skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's somewhat of a dystopian Ready Player One scenario but maybe eventually inevitable. The metaverse is a pretty direct extrapolation of economic growth in the sense of always doing more with less. Extrapolating the "with less" part leads to people's lives becoming virtual at some point, at least for those who can't afford much of the real world anymore because its good parts are overcrowded.

Unless we leave this planet and find an equally good one, the amount of quality real world out there seems limited. As the amount of "wealthy" people on earth continues to increase, the amount of real world wealth we share might not keep up. Especially if you think nature is part of that wealth, and especially if you take into account erosion due to things like climate change. A virtual world may become the only place for growth to continue.
I don't like this line of thinking at all. Legal professionals are supposed to know the law and to ask experts for other things. Just like a judge and jury in a murder case are unable to understand how DNA analysis works, they don't have to understand how computer systems work.

The only thing worse than a judge who doesn't understand the first thing about computers would be a judge who thinks they understand computers but doesn't.
People aren't reading the link and don't realize that it's 1. an I bond not a T bill and 2. Has a variable interest rate based on measured inflation that adjusts twice a year (the 7.12% in the title is the combined rate, so it can change during the term of the security).
This doesn't mean what people think it means. They adjust the inflation rate every 6 months https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds... .

Right now it yields 7.12% because the last inflation number was really high, but once inflation goes back to normal, the yield will be much lower.
I see HN has followed their standard practise of "The thread must always be named for the title of the article unless we don't like it"
> I didn’t make any claim that can actually be proven.

Correct, your claim “There’s no conspiracy here” is something you don’t know and can’t prove, therefore is an unjustifiable claim.
What legal issues?
To me, this is just a particularly garish example of what a lot of tech seems like these days: very expensive solution in search of a problem.
People with sufficient Vitamin D levels may also spend more time outdoors. For some, this may indicate more exercise as well. The primary source of Vitamin D naturally is sun exposure. So lifestyle factors other than eating play a large role, like time outdoors, and how far north one lives.
It's funny because a bribe seems more efficient. The incentives are more aligned: the cop wants to be paid, and the cop wants you to not break law (open container). Rather than giving you a ticket, triggering a long process, the cop simply gets paid for stopping the crime at the source, being paid by the criminal directly!
I'm away from my 13" M1 MacBook right now but there was a 3rd party app I used that lets me choose any resolution and scaling on the built in or external displays. I like having a lot of workspace and thankfully have good eyes so my usual setup is 2560x1600 no scaling for the built in and 3840x2160 no scaling for the external portable USB C monitor I carry around with it.

There may well be a way to do it from the CLI as well but the app just sits as a tray icon in the menu bar which is great from a "I don't know what I just plugged in but I want to to just be <x>" perspective.
"Everything was going perfect. I loved my job and the people I worked with, I just left because I am prone to doing that when there are no issues whatsoever."
The only aspect of the Metaverse I'm interested in is how it will affect the landscape of massively concurrent, real-time applications, which hasn't advanced too much in the last decade or so.

Amazon's New World MMORPG is on the verge of crumbling a few weeks after launch, mostly because the game's networking sucks. Facebook's Metaverse is an all round shady concept, but it's pretty possible that it will result in some useful new technologies.
They're issued to you, and have your name on them.
These look like a variable rate though that adjusts every 6 months.
I wonder if this will go the way of std::auto_ptr and get replaced by a more sane version 10 years later.
The snide response to this is does anything in C++ spark joy?

More seriously, I've come to believe that most people shouldn't be writing multithreaded code. More specifically, if you ever find yourself instantiating a thread directly you've probably made a mistake. It's possible you're writing something sufficiently low-level or a library or framework that justifies that of course.

From using Hack, I've come to really appreciate the single-threaded cooperative multitasking programming model for client code [1]. It's not unique to Hack obviously.

Part of the power of C++ is the ability to allocate things on the stack or the heap. This is powerful but the complexity cost of this is so incredibly high that I honestly question if it's worth it.

It's unsurprising to me to see the complexity that comes with coroutines as a result of this.

[1]: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/asynchronous-operations/introduct...
If you manage to borrow 10k from somewhere else at 3% APR and invest here you're getting 410 risk free. Unfortunately it is capped at 10k...
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Many other countries have mandatory IDs anyways, so in these cases ID presentation isn't problematic. The issue with ID verification is when only people with eg. a driver's license have IDs.
> So you can use them in source code that appears innocuous to a human reviewer

To a sighted human reviewer. If I'm not mistaken, a blind programmer using a screen reader would be immune to this trick.
It's more of a workaround that breaks things for people legitimately using RTL strings isn't it?
IIRC, the way they defeat this is by offering discounts on subscriptions to large groups of journals, rather than to individual titles.

If you're going to have to buy the package anyway, any money that is spent on journals not in the package is an extra expense that will have to be individually justified.
Inflation rate is just over 5% so that makes the composite rate -4% (or 0).
I've seen it described as "Second Life for boomer aunts".
Well each male tree only has two of them and you have to wait until puberty for them to be ripe. So ya, they're gonna be expensive.
Hold alt while clicking "scaled" in the display settings. You'll get the full list of resolutions.
That could be fun when certain operations finish if it had a timeout option (instead of just keypress-to-exit.)
> I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'Git'.

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Why_the_.27Git....
> Rust as it was written in 2015 still compiles on a modern Rust compiler... but it is no longer idiomatic Rust.

The changes since the 2015 edition have all been relatively minor in terms of idiomatic code I think. I mean sure, you can use the '?' operator instead doing a manual match and return, but most of the changes have just been making the compiler more permissive in terms of what it accepts.

The only new concept to be learnt would be async-await, and that should be familiar to most from other languages and only applies if you're doing IO.
Right. The real question is : when will it abate?

Is it transitory as they unflinchingly claimed or are we in the Carter Years?
So seemingly we're in agreement that Americans as well as people in Europe do, in fact, prepare food at home, since now you're bemoaning all the men (like me!) spending time in the kitchen, doing a woman's job.
Tried to think through situations where I ran into this and felt the same. Usually if I did this I saw it as a poor mutation choice and would revisit a better approach. Just asking for issues IMO.
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I'm not an expert either, but the two differences that come to mind are:

CDs are FDIC insured, bonds aren't. This doesn't make a big difference when we're talking government bonds, but you can lose your shirt on a regular corporate/muni bond. You'll always get CD money back (subject to 250k FDIC limit)

Bonds also are also an asset that fluctuates in price: A bond can be sold at a price different from it's face value. This means that if interest rates rise, you're going to not be able to sell the bond for the same price you've bought it for. This is because you need to make up for the lower interest rate. CDs are just basically a loan on cash. Bonds are an asset (not cash!) that pays interest.
> Companies I’ve worked at that sucked had awful internal communication. It was all very friendly, but it was all platitudes and euphemisms, dumpster fire technology implementation.

Honestly, I think part of the problem is people going around talking so much about soft skills and how people don't like to be treated harshly that they've forgotten you need hard skills and nearly every profession where they need real leadership you get told where you screwed up and how to fix it. Literally, at the company I work for, people screw up and all you hear about is positive things
No, but you have to be a resident or work for the US oversees if not a citizen.
But with more AOL type Big Brothering to forestall the Penis Problem.
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Not necessarily so if it’s all closed sourced proprietary tech. For example I don’t think Newton had accelerated pda tech probably the opposite
I guess Zuckerberg is convinced that VR is the next breakthrough that has the potential to displace Facebook. I wonder if this is a good way to deal with that threat, though? Even with this level of investment, if there's a VR breakthrough based on fundamentally novel ideas, it will probably come from somewhere else, and Facebook will be bogged down by their existing entrenched players attached to ideas that went nowhere. It might be smarter to keep investment minimal, or only invest in hardware, until you identify the conceptual breakthrough and can follow it up quickly.

Assuming Zuckerberg is smarter enough to think of this, maybe he believes that the breakthrough in VR won't be a conceptual one, but will be the result of a massive investment of effort towards presenting existing data for VR consumption. This is essentially what the posted article suggests. Or maybe he thinks he can force his existing VR workforce down the right path when it appears, and that's less naive of an idea than it appears to me.
What's your own level of experience? I think the answer may differ depending on this. Also to get a barometer on just how dysfunctional the company is versus realistic expectations.
Part of the solution to this puzzle is daydreaming porn to wank, which is not on the chart.
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If Tesla made it, Apple can too.

From what I understand they already invested a lot of money in research for their car. It seems strange to just let go of that, but of course it is possible
> Carmack also warned against "the metaverse" being under the control of one company. "The problem is that if you make a bad decision at the central level, nobody can fix it," he said. "You can cut off entire swaths of possibility—things that might be super important. I just don’t believe one company ends up making all the right decisions for this."

This is what Tim Sweeney preach as well. I totally identify with their opinion. The world deserves an open metaverse, not another walled garden. I'm not sure I trust Facebook for delivering the open metaverse the world deserves.
seems very useful for a $10k investment, if it's going to make a considerable amount for that $10k.
The fixed rate is 0% as has been the case. The inflation yield rate has been bouncy. This doesn’t seem as good as the title and comments are making it seem unless things stay this way. Table near bottom of page shows the inflation rate over time.

Edit: I agree this could be a sign of something long term

Edit: recent history of rates

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Inflation rates
--

Nov 2021
3.56%

May 2021
1.77%

Nov 2020
0.84%

May 2020
0.53%

Nov 2019
1.01%

May 2019
0.70%

Nov 2018
1.16%

May 2018
1.11%

Nov 2017
1.24%

May 2017
0.98%

Nov 2016
1.38%

May 2016
0.08%

Nov 2015
0.77%

May 2015
-0.80%

--
Fixed Rates above 0 or .1%
--

Nov 2019
0.20%

May 2019
0.50%

Nov 2018
0.50%

May 2018
0.30%

The overall rate can't go below 0%
The formula is:
fixed rate + (2 * inflation rate) + (fixed rate * inflation rate)

So for these 6 months:
0 + (2 * 0.0356) + (0 * 0.0356)] = 0.0712
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"calling it a "web crawler" designed to roam the web. "

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Saying there's no conspiracy is not a claim, that's the default position. Look up "null hypothesis" and "burden of proof."
Which would be a criticism of looking native, because that is all wxWidgets is doing. It's a wrapper for the underlying OS's native GUI.
I bonds in particular are closer to a CD and are not transferable. If you have access to credit, you could borrow and pay it back once your I bond matures is cashable. Other Treasury notes can be sold, though if rates go up you may get back less than your principal, particularly on the longer duration notes.
Most savings accounts follow the Federal funds rate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate) pretty closely. When it's near zero, so will your savings account be. Chances are your credit card APRs dropped a couple percent over the same time, too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_rate).
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Basically this piece reaches the same conclusion as Zuckerberg in 2018. As Zuckerberg said "The Metaverse is ours to lose." If you think VR + computers are going to get to the place where the metaverse becomes preferred internet interface for users for a multitude of use cases, then it's as simple as that.
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It's always these "take it or leave it" deals with these people, isn't it? This is why adversarial interoperability is the rule today.
I integrated it into the companies cost of living adjustment every year (cpi).
> I'm kind of an idiot with anything terribly elaborate in the financial world, so forgive a bit of a dumb question: what are the downsides to bonds instead of using something like a CD?

CDs, TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities), MBS (Mortgage Backed Securities), Munis, Corporates... these are all so called "debt instruments".

Your question is roughly equivalent to "What is the downsides to investing into Stocks instead of AAPL??" Well... sometimes AAPL goes up, sometimes it goes down. Stocks are... well... AAPL -IS- a stock.

Similarly, CDs are typically a specific kind of bond: the type you get from a bank. But banks also sell traditional bonds.

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The main benefits of CDs is that they're (usually, but not always) FDIC insured. So if the bank goes bankrupt, the US Government steps in and will give you your money back.

The main benefits of "bonds" (which are a very, very broad category consisting of literally thousands, maybe millions of different things)... is that typical bonds can be sold on the open market.

That means that if the interest rates go down, you can sell bonds at a higher price. (Look, I have a 5% bond, and all you suckers are stuck getting 0.5%. Feel like trading? I'll sell you my $10,000 5% bond to you for $11,000.)

Of course, if interest rates go up, then bonds lose value. (Shoot, I have a 0.1% bond and everyone else has 0.5% bonds. I don't want to be stuck with this anymore, feel like buying this $10,000 bond off of me for $8500?)
I guess this is first being tested in Europe because Tesla's chargers already have both CCS and their proprietary port here. Model 3's even only have the CCS port.
I wonder if Rust is any different. I wouldn't know.
The thickness and color of the cloth would affect how strong the SPF is for any given shirt.