skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, it's research into a topic you don't think should be researched?

Do you have any problems with the methodology or conclusions? Like, science can still be science even if it's pursued in the name of social justice. If they are cooking the books, then that's one thing, but if they are making a hypothesis, gathering data, and evaluating that hypothesis fairly using real data, then it's just science.
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> That all makes sense… but the bit I can't fathom is why Facebook didn't take the approach of building from the high end down?

High end VR already existed. There were dozens of Windows headsets that lifted the performance ceiling far beyond what the Quest or even the Reality Pro will ever be capable of. The harder challenge is pushing in the other direction - building a minimum viable product that doesn't suck and can make it to mass market. Meta has proven they can do that, Apple cannot. You're right to highlight that the pressure is on them to do better, but maybe they should have considered that before announcing a headset this early. Apple's history is rife with visionary products that were too early and too expensive: the Lisa, the Newton, the 12" Macbook, the list goes on. I won't chide them for their ambition, but that won't save them from their fated failure.

Imagine if Steve Jobs' "phone, iPod, and internet communicator" moment culminated in a product that cost more than all 3 of those things combined. That's what the Vision Pro's announcement felt like.

> but it doesn't seem like Facebook can simply ignore Vision Pro and continue with their current product roadmap: I would bet on Apple (a hardware company with a lot of scale advantages) figuring out how to make the baseline experience achieved with Vision Pro cheaper for a consumer device much faster and more easily than Facebook will figure out how to achieve that same baseline experience starting from their $400 price point.

I guess I just fundamentally disagree. The high-end market for VR is not desirable yet, and there's no indication it ever will be. Low-end VR sells like hotcakes though, and Apple will struggle with that more than Meta will with retina graphics or eye tracking. If the leaked BOM for Reality Pro is real, Apple would need to cut costs by 8x to maintain their current margins and beat Meta in pricing. That's ludicrous; meeting Apple at their price point is comparatively trivial.

It will ultimately depend on where market forces lie. I think most people will see the Vision Pro as redundant if they already own an iPhone though.
squatting monopolizes space, only one person can own it at a time

cool thing about information is when you make a copy, you've doubled the information - plenty for everyone! if only housing worked the same way
It’s not so entirely different though. Early investors in a pump and dump can make a tidy profit, just like early investors in a Ponzi.

The main difference is the lifecycle: the dump is fairly quick and sudden, as the name implies, while the Ponzi can keep digging a hole for decades if it can reach a sufficiently large or wealthy base of fresh investors.
I agree with you, entirely, but I've had developers fight tooth and nail when the build breaks. "We need to get out there ASAP!" is definitely the cry, and usually "compromises" are made, such as "what if we made the overall CI run not fail if this test fails?" — which is as good as killing the test, IMO.

The impetus is necessary, or the problem is ignored.

The devs are really just proxies for the stress a PM is inappropriately pushing, though. But they are paid to not understand this problem, so getting them on board is impossible.
We do get your point and have given it ample thought.

And yes, we do plan to incorporate alternative infrastructure with less friction without having to download an app in the future.

Thank you so much for your kind words and wise point of view!
what's the link?
This is a great idea even if the hardware was quite different. I honestly can't imagine developing for visionOS armed only with a simulator. And since Apple afaik doesn't have a hardware devkit, this sounds miles better.
I often think these kinds of posts are bullshit. UX paradigms are not proven to always work outside of its very specific context, spatially, temporally, culturally. When experts come in they make us feel safe, but the only way we get to these answers is by having inspiration to try something, give it to users, measure the results, and iterating on it.

When you try to look backwards and say "this is why it works", that's not a lie, but applying the learnings in a forward moving sense are filled with exceptions and traps. So you're kinda back where you started, where the palette of things to try gives you inspiration, and then again, you gotta put it to users.

Anyway, great for UX people that they command so much money, but I think that's less that they are objective and scientifically based and more because they are good at navigating the politics of decision making.
Homebox (https://github.com/hay-kot/homebox) is one I've been looking at recently. Haven't actually set it up yet though, so YMMV.
For those who still don't trust solid state disks for a NAS, this one might be an option to use good old spinning rust drives with small Linux boards.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313880737600

The chip is well supported under Linux.

https://www.jmicron.com/file/download/996/JMB585.pdf

There are also similar cards employing the JMB575 port multiplier.

example:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134517464170

(no relation with the sellers, just search for "m.2 5 port sata")
I think you’re likely right, but as has also been said many time and many ways, the documentation is truly terrible. I don’t know why there isn’t a good documentation set that takes you from nix to nixos to flakes. When do I choose nix shell? Flakes? nix-env? I’ve got a few months between gigs and I’ve been flirty with nix for a year or so so I plan to dig in and master it, but it is mind bogglingly hard to get started.
There are some equivalents already in existence (spin qubits in CMOS processes), that use the exact same lithography techniques. There are a few other potential alternatives too. All of them suffer from harder engineering challenges than the much "easier" to produce (in small volumes) transmons and trapped ions/atoms/molecules. Thus a plausible future is one in which the first somewhat-useful quantum computers are tens of thousands of qubits in transmon/ion hybrid systems. Then (in that plausible future) the spin qubits in CMOS do catch up, and thanks to their superior manufacturing scalability, they blow past the capabilities of transmons/ions.

Not too different from how we had to use vacuum lamps while we figure out how solid state systems can work... Or spinning hard drives before we figured out SDDs.

Or maybe none of this would work out and the whole field would be a bust... but you know Clarke's laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
We'll try to get better about support, bugginess, and account switching should be a lot nicer so you can actually use Tumblr as different personas when you want to.
I don't think GP's point was that women's colleges have mixers
The vast majority of artists make all the money they’re ever going to make off their copyright in the first few years, so seems like a fair trade to end perpetual corporate copyright if an extremely tiny number of bleeding heart edge cases lose out.
> I'm not a big fan of the term "mansplaining" either, but it's the most recognizable one for something like this phenomenon. I once coined the gender-neutral term "downspouting", but nobody knows it. If there's a better word, I'd be happy to use it.

"Arrogance".
Download link to the data is the red pdf icon in the upper left.
> I define science as anything that is scientifically rigorous

That's not a definition, it's a circular statement with no information. Please provide a real and functional definition that can be used to identify whether a subject is scientifically rigorous or not.

Your first link confirms that Anthropology is science.
Your second link is false information content spam with no sources. People can and do experiment on society, the article we're commenting on is an example, the claim highlighted is obviously false.
Your third link is outdated non-news - the AAA put the word science back in their statement the following year.
Your fourth link is talking about humanities and not social science.

This is another Gish Gallop of non-evidence that fails to support your claim.

How many possibilities are involved in the stars or the earth or in chemistry or biology? Why does the number of possibilities have anything to do with whether a subject is science or not? Please explain.

Here's a list of research papers from multiple fields, some are scientific and some are not. Can you identify which ones are not science and which field they belong to? If it’s not science, say why.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26131-z

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17207

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220570120

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12597

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33957-8

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add5462

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02820

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26560-w

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300166120
I'm not from the US and I just learned about the MOVE bombing a couple of years ago. It is one of the most fucked-up events in recent American history. I can't believe that they convinced themselves it was a good idea to drop bombs, some of which was FBI-supplied C4, on a civilian building. The number of people who had to be okay with that from several agencies is astounding.

And no real consequences?
>> Really, people polled around the world outside the NATO bubble blame NATO and USA. For years, since 2003 at least. Every year. It’s just not reported here.

Gallup: "Counter to some impressions, the U.S. and its allies aren’t the only ones who care about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Gallup surveys in 137 countries show Russia’s image has suffered worldwide since it began its war in Ukraine. For the first time in Gallup’s history of tracking ratings of world leaders, the majority of the world disapproves of Russia’s leadership." https://news.gallup.com/poll/474596/russia-suffers-global-re...
Anyone whose lifestyle doesn't have much to do with cellphones-and-apps is excluded from the start.

That overarching exclusion puts an immediate mask over a vast range of demographics and minorities.
Yes, I am still mostly working remotely, and it seems that this will continue unless there is a significant change in the number of developers available. I think the companies around here are facing a severe shortage of developers, to the point where they hesitate to request a return to the office.
It’s very interesting how this never affected Twitter despite how they have existed concurrently for most of their histories. I wonder if maybe this argument is bullshit or something…
Yeah but does it matter? Either that’s true or it isn’t. If it is true, we’ll (as usual) have ample time to migrate. With RSA though, it’s already today more complex, slower and about 8x larger key sizes. And the cryptanalysis track record is afaik (please correct me) much more successful than ECC, so it’s “higher risk” that the timeline gets pushed forward or that new patches are needed to avoid bad parameter choices.

> So it might be just RSA and discrete logs today but a requirement for pointlessly long EC keys will be along soon.

It wouldn’t be pointless if computers can crack those sizes. It’d only be pointless if cryptanalysis can exploit structure to reduce the effective entropy, no?
There's an obvious middle ground here. 15-20 years seems about right
Most of the things you deeply care about as a student turn out to be mostly pointless, and have zero impact on your career.

Don't forget to develop other interests outside of computer science. You are more than your major. When you do computer science 40 hours a week, you will need other outlets.

Technology is the means to an end. Sometimes digital duct tape provides more value than a digital masterpiece.

A few 15 minute conversations have more impact on your income than mastering a programming language. Learn to negotiate. Kalzumeus.com has two excellent articles about that.
Your usage is already in the intermediary stage of interfacing. Still is a bit cherry picking, I stand by the overall assessment that Apple products are greatly frictionless and easy to use, and work together. Anecdotally, older relatives need a lot less help, almost none with their iPads.
I use Obsidian to manage personal knowledge about apps, OS features, and workflows. Some of it has to do with personal configurations; some of it has to do with undocumented behaviour I found out myself, issues, or coalescing fragmented information from around the web. I'm pretty careful to not simply rewrite what the web already documents well or is easily found in a single search. So it is a mix of official documentation links, written knowledge, and personal experiences like the search query paths I used.

The approach is basically "I write what I've used if I still have around what caused me to need it. I associate what I use with where I access the context of the cause". Because issues are context dependant you organize by the context that it came from. If you name a file as the app name you can have the document come up when you search for the app name. Because the content is based on situations and issues, returning to it is predictably probable. I find this is a pretty low mental burden to writing, maintaining, discovering, and navigating. You don't really have to make decisions about where to place something, how to name it, or how to find it because it follows from naturally arising circumstances and contexts.

I don't think I technically need to use a PKMS as I use the special features lightly but it is nice to have them there when you really want them and to have an interface dedicated and designed to deal with servicing the whole workflow. I also like to write down my stream of thoughts too but I keep them separate and use a separate system for interfacing and managing them.
That sounds like a bug I'd like to fix, happy to communicate directly on it.
I wish you more success.
I generally like this pattern, but why pass the allocator instead of the cookie?
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In a literal sense yes. But being a sold product and being a finished product with a product strategy are very different states.
I'm saying the opposite. Originally, enforcement was communal - it was a periodic expectation, something you did but didn't get paid for.

Then the wealthy started paying people to take the unpleasant shift, but even then the pay wasn't to enforce the law, it was pay to take over for some rich guy who didn't want to be up all night.

People whose career is law enforcement is newer and the compensation and expectations are different.
Oh gosh, the good old army and it's effective measurements techniques. I remember wanting to be a military officer after undergrad and getting disqualified at MEPS for a nonsense issue (which I'll omit for privacy) and the guy next to be getting green lit to continue processing with the Marines with a ...wait for it... 11/100 on the ASVAB.
hvf = hypervisor framework

lima now supports "macOS Virtualization.Framework"

https://zarinfam.medium.com/what-are-the-advantages-of-the-n...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36184400

I guess it's better/different and not just roughly the same thing wrapped in new packaging?
It's 2023, there is probably a clause in the Developer Agreement that prevents streaming the materials provided under it to computers that aren't enrolled in the Developer Program.

What you are supposing is that they might choose not to enforce that until their own headset is shipping in volume. If anything, they are building a case against this person while at the same time analyzing their suitability to park their ass in a chair in Cupertino...then it will go to an exec who will decide the person's fate.

https://tenor.com/vKjA.gif
James Lewis, the sole suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders, has died
Copyright applies whether or not the origin was "legitimately" acquired or not. Its what makes that journal continue to be private. If you accidentally stumble upon my data like a journal or some fiction I wrote, what then stops you from republishing it however you want if not copyright?
> City and community colleges exist, and are mostly free.

Tuition, usually. Books, maybe. Room and board, ha!

As an anecdote, it cost less for one of my kids to go out of state to a private college than in-state to a public university; tuition at the public university would've been free, but the private college offered scholarships and financial aid that fully covered tuition and most of on-campus room and board.

Sure, my kid could've gone to a community college and lived at home, but the education would have been far worse, food isn't free, and it's harder to build a community when folks have to leave in the evening to travel 30-60 minutes in any direction.
> not even be successfully treated (i.e. divorce)

If one of the partners is narcissistic then one of the partners probably is the problem and divorce is the right solution.

You can't really treat narcissism. You can't make a person who doesn't feel empathy and doesn't want to feel empathy, to feel empathy.

I think a therapist represents change, and change can be bad, especially when someone like a narcissist threatens deep emotional harm or "war" for asserting ones boundaries.

I think it's more of the dynamic between comfort and growth. Seeing a therapist is seeking growth, and it requires discomfort. You can't really have growth without discomfort. So people put it off until their "comfortable" environment becomes unbearable.

Denial is an extremely powerful (and often normal) state to be in.
For example, is this developer roadmap far from the truth? https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-11-09-IBM-Unveils-400-Qubit-Pl...

While it is too early to call it exponential, it is wildly faster than 4 qubits/year. Same can be said about other hardware systems too (trapped ions, neutral atoms, and with some caveats photonics and color centers too).
TL:DR: If your webste clientes use Android 7.0 or earlier (released 2016), you may need to take action to ensure you can still access websites secured by Let’s Encrypt certificates. By Thursday, June 6th, 2024.
I haven't checked UpWork since 2020 when I fired a shaddy client. But hear all the time that rates are too competitive. How did you find success there?
If you search the github page for the project, many have reported using a raspberry pi.

For example, here is an issue where a raspberry pi 4 is used.
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/611
>Suffice to say this information is incorrect, and there is a growing snowball of evidence to suggest so.

Can you present some examples of this "growing snowball of evidence"?

>A lot of the "studies" we have right now which paint saturated fats in a bad light are not true to the mission of science.

What makes you think that? Is it just based on funding/affiliations alone? Or do you have specific methodological concerns about the studies that they use, that your studies don't have?
is it really a "shame"? opera is the oldest successful browser of all time.
I don't know about you, but looks like this will cause some impact.
> climbing that ladder can give them the money, power and influence to really make an impact.

Have you tried converting money into power and influence lately? The exchange rate is terrible.

The bay area has hundreds of thousands of STEM millionaires. Does the politics look like they're having a lot of impact?

Admittedly, engineers might not have any particular advantage when dealing with issues like drug addiction - but you'd expect things like water infrastructure, new homes and construction of high speed rail would be well in hand.
I actually agree, "easy to use" is not the right framing. The core stuff needs to work really well, be friction-free. New features don't matter if the app crashes, or if you get spam. It's hard to run a social network, and do it in a public and open source way, but we're trying both.
> Before describing the details of the framework, the high-level intuition is that we are reweighting the Nexar data sample, which is sampled from a non-representative set of locations, so that it matches the locations where different demographic groups actually live. For example, to calculate the police deployment levels that Asian residents of New York City experience, we reweight the original data sample to upsample neighborhoods with larger Asian populations.

> Overall, our estimation procedure compensates for two types of potential bias. Equation 2 compensates for a data bias, reweighting the Nexar dataset (which is sampled from a set of locations which does not necessarily match the population distribution; Figure 1) to match the population distribution of demographic subgroups. This is conceptually similar to inverse propensity weighting procedures [4] which are used to compensate for non-representative data in other settings. Equation 3 compensates for imperfect model performance, and allows us to check that model performance is unbiased (i.e., calibrated) across demographic subgroups.

Section 4.1 goes into the mathematical functions they use to address the data set.

Section 3.2 describes the data set and how it is geographically distributed.

> Data was provided to us by Nexar in two phases. Phase 1 consists of 3,987,835 images sampled prior to September 1 2020, and is extremely geographically and temporally skewed. Geographically, it is concentrated within the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and does not contain data from the boroughs of Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx at all; temporally, it overrepresents data from Thursday nights. Phase 2, which constitutes the majority of the dataset, consists of 20,816,019 images sampled after October 4 2020, and is much more geographically and temporally representative: it is sampled at all times of the day, on all days of the week, and also covers the entire geographic area of New York City.

> Because Phase 2 is much more representative than Phase 1, we conduct our primary analysis of disparities using only data from Phase 2. We additionally conduct numerous validations and bias corrections, described in §4.1, to compensate for non-representative sampling in the dataset. Geographic and temporal coverage during the Phase 2 period is very good. Specifically, 100% of hours during the Phase 2 period are covered; 99.6% of Census Block Groups (CBGs)3 have at least one image, with a mean of 168.2 images per CBG; 88% of roads contained within the borders of New York City are covered by at least one image, using data from OSMNX [6]. Figure 1 summarizes geographic data availability; Figure S1 summarizes temporal data availability.
I think linking to a Firefox account will truncate your local history to the maximum retention of Firefox Sync, which is 1 year or a size limit. It's pretty lame if that is the behaviour.

I seem to get variable retentions between computers. For instance i have FF on a work laptop with sync blocked, and have purple links and history from 6+ years ago.

FF on my personal machines which have been synced at one time or another certainly don't have 6 years of history.
I wonder what the exchange rate between imaginary internet points gained whether the gainer is right or wrong, and imaginary internet points distributed according to your accuracy in making predictions (and I guess, also your desire to spend money buying more imaginary points), is?
According to the e-mail:

"Purchases resulting from Special Links on your site have been for personal use, resale, or commercial use."
We now have Woo.com!
Yes. They're on your face right now, above your nose.
Killing after it's left the womb.