skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the problem is when you provide a substitute for a real human need and it's cheap and addictive, the net effect is going to be negative. people will jump to the cheap thing and everything else deteriorates. i'm sure people have positive anecdotes about something they did with instagram but clearly the net effect, on teenagers in particular, is horrible.

even without the issues around biometric data and privacy, sitting inside with lights strapped to your eyeballs is not healthier than doing something with people in real life.

there will be specific applications where VR makes new things possible and better, but as a household entertainment device i think it'll be terrible.
I want the hardware to protect me perhaps with a key or handle or something. Talking to the hardware: Give me a block of memory that I can append to the end of. Another piece of code: Allow me to access that other block for read only.
Each piece of software has some sort of identification. Then the hardware throws an interrupt if a piece of software uses some memory incorrectly.
And sprecan is even closer sounding to the Dutch "spreken" which retained the long middle /e/ and /k/.
This is going to be downvoted on HN..

We are religious being.
Our religion is what connect us together and what made our society possible.

Disconnecting of religious leave us aimless, meaningless. You become materialist, nihilist.

Some will chase money or success and will keep them going for a while, but that’s not a good goal. You might reach your FU money and then realise that after a while you are still aimless and fun isn’t fun anymore.

So my atheist understanding of our ’God’ is that our goal should always be truth and love.

Aim toward the best thing you can toward truth and love and see where it lead. Money can be useful, is needed to move forward but it’s not the goal in itself.
The same is true of compassion, it sound good and is important, but can never take the place of truth (the current social justice propaganda is a good example)

These things are called "false idols" thing we chase to our own detriment.

Your purpose is thus to orient yourself toward the highest goal of truth and love you can imagine at the moment. Say your truth even if it cost you your job (without being stupid), that should be a adventure in itself.

Maybe your purpose today will be to help someone you know, or to clean something, or to make the best software for someone, or to make someone smile with a good joke on a rainy day. Or it come become a big plan to start a company, etc.

It’s not one thing or a material thing, it’s the alignment of your being toward truth and love as long as possible, as often as possible. It’s a never ending journey, you can always be a bit better tomorrow.

Pray, ask the questions you have in your mind.
Listen to the answer that come and see where it lead you. rince, repeat.
Start reading the bible (it surprised me how good it is)
Yeah, seems almost like the downfall was its openness. It's almost a kind of hubris -- he didn't need to articulate his plan in detail via a traceable comm like email, should've been more secretive. Maybe Zuck should've taken a more "first you must deceive your allies" approach.
It's hard for me to remember, as I didn't do much video back then and I'm not sure when Cocoa version of Premiere came out (or when the Final Cuts did either - which seemed far more popular - how things change!). I did a lot of work in PS and it was certainly better in every way on the G4, but running on OS X was a bit hit/miss as plugins and filters lagged behind. It was real messy for a few years. Not being able to get a fastish G4 in a laptop and never a G5 certainly didn't help. Who would have guessed the jump to Intel would be such a saving grace.

Man video was so weird back then. Remember needing to go to like, a special render farm to output your completed Final Cut project? Or local racks of XServes? Or just a weirdo mishmash local network?
"This is why tech companies keep pivoting to ads"

I think another factor is the paradox that the user who has enough money to be willing to pay to not see another ad is exactly the most valuable user to advertisers— they've pre-qualified themselves on multiple axes.

So there is always going to be an enormous moral hazard here with the ad-driven-freemium model— always a temptation to run an occasional high-value ad to the paying users, or to disguise the ad as a "recommendation" or position it instead as a "sponsorship", or whatever else. Other than users reacting swiftly and decisively against this kind of thing, it's hard to know how else to keep companies away from it.
Do you have a link to that virtiofs implementation?
Unfortunately even the most prolific and very successful CEOs and management in our industry often fail to understand this.

A couple years ago I was rejected from a 3rd round interview for a very large company that should have known better for the primary reason that my "coding challenge" exercise didn't meet an arbitrary lines of code minimum, despite meeting all of their requirements.

And of course we have the recent example of a certain chief Twit firing engineers based on LoC.
> Society is propped up by legal decree and violence

and a currency whose value approaches zero as time grows. if bitcoin is bad, how is that much better?
To "strive to be a 0.1x engineer" means that whenever you are presented with an option, you intentionally choose the worst option; the one which requires the most work, solves the problem in an inefficient way, doesn't align with the direction of the project and which will require constant maintenance and will need to be rewritten within a year or 2.

10x developers tend to code really slowly, much more slowly than 1x and 0.1x developers (especially when working on the critical parts of the project). What makes them 10x is that once they've written some code, it solves the problem in a near optimal way, it aligns well with the direction of the project (it's easy to build upon), it doesn't require much or any maintenance and it doesn't need to be rewritten for a very long time (e.g. 5 years or more provided that there is no crazy startup pivot on the business side).

This also highlights an important point that not all companies need 10x developers. If the company wants to build a large but straight forward project (a lot of work but without any significant technical challenges), you may not need a 10x developer; you may be better off just hiring a bunch of juniors who can put together a disposable MVP quickly. 10x devs are good when you have a sufficiently complex project; which I would argue are most projects, but not all.

A 2x developer is like a sprinter. A 10x developer is more like a marathon runner.
You see it this way because you are thinking in terms of an AR headset playing audio or visuals.

In a really well executed dystopian future, the AR glasses and headphones should not even exist and the thoughts should directly be injected in your brain.

You implant yourself a chip like Neuralink and Neuralink sends you electric impulses that gives you answers.

And then, Facebook and Google can directly read your mind and inject you ads.

Of course, they are going to respect your privacy "your thoughts never leave your local device" (except in the case of terrorism, and other related thoughts).

You are hungry, Google knows it, and suggests you a place to eat.

What a lovely future.
The problem isn't just social media, it's all kinds of entertainment. It seems like everything today is designed to give as much as a adrenine and dopamine hit as possible.

Take a look at the style of the filmmaking from a movie today and a similar movie from 20 years ago. Each scene has many more abrupt cuts, and everything feels much more fast paced.

https://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/agents-of-chaos
> Wearing headsets isn't. If we can ever build AR glasses (and that's far from a certainty) then maybe that might work but there are significant technical problems (eg matching focus, true blacks).

I've said this same thing a thousand times. It's not lack of content or use-cases killing AR - the tech just isn't there yet. Form factor is one of the very pressing issues. It seems inevitable that the tech will get solved, but it's not clear whether it's a couple years or a couple decades.
"A sufficient amount of cryptocurrency to cover the tax, obligation and fees is converted to dollars"

No it doesn't. Your crypto is not and will not be denominated in crypto. It's still dollars.
You have coin in your handle. Far more likely that you're hyper-sensitive to news you think is a slight on crypto. I have seen threads about Meta and Amazon losing enormous amounts in market cap in the last week. Maybe you're the one who needs to stop paying attention to detractors.
OWASP Damn Vulnerable Web Sockets
There's probably not much choice here; SpaceX is national security critical (to the point where they limited in who the can legally hire - as is true of all rocket companies).

The man played some silly political games with the Ukraine situation, Biden's probably placating some very pissed off general.
I think if anything, this shows that unfortunately teens would probably be the first truly mass market to want this.
> the compiler assumes that the inline asm can fall through and prints a "function declared 'noreturn' should not return" warning.

It actually can (Hint: what happens if the operating system `iret`s from its int 3 handler?), although it's probably not a issue in practice. Regardless, you don't need __builtin_unreachable to write:

void myabort(void) __attribute__((noreturn));
void myabort(void) {
asm("int3");
myabort(); // might need `return myabort();` to force TCO,
// but gcc doesn't like that and it should work anyway
}
# Assuming tail-call optimization etcetera, this produces:
myabort:
int3
jmp myabort

which is a correct implementation.

However, if you're implementing built-in/standard functions like abort, you presumably know what compiler you're using and don't need a std interface in the first place. There's zero legitimate reason to use a undefined-behaviour-based `unreachable` in application code.

Claiming std::unreachable is useful for implementing abort is like proposing a std::manual_copy function because your compiler optimized a implementation of memcpy to a call to itself - at some point you do in fact have to resort to implementaion-specific details to define the abstractions that abstract away said details, and "in literally the same function as the (also-nonstandard, IIRC) inline assembly that hopefully doesn't return" seems at if not noticeably past that point.
> AGI Safety research labs

If they are not part of a university, it is probably pretty sketchy anyhow.
How does reinforcing my point count as criticism?
> You don't properly evaluate the present value of money if you are willing to trade your present money for future money at completely unknown conversion rate and adoption date.

Unknown can mean many things. I'm convinced that the fair value of crypto is much, much higher. Adoption is still sluggish and small.

I believe in crypto's success, which you might call speculation.
Will they be put into forced liquidation on 130k BTC?
True dat.

It works like this in scientific research too, except the worthwhile stuff is only 1%, not the full 10%, so that's another order of magnitude worse X.

So basically if you develop for 100 days, only one of the daily milestones will actually be useful, and it may or may not happen much earlier than when all 100 days have passed. Also you may or may not realize which 1% it is right away either.

But once you've got it, that's the critical 1% that allows you to go forward the very next day.

And the next day is what really counts, otherwise zero progress toward the larger goals.

Even after a large goal has been reached, you might still get the feeling that you wasted a whole lot of days along the line there. Knowing that if you just had, and recognized, the key milestone the very first day of the project, you would be as much as 99 days ahead by comparison.

Now, doing the math, if you work one tenth as much it will take 1000 days to accomplish the same thing instead.

These orders of magnitude are killing me, you must avoid even conceptualizing the possibility that 999 days could be wasted now.

Which is OK, for some things I do that too.

Other things I like to be a lot more than 99 days ahead on.

Always have.
I cannot provide too many details without violating anonymity of this anonymous account. I can say that in my primary test suite I have about 85 tests each which comprise a variable number of user events and assertions totaling about 290 total assertions. When I was using HTTP that would take about 45 seconds to execute. When I switched to a home grown websockets solution the test time went down to about 6.5-8.5 seconds. Also, if you want things to be lightning fast try to shy away from using querySelectors.
Very few authors approach Kurt Vonnegut in hilarity, brevity, or creative brilliance. His writing is easy to love.
I wonder if there are better NGF inducing drugs to explore.
Just think: if he had bet his company on blockchain instead, he'd be laying off 80% of his company instead of 12% of it.
While true in many places, bronze specifically corrodes over time when exposed to air.
> 7 to 10 thousand people were using the app every month.

Given that, their income seems about right. Only a tiny fraction of (potential) users are typically willing to pay anything.
Physical cookbooks are still quite nice to have around for this reason.
The place at worked at one job ago had a Slack bot set up so that if you said "guys" in any public channel, it would spit out a message like "Maybe use different word instead?"

It was about as efffective and intelligent as it sounds. /s
>You just can't expect people to exist in a virtual environment and ignore their actual physical reality for any length of time.

People spend hours and hours playing world of warcraft. A better version of that would be even more popular.
I guess what I'm trying to express is that even in the rare case I'm doing something fancy with git making sure I don't lose anything is trivial.

I can think of exactly one time I actually lost code and I was doing ill advised reflog fuckery.

I take your point, but I stand by my opinion that in virtually all normal usage, git just isn't that hard. YMMV.
When you are going to get all philosophical, why not start off with some definitions rather than waffle later on.

Hacker (-a, -um): "breaks into computer systems", cf cracker. Painter (-lol, -rofl): "Paints walls to order with a roller", cf tosher.

I am of course being somewhat silly with my definitions but both are valid and unlikely to be what the authors of the article and my parent comment have in mind. ... or are they?

When this sentence hoves into view:

"You can safely replace "painters" in this response with "poets", "composers", "pastry chefs" or "auto mechanics" with no loss of meaning or insight."

... the author's mind has clearly wandered a bit off course. An auto mechanic can very well be described as a "creative" too. I'm well aware that mechanics perform some pretty fancy feats involving imagination and creative use of tools and materials every day.

I think that what this sort of essay fundamentally gets wrong is starting off with a lack of definitions and wooly notions of trade/profession/occupation/interests. There may be some truths in certain passages when considered on their own but frankly it starts off without basic foundations. Any civil or structural engineer will happily tell you what happens to an edifice without sufficient foundations.

The definitions of painter and hacker that are presented later are quite offensive. "Painters apply colored goo to cloth using animal hairs tied to a stick." - oh dear!

A final flourish and sign off from the article: "But you, sir, are no painter."

... to which I can only respond: "get a grip matey". I get the thesis as presented but the close mindedness exhibited reminds me of my grandad's gin traps - inhumane and demonstrating a lack of imagination of how to deal with a problem. Minimal signs of imagination and creativity noted.

What on earth is wrong with: "What hackers and painters have in common is that they're both makers."? (quote from "Hackers and Painters")

At least we are all thinking and engaging and for me that's the important thing.
I should have been more specific: It's been a few months (maybe even a year?) since I last checked, but that package used to not include buildx which I need, that's what I meant by out of date.
> an arbitrary lines of code minimum, despite meeting all of their requirements.

There's no way this is true right? Why would anyone care about LoC for a coding challenge?
As far as I know you have it reversed:
Mitnick & co. should be called "crackers", while "hackers" is the wrong term.

I found this article (I only skimmed it and didn't look for counter evidence, sorry)
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-short-...
The thinking process of a front end developer implementing a hero section
That may actually depend on how much institutional damage Trump managed to inflict on the FBI - Trump having a vested interest in such things.
I'd rather not have my access to my net worth be behind a six word phrase. Might be tough to pay for shit after I get hit by a car or get old or something and have trouble remembering stuff.
Severe infantile Pompe disease took Zara, Then Sara. Could Ayla Be Saved?
I started using Thunderbird when my old Mac's "Mail" app basically croaked. I bought a newer used Mac a couple months ago and got the latest version of both Thunderbird and Apple's Mail app.

Both of them were much easier to set up, and Apple's Mail app is a lot better now in that regard so I used both of them for a few weeks and Thunderbird won me over.

Fair to say that after using it for so long it was more familiar but it's noticeably faster and the latest version has updated the UI and it's very clean and compact.

I don't use the calendar, but I do think the new design is a big improvement and it's great to see they've been working on it.
Speaking of purpose, that's the purpose of friends, not of coworkers. For example, think of the Gates and Buffett friendship. Or scroll down to the bottom of any pg essay to see: "…and by the way these are my friends."
Then move. The world is your oyster.

Famous American actress said, "Best advice I can give an aspiring actor? Move to LA."
What issue are you having with the flatpak? Perhaps it is best to file an issue here https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/issues/new/choo.... As some details like your distro, versions, etc might help to resolve this.

Since you mention, is the tarball not an option? This is supposed to be portable. What would you prefer?
>Catching and prosecuting criminals does approximately nothing to actually reduce crime.

I know it's wrong to be biased towards mainstream thinking, but it is fair to ask for sources for statements like that.
5-year? almost all schedules I'm familiar with in high tech are either 4-year or 1-year.
Exactly this, you can't hug or kiss someone virtually, no matter the technology (outside of some truly out-there sci-fi like virtual surrogates). It's just crazy to think this would replace face-to-face (outside of real necessity) - even FB couldn't do that, though maybe they're aiming for the same role as FB does now, logically.

Unfortunately, teens would be the most vulnerable to adopting this though. But I can't imagine this being anything but another "temporarily popular" thing that will get boring quickly.
"They also burn a fossil fuel, which is more detrimental to the environment than low-power LEDs"

True however the true cleverness was that they burn the fumes coming off the sewerage system safely disposing of formally dangerous build ups of the gas while getting brighter at the same time.

So essentially fossil fuel
is only a part of what they burn.
It is now; machines are being turned off as even the marginal(electricity) costs are now more than the return. Mining in case the price goes up doesn't make sense if you can just buy bitcoin for less than the electricity cost, of course.
That's an unrealistic expectation based on a faulty view of recent history.

I had my first 'smartphone' in 2003. By 2009 I had a device in my pocket that could almost replace my PC at both work and home and didn't spy on everything I did. In 2020 I had a device that was utterly useless for work and had become little more than an entertainment device that constantly sends data back to the mothership.

While unlikely it is certainly possible that hardware will advance to meet the need but the problem lies in how we do consumer software now. Because the hardware isn't the real product anymore predicting how it will develop gets much sketchier.

Either way, imagining that one change means another is possible or likely is silly.
It is tough. I feel you.
Your hands suddenly, are very large; where do they go, or what do they do?
But turn the music off.
Take a breath. No one is talking about you, nor do you even exist; except as another human body cohabiting, briefly, space with others.
Your identity consists of your instantiation in space; you can relax, allow your body-vessel to idle, and crunch through non-present problems. Or just relish the ambient hum. Maybe someone else who is unplugged has made fleeting eye contact, and asked you about the weather.
We had a VR excitement 'bubble' in the 90s. Loads of headsets came out, games supporting them, etc. It all died out within a few years. I guess people like Mark thought the reason for the die out was that the tech wasn't there yet. But the reality is that VR is not the future, people just don't want it. Nobody wants to live their entire waking / working life in a VR headset. But that seems to be what Mark is working towards. He's thinking people will choose to work together via VR rather than just plain old video conferencing.
small add. display multiple examples while it's downloading the model. Its a long time to stare at an astronaut on a horse in space
Why would the panels improve? Monocrystalline silicon cell efficiency has been about the same since the 90s: 15-20% for commercial cells, up to 26% in the lab.
there is a finite amount of capital , probably half a trillion if I had to guess. It cannot keep going up forever.
I'd argue "why a method exists" should be addressed with naming and javadocs, not in the commit message. Why split the meaning of the code between the code itself and the commit messages?

And if it's not possible to document inline, the PR docs or code review comments should address this. Then future onlookers can use `blame` to see the context.
Just found this page: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/

It has a lot of RFC!!
VR/AR is more unlike-in-capability than phones. If the hardware becomes a pair of glasses that have no friction in putting on, then it can engulf capabilities of TV, phone, PC, anything that has a screen. And unlike-in-quality part would be to project stuff on real world, be completely in a virtual world, etc. There is nothing like it.

I just think that making the hardware is the toughest challenge. Zuck might be underestimating hardware progress.

If he is right, godspeed, future would be amazing. If not, we'll have net positive experiment out of this and it will accelerate AR/VR hardware dev.
The majority of durability issues of glasses are the hinges. So as long as you can make that part of the frame repairable, I feel like it could be manageable.

Not that there aren’t a bunch of other issues for every day wear. (I wear contacts for vision correction because I find glasses very annoying).