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> The company announced Friday that it is slashing the price of its higher-end Meta Quest Pro headset by some $500, bringing its cost to $999, roughly six months after it was released. Meta is also lowering the price of its Quest 2 headset from $499.99 to $429.99.

It's a start, still kind of expensive; it will be nice for some people who have been on the fence and missed promotional sales.

Nintendo hasn't traditionally lowered the prices of their units in favor of releasing a 'Lite' version which has worked out pretty well for them things considered - but they are more known for being in the gaming space as compared to Meta:

- Nintendo Switch Lite ($199) vs Nintendo Switch ($300)

- Nintendo 2DS (~$80-130) vs Nintendo 3DS ($250)

Even though 2DS was originally meant for younger kids - it was still really exciting for me to get one since I was newly living on my own during freshman year and bought it myself so that I could play ORAS with my friends who had the nicer DS consoles.

VR seems interesting - maybe just a bit too committed for how I like to play - but I know better than to think my anecdote means anything at the end of the day, there are a lot of people out there excited beyond belief for future development in this domain!

Edit: saw a comment that highlighted an earlier price increase which means these are now being 'discounted' again which is kind of lame and discouraging.
Yes but my point is if you don't do anything in LV, you click the button and it sits there seemingly doing nothing, then patches the DOM with the update. Possibly the default "topbar" will show depending on its timeout configuration.

So you need to pay some attention to applying-css/hooking-into-the-tooling (phx-click-loading) to show that a button was indeed clicked and is working on fetching data.

Some things such as flipping between tabs can feel quite bad if you click and the tab-button just puts a spinner there or the button just "fades a bit". Its much nicer to replace the content pane with some mock-blocks to show "yes, the tab swapped and its loading data" which is where you need JS to temporarily hide/show some things.

And once you start doing that you should really be measuring the avg rtt on the socket because showing the mock-content for 1ms then swapping the real content is also bad, so you need JS again to figure the best UX for that client.

Or you simply render all the tabs in one go and again, duck into JS to perform the local show/hide.
> Very few companies have DEI programs.

Please don't lie to me:

"I have surveyed the programming of every Fortune 100 company and have confirmed that all of them have now adopted so-called DEI programs." - https://www.city-journal.org/the-diversity-equity-and-inclus...

Though I'm sure if you look at all companies, including every corner store, hair salon, and taco shop, the proportion of DEI initiatives and HR departments falls.

> It's a trend because it's fashionable.

And it's fashionable in part because any company where it's not encouraged is in legal peril.
Additionally, your FDA source says nothing about untested medicines being administered. You've shown your original point was either poorly communicated or misinformed or nefarious. I'll be generous in my interpretation of your intentions and assume you're merely misinformed and communicating without clarity which leads me to say: if you're going to make an extraordinary claim you must provide extra ordinary evidence or you're spreading misinformation that could cause harm downstream.

If you're not sure, then just don't say anything or perhaps frame it as a question.
I’m always astonished by those blurbs on books in English.

I’m currently reading "The science of story telling" by Will Storr. There are 5 blurbs on the cover, one on the back cover. The book open with 3 full pages containing 18 blurbs.

That’s completely ridiculous. It really deserves the book. It makes it look silly and unconfident.

For French book, it is quite rare. When it happens, it’s a red paper above the cover that you can remove after buying the book.

Is that an American thing?
It's difficult to describe the local bureaucratic system and the general attitude towards work there. This is not something that could be fixed if the government cared, this is the government, and that's just how things work there. If you want the government to do something, you have to wait a long time. This isn't seen as a problem. The country's motto is "pura vida", meaning something like "the good life", and people generally aren't interested in working too hard or caring about whether anything arrives or is completed on time, or even what the law or government say, really. Why stress about what an address is?
No problem! Just a heads up that one thing I've noticed about Wikipedia articles on philosophers is that they're not super accessible, and sometimes go on weird tangents.

Like moral imperatives are essential to understanding Kantian Deontology, but the wikipedia article on it goes on a weird tangent about a "Global Economic Moral Imperative," which I have never head of before and is absolutely not something somebody trying to wrap their head around Kantian moral philosophy should be distracted with. I'm kind of annoyed it's even on there, it's absolutely not something Kant ever talked about.

If you want a better highly detailed resource I would recommend the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at https://plato.stanford.edu

But if that's too much (it is VERY detailed)... I can highly recommend chatGPT. For whatever reason it genuinely excels at philosophy. I've used it to discuss different absurdist philosophers before and it did an excellent job, which surprised me because I find it to be otherwise unreliable for a lot of subjects.

You can ask it to compare and contrast philosophies like Utilitarianism, social contractionism, deontology, etc, and tell it to simplify or summarize things, it is impressive how good it is.

Another approach is, also surprisingly, Youtube!

The channel PBS Crash Course Philosophy is at the level of an introductory philosophy course at a University and has good episodes on concepts like Kant's Categorical Imperatives (a favorite of mine):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bIys6JoEDw

Also the channel the School of Life has fun little overviews of different philosophers that I can vouch for like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxrmOHJQRSs

And for longer format documentaries the BBC has great documentaries like this one on Nietzche that are similarly entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9f1F5jUzaM

So I would recommend trying these different resources and seeing what combination you like.
You can’t have cake and eat it too: there is standard for testing and approval and it was violated in this case.

Notice I’m not saying it’s good or bad, it’s just what the facts are.
That's a pretty willfully naive answer though. The fact that the CSA was passable at all is indicative that something had changed. Because if the legislative branch can grant the executive branch the right to make drugs illegal, the legislative branch must have had that ability to do so without a constitutional amendment on its own already. The question is what changed that made the CSA possible?

The correct answer is that in the 30s the courts started taking the position that the federal government could do things that weren't explicitly granted as within their powers, and most types of trade were now within "interstate commerce"

It's also generally just a wrong answer that misses big things like the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act in the 30s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Food,_Drug,_and_Cosmet...
Why this game isn’t on the ipad is a mystery to me.
Not GP, but I assume this[0] is the talk. Clocking in at five hours, you might have to dedicate some time to it. The timestamps on the show indicate programming is discussed somewhere between the 10 and 51 minute marks.

[0]: https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/
I do not, it'll be in whatever version control php is in though I'm sure.

Another absolute horror parser was the wikipedia wikitext parser. An ambiguous hand written mess of epic disgust.
With the amount they’ve spent so far I think they should have just literally gave them away.
I don't even care about this slight slump. For me it is still a much better experience on Mastodon, more engagement and more meaningful conversations and information. All this despite having much smaller number of people which I follow and who follow me. Just in general a lot more pleasant experience on mastodon. Quality over quantity, actually a real social network and not some propaganda/advertisement network that both Twitter and Facebook have become.
Holy cow I'm old
This might not be popular on HN, but:

1. Just sit on your knees and cry out to God. Tell Him everything you feel, from the bottom of your heart.

2. Tomorrow is Sunday. Find a church near you, go there, and if you can, talk to a pastor.
Here is article discussion thread on Mastodon[0] and a froum topic on FreeCAD logo design propositions.[1]

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@yorik/109953734244933681

[1] https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?t=28941
Slint? https://slint-ui.com
Ask HN: How to organize research papers you've read?
I recently started a new role where I have to read a lot of research papers. In past jobs/internships, I've never found a system for organizing the research papers I highlight/annotate. Even worse, I've found it hard to compare notes with my teammates who are often reading the same papers.

Has anybody found a system that they like so far, either on an individual basis or for a team? I find myself defaulting to the standard spreadsheet setup but curious to hear if there's anything more efficient. Thanks!
Victim blaming is completely different, that's saying that you deserved to be abused. Nobody deserves to be abused.

There is a longitudinal study on PTSD cases that investigated why only 35% of people suffer PTSD while some of their colleagues go to similar events and while going through trauma processing, bounce back after some time.

The main finding was that many of them found helpful frames of references to manage their feelings around trauma (often along the lines of... the guy next to me was worse off, at least I am alive) and that allowed them to go into post-trauma growth.

Assigning present-day problems to old events is just a very common way for people to take on a victim mentality and avoid dealing with what is in front of them.
> How you so casually downplay all this damage wrought on people like me is worse than, say, a white person saying slavery wasn't that bad to a black person (because millions of lives were actively fucked very recently by policy from people like you and all you can do is gloat). There's no type of people I despise more on this planet than those like you, and you're the only type of people I actively hate.

I was poised for an upvote until this paragraph. Maybe tone it down a little?
The wolf that discovered California (2021)
it's obviously a huge help for people who can't easily fork out $200k in cash after tax for a downpayment. Which is only the majority of the population, even in the richest metros (e.g. SFBay has most families making less than $120k/year).

As to addressing the recently raised interest rate or not flooding the demand side with cheaper loans, I have no idea how to tackle all the evil in the world at once, but this particular form of help clearly addresses the barrier to entry in form of a downpayment, which is real.
Why shouldn't I choose my back-end language randomly?
Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, C++, there are a multitude of languages.
Most of the differences between them are irrelevant when you launch your startup.
My one complaint about nox is the last time I used it you couldn’t run tests in parallel which while not a blocker is somewhat annoying.
No, that’s a French thing.
score == 20GBP

for 50 quid, I've heard "reddies" quite a bit too,
but my personal favourite -- an "Ayrton" for 10GBP (rhyming slang: Ayrton Senna -> tenner)
One of the most eye opening books on this topic was "Order without Design" by Alain Bertaud.

Essentially, cities exist entirely as job markets - where individuals make tradeoffs to handle geographic constraints.

It will be interesting to see if the WFH shift changes this dynamic.
People haven’t been doing things since birth, obviously and especially taking pills. Also this is a thread on dementia, not typically indicated in young adults.
> and itll stick to its internal knowledge

But it will hallucinate just fine without external knowledge.

> decide if it's a hallucination or a consistent response.

Those aren't exclusive categories.

You haven't answered how you're so confident, though :)
This doesn’t relate to what I said. The point is that for those who believe this is government overreach saying “she had plenty of notice” is a non sequitur.

If you believe something is a right, giving more notice before abrogating it does not factor into whether it is a rights violation.

Everything I’ve said here, by the way, is true regardless of your position on the court’s action (on which I’ve stated no position). If people believe (six people here and counting, and I’m not saying you’re one of them) that they need to downvote a basic factual observation because it vaguely seems to contradict their opinions, maybe they should examine why they so lack confidence in their opinions.
Wait, so it determines the units based on the actual number? This is really bad!
That is a false claim.

> On January 31, 2022, the FDA announced the second approval of a COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...

> On August 23, 2021, FDA announced the first approval of a COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...
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> Thank heavens...I was afraid I was the only one who hated Dodo.

Couldn't finish it.

I've read everything else he's written and between liked it and _loved_ it... including the nonfiction. Only RAFOD was unfinishable, and _Fall ODIH_ I finished but didn't find worth it.
Adoption is how they improve their profit margin. The more products they have wearing their HMD, the better.
Is there a good explanation as to why python-level tools like nox and poetry seem to avoid integrating with pyenv?

Pyenv seems to be the defacto python version manager, and Pipenv seemed to integrate well with it. Why has the python tooling community moved away from it?
Without knowing the specific metadata by name, it’s source, exact context you’re referring to, etc — it is not possible to respond.
ToDues is a simple but useful productivity boost MacOS companion app for Todoist! You can easily view and complete your to-dos due today (or overdue) right from your Mac's menu bar, without having to open Todoist. ToDues seamlessly syncs with your Todoist account using your API token (no password needed).
Well, the problem there is, IMO, no one with any power in politics on the left or the right has any sort of vision for what comes next.
Google will kick ass in the AI game
Two things:

- Yes, the 6650U is much better. It has newer graphics, newer video encode/decode, better io, more power saving features, support for faster memory, integrated wifi... pretty much the only thing thats the same is the specs of the cores, which is why it looks so similar on paper.

- *BUT* AMD butchered the 6000 series naming scheme. Some of the 6000 chips are rebranded 5000 and 4000 chips. If you find another 6000 model you like, you should look it up before assuming its "new."
This list:

https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/mobile-network-assessm...

... continues to be the best checklist of suspicious or incorrect behavior that would indicate the base station to which you were connected was not a real base station.

Scroll down to the "IMSI catcher detection" table and see behaviors like:

- Cell is not advertising any neighbor cells

- The LAC of a base station changes

- Your phone sends at the highest possible power

Many of these behaviors to test are GSM specific however the attacker can perform a downgrade attack and force your 4G phone to collapse down to 2G service, thus exposing you to these.
Long-term, sure, you've just described what a loss leader is.

I'm referring to short-to-medium term margin on the devices themselves.
ok, that's much less dramatic than i envisioned it. in any case i didn't intend to comment on your specific experience but to an envisioned scenario where the girlfriend is the main or only reason to want an iphone.

and it's wonderful that your son can talk to you about his girlfriend. i could not talk to my parents about that. i hope my kids will be comfortable to talk with me when the time comes.
It also, even with the high bar, is frequently abused for various forms of exploitation. While it serves a clear need, its an extremely dangerous thing to have; it is very difficult (impossible, arguably) to safeguard removing a person's agency in a way which does not make it a vehicle for rather extreme abuses.
VR is just a gimmick. Even Meta employees working on Horizon Worlds are barely using it to the point where a SVP had to start asking "why not?"

I have 4 quest headsets, and though they are fun to play (especially Beat Saber with Beat Sage), in the end it's just too cumbersome and too much of a commitment.

Price is an issue, but even among people I know who already have one, usage drops steeply after a month or two. Meta themselves pointed this out, noting that even though they have sold 20 million Quests, they only have about 300K active users for Horizon World's and in general they've seen a huge dropoff in engagement across all apps and the Quest itself after a while.

This move is no surprise if you've read their comments on Reality Labs in the last earnings.
The Pro came out in November. It’s not about to get superseded with a new version. It’s just that the reviews have been really negative and the price is too high, so they’re trying to correct to fix demand.
People tell you what you want to hear, because it's rude otherwise. You get all kinds of wrong directions too, because people want to be seen as helpful even if they don't know. When people tell you something will be done on $day, it is sure as sunrise that it absolutely will not be done that day, and probably not that week, and maybe not that month. People make do, and don't stress too much -- pura vida!
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Protesters jailed for seven weeks for mentioning climate change in defence
> The semantics of subtracting signed 2 from a signed variable called `arrayIndex` with the value 1 is -1. This is almost certainly not what the user wanted. Why should the language police one case and not the other? It doesn't know the context.

Because in many situations it does know the context or figures it out quickly. Unlike the former case, if you compute a size and get a negative result you can tell it's wrong, and most uses would result in an immediate exception. It's much harder to detect a bad unsigned value. You can think of the sign bit as a bad value bit for values that are supposed to be positive. An alternative would be to add runtime checks that throw an exception on underflow, but that's already a much bigger change in the service of a feature that very few use to begin with.

Those few who wish to work with unsigned types can do so efficiently in Java with the unsigned methods in Integer and Long that were added in JDK 8 (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/docs/api/java.base...). Those relatively rare uses, however, don't merit support in the core language, especially when they're known to bring danger with them. A popular library may choose to return sizes as unsigned values -- like C and C++ did with size_t, something many consider a mistake (although there there are many more valuable uses of unsigned types in C/C++ thanks to bitfields) -- and now unsuspecting users who otherwise have no need for unsigned types, the vast majority of users, are susceptible to a new kind of common bug. It's just not worth it.
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Plenty of git commands support a -p mode. I like `git stash -p`.
It’s more like this:

We can take fMRI scans when people are looking at images and generate blurry blobs that do indeed resemble the images spatially.

We can predict a text label of the image the person is looking at using another technique.

If you use SD just on the text labels and you generate an image, you get the semantic content, but not the special content.

If you combine the image and the text label and run it through an LDM then you get pictures that more closely match both the semantic and spatial characteristics of the images shown to the person.
That's a lot. But blurbs are pretty common in US books, probably especially non-fiction.

A quick glance through some books on my coffee table shows multiple blurbs on the back cover are common, maybe something short and pithy on the front cover, and maybe a page of blurbs when you open up the book.
I thought Zuckerberg had unassailable control of the company. Investors may not like what he is doing, but he can change his mind on a dime, and there is little anyone can do about it.

While I have not seen any Must Have use case for VR (nor does the technology currently seem fit for purpose) - I do appreciate the rationale for trying to trail-blaze this space. Facebook is subject to the whims of iOS and Android policy. They need/want to own a platform they control.
> The reality is/was that the products in a Canadian Nordstrom's or Target WERE NOT the same as in the US.

That's, to me, the puzzling part.

Did brands that managed to stay in the Canadian market change their offerings? Do they have "Canadianized" Apple or Ikea for instance?
No. She went to jail for violating a judge's orders to get treated or isolate. You shouldn't go to jail for violating a judge's orders?
There’s only 4,700 people. If this is really an imminent threat just evacuate the people, create an exclusion zone, and bypass with new rail around the exclusion zone. The evacuated people can be compensated obviously.

EPA can figure out the best way to tackle when exclusion is set up. Incineration sounds about as intelligent as shooting/bombing/nuking the dirt.
Is it just me or did the unencrypted URL column thing fly right under the news in December?
I think the biggest problem I encounter when trying something else than tmux is copy-pasting without having to use the mouse. How does the "local terminal guis" you suggest as alternatives handle that?
You still can't watch adult material (or anything, really) without Zuck looking over your shoulder.
Historically, there were a number of 24-bit, 36-bit, and 48-bit CPU designs; some modern DSPs still have 24-bit ALUs, IIRC.

Interestingly, all these numbers divide cleanly by 8, except for 36. I never heard about 12-bit CPUs though.

Where octal representation shone was 3-bit fields in some CPU code, especially in the venerable PDP-11. Using octal representation for them was the only sane way.

Coincidentally, much of the UNIX was built on various PDP machines.

Also, early TTYs, that is, actual mechanical teletypes, were often 6-bit, which also sits well with octal encoding.
The other mentioned much smaller one has a whole article on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_CX1

This one was 1 m wide and it seems like it was detected about 6 hours before coming down.
I don’t think I’ve ever paid attention to a blurb in my life. They are in the same category as those banners at the top of pages and the modals with convenient “X to close” in the top right.
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Can confirm. When I was experimenting with Hercules, I found z/OS 1.1.something easily.

Never got it installed, but yeah, it's easy enough to find.