skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's exactly the same for NFTs. Dorsey's NFT sold for $2.9 precisely because it was 'issued' by him, and there's the implicit promise that he won't sell another NFT associated with that same tweet. If you or I tried to sell NFTs to that tweet, nothing would happen to the tweet, but we wouldn't find willing buyers.

There's nothing tangible here What does the "owner" of the tweet actually have that nobody else has? It's an incredibly abstract sense of ownership which doesn't even have any social consensus as far as whether it actually exists or not.
It has never occurred to me before your comment that literature could include oral stories. Thanks for adding that!
Most countries have real safety concerns and their weapons are VERY effective.
I like them for doctor appointments and basically hate them for absolutely everything else. Job interviews, meetings, family things. They are all a terrible experiences

Virtual medicine is the one thing that is really useful because the majority are of doctor visits are a waste of time and I go to the doctor a lot, if not once a week sometimes 3 in a single week. That doesn't even count the 2 times a week I usually have to go for a blood draw. Outside of the lab I honestly can't recall the last time in person part being necessary
Even if all the novelty fades away, you'll still be left with a gigantic virtual TV that you can carry everywhere. VR gaming doesn't need to succeed for AR/VR to be able to replace every display you have.

It will still need some resolution improvements to replace a 4k display, but the latest headsets are already getting pretty close to replacing a 1080p display. And of course that isn't limited to one 1080p screen, it's all virtual, so you can have a tripple screen setup, a big cinema screen or whatever else you want.
>I doubt I'd have held past $1000

general advice is to take a chunk of profit and let the rest ride so you don't hate yourself either way, basically regret minimization hedge.
Here's a short toy example in pseudo-syntax.

Task 1:

global.a = 1

await async {} // Await a block that does nothing, essentially yielding back to the reactor.

print(global.a) // If you're unlucky, global.a has changed.

Task 2:

global.a = 2

await async {} // Await a block that does nothing, essentially yielding back to the reactor.

print(global.a)

Now enqueue both tasks.

Depending on scheduling, you could end up printing (1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 1) or (2, 2). This can become much worse if you're awaiting in the middle of filling a data structure.

Feel free to replace `await async {}` with querying your database or a remote API and `global.a` with any variable or data structure that can be shared between the tasks.

This example is, of course, a toy example, but I've had to debug sophisticated code that broke non-deterministically because of such behaviors. The source code of the front-end of Firefox (written in JavaScript) is full of hand-rolled kinda-Mutex implementations to avoid these race conditions.
I don't understand. Is this misleading then? Did HTTParty have to implement Async for their example to work?

> You probably have your preferred HTTP gem, and you may be asking "will it work with Async"? To find out, here's an example using HTTParty, a well-known HTTP client.

They then go to show that your "preferred HTTP gem" will just work. How is the ActiveRecord situation different?
Thanks for taking a look and giving feedback!

As per your first two points, I offer a full refund (within 14 days) so I thought this would counteract the fact that there is no trail period. Also, the app is open source so you can validate the code and run it yourself for free if you are familiar with NPM.

I do agree with needing some UI updates. I'll get some inspiration from dribbble and take it from there.
Mujahideen that turned into Taliban were literally trained by the CIA.

Calling them goat herders is either ignorance, racism, or pushing whatever agenda you're trying to push.

Unless you're specifically speaking of the lowest caliber grunts of their infantry, in which theirs are nearly the same as ours. Mostly uneducated cannon fodder.

But yes, the US completely intentionally drew out the 20 years of war to put money in the military industrial complexes pockets. The Taliban tried to surrender 2-3 months after we first attacked them IIRC, and we said no.
It serves another purpose: Deterring potential enemies and giving confidence to allies. For example, the US has contributed to international peace East Asia for generations in part by having underlying muscle available. And today, if the US military tech was removed, I have a hard time imagining that alliances with Japan, S Korea, and others, not to mention Taiwan's freedom, would survive.
That's right - Async Ruby uses fibers (stackful coroutines) as a concurrency primitive. There's a lot to say about this, but the end result is that we get to write simple synchronous code and it can run asynchronously.
Just wrote one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29051604
Ah that sounds incredibly silly on their part. What’s the rationale here? Is it to force people to use their UPlay store to install games?
Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models
I genuinely feel like I’m losing my mind over this shit.

Just… Do people genuinely think that the average popular party girl/jock you knew in high school who loves going to parties and drinking, or playing sports/shopping with their friends is going to put on a bulky VR headset to do a cut-down, laggy, buggy, low res version of the same thing, getting VR sickness and a imprint on their face in the process?

The way I see it, it any of this meta verse shit is going to succeed with the masses—I.e., not geeks who are already into VR—it will need to:

* Be imperceptible or almost-imperceptible from real life in ALL senses (including things like touch, smell, proprioception etc.)

* Have completely seamless and bug-free Software. a bug on facebook is annoying, a bug in the Metaverse—depending on the hardware—could cause serious injury or death. This is literally a plot point in Hypospace Outlaw, which is arguably the first game about metaverses.

* Have hardware on the AR glasses side that is either fashionable enough for the masses to offset the bulkiness of a micro-computer on your face, or unnoticeable from regular, non-tech-filled glasses. Notice how the Apple Watch is not much larger than a regular one. (Indeed, there are regular watches larger than the Apple Watch—have a think about who wears them.)

* Even if you have perfect AR glasses, some people aren’t going to want to wear glasses, so you’ll need AR contacts. If regular-looking AR glasses would be a miniaturisation marvel, then AR contacts?!…

I feel like an old man yelling at clouds with this stuff, but I genuinely don’t see how it can become anything other than a gimmick.
Google’s server doesn’t handle that as a special case; it redirects any host other than dns.google to dns.google. These give the same result:

curl -v -H "Host: 010.010.010.010" https://8.8.8.8
curl -v -H "Host: 222.222.222.222" https://8.8.8.8
curl -v -H "Host: example.com" https://8.8.8.8
I was there, so believe me I’m plenty familiar with the grift that went on. But your characterization of economic might Uber alles is not accurate, which was my point.
How will MIDI 2.0 change music? (2020)
We don't have Robot Butlers yet
> so much good content on Medium

There is some, but it's mostly crap just like everywhere else. I usually avoid it unless I'm pointed to something of specific interest, and I don't find that I miss it.

Substack on the other hand does seem to have better stuff than most places.
Guide to Setting Goals Successfullyt
> Also, don’t forget building a dry place to stack and store all of it!

Would Romanian haystacks help? Or is it impossible to do it on a large scale without a large amount of manual labor? Can you just drape a tarp over each hay bale?
This is a nice throwback to the time Roku has a public SDK for their HD1000
https://web.archive.org/web/20040605002125/http://www.rokula...
Can we update the link to point to the actual release from San Diego Zoo? https://sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org/pr/CondorParthenogen...
If you're talking about a 1.5% nominal price increase, then it's impossible to say whether it's a good or bad investment, from just that information. If inflation is 2%, then your house rising at 1.5% is a terrible investment, compared to a stock market rising at 5%.

Investments are graded based on their expected real rate of return, over time... In simple terms, that would be the increase in the nominal value of the asset, minus inflation. The higher the increase in real value, the better the investment.

If an asset's value increases faster than inflation, then over time the real price of the asset is rising. That means less and less people will be be able to afford it, each year.

Remember, inflation is basically measuring how much purchasing power we have... So if the price of something is rising faster than inflation, by definition that thing is becoming more expensive, which means less people will be able to afford it.

Even though 1.5% real (above inflation) appreciation seems like a small number, the total appreciation will eventually grow quite large after several years... Each year, housing will become affordable to fewer and fewer people. It may take a while to notice, but that's the definition of a rising real asset price.
Audio file txt messages are so stupid I just delete them. It says "you were not important enough to talk to, fuck you"
Which exchange are you referring to? The big US exchanges have limits, but those limits can be very easily raised by doing some extra identity verification.

My Coinbase daily limit is actually $250k and I haven't done any extra verification, and my total amount ever traded is lower than that figure. Just a long time account holder.
> Specifically about online VR (what people call the metaverse for some reason that eludes me)

Because that is what Neal Stephenson called it in _Snow Crash_, which, though perhaps not the very first, was at least the first widely-popularized description of such a system. I recommend reading the book and comparing it to what we actually have. What we actually have comes up pretty short.
> You feel like you own something that the artist can only sell once (assuming they're honest). Also, I don't know if there is a credible receipt for a donation on Patreon that you can use to flex

Couldn’t this be done better, at far lower cost simply by having the artist put your name on it or post a video saying “thanks @bko for supporting me!”? That’d have just as much weight, it’s more personal, and you wouldn’t be diverting a substantial amount of money away from the artists to the finance bros.
It's just the technology of the day. From an earlier day:

"Oscar Wilde issued a memorable prediction of the war of the future: "A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/12/22/the-ring-and-t...
The end users don't care what brand of chip is under the hood, or why the UX on Apple's implementation of Intel chips sucked, they just know the new device has much better UX overall due to the more powerful and more efficient chip and will upgrade for that.
How is Amazon able to product their arm chips for aws? Assuming those are not the 5nm?
Fundamentally, the US military is optimized for quality over quantity.

Look at the US Navy: ~400,000 active duty personnel operating ~400 ships (~250 combat, ~150 aux).

Compare to the Chinese PLAN: ~250,000 active duty personnel operating ~750 ships (~500 combat, ~250 aux).

A huge portion of that difference is due to aircraft carriers (11 USN, 2 PLAN), average tonnage per ship, and specifically the USN's lack of frigates.

This arrangement optimizes for the USN's mission of international power projection, where logistics requirements are like an iceberg, with the deployed forces being the above water volume.

However, it does leave a problem of training and experience. If no numerous smaller vessels exist for SWOs and crew to come up through, how do we expect them to have a deep reservoir of experience by the time they're commanding and crewing a destroyer+?

The retirement of the Perry class, subsequent botching of the LCS program (and finally recent selection of a Constellation class design, to be built) left the current USN with ~50 less commands for officers and crew to cut their teeth on.
Weird, I seem to mostly not have that problem, and vividly remember the confusions and mysteries. I’m constantly jumping in to improve others’ explanations that assume too much. I’ve started calling myself “the translator”.

Maybe I should take some teaching role?
It's called parthenogenesis.[0] While it might not be super uncommon in certain types of turkeys, it's extremely rare overall for birds. It is a lot more common in fish, amphibians, and reptiles however. Given that it's been well-observed in reptiles, it makes me wonder how much it might actually be happening in birds and we've just been failing to observe it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis

Also here's the actual study: https://academic.oup.com/jhered/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...
Purchase dollar? Or energy dollar?
SGI uses EFS on their CDs. It's basically the same filesystem they used on harddisks before XFS (in the IRIX 5 days)
I tend to think that higher education is not as interesting as it's said to be. And people who used to work hands on (woodwork, metal smith) had a lot of deep knowledge too, it just wasn't seen as evolved.

Frankly I don't think one book will ever prepare you to live the situations above. This is the kind of thick skin only real life can imprint in you. That girl probably knew everything she could have said, but biology took over, she made a large grin and let it slip. Social status for you. The same old song that has been played for ages. And mind you, that chief wasn't an angel, she unleashed on me a few times during my work. That's why I say people are not better today. All I see is tribal reflexes and fitting in the social tissue.

Now to be fair, I'm not the happiest dude on earth right now, so maybe I amplify the negativity of those situation. Still I'm not sold on the benefits of doing less thanks to modern technology.
Stackful coroutines (often used to implement colorless async) is the same except you can specify stack size. You can specify thread stack size yourselves as well, though no one does that.

OTOH, growable stack is useful, as Go demonstrated.
Please, someone, correct me if I've misunderstood.

The big difference appears to be that async Ruby does not merely give you an easy sugar to perform the sync-over-async antipattern you have described. The real innovation is that, as far as the user is concerned, Ruby is magically turning blocking methods into non-blocking ones.
>> Over 30 % of average household spending in the US goes to rent or other housing, with insurance and healthcare being next 20 % and transportation next 15 %

Well housing is a great example of creeping lifestyle inflation. At the end of the 19th century, the average new house size was around 1,000 square feet and the average household size was close to 5 people. So 200 square feet per person. Today the average new house size is around 2,500 square feet and the average household size is 2.5 people. So 1,000 square feet per person. That's lifestyle inflation. If you're OK with 1,000 square feet shared with 4 other people, you can live more cheaply.

Health insurance wasn't common then and health care was close to non-existent. Penicillin hadn't even been invented yet. If you cut yourself and it got infected, you might die. If you're OK with living the way your great grandparents lived, you can live more cheaply. If you get sick, pray.

The average new car price is $40,000. That's another great example of creeping lifestyle inflation. I think I might have spent $40,000 in total on the 7 cars I have owned in my life. If you're OK with people at work making fun of the car you drive, you can live more cheaply.
Could anyone comment on the thread safety? What's shared between async blocks and what's safe to modify?
Debian displaced bash as root's default, and now uses the Almquist shell for performance reasons.

I would be curious if mksh is also faster. ksh93 also claims great performance increases, but it is no longer (well) maintained.

"Therefore, many interactive features are not present in Dash, making it faster and more memory efficient than Bash."

https://wiki.debian.org/Shell
It wasn't that way for a long time. I guess some people who post on Medium haven't noticed?
If wallets that could be reliably traced to Satoshi came online and started moving, there would be a lot of turbulence in the market.
At the absolute best, you have a poor copy of the person.

We have had examples of poor copies forever. We call them twins. If you have a twin, that twin isn't you, and you're not them.

The most interchangeable your copy could be with you would be that the copy might be able to log into and post from your online accounts and fool many of your followers, if you have any; or to withdraw your money from your bank account and buy the sort of things you might have bought if you still had the money.
I, too, was very curious about this and was able to find out that when it launched in 1971, the record player was $6.85 [1]. That’s about $46 in today’s money. So I guess the question is how many parents today would pay that much for the “good” version of this toy in comparison to how many will pay $10 less for the fraud version. I’m guessing the business case points strongly toward the latter being revenue maximizing.

[1] https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1971-Sea...

Side note: like others here, I loved the hell out of this thing as a kid and I’m pretty sure we got it as a hand-me-down from my older cousin. It still worked like a champ after many years of abuse.
Here’s the original story: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/six-flags-dining-pass
Wasn't there someone in China who would regularly buy first-class plane tickets, go to the airport and eat in the airline lounge, and then cancel the ticket before boarding?
Or literally anyone who's like "I want a life where I haven't bet my ability to have shelter against 30 years of my income and my ability to stay healthy and gainfully employed."

Like I'm a person who is part of this system because there's literally no other option. I want to get off Mr. Bone's wild ride but there's nothing really available to me.
> as it's impossible to have a "theory of value" without some underlying philosophical notion of value.

But mainstream empirical economics, including (but not limited to) the neoclassical school, does not have a theory of value. It makes predictions based on hypotheses of how individuals act given the existence of individual subjective value systems. There are plenty of valid criticisms to be made, but this is just projection by the Austrian school.

You can layer an infinite number of possible idealized value systems on top of any mainstream economic theory to get a policy theory (and there's almost as many of those that have been layered on it as people making policy recommendations incorporating mainstream economic analysis, but that is a separate layer.

> There is a form of economics that makes testable predictions with a reasonably high degree of accuracy, and isn't based on any underlying ideology: it's called "quantitative finance".

QF is to economics as meteorology is to climatology.
I have always tended towards Phoronixs test suite (https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/) but Im sure there are a few specific to Vulkan around. Not sure about wayland.
I already do, in Europe, where everyone and their mom uses Facebook's WhatsApp for everything. While that evens the playing field, I'm not sure I'd call trading a walled garden for a spyware one a massive victory though.
How does this compare with NativeScript? I know it can work with capacitor but unlike ionic it complies down to actual native UI and not mostly web views, is capacitor Ionics answer to just being glorified web views?
That honestly sounds incredibly awful. I would block those messages from even coming through. Ugh. I can't overemphasize how terrible that would be if it becomes standard
The JSON format they display results in is a bit rough, though. Some keys are capitalized, some not.
> Also, GC pauses are overblown, most of the tasks can be done in parallel.

I've spent a few years writing code that needed to run at 60fps and, well, that's not my experience :)
Please make your substantive points thoughtfully, without name-calling or personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, it's an IPv4 address. No TLD is allowed to be a series of digits in order to avoid any confusion about this.

Whether your URL parser considers that octal IPv4 addresses are a reasonable thing is up to each individual parser. On the whole I'd suggest user-facing software should not permit this because it's pointlessly confusing.

Rust took a patch that says if you try to convert (for example) 010.010.010.010 to an IPv4 address that's an error, which again I think is reasonable for the same reason.

In the patch feedback several people want it to mean 10.10.10.10 and others think it should mean 8.8.8.8 and eventually it seems to become clear to both groups that this is itself a terrible sign for their positions, since if you expected one but got the other now your software has unexpected behaviour, whereas if you got an error you can fix your program to do whatever it was you intended. So hence the error behaviour won.

[Edited to add: It has been pointed out to me that maybe the poster meant .google. Yes, that's a TLD owned by Google. They applied for, and received a number of "new gTLDs" from ICANN, some like .dev are open for you to register 2LDs in, others like .google are only for their own use. Running TLDs likely costs Google somewhere in the region of a million dollars per year to maintain, but that's a drop in the ocean for a large tech company.]
Is what is possible with Metal possible with GL though? Both in performance and features? They didn’t build Metal just to be contrarian.
Seems like Intel really lost the plan there with every new generation having just a few percent better performance, trouble with moving to smaller nodes and the enormous regression from spectre/meltdown.

The Apple chips are made for running macOS/iOS. Seems there are some hardware instructions that are tailor made for increasing the performance of Apple software so they can make sure everything is working toward a common goal.
Median wage and median household income are two separate things.

Median household income can mean two parents are working...

Take a look at inflation adjusted
wage growth for a singular person over time.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_futures
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and we're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I looked into this a while back, IIRC BSD added the "omit zeroes" as a nonstandard convenience feature and other OSes copied it. I'm far afk for I'd find my notes on this.
Wait, what? Did you miss the bit where they bombed North Korea until they had killed about one fifth of the population, and destroyed basically every form of standing shelter? Or the war in Vietnam? Or the support for South Korean dictators, even as they murdered their own people?

If that's a contribution to international peace, I hate to imagine what you'd think was a contribution to regional instability.

Even on a modern level, I think it's arguable that the 90's gulf war, and then the 2000's one, were the drivers behind a massive up-arming amongst states around the world that saw themselves as on the US's potential 'regime change' hitlist. It's often touted as a reason for China's massive arms buildup, for example.