skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasingly I agree. It's the Byte Magazine 1981 cover where someone inserts an impossibly small floppy disk into an impossibly small wristwatch computer; Metaverse = VR world is not the literal message, it's placeholder marketing for a complex message. The actual things being built to create an interoperable metaverse are mostly mundane "gonna need one of these" core technologies. The stuff actually trying to directly achieve that immediate vision will falter on the technical and social limits of what people would actually agree is a good experience. (And to know where a lot of these proposals fail, you want the advice of anyone with experience in operating virtual worlds and online communities.)

Remember, the last "VR wave" hit not all that long ago. Many people can recite the limits of that particular tech reasonably well - cost, poor accessibility, space requirements, limits on viable "camera positions". The proposal of a metaverse is not really to double down on that particular bet, but to go back and integrate everything top-to-bottom in ways that weren't being done before. It will be half bullshit, but some of will stick.
This is all solid advice. I also note that new managers of programmers should read it as well. Managers feel the weight of the responsibility for the project and when one of their engineers is stuck it puts the schedule at risk. For new managers especially, their instinct is to just tell the engineer how to fix the problem.

That solves the near term schedule risk but does nothing to prevent recurrence.

When I'm managing software engineers I try to make it really really clear that getting stuck is a "known" thing and getting unstuck is a "learned" thing. So to come to me early when they are stuck so we can practice ways to get unstuck. If they wait too long to ask for help, it is a much bigger problem. (and when I am programming for someone I can be just as bad at not asking for help soon enough) for one of my employees who was an ex-marine and really really didn't like asking for help, I got him to think about it as asking someone in their unit to provide covering fire, that is "help" and essential to achieve the objective. They understood that reference really well and we got along great after that.

My point being that everyone is a teacher to somebody, so when an article that frames the teaching as instructor to student, don't make the mistake of thinking it doesn't apply to you. There are things to learn in there.
It depends on what aspect of it you're looking for.

If you're looking for Scifi that maybe resembles it I'd say possibly Battlestar Galactica. It's a bit higher production level, although does have slow stretches during some seasons (I think middle third of S2 was one of them), and falls apart a bit when trying to put together it's ending. Writing is about the same, maybe a bit better - and has a similarish feel although not grounded on earth. Covers some interesting topics of society.

If you're looking more of the in depth discussion of the state of society (specifically American). The Wire is really spectacular. But it's not "junkfood" watching, it takes paying attention and a lot of points are subtle. It also takes about 6-7 episodes of very slow ramp up to get good, but one of the best shows of the past two decades - and plenty have said one of the most complete TV shows ever made.

If you're looking for just the easy to consume action and political intrigue, the first half of Game of Thrones fits that bill, but is now notorious for how poorly it ended. High production, lots of characters / back story.

Maybe 24 or Homeland would match if you're looking for more of a straightforward "stop the terrorists" themed show.

It all depends on what aspect of Colony you're looking for / enjoyed.
I haven't done enough research to really add to this discussion, other than I feel any reasonable or commonly-held belief is better discussed than cancelled. I'm glad that the author shares her perspective.

The first step to being right is being wrong. That's also the second step, and probably the next dozen or hundred steps are also wrong. If we cancel people for being wrong, nobody will truly be right, they will just mimic correctness like an overfit ML model.

I am not saying that the author is wrong or that she's right. Just that it's a reasonable or common enough belief to be discussed.
Is it any worse than the harvesting my ISP is likely doing?
The Tyger
By William Blake

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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It's not about being a personal computer. An iPhone may be personal, but it's hardly a computer.

I mean, technically it is, but then so is the microwave timer controller.

In terms of user interaction, an iPhone does its best to be an appliance, not a general-purpose computer. So do Android smartphones - lest one thing it's an Apple problem, it's not. It's a modern computing problem.
I used to work for HGST (now absorbed into WD) in the EMEA Enterprise Support lab. My main role was setting up PoC/testing systems, and support for high capacity SAS/helium drives, although I mostly worked with high-capacity flash boards and arrays.

The 15K rpm drives could sometimes be quite noisy; especially with 48 or more in an array.

Three of the engineers with whom I worked specialised in disk failure analysis; one of their tools was an inductive telephone earpiece pickup coil with suction cup, connected to a small amplified speaker. These guys would put the pickup on top of a drive and listen to all the electronics, spindle motor and head-moving voice coil electromagnetic noise as the drive spun up. This process would generally be followed by comments such as: "Hmm, head 4 sounds iffy", "This unit's on older firmware" and "Sounds like the heads aren't coming off the ramp"...

A lost/fading talent now that 2 out of 3 are retired". It was quite amazing to watch and listen to these guys at work.
Yes, nearly everything about "Linux" in Firefox applies to BSD.
It's communism that reduces one of the notable downsides of communism, the social loafing aspect, due to reliance on machines instead of your fellow man for productive effort(labor equivalent).
i dont really like the pipes as a model

but congratulations on working to break out of the existing flawed paradigms like sql. at least you have composition.
These large polyphons sounds superbly full to me. full metal not so compact disc :)

I mean really.. ave maria is a little magical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4FWixsUM8

gosh
JK Rowling is absolutely right and the TRAs have absolutely lost their minds
DirectX was released a decade before Vulkan, that didn't stop manufacturers from including support for both so the user could decide for themselves.
Some perspective from the Netherlands...

We've had more demand than supply since WW2. Which follows that price will be as high as the people can afford at a maximum. And with "people", I mean not the general people. If supply is low, you only need a small subset of people to be able to afford a house.

I want to stress how the supply/demand dynamic is leading, and how a lot of well intended policy has a counter productive effect.

For example, when we bought a house 20 years again, there was whopping 8% "transfer tax". That's tends of thousands of EUR in pure tax. The government figured that it would make housing more affordable by reducing this tax to 2%, and sometimes 0. The market immediately seizes this extra price room.

Hmmm, another try. Old people have capital and it should be possible for them to transfer a tax free amount to their children, to aid in purchasing a house. The market immediately seizes this extra price room.

An idea not yet executed is to raise the standard mortgage period from 30 years to 40 years. I think you can guess what that will do to prices.

It's not an issue you can fix with a tax tweak. You can't even fix it with the nuclear option of drastically increasing interest rates. I repeat: If supply is low, you only need a small subset of people to be able to afford a house. You can raise it to 10%, it doesn't matter.

Increasing supply is very difficult and no permanent solution in already dense areas, which is why I believe managing demand is the answer. We should stop organizing society around these "black hole" cores of very crowded countries or cities.
> Email is not an evolution of papermail

It definitely is! So many people get so many things exclusively by email that they would otherwise get by mail.

> the internet is not an evolution of the telephone

Weren't dial-up and then DSL quite literally evolution of the telephone connections? And aren't VoIP and other internet communication platforms displacing a large use case for the telephone?
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What does Facebook really gain from buying them?

Facebook is making their own social vr platform, why would they want a separate platform, they cannot make use of the tech and the player base is not large enough to matter.

Not to mention that they would be forced to check every single uploaded piece of content that has ever been uploaded for copyright as they would quickly be hit for those things after being acquired
macOS has become more reliable
Isn't ending consumerism essential to avoid running out of resources.
> If we cancel people for being wrong, nobody will truly be right, they will just mimic correctness

And that's assuming that the angry mob majority's viewpoint is actually right. When it's wrong, they'll mimic incorrectness.
Same as today. Very little.
you want to have at least some of that going on visibly to emphasize what an absolute steal it is
> "free speech" might be pointless because very few will dare to speak their minds... If authorities aren't going to punish someone, then some groups will.

I agree freedom of speech is never absolute, and it is not equally guaranteed/protected.

But the idea of free speech is not pointless, even when very few will dare to exercise it because of those realities. Those few being there, despite the grave consequences from non-government or even governmental groups, are part of what makes their speech powerful and inspiring. That's why Damore or Snowden were actually boosted by those groups' retaliation.

Freedom of speech does not mean everybody can say whatever without any repercussion, or that government will help defend you. It means government won't retaliate against you, and you have to strategize how you are going to execute it.
I think the consumer is part of the problem with news. I won't lie, I come to hacker news everyday and even multiple times a day and refresh hoping to see some new article talking about something controversial or new or ingenious. How can you keep publishing content like that day after day? At some point, you have to inflate things a little, extrapolate, or even enter the realm of reporting on hypothetical and what ifs.
Air Defense Identification Zone (East China Sea)
Many people I know are making so much money (regular money, but they're single / not living lavishly so it adds up quickly) in tech that they work a few years and then quit for as long as they feel like it. They can only be accounted for as half a person's worth of workforce if they're only worked half the time.

(And really the only reason I think most people don't do this is the godawful state of American health insurance.)
Wikidata growth animations on it's 9th birthday WikidataCon (a thread)
There's nothing illogical or explicitly hateful in this piece. It's counter to the new orthodoxy that we've seen develop over the last decade, but I can't comprehend how this is something so divisive as to warrant calls for public execution.
There’s still an important difference in that you’re yielding control explicitly by using await, instead of being preemptable everywhere. That’s good enough in most cases.
Looks like I have some weekend reading to do. Thanks!
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Hey, I'm building a computer with lots of storage, you sound like someone who knows what they're doing... maybe you could help me... currently the plan is:

3x Firecuda 4tb NVME

2x QVO 8tb SATA SSD

4x WD Ultrastar 18tb.

My use case is I need tons of storage that operates fast and is used for all sorts of things (creative work, gaming, archiving, job processing), sometimes all at the same time. It's a threadripper pro workstation pc, so I have spare PCIE slots to upgrade later.

I'm thinking of replacing a couple of the QVO SSDs with Ultrastars and using a couple of the FireCudas as cache drives for the platter drives. Good idea or bad idea? Would I be making a meaningful tradeoff or should I just go for the extra space?
I remember enjoying E.P. Thompson's take on "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism" in college. He has a lot of interesting commentary about how technology in the form of accurate timepieces played a role in our concept of labor. The article is here behind a paywall (https://www.jstor.org/stable/649749). Anyone with access to a search engine can likely find a free copy ;).
You are downplaying reporting of +5% unemployment in 3 months, the difference between now and 2019 is that unlike 2019 those persons were either reemployed or counted as unemployed…now 14M Americans (aged 18-34) are immediately removed from the workforce instead of being counted as unemployed.

You can claim all you want that is not data, but it is and it is telling from a policy perspective. Since when have 18-34 year olds that quit been immediately removed from the workforce?

I’ll take a guess that you neither are an employer, low wage worker or government worker, because you seem pretty far removed from the reality facing the vast majority in the US.
> 3) People (primarily women) not being able to return to work because of child and elderly care.

I think that one is key, BUT primarily because I also think that one is not likely to recede as quickly the other causes will.

I think many people with young children, where both parents worked, and one of those parents was in a relatively low wage job, realized that it actually made more financial and "mental health" sense to have that parent just quit and take care of their children full time. With as expensive as childcare is in the US, people realized "Why am I completely stressing myself out, having someone else raise my kids, when I earn X, but something in the neighborhood of .8X goes to childcare, expenses for having a job (commuting, work clothes, etc.), and taxes. I'd rather have a slightly lower standard of living without having to deal with a bullshit job and having so little time with my kids."

I believe that dynamic is one that has staying power. All of the other fantasies ("people are standing up to the man and saying they won't come back until wages increase") will face reality once people's savings run out and they realize they like having shelter and eating.
I believe this sort of acoustic analysis for failure is still used in wind turbines.
Chumsky, error-tolerant parser combinator with recovery
So I burned a pirated ROM to upgrade my USR HST to a USR Dual Standard. I paid $750 for that modem.

Damn kids and their 1gb Ethernet…
Yeah, I meant the .google name the IP redirects you to in the browser
Is it multiple people writing the Twitter posts?
bash-completion does this too, these days. It doesn't load the completions for a command until the first time you invoke completion on that command.
The physical layer is completely different; Midi 1.0 was a current loop with DIN five-pin connectors; Midi 2.0 uses Ethernet and Wifi.
Servicing village sized tribes in relatively plentiful biomes, vs nation-level populations (serviced by machines) seem to be very different things.
I've noticed I don't want to sit and play video games because I sit all day at that desk. The last thing I want to do is sit there more.
Hedges vs. Obama
I just wanted to say, the next and prev links on comments are a brilliant feature. Thanks!
Is there a general process for solving problems? These last 25 or so years I've been programming I've mostly just been thinking about the problem until I have a solution. Sometimes I go for a walk but that seems pretty hit-and-miss.

My process seems to boil down to not realizing I was supposed to get frustrated and give up.
Ask HN: HTTP request headers to facilitate better UX on web sites?
Are there any, or can we maybe come up with (i.e. suggestions please if it seems like a good idea), HTTP headers that browsers can send to sites that automatically instruct them in terms of:

1. The kinds of cookies I'm willing to accept (e.g. strictly necessary). For example, `X-Prefer-Cookies: strictly-necessary` or `X-Prefer-Cookies: all`.

2. The fact that I don't, and probably never will, care about your newsletter. (If your content really interests me, I'll find a way through your UI to subscribe.) For example: `X-Offer-Newsletter: no`, or `X-Offer-Newsletter: yes`.

If you wanted to facilitate more general UX preference indications from the client side, you could potentially come up with a scheme like `X-UX-Preferences: strictly-necessary-cookies; no-newsletters`.

This way I can set these preferences once in my browser and be done with your annoying cookie selection and newsletter popups (if your site honours those headers, of course).

I think that, if most websites honoured those headers, it might just fix 80% of what I personally feel is wrong with the modern web. (The other 20% I think involves completely eradicating online advertising-driven business models from the face of the planet, which I think is quite a bit harder to achieve than this.)

EDIT: grammar
It's a general-purpose computer inside but it was intentionally handicapped by Apple to be an appliance that only does what Apple approves of.
> ... the governments of the world couldn't have imagined a better excuse to violate privacy and personal freedom with COVID-19

On a daily basis in the EU you do really feel how politicians have used Covid-19 to impose a crazy amount of surveillance. If moreover you travel just a bit, the amount of bullshit you have to fill / comply-with and whatnots is just insane.

You drive from, say, France to Belgium: you are supposed to fill online "locator" forms saying where you go from, where you go to, what's the license plate(s) of the car(s) you're using, you have to give the names/address of any intermediate address you're saying at. You can decide to not fill these, but you're taking the risk of serious fines, especially if you happen to contaminate someone.

Non-tecchie people are noticing the increased surveillance too: my wife and kid are flying tomorrow and my wife was telling me earlier today: "The amount of new information you have to give to confirm you plane ticket is becoming crazy".

People do feel they're being watched. Not mentioning the "vaccination pass" you now need to show at many places to be able to enter (as, for example, the restaurants).

I don't personally think the pandemic warranted such a totalitarian crackdown on citizens.

We did obey and suffer the lockdowns. We did get the vaccine. But it certainly doesn't look like we're getting our liberties back.

It is beyond insanity.
There are a lot of claims in this article about MIDI1.0 that are misleading at best, it makes it sound more limited & crude than it is. Still it's indeed very nice to see some improvements here, especially since some were transitioning to proprietary communication protocols over HID.
> just paid to get them done

Paid whom to get what done?
Why did you need to edit an amazing writer for brevity? Can you make the original interview available somewhere? It would be interesting
I would use firefox focus as my daily driver if it was available for desktop. I use mainly firefox but I'm not comfortable with the many addons I need to install to make it private. I would prefer privacy features baked in.
Also a lot of people lost their jobs during the covid crisis, and moved out of expensive cities, back to their parents houses not-in-manhattan, and because of realestate prices being even higher, a lot of them can't afford to come back, atleast not at shitty pay rates the most affected industries (service, food,...) are offering.
I’m surprised I’ve gotten this far and no one has mentioned the 16550 UART requirement for external modems above 9600.
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> They replaced the tape with tiny memory that you have to overwrite all the time.

Until that point I fully expected you to say that they replaced the tape with storage on a cloud account. I bet this will happen one day. So many toys are already trying to suck on kids' data and hook up the parents to cloud services (see e.g. toys that feature "extra experiences" that you access by pointing your smartphone camera at them, and looking through the toy maker's app).
The motors in a Tesla can go up to 18,000rpm (20,000rpm in the carbon-wrapped Plaid motors). They sound pretty cool when you floor it.[1] Though once you pick up speed all you can hear is wind noise.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rg75JbVOpg
I'd take a 0 hour day in the 21st century over a 10 hour day in the 21st century...I genuinely don't get the point of your comment.
I believe there's a fairly comprehensive report on the Bayraktar TB2 and its use on this blog [oryxspioenkop.com]. You might want to check out popular front on instagram as well
There's also the other side of the story... some people are actually trying to get a job, and are rejected (or more often ghosted) by companies that complain alot about not being able to get workers.
That's pretty accurate.
It's a little hand-wavey though.

Who services the machines?

Are the machines centralised in mass-manufacture-scales and products distributed (as they are now); or de-centralised but also less efficient (wrt manufacture and supply chain) as a result. What would the raw materials be, and how are they powered (given the carbon-crisis).

I'd also ask what specifically are the essentials. Food? Shelter? ok. What about healthcare?
The Beginning of the End of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch [video]