skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about your friends, but playing Alyx opened my eyes to the level of immersion VR can achieve. It's a kind of gameplay that can't be repeated with 2d screens. I really do think it could be revolutionary, based on playing that game alone. If you can get ahold of a headset and a powerful gaming PC - I recommend giving it a try.

The problems right now are very fundamental. The quest 2 out of the box is supremely uncomfortable. Casual users will put it on and not want to use it due to VR nausea and the discomfort of the headset after wearing it for 20 minutes. The hardware is not powerful enough to create an experience like Alyx - all the headset games just have basic polygons and colors. Resolution is still poor, FOV is poor. We're still in the infancy of immersion/comfort/usability. I played Alyx on the Quest 1 which I actually think had better immersion due to the OLED screens.

IMO the trick is going to be whether Meta can pull off a usable, immersive device in the next 5 years without their revenues completely tanking. The problems to overcome are really hard and still at basic research level which takes years to develop. The other issue is the killer game or app that gets people into VR en-masse.

I guess my point is I think writing VR off completely is a mistake - like someone saying what is the point of a cell phone in the 1980s when they were giant bricks and cost a fortune. VR will get good enough at some point that it's like putting on a pair of glasses and stepping into another world without any friction. It's just a question of how long until we get there and who will bring it to us.
I agree. In a pattern that seems to be repeated globally and frequently, dissatisfaction drives polarization, which in turn pumps up the dissatisfaction, and also encourages actions which are ideological rather than pragmatic and at least as rash as they are bold - and when they go wrong, it gives objective reasons to be even more dissatisfied.
We have ways to go before all electricity generated during the day is solar. There were only a few days last year when such a thing happened. In any case, the reason given by them is rich people not paying their due, not what you say. I say this is all a failure of imagination. Give me mobile electricity - if my solar panel is generating 5KW at home, give me the same electricity for free(or nominal charge) at my work, so I can charge my car. Electricity use will increase by a huge %, because of electrification of vehicles. You got to make sure that’s all generated by Green energy, not kill it as whole
It’s been a while since I did circuits. What are delay lines used for?
Integration has benefits for many crops in many regions. For example, many fruits and vegetables develop better under some shade. See this USDA blurb:

> "Commercial farms growing high value fruits and vegetables use shade structures to create protected environments. These growers benefit from bigger yields, better quality produce, fewer pests, timed crop growth, and resource conservation. Unfortunately, shade structure use is limited for many small and medium size farms who lack economy of scale. Commercial shade structures available today are very expensive to purchase and install as well as difficult and time-consuming to move."

Solar structures mean the farms generate revenue from the shade systems, although initial cost-of-installation is high.
When people say one thing with their words and another with their actions, I tend to believe the actions. And "we made cool hardware that doesn't have much practical use" is not the most ringing of endorsements.

Also suspicious to me is the way that Meta still isn't releasing actual use statistics. They're happy to release DAU numbers for Facebook. Where are the equivalent numbers for Oculus? What Carmack says is consistent with my suspicion that a lot of people bought the Quest to try it but don't use it regularly. Which would explain why they keep those numbers very quiet.
They launched their beta way too early. It's missing a lot of features, it feels clunky -- like I can actually feel the API calls when I'm scrolling. I think there is a Twitter killer in the pipeline, but doubt it's going to be Post.

It'll be a Twitter clone with one extra killer feature... and dark mode.
What is the impact of inequality in a job seekers market? The perception I have is that employers are seeing difficulty in hiring. Would not inequality and diversity increase in such markets, as employers lower barriers and reduce leverage?
Just ask it for a darker (or lighter, or more humorous, or more surprising) ending for the story and it will oblige.
My last company lost its mind and started getting into meta-metrics like:

X% of systems have metrics.
Y% of uncovered systems get added to metrics in Q2.
Z% of metrics captured meet their SLO.

Meanwhile the SLOs themselves were pulled out of thin air because management only talked to upper management and not actual users.
I’m going to name the English language as one of the suspects.

A common language with the US makes many of the political and business elite focus on the U.S. It also makes them less inclined to put the effort in to engage with Europe politically and culturally.

That in turn helped to fan the flames of Euroscepticism that in turn led to Brexit.

It’s no accident that the focus of trade deals post Brexit has been with English speaking countries of the former Empire.
I think the thing is it's just the full picture is not good enough.

I mean I'm sitting there earlier having a shit and I shout at my watch to add some more toilet paper to the shopping list. This is now on all my devices including the one I take shopping. If this was on Linux I'd have to crawl back to my desktop, write it on that, then export it when I went shopping. Everything is just that much more difficult and disjointed.

The whole experience leaves me somewhere around 2008. I can't find any real advantages over my gnome2 desktop in 2008. It stopped being usable then for me.

Linux has become what its good at, which is a container target and server platform. As a desktop it hasn't even caught up with the 2010's yet...
No, Labour isn't a popular vote. It is a popular vote AND a union vote (and the PLP, although they have never mattered in practice, they tried to oust Corbyn three times iirc...didn't work).

Corbyn had popular support but, like Miliband, relied relatively heavily on unions...and one union at that: Unite (and btw, his popular support was always overstated hugely...in late 2019, you had a sizeable minority who thought he would walk it, he was massively popular in the Westminster bubble...this is despite him being regarded as a totally odious figure under Blair when he was a backbencher).

The Tories have never had this issue because their electorate is relatively diffuse, and MPs have been quite willing to stab their leader in the back at the first sign of trouble.

Blair (like Thatcher) was an accident. I agree with your point but the Tories have been generally able to produce more effective leaders with their constitution.
> his vote share was around Blair’s average

Blair got 35% of the vote after 8 years of power and the Iraq war, against a decent challenger and experienced politician.

Corbyn got 32% — as the opposition — against an incumbent who’s approval ratings at the time were underwater and who led an unpopular party who’d been in power far too long already.
> blockchain technology

When will this trend stop?
> Journalism should present things in the correct context, and contextualize statements, situations, etc.

Even if we agree that that's what journalism should be, what is your assessment of how accurately this definition matches most high profile journalism today? How much context did the Covington kids get, or how much context did the rail workers who wanted to strike get? There are very clearly some contexts that get priority coverage and are hammered non-stop, and some contexts that barely get any coverage at all.

To be clear, I'm not sure that I do agree with your definition. I think journalists typically do what you describe, but I think merely reporting raw data without context is also perfectly valid journalism. This "contextualisation" narrative is how some journalists are excusing their lack of support for Assange, and it's bullshit IMO.

> If feels like you're accusing journalists of lying to push an agenda, which is, by definition, not journalism

Unbiased journalism is a fiction. I agree that the best journalists try for objectivity, but this is an ethos that is slowly being pushed out of mainstream journalism, and activism has become standard practice (edit: this is probably because outrage generates more clicks/views, so activism "sells" in a sense).

I also think some professional journalists absolutely do outright lie for utilitarian reasons, such as "fighting evil" (typically Republicans). This goes back to the activism point.

Far more common are various forms of well known bias, my side bias, bias blind spot etc. This leads to one convincing oneself of a falsehood and then vehemently arguing for it, despite countervailing evidence.
High Performance JavaScript – Structural Sharing and Copy-on-Write
VSCode was my to-go for years but I had to force alternatives due to the increasingly bad practices I’ve seen by Microsoft. So I switched to vim. It has a large learning curve for me & the habits I have, and a lot or it requires work, but I have liked the change a lot — especially for remoting and working directly on other systems. It isn’t as convenient or easy, but the freedom is important.

Anyway, with regards to Rust, I was using https://github.com/helix-editor/helix for a bit as an editor. I ran into an issue with keymapping that was pretty basic but still an involved feature and so I set it down, but it is still very functional. A few years and it will be solid. And I agree with you, new offerings will come from Rust that will outcompete.
You are not afraid running into the same problems again when v11 comes?
Chatgpt as a simple function certainly lacks ‘strange-loopness’ - it does not change its results based on experience. True.

But consider how it is employed in a conversation:

Its output is combined with new input and fed back in as the next set of input data. So the result of the function is ‘modified’ by previous experience.

There’s the beginning of the flicker of a strange loop there.

And that might be all it takes…
I’ve wondered if that was the case based on my experience. Every response is 80% too long, just like the real internet. Yay?
> Proper audits would be a boon for honest crypto exchanges...

Correct!

Ask yourself if "audits are impossible" is the likely answer to their rarity.
> A brief sentence is expended on planning

This has become my gauge of how serious someone is. Planning reform is both incredibly necessary and incredibly unpopular and if you won't talk about it you are just dancing around the edges of the problem.
> Because at least that was directed at a foreign terrorist threat that

And even with that prerogative, we all saw how the NSA's 'Terrorist Surveillance Program' expanded quickly, in breach of law, to encompass American citizens.

Government surveillance is going to be a hot button issue for the forseeable future, and if every time somebody does something bad is an excuse to expand its reach, there won't be anything beyond its reach before long.
Cheater! He took a breath in the middle of a verse! (Perhaps because he's doing it at 2/3 tempo...)
Growing up where I did, there seemed to be “math people” and “art people.” Discovering Tom Lehrer on Dr. Demento on late Sunday nights proved to me this distinction was artificial: Music and Math can and do coexist in many people, and the result is often beautiful for the two having mixed.
Housing. Immigration.
It appears that the audio broadcasting is delegated to a proprietary product: https://livekit.io/

Is there any way to host this with only open source software?
Introduction to Golang generics and advanced usage
I’ve ordered one. Need to do some work on ARM.

They have other lower powered models. I think the edge v is advertised to have ability to attach a battery for mobile projects?
> Because the laser pulse is so fast, the water can switch states in a matter of picoseconds, which are trillionths of a second. This translates to potential computer speeds in the terahertz (THz) range – that’s 1,000 GHz, which is far faster than any existing semiconductor can switch.

Picoseconds means under 1000GHz. 1ps would be 1000GHz.

Transistors can switch in picoseconds. The fastest basic bulk silicon ones hundreds of GHz as far as I know. More exotic ones I'm sure could be made a lot faster.

So exactly how much faster is this water based switching device than a transistor? Hopefully the author was not under the impression that transistor switching speed was on the order of CPU clock frequency.
I’m thinking of the Silicon Valley episode where Gilfoyle writes an AI to talk to Dinesh so he’ll stop bothering him while he works and how useful that would be for my job.
Very cool... and congrats.
But unless I missed it ?
Where are the network,db and concurrency libs or packages ?

I know its still early, but to code something practical in 2022, We need to be able to connect and talk to other programs.

Missing:

1) Network lib (http client + server)

2) Basic Db access

3) How will concurrency work ? Threads ? CSP ?

4) Cryptographic functions (hashes etc)

5) enc/dec like json, xml etc

Don't get me wrong Im very impressed with Carp, but i want to be able to actually use it :/

Please dont say 'the std lib needs to be small' and ppl can bring their own http and crypto libs. Its 2022 (at least for a little bit more) your language is up against a lot of competition that does include the basics.

Go-Lang (I know not everyones.cup of tea) what they did do right from day one is include these basics in the stdlib. They really wanted ppl to use it to build stuff!

Again congratulations on getting this far, been keeping an eye on it every now and again.
> carbon, potassium and calcium are radioactive elements...

> [we have it in our body], so... [we all are radioactive]

can be radioactive in some circumstances, does not mean they are always radioactive. Is a non-sequitur.
The 16:9 screens. Once upon a time they were called widescreens because many people were used to small (in inches) CRTs or LCDs (even with square panels.) Basically they were 12:9 and those 4 extra units on the horizontal axis become real extra space. Unfortunately most people only got 768p screens on their laptops while all TV sets had 1080p and some of the old monitors were 1024p or 1200p. So "less vertical space". And then when you have a 13" laptop you don't have much vertical space no matter the resolution.
Yup, I made a reply myself but also just to elaborate a bit: I do think this paradigm is relevant to ray/path tracing. There's already work on compositing and relighting them. The parameterization may be interesting in lots of niches, basically anywhere the long training time is justified by having a very compressed representation of the radiance within a scene/instance.
> If the police ask you to do something, do you usually feel generally obligated to comply?

Uh, no? I'm pretty sure every American schoolchild is educated on his or her rights under the Constitution. It's not unusual at all for police to pull people over for minor infractions and assert they have the ability to search their cars, and for people who know their rights to decline said search, and for everyone to go on their merry way. If the cop chooses to force a search anyway, it's not unusual at all for them to get sued and for all evidence collected to be deemed inadmissible. This is all, again, extremely well established.

Twitter surely has an army of extremely capable and well-paid lawyers who know very well which requests they have a right to decline. They've got to be more legally equipped than your average 9th grader.

This is why it's important for people to have an accurate understanding of their rights and their relationship with their government. The position you're taking weakens people's understanding of their rights.

So let it be known for any future operators of social media networks: the US government cannot coerce you – even implicitly – to remove legal content from your website. If they do, decline and let them bring you to court, hit up the ACLU to represent you, and sue the fucking daylights out of the US Government. It's your right and your duty!
I know about some of these tricks. However, containers are popular and typically don’t have the tools installed, and you can’t necessarily sudo either. What do people replace these tricks with, in some cloud container or k8s pods?
I was wondering what happens if you make CARP an Object Oriented Language...
See they have cars... everyone else knows that it's not a good investment?
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We do not shadow ban. You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile).
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They literally wrote a blog post about it 4 years ago[1]. This wasn't hidden.
Anyone who is "shocked" by Twitter's definition of shadow banning (which, in my opinion aligns with what I posted anyways) is doing performative outrage of an insincere nature.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/Setting-t...
I think we're all familiar with people who say something completely wrong, with full and absolute confidence that they are right :-)
>Girls learn faster.

you meant mature faster? probably until the mid 20s where gap closes, I guess.
Because development firms don’t want to invest everything in one OS / platform.
Any developer, hardware or software, will tell you that reproducibility is the key to solving a problem.

But reproducibility can be vague and sometimes, when you're under pressure, you can be quick to point to something and declare "aha! that's the root cause!" and be totally wrong.
Yes, I missed out the bit where that 3% difference in vote lead to a 93 (out of 650) difference in seats.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/election-2019-50768605
It did abysmally at this one, but once I explained it, it echoed my explanation in more words - which is all it’s really doing here anyway.

why might this joke be funny? Two mathematicians walk into a bar. One laments that young people don’t study math any more. The other disagrees. When the first goes to the bathroom, the second calls over the waitress. He says, “will you help me settle a dispute with my friend?” She agrees. He tells her, “I’m going to ask you a question, and you reply with ‘one third x cubed’, got it?” She repeats the phrase slowly, as if confused, “one third x cubed.” “Okay good , here he comes now”. When the first mathematician returns to the table the second says, “I’m going to disprove your claim that young people don’t study math any more. Miss, what is the integral of x squared?” The waitress hems and haws for a minute then repeats what she was told, “one third x cubed” and then goes on to add “plus a constant”.
‘Out of control’: No one knows how much to tip
I sure hope YouTube or some other similar video streaming service keeps existing far into the future.
The Economist has covered the disfunctional planning system several times recently, so I suppose that's why they only devoted a little to it this week. https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/11/07/the-real-reason... (There was another article about planning in Manchester but I can't find it right now)
I see you're getting downvoted, but that's my suspicion as well. Since the 1850s, stereoscopic 3D has had many waves of short-term popularity but has produced no lasting impact. From the Brewster Stereoscope to the Viewmaster to multiple tries at 3D movies and TV, to 30 years of "VR will break out once we improve the tech", each time people get very excited about the novelty and think it will change the world. And each time it doesn't.

The simple answer here is that people's brain hardware is already quite good at turning flat 2D representations into 3D mental experiences, so stereoscopy doesn't add much. Making it, as you say, a gimmick. The historically cyclical interest in the gimmick suggests that it's mainly appealing as a novelty.
The most scary thing for me about this whole thing is how it feels like programming as we know it is becoming obsolete. Yeah, there is a list c that’s never used, and that bothers me, but the real question is: should anyone care? When looked at from the perspective of the trade-off, i.e. code generation from unstructured natural language input, the answer is (unfortunately) no——and that is of course ignoring the fact that such improvements are incremental and will come very soon anyway. Picking on this is like what a programmer from the 60’s would say if they looked at the binary of the CPython interpreter, or something like that. Yeah you could probably do better, but it would take maybe 100x longer (or more), and the performance impact in the executable would be negligible. So yeah Peter we feel you, this is scary…
It can be creative with language in a way that is humorous. I asked it to write a fake article and it made up 2 facts that are fitting and funny: https://citymeme.com/post/63862 it surprised me
Blair wasn’t being sabotaged by his own party that bought Facebook ads to sabotage him. I’d say Corbyn did superbly. https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-hq-spent-50...
60 months ago.
I am in love with Drupal . It pays my bills for almost 15 years now.
If you’re wondering too: gerontocracy is rule by the elderly. And that’s indeed a good description of the US right now.
I will never understand how some working class Americans can be against unions, maybe they just see themselves as embarrassed millionaires that would want to crush their workers to squeeze money out of them? It's probably my European brain, but I cannot understand how someone, say Jerry, 60 year old factory worker from idaho, can be against unions...
This should absolutely be the first stop for anyone who wants to improve their writing. Just don't get bogged down in the more narrowly-focused chapters, like Chapter 13: Writing About Places: The Travel Article.

Another helpful book is A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston. It focuses more on the organization of your thoughts before you start writing. When writing about more complex topics, I frequently find myself discovering what I want to say as I'm writing, which makes for a lot of re-organizing and re-writing and wasted time. By slapping together an outline of what I want to write before I get started, I can identify what I want to say--and the optimal order in which to say it--before putting pen to paper.
That’ll be Lord Dacre; he was in bojos honours list…
Yeah. I’ve seen a lot of these exchanges with chat gpt. Now what I’d like to see is someone talking to a real person with the same prompts and comparing the answers. I think the difference would be pretty stark, and we’ll just realize that chat gpt, so far, is just a wordy dumb dumb.
In my opinion, you should not be using AI or apps or anything other than a text editor and TeX/LaTeX to advance your skills here.

My suggestion is to assign to yourself a research topic and write a paper just as you would if submitting it to a refereed journal. Pick something you already know about (or know a lot about).

I am biased - I have a strong academic background and published journal articles, meeting abstracts, and the like - but the outline of title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, analysis, and conclusions provides structure and will help guide you through the process. If you want to be surgical about it, include citations and a bibliography.

What happens next? Find a "reviewer" and tell them to red-ink the hell out of your paper. Make the edits and resubmit it until the reviewer is happy. If you can, gently impose on a friend/coworker who in your estimation is a good writer and has better writing skills than you do. This might cost you a few coffees/beers/pizzas but it will be worth it.