skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Valve has good hardware but can't compete with Meta due to their scale and capital.

Valve is no startup but should capital ever be the limiting factor, venture capital should be ready to finance the expansion.

However, Valve has the Instagram problem. If people don't pay for their worlds but accept them filled with branded artifacts, then Meta has that infrastructure and Valve does not.

Apple's entrance into the advertising market could be seen as a preparation for their VR products, like their gaming platform (similar to Netflix). As Meta, I wouldn't bet that Apple just creates an AR device.

Microsoft on the other hand needs a VR headset for their Xbox because Sony has one. They are already cooperating with Meta on the business headset. To me, this suggests that MS will also cooperate with Meta on the gaming headset.

If Apple manages to sell as many headsets as they sell phones then gaming consoles are dwarfed. When all is said and done, I would love to see a documentary about Sony's strategy meetings. How can they align themselves to stay relevant?
Deploying Weaviate on GKE end-to-end tutorial
Not reasonable to draw inferences from that cartoon. Who knows what data (if any at all) they are using for position or if it's to scale. Pitch is definitely wrong.
You can likely encrypt the tokens symmetrically by a key on the server (can also have that key be stored in a secret manager and retrieved for the purposes of the encryption/decryption only); obv you have to make sure the key doesn't leak but it's significantly better than storing this type of data unencrypted in DB.

Interesting point on existing providers not encrypting user tokens in the DB by default tho - wouldn't expect that hmmm
> If they try that they'll just get forked.

"just"

Will they also "just" fork search monopoly, and web's most visited properties like youtube?

> Indeed we already have Edge as a well-maintained fork.

Indeed we have a Chrome re-skin with very few differences because even Microsoft couldn't maintain a browser.
You can and should do both. What I wrote above is a job a manager has to do every now and then, not the fun part, but also hard to evade.
The effect of flirting with a VR agent on attraction to existing partners
The new MPCs are full DAWs now, but any MPC user will feel right at home on one. I was quite pleasantly surprised.
Absolutely. There is no disrespect anywhere here. I don't need to agree to do my job well. Just that I don't feel safe enough to be vocal about sharing my thoughts -)
It's difficult to fire someone, but Japanese businesses do reductions in salary for poor performance. There's no more risk to giving pay increases than there is to hiring someone.

Part of the reason that Japanese businesses don't give pay increases is because there's effectively no inflation in Japan, and growth in general has been mostly stagnant (though in reality that's not really true, but rather an excuse); but, the other reason is because for the most part, workers work in a company for life and don't switch companies for higher wages. There's no real competition on salaries, so no reason to be competitive on pay increases either.
They must, see https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_...
I've thought a bit about how I would add text-based procedural generation to my virtual world engine (I would love to have an "edit a book to change the world" experience, like Myst's linking books). The hard part is the composition of smaller things into larger concepts, since you have limited data.

For example, developers often devise a system of generic water tiles that they can fit together to form any sort of river. But how do you algorithmically go from the text "I want a river that starts large, gets narrow, then turns East" to a valid map layout? The water tiles and the ways they fit together are specific to the world, so there's nowhere near enough data to train a model. You could hardcode procedural logic based on key phrases ("river" + "start large" + "get narrow" + "turn east"), but that's a lot of work for a very limited implementation.

The most promising idea I've come up with is a node-based intermediate representation. You could use general data on rivers to determine how they're shaped, then use that to translate the user's prompt into a series of nodes on a map. Then, you just need to hand-implement a system to iterate the nodes and place tiles based on whether the next node is straight ahead, turning, etc. This approach could generalize to other concepts like mountains. At that point, it's just about making the text-based stage sufficiently predictive of what the user wants instead of just being a Logo-like.
Congrats Nango team! - This looks great and has come a long way :D
"The difference between a bug and a feature is longevity."

-said by someone last millennium
I'll be honest, I'm glad people are working on this again but the most important change for me would be fixing this minor UI issue:

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/261
I smell silly OKRs! Why don’t they just release a cool thing and let it rip? That is surely better. Let Edge die if it is gonna die.
These are great news for the competition! Can't really test Microsoft's implementation yet, but you.com already has ChatGPT-2 integrated in their search for some time and it's really OK, I find myself to use it more and more instead of old search: you just get the answer + aggregation of sources + other results if you need more deep checks.
It might make Apple work harder maybe? For instance on my m1 MacBook Air, safari is vastly better for my battery life than chrome or ff for my workload. It makes a huge difference. That would make me use it over the others if that’s the same on the iPhone or iPad where battery life is even more important.
Why is this product's website hides the product pictures, videos, detailed explanations how it works etc.? It might get 500+ votes on HN but if you remove the votes I'd think this is a scam product from china. How can you guys even trust and upvote a strange site product with not even a proper footer or team info. They are asking $349 for this thing too.
Do you have 2FA activated? I think you have to now, but just in case somebody is in your account activate that.

Also logout from every device and change your password.
Unless you make very unnatural motions I'm not convinced that'd it'd matter much relative to the increased protection from muscle gain to take more of the load.

But frankly, I don't think anyone will or should keep up those extreme rep ranges anyway - it was brutal and took way too much time.

Much better to load up a bar and get the same work done in a fraction of the time.
My memories of Windows' screen reader telling me "MY ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI" when I was a teen may have exaggerated Microsoft's efforts.

But at least it was there.
Notice to Google, this is how its done.
It wouldn’t. To me most arbitrator’s would look at a change from remote to in office in a similar vein to “the office moved across town”. Pre-pandemic, no one would question whether a company had the right to change the physical location of the office, and you would either adjust to the new office location…or quit because the new commute or location became problematic for you.

Your location was here, and now it’s here.
>You obviously believe the human brain is something supernatural... convinced me our brain mechanism is vastly simpler than we thought; it’s just a complex, overarchitected implementation)

Cults can often convince all kinds of people of all kinds of things. Long ago LaPlace asserted a clockwork universe; that didn't hold water for too long. Too simplistic.

Just kidding, but really, anecdotes don't constitute evidence that the mind is a 'brain mechanism'. Yep, many of our voluntary and involuntary routine behaviors are quite robot-like .. breathing, eating, sleeping, sexing. That said, some of us are less content with the routine.

The expert systems now being referred to as 'artificial intelligence' are limp P.T. Barnum simulations of true intelligence, and of course there is little substantial evidence to support -any- model of creativity or consciousness ... let alone a mechanical one. In the face of that lack of evidence, a supernatural theory is no worse than a mechanical one.

I prefer and will continue to prefer real intelligence and creativity of the human kind because it is substantially superior to limp simulations ... and because I am a human. I'll resist lowering my standards. Those who've tried to teach machines the mechanics of music have learned from continued failure that great music is beyond any of our so-called 'music theory'. I'll confidently assert that the same is true of dramatic performances.
The issue was not "Where were the aircraft". The controller knew where they were at all times.

(And they do have GPS, They also have ADSB, and ground based position detection, and, and, and..)
The ring thing seems cool. How much on an exercise do you get with it?
Congrats on the Show!

Looks great! Starred the repo and look forward to seeing how this evolves :D
I never torrent for ethical reasons, but I just jumped onto soap2day to check if they had something that I've been on the lookout for (Abacus: Small Enough to Jail) and they don't have it.
It's theft of ability to make income by training their replacement.

Unionize (SAG?) and lobby to pass laws against it. Hollywood actors still have money for lobbyists as long as they don't knifenose themselves by letting control over their likeness and IP rights slip away.
If OpenWork snippets [0] are to be believed, sounds like people after a couple of years (5)? are making 7M. People citing entry-level pay as 5M. Managers at 10M JPY. General "salary based on years of service" stuff.

Now... I think in Kyoto that's a pretty decent number! Tech company salaries in Kansai are _so much worse_ than in Kanto when I looked (5 years ago but). But if you're in Tokyo and making that... honestly you are gonna be better off elsewhere.

I have seen worse numbers at other game companies, but hearing 500k+ per head in profit, it's kind of disgusting they don't pay a bit more.

[0] https://www.vorkers.com/company_answer.php?m_id=a0910000000F...
Isn't it a little wierd that they go to all the trouble of renaming master to main, then choose to name their code search engine blackbird after LIU deemed the name racist,

https://www.thecollegefix.com/long-island-university-to-ditc...
> The upshot is that we might have closer-to-native experiences for websites on iOS

Strange. Android is 70% market share. Chrome is something like 80% market share (all playforms). Where are these glorious "closer to native web apps" we keep hearing about?
Everyone today writes about Microsoft with new Bing, but no comments here? :) This feature is good, a bit ugly on UI, but actually handy. I started to use you.com for everything for the last several weeks and it serves probably 90% my needs (programming mostly), without going to Google.
"Shards are the secret ingredient in the webscale sauce": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
That's unfortunate, but you don't have to use Firefox. I don't understand why some people think more options are bad. You can still use Safari or Chrome.
One of my acquaintances used to be an ATC (air traffic controller) and has many pilot friends from back then. They all say the same thing whenever they talk about the most important thing in aviation:

Have the courage to not take off.

Kudos to that US Airways captain for refusing to takeoff and stay put until everyone got on the same page.
Long live Big Meaning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foe_(unit)

A foe is a unit of energy equal to 1044 joules or 1051 ergs, used to express the large amount of energy released by a supernova.[1] An acronym for "[ten to the power of] fifty-one ergs",[2] the term was introduced by Gerald E. Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe, because "it came up often enough in our work".[3]
Best not to make quick assumptions about others.
Excuse the napkin math, but presuming a common candy bar such as a snickers is 215 calories and walking a mile burns 100 calories and you walk an average of 2.5-3 miles per hour, you will need to walk less than 1 hour to burn the calories off.
Floppy disks are a very unreliable storage. Let's use something that has proven to resist the passage of time: chisel, hammer, stone /grin

Or do without technology. The idea is that we want to have those data available in the future. So anything that hints about the future. No idea what.
There's [1] for an encyclopaedic overview of the game. For actual gameplay for new players, there's [2]. There's also a mobile game client if you wanted to give the game a go.

1: https://runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape

2: https://runescape.wiki/w/Guide_for_new_players
I don’t think they are GPU backed. Fonts are rendered with CPU and draw really slow. The same with graphics primitives like lines, ellipses. A QML scene graph supports only text, images, and rectangles and the text is CPU rendered. Windows still mainly uses CPU for graphics. Video with changing text overlays is a difficult problem to do efficiently.
This view honestly lacks perspective. Based on his history of scientific achievement Sabatini is likely to make further meaningful breakthroughs that will benefit us all. The difference is that those people with the same or better research output are already employed somewhere outputting research. Of the unemployed pool of labor this guy is likely the cream of the crop and getting him setup and doing research again will likely have a much higher return than incrementing the research budget of any of those already working Biologists.

Further, what the hell happened to America? America used to understand how high the benefit of scientific advancement was. Hell, America naturalized actual nazis and shielded them from prosecution in the name of pushing scientific progress not that many decades ago. Now everyone is on board with permanently and utterly derailing a productive academic over some he said she said BS that has not resulted in any actual charges, only civil suits and counter-suits??? Must be nice being so privileged that one can afford to spit in scientific advancement's face.
> What do you think US presidents do? It's not that.

A whole heck of a lot, actually.

> (It's mainly foreign policy.)

Don't be ridiculous. That's just an area where there are fewer checks.
I see aircraft (and even airport ground vehicles) on the runway all the time on my ADS-B setup. They 100% have them, just nobody was looking at them at the right time.
I think there was quantum which was something to do with the render system? Where as servo was a from the ground up replacement for gecko (FF's web engine).
> Your original post suggested he was just a nobody

No, it did not. At all. My post had exactly nothing to do with the article’s author. Not one bit.

> not part of the elite, untouchable few who are allowed comment on the goings-on in Silicon Valley

Yet another misrepresentation. Please read what I actually wrote.

> looks really juvenile and petty.

That’s your interpretation. From my perspective it’s poetry in motion, a light-hearted intro to a reply rather than the offensive style you chose to assign to it. Take it easy. All in good fun.
Do you like your accountant?
Looking for a tax attorney/accountant/firms out there who specialize in circumstances of early employees at startups. Would love a recommendation if you like yours :)
1. it is not a hypothetical display. See here: https://www.lg.com/global/business/digital-signage/lg-75xs4g...

2. I especially considered calibration in my comment and others above yours.

No, it doesn’t ignore it. Your comment, however, does not go into any details I mentioned besides ‘you are wrong‘.

What is actually your argument?
> It's exciting to see so much starting to be built with and on top of Nix.

It seems like the majority of names I recognize for their contributions from the Nix ecosystem from the past 8 or 9 years are working not just with, but on Nix/Nixpkgs in a professional capacity now, and the trend is continuing.

The list of companies with Nix people on staff has expanded well beyond just Nix consultancies, into cloud-centric SaaS providers, Enterprise software vendors, companies that make developer tools, etc., etc.

It's hard to imagine that with this new capacity for dedication in so many of the most long-standing, prolific, and passionate Nix contributors, that the Nix ecosystem is not poised to grow and mature by leaps and bounds!

Imo, the key will have to be in continuing to nurture an integral community in the face of all these companies now trying to grow Nix and build on top of it in their own, perhaps sometimes conflicting directions. It's a problem all collaborative projects face, and not one entirely new to Nix— there are just more resources in play now. If the Nix community can manage that during this phase, I think there can be no doubt that wonderful things are ahead.
CBMC on GitHub:

https://github.com/diffblue/cbmc

Some usage examples:

https://haslab.github.io/MFES/2122/CBMCexamples-handout.pdf
I have to use a windows PC sometimes and if I accidentally move my mouse to the bottom left of the screen a bunch of Bing News articles pop out telling me about 7 different people dying. I don’t know how to turn it off.
Some say XtraROM is used for Switch game cartridges, but what is this chip? PROM or just high endurance write-once Flash?
I don't understand what the point of this thread is since I don't speak Ukrainian. However if it is because the usd/uah exchange rate is off (which it is) it's because chatgpt's dataset is not current.
a sibling comment mentioned that Ninty is making 500k USD per head in profit. Salary postings sound like engineers at 10 years of experience are not making more than 100k USD. Entry at 50k. This is like.. not super lowball in Japan, but hell of a lot of companies with a lot less profit paying more.

We aren't talking about companies as a whole, we're looking at a specific company. The mental gymnastics of "well more productive employees are getting paid more" with salaries of ICs not being _that_ much higher... I dunno.
> surprised how easy it was to get around the online account stuff.

thats not easy, a dark pattern, and not something most people will be able to figure out
> Who is saying that procedures allow one plane to take off when one is "3 miles out"

The FAA says that, specifically the 7110.65 which governs ATC rules and procedures. In a radar environment it allows for departures when the arriving aircraft is 2+ miles from the runway, and there will be at least 3 miles of separation within 1 min of takeoff. A separate rule requires that the departing aircraft is at least 6000ft down the runway and airborne before the arrival crosses the runway threshold.

If there is a departing plane rolling up to the hold short line and confirmed ready for immediate takeoff, there is possibly time to get them out and maintain separation. If it's low visibility, the departing plane is rolling slowly and not confirmed ready, then it's a bad bad idea.
But there is no open GUI standard. Everything platform dependent is platform dependent and proprietary and owned by someone.

Web standards is only real implementation of GUI that is not proprietary.

Making a web app you don’t have to pay MS/Apple/Google tax.

QT is also proprietary and you have to pay them quite a lot.
Vivian Maier.
Yes, you can get inflamed from constipation and bacteria screwing with you and such, and then insoluable fiber and other material that doesn’t digest can cause more irritation, but I’d argue the biggest problem with fiber might not be fiber itself but the foods that have fiber in them because they all tend to have FODMAPs which are also implicated in ibs/ibd.

Fiber I believe it’s generally recommended you take as much as you can if you aren’t having issues.
Browsers are essential and how operating systems are holding them back (2022) [pdf] (2022)
"And it's not like past profits are necessarily going to help "weather the storm"."

It is if they're not paying out (all) the profits to shareholders.

Nothing stopping them building a war chest for tough times.

Maybe that's why they're increasing pay and apparently not laying off staff, when competitors are doing the inverse?
Great story. Thanks for sharing. Took me back to my own young coding days.
Curious whether you use Antora to build your docs, or something else?
> are constrained by a centralised body

> supply outstrips demand quite a bit

How does that follow? It is constrained therefore supply is artifically lowered. No matter the demand, no one can supply more doctors than the body permits, therefore the price for each is quite high.
Yes. Having an explicit `Option<T>` type allows you to write things like `Option<Option<int>>`. This type is not possible in, say, Kotlin or Typescript. (Well, technically it is, but not using the native null types provided by the language.)

Most of the time this isn't a very useful type to have, but it has the big advantage of being mechanically obvious. For example, consider a hashmap of optional types, something like `Map<String, Option<Player>>`. If we write a get method for the map, it should return an Option to indicate whether the value was present or not. But what happens if the value is present, but it is explicitly Null?

The advantage of having an explicit option type is basically that it's easier to compose generics without having to understand what the values might be, which is usually what you want when using generics. That said, most of the time, if you've got an option of options of something, you're just going to flatten that type down anyway.

E: Thinking about it, the other advantage is that it's easier to create a separate namespace for "methods that should exist when T might be null but are meaningless the rest of the time". For example, Rust's `Option` type has methods to map the internal value into another value, unwrap the value and panic if it was null, swap the value with a different one, etc. In languages which use null | T, the equivalent is usually to use Elvis operators and similar (obj?.field), but that requires more special casing.
> I remember having to spend a little while de-shittifying it, they push the Shopping/Rewards stuff pretty hard and clutter up the UI. You can't get rid of Bing on the new tab page without extensions / other hoops.

so... yes. yes it does.
If I'm reading the AWS S3 pricing charts right[0], you get charged 0.09 USD per GB for the first 10 Tb of transfer out of US East.

If 1000 people download my 1 GB file that I host on S3, that'll run me 90 USD.

You can host on Wasabi which is the only object storage I know where out is free, but my understanding is that the storage is more expensive.

[0] Which I might not be because I'm pretty sure you need an astrologer.
Indeed, as a former astronomer, ergs are the least of astronomers' sins with units.
Sustaining Tor Snowflake bridge operations
Cook! If you're who I think you are, I bet you don't recognize me under this name, but hi from an old b'crat :)