skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entirety of this VR cycle feels like companies desperately looking for “that next thing” and leaping on VR because it kinda looked like there was traction.
Environmental groups target Amazon's climate efforts with Prime Day protest
Here's my massive pet peeve around PCs that I don't even believe that the Dell XPS 13 has resolved:

All those computers charge over USB-C with the full force of the port. This is fine. But the second the battery is completely drained, the port cannot revive that computer. You must use the laptop's crappy barrel plug.

Only Apple allows you to use only USB-C as a charger.
My understanding is that they just piggyback on the nearest Bluetooth-enabled Apple device, which then pings Apple's servers; non-Apple-specific equivalents like Tile work the same way (just with different host-device-level software and different centralized servers).

That said, Bluetooth mesh networks are absolutely a thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_mesh_networking), and it'd be neat if low-power devices could capitalize on that.
1% of his documented wealth is $3,000 million. Kinda wish I could watch America fall like it was a tv show but unfortunately it’ll take me down with it.
Adding an Easter Egg to Our Numeronym Predicate
I don't know that SpaceX's statement dispels anything, though.

The unknown part is the length of the investigation, which isn't addressed there. The known part is that the Falcon -is- grounded until the investigation is complete.
> SCALE doesn't use cuBlas and friends. For those APIs, it uses either its own implementations of the functions, or delegates to an existing AMD library (such as rocblas).

And this is the problem. I guarantee you NVIDIA has more engineers working on cuBLAS et al than AMD does.

The NVIDIA moat is not CUDA the language or CUDA the library. It's CUDA the ecosystem. That means things like all the high performance libraries; all the high performance libraries with clustering support (does AMD even have a clustering solution like NVLink -- everyone forgets that NVIDIA also does high speed networking); all the high perf appliances (everyone also forgets that NVIDIA sells entire systems, not GPUS); all the high perf servers (Triton inference server, etc). We can go on.

I commend the project volunteers for what they've done, but I would recommend getting VC money and competing directly with NVIDIA.
Empirically, once a campaign has enough money to get their message to the voters, additional money does very little to affect the result.

So this probably doesn't have much impact at all.
Far better than many classrooms in North America today tho. Folks who disagree simply don't know anything about the huge waste of time that many kids are put through everyday.
If I made be jaded here. I did extremely well in school(s). I was never a trouble maker and was a top athlete, student, and musician. I think education is supremely important. However, school didn't teach me any of what you mentioned. Because what life teaches is that unless you're Type A, you're not going anywhere. Life teaches that hard work and determination and doing the right things does not get you anywhere. Life teaches you that thinking differently is downright discouraged and rejected.

We mainly teach either boring material or outright lies about how life works. Because we try to put our education on rails, teaching students that that's how life and education works, that's why it's a complete failure. The fact that students in COVID didn't respond to remote lessons is partly because they weren't even engaged prior to COVID.

We don't teach students how to be present, to know nature, how to explore their thoughts and emotions, or how to collaborate.
And yet Fred will take 2 weeks to do the work, and the team is dysfunctional so only certain people work in certain areas.

Fred sucks. We can say his work is easy, and continually make him feel bad without firing him, or we can pretend it’s two weeks.
There are some editions, often made for schools, that have the original text on the right hand page with translations/explanations of the language on the left hand page. The description of the jokes, puns, euphemisms, and general turns of phrase that are no longer intuitive today enrich the experience for sure. Ask your local library.
It’s like how every damn game I load on Steam actually loads a launcher for that company.

They can’t just load you right into the application. They need to own the real estate so they can control the experience and later show you ads.
I'm not talking about the perfect classroom. I'm talking about something that could realistically be better than the ludicrously underfunded garbage we have today.
I think what you described is Apple's basic strategy for this space in the future. If you squint, you can see the seeds of it with the Vision Pro: the hardware sucks (and will continue to suck for years, because most of it is constrained by current chips and optics), but the OS is already pretty extensively designed to be something that you casually use in the middle of doing other stuff, as with a phone or tablet.
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This reminds of ManicTime which I used many many years ago when it was free. As per my understanding, it kept track of currently in focus windows and recorded window titles an processes. I guess this is doing similar.
you fully missed a bullet not working with MUMPS. my favorite "issue" when dealing with MUMPS was failure to run in production because a line wrapped into a second 4k "page".

that pretty much all medical records go through MUMPS scares the hell out of me after spending time moving broken web products off of MUMPS.
Ancient Roman statues were designed so the heads could be detached and switched, for eg when there was a new emperor on the throne.
I have the same feeling about Citizen watches, in particular the Eco-Drive models. Very well engineered, and most of them look great.

https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/collection/mens/
It's not winning the console war but its certainly in it. Quest install base is at parity with Xbox. That's incredibly impressive considering Meta is coming from outside the industry entirely.
What if every time users added a reaction to an email, they got "microsoft points" towards unlocking new reaction emojis?

:)

(gah, maybe it's dangerous to even joke about this)
Standing and moving is too much effort for consuming content. Meta needs to invent some kind of electric wheelchair with direct neural injection, paralysing the consumer from the neck down. The human race will achieve its final sentient blob form.
Immunotherapy is not some wonder drugs. It's been around for some time as far as cutting edge is concerned, obviously quite new compared to the 1980s chemo revolution. By "been around by quite some time" I mean there are quite a number of immunotherapy drugs, and follow-on "me-too" competitors, and lots of 2nd and 3rd and 4th generation drugs. THe only reason it may seem brand spanking new to you, is dunning kruger effect.

It's quite expensive and doesn't always work. We have predictors of whether it works well or not, but nothing has stuck. It's very hard because cancer is hard and immune system is hard, and this is both.

THis whole thing about "immunotherapy is new and has bugs to figure out" is half true, but hell, if "bugs" mean that it doesn't work, the whole reason immunotherapy exists is because the things that came before also had these "bugs" ie people dying.

Every cancer is different. Every cancer is different in every different person. THere are common trends, common genes, common themes, absolutely, but every cancer is different just like every person every face is different. At best you can get a common drug targeting common genes and common themes, just like you could target people with brown hair, but if you happened to have blonde hair you're out of luck until they cook up a solution for that. This is the nature of cancer and where there is no universal cure.

also this board is pretty dang comp sci heavy, and comp sci and physics the instinct is 1000% dunning kruger within the realm of biology or other extraneous inferior-appearing fields. BIology is the most rabbit hole ridden field. The rabbit holes have rabbit holes, and they have their own rabbit holes. You're thinking about cancer but maybe it relates to some evolutionary resistance that was necessary 200 million years ago, and that relates to a biochemical pathway protein binding side. It's a polymath's wet dream really. So it's important not to hand wave or give airs of understanding it. I've been specializing in the area for many years and I can say that nobody understands it really, other than that it works sometimes with some various correlates of when it works. Like most parts of bio, people will specialize in one compenent of the system or one pathway, not the system as a whole. People who claim to capture the system as a whole kinda do interesting things but they don't have the detailed big picture, more like various correlates that are frought with confounders
that's only for poor people. The 90s "bush ranch" was advertisement, just not for your demographic.

The point of having crap infrastructure is that it is cheap, so you pay less tax, so you can buy your own.

They will have power and water handled on site. And hopefully he can find a way to bribe tornadoes.
Reminds me of the 3d TVs that were being forced on consumers. Nobody wanted them because you had to wear a set of goofy glasses.

The problem with VR and AR is that you can't sit around the living room and enjoy the same entertainment. You isolate yourself away from others in the room in a strange way.

Wearing headphones is somewhat like this in that others can't easily talk to you, but at least they can waive their hands to get your attention if needed.
Yes. Teachers in North America are not respected or paid as professionals. The typical university acceptance criteria to become a teacher is very low. The pay is rock bottom.

Great teachers exist too but generally teachers are not experts in anything, including teaching.
Acquihire?
> The pilot union is striking until the coffee is served at the perfect temperature.

Getting third degree burns at 35000 feet in the sky would sure ruffle some feathers.
Disneyland on VHS
The time when you could reasonably expect paid services not to track you ended well over a decade ago.

Apple specifically gets mentions as a website data sharing partner in the privacy policies of my health insurance, my dental insurance, and my mortgage provider. I can assure you that none of those companies are lacking for funds to run basic websites and equally that none of them have ways to pay to "opt out".
I don't know for sure, but you can do that kind of thing pretty easily with Matplotlib in Python. Or in R base graphics, with more effort to get it looking pretty.
The multiple levels of organization of living things (2020)
It's not a matter of "I didn't technically say".

I didn't diagnose. I made a suggestion. Full fucking stop. I didn't imply a diagnosis.

I suggested the possibility (I even used that fucking word). That he might want to think about it. Because the entire tone of the OP's question suggested it to me. Based on my own miserable lived experience of the last two years, for what it is worth.

So fuck off with this po-faced internet warrior shit.
There are many factors that feed into the software complexity.

Added abstraction for ease of development, added demands of some software functions that are not so immediately apparent and the endless needs for ever higher security on software.

It is most points 1 and 3 that are the biggest issue. If we could code low level and didn't have to worry so much about folks trying to bust into various systems - the performance would be astounding.
Estimates never represented a promise in the first place. If you have someone who is holding you to your estimates, you have to address that.

Regarding difficulty, easy things aren't even expected to be faster than hard things. I'd rate a backflip as much harder than counting to 100,000, even though it wouldn't take nearly as long.
Is there any technological solution to VR motion sickness? I built up my motion sickness immunity on oculus, could play games well, and then one day got hit with crazy nausea and since then I can’t play, that feeling was so bad, it’s similar to when you eat something and it makes you nausea and you can’t eat it ever again. Is there a technical solution to make sure people don’t need to build nausea immunity? Seems like the biggest UX hurdle to be and without a fix, how can this really take off?
VR needs the killer app outside of gaming. It's currently too cumbersome to be seriously productive in VR compared to using traditional monitors connected to computers. Consumers aren't dumb. When a product adds real value, they'll buy it.
Systems programming is just a niche. A large niche, but just a niche. But between when Pascal & Assembly stopped being used widely and before Java started being used widely C & C++ were used for pretty much everything.
I think the gaming VR space is extra-weird because so many devs aren't really designing for VR. They're just making the same games they already have, but with VR instead of a screen.

For an example of what I mean, look at the many, many FPS-style VR games that have the barest of bare-bone adaptations to the medium (stick movement, often button-based menus, etc), and then compare to Gorilla Tag. Even the big-name games like Half-Life Alyx have similar failures of imagination; the Half-Life series made its fame in part due to physics-based nonsense and yet in the VR game you can't even use objects to hit things.

Even weirder is that the games that would benefit from "VR as a screen" without many of the downsides—think, for example, playing Civilization on a big floating globe you can move around, completely sidestepping any nausea issues—just don't exist for the most part.
You may dislike what I'm saying about humanity but I'm more concerned about the truth of it. There is a lot of evidence that we have evolved to avoid expending energy.
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Your site offers private hosting; how do you expect reports to happen? The people sharing the CSAM won't report it; they're the ones that want to abuse your site. They'll happily share the content privately among themselves and you'll never know until the police knock on your door. A reporting-based system only works if the images are public and available in a feed so that you can "crowdsource" your moderation. It doesn't work at all--not even a little bit--when the posts are private. I urge you, strongly, to reconsider your plan here before something bad happens. I don't get the sense that you grasp the seriousness of this concern.

Your terms of service shields you from nothing. It doesn't limit your liability here at all.
It's legitimate to call it a background in physics, but given the particular level of background and the context of this particular issue, its relevance is indistinguishable from zero.

Has he ever demonstrated any particular insight or understanding of physics or - more importantly - of physics education? As far as I've been able to find, the answer is no. Not that there's anything wrong with that. At worst it just makes him a typical physics major.
The inconvenience is very much in play for me. I bought into VR in the ~2015 era.

I loved it from the beginning. I spent almost 3 years at a VR startup.

Even when I play VR now with my Valve Index, I tend to play sitting VR like VTOL VR for ease because I don't enjoy walking around essentially blind anymore. At first, it was funny and novel to punch a hole in the wall, break a controller, hurt your hand but after a while, it just becomes annoying.

In my opinion, locomotion and the lack of innovation in it is what is holding VR back. Every game comes up with a new version of locomotion and somehow they always invent new ways to make people sick. The much-lauded Boneworks is nearly unplayable because all it takes is getting stuck in the wall or whipping too fast and you'll wish the trash cans were real.

VR games need to give up on joystick movement and start thinking about how to increase player comfort either by going back to roomscale so your virtual and physical movements are joined or the tried-and-true casting movement. Or alternatively, go even more niche and make the game VR Treadmill only so they can entirely optimize the game around heavy movement to push manufacturers and players to invest in the tech.

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The other thing I am keeping an eye on is VR Computing. I am dying for Simula One to land it. I would love to spend my money on one but with them being, I think, a year past their self-imposed deadline with early production headsets not having the retro-futuristic look they sold but now looking like a boring Quest clone... not feeling great and thanking myself for not putting down the cash.
I think the authors point was that even though the mainframe was underpowered from a raw performance point of view, it augmented that performance with accessory units and processors. By offloading as much of the non-core functions (I/O) as possible, the machines themselves would be able to process as much data as possible without waiting for input.

So while software has gotten more complex/bloated and hardware ludicrously fast, we still are waiting for input, IO, network, etc.

I think of it as the old school mainframe engineers knew every trick to eke out every ounce of performance. And they used all of the tricks. We’ve sadly lost a lot of those tricks because our hardware is so fast, we can ignore the performance losses.
I'd like to see a company create AR experiences tailored to your home. Ship you high-end headsets and tracking beacons, play the game, then send them back. Disneyland on VHS.

https://thecontextwindow.ai/p/disneyland-on-vhs
That's incredible. I had no idea the XBOX install base was so low.
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Why use a measure that creates this footgun? Why should our task estimation require this much abstract thinking? Why not invent the measure so that it's not misleading? Numbers generally have well-understood properties. Using them in a way where the properties don't apply is asking to be misunderstood.
How long is 6 football fields in Kilometres?
> often done by crews of questionable immigration status; for sure Spanish is the primary language used

Put directly, it seems like housing is subsidized by the use of underpaid, disenfranchised, often exploited undocumented immigrant labor
Well I agree but also if someone makes stuff up that is incriminating while on “friendly examination” they shouldn’t get the clearance because they will absolutely incriminate themselves and everyone they met in their lives when on “unfriendly examination”.
Not particularly unique to Texas.
For multiplayer and leaderboard are those things that already have pre packages you can equivalent of pip install?
> One student learns more about one narrow topic and then dismisses the teacher's broader, but shallower knowledge as being that of a non-expert.

Perhaps you're talking about me (I said teachers are generally not experts in anything). I was a teacher for a few years and got a master's degree in education. That doesn't mean I'm right but I don't think it's smart to dismiss people on the internet as "probably just some dismissive student with narrow expert knowledge". I don't think I'm "general population" on this subject.

Teaching in North America has low professional requirements and even lower pay. The profession gets almost no respect. As a result, experts in anything (including experts in education) are pushed out of the career because it's a shitshow.
> VR games need to give up on joystick movement and start thinking about how to increase player comfort

And stop listening to existing users who like joystick movement. I mean that entirely seriously: there's a vehement subset who will complain if reviews even mention nausea as a factor because 'it works for me, stop talking about purely personal factors'.
The boiling frog is a silly metaphor,^1 but the Silicon Valley tactic of gradually encroaching on peoples' liberties is real. Sometimes the so-called "tech" company will even retreat if there is a strong reaction from internet commentators, but this is only temporary. Encroachment is resumed at a later date when it likely to be overlooked.

https://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/peace_...
Microsoft: 70% of all security bugs are memory safety issues: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

Chrome: 70% of all security bugs are memory safety issues: https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-70-of-all-security-bugs...

"Rust is an emerging programing language that aims at preventing memory-safety bugs without sacrificing much efficiency. The claimed property is very attractive to developers, and many projects start using the language. However, can Rust achieve the memory-safety promise? This paper studies the question by surveying 186 real-world bug reports collected from several origins which contain all existing Rust CVEs (common vulnerability and exposures) of memory-safety issues by 2020-12-31. We manually analyze each bug and extract their culprit patterns. Our analysis result shows that Rust can keep its promise that all memory-safety bugs require unsafe code...": https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03296

Seems persuasive to me.
You know, they really are out to get you. Smart companies are proactive. A pity so many aren't.
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Just imagine a smart phone but the screen is holograms you can interact with.

Apps can be any size of your choosing because you're not limited by a physical screen. Google maps can be a wall sized 2D map or a fully 3D model in you hand.

Its not that hard to consider why AR apps would be compelling once the basic interface is sorted out.
Some fax machines and copiers change documents due to how their data compression works. As far as I know, no one has been sued over it.