skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Science fiction has dangled the idea of a Star Trek, Ready Player One, Total Recall kind of experience in front of our faces for years, where you could be teleported to another fascinating world,” says Jon Dean, co-founder of Spark XR. “So that’s what we’re doing—we’re making it happen. We want to put people in their favorite movies, give them the ultimate gaming fantasies, and help them travel the world.”

That’s why he’s spent the last few years developing teleportation pods—a new form of location-based entertainment that transforms into a virtual reality experience that actually feels real.
First time they mention it is page 10:

> one of the strongest and most widely-used programs is Stockfish [81].

Here's the citation, note the date:

> [81] The Stockfish Development Team. Stockfish: Open source chess engine, 2021. https://stockfishchess.org/.

They mention the version number only once, further down, and don't point out that it's out of date since February 2018. All other 11 mentions of it don't have the version number, like in that sentence:

> In Chess, PoG(60000,10) is stronger than Stockfish using 4 threads and one second of search time.
I'd disagree about C. It is just too simple to look like something deliberately created to write unmaintainable code. Although we know it is not only possible, but actually common.
For a while you could sit on 4chan.org/b/ hitting refresh every few seconds and you would inevitably see someone sharing abuse images inside of a not-very-long window. Typically it was just someone being a dickhead and think it's amusing to post it or something, but sometimes you'd see someone post a whole album, and I assume were using 4chan as a (temporary) distribution point.

It's worth noting that the mods on 4chan have always been shit-hot at removing this content, but /b/ used to get just _so_ damn busy would take a while for it to be spotted. Like really busy. Multiple pages of new posts every second busy.
it is in fact very easy to not fully believe conspiracy theories, those who do go all in with those are not the primary demographic that enjoys thinking about conspiracy theories. It is primarily an activity practiced by people who are capable of entertaining wild ideas without believing them as truth, aka skeptics. I never understood the massive public stigma around being able to have a wild imagination but stay grounded regardless.
The million dollar gross earnings should be a good match for those selling very few and should cover all but the most successful indie artist
It's my choice not to take shots that make me sick, and no I won't take them again. It's unfortunate that some people have fragile health, but it's not really my problem. No amount of brow-beating will make it my problem. No, I'm not a calloused individual that doesn't care about others. I don't believe that anyone is required to undergo medical procedures in order to benefit me, and I will not undergo medical procedures for anyone else, especially considering my experience with those procedures (significant illness, every time).
The chicken pox vaccine was invented in Japan in the 1970s, was approved for kids in the US in 1995, and required in schools sometime in the early 2000's, depending on the state -- nearly 30 years after its invention. This is very unlike the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
Yeah. I submitted it as a "Show HN" last Friday and received feedback from one person.
That's exactly what he'd say though isn't it? The funny part about it is that one can never tell if it's true or not.
Yeah, he wouldn't have reached such a good solution with help, and that was also originally taken into account by the Culture when they sent him out in the first place, since they knew him that thoroughly.
> players will be able to transfer their owned items to other games (which support them), even games not produced by Ubisoft.

No such game exists, and it's unlikely that it ever will, as the article explains.

> which it is if there's any ability to transfer NFTs to a wallet outside of the game

In your own skimming of the article, you seem to have missed the point that the blockchain they're using is very tightly controlled by them. It's even mentioned in one of your own quotes.
Except the game still has to be tied to the token somehow. So when you get banned on Steam in that situation, you just have a worthless token that Steam will no longer respect.

Some other store is going to respect that token you paid them no money for and give you access to the game anyway? Why? Are they going to do that for all the games bought with stolen credit cards?

This story keeps getting told and it just makes no sense to me.
Code search on GitHub is only available to people that log in with Microsoft. Clicking on 'Code' redirects to the login page.

It is not a friendly site. Open source projects would do better to use an open source code forge like <https://sr.ht/>.
Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ includes countries that hardly seem to qualify
Seeking alpha testers: Haberdasher is a modern VCS for huge repos
Link: https://www.haberdashervcs.com

I'm seeking open-minded and slightly patient alpha testers for Haberdasher: a version control system for huge repos. It combines a git-like workflow with a large-scale database (HBase). Millions of folders, millions of commits, and files up to 1GB.

What started as a lockdown project to stay sane has blossomed into a crude prototype. Obviously from the website it's only got bare functionality, but I wanted to start showing it around and get some thoughts. If you'd like to kick the tires, a very short sign-up form is on the website.

For the curious: history is stored in HBase, and large files are shunted to HDFS. Both the server and client are in Java, and for more info:

- The workflow is documented at: https://www.haberdashervcs.com/docs

- You can browse the source at: https://www.haberdashervcs.com/browseHd -- it's currently under a source-available license

Who am I? I'm Yash, and I'm an engineer in the southern US who's shuffled between big companies and indie projects for years. You can email me at: yash@haberdashervcs.com. Thanks for reading.
Simplicity is not that simple :) Brainfuck is an objectively smaller and simpler language than C, but it's not any better.

Certain problems have an inherent irreducible complexity. This complexity has to go somewhere. If the language doesn't tackle it, then users of the language will have to.

This is especially clear in the case of memory errors in C. C is too basic to express ownership of memory, valid scopes of pointers, and thread-safety of their usage. This doesn't make these problems disappear, only requires users to handle it manually and get it right without compiler's help.

In Rust you have to specify ownership and thread-safety of everything. It is complex, but not because Rust is complex, but because safe low-level memory management and thread safety are difficult problems.
You seem to be ignoring that the hypothetical alternative would be a market with prices with downward flexibility, such that rather than gambling on unsupported hacks, you could instead get more cores for your money just by waiting for later in the product cycle. A 4-core chip with two fuzed off at $300 and a 4-core chip with two licensed off at $300 are definitely not equivalent options to be comparing, because in a market with no artificial product crippling Intel's price sheet would have to change.

The fact that artificially crippling chips is not new does not mean it's a good thing. Having accepted a tradeoff doesn't erase its downsides.
Harvard-educated Jewish female writes hit piece to #MeToo cancel one of the world's supergreat authors—an anti-semite, yes—140 years after his death.
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Every time I hear “mongodb” I think of that guy from Blazing Saddles that punches horses.

My employer thought it would be cheaper to use Mongodb then hiring people who understood SQL - then free turned into a subscription, and a support plan got added in, now it’s a six figure expense per year. Plus it turns out that developers who don’t understand SQL are really unbelievably bad at everything else database related, so all the Mongodb queries end up being linear scans, and the apps fall over when the dataset grows beyond core memory size - because the app developers like to read the entire collection into ram then iterate through manually and pick the records they want.

It’s a huge rewrite when they can no longer do that.
Yeah...no we are definitely talking past each other. good night!
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Scrum is the bastardization of Kaizen and Agile.
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> “mongo” is a derogatory term that is equally offensive as calling someone a retard

Git and the Gimp are just as bad in English.
I mean....
Not only are the companies insolvent, at this point half the perpetrators are probably dead. Just stall long enough and you'll never have to deal with the problems you created.
Bit OT, but I think I never had a venue for saying this in public: Stroustrup is absolutely one of the most inspiring programmers I'm aware of, think of C++ what you like.

Stuff like const correctness and references were way ahead of its time IMHO, and I always found his talks and writing insightful.

Despite the pretty insane success of his creation, and all the hate, he always seemed pretty down to earth and friendly to me - I don't know if a lot of people could have pulled that off in his position.

Maybe I'm missing some major flame wars or dramas, but from all I've seen and heard, a very inspiring person.
> Is the negative effect is on games, or Steam users?

Yes.

Steam users most of all though because it exploits bad habits people have like gambling, collectionism, and completionism with all the ugliness that comes with them for the sake of profit.
Every community center I am familiar with has rules about the types of events that can be held there.

Even more so when they're owned by specific interest groups.
Lead is still popular in alloying metals because it's ductile, easy to work, and easy to machine. I would assume if I was buying a brass product made in China it would have lead in it. I try to buy copper and brass plumbing products made in the US, South Korea, or other countries with strong regulation and legal systems.
Part of Microsoft's problem is its immense attack surface.

For every instance of a server or network router running a Linux-based OS that requires deep tech knowledge just to log in, there are dozens or even hundreds of Microsoft desktops running software. These are sitting in front of folks who get used to the nice features and aren't watching for subtle URL changes, application misbehavior, or other hints that those reading this forum are more likely to pick up on.

Looking back, certainly we could have done without some of the feature set (something Google picked up on this when they designed their own office suite), but I can't fault MS for trying to make their products attractive to their customers.
Except every these example have huge issues:

1. T-14 Armata never entered into serial production, Russia lacks resources to actually make it into product, they just built cardboard prototype and left it there. Abrams is being produced like hot cakes. It's just Russia's claim that T-14 is superior but there is 0 proof.

2. Maintenance and support of junk is still junk

3. It's Russia's claim that S-400 SAM is better, but nobody knows the truth, in fact S-300 only proved itself in battle by shooting down civilian aircraft over Ukraine when Russia invaded it, killing innocent children in the air.

4. BMP/BTR lack sufficient armor to the point that soldiers prefer to go marching on their own foot because it is basically death trap to be inside BMP/BTR APC.

Yes, Spain is doing way better than shithole Russia, after all Russian people is being ruled by Tzar Putin and they like it.
How would the migration to the new CMS be done?
How many changes are made per day?
If all it takes is hacker news comment threads to sway your opinions on medical topics, you were probably looking for an excuse to not take the vaccine already. Barely anyone here is an expert on this topic and if there were experts here, you would find them at the top of the thread - not buried behind moderation at the bottom.

This is a website for fans of startups and tech. The closest we get to statistics is some middleware vendor optimized for p-hacking. Applying startup thinking to mature fields is a constant source of egg-on-face for silicon valley, as demonstrated famously by IoT safety devices. [0]

The reason for large downvotes and flags in a thread like this is because there are a lot of people who think they know what they're talking about, but don't. The rigor to participate in this conversation is much higher than having a hot take on the latest MacBook. But that doesn't stop people from oversharing anyway.

[0] https://gekk.info/articles/iot.html
I also primarily use TypeScript/Postgres where I have the choice. For UI I do prefer JSX but not React, I prefer something lighter and ideally supporting or amenable to partial hydration. I’m eager to use Deno more, there’s a lot that appeals to me more than Node.

In the past I’ve worked extensively in Clojure/ClojureScript. I really like the FP aspects and I came to really appreciate lisp generally, but I much prefer FP style in a statically typed language. I may look at Rust for some performance-sensitive stuff, and possibly Typed Racket for some DSL ideas I’ve been wanting to explore.
I just spent a few minutes browsing around the McMaster site. Never used it before as I'm not into that sort of thing.

It's really fast! Doing some digging, it appears they are using a flavor of HTML over the wire, ala Rails Turbo/Laravel Livewire/Phoenix Liveview. Maybe Blazor? I'm not sure of the file extensions for C#, so maybe they can use the aspx extension?

Cool to see some folks still actively working towards making fast ecommerce sites!
"I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers?"

Why would anyone say that about a language they designed?
Yeah. Why would anyone do things that reduce their own leverage? Assuming rewards proportional to the value of one's work is magical thinking. "If I save a company $100,000, they will give me a significant portion of it." No such deal exists! They're just as likely to give us raises and bonuses as they are to pocket the profits for themselves and assign us even more work.
Poorly. The paper in question does not even purport to support this conclusion, when stated in such matter-of-fact terms.

It's a very interesting study, with laudable measures taken to overcome confounding factors. But I imagine the authors cringe when someone flogs it around as "COVID-19 reduces your IQ by 7!!!!!"
They can take a cut of every secondary market transaction and players need to be able to cash out for a secondary market to make sense. The main reason for not doing that centrally is it becomes an attractive means of money laundering which Valve found out with their skins. Second Life also had this problem and IIRC a third party company handles all their game related banking business as a result.

Note I’m not saying this is a good thing and I think all the entities involved should have the same regulatory responsibility but you can see the greasy cogs whirring in some executives brain.
No there is not strong evidence. The Israeli study highlighted previous infection versus vaccinated but not (yet) infected. Note the "previously infected" category did not exclude the vaccinated, but the vaccinated category did exclude the previously infected. The only solid conclusion to make from that is: that even if you have been previously infected, get a vaccine.
That's just binfmt support. It's nothing special. The recent Rust changes meant that Rust may end up as a part of the Linux codebase, rather than as a userland "executable format".
>Simple is better. There are too many developers who prefer complexity.

This is going to be unpopular opinion because it is more philosophical and completely unscientific.

I have been thinking something along that line for quite some time and not just on technology or programming languages. I think it has a correlation with age or how far along your journey in life. Simplicity has to click, it cant be told or learn just by reading. And more often that not, you can only understand simplicity after you try and fail to "fully" embrace complexity.
I try to stay away from C++ (successfully for the most part), but I do recommend Stroustrup's "Design and Evolution of C++".

It is a bit dated by now, but it is the best book on the design and evolution of any programming language in general I have come across. (wink If anyone knows of a serious contender, please let me know!) I wish he'd update it to reflect the changes C++ has seen since the book was first published.
There's a vast chasm between "zoom doesn't take 5 minutes; what is the minimum depth in this area" and "sailor proof".
Edit - my bad, seems like the week wait is from Arbitrum to ETH. Evidently missed that when I was trying to move funds from ETH to Arb. Ah well.

Really though, unless these transactions become more obfuscated crosschain this ETH ecosystem feels like an over engineered nightmare on a chain that couldn't scale. I keep hearing from ETH maximalists like you that this is the only way, while hearing it does not have to be this way from your direct competitors.
> I know asking to read the article is too much, but maybe read the title?

There's nothing in the article that actually refutes the notion of trickle-down economics. It is little more than a summary of a summary of the actual report[1].

The actual report is even worse than the summary when you dig into it. For example, the report notes on page 63 that taxes and transfers did nothing to change inequality. That's precisely what you'd expect in an economy where labor is specialized to produce different things, with some producing greater value, and some producing lesser. Increasing taxes doesn't change that fact. It's also what you'd expect from some populations having greater literacy and education than others, and greater infrastructure to facilitate investment and trade. Taxes won't change that. Investment will.

As a further example, page 168 "Lessons from failed trickle-down economics" falsely claims that when taxes were reduced, GDP growth did not increase, pointing to the period of the 1980s which was in the middle of the dot-com boom. This is a sleight-of-hand on their part where they use figures showing a lack of growth in GDP per capita and attempt to imply this means there was no GDP growth whatsoever. However, GDP in that period did in fact increase, as did the population.

The real point of this report lays further in where they finally drop the mask and begin discussing "global redistribution" and "ending center-periphery imbalances" between the "Global North" and "Global South". Put simply: This entire report is agitprop intended to convince people that because some people dodged their taxes in the 1980s-2020s period that means we should all accept "redistribution" to even things out... except, of course, they're not talking about tax evaders having to pay their fair share, but rather justifying theft from those who produce the real value in the world. This is nothing more than a sham attempt to legitimize greed and theft.

> Also, is the word "offshore" not in your vocabulary?

Moving money offshore and not paying taxes on it because it's still technically not "earned", and hence not their money, is certainly a problem... but the solution then is to treat that money as earned and subject to taxation immediately, even if you have to take out a loan against that money which you haven't really received yet. That said, the money sitting offshore isn't just sitting there: it's invested.

> Speaking of which, reminder: bankruptcy doesn't clear away student loans, making them an effectively risk-free investment for the banks. Yay.

Ah yes, how dare those banks invest in your future. They should've spent it all on hookers and blow in Vegas. Clearly that's a better investment. :D

[1] https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2021/12/WorldIneq...
As the article explains, they don't give up control in this case. The blockchain they're using is locked down to the point of negating all the supposed benefits of blockchains.
Well, if they cancel the viral stuff, that might be a net improvement for the world as a whole...
> Decrease reliance on Visa.

Has Visa ever let them down?

> Instant, cross-border payment settlement.

Like Visa?

> Other features like money streaming.

?
I admit the choice of case-insensitivity is questionable, although it is in keeping with Windows's history. I just think it is silly to complain about having to uppercase things when you, you know, don't have to do that.
A little over a decade ago, I stopped a project* that got submitted to reddit and hacker news which is how I learned about hacker news via the referrer header.

I was young and not exactly entrenched in the culture as I was in the midwest writing code from books without any desire of community, so I wasn't used to opinions.

The negative things expressed caused me a depression since I was proud of my work. Unfortunately, for the business, the right thing to do was to stop developing the language and use shit that the local labor market could handle.

This awareness of what the market could support was depressing as hell, and I eventually couldn't be an effective leader for that company as I was more interested in doing interesting things versus the right thing. I found it boring, and that's when I went into big tech to work on interesting things.

Now, I'm older, and I'm up to my shenanigans again with a new language: http://www.adama-lang.org/

One thing that I have learned is that you can't make everyone happy, but you can make a small group of people ecstatic. Next year, I intend to work on my language full-time (ish) and ship something that people can use with just a command-line.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6ori0/kira_is_...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226480
Except all available safety and efficacy data shows that those who have been infected but not vaccinated should get vaccinated.
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I prefer running things in VMware virtual machines.
(I am used to WMare, you can use Oracle VirutalBox its free(mostly))

If you are into gaming on Windows 10, use Windows 10 as your main and
a virtual machine of Linux for Dev.

Gaming on Windows 10 in a virtual machine will not be that good.

There is an issue with running VMware Workstation on Windows 10 with WSL2 on.

In the beginning it did not work at all

They have fixed it a little bit.
Now you can run both at the same time but it creates limits for what
VMWare Workstation can do.

The most important limit for me is the inability to run nested virtual machines.

This is probably not a problem for most users, but I have to turn off WSL2 and HyperV to run nested operating system on VMWare. This in turn means Docker Desktop will not run on Windows 10.

I am so used to virtual machines that I strongly prefer it to WSL2.
It creates a natural demarcation between the two systems.
It is trivial to return to a known state on VirtualMachine.
Everything in Linux, FreeBSD etc works as expected.
How about ambiguous cp? Seems like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and other social media sites are filled with people sharing this stuff. And if you report it- often nothing gets done.
Microsoft has always been a dev tool company.
I have very fond memories of mushroom hunting as a kid, it is a fun experience... includes hiking and getting out and enjoying nature. Plus, breaded and buttered morels are so freaking good.
There are other studies suggesting that infection + two doses of Pfizer could be effective whereas just two doses aren’t.
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