skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry... better build quality, more years of security updates, and resale value are irrelevant? I don't feel like you are discussing this in good faith.
Depending on where and how they die, dead fish float briefly because of gas created by bacterial decay, but sink after a rupture, or a few days.

Many dead fish will get eaten as they fall through the water column. Things that sink all that way to the bottom of the ocean do still get recycled by the biosphere - but the biosphere at the bottom, which is only connected tenuously and very slowly with the surface - most of the carbon etc... will stay down there for a very long time.

> I'd expect pictures of the ocean floor to look like a weird nightmarish Hieronymus Bosch painting of a thick layer of dead but intact fish.

Not intact for long, because the seafloor has lots of scavengers, but yes, this is pretty accurate - see Whalefall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall

and Marine Snow:

> About three-quarters of the deep ocean floor is covered in this thick, smooth ooze. The ooze collects as much as six meters every million years.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/marinesnow.html
Does every headline need to have the word "quietly" in it these days?
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These are _your_ examples.

The claims that I responded to were the exact wording in your comment. If you wanted to make a different claim then you should have written that. It seems you want to modify your claim.

In fact GPT-4 could make the observations and analysis to build that. I was using "context" in a technical way here. All I was stating was that it needs the data to be input in some way.
> imagine

Yes, so imaginative innovations for niche usecases can easily be exempted. The goal would be to enable mainstream mass-market devices to follow the standard. It’s not as complicated as you suggest, and works in almost every industry.
> I'm sure they'd love to carry guns around

Some of them would, but perhaps not a majority. When the Police Federation most recently surveyed their members on this question in 2017 [1], 66% were opposed to routinely arming officers with firearms (although that number is down from 82% in 2006).

[1] https://www.polfed.org/our-work/operational-policing/firearm...
Vaguely related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152779 - Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems
Sometimes Python's conciseness works against its value as a didactic language.
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If you're predisposed to schizophrenia, pure bi-polar or other mental health issues you probably shouldn't be tripping balls on LSD (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6870484/) or taking THC at high levels (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2424288/). Seems to be a major risk.
He started not knowing a thing about soccer, but ended up knowing at least one thing about football.
I live in Coeur d'Alene, ID. Downwind from Hanford [1](I heard stories some of the test balloons landed nearby, as well as up to Nelson, BC).

Also, downstream from the Silver Valley [2]

The Pacific Northwest also has a higher rate of MS (3x) than the rest of the country. [3]

While we are at it lets not forget about Umatilla, 60 miles SE of Hanford, as well, and what goes on there (although my understanding is it is well controlled). [4]

I wonder if this was better known...would the property values here have doubled in the last 3 years?

[1] https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/voices/oral-histories/richard-...
[2] https://www.deq.idaho.gov/waste-management-and-remediation/m...
[3] https://www.kuow.org/stories/search-cause-high-rates-ms-nort...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umatilla_Chemical_Depot
It's not. VR Porn exists, but most porn users are not "enthusiasts" that will buy things to enhance their "hobby".

On the same token, you have people that will drop thousands of $$ on cam girls, none of whom are camming in VR.

People will pay for porn, just not the type that was thought up in a brainstorming session by a bunch of computer vision nerds.
Digital nomads are a major problem in several countries including most of South East Asia and Portugal, and major cities in these regions are having inflated prices due to digital nomads.
> realizing that being married to a 2/10 friend is very lonely

Piece of advice:

One (or both) of you will significantly change your personality and interests, or you will split.

Figure out which option you prefer.
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For compare a lane of PCIe 6.0 is 7.56GBps. If all 128 lanes of a AMD cpu were able to be interconnect, that would be 967GBps.
Agree, I even think it’s fair if this happened after to just stick a fine to them according to Ring revenue, but the current fine is a pittance, IMO.
The problem is that there isn't enough hydro. Only Norway has enough hydro to run the country.
My experience with trying to play flat games or watch movies in VR is that it shows up the imperfections in the system a lot more than tailored experiences. Until they have some eye-tracking mechanically adaptive optics, there'll always be some imperfections in the system, and a high-contrast perfectly flat rectangle full of text right in front of your face shows off those imperfections far more than a full 3D environment full of naturalistic objects.
You probably won't agree, because it's not a very charitable thing to say about marketers, sorry.

My position is that democracy works well when the will of the people gets translated into action in a way that still resembles what those people organically need.

Marketing is the process of tampering with that translation such that what actually happens benefits the marketers' customers, typically at the expense of the people.

Presumably there are practices and technologies that we could invest in which preserve this translation, but we haven't been investing in those. Instead we've been investing in marketing. We're building a world where you can spend money to shape public opinion, and that's a world that's toxic to democracy.

Perhaps there was a time when information about available goods and services was hard to come by. Maybe you legitimately needed somebody to get the word out. But I don't think we live in that world anymore.

In case you're not familliar with "the shoe event horizon":

> As a society sinks into depression, the people of the society need to cheer themselves up by buying themselves gifts, often shoes. It is also linked to the fact that when you are depressed you look down at your shoes and decide they aren't good enough quality so buy more expensive replacements. As more money is spent on shoes, more shoe shops are built, and the quality of the shoes begins to diminish as the demand for different types of shoes increases. This makes people buy more shoes.

> The above turns into a vicious cycle, causing other industries to decline.

> Eventually the titular Shoe Event Horizon is reached, where the only type of store economically viable to build is a shoe shop. At this point, society ceases to function, and the economy collapses, sending a world spiralling into ruin. In the case of Brontitall and Frogstar World B, the population forsook shoes and evolved into birds.

That's what is happening to us, except instead of shoes, it's ads. We're diminishing the legitimacy of making a good product or being a good leader, because an easier way to win is just pay to shape public opinion.

What you win isn't as good as it would have been if you competed on merit, but that doesn't matter because competing on merit is hard and your opposition isn't doing it.

So I'm saying that it's Marketing vs Democracy and Marketing is winning. Thus we're living in Marketing's endgame and not Democracy's endgame.
Laws generally only exist as a knee-jerk reaction to something.

So, if you want to mass import and sell vehicles that don't meet the safety standards you'll run into trouble.

But an individual temporarily working in another country bringing a personal/company car for their use with them doesn't. The USA does enforce that you take that vehicle home with you though or at least that's what foreigners tell me when others want cars from their country that aren't sold in the US.
Yves covered for Maxime Béland's and Serge Hascoët's sexual abuses for decades.
When your boss said "deliver more", I don't think that's what they had in mind

(congratulations!)
This looks like non news to me.

People don't "hate" digital nomads (and the article itself does not even back up this claim from the headline). In fact, most people do not even notice them most of the time, as they don't make up for a significant percentage of the population anywhere.

There will be always small and very vocal groups, complaining about effectively irrelevant things like this. That is not newsworthy.

> But they add: “While the constant state of motion was exciting in the beginning, it eventually became tiresome – literally.”

Well, yeah? Constantly moving and traveling around the world tend to have this effect on people.
This actually hits very close.

As the developer - disclosure - of AKME, an iOS app that uses the OpenAI API, in a fairly private manner, I also noticed the myriad of apps that use misleading descriptions (as in, advertising the use of GPT-4, when, in fact, they use GPT-3.5 - ask me how I know), or don't actually use OpenAI at all (again, ask me how I know), buy reviews etc and charge user exorbitantly priced subscriptions.

Part of the generated profits are then invested in Search Ads, which pushes them to the top and trick more users into downloading ...rinse and repeat.

I made sure my app has no tracking, users that have an OpenAI account can use their own API key (via a Bring-Your-Own-Key model) while those that don't have one can buy in-app tokens (if I may say, decently priced, taking into account the "Apple tax") while also investing a lot of work into crafting dedicated prompts to improve the quality of answers.
Its hard to make other use cases work when text is barely readable. The resolution just isn't there for productivity apps.

I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't lean into that angle with their new headset. Pixel density on phones was a problem before the iPhone 4, and they sold the heck out of the retina display. If Apple can make small text readable in VR they'll enable a whole world of new VR applications.
I think the issue is that Beat Saber has been the answer for the last four years and if you are not into rhythm games then... It's kind of a hard sell.
It isn't though. And we are verrrry far away from Diablo 3's state on release. (Even if servers have trouble today and in 4 days.)
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While Beeminder does collect when you fail, they make their money from people maintaining premium subscriptions for custom goals and other features. Curiously, one of the premium features is the ability to skip over the small penalties and start at a financial commitment that's too painful for you to let happen. Another premium feature is that some of the money goes to charity.

They're dancing with perversity but they make so much more money if their system works for you for a long time.
I only skimmed a couple reviews but the impression I got it that it is a fun, mechanically solid game, with a pretty good antagonist but a lackluster overall world/plot.

This is 2023 Activision/Blizzard, nobody expects them to revolutionize anything. They’ve got fans already and they/we (I like their games but am not a fan of their corporate culture, so, not sure if I count as a fan anymore—was really hoping they’d managed to root out the shitty behavior) know what the idea of a Diablo game is. A well mechanically decent Diablo is the bar, and it sounds like they’ve probably passed it.
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> This is a company that has excellent game dev talent

I'm inclined to believe that the incredible talent that used to be at Blizzard is long gone by now. Most of the original devs have their own studios or work at other companies by now.
> Apple’s monopoly of research tools – making it a perfect haven for spyware. In other words, as I’ve often said, users are given the illusion of security associated with the complete opacity of the system. What actually happens in iOS is unknown to cybersecurity experts, and the absence of news about attacks in no way indicates their being impossible – as we’ve just seen.

Wonder how much better the situation is on Android? Last I heard, open source was months behind versions on up-to-date devices.
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It's not just that it's not moving in tandem: it captures all the downside of QQQ times 3-5 (the beta factor) and none of the upside. This makes it very profitable to short Bitcoin and go long QQQ (generating alpha).
Paying for a mention in somebody elses newsletter
‘To the class of 2023, I say three words: you poor bastards’
I think sometimes you get into a vicious cycle where it’s been a while and then it feels like you’re imposing to reach out or answer a message you let sit too long.
Do you have a pointer to a paper where "referentially transparent" is defined in your sense? I grant you that values of a programming language should be distinguished from the meaning of an expression, which will be a value of some sort in the logic. In that sense, any language with a denotational semantics will be referentially transparent. So maybe what you are really saying is: macros usually don't have a denotational semantics. Not sure that it is helpful to call this referential transparency, because it differs from the meaning most people associate with it.
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I agree the my number card is a pain, if they want people to use it they should make it easier to get. When I went to get a plastic my number card, the staff at city hall advised me not to get it because I had a driving license and I'd have to renew the my number card every time my residence status was extended. They recommended it to non-holders of driving licenses to use as ID.

But I'm standing by these examples. For my move to Europe, it was 4 months to get the equivalent to the COE, then another 4 months (average is supposed to be 2-3 months) to get the equivalent of a residence card. And the company that sponsors you has to either prove you're highly skilled or prove they tried to hire a European for a set period of time first. And if you're not from a visa-waiver country, you aren't even allowed to travel in Europe while you wait for the ID card.

For my driving license, I probably won't have to wait in line, but the total time to process it is at least four months.

For starting a sole proprietorship, similar story. A bit annoying paperwork to start one in Japan, but it only took a few hours for everything. Here, it's 3 months and counting, and it's possible that it comes with a condition that I need to rent space for doing consulting (not do it from home) before getting the OK.

Japan is bureaucratic but usually fast, at least for individuals.
I remember coming to work one morning and having staff at two tables with boxes of RSA keys, and swapping everyones...

(they replaced 40 million of those things..)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/06/rsa-f...
You can also use something like zigup to make fetching the latest master/managing multiple versions easier.
Before the pandemic, Microsoft had retail stores were you could demo the Oculus Rift.

However with physical retail generally on the decline, who would be the partner now? Best Buy isn't doing that great.
What is funny is that Meta did go through all the expense of setting this up with Best Buy for the Meta Quest Pro, and nobody even realized it was an option because they advertised it so poorly[1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/meta-quest-pro-hands-...
That seems hard to believe at face value. Maybe there's another side to this story?
Nice tool, but I don’t want to pay a subscription to use it. I appreciate the Lifetime license, but it’s far too expensive. I’ll pass. I wish you the best on this, though!
I think one of the key differences is how you socialise varies from country to country, but just that a lot of the internet is dominated by Americans and people assume that "they are unfriendly" or "they are friendly".

The truth is that most of these "friendly" countries are just engaging in a form of small talk and politeness, similar to going from London (unfriendly) to Ireland (friendly), and that you are not actually making what normal people would consider friends.

There are some who do genuinely travel a lot and make friends, but these people usually have global links from childhood or something else that forces them to travel overseas.
But many of us didn’t, or didn’t have a great youth network in the first place. So you know, hopefully that’s not the only possibility.