skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “We all have SSDs in our laptops now. These are hard to wipe because they come with firmware that stops the same sector being written over multiple times. This means the data you want to wipe isn’t completely removed, or at the very least, can be recovered by someone sufficiently motivated,” he says.

Is that really true? The idea you need a million passes always struck me as dubious.
> I'll go to the good old web site for free and a fraction of the time.

if it still exists. Once the metafart comes to be it will naturally compete with the Web of old, so it will probably look for leverage to extinguish that.
> A != A if A is a NaN

Among other things, this is super useful insofar as it gives a reliable way to test for NaN.
Woah that's cool, I stand corrected. It's interesting they would demonstrate that as cutting edge research in the metaverse keynote then.
Interesting, are these well-known communities? Of course the Amish never use computers to begin with.
For my bachelor thesis, I used Postgres on a compressed btrfs partition. For my text-heavy dataset, this gave excellent results without compromising on ergonomics.

As the implementation is block-based it is also faster than the naive approach of just zipping your data files.
I can't edit my post now unfortunately, but I have had an idea where websites could use as many fonts as they want - font bundling. If there was a format that could contain any number of fonts, browsers would only need to make one request for specific bundled resource, and then browsers could limit the number of requests and designers could pepper their websites with as many fonts as they want.

In essence, do what we do with JS code, but with fonts.

You'd lose the parallel request benefits of HTTP2 but nevermind.
I think the existence of 230 has always rubbed many people off in the wrong way. Newspapers had reader-contributed columns forever, but they were never given as much immunity as internet services get. But because the internet was exciting people never questioned it. 230 itself is a loophole . I dont know how it should change either, but there should be a broader debate.
Some people prefer to work as contractors since that tends to pay a lot more, and they might have many many offers to choose among. And, paired with (not in the US) a well functioning social welfare system in case of really bad luck
For work i use a tool called Snagit to queue up screen captures then a pen and paper to scribble notes.

The two together along with my memory and the order of open tabs is enough to put together "good enough" documentation showing the discovery and fixing process.
> housing cannot be both a good investment and affordable by definition.

Real estate is the only asset class where this isn’t true. The existence of the mortgage, which is one of the most unique debt instruments available to the general public, means that house price inflation only needs to exceed interest rates about about 0.6% to beat stock market returns.
No, you can't say that about every bug. Many bugs occur in the implementation of systems, not in the design. That was not the case here. The system was implemented as designed.
You would risk ending up with a maze that can be solved by walking in a straight line directly to from start to exit.
Individuals who dared to make anthropological, social and genetic studies on ethnic groups were retaliating upon with great anger and were banished from academic life even if the scientific methodology was sound.

No one dares to do such studies anymore so we can conclude that the "good" has won.
I guess that it’s now a meme to absurdity - with that there’s Tweets where people are buying up as many as they can get.

Like you sat, it’ll wane of course, but if I was buying one of those insanely expensive xdr screens (especially with the matt finish), I wouldn’t want to try cleaning it with any just any cloth.
Alternative title: Old man yells at metaverse.

The year is 2030. A 5 year old Timmy is bored and demands attention from his mother, currently hooked in VR doing her remote job. She excuses herself for a moment, straps Timmy into a special harness and puts his VR goggles on. Timmy is now in a virtual playground with other kids his age. All his movements, especially facial expressions, are reproduced in virtual reality. There's an option to use an automatically generated avatar that sort-of reproduces how Timmy looks, but he can also look like a cartoon character.
His mother is happy - she doesn't have to drive him to a kindergarten and he stops impacting her work.
There are early brain implants that greatly expand immersion, but they are so expensive they are limited to multimillionaire nerds.

2040. Overwhelming majority of kids in developed nations attend virtual schools in VR. Brain implants got better and cheaper, allowing full virtual body control. They are now within financial reach of the upper 20%, not just a tiny financial elite. They start to be required in professional settings as they greatly increase efficiency, with companies sometimes funding them for their employers on a payment plan.

2050. An entire generation now greatly prefers communication in VR to real world interactions and self-identifies more with whatever they chose as their avatars rather than with their real body. Their friend networks are global - quite possibly they don't have any friends within 100km. They spend overwhelming majority of their waking time in metaverse. Brain implants are ubiquitous in people below 40, with most expensive versions allowing a full dive experience.

Most of physical work happens in metaverse, with workers controlling humanoid robots remotely. It's not perfect yet - but it's getting there.

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Compared to the growth of 2d internet, metaverse is now in early 90s. There's no need to buy a vr kit right now - but once facial expressions tracking arrives it's time do it, otherwise you risk permanently losing touch with the zeitgeist.
I guess he filmed through a pane of glass, and then flipped the video? It's trippy that he's physically writing backwards, but the text we see isn't reversed.
Shouldn't that be "Bonjour à tou.te.s les étudiant.e.s."? Also as far as I know it's banned from schools for now.
I didn't leave due to the realization that the company was unethical, but there is a correlation there. I left because I got burnt out by the culture built around performance incentives. I didn't encounter anyone at the company who had inherently malicious or exploitative intent, but the culture drives the individual behaviors that in aggregate leads to all the harm caused by the company. That being said, everyone there, including myself should feel somewhat accountable, but it's really mostly on the leadership for having the power to change the culture but neglecting to do so.

> is entGo actually worth implementing as an ORM for Go

I can't speak to how valuable it would be when judged on its own. I just think that it currently does not and probably will not come close to delivering the same level of value as the FB Ent framework.
This is sounds just like when Apple released the first iPhone and a lot of critics wrote articles about how we don't need the iPhone because we already had are Blackberries that could do the same thing and was cheaper.

Now look at the iPhone today, literally one of the most popular devices in history.

A lot of similar vibes today as there was around the release of the first iPhone.

If I had to bet, I would be betting on Mark even if I don't like Facebook or their other products.
The metaverse (not Facebook's/Meta's version) can be whatever you want it to be. That's the point.

You could sign into different worlds, or turn different layers of reality on/off.

Perhaps you choose to use a reality where the rules are more akin to the real world, and so the best way to get around is a car... a car that looks and behaves like a car.

And then 15 minutes later you get bored and jump into a world where you can have rocket boots instead.

There will be markets for all different types of realities.
Because acknowledging Second Life would mean acknowledging the appeal of the most established virtual reality is that you can be someone/something different, and that goes against Facebook's real name identification.

Also, they probably want to keep the nsfw aspect synonymous with Second Life out of the discussion.
As with all property prices, it is important to distinguish between land value and capital improvements.

Land value has been increasing, because land in desirable locations is in limited supply and is not able to be added to (with minor exceptions). This means that land is a monopoly, which is why land-owners are able to extract economic rents from the land far beyond what other investments can afford, compared to the work you put in.

There's a fantastic book which explains this, and Scott Alexander's blog has a book review (by someone else) which is an easy summary: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

It helps explain why we have poverty in the midst of extreme wealth.
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Active Worlds, 1995 - present: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds
It's a form of warrant canary?
The primordial soup was presumably an Earth-scale massively parallel chemical "computation" with no goal. How would you even begin to simulate that? We at least know roughly what a worm does.
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After how it ended I’d argue that they are way less popular now than any of the books
>I have a feeling that science was more trusted

Maybe but I'm not sure it would matter in 1972 Yugoslavia. I doubt individuals had much choice to cooperate, no matter what they believe, with government action to deal with small pox .
What we are seeing in human society is a psychological attack. Murder and suicide rates are skyrocketing. Funny how the media says we don't know why. Maybe it has to do with the lack of social supports. When inflation and housing prices are at an all time high, we are still quarantining kids for 10+ days from school and expecting parents to have unlimited paid family leave.

Kids are expected to sit inside the whole time and obesity is also at an all time high. Make sure we reward people for getting vaccines with donuts and free alcohol. Might as well give them a pack of cigarettes as well since we care so much about health as a society.
I think you’d see a lot less progress in building and energy codes if existing buildings had to comply with all the code changes.
Geocities and Xoom were all the metaverse we needed back in our day.

You know what? the internet was better when it topped out at 56k for mortals.
Yes we had SecondLife in the past, but the billions of new internet users that came online with the second Eternal September caused by internet connected phones don't know about it. Expect to see the same pattern being followed to the letter (virtual estate bids, token currencies, furries, character skins being sold at a surf prices, politicians and pop culture personalities trying to jump on the bandwagon, etc.), but with two big differences: it's not going to be a "thing that outcasts do", and it's going to be run by a company that wants your work to happen in the same place (as opposed to second Life which by definition was a way to promote escapism from real life); Facebook execs understood well that it's critical to make business believe it's ok to have meetings and business development running on their advertisement platform, to the point there's a whole chapter of the official keynote about this aspect.

> ll just be a natural extension of the gig economy, some poor soul being paid .00000000001 bitcoin an hour to virtually dress up like a carnival barker and shout about the latest horrible news out of Syria on some virtual street corner.

It's not going to be real people
but scripted animations, Meta is a way to automate marketing so that even influencers are redundant (after ads and companies with their ads budget).

Enjoy the second pre crash bubble and brace yourself for another 2008.
I think one of the biggest misconceptions about plants is: they only need water (and light).

Yes plants need water, but they can't grow on water alone. They need all kinds of minerals that are in the soil. When those are gone the plant will die.
When you repot plants you add fresh soil so you also add minerals. But when you don't repot you need to add those minerals once in a while.

Tip for aquarium owners: a lot of plants benefit from the 'dirt' in dirty aquarium water.

An also lesser known fact is that there is a huge symbiosis between bacteria, fungi and the roots. So in fact you also need to keep them alive.
He measures code 'simplicity' by how much work it makes CPU do, and not some made up metric like 'readability'.
Cute, but trivially falsifiable. Wearing a Freddy Krueger mask on Halloween doesn't make you Freddy Krueger.

And to the extent that it is true, it implies that we should stop using Nazis as the boogeyman. Because trolls are going to use whatever will get a rise out of people. Best not have it be this that they summon up.
This thread feels like 1860's consilium on what future will look like 500 years later. The shape of the metaverse will be formed by a new generation, not by older guys (and not by fortnite addicts who play by the rules of the former) who know nothing better than drive a fancy “car” on the “road”, as if roads or a concept of physical movement or the euclidean rule would still be there for common use and not for museums. Virtual worlds up to date, like second life, were mostly just stupid copies of “real life”, which was designed after some physical limitations, or fantasy worlds of parallel earth-likes with a limited magic.

If the only limitation of metaverse is Code and Content, and if that would be much easier to create, then in a blink of an eye it will turn into something absolutely inconceivable to mercedes benz drivers. What really is bullshit, is lack of imagination in people and a shitload of thought inertia. Personally, it feels like the article author has never ever been in the internet, confining themselves at a small circle of “social” networks bs. Those will live in an exact copy of their current environment, paying to bigcorps with their work hours to achieve “expensive” toys, to impress similar narrow-minded guys. I’ve seen second life at its peak, and this is exactly what they were doing there.
Wirth removed this again in Oberon, because experience with Pascal and Modula showed that it is not worth it.
That’s not my concern. My main issue is that it would be pretty much impossible to recreate the dynamics of driving a car the way dedicated video game car simulators do. Who will write the code? The car manufacturer, or the platform? All you’ll end up with will be a precise 3-D model of the car and a generic driving “experience”. When you play Grand Turismo every car behaves differently because the creators took the time to customize each car. I don’t see how would this apply to a platform because the backend to support all this would probably not be there.
Homes are people more important asset and the way the market is (unique items that people choose carefully and bid on) it's quite normal that over time prices would rise in line with wages.
Historically, wages are increasing faster than inflation (people are getting richer), which means house prices have a 'natural' potential to rise faster than inflation, and thus be viable investments.

If prices rise faster than wages across the board there will be a correction at some point: quite simply prices cannot go higher than what people can pay.
True, though US "cities" are generally asphalt hellscapes. Design something like Houten, or let Culdesac loose to build a whole city, and now you're talking.
That's how bubbles work.
Communist censorship was merely a copy of Catholic censorship from earlier times. It's not like Commies invented it.
> so there is no such thing as a "good school district"

Is this actually legit full true? It might be less of a gradient than other places, but in our two years in Norway our children went to two different public schools which were in immediately adjacent suburbs - both good locations, and there was a definite difference in the management of the schools which was visible through all our interactions with them.

The second school was clearly better in our experience, despite being part of the same system.

Norway isn't "EU" for those purposes, but I suspect it's similar. The same way that different hire car offices or different pizza parlours in the same "chain" can have quite different quality despite theoretically operating under the same policies.

(edited to add)

While these things, in theory, normalise out over time as staffing changes in individual schools or individual franchisees - your kids are often only at each school for a handful of years, so there'll definitely be some attempt to find the better ones based on what you hear from parents of kids a year or two ahead... and those with enough money to just move house into the "best" zone will still get their kids into the better school.
They're state employees, of course they shouldn't be able to testify. They're unelected?
For anyone after a TLDR, from the article itself:

"The metaverse is bullshit because no one can actually explain why it's better."
What kind of people do you target? I usually use Firebase hosting and feel no problem.
> This seems easy to solve given Apple's rejection of PWA support in Safari

There's no such thing as PWA or PWA support. It's several dozen different standards of varying quality and usefulness. And people randomly chose arbitrary selections of those standards and claim that this selection is a true PWA support.

Thank god Safari doesn't allow notifications and it should continue not allowing them.
powder coat doesn't flake if applied properly, and some coats are tested for and guaranteed to withstand a 180 degree bend without disturbance.

the PDF manual explicitly warns to bend only once. i expect repeating or reversing would cause striations/stretch marks at the seam, which would be actual openings in the metal exposing the raw aluminum underneath, not an adhesion failure of the powder coat.
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> We as a unit need to do things in an efficient way

Then you want native apps, not websites.
Right it is 'bullshit' then and unfortunately Zuckerberg is going to put his money where his mouth is and build it anyway and partnering with anyone else who hates Apple and Google's 30% taxes.

So what are you going to do about it? Keep talking about them or do something to challenge it?

They know it is bullshit and it is dystopian but they are going to build it regardless. If it is not challenged, we are going to keep talking about how they won for another decade.

Every day when Meta is talked about and their services are used, Zuckerberg keeps winning. There is no amount of fines, scandals, privacy violations or confessions that can try to stop them.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results

They were successful with one thing. Now they are talking about something else.

Why shouldn't "MetaVerse" be compared to the insane optimism of AI in the 1980'ies? Something that seemed just around the corner, but never arrived.

It's like Thorium reactors: half the people think it's the next great thing, the other half thinks it will never come into production.
Is there a philosophical or historical reason behind the world Tao being used for things that are distributed?
>You're talking about the differences in averages. But that's meaningless. If the median Asian man is 5'8" and the median European man is 5'9" (or whatever the numbers are), this tells you nothing about any individual Asian or European males, because like 40% of Asian males will still be above the European median and half of Europeans will be below it.

Valable also for German Shepherd and Golden Retriever.

>If Swedes are on average taller than Austrians, are they different "races" then?

But Swedes can be still considered a different ethnic group than Austrians. Does the exact terminology matters? Various groups of people have both differences and also things in common. So what?
They started buying them during the pandemic but, looking into it in more detail, it looks like it was only a few tens of billions, so not that much.
Kids prefer messaging because it's asynchronous, not because they prefer text.
People who wish to live in areas of three story multi-family structures that fill the lot should be able to find or make places where that’s legal and the predominant style, I agree. (I’m opposed to the effective exclusion of that via pervasive 1/2 family zoning.) Equally, people who don’t want to live like that should be able to find or make places where detached 1-3 family buildings that don’t fill the lot are legal and the predominant style. (I’m opposed to zoning laws/changes that prohibit these neighborhoods as well.)

Forcing everyone to live in what they consider an undesirable hellscape isn’t good policy in either direction.
Should be retitled My Faster Bash Startup. This had nothing to do with Bash itself and everything to do with the user.

The big one is that Homebrew is abnormally slow in general and they had multiple commands running homebrew in subshells.
It's not the Holodeck.
I love when people make absolute statements then get owned 10 years later
Essentially the two sides are arguing about:

The concept of sex as a social category should be replaced by gender. An individual’s gender arrises from a strong innate subjective feeling, and is presented by a socially recognised performance of masculinity or femininity.

Contrast with:

The concept of sex is a biological category linked to bodily role in the reproductive process. An individual’s gender is just what sex they are.
it’s kind of disturbing, what about pair bonding? imprinting stuff like that at a young age, also will people grow cold towards these people or treat them as subhuman one day? i know this sounds negative but i worry that this will lead to some type of genetic war eventually.

it sounds sci-fi’ish/black mirror but honestly this seems like it will eventually happen, given how terrible some people treat others purely based on their eye color, height, skin tone etc. or what’s more, will this create people so perfect or beautiful that natural humans decide to worship them?

it already happens with celebrities. what if one of these people end up being extremely handsome and but extremely deceptive, like hilter meets [insert attractive person here], or add to that highly intelligent as well. people already have followed cult leaders for their charisma and honesty it doesn’t seem like society has changed enough to not do any of these things. for example this year/last year and the year prior was a already a good sample size of the madness that people are okay with being. anyways something for all of us to think about.
One difference is that in the US income is always stated in pre-tax numbers.
what the fuck are you talking about you imbecile
Did the Google design docs follow any guides on how to structure/present the information and how to draw the line between too little and too much detail?