skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few people are willing to spend it - that's coming from someone who has spent some money on getting a VR racing setup. Many people who have tried it think its fun but then ask me how much it was and say 'well I'm glad you enjoy it'.

Driving a real car down a windy road is 1000x better than the best Vr setup.
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My favourite brutalist building is in Belgrade: the Western City Gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_City_Gate
> So, what causes house prices to rise faster than incomes is not an approach of making housing an investment per se, but a focus on making it an investment competitive with the stock market and attractive to institutional investors seeking outright yield.

If it is an investment, it has to be competitive by definition. Otherwise your aim is something different than investment, which should be the case for housing ideally.
He's a very proficient developer. He made 95% of internet sites.
Always imagined that these places would have more in common with Westworld where we (the product) are there for the pleasure of the rich.

This is just the latest installment of MZ's (literal) self-enrichment. OP have mentioned that people like him don't get it - they're the villain in these narratives - I can only but agree.
fancyzones is a free windows powertoy already. Everyone who thinks they need one can have one.
VR is very different from 3D cinema, at least in games. A 3D movie is 99.95% the same experience as the 2D version, but VR games are fundamentally different because both the visuals and far more importantly the inputs are in 3D. Many of the player interactions used in Boneworks and Half-Life Alyx are really awkward if not outright impossible in traditional pancake games: using both hands to do different things at the same time, throwing physics objects with specific force and direction or taking cover behind objects of arbitrary size and shape and so on.

Having these capabilities of course does not mean that VR games are automatically superior. In fact, the vast majority of VR games are kinda clunky compared to traditional PC and console games. But they enable fundamentally new interactions which are really interesting to experiment with, and shouldn't be discarded as just gimmicks.
Amazon reveals 20% stake in electric-vehicle maker Rivian
> For one, it's closer to a proper programming language as opposed to straight up data interchange format. Sure if you write it in YAML than you can take advantage of variables but YAML's syntax for variables is pretty gross.

I think that's what AWS CDK[0] and Terraform's CDKTF[1] are trying to solve.

Given the context of your example, I'd liken Terraform to CSS and CloudFormation to HTML; CDK/TF to Javascript. It's not a great analogy, but Terraform as is right now is just close enough to a programming language to deceive you into treating it like one. But it really isn't and those issues become glaringly clear the more you use it.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

[1] https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/cdktf
You know Netflix started by mailing DVDs to people, right?
I think it’s sad that all this needs to be given one exciting label when it’s actually multiple trends that aren’t even necessarily related.

One, it is inevitable that our concept of identity will continue to change. How people opt in and out of a persistent identity/persona/brand, and how that interacts with community standards, seems a key concern for the future. This can happen just as much in textual media as anywhere else.

Two, 3D worlds. Most tools we have today are more efficient ways of interacting than being embodied in a space. 3D games on 2D screens are fun but I see no need to somehow standardise and share these, and I certainly don’t want to move any of my day to day interactions into them.

Three, VR and augmented reality. The headsets are just bad. I don’t want to wear one at home, let alone at work or on a bus. AR apps are all janky demos on tiny screens. But it won’t always be like this, eventually let’s assume you have near perfect fidelity in a HUD on some nice sunglasses. That’ll be fun when it happens but it’s more than a decade off so I don’t know why people are making any bets on this stuff now.

Four, AI. When I finally have my cool sunglasses, I will immediately realise that the UI is dreadful. At that point, we better hope that AI and personal assistants have moved on or it’s all going to be for nothing. We will need subvocalisation tech to make these palatable for use at work or in public. If AI is good enough to service these interfaces, however, I strongly suspect the nature of work and life will be radically different anyway. Having a cadre of intelligent agents out there in cyberspace representing my interests? That’s cool, but also makes me think the actual metaverse is going to be optimised for machines not humans. We’re not going to be able to keep up.

Of these, the flashy 3D avatar stuff seems to be what people focus on and yes, does seem a trivially stupid idea. But despite my cynicism, I can’t discount the rest, beyond the fact that it all seems very far off.
An atheist is anyone who lacks an affirmed belief in the existence of God - God being a powerful thinking entity responsible for the creation of the reality in which we exist.

Sure, we can’t make sense of how reality exists, or find evidence that a god is responsible - but is that sufficient to assert incoherence? Is it less incoherent to believe that reality has a property of self-creation, as many physicists do?
There's so many possible confounding effects that it's hard to take this at face value.
> The idea is to show the team that the buying process is complex and that tracking in our neat little funnels is a rough proxy at best.

I think this is worth specifically calling out. We’re all so blinded by numbers on a dashboard that we forget to take a look at the wider context.

People take numbers at face value, and for various reasons, those numbers are frequently wrong. In even more cases we don’t even know to what degree those numbers are wrong so we’re left making imperfect decisions based on a complete misunderstanding of what we’re seeing.
Really it was more of an observation. I do think governments have a role in regulating markets and preventing businesses from externalizing costs. I would really like if the DOJ and SEC stepped up antitrust and insider trading litigation.
It won't be affected at all, only resales (not initial sales) would be taxed.
The solution is simple. State that you are not comfortable with it. If others cannot respect that then that is their own issue.
Very true. Also if I choose to drive a car in metaverse it would be either a Lamborghini Aventador or a clown car propelled by bubbles. The kind of sensible cars I would consider in real life would be way too boring in an environment where anything can happen :p
Maybe but we're now drifting really far into the realm of blind speculation.
They can’t possibly believe this stuff. They have a financial interest in keeping prices high. That is the simplest explanation.
Don't worry, we will also use text in the metaverse
I’d note that because something is hard to measure doesn’t make it “made-up” or unimportant. And that concentrating on things that are easy to measure doesn’t make them more important and in fact can bias things badly.
Whoa there, simmer down whipper snapper
US government threw $200 billion of taxpayers money in reviving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after a crisis which they helped making possible.

By subsidizing borrowing the government is pushing the prices up and making life worse for both the people who have to borrow to get a house and the people who previously didn't have to borrow to buy a house.

Also the prices rising because anyone can borrow and letting anyone to borrow whether they can afford it or not will make another crisis more probable.

But at least some politicians got votes because they appeared to be siding with "the people".
Oculus Quest no longer requires Facebook account
Yet social media has enabled, and arguably thrived on, griefing and trolling at an industrial scale.

What's worrying is...what if FB manages to create a metaverse that thrives on the same toxicity that FB itself does. And through the Oculus makes the tech cheap and portable enough to get a critical mass of people involved in it.
As far as I can tell, N26's "digital wallet" is just N26 itself. It's a bank account with a debit card, except they can't call it a bank account because of reasons, so they call it a digital wallet. It's nothing special, and I don't see how it lets you route based on sender.
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That's very interesting. Subranges is a feature that I have always liked in Pascal and other languages.

You do have any more detail about the reasoning why Wirth thought this feature was "not worth it" for Oberon? Were programmers not using this feature in Pascal and Modula-2? Did Wirth consider it more noise or complexity in those languages?
That's disappointing for sure, but it's worth remembering how TINY Roku is compared to its competitors:

Amazon: about 1,300,000 employees

Google: about 135,000 employees

Roku: about 2,000 employees

Maybe they just don't have the resources to support a rich third-party dev ecosystem
It’s not just US.

I bought a land (950m2) to build a house in 2016 for 38k €, now after just 5 years its value is 110k €. (Nothing has changed since then)

My house cost me about 120k € to built in 2017, and now that house (with price of land included) is 350k. (Thats the official quote from bank)

And this is in eastern Slovakia, near big city.
Somewhat more verbose.

A great part of the verbosity is due to the fact that unlike CPL/BCPL/B/C and the languages inspired by them, which have replaced the Algol statement parentheses begin and end with "{" and "}" or similar symbols, Ada uses relatively long words as statement parentheses, e.g. loop and end loop.

On the other hand, a good feature of Ada is that it followed Algol 68 in having different kinds of statement parentheses for different program structures, so you do not need to spend any time in wondering whether a closing "}" matches the one opened by a "for" or by an "if", many lines above.
> Something like 30,000 people died every year from the regular flu in the USA alone, before pandemic. Social distancing (and masks) would bring that number to close to 0.

How many of that number are people dying with flu, as opposed to from flu?

It wasn't long ago that pneumonia was called "old man's friend".

Measures to coddle our immune system can also be counter productive. The flu season in the UK is feared to be bad this year, as people have spent so long without mixing.
We have an official reseller but it’s been out of stock for months unfortunately. The making a quick buck on other people’s misfortune thing is widespread here. PS5s still cost upwards of $1000.
I don't know a lot about Japans housing market, but I've read plenty times that houses are not built to last in Japan which probably has something to do with the low housing prices.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...
By “no”, do you mean you’re in favor of maintaining the status quo where race “continues to be an implicit factor”?

I fail to see how using financial weakness as discriminating factor would not address financial weakness in the black community.
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Historically, this argument is only made by people who have never cracked open a history book.
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I thought the juxtaposition between the cringey, overproduced keynote and Carmack’s talk was amazing. Just a guy in front of some monitors telling you the whole thing you just watched was nonsense. It was beautiful.
the qemu driver for nomad seems pretty bare bones compared to kubevirt

https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/qemu

https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/virtual_machines/disks_and_vo...

Is terraform generally used to deploy workloads to nomad instead of writing tasks directly?
Actually the various torrent aggregators usually have a comment section and if you don't download 0-days it's already vouched safe/unsafe by the time you get to it.
What’s the benefit of including vector art as font rather than SVG?

How do you do multiple colors in fonts?
Yeah and once you have built all this cross-platform integration and standardisation between the game companies involved….

They’ll find it’s easier to just use a centralised database they collectively run or contract out or whatever. The whole idea of putting the “ownership records” on a public blockchain doesn’t help the system work at all and adds a ton of complexity (not to mention environmental concerns).

But like, eh, yay blockchain!
I'm a layman at this but felt like I understood after reading this:

https://wiki.skullsecurity.org/index.php?title=Fundamentals

also, that might be dated, so additionally search around for 'Ghidra'. Iirc, hackers at the NSA convinced their bosses the US would be more secure if the gen pop had access to their tools. Cool stuff.
I know, right! I just love how Carmack delivered the line: "... But Mark Zuckerberg decided it's time to build the metaverse..."

Edit: Here's Carmack's keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo
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Newer versions of Terraform are much better. I think they went v1.0 at the right time. But I do agree that there are still plenty of warts in TF compared to a "proper" programming language. However TF 1.0 is still easily far more composable than CSS currently is. If anything, YAML (and thus CloudFromation) is more equivalent to CSS than TF is given YAML's support in the spec for variables, templates, etc.

I'm yet to try Hashicorps CDKTF but from what I've used of CDK it felt like the audience was a little different to those that would use TF. CDK feels more for orgs that would have the same team who write the application code (eg lambdas) also write the infra, a bit like Serverless (sls) is. Whereas Terraform tends to be more suited for orgs that like different teams managing infra from those managing application development. Generally speaking of course.

Ultimately all the above tools work fine for production systems so its often just a question of preference.
The web already teaches to think beyond the limits of physical reality. Take learning for example: compared to regular books, the web lets you instantly link between topics, pause and explore related resources, go back where you paused, rewind with newfound knowledge, explore multiple paths at once.

New abilities to interact is meant to fundamentally transform data in the same way the web added links, not merely put lipstick on existing pigs.

Instead, marketing execs (whose real goal is merely to sell more ads) want to recreate the boring experience of being stuck in an auditorium because this is what the aesthetic of "learning" looks like to them and they can't imagine learning differently.

A key difference is choice: you opt-in to look at something, you choose to pause and explore a topic further, you're not passively being marketed at like people who leave the tv on all day in the background.

It's so frustrating that there are so many exciting wonderful advances being done in all kinds of domains and they get overshadowed by the marketing gimmicks.
Realistically hashes are used during the development of a game to detect when a file or asset hash changed, and therefore it will trigger regeneration of assets that depend on it. For some long or slow build steps it is better to rely on a hash changing than the timestamp changing to trigger a build. It can also be used to fetch pre-built data from where it's cached on a server.

That's why it should be fast and doesn't have to be cryptographic.

Regarding security if you're at the point of someone malicious creating a file on your internal systems you've already lost the battle.
I didn't watch this but your description gives me hope that someone, somewhere has noted how dot matrix printers made for great audio samples. Public Enemy comes to mind.
For development purposes you very much can run Nomad and Consul on a single host. They recommend you don't, as you lose any HA, of course, but for those of us not seeking 5 nines of availability, that's quite acceptable.

In my lab I'm actually running a two-node cluster, but that's 'even worse' and engenders the occasional mildly surprising failure states.

Anyway, I can highly recommend setting up Nomad (and some friends) on a single host. It's going to be much more robust & interesting than 'some janky shell scripts'. : )
It looks like the other thing I'm missing is the shared database. Which idk if Postgres counts, my stuff is not that high performance but wondering if I need something else like Redis.
Amen to GeoCities. They had a concept of addresses within neighborhoods. My friends and I all made our own pages, experimenting with web tech.

And remember webrings and Internet Link Exchange?

I'd also say that MySpace and Tumblr carried that vision forward.

It's ironic that Facebook won, with its bland conformity, and now they think they're going to bring us the metaverse.
> If the metaverse is truly a decentralized, collaborative space

We're talking about facebook here. I expect the metaverse to be designed 100% according to the wishes of ad buyers. And Cambridge Analytica.
For disc versions or botched official releases gamecopyworld still seems to be there. Back when games still came on discs, i downloaded the crack even before trying to install a freshly bought game.

Ofc, this is mostly a moot point now with GoG. If GoG manages to convince the publisher to let them sell the game without DRM.

Edit @stavros: You and anyone suffering from nostalgia should check GoG regularly :) I probably have most of my childhood games on there now.
I detect wisdom of the eternal variety
Sleep is instrumental in forming long term memories IIRC. So it's not at all surprising that better sleep quality would result in improved grades, seeing how they largely depend on you being able to understand and remember stuff for the tests, and other academic activities.

Though I'm surprised that physical exercise did not correlate. Is positive effect on mental performance is well established in the literature. I suppose "more studies are needed" (which means "we don't know" in academia-speak).
Which perhaps reinforces the idea that they should have leaned on open-source instead of proprietary tech?
What do people here think about Pulumi?
It isn't faster than the L1 memory system which is the most relevant thing to measure to compare hash algos, as already explained. (duplicated here for clarity/flow)

Also, I perhaps could more fully motivate my time equation parenthetical. With such an equation in hand, one can easily compare hash functions with differing trade offs, such as Wang Yi's hash and Farm Hash:

mem-wy : tCC = (0.1573 +- 0.0039)*bytes + (7.10 +- 0.13)
mem-farm: tCC = (0.3017 +- 0.0014)*bytes + (2.347 +- 0.044)

t1 = t2 => m1*n + b1 = m2*n + b2 => n = (b1-b2)/(m2-m1)
n = (7.1 - 2.347) / (.3017 - .1573)
= (4.753 +- .137) / (0.1444 +- 0.0041)
= 32.9 +- 1.3 bytes

where this final number is how long strings need to be before Wang Yi's is faster than Farm. So, it is a nicely convenient summary. (And this is true even without my fancy statistical error estimates...)

Of course full charts/graphs/yadda-yadda can be even better, but just two summary numbers can also be nice.
Horse riding is a fun example of your observation. Its above 30 to 1 women versus male riders. Untill you enter the higher level of competitions, then its the reverse.

I've done horse riding, its unique and fun but definitely not for me.
I perfectly agree. It's just that when it comes to these points, I am quite annoyed that in the whole world, only Apple seems to realize that UX is a thing that's too subtle to design by committee.

In principle, we could have a $500 version of the 2009 polycarbonate Crackbook, which minus the short-lived screen hinges was the point where Apple hit a usability threshold that made it a dream to use a laptop. Since only Apple realizes this, they could demand a ridiculous UX premium even if they offered a laptop today with 2009-level hardware.

But hey, I suppose modern JavaScript on the web kills the hope of being able to use it with old hardware anyway, eh :P And those of us who care don't think twice about spending >$1000 on a laptop, it's the most important extension of your mind and that's worth the premium.
An average women don't need's (normally) 2400 Calories as written.

>>Generally, the recommended daily calorie intake is 2,000 calories a day for women and 2,500 for men.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/wha...

>>women are likely to need between 1,600 and 2,400 calories a day, and men from 2,000 to 3,000. However, this depends on their age, size, height, lifestyle, overall health, and activity level.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245588#_noHeaderPr...
What is true is that the amount of time people spend finessing their fictional online persona vs their boring reality is dramatically shifting, particularly for younger generations.

It's now common for some to use stylized/beautified cartoon 'avatars' in a professional context. People communicate using contrived and performative message board speak with coworkers. Even the 'influencers' spend a large chunk of their life editing and constructing an unrecognisable version of themselves.

If you meet some of these people in real life it's obvious why they do so - reality is too dull, too expensive in time and effort to find a way of standing out from the crowd. Online you can pretend to be whatever you want to be. I see this trend continuing.
You can also create an apple ID, and get no-cost software from their app store (and update preinstalled ones) without a payment method, according to this article which is pretty recent. I did this myself many years ago and it worked.

https://www.macworld.com/article/334285/how-to-set-up-an-app...
How about ordering from China?

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Foldable-Supportive-T...

Any danger with chemicals?
As somebody who mixes TV and film, I can tell you right now that the overwhelming majority of consumers don't care about surround sound, even if it adds a lot to the experience. Consumers are easily pleased.

The average consumer doesn't want to immerse themselves and inhabit another world, they want to append to their existing one in an unintrusive way. This is an America-centric fantasy. Internet connections aren't good enough in many places, and a VR/AR headset is going to be inaccessibly priced.
I spent almost a year living in a brutalist building in Prague. It was a concrete slab with an huge central courtyard, like a prison yard. You could not access the courtyard, it was dark and dingy. But it was completely full of pigeons. Maybe a thousand pigeons lived there. The inner balcony at the back of the apartment was caked with about 3" of pigeon shit. One day I woke up and found they were power washing the entire inside of the building. This caused the volatilization of several metric tons of pigeon shit into large white clouds over several days.

The building had one other interesting feature, which was an old style sliding-cage elevator, just big enough for two people. The inner gate of the cage was missing, so there was nothing between you and the massive concrete floors sliding past as you crossed each level. From the 5th level down to the 2nd, each white-painted floor featured a giant dark blood stain, in the same general area. This started very wide and got thinner at each floor, so it was obvious someone had lost a leg or an arm, or maybe a head.