skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to have linked to the wrong document. You linked to the appellant's petition for the Supreme Court to hear the appeal. The actual decision from the Court does not seem to be particularly supportive of anything you are claiming or insinuating. In particular, the Court's decision in that case reaffirmed that "Although commercial speech is protected by the First Amendment, not all regulation of such speech is unconstitutional." Your broad, blanket statement that ads for legal products cannot be restricted without a constitutional amendment is directly contradicted by the Court's rulings.
the good news is that the metaverse and the tech industry's very
expensive obsession with trying to make it a reality will be a
schadenfreude generator the likes of which we've never seen before

The tech landscape is littered with failed attempts, but we have here two very technically successful companies, Epic and Facebook, both trying to re-imagine the internet as something different.

I'm not sure I'd write them off as a bunch of idiots quite yet.

A bunch of idiots with a lot of money maybe...

But look: Something is happening.

You can close your eyes and pretend it's not. Apps are going to go away and the web continue to be The Way people access information online, and sucky little progressive web applications that hardly anyone is using or making money off are going to become awesome and NFTs will die. I mean, heck, it's only a matter of time until all those people who invested in bitcoin lose it alllllllllll right?

You can sit there and laugh as how stupid they all are.

...maybe? If you want to.

That's probably not a wise thing to do though.

I think there are enough things going on, with enough competent folk doing them, and enough money behind them, that you're looking at the start of a change.

Who knows how it'll go, but I think it might surprise people who are sitting around laughing.

One thing that you can always bet on: Things change.
I made the comment in jest, primarily to illustrate how restrictions like limiting pages to 2 fonts are completely arbitrary and likely wouldn't even solve the problems presented in the original comment ("make the web look a lot nicer", "stop this sort of privacy attack").
Anyone using this care to weigh in with pros/cons/comparisons?
It is perfectly possible to be a grammarly user and not upload everything to it, but if I am running a script or draft of a blog post through it, what harm is there?
Pro = 2 external displays
Max = 4 external displays
A strategy of first triggering high inflation then raising taxes may literally cause riots.

It would have been a better strategy if, at some point in the last decade, the powers that be had stopped printing money and let some bankers go broke.

Now that we're discovering (again) that printing money doesn't help there is a painfully transparent history of handouts to the wealthy, making it hard to justify politically why everyone else can't get in on the lurk.
I think icon fonts and custom icon fonts (like I build) are a huge win for web designers, a giant leap over embedded SVG or images as they can be scaled with CSS and without any SVG embedding or code; and they're tiny and don't need progressively larger files (like images). Yeah obviously there are workarounds but it's such a good tool that blowing it up because someone could use it for nefarious tracking purposes is equivalent to blowing up images. Hey how about we limit all Ajax calls until a user confirms. Or make them confirm every HTTP header one by one.
You want to go after fonts? Shit, we've really fucked up civilization if we have to make everything in Arial or Times New Roman just to protect people from being tracked.
Yes it can go both ways.
> VR is very attractive for teenagers and preteens

Headsets are horribly bad. The day I can get my VR onto my glasses, that's the day that VR will be for everybody. My headset, and many people I known headsets, is in a box. I love VR, I love the games, but I find it too cumbersome for day to day use compared with my screen.

> NFT

Yes. This is already extremely popular, but you do not need NFTs. Your old and proved in-game assets make millions a day. NFT allows for a distributed proof that most people does not care for. It's going to require a lot of marketing and government regulations and trial sentences to make it enforceable and safe.
This doesn't always happen though; we have /dev/tty and it's used in common parlance, but this refers to Teletype, a company that went out of business in 1990. Hoover is the common name for a vacuum cleaner in the UK, and I'm not seeing that changing any time soon either, in spite of the company still being around. There are quite a few examples of this.

It has always seemed to me that a far easier and less painful process would have been to simply accept "men" as gender-neutral, but it seems that ship has sailed *shrug*. I don't think that "Firemen is wrapped up in people’s beliefs about what gender roles SHOULD be" – or at least not necessarily – as many people still just see it as gender neutral.
G1000 is overkill for PPL, though. Admittedly I did mine in 2011 so it's been awhile, but I was paying $145 an hour then plus $60 for the CFI, so around $200 per hour all in.

Considering you can do 10 hours sim time toward the minimums, I don't think $10k is impossible? But ancillary stuff will probably get you to $11k or $12k admittedly. In my case I did the American Flyers weekend ground school for the written test and they gave you a few hours of sim time included with the course cost.
Yes. I meant above 16 year olds. Though if you are with your parents, you can drink from age zero, if they let you.
Ah yes, my bad. Thanks for the correction.
sure he says that but what they’re doing is the opposite. They’re not releasing standards, they’re not making the equivalent of a cgi-bin server that lets me run my own simulation that someone can transit to from someone else’s simulation, they’re not releasing a high quality client that can target simulations owned by other companies, etc. They say people can make spaces but it’s very Geocities. Sure, people can make stuff inside their playground, but nothing they’re doing makes it easier to set up my own playground on my own infra. Everything they’re doing suggests they think the way to “win” the metaverse is to own all of the spaces. Idiotic. That’s like trying to win the web by having all of the web pages.
> It's an answer to the question of "Why do we see different representation of these groups on the height spectrum?"

But we already know that, by and large. It's genetics. And the thing we know about genes is that they align very poorly with "races".

It's like grouping animals by color. Then you discover that brown animals are bigger than red animals, because bears are brown and bears are big whereas cardinals are red and cardinals are small. But sparrows are brown. Using the logic of "race" we put the sparrows in the same category as the brown bears. The black bears go in with the black housecats. The red housecats are with the cardinals.

The fact that you can find statistically significant differences between the color groupings doesn't mean you're not doing something preposterous.
Wow sorry about that autocorrect mess.
It should have read:

Someone could just make you a counterfeit with one bit changed and sell it cheaper or free, so it doesn't solve anything. Maybe something with neural hashes could work, but nothing in today's popular nft systems.
Ah, I haven't been on venlafaxine before so I wouldn't be able to comment. Sorry. Only escitalopram and vortioxetine
Totaled doesn't necessarily mean completely destroyed. It just means the cost to repair is more than the value of the item.

It is entirely possible for a house, or even a plot of land, to cost more to repair than it is worth. It's a bit more complicated, since location isn't entirely fungible, but I'd argue most people are willing to live in more than one specific plot of land.
> how our prison population is totally coincidentally comprised of one certain group of people over all others?

Criminals?
I'm astounded that our media was able to convince you (and a huge proportion of Americans!) that our booming economy is actually bad. I'm curious to know why you think an "overheated" economy is anything but good for the 99%.
I did some firmware hack to make a 28.8 or 33.6 Sportster a 56k one. I think there was a window where they used the same hardware, but throttled it down in firmware so they could charge more.
All fair, faang is not really interested in developers like you.

They want newcomers who can chew everything.

Their interview process perfectly fits.
Exactly. Things are changing and it is not a bad thing if corporates try to be a change. Probably they fail, but even trying is better than doing nothing.
A probabilistic approximate logic for neuro-symbolic learning and reasoning
Yes, we have the internet, but Facebook managed to dominate a huge part of it. No wonder they want to keep their dominance in the next level of it. And I would be careful about calling their domination plans bullshit, seeing as they already succeeded once before.

Second Life was phantastic, I still miss it to this day. It just had a very clunky interface, which modern devices like VR gear might improve upon. (I know SL is still around, probably many lessons to be learned).

Also, "We also have Snow Crash to blame for the absolute hell we find ourselves in today," - wut? Yeah, the "absolute hell" of billionaires investing lots of money to create fun and immersive entertainment options for the rest of us. Truly the worst dystopia imaginable?
Ballerina is a standalone open source project and does not tie anyone to any WSO2 ecosystem.

Please compare processing JSON in Java vs. Ballerina, typing network data in Java vs. Ballerina, writing HTTP/GraphQL/WebSocket/gRPC etc. services etc. in Java vs. Ballerina, calling network services in Java vs. Ballerina and then you'll see the difference between whatever your favorite Java framework (or rather combination of them) vs. Ballerina.

(I'm the founder & CEO of WSO2 and one of the lead language designers.)
Yes, the ideas are not new. but they are not bullshit. as someone who also has kids that spend money on virtual goods like it’s going out of fashion, i can attest that the impact on my bank account is very real.

The NFT craze (and cryptocurrencies in general) is largely fuelled by an inflationary global currency ($) and dare i say it, a lot of money laundering too. But that does not make the sector illegitimate.

in fact some of the platforms that have risen out of web3 already (ssb/patchwork) for example are indeed just better versions of dystopian counterculture that have gone before.

i’d say the author here is just keen to shout at the TV as the big corporate news breaks.

Billionaires will be the ones who may end up benefiting least from a true move to a dystopian, decentralised internet as Web3 is hinting at.
Which works nothing like the housing market.
That's a very interesting. I am curious to hear what your answer was :D

Here's my thoughts on what a solution would need:

1. At least one path from source to target.

2. Some quantification of hardness. No of steps in optimal path? Number of turns in optimal path? Number of paths? Some weighted combination of all three?

Some preliminaries:

Finding optimal path, and finding number of paths can both be down in O(N^2) using DP. Finding number of turns is then trivial.

Now the Algos for 1:

Algo for 1: Naive backtracking, i.e., randomly generate paths until there are no paths. Evaluate each maze using the heuristic and output best one. Run for some fixed time t. This is exp time.

Another algo for 1. Generate a path as following: select K points on the grid, with the start and end being the first and last; then finding optimal paths in sequence (notice that this guarantees not cyclical path). Next, generate fresh path on an empty grid and overlay on the previous path. Keep repeating for some M paths. Now fill in non path pixels. Pick the best grid among these M steps. This is O(M*N^2).

Last Algo for 1: Throw the grid into an ILP solver and optimize the heuristic (exp time).
Fun fact: the first US state to implement a sales tax was Mississippi, in 1930 during the first governorship of Theodore G. Bilbo "whose name was synonymous with white supremacy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_G._Bilbo
They announced support for PWAs using web vr tech. You can guess the kicker: it has to go through the store paying 30% to Meta. That's the new web experience.
Can you share these numbers? I just checked - in my own country (The Netherlands), there have been 0 deaths in the age-group 5-9. I actually think no approval will be given here for this age group based on this data. That would lead to the same situation as the flu-vaccine - recommended for everyone by the CDC, but only to 65+ and people with underlying health conditions in the Netherlands
I dunno, but Bill gates is buying a lot of farm land.
How to make a fulltime income, increase your conversion and sales by building
That's pretty vague and can also describe the Roblox model. Roblox gets a cut of all revenue from other companies' games and spaces.
Typescript, Ruby
> You can have thundering herds, that you may not have levers to control

To me, this seems almost unthinkable. You mean to tell me that you can't just coordinate setting "replicas: 0" for all of your services, or the equivalent and to restart them one at a time? If that's really the case, then perhaps it's time to re-evaluate how that situation ever came to be - where's the technical leadership who kept systems scalable, yet manageable? Was that even a concern at any point in time?

Sadly, my personal experience indicates that many enterprises don't give it any thought and just expect things to work, oftentimes not even knowing about all of their services in enough detail to be able to answer questions about their architecture, nor having a clear way of managing their service instances.

> You can have cyclical dependencies sneaking in the past, that makes it impossible to startup some systems

This does seem like an application problem. If an application cannot reach external services, it should either:

- return an error for all services calls that require this external integration
- queue up these requests internally to be retried later, if there are the necessary resources for this (RabbitMQ, or just a lot of RAM)

Having an application fail fast when one of its dependencies is down makes sense, of course, but it's also a really dangerous approach, since just one cyclic dependency sneaking past could break everything. Perhaps it's better to avoid such situations entirely and not make your app crash if it cannot reach an external service, merely try again later?
Don’t let Australia cheat on climate change
I don't have much experience with nyxt or luakit, but the other browsers do not even come close to these features:

All the keyboard shortcut always work, not just once a tab that's allow-listed has been loaded and JS has been injected into it.

All the settings, including e.g. tab position, fonts, tab loading indicator colors, etc. are configurable via :set

All keys are bindable to all commands via :bind

JavaScript, image loading, etc can be toggled globally, per domain, or for individual pages with keyboard shortcut.

Also, there is an amazing support channel on IRC.

I sympathize with your dislike of the Chrome monopoly. I test my websites in Lynx, Links, AND w3m, not to mention Netscape, IE, Opera, Firefox, PaleMoon, Waterfox, Safari, and many others. However, I also want a usable and performant browsing experience -- something Chrome definitely does not provide, but qb does. I don't think it's anywhere close to being Chrome, it is way better.
Also, fingerprinting is not necessarily an attack at all. I use it frequently to see whether a user is logging in from an unknown box, in which case we'll require secondary authentication. It's actually not a bad thing if you're using it as one part of a verification process to secure user accounts. It only gets bad if you track people around with it or share those prints with other sites to aggregate behavioral data. I use it regularly to keep my own customers safe.
I'm more than happy to sidestep the argument. I think the most sensible thing for us to discuss is homes rather than houses. We can build a lot of homes in areas where there is high demand for them by upping housing density in those areas. Building a lot of homes also reduces demand for individual houses, so helps to slow the increase of price of houses.
The first part of your comment is true.

The second part of your comment is unrealistic. "Crypto" trading in general is one law away from being banned by every single government on the planet. If the dollar crashes, the Federal government will absolutely go after crypto trading.
GaMeap-a mobile gaming platform for players and games
Wow this is most definitely BS. If that's the future Zuckerborg wants to build, I'll pass, just like I passed on facebook, another stupid idea, now riddled with ads.
I second this, and raise one Peter F Hamilton.
This doesn't seem to fit the facts. Entire occupational classes today can't buy homes that a single income household could buy in the past. The quality of housing is better in some ways (much bigger, heating, AC in most areas, etc.) but that's not much consolation if you're priced out.
> In a September 2021 Washington Post interview, Tim Sweeney imagined the future of advertising. "A carmaker who wants to make a presence in the metaverse isn't going to run ads," he said. "They're going to drop their car into the world in real time and you'll be able to drive it around. And they're going to work with lots of content creators with different experiences to ensure their car is playable here and there, and that it's receiving the attention it deserves."

You can tell this absolutely makes no sense, because if we're in the metaverse, why the heck am I driving a car around? I can fly, can't I? Or if I can't, I'm going to open up a shop next door that sells metaverse helicopter rides. If I make a vehicle in the metaverse, I'm going add rocket launchers and nos, because that's way more fun than driving a Camry around.

Not to mention, you don't need cupholders in VR, because your avatar doesn't have a stomach. You can't test legroom or the seat cushions, because your avatar doesn't don't have a body. So I don't see how you can realistically sell an actual real-world car, because isn't most of its function and design unnecessary in the metaverse? Heck, I don't need the whole front of the car, because the engine doesn't actually exist.

The whole metaverse idea is based on clunky, outdated metaphors to the real world like this. Someone who saw Ready Player One in theaters thinks that driving a car in VR is cool, without thinking for five more minutes about why it's actually not.
Here’s a thought: maybe corporates will change and may even become obsolete.
So, this idea of avatarism seems to completely ignore the fact that access to avatars (or technologies that allow "photonic override") will be gatekept by profit-maximizing entities like Apple or Facebook. To me it sounds like just another form of conspicuous consumption where the rich will show off their opulence by buying artisanal avatars (on the blockchain, no doubt) and lording them over the plebs. To see this in action today look at any gacha game, where access to the best characters requires spending tons of money. For an entity like Facebook, this probably sounds great - a new revenue stream! But some kind of new "freedom" it ain't, at least not for the majority of the world's population.
> You can disable the behavior you mentioned.

I know I can. But then I can't play trailers for movies/shows where I want to see the trailer.
Vice recently made a series called "The Dark Side of the 90's." The title theme has a 90's rap sound, but at one point, a dialup modem cuts in. It's even pitch and tempo matched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X1F4VEUXks
Remember this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
that’s really my point: not all pay is increasing at the same rate.

and because the top end jobs are still going up so much, housing prices will continue to climb
What "they" are after, but aren't saying, is simstim. What gibson already knew is... that shit is for meat toys.

I don't doubt it's coming. It's close. In my lifetime? Maybe.
> The 1973 Equal Credit Opportunity Act has an exception where it's still totally legal to deny someone a home loan if they're judged incapable of affording the home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. We should force loans to be given to people who can't afford their homes?

Wasn't that a big contributor to the 2007-8 crash?
I doubt they are "built in Silicon Valley move fast style". I played Roblox when I was a child. In fact, it is what got me into programming.

(And they just rejected my intern application, which is very sad.)
homes cost 5.4x what the average
person earns in one year

Wow, that sounds insanely cheap from a European perspecive.

In Germany, which is the richest country in Europe, the average working person earns €2000 (after taxes) per month, so €24000 per year. Times 5.4 that is €129600. You can only dream about buying a house for that price here. The price of a house is ten times that. Even if it is not in a big city.

Am I missing something?
The huge excitement of the WEF for the metaverse makes me think this is the Internet this group of billionaires really wanted. The closed controlled platform with a single private corporation running the whole thing. Feels like a Richard Stallman dystopia.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/facebook-meta-what-is...
If he kept it and told the truth he kept it, he would be forced to return it.
The nerd move on to nerd out the next big things. Nerds by definition find a niche to stand out and life goes on...
VRML – Virtual Reality Markup Language
One thing I don't get is why not have an on prem solution with cloud fallback? It's hard but not super hard. You would just need a cloud data store. And depending on your app, you can have on prem data store that periodically backs up (and no egress under normal operation) if you can design with an eventual consistency models.
If Facebook insist on real names, I could see a competing or federated metaverse making inroads by protecting identity.
Yes, you're training users to deal with unnecessary complexity, and then the competitors with less complexity swoop in and take your user base.

Thankfully for businesses with built-in complexity and unfortunately for everyone, other businesses also have the same mindset.
Depends on who you tax. Tax the rich and tax them on their assets and you can float your treasury for a while… long enough to make an equitably poor society.
We all know what their vision for the future is and it's pretty banal. More money.
The Wikipedia article has some good stuff here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
We're playing a very dangerous game of poker.

The SF engineers keep raising, and right now, everyone else is calling.

Eventually everyone else is going to fold, and it's going to be ugly for both sides.
Yes, at which point you simply do:

1. ls /path

2. rm <esc><.>

(where "escape" "dot" brings up last argument) without the need to fiddle around with dollar signs underscores, exclamation marks, etc. to prevent further mistakes (e.g. "was it $! or !$ ?", shell expansion, etc)
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> "You can make a low end VR headset out of a $100 smartphone and a $5 plastic box"

Have you ever tried that? Smart phones as VR are extremely disorientating and the latency of the gyro makes it unusable.

I've got an Oculus Quest and it's amazing how well it works using the 4 camera vision-system instead of a gyro.

What they were demonstrating in the meta-verse was facial-tracking attached to VR headsets, which is super expensive experimental technology which is not going to be commercially available for quite some time.