skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main reasons are:

- The viewer is fricking hard to use by today's standards. I regularly introduce people to Opensim/SL and they can't figure out what the hell is going on. IT doesnt help that SL has a bonkers ancient avatar system, where people wear 2 avatars, use an alpha to hide the first and then wear a second as attachments. Good luck explaining this to people whose computer skills end at scrolling.

- People use underpowered laptops that crash all the time. Sadly it s the reality of having $1000 phones and $200 laptops/desktops

- It's buggy as hell. Hypergrid is a hack, nothing more. It's not supposed to be there, but thanks to the patience of some viewer developers they make it barely work. Unfortunately opensimulator does not have enough developers (basically only one person, Ubit) , and almost nobody is working on making a viewer exclusively for it.

- Opensimulator is a complex system, hampered by the need to emulate the SL protocol in a distributed world. The developers try hard but it's so hard to improve without a complete rewrite and a team of devleopers that can actually cooperate (there are like 100 forks, lack of leadership, and developers generally dont get along)

- There are more than enough regions -- but most are empty because of the chicken-and-egg issue (not enough users means people get bored and leave) and because its so buggy that people crash while trying to teleport.

- There is a lot of content pirated from SL that keeps people busy in opensim. Unfortunate but also true.

- There is a popular farming system , sailing system, almost every kind of animated roleplay that you can do in second life, there is the ability to script elaborate scenarios with NPCs (that dont exist in SL) . All those keep a lot of people busy (shameless plug you can find them at https://opensimworld.com). AFAIK there is nothing that it is missing from Second Life at the moment except the users. If you think something is missing, i d be happy to build it

The metaverse doesn't NEED to be for everyone, but it can certainly have wide appeal if it is easy to access and people can express themselves . In a social environment the games etc are mostly a distraction, what matters is finding users to interact with. Non-creators spend most of their time modifying their avatar.

And BTW people don't need to run a region to log in to the hypergrid. You can instantly create an account in one of the open grids like https://osgrid.org and go online, and then you can jump to any world.
I do not disagree at all with you. Arnold is my mathematical hero and his advice and insight is invaluable. I understand that math is done starting with proofs, and ending with definitions and axioms.

Yet, I have witnessed many young mathematics students that could not write a concise, self-contained proof, nor understand its value. I certainly was one of those, and this advice helped me. For these people, it is helpful to learn how to organize your thoughts in an over the top, nearly bourbakist, formal way. Also, the correctness of proofs is much easier to check this way, and any incorrect or illogical stuff sticks out immediately. Then, once you have written your stuff in that dry style, you can add some glimpses of discourse that become much more valuable than if you had started with some informal hand-waving. This is pretty much the writing style of Arnold: his proofs are breath-takingly concise and elegant, and there is an insigthful discourse around them. The proofs without the discourse stand on their own, but the discourse alone would be worthless.

I like your analogy of climbing the cliff and pulling the ladder. But there is another cliff that goes even higher and you needed the ladder for that one! Of course you need to help others to build their own ladders.

> Somewhere not too far away, a student in the class you're teaching cries.

Maybe, maybe not. In any case, I agree that you cannot teach math in a purely bourbakist style. I prefer a "visual" style like that inspired by the books of Arnold, Strang, Needham, and I am the sole teacher in my lab that seriously uses the word "amplitwist" to refer to the complex derivative :)
Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/977/
The "Le Monde Diplomatique" frequently covers otherwise underreported regions of the world, including Iran. That paper also usually has well researched, less agitated articles than one gets used to
I know this is probably an off-hand comment from someone who doesn't know US unionization history very well, but it's hilarious still. That we even still have any steel production is because of unionization. That corporations were allowed to outsource is because of anti-unionization efforts.
Can I install packages not present in the official NixOS repositories without learning the Nix DSL?
Your comment was about assumed lack of discipline everywhere.

Also, this is parents wondering about where the correct lines are. That does not proves general lack of discipline everywhere. Them wondering back then about what they should do is not proof of no one tried discipline either. They did seen gaming addiction as sign as him being interested in at least something. Plus, even in this discussion you have HN members horrified over parental suggestion that computer in his room might have been mistake. It is not some kind of obscure unusual line of thought.
People are going to flash their wallet addresses at bars or at business meetings?

We already have strong social taboos about flashing bank accounts. The whole point of status good is they convey wealth rather than tactlessly showing a total.
Yep.

I know it's entirely other end of the language spectrum, but I think that's why Typescript got successful while Flow did not; Typescript is in Typescript, while Flow is in OCaml. And nobody knows OCaml.

OTOH, eslint is making waves now and it's in golang, so. Who knows.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28900360
> How could it be worse than doing time?

1. "Doing time" in the US system and in the NL system are two vastly different propositions.

2. For some people, being isolated is a reward in and of itself.
chromium can be installed through flathub (which is setup by pop os by default)

However, one thing that speaks against it for me as a replacement for Windows users, is that is uses Gnome. I personally love gnome, but I think it is not a good Windows replacement. But If your peers are fine with Gnome I think Pop_OS is a good candidate.
Does 3d card passthrough work?
It's at least internally consistent. Many republican wealthy christians seemingly ignore the whole "camel through the head of a needle" bit.
You're not factoring in the fairly huge opportunity cost of missing out on a major technological wave, not being one of the early domain experts, not to mention all the benefits that come with riding the wave.

Zig is perfect for game developers, and being one of the first in the space is going to be an advantage.

Also, the product here is actually defined as "Building gamedev ecosystem for @ziglang!" — Zig itself is part of the strategy here.
I'm not sure if you're just being naive, but there are lots of people deemed "unbankable", e.g. Imigrants and refugees. And in the coming years, the number of people with that position will only raise. It's 2021, most people in the world have access to a cheap phone and celular, but might not have the same right to certain services that you enjoy...
I wonder if the author of this ever heard about Project Xanadu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

The idea on how a decentralized web of hypertext documents should be done right isn't exactly new. AFAIK the fact that in the HTTP+HTML web stack, servers going down meant documents disappearing and links going stale was criticized even at the time. The HTTP+HTML stack winning out is probably one of the many examples of "good enough" winning over "perfect".
I really do not agree. There are many technical blogs that I like and navigating the content on their site is a pain. They will have interesting multipart blog posts and finding all the connected parts requires clicking through multiple pages of 10 entry blog posts to find what I want. Sometimes they will have links between related posts in the blog post if you are lucky. If they are writing about a specific concept, good luck you need to start clicking.
Yes, and you can lead a command with a space for it to not be remembered in history. You can also delete it, and nobody else can access it without privileged access to your computet
Uber is lying. They're using a definition of "profit" that is extremely unusual and doesn't match any reasonable definition of profit.

This exact topic was also directly addressed in the article which you apparently still haven't read.

From the article:

> "After burning through billions of venture capital dollars, Uber said it was on a path to profitability last year, using an accounting metric that ignores many of the costs that actually make it unprofitable. By the same measure, chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi is projecting this quarter could be profitable. That remains to be seen."

There is a Gizmodo article that explains in more detail[1] exactly what accounting tricks Uber is using to tell people they have positive EBITDA.

Lyft is doing the same thing[2].

1. https://gizmodo.com/uber-says-its-on-track-to-maybe-make-a-f...

2. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-and-lyft-are-staging-...
> I'd say the biggest neglect was not being touched by his mother as a baby.

I have heard of this multiple times, mostly in social conversations.

It's likely not great not being touched as a baby, but I wonder if there's is actual science around the topic?

For example, there's bound to be some nurture vs nature aspect to this.
Was about to say something about the encrypting /boot. I always leave mine unencrypted but everything else gets encrypted.
Or as a slight refinement implement it as feeding ("site:mysite.com " + user_query) through to Google, to spare your users 2000 Pinterest hits and 1000 scrapes of a very old Stack Overflow question that somehow matches.
> hurting deliverability of legitimate businesses

If I haven’t opted in, then it’s spam, not legitimate business, and reporting it as spam is the right thing to do. This is the entire point of spam reporting functionality – to hurt the deliverability of spam.
I had a serious case of deja vu reminding me of your article on compression in timescaledb :-D
Thanks - but I'm actually looking for how to solve problems like this myself and google fodder to look for more info.

I think this is some sort of probability, but I'm not sure how the multi-hour stuff plays in...
Ooh your the created of the Minimal theme, I really like the theme. Started using obsidian at the end of last month. Its definitely a new way for taking notes for me personally.
Yeah it's a shame. I don't own the IP, my previous employer does, and I think when they got it published in the journal of trading they had to agree to some level of exclusivity which meant it can't just be uploaded elsewhere.

I just linked to it in case someone here had a subscription.
A flow like this could have been someone's job security.
Maybe. The point in those examples was that they all solved search in a specific contextualized manner impressively well and despite that people are creatures of habit and they'll want to port the same generalized patterns over that they do for everything else.

Not consciously. They'll just do it and expect it to work which is why effective indexing and "SEO" (as in, the engine can scrape the content and crawl around without getting confused) is likely the actual work to do to implement "search".
Countercheck Unit Tests
Ok walk me through these wallet to wallet transfers and how they’re easier than bank transfers outside of the US. Like in Canada or Europe.

In 10 seconds I can my friend’s account and they can use that money to pay online with debit, instantly. Or, spend an extra $100 on their credit card, instantly, knowing their checking account has the room to pay it on bill date.

Tell me how a wallet transfer beats that.
> I counter that with that we’ve got methods of developing relyable software

We don't have methods for reliable spelling, however...
Why would they? They already bought Crayta, which is a similar user generated content game creation building platform that's made in UE4. It does the exact same thing as Core Games does. See an article about that acquisition here:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/04/facebook-buys-studio-behin...
>megaban

I went to subreddit to check this and apparently it's a dozen trolls who like writing that founder is nazi. Ughm, ok.
“Japanese officials say disposal of the water is indispensable for the plant cleanup, and that its release into the ocean is the most realistic option.”

What a f*ed up world.
Facebook to Create 10k Jobs in EU to Develop a Metaverse
"...Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act, bipartisan legislation that will encourage market-based competition to dominant social media platforms by requiring the largest companies to make user data portable – and their services interoperable – with other platforms, and to allow users to designate a trusted third-party service to manage their privacy and account settings, if they so choose."

https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/10/senat...
Plot twist - Zuckerberg whistleblows on himself to the entire human race for being an undercover alien/robot hybrid posing as a nerdy billionaire.
It's more nuanced than that. In America calls for raising taxes are usually in the name of some public good, eg infrastructure. How true that is is up to personal interpretation. In China it's purely about power, namely removing any semblance of power held by non government entities.
Stephen Kotkin is an interesting historian that (I think) would argue that China's govt is still very much communist and perhaps that their adoption of capitalist ideas were a necessary compromise and not a rejection of their former ideals
Why not use a ZeroW instead of a 4B... the power consumption is like 7-10x less!

Maybe they are hard to get hold of, but so are the 4B now.
Since when are you the comment police ? ;)
> The author appears to be a CCP mouthpiece.

The publication.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/world/asia/south-china-mo...
If you're referring to GPU passthrough, then yes, in practice much better with AMD cards then Nvidia cards.
Down now, but: https://web.archive.org/web/20211017100519/http://www.cs.ute...
I used to wear the DPO hat, so this comes from a vantage point of having been in the weeds: ignorance is no excuse for incompetence.

"Doing GDPR" badly because you don't know any better? Then don't even try to walk that tightrope. Don't track. At all. If you use on third parties who don't give you the option to do it right, then dump those third parties.
> IPSec/IKEv2 is not breaking anything,

Yes it does. It’s trivial to screw up the configuration into broken security.
This was really fun to play around with.

Are the new humans with postures randomly created? Why does it get so slow after 10-15 iterations?
There are always more than 100 people on hypergrid and more
than a thousand online regions: https://opensimworld.com/
As long as their first 10 suggestions aren’t paid adverts. They could also sell your search history, or track what you read.
Seems like Kotlin but using a preprocessor approach instead of a whole different compilation process.
I wonder if that allows to use newer javac features and be better optimized than kotlin's equivalent.
DocuSign Launches ‘Ventures’ Fund to Target Legal Tech Sector
> On the other hand, an IPFS version will continue to exist at the same address for as long as anyone is seeding it.

I wonder how that would work, a naive direct translation seems impractical. An address identifies an exact piece of content, so a hacker news article gets a new adress every time a comment is added?
Indeed, there's above board white label options for embedded search from most of the indexers, usually for a nominal fee.

Really depends on what kind of content your dealing with. Search can be as hard as you want it to be.
And of course, the CDC's hilarity toolbox: Back Orifice. Being able to eject all the CD-ROM drives in a computer lab together was really worth it.
The only experiment is Frederick's experiment.

This was a very long time ago but I can imagine nobody does want to repeat this experiment.
The proof in the end is quite straightforward, but I wonder: how justified is the assumption of a "non-abnormal" predicate? The authors' explaination involves probabilities, but (probability) measures often do not mesh well with intuitively "reasonable examples". (E.g a significant fraction of the real numbers mathematicans care about are rational, but the rationals have measure zero)
Hmm - looking at the lottery version of this...

Is it really as simple as 2 out of 50 chance vs 6 out of 200 chance ?
Wikihistory - https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/

A sound of thunder - http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.p...

The last question - https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
If an architect designs a building that’s unsafe, they get serious consequences.

If they design one that’s safe and the company ignores the design, doesn’t maintain it correctly, it’s the companies fault.

From the article, both the architecture and the operation of the network was wrong - to the point that a kid in his bedroom could kill people with it.

KPN and the judges asserted this network design and operation was a serious threat to human life. At the very least the health and safety authority should be shutting it down and arresting those responsible, and the CEO, CTO and CISO could then show how they weren’t responsible.
From my point of view in terms of memory safety with Zig, we could just use Modula-2 or FreePascal/Delphi instead, but they aren't as fashionable.
Like I said, this is a point where the EU and the United States differ.

In several countries of the EU, if not all, you have the right to decide whether anyone takes picture material of you, and how it is used. This, of course, includes video.

As I wrote elsewhere, there is no way for such glasses (that are uploading to facebook) to ever be used legally in these countries. Even if they merely feed an anonymous algorithm, they are still based on illegal actions. And what facebook likes about it, is that it's the people wearing the glasses who break the law. And the small details about uploading and processing the data... well who's gonna sue (successfully)?

So, the replies in this thread indicate that facebook will develop this technology, knowing full well it will profit from people breaking the law with it. They slightly cloud the issue here (open, data, yada yada) in hopes countries do not disallow such tech from the get go ... but only slightly. No, they are cocksure about this scheme working out.

In the US, of course, there's no issue in the first place.
It depends, writing a very targeted engine for your game isn’t necessarily that much slower than using a general purpose engine off the shelf.

The problems usually start when people are more interested in writing the engine than making a game. Then they gravitate towards all sorts of fun technical problems that would be useful in a general purpose engine but not really for their specific set of problems. I’ve also seen this tinkering trap with general purpose engines but quite technical projects.
The parents think giving the kid a computer may have been their biggest mistake. That's not just a matter of them imagining things might have gone differently; they're saying the computer itself was one of the most significant causes of harm. It's like they're deliberately avoiding thinking about the real causes—the factors that led to their son experiencing a different and much worse outcome than the vast majority of people who spend "too much" time on computers as they're growing up.
I've found that people who are the least advanced users tend to adapt faster - "Click here to open $BROWSER and here for $OFFICE" is generally all they need.

For people who somewhat know their OS it can be harder, but for all of vanilla GNOME's flaws, Pop's extentions make it excellent, and quite easy to use.
It's the bad political decisions like the stimulus checks and the "too big to fail" bailouts. This article makes it sound like it's tied to climate change??? Wow. I don't doubt it's happening, I'm just saying we can clearly see inflation occurring in real time for anyone that is paying attention. Dare I say, this is a desired outcome for those in power, but that is just speculation.
Can you share/open source your system?

I used to use a SaaS that did exactly the but unfortunately they shut down after a few years. I still have my notes in Gmail since they were just emails but I miss getting the reminders.

P.S. I like your description of this as your log of your brain.
BTW, people do not need to run opensimulator to visit regions, they can join an open grid like OSgrid and use firestorm viewer to visit anywhere. There are lots of people that give away free land to people who want a home: https://opensimworld.com/land
> Unix is very less bloated

Depends on which UNIX you are talking about, specially commercial UNIXes.
FB to “create 10k high-skilled jobs in EU”
How Does AI Knows the Hot Styles and Fashion Trends of the Next Season?
It's exactly what I was talking about with my friend today.

Not just "Hacking", but anything that's not the straight path is addictive, because it's fun.

Be it hacking computers, people, or algorithms. Doing things in a creative way unlocks our brain and makes it more exciting.

When used for evil things, it takes a turn and the world is a less good space.
Female thriller writer who won €1m literary prize revealed to be three men
Linux mint might be a good candidate. The distro also took a stand against snap(-store), and chrome/chromium works fine afaik.
You seem to underestimate how slowly logarithms grow.
You could say the Same about non IOMMU CPU virtualization. The problem here is AMD and Nvidias disgusting greed that has held back security by at least a decade. GPU virtualization (vGPU/MxGPU) is supported but only if you pay ridiculous enterprise licensing. This should be a first class feature like VT-d and would enable a usable Qubes desktop and Microsoft's VBS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU_virtualization#Mediated_pa...

MS also killed RemoteFX because of security.
"Common Prosperity" is a marketing label to try to legitimize persecution of high tech billionaires who own platforms whose success/failure could destabilize the government. All of the major Chinese tech companies have created "Common Prosperity" funds now, which are essentially direct money transfers to the CCP for it to implement whatever agenda they have at the moment.