skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, a lot of is strikes me as a very recent hype-cycle that seems to have materialized out of thin air.

Which to be clear is not to say that the concept of the metaverse is somehow recent - it's exactly as old as it's made out to be, but the obsession - particularly from SV elites/VCs - seems to have manifested very recently.

One thing that also rubs me the wrong way is that it's nearly always accompanied with cryptocurrency boosterism - even though I see absolutely no reason why NFTs or Bitcoin or Ether or Tether would be a critical part of the metaverse at all. At worst it seems like a transparent attempt to shoehorn something that has proven to have few applications outside of raw speculation, into a concept that might actually be interesting.

The total failure to also acknowledge that depictions of the metaverse are overwhelmingly dystopian is also alarming. I have some willingness to believe that a virtual universe could be a benefit to people - but "let's recreate Snow Crash!" is... not that.
Isn't mypillow a legit business, election fraud claims notwithstanding
What's the point of linking every instance of his name as well as his pronouns to "https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/mike-lindell/", is that some kind of SEO trick?
Maybe people are trying to run away from their own country's currency even more urgently? Is it really risky to get some tether for a short time to buy some other cryptocurrency?

Maybe the question is why do some big exchanges still work with tether? Must be worth it to them!
> I don't love the "Control-^" escape key, because it interferes with "Last buffer" in vi, but otherwise it's worked flawlessly.

In case you didn't know, you can change the escape key to something that fits better for you. See the mosh man page (MOSH_ESCAPE_KEY).
Why start/finish writing code? There are already plenty of websites, starting [with Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula) that can display formulas and all of them are using some versions of TeX. I don't really see a point in working on MathML at this point.
looks fine to me on linux, surprisingly. though i doubt that the designers tested on a linux box with a tweaked fontconfig

edit: here's a comparison with helvetica https://i.imgur.com/BJlHQhf.gif
There's no reason why VPN's would create any engineering headache for Netflix at all. So no, Netflix has absolutely zero engineering reason to crack down on VPN's.

And the studios are a lot smarter than you think, they've been doing regional licensing for a long time now. Everyone doing negotiations knows VPN's are the tool to get around region restrictions, and any exec can just ask their assistant or teenage kid to sign up for a handful of VPN services and see if they're able to watch Netflix through it. VPN's aren't some secret only hackers know about, they've had widespread consumer use for a long time.

The studios don't need to understand much of what Netflix is doing on the backend. They just put in the contract that Netflix must make all reasonable effort to ensure region restrictions can't be evaded via VPN, maintaining up-to-date lists of blocked IP ranges, which will be periodically verified via e.g. the current top 10 most popular VPN providers.

It's all quite simple and straightforward. No scapegoating.
If a bank offered me 8.88% APY for depositing USD, I'd be pretty suspicious of a catch.
I've never been convinced that you can make this model profitable if you expect to pay the drivers a living wage. People are price sensitive which limits how much you can charge. (This goes for other delivery services too like DoorDash.) If you charge the customer enough to cover all the expenses and pay a decent wage it results in a price high enough to cut into demand. At some point we may find the right marginal pricing model for all this but I have yet to see it.
> And partner with credit cards to give it away for free

yeah, with dashpass being free for the entirety of the pandemic if you had the top chase card, having a lower mimimum, and lowering fees by more compared to eats pass its really hard not take that VC subsidized delivery.
Hydrogen fuel today is far dirtier than thought, researchers say
You know the jig is up when even the Washington Times says that it's a fraud.
Yeah, no evidence of "election hacking" as far as I've seen, but it's still pretty ridiculous that these voting machines have a NIC attached to them at all, let alone that they're running web servers on them.
Not necessarily. If a brain provides enough of a evolutionary advantage, it might still be a wondrously unoptimal hacky piece of sphagetti.
There is no precedent for choosing the distribution of your product in an open market as being "anti-competitive". Direct-to-consumer is in no way anti-competitive and is in fact the opposite. Simply put, if businesses opt to distribute their product via their own channels (or others) instead of yours that means your offering is not good enough, full stop. You will need to improve your product if you want to survive in the market. This is the definition of competition.

Let's be frank here: people here are afraid because they know Apple's App Store and its policies are in no way actually compelling in the open market and, if they are subjected to real competition, they will fail just like most other 1st party stores that are subjected to competition.

Instead of allowing Apple to be the governing body of what is acceptable software policy simply because they are a for-profit company that makes a lot of money, maybe you should focus this attention on actual legislation from your elected governing body that would give you such protections.

Sidenote: Fortnite doesn't have a monopoly on gamers and most gamers do not play Fornite. People need to stop using Fornite as if it is the new Standard Oil of gaming. There is no such thing in gaming and it makes for silly arguments.
Ask me how I can tell you haven't been using this strategy for more than a decade or two. ;)

I say that mostly jokingly, but stuff like this was really annoying around the turn of the century, in a death by a thousand cuts kind of way.

Please, just put the full year in. It's only two more digits, and will prevent the older people that see it from building a little bit of rage up every time they see it.
In this case the GCHQ isn't a domestic intelligence agency. In addition there usually is some slight evidence available for claims like these which would help support its existence. For example before the Snowden disclosures there were several other disclosures that demonstrated that mass surveillance was ongoing, for example with ECHELON and Room 641A.
What are your favourite RFCs?
It seems there is an RFC for everything, from RFC2-119 (which explains the difference between MUST, SHALL and MAY), to RFC-1178 (Choosing a name for your computer), to the more serious RFC-3339: Timestamps. There is a significant amount of thought put into these RFCs, which often goes beyond the mere technicalities of the internet.

What other RFCs do you find fascinating, especially those that are non-technical?
The big difference is AirBnb ended up being a winner from covid, at least eventually.
You don't need to pay taxes.

Example: You earn $1000/month. Cost of living is $500/month, labour tax is $500/month. By using cryptocurrency you can skip tax and save up $500/month, in legit employment (labour law, worker rights protection) you save up $0/month, you work for free, hand to mouth.
Good catch! And a very nice fun fact. If so, or if that run was a bust, I wonder why WY was pissed at Ripley for blowing it up. Insurance money is good.
They could deprecate most of that stuff and let the old compiler still exist for those who need it, much like how they've been handling XP compatibility for the past several years.

But I see no signs of MSVC going away any time soon; Microsoft has a very active and capable compiler team.
The fact that MyPillow is indeed a pillow company does add some humor to the whole story. Pillows, of all things. :-)
Also, some of the options don't actually do anything. The delete after import is broken and it won't default to a directory of your choosing like the previous version.
That's a thing of beauty!
Either your "heavy workouts" are not heavy, or you are the sand guy from the mummy.
Majority of the internet runs on shitty outdated WordPress installations cobbled together with random scripts.
I have left _alot_ of jobs.

Never once were exit activities well-considered and useful.

sometimes I think most management failures are because they are acting like they are supposed to and not how they should
> As a daily user I get a ton of milage out of Reddit Enhancement Suite (desktop) and Apollo (iOS), in combination with typical ad-blockers.

Most users aren't going to do this. Really, the reddit folks should just go all-in on tailoring their official apps towards the most casual, highly "engaged" content consumers, and target most of their monetization towards that kind of user. As a bonus, make it trivially easy to post casual content directly from the app. Who cares about "objectionable" content when they'll have so many cat pictures and cute/funny memes to run their ads next to.
https://archive.is/iNkLP

https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/...
Yeah I think so too. It‘s a cliche by now to say these things go in cycles but they do. If we like this part of the cycle, let‘s ride it and let SQL get hyped, even though its been around forever and never went away.
As an individual trader running an algorithmic arbitrage operation at > 40 exchanges, I have to. You can count me in for USDT 56k. I am small fish.

My algorithms constantly watch USDT/USD price at 3 exchanges which are independent from Tether Inc, and if USDT drops below $0.95 at one of them, they stop issuing orders selling to USDT.
You're basically saying that you've been caught up in some surveillance dragnet/watch list, and that you have no proof but think it is for for using ProtonMail on a government website.

When your payment was declined, the company 1) had access to this watch list that you're on, 2) was able to share with you that you were on a watch list, and 3) you were able to figure out why this is. This sounds very unbelievable to me. The data that comes from programs like this isn't generally being passed around to businesses, and if it is, the support folks are not going to be in the know.

It still sounds more like you're being hit by algorithmic blacklisting than that you're on some secret not-secret blacklist. That, or you got added to a public sector blacklist, by some security company because you use ProtonMail which has issues with abuse by fraudsters.
Most aren't - most are quite comfortable but 100k is still above the median for developers.
I think they were there, just very faded with age. I can faintly see one or two if I zoom in on the picture. But I could be wrong, too.
You don't "have" to admit or concede anything, because the world is large, complex and fluid. Nothing is set in stone, and people and societies are full of contradictions.

I'm reminded of the Churchill quote "Democracy is the worst system of governance, except for all the others that have been tried". It's taken at face value, despite coming from a head of state who reports to an unelected Monarch, under whose name a globe-spanning colonial empire existed.
Where did I say they were? I said antitrust which means anticompetitive. If you don’t like the law take it up with the governments in the EU, US and Australia.
I picked up tendies dot ca just for the silly email address. A few weeks later I got a purchase request for 420 USD - I said no.
The 80s was only 40 years ago, you would not need a family tree for that. Also, the final Harry Potter book came out in 2007.
I've learned that child pornography and other similar arguments have been used by the FBI and CIA since the fight to publish PGP decades ago. It's never been mainly child pornography.

Government always thinks they're the good guys, but we increasingly become aware of abuses by agencies and people working in government, and also companies who increasingly exploit people with tactics that are always ahead of lawmakers.
Tracking and driving engagement via notifications are some of the most important reasons why app users can be monetized better than anonymous web users (user sees more ads if they're spending more time, and tracking allows better targeted and thus higher paying ads)
Hmm not seeing this on my end! Did it happen on a certain page?
Finder is also broken for AppleScript as it doesn't refresh itself when AppleScript makes changes. Plus, its refresh logic (probably related) is slow.
America’s inflation scare becomes less menacing
> This struck me as super wasteful and simultaneously dodgy

Unless you're in an urban area where bike delivery is viable, how would that be wasteful or dodgy?
Goodbye Colocated Data Centers: How We Moved Postmark to AWS
I don't think tax returns are the most important thing to be transparent about. Things like Hillary's mechanical destruction of digital data and other such abuses are a much bigger issue.
For sure, that's why it's also healthy to have a broad and diversified news media covering important issues. It's also why I worry about the centralization and collapse of local journalism; it's the boots on the ground who are best able to contextualize a story when it goes from local to national.
I agree with pretty much you said. I'm pretty new to the tech scene and it's just mind-blowing. I previously worked in the Mech Engineering industry and it's completely different. Coworkers are respectful and care about each other. Management does their best to listen to staff. Trying to basically foster a proper community. (Albeit, the salaries was way way lower.)

> I'll be gone in a year, so why bother writing software that's maintainable? It won't be my problem.

I would say that's why it's so important to have a core of competent technical employeers. One thing that is so underrated is company culture. If your technical managers or supervisors enforce stricter code quality, naturally everyone will follow on. Culture trickles down not up. The result you're seeing is from the effects of bad management or bad technical leadership.

>Also, as long as customers (including B2B customers) are happy with dreck, then dreck, they get. Why bother putting in the considerable extra cost for Quality, when the suc- um, customers, will be happy with garbage?

That's the thing. No customer likes garbage. Garbage here defined as buggy, slow or unusable product. They make do either because there's no other alternatives and/or this product meets their needs or is the market leader. However, there is still always a tradeoff between quality and time to market. It's impossible to get perfection and sometimes good enough is well... good enough.
Journey of Digital Development for Higher Education Students [pdf]
And so they can sell you herbal supplements to keep your mind sharp.
A pandemic is the rapid spread international spread of a disease. Key word: rapid.

Question: why is there not a flu pandemic every year?
Answer: because the flu is not a novel virus, and does not hit the population in the same way. The flu can be very severe, which is why we vaccinate against it, but within any given population there is a multitude of degrees of existing immunity from previous rounds of flu through the population.

COVID-19 is a novel virus - no human on Earth until 1.5 years ago had ever been infected with it, and it's spread follows the expectation of a novel virus: with no prior immunity, the entire population is initially infectable.

This, obviously however, is not a continuing situation: prior infection with COVID-19 confers immunity against COVID-19, as well as effective immunity against the variant mutations which have arisen. There have not been cases of reinfection within over a year. Even if COVID-19 can infect vaccinated populations, it does so with less severe outcomes, and having done so leaves behind a reservoir of now immune recipients.

In fact even if a new COVID-19 strain arose well after infection, people who had been exposed or vaccinated to earlier strains would not present the sort of completely vulnerable population which the initial COVID-19 virus represented.

COVID-19 is now going to be an endemic disease, but that hardly means people will keep catching up, but instead that in any given year a small subset of the population is likely to contract it and recover - possibly requiring medical intervention, but this is a number which can be managed and planned for.

What has made COVID-19 a problem though, is the novel nature of the virus and it's rapid spread. We are perfectly able to deal with expected loads on healthcare, but not with a surge of 10-20% of the entire population of a country within a 6-12 month window with over a month of recovery time. But against a vaccinated population that figure falls by almost 92-96%, with 60-70% of people never developing symptoms. That is a manageable number over the same time frame.

COVID-19 is not like the flu, and infectious novel diseases will always require immediate and drastic countermeasures. An ideal outcome for COVID-19 would have been containment in Wuhan: it would have lent plenty of time to develop, test, and incorporate into routine vaccine schedules innoculations against it.
If I recall correctly, isnt this the episode where the trump staffer got drunk at a bar and was bragging to an Australian diplomat about all the illegal shit they were doing? And then the Australian went to the FBI, and now the staffer is in prison because of said illegal shit? Or was that another time?
The politicization of this issue has done a lot of damage to the legitimate debate surrounding the security of closed-source privately designed and never-pentested voting machines.
Given that the overall crypto market fell 7-10% since then, now a $550 million hack.

He bit off way more than he could chew it seems.

Unless he gives it all back, he is probably fucked if he is caught by American authorities, and even then it would not matter probably. Unlike France, no 5 years sentences in the good ol us of a for major fraud.

"Your honor, I returned half of it, so half the sentence"

"Yes, I will cut it from 150 +50 years to 75 +25"

Greed kills.
Google bans tracking tool that sold users’ location data
So the simulations are off by a factor of 10? How is this possible?

It's hard to say since there is zero information about how the simulation they mentioned was done in the footnoted article. Most likely they either screwed up the mesh or the, more likely, the turbulence modelling. It's hard to say why the Wikipedia author chose that particular article/simulation results, since the article presenting the results is very superficial. If you look at results from other simulations you can find numbers between 1.5-7 depending on the exact simulation setup.

If you read the paper linked to in the footnote to the steady flow experiment you'll see that the results are very dependent on the turbulence and Reynolds number of the liquid so how you feed the liquid into the valve (how fast and how steady) can greatly impact your results. So if the simulation and the experiment used different pressures for the water entering the system, just that could explain some of the discrepancy.
>universally because it really depends on where you work (and have worked). There are plenty of places which make time to refactor along the way, in small and large ways. Its good engineering, and a healthy code base nets better long term outcomes for the business too.

And I have worked in places where people know the exact formal definition of modularity and they modularize things correctly so such refactors never need to happen. I've worked and have experience in enough places to know that both a place where people understand true modularity and a place where people constantly refactor their designs on the regular are incredibly rare. My sample size is large enough for me to confidently say that your view point is highly highly inaccurate. Your experiences are in the minority of the minority along with the experience of working at any company that actually properly understands modularity. Understanding modularity is more of an individual thing.

The only time where I have been at a company that allows you to write shitty code and constantly refactor it are Big companies that have tons of low impact useless projects. Get on the project that is on the critical money path and all your luxuries of refactoring shitty code disappear because actual business realities influence the process.

>Whenever I modularize up front I basically always end up regretting my abstraction boundaries - and either have to rework them

This is because you lack knowledge about modularization and what should be a proper abstraction boundary. Almost know one knows what this properly is. You know the design pattern book by the GOF and every derivative book on that topic? Read it and then know that it's completely and utterly wrong. If you abstract things using traditional techniques and "art" and "experience" like this you ARE not making your code more modular.

>But if prematurely modularizing your code is the only way you can modularize anything at your workplace then - well, you do you. But I find that pretty sad.

You have a lot of confidence, and it's a subtle derogatory jab by saying your sad as if you're superior to me. Literally you're implying your sad that I can't rise to your level of "superiority." Get off your high horse. Have you ever thought of the possibility that you actually lack knowledge on something? That you've never actually properly abstracted things?
What about creating some simple rules like districts can only have a maximum of 6 sides that would effectively make gerrymandering impossible?
additionally, for those that missed it, [CHIRPBIRDICON] in this font is ligature'd into the Twitter logo
Yes, someone with an xbox hack has tens of millions of potential customers who can save $60 a game, with complete physical access to the hardware and no chance of getting fired or arrested.

Whereas someone with a Google cloud infrastructure hardware fault injection attack has only a tiny number of spy agencies or rogue admins as potential customers, the servers are all locked up in data centres, and anyone who got caught making an attack would get fired and/or arrested.
That's a silly strawman. Nobody is claiming that happiness exists literally.

And it's intangible nature does nothing to prevent us from measuring or maximizing aggregate happiness.
That's the problem with the old ones, where you breathe in and out the same tube. That's fixed in these full-face masks.
You're forgetting the most important thing about Uber: they disabled the automated braking system in their 'self driven' cars and killed a person.
I lived about a hundred miles from Jacobabad in 1987. It was known as the hottest place in the world then along with Sibi to the north. I remember 50C temperatures but it was dry and I used to walk outside to the market around noon. Once my school principal saw me walking without a hat that summer and lectured me about safety but I didn’t feel anything bad. It helped that I was thin and had a high surface are to volume ratio so heat never bothered me. My father worked for Exxon and we had free electricity and every house had massive 8-ton air conditioners, so the heat was never a problem for us.

Sibi is in a hollow formed by some mountain ranges to the north. Perhaps hot winds from the south get trapped there. Not sure about Jacobabad though…could never find any reason why it was so hot.

Another time I was in a car with no AC right after a rainstorm, and it was so hot in the backseat that every time the car stopped the heat became unbearable. When the car was moving we had some wind and it helped.

In Canada I’ve always noticed the temperature can be 5-10 degrees cooler under trees in a forest. Not sure if it’ll be so cool with high humidity but certainly trees will block the sun and trap air cooled by the ground, so they are the best defence against global warming.