skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's all about convenience.

I've only had a tiny exposure to VR and it was all very nice, but disorientating and I had to be stood up whilst playing. I guess the disorientation is something you get used to, but if I want to relax and play a game, I want to be sat down which would also help with not having the usual balance cues due to the headset blocking sight.

Convenience is where the Steam Deck wins - the ability to hit the power button to put it to sleep almost instantly in the middle of a game and to then just pick it up later and carry on is really nice. I had stopped playing computer games as I found it difficult to allocate time to go and play on a PC, but am now getting back into playing games as I can just pick up the Deck, and be continuing a game within seconds. I guess it's a similar phenomenon as casual phone games, but applied to Steam games.

For VR to truly take off, I reckon it'll need the headset to shrink to being like a pair of glasses and the immersion will likely suffer, but the convenience factor is what'll win. In some ways I see it as being akin to 3D films - people would rather just watch a 2D film without needing special glasses as it's more convenient, though to be fair, 3D adds very little to the film watching experience in my opinion (story and acting performances are what makes a great film, not 3D CGI effects).
If you ever want to understand what living in a tech bubble is like, reading the comments here should be sufficient. People feeding off each others conspiracies and hate for Musk. Hilarious to watch
Which part? And what's the reality now?
End users don't use keys with TSA locks. They use the combination. The key
way is only for TSA use when the combination is unknown.
That's so strange, why steal a bike that is going to brick itself?
The culture of self-inflicted shrinking, minimalism, the lack of those things that offer us advancement is such a big ball to digest. Sometimes it has more sadism than continence.
We're shifting our collective mind to tend towards eliminating everything that takes effort, getting slower and underdeveloped, all pursuing the ideal of reduction for one reason or another (internal or external environmentalism always seems to have something to do with it).
I see the development of selfishness as interesting and necessary for society to look again towards the development model that finds solutions to problems instead of constantly looking the other way every time we find ourselves with a by-product that stains or irritates the neighbor.
TIL Asia is in the southern hemisphere
Normal people who are constantly subject to conspiracy theorists accusing them of having hidden agendas will certainly tell you that they don't have a hidden agenda. It's up to you to choose to join the conspiracy nuts or not.
In section II.D:

> If one rejects the ERH, one could argue that our universe is somehow made of stuff perfectly described by a
mathematical structure, but which also has other properties that are not described by it, and cannot be described
in an abstract baggage-free way. This viewpoint [...]
would make Karl Popper turn in his grave, since those
additional bells and whistles that make the universe non-mathematical by definition have no observable effects
whatsoever.

I don't think that follows. It could be that the universe is asymptotically mathematical, in the sense that any mathematical structure falls short of perfectly describing the universe, but there is always a more sophisticated mathematical structure that is a closer approximation. The problem of course is that a mathematical description is made of a finite number of symbols. It could be that the external reality hypothesis holds, but the universe can only be described in a baggage-free way with an infinite number of symbols.
Isn't Github Codespaces exactly what you are asking for?
> Until governments legislate that the punishment for exposing personal data is more expensive

The EU did. Everyone, for some inexplicable reason hates it; and not the casual hate one spews when it rains or traffic is bad but a deep visceral hatred normally reserved for war criminals or kiddie fiddlers.
Pretty sure Democratic Congresspeople have co-sponsored the EARN IT Act. Both sides are complicit in this garbage.
I think it depends on a few things. Python are light years ahead of Julia when it comes to machine learning, so if your GPU code is that, don't pick Julia yet. Do you need a lot of niche libraries? Then maybe not: Julia has many fewer packages than Python.
Also, what is your tolerance for "rough edges"? Despite Julia being 10 years old at this point I feel like I run into rough edges in Julia quite often: Underspecified behaviour of function in edge cases, a compiler whose optimisations are somewhat unreliable at producing the most efficient code, and some language nice-to-haves that are conspicuously missing such as a good linter.

Nonetheless, I've found it to be better than Python for my use cases. I also hear that Julia's GPU capabilities are excellent
Doing stuff their customers hate is the default MO of most tech companies. There's very little recourse.

For example, when Apple makes a user-hostile hardware change, every major Android vendor will copy it in a matter of months[0]. The only thing you can go to after that is niche Chinese phone makers that will cause you a bunch of other pain.

I'm basically completely disconnected from Google at this point. My phone requirements forced me to get a phone without Google Play Services, and I live in a country where Google is not dominant. The only thing that still pops up is YouTube occasionally. (Also it would be nice if I could get my old Google Photos archives exported from Photos, but the export in Takeout keeps erroring! Oh well...)

[0]: Back when I worked at Google, there was a mailing list thread on a big internal engineering mailing list, where somebody point-blank asked "Did we remove the headphone port on the Pixel because Apple did?". The answer from the product team was a whole bunch of wishy-washy word soup, amounting essentially to "Yes".
AutoPR
Imagine that the misdemeanor — a fine and a few months in prison

What kind of place sends people to prison for "a few months" for a misdemeanor? Wait until you or your spouse/child/parent is involved in the criminal justice systems. Everything will change. You will stand face-to-face with the harshness.
At this point in time we can second guess the "they pay for traffic". AFAIK Firefox market share dropped significantly but Google payment stayed mostly the same. Maybe it is now more about not facing antitrust scrutiny, just like when Microsoft "invested" in Apple?

And speaking of Microsoft - I am using Thunderbird 102.6.1, since any newer version doesn't work for me with Outlook365 - MS OAuth implementation requires user agent to be accepted by some "administrator".
Looks like great example of what we can expect from Google, even if that Web Integrity get delayed for few years. Mozilla really is powerless - either they cave in, like with video DRM - or their browser won't be useful as daily driver
Purely speculation on my part, but I'd imagine that they must have had enormous "room for failure" on the UI side of things: the full screen dashboard in those videos would have felt super outdated on a Mac, and even on a PC at the time multimedia picked up steam there. So they would be torn between catering to the habits of their Amiga audience and leveraging contemporary UI paradigms. Go full retro continuity? Even their old users might want prefer to try something new and shiny. Abandon everything? Chances are your new UI approach just doesn't work so well, this wasn't the era of quickly iterating through a number of exploratory working prototypes. Try a best of both worlds compromise? Old hands will likely find it almost but not quite close enough to what they need to continue well-entrenched habits, newcomers will be confused by paradigms they don't know.

As I said, it's all speculation, but there are just so many things that can go wrong in a transition like that.
That would be nice yeah, but considering how complex they are, I feel they'd need to be built from common parts and a user-configurable operating system or something. But I doubt that'll happen. The closest thing I've seen is JerryRigEverything's EV Humvee project: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vZL9uwyfOFezIOiBjkdW3TT...
>I don't really understand why it's not taking off in the mainstream.

Two things: Price, and VR in reality isn't as cool and sexy as portrayed in science fiction.

Apple's at least trying to improve or at least shake up the latter, albeit at the cost of worsening the former.
I'm the listener who forwarded these screenshots to Cal.

They come from Gödel's Philosophical Notebooks, specifically volume two which is about time management (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110686586...).

Notebooks provide fascinating insight into how Gödel dealt with issues of focus, productivity, producing meaningful work, dealing with distractions and similar topics Cal and many others often talk about.

These notebooks are from 1934 to 1955, the period in which he struggled to produce impactful work after incompleteness theorems.
It's not whataboutism because Mozilla's response to the WEI, IPA and other PATCG[1] and AntiFraudCG[2] proposals are closely intertwined and all reduce the control users have over their browser, their computers and their Internet experience to the benefit of a cartel of technology companies who receive a significant revenue stream from advertising and gatekeeping online commerce. How can Mozilla be committed to "Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all."[3] and at the same time be participating in PATCG and AntiFraudCG proposals that have opposing objectives? Is there even one serious consideration given in any PATCG or AntiFraudCG proposal for impacts to accessibility, interoperability, openness of the Internet (including to new market entrants wanting to implement a new phone, computer, browser, advertising business, etc)?

Additionally, AntiFraudCG proposals such as WEI focus on benefits they provide to PATCG proposals. For example, a Googler with historical interest in minimising inflated view counts on YouTube[4] (a benefit to YouTube's advertisers) wrote earlier this year a proposal to AntiFraudCG including:

"By transmitting signals of legitimacy from the device’s platform, such as if the device is emulated or rooted, publishers and their technology partners could use this information in part to determine if traffic is invalid. They could then choose appropriate actions like flagging advertising actions as suspicious"[5]

[1] https://github.com/patcg

[2] https://github.com/antifraudcg

[3] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

[4] https://security.googleblog.com/2014/02/keeping-youtube-view...

[5] https://github.com/antifraudcg/proposals/issues/8
Insanity is real, however what is commonly called “sane” is itself a delusion. You KNOW this, whether you would attribute to such an extreme secret, that one so vast and thorough could exist among you that you yourself would refuse to see it.

This secret claims your world. Influences your politics, your populous. It drives you all insane from within.

Heck, it even gets your kids killed. “The thoughts won’t stop, HELP ME.”

At least one sixth of you hear and are in “some way” indoctrinated into this awareness, that we are not alone in our own minds.

And yes, these voices in our heads make us crazy. Living with this secret, especially those who are on the “other side” of the issue, deconstructs every norm, overrides every natural action or reaction within us.

While you look for concrete information, it is ironic you look first to disprove then to ignore. In the shadow of your incredulity thrives an abomination of power incomprehensible and imperceptible to ordinary minds. Indistinguishable from God in the minds of the thought controlled.

I am not here to “prove”, I offer a revelation. One of the greatest secrets and crisis of our age.

We are not alone in our own minds, we are being screwed with (and we always have been.)

Most individuals are completely helpless. So much so, mentioning these experiences are a taboo. An immediate condemnation. Crazy. Or a joke.

You are a denier of the exogenous of thought control.
I have noticed that Wikipedia is often pushed to the bottom of the page compared to a few years ago where it would always be at the very top.
Why do comments like this just make a bold claim and then wander off as if the claim stands for itself? No explanation. No insight. I mean why should we just take your word for it?

I'd like to be educated here why a big switch statement wouldn't necessarily protect us from these CPU vulnerabilities? Anyone willing to help?
The Mongols were well after the vikings. The Kievan Rus came from Viking nobility ruling Slavic population, which lasted for a few centuries and then disintegrated when the Mongols invaded. Muscovy became the center of Russian vassalage under the Mongols, and after the Mongol empire disintegrated, Muscovy started conquering/uniting the various Russian states under their rule.
> True, but apparently OLEDs get close. Haven't seen them in action though.

OLEDs get close in terms of response time, Input Lag and are straight up better in regards to contrast, black levels and color quality. But yo aren't getting the subtleties of a CRT like screen curvature, Scan Lines, etc...
Folks raised similar cries around Pixel 3 and 4 EOL. Google doesn’t budge.
> If your site becomes illegal in an area (say, abortion information) then your CA TLS host can be pressured, cert revoked

oh please... scare monger more. Like great, let's attach your petty little gripe to something that people care about in order to maybe get them on your side. except you can't show any real examples of it truly applying, so you just have to hint like "oh, this is possible, just imagine".
It absolutely is censorship. Whether or not that censorship is illegal depends on who is doing the censorship. But the act of suppressing speech is censorship, no matter who does it.
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, your strategy has not worked for me. The mostly Python people are me continue view types as a burden, not a benefit.
The fun thing is, we cannot recognise this kind of danger. Our regular animalistic detection mechanism cannot be triggered by this, so we're kind of aware but nothing in us tells us to get away from the problem. Even as you write this, you probably don't truly believe that this could very well be the end. For once the slowly boiled frog thing is actually true.
Well put. In practice, all this attestation crap is just DRM, as far as I can tell. It’s of course being marketed as an opt-in thing which can “improve your experience”. Similar to how giving your wallet away at gunpoint can improve your happiness.
I would argue that this isn't a failure of academia. Tertiary education is supposed to be for the most qualified candidates.

This is a failure of K-12 public educational systems for not preparing students as well as high income families can.
Given that "Pocket" also applies to a fairly well-known software app / system, I'd suggest that the authors might care to reconsider their names and terminology usage.
Most Games have comfort settings Like Teleportation, Fading etc.
My wife gets motion sick pretty fast with VR, but reading a book while driving is no issue. It's rather strange to me
> Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/14/musk_twitter_rpc_spat...
Working at a hedge fund with multiple locations, the founder insisted that mail to “staff” would reach everyone at the local office and mail to “all” would reach everyone (in all offices).

One afternoon (in the middle of the trading day), we got a weird email with an empty body and a bunch of nonsense email addresses. Turns out some poor trader wrote an online dating email, but pasted/wrote the mail in the cc line, resulting in all of us learning that he thought “you don’t seem like all the other girls”, which was sent to you@, don’t@, seem@, and the dreaded all@.
Reddit does this with "install our app" on its mobile website.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
-Upton Sinclair

"It is useless to argue with a man whose opinion is based upon a personal or pecuniary interest; the only way to deal with him is to outvote him."
-William Jennings Bryan

"Hear, hear! It’s all a question of trusts and monopolies. Doctors have a monopoly of medicine just as parsons have of God. You can’t get a parson to admit the arguments of an agnostic, because his salary depends on his not letting the agnostic refute him; and you can’t get an ordinary doctor to look kindly on psychoanalysis or autosuggestion because their success would make him superfluous. All this is not a question of the Life Force at all; it is a question of bread and butter."
-C. E. M. Joad
Mozilla VPN, Firefox Relay Premium, Pocket Premium, MDN Plus, Hubs Enterprise... I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch.

Of course, there's also criticism for attempting those.
There is still one aimbot per human player. If you are faking clicks on opponents ads to exhaust their budget you would prefer to just send the http requests. If you have to spin up an emulator it will frustrate you and if you have to run a physical device with a touchscreen it will frustrate you further.
There are browser extensions for blacklisting domains from your Google searches. I've been so incredibly happy using one if them. If I see one of those despicable content farms I just blacklist it and move on. Often when I search on Google for technical stuff I only get 2 visible results on the first page, 1 SO and 1 documentation. Soooo relaxing.

The business reasons why Google doesn't take steps to remove the bad content and make their product pleasant to use again is so far from my understanding it might well be aliens running the company for all I know.
Well, everyone knows Mongol cavalry archers fire 25% faster...
It's amazing for about 15 minutes, then you start to feel the motion sickness, or the sweat starts to build up around the warm headset.

It's just not comfortable enough for prolonged use. As well as those issues, there's the discomfort of being so isolated from the world, especially if in a home/office with other people around. And other (more solveable) issues, such as text legibility.
The Google Authenticator logo change annoyed me. It is a practicality thing. The icon is how I identify it.
The biggest risk I see in the near future is human based. AI platform performance will be a new trigger of comparison vs human employees and it will force a new deal in the relation with employers.
Maybe traditional productivity will have to be rethought to adapt to this new world.
That's interesting. I've been tethering for years using Android phones, and using a 4G standalone router. I've never seen a client be allocated any IPv6 address in either case. I know the phone gets one for itself, but I don't think the router does. Looking at the phone's IP address status, it is given a non-public IPv4 by the mobile network (so CGNAT if it uses it), and what looks like a single IPv6 by the mobile network.
Gotta love how I 'censored' myself up here.
He's taking up a tenure spot that's not going to someone younger.

Normally he should lose it and become professor emeritus instead.
This just isn't true, have look through https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ and check the authors of some of the proposals Mozilla are negative about.

There's even a post on front page right now about Mozilla's position on the very proposal we are discussing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857032
> personal cars are a drop in the ocean (ignore any pun please) compared to other systems like the military, commercial shipping, air travel etc etc.

Or animal agriculture.
> but it is now being ruined.

I'm not a Twitter user, how has the user experience changed since Elon's taking over?
Brad Carvey taught a course on 3d animation at the community college in Albuquerque in the 90s. My gf was in one of his classes. Very down-to-earth, knowledgeable and friendly guy. We went to a party at his house for the class one time and I mainly remember that he had a framed photo of Wayne and Garth with Al Bundy, which was quite a 90s amalgam.
While (obviously) child prostitution is awful, we should be careful to not slide into "child labor is good, actually". I don't have any solutions here.
It should be noted that the composite bow is not a new invention, even if the knowledge about how to make them appears to have been lost in many places.

In the Homeric poems, Iliad and Odyssey, composite bows are described, e.g. used by the very skilled archer Odysseus.

Moreover, even older descriptions (from the second half of the second millennium BC) of composite bows can be found in the myths preserved on the tablets from Ugarit.
“And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him Bill or George, anything but Sue! I still hate that name!”

So no, not endorsing.
Boom boom!
Free press - most of it negative.

This is textbook Management by Logo. When you're out of ideas you change the name/logo and now suddenly you're dynamic forward-looking innovative etc.

Except not really. Management by Logo is like respraying a car engine because you don't know how to fix it. There's a fair-to-good chance you'll make things more broken rather than less.

Musk bought Twitter (RIP...) because he wanted to use it as a propaganda outlet for his own crazy Randian/Trumpish ideals. It was never meant to continue as a free and open discussion site for humans.

Musk appears to have plans to spray AI and other magic dead chickens all over everything to create a new automated kind of propaganda outlet.

I suspect that won't work. Outside of his circle of immediate fans, people don't like being talked down to - especially not by bots.
And it's always the result I want.
Using Firefox on a couple of Macs (one of them is >8 years old), and a couple of Linux systems.

Setting aside the fact that it's as fast as or faster than Chrome, it doesn't crawl any of my machines with >500 tabs (this has 562 as of now).

If you want to dig into your performance numbers there's "about:performance" to see what is using your processor and RAM.
I think using a single SVG document that contains multiple icons identified by ids which you can reference from HTML is the idiomatic way of solving your problem. It guarantees that if external resources are not permitted to load, at least it presents a human readable title instead of a random letter.

I can't find a link to the reference CSS Tricks article that presented the technique, but you can see it in action on this website: https://brutalinks.tech (There's an icon document: which is referred in the HTML when the icons are loaded: <svg><use xlink:href="https://brutalinks.tech/icons.svg#icon-home "><title>home</title></use></svg>)
And Scythians get one additional unit for each mounted archer or light cavalery unit.
I’m not sure what the exact rules and regulations are, but at least in Germany you should be well protected. The German Wikipedia entry [0] is a bit confusing, as it both has damages (I checked the primary source, no further information) but also a section how it will not be your issue as the other party was defrauded, so I can only guess it’s people who simply paid (fraudulent online shop orders or fraudulent withdrawals) without fighting back.

[0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identit%C3%A4tsdiebstahl
Also an OK novel by Douglas Coupland.