skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes wonder if Zuck has ever read a novel or watched a movie because one way he is tone deaf is not understanding the possibilities of fiction.

This VR enthusiast made a great video about the problems of VR games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZRvw7WTq8

My mother in law probably still thinks people play first person shooters but really the sense of characterization in modern games depends on the third person perspective. Bayonetta has legs and knows how to use them. The whole point of a Mario game is seeing Mario on the screen.

The third person view lets you experience a spectrum of identification with a character (I moe for Tamamo, I like Mario, I control Mario, I travel with Mario on his journey, I am Mario, ...) that you can't really experience from a first person view. Maybe you can put on the appearance of a character for other people's benefit in VR but you're going to have use your imagination (for better and worse) to put yourself into a character.

For now the VR game industry is driven by independents. Big game studios could make an AAA game but they won't because there aren't enough players with headsets to justify the investment.

I am betting on the first AAA VR game coming from a Chinese studio as they are taking big chances on new IP such as Genshin Impact from MiHoYo.
Never tried that. I’m basically trying to setup a cron to login to this site every day and download a CSV.
It's just being used to coerce a clinical reading, like some sort of wildlife observer, relax. "The female builds her nest in the late summer..."

Adjectives and nouns are slippery things, and compound nouns exist besides.

FWIW, a quick corpus search of COCA[1] for `DET female VERB` [(a|the) female (eats|plays|chooses...)] yields 63 total attestations in the corpus (59 unique).

The same with `male` yields 65 (57 unique).

So it's a thing that happens in English.

1 https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/
ImmersedVR has/had keyboard pass through so you could peek which is helpful even if you touch type.
But you have to also keep in mind that no one (except maybe Zuckerberg) wants to look stupid. Walking around with ski goggles would look so incredibly stupid to any normal human being, so you'd have to carry the goggles around in a case or a backpack. Even with a device the size of ski goggles (which none of the current tech can even come close to given battery sizes) AR/VR still won't displace cell phones or apple watches.

I don't think the form-factor is something they can iteratively approach for too long, given the absurd amount of investment Meta is already throwing in to building the next generation of still insufficient AR/VR. Investor appetite will not last long enough to realize the pipe-dream.
I think they're more like trying to grab several of the crumbs that Google left behind. I don't think it's possible for a paid search engine to eat Google's lunch.
You're making an extremely pedantic distinction, which is only correct in a purely technical sense. Which is the worst kind of correct.

Yes, mastering engineers work from track-level dynamic range (usually achieved with slow-response compression) to transient-level dynamic range (fast compression/limiting), and the range in between. When the context for this discussion is about "brickwall limiting", we're talking about very fast, transient-level compression, and your comment mistakes slower dynamic range for the transient-level dynamic range everyone else is discussing.

So, no. In this context, what you're talking about isn't increased dynamic range.
There's also a way to host app resources in the App Store, usually used for levels in games and such:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Fi...
Homa's message-based API is different and he has been unable to find a way to "slide it in under the existing TCP sockets interface"

I suppose the fastest path to adoption would be something that worked like NFS, if your goal is to hit the data center first. Or maybe an ssh like client/server pair and other things could tunnel through it.
I fully agree with you. Also I did mean second life
Surely you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Company
This is what I have an issue with.

This is a side project. Something to make sure FB has a foot in the game for when the technologies make "it all" (whatever that is) possible.

Part of me wonders if this is a decoy - look over here! While I do something useful elsewhere.
What an incredibly pointless and long ad disguised as a blog post.
I was giving OP the benefit of the doubt that they live somewhere with terrible currency policy and no cap gains like Turkey or Czech Republic.

But yeah, something tells me the taxman isn't all that interested in your bitcoins.
Not replace but greatly boost. With AR, I used to love passing through the external environment and putting two tv screens up in the ceiling area with CNBC and a podcast, all while doing laundry and tidying up around the house; my net consumption bumped up quite significantly due to the ease and ubiquity of opportunities to consume content.
Is this effective altruism or ineffective altruism?
This a thousand times! Pithy and to the Point.

PS: What is "AvE"?
Thank you, Apple friends! You’ve made the world a better place, and I salute your subtle bug-fixing acumen. These can’t have been easy to find, and you have my completely unironic gratitude.

(I know this sounds extremely corny, but someone should say it.)
You don't need a phone number, you can just leave it blank and click next.
"once you have a good VR / AR system, you no longer need to buy phones or TV's or many other physical objects"

I'd really love to know what "other physical objects" Zuckerberg has in mind here.
This, 100%. Arc's best feature is eliminating window management if you're the type who keeps a tree of research open, and the command bar means you get to any point in the graph without having to remember 'where did I put that'? Easel and notes behavior is the cherry on top for keeping thoughts together with those branches. It's a much, much more useful superset of behavior that obsoletes bookmarks and multiple windows with various tabs.

But admittedly, this is a very power user feature set that makes it alluring to me, I would expect most people won't find those useful, and tab hoarders in particular will be VERY confused and frustrated when the archive feature vacuums up all the tabs they didn't pin in a space 12 hours after they last looked at it (the default, which can be extended but not disabled).

If you're not that high sprawl but organized type though, and are on macOS, I'd recommend Orion browser[0] if you still want a non-ugly and native vertical tab bar implementation with your browser that also supports webRequest API and is both fast and better with energy use since it uses WebKit. They also have a public bug tracker [1] and a responsive discord.

[0]https://browser.kagi.com/

[1]https://orionfeedback.org/
Someone on HN once said (perhaps fact check this), it took Steve Jobs 7 years from the iPod touch to the iphone. Time perception can be skewed.
This. I’ve done the same mistake with a person who, due to their condition could not possibly _recognize_ there’s a problem.

To anyone who doesn’t relate to this - imagine being a perfectly “normal” human being (if there’s even such a thing) and someone walking up to you and saying straight up that you have a problem and need help and here’s the advice etc. The perfectly rational reaction to that would be the opposite of the intention.

On top of that, there’s always room for ourselves to be wrong and the person receiving the advice be right in their circumstance, so forcing our opinion on them just shows our own ignorance and inability to consider other points of view.
I've been using Edge on Windows, macOS, and Android for the past year or so and have been really happy with it. I signed up for Arc and haven't gotten an invite yet but, looking at this article, it doesn't really seem to be that much of a game changer? At least not as much as the pretentiousness of "The Browser Company of New York" (gag) would have you think.

Edge has vertical tabs with the exact same "pinned tab" system. You can also switch back to horizontal tabs if you so wish. It also has tab grouping, password/history/extension syncing etc. etc. With the huge added bonus that it's available on all of my machines and phones, syncing across all of them (and giving what I'm sure is an uncomfortable amount of data to MSFT...)

The only "missing" feature would be the command bar which, even as a "browser power user", I don't see any use for. How is it any better than the usual omnibox?
Indeed. Scroll hijacking is simply the worst, honestly.

I can appreciate that they tried to make it flow better and present the ideas in a context, but it's a lot of complexity to tell me about a product. It's also risky, because now it doesn't work and I can only assume other overly engineered thought processes have been applied to the product itself.

First impressions matter.
SBF tells investors FTX needs $8B in emergency funding: WSJ
He cancelled that already.
Try new things, preferably outside and with others
https://www.bluezones.com/1-blue-zones-life-why-what-where-w... > https://www.bluezones.com/2016/11/power-9/
:thumbs-up-emoji:
This is all great advice.

> probably involves reading some books about modern OSes in general as a primer

> I started long enough ago that I have a hard time recommending any specific resources.

Having gotten into kernel programming in the last decade I'd just like to offer a specific recommendation that really helped me out: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operati...

I started out literally just reading stuff in the source tree/man(9) (which was informative!) but then my employer gave me a copy of this book, and I found it to be a super-helpful aid in understanding the general organization and motivation of the kernel: what kinds of tasks and problems each component needs to address, how components interact with each other, and the basic building blocks by which these things get done. I found that having a higher-level understanding of the what/why of each bit, covering algorithm/data structure details but probably not the exact code implementation, made grasping the actual kernel code a lot easier.

Oh, also: dtrace is a very fun and interactive way of getting a live peek into FreeBSD kernel structures without doing a whole bunch of scary recompilation. You can e.g. start digging around in `curthread->td_proc` on a process you control and you'll discover a whole lot about how the kernel manages processes.
I always enjoy the various ways people mythologize the 10x developer. Everyone has their own apocrypha about what makes a 10x developer and how they behave and it is all so different.

Maybe there are a few out there, but mostly, they are myths constructed from stories that are constantly retold and changed until no one really knows exactly what makes a 10x developer, but are convinced they can intuit it when they see it :)

Source: read the comments here. I caught at least 4 different explanations of what a 10x developer really is or does.
On the contrary, you need an echo chamber in order to push this idea. Most people are tired of being lectured on what's offensive/not inclusive and constantly walking on eggshells, and it's beginning to show. The Buzzfeed era is over.
The title doesn't mention chat, throats, or what does or doesn't make sense, and is literally true.
more like a very effective way of losing all your money
Exactly. It was an attack and it worked.
If there's a good AR headset you'd have to be able to stop me (and a million other people) from forcing wikipedia onto the device. That might be a harder technical challenge than actually making the AR headset.
I hate to gatekeep, but I find it pretty impossible that you are "in the crypto space" in any meaningful sense but somehow have not heard of FTX. That's like being "in the crypto space" but not knowing what Ethereum is.
I don't care that much about FTX. My only hope is that SBF actually gets sent to jail. An example needs to be made.
I don't think the vestibular system is a solvable problem with VR but it is much less / a non-issue with AR. Thats why he always talks about VR/AR.
He really did have the Hyperreality vision.[1] "Our vision is that VR / AR will be the next major computing platform after mobile in about 10 years.
It can be even more ubquitous than mobile - especially once we reach AR - since you can always have it on."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
What a useless piece of feedback, lacking any form of constructive substance whatsoever. At least offer me something to work with here.
I like it personally. Free to use, pay for support.

The distribution of something already made is free. Supporting, understanding your issue, developing a fix and releasing it…all of that takes a real person’s time.

As a contractor, you learn very quickly that people will ask for anything if it doesn’t cost them anything. There are a lot of people happy to take advantage of you if you let them.

I like seeing a good model to get OSS devs paid.
You’re looking for Orion:

https://browser.kagi.com/

https://blog.kagi.com/orion-features/
Idée fixe, perhaps?
From the link:

But it is MIT, can't I use it for free?

Yes all projects are under MIT so the community backing honesty system can be ignored and Fody used for free.

Do I need to be a Patron to contribute a Pull Request?

Yes. Users must be a Patron to be a user of Fody. Contributing Pull Requests does not cancel this out. It may seem unfair to expect people both contribute PRs and also financially back this project. However it is important to remember the effort in reviewing and merging a PR is often similar to that of creating the PR. Also the project maintainers are committing to support that added code (feature or bug fix) for the life of the project. Pull Requests from non-Patrons, that are of significant value to the larger Fody user base, may justify the effort in reviewing and merging.

Do I need to be a Patron to raise an issue?

Yes. Users must be a Patron to be a user of Fody. As such when raising an issue (question, bug or feature request) and not a Patron, the issue may not be actively triaged, and eventually closed as stale. Issues from non-Patrons, that are bugs and are highly likely to affect the larger Fody user base, may justify the effort and be handled.

Also, the minimum amount is $3/Month: which surely isn’t near enough to pay for their time! Many developers can afford $36 a year, and if not, a developer can still use it for free (BSD licence) and maintain their own branch. https://opencollective.com/fody/contribute/patron-3059/check...
I tried. It didn't let me. Anyway, I used a burner phone number.
Is the income more than what you would get in a normal software engineering job?
This is a setting you should disable.
Every couple of years they groom a new generation, a new hype cycle of pump and dump starts anew. Some get hooked, some homeless, some are dreaming to get their money back one day…
I used Mac throughout the 90s. System 7, 8, as they called it.

The worst part of Mac crash was they were violet, unpredictable and would result in app crash or more often complete system lockup.
This should work (Wine obviously needs it when running 32-bit apps).
Are you explicitly specifying a small PAGEZERO when compiling?
> It gets worse when you start fixing typos in files unrelated to your fix.

That does not go into the PR and someone should make you split that out into a code-cleanup PR and it shouldn't pass review.
> In comparison, the emulator used during the 68k to PPC transition was never removed from Classic MacOS, so the change stood out.

It was never removed because Classic MacOS itself was never fully native.
Sure, it pays well and I work about 4 hours a day and make myself available to others if needed the other 4. Fully remote.

Frontend work for a midcap household name. I have a lot of autonomy and am insulated from all the BS that happens at the mid-manager level. My 1 on 1s with my manager usually becomes more of a therapy session for him.

After years of freelancing and nightmarish interviews in the Bay Area, it took a simple conversation with a cool Aussie guy to get the contract. Once on the team everyone saw I could produce so was asked to come on full time. Moved out of CA to AZ. Been almost 3 years now.
Protecting Democracy and Freedom are evil?
But you have to also keep in mind that no one (except maybe Zuckerberg) wants to look stupid.

We're already there.
We have people walking around with iDweebs in their ears, talking to themselves, while looking down at a phone screen.
This has been a problem since 2015 yet it seems amazon does not care

it's the same schemes: fake reviews, hijacked reviews, etc.

I remember this being in the news even as far back as 2019 https://slate.com/technology/2021/12/amazon-listings-wrong-r...
VR in the 90s sucked pretty hard
Revenue isn't profit. Now show profit/employee.
> they are free to ignore your bug report

That is true of any open source project.
Biggest carmakers to build 400M more vehicles than 1.5C climate target allows
It's not new. I've seen this a lot. I guess it's easy enough to just change the item for sale and keep the previous item's reviews. I don't understand why it continues.
The most interesting approach to VR from my point of view is to turn it inside out and use projectors and similar tricks to merge characters and settings with the real world.

The army has a 40 foot dome that they project images onto to train soldiers to use Stinger missiles. Some friends of mine did an art project where you go into a "time blender" which directs you into six different rooms with different experiences, the "time blender" they built wasn't up to the standard of the rooms so I am thinking of how to make a mini version of that dome.

I have been talking for a year about projecting a video game character as a Pepper's Ghost and doing a sketch comedy routine with it, I really have to get off my ass and do it (maybe make a little pepper's ghost fairy) even if it's almost impossible for a schizoid like me to be consistently funny.
Holy cow. Twitter is falling apart fast.

Musk desperately orders features in and out. Advertisers pull out or sit on the sidelines. Revenue falls. Musk tries even more desperate things. More advertisers leave. Musk needs to sell more TSLA to fund Twitter experiment.

This could be the downfall of Elon.
The problem isn't the amount of money either. It's that their product is bad.

I havent tried the recent Quest Pro but based on reviews I assume it's pretty good. Not great, not sexy, but pretty good. Their flagship application however, Horizons, embarrasses meta every time a screenshot gets shared. It is so dorky and uninspired that nobody wants to admit they even tried it.

Who exactly are they targeting with that thing? Adults? Children? Their messaging and pricepoint around the Pro seems to suggest they're expecting office workers to use it for virtual conferencing. Who are they kidding with that?

The cost is part of the forward-looking vision. That part makes sense to me. It's the product that baffles me. It just stinks.
See if the founder’s side project Teclis [0] (non-commercial search) finds it. Kagi uses the project’s index in addition to Google and Bing.

[0]: https://teclis.com/
Also, this

>I know this for a fact because I’ve subsequently watched YouTube’s best on the same subject

should never be said about any subject, unless it's being said ironically.
It's incredible how confident people are about the existence of some phenomenon when there is a total lack of credible sources about its existence (or even a commonly agreed definition for it!)
True but DirectX was pretty limited on NT4. And A/V production too, because everything was tailored to w9x.
Imagine for a moment though, if GitHub stars could pay your rent.

Imagine a corporation spends money on an experiment where they purchase some luxury units of a fancy apartment building, and then rent was decided based on GitHub stars. You must collect a certain number of GitHub stars each month to satisfy rent or you get evicted. I wonder what kind of projects would come out of this.
> you are displaying a lot of foolish ignorance and compounding it with misplaced certitude but in good faith and a spirit of wide eyed curiosity I applaud your lack of understanding of finance.

Why is this kind of defensive retort so commonly seen in discussions about the value of cryptocurrency?
Isn't this what XUL was? Admitedly I'm aware its arch was too complex to compete with Chromium's speed and security features, but way before Electron, I was using desktop apps built with XUL like Songbird for my music app, as well as a Twitter client whose name I can't recall now (of course, Thunderbird as well). Maybe they threw the baby out with the bath water a little bit by electing to concede to WebExtensions API since now Electron (read: Chromium) is filling exactly the niche that XUL provided.
"They've spent too much money to be out of money" is a really weird read of how money works.
I like your idea of the search engine. It's what I miss from Google. At one time (2006?) we had the option to google search only forums and discussions, and that helped me get quality answers to my queries.
"hackernews post, deeply knowledgeable, FAANG dayjob, startups with VC funding, increased conversion rates, trending on artstation"
Let's say Marx is not the only one I've read when I was young and leave it at that.
quests are/was outselling xbox
I wonder when he'll run out of feet to shoot at
"GitHub stars won't pay your rent"

No. But they'll give me the satisfaction my day job never will.
Ethereum is the standard for ERC-20 Tokens. It's not hard to get a TRC-20 (Tron) token up and running, but a more careful company might not consider it.

> Yet ? We are talking multiple tens of Billions of $ and supposedly they don't have infrastructure YET ?

These up billions of $$ of customers money which they make a kind of commission on. The commission is not going to be billions but rather millions; and crypto/blockchain infrastructure/developers are very expensive.
probably not exclusively, but Chinese-made goods probably were a fair percentage of the counterfeit goods, even if there were not Chinese sellers on Amazon.
I think that's a different scenario. Games are escapism, what Mark Z is proposing is another 'real' world through your goggles where others demand and control your attention. I don't think people want that tax.

I think perhaps WoW would fail in the same way with VR, where people start to realise the time spent in it really is more like work after a point.
But if the alternative is that it's ten commits and most of them don't work anyway, the bisect takes longer to give you the same lousy information.
General Motors and Volkswagen have paused their spending on Twitter since Elon Musk’s arrival.

Of course car makers are the first ones to pull out.
It is with a heavy heart that I wish Aaron a belated 'Happy Birthday'

We wish You were still here with Us, You are lovingly Remembered.

Aaron Swartz : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Yeah good ‘ol Finex
> If you want to reduce crime, ask the government to do one of its other jobs: Provide a stable foundation for every member of the country, so that they don't have to fear being left destitute if they can't get someone richer to agree to support them (in exchange for labor).

This is may be true in the case of things like street level drug sales but most of these scams are perpetuated by people in other countries using bank accounts ("drops") set up with stolen American identities. America can't really influence social policy in Nigeria or India or Russia on the scale you are talking about. The scammers only need one success every couple months to make the average salary in their country and the smarter ones are making hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Perhaps tell them the story of the 10x carpenter.

Obviously, the one who uses the most wood wins! ;) If told right, they should easily figure out why LoC is a horrible metric.