skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the metaverse itself is not content. Instead it’s another medium to consume content.

Therefore the metaverse isn’t a replacement for a video games or TV. You would simply watch TV or play a video game while in the metaverse.

The metaverse in that regard isn’t a new concept, because VR spaces have existed for a long time now. I’ve watched movies in Minecraft more recently, for example. I’ve seen every idea in the metaverse attempted in some game or application already.

The reason these VR spaces have not taken off, however, is because the medium to access these VR spaces have been pretty disappointing.

It’s the reason why the Internet took a long time to take off: using the Internet on a desktop computer sucks. When smartphones took off, so did the Internet.

Facebook has not fixed the medium problem as I see it. I have never gotten motion sickness, but I do not want to put on a VR headset for more than a few hours. I don’t even want to put on a VR headset to be honest. I’ve owned one for two years and it just sits in a drawer. I can’t imagine that many people want to put on a VR headset either if they could just watch TV while sitting on the couch, grabbing real drinks on their real table, and texting their friends.
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MicroFrontier – an open source URL frontier for Web Crawlers built with Redis
Why not skip trading off completely and just use Firefox?
I bought an iMac in 2008. When it started getting slow, I bought an external SSD and booted over FireWire 800. It gave my machine many more years of life, and in fact it still works just fine! It's not my daily driver, but I'm glad that I can boot it from an external drive.

Too bad my next Mac won't be so flexible!
How good?
Yeah, we're forced to use Outlook 365...
Not shilling, but found WPS Office to be the best Linux office, followed by OnlyOffice. WPS Office even gets the look of MS Office pretty close, which makes the switch much easier.
Got it, thanks for the feedback. You could give it a try with the free plan which allows you to publish 1 page for free, but you won't be able to connect a custom domain unfortunately.

I'm not sure if you're saying you want to add html/css or you don't, but just letting you know that we do have a Code Injection feature to add code to the <head> and <body>.
Beyond 10x
TBH until very recently with the apple M1 archtecture CPU perf peaked about 7 years ago and laptops never really had a good GPU story. Improvements have been fairly incremental since then. Yes lower nm processes reduce energy usage, but we are even starting to approach a wall with that too now.

Personal laptops and desktops have become things you replace at car intervals now. And phones are starting to approach that too.
We also use Toxiproxy at my company and it's awesome.

Shameless plug: I wrote a Rust port of it a while ago, for fun:
https://github.com/oguzbilgener/noxious
> The author of this document proposes restricting user-defined exit codes to the range 64 - 113 (in addition to 0, for success), to conform with the C/C++ standard.

The C and C++ standards don't say anything that suggests reserving the range 64-113.

Here's what the C standard says:

> If the value of status is zero or EXIT_SUCCESS, an implementation-defined form of the status successful termination is returned. If the value of status is EXIT_FAILURE, an implementation-defined form of the status unsuccessful termination is returned. Otherwise the status returned is implementation-defined.

C++ inherits C's specification.

EXIT_SUCCESS is (almost?) always defined as 0. EXIT_FAILURE is usually defined as 1 (but not on OpenVMS, where the OS defines 1 as a form of success).

The restriction to 8-bit values is POSIX, not C or C++.
Brazilian here: what really helped me was learning to use the pronunciation part of the dictionary + listen on google.
Your identity is on the chip and cryptographically signed on the card. Even if they delete your records, you can still prove you are who you say you are because it’s on the card. If they lost the records, that’s not your problem.
The road to net zero passes through nuclear power
No, it is not. Neither is Roblox or Fortnite, or VRchat. A single game or world is NOT the metaverse, what is so hard to understand about that for journalists and companies?

The metaverse is the immersive internet, as a successor to our current one that is more 2D oriented around photos/videos/text today. It's a paradigm shift in how we interact, but most importantly there will be many of these virtual worlds/spaces interconnected together to form an actual network that nobody outright owns. To get to this future, we need protocols/standards to allow virtual worlds to talk to one another and agree that users can hop back in forth between them seamlessly, across all platforms.

More specifically, the way we use the web today to navigate from webpage to another is how we we traverse the metaverse. The core problem that needs to get solved right now is interoperability, to enable the "web of 3D".

Look to WebGPU, WebAssembly, and WebXR as cornerstone technologies here. Our startup is building the "3D/VR web" in this way, and our current focus is getting proper HTML5 exporting from the native game engines, currently Unreal Engine. We're also building out a suite of tooling to empower developers and creators along with our hosting/discovery platform that includes advanced texture compression + asynchronous asset fetching to enable 3D/VR websites that load as quickly as a regular 2D page. If you're a developer and are interested in our work, you can join our Discord here:

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What's the book's name? No wonder sales are slow, you gotta promote that shit :)
Bitcoin Is a Commodity, Other Crypto Assets Are Securities
Shouts to all in here that think they were the only ones who liked Wave. I tire of the forgetful historians in here or just rehashing the old news/its place in the history of the time.

Sure this is wave. Sure this is notion.(which isn't the grandiose lightbulk product fans of it seem to think it is, not to mention its significance way overblown... you think Microsoft cares what hipster-designer/dev doc collab party you're in?)

The collaboration on any kind of docs/work is just natural and expected progression now. Anyone else just find this not that exciting?
This seems analogous to some documentaries and TV shows that restart the story pretty much from the beginning at 15 minute intervals, after each commercial break. Basically allow people latch on that just joined or were not paying attention. It must have been equally tormenting to the ancients.
It seems to install into /opt/homebrew/ now, whereas previously it used /usr/local.
Interesting, I was not aware of any scales without octaves.

I suppose a solution here could to just ignore the octave part by having only a "single" octave.
It works though. It turns out if you give people a platform a lot of them are willing to do free labor for little of value in return, just look at the explosion of games that rely on UGC like Roblox, or (as the author points out) Reddit. Even here we submit articles and get given points.

Why pay people when they're perfectly happy to work for (effectively) free?
But it isn't. Circumstance molds you. The Great Depression did untold psychological damage to entire generations. I don't think they could just will the anger and resentment and destitution away
I Two-Space (2012)
"Any modern SSD should be good for a few hundred to several hundred TB and may reach a PB."

Actually, even more than that - here are some examples:[1]

Intel SSDSC2KB019TZ01 ("S4520") with 8.8 PB of lifetime writes

Intel SSDSC2KB019T801 ("S4510") with 7.1 PB of lifetime writes

Seagate ZA1920NM10001 ("Ironwolf[2] 110") with 3.5 PB of lifetime writes [2]

Samsung MZ-76P2T0BW ("860 PRO") with 2.4 PB of lifetime writes

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2021-q3-rsync.net_tech...

[2] https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1402397708329967618
Zillow Quits Home-Flipping Business, Cites Inability to Forecast Prices
Interesting patterns, however, it is notable that all of the natural scenes of green probably contained high levels of arsenic - as that was one of the key ingredients in green coloring during Victorian times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvxnXOoFl20
This describes the current state of Minecraft, but Microsoft can tie new releases to new restrictions. The unknowing masses will adopt the new version without understanding the loss of freedom. Look at the success MS, Adobe, etc., have had getting people to pay rent each month for software like Office and Photoshop that they used to buy once and run forever.
right I agree with all that, I'm not advocating for the idea of moving the content that an item represents from one simulation to another, but the idea that transferring what that thing symbolizes should be considered separate and isn't as easily dismissable. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29086662
Thanks for that!

Sounds a little like a cantor, actually.
Welcome to the selection bias that exists in the majority of social science research.
And you have a much greater environmental impact with all that driving, detached homes being worse at retaining heat than attached ones, etc. How many years do we have left to slash our emissions again?

> And you pay less per month than city A.

That's a consequence of us basically not building anything like city A for the last several decades.
First thing I did:

^F which
Toyota Calls on Congress to Shoot Down Union-Built EV Incentives
"...by gluing GDM to Systemd, the Systemd developers made it very difficult for distributors to support other init systems. They basically forced everybody to switch..."

I'm sorry but I don't buy this, I think you and those sysadmins missed something. The situation with consolekit was so bad that something had to be done about it, if you were blindsided by it, you probably weren't paying attention to that area until it was too late. That's unfortunate but it doesn't really make sense to blame the systemd developers for "making it difficult" when they were the only ones trying to actually solve the problem at that time. IIRC the upstart developers never made progress on this.
to be fair, Google chrome does this too if you visit anything non google... i wish none of the browsers did this...
Microsoft is trying to bring the OLE (or whatever it was called) to the web. The technology that allowed you to drop for example Visio picture inside Word document and edit it there.

Their vision is that developers are creating these "smart objects" which you can then put in various places. You can have them in Teams discussion, Loop, Outlook email client etc. The contents is synced between users in real-time. Instead of passing links to various applications where the work is performed, you bring the work to (for example) Teams.
Might be sarcasm?
Time Machine takes hourly backups. Setup consists of selecting a target and checking a box.
Not really knowledgeable of the specifics: Is it really currently unfeasible for a repair shop to figure out how to re-solder a new SSD, and "flash" the T2 chip?
I used to use a white phosphor Wyse 60 as my daily driver. It was connected to a DG AViiON running DG/UX - most of the tools were GNU.

Those were the days!
What you're saying is you want interest rates to remain steady.

The monthly cost to own a home is the same as it ever was, inflation adjusted. It's interest rates that have changed.
I've always been curious about the North American and UK pronunciations of the word "solder". Why are they subtly different?
How much do we really want scientists writ large trying to optimize for the job of ensuring that the public is properly educated at the appropriate level of doubt?

The adversaries we're trying to defend against will only have something else to point to and say "they have an explicit goal of manipulating public opinion to downplay climate/covid/round-earth skepticism", which isn't really that far off from what you're describing.

Trying to properly gauge how new information is processed among hundreds of millions of people just seems like an expertise that is totally orthogonal to having a deep understanding of a scientific discipline. What you're talking about not only seems wrong, but just doesn't seem like the best way to go about solving the problem.
Though I think I kind of agree, I tried out Edge, and it's actually not bad, too bad it isn't open sourced or I would honestly not mind using it when I'm already using Windows.

I still prefer Firefox.
xkoules, your nvidia card may be juuust powerful enough to play it ;)
> users cannot "disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site."

Sorry how does that count as "fighting against censorship?" Sounds like they can censor any user that disparages their platform (the way that Trump regularly disparaged Twitter, on Twitter.)

https://truthsocial.com/terms-of-service/
I am not saying whether you should or should not use this product. My point is that before using such products, you need to read really carefully where and how you can use it this product because of the included resources or intended purpose for using this. It is not sufficient to only read the README file and decide based on that.

The key part here is the second sentence "Use of these trademarks or logos must follow Microsoft’s Trademark & Brand Guidelines.". But there can be other such limitations also, just hidden somewhere else.
I'd be happy with Find&Replace in OneNote, but that's not on the table. They even have a handy help page [0] that needs to be seen to be believed: explaining how to copy the text you want to replace, Ctrl+F, input your search, and just repeat Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V!

Someone actually took the time to write that doc page instead of implementing a basic editor feature...

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-replace-...
It's weird to me that people in this thread seem to divide people in two categories: those who are "nice" VS those who are highly skilled but dickheads.

WTF? That's not how it works. The most highly skilled person in the world can also be the nicest person... or a dickhead, just like the nicest person in the world could also have really great skills, or not... there's no necessary relation between the two things.
Figuring out what Ramayana and Mahabharata versions to read is irritatingly difficult.

The popular English translation written by white people are often a bastardization of the classics from a Woke lens. Others are outright further-fictionalizing accounts to suit a narrative flow as if this was a Steve Jobs biography.

The more faithful english translations are written by scholars who won't consider English to be their first language. So the quality of prose is lacking and epics reads more like textbooks. Hindi and other native language works are pretty good, but my proficiency in them is restricted to speech.

I am still on a search for a book that strikes the right balance. A few hindu historians & intellectuals have started writing incredible English language books. I would count Sanjeev Sanyal, Vikram Sampath and Tharoor as institutionally important writers who want to tell the story of India & Indic traditions by looking past the Delhi-focused view of our rather shoddy academic institutions.

I hope to read more works that conduct primary research instead of regurgitating a few 200 yr. works by british historians that can often veer on outright propaganda. It is the age of much needed revisionism in Indian scholarship. I am glad to see it be rooted in evidence, and not counter propaganda. That being said, I hope they get to continue contributing before the academic establishment decides to fully sideline them for being counter narrative.
> Not only is it more than just doing things in VR, a metaverse doesn't even require VR.

I'm sorry, I think if you want to broaden this term like this you're going to have to stipulate some new boundaries. Else, we've got the metaverse: it's just the internet, and metaverse is just the latest in a long line of silly names for it back to the "internet superhighway".

And when Di died or 9/11 happened I had a "shared experience across a networked medium" about them, for concrete examples.

Metaverse comes from Snowcrash, and there it was... very unquestionably a VR experience as far as I can remember? So I'm not sure where this idea even comes from.
The word is obligation.

If you are giving obligations, then find something else to give that has no obligation attached but is still desirable. Consumable items or experiences that are desirable due to high quality or rarity or other specialness are a good default.

If people are giving you obligations, then gently ask for gifts that don’t need any ongoing future commitment from you.
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I'm no antivaxxer, but how are you ever going to uncover side effects that occur in 1 in 10,000 doses if you only have 1,500 patients? I certainly wouldn't want my child to be at the front of the line getting this vaccine.
I have not played Minecraft, my son does but I think that Metaversa is more closer to the Matrix movie instead of Minecraft.
Use two Mac apps side by side in Split View (2020)
For most things, Google Docs suffices for me. I rarely do complex formatting, and the most advanced thing I do in Sheets/Excel is vlookups, and even that I haven't done in months.

However, for my writing (fanfiction), desktop Office is a necessity. I used to think the "web layout" in Word was weird, but I live by it now. It's a much more efficient use of screen real estate than "print layout" (I have a 4k monitor and like to maximize the window), and Google Docs has no equivalent.

But ignoring the page layout, let's consider something more concrete: loading times.

I loaded a 106 page document in Google Docs on my desktop (AMD R7-1700, 64 GB RAM, NVME SSD, symmetric gigabit internet - a pretty good system overall). It took 27.72 seconds to load, and a couple more after that until I could type without it hitching. According to Chrome's task manager, the tab is already consuming 418 MB of RAM.

On my laptop (Intel i5-6300U, 8 GB RAM, SSD, same internet, Office 365 build 2109), I loaded two Word documents at the same time. Combined, they total 764 pages in print layout. It took 9.71 seconds to load both and for me to be able to type in the 527 page document without any noticeable lag. Word is currently sipping just 250 MB of RAM (and I have never seen it go >500 MB before except when exiting...meanwhile, a single Chrome tab hitting >1 GB is not exactly unusual if my desktop has been running for more than a week).

This doesn't even consider the experience of writing a document this long. Google Docs is already noticeably slower than Word with just a 106 page document, and it gets worse with longer ones. And the grammar checking in Word is miles ahead of what Google has.

Word certainly isn't perfect (I have plenty of complaints about it, and have found bugs which only turn up in long documents), but it remains my tool of choice because Google Docs really can't compete for this use-case. And I know I'm not the only writer in this situation.
I happen to have just written a do-nothing script, so I can answer why I found it helpful vs. a do-something script.

- I am still developing the procedure in the script, so it is premature to automate. A do-nothing script still benefits you by telling you exactly what to do - in my case, spitting out exact commands to run - but you can assess its steps before performing them.

- The script still gathers a lot of information and associates it together in order to figure out the correct commands. That work is valuable all by itself.

- Even though you have to run commands yourself, it's copy-and-paste vs. hand-typing, so it's already less error-prone.

- The script documents the procedure even without automation, so the benefit is immediate.

Now, I think that it's better for a do-nothing script to _evolve_ into a do-something script. But, if that effort is delayed or never happens, at least you've got something.
I think you can read about some of these changes in Google's SRE and SWE books (even if they don't mention this video in particular), at least the ones most likely to be interesting to someone outside Google.

But dropping Borgmon readability was the most immediate and obvious. It was basically true that no one had Borgmon readability. The policy was a catch-22: you couldn't get readability for the simple/formulaic Borgmon macro invocations that were encouraged and often sufficient. You could only get it for doing something "clever". I got it by writing fancy borgmon rules to paper over a problem that (in hindsight) I should have solved elsewhere.

Another was easing quota management. IMHO the most unbelievable thing in the video was that after Broccoli Man told Panda Woman to get quota in two cells, she just said "done". Besides the hassle in transcribing what you needed into the request system [1], various types of quota were chronically unavailable where you needed them, even in tiny amounts. In 2010, I kept a critical infrastructure service running by regularly IMing major clients' on-calls asking them to donate 0.1 cpu(!) of their quota in some cell or another when I didn't have quite enough to grow. There was a "gray market" mailing list where people would trade resources they couldn't get through the primary system. But eventually, they built a system that for small services would make the quota just happen for you.

Overall, it was a kick in the pants for the most basic infrastructure teams that made them see how unnecessarily hard this is for their internal customers, prompting them to make small things just happen while keeping large things possible. In any large organization, it's healthy to get this kind of feedback regularly. The actual specific changes and technologies are pretty specific to Google in 2010...

[1] Many people managed this very very tediously with spreadsheets. I eventually wrote a tool to generate the requests based on comparing your intended production config with your current quota.
Toyota’s Statement on the Need for Equal Application of the Electric Vehicle Tax Incentive

November 02, 2021

https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyotas-statement-on-the-need-f...
Good point, because similar cases have been brought against Vizio and Tesla, among other, this clearly isn't just posturing.