skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: how would an NFT ebook market work? The NFTs I've seen are all based around files that anyone can access, but only one person holds the NFT. But if the file is an ebook, I can just read the ebook and not buy the NFT. Why would I buy your NFT of the ebook? It seems like you'd need a DRM scheme, and now you are back to relying on a central authority.

NFTs seem to have some value based on the prestige of being the person who holds the NFT, like being a sponsor of a park bench. Anyone can sit on the bench but only one person has their plaque on it. But with an eBook market, loads of people would own practically identical NFTs of each book.
Do you really want to force people to make a decision? They will try to end the case as soon as possible correct outcome or not.
>...the idea that there are aspects of our minds that don't exist within this physical universe is not outlandish or bizarre...

That's where we disagree. Can you give me an example of anything that doesn't exist within this physical universe? I'm not familiar with the concept of a "thing" that isn't physical.

Sorry about being confusing with the last sentence. I'll try and address your questions:

1. When we talk about the likelihood of something being true we are now discussing probabilities, which have a long and well proven track record of obeying the laws of statistics. Statistics are quite often counter-intuitive and our brains don't think in terms of the math that governs the actual outcomes

A good example is the birthday problem [1]. Imagine we had a room full of people and we wanted to know what the odds are that two of those people in the room had the same birthday. Obviously the more people we have, the more likely we are to have a match, but how many people do you need to get to that point?

It turns out that with just 23 people in the room there's a 50% chance of two people having the same birthday. Most people's intuition leads them to believe that for 50% you'd need 365/2 = 182.5 people, but once there's 70 people in a room, you're almost certain to have a match with a probability of 99.9%. This is a good example of a case where not knowing the math will lead your predictions of the world to be incorrect.

2. When we discuss evidence we are trying to figure out the probability of something, thus the rules of probabilities apply. One of the fundamental theorems of statistics is Bayes' Theorem [2], which at its core tells you how to calculate the probability of an event given another event.

To motivate that, here's a more realistic example: "A patient goes to see a doctor. The doctor performs a test with 99 percent reliability--that is, 99 percent of people who are sick test positive and 99 percent of the healthy people test negative. The doctor knows that only 1 percent of the people in the country are sick. Now the question is: if the patient tests positive, what are the chances the patient is sick?"

If you answered 99% then you'd not only be wrong, but you'd have misdiagnosed your patient. The correct answer here is 50% [3].

3. To bring it all together: to properly know things one must understand the laws of mathematics. This applies not just to problems that obviously involve probabilities, but everything in general.

At it's core, I think our disagreement revolves around this idea of non-physicality and the belief that there are things that aren't governed by mathematics. Everything is physical and obeys the laws of physics which themselves are governed by the laws of mathematics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem

[3] https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/bs/bs704_probabi...
You buy your character for this fighting game before the game is even released? They've done an incredible job of producing, and selling, DLC for a game that does not exist.
Why can't you not set up a local DNS on any PC backed by 1.1.1.1 if you really want to stay with Cloudflare?
Leisure is the both the opposite of and an essential component to work. An anarchist group in the UK last century had their motto as "neither work nor leisure" which I found interesting.

Recreation is different than leisure. It's about re-creation and renewal, more like play.
What? Of course they had a choice.

Google built their redesign on top of a prototype set of APIs that didn't end up being standardized. That's their own fault, and it should be their problem.

It's not just Firefox devs, it's everyone else apart from Chrome, because Chrome had gone and implemented said APIs that were never standardized, so they didn't need a polyfill. And I would bet money that ShadowDOM v0 would have been removed from the Chrome codebase earlier if not for the fact that Youtube was using it - they wouldn't have forced themselves to use the same polyfill as everyone else.

Shipping a new, standards incompliant frontend was a choice, not an immutable fact of nature. There was nothing wrong with the previous frontend apart from the fact that nobody is going to get promoted for not shipping the new thing. And since the consequences of shipping impact everyone except for Google, who cares, let's ship the garbage UI anyway.

Don't make excuses for this kind of behavior. Google absolutely has the resources to do these things properly but they didn't.
Sure, but many of these issues have very little to do with tech itself (though they happen to be tech-powered). Breach of trust, privacy violations, disinformation propagation for financial gain, radicalization, instigation of anxiety and depression (in teens especially), etc.

Are you saying that the "masses" lump all of these social effects into esoteric "tech issues" since they are enabled by tech?
Just regular retired folks and folks with government jobs that pay folks who are on jury duty.
Same as any other system of fiat money or company stock.
Sorry you've been stung before! Capacitor is definitely here to stay. The project has been taking off recently and is powering the majority of apps for our users and customers today. Also we're starting to see more platforms that used to be powered by Cordova start to switch to Capacitor so that should further solidify its staying power.
Note to author: I couldn't find a RSS/Atom feed for your blog. Would be nice to have one so those of us who avoid Twitter can still follow you.
I agree basically with the article entirely.

People in this thread seem to be focusing on VR and AR and immersive interaction and they're missing the point. The article is not a rebuke on these things, lots of people would love to jack into quake and run around like real life, or engage in some virtual activity while their nether regions tingle. What's being rebuked is this idea that people will walk down a street from one website to another and sit around a fake room drinking a beer with their buddies with dildos strapped to their foreheads and hundred gallon cowboy hats on. This idea that all online interaction is better when immersive is absurd if you think about it. VR games are cool, but the metaverse isn't VR games, it's VR YouTube ads and VR SMS and it's not going to catch on because it's lame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tren_Maya
> So many everyday things we take for granted were incredibly difficult and involved a lot of manual labor and/or waiting around for hours and days.

Indeed, prepping food was no cake walk. Grinding grains by hand is pretty hellish, and making edible flour from high-tanin acorns takes weeks.

Sane with spinning yarn.
Do you think having different opinions, experiences, and backgrounds is something that should be left out of decision making?

Can you see any value in making sure the army is diverse to make sure it still can recruit, integrate, and retain people from all over the US and not just people from one specific background?

This is honestly a very grey area and could be taken too far, but there seems to be clear benefits to having armed forces that everyone feels represents them. And that's worth at least some impact on effectiveness, right?
I'm not certain how this isn't self-evident on it's face.

The citation would be every civilization which has used slave labor to produce things. I assume they weren't/aren't using slave labor because there are vastly more efficient options but they just didn't feel like doing those.
In the global smartphone market, the leading Android manufacturers are Samsung (22%), Xiaomi (14%), Oppo (11%), and Vivo (10%). Affecting these percentages: Apple (17%) and other (26%).

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...

Among the named manufacturers, Samsung (excluding U.S.) and Xiaomi sell phones with unlockable bootloaders.

In the U.S., OnePlus is the most popular phone brand with unlockable bootloaders. Google takes second place.
Is it that easy to leave your community and way of life to live a very different life amidst strangers?
Firefox has become an excellent operating system but somewhere along the way it became a pretty marginal browser. Still, getting hardware acceleration working on linuxes was serious work and it's not like this guy would've been fixing the UI issues created in recent version if he wasn't doing this.
I'm curious about this argument. It was mentioned in some TED talk about the benefits of simple machines.

I might just be a change of pace, also a change of dependencies. Walking long is fine (people need daydream and wandering time, some dose of boredom). Washing your family clothes may be work but it's still better than doing what your boss doesn't want to do. Emotionally your a lot less invested in the latter yet you have to do it.
Coordination Headwind – How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds [Deck]
I mean what is the value of having NFT's at all? Fraud and price inflation might be solvable problems, but it still seems like you have the core issue that there's no underlying value to the asset at all.

And that's not even a comment on the artistic merit of many of these, which is a farce in itself, but all you get is your name in a ledger. The work itself is just a file like any other.
People keep saying that, but the American dream involved kids, with kids you want to be in a city at some point.
Adam Smith points out too that most people only had one or two hand woven garments during their entire lives before the industrial revolution. Thus clothes were a far bigger deal back then than they are today. For example, in the Bible, if a person was incredibly upset, they would tear their clothes, and this was considered a huge deal.
> he said that equity mutual funds had an annual average growth rate a little above 2% between 1984 and the early 2000s, while the S&P 500's annual growth rate averaged about 12%

That certainly sounds wrong, but even if it isnt, its a weird comment. Pretty much every 401k or other investment program will have the option to invest in a SP500 fund, or some other broad market US equity fund. If you want the returns of SP500, you can buy SP500. Maybe it was more complicated than that in 1984, but its not now.
Amused that their domain/handle is getcommande and… you cannot get Command E.

Anyway, I worked on a product like this a few years back. It’s a really challenging problem, mainly because the APIs you need to use are severely limiting at scale. My team speculated that it would take an acquisition of this kind to make it viable. Not for funding/runway per se (although that helps), but for the potential for integration deals with more generous (ie not as severely rate limited) access and API designs intended to support the use case.

Notwithstanding Dropbox’s reputation, I’m hopeful to see how this goes if it does become available again with the same general set of features.
> until recently carried primarily by white men from small town America

How do you define recent? This was not the case when I was in the military almost 30 years ago.
In that case, it's even weirder -- for further context, Mint Plaza is at 5th and (more or less) Market, and there is a huge difference between 6th Street and 5th Street.

Ah, SF, sometimes I even miss it. :-)
Not so sure it's bullshit. Why live in the real world if you can somehow live in an online 3D world that's better? It's going to happen eventually and everyone will be wearing goggles all day, just like they are on their phones all day now. Whoever controls that online world (worlds?) will make a lot of money.
I disagree it's because of capitalism.

Capitalism was also people working in the fields and trading their produce, after paying their tax to their lord, not unlike to our income tax.

There are definitely many trends that led us to work more and more. There are increasingly more and more people in the few places people with ambitions want to live in. That's more competition which gradually drives the cost down. If the wage is already low enough that it's unreasonable for someone to live on it, the working hours will go up.

The real modern culprit in my opinion is the mandatory education system which indoctrinate kids to become employees for life instead of helping them find a place in society and in the market by providing value as a small business.

With less employees around wages would go up, with more small businesses the capital would be spread more and not concentrated in the hands of a few.

It's not hard to understand who is benefitting from this system: whoever owns capital and need workers.

I'm sure there is plenty of overlap with people controlling the media and telling people what to think and want - and people in the government approving laws.
In the case of watching TV with another person, the being in the same room together is often the point. Sharing a virtual space makes less sense when you have this option. The form factor of an iPad makes it portable in a way today’s headsets are not, and I can access a desktop computer remotely if I am away on travel. I agree with you about immersion but it’s hard for me to see headsets as anything but another device.
Oh, sorry I missed that. Hopefully it will show up in Rails 7 then.
There may be some huge piece I'm missing, but how exactly is the "starting multiple async tasks wrapped in blocks and waiting for them to finish at the end of the main Async block" different from "starting multiple threads wrapped in blocks and manually collecting them at some point"? I thought Ruby did release the GIL when a thread is blocked (waiting for IO etc).
> People don't want old, used homes

I don't think that's what they were describing. They were describing new homes, not old: I think the "supposed-to-be" pattern is up for 10-30 years after first being built, as the area is still growing and becoming more desirable, then down once the growth no longer outpaces the aging.
Why is this quoting the top-level lambda expression arguments? Unless I'm mistaken that's not how JMC did it. For example, to define a binding the cited resource http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html uses

(defun null (x) (eq x '()))

Replacing the defun with an env binding, I believe the value translates to:

(lambda (x) (eq x '()))

I don't think this should be quoted? Even though lambda isn't typically assumed in the "seven primitives," it _is_ required by the runtime. Are your function calls implicitly dropping quotes when evaluating arguments?
Interesting.

Since this is hacker news, I'm hoping someone could try the ultrasound part.
I think the first US Robotics product I bought was a Palm Pilot.
“This is a toy zombie.”

— https://twitter.com/wangtian/status/1454329529569218566
This is like saying most websites are scams. Tokens are to web3 as websites are to web2.
Yes, but I’d be much more worried about vinyl flooring, trim, windows, and shower curtains than records.
Great to hear it worked… in Panama.
Though I think you're also unfairly blaming Assange for the Democrat's own failures, Assange's "personal beef" was not wanting someone who suggested he be drone striked to become president. I would also favor the person who hasn't called for my death.
You can't because if you don't organise production to maximise profits you'll be beaten by the competition that does. If you set up a commune and put aside time for democratic meetings and communal recreation, and make work easier and more pleasurable to do, then you'll produce less per hour worked. Companies that don't do those things will get the contracts. Also, you'll be selling into a market whose demand is dominated by the rich and the imperatives of capitalism.
If only there was a world where Apple would sell M1 chips separately from their walled garden.
That's not why attorneys interview jurors. They're trying to find jurors who are biased but not biased enough to retrospectively throw the entire trial into question.
excuse the pun but it's not practical to support some devices if the manufacturer keeps placing road blocks. THeya re simply not worth the effort when there are so many great options that make it easy to unlock and flash. Some even give you unbrick tools in case you kill the bootloader.

If you want a devices that can be easily customized, just buy one of the ones that have the OEM unlock option in the dev menu. For power users, those are the only ones worth buying and supporting.

Vote with your wallet.
The first paragraph even explicitly says what the point is and it was all over the place and I had trouble following. I think this is the key point:

> The universal principle that comes out of all of this is of the power of your filter. Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.” This kind of knowing is not solely done in the intellect. Data is constantly being fed into your unconscious, then cross referenced against your experience.
It's generally suspect when someone preaches that "this is what life is like in Feudal times", considering that spans 500 years and a whole continent. Likewise for the Industrial Revolution.
This is especially interesting when I think about all the discussions I had about bosses and recruiters.

People would say I'm lazy, because I'm come to work at 11am or wanted to work from home.

Many even got angry and said I'm insolent for wanting to work like this, while the rest of the world simply does as they're asked.
I actually recently bought a mattress at a local shop for my son, and it was one of the nicest shopping experiences I've had. He kept trying to guide me to the cheaper options because that's all a kid needs.

He also had a bunch of religious stuff around, so I think he felt it was part of his Christian mission to give people fair treatment. Either way, next time I need a mattress I will go there.
TBH even if you have socialized health care, you still have most of these problems. Canada is a great example of this, and it's had a housing problem for a decade+ at this point for a far greater percentage of it's population. The average canadian does not worry about their savings going in a poof if they have a health issue.
Ask HN: What jobs in IT/Development are the most open to self learner?
I'm self learning Computer Science basics (through Berkeley courses, that are CS61A for Programming, CS61B for Data Structures and CS61C for Computer Architecture). After that I would like to specialize but have no idea of what, with the ultimate goal of finding a job. Remotely, if that is possible for a junior, Covid situation might help here. I'm from a 3rd world country, living in Europe, but planning to go back home, the jobs do not have to pay extremely well as long as it's remote. So what kind of job is the most open to self learner in this industry? Web development is what everyone is talking about, but is that really it? How do I maximize my chance? Also, does grinding Leetcode like website works as proofs of knowledge? If anyone has been in a similar situation, please reach out, it would make my day to be able to chat.
Vulkan has WSI, which is roughly equivalent to GLX or EGL in the OpenGL world.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Guide/blob/master/cha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Tim...

> ... or by the letter Z—a reference to the equivalent nautical time zone (GMT), which has been denoted by a Z since about 1950. ... Since the NATO phonetic alphabet word for Z is "Zulu", UTC is sometimes known as "Zulu time".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_time

> Around 1950, a letter suffix was added to the zone description, assigning Z to the zero zone, and A–M (except J) to the east and N–Y to the west (J may be assigned to local time in non-nautical applications

So, yes, all three are the same.

You might like this - https://books.google.com/books?id=MJYc-6eqT8AC&pg=RA2-PA1&q=... - a USAF major in 1959 complaining about the switch to "Zebra, err, I mean Zulu time kick." (And complained about switching from mph, which was good enough for the Wright brothers, to knots.)
But play is supposed to be a learning tool. If a toy's only value is "push a button for a predefined thing to happen", there is no opportunity for exploration. Might as well give the toddler an iphone.

I agree with you, "we" are probably not like most people. But taking the opportunity to experiment away is such a huge loss. Giving a kid the opportunity to learn on their own is so important. It's not just the one toy, you need to give them loads of different opportunities like these. They'll pick up on some.

Maybe i never would have experimented with this particular toy as a kid. For me, it was getting a screwdriver and taking old electronics apart (and the challenge of putting them back together and still having them work!) that sparked my curiosity. Plenty of things did not, however... But the point is, i was given opportunities.
Sometimes when I search for an exercise on google, it will link me to a segment of a video with the appropriate exercise. So I guess google is on this.
If you like aquaponics, then take a look at Goliad Farms. He raises greenhouses full of tropical fish, relying entirely on plants to remove ammonium from the water.

And yeah, that root zone microbiome is complex, though somewhat different in containers than in nature. In soil-like potting mix, you're generally guaranteed to have nitrifying bacteria, so ammonium fertilizers are still generally safe to use. (Ammonium can easily become toxic to plants; but soil bacteria oxidize it to nitrate, which plants tolerate in higher concentrations.) Stuff like sulfur to amend soil pH doesn't necessarily work in containers though, since you don't necessarily get the bacteria that oxidize that to sulfuric acid. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria for legumes may also not be present unless deliberately inoculated.

The plants would die without that microbiome in nature, but with human help it's not mandatory. Many hydroponic methods run with a root zone that's as sterile as possible, and the only major change required is to supply most (~90%) of the nitrogen as nitrate.
Rocket Russia finally agrees to fly SpaceX, Firefly targets early 2022
> It can even be simple things, if I can now whiteboard virtually, and use my own hand writing on the board, and now I'm in another app, and I'd like to pull up that whiteboard I did? This is equivalent to say Slack letting you send photos or files over.

Except that it is not at all equivalent. To pull your whiteboard the other app has to pull the code that draws and manipulates it. This has two problems a) security b) how the host app supposed to interact with yours?

OLE and a few similar technologies tried to answer this. Never seen big use due to complexity. Since that time no new ideas emerged in the field and I don’t see how Metaverse would solve this. Without addressing interoperability and security Metawerse apps will be siloed in the same way as modern apps. That would impose non-physical constraints in the world that tries to by as close to physical reality as possible. I see this as a major concern.
Intel Launches 12th Gen Core Desktop Alder Lake Processors – WikiChip Fuse
Low interest rates and high price is also quite simply a huge profit for existing homeowners at the expense of new homeowners, all pushed by banks.

It's almost as if macroeconomics is a real topic after all! /s