skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I’m not seeing much around this topic in this particular forum, it is being discussed in many places.

The general consensus seems to be (and at this point I wholeheartedly agree) FB attempting to build a meta world is hysterical considering their seeming complete inability (with some unwillingness sprinkled in) to address trolls/astroturfing /misinformation on their flagship site was a significant driver of many people ceasing to use the site.

If they screw up something like a vanilla social network, they have no shot at running an entire second life derivative. At least one where anyone other than NFT sneakerhead type marketing victims will willingly spend their valuable free time.
Why and how to use service injection in Node.js
I love these videos, it's the kind of no BS programming to press performance on modern computers. Also recommend the Handmade Hero series of him.

We have computers which are ridiculous fast, but tend to write code which is freaking slow. It's sad that most programs could be 100x faster.
The swapping of buttons and top menu I was referring to.
That's a fair interpretation! I'm not familiar with tor internals, but i assumed after removing the last encryption layer, the exit node would "expose" raw TCP trafic from the original requester. Otherwise, how does it work?
Programmers’ emotions
Sounds like central Prague. Its a strange place (lived there 5 years, moved to better places), what tourists see / are lured at is big pretty medieval centre with rich history. Almost nobody actually lives there, too expensive and impractical.

The rest of the city is properly fugly and depressing, communism made its mark that won't go away for next few centuries.

Most colleagues bought rather houses quite far from the city in the middle of nowhere, dooming themselves to another 30+ years of daily miserable commutes by car. These days, even this is unattainable for most due to price boom. Its a strange place, folks are smart, work is often good but I wouldn't want to live there or raise kids no matter what.
I want to agree with you, but how to draw a line between first housing as a basic need and a second one? Between apartment, condo, townhouse and mansion? We will eventually get to socialism.
Bullshit or not, it seems to involve high tech gear and THE company able to make a hardware/software combination that people will actually buy is Apple…
Don't know about Eastern Europe, but in Central Europe, Czech Republic (an Prague in particular) has had a housing crisis for quite some time.
I mean, there is always a root for the trust. In this case, the root is Apple. Signal is one leaf below. Compromising root compromises everything.

In this case, root being the device and OS, it has unrestricted access to everything happening by your actions. The data you see on your screen is processed by the CPU, developed by Apple, controlled by kernel, coded by Apple. The can access everything they want.
Nothing which cheerfully concludes that two bitwise-identical operands are different can be called equality.

The equality operation should only apply its own specific logic to a pair of operands which fail the bitwise test.

(That doesn't mean all bits have to be looked at, like if an object has padding bits that don't contribute to the value.)

In floating-point, like IEE754, a positive and negative zero still compare equal; they failed the bitwise test, so then the numeric logic still concludes they are the same number.
Right... we call these little suburbs "cities". City of Palo Alto. City of Berkeley. But we also pretty much consider the Bay Area as one big city, or maybe 3 if we're old school. If you say "Bay Area" anywhere, everyone knows you mean that giant beard that runs all over the bay.
If it works a bit like Second Life, the creator of a thing (like a car) can define the behavior of the car. So people wanting to put their car into the metaverse presumably could expend as much effort on it as they want.

I mean now if they simulate a car for Grand Turismo, they also use some kind of API (Unity Engine, OpenGL, whatever) to encode the behavior. Likewise a metaverse will have some API which you can use to encode behavior.

It remains to be seen what options it provides. In SL I think you wouldn't have been able to create a very good car simulator because the engine was too limited. But the situation might be improved for newer metaverse attempts.

I think most people in this thread are missing the point. It is not that people could only experience VR without the metaverse. People can still surf the internet, yet most people chose to spend their time on Facebook, because it is more convenient and makes some things easier. To the point that some non-Facebook internet sites make you sign in with your Facebook account.

If everybody is on meta, it makes no sense for Mercedes to create an independent VR experience to advertise their cars. It makes more sense to do it in meta, where Facebook can direct users to the Mercedes VR world.
Books tap directly into the imagination in a way that films (very) rarely do.

The most amazing special effects in the world can't match my imagination for fidelity and if they did, they'd still not be mine.

I've noticed that the book to TV/movies I like aren't because they are good adaptations so much as they are close to what I imagined.

It's rare that happens but when it does it makes the TV show a deeply enjoyable, Season 1 of Altered Carbon and all the seasons of The Expanse did/do it but not much else in the last 5 years has.
Well, one of the best implementations for the blind it's the scripted Pokemon Crystal for VBA and JAWS, but not every game could be set like that.
The problem, of course, is that advice focusing on technique and feedback is a lot harder to pass on, and a lot harder to absorb. It's the difference between a 30 second tik tok clip and a one hour in-depth on par-baking pie crusts.
That’s why I said “for those who don’t have the space”. You might live in a one bed apartment and not have the room for a dedicated work space so VR might be the alternative in such a situation.

I appreciate this isn’t going to be a super common use case but it’s definitely something that might appeal to some who have well paid jobs in expensive to live locations (like London and SV).
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Tor is not Tor Browser. Detecting outdated Tor Browser version would help you detect well-known vulns. Detecting non-TBB browser over Tor would suggest that side-channel attacks are available to defeat onion routing (eg. WebRTC leaks).

If you want privacy, use Tor Browser. It's the only privacy-friendly browser out there. All others have many holes and leaks and very little intentions to close them. Although Firefox has a "Tor uplift" project upstreaming patches from Tor Browser into Firefox's strict privacy mode.
1 giant apartment complex?

Culdesac is not the answer.
what if some people want a bigger house because they want bigger family though? i guess some areas would have to be zoned for people who plan to have more kids than 2, i couldn't imagine raising a family of 5 in a 2-3 bedroom house, i was raised in a big family. 10 kids. so a bigger house came in handy
No we just have to wait until they start approving engines to use synthetic and/or bio-based avgas. Then we can finally have carbon neutral flights in existing aircraft.
I mean yea most people don’t want to live in a bunker. Ask yourself why everyone talks about and photographs places like Nyhaven in Copenhagen and not Boston City Hall.

With enough money and smart uses of glass you can make a house that is made of concrete but getting it right is going to be a big challenge. A good rule of thumb is to use building materials that would be local to the area and climate and then go from there.
The US government is fighting to make homes less affordable through subsidizing mortgages with Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac. Subsidizing mortgages just push prices up.

If their intent was to make homes more affordable they would intervene in the offer side not on the demand side.

It would simply have been better to just make a construction company and sell homes at cost.
Okay I will look into that. I already use Postgres for the rest of the app idk if I need to introduce another thing just for websocket connection persistence through multiple instances.
You might be in the minority enjoying precast concrete. In good news, you can easily wrap it in a variety of exterior materials when you want to sell.

Everything from thin cut stone (imitating brick or mortared rock foundation) to half-log siding to plain vinyl siding would be am option, though the half or quarter-log siding might be tricky wrt moisture retention up against the concrete- not sure if that would affect the expected lifetime of the wood.
I have an oculus, which I bought mostly out of interest. Not really a gamer.

Anyway, I use it once or twice a month to play a zombie shooting game with my brother, who lives overseas. We shoot zombies for an hour and chat. It feels kind of similar to golfing, bowling or somesuch. We can't do those in person, so we do it in VR.

So for me, VR is kind of a comms tool. A place to catch up. Alternative to video calls. Calling is great, but doing something together it just a normal way of bonding.

As always, the tech is a canvas. You can paint any pictures on it. That said, yeah... This kind of tech & gaming has shown a real proclivity for isolating us from reality and each other.

OOH, I think social VR has a lot of immediate potential, with current and next generation tech. It'll take a while before the user base, hardware, etc. will support blockbuster gaming, films and such. Social stuff can be more lightweight and simple. In that sense, fb is a sensible home for VR.

OTOH, fb's approach to software if goddam awful. Their whole paradigm is making software that makes people do things, not software that people do stuff with. That's likely to tip the balance in the antipattern favour.
50 years ago police would obtain a suspect's phone records. This has been part of criminal investigation for as long as phones have existed.

If you have someone being blackmailed or defrauded online, what "field work" are you suggesting here?

> "cops [...] want to solve all the problems from their desk."

This literally couldn't be more wrong.
Yes, the one was on Void Linux (no desktop environment), the other on Kubuntu (KDE).
And a 720 degree fully immersive virtual reality has successfully existed in human society for thousands of years. It is called the written word, and in story form is 100% successful transporting an individual anywhere, realistically, and fully immersive. The Metaverse is simply an immature projection of what some early thinkers imagined, and whatever the Internet becomes it is not going to be that stupid commercial fantasy.
Yeah as a trail runner and technologist, I enjoy VR but I'm not sure anything could replace the sights, smells, and feeling of going on a run through the woods. Similarly I think there is room for both VR-sports (and e-sports) and traditional IRL athletics. One doesn't replace the other, but the skills, strategy, physical performance and endurance are very different to watch and to experience (each great/ fascinating in their own way).
Not sure if it was at that time. But I know Yugoslavia had in some places during an outbreak military on the street with permission to shoot anyone in the leg if they refused orders to stay home.
Remarks like these remind me of something John Carmack said in Joe Rogan's interview:

>“There’s this piece of art that goes around the internet of this dystopian kid in a corner, drooling, with goggles on with rainbow pictures and it’s a terrible looking place,” Carmack told Rogan. “And people say, ‘This is the world you’re trying to build, people plugged into virtual reality and ignoring the world around them.’”

>“Is his life really better if he takes them off and he’s in this horrible place?” he asked. “I live in Dallas. It’s 100 degrees there. We change the world around us in all that we do. We live in air-conditioning. People don’t generally go, ‘Oh, you’re not experiencing the world around you because of air-conditioning’ … That is what human beings do, we bend the world to our will.”

I guess it's a matter of perspective but I will say this: I had to isolate myself for months during covid, because of chronic issues that increase the risk of getting ICU'd. And while I missed social contact and leisurely walking under the sun, I can't say that I ever felt imprisoned. If anything, in times like these I would love to have even the emulation of the experience that is walking through a forest without having to worry about my allergies, my joints, snakes or getting lost.

What this all means is that, you're not "better" or "worse" than me for wanting to go in the countryside. You're only different. The whole notion of "you have no life if you work in front of a computer most of the time" was absurd to begin with. How is doing something that I enjoy doing "no life"? The solution to that is simple: Instead of applying societal pressure by pointing out that someone refuses to have a life by focusing too much into games, programming, anime or whatnot to inspect the reasons why they're not attracted to what you claim to be as "having a life".

What I'm saying is, getting out once or twice a week to get my sun exposure for some vitamin D works just fine for me, and I hope people will stop pointing out that "I don't have a life because I prefer X over Y". It's wrong, it's borderline "no true Scotchman" and pivots over the real issue that is respecting people's preferences without feeling that you have "more life" than others.
Of this list only one of these creates an account that is searchable and contactable by the general public, and only one of these will ban you if you use a profile photo of anything other than your own face.
Because they don't want to know. They were all hyped up that was China's fault, and mutations like this were not natural. But with all the US links to the Wuhan lab coming to light, it is best not to open that can of worms
Someone hoarding farmland like Bill Gates does so indirectly.
Unless I'm misinterpreting your angle, this sounds like a blatant, hysteric mistruth. Nearly every day I see studies where social and ethnic groups are used to partition and understand the population, particularly with COVID.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7015e2.htm

So it depends what you mean. If you mean there are no studies done with such partitioning aimed towards the benefit of those groups, I call that bunkum.

If you mean studies are not sponsored where the outcome is of no societal value beyond reinforcing or justifying an established hegemony or excusing discrimination, then perhaps... and good.
> Houses break down, but they don't literally become totaled

Welcome to the UK cladding crisis: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09myyk1
> Some countries are going to see a shrinking population. Particularly wealthy countries.

That's not entirely clear. In terms of births it's correct, but at any point in time there's millions of people ready to migrate to wealthy countries if they'd let them, and these countries spend billions a year on all kinds of measures to (except for some), keep most of them out.

At the moment it looks like most rich countries such as US/Canada, western-europe etc, will keep growing due to migration from places with birth surplus.

Apart from that, we're seeing substantial increases in housing demand simply from preferences alone.

The number of single-person households grew by 7x while the population grew by 2x since 1960, for example. The household size (persons) has halved despite household size (square foot) having doubled. Even if we had fewer people, we'd still want to live larger and share our homes with fewer people. That's directly linked to fewer marriages/children etc. In that sense, the drop in births is also correlated with an increase in single-person households and fewer people sharing a home, increasing housing demand, and at least partially compensating the smaller population.

In other words, I doubt we'll be seeing any drastic price drops from this demographic change alone, there's too many other factors, some of which correlate in the opposite direction.
Found this paper "From Modula to Oberon" by Wirth himself

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.578...

"Subrange types were introduced in Pascal (and adopted in Modula) for two reasons: (1) to indicate that a variable accepts a limited range of values of the base type and to allow a compiler to generate appropriate guards for assignments, and (2) to allow a compiler to allocate the minimal storage space needed to store values of the indicated subrange. This appeared desirable in connection with packed records. Very few implementations have taken advantage of this space saving facility, because the additional compiler complexity is very considerable. Reason 1 alone, however, did not appear to provide sufficient justification to retain the subrange facility in Oberon."

"... was the observation that in a growing number of programs the indiscriminate use of enumerations (and subranges) had led to a type explosion that contributed not to program clarity but rather to verbosity."

Instead the proposed solution is to use SET.

"With the absence of enumeration and subrange types, the general possibility of defining set types based on given element types appeared as redundant. Instead, a single, basic type SET is introduced, whose values are sets of integers from 0 to an implementation-defined maximum."
Yeah, central Prague - borderline Vinohrady. I loved the people. Old Town is beautiful but a bit depressing because of the tourists; but I grew up in Las Vegas, and I found it similar to that and to New Orleans, where I also lived. Once you live there you never really spend time in the tourist district. Outside the tourist areas it's really cool, punk, underground all night places. (This is true for Vegas, NOLA and Prague, in my opinion. I put them in the same category because people in all three deal with floods of tourists and have great underground local culture).
There are fields, Neo, endless fields where worms are no longer born...
What does this has to do with my message? If there's a place - sure, join. But it's not your fundamental right to move everyone because you want to be there.
The second they turn that on, Signal and Telegram will get an even larger influx of users than they got last year when the FB lawyers tried to weasel in some language enabling that and some other features in the Whatsapp terms of use.

I still have not agreed to the terms of use since I continue to be able to opt out and am amused by FB basically chickening out requiring their users to actually agree. The normal course of action would be to eventually block access to the app. That hasn't happened.

So, they could turn on ads but then they'd have to get me to agree to that first or risk losing me. They really want to do that but at the same time they are afraid of what will happen.

In the same way they chickened out of their blockchain plans by simply not talking about it anymore. The Meta announcements featured a large absence of any of that. Which basically means they are probably giving up on the whole notion.

I'm guessing Meta might turn out to be more of the same. FB is struggling to come up with things that actually work. A lot of their efforts just fizzle out. Facebook bots kind of never happened. Payments are dead in the water. They threw out the baby with the bathwater when they had an actual gaming platform with gamers on facebook and shutdown the platform in favor of a glorified ad platform.

Actually a good plan for them would be to rewind fifteen years of bad decision making. Of course that would require getting rid of the chief decision maker.
Roku was a sign company, they made digital sign software. They just converted their existing setup to TV video streaming.

Why redo everything?
If anything, their track record seems to reinforce the opposite idea. Their company is tiny but has a 37% market share according to previous comment, all while having a shitty and closed down developer ecosystem.

I'm generally pro-open source, so this is not coming from a place of shooting down open source, I'm just reading the context in this thread.
These is no definition of "suburb" just as there is no definition of "downtown". A suburb is just a part a city with less dense housing.

You have:

1. Legal boundaries of cities, which are dependent on the state. Each state has a constitution that determines what the requirements are to be a city. Maybe it's only 10 signatures and filing fee. Maybe it's much more. There is also a well defined process for extending the boundaries. Outside the city you have unincorporated areas, but that's like places where you have to get water from a well and use a septic tank. That's not suburbs, it's country.

2. Because 1) is so random, government statistics office come up with their own definition of "statistical areas". There are metro-statistical area, and micro-statistical areas, and even these depend on which agency made the list.

3. Realtors keep their own definitions.

4. Things like advertisers and business have their own definitions depending on industry (e.g. media markets)

5. locals have their own definition.

At the end of the day, you have to pick a list and work with it, knowing the pros and cons and how that affects your methodology.
China shouldn’t cancel Piano Prince Li Yundi over one night with a sex worker
> it's weird but the military got it.

Not really. The US military is renowned for providing soldiers with a social security safety net that's unthinkable for the US's general population, encompassing healthcare, higher education and even social services.
The page doesn't mention it, but Windows 98 had a built-in VRML browser.
Tangentially related: On Facebook, "The average person is connected to every other person by an average of 3.57 steps."

Three and a half degrees of separation

https://research.fb.com/blog/2016/02/three-and-a-half-degree...

When the article was published, there was a tool that helped to visualise that, and I was surprised but excited to see my estimate at 2.91, presumably helped by extensive travelling and diverse social circles.

I believe that if Facebook's success metric is connectedness, rather than profit, the world will benefit.

It's easy to look the other way, and claim that big problems (plastic in the ocean, climate change) aren't my personal responsibility. And for 3 degrees of separation, that's reasonable: Switzerland has no ocean, so can't fix the plastic problem. But here in New Zealand, I bike past the ocean every day. To "love your neighbour" and stop to pick up litter while biking home from work will have a direct impact on the lives of birds and fish right here, and a butterfly effect impact on the whole ecosystem.

By creating software tools like Tao to map the social graph, it's possible to measure the connectedness, and report these metrics. Links are also bidirectional (there's a "thank you" feedback loop) like Xanadu.

For comparison, Wikipedia's connectedness is 3.019 degrees of separation.

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/blog/search-results-an...
I believe that it does have a provider that talks to Nomad, however I just directly write the Nomad jobs (or use levant, which is a lightweight template for Nomad jobs). The only use of Terraform is to set up the barebones VM and other infrastructure (S3 buckets, etc.)
The bit about the pizza mafia being a bad thing made me chuckle.
I'm a fan of https://www.solarham.net/ , which includes an aurora forecast as well as other space weather info.

I'm guessing this is showing up now because a Strong (G3) Geomagnetic Storm watch is ongoing, which could lead to the aurora being visible at lower latitudes. To quote them, "Should a G3 level storm materialize, visual aurora will likely be seen for locations as far south as 50 degrees geomagnetic latitude or beyond (Oregon, Nebraska, Pennsylvania etc). For now we wait."