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In my very limited experience, the main things I greatly enjoy in VR are:

* social interaction
* games that are improved by deep immersion, like horror games.

For social interaction, our tools are getting better every day. VRChat and its similars really are very, very good. A very real downside of it, though, is just how much money you need to spend to get "everything working".

At every stage, you'll want to spend more money on it, it feels like.

* Get the headset on? The arms work, but the legs don't.
* Buy hip and leg trackers. Now it can't show what you're looking at -
* gotta buy eye-tracking, but eye-tracking is rare and only exists on like 2 headsets and their support is spotty at best. (Honestly, I think the PSVR2 would FLY off the shelves for a bit if they unlocked its best features for PC).
* Buy face tracking, because people can't tell that you're grinning or making a face at them. - Oh, but that requires attaching something to your existing headset that might be custom or an additional fee because none of the headsets do this well by default.
* buy a better computer to support all that

In the end, each of those steps is __several__ hundred dollars, and some of them require swapping out major parts of your machine for deeper and deeper immersion in the social world.
Sure, but now now I – an idiot – can publish a podcast on... "Bayesian Multilevel Models," and fool almost everyone into thinking I know anything about it.

I've seen YouTubers provide tutorials on auto-creating YouTube videos and podcast episodes on niche scientific subjects, on how to build seemingly-reputable brands with zero ongoing effort. That is all totally novel. Being able to lie or be wrong before is orthogonal to the real issue: scale.
Salami slicing will not work in Poland, the country is both part of EU and NATO, not only part of the EU but its eastern border, Germany is right next there as a neighbour.

Any aggression towards Poland is a very different level and degree than against Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya, etc.

Do you really believe the EU and NATO would sit on their hands in case some low level pro-Russia insurgency popped up in Byalystok or Lublin? Not only that, do you believe the Polish government would be doing nothing and accepting pro-Russian separatism cropping up anywhere in its territory?

I don't think there's anything the Poles hate more than Russian imperialism, not even sure if they hate Hitler more than that to be honest...
I don't know Rust. Can someone explain how this data structure stores whether a node is itself a valid word or whether it only leads to more nodes? For example the node "do" in their (“and”, “ant”, “dad”, “do”, & “dot”) example. I guess it's a discriminated union provided by Rust algebraic data types or something like that, but why not show the full bit pattern in memory?
Facebook seem to have a good track record of their "NIH"s being quite good by their own right.

If you're prepared to spend money on it it's not that hard to beat a generic tool for your workflow.
I honestly don't think this is all that big. What we are seeing has been possible for more than 6 months now(?) with gpt4 and elevenlabs, its just put together in a nice little demo website and with what seems like a multi-modal model(?) trained on nytimes the daily episodes lol. And no i don't think this will gain all that much traction. We will keep valuing authentic human interaction more and more.
Independent subsystems need not be independent subsystems that the user must manage manually.

The k8s / containers world on Linux ... approaches ... this. Right now that's still somewhat manual, but the idea that a given application might fire off with the environment it needs without layering the rest of the system with those compatibility requirements, and also, incidentally, sandboxing those apps from the rest of the system (specific interactions excepted) would permit both forward advance and backwards compatibility.

A friend working at a virtualisation start-up back in the aughts told of one of the founders who'd worked for the guy who'd created BCPL, the programming language which preceded B, and later C. Turns out that when automotive engineers were starting to look into automated automobile controls, in the 1970s, C was considered too heavy-weight, and the systems were imploemented in BCPL. Some forty years later, the systems were still running, in BCPL, over multiple levels of emulation (at least two, possibly more, as I heard it). And, of course, faster than in the original bare-metal implementations.

Emulation/virtualisation is actually a pretty good compatibility solution.
I am very much against the type of regulations in the EU (or places like Brazil) that hurt freedom of speech or privacy of chats or whatever else. But I do support regulations to break up monopolies or remove other anti competitive barriers. We have too many large corporations that are so powerful that they are like governments. They distort our market but also our speech and politics and all that. Choice and competition is important. I think anti trust actions against Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Walmart, financial companies (JP Morgan Chase or Visa/Mastercard), medical industries, and others needs to go much further. And it can’t stop at the EU.
She also ended up writing a book called "Working In Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" that is a read I'd recommend anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of open source software communities.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54140556-working-in-p...
Whatever his credentials, what he says is plain wrong. GPTs don't follow "the grass is" with "green" because it's the most probable continuation- this idea is incredibly naive and breaks down with sentences longer than a few words. And GPTs don't crowdsource the answers to questions, their answers are not necessarily the most common, and neither "the consensus view is determined by the probabilities of the co-occurrence of the terms"- there is no such algorithm implemented anywhere.

What LLMs crowdsource is a world model, and they need an incredible amount of language to squeeze one out from it, second hand. We do train them for the ability to predict the next word, which is a task that can only be performed satisfactorily by working at the level of concepts and their relationships, not at the level of words.
So there's now edu-tech start-ups working on VR training. Which does sound cool, like provide an immersive experience in hospital room with different patient scenarios for example. My spouse got to try one recently and it sounded like a mixed bag in practice. Lots of problems with people feeling sick, not having glasses that fit under the goggles etc.
Invitation only.
I'm not really convinced by this article. His complaint is that bloom filters are too slow for his purpose, and the cause is the large memory requirements and random memory accesses causing constant cache misses. So, he has 40 million lines and 600 MB of data and it takes 12 seconds for his bloom filter to work. I'd have to dig into it a lot more but my instincts are telling me this is user error because these numbers don't really make sense even on older hardware.
In the older ones, it's almost all AC. One giant transformer, a couple of different voltages. Possibly with "high tap", a way to compensate for wall current with lower than expected voltages. The past is another country.
"You need to fix up stuff you break" is the norm, but given that Rust for Linux is an experiment, it is explicitly an exception to this.
That’s a neat one!

(a + b)(a - b) = a^2 - b^2

a^2 = (a + b)(a - b) + b^2

So pick a value of b that makes a - b end in a zero.
>The mortgage is paid on a fixed schedule over 30 years

But now imagine that you are never allowed to pay it off: you only pay the interest. And the debt will be passed to your children, and their children. This is the US Govt debt.

In feudal times, you worked for your lord and master. If you didn't pay, armed men would come and take your stuff. In modern times, you still work for your lords and masters, and if you don't pay, armed men will come and take your stuff. How they did this was to create an income tax, and then have their cronies in the house and senate spend more and more and never "pay off the mortgage".
I always wondered why both Sony and MS stuck with discs instead of ie. SDCards like Nintendo - with up to 1TB in size and faster speeds that seems to be a way better fit?
For ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_of_two_squares#Me...
I've found that people in general seem to trust computers more than humans, which made sort of sense for a while.

What they don't fully realize is that this is a completely different game; now the computer is just guessing, as opposed to following a deterministic algorithm to the answer.

And this misunderstanding carries the potential for pretty serious consequences, good luck getting that loan once a computer finds some arbitrary pattern and says no.
Yes, you can get started by executing this commands.

Our bootstrap git sub command is similar to argo cd autopliot. I give it a try right now to be able to better state differences and follow up on this question.
Also Recursive (https://www.recursive.design) which has the usual weight and slant axis, with cursive alternates which can be toggled explicitly or used automatically when the slant is strong enough, but also a monospace axis (which allows for semi-monospace) and a "casual" axis which changes the whole character of the font.
Fairly confident 2D games are still missing many genres which will eventually become lucrative; never underestimate creativity.
I feel like companies like Amazon are large enough that they will find other hidden ways to do the same unethical things. Their size is fundamentally a problem.
I am not a gamer but was absolutely fascinated by a VR game on Oculus GO that I can't even find anymore.

In the game, I was essentially a metal sphere that could "jump" and float through a huge maze. It was a puzzle game.

Tried a ton of games on more modern headsets and never got into them. Zombie games, shooters, sims, etc - nothing came even close to the fascinating experience of that colossal maze.

So in my view, VR games have moved in the wrong direction. From games that explored the new opportunities VR offered to trying -- and failing -- to match the console game experience.
My understanding as a layperson is that most of those banners are not mandated by law and it's companies choosing this approach rather then picking other options such as not storing PII unless strictly necessary for the interaction with the user. So why fault the laws here?
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It's also way harder to jump in/out of a game session. I have to take a dramamine, clear the area, put on the damn thing, make sure my focal calibration didn't get messed up, then actually play... and if something beckons me mid-session it's a chore to take off the headset and put it back on again.

Versus with regular gaming, if my phone buzzes or the laundry goes off, pausing the game and putting down the controller takes two seconds.
> Apple's ignorance of EU law is not an excuse

> Ireland doesn't have the power alone to overturn these kinds of laws

How was apple to know what ireland could and could not do? Why should they have to? Irish government said to apple that the rules are as such. The precedent this sets is that companies should not trust governments' words, instead each company should somehow interpret the laws themselves, each (surely) in their own way. Are we sure we want to set this precedent?
Ikea does the same with everything they sell in their stores, the stores have to licence design rights from the Netherlands, where royalties are only taxed a few percent. All the stores imposable amount are reduced to zero.
It's interesting to me that you compare VR and Guitar Hero as they are very different. VR is nothing but isolation. Guitar Hero and the other Band game at least made it where more people could participate at the same time in the same location. One pulls you away, while the other attempted to include more people.
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I expect to see very abusive definitions of 'gaming the system' under such a law such that anything which is the slightest inconvenience is viewed as gaming the system. Just like how common sense isn't common.
It takes time for humans to say false things, record and edit them.

This tech can allow "content creators" to spin hundreds of podcasts with garbage simultaneously, saturating the search space with nonsense. Similar to what is already being done with text everywhere.

What makes one skeptic regarding conspiracionist ideas is access and visibility to more enlightened content. If that access gets disrupted (it already has been), many people will not be able to tell the difference, specially future generations.
We're all "free" to say no, to the extent that free will exists, as disputed elsewhere in this thread.

But just don't count on the high council of Molochianism to be the one to do it.
Ask HN: Embedding Code Review Data in Git Repo?
Hello HN,

Curious whether any of you have figured out a way to embed code review information in repo.

For context, my team presently does all code review in a self-hosted Gitlab instance.

One of the most valuable things about our code is the surrounding context - built via MR descriptions, questions and answers around code, links, additional context and such things.

I wonder - is there a way to embed this contextual data right into the Git repo for posterity?
From the little I have seen, most programming language folks don't seem to care much about debugging. They care a lot about bugs not happening in the first place, which is good, testability is sometimes taken in consideration, but not much about what to do after a bug happened.

No language will prevent you from misimplementing the specs, but languages can be designed in such a way that it easy to trace back why the button is green and not red.

It seems like those who are the most serious about debugging are from the video game industry. They get all the cool stuff with time travel, hot reload, etc... So much that I expected to see something about video games, and was surprised it wasn't.
> Can't we all agree that a privacy policy or terms link is enough? That's what links are for.

Ultimately those are written by lawyers for lawyers. They're extremely long, verbose, and hard for a layman to parse. And that's on purpose. It's a dark pattern to get people to agree because they lack the time to read and to understand [0][1][2].

Reading isn't the same as understanding, and that's a separate bag of worms which comes up all the time in legal affairs. Take the recent Disney fiasco. I don't think the average person would read the ToS and come to the conclusion that Disney can more or less kill your loved ones with impunity in their parks if you watch Disney Plus. Not that other lawyers agree either, but apparently that's the understanding of Disney's lawyers.

Not that pop ups, modals, and warnings are much better. But I think a clear warning/opt out pop up is far better than a link buried in account settings or policy/ToS.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/readi...

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/it-would-take-17-hours-to-read-th...

[2] case in point, I'm sure better links exist but I'm sort on time and just plugging what I reviewed from the top of Google results.
Why wouldn't a Paperwhite return with "e-book"? And given the results it's way more reviewed and probably way more popular than the other listings there.

And you searched what could be translated to "sleeve" or "cover". The hard drive sleeve has way more reviews and engagement than the rest, by a massive margin.

I hate Amazon search for many reasons, but this seems to be a reach of examples. Show me an example where the alternatives have equal review counts but are pushed way below the Amazon listings or way more specifically excluding terms. If you had searched for an iPhone case and it returned a hard drive sleeve I'd think there was something funny going on, but not with these examples.
No, countries have the right to regulate businesses that operate in their jurisdiction. It's up to the companies to square that with their business model, or choose to do business elsewhere. I'm pretty free market, but this is common sense stuff: it has to work that way, or we've got the much bigger problem of either a techno dystopia with corporate nation-states, or else corporations becoming extensions of a government, waging war by other means on foreign shores.

I don't like the "battle against big tech" framing, but I think that's just what the publisher went with to make it sound dramatic.
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It’s first and foremost a WiFi router OS and it’s aimed at home users. PfSense is very much a “big guns” solution and is typically not installed directly on WiFi routers, rather it is the gateway that everything runs through.
Enums were added in java 5 and I'm pretty sure you could switch on them from day one. From that point you just need a single class (call it TreeNode) that holds a value of that enum (say the node type) and some fields, and you can navigate it and switch over the node type without any sort of visitors.

"But what if I have a leaf node. Wont that have a child pointer, even though it doesn't need it" Sure it will. Who cares. You don't need to make it harder than it has to be. All the new stuff just enables you to get more type safety, it was never necessary.
On paper. Not in the trenches.
The last thing I want to do after working all day is to come home and put on a headset and be disorientated. That isn't my idea of fun, or entertainment and there are many people who feel the same way I do. There isn't a single thing any of the tech companies could do, or not do, to make me a VR or AR user. I don't care how realistic it is, how lightweight the headset is, or how well the tracking works. I just don't want to put on a headset, and I never will.
I can't stand wearing regular glasses, imagine that bulky thing...
This opinion feels like the age-old gaming divide between high-fidelity graphics in games and simply creating an enjoyable experience. Some believe that a AAA game today needs to have the most stunning visuals to be a game worthy of playing with others focusing more on the mechanics and how rewarding it is to play a game.

I think while this touches on something I don't think immersion and embodiment are mutually exclusive.
Not sure how it's random. I use the flashlight every day as well. A better one(yes I have it maxed out already) would be more valuable to me than any of the features they announced today.
I remember that Ireland had a 0% tax on patent royalties till 2015, and till 2020 for companies that used the scheme before.
As a former radiology resident, I totally agree. That's why we're building exactly this: https://md.ai/product/reporting/.
Many devices can absolutely be built in a way that they do not require a dumb remote server to work, but they're built that way anyways because the manufacturer is rent seeking. It can be damn near impossible to find equivalent devices that don't do that. It is absolutely right to get one and complain about absurd remote links that shouldn't be there in the first place.
In the case of conflicting laws, who prevails? If the Irish pass a law that Apple can not pay certain taxes, does that not override EU law? Usually in cascading situations, the more local entity wins, n
Depends on the what you are trying to get out of a podcast. Most of the podcasts I listen to are because I want to learn something new in an entertaining format. I'm not listening to develop parasocial relationships with the hosts, so removing that element could be a good thing for me.

Of course if you listen to podcasts because you like the parasocial aspect or the celebrity interviews, then yeah... Not really a point.
There's a lot of complaints here about how slow the project is and that it's single maintainer, but also how valuable and useful it is

Is this a funding problem?

Do we need to have the xz conversation again?

I really do love OSS but we need to figure out something where valuable projects aren't just hobbies or side projects (not even a side hustle). With all this time can we not improve on our model? To get funding where it's needed? This is also a friendly reminder than most big tech companies will donation match, so maybe send $5 to a few of your favorite projects. You're making big money now, you can buy a few beers for you friend (and put a few on the company's dime).
Well, they canceled EchoVR which was by far my favorite. Also, the cheap plastic headband clips on my Oculus broke so I can't wear it any more because it's loose without them.
(I work at Antithesis)

I think you're right that the framing leans towards providing value in prod issues, but we left out how we provide value there. I think you're also right that we're just used to experiencing the value here, but it needs some explanation.

Basically this is where guided, tree-based fuzzing comes in. If something in the real world is caused by very specific circumstances, we're well positions to have also generated those specific circumstances. This is thanks to parallelism, intelligent exploration, fault injection, our ability to revisit interesting states in the past with fast snapshots, etc.

We've had some super notable instances of a customer finds a bug in prod, recalls its that weird bug they've been ignoring that we surfaced a month ago, and then uses this approach to debug.

The best docs on this are probably here: https://antithesis.com/docs/introduction/how_antithesis_work...
Congrats on the launch!

Product feedback: looks super useful.

Landing page feedback: clear and to the point. I love seeing lots of product screenshots. I’d like to see a section about privacy, especially when the product involves db access and AI. Please consider replacing the carousel. https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
That's just the use case I have for my cheapo Xiaomi SmartBand for ~30 USD and I charge about every 2 weeks for this

If you're willing to live with not enabling raise to wake, AoD and Sleep Tracking, you might be able to pull off like 20+ days of battery life, not that I would want to, I like it not dropping that far so I haven't tested it fully

I'm not aware of how well do Xiaomi's Bands play with iOS, but might be worth a shot, it's a cheap enough option
Satisfactory 1.0
Someone downvoted the author !? This site never ceases to amaze.
From the application point of view, exceptions are more natural to catch, so if the close inside the exit-function throws, the nearest catch block will not be far up the stack. Compared to go, where you are much more unlikely to have a recover block, because it is considered such a rare case.
This is just admitting you don't care about knowledge or truth.
its complex..

The USA has FEIE, (no federal taxes the first $120k/yr), but not all states (like Cali) honor that and may still charge you state income tax.

and FEIE doesn't exempt you from self-employment taxes.

and doesn't exempt non-earned income (dividends, etc.).

Americans can come out ahead (if they earn less than $120k/yr and live in a 0% tax country). But a non-American (like Canadian) doing the samething, would have less restrictions.
Should HN have addiction warning labels?
While <1% is correct it's over two magnitudes too large. Saying <0.01% would be more informative.

"The EU head office said that Ireland granted such lavish tax breaks to Apple that the company's effective corporate tax rate on its European profits dropped from 1 percent in 2003 to a mere 0.005 percent in 2014." https://apnews.com/article/apple-european-union-tech-b1575db...