skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is where the subreddit part comes along.

r/bitcoin is and has been for a very long time an absolute cesspit, even before the censorship plays came about.

No one I know really interested/involved in Bitcoin goes there anymore.
There needs to be many metaverses, and NFT's should be able to be shared between them. It's dangerous to think about the prospect of a major company like Facebook (Or a DAO for that matter) locking up the entire universe.
It seems we abandoned the vision for greater good that we had in the seventies: EPA, endangered species, Title IX. Nixon gets maligned but he pushed through some good regulations back then.
Is it FB or social media and big tech in general? I'm confused by the laser focus on FB all of a sudden.
I thought the market has repeatedly shown there isn't much demand for persistent virtual worlds?
I took it more as a comment on the sheer ineptitude and uselessness of TSA as anything beyond security theater.

I have no qualms about the change and think it's about damn time they made even this tiny modicum of effort to support non-binary people, but I'm almost certain that anyone with an X will be questioned about it regardless. Hell, even perfectly legit passports get questioned all the time.

Story time!

A buddy of mine flies with his US passport at all times, even for domestic flights, because he's of Arab decent and constantly gets hassled for it. One time we were flying together with a student group (we were in college at the time), he gets pulled aside by a couple of TSA agents as part of a "random inspection", out of a line of 20-30 people all mostly white or light complected.

He starts getting grilled about everything from destination, reason for the flight, bags, etc. Then they ask to see his ID and boarding pass. He hands over his passport and boarding pass and they start going off on him as to why he's got his passport for a domestic flight, how that looks suspicious and such.

He responds with "I get stopped for looking Arab every time I fly, so this just proves I'm a US citizen and is a federal ID." They stop and finally realize they've got everyone looking at them, hand back his passport and ticket and walk away.
The M1 is very fast and efficient but you exaggerate a little.
Exactly, all hail King Zuckerberg?

Snark aside, if something like this virtual world were to be created, I would want more democratic representation, not where one person can rule for life.
> I think we all have much bigger problems to spend our time obsessing over.

You can hold more than one thought at a time.

Media manipulation is a thing, and here's an example of it - they must have thought it's not a big deal, since they're so callous of showing the man behind the curtain. If you don't find it a problem, speak for yourself. There's many, many stories of how Facebook manipulated during the US election cycle. Also not worth thinking about?
How so? You're saying that what I described should not be allowed aren't you?
I would offer that Smalltalk has the most straight forward model of OO. If you want to compare OO models I might compare ST to C# instead.
Maybe, but the fake vagina in general is just gross looking and conveys perversion. The stigma is that you come off as a pervert. That's pretty much it from my perspective.

It would be weirder to find a skin toned realistic dick dildo in a woman's room than it would be to find a silicon vibrator ring or wand or tube in a man's room.
I would contend based on my earlier post that they would still be better served by a MacBook Air at a similar price point (even if they could unlock their iPad). In other words, I don’t see an advantage for the overwhelming majority of students.
CAD is also Magic which is alive and well.
If that was the goal, there are many many ways that a company with the resources of Facebook could dominate rankings for a term without renaming their entire company a subset of that term.
I love this. It's democratising fuel production, which is important step towards redistribution of wealth around the world. Anyone who can tap into cheap renewable energy source can make a profit.
You can use the translation tool in Chrome to get English translations, works pretty well.

For pinyin, there are some browser extensions for Chinese dictionaries, where you can hover over a word and get the pinyin (or bopomofo ;)).

I'd like to implement these eventually, but for now I think it's best to mix and match different tools to fit your own needs.

Live TV and audio transcriptions shouldn't be too difficult to implement, any particular sources you'd like to see?
Yes, the power of anecdote over data. The vast, vast majority of people who receive these benefits use them as intended. I know that it's virtually impossible to get people to stop letting their day-to-day interactions inform their position on welfare benefits, but please at least try and look at the program as a whole, and not individual uses of said program.
My kneejerk reaction is this will probably waste a lot of their money without much traction. But I'm also happy about Facebook wasting a bunch of their money...
> We care about how fast you could learn new things that we haven't even thought of yet.

Are you accurately able to determine that in a conversation that lasts less than an hour? If so, I am really curious how.

I tutored people for years in college and I don't recall my first impressions being all that accurate. Accuracy would be even worse if I also had to guess the speed at which they would learn.
See also: Philip Morris rebranding itself Altria.
Wow, did they pick the last four letter word that wasn't a startup name?
So will they be keeping the same domain names, or am I going to have to redo my Pi-Hole setup? I guess I'll add a wildcard entry for "meta.com" just to get ahead of things.
It took them a full year to point out the obvious anti-competitive issues here?

I mean I’m glad they are doing it but this really is governance at a snails pace.
I think FAANG is more often used as a career benchmark, i.e. working at Netflix looks good on your resume and pays well.
97038628 is for META. (with a dot) but 90897345 looks interesting, out of Arizona, as it is simply META:

https://alter.com/trademarks/meta-90897345
The presentation talks a lot about the metaverse being built on open standards and protocols but it still seems extremely vague

Have they actually detailed this anywhere?

For example a most basic question: what 3D engine is this going to run on?

Is that engine open source?

What are the formats for assets/models/materials?

What blockchain is hosting the NFT assets?
Well, shucks! Years ago, I had an unpublished iOS app named Meta! Oh well!
> We patented using stackable trays!

I'd just start gesturing wildly at cafeteria trays that have been around for decades.
It's fixed now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29027355
From the article: "So when the coastal ports started getting clogged up last spring due to the impacts of COVID on business everywhere, drivers started refusing to show up. Congestion got so bad that instead of being able to do three loads a day, they could only do one."

I could not make the connection from the first sentence to the second. If drivers are not showing up, congestion (in the lines for drivers) should go down, shouldn't it?
Appearing gross and perverted to most people is the so what. You can acknowledge that even if you're totally sex positive.
As to "how is it patentable," I think lots of other responses are probably right as to the current state of the law, but to me the more interesting question is the policy one: "why should it be patentable." Like, to the extent that patents are a deliberately market-distorting mechanism that's meant to incentivize invention, do they actually work as intended here? Like, does anyone seriously believe that if patents didn't protect this idea, nobody would have "invented" the idea of putting trays on a cart anyway? And assuming they would have, what's the social/public utility of having a patent system with a bar as low as ours, if it doesn't actually incentivize anything at least in the case of these most-seemingly-stupid patents?
There are also a ton of ongoing news stories and stories in that past which were completely censored off HN. I cannot talk about them or link them here, but please know that they exist.
Why link a study of studies when you could just link data?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
It wasn't enough for them to ruin the world, they had to ruin the word meta too.
Sun fired off an X1-class solar flare, possible wide-area radio blackout
From a newtonian perspective you can imagine that gravity emits a force between all pairs of massive objects. That's a good way to look at it for small values of mass. It works pretty well on the scale of our whole solar system. This is what you're imagining when you say "not by gravity but by spacetime curvature".

But gravity is spacetime curvature. It is manifested by changes to spacetime itself made by that mass. For very large values of mass (or density in this case) that newtonian approximation doesn't hold according to experiment. We need a different model and the model that we've found that works is that mass changes the shape of spacetime. Its presence changes the nature of straight lines and the paths that you can follow (geodesics).

A black hole causes all possible paths of spacetime, paths that light must follow because it travels through spacetime, to point into the black hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Event_horizon Light must follow straight lines but because the space containing those lines is curved, there don't exist any of those lines that point outside of the black hole. Once you've crossed the event horizon, space itself doesn't have any straight lines that point outward, there are no paths that you can follow.

It's even weirder than this because we're mostly familiar with motion through space so that's probably what you (and I) are imagining, but this is motion through spacetime. So really the correct thing to say is that there exist no 4-d paths that point outside of the black hole that are also in the future. And that's even weirder than it sounds because you asked about light specifically and light doesn't experience time the same way you and I do. So our intuitions and our ability to map reality to the nice charts that we're used to looking at are pretty limited here.
Thanks for your kind words! Yeah, yesterday was such a roller coaster! The comment section is like a gold mine of good features to implement. We took the easy one to implement first, and will continue to add more complex ones!
Similar in Arabic (maita).
This is a complete misunderstanding about what it is to be poor. Poor people including "perpetually poor" aka most poor people are poor because they are lacking not in financial literacy but rather the necessary skills to make sufficient money to graduate from being poor. It's not that they fritter their money away its that they don't have any.

They do jobs that pay them barely enough to afford their shitty lives and invest between commuting and working 50-65 hours doing so in between being parents and spouses and doing not only all the things you do save take time off but doing the paperwork, phone calls, meetings, and leg work to convince people that they are in fact still poor and still need benefits.

If were to sit down and spend time optimizing these people's financial lives you would find that the amount "frittered" away is so tiny compared to child care, food, rent, medical costs that it wouldn't make a difference. Taking someone that for example makes and spends 20,800 and helping them not "fritter" away the 800 will not provide them with a means to climb out of poverty. There never was in that scenario enough resources no matter how they are budgeted.

The most canonical example of this absurdity used to be complaining about poor people buying TVs with tax return checks as if someone who is $40,000 below a middle class household income would SOMEHOW be doing OK if they hadn't spent that $500. My other favorite example is people complaining about poor people pulling out an EBT card and a smartphone wherein the EBT card signifies that the government has decided that your income is $5000 short of what is required to eat and live and the phone costs $200 once + $20 a month while providing vital utility.

Ultimately the benefits you describe as being targeted are pretty much targeted at keeping people from climbing out of poverty. Look at health insurance you can get medicine and care for nothing up until about $2000 a month income and then you have to buy your own insurance. Subsidies are great but they apply only if your employer doesn't offer an "affordable" plan the definition of affordable being if I recall correctly about 12% of your gross salary for the individual plan. There being tax benefits this inspires your employer to offer an "affordable plan" for individuals while jacking up the cost of covering your family. For example with my employers plan the employee + spouse costs 4x as much.

Ultimately moving up from substantial poverty to ordinary poor is actually a net loss. You could if you don't ever want to move up or believe you will be able to be better off staying a little poorer working part time and collecting benefits. Think about that! Would you like to work 60 hours to be as well off as you were working 24? How do you think people respond to that sort of incentive structure?
Don’t like Facebook one bit, but Zuck is almost always spot on with his bets. So yes, incredibly scary as it has a high likelihood of succeeding.
All this talk about the future is getting kinda boring at this point. I feel like it's been a good 7 years of talking about what will come in the near future and other than that near stagnation on most other fronts. (Autonomous cars, VR, etc.) I'll care when it's here I guess.
Not sure I agree with the vision but i applaud any company investing millions (billions?) in trying to shake up the internet in 2021.
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A Facebook-controlled metaverse, rising gas prices... it is only a matter of time that humans ends up being used as batteries.
You can still define functions in scripts, and those might wrap commands or accidentally share their names.
In the metaverse, Facebook's crypto will become the legal tender. They may get away with rolling out Libra/Diem over there.

A VR world controlled by Facebook, with Diem as currency, that can only be accessed by Oculus... what can go wrong?

My kids will never use that crap I assure you.
Interverse?
I got a bunch of user emails for my HN client (I am the dev for HACK client on iOS, Android and Mac) that the comment count were all zeroes for some reason. By the time I got to troubleshoot the issue, the issue disappeared. I emailed the mods and they told me they had accidentally introduced a bug which caused the issue.
I'm sorry you feel that way. It sounds difficult. I believe there are many things that could help you find more pleasure in life and also find more fulfilling sex. I recommend searching for those things, and looking for people who can help you. But I'm actually commenting to point out that sex with a prostitute doesn't have to be risky, despite stereotypes. Most prostitutes are frequently tested for infectious diseases, and most will have no objection if you ask to see a recent clean test. Very very few prostitutes will have unprotected sex. And you could even find a less active prostitute who doesn't have sex with many people. The biggest risk is probably legality, depending on where you're based. But, assuming you have legal access to it, I would recommend seriously considering it. It's a fair exchange of something you have, for something you need that could really help you get what you want out of life. As long as it's between consenting adults, there is no problem with safely exploring this option. One note that I would recommend if you do pursue it is to also pursue personal growth at the same time, because few people find that sex with a prostitute was what they really wanted, and you may find that what you really want in life will take a lot of work to achieve.
The video they put out is extremely cringe. The whole “metaverse” thing is cringe.

It makes me believe Zuckerberg is completely surrounded by yes-men who never challenge him and only tell him what he likes to hear. He is truly detached from us normal people and our human experience.
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The people claiming money from him now to provide "services" to him for millions of dollars a year are the very ones that enabled his demise. You can't have it both ways.
I just looked at two of those lists and 100% of the options listed were from companies that also make smart TVs, which violates what you said: "you are still giving money to the company that engages in this kind of behavior".

I don't mind if they sell a bunch of smart TVs where they never capture the revenue they expect from apps, and it hurts their conversion and engagement metrics.
I think it's "hairy" because it's not an explanation - the proposed particle is defined (more-or-less) as the error-factor in an equation. Show me the particle, I'll reconsider my views.
This makes one of my favorite Onion articles a lot more pointed: "Sci-Fi Writer Attributes Everything Mysterious To 'Quantum Flux'"

https://www.theonion.com/sci-fi-writer-attributes-everything...
Ask HN: What tools and workflow do you use to understand new libraries
During my PhD I decided to use a C++ library to build my simulation app. One of the reasons I decided to use that particular library was that it was small and that it compiled quickly! That was very useful because my workflow in understanding the code was go through examples, change a line here, put a print statement there, compile and run. It was fine back then, because I had a lot more time to concentrate on a single task, but it did take quite some time. So I basically used git, vim and make.

Now, I am doing something similar but I don't really have the same amount of time. The 2 things I have added to my usual process is to use a debugger (lldb) and document all my findings using Dropbox Paper. I feel that this is definitely much better than before but I am sure that this could be made much more efficient. So the question is what types of tools/workflows are more widely used?
The whole presentation felt a lot like visions of the internet from companies like Microsoft (and others) in the mid-90s.. top-down, centralized.
Are you sure? They explicitly say outside the home. Someone else's home doesn't feel like it crosses that boundary for me.
A classic issue of TCP half open connection. The client/browser side still thinks that the websocket/TCP connection is still alive. It happens because the client is not actively sending any data outbound, which would have helped to reset that connection eventually. It will be nice if the browser side of the websocket connection can also start PING/PONG mechanism.
Maybe not an entire drilling apparatus but what about the bits? What about bolts and nuts that won't cold weld? Bearings that work in a vacuum? I'm sure there are plenty examples. Going further, what about launch systems? Surely those can mostly be built out of off the shelf parts.
Meta for Metastasis
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.

If you look at it from an EU perspective, if you download a book that still falls under copyright in the EU (without permisison) and the server is in the EU, then obviously this is a copyright violation and the person who makes the work available on the server has a problem.

If the server is not in the EU, then the person downloading the book is essentially importing a copyrighted work into the EU without permission of the owner. Which is also a copyright violation.

Then the question becomes to what extent the person who makes the work available has ties to the EU. The stronger the ties, the more effort can be required to avoid such illegal imports. For example, if there would be ads targeted at the German public, then courts would be very quick that this falls under jurisdiction of German courts.

So people in German who would use a VPN to get around the block, who still violate copyright law in Germany.
I was watching the video and got to a bit where Mark said "So we are going to see what some metaverse experiences will be like" and then a pop up came over the video and said "Log In" and I clicked cancel because I didn't want to and the page reloaded itself and lost my place in the video.
Honestly, I think this is less scary than having Facebook acting as a "public square". A meta-verse has a higher bar of entry than a website - including specialized hardware - and it's less likely that governments and businesses will distribute information exclusively in some meta-verse vs. it just being another channel for content distribution.
Looks like Zuckyboi is a big fan of Ready Player One.
The very second that Starship gets to orbit it'll be politically easy for NASA to make a sudden shift
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> Referring to him diminutively as a bureaucrat is unfair. This guy almost certainly didn't even realize he could do anything to fix the problem...

That's kind of the heart of the perennial frustration with bureaucracy: it's nobody's fault, so nothing gets done.
Saying 'this is what I will do when an int can't hold the assigned value' is defining the behavior, ergo it is no longer undefined!

Vendors are allowed to do anything they want when code containing undefined behaviour is submitted to their compiler

Yes, and his compiler is saying that it will trap these events. Are you suggesting that the compiler will secretly ignore this setting and then go on to do all kinds of insane things?
Indeed, reasserting true American values and ideals over the corrupt Soviet ones would help ease some of this moral failing.

One thing that a society under communism has to deal with is reckoning with the fact that, actually, its all a game and there is little difference between what you can get away with, and what is right. In fact the Soviets celebrated and rewarded those people who, as individuals, could play the game best.

while in America we have always valued human enterprise in itself. It's not about the money, it's about collectively coming together to maximize prosperity and well being. People know whats right and good because, as a nation, its manifest that greedy individuals should not be celebrated; goes against the whole idea of the United States that's been there from the start.

It's really sad, I feel like I'm living in the USSR more and more everyday
No, it is not a marketing stunt, I just genuinely want to share how i built it. I am a designer turned coder, so sharing and teaching how to adopt new skills (by others) is what got me here, so I tried to do the same.

I am not affiliated or paid by the tools I used. I start writing about them on my newsletter when I found it useful, and then that leads to this guest post on their blog.
Controlling for cost of living would make sense, but why would you control for race or education?
Why not to compare ST to Java ? What's the "problem" with java?
I think their internal definition of metaverse is probably less literal than people in the media seem to picture - I think they are actually betting on the future of however people communicate, whatever that ends up looking like, be that WhatsApp, social media, VR or something else entirely.
Quest 2 is outselling past VR headsets by leaps and bounds according to news reports. The decision to make a standalone headset and build their own app platform was absolutely the right one from a growth standpoint, even if the hardcore VR consumers aren't biting. Early VR adopters are going to buy the next best product and have no loyalty.
The Fortran codes use Fortran 2008, which added coarrays and the "do concurrent" construct for parallel programming. The latest standard is Fortran 2018, which added teams https://www.fortranplus.co.uk/app/download/29753373/N2161.pd... .