skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh hey, they raised mine by almost 5% this year. But it makes plenty of sense because the purchasing power of a dollar has clearly declined by at least 10% in the same span of time. So, every purchase you make with fiat money in a fiat economy is some form of arbitrage. You're trying to hold value against inflation. Yeah, they raised my taxes but in doing so they invented $25k in value for my house. That's great since I'm going to need that to buy vegetables. In the long run, it doesn't matter. Nothing of value has actually been gained or lost. I raise my hourly rate with inflation.
OT: The word you probably wanted was "seize" not "cease" although they do sound similar in many dialects of English.
Most people would tell you that the car showroom experience is one of the enjoyable parts of buying a car - the new car smells and discovering the knobs and features, and how comfy the lumbar support is in the shiny new models - VR doesn't come close.

I was CTO in an Augmented Reality company that did a lot of user testing (using AR to showcase products) so have atleast a rudimentary understanding of the technology and peoples relationship to it: AR and VR are 'wow' experiences that really excite people before they've tried it and for the first few experience, but apart from a small subset of people the excitement and wonder wears off pretty quickly. When selling things, aspirational photos (the product in a desirable setting) is usually more useful to a buyer than seeing it in AR in their current home.

I first used a $50K VR headset 30 years ago in a CS research department (Dire Straits - Money for Nothing video quality graphics) and it was thrilling but obviously didn't catch on because of the cost and lack of technical performance at the time. The technology available still isn't ready - poor battery / CPU performance really kills mobile AR, the low resolution/field of view/lifelike rendering makes VR painful for the average person.
I don't know if this is a truism in the VR community, but the brain really does want to make consistent sense of things.
I’ve had the opposite experience as I wouldn’t have guessed beforehand how much the right environment would benefit us. Similar quantity of experience. It’s fun to make your home work better for you.
What does it mean to host a personal cloud vs hosting a server? I thought the point of using cloud services was so you didn’t have to host it yourself.
> If we could figure out how to resist, in a reproducible way, the market pressure favoring antisocial behavior, the world would be a much better place.

Isn't that what regulation is for? If business practices harm society, then you legally rein in the business, financially discouraging them from committing such practices.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/no-chocolate-or-ice-cre...

https://wwwl.foodnavigator.com/Article/2015/01/07/Netherland...
>A "country" doesn't "decide" to make an asset class appreciate or depreciate.

In communist regimes they did exactly this.
John Carmack has shown himself capable of repeatedly making good video games, and even when not the greatest still technologically amazing.

Mark has shown that he successfully didn’t destroy a MySpace clone that prints money. Other than that what has he done besides buy already large companies?
> This laptop costs more than twice as much as a retail laptop

Framework VR headsets aside, this is such a misguided statement.

It does absolutely not cost twice as much as an equivalent laptop.

It's the same argument often used for Apple laptops.

Other people are prepared to pay for things that you are not. When you add those things, price increase.
Historically speaking, that kind of argument tends to end in the young generation executing the elderly to forcibly make space.
This. It seems like cities in America now are a great dumping ground and tax shelter for offshore wealth, but virtually useless for actual Americans to work, live or play.

Eventually, even American multi-millionaires will get bored of buying $7M houses in LA and go fuck off to Phoenix, so who needs to live there and service them?
>I raise my hourly rate with inflation.
You are lucky that you are able to do so.
That’s lovely. But it’s not going to be the 400 TEU that Rhine barges do.

Trains in Europe are about 90 TEU, with them being capped by terminal handling capacity and legal maximums. Rail length at terminals in LA seem to be similar to Rotterdam and Antwerp: 600-900m. Let’s assume US freight trains can double their capacity by double stacking their trains. 180 TEU per train is still well under an average barge size.

I couldn’t find modal split numbers for LA, but I’m willing to bet their trucking share is above the ~55% Rotterdam achieves (some 10-15% is rail, remaining share is inland barges)

Trains are ofcourse still way more efficient than trucks.
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> You prevent them from gaining power by winning debates against them and demonstrating to everyone why they're wrong.

"A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots."

It doesn't matter how solid your facts are if people are listening to vox pops of people who back their own internal beliefs.

> There is no way for a Nazi to win that on the facts because the facts are against them. Which is why they have so little actual support.

They don't need support, they just need an echo chamber to be encouraged. Pop onto stormfront and try convince a handful of posters there and see how far you get.

> There are probably more trolls pretending to be Nazis than there are actual Nazis.

If x% (where x is some suitably small number) of a group are the only ones who truly believe it, and the rest are just trolls, then increasing the population size leads to both more trolls and more Nazis. It also doesn't matter to anyone whether the person spewing vitriol is actually a Nazi or a troll when the abuse is directed at them.
Have you heard of Facebook Gaming? It's a streaming platform, like Twitch. Launched in 2007. Nobody uses it.

Did you buy an HTC First, the infamous "Facebook Phone" that was so universally panned, they couldn't even ship out their first production run of phones, despite it being one of the cheapest on the market?

When's the last time you used a Portal?

Facebook has just as many stinkers, despite many smart people working the company.
This is going to age like fine milk; polemics based on subjective aesthetics always do, no matter how tightly wrapped they are in rationalizations.
It depends: yes for a 6-foot active male but no for a 5-foot old sedentary woman. Plenty of people feel full on 1200 and lose weight at a reasonable pace, but they are pretty much all short women. “1200 calories is a myth” is the wrong message.

The real issue IMO is that dieting should never leave you perpetually hungry, genuinely fatigued, or exerting tons of willpower. There is this perception that losing weight is hard. And it can be “hard” like setting a routine or taking a class. But it shouldn’t be hard physically. Because 99.9% of humans simply can’t exert that much willpower over a long period of time.

If you’ve tried a diet for a few weeks (because your body might have to adjust) and you don’t think it’s sustainable, it’s not sustainable and you need to try something different. If you’ve tried cutting calories via whole foods, volume eating, high-protein, intermittent fasting, and keto, and nothing feels sustainable, you should get lab work / a thyroid panel and see your doctor for medication. Constant fatigue and apathy, 24/7 hunger (not just before meals), loss of sex drive, and significant decrease in mood stability are all signs of genuine hunger.
Strange to use China's oversupply as a comparison when it too is the result of intentional government action.

Governments can cause oversupply, governments can cause undersupply. Bet you can think of plenty of examples without my help of government policy resulting in supply for some goods decreasing or increasing relative to demand.

Governments can do a lot. Like, they can pretty much dictate what you're allowed to make, how much they're gonna tax you on profits from making something, who you're allowed to sell it to - they can absolutely decide to cause an asset to appreciate.
And that's why you install questionable software in a virtual machine that you absolutely monitor with every available tool under the moon first. See where it goes, what it exports and brings back, check for file modifications it does with a file monitoring or file difference tool. Also repeat this test 365 times, one for each day of the year - pretty sure automation comes to mind. And only then you can say with a 50% error margin that the thing you downloaded is safe :P
Setting your own price. It's the future. I've been living in it since 1998. I still check pay scales for various skill sets regularly to make sure I'm not totally out of whack with them.
As a DevOps guy, I'm not a huge fan of Terraform.

Often I hear from enterprises that Terraform is cloud agnostic, but that's often very wrong. Terraform modules are still specific to the cloud platform and a rewrite is required to port an app running on AWS to GCP.

If you use AWS, you're probably better off to use AWS Cloudformation and for GCP Google Cloud Deployment manager.

A business reason is often that the engineers are more familiar with Terraform already, but learning Cloudformation is really not that hard...And if you can't work out how to use a basic tool, you should not be running infrastructure anyway, because IT is a constant cycle of change.

I'm not saying Terraform is not good, but I just think a native solution of the platform is preferable over a 3rd party tool.
Untrue: if dividends rise quicker than wages, you can have house prices rise faster than wages.

And in fact earnings from capital now surpass earnings from work in the world (or is it in the west?). So I suspect house prices will continue to rise faster than wages, until enough people got fed up.
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All the other things such as practicality aside, this is an amazing post all around.

The content is interesting even to someone like me who doesn't really care for modding games or has no more than very bare experience with decompilers and dealing with hex editors.

Writing is a great balance between too dry and too verbose or "edgy". The material is super accessible, and it progresses at a very smooth and steady pace. What started with basic debugging ended up in digging through decompiled code and mapping characters for the fixed path manually to preserve the character count in the .inx file.

I swore I was going to only read the intro and read the rest in the morning, but ended up gulping up the whole thing in one go :(
The office example is the real winner for me. But imagine what it would take: a wireless VR headset with massive resolution that still allows me to look at my surroundings so I can drink a coffee or eat my lunch and is comfortable enough to use for several hours with no breaks.

A huge monitor is way cheaper.
According to https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share, Chromium-based/Safari browsers have 93% market share, so I wouldn't really count on other browsers that much.
One of the first rules of decent accessibility is that assumptions will get you in hot water. Asking people what they’d like is usually the best option, then attempting to provide it.
I think you forgot the most important advantage: zero trust by design. Short of a 51% attack, you do not need to trust any other entity while still being able to transact freely.

Even transactions for physical goods are possible with a neutral third party facilitating escrow (zero-trust unless there is a dispute).
He uses a lightboard [0] and flips the video.

[0] https://www.lightboard.info/
Aren't a lot of people just using cloud instead of server now? It's similar to people saying I run on EC2, which is a server, and 95% of the time it's basically a VM.
Submarine cable to connect 10.5 GW wind-solar complex in Morocco to the UK grid
Are you a bot? How's that connected to my question?
VR is potentially good for some video games, like 3D it's a technology and just because you're using it doesn't mean it's magically making your game better. There's an era of early 3D platformers that were terrible because the people making them don't yet understand how this form works, they're maybe expert 2D platform game designers, but not everything they learned applies cleanly to the new form.

It can take a long time to unlearn things in video games. It took years after video game arcades ceased to be the dominant factor for games to get rid of "Lives" that existed only† to ensure players pump coins into the no-longer relevant coin slot.

I think Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes shows off what VR can do well that you couldn't do otherwise. The isolation between the player defusing the bomb and everybody else is part of the game. The fact that the player defusing can't look at the bomb manual is enforced by them being in a VR environment with no manual.

In too many VR games, the VR is largely an impediment, and the takeaway is "This could be a good game, shame it's VR".

† OK things like Hundred Mario challenge and the modern Endless Super Expert show that you can do other things with this form, but it's pretty arbitrary, there's no way this would exist without the history of video game arcades.
Acetic acid is toxic to most plants. In fact it's used as a weed killer.

You can use citric or phosphoric acid though.
Simple example: I love the ternary operator and use it quite a lot in simple "if/then" scenarios. However some people hate them because they consider them harder to read than the fully written out if/then form. Those people would judge my code less readable.
It’s dangerous in the sense that there is no careful control like in medicine for humans, and it has not been approved for humans.

Obviously the fda would say this is the approved, safe medicine, so this other stuff is not approved and safe. The fact is that as far as the fda knows, they don’t know anything about if it’s safe or unsafe so they call it unsafe.

> the FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention, including hospitalization

They must have a subscription to Rolling Stone.

But they have of course carefully chosen their wording. This could mean there were two people hospitalized that took ivermectin and got symptoms the hospital thought were due to that. But it turned out to be something else.

Just like the cdc, they have received ‘increased numbers of reports of side effects’. Wow, who would have thought if a 100 times more people take a drug, that would result in increased reports of side effects. The generic side effects that are also a side effect of placebo, like headaches and nausea.
They own the land but not actually the minerals or gas - they still have to get a permit from the government to to extract.
One part of them problem I think in USA "housing" market is that people want houses. In cities. Where as in rest of the world people are much more willing to accept apartments. Which are absolute necessity for cities. Ending being trade off living in countryside farther from services or in cities near them, but not in house.
Agreed with all of that but just thought I’d point out the non-fungibility is of the token itself not the actual content it points to. So you’d be able to sell non-fungible tokens for access to the same content. Companies still wouldn’t because doing that inserts a lot of complexity you don’t need rather than using a normal storefront model.
The prices rise because the 1% gets cheap loans from bankers and bankers get cheap loans from central bank that prints money which devalues our wages. In summary, the 1% decrease our wages , they decrease their debt and they increase the prices in the housing market. Value your dollar by stopping printing and the 1% will start selling to pay their debt.
It depends on the area of Netflix, but for most recommendation that can fit on a list, Netflix seems to use interleaved testing:

* they create two recommendation lists based on distinct principles or parameters;

* they pick a first (with an A/B test);

* mix those with ‘schoolyard rules’: each side picks the next candidate that wasn’t picked already, creating a new, alternating list.

* They show that to the user and track whether you picked an even or odd item on that recommendation, indicating whether A or B is preferable.

So most like, you are seeing A and B.
Even more ridiculous than the DDD domain-driven design Twitter fuss.
If you are saying that it’s better to run native than Terraform then to me it means that Terraform is not good enough - which is also my experience from poking it. It covers all use cases on all clouds, buy only ~80% of each use case. The rest you have to figure out by yourself. Which often means diving into CloudFormation and such - so basically losing the advantage of Terraform.
I think it was originally made by google, not bought by them.
I can think of endless scenarios of how this plays out, and that is not one of them.

Corporations rule us today and will only continue to grow larger and more powerful. There's not a thing any individual or even a group of people can do about it because the vast majority of people either don't care or embrace it with open arms. See the futile fight for privacy some of us still care about as an example.

We, the technologists, are complicit or directly benefit financially from this change. Governments are slowly catching up, pretending to control the monster they've let loose on their citizens, but are really in symbiosis with corporations, so nothing will change there.

This Metaverse thing is not something to laugh about or dismiss. It will happen one way or the other. And all of it makes me want to pick up gardening and go live in a mountain shed away from it all.

We've all read the sci-fi books or seen the movies to know how this plays out, yet are actively working towards that future. I have no words to describe it but mass insanity.

I'm trying really hard to think about the positive aspects of this, but I'm coming up short. Will the future be more convenient? Sure. Will this help some people live out a better life in the real world? Probably. But the vast majority will be mindlessly plugged into this thing, isolated from meatspace, at the direct benefit of the corporations that produced the experience.

There won't be a big war between man and machine. The Matrix will be built by humans, machines will help us do it, and we'll all want a taste of that juicy steak we saw in that ad.

What are we doing...?
It is not made up but different people can have different opinions on what's readable and what's not.

If the metric is supposed to be objective, then number of CPU cycles used is probably the simplest metric there is for computers.
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Yeah - sure. But basically every government intervention leads to some abominable result. Politicians get traction by promising to fix markets, then get rich by twisting them for their own benefit. China distorted the real estate market to the degree that they overbuilt. The theory here is that America has underbuilt due to local regulations? Okay, but if that's the case I don't think the answer is more government intervention.
While this data is interesting, it doesn't say how many people watched or read something, only those who paid to watch/read something, which is very different.

I've purchased all of the books you've mentioned, but watched the films/series via other means that won't show up in the statistics, and I'm not alone in doing so or vice-versa.

Books like Lord of the Rings gets passed through generations and loaned around as well, so I'm sure the number of people who've read LotR is a lot higher than the number of people who bought the books.
But now there is Roblox, isn't it kind of a metaverse too? And it's a huge success.
The Metaverse is not bullshit. It is a brilliant tool to replace reality, control it and tax it. And it _will_ happen, the only question is who will implement it.
If it was below the ground, the car would roll in the other direction.
One thing i admired when traveling to south east asia in the years before covid - people wearing masks to protect others in case they got any kind of respiratory sickness, or protecting themselves. In comparison, even in progressive countries like Switzerland, during initial phase of Covid people wearing masks to work and outside were sometimes badly ridiculed by natives young and old, and in some cases even fired from work for 'spreading panic' (I know a guy on immunosupressants who had no other choice).

In comparison with usual western coughing and sneezing on all public transport it seemed extremely considerate and I've expressed numerous times the wish west would adopt this at least a bit.

But maybe my optics is flawed and this was an after-effect of SARS which missed west completely and before that, it was same situation there.
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The great thing about FRED graphs is that you can easily DIY with the "Edit Graph" button:

in log scale: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ImYV

divided by households: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ImZ1
And there’s the newest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator. People really love the vr mode and the videos I’ve seen (I’ve never played it) already look pretty darn realistic and engaging.
With Zuck's values and principles, the Metaverse will be a prototype of AI controlled virtual ghetto.