skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow expert. Much analysis.

I didn't have to read an article to see that it's pure speculation based on nothing.

Yes, it could surge to $50k, or it could also fall to $50. Technically it is true.
Physical and virtual sports are similar in most regards, except when it comes to environmental impact. Taking a walk/swim in nature does little to no damage to your environment, unless you make it a big competition.

In comparison, any computerized activity will require tons of resources (and related industrial pollution) and slave labor to produce the hardware you're using, and more energy/resources to power the device. I'm not against video games, but do we need more hardware? Our hardware is extremely powerful already (though games are rarely optimized in any way) and as much as i can see human progress via Internet connectivity, i don't see any "usefulness" for VR technology: it seems to me that apart from requiring more hardware and potentially fueling gaming addictions and social isolation, there is little to no value proposition compared to Second Life and other software we've had for decades.
> Consumers are easily pleased

or because most consumers dont have surround sound setup in their homes?
The metaverse is not bullshit
Error 42: not the metaverse, a metaverse. the intrusive advertising, click bait metaverse. funded by advertising and includes google, facebook, youtube etc.

A pretty poor one, as it does great harm to the inhabitants. Intrusive advertising is based on being able to target specific people with messages (tracking). Different messages for different people. Gee, its almost like this mechanism might engender mistrust and divisiveness. Which in turn might fracture communities. And gee, one might even consider that foreign governments might use this as a weapon. Or potential dictators and other bad actors. Gee.

The clickbait metaverse is only one of an infinite number of alternatives. Each metaverse has a set of rules for how the inhabitants operate. Wikipedia and craigslist come to mind as non-members of the clickbait metaverse. Other rules would - for example no tracking - would create other metaverses.
I'd love to see the core chip(s) of a "modern" external/serial Courier 56K decapped and photographed.
Missing: frustration.
Sound kinda like a scam targeting rich foreigners. Like how in Berlin the landlords will make you buy their furniture off them for ~15.000 Euros if you want to rent their apartment as it's a seller's market.

Crazy times we live in in Europe.
Or build a rocket and go to space? Oh wait.
> And, it makes sense the VR/AR will be the medium to contain all other mediums.

In the same way that e-books will make normal books completely obsolete? I doubt it.
It’s easy to treat taxation of primary and secondary residences different from rentals.

Houses in this country are being purchased by large investors at rates never seen before. It only started happening in the last decade. SFR wasn’t previously an institutional asset class. That has increased demand for housing that used to make sense to buy on a lower income and reduced supply. They literally will buy every house they can that fits their buy box. Suddenly that $150k starter home is a forever rental.

Frankly, I think tax policy may be the only way to fix it. That or prohibit ownership by large entities.
We should talk more about that ‘crappy life’ outside the virtual world. China reduces kids computer gaming sessions and invests in actually improving living conditions. Facebook’s ad sponsored empire turns productive members of society into zombies amidst a crumbling infrastructure. There surely is room for VR and AR in improving aspects of life but Mark’s vision has a taste of dystopia.
Computer people have been trapped in a Silicon Valley mindset for decades, thinking there are universal rules to human interactions (namely game theory). You're spot on that many different universes/cultures are possible, and desirable.

We need a radical alternative to this shithole that Nation States and corporations have designed for us, or our children won't even have clear air or water left because we will have polluted everything, and for what?
Readability can be quantified and it done by static code analyzers into a metric known as cognitive complexity [0], which measures things like amount of branches in your function. The thing is, you can make code of low complexity but still hard to read.

[0] https://tomasvotruba.com/blog/2018/05/21/is-your-code-readab...
> And since most websites require JavaScript to function properly, using this method to preserve your online privacy will invariably lead to a suboptimal web experience.

Great article and a good demo and insight into CSS capabilities in particular but I have to disagree with the above quote taken from the article. I surf the web with JavaScript disabled and the words 'most', 'properly' and 'suboptimal' in my view are debatable.

most - for me, about 99% of websites still work best with JS disabled. If I see the 'please enable JavaScript ' message on a content site (like a blog) I generally bail immediately because delivering content with JS is my definition of suboptimal and a sign of inexperienced devs or a CMO with way too much influence over dev.

properly - when I view a pure content site (like a blog), actually seeing the content is my definition of 'properly'. Seeing a blank screen or the 'please enable JavaScript ' is my definition of not functioning properly. Using JavaScript to deliver content seems like overkill to me.

suboptimal - for me, rather than leading to a suboptimal web experience, disabling JavaScript leads to an optimal web experience. I avoid most ads and I don't suffer JS download delays. All I want is the info. Helping to preserve my online privacy is just a side bonus.

I have a simple rule. If a website is an application (i.e. it has instrumental value) and it's behind a login screen, then by all means use JS. If it's not (i.e. it has intrinsic value like a blog post) then don't. To me, a PWA is the optimal app experience, not the optimal content experience. JS is not for delivering content, it's for delivering functionality, instrumentality.
>Have you ever heard anybody talk about how the 13th Amendment (outlawing slavery) has the exception for prisoners, and how our prison population is totally coincidentally comprised of one certain group of people over all others?

Feeding, housing and health care of convicted criminals cost tax payers money. It would only seem reasonable to ask criminals do some work and repay a part of those money.

Equating it with slavery is very strange.
Uh...she was a Czech, just like I am. That's simply how housing in Prague worked back then, apparently. I'm just glad that I was just a student living in affordable dorms at that time (something like $US40 per month or so? I don't recall the exact figure anymore). She was a Prague native.

BTW, as for "the rest of Czech Republic", things are not rosy in general: https://english.radio.cz/no-end-sight-inflation-czech-housin...

If the article about the US situation claims 118% of inflation-adjusted price increase since 1965, that's less than 2% increase per year. Not quite sure how this number is comparable to recent Czech figures, but I'm sure that Czech inflation wasn't anywhere near seven percent in the last years, so there's that. A 65% price increase since 2015 would be 9% annually on average. Czech inflation between 2015 and 2020 has been ~2.25%/y on average. So that would make the price rises adjusted for inflation 6.6%/y on average.
If people were spitting on the wall, the stain would be wider at the bottom, not at the top, because more people would pass the lower floors
Exactly. These 'software developers' may not like it but the hundreds of millions of other non-developers will.

These will be the same software developers that will end up building Progressive Web Apps for smart glasses made by a big tech company.

Probably it will have both AR and VR capabilities built in and the use case will be to use AR for outdoors (and indoors) and VR for indoors only.

Like it or not, it is going to happen and they will be building it anyway.
I'm sad that so few people understand this virus was created for profit, population control and society transformation reasons.

How can we as a species ever have a chance to get a nicer world when the masses are completely unable to put 2 and 2 together? It's just impossible.
I think what is sorely missing from the entire debate, is a clear definition of what a metaverse actually is.

This article here seems to believe that the metaverse is nothing but "internet VR". The talk by Carmack for the most part equates the metaverse with MMVR - massively multiuser virtual reality.

But according to the explanation that Raph Koster (the mind behing metaplace - the only prior attempt at ever building a metaverse) recently posted at the Playable Worlds homepage, what Facebook is trying to do, is building a mirror world - which is just one world out of many in a multiverse, which in itself is just one small part of the metaverse...

All that enthusiastic talk about "it's the future!" isn't helping either - if anything that muddies the waters even more.

Right now, we are on the best track of turning "metaverse" into a completely meaningless marketing buzzword. Everyone uses the term, behaving as if it was totally clear and obvious what it meant - but nobody seems to be able to actually produce a clear and to the point explanation or definition.

What actually is the metaverse?
Terraform Language server together with VSCode is working quite well.
Company sues Boston University for using a link-shortening service
These sorts of minimalist bare metal abstract PL articles are so thrilling to me. APL comes to mind.

I wonder how high you can go with only 1MB say.
The Czech Republic is AFAIK the worst EU country when it comes to the ratio of real estate price to net income.

It wasn't that bad five or six years ago, but now we are screwed beyond belief.

Edit: and no, it is not just the tourist hotspots like Prague, even though AirBnB contributed to the situation, especially in the rental market. Prices are crazy everywhere, including rust belt cities that have been losing population for a generation.
How about this:

- you are working

- you have a family

- you have access to a forest

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Whether or not more and more people will be unemployed or not due to advances in technology and shifts in society is probably up to debate. I personally think that we'll see more unemployment with uneducated folks. And even if they work it will be paid badly, unstable due to being easily replaceable and rather stressful and dull.

Same for having a family. Finding a spouse will be difficult for the disposable and getting children risky. So, also not an option for many.

And access to a forest - as in a place with nature where you can walk for half an hour without meeting anyone. Good luck with that living in the middle of some ghetto without public or individual transportation options.

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Those products will be the new Opium for the People. The new couch with chips in front of the TV. A sedation and escapism.
We commented the same thing at the same time lol

No wonder Buffett was doing new deals all the time, probably his way of coping with it.
https://archive.md/MpQWy
Wait what? Wow Heroes 3 is a childhood game of mine. I remember spending hours in the map editor just drawing maps and placing enemies and resources all around.

Glad to see it still alive and kicking! Who to watch?
Japan has had this since the late 1970s/early 80s.

Real time settlement isn't really an innovation. Its just something the banks fight to protect their float.
I take your point but have you tried the Oculus Quest 2? If you haven't, I would suggest you do. I think it's pretty compelling where it is now and I don't think it's too bulky for short - medium sessions. And with a stationary Guardian even.
German houses are not, on average, 1.2 million euro. There are plenty that are, but it really depends on your area. If you are within an hour of Frankfurt then much of that was driven by the influx of companies that had been preparing for brexit.

There are houses for cheaper, but they tend to be in less desirable locations. Same in America, there just happens to be way more “less desirable” places. Lots of land in the 90 minute commute radius.

In my experience Germans tend to outright dismiss options that are less than ideal, always searching for the eierlegende Wollmilchsau.
I am a little surprised by what you say. I've been living in Prague for 9 years (moved here, not Czech) and 8 of them I lived in Prague 5 bordering the Old Town, in 2 buildings build in Art Nouveau style, from around 1900. They were renovated, with modern elevators and looked pretty good both inside and outside.The area was very beautiful. Now I live in a communist tower block in Prague 4 and to be honest it's really not so bad. The apartment is OK, kind of small, especially American standards, but what i really like is the way the area was build. For example, in the middle of the area there is a school, a kindergarten and a nursery. And there are plenty of green spaces. This is definitely communist urban planning, but in this case, at it's best.
Compare to Azure

I'll honestly change that to all major cloud providers - AWS has some small hiccups and then that were never recorded, and Google Workspace describes "a problem to a subset of users" when it clearly worldwide.
The root cause is long-term low interest rates but now that SFR is an asset class, the interest rate cycle won’t bring back the $150k home without a major crash that harms everyone.

Tax policy that punishes large investors can help things land without a crash.
Depending on the bank regulator there may need to be some equity behind the accounts.
And people who own it say "yeah, it looks amazing! But it is the same fucking thing it was 20 years ago. But it looks amazing now."
And I just want to be fully wired in 24/7. I couldn't care less about walking in some forest. We're all different.
Usable and reliable is not the same thing as good design or good idea.

The fact that Windows reserves the PRN file name in every directory is probably usable and reliable to someone. That doesn't mean it's a good design for providing access to a printer device.

To test a set membership property of an object, you want a predicate function which takes the object as its only argument. For instance isnan(x).

This predicate can be efficiently implemented without relying on a bastardized equality operation.
By 2140 humans no longer require food?
Your attempt to try to change a widely used label because of the Holy Roman Empire reveals either a charming belief that labels must preserve some long term historical truth, or it's a strident attempt to force people to change their own language. In either case, you are tilting at windmills.
you are misreading the number by 10x.
There is another billionaire building a giant dorm complex with windowless rooms, if there's another deadly variant wave those kids will need the metaverse to see the sun.
Both work and play time are in front of a computer for me. I don't get any association problems.
those are typically sub accounts - not full accounts.
For a moment there, the title had me hoping that they were working on the generally undecidable https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_problem_(mathematics)
Remote work doesn't scale to society. It's a thing mostly privileged, educated, or experienced people are capable of.

At some point, someone has to make or do something physical. With very few exceptions, like entertainment, all of our remote jobs eventually tie in to some good being produced. Even pure services jobs ultimately feed some machine that produces physical products, and those will always need to have access to cheap labor and good shipping lanes to succeed. You can be a cloud engineer, but the people buying cloud services are eventually selling something to people making things.

The impact so far has been more people with more money getting to live in places where their previously "city" salaries give them an edge in cheaper areas. It's also been that some companies have started to adjust salaries for remote work downwards, both of which will flatten out the temporary advantage being a remote worker brings to society.

The only answer is basically socialism, and most of us (myself included) don't like that answer because human nature is to compete.
Needle-free vaccine patches coming soon, say researchers and makers
Our economy is being tanked on purpose. Like in 1933. Great Reset = Rich buy us out for pennies.
If find the term social distancing misleading, it's not about social but physical distance.
VR Optician now accepts an ASX for astigmatism correction. I don't think it adds to the base $69 USD cost. Prism corrections for $50 more.
Designing queries up front seems like a step to far, you might as well just write them , at least you could debug them as there's a low chance you ll get them right first time.
Paysera out of lithuania. Mr Tango. there are a few
At the same time there was an large ebola outbreak in africa.
Imagine the conspiracy theories nowadays about this coincidence.
Might be helpful for people interested in this, an acquaintance of mine recently started working on a project for an online archive of socialist modernist concrete-based (so not only brutalism in strict sense) architecture (contains photos, info, publications, art projects inspired by the subject, etc.): https://belgradesocialmodernism.com/
In Indonesia, Covid affected a lot of people financially. So I thought:

* For home-seekers: less buying power -> less demand -> cheaper house

* For home-owners: cant afford mortgage -> need to sell -> cheaper house

Heck even govt is giving incentives to increase transactions. Why US different?
I don't think that's a very hot take around here. At least I don't think so. But here's what I have to say;

"Serverless" is already here, it's called "servers".
Agreed, but that’s more a legal definition of a city. What most people think of as “living in a city” they don’t think of places like Belmont.
This whole metaverse thing reminds me of VRML websites in the 90s. IIRC, VRML creations were even called “worlds”. My guess is that this attempt suffers the same fate and takes Facebook as a company down with it.
> they could in fact log every single time that you login, which would make the amount of data sent to the FBI much larger

I guess you mean each time you connected to their server to retrieve messages? There is no "login" step, Signal doesn't have a log in process. Presumably a typical Signal client calls several times per day.

The record they provided says connection date and despite being supplied in milliseconds since the epoch the value appears to indeed represent a whole day not a specific time. So you're correct Signal could be lying and actually store the exact moment you last connected, for whatever that's worth, and we could not prove they don't have that info.

> Most E2EE communication protocols will see (and thus potentially log) the time and destination of every message you send

Signal doesn't know who sent messages among close friends, and optionally not anybody who sent messages to a sensitive account.

Let's take the example of a message I sent to my friend Chris. I know Chris, I've sent messages to him previously and he knows me, so I'm in his contacts list. As a result by default my Signal client keeps some "Sealed Sender" tokens for Chris. When I send a message to Chris, my client uses a token it learned from a previous conversation with Chris, but Signal doesn't know who I am, just that I have a valid token for sending messages to Chris. So it stores the message, and gives it to Chris. Chris's client can determine that this is a message from me, tialaramex, but the Signal service never knew who sent the message.

If one day Chris hates me and blocks me from sending messages, his client invalidates all Sealed Sender tokens, and begins issuing new ones to his other friends so they can continue to contact him.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's "fucked up". Do you think that about all things not aligned with your personal and subjective preferences?
Although I think, from skimming the report, there is probably enough information to say that this (1) wasn't intentional and (2) is possibly a lab leak.

That is enough to say that it will probably happen again in our lifetime from an actual lab leak. We have the technology, the world is large, there are a lot of foolish researchers in it. We need to be more prepared to curtail or cease international travel.
Can you expand? What kind of privacy, for instance?
Fifty Years, has raised $90M from tens ‘unicorn’ founders
Passing property to your kids or whoever else you wish it's your right.

Communists were against property and exercising rights related to the property but after provoking huge disasters in many countries they were banished from most of the countries they managed to subdue.

I think there are some people who try to move the mankind in that direction again, after all socialism is cool and trendy again, but I do not seriously expect them to win the fight because the conditions are not the same as 100 years ago.
No, they have windmills in the Netherlands. I'm in the Czech Republic.

BTW if you're concerned about "not preserving historical truths", a major contemporary truth is that Central Europe is part of the common EU market and Schengen Area, while Eastern Europe isn't. So that's quite relevant for the market situation.
unless houses and apartments sit empty and un-lived-in, there is still nothing wrong yet.
k9 [0], an APL like, is under 160KB and includes a database in that.

[0] https://shakti.com
If anything, the crime rate in US is worrying.
> The process is more complicated under the hood.

Right, but that's exactly what I'm asking about :)
And banking in Canada is behind many places. Lithuania, Estonia would be examples.

I lived in Finland in early 90s - they had already gotten rid of cheques. Russia with Qiwi kiosks is quite innovative.

Why did banks want to get rid of cheques and why did they stay? The settlement was fast near the end with imaging etc. Basically Free. What did we get? email transfer? fuck I worked on building that in 2000. Can't believe it is still there with shitty limits for businesses.
Can you imagine being Zuck? Super rich for basically creating the global gossip exchange and fraud factory, and he knows this, he knows Facebook is a clusterfuck of misinformation chaos. And he probably knows he is surrounded by yes people... I wonder if he knows he is in a nightmare.
Can I migrate my purchases over and get rid of my extra Faceborg account, then? I don’t like the threat of getting banned and losing all my purchases hovering over my head constantly