skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with accelerometers and gyros is they drift badly if you try to derive absolute positioning from them alone. They need to be fused with some other form of tracking to anchor them in absolute space, which in the case of the Quest and Vision Pro is done with multiple outward-facing cameras fed into a SLAM algorithm.

Maybe Cardboard could have attempted to use the phones camera for SLAM, but a single lens would only have got them so far. Dedicated VR headsets have at least four cameras pointing in different directions, which are sometimes augmented by IR projectors and/or LiDAR.
Dead reckoning using MEMS IMUs accumulates error way too fast.
This was 4 years ago. The team has now become https://unison.co/
hardware is the same, Developer edition vs Regular is a permission-only change that lets you build custom plugins and a few other things.

brief post here outlining more of the benefits:
https://usetrmnl.com/blog/developer-edition

need to update docs too, thanks for the call out. we were writing docs before this piece was ironed out.
Wicked Dolls Pulled from Shelves for Accidental Porn Link on Packages
Why wouldn't you take it seriously? "Could go either way" is a perfectly reasonable prediction based on the polls that we all were seeing.
Discussion (31 points, 14 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42013608
This is silly. How are the bees going to suffer if one builds a nuclear power plant. A nuclear power plant has a typical area of one square mile. Does this bee have a habitat of exactly one square mile, where the proposed power plant will be? If that's so, I'm sure the power plant can be build 3 miles to the left or to the right. If the habitat is a few hundred of square miles, which is much more likely, then building a power plant will make no difference. It's not like a nuclear power plant produces smoke, or noise, or vibrations, or dumps toxic chemicals in rivers or ponds.
BASIC (QB, and VB6) were my earliest exposures to programming.
As a high schooler in 2001, only a very few were interested in learning programming (yes the geeks). Good old times.

Eventually I switched to Java because of mobile apps (J2ME), and still make a living from it.

RIP Thomas Kurtz.
Theory #5, gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct is 'looking up' the next moves with a chess engine.
You misunderstood. There is no agenda here but merely sharing something which for some reason doesn't seem to be more commonly known/understood.

When it comes to "General Health" (both Mental/Physical) people forget that one can do a lot with what is already known (from empirical practice over generations and modern science) and with the exercise of a little bit of commonsense.
I got laid off thrice during my 25+ year career during which i have worked at 9 different companies. twice from startups in each of the previous busts and once from a large company. job hunts are not easy and i dont interview well.

however, there are tech transitions and it appears we are in the midst of one - after which a new set of tech careers seem to emerge. internet/web/mobile/cloud/saas and whatnot. i fully expect the same to happen here.

so, hang in there, and keep your sword sharp.
Stock goes down? Too bad.
Stock goes up? Too bad.
// That does not require too much energy //

It inherently takes more energy to "unburn" co2 than you got from burning it in the first place. We burn co2-producing fuels just because of this fact--they give us tons of energy!

But it would take yet more tons of energy to unburn it. That is just thermodynamics. There is no magic science wand to wave here.
Why stop there? Just be honest and admit the end goal is selling the national parks to real estate developers at best and strip miners at worst.
Discussion (48 points, 4 days ago, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42105508
Good stuff: worked the first time I tried to draw a ℘.
Will do, thank you !
"We know exactly what we need to do to be able to reach it: figure out how."
SQL style guide by Simon Holywell
don't worry, community notes on Twitter will fix this /s
And for minimal hassle if you just hadn’t touched your phone. 12 hours would work great for me.
Yes this is the same for me. I’ve shifted my programming style so now I just write function signatures and let the AI do the rest for me. It has been a dream and works consistently well.

I’ll also often add hints at the top of the file in the form of comments or sample data to help keep it on the right track.
> Chess is stateless with perfect information.

It is not stateless, because good chess isn't played as a series of independent moves -- it's played as a series of moves connected to a player's strategy.

> What's the difference between a great explanation of a move and explaining every possible move then selecting the best one?

Continuing from the above, "best" in the latter sense involves understanding possible future moves after the next move.

Ergo, if I looked at all games with the current board state and chose the next move that won the most games, it'd be tactically sound but strategically ignorant.

Because many of those next moves were making that next move in support of some broader strategy.
3dof is sufficient, imho, for a large number of VR use cases, because most people don't have a full room dedicated to it, but is at a desk. Sitdown VR setups would be more common, if the equipment was cheaper.
Warms my heart to see this. VB6 was how I first made serious forays into making software. Really cool recreation to boot.
I'm coming in as someone who helped get thousands of Java 8 based SpringBoot 2.x apps to Java 17/21 and SpringBoot 3.x, so a non-trivial portion of my last year. The javax -> jakarta namespace was a part of the issue. Turns out, we had a lot of things using jaxb as either a direct or transient dependency. About 10% of the apps were some form of old school Java EE which faced the same issue. None of the porting is hard once you've sat down and done it once - but we had team after team who were doing it the first time. We also got to find out who was using deprecated packages, as release by release from 9+, they started to be deleted. Way too many libs were using Sun's base64 encoder.

The point here is that Java is getting updated and the core JDK is just fine. We are seeing components drop support for Java 1-8, requiring 9+. And yes, that could happen in any ecosystem. It is happening in Java ecosystem today. If you crawl GitHub and look at what is vibrant and what is becoming abandoned, you will see the unmaintained legacy stuff stuck on Java 8. CVEs are a terrible way to say security risk - but it does show trends.

Since about 80% of our Java apps are SpringBoot based, when SpringBoot 2.7.18 being the last 2.x community release that reached EOL in November of last year. That version released with Spring Framework 5.3.31 - Spring Framework is currently 5.3.41 or so for those getting commercial patching. This is the last version that supported Java 8 through 11. Similar issue with MapR. This traps people on specific Java versions, which then traps them to an aging ecosystem of components.

The parent asked - why not target Java 8? That is why. If the parent asked, should I be compatible with Java 21-8, I'd say fine. It is a company's fault if they found themselves on an EOL product. Please, for the love of god... don't enable teams to remain there by making ANYTHING that requires Java 8.

None of this is hard until you have so many that it is.
4 years on and a significant proportion of Republicans still believe the 2020 election was stolen. Just how many years will it take for that to true up?
Enlisting Microbes to Break Down 'Forever Chemicals'
You must be the little piggy who built his arguments out of straw because I sure never said Trump "might not be so bad." I think Trump is a terrible person!

I do think that Trump's first administration was not as bad as the worst case picture painted by the left about all the terrible things that were going to happen. Democracy held. We even elected Joe Biden (*yawn*).

Trump is absolutely going to try some crazy shit. But if you are going to lose your shit because he nominated some people you don't like, you will be so worn out by all the media circus, when the time your actions could be meaningful, you will be exhausted and useless.

Save your energy. Stop acting like the person in the movie who loses their shit at the first sign of crazyness and is a net detriment to the team. This isn't the fight, dude.
Maybe he was inspired by the history of "dollar-a-year men".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
there are thousands of smaller businesses treating employees the same or worse - the difference is that it doesn't make the news.
Not true. PredictIt was predicting Trump for 3 weeks prior up until 27th where it took a dive. This is likely due to over-reacting to the Puerto Rican island garbage joke at MSG on the 27th. Not saying prediction markets will be perfectly accurate but they will certainly be better than pollsters.

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-t...
Because it’s important to deny any chance for it to pass to the hands of the Wrong People(tm)
Page title: SQL Style Guide, discussions in:

2018 (59 points, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17924917

2016 (257 points, 147 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12671667

2015 (16 points, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941150
There are very few forms of advertisement that I don't have a major problem with. Public space bulletin boards, word of mouth (non-sponsored), dedicated infomercial spaces (no videomercials w/ the comedy-like over the top failing at life to try and sell the product).

Price, product/service, why you need it and why yours over any competitors. Non-targeted ads by default unless the user opts in for targeted ads.

Mom & pop shops are totally capable of emotion-targeted advertising and it's a problem when they do it too. Corporations just use it more.

For example - how does one advertise perfume over television? A product that requires you to smell it? Emotional manipulation and promise of fantasy. Nothing to do with perfume. A proper commercial would at least try to explain the smell - maybe mention the high/low note fragrances used. Nope. Beautiful models. Lavish party. Brand name.

Fixing advertising will never happen. Advertising runs the world because it already won the war.
This is the only sensible take on this story and the response that it's getting fits accordingly.

> It's ironic that they don't get that "if you don't get Alex Jones, you are the joke" but it's not mean, we're just laughing

But this is the point where I have to suggest to you that perhaps The Onion is In on The Joke with Jones and this is when this whole thing becomes a meta-ironic performance.
You realise new twitter is literally censoring things that are a mild inconvenience to the Boss - who happens to be the new President-for-life buddy?
I think there is a misunderstanding there.

I my opinion all of those are racist.

But in the current woke public opinion it's not and only whites can be racist.

I would love if it was possible to label racism whenever it appears but it's not possible without being called a racist yourself if you are white.

Looking at sibling parent poster there mentioning Germany, a similar example would be trying to make rational arguments about Israeli conduct with regards to settlements in the west bank. Any German even thinking out loud about those would be labeled a Neo-Nazi.
My monitor does not require online account yet - I don’t see why my VR classes should either.
Chrestomathy
Founded 2021, part of YC in 2022, any news on how the product is shaping up?
This reminds me of the dead simple .LOG feature in notepad:

https://www.howtogeek.com/258545/how-to-use-notepad-to-creat...
Aren't there a lot of apps like this already, like Rizz? I just read this thread about them on reddit [0], looks like they're making ~200k MRR but it's a race to the bottom as the idea is fairly easy to execute on, it's just an AI API wrapper.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/199dm4k/making_190000...
They mean that you only need board position, you don't need the previous moves that led to that board position.

There are at least a couple of exceptions to that as far as I know.
The Plan to Reopen Three Mile Island's Nuclear Plant
Yes.
But as he didn't overtly call for violence against anyone here, it doesn't apply.
I very much disagree, your view in vr tracking your head as it does small movements in xyz significantly increases immersion, and more importantly, significantly decreases motion sickness and fatigue.
Although I'm generally on your side in this debate, this remark is fallacious.

We simply cannot tell that.
They also restarted the print newspaper (I'm a subscriber)
Car dealerships were never really necessary. States just made it illegal to sell cars directly to consumers. It was always corruption.
I wrote "a few decades".

The article you pointed out says the end came in 2016: Eight years ago.

My point is those types of articles have been popping up every few years since the 1990s. Sure, at some point these sort of predictions will be proven correct about LLMs as well. Probably in a few decades.
It always was paid.
"inactivity reboot" is in the device logs.

https://www.magnetforensics.com/blog/understanding-the-secur...
Does a .deb file even allow for installing for an arbitrary Python (i.e. not the system installation)? Am I supposed to find them through Apt and hope the Debian version of the package has a `python3` prefix on the name? Is that going to help if there are dependencies outside the Apt system?
CNN/MSM has called MAGA Nazis and Fascists for years, and every American has heard it countless times. For you to even question that at all was utterly hilarious and transparently disingenuous.
Question: is the apple reboot seriously displaying a dmesg log?
Related Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal (179 points, 2 months ago, 323 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443
I know right ?
Well its entirely an individual choice to make. But I don't generally view the world in terms of ORs I view them in terms of ANDs.

One can do pick and use multiple good things at a time. Using vim doesn't mean, I won't use vscode, or vice versa. Or that if you use vscode code you must not use AI with it.

Having access to a library doesn't mean, one must not use Google. One can use both or many at one time.

There are no rules here, the idea is to build something.
Almost clean. One trip to Start Menu settings to disable the awful “Personalized Menus”. One more trip to Folder Options to disable “Hide file extensions for known file types” and to enable “launch folder windows in a separate process”.
That’s for that. I’ve never seen it before. What a neat path they took.
Did the same and gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct still lost all the games. maybe a diff in stockfish version ? I am using stockfish 16
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AI poetry indistinguishable from human-written poetry and rated more favorably
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of studies about precisely how to navigate people in aggregate and take advantage of every little bit of human psychology to maximize profits. It's not about people being mentally weak but about corporations and marketers knowing how to best break past people's mental barriers.

You are not unique among the millions of people. Advertising works - and it also works on people who adamantly believe that it doesn't work on them. Often because people think of themselves are more intelligent than the average person.

Almost nobody claims to like advertising. They might prefer advertising over subscriptions as a form of payment - but not because they like ads but because it doesn't take money from them directly but rather indirectly. Yet despite the almost universal hatred of advertisements its the worlds largest business.

Advertising would not be in the top 10 of worlds largest businesses if it didn't work on hundreds of millions of people. It bears repeating. You are not special. Neither am I. Despite my best attempts at avoiding advertising I can nearly guarantee it affects my purchasing decisions perhaps without my awareness of it at all. Subconsciously there like a parasite. Because that's how advertising actually works.

Nobody sees an ad and goes "I want <ad product>". That's not how advertising actually works but it's how people think it works. 3 months down the line you're buying beer for a party and buy a pack of Heineken without thinking too much about it. And that is when they have won.
I know you stand by it. That's what I just said.
So the acronym is DOGE. Since it's not a department, the choice is pretty obvious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Stop asking for sources to try to prove that someone is wrong. It proves nothing.

Every time I have submitted a paper, I have dealt with this. Every scientist I know has dealt with this.
I read your comment with skepticism but it looks like you are correct. Very odd that they would publish this story so prematurely.
An absolutely irrelevant detail here. While there was an additional flourish of obfuscation of questionable prudence, the attack was not at all dependent on that. It’s a library that justifies all kinds of seemingly innocuous test data. There were plenty of creative ways to smuggle in selective backdoors to the build without resorting to a compromised tar file. The main backdoor mechanism resided in test data in the git repo, the entire compromise could have.
WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim
Sounds dystopic to me. I don’t always look at the display when typing. Having no way to look away is visual prison to me.
Websites aren't human.
AI code is just a more available SO code. You don't use the code handed to you, you learn from it.
Lmao what? Opioid epidemic PROVES that the rich can get shady Rx written.
Having experienced both 6DOF and 3DOF on my Quest 3, I can confidently say that 6DOF is leagues ahead even if you are sitting in a chair. Unless you are watching a 180° stereoscopic video, you'll want to look around to get the full experience, and even the small translation movements that result when you turn around can make the experience nauseating.

Besides, VR is already cheap. A new Quest 3S is just $300 and can do pretty much all of what the $3500 Vision Pro can do (just worse); if you just want VR games you can get used 6DOF-capable PCVR or PSVR headsets on eBay for closer to $100.
Ok, I did go too far. But castling doesn't require all previous moves - only one bit of information carried over. So in practice that's board + 2 bits per player. (or 1 bit and 2 moves if you want to include a draw)
There is also the "Non-Sleep Deep Rest" (NSDR) technique which seems to be getting some good traction;

1) Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR): Exploring a World Beyond Sleep - https://positivepsychology.com/non-sleep-deep-rest-nsdr/

2) NSDR, Meditation and Breathwork - https://www.hubermanlab.com/topics/nsdr-meditation-and-breat...

3) Neuroscience of Sleep - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sleep
Yes, it is likely. It is done by evil intermediaries on hosts that are used to create and upload the package. It is possible for example if the package is created and uploaded on the developer laptop which is compromised.

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From the docs:

> PyPI's support for digital attestations defines a strong and verifiable association between a file on PyPI and the source repository, workflow, and even the commit hash that produced and uploaded the file.
Cohousing – Building Stronger Neighborhoods
Oh absolutely agreed on lots of things being popularity contests. And I don't like that fact either.

It's still important unfortunately.

Your promotion at Enron still has meaning today because it bumped you up the career ladder early on in your career and your next job after that was a step up from that etc. 20 years of elevated salary because you climbed the career ladder early adds up to real dollars in your investment accounts.

Do I like it? Absolutely not and I am trying to stay at the level I'm at right now for as long as I possibly can, because my job is not entirely a popularity contest and still has real good software engineering and actually building software that real people use and love in it. If I "climbed" any further all day every day would be a popularity contest. But I do recognize that being allowed to continue building that software requires (as in "it's important") to take part in some of these popularity contests.

(talking paid work wise here - if you're OK to live in a basement doing meaningful open source work that will outlive you for the rest of your life and it makes you happy, then power to you - not most people's reality)
> The paper about birds, also doesn't state anywhere that plastic has killed any bird.

It's literally in the introduction, with citations to the papers that have the documentation of the occurrences:

> Many seabird species are sensitive to plastic pollution; they frequently ingest plastic, which can have lethal and sublethal impacts caused by chemical contamination and physical damage or blockages.

And

> There is a way to find out. Captive dolphins exist. Throw some plastics around and see if dolphins eat it. Take some captive seagulls for some weeks, feed them some fish, and throw around their food, plastic bottle caps etc. See if the seagulls will eat it. Do they eat as much plastic as they can and die afterwards?

This is probably the most disgusting and awful suggestion I've seen for a long time. "I don't want to consider that my actions may be harmful, so I'd rather you subject some animals to cruel and needless deaths".
Big Apple display news, they have adopted quantum dots
It’s not a tracking banner but a cookie banner and some applications have a legitimate need for cookies. They abuse what is legitimate, but you can’t ask regulators to check every site without a national (European?) white liste firewall (shouldn’t give them ideas…).

Also, most tracking used to use cookies but if that becomes illegal there’s others ways.
Neither are browsers.
NVIDIA has a strong interest in the financial plausibility of their big orders and the correlation between counterparty risks, and didn't scale up production during the crypto bubble because they understood the dynamics you are describing.

On the other hand, selling to customers who can't pay but who look solvent to public investors sounds like the kind of short-termism nobody should be too surprised to be reading a book about in a few years...
This is amazing. I think this would be a fun project for me and the kids to make and have a useful tool to help them with their curiosity.
Corruption. It’s interesting how it happens across all human activity. There are mechanisms to reduce it, such as strict penalties (Singapore) or moving to a competitive for-profit model (USFS does rent out many park areas).