skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are the majority affluent city-dwellers? Maybe in Luxembourg this is true, but in many parts of the world it just isn't.

But you get a sort of selection bias. Out of the people with money to buy the tech that can keep up with these sites and the network speeds to use these sites, out of those people, most people have modern tech and good metropolitan network access.
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The private keys didn't leak (at least publicly).

What happened is that North Macedonia (among other countries [1]) was running a public facing and without authentication (or w/ hard coded credentials) server used as a frontend to generate the COVID-19 certificates for their country.

You can follow the discussion here [2] and read my comment [3] here.

On top of that, you can follow my analysis on this repo (RESULTS.md contains the generated results) [4].

[1]: https://sizeof.cat/post/private-keys-sign-eu-greenpass-leake...

[2]: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/hcert-spec/issues/103

[3]: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/hcert-spec/issues/103...

[4]: https://github.com/denysvitali/covid-cert-analysis
I'm presently looking into building my residence using precast concrete. I love the raw concrete aesthetic,all the benefits from an insurance and maintenance perspective. You folks here are making me doubt the resale value...
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I wouldn't describe it as low-effort / high-value, or at least I'd put the emphasis on density of information. We can embed concepts in a very few words, visual information adds a ton of data but not much information.

I often like to compare the post web 2.0 era (ubiquitous, high bandwidth, highly lubricated UIs) with mailing lists (limited, slow, bare). People think more before chatting on MLs, their messages can be short but mean a lot, or can be long and tell even more. Video feels a bit like the former.. you get more data, it's more pleasing for a while, but it doesn't give much more. Sometimes visual / geometric media add some value (when balanced and tuned to massage viewers mental model) but often its just redundant fat.
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The EPA should ban unleaded fuel immediately regardless. Make the FDA choose between lobbying to have the ban overturned (against public opinion I would hope) or unblocking the development of better engines.
Makes me wonder why it is so difficult to create an airtight package for the mems device, even considering that helium is small.

Also, what happens to an iPhone if you bring it near an ultrasound source with a carefully chosen frequency?
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In the US almost all residential areas count as cities. For example there are tens of cities in just the Bay Area alone.
So I totally agree we need to build a metaverse collectively. Letting it go to Facebook would be very bad. Most people here totally dismiss the whole thing, which isn't helping.

Anyway, back to what you said, I agree that seamless transition is the very big factor. IMO, "metaverse" requires seamless transition between assets not worlds. Current VR experience, even assuming a perfect browser, means that you switch between world when switching between websites. I believe that most usages would be that pages are mostly assets, not whole worlds. Kinda frames I guess. I don't think there is any specification at the moment for such a thing.

(Now I'm daydreaming of a VR RSS reader, where I move in my various news. Nope that doesn't sound like a good UX)
I may be missing the point, but HTTP is a communication protocol. This looks like a file explorer and editor.
If planes cannot fly safely on unleaded gas then they should not be flying at all.
It depends on how and what the house is made from. A house in Europe is built to last longer, using bricks and concrete. The roof is made of ceramic tiles. It still needs maintenance but less of it and less often.

An American style home is likely built from wood panels. It takes more money to maintain but it can be built cheaper.

Like with anything you can chose from trade offs.
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Your partner thought Hans Zimmer, indisputably maker of the epic sound that made inception great, was boring?

Let's pause here...
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Had the same sentiment when watching MZ presentation.
Why on earth would my avatar be standing like regular people in the crowd in a concert? I want to be in the scene with hot shot musician, not in the tribune.
I don't think your link supports what you're saying at all...? In fact it gives examples of police forces voluntarily limiting it's use, essentially the opposite of a slippery slope...

Are you confusing S44 with S60 Stop and Search?
Interested in those 1,2 references. Thanks.
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I'm willing to take this further:

The 'cloud' was already there, it used to be called the 'internet'.
> 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.

So what is stopping you from using "a proper programming language" to generate the json/yaml cloudformation template?

This is what you see in GCP docs from day one. On AWS, they brainwashed everyone in this corner of "static template with parameters", so that you can "reuse" a template to build your custom stack. It's great for "look what I can do, mom" (but I have no idea what it's doing) but nobody sane would ever trust a 1-km long yaml/json and deploy it. So if you anyway have to inspect it, why not make it easy to inspect? Split into modules, add docs, etc = code to run.

I have no idea how we switched from random scripts to "reusable" random scripts (ansible &co) to random static configuration and then the cherry on top: "reusable" random static configuration. Insane. Abstractions on top of abstractions.

CDK is on the right track, but even there it's a mess, again for the sake of hiding complexity: constructs and deployment. Where did One thing well and Keep it simple stupid go? :)
I don't like centralized control, either, but to claim that we are living in an "absolute hell" right now is just ridiculous.

You are not forced to attend the "circus", either, if you don't like it.

As for centralized control, that is actually the one thing that disappoints me about the future. Somehow all the SF books glossed over the immense cost required to develop the cutting edge technology. How much money did Facebook spend to create the Oculus Quest? I just don't see hobbyists and hackers create the same level of technology - or think about the Apple M1 SoC. Would hackers have been able to create such a thing in their mom's basement eventually? I rather doubt it. So centralisation is an issue, simply because development costs are so high. It's not simply a conspiracy by evil billionaires.
Pertinent references:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230438/

https://www.smgov.net/uploadedFiles/Departments/Airport/News...
The Next Big Challenge for Data Is Organizational
20 years ago I was the younger generation and hearing how we were the first generation who would have it worse than our parents, would never have a path to home ownership, and we should be so enraged because the "dream" had been stolen from us. I don't hear a lot of people (like me) defending the fact that it takes a couple decades of work to own a home, and that that's OK and how it should be. I just hear a volume boost on the angry 21-year-old I used to be when I thought I would be deprived of those things. They'll get there. Their parents' generation all have houses and are the richest in history, and are the ones who've driven prices up to inconceivable levels. A lot of this complaining comes from people who've never even rented a room.
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It's literally in the article. US was working on a gigaton bomb, but even it was only used as a means to ignite a 10 gigaton bomb. The exact damage caused by such a thing is extremely hard to estimate though.
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Buy bought you meant that you had the cash and gave it in exchange of the home or did you make a loan? If the latter you can only consider you've bought a home only after you finish paying for it.
> So how crippled does regular web browsing become using Tor safest mode?

In my experience, not really much. There's occasionally a few articles i can't read because they require JS just to display their blogpost but outside of HN planet, it's not that common (most people use Wordpress themes or other decent HTML/CSS templates).

The real problem is Cloudflare and other gatekeepers who claim to protect from bots and attacks, but are more likely to block honest people. If you know people using Cloudflare, please insist that they don't. If you really need DDOS protection because you're repeatedly been a victim, please use a decent network-level mitigation (as provided by professional hosts like OVH/Hetzner) not some shitty invasive DPI solution that will have 99% false positives.

An interesting aspect of Safest mode i enjoy is the web is "read-only" again with it. Well you can still POST stuff via forms, but it's an explicit opt-in operation. TBB's Safest mode is closer to reading a newspaper than the modern web could ever be.

As a nice bonus, the Safest mode is really resource-efficient. I can have hundreds (thousands?) of tabs open for days without leaking memory, and CPU is only used to draw stuff (no tab mining coins on my behalf). I don't know a single browser with JS enabled who can keep many tabs open without rendering my machine utterly useless due to overusing CPU/RAM. Hell, i don't know a single browser with JS who can prevent a single tab from using all of my resources. TBB's Safest mode is really the only modern way i know to browse the web on low-resource hardware (lighter webbrowsers exist, but they usually don't implement modern CSS3 features).

EDIT: I should mention that the only useful service i can't use with Safest mode is Gitlab. Because Gitlab still does client-side rendering for some reason?!
It can be a pretty novel experience- neither VR headsets nor walks through a forest are substitutes for each other.

I have access to many many acres of forest, and am quite familiar with it. For reasons unrelated to this discussion, I am unlikely to see many interesting places in person around the world... Pictures are nice, but will never do them justice. I wouldn't mind being able to take a 3d VR tour of them one bit.

Edit: That said, living in VR and never going for a walk through a forest would be utterly dystopian and nightmarish for me. The only thing keeping me from daily walks in the woods right now is hunting season.
Who said we need rails! All we need are roads that are closed to human drivers.
So you could say that this virus is kind of alien[1]?

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alien
One thing that really improved quality of life for me as a southpaw, is the PS4(/5?) feature to remap button assignments system-wide.
Carmack's point about it being about products is so important. Same way a game engine is an almost accidental side result from a great game, a worthwhile "metaverse" will be a accidental result of one or more great, useful products.

Have to say it's entertaining to see Carmack roast Zuck publicly.
> I could not find much data but it seems that the finale of Games of thrones had 19 million viewers [1]

Umm isn't that just on the date it airs? That's like comparing it to the people who read the book in the first month (year?).

There is no way as many people read the books as saw the tv show. I would bet it's at least one order of magnitude difference, if not possibly more.
not everyone has your kind of life
How can you objectively quantify it?
Nobody really wants that; which I think is what Facebook is missing (sorry, not calling them Meta just like
we still call Alphabet Google). I personally like VR, but in no way do I think it’s a replacement for the real world. For me, it’s just a more immersive video game experience that I can only handle for about an hour at a time.

IMO Facebook wants you to experience life entirely though their platform, because once you take a step back you realize that Facebook is this weird alternate world where everyone is angry all the time, truth has no meaning and there are no social norms.

Meanwhile, when you DO step back into real life, you realize many of the people who probably want to murder you online are perfectly nice in person. Or that most of the people you talk to on Facebook are people you used to be friends with but would never make time to see in real life because you’re not that close anymore. And that Facebook might not be reflective of reality, which threatens their engagement metrics. So they want to shape your reality to be less threatening to them. I couldn’t think of a more dystopian concept — fortunately the value proposition is not appealing to most.
I really wouldn't be so sure. Even after destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military still opposed surrender, in fact the day before the Emperor was supposed to announce it there was an unsuccesful coup attempt to prevent it.

So no, I don't think just detonating the bombs "harmlessly" would have have had the same effect. In fact hitting a target just slightly off the mark(like Tokyo Bay) would have been presented as American incompetence and failure of aiming.
Blackrock.
It could not be one of the NATO states...i mean the nato is to preserve freedom...right? :)
Weird example. That Gryphon ride is slower than taking the tram, or at least it used to be. The advantage of the Gryphon ride is that it was automatic.
It's not exactly a secret and any discussion of Tor's history will immediately bring it up, but sure.

> For the onion router to work properly, the Navy needed to step back from running it. A cloaking system is not useful if all the cloaks say “Navy” on them. “If you have a system that’s only a Navy system, anything popping out of it is obviously from the Navy,” Syverson says. “You need to have a network that carries traffic for other people as well.” Tor Project was incorporated as a nonprofit in 2006 to manage operations. [0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-23/tor-anony...
That is a valid view. NaN is supposed to propagate an error value, and that concept should continue through Boolean expressions. So that is to say, there has to be a NaT (not a truth) value which results instead of true or false, if a NaN is involved in a relational expression.

Problem is, that is impractical. Programming languages tend to have two-valued Boolen baked into their DNA; it's implicit in if/then/else conditionals which will have to treat NaT as false --- back to square one.

Programming languages with two-valued Booleans are not going to accommodate such a thing (it is not as easy to sneak in as NaN into floating-point). Even if they were to, programmers are going to be reluctant to turn every if/then situation into a three-way switch.
> Kids can do video calls with their smartphones but prefer texting.

Well, there is that whole snapchat thing.
Consider that the people working for you are experts, but the rest of the world on average is not. If one cannot make a judgement whether <https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/207> weakens SHA-2 for a particular use case or not, then it is safer to assume the worse, and simply use SHA-3 instead.
Their Web site seems to have disappeared last year, but seems very relevant to the current "metaverse" hype. In particular, OpenCobalt is easily programmable, supports a bunch of standards like XMPP (chat) and VNC (virtual desktop). It's also decentralised: users can navigate from one server to another by moving through portals (hyperlinks).
Part of the reason Ready Player Two tanked was people were no longer willing to put up with the fact OASIS was a shitty place no one would be spending any time in.

Readers were willing to not think too hard for the first book because the nostalgia was cool.

Second book you realise most people couldn't actually feel anything like touch in OASIS, what's the point, why were they all in there so much.
All else being equal, if you have two neighboring school districts, one with good schools and one with bad schools, people will be willing to pay more for houses in the good school district.

So higher house prices will tend to correlate with better schools.
People often don't live in the neighborhoods they work in, and people often can't afford to own in the neighborhoods they live in. A teacher who bought a house 20 years ago might still be able to live there, for example.
I fail to see the appeal. Much like most modern architecture this style will be applauded by architects, meanwhile they all choose to live in much older style architecture because it's more homely and non-oppressive.

I guess architects are a bit like hedge-fund managers in that regard; they all keep their investments in index funds and not hedge funds.

Complete hypocrisy imho.
It doesn't really matter. Either way we need an international oversight for such labs like we have for nuclear weapons.

Second we need to focus on how we will prevent the next pandemic irregardless if it comes from a lab or animal to human transmission. Most important is to contain it and provide the tools for the global community to respond such as gen sequencing and money for the affected area. If a state would receive funds and there was a very clear strategy they would be less likely to hide such an outbreak.

The biggest issue I see it how do we get something like this setup without there being issues like we see with the WHO. The US managed to turn any trust this organization had into the trash (although the US had the biggest influence in it) letting the countries that always had doubts about it get their confirmation.
Why is it even a bad idea? I would have thought that if it's a "very bad neigborhood", as you say, improving it is desirable.
Which again, is absolutely terrifying, but I've read in several places now that it probably doesn't exist outside of some blueprints for a thing that could maybe be built. Like, the whole idea of "poisoning" it with a cobalt load so that it would produce deadly contamination for hundreds of years is just straight up vilanious, it truly is the ultimate destruction weapon in design)
Well... I am glad that nowadays they often paint "paneláky" with some vivid colors. When I think about cold and gray winter days surrounded by huge blocks of cold and gray concrete - it is like personification of depression for me. And now there is usually lawn and some trees but I remember when we moved into one of then new communist housing projects (how would you translate "sídliště"?) when I was a kid - there was nothing nice to look at, just mud and concrete.
The topologist R. H. Bing described it using more colorful language.

> Dimension 4 is the most difficult dimension. It is too old to spank, the way we might deal with the little dimensions 1, 2, and 3; but it is also too young to reason with, the way we deal with the grown-up dimensions 5 and higher.
What's your threat model? Is it more secure that you as a user can execute root code? Or that your phone manufacturer can without asking for your permission?

Modern smartphones are basically spyware distros. I would argue it's far more secure to run a decent distro (Lineage/Replicant) with root, than it is to run any SamWeiMi crapware without root. Oh yes, the manufacturer's crapware has system privileges whether you ask for it or not, and so does Google Play Services, Google's universal backdoor for Android.

On paper, no root is better. In practice, even on a crap distro, rooting it will enable you to remove most crapware to reduce attack surface.

Also related: if you're concerned about security, you should probably only use applications from F-Droid.org repos. Google Play Store (and others) are just full of spyware! See also the Exodus Privacy project tracking trackers via static analysis of APKs.
Hah, imagine the dollar crashing and the fed banning crypto. How do you think that will affect the faith in the US dollar? Even worse! Imagine US bans crypto but other countries go the other way and they lean more on it, and somehow a coin is becoming de facto world reserve currency. Then the US would be left on the outside.

Banning crypto sounds to me like banning gold. Kind of ridiculous. Ask China how that is going.

Regardless, I think crypto is not there yet. It's not mature enough for us to have that runaway effect.

I also do not believe that the US will see _hyper_ inflation. Just ridiculously high inflation.
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So? It's a fact, but why does it matter? You'd think it's obvious: home prices typically dictate affordability, and affordability is what we ultimately care about. But in housing it's more nuanced. Home prices * financing prices dictate affordability. That latter price, to finance (i.e., interest rates), have been dropping for 50 years, making it cheaper and easier to borrow and thus cheaper to afford certain price levels. It's key to focus on these interest rates as the other portion (principal paydown) isn't an expense and doesn't make one any poorer, as it just exchanges cash for home equity, which can be reversed again upon sale.

A much easier way to look at this entire discussion is simply to look at monthly fees as a percentage of income. The main fees to look at are either fees to rent the home directly (rent), or fees to rent the money to buy the home (interest rates).

Rent in particular is increasing as a percentage of income, but it's much less crazy than some people seem to think. For interest rates it's even been dropping despite increasing home prices. [0] I'm definitely not seeing any data that indicates exponential decreasing affordability which is what we should care about.

[0] http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...
Roku will ban you from installing custom apps if your device has ever installed an app that’s been removed for TOS violations. My account was permanently blocked from side loading because I had downloaded & tried a M3U player.

The demise of this company is long overdue.
And you're ignoring that many people _do_ care about city living.

> sure there is a price premium, but $600k seems more reasonable than $1.5M.

So now you've built $600k houses, not $300k houses. And if there are desireable jobs in the area, that pushes the demand for thouse $600k houses up to the amount that is paid in the area.
I guess you should avoid using stuff like a Python interpreter, a Squeak VM, socks proxies or Cha Cha encryption too.

If your team dismisses good solutions because it has "meow" in the name, you probably need a better team. I would recommend that they alias their `cat` command as "concatenate" in order to prevent further ridicule.
Gravity acts downwards so having a low center of gravity resists rolling forces. This works in reality as well with vehicles with a high center of gravity being at increased risk of rolling over those with a low center. Games often take this a step further as physics engines let you manually specify where the center of gravity is so you can make it artificially low compared with the actual mass distribution.
No; I want an exception. The software image dies, unless it's handed.
I didn't know about the "help" command in bash. I've always gone to "man bash", and then scrolled up and down for an hour or so.

Or just cranked-up a search engine.

So thanks for that.