skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't surprise me if he has a noncompete in play that prevents him from continuing his VR work for a few years.
Not usually, but schizophrenia is a waxing and waning disease like MS - patients tend to get episodes of worsening symptoms then remission (partial) where symptoms get better. Then they’ll get another relapse and often it’s worse, eventually resulting in a state of chronic symptoms.

Treatment with antipsychotic medication can actually “pause” the cycles and prevent the disease from getting worse if started early. It’s definitely a progressive disease.

I always thought of schizophrenia as a disease you just got and always had.
John Carmack says himself he wasn't even the best graphics programmer at Id. He was very good at the problem of game development in general and very good at optimising for performance specifically.
I wanted to use Turf but it doesn’t support a non-projected Cartesian space. It breaks if you try to tell it your world is flat.

GeoJSON’s spec specifically says it’s lat/lng in geographic space, but I’ve been using it for indoor robotics for almost a decade and it works amazing.

I wonder how hard it would be to add CRS.Simple support… maybe this is my holiday project.
Since I've seen multiple links be posted that have paywalls in place, and people routinely then post an archived link, I wanted to link to this open-source extension so that people could also find said links easily on their own:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-arc...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-archives/hklig...

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/view-page-arc...

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/web-archiv...
> I left FAANG basically because you had to play the politics and self-promotion game to get promoted.

I have no reason to doubt that in the particular corner of your organization that may well have been the case, but you cannot generalize this over the whole field. As stated elsewhere, I never played any game to be promoted, I simply never consciously sought the goal of promotion, and I was promoted anyway just because of the real, substantial job I did.
I don't know if you've tried co working in VR, or VR meetings, but "presence". Hearing a voice coming from a low resolution tile in a Webex is very different than having some resemblance of a human sitting at the same table, where they can look at you, smile, and you see them talking and hear their voice coming from them.

I much prefer VR meetings to Webex. Webex feels like a glorified shared phone call. VR feels like an actual gathering. With working at home, I think the "gathering" part of it has value, to me. If there's a break, I just look at my computer screen right in front of me, in VR.

But, some people don't like change, so I think it's somewhat doomed, especially with the "older" crowd. I don't say or mean that in a derogatory way, because I see it in myself all the time, and it's more of a contextual optimization than a shortcoming. Some people have been doing Webex for decades, have mentally mastered that context, feel comfortable in it, and don't want to even try VR.
Over-hyping is defrauding people.
As someone who has a similar issue with the MS teams/email divide...

Tldr: reduce reactivity and context switching. It will leave you exhausted and feeling like you are not making progress long term.

Chunk, at predetermined times for a set period.
Scan information channels in a set order first, broadly sort into topics. Go through each topic and extract relevant detail/actions into a separate personal log on the topic.

Tl:
One thing that is often overlooked is how this way of working puts you in to a hyper-reactive mode, taking you away from the things you had originally wanted to tackle at the beginning of the day. It is procrastination, it is your brain looking for an excuse to do something else. This will stoke the belief that, despite best intentions, you get distracted, can't work on the things you need/want to do and fail to make meaningful progress leaving you feeling tired and that you've fallen behind.

For me (read: maybe for you too, maybe not) what works is checking those channels at predefined intervals throughout the day (as you suggested) but having a prioritised list that you stick to in which ones you check, for how long, and follow that list each time. While going through, write a task oriented summary of the actions you need to take. If the information is more status/contextual/fyi on a particular thing, have a diary/log for that particular thing where you are updating you knowledge/understanding/the status of that particular thing.

For example:
I'm working on a complex project right now where there are 10 separate countries all doing similar but different things across several technology stacks. Most of this is over email, so things easily get lost in a sea of email headers and signatures. Similar but different issues in different countries get mixed up. It's hard. Even without ADHD. First I generally sort all emails into folders or with labels by topic. Then I'll go through each topic separately and copy out the relevant detail and append it to a running document on that particular thing with details of who said what and when.

You can do this low tech, but I like to use obsidian to markup and further link info on things/concepts/people/dates so I can search across it later.

I hope this helps someone.

And for god's sake, turn off ALL the notifications you can!

Put a note in your status starting 'if it's urgent, call'. This is an entirely reasonable request.

Good luck
Or that kids TV show from the 90s.
Meta definitely isn't focused on fidelity and graphics. Their mobile VR push degraded VR graphics significantly.
> they definitely don't show it in the voting booth.

It's a demonstration of that lack of faith that they see the candidates, then rationally decide their time would be better spent doing anything but voting.
Wow, I had the same setup with Compaq Proliant in another galaxy long time ago...
A big problem with projects like these (nuclear and even renewable, but to a bit lesser of a degree) is that these projects outlast leadership. It then becomes easy to support something and it never get done. You make a big speech, but a few gears into motion, but more pressing stuff takes priority because a voter's attention is less than an election cycle. Truth is that if they work hard, get everything in motion you have 1 of 2 outcomes: 1) the next person gets all the praise because it is finished under their leadership or 2) the project goes into major delay as the next leadership doesn't prioritize it (often because it was the previous party's platform).

Honestly I think we could get a lot more done if people were able to disentangle when policies were achieved from when they were implemented. Governments are fantastic for long term investments, but politics works on shorter timeframes than many corporations. Though I think changing the cultural mentality to provide that selective pressure is an unrealistic pipedream. That said, it does also really show the constraints that we operate under and why existential issues like climate change are extremely difficult to solve.
I wonder if I work at the same company you describe.
Most people I know who have these beliefs - anarchism, communism - don’t believe a sudden big-bang is how a transition to their l preferred system of government would work, and are pragmatic in moving towards it without upending society in the process.

Hell look at Russia’s “shock therapy” transition to capitalism, we are seeing the very direct consequences of that to this day.
Indeed, the modern day web is closer to what TV was back in the late 1990s or early 2000s than the web of that era. Except more tailored to you, so probably more addicting than the television.

I'm not sure if you could re-create the early web experience. It might be possible with a VERY highly curated twitter feed, but it would still be challenging, as the medium doesn't promote the same type of long term engagement as the older style PhpBB forums did.
Saying something is false doesn't make it so. Granted , political truths can be somewhat subjective.
My conclusions flow from;
Elon being directly intimidated by a stalker. The politically motivated violence in the last few years, makes it completely reasonable for Elon to feel threatened to have his location released.

Keith Olbermann being a very pro government journalist, along the other journalist is true. And the FBI now having a documented history of interfering in what media companies publish ( by Twitter's own records, and Mark Zuckerberg public statements). Provides FBI motive to try to intimidate the man that help to exposed them.

There's little value in journalists carrying about releasing Elon Musks location... especially given all the journalistic principles these same "journalists" previously did not care about.
Dmitri Orlov has remarked: Universal Basic Income leads to Universal Basic Outcome, which is poverty.
Published meta revenue numbers don’t add up. Do you have a source for the 100M Quest 2 sold?
Can anyone legitimately claim to have made the first cervoise since... When, when would you choose?

What about un- or only very lightly hopped beer just not termed 'cervoise'?
> "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago."

But the second best time is now.
If we could support a larger file, we can just zero pad the counts (stored binary) to max needed length. Then we get accurate seek to entry # x.

If that is not possible, precompute the average count representation length to get an accurate AVG offset per entry. Accurate in aggregate.

But I wonder if I wouldn’t use some prefix representation, like a trie, but that’s cheating I think
> fail whale

do you mean "whale fall"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall
Google the minutes from a PG&E and PBUC meeting. PG&E can’t replace a fence around a substation without PBUC approval.

PG&E is privately funded but effectively managed by the state.
I wonder if too much reading is a problem. We end up reading quite a few books throughout the day with our 3yo because they demand it. Offering a screen is only a weak distraction.
android/ios duopoly is the risk, don't hate the player hate the game.
Realistically pg&e being a publically traded company (like Twitter was) - California can use money from the budget and send a take over offer over 40 billion. The current market cap is around is 39 billion. They would need to bid a premium to get it approved by the current share holders. Boom it’s done
and they can nationalize it.
It's not a "time" thing. Current stand alone headsets are still severely hardware limited, and extremely budget constrained. You have two independent ~ 1920x1800 displays, running at 90Hz. That's hard for a mobile chipset to do.

Quest 3 is supposed to have 2.5 to 3x graphics performance, so things will improve with new hardware, but you can only take it so far.

Another big problem is that things look much different/better in person, in VR, compared to a 2d video. I don't see a solution for that.
Sure they can. They choose not to do so.
I rarely put my VR headset on because I have to COMMIT to it and stop doing everything else; i.e. no host OS's GUI is VR-friendly.

Why did smartphones supersede computers in usage? and laptops supersede desktops? because of the low commitment barrier: something you can pick up and put down at any time without necessarily pausing other activities, is always going to be preferred by the masses.

So all current VR is sitting behind a user-commitment barrier, often collecting dust. Looking forward to see how Apple will tackle this problem.
Indeed, it's an amazing gaming platform. I love Thrill of the Fight and Pro Era!
Yes, because SGI could do the "3D stuff" before PCs
OCaml syntax is whitespace-insensitive. You don't need to worry about indentation, copy-pasting code snippets, etc. I think that makes for a better experience especially for beginners when the parser is more forgiving.
> And let's be real here, most of the time is significantly better than none of the time.

Is it?

I’d say it’s mostly better, nothing more, nothing less.
Day.co – A beautiful rundown of your schedule, every morning
Do you have a source for that number? Most of the figures I've seen have it around 15M units globally as of this summer.
I'm going to guess that there was an earnout that expired.
> I feel sorry for those FAANG engineers who can't break free from the golden handcuffs and actually do something valuable with their time.

Maybe they just don't want to?

Anyway. Don't be sorry. They get lots of money for almost nothing (in an engineering sense). And they have free time, so some of them they can do something valuable (incognito, of course. Otherwise faang lawyers come).

It's the big enterprise management who creates all these broken incentives leading to increase in politics instead of engineering.
Jack Welch is the guru we all need to look up to!

Oh snap...
What do you make of this one's approach? Just wondering since you're on opposite ends of the spectrum. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022113
For every one of these anecdotes there's another where the kid got unrestricted access and is now incapable of going anywhere or doing anything without having their tablet with them, and is chronically addicted to the screen at nearly every waking moment, to their extreme detriment in school and social encounters. I have a family member like this.
Proprietary, isn't it?
WordPress support is one thing: the gazillion plugins supporting it - yet another! Although WordPress is the biggest pile of spaghetti running on a huge share of servers today, it's much better than the plethora of low-quality and barely maintained plugins and themes rotting in conflicts between each other! I spent hundreds of dollars buying plugins for a nonprofit website and every time when there's an issue, the recommendation is: disable all other plugins and switch to the standard theme! Instead of investing more effort into this, they should rewrite it using a modern PHP web framework or, let's say, TypeScript.
I associate Lester Brown with the observation: It is too expensive to ship water, but when you ship wheat, you are in effect shipping water.
I think the symptoms/behavior comes first, and the screens come after. My son cannot sit still. He’ll wiggle, jump, run and try to touch/lick everything in existence if he’s not entertained, and what he finds entertaining is exactly the things I mentioned before.

And youtube.

It’s literally the only way to get him to sit still for any amount of time (that I’ve found anyway), so that’s what restaurant time has become.

Doesn’t mean he always wants to or gets to watch a video, especially if he can run about outside instead, but if we’re eating in a restaurant that’s otherwise dreadfully boring to him, yeah.
My guy, no clue why you doubt it. We aren't getting rid of government in the next two years, but the government we have could address this in that time frame. Fuck you for telling me my beliefs.

Use the toolbox you have while you build the better one, don't just try to build everything from scratch.
Email sent, thank you!
Incredibly useful to read code reviews. I rather doubt I will ever get to see another code review by Norvig. Can anyone point us to to others?
> when effects are mature (when lwt and async are snuffed out).

That's actually on the way right now. The main concurrency library which is designed for OCaml 5, eio, internally uses effects but doesn't require its users to be exposed to them. Users write code in direct style and don't need to care about internal implementation with effects.
I mean, if you have arbitrary pre compute time, did they consider generating a perfect hash? The challenge will be that computing the hash for lookup may be slower than SHA1 due to the lack of HW optimization, despite the O(1) lookup.
Barn cats are pocket sized tigers. I've seen one filet a grown up guy that tried to evict it. He looked like he'd been run over by a harvester.
> "I want your cashiers to buy them from me at the retail price!"

It's not anywhere near that simple. Electric power prices change dramatically throughout the day. For example, even retail prices may more than double during peak hours, if you have time-of-day billing.

In some markets, peak demand is caused by day-time air conditioning during a few weeks in July or August. The extra generation capacity needed to cover that tiny window of time is idle the rest of the year. Those peak hours are very expensive, in real terms.

In a market with small amounts of solar, that solar is helping offset some of the most expensive electricity of the year. And I've seen power companies push their major clients to install solar so that the power companies can avoid large investments in new power generation and transmission capacity.

With net metering, power companies pay retail when wholesale electricity is most expensive. And they credit it back during the night, when wholesale power is cheaper. (The early evening window is trickier, and the hours of sunlight depend on latitude.)

But once solar capacity is sufficient to offset air conditioning, the numbers for the power company get a lot worse.

(Full disclosure: I signed a 10-year net metering contract which would barely break even in 12-15 years, in a market with little existing solar. The power company instituted separate grid fees a couple of years later, which substantially changed how the contract worked. And so my system will probably never pay for itself. Win some, lose some.)
”It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I'm evidently not persuasive enough. A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it. I think my influence at the margins has been positive, but it has never been a prime mover.”

It is simply stunning that the seasoned direction and counsel that someone of John Carmack’s caliber is capable of delivering was not being followed.
Are you saying that people should only focus on building infrastructure for other engineers and never actually make a product?

Because it sounds like OP was doing that: making something useful for the customers, just not for the other engineers. Hence the engineers couldn't vouch for the system and secure OP a promotion.

That being said, bad projects definitely exist within big companies, and it's not always easy for (junior in particular) people to know if they are working on something useful or not.
> narrow definition of what "programming" is compared to what it has become.

Its not a matter of 'belief'. Its a matter of mechanics: The companies that dont abuse their employees and customers like that get let behind by those who do to get the most market share and profits. Eventually getting either pushed out of the market or gettin bought-out. The mechanics of the system encourage, reward and enforce sociopathy. Anyone who doesnt out-sociopath others is eliminated from the game.
Note that The Whitespace Thing actually preceded F#. (Mike and I were in the same fraternity, I remember talking to him about TWT, and we haven't talked much since our college days, which pre-date F#.)

IIRC, Mike was also doing a bunch of stuff with a Jabber client in OCaml around that time.
Yeah, I don't eat factory farmed meat either. Nearly all plant based diet. Grocery store meat involves the regular torture of animals.

Go meet a farmer, buy from a local field if your diet needs meat.
Right now, household batteries are being installed by those that can afford them (and the prices dropping). They are enough to handle overnight load. And electric vehicles are becoming popular, usually with double or more capacity, which will replace the household batteries. The uptake is high and will only get higher because it saves people money. Even people who can't afford a household batteries themselves will be able to get one installed, as the cost saving will allow someone else to profit. So grid batteries are easily able to provide sustained load to the grid, by simply pricing power from the batteries higher than power direct from the generator. Household batteries kick in because it saves people money, and turns out you need very little grid storage at all to handle overnight load. The trick is handling black swan events, such as extended periods without wind or ash/dust blocking sun, across the entire grid area (usually solved by making the grid bigger, such as connecting to neighboring countries).
fastai is a no brainer. You can go into the nitty gritty later, but doing this course will let you see the power of AI and deep learning from the start.
Aren't there passageways left over from the dam's construction that could be dynamited to restore the normal flow of the river? Given that the reservoir no longer serves a purpose it seems like that would be the most sensible approach at this point.
> I feel sorry for those FAANG engineers who can't break free from the golden handcuffs and actually do something valuable with their time.

I bet there is a lot of jobs where you don't feel (and probably don't do) anything valuable with your time, but that is not necessarily tied to large organizations. There are a lot of engineers who make computers, cars, civil infrastructure components, smartphones, computers, game consoles, test equipment, appliances, power plants, industrial processes... at large organizations that feel that they are doing something valuable, and something that they could not do in this manner at a smaller company.
Plenty of manufacturing still uses outdated OSs because they have to because they vendor no longer exists, doesn't care, or the machine itself is old and no longer supported. Manufacturing plants are also excellent targets.
Is this because they don't use radars, and it refuses to stop for objects it doesn't recognize?

Seems like it shouldn't be that hard to tell if there's something in front of you and nothing behind you and always stop when you detect you can do so safely.

Maybe you get a few false positives stopping for plastic bags in the wind but who cares, safety should always be first even if it slows things down a bit.
The whole metaverse concept Facebook is doing honestly reminds me of Neom. Unaccountable god-king has a wild idea based on very real trends, has no real idea how to do it but a limitless supply of money from other things, and the whole concept gets taken over entirely by corruption
It also has other people's beer in the fridge.
All the above is correct. Additionally, it is important to understand that W3C isn't wholly hosted at MIT. MIT is one of 4 co-hosts (the others being Keio University in Japan, Beihang university in China, and ERCIM in France), though MIT is the central hub of that relationship.
> I think Trump is done, but Trumpism itself isn't. The base is going to look for more competent leadership, maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz or one of Trump's kids.

People here aren’t going to like to hear this, but think less Cruz and more Fuentes for the future of what you’re calling Trumpism, but if we’re going to be honest we should just call white identity politics.

I just finished a reread of Anathem and it’s left me disinclined towards “bullshytt.”
Civilization advances by trying huge numbers of things, most of which are horrible and bad. The rare winning technologies survive.

Implying that nuclear lightbulbs for terrestrial generation would have been in this elite group of winning technologies is just ludicrous.