaks your phone, it's the phone's fault.
Can’t you “only” buy 10,000 dollars of I-bonds at a time? I feel like that is a small amount of money for a lot of investors, so they wouldn’t bother.
I think you mean "Apple made it significantly harder for anyone but Apple to track macOS and iOS users". To their credit, it's a strategic masterpiece, as their hardware market growth slows they've built an impressive system to give than an edge in services and advertising.
The only reason that twitter doesn't have that problem is that no one wants to advertise there. If you have a good advertising business, why show anything but ads?
Neither the poor nor the middle class have significant generational wealth to destroy. Wealth inequality is much worse in the US than income inequality. Inflation decreases wealth and increases income which is why it is a powerful tool to combat inequality.
>By the time nuclear projects started now complete, solar and wind will be mopping the floor with them ROI wise.

Yes, it will take decades to restart large scale nuclear projects. So we lost more than 50 years.

With Solar/Wind it's not a question of cost or ROI. Solar/wind, as an intermittent and diffuse energy source, CANNOT power a modern economy. It needs base-load.
It happened under the Balmer years a few times.
"Hello Neighbor. I'm not actually a woman but this is the default avatar and I don't want to pay money to change it."
Code ready for you to run in your browser.
Just had to fire it up for a quick 4v4 Hunters...
Manufacturing, refining, and AI improvements are going to reduce the price of batteries by another 90%
The New York Post has been hacked. We are currently investigating the cause
I think legitimately there could be a product that you put on your face and get a virtual on-site with photorealistic avatars. Or a pair of glasses that give you multiple 24 inch 4k screens that you could work on all day. And a replacement for Facetime sounds compelling as well, essentially a holographic call where there mom shows up in your living room from the other side of the country.

And yeah the gaming case is already pretty compelling when you look at things like Alyx, so just imagine more of that plus AR games that don't take you out of the real world.

At the end of the day you are talking about a display technology that can produce anything from an animated chess set on your kitchen table to the closest thing I will ever see to a Holodeck in my lifetime. In my mind computing will absolutely make the move from little pieces of glass in our pocket to AR, I just think it's going to take 10 to 20 years for moore law and miniaturization to do their thing.
Well made. Amazing to explore. Much appreciated.

Tested in my Firefox 106.0.1 on macOS Monterey 12.6, and it works great.
I think that’s the “huge surface” op is talking about.
This should be fixed with a shebang and shellcheck. If your shebang is #!/bin/sh, shellcheck will complain loudly about bash-isms. If production is sh and doesn't have bash, there's quite a few other bash-ism you want to check for. You can run shellcheck in CI to check your scripts and return non-zero if they aren't clean, and you can force off warnings for lines that are ok.

EDIT: I should have said, "could be fixed once and for all", "should" is just my opinion.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/elon-musk-will-face-an-earl...

> Advertisers are concerned about the billionaire’s plans to soften content moderation and what they say are potential conflicts of interest in auto advertising, given that he is chief executive of Tesla Inc., say people familiar with the situation.

> Mr. Musk said this spring that as owner of Twitter he would reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account, which the platform suspended indefinitely after linking Mr. Trump’s comments to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That would be a red line for some brands, said Kieley Taylor, global head of partnerships at GroupM, a leading ad-buying agency that represents blue-chip brands.

> About a dozen of GroupM’s clients, which own an array of well-known consumer brands, have told the agency to pause all their ads on Twitter if Mr. Trump’s account is reinstated, Ms. Taylor said. Others are in wait-and-see mode. Ms. Taylor said she expects to hear from many more clients if Mr. Trump’s account returns.

> “That doesn’t mean that we won’t be entertaining lots of emails and phone calls as soon as a transaction goes through,” Ms. Taylor said. “I anticipate we’ll be busy.”
> In what forum today are politicians given an opportunity to speak/write intellectually?

That quote is from a letter from Jefferson to Madison.

Barack Obama famously wrote a book. A "leader" leads by example. So I have a different take than your "sadly politicians are discouraged from thinking" and it goes like this:

Patronizing and conditioning the political discourse to be at the level of 'high school civics class' is a powerful mechanism for keeping actual thinkers away from politics.
> Why dont you build a better model then replace it?

I do not know if you are serious or sarcastic. Assuming serious, that was feasible 30 years ago. Now trying to build anything competitively different gets you bought out or deplatformed. Neither Brin nor Zuckerberg would stand a chance if they started today.

> A lot of jobs depend on ads, dont shit all over people

A lot of jobs depend on mass calling people at dinnertime with spam donation requests. That is not the reason not to challenge this business model.
I am simultaneously impressed & disapointed that all the information is hard coded.

master/countryinfo/data/ for country by country json files.
so your argument is "go nuclear, problem solved" ? I'm all for adding nuclear at this point but I dont know that the research supports the notion that an "all in for nuclear, done" approach would be effective.
Blueprints for a Universal Reasoning Machine
Sure.

One example is as follows: each party i generates a random polynomial P_i, and n secret shares of that polynomial (j, P_i(j)) for j in 1..n

Then, party i sends (j, P_i(j)) to party j. Party i similarly receives shares (i, P_j(i)) for j=1..n. Party i stores the share (i, sum(P_j(i))).

Then, parties reveal their shares as usual, the secret is then the sum_i P_i(0).

Of course, if the parties are dishonest, you might want some additional safety mechanisms, which can be dealt with with Kate commitments.

This papers https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/504.pdf goes into details, and much more.
Carbon has clear negative externality. Most of those other taxes were first instituted during periods of much greater Christian beliefs in the US than now.
When you go out of your way to get a special gift and the response is "thanks ... I guess", that's not really the desired outcome.

A confusing gift sounds like fun, but an unwanted gift not so much.
old argument talk computer is more faster than us, if we can build civilization in ten thousand years, maybe we give AI more time and waiting for it. but the environment of current AI actually looks like slavery.
Oil and gas are big users of HPC. They have been doing scale for longer than SV.
What We Learned from the Security Lab’s Community Office Hours
Mention of the current decline of tech stocks without mentioning Fed policies since 2000 is missing a foundational component in what’s happening. Meta has a viable business but they have also been the beneficiary of a tremendous amount of mal-investment, that party is ending.
The people who made the shows got paid.

The commercial television network that broadcasts the shows is paid by commercials.

And TV networks don't like commercial skipping, e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2012/05/25/tv-networks-file-legal-c...
Aaaaand the site crashes in ios safari
There is a CVD diamond detector available called Yehuda. It makes some sort of distinction based on the phosphorescence.

https://www.riogrande.com/knowledge-hub/videos/how-does-the-...
Geoengineering is starting to seem like less of a "possibility" and more of a necessity, because self-sustaining methane emission loops seem to have been unlocked in the artic and tropics.

So even if we were to magically stop the emission of new carbon, Earth will likely just keep heating up.

And yes, it's hard to prove that runaway warming is happening (data is noisy, and the time is short), but the burden of proof imho has shifted to the other side.

There is a known mechanism of action for runaway warming, data that fits runaway warming, and no known mechanism of action for natural dampening of that warming. The question at this point seems to be "why woudlnt' runaway warming happen"?

This is a good (if pop-sci) overview of the methane problem: https://www.ft.com/content/9ef195d6-dcc3-4378-bb35-2721981d6...
Ironic because uranium tends to be associated with the colour green.
No one else gamed with their parents? No one else games with their kids? My anecdata disagree with the causal link you're suggesting, fwiw.
In Europe, you pay taxes, as soon as you get them.
It's hard to say until the technology gets to the point where you can start to match what a monitor does. You'd need a 8k or probably higher screen for each eye plus the graphics card to drive it at ~144hz. Then if you want it portable you need a battery to drive it.

Once we're there then we can see what sort of future VR has.
> Where [Michelangelo] was responding to esoteric Renaissance Christian Neoplatonism...Caravaggio turned his eye to the forgotten and the outcast. In his canvases, Andrew Graham-Dixon observes, “Christ and his followers looked a lot more like beggars than cardinals.”

And he practiced what he preached!

> Caravaggio beat nobleman Girolamo Stampa da Montepulciano, a guest of the cardinal, with a club, resulting in an official complaint to the police

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#Legal_problems_and_...
My understanding was that the funds from Brian Acton were a loan to be repaid, though might be wrong. I was unable to quickly locate any information relate to Pavel Durov having any financial relationship with Signal.
They're just trying to extract a few more dollars out of it.
Thanks! Never thought == could be a simple buffer comparison (after a length check, I guess). I thought locale and things being Unicode would make that harder.
Same. Used shuttle for https://endler.dev/2022/zerocal/ lately and was super happy with the experience. I no longer have to worry about hosting and can focus on the product instead.
The only outcome I can imagine for this is my jacket annoying the hell out of me with notifications that I'm not wearing weather-appropriate clothing when in fact I am and it's just that its stupid software is failing to understand other variables that it failed to take into account. Maybe I'm not even outside. 0/5 would not buy.
Let me just leave a Unicode ‘degree’ symbol here for anyone who needs one:

°

(on iOS and possibly MacOS you can get one of these by pressing and holding ‘zero’ until the alternate characters appear)
What about if storage improves? Can't that smooth out the intermittent nature and provide for the base load?
The same way I would explain drugs and gambling. Gambling can be very competitive. That appeals to somebody and glamorizing it can generate a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean it’s beneficial in absolutely any way.
what they're doing is clearly working for them, but have maintainers shown any interest in transitioning the contribution workflow to something more common nowadays like Issues/PRs to make contributing accessible to a wider audience?
https://archive.ph/yTJs4
I must have missed the viagra ads in "A Tale of Two Cities."
> If this is true then the spec should say "using Option<&T> in certain cases carries allocations of undefined size".

You've smooshed together unrelated phrases with an ellipsis. You're unlikely to learn anything by doing that whether from a specification or really even basic API documentation.

> Or I am misintepreting "edge cases that are hard to reason about from the human text".

Given it isn't anywhere close to the phrase you've decided it's about yes, I'd generously say you are "misinterpreting" it.

> Demanded who? how?

You can explicitly assert claims about the world in your code if you believe they are true but there seems not to be official specifications saying so. Then the code doesn't compile if the assertions are wrong.

In some cases you may find the Rust language team can explicitly clarify something which troubles you, especially if you believe it isn't documented and yet would concern other people too.

And in many cases if you can't see why X is true, you should stop assuming X is true in your safety critical systems.

> Where can I get a hard copy?

This is especially hilarious when people ramble on about ISO because they're always imagining there actually is a "hard copy" of the modern standards. ISO tries really hard to persuade you give them a lot of money to download a PDF of for example 14882:2020 (C++) but you may be able to find a local standards agency who insist they actually have bound copies they can post to you for $$$.

In practice you still won't get a book. Such outfits tend to have a Print On Demand service and ISO 14882 is about 2000 pages so their POD system will reject the print. Once you put your order in, and wait a few days or weeks, either you get a refund and an apology or you'll receive... a CD with the PDF on it. If you have a big University or other technical library nearby they might have an earlier ISO version e.g. C++ 98 and C89 are things some really big libraries actually bought on paper. The standards were smaller and fewer people used PDF readers back then. But they won't have the current versions because it's a waste of money and paper.
Is there some different treatment of money spent on options (vs RSUs) that isn’t apparent from the Shopify blog post? I’m not understanding why someone would pick options ever in this scenario but maybe I’m just getting thrown off by demo text in the blog post
Why is it 'dog shit' as an e-reader? I mean, how badly can you fuck that up? I feel like that should be a pretty simple feature.
I think this is the right answer. Whatever disappointment may or may not exist with some of their other bets, their stranglehold on our attention continues to exist. I mean, you have really, really strong competitors like TikTok out there, and FB property usage GREW. In the developing world, Whatsapp quite literally has a stranglehold on communication -- full stop. Whatsapp for Business in a lot of countries is in its infancy... payment processing/etc. is surely a "willingness to do it" question rather than one of whether they can or not. It just sounds to me all in all like Zuck is trying to be ready to play a really long game. What all of this reminds me MORE of is the constant ridicule you'd hear out of Microsoft around mobile computing and the internet, only to realize it a bit way too late in the process that they had missed a trick. I think Zuck feels he has enough money to spend to not miss the next trick.
It's not hard to imagine such a scenario, but they'd need to develop some form of interstellar travel or would face extinction when their star dies/changes, thereby severely limiting their galactic presence.
Absolutely, it's easy to think you're dealing with knowledge only to find out it was an uninformed yet strong opinion. It's also incredibly easy to game, so there's no way that'll last forever.
"Hello Neighbor. I'd like you to join my professional network on LinkedIn."
> The rationale for this is that only by raising the living standard of the third world can the world’s population be stabilized without a major die-off

I don't see how pumping billions of tonnes of heavy metal tainted sulfuric acid into the ground water of Namibia and Niger for Uranium royalties that are lower than the cost of cleanup and then putting them into debt they can't service for power stations that can only be fueled by their colonizers' nuclear weapons programs is related to increasing their standard of living.

Especially when the fuel source can only service the US primary energy for under a decade.
Why would you ever use Deloitte as an example for something as a public good?
It’s not so much that the technology is niche, it is that the use cases are niche.

What is the main killer use case of VR? How many people want it or would enjoy it or would pay for it?
> Manufacturing, refining, and AI improvements are going to reduce the price of batteries by another 90%

This is a pipe dream. Battery demand will be astronomical for decades to come. That means ramping up supply and prioritising deployment via price signals.
How would things look if batteries were 90% cheaper?