skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key word is "meaningful" and that's going to vary depending on the employee's interests. I transferred a few times at Google. When I looked at internal job listings, there were lots of jobs that I didn't want to do.

I suspect that many good jobs went to people who learned about them in some way other than official job postings. (This is generally true.)
For a distributed decision-making method like the market, there is no single reason.

Every buyer and seller has their own price and own reason for it.
Considering the massive amount of ads on YouTube now there seems to be something amiss. Are the ad rates going down?
Someone mentioned smart phones in this thread and I thought about it. It's true. Everyone uses smart phones so by probability most people on this thread are hypocritical. Not being fully honest about the reality.

What you say is prob true though. If the shop has sailed wouldn't that be equivalent to not caring?
Court's opinion/judgement [1], and a PDF version [2]

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/9470356/richard-j-torn...

[2] https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=359340
And not just data, but hard to match data generators. I’m skeptical of the defensibility of any given licensed dataset.
Russian "Enigma" of the XXI Century: Telegram's Connection to the Kremlin
I once was involved in project where 60M m3 of sand was pumped to the desert from the sea. It felt totally insane; all that sand was dredged from the sea, mixed with a ton of water and then pumped for some 5-15km using up to 6 5MW pumps in series. Look for Al Zout refinery in Kuwait
And yet none of the software GP mentioned are available on it.
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different."

https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2017/11/18/we-are-here-...

Spending less time on social media probably is a good thing but not because it's unproductive, but because it tends to make people less happy.
Domain power combo:
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I've regularly done 2+ hours of light activity (e.g. mini golf, social hangouts) with my Quest 3 without issues, though I will note this is with a third-party head strap specifically designed to be way more ergonomic and comfortable than anything first-party from Meta or Apple [1].

[1]: https://www.bobovr.com/products/bobovr-m3-pro

A lot of the physical downsides here are basically self-inflicted by companies trying really hard to hide the "nerd factor" necessary for comfort, to the detriment of the actual user experience.
> following fashion trends

The older I get, the more often I see cargo cults.

Have they always been there and I just didn't notice?
Don't forget that metros can also go on elevate viaducts for much less money. Underground is the best solution for dense areas, but the elevated is enough cheaper that you can afford to run a metro a long way out into the suburbs - then those become prime real estate to rebuild to mid rises making the entire city denser (assuming zoning allows this)
From what I heard that is a somewhat "recent" trend while most ghost city cases I heard of outdate that trend by month potential over a year.

I think a lot of people living in the west without ties to china haven't realized that there are many huge but sometimes subtle changes in China in the last view years.
Thank you for the response. It is good context, and if I understand right it sounds like things even out if and when there is a sale.

I'm certainly somewhat cynical, IMO it is the rich that write the tax codes and laws... [1] I do wonder if the sale can be readily gamed. For example, do the sale after retirement, in a year where you have lots of stock losses from a recession or something.

Regardless, I appreciate the added context!

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cbo-american-wealt...
I find it interesting that they include the archive.ph link on the front page.

Also, it's hard not to enjoy any review that includes the word "bejeezus."

The thing I most want to know about this device that went totally unmentioned is:

how sharp is the text? Or, how many windows of code can I comfortably see at once and is it more or less than my 30-something-inch monitor?

TBH, that's what will sway me one way or the other on this... my current monitor might have been $3500 nearly 20 years ago. It was $1000+ when I bought it in 2012. If this (or one of its near term successors) could replace it in a way that is better, I'm kind of interested.
Of course there are enough high-value projects to do. You just need to be willing to experiment, expand horizontally, and let your employees go out on a limb with new ideas; something that no corporate leadership anywhere has ever been willing to do. They didn't run out of valuable problems to solve, they just have shit-ass worthless leadership just like every other (public) corporation in America.
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> I have racked up hours upon hours of actual, productive work in my Quest 2 and 3...

I have a Quest 2 right now and attempting to use it for desktop computing just doesn't work all that well for me (their Quest Link app with desktop windows, or SteamVR desktop feature; might also have to use the Meta Workspace app or whatever it was called in the future). All of the text feels a bit blurry and it's like the resolution just isn't there.

I don't even have that high of a resolution dev setup outside of VR, just four 21.5" monitors running at 1080p. I do catch myself squinting a little bit at them sometimes, but 10, 11 and 12 font sizes (in JetBrains IDEs and VS Code) seem too small in VR and going bigger decreases the lines of code per screen to an annoying degree.

Best I can do in VR for that ends up being one huge monitor in front of me, two on each side, as well as a huge overhead one, but that leads to a lot of turning my head, maybe just a bit more than I'd like to.

I'm not sure whether it's the headset with the lenses that's messed up, whether it's my eyes that are just bad, or the fact that the distance between the lenses should be a little higher than the headset allows for (at least based on what an IPD test I read online suggests), but the end result is that the experience isn't very good... yet.
cf also the Frank Black song "New House of the Pope" which talks about a pub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsb0PSPhcbo
thank you. do you happen to know the rate that they charge for the participant + the research firm's fee on average?
I remember .cc being marketed as "the new .com" 20 years ago or so. Never did see many .cc domains.
I'm not a great fan of fast food, though it didn't seem relevant to bring up in this topic...

However, I actually do draw a distinction between "things you have to go seek out," and "things that come to you in your home/pocket/etc."

I don't particularly care for gambling, and I'm the sort that goes to Vegas for conferences and doesn't even gamble a penny. But I honestly don't have a huge problem with Vegas existing. I recognize some people enjoy gambling, and... fine, whatever.

I do have a very serious problem with "casino apps" on phones/tablets/etc, and the "loot box" mechanics of games that bring that sort of thing into your pocket - without any of the regulation of Vegas. There are some quite strict limits on "how much you can screw over your customers," and casinos have to abide by them. There are no such limits on slot machine apps, and while you can go to Vegas and come away richer (it wouldn't work if nobody did), there's literally no way to achieve that with app-based gambling machines. You 100% lose all your money.

But to assert that nobody cares about fast food in a thread about social media is still... weird.
It is a 1440p display.

Which is the resolution that the majority of PC users are likely using.
Shopping centers are a bad example for this, because if you buy stuff, you somehow have to take it home, and carrying a carton of 12 liters of milk, 2 10-packs of toilet paper, a bag of frozen stuff and shower curtain rod, all of that in your hands on a bus, is well.. a pain.

Also, at least over here, most shopping centers have underground parking.

The "historic city center" and all that crap... that I understand... noone goes there for weekly shopping, but instead people go there to hang out, drink coffee, eat, etc.... public transport works great for that. Malls, shopping centers or even larger stores? Nope.
> Quickemu seems to be of more interest, as it allows launching new VM right after a quick look at examples, without time wasting on learning a big complicated UI.

Why would anyone want a qt frontend when you can call a cli wrapper, or better yet the core binary directly?
Not really. Some parks/green areas are good. However it is easy to put in more than are needed and make the city less dense which is not good for the city or your ability to do some of the things that make a city great.
> No way will this tech destroy phones as you know them today. What is going to destroy phones is natural language.

I'm extremely skeptical of this, just because of the vast number of situations where speaking-out-loud isn't going to be desirable. It'll have a place, for sure, but I think it'll be more of a supplement to our current phone paradigm.
It’s been 1 day.
> I expect they'll be functionally useless in bad winters

Google expanded testing in Buffalo, NY in November 2023, including new sensor hardware: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1aedrmy/ne...
> Subjects will be completely taken care of by taxpayer dollars, but on the crucial condition that they are geographically separated from Citizens.

Jerry Pournelle's "Taxpayer / Citizen" divide, even to the point of "Taxpayer Islands!"

I think it's a bad idea to have a non-citizen "underclass," for numerous reasons that have been demonstrated throughout history.

However, it's certainly worth discussing the notion openly, instead of letting it happen the via fiat accompli "we didn't know there were that many migrants" methods currently being undertaken in many countries.
The market can be blind for a long time. Bad mortgage lending was pretty obvious in the early 2000s. The dotcom boom and many other booms were obvious overvaluation. Greater fool and FOMO are powerful, especially if your incentives are short term.
I can't imagine anything that smells like toner is healthy to breathe.
Oh right, create a year round burningman and shovel all the 21+ homeless into it. Give them all the drugs they want and see what happens.

I'm sorry, but this whole essay is just stupid and a waste of time. There is nothing of value in this absurd... proposal?

Go back to writing code George, you're much better at that.
The most consistent thing I hear in the hallways is "I really hope they don't make TK the CEO."

People in cloud are profoundly unhappy. It's scary.
yeah lose. I don't know why I keep typing this wrong..
it feels like theyve been doing RnD on VR/AR, bleeding cash, and theyre making a product to "justify" this cash burn to me. That plus shipping a product is the only way you can iterate, and a common mentality in tech companies is "to ship". IMO theyre late to the game, and excited to see if they can offer anything new
There are more than just SWE's employed at google. Custodial, food service, administration, operations, HR, etc...
You are located in the north of the city and need to get somewhere south of the city, or vice versa.

You only have a few roads to do that east or west of Lake Washington. In most cases, people aren't going to downtown Seattle, downtown Seattle is just in the way.
The problem is that once you get past the very initial stage, you want to read ahead of what you play at the moment. At that moment Synthesia-style falling blocks notation becomes difficult to read because the blocks don't have any position reference besides the keys and no time values. Even the scrolling sheet music or tab is distracting compared stationary black and white. With guitar there's the additional problem that you can't see both hands at the same time, and usually you won't be looking at your hands at all. And if you ever want to play without help from the app, you need to learn to find the notes anyway.

This is by the way a great explanation of all the attempts to make music easier to read and how they fail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4
Consider asking Pew Research. info at pewresearch dot org. They have an "Ask the Expert" service which is equivalent to a research assistant for their corpus and methodologies.
There is also a bird called wren that is very popular. A name change may be in order so that people don't confuse this project with the actual bird:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wren
That's like saying Disney didn't mature with its primary audience. Pokemon isn't made for people in their late 20s, early 30s; it's made for and marketed to children.

I say this as a pretty massive fan of the franchise; I only skipped gens 4/5 because I didn't have the personal disposable income to buy a DS. I'm sure VGC[0] is the primary reason most adults choose to purchase the new games, among those who do.

0: https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/pokemon-events/pokem...
Well, I suppose some of that suggests optimism about selling boards to commercial customers (in spite of all the assurances about still having enough to sell to hobbyists). And commercial customers, just like hobbyists, want SBCs that have decent hw and working, maintained sw. Which is sadly not the case for pretty much any of the competitors, not reliably.
I think the most obvious, "This isn't going to work out," was queer.af losing their domain name, because the Taliban doesn't take kindly to queer folk.
Yes? Not seeing any issues on Safari, Chrome or Firefox on MacOS. Maybe you have some extension that's acting up?
rounded down from 9.99% to make it seem smaller than "double digit percentage layoffs"
Nostr is everything that fediverse social networks claim to be, but aren’t.

I was shocked to find out that the Lemmy instance I signed up on was blocking dozens upon dozens of other instances, which defeats the entire purpose of a federated network.
Wait, so it uses a continuous range of voltages instead of PWM to control the heating element? Do tips not have an ideal voltage for efficiently emitting IR?
Here's the thing though: the alternatives are also god-awful, and in part it is because the people who make them wind up being very stupid about their choices - i.e. if you want a distributed trust environment fine, but your first, primary and most important use-cases are still going to be government, and corporate, and specifically financial.

If your "libre" plan does not involve a way to bring those entities onboard and direct priority to servicing their needs, then no one is going to use it because we all actually live in the real world where those are the things we need security in communicating with.
Part of the problem is in america if you want to bike that far, you probably have to take some route designed for cars. It’s very stressful and in many cases very risky.

Local climate is a problem, too. It’s not fun to bike to work some days when it’s very hot and humid, and then in the other half of the year, deal with freezing rain.
Wow. That’s more of an explanation than I ever hoped for. Thank you.

I really think I’ve got to pull these up side-by-side on YouTube and see what’s up. I get the description but I didn’t even realize there were forms of horse locomotion that were unknown to me. That’s crazy.
Letterbox companies aren't shady just because they're letterbox companies. It's extremely common, for a variety of reason: like two founders, both married, with neither of them wanting to domiciliate the company at their place. Another reason might be incorporating the company in one city, where one language is spoken officially, while living in another region, where another language is the official administrative language.

You can find things like tennis table clubs using a letterbox company or bikers club.

Or simply people who have no office, especially in this day and age of Internet, and who are renting a place and know they'll move out. They prefer a stable address for their business.

The problem when "everything is a red flag" is that you end up in a world where everybody is flagged as suspicious. In Belgium there's been an incredible statistic that came out: something insane like one out of every four citizen had already been flagged at least once. This doesn't work.

For when everybody is suspicious, nobody is.

Also companies offering letterbox services are extremely controlled. They're the first line in the KYC/AML verification and they're liable if they let obvious scams in.

Companies offering letterbox services are often recommended by accountants to their clients.

I know these very well and used one personally in 2023 (because I opened a company in a country before moving to that country).

Many online business have a website, a payment processor and a "letterbox" address.

This is business 101.
It's definitely a bit niche, given the price of the Vision Pro, but I really think Apple needs to invest in first-party "gaming" simulators along with allowing the corresponding hardware support to easily connect to it (likely via a Mac or dock).

From my experience with VR, the only thing I've been absolutely and definitively blown away by was sim racing. Before getting a PSVR2 I had played roughly 70 hours of Gran Turismo 7, now I'm at over 500 hours in the five months I've had a PSVR2. I want to buy a PC-compatible headset to get access to better pedals, wheels, and simulators (games) than I can get on the PS5. It's quite easy to sink many thousands of dollars into the experience. I believe the margin requirements are there for Apple (eventually) when considering the potential for professional training solutions.

But! Without taking ownership of something, creating some IP (intellectual property) to provide a killer app, and inspire other segments, they're going to be hard pressed to make inroads and get this to scale.
agree, tough problem to solve. presently a lot of homeless in the US could be considered to be slotted in the non-citizen "underclass" by the state
Does anyone know which software was used to make the video?
Drone delivery: https://wing.com/
Afghanistan (.af)
Move in with your parents / siblings / someone?
this really sums up my feelings. i have sent emails to people past that i have no other way to reach and never got a reply, and i have no idea if they even got my email.

and the same the other way around. which is one reason why i run my own server.

i always believed that spam filtering must be done at the end user, and noone else has the right to block email from reaching me. in particular the most obvious thing, every address that i send to, should automatically be whitelisted as a valid sender, unless i explicitly mark it as spam. the exceptions should be obvious DMARC/DKIM/SPF violations.

at one point i was even working on my own email server to implement this kind of whitelisting/filtering myself.
The easiest way I know of is

declare const isMyID: unique symbol;
export type MyID = string & { [isMyID]: true };
What do you mean by lose data?
Lots of surprises on the downside from all the reviews. Pass through much more limited in quality with motion blur, pixelation, distortions, limited color and dynamic range. The eye tracking driven input method which was seen as holy grail turns out to be annoying after a while because people don't naturally always look at what they want to click on. Personas straight up aren't ready. The lack of AR features is the biggest surprise. They tried hard to avoid it being a VR device but all the actual high quality experiences, especially the ones people are impressed by are the VR ones.

For me the biggest issue though is that it can't fulfil it's primary use cases:

Want it for productivity? it can't run MacOS applications and if you want to use your actual Mac it can't do multiple monitors.

Want it for entertainment? people want to enjoy photos, videos, movies with other people and it can't include them. Even if they have a Vision Pro, I haven't yet seen any sign of ability for multiple people to do these things together.

All up, it all seems far more immature and dev-kit stage than I was expecting.
.io is simply the new .net, what you get when you can't get .com but don't want to rename. Although .io and .ai are really expensive so I wouldn't be surprised if something new comes up.
My friend is using MinGW to learn Linux
He told me that he was instructed to do so in one of his classes.
Maybe I am wrong but MinGW for Linux teaching could be just too evil, omg.
Probably much harder in Life Sciences
Sipeed LicheeRV Nano: SD-Card Sized SBC, WiFi 6, 256MB RAM and ARM/Riscv Cores
It increased your Royal Bank of Canada count?
That's what functional urbanization looks like! From where I live in central Seattle, there are four grocery stores within ten minutes' walk. They all have parking lots, but I rarely use them; instead of buying a lot of groceries at once, it's easier to pop on by every day or two and just carry a bag home. There are no skyscrapers here, it's all townhouses and low-rise apartment buildings, but that's all we need - if we could fill the city limits with neighborhoods like this, there'd be no need for any more sprawl.
I'd rather have just a VRChat avatar. Hook up the eye tracking and the mouth visemes and it'll probably be more likable than the Personas are.
I agree with the sentiment, but costs do impact revenue when those costs represent an investment in something that can be used to increase revenue, like employees.
What do you suggest? Or are you saying there aren’t workable solutions?
Give me money or you're a murderer.
Anything goggle-like is a non-starter for me. I'm not even interested in trying it. I don't even like glasses, and I need corrective lenses to be able to see clearly (I wear contacts almost exclusively).
Makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up! I really do learn something new every day.
Why are those services not available in the north of the city? This is as much a planning issue as traffic is.
The problem I have is most cities have plenty of green parks already. In a few places they could use a new park, but in general there are far more parking lots (often 50% of a city is parking lot!) than there is need for green space. Much better is tear up a parking lot and replace it with a building that lets people do something in the city other than pretend they are in a rural area. Nothing wrong with rural areas and parks, but there is more to life than those. Put in more apartments, offices, restaurants, opera houses - all those other things that make a city great.
Meta (and many third-party manufacturers) offer a wipe-clean silicone facial interface designed for fitness-oriented users. The hardware isn't waterproof, but it's quite well protected and I'd be perfectly confident to work up a sweat. Quest has calorie tracking, can sync with the fitness tracking features on iOS and Android and can pair with heart rate monitors. Fitness is one of the key segments in VR, because fitness apps and fitness-oriented users have vastly above-average engagement and retention rates.

https://www.meta.com/us/quest/accessories/quest-3-silicone-f...

https://www.meta.com/en-us/help/quest/articles/in-vr-experie...
Thanks for the reply & pointers. My impression is that real estate simply has some of the best tax treatments. My assertion - the best tax treatments are for those that do not make wage income. For that to be true, there just needs to be far better tax breaks for someone who rents many properties compared to someone like me that has a single W2 job & a mortgage.

Yet, you do raise a good point, a building for a landlord is akin to a server for an IT company - both are tax write-offs. The world is full of nuance though.. I really appreciate the dialog.
I feel like multiple people did it back in the original X11 days, and almost certainly when compiz was the new hotness