skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why this is news. The researchers freely admit they don't know the causes either (see speculation below), and frankly Meta's probably in a better position than them to collect additional data. They won't be unbiased, but they're certainly motivated to make their product be useful for as many people as possible.

> As for Danah Boyd’s speculation that the gender difference in VR nausea may have a hormonal component, he says there’s not enough data to answer that question, but there are some intriguing findings:

> “I do not know of any good studies on cybersickness and hormones,” as he puts it. “There has been some research on motion sickness and hormones, and sometimes we extrapolate (cautiously) from the motion sickness literature to cybersickness. For example, Golding, Kadzere, and Gresty (2005) reported that motion sickness is related to hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle. However, they also note that the effect of hormonal fluctuations was much smaller than the gender effect itself, so it is not likely to be the primary explanation.”

> He believes any gender difference might be related to social differences, and less central to the overall challenge of overcoming VR nausea:

> “[S]ome of my research on the gender effect indicates that 1) the effect is relatively small, and 2) the effect is partially explained by differences in prior experience of visually-induced sickness (e.g., screen-based games, movies). It's certainly a topic worth investigating, but it's worth a reminder that there are vast individual differences in cybersickness susceptibility even within a given gender.”
I this this ought to be an iterative process, such as study principles so that you don't start from absolute scratch, then make a wheel that sucks, study some more and do more resarch yourself, rince and repeat until satisfied.

There is so much nuance that doesn't get captured in all the study you can do about how a certain thing is made.
Very small town in the midwest. The US is a big place and this is just one possible look.
1. Meta's Link software uses highly suboptimal video streaming settings. Makes a big difference in flight sims where you need to see fine detail on instruments and distant aircraft.

2. With Virtual Desktop, I can remove my headset during a long flight to grab a snack or use the restroom, then put the headset back on and resume. With Meta's software, taking the headset off requires fully restarting both the sim and headset.
Someone once said to me that he had no interest in going to Europe because "the US has every kind of landscape that Europe does," as if there is no other reason to travel but to see natural scenery.
We literally threw down clover seed on our barren front yard and it's a lush green expanse now. Like almost zero effort other than initial watering.
Not sure if it's the case here but over the decades I've observed there's a cultural aspect here. When I've had colleagues from the Middle East and/or South Asia I've found they're much more likely to use `u` and `r` colloquially than western counterparts.

This could be what you're observing. Or perhaps they just like the aesthetics.
I wonder if HOAs would still exist the same way they do now if the American economy wasn’t so centered around the promise of infinite property value growth
Maybe? If the dataset is large and the stakes are low, maybe you just drop the affected records, or mark them as incomplete somehow. Or generate a failures spool on the side for manual review after the fact. Certainly in a lot of research settings it could be enough to just call out that 3% of your input records had to be excluded due to data validation issues, and then move on with whatever the analysis is.

It's not usually realistic to force your data source into compliance, nor is manually fixing it in between typically a worthwhile pursuit either.
See my sibling comment on the issues with the Meta software versus Virtual Desktop.
Last I checked, the United States does in fact have representation. At least nominally, and quite arguably beyond that.

The objection above seems far less about representation than taxation, and the original objection explicitly allows for the latter.
I often use "please" and "thank you". I'm not sure why, since I don't treat other inanimate objects this way. I just feel odd writing something curtly or rudely.
They said they invest 97% of profits back into infrastructure, prior to this rate increase proposal. A 3% investors profit share is quite enough and I hope they’re denied by the state. PG&E capped at returning 3% of profit to investors a year for a century would be an appropriate sentence and sentencing term for the Redwood City explosion. Investors will invest in it no matter how small the guaranteed profit, because they’re a monopoly, and literally every dollar the state allows them to pay out in shareholder dividends is paid for out of the state’s GDP after the year’s wildfires and outages.

It would be interesting to do the math and estimate about how many dollars they expect this to generate in payouts, and then express that payout in terms of infrastructure ruggedization. Are they asking for an investor payout the size of “10% of the estimated cost of deploying underground wiring in wildfire-probe forested regions”? 25%? 150%?
"Separately, both iPhone and Android have essentially their full functionality available without paying for a subscription."

Really? Everyone I know has a subscription to make a phone call on one of those devices.

Everyone I know has a subscription to an internet provider for the Wi-Fi.
Nothing new here. For years Mac updates would turn and leave on bluetooth, and ios updates routinely turn game centre on, and less so recently imessage and facetime. I don't know if its malice or sloppiness, but it is tiresome.

I've turned game centre off at least 20 times over the years without ever once turning it on.
As far as your eyes are concerned the screen isn't actually that close, the optics in VR headsets are arranged such that the perceived focal distance is always about 2 meters away. That can have the odd effect of "fixing" nearsightedness in VR because no matter how far away something is in virtual space, your eyes only have to focus at ~2m.
Ah, ok, finally! You made an argument clear enough to respond to. I think your point is ridiculous! There is an entire range of possibilities between total global freedom for capital and North Korea.

First, North Korea is a bad example, because I'm certain that Kim Jong-Un and his key cogs are able to stash their cash in London, New York and Geneva like all good autocrats and oligarchs do. The average North Korean lives in poverty by western standards, why would they need capital mobility?

Second, the US had capital controls in place throughout the New Deal Era, surely you aren't comparing regulated capitalism with socialist qualities with a statist monarchy that impoverishes its' people?
> Over the years I've found it fascinating that so many people who weren't doing what the Indieweb is about, namely building, sharing, and scratching your own itch, have felt compelled to commentate and pontificate about whatever they believed it to be.

Unfortunately, many people see doing things yourself as an amateur—like cooking a meal, fixing a car, or hosting a personal website—as a low-status activity. The modern way of life is to pay for everything; only losers spend their precious time on those boring tasks. And they always trying to find a way to justify it.
you know what we need even less than another json alternative? another math-language alternative. more so than any other formal(ish) language, a representation (for math) benefits from network effects (because math is both older and broader than any/every other such language).
You're talking about where the money is going. I'm talking about where the money is coming from. Regardless of what they're spending it on later the amount of money left after all expenses are paid is going up and that increase is coming from consumers.
Looks like the ban finally happened, he's done lol.
When Americans talk about getting rid of lawns, they generally assume that means allowing just sparse or natural growth over the same construction arrangement. I'm thinking of Tucson, Arizona and places around New Mexico.

I think there is a much better approach. I'm lived around the Middle East, where most residential planning is around walls and courtyards. It's a wonderful use of space. I would always prefer a house with a courtyard over the traditional American open layout, lawn or no lawn.
It's only that way because you let it be. It is possible to operate in life without staring at a small screen all day. I hardly ever look at mine, and yet I'm a fully functioning person contributing to society in a positive manner. You just have to admit it is a problem, and take it from there
Maybe it's growing up with Bloom County comic books, but dandelions to me are even beautiful and joyful
I am feeling a bit confused. Is not the stated problem solved 99.9% with decades-old battle-proven optimistic locking and some careful retries?
This article is good, but I want to complain about this argument (which the author is not responsible for):

> CEOs understand they are held accountable not for effort or activity, but results

IMO that's one of the biggest problems in the American business world. If you ruin the company long term to get "results," your plan is successful. If you harm the company short term for long term benefit, your plan has failed.

No long term thinking, just watching number go up and down. It's practically a form of superstition.
Example: in France if you get caught with cannabis and get to the stage where you get into a police interview, it's the police that recommends to the public prosecutor what to do next. Usually the public prosecutor follows the recommendations of the police.

So you can end up having no troubles, in exchange of giving them useful information (e.g. to track down the dealer) even if it's incriminating you. It's informal, but it exists. It's a gamble (though there is an official status as well: "repenti")
> Rivers banks laid down at the end of the Permian meander, river banks laid down at the start of the Triassic do not.

* subject to relative flatness

But what an interesting thought, I'd never considered how river topography might indicate world conditions. So start of Triassic really was a blow to life!
Man, that first video makes this headset looks really, really good.
IMO zero represents an absence of quantity and doesn't appear in Nature, so it cannot be classified as a Natural number

Just like a negative numbers, it's a higher-level abstraction or a model, not a direct observation from the Nature

Likewise, the digit "0" originating from the Hindu-Arabic numeral system[1] is merely a notation, not a number

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s...
There's research that the difference happens at the hormonal level, i.e. it's probably not fixable on a certain level.

It's mind-boggling that the industry just generally isn't interested in looking into this. I asked five top ex-Meta folks about this for my book and they shrugged or didn't answer. You can't say VR is the Next Big Thing if it tends to make half the population literally want to spew chunks.
The problem wasn't "John Smith is a common name and when asked who John Smith was it accurately said someone named John Smith was arrested for drug possession" it was it invented claims about the name which weren't sourceable for anybody with that name. Since this is now replaced with cited Bing results that problem goes away, it's relevant and provable to be someone with that name even if that's not true of everyone with that name.

Compliance is definitely tough though. Of course you don't have to offer your service in every region just because you operate on the web and not doing so is a valid alternative to dealing with regional regulations instead. The only invalid option is demanding you both do business in a region and don't have to comply with its rules.
I hear valve is announcing one soon.
There's a lot to do.
Site repeatedly crashes on iPhone right after load.

(I know this is not encouraged by the rules but it’s one of the best places to report it :D please don’t upvote)
No need to live in USA to know that USA is on bring of financial collapse and huge structural economic issues after decades democratic management.
That is why both parties and forces behind them agreed year ago to get back trump as driver of a unpopular must changes.
All of current ongoing measures are almost only way in desperate attempt to save the country from dismantling.
You all know that these measures ware already tested by ginny piggy Argentina months ago with questionable results.
The only way to restore USA economic is the trump way like it was before during Regan.
This time USA needs replacement of china as cheap labor and market for valuable usa production and south east Asia is the only place, but it should be taken by force from China. It is already so late for all of this...
Brace for impact....
yep, that's my first link
HOA's are part of how supremacists of the day, after losing a tool ("state-backed discrimination, segregation, and oppression of ppl of the global majority") figured out how to hide the oppression elsewhere.

The concept in american jurisprudence of 'the government is less likely to interfere with contracts between private parties' meant refusing to sell a home to a person of the global majority, while being illegal in some ways, is no longer illegal if it's backed by this fictional entity called "a home owner's association".

The belief in political authority, and indeed any sort of authority, is sometimes hard to view as anything but a dangerous superstition.
> Is this okay for coding?

I would assume not from screen density (even the Apple Vision Pro was rough for that from my attempts and it's got way higher screen density), but it'd definitely be way more comfortable to try it than anything else on the market.

> Does it work with macs/linux?

It's a standard SteamVR/OpenXR headset (though I don't know how the optional eye tracking plays into that), so the limitation should be your GPU more than anything else.
It is really hard to avoid them. I think the only solution is a federal law allowing you to opt out of any HOAs.
>A census literally counts every individual.

I'm afraid that this isn't the case; a census is a best-efforts estimate.

There are plenty of people missed for a variety of reason, everything from not wanting to be found, through to simple avoidance. Let alone filling out the forms incorrectly or giving dud answers to the army of amazing people trying to make sense of all the madness.

Edit: realising the above has added to a long list of things that once upon a time I thought were hard-set facts, and nowadays I'm slowly losing my mind over. Coordinates, populated place boundaries, census counts + demographics... I mean, what _is_ an address? Incredibly painful to get to the bottom of that one, at least in the UK where the definition of an address will vary significantly by use case

screams into the void
Rule to remember: all Gauls (Gaulois) were Celts, but not all Celts were Gauls
I wouldn't want evidence to automatically become "inadmissible" because of something the police have done: they could accidentally-on-purpose do something that makes the evidence that would have proved me innocent "inadmissible". Also, organised criminals could bribe the police to make the evidence that would have proved them guilty "inadmissible".

If there's one right I'd like to see added it's this: the right to a trial without a jury. I'll admit it may have something to do with my social class and education, and where I live, but I trust a judge to make the right decision more than I trust a jury.
VR headsets use lenses which focus the image at a long distance. It is like standing outside and looking at a distant hill, not at all like holding a phone up to your eyes.
Lots of people in this thread (correctly!) pointing out Apple's struggles with releasing high quality user software on MacOS. But at least when they changed the System Settings UI in MacOS Ventura (10.13) they managed to stick the landing. Not that I necessarily _like_ the new Settings UI, but there's no jumping into old UIs to configure things.

Microsoft released Windows 8 in 2012, and here we are 13 years later using interaction panels that have only gotten minor chrome updates since their original release in Windows 95 (looking at you, Advanced System Settings and Device Manager).
> With congestion pricing you actually incentivize driving for the wealthy enough.

Driving in New York is for the wealthy. Who has money to pay for parking in New York?
I already have my files sorted and organised
My neighbor has zoysiagrass, and has someone spraypaint his lawn green in the winter. It's pretty hilarious. I too have zoysiagrass, but I'm cool with the dead look in the winter so that I don't worry about it in the summer when I forget to water.
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Nice, but your terminal app has a name collision with the long lived ''screen'' terminal multiplexer utility:

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html
I find it hard to believe anyone was even working on Siri over the past decade.
Correct. In Europe and Mexico, South America etc. this is also the building pattern. The walls of the house go up to the sidewalk and all the yard space (if any) is at the back. And maybe a courtyard, as you said.
It's 2560x2560 per eye, as far as I can tell.
Depends on where you live in the US
As a regular commuter via bus to NYC, I am now MORE likely to take the bus in given that the ride out of the Lincoln tunnel is more predictable.

Fewer cars -> fewer accidents -> fewer delays -> much better experience.

The p90 of the Lincoln tunnel trip is 100% a "when numbers match gut feel" experience.
Yes, rumours and leaks indicate Deckard is already in developer's hands.
People aren't blind to the abuse. They want plausible deniability, permitting them to opt out of the duty and responsibility attached to citizenship. Therefore the metaphor is flawed: blind suggests an inability. People are capable of understanding what's happening, and are choosing to be a spectator, and not a citizen.

What are they waiting for? To see if they will come out ahead. It's classic rebel's dilemma.

Eventually the truth will catch up to us all. We'll undeniably realize this is a tyrannical movement that intends to replace the Constitutional order without the consent of the governed.

In no universe is the election of a dictator equivalent to 3/4 of the state legislatures ratifying an amendment to the Constitution.
1) The only real difference I can concede is about lies. Again, it seems to me like nitpicking, as SS operates instead on vast ignorance, but sure - let's say "SS /operates like/ a literal ponzi scheme". EDIT: based on going from ponzi + lies to ponzi + force, maybe we should call it a "ponzi racket"

2) When I said it's "worse" in the 2nd paragraph I meant morally. It's worse to run a ponzi combined with force than to merely to run a ponzi.

"Ponzi schemes are difficult to maintain for long; SSA has been going 90 years"
That is just because you can force people in. If Madoff could point a gun at Bill Gates and force him to keep investing for 50 years, it wouldn't make it not a ponzi.

"Ponzi schemes rely on fooling a small group of gullible people; SSA relies on everyone participating" Nowhere it says the group has to be small, there were huge ponzies. Also there's an unjustified moral contrast here. To treat both sides equally, you'd say "relies on forcing lots of mostly gullible people to participate"

"And crucially, if they didn't, they could change the law"
It is specifically structured so that it would be extremely difficult because the previous participants have vested interest, having already paid in but not received benefits. Don't take it from me, FDR himself said “I guess you’re right on the economics. They are politics all the way through. We put those pay roll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. Those taxes aren’t a matter of economics, they’re straight politics.” I.e. people specifically "buy in" and it would be a political suicide to take their return back - regardless of the fact of how it's internally run.

And in fact, this works with ponzi schemes too - when the giant MMM ponzi collapsed in Russia and the operator was in legal trouble, there were massive protests in his support - because the participants were either gullible enough to assume he would have repaid them if not interrupted, or desperate to let it run a little more so they could get some of the money out. He even had a run in politics iirc.

"Ponzi scheme is illegal; SSA is the law" and "brainchild of elected representatives" I don't even know what to say. So was slavery, so is civil forfeiture, war on drugs, war in Iraq. Speaking of FDR, so were internment camps. In 1850, would defenders of SS be saying "it's totally unlike kidnapping and forced labor, cause kidnapping is illegal and slavery is the law"

"they are not going to run out of new entrants" ... "predictions that it will fail in the same way Ponzi schemes fail have yet to be proven" you cannot prove a negative. They actually have official (iirc), public models that indicate quite clearly when it will run out of money to make previously-promised payments in full without additional forced labor.
That is one of the extensions, in theory others could be built. RemoteFX is an extension as is the (more normal today) Desktop Composition Extension.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
Yes, because those are good habits to maintain for dealing with people.

I doubt it matters in terms of efficacy.
You redirected me to this comment from my other one up the thread. But for #1, your blog post mentions that going with the USB cable option provides the best quality, which is what I use. Maybe a better wording is that VD is preferred for people who want to use it wirelessly.

For #2... that sounds like some kind of a software issue that only applies to DCS? Or maybe some obscure issue with the headset software? When I take off the headset in its normal link mode, it will usually pause whatever's going on PC-side, but I can just press the power button and keep it running if that's required. Never had an issue with this, let alone something that requires restarting the whole headset.
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> And 'synchronisation' as a practice gets very little attention or discussion. People just start with naive approaches like 'download whats marked as changed' and then get stuck in the quagmire of known problems and known edge cases (handling deletions, handling transport errors, handling changes that didn't get marked with a timestamp, how to repair after a bad sync, dealing with conflicting updates etc).

I've spent 16 years working on a sync engine and have worked with hundreds of enterprises on sync use cases during this time. I've seen countless cases of developers underestimating the complexity of sync. In most cases it happens exactly as you said: start with a naive approach and then the fractal complexity spiral starts. Even if the team is able to do the initial implementation, maintaining it usually turns into a burden that they eventually find too big to bear.