skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social distancing doesn’t always and automatically mean widespread prolonged lockdown. We are dealing with a novel coronavirus right now which how it spread and testing wasn’t immediately at hand. For something like the flu that we’re quite good at testing for social distancing could be as simple as stop incentivizing employees to come to work sick, and stop incentivizing parents to send their kids to school or daycare sick.
Read three quarters of the article and can’t finish it. I disagree with most things the author says. Just because something is crappy, silly, not quite technically possible right now, or all of the above, it doesn’t mean it won’t happen - in fact that’s how most of every days tech or big system starts!! (Remember how online communication was in the beginning online? Or playing tiny low resolution shockwave videos?). “The metaverse is bullshit because it already exists, and it's called the internet” - no, the internet (whose standards are still evolving btw!) is the platform, not the utility! Much like the wheels and an engine is not the car! The cultural changes in society to adapt to tech has accelerated and to say things like “ fictional virtual realities seem great on the page but would be hell to actually live in 12 hours a day” you’d have to forget how quickly we went from playing games in person to online, to shopping in person to online - hell even communicating in person to communicating so much online! The “metaverse” (as the name we call this upcoming second reality) will happen whether we like it or not! And for some marginalised or persecuted or impoverished groups that reality might even be a lot better than what they have in the real world today (and that’s what scares the hell out of me)
Second Life is the future! Yay!
It's equally true if you s/Communist regimes/Church/g.
Not at all - it might work and it might not. It’s just that calling it bullshit at this stage is just begging to be proven wrong.
> The only differences would be: (1) You aren't there to complete missions; there's no storylines and it's totally open-ended. There are no writers, and (2) The spaces and content are created by anyone, not a central company, and (3) You can go from GTA world to Red Dead world to tons of other worlds without changing missions or skins or avatars or whatever; they're part of the same huge space you can traverse without leaving VR. (4) You can code your own physical spaces and code your own avatar's abilities.

So Second Life ...

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Content_Creation
In just a few minutes, most people start treating those cartoons as real people without even realizing it. Ask anyone who's tried these things (they are already available: https://www.vspatial.com/, https://www.oculus.com/blog/workrooms/)
A key difference is the iPhone massively reduced the friction of mobile access to Internet services; that's the secret sauce which gained it huge adoption with the general public - Many commentators did not perceive this up front, and also missed that the market potential was far larger than just mobile business productivity - So iPhone took the casual private use mass market by storm while BES continued to dominate professional productivity for a while until they fell behind on hardware (e.g. the disaster that was the Storm).

Contrast that with the metaverse concept - Until some killer solution comes along that drops the friction for joe public to access it, it'll languish as a niche activity for people willing to dedicate a room and endure a bulky headset. Just as Internet surfing did through the 90s when it really required owning a desktop PC and having some corner of your house dedicated to the beast. Right now that looks like bulky VR headsets, poor resolution, and being locked off from the world around you while you're in the other place. There are a lot of parallels there to 90s internet access I think, and how that opened up with mobile devices that you could whip out of (and return to) your pocket moment to moment.

Early attempts to break down this barrier were Google glass, and Microsoft's foray a few years back into augmented reality. To an extent Starline as well. If/when someone cracks it and comes up with a solution that greatly reduces the friction to slip from real world into metaverse, they'll clean house. Until then, I suspect folks comparing it to the failure of 3dtv adoption are closer to the mark.
And there are two trees with the same height. From different species. One makes fruits, one doesn't.

And there are two trees with different height from the same species. Both make the same kind of fruits.
Yes, but this is arbitrary. That is my point. There's no reason to believe that you can extrapolate your own subjective experience to others based on their similarity to you.
Having inventory on the shelf during a crisis is a far greater risk to the survival of a company than failing to produce cars quickly enough after unexpected high demand. Cancelling chip orders was the safe play, not the risky one.
So what you are proposing is TOR but with a twist to charge connections?
It's kind of astounding how rapidly the series has disappeared from the mainstream. Couldn't have bungled it up worse had they tried.
If you are referring to backwards locomotives, the alternative name, cabForwards, should convey the idea. It's the usual arrangement of a locomotive, but reversed, where what is usually found at the front is at the back and vice versa.
Would blocking in firewall prevent it to install trojans? I thought once something is running it's too late.
Wonder how they would handle purchases lost and what not. All those kids having to prove they lost money they spent on their Roblox gift cards.
You also see this with houses that could duplex or quadplex in place - but it won’t happen because doing so would require bringing the entire building up to current code.
Not instead of a gyro, Quest still uses gyro and accelerometer compensated with camera SLAM.
I tried an app on Oculus Quest where you'd simply park a car in a parking spot. The graphics weren't great but it was immersive.

The part that made me slightly dizzy was lack of proprioception during turns.

I suspect some brain implant is needed to transmit what all the human senses other than auditory and visual need for the brain to put the full picture together
Manual transmission is not a challenge. It quickly blurs into muscle memory and you don’t really notice it.
Why did you purposefully ignore “peaceful assembly”?
And because they can do it discretely, i.e. in class or bed.
Nice article about “Nove Tendencije”. MIT Press also published a book covering the movement.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-known-story-about-move...
In the post, they give the reason for the name in this case: The Associations and Objects.
how come nobody is mentioning the inevitable cancer that kills every metaverse given enough time: griefers.
Sure, but based on how it’s current done it’s a huge drag on the economy when people pay $1.5M go houses that are worth $300k in other cities.

Seems like taking a short term hit in resource efficient and environmental impact in order to have people live elsewhere would be overall positive.
Wikipedia in Chinese editing war of words
I went to UCSB. Most students will not discount the idea of something like this happening again in these dorms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings
We see the whiteboard text scrolling sometimes, though.
>But we already know that, by and large. It's genetics. And the thing we know about genes is that they align very poorly with "races".

What about "ethnic groups"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peoples

>It's like grouping animals by color. Then you discover that brown animals are bigger than red animals, because bears are brown and bears are big whereas cardinals are red and cardinals are small.

Are the grizzlies the same with pandas?
- I've never used the hospitals near me, but I'm glad they're there

- The airport existed before the houses went up

- airports can be used for many functions that benefit society, including EMT and business travel

- houses aren't the only zoning category, or even the most important. We have industrial, retail and other zones which help society overall.
But that's been a thing in videos for at least 30 years -- expansion packs shipped on disc for a long time -- and a common thing in almost the modern form since 2006 (Elder Scrolls Oblivion adds cosmetic-only horse armor to game for $2, online purchase only).

If you think NFTs add to that the ability to resell as a hedge against initial purchase price, then Valve added a player driven market to TF2 in 2012, the same year Blizzard added the real money auction house.

If you think NFTs add the ability to use content across games, Metal Gear Solid had features involving reading other game save files in 1998, Nintendo Amiibo launched in 2014, and Steam also allows for this via player inventories.

If you think NFTs add the ability to cash out for real money, that's been possible via external third party sites in TF2 since 2013, and analogously for real money gold sales in World of Warcraft since about 2004.

There are ways in which all of the examples above are not totally perfect and/or are more technically clunky than the vision of what this looks like in 5-10 years, but qualitatively more or less every feature of NFTs already exists in various forms over the last 20 years, in some cases all in the same product.

If the Segway was invented and the inventor cited Jules Verne and Isaac Asimov as influences, but had never heard of or wasn't willing to talk about scooters, vespas, skateboards, or cars, that'd be a huge red flag, even if you think that Segways add a bit of value.

So I think the parent's question is still pretty well taken -- what's the connection between the thing everyone's been willing to do for 20 years and the thing that's alleged to be new and different?
>Tim Sweeney is basically saying "hey, look, this is the future, you can put your car in a video game" to Mercedes, who has already been doing this for years.

I think the idea is that the Metaverse will give you as close to the real experience of being in that specific car as possible, a video game won't do that because any car placed in a video game must be subservient to the goals and mechanics of the game.

The reason that giving you the real experience of being in a specific car is bullshit for marketing purposes is that you can see hardly anyone markets cars based on what it will actually be like to use them and of course because except for a few outliers using any specific car is the same as using pretty much every other car built in a similar time frame.

on edit: meaning every other car serving the same market segment of course.
I'm not an expert in anything relevant to this, so this is ill-informed speculation.

But isn't referring to not knowing "the weights" (as the article and researchers do) making a rather large assumption about the nature of the problem? It sounds more like the researchers don't know "why the neurons fire when they do", which would leave open the question of whether "weights" is even a sufficient model.
I believe it’s meant to differentiate big ideas(hand waving) versus the difficulty in implementing the minutia of those ideas.

The big idea is important, but it’s the implementation which determines if something is successful.

The nomad and the iPod are both the same big idea - but implementation is different.
The only argument I've heard is the ability to transfer items between games, but that leads me to more questions than answers.

Why would an asset designed for one game make sense or look good or feel at home in a completely different one?

Why would companies make one of them and sell it for a million bucks instead of trying to convince more players to buy it in a shop for two bucks?

Is the mechanic of a weapon gonna adjust to the new game when you import it or stay the same? If it stays the same, it's gonna be exploit galore. If it changes, well then, what's the point? Gonna be the same AK-47 as everyone else's, but this tiny sticker on it that nobody's gonna pay attention to is unique!

Even if we pretend this is somehow a promising field, why even use NFTs and make each one a couple of pixels different instead of making a common one, selling it for like $50, buyers get a file in whichever format is agreed upon, and import them in the settings.
This may be the best sentence I've read in roughly a decade:

"But Tim Sweeney and Mark Zuckerberg don't see themselves as pizza mob bosses."

Also reminded of Laurie Anderson:

"Heaven is exactly like where you are right now. But much, much better."

In the same way Capitalism is based on the Protestant Work Ethic (see: Max Weber) the Metaverse is based on a kind of evangelical eschatology, where the imperfections of the real world will be transcended by techno-utopianism.

Something is always being transcended in these fantasies. But unfortunately this turns into denial of reality and refusal to engage with it in an adult way.

"Let's all live in a shared delusion where the physical world doesn't matter."

t's almost literally la la land.
Yes the most notable effect is I can eliminate the commuting time and spend that to exercise outside (for 2 hours!). Now I can come back to improve my running distance, discover the joy of bicycling and so much more!
But I miss the interaction with real people. Sure you have application to help with chatting and meeting but somehow I long for the real connection. And I'm speaking from the perspective of an introvert. There's something that remote working can replace the serendipity. I felt I had much more creative ideas when working onsite.
Latex beds also last a very long time. The topper I have is an ancient ugly teal from decades ago, it’s still in great condition.
The national Norwegian weather forecasting company “Yr” is building northern light forecast abilities into their app. This article is a Norwegian but describes how the solution will look

https://www.nrk.no/nordland/yr.no-lanserer-tjeneste-pa-yr-so...

The cool thing is that they will compare clouds coverage with chance Of Northern Lights in the city that you’re in.
Having occasional down years doesn't mean something is not red hot or not an investment. It's all about the expected total return.
To be fair, the area is likely to be fully evacuated hours before any wildfire threatens it.
First Django App For Beginners Part 3(templates and static files)
Homes still depreciate - but once you’ve passed the “no empty lots” point in an are houses start to diverge from “build cost” (when there are empty lots it’s unlikely you’ll pay me more for my house than “cost of empty lot next to me + cost to build”).
> It's really trivial stuff to do basic analytics on where your customers are coming from when they arrive at a website and it's not hard to see which ones are arriving because they clicked on ads and which of those translate into purchases.

No it is not.

If a customer came from brand bidding, you do not know if he would not have come to your website even without the campaign.

How do you calculate where a customer originated from, if he visited the site multiple times, sometimes through paid and sometimes through free channels?

You cannot blindly trust their claim that they are creating value - even advertisers from your own company are in on it.

I am speaking from my own experience working at analytics tools for a corporation, which has a monopoly. The product name is our brand. We are the only ones selling it. Every child knows it. Think public utility.

These people will still do brand bidding.
> window cutting

The term you're looking for is letterboxing.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-add-tor-browser-ant...
Of course not and we don't in the US as a matter of fact. In LA they have gang-injunctions, where part of the injunction is that you can't even be near people of the same gang at all even if there is no criminal behavior afoot.

"The 4–3 ruling, overturning a Court of Appeal decision, upheld a San Jose injunction that barred the gang members from "standing, sitting, walking, driving, gathering or appearing anywhere in public view" with each other in a four-block radius. "Liberty unrestrained is an invitation to anarchy," Justice Janice Rogers Brown(appointed by Bush)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_injunction
The tech quality developing is all well and good, but I dont see in these discussions much consideration to how much space you need clear for immersive VR. If Facebook want this to scale for private use, they need to solve for housing first.

I've played a few VR games at friends places, and unless they had the luxury of a spare room for it it's a pain in the ass to create space.

I dont see this taking off beyond the affluent first world for this reason, and even then, most first world countries have much smaller housing than the US - The average UK household is less than half the sqft of the US.
Got us all talkin about zuck not in the context of dismantling civilization, they win no matter what here
i like this, def keep going in this direction, i am gonna check it out further tomorrow when i am more awake. great look too
So they harmed 1 person and helped 2 people? Seems great overall.

Also as you're talking about humans, probably use "man" and "women", otherwise you sound like... someone who would complain about people being woke.
Singapore? Holy god no.

If you look at the private condo market (you can’t look at public as the prices are subsidized), it’s not unusual for condos to cost >$2,000 per sq ft in desirable locations. A 750 sq ft 2 bed condo can run $1.5 to $2.0M.

San Francisco is closer to $1,500 per sq ft for a house in a prime location.
Now here is free startup idea:
Instant messaging of vines or tiktoks. Just send videos of your messages to your friends or groups. Maybe even try to replace twitter... Probably 3 different apps really...
Everyone found a workaround for that - price the “undesirables” out instead of banning an accidental aspect. The average well-to-do homeowner is much more concerned about living next to a “poor” of any race or color than living next to a rich.
Thank you, I appreciate the feedback!
mandatory vaccination for children is beneficial for children and their health because it protects them from diseases which are actually dangerous for them, COVID is not one of them, same as influenza is not one of them, so you wanna protect morbidly obese and old people by vaccinating children who are unlikely to spread virus to them in the first place and who are basically at zero risk from COVID

and just for the record here in Czechia it's pretty sane approach, they can insist on vaccination to visit optional education, but there is no such requirement to attend mandatory education. vaccination is mandatory by law under fines which are not really enforced since you can refuse vaccination for religious or other reasons and state clearly said education is above vaccination mandate, at least in past before everyone went crazy with this disease of old/obese people

I don't think majority welcomes vaccination, it's welcomed by people at risk (old/obese) who are protected by it, but the significant majority of vaxxed got vaxxed only to avoid various imposed restrictions and gov blackmailing them into this "voluntary" vaccination, not exactly how is it voluntary if you deny me basic rights like going to restaurants or in Italy going to work, that's not voluntary by my standards, that's like robbing someone with gun and saying he voluntary gave me money, after all I didn't say I will kill him, just showed him gun

and herd immunity against COVID/flu, you seriously believe it? you should read more studies, there is no such thing as herd immunity against these viruses, at least not with these inefficient vaccines which don't protect you against infection and transmission at all
Very interesting study in ancient history of man. but the title confusing and article conclusion too.
" They seem to be solely related to hunter-gatherers who lived in southern Siberia and what is now northern Kazakhstan some 9,000 years ago,"
So their genetic studies do show them to be not native, and could have possibly brought in their technology.
This site is direct measurements from a university in Tromsø (northern Norway). The graph indicates level activity of northern light particles in their area and gives a great indication of whether or not there is Currently Northern Lights: http://flux.phys.uit.no/cgi-bin/mkstackplot.cgi?&comp=H&cust...
Interesting. At 54:55 Tim Rowledge mentions Distributed Smalltalk by Chris Mala (not sure about the name). Is there any information about this? I could not find anything what seemed relevant or recent.
In bed? in 2021? Brother it's time to travel.
A metaverse where people can do imaginative, creative things together sounds brilliant. I want that in my life. I would pay a lot to be a part of that. Something akin to real life but with fewer limits where I can hang out with people anywhere around the world, and chat, work, and have fun with people ... sign me up.

A metaverse run by Facebook where their algorithm recommends content to me based on controversial things that make me angry really doesn't appeal though. If Facebook's Metaverse is anything like Facebook I don't want to join. Metaverse cannot be free (as in money). For it to work users must be able to pay for it, and for that payment to give them the tools to control how they experience it for themselves. If it's free like Facebook it will die.
Short answer is that we don’t know well how to find them, but for every one we find we can generate lots of other ones, for example by adding any algebraic number to a known transcendental number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number#Properti...)

If we have a computable number, it is possible to compute its decimal expansion (it might take more time than we want to spend)

However, for any sequence of digits, you can find rational, algebraic but not rational, and transcendental numbers starting with it.

For example

- 123,456/1,000,000 + π/10,000,000 is a transcendental number in (0,1] starting with 0.123456.

- 123,456/1,000,000 + √2/10,000,000 is an irrational algebraic number in (0,1] starting with 0.123456.

- 123,456/1,000,000 + 1/10,000,000 is a rational number in (0,1] starting with 0.123456
There are languages like German or Estonians where gender and sex have the same meaning, or rather term gender and the idea of it simply don't exist.
Plus, the fact that Facebook did this without any cool product launch, with a logo that was clearly designed by the same twelve-year-old who picked the name, without the technology to even start, and, oh yeah, in the midst of a major scandal, shows that they, too, consider it bullshit. Or a security blanket for Zuckerberg, who thinks work isn't fun anymore.
Nothing beats the graphics resolution, zero latency, 3D raytracing capabilities and super-sensitive and responsive tactile actors/sensors of ...real life.
I have spine issues (syringomyelia) and tried a bunch of mattresses.

The best thing I found was a really hard spring mattress with a 2" memory foam topper, it offers the support I need but also takes the pressure spots.