skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The optimistic view is that the metaverse can “connect people” better, which is consistent with what facebook said they were doing since the beginning. The metaverse promises an immersive experience so that you can feel the other person’s presence, rather than connecting through a video call which is still weird.

My view is that it’ll have a deep impact on a small population. VR goggles are still expensive, bulky, and far from providing a “reality-like” experience, especially on the fov front. There is a massive barrier to putting something on your face. 3D movies were to be the next big thing. A lot of TVs ship with 3D displays, but do you know anyone who is actually putting the glasses on to watch anything? So I personally don’t expect to see a wide adoption to this.

However some people are likely to enjoy VR a lot. I think a good number of people will get sucked in, black mirror style, cause the escapism it provides is awesome. And facebook is well known for optimizing for “time spent in the app”. So I think people who are lonely or depressed will get to find some social life in the metaverse. It’s something that happened in SL, WoW and all other online worlds. Now Facebook being Facebook, it also means that it won’t do much to prevent extremist groups from recruiting online and try to generate profit from it.

The way I see it, is that
the metaverse is going to be a place where lonely people go socialize, and where gurus and extremists pay for finding and brainwashing those people. Sort of “brainwashable-people-as-a-service”.
1) dunno, I hope we will

2) if we can throughly understand our own brains we can perhaps emulate them in various other media?

3) you mean many world's hypothesis? I guess it's not very relevant for most people

4) I think there are materialist explanations for life, they are getting more convincing I think. As in we could eventually model scenarios in which chemical processes lead to self perpetuating processes that resemble primitive life and can evolve into life
I'd say that YAML is anything but conceptually pure, with all the arbitrariness, multitude of formattin options, and parsig magic happening without warning.

If you want conceptual purity (and far fewer footguns), take Dhall.
I’m just quoting the podcast episode we’re all commenting on.
Why do people listen to this clown? He got lucky with the Meta investment and hacking Roth IRAs. But his ideas are so retro.
Because it's just windows open. Doesn't look any different then the normal windows manager.
Indeed, but the "upper bound for net zero cost" is only a scenario.
Subsidies are an alternative to having massive granary stores to supply an entire nation. If you don't guarantee overproduction, you will soon find yourself having shortages as crop yields can vary up to 30% each year. Without subsidies farms will optimize towards producing only barely enough to satisfy demand so they don't waste money on crops they can't sell, profit margins are usually 1% or less so there is very little room for overproduction. Once everyone is trying to thread that thin line, a single bad month of weather or a large wind or hail storm would turn you from a food exporting nation to a food importing nation overnight, and crop prices will swing wildly in either direction from it.

Subsidies certainly are poorly applied and could use some serious work fixing them, but just getting rid of them outright is foolish.
> Prices skyrocket

The world desperately needs a new metaphor. How about "prices zoom to the moon!"
No, it's just meant to be a subtle reminder of your white guilt.
We never seem to consider the downstream impacts of our regulatory dogooderism, the end result in my lifetime has been to make life worse for the poor.

In short, you can build affordable cars, by getting rid of the requirements for -

Active suspensions (conservatively an additional 1000 dollars)

Traction Control (though, this is potentially free if the car already has ABS, which should be required)

Side curtain airbags (500 dollars per airbag unit, and each car has multiple units)

Knee Airbags (500 dollars per airbag unit, and each car has multiple units)

Backup Cameras (this alone adds upwards of 1500 dollars to an economy car because of the systemic upgrades that need to be done to the infotainment system)

Eliminating these items would cause few excess deaths, yet would make cars much more affordable for poor people.

There is no reason the Chevy Spark should cost 13,000 dollars for what it is.
Alec Baldwin was practice shooting at someone who wasn't even an actress. why? why even aim at anyone at that point? he's as much to blame as anyone else.
Panels on my roof reduce my electricity costs. Put in a field by someone else does not. My panels are not visible from the street and will have paid for themselves within a few years, so there isn't really a reason not to. I think 30-40% of homes in my city have panels on their roof.

This ignores any feed-in tariff which is declining, though there were early adopters with a locked-in rate who wouldn't have paid for electricity for years now.
3d printers and CNC machines almost always involve using a computer anyway and good chance they are physically connected. Not the case with my washing machine or toaster
I think people are dancing around this issue. Stated plainly, the FBI is not much of a crime-investigation organization anymore; they're enforcers for the Democrats. They intimidated a journalist, took his private communications with his lawyer, and leaked them to the NYT, which is a mouthpiece for the Democrats.
Everyone knows crooked scrapyards are fueling the demand, except perhaps the police.
Right, and now you're using the argument of the top level comment.

Look at the port. Is ingress consistently larger than egress? Then limit ingress.

Now look at the ocean. Is ingress consistently larger than egress? Then limit ingress.

Now look at the exporting ports. Is ingress consistently larger than egress? Limit ingress.

Now look at trucks going to the port. Is ingress consistently larger than egress? Limit ingress.

Now look at the factories that load trucks. Is ingress consistently larger than egress? Limit ingress.

----

Back pressure builds on looking at one queue and asking if arrivals come faster than departures go -- exactly what the top-level comment suggested.
I hate the phrase "credibly accused of". What were they accused of and why is it credible? Have they done worse than other journalists at major news corporations? Do accusations somehow revoke a person's rights?

How on earth are these accusations relevant for the ACLU to weigh in on while commenting about this attack on the press? "She did wear revealing clothing and some observers thought she was leading the man on. Nevertheless, we condemn the sexual assault..."
Yeah. Bluetooth sucks. It has sucked for as long as it has existed, and I don’t see that changing any time soon, if ever.

I’m sorry to say it, but welcome to the future of wireless audio.
Military perspective. If you are wearing a helmet and running around all day there is aren't any products that will stay in your ears. On long marches it is normal for young soldiers to abandon any concept of headphones in favor of full speakers. They put one, sometimes two, speaker in the top of their pack and simply blast music for everyone around them to hear. The effect is the ultimate retro, harkening back to the days of ghettoblaste/boomboxes.
This article on defining hex grids in code is a classic:

https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
Also copper/bronze from graveyard markers, empty house plumbing and irrigation backflow valves.
I was doing quick math and was off by a factor of 10, inclusive of dilution. Sorry.
Also 2 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29206833
30% cheaper, 50 times the population. That’s the point.
In the last 5 years, an obscure Chinese company called Transsion, selling brands like Tecno, Infinix and Itel, has quietly become the largest mobile phone maker in Africa. Why? Because their phone cameras are tuned out of the box to work well with dark skin.

https://qz.com/africa/1633699/transsions-tecno-infinix-camer...
There could be value in asking "can you change your workflow to make it a non-issue", I think. Most people will probably say no, but it's worth considering.
iDweebs are back!
Oh I certainly did not mean Bangladesh should not develop. Even outside of the things like child mortality, transitioning to less carbon-intensive economy will require certain level of economic development. In the longer term, ignoring climate change in politics will not work though, because (a) rising seas do not care (b) even if developed world introduces enough innovation to fight climate change, they will find a way for everyone else either to adopt it or pay for it.
Julia seems to be a good fit. It’s python like, but a lot faster and cleaner.
The ACLU has explicitly altered its case selection guidelines away from content-neutral rights protection in order to avoid protecting the rights of white supremacists or other prejudiced individuals.

Moving forward, when deciding whether to take a free speech case, the organization will consider "factors such as the (present and historical) context of the proposed speech; the potential effect on marginalized communities; the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values; and the structural and power inequalities in the community in which the speech will occur."

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20180621ACL...
I've been watching stuff on Will Wright commenting on how he designed The Sims. I now believe there is a real demand for a metaverse, a place for people to just do things without impact.

People want to experiment. They want to voice things they normally wouldn't. They want to ask their boss or an in law to help them in Farmville. Or poke that dreamy former classmate. It's a little like those parties where they put masks on but everyone knows who the person under the mask is.

Forums are an outlet, sort of like what we do on HN with the linked usernames and stuff. But forums limit you to text. There's a spatial aspect too. As a kid, I used to try to make a chatroom where you could fling snowballs at each other, except some of those snowballs had rocks, and some dude would come in with a flamethrower. There were rules, but they were not that restrictive, and these avatars were an extension of your identity. It's this ridiculousness, that Minecraft/Roblox/Second Life all understand. There's also lots of MU* and MUSHes for this kind of thing.

I don't believe FB/Meta really understands this though, just the way they've failed to understand why Snap and TikTok are working. FB of today is great at imitating. They have the infrastructure skill and the technical talent but not the soul. They'll probably try to copy Roblox and they'll get some traction because they have such a huge platform, but it'll likely be something that sets the bottom bar.
Two years younger reporting in, things were still terrible for the Class of 2010 graduates. New grad unemployment didn't recover until 2012.
You want something cheap, inert, resilient, and unlikely to be repurposed for any other use.

QR codes are one of the first sort of barcodes to come to my mind for storage; but I'm reminded of how poorly they encode text compared to analog characters on a printed page. The printed letters are also a technology that is already known and self documenting. If you can understand the content there's no intermediate representation.
I don't understand this complaint, are Bose and Sony headphones only pairable with one device?

Seems a little short-sighted... My $30 Anker headphones are able to pair to at least two devices...
I love yabai. I don't do anything fancy with it, but I found that its one of the few twms for MacOS that can do three up on the left with a large window on the right.

I also love that it isn't locked into auto-balancing windows. For me, I don't want my three-up to be the same size.

For those concerned that SIP needs to be completely disabled, you can use [1]

csrutil enable --without fs --without debug

All in all, yabai is great and really is the best twm for MacOS at this time. The installation and config is a breeze, too.

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/discussions/5#discussio...
The short answer is that human eyes have really good dynamic range (around 24 bits). For comparison, most monitors only have 8 bit pixels, and the best cameras have around 16 bits. That means that human eyes are much better at perceiving combinations of bright and dim areas at the same time.
I grew up in a small town in North Carolina. People used to openly oppose the county's (very limited) public transit and would outright say "we don't want n----rs bringing crime to our neighborhood".

Today, people don't say that because they know it'll get them put through the wringer on social media and/or immediately get their opinions discarded. Instead, you hear "keep out the riff-raff," "preserve our neighborhood's character," etc. from the exact same people who previously dropped the N-word like their salvation depended on it.

Same shit, different flavors. Personally, I prefer the former since you get to know exactly who to avoid associating with.
You can't tell the poor to "move away" from their place of residence. They mostly can't Even if their neighbor is a murderer.

The nimby situation is forcing the less fortunate people to commute beyond what is humane. A 2 hour commute is not healthy. And they CAN'T move away, mostly.
>> The algorithm itself is public - the blog post has arXiv papers on it.

This is misleading. The implementation (running on a phone) would not be and there is no way to verify.
Corded headphones have much better latency than wireless headphones, which is essential when recording and making music.

Wireless earbuds or bone-conduction headphones are essential when working out.
This is a big one. My dad always talked about how to manage people and I always listened. While he couldn't teach me much about computers, what he did teach me has been far more useful than anything I learned in school.
Apparently there is some work with transcranial ultrasound that can instantaneously turn hallucinations on and off…
> There are very good reasons to find what Project Veritas has been credibly accused of quite distasteful.

The only accusations against Project Veritas is that they doctored their videos, but it seems to me that they usually publish the full length videos.
That's a fair criticism. You could make the case that the film companies didn't care enough to test the film's color reproduction for anything but caucasian skin tones, or didn't put the research dollars into fixing the problem. At the root of that would be racism.
Because these restrictions are a net-negative on the entire economy of the United States. If no metro areas blocked housing between 1964 and 2009, GDP would be 50% higher than it is today. (https://www.nber.org/papers/w21154?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medi...)

"The authors estimate that if New York, San Francisco, and San Jose had housing regulations—rules about where you can build, how tall you can build, how much parking you need, and so on—that didn’t protect cute houses and instead were equivalent to the median US city in the period between 1964 and 2009, the US economy would be 9.5% bigger right now, or grow 0.21% more annually. That’s would be a big deal for wages, for the public debt, and for prosperity in general." (https://qz.com/402763/new-york-and-san-fransiscos-insane-hou...)

The average worker's income would increase by $9,000 per year if the Bay Area and New York City relaxed their zoning laws. (https://www.theregreview.org/2018/06/14/somogyi-zoning-codes...)
This is so far beyond ridiculous at this point. Everything you say is the opposite of reality and with the direction intention of gaslighting and causing chaos. You are a troll of the highest order, and I'm honestly not sure why you're allowed to pull this kind of shit on HN.
Many people move half-way across the world to live in SF, and it's _only_ for the jobs. There is no other reason.
If you are asking that question, you already expect a certain answer to fit your beliefs and values. Therefore you are already biased and belong nowhere near a fair interviewing process.
The way asset prices work, expectations of future growth are already priced in. So you are effectively talking about timing the market.
Last I checked, it's also incredibly difficult to cancel an Apple subscription if you've switched away from the ecosystem and all you have on hand is Linux and Android.
I think the "right" choice is HCL
Indeed, not the absolute cheapest but sometimes half the price of our Albertsons.
> “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”.

Yea, they didn't really say anything like that. They're saying Veritas are scumbags and the FBI might be wrong but should proceed with oversight.

Their statement has so many qualifications and judgements attached to it, that it is nearly meaningless.
I've often wondered what it would be like if we blocked off the southern part of the bay and drained it
google is, ironically, one of the few remaining "major" sites which support http.

i'm a bit of a browser historian, so i regularly browse the web in everything from mosaic, to ie3 and netscape, firefox 3.x, and all the modern-day favorites such as links and w3m.

so i started building my own websites with all the oldies in mind. it takes some tweaking, but not that much, and i enjoy strolling^Wsurfing down memory lane, looking at that gorgeous ie3 menubar, which was replaced with a flat gray in ie4, or writing something in opera 12.x.
Agree, HCL resembles JSON but handles comments/nested data/etc really well.
Young people(of which I am one if 24 is considered young in this context) might reject FB but instagram(owned by FB well now meta) is probably the most engaged social media by people of younger 18-29. And whatsapp is the most used messaging platform in most regions of the world. If I was at FB, I would be most concerned with my company not being considered "cool", the potential kneejerk reaction of governments worldwide to show action(I am really skeptical that the underlying issues that led to the current issues with these megacorps would be addressed) even if there is no current legal trouble.
That is how national borders work. The rich love borders.
I understand that. But what performance gained? Unless your application spends 20% of CPU or more on networking or you run 1000 connections there won't be any measurable difference. Realistic numbers for games are likely < 1% of CPU, there's simply not too much data to exchange. Optimizing graphic API for games is something different, since this is really where CPU and GPU time is being spent.
> And of course, if you take it away there is nothing left.

Exactly.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tax-day-farms-owne...

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/143127984632861081...
You can use Yabai perfectly well without disabling SIP. I ran it for a while like that, and only stopped using it because I wanted something else entirely.
I think that when voice recognition actually works, that smartphones may be replaced by something that is voice-first and display-second.
There is one issue with the developers - they have less incentive to build enough homes to actually drive down prices via market forces because it means less profit for them.

If all red tape were removed, it would take years and years to bring down prices if you are just relying on private developers. It would happen eventually, but would take a very long time.

One possible solution here is for the government themselves to get involved and build homes, this will bring down prices much more quickly. Not as welfare or "low income" housing, but as an actual market intervention. This happened in Australia in the mid 20th century and had good results.
Fear is a real thing. There is so much talk where people openly say they want to discriminate against men, or that men should watch themselves or that men are bad. Of course in reality most of that is just talk, those people doesn't hold that kind of power at most companies, but just letting them talk like that instils fear in a lot of men and those men will avoid such companies.
Why not to whitelist operating system user agents
Residential roofs. As long as residents can sell the power back to the grid, it will be viable.
From what I've heard US is more of an exception with 30yr fixed. Most of the world runs on variable rates.

Also, when you apply for mortgage your income is tested against something like 5-7% interest rate.
I don't purchase Xerox printers due to their not so great history. [1][2]

1. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20200720-cia-spies-xerox-ma...

2. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/how-a...
Apps are a big part of it. You can quit WhatsApp or Discord all you like but they're still running in background.

A lot of apps are hackily built. Google is punishing this, but let's face it, you'll still use Messenger or Slack nontheless even if they ranked terribly on the Play Store.

Battery and system updates do matter. Android Lollipop basically made one of my phones unuseable. But you can try and uninstall everything and see the effects.

Also Samsung phones seem to deteriorate really fast for some reason. Most of my mid range ones became unuseable after 2-3 years.
None of this is written on a tablet handed down to us by God. Companies exist to serve society, not make money, and when the two are in conflict we have to do something. The government should step in to regulate when things go wrong, but go look at any recent tech hearing from US senators (seriously do it) - they are incredibly clueless. One of them was questioning Sundar Pichai about iPhones.

So if companies are happy to maximize profit with the only barrier being law, and the lawmakers are too clueless/slow to make effective laws quickly, what are we supposed to do?
Also corded headphones don't require battery
The problem there is signal lag. When the backlog at the port is cleared and you signal the factory to start production again, it might take 3 months for the products to start arriving at the port again. If the port gets congested again and you stop production it might take a month for the goods already made and on their way to stop arriving.

But you can also redirect cargo to different ports, or increase the price you charge for servicing cargo. Even if you dump containers you don’t have to do so randomly. Customers could even mark containers as rejectable, or non critical and therefore first to go to a backlog for a discount.

I found the article really interesting. For most IT use cases jobs are generic but thanks for raising the port example.
Drug addicts are not irresponsible. They are sick. They can't improve without help: treatment and accompainment. It is a mental health issue. Stop dehumanizing people.

If you push them too hard they will either kill themselves or kill you. It is not a choice.