skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once upon a time, Second Life was that metaverse. Big companies had Second Life strategies and big media organizations breathlessly covered it as the next big thing changing our culture and experiences.

While I'm pretty sure Linden Labs still exists, it never did much more than get an initial buzz from people that could only see the possibilities disconnected from the what it actually means to be an organic, living entity in a very real world. It also gained attention from those that feared missing out on the promises made by that early buzz. But even Second Life couldn't avoid the reality of the physical world that preceded it. Second Life is still with us, but it's an unimportant niche player with little lasting impact on society, such that many articles touting the new metaverse don't even acknowledge its existence. Journalists don't recognize that they're simply jumping on that hype train which leads nowhere again.

Yes technology has come a long way since then, but probably not as far as we imagine either. And the companies best positioned to deliver a "metaverse" can barely get their own products working to a level where they can even be described a "useful" (try using a pixel phone, a chromecast, and youtube together and see how much just doesn't work reliably)... a sustained alternative existence will necessarily have a lower tolerance for poor quality delivery: I don't think any meaningful player out there has a culture of quality sufficient to get a compelling product out the door that can establish itself as such an alternative existence. Finally, as a physical being in a physical world: you won't sustain yourself with virtual food, doctors will not be able effectively to cure your physical ailments without examining your physical body, and other realities will almost certainly mean you're spending more time experiencing the real universe than the metaverse. The plumber, electrician, construction worker, farmer, fireman, policeman, garbageman, etc. won't do their work in the metaverse. Maybe a metaverse can consist of some office workers and those people with enough free time and money to spend their leisure time in a constructed fantasy world, but that doesn't strike me as game changing.

I think the best technologies that have potential to have an impact on our view of reality will be augmented reality technologies. Those products seeking to replace reality with something different will just be a fad to be gushed over by journalists and influencers.
Reheating to 176F for 10 minutes (or 185F for 5m) will deactivate the botulinum toxin.

This won't kill the botulism spores, just the toxin that can kill you.
If anything, headlines like these make me avoid clicking. My attention is a scarce resource. I'm not going to read through a longform (unless it's from damninteresting.com - but I purposefully go there for longform trivia) if I have no idea of the longforms' relevance to my current interests.
I seem to recall Spotify did at one time have a dislike button. They removed it over the course of several UI iterations that renamed it, moved it to a menu, then the option vanished altogether. The closest thing they have now is “don’t play this artist.”

Apple Music still doesn’t compare well with Spotify, but at least there’s a “play less music like this” menu item available.

Edit: after reading more comments here - I definitely want options that include “dislike”, “not in the mood”, “you’re playing this to much”, “this does not belong on this ‘radio station’” -because I like the music, I just want it categorized correctly.
How is docker easier for most people? How does docker even work with multiple devices? Mobiles? and how much storage does a docker-snapshot wastes?
Probably to direct more fish into the trap, which otherwise would've swam to the other side totally oblivious of the trap. Efficiency is increased by that middle fence.

Edited to add excerpt from the original paper.

>A leader set in a linear direction more or less perpendicular to the shore so that fish approaching the leader turn and are guided toward deeper water and the trap; a leader that bisects the trap’s entrance to allow fish to enter the enclosure from either side of the fence (i.e., on a rising or a falling tide); a pair of bilaterally-positioned wings that form a V-shaped funnel entry to concentrate and redirect fish toward the trap enclosure’s entrance; and an entrance which incorporates species specific design characteristics (i.e., the width of the entrance and non-return devices) to only allow certain types of schooling fish to easily enter the enclosure and, once inside, prevent their escape.
Ask HN: Take job adjacent to goals or go to get masters?
Hello everyone, I am in a bit of a pickle. I just graduated as a math major with some experience as a data scientist at a small startup. I have been trying to get work as a software engineer or data scientist, but I lack some experience and knowledge of the former and the latter seems to primarily be looking to hire masters/phds.

It isn’t ideal to me, but this has me considering applying to get a masters in CS. I went to a good school, had a strong gpa, and will score well on the gre. The tricky thing is that I am likely about to be offered another job. The job is part of a consultancy and I would be given the title data engineer. Based on the client list, I am expecting that my work would mostly be migration to the cloud and dashboard building. That is not exactly where I want my career to go, but it would be really nice to make money and work for a real company. I’m trying to weigh taking this role against continuing to self-learn while applying to jobs and grad school.

Factors I’m considering about the job:
- The company appears to be just starting its US operation. There are 900+ employees in UK.
- There isn’t a very clear guarantee of where I will be staffed. It says New York or tristate area…
- The training program is 4 months in another country while getting paid (great!) but if you leave sooner than 2 years you have to pay back a large percentage of the salary you received during training (very odd to me).
- The training will likely be somewhat repetitive for me and I could/am learning that stuff online for free already.
- The pay is standard entry level consultant pay.

Factors I’m considering about grad school:
- I haven’t actually gotten into one yet and I dont have strong research
- I can only start next year at this point which would mean a year long gap on my resume unless I can get an internship or I take an unrelated job
- I worry that I will exit my masters as unattractive to employers as I currently seem to be

I’m really struggling with this and would appreciate any guidance from more experienced people. My main concern is that I end up stuck in this job I don’t like that leads me away from the career I want and ultimately ends up with me going to masters anyway. Alternatively I’m worried that if I don’t take this and then fail to get into a masters program I am really done for. I came very close in an interview for a company I really want to work for and the recruiter said to try again in 6 months because I was so close and they all want me there, but just need a bit stronger technical skills. She said to focus on personal projects and take more classes if I can. Taking this other job sortve feels like closing the door on those kinds of opportunities for at least a few years to me.
No, it's a popular term that has gained a lot of usage in the last 2 years[0] coined in Snow Crash in 1992[1]. You might not have heard it but if you read a lot about tech or follow the right people on Twitter (often intersected with crypto and NFTs in particular) it would've been hard to miss it[2].

0. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Metavers...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse

2. https://twitter.com/search?q=metaverse&src=typed_query
Of course it's energy-negative, nobody is claiming otherwise. Powering that from renewables will cost more. But the cost of fuel is a very small percentage of launch cost, and if they're doing a lot of launches then being able to say they're carbon-neutral would be pretty helpful for public acceptance. Politics and regulation are much more dangerous to them than a little extra cost in fuel.
That seems easily contradicted by a quick search, eg.

https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1449080378090672129

Also, I think vaccine mandates count as "telling people to get vaccinated".
It's boring but usually everything is well-defined and hence well-understandable.

Not the case for most CS papers.
Matthew McConaughey for Governor of Texas
Such a great interview! Or rather, pontification:

> See, what I'm doing here is I'm not conversing. I really can't converse very well at my age because I've lost my patience. So, what I do is pontificate, which is the same as giving you something like it's written.

> This is why experienced programmers have big multiple screens. They're working on something where the result is going to be fit on one screen, but you have to have all this other stuff, it's like when you make an arch; it's not just piling up the bricks, you have to put this whole scaffolding up. You have to hold everything together until you get the keystone in place. And virtually all of the productivity tools that I've seen, I'll just say, "all" because I haven't seen all of them, but the ones I have seen, they just completely don't understand this at all. They're all about this idea, which most programmers have that's wrong, is that you're going to write the program the right way. Nothing's going to be wrong. The whole idea is to make a fucking mess. And if you look at the way Disney artists do things, the whole thing is messy. This is something anybody in the arts knows completely about, and hardly anybody in computing knows anything about. But in fact, it's a key factor in building a good interactive development environment.

> We were a floor culture at PARC so we not only had the bean bags instead of chairs. Why bean bags? Well, you can't leap to your feet to denounce somebody from a bean bag.

This seemed an odd error: when Alan says (I presume) Feynman, the text has "Feinman" and links to a Richard Feinman.
I didn't have such a hunch, though yours is interesting.

I assumed these were not so much persistent structures as waves whose current state is more-or-less arbitrarily determined by previous state and some effectively random physical inputs.
If you take my comment as a basic premise of a fair economy, then "outbidding" does not make any sense. In fact, it makes more sense to share scarce resources.

There are still many non-scarce things you can spend your extra money on.

An example of what you can do: buying expensive cars.

An example of what you can't do: buying up land so that everybody else has to pay higher prices for housing.
> The expectation is that you don’t have to fear anything for lawful activity. For the most part, that’s not too far from reality

This worldview is so far outside of mine that I'm not sure how to address it or respond to it. It's just a completely foreign idea to me. Is doxing not a thing in Germany?

In America, even if I'm not doing something controversial, even if I'm just streaming video games on Twitch, I might still choose not to share my real name, or I might choose to set up a virtual avatar, it's turned out to be way too easy to find other information using just a real name.

I've basically never done even a single thing in my life worth paying attention to on a large scale, I don't have an online following, I'm not particularly active or famous in any communities, and I'm a privileged/uncontroversial person. Even so, I've still had people that I've never met contact me unprompted and try to figure out my real address before (fortunately all nice people who weren't stalkers). Any subject or project at all where I'm even remotely scared of that happening (or even where I just don't want it to happen because it would be inconvenient), I don't release under my real name. I assume that if I ever was the target of harassment online, if they know my real name there's enough information about me that's slipped outside of my control that they would be able to find me. I don't need to do anything illegal for that to happen, we've seen targeted harassment over ridiculous things like girls playing video games.

And the harassment concerns are separate from the branding issues where I try to keep my identity online relatively consistent when possible. If I'm building an experimental project or something that's outside of my normal persona that I normally project online, then just for pure branding purposes I often try to release it under a different identity. That too is a concern I feel is more important than many people realize, if you ever become a subject of attention online, my understanding is that people expect a kind of unreasonable consistency in all of your activity beyond what they expect in real life.

I don't know how Germany wouldn't suffer from those same problems, but if it doesn't, I guess that seems like a nice place to live? I release a fair amount of stuff under my real name, and I generally advocate that other people do the opposite. If you're building an online identity today my feeling is you should completely unlink it from your physical identity, if I could go back in time to my early computing years I wouldn't use the handle `danshumway` online.

When I host projects or enter conversations online I am to some extent inviting people into my personal life. If I'm using a consistent identity across time or across multiple sites, I'm also to some degree inviting people to correlate those posts/sites together. That's an intentional action I'm taking, but being able to set boundaries around that invitation is important to me. I use anonymity/privacy to set those boundaries.
None of this of course even remotely addresses the false (and, to any tech incined person who reads the BBC and has seen the state of AI-generated content) patently absurd claim you made that BBC News articles are "now mostly written by AI".
It is less corrupted. Without capitalism personal connections is the only source of power, so the only ones with power would be politicians and their friends. With capitalism we create another bastion of power, the capital class. Communists are politicians who don't want to share power with the capital class and instead hog it all for themselves. We all know what happens when politicians has no group to oppose them, everything goes to shit.

Maybe you could think of some other system where personal connections isn't the only source of power, but so far democratic capitalism is the only thing we have.

Edit: As for your scenario with capital paying money to influence politicians. The alternative is that the politician already have all the power (and money), nobody has to pay them. To me it is better that there is some corruption with money going to politicians rather than politicians just having all the money from the start.
AMD CPUs can powergate entire cores and do so automatically.
The other factor is that potatoes can be concealed easily, so when armies swept through to seize food, you’d keep your potatoes and not starve.
Simple solution: don't use a dep that uses generics until the fracturing is gone. Take the same approach as the Go team and let the use of generics mature and a consensus build on where/how they should be used.

There's no need for generics in the short term. We've survived for 11 years without them, we can manage another couple while we work out how to best use them.
I would object to 'paid' sure, but to me 'package' immediately implies (a focus on) not cash. Even for non-exec employees in sectors where shares would be highly unusual/not happen, it's used to mean the whole deal, benefits, pension, etc.
Interesting. My results are much more balanced and analytical...

-This is what I tell friends who are torn about having children

-Things to Consider before Having a Baby

-One Legacy of the Pandemic May Be Less Judgment of the Child-Free
Eat enough bug reports and people begin to have suspicions.
OpenTTD 12.0 Released
> Yes, just fix whatever issues were with X11. Why didn't anyone else think of that.

You need more than thoughts, you also need people to work on it and projects like Wayland that take the oxygen out of the room make that harder.

> I for one can't wait to have Wayland+pipewire in full effect.

And so people who need to work with the Linux desktop will have to implement support for X11 and Wayland and yet another audio, video and whatever API (and thus all the potential bugs you might introduce) or use some external library (thus introducing additional points of failure for the future and introduce external factors that can affect your project's goals) that tries to provide a layer over these (with its own potential bugs of course). In other words making things more complicated and increasing the bug surface.
>Who actually wants this?

Folks who played Secondlife, Farmville, Animal Crossing, etc. But I think that part of the problem seems to be that some of us have negative emotion towards Facebook, and we feel uncomfortable even just knowing Facebook is working on this.
I am largely with you in this camp. Many laptops almost get there. Lenovo looks the most promising of the major brands, and there are more and more OLED laptops coming out which is really nice. Razer also seems plausible but I am concerned with heat issues.

Dell unfortunately does not do fn-arrows for some incomprehensible reason. I worked around it with an AHK script for win-arrows but the fingering is worse.
I'll see what we can do!
Exactly, thank you for the reference.
"what is the metaverse?"

A solution looking for a problem. Snow Crash was an excellent book, but irl virtual reality doesn't add any conveniences over simple documents. Sure it's more "immersive", but does a virtual, immersive version of the world wide Web actually accomplish anything besides shininess?
Suggestion: Tiny random pans and zooms on them slides would make the movie more "lively". https://youtu.be/JgH2tkzi_9E?t=1286
Bloody brilliant! Assigning states is exactly how I use tags too. With tags, I always find that I'm just adding more avenues to be unhappy with imperfection. "Oh, is that the perfect tag? Is that tag too obvious? How will I remember this tag later on?" I would hate to have to develop an entire philosophy of tagging, because I have too many others anyway. So I prefer to deal with the one-stop uneasiness of "is this the right folder for it?". Still not perfect, but just the one.

Thanks for writing that post! I look forward to reading more on your website.
As with all other technological advances VR/AR will take off when porn is made using the technology.
Begin Japanology
Extremely relaxing before-bed Japanese propaganda
I don't recall where I read this, but a young Feynman motivated himself to learn trig by imagining that he had been challenged by a mysterious stranger to answer riddles. For example (I'm making this up) "You only have a protractor and the ability to measure your paces - tell me the height of that flagpole!" The operation, then, is to pace out a distance from the base of flagpole, sight down the protractor to the top of the flagpole to get an angle, and compute. (Since tan(y/x) = a, arctan(a) = y/x, y=x * arctan(a)). So the motivation was imaginary and concrete. And it's dramatic, because there's an obstacle, a chance of failure, and a chance for glory.

I can't help but see a parallel with magicians, who can dazzle us because they are willing to go further than most of us, in terms of practice. In the same way, math gives you the ability to dazzle with surprising answers, to do a lot with a little.
we've spent a ton of money on our anti-ICBM missile shield which is now useless. Even before we really weren't confident it would work but now it's definitely worthless.

As far as first strike and retaliation, we can't even be sure our subs aren't detected by China considering we just tried to do a drill in Chinese water and our sub collided with an "object" which did significant damage. Wouldn't be surprised if China was giving us a bloody nose

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58838332
I usually try to avoid clicking them out of spite. I'm sure that they've found that it overall increases viewership, otherwise they wouldn't do it, but I hate that this is what news is now.
The NYT isn't woke per se, it's simply the newspaper of the establishment, which is exactly what it always has been. The establishment happens to be woke at the moment. When that changes, I'm sure the NYT will change with it. The same way they went from cheerleaders of the Iraq war to champions of the "Resistance".
> Passive activities become the only ones you feel like doing.

That's not the case in my experience. After a full day managing teams, solving problems and coding, I find it "relaxing" to do a physically and mentally challenging instructor/coach-led activity.

For me, that means swimming, water polo or other team sport, dance classes learning a complex choreography, etc.

It's relaxing switching off the "I'm in charge" part of my brain, while still getting the flow and enjoyment of improving a skill, especially with others in a non-tech environment.
No, thank you. But I suspect people would still accept and use that tech just like they have accepted always-online/always-listening digital assistants.

Just imagine the possibilities of large-scale manipulations, tho!
Yeah, so your argument assumes that retrofitting radiators with heat pumps is the only way to install. Not true! You left out mini-splits which efficiently heat rooms and have the added benefit of being less expensive and disruptive to homes than under-floor heating.

The reality is that we don't have time to wait on unproven technologies like hydrogen boilers (which gas boiler companies are using to try to delay their inevitable demise). We don't have time to wait on an non-existing hydrogen infrastructure. Despite what you say, heat pumps are working at scale today around the world and individuals can go buy them now and successfully heat and cool their homes.

But hey, I'm not a fundamentalist — whatever works! We need all solutions very fast in order to mitigate damage. If part of that is hydrogen then great! It just seems unlikely to scale at the required rate.
Um… VR porn is being cranked out at a pretty good clip. IMO it is the most compelling application, actually. The effect is quite extraordinary.
Only a guess but this would likely have been because St. Patrick’s Day is a “holy day”. People attend church (lots still do although in the last couple of decades it’s declined massively) and closing pubs would be in line with how some other “holy days” are treated. An example of this is Easter in Northern Ireland. There are still some relatively strict licensing laws over the Easter weekend (although these are about to modernise) with pubs shit for large parts of it.
...internet has become a miserable place where corporations ruin everything.

FTFY
You don't have to do any of that to get a software engineer job. Just do well on tests in school, do well enough that you get accepted into college with a free ride, do well enough in college tests to get an interview, do well enough on the algorithm tests in the interview to get a job. That is all you need. It isn't easy, having money etc helps, but ultimately all you need to do is pass a bunch of tests to get a lot of money.
I don't get how people can use notion for personal info or basically anything else if you are not forced to use it at work.
Not even considering that your most personal information (journal, health log etc.) you don't share anywhere else twitter, facebook is stored in plaintext somewhere and can be used however they want according to their privacy policy which some nothing-to-hide folks might ok with but that everything you have written can go poof any second is nuts IMHO.
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