skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People are confusing bulky headsets with the general concept of VR.

True, and it's still entirely reasonable to criticize Facebook on this count, because they have absolutely no plans beyond VR headsets. Any technology to take VR to the next level isn't even a glimmer on the horizon; we are still decades too early.
Perhaps it's done great on a YTD basis or since the panic low last Fall, but overall Meta has been a laggard for many years now. A mere 36% return over the last 5 years compared to 66% for SPY and 96% for QQQ. Furthermore, it's still nearly -40% off its peak in September 2021.
Many of us probably actually discovered what we wanted to do for a living by being able to use all sorts of software that was way more expensive than we could afford as a teen, which eventually led to buying the software. I am thoroughly against pirating things you are making money off of, but more lenient on personal use/exploration/learning. If there was something akin to a public library full of the worlds commercial software for people to discover, explore and play with, I would have done that as that's where I was getting most of the books from that I was using to learn all of this complex software, like the $18,000 Alias|Wavefront 3D software, back then.
> So I find it totally plausible that a huge amount of people would spend large amounts of time in a more immersive virtual world

I, on the other hand, know nobody that uses virtual worlds. I find it plausible that a tiny amount of people would spend large amounts of time in a more immersive virtual world. I find it completely implausible that a huge amount of people would.
Pg&e runs both gas and electric for Berkeley. They are for-profit. It is in pg&e's best interest to keep demand for direct natural gas. It's in their best interest to keep the electric grid unstable so that people will be tricked into supporting direct natural gas.

Fortunately, pg&e has enough regulatory capture and marketing to trick regulators into letting them rob taxpayers and trick taxpayers into docility.

The issue lies not with a natural gas ban. The issue lies with having a for-profit monopoly in charge of all energy production and supply.
Yikes regarding the low appraisal waiver... This is the entire point of appraisals - to protect the bank from over-lending and the taxpayer from the moral hazard of having to bail out poorly run banks.
The average American spends something like 3 hours per day watching TV, and upwards of 6 hours of total screen time, according to a quick Google search. Is it really that much of a stretch to imagine a world where the screens we use are part of a head-mounted display?

Think about any time you've been on a bus, train or plane -- most people on board are using their phones or tablets. I suspect within this decade it's common for those devices to be supplanted by AR/VR headsets.
The newspaper owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos says rival billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is an idiot. What a shocker.
This sentence could have used some editing: “Yet First Republic was in a better position than most of these institutions—though a Bay area bank, it was much more diversified across industries and geographies, though it catered to a high-net-worth clientele it was not exclusively a bank for the superrich, though it had seen substantial deposit growth with the tech boom it had not felt effects from the tech-cession, and though it did end up heavily concentrated in low-yield long-dated assets those mostly represented traditional mortgage lending.”
IMHO there is a fault in this way of reasoning, please let me explain.

People who are very visible, tend to:

- Have more impact about what they say, because they reach a big population group and some people identify with their reasoning. (lets call it the elon effect)

- Have a lot more money than average.

Following your reasoning, what these wealthy people say would be almost always be the wrong thing to do, since those people have more money and hence spend more, and hence consume directly or indirectly more energy. Hence they pollute a lot more than average, at least indirectly by buying expensive things that create pollution by their manufacturing.

If those people would say the right thing (e.g. poluting less is better), you wouldn't take them serious. And your conclusion would be polluting less is not better or at least we should not take that advice for granted, because of who said it.
I tried to think of a restaurant in NY that might sell eggs in the morning. I don’t live there so probably I’m biased towards places that might be better known to/targeted at tourists. I looked up the menu for Balthazar and they indeed have $28 eggs (Benedict) and $7 (bowl of) coffee. I guess that’s a bit expensive but could also be the price at a ‘favourite brunch place’.
> Moreover we still don't know how entire VR game will play off

I'm not sure it even matters as it appears the game was really a way to find a funding stream for future hardware development to get them where they really want to go. Kind of like how Netflix mailed DVDs around until they could achieve their goal of a streaming service.
Or even better, tip normally and post Internet comments about how you don't tip. Things will uneven out.
Cheaper, faster, much better optics: any two of those would be good, all three is incredible.
Well put, and this harks back to the classic Rich Hickey talk "Simple Made Easy". For Bob the process is easy because he's internalized all the complexity. It's not actually simple. But it's subject to the conflation of "simple" and "easy" that Hickey warned about.

Another way to it has been put is "beginner's mind" or the "curse of knowledge". Once Bob has mastered the many intricate steps it is hard for him to see them clearly and remember the difficulty he himself had. A truly simple process on the other hand would be (relatively) easy for everyone, not just the expert. And of course as you point out it can be difficult for a removed observer to tell the difference.
There are certainly people reposting comments that mix up lithium and cobalt and keep asserting that all EV batteries use cobalt and how terrible that is. They are not all environmentalists. A lot of them are just using those talking points as a way to oppose the move to EVs.

They also like to post a photo of an open pit gold mine in Australia and claim that it is a lithium mine while complaining about the massive environmental impact. they never respond when I post a link with proper attribution showing that it is not a lithium mine.
Maybe, but a dozen examples from hip-hop won't convince me.
800 million leaders in the world, and 400 million whisleblowers?
Indeed, this is the point I'm after. Glad we could get there.
Last time I tried, Google and even O365 delivered fine... Hotmail and Outlook.com, ironically considering they're also MS managed were the biggest problems from my testing. At this point, I'm willing to let some of it go to spam, as I think most people wind up having to check there regularly anyway. There's a lot of false positives, but so much actual spam and uce I don't really blame the carriers.

DKIM, SPF, etc only go so far anymore, and even graylisting doesn't seem nearly as effective as it once was. Again, not really looking forward to parts of this, but I do want to at least try self-hosting as much as I can. I like the cloud offerings from MS/Google, but don't like the companies or their actions in and of themselves. Only one real way to push back, and that's to actually try.

And on the small providers, yeah I can get that. I'm a bit more than a decade removed from self-hosting much of anything, and even then balancing DNS RBL with other factors was at least interesting if not frustrating.
No, there's a lot of people here angry at GitHub for making a code-writing tool that occasionally launders GPL code.

To actually violate the GPL requires at least some effort towards locking the system down. If you just torrent some Linux ISOs, they either contain source, links to source, or that weird written offer thing that GPLv2 wanted. You'd have to actually remove those in order to violate GPL. Pirates would not be happy with you for doing this.

It's also important to note that there's a bit of a difference between different kinds of piracy, and they have different mentalities. You have the FTP topsite scene users, then P2P users, then people trying to resell copyrighted material for money. The first two are more aligned with either "we don't like copyright, period" or "we like downloading free shit", which makes them either aligned with or neutral to the FOSS community. The latter group does not care, they just want a quick way to make a buck. If they couldn't resell other people's books on Amazon, they'd probably be committing some other kind of cybercrime.
The post sounds a bit emotionally charged... I've met people who can code and optimize SGD from scratch, but never wrote linked list more than once or twice in their life. I've also met people who are so proud of their algorithm and data structure knowledge, they tried to use it everywhere, like connecting instances in a linked list, which killed efficiency. If anyone self taught is reading this, don't be discouraged, keep learning and you'll get there, some of the best developers I know were self taught.
That explains...a lot actually.

Some studies out there linking acetaminophen to reduced empathy.
Snarky but people's opinions generally do tend towards a dichotomy of deserving and undeserving victims, if you will, of piracy.

This is a general tendency people believe. The categorical imperative is not something that people live by.

It's okay to pirate from some people but not others. Perhaps because software people are "overpaid" and artists are "underpaid".

Interesting stuff, definitely. For my part, the Kindle makes things too convenient for me to pirate intentionally (once I bought a book only to find that it was almost certainly pirated - massive typos in the metadata and it was removed soon after).
Who says 007 has to be White, British and male?
*Some federal appointees. The head of FAA under Trump was Stephen Dickson, who was an F-15 fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, then a pilot for 27 years at Delta Airlines before becoming Vice President of flight operations [1].

The current head under Biden is Billy Nolen, a former pilot who flew the Boeing 757 and 767 and worked as an airline executive for years before joining the FAA [2].

By credentials, these two are definitely qualified.

1- https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/pr...

2- https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/30600-safety-professional...
Would you rather have:
A) Burn gas at home 2 times a year for a couple hours.
B) Burn gas many/most days for many hours.

I fail to see how B is better?
Wasn't this the same sort of thing Microsoft had planned for Cairo/WinFS?
> Finally, we have a third projection matrix, V, which maps x_j -> v_j. The v_j are d_v-dimensional vectors (doesn't have to equal d_k, and again something you arbitrarily choose). These represent the values that the NN would like to pass on from item j to any other item which decides it "likes" the answer of item j.

> So, to compute the new information to add to item i, we take the weighted sum of the values v_j that item i liked

I don't get this part. If the v_k are d_v dimensional vectors, and if the input items i are all d_f dimensional vectors, then how are you "adding" these values back to the inputs when d_f != d_v?

The linked script doesn't seem to do any adding like this - instead, they take the output values and pass them through a linear layer, presumably throwing away the inputs. But your comment hints at the existence of a more residual sort of approach.
It really shows how much effect the media and the social and political environment it creates influence the thoughts and feelings of people, however highly educated and intelligent they are. If you think you are not influenced by media and propaganda, consider yourself very wrong, the best propaganda is when you don't even consider it propaganda, and the US probably has the most effective propaganda machine in the entire world.
Chess is huge in China. The women’s world champion and also number two are both Chinese.

You are right that Chess is not as popular as Go in China.
While some of the most visible effects of climate change are likely irreversible, and multiple animal species will be extinct, and hundreds of millions of people are going to be displaced and killed, statements like yours make people think that we should just stop and do nothing.

Which would make the problem even WORSE.

We still must act to make sure that ONLY some ocean species are extinct, not an entire collapse of oceanic ecosystems, and that ONLY hundreds of millions in some parts of the world are affected, not the entire human race.

Defeatism only guarantees defeat.
We (Instacart) were looking for alternatives before it started costing money. One of the primary reasons we pivoted and built remote development environments was because of the horrible performance of Docker Desktop. Even when running containers that do nothing I'd find my CPU was high for no reason. Anyone on an Intel Mac would essentially have a loud lap warmer with 2 hour battery life.

We are actively looking for alternatives that a) has minimal performance impact on our devs laptops b) is stable (We have most of our devs locked onto a specific version of Docker Desktop because latest was randomly crashing).

If the pricing is competitive we will likely be customers when you're out of beta.
I can't take this article seriously. They are having a hard time hiring in 2022-2023 because of the scandal of 2016?? Facebook remains one of the TOP landing spots for any engineer still. The rep might be tarnished a bit, but you would be doing yourself a disservice if your company wouldn't consider an engineer with 2-5 years of senior SWE experience from FB. EVEN after the stock downturn it remains near the top in prestige and compensation -- though admittedly they are hiring a lot less and firing a lot more.

I think traditional journalism fails hard when covering tech because tech moves and evolves so quickly and this journalist in particular tries to weave a multi-year story that isn't as connected (or the threads they have chosen aren't) as it seems.

Both with Google's "Don't be evil" and Facebook's "Move fast and break things" the media got what they wanted, a nice sound bite that was (at least for a time) the motto of the company. Things change, companies evolve, the "risky" projects are more expensive, the failures are magnified (Google+, FB Phone, etc.) so companies themselves change. I don't think its fair to keep holding them to an ethos that hasn't/doesn't scale.

I don't know, I'm just tired of all these hit pieces on Meta/Zuckerberg. At least they have discipline (sharp revenue focus), conviction (betting on AI + metaverse), and focus (flatter structure than other peer companies even before the pandemic bloat) -- a lot more than I can say for a majority of tech companies these days...
> Over 85% of lithium is produced by just 2 international corporations

If I search google for this string, your post is the only one that comes up. How did you arrive at this figure?

In the history of industry, when has it ever been a positive indication that only two players control the majority of the supply?

Do these companies directly own the mines or are there partnerships and subsidiaries involved? What countries are they operating in? How long is the supply chain from the mine to the product?

How are water rights being managed? Is there correct oversight? Are any governments trading long term environmental damage for short term profits? What happens when the mines are depleted?
Batteries has a long supply chain, and in this case the market is forecasting a drop in demand. Due to more sources and increase output in the early stages of the chain, the offer has increased.

Note also the article refer explicit to EV in different paragraphs .

it's described in the article.

> with the expiry of a more than decade-long programme of subsidies for EV purchases.

> the expanding supply outlook for the metal is mainly what is pushing prices lower this year

> Supply is coming on stream faster than you can say ‘boo’.
> first-ever lithium deposit to be discovered in Iran’s mountainous western province of Hamedan. At an estimated 8.5 million tonnes,

> China is also expanding its lithium-supply capacity from lepidolite, which, while considered the most abundant lithium-bearing mineral,
Radarr and sonarr stacks basically manage your torrenting for you if you haven’t been in the space for a while. Nice Lego bricks in your stack.
"The article titled "How did climate doomsters get the Great Barrier Reef so wrong?" discusses the misreporting of the state of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) by environmental activists and media outlets. The article argues that the GBR is not, in fact, dead, as was claimed in a widely circulated obituary in 2016, but rather is still alive and thriving.

The article suggests that the doom-mongering around the GBR is driven by a desire to generate fear and promote political agendas, rather than an accurate portrayal of the state of the reef. It also notes that there are many other threats to the GBR, such as overfishing and pollution, which are often overlooked in the focus on climate change."

I asked chatgpt to summarise in two paragraphs, since it's at least not a climate doomster. "Alive and thriving" seems a strange conclusion from recent events, given that its health assessment was downgraded to very poor.
I love Nepo but I truly believe he should forget about being World Champion anymore. I just can't see the poor dude suffering another time.
> he point of sharing it only with trusted established journalists was that their qualified to know what needs redacting

Really? I assumed it had more to do with Constitutional protections for journalists, so whatever they did publish would stay published.

IIRC, the US had already called Assange's journo creds into question by then, so Snowden sought out established outlets.
From a glance at the 1-page PDF, it seems freq is variable, but depth is hardcoded to 16bit.
https://archive.ph/Rdj57
You have to consider match vs tournament play. The two are really very different. In tournaments you're playing a small number of games against a large number of different opponents, of often dramatically different skill levels. The large number of players also often also all but guarantees that some of the players will be off form, and easy pickings for the rest of the crowd. It's a really fun and interesting dynamic but very different than match play.

For the world championship players spend the better part of a year, generally with a large team of other world class players, intensely preparing to play games against only a single player, studying their games, and finally unleashing absolutely everything they've discovered. And then there's a constant metagame knowing each game you play one day will be deeply studied by your opponent and his team, and he will come back fully prepared the next day.

Carlsen gave up his title because he no longer wanted to put the massive amounts of work in that are required to maintain it. Would he be the best match player if he started putting this work in again? Maybe? But he's chosen not to do that.
That's the thing I am aghast it has not yet percolated through the tech commentorship. The AI advances of yesterday completely have turned upside down the VR/AR/XR equation. (Note the use of past tense)
Snapchat? Instagram?
Yes. The NASA reports that study the potential effects on health do conclude that due to its particle shape, size, and composition, the fine regolith particles pose a significant danger to human health in prolonged exposure.
Oh wow, okay. That sounded so bad I didn't think it could possibly be from the real documentation for a pretty popular product.
I sold my Quest 2 because I rarely ever used after initial honeymoon period. It was clunky and required too much preparation before put it on.

But I am looking forward to Quest 3. Because I really miss the part of completely shutting off from my surroundings and being transported elsewhere. And really enjoyed random conversations in Table Tennis game and in their VR World thing.

Only after selling it, I realized how much those few minutes in it were worth.

EDIT: Now I think VR/meta is correct long term move.
is there any integration with it to langchain?

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Is there any optimization for LLM to run on RTX cards? 40XX,30XX
I found out tha LLAMA.CPP is nice but I want to take advantage of my graphic cards also, and didn't found any documentations...
Shipping concentrates is pretty standard in mining low-grade resources. Near the mine, there's usually some kind of plant to extract the good stuff and discard the dirt.
Otherwise, there's a huge amount of wasted effort shipping dirt and rocks around, and dumping them someplace.

What's shipped out usually needs more processing. What's left behind is usually the big environmental headache with mining.
Induction stoves are cheaper, more energy efficient, safer, and better for your health.

There aren't any advantages to gas at all. The gas industry has, however, put many billions into lobbying and marketing to convince you otherwise. And it seems they have succeeded.

For your education https://youtu.be/hX2aZUav-54
Conveniently, Republicans aren't "working to make it smaller" and are "hatefully burning it all down" as seen in their constant debt limit antics, their lack of any cohesive platform, Grover Norquist's comments about drowning the government in a bathtub, their abuse of the filibuster to block anything at all from passing rather than working on compromise, and many more examples.
"Papercuts" are the reason why many people dread using software, and mostly only do when and where they must. The experience is just unpleasant. It's really death by a thousand cuts.
Most people decide on a heating source based on price, not on the stove they want. In the US, in most areas, gas is cheaper to heat a house than electricity is. The may shift as heat pumps become more popular, but historically it has been the case.
If the commodities market can't set prices through discovery, then the government has to by fiat.

Neither are great, but one is definitely preferred.
Thanks so much for this explanation. It makes perfect sense and is really simple.
Alien Supercivilizations Absent from 100k Nearby Galaxies (2015)
How things are discussed and reported in media may not have a direct correlation to how that thing is.

If people want the natural gas debate to be about climate change but it’s really about personal health and a city’s right to govern risk in that place, that itself doesn’t change because other people are saying, or blogging, “climate change” for this given thing.
> For example we don't insist that the secretary of health should be a doctor.

I'll definitely want my country's Secretary of Health to be a doctor who understands public health and its related policies, not a politician whose primarily skill is being popular and getting elected.

>The main qualities needed is being a good manager and able to listen to alternative views and being a good politician.

A Health Secretary who's not a doctor would find it difficult to judge if they're being fed the right information by their advisers.

Remember that Boeing's woes began when the company ceased to be run by the engineers and aviation experts, but instead by the arrogant MBA counters who likely pitched themselves as good managers. It turns out they mostly cared about management and printing cash, but lacked engineering expertise, leading to screwups like the 737 Max.
Wow, glow looks awesome. Thanks for sharing!