skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to like VR, I have Occuli and a Vive, but I just don't get the use case.

Gaming is clumsy and disorienting. While the immersion is awesome at the visual level I find it's an uncanny valley to have sight and sound but no touch - a boxing game where you can't feel your opponent hitting you or some shots are or aren't missed or blocked when they should or shouldn't have been.

Doing work doesn't seem great either. The interface is just worse - not as precise. If I'm writing a lot code or prose I want a keyboard. Swype will do for short text - but the typing controls I've seen in VR and imagine are there in AVP? Not a serious replacement. Speech to text is obviously very good, but still wrong enough to need a lot of corrections.

Watching content? Maybe, I guess. I haven't seen anything that's better in VR versus on a screen.

Just don't see a use for these things, though I want to. When I imagine myself in the cyberpunk future I can let my vision of the real world fade out and access an IDE, terminal, or browser and interact with it through thought alone. The AVP stuff just seems like a gimmick to me.

The author's use case of comics is not one I've thought of before, but it doesn't like a killer app to me. Instead it seems more like an experience I have commonly with VR which is like "Whoa, that's neat" followed by putting the headset up and never doing it again.
I usually make a list by the year-end of what I want to read the following year. It tends to shift as the year progresses. Here is my list of tentative books for 2024 (which is subject to change).

https://brajeshwar.com/2024/books/
I work on such a project. It projects myopic defocus on the screen based on longitudinal chromatic aberration. The project is in pre-clinical stage. You can try it out at https://refractify.io/ . It is aimed at recreating the visual myopic defocus signal that makes lens based myopia control techniques work. There are some promising results on animal myopia models.
This is a current, not prior, meaning of the word.
why can’t Hckrnews have a laugh react
You won't hear back from this person IMO. They don't know anything special else they'd be the richest person on Earth.

I didn't agree with the doomerism for Meta either but just as easily something wild could change next week that sinks the stock.
I'd rather loose 10 bucks than letting them take my debit card. PIN is not required until a certain amount.
Yes, they do expect that. This apple's MO.
There's ... a lot of dubious and unsourced or poorly sourced answers there.
There really ought to be a stronger sign of confirmed identity in business calls. Something cryptographic. Every single day I end up in business calls randomly scattered across teams, WhatsApp, FaceTime, zoom, and a half dozen other systems. Instead we get stupid cartoon avatars and the ability to put a funny backdrop behind us.
AWT and Swing were there since the early days, and despite all its warts, it was Oracle that made JavaFX usable, a scripting toy in Sun days before the company went down, torpedoed by Google, which wasn't even there for the acquisition party.

JetBrains IDEs and Netbeans are powered by Swing.
He didn’t get fired, he quit. And he lost the deposit because the loan he had taken out to be able to build a house depended on him having a job.

There’s a lot of poor financial (and life) decision making behind him losing that money, and it’s not quite as simple as it looks.
The arrow gets replaced with a ... pin with a stylized bird in each end? ... so the arrow does not hide text anyways, when going left to right over text, as a physical pen would do.
I can speak in favor of Avalonia from experience [1] for exactly this use case:

- You want to target Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and browser from one codebase.

- You've already decided to use .NET / XAML. (So you're not comparing to e.g. Flutter)

I chose Avalonia over the alternatives [2] that also match this criteria. It's been a good experience, and I'm overall happy with the app. The solution template "just works" on all platforms, and iteration from it to my finished app was straightforward. I found libraries for everything, whether Avalonia-specific or just .NET. The Avalonia community is active, and the devs are responsive on GitHub. Avalonia as a company will be around as they have a strong business model selling XPF.

Some downsides are:

- Mobile is not as polished. Avalonia started on desktop and expanded to other platforms. Some controls feel awkward on mobile, because they were originally for desktop. Example: TextBox. If Mobile is your primary concern, consider Uno or Xamarin [2].

- The "non-native controls" approach has pros and cons. Your controls render the same everywhere, but they can feel out of place, depending on your styling. For example, buttons in my app don't look like iOS buttons, which Apple cares about a lot. However, my users already familiar with the look on Windows or Android can easily use the app on iOS and vice-versa.

- Build times for mobile and web are slow. I mostly edit-compile-debug on desktop and then smoke test on other platforms.

- You still have the usual deployment and distribution challenges for each platform: desktop installers; macOS requires notarization; iOS requires App Store review. For most of that, Avalonia has excellent docs [3] and there are supporting libraries [4].

[1] I created FitEdit. https://github.com/endurabyte/FitEdit/

[2] https://github.com/robloo/PublicDocs/blob/master/XAMLFramewo...

[3] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/

[4] https://github.com/velopack/velopack
....Could be something like extremophilic archaea here on Earth? Not sure how they treat each other, but they're usually quite friendly (beneficial, or harmless— never pathogenic or parasitic) to us mammals– Something about branched separation in biochemistry and highly diverse ecological niches making resource competition less of a thing, I'd guess.

But that's not really "mutually assured destruction on a species level", so much as more to gain by working together– Which honestly is better.
The only tool I find hard to use, as a left handed, is scissors, the rest is just fine. As for the mouse, always used it with the right hand.
I'm really struggling here: aside from baking and pressure cooking, why would you ever need a timer for cooking? Is that a cultural thing? Don't you guys see and taste when things are done? (And for pressure cooking, just get an InstantPot, it's cheaper and you don't have to wear it in front of your eyes.)
> Common sense?

Unfortunately common sense isn't as common as you'd hope, and there are plenty of things which are "common sense" among amateurs which are simply untrue.

> An amateur is someone who doesn't do what he does professionally, a professional is someone who makes a living with the thing they do. That doesn't say anything about their knowledge level.

Professionals usually also have formal training, which means they are at least somewhat familiar with the theory behind what they are doing. PV installation is indeed a well-known cowboy industry right now, but I can assure you that an actual electrical engineer will be way more capable than a random hobbyist when it comes to actually designing electronics. Your one experience with a single PV installer does not scale to the entire industry of electronics.
Dev Kit extension is also partially pay for play, as only a subset of its features are available under community license.

"C# Dev Kit builds on the same foundations as Visual Studio for some of its functionality, it uses the same license model as Visual Studio. This means it's free for individuals, as well as academia and open-source development, the same terms that apply to Visual Studio Community. For organizations, the C# Dev Kit is included with Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise subscriptions, as well as GitHub Codespaces."
Seems like a stupid design, if only for the fact that some uses of TLS, where a very specific client is connecting, you might want to enable precisely the one cypher suite you expect that client to use.

Then all your performance tests can rely on the encryption and key exchange will always use the same amount of CPU time etc.
> showed that Glasnost lacked actual substance.

What do you mean? Glasnost (policy of open discussions) started in 1987, a year later than Chernobyl disaster and the coverup attempt.
This was a nightmarish read. I'm glad he was eventually able to get the replacement paid for.

On top of your state's DOI, there are a few agencies that can (typically) be used to bring insurance and other companies more swiftly into compliance with the laws they're meant to proactively follow:

* Many state AGs are responsive to well-documented problems and will send a warning on official letterhead.

* This won't work for insurance, but the CFPB[1] has a relatively smooth complaint process for financial issues, and (anecdotally) generally produces a rapid outcome.

[1]: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/
I could see how the preset nice and calm scenes become even more dull than the gray sky.

At least here there is real weather, kids annoyingly playing the flute, dogs barking or doves procreating. That’s gotta be more exciting than seeing the same Moon rocks and Northern lights.
Aren’t the North American Kias easy to steal? I remember various articles.
Planes get lift from the pressure difference between top and bottom of the plane.

A higher gravity planet pulls harder on air, increasing the pressure from any given mass over any given area, which IIRC doesn't affect this difference directly.

Indirectly, a higher density atmosphere (which is technically a different question to pressure; look at Venus for example), will lead to higher drag, needing more engine thrust to maintain any given speed. Lift depends on speed, but is easier to design around.
Would it work to support doxygen import thereby getting several major languages at once?
A friend of mine developed a tool chain with coworkers to try to systematically improve code quality on a big Java project in its day. https://xradar.sourceforge.net/ some off the ideas might be useful for you. I think there is also a link somewhere to the paper they wrote.
That interesting. I’d love to know more of the story.

I guess these days you’d use either GPS on its own or a cadence sensor and let your Garmin GPS figure out the wheel size automatically.
Away with the learning of clerks, away with it
TabLib: A Dataset Of 627M Tables With Context (2023)
I agree on your review of both books. Phoenix project was excellent. After years of banging my head trying to change a large org, I'm not sure you can do it head on. I found either you need incentives to change, then the org changes. e.g. Rather than encourage goal X, pay or promote teams that do X and it will happen (subject to some level of faking). Or more usually use the current org structure to affect change. i.e. play their game, then use the parts you can to make change. Trying to change an org head on never worked for me and just caused myself and otehrs great unhappiness :).
I appreciate the break down.

I'll clear it up, cashless is annoying because instead of being able to walk outside with a couple of bills, I have to bring my whole phone or wallet with me because some vendors just don't accept cash. Sometimes I even prefer paying with cash because it helps the vendor avoid the fees they have to pay for each digital transaction.

It's got nothing to do with remembering.
I could put (1381) at the end, but I don’t think that’s warranted.
(1) In finance, there is portfolio expectation and variance in the efficient frontier, e.g., by Harry Markowitz. For more, there is modern portfolio theory. Also might look at the Black-Scholes work. And there is more.

(2) Might want some of the math of optimization, e.g., linear programming, quadratic programming, integer linear programming, dynamic programming.

(3) Some people would suggest some statistics -- random variables, expectation, variance, convergence of random variables, central limit theorem, model fitting (regression), hypothesis testing (Neyman-Pearson, non-parametric and resampling), experimental design.

(4) More generally, might just visit the Web sites of some MBA programs, get the list of courses and, when available, the texts, class notes, and references.

The references in the collection of this original post, what fraction are references of courses in MBA programs?
I sold my 6 months old Amiga 4000 when I realized the PC VGA cards coming out around then were cheap, had 1024x768 resolution, blazing DOS pixel writes and nothing of value had happened with the Amiga chipset from 1985 to 1992..

Remember TSENG LABS? :)

I also think I saw Ultima Underworld or some of the variants on PC before this, rendering full free-view 3D in a sub-window at least. Was really blown away by that, this was before Doom came out.
"From the soil: Foundations of Chinese Society" by Fei Xiaotong.

It is a book (accessible to non-chinese) that helps one understand a population of >1.4 billion in less than 180 pages. Wouldn’t one call this a bargain?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134293.From_the_Soil
Cooperate processes are not laws, cooperations are not states, they are thiefdoms and of course the baron gets todo as he wish. Why whenever that illusion of order crumbles away, have this sort of public meltdown just because one is powerless and exposed to be trampled at any moment by random forces? This is just life and this is just part of a medieval peasants existence, towards which all of HN helped culturally steer this ship. Get over it, get on with it..
That one does look like a proprietary design, but USB IF has a locking connector standard too! Makes it look like VGA.

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/documents/usb_type-c...
20+ year old reader

I guess as an engineer, building the product itself seems to be the easy part. How do you market it, find potential customers, or indeed KNOW at all that your product is a winning one?

Obviously uncertainty is a part of every entrepreneur, but I would love to get opinions from fellow engineers
...such as a person much higher up in the organization giving you a direct "urgent" order. It shouldn't be hard to find corporate employees who really fear their superiors.
Bingo!

As someone with multiple "pre-existing conditions" who cares for a stroke survivor (my wife) and a stage 4 chronic kidney disease patient (my mother-in-law,) I suggest we do the following:
1. make private health insurance illegal
2. pass a Constitutional amendment allowing every human the unlimited and absolute right to buy, make, modify, and sell medical things including importing and exporting those items.

It is cheaper just to buy things than to use insurance. The stock holders need to loose all of their equity then go to prison.
How many people will run a malicious config at least once without the flags?
At some point it becomes a numbers game.
Any key takeaways that apply to 2024?
The Times could perhaps be leaning “right”. But the FT is, in my opinion, a legitimately neutral publication. At least through Britain’s default neoliberal lens.
I think it's a bimodal distribution. On the one hand you have the unflappable who just calmly watch what happens. On the other you have the far too flappable who is already out of the lab and making good time out of the building and the state.
Correlation is not causation… ? In what manner does BLM protests affect traffic on a mass scale
"I'm arguing that from a legal point of view it's not clear cut that it's the same situation, as was suggested"

Sorting out technicalities is the job of regulators and government. It shouldn't matter a damn if the situation is different. What's common and ongoing is that Microsoft's monopolistic practices are still in place and small and medium businesses are still being hurt, and users are still being taken advantage of.

We know what needs to be done to reign in Big Tech. If current laws aren't strong enough then it's Government's job to legislate to fix and strengthen them. It has yet to do that, and that it hasn't is the key problem.

What's needed is new law that makes employees just as responsible as the corporation would be, they, after all, are the ones who make the decisions.

If those who work for Big Tech knew their actions could easily land them in the slammer then we'd have a revolution in good behavior overnight.
Because lecture notes on these subjects without the accompanied lectures are an awful way to learn the material. This web site offers little value.
Sounds a bit like Mako in Python, that allows you to code Python in the template, iirc.
No, but, you see, the system is privatized, therefore it must be more efficient. /s
Please folks remember that it isn't compulsory to use a companies byzantine process.

Instead, check your insurance policy wording that you are covered, spend the money on a new machine, send a single letter to the insurer asking to be reimbursed, and when they don't reimburse within 30 days file in small claims court.

They'll pay. They don't want to physically show up in court or have you send bailiffs to their HQ over $3000 that they probably owe you anyway.
The Linux Programming Interface

https://man7.org/tlpi/

Just polishing up my fundamentals
I remember arguing with a guy selling NRC trials. I was like all the news is available online. Online is where it happens. This was end of the '00 decade. iPhone was all hot and Nokia was in trouble. I couldn't imagine people would keep paying for newspapers. Why?

They're slow, old news. You pay for it and it still contains ads. Even the news on TV and radio was slower than the internet and also contained ads (we pay for public broadcasting / non-profit via taxation).

Only later on I realized in a world with limited time smarter folks read newspapers not for news but for interpretation. That doesn't have to be on same day as the news since it is an in-depth, well though, unique expert proposition (of course there is also pulp). Which was the USP the salesman was arguing.

How did it turn out? Internet became a world of tracking and advertising, the EU fought back with law.

And I just never liked the feel of newspapers because they're so large and thin it is hard to switch pages. I ended up damaging pages. Especially outside in the wind. Maybe the tabloid format (the status quo nowadays?) suffers less from it. But then again I am an e-reader person. A newspaper you can forget/lose/damage though, an e-reader or smartphone not so much.

I couldn't get into audiobooks (I miss too much / zone out) which saddens me. Because in-depth podcasts are definitely a guilty pleasure.
Very pretty!

Out of interest, I'm thinking how this sort of method works if you ignore the semi-arbitrary distinction between your own code and other libraries. If, say, an array class is used everywhere, wouldn't that look like a bad pattern on the dependency graph? Or is there a way to read the graph that tells you that your pervasive use of np.array is still appropriately decoupled?
Self-host any GUFF LLMs on Hugging Face and run across devices
A perceptual color space in Minecraft (Oklab) [video]
Banks certainly don't trust email, that's why instead they make you use those "encrypted messages" portals (...from hell).
Cryptography can and should be done on hardware tokens that should directly be reported as stolen. A video call with email/phone is easy to fake.

I work with people who all have hardware crypto, you are right that we do not have the organizational knowledge to verify everything with crypto. Even if the tech is 60% there.
> That’s only necessary because of the abysmal upgrade rates for Android

So what. 30% of iOS users aren't updating for whatever reason (phone too old, or they don't want their phone to slow down), so they have an outdated WebKit with known vulnerabilities. 95% of Android users have the latest Chrome. 99%+ can have the latest Firefox (Android 5.0 minimum). There's no benefit to Apple's rigidness.
Thanks for the link! As a fountain pen addict, I found the video captivating. I was curious, though, as to why the person was printing, not writing. Sad.
Author's writeup (I am not OP): https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
Do you only do stuff in life that you think will be able to measure a posteriori ?
I'm also left handed and don't usually have a problem with scissors, unless they're bad quality scissors.

I also use the mouse with my right hand and I'm always surprised by how many left-handers actually ended up using the mouse with the right. It's quite strange. Even stranger, was a right-handed colleague who decided to use the mouse with her left.
Depends on whether it's a brutally honest, historically accurate assessment or simply imaginative propaganda.
No, it doesn’t nullify it, but it’s not exactly useful info?

And your analogy is a good one. When you read many of these books the “lesson” is really obvious too - “listen to your customer” or “aggressively cut costs in your supply chain”.

Those thinks are the basics of business. Everyone is trying to do those things.
His videos about the Steam Pot [0] and the mechanical system that scheduled each stage of the rocket [1] are extremely good:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C9xipCTe8I

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAFMl5bkP5Q
Sure as long as people believe in Bitcoin it will keep existing. Like other currencies.

I can see the inertia argument. Why switch when it works. I still don't see the store of value argument when Bitcoin requires such exorbitant amounts of energy to keep up. That's a tax on the value. "Look how much energy it's using, it must be worth a lot!"
Then it's the fault of those superiors for setting up a culture of fear and mindless subservience, instead of one of strong rules even they themselves are expected to follow.

Cryptography without strong social rules is just cargo-cult religion.
I don't know. That's why I'm asking
Very rarely do you need to pass around a lifetime-bound struct or enum that isn't _also_ meant to be temporary. (One database pool has database connections lifetime bound, for example, but the pool still owns the connection.) When I do, I generally eat the cost and put it behind a Rc/Arc, where cloning is cheap.

It is 'borrowing' because you don't own it, not because you don't want to clone/copy it. Sometimes it is cheaper to borrow than it is to clone/copy; sometimes it is not.
Ah right, it used to block non-edge users. Perhaps that was too flagrantly anti competitive...
I agree. Saying that "the establishment is pro fraud" is not helping at all, because conforming with such a simple label will make us blind to the actual reasons why fraud occurs. It is not that all fraudulent scientists are part of some cult or get taught to be fraudulent. The fraud rather results out of a long series of seemingly small decisions that stack up to the point where they hire paper mills, all the while not performing enough self-reflection. If you want to combat this, you will not be successfull labeling the people doing this as fraudulent. Some may take offense to this and not listen to you. Rather, apart from systemic change also more reflection and ethical awareness should be promoted (Please stop thinking and teaching that science has nothing to do with ethics - that just allows scientists to be blind to their own faults).
Drivers are supposed to keep right (outside/slower lanes) except to pass. That's the law in WA state and probably in most parts of the country. As far as I know it's also the law in other countries too; offhand on the Autobon.

In theory, the lanes further left should be at about the speed limit and the lanes to the right could be for slower long haul or dangerous loads driving, such as large and heavy trucks which might have a lower speed limit on some sections of road. In practice, please keep right except to pass and don't cause a traffic hazard trying to enforce slowness upon speeders with a rolling roadblock.
The article said 500 wrecks had been found.

It did not say all reported crashes other than this one were linked to crash sites.
This works shockingly well on mobile.