skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please grace us with your superior definition.

- Is a metaverse a VR replacement for the entire online experience? This is most likely unattainable and unrealistic. Full immersion is undesirable and impractical for many, if not most, of the things people do today on the web.

- Is a metaverse "less gamey" than a game? Not a useful distinction to draw. You can hang out with friends in Minecraft and ignore any aspect of the game you don't care for, if you wish. Having mechanics is usually a benefit and not a hazard. Take most of the features of a game away and leave only a first-person chat room, and the result is anemic. VRChat already exists and handles that niche well, anyway.

- Is a metaverse an "open market" with many federated members? Facebook isn't trying to do this. Everyone shilling metaverses wants lock-in and exclusivity.

- Is a metaverse a "closed market" in which smaller economic players can participate, like the iOS store? How is this fundamentally unlike e.g. Steam, with a social network and chat features that span games in an ecosystem that includes third party vendors?

Metaverses are just a buzzword dreamed up by people who don't play video games, but have a strong opinion for what would be the "best ever" multiplayer experience. As a consequence, all the focus is on things that have nothing to do with a game or an experience; just monetization models, restrictions, marketing.
I initially tried it because CreditKarma had egregious errors last time, like:

1) Inverting my answer to “have you sold cryptocurrency” on the forms.

2) Silently removing decimal points (changing 8.005 to 8005 shares in the forms)

3) Persisting an entry for income after I tried to delete it and re-enter, with no way to fix it even after talking to support.

4) Having forms with an overlay “do not use”.

FreeTaxUSA still refused decimal points in the forms (like in item 2) but at least warned me so I could work around it.
Off-topic: I looked at your previous submissions and I have some feedback that is unrelated to the question in the title.

I noticed that the post has no link to the main page of your website, only to the contact page. You should add a link there to https://becausecurious.me

Also, the top page of your website is empty. You should make a list of your projects there. The idea is that if someone finds one of your projects, it's easy to discover all your other projects. And it also helps Google find and list all of them.

As I said before, this navigation problem is unrelated to the question in the title.
MIPS along with DEC alpha do not have adder circuits as a design goal was not to have flags. This along with the scenario of multi-precision arithmetic resulted in the implementation of multi-precision arithmetic on MIPS and DEC alpha using a form of branch like instruction with an ALU stage instead of the unavailable instructions dependent on the alternative adder circuits. The choice of having or not having a carry flag alone is not an architectural detail as the choices of [micro]architecture involve how operations are implemented in circuits/hardware. The carry flag specifically has to be considered in the context of its [the adder] circuit when making architecture decisions. The lack of control over flags leading to the inability to compile the same C program to the same assembly operations with same behavior on different hardware demonstrates that a strictly C program is unable to express a consistent portable assembly program across all hardware.
This was already tried with No Child Left Behind, with schools above proficiency obtaining additional funding and those falling below would be penalized. In many states, it created a testing frenzy, caused a huge push for curriculum standardization that rankled both teachers and parents. It funneled tons of money into test prep providers that probably would be better spent recruiting and retaining skilled teachers.

I wish education reform enthusiasts would try a different tactic.
I miss the point of this discussion. Does the HN readership really include a substantial number of drug lords, cyber criminals, spies, informants or live under a regime where they fear for their lives from state actors? I'm not cheating on my taxes or my spouse. Are there really many people being paid in cybercash from a genuine need to avoid state or corporate interest?
> My wife’s family is Irish and I spend a lot of time there. Their Dairy Milk is much creamier, much like their milk. I think their blue top “full” milk is much closer to the old “gold top” we used to have here in the UK.

I wouldn't be surprised if it is creamier if they source their dairy locally. I miss gold top milk! I always try to buy butter from Ireland too, it tends to be richer in flavour.

The insanity of the current situation in the UK is that there is a sugar tax (I once got sugar-taxed on a sugar free drink), sweet snacks have been suffering from shrink-flation (or inflation if we're talking about a freddo), and yet, for all of these efforts there is still an obesity crisis. If there is going to be an obesity crisis anyway, it might as well be from nice food.

I noticed that Guinness is by far the best when you buy it in Ireland. Mainland Britain is second best, and then it seems to get worse the further out you get. There is not a nicer beer than a fresh hearty Guinness.
Hydrogen is far superior to batteries if we get the storage tech right. You can transfer it as quickly as gasoline, meaning you can fill up in 3 minutes and drive hundreds of miles and fill again indefinitely. It could be thousands of pounds lighter than batteries. It never goes bad or wears out, and has the same performance in extreme cold and hot temperatures.
One more person for your sample: I’m sixty-four, and I have next-to-zero interest in virtual reality. Maybe if I had gotten into playing video games at some point I could see the attraction, but I never did so I don’t.

There is one possible use case, though, that I find interesting. For the past two years, I’ve been teaching university classes and taking part in meetings using Zoom. While in general it’s gone okay, an interface that more closely approximates people talking with each other in a room would be nice. I would want that interface to be on a regular computer monitor, though; I don’t want to have to wear goggles.

I should also mention that I didn’t understand the point of that Facebook ad until I read the discussion of it here. What a bizarre video.
You should read up on the golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. It doesn't matter what's fair
It doesn't matter what's hypocritical. "Sovereign rights" don't matter. The only thing that matters is your ability to project power. China has it. America has it. Canada does not.
You are conflating two different aspects. Almost anyone can be a bank's client, nobody is questioning their right to bank.

The bank not questioning the source of the money they deposit is the problem here. That looks like an intentional institutional gap designed to enable money laundering and tax evasion.

Vladmir Putin is free to open an personal account in any bank. However if he is depositing millions and billions and the bank is not questioning the source it has failed its responsibilities .
I didn’t read the comments.
FD, or 375 octal. :)
Very good points. The longer the person has been using YouTube and the more data accumulated, clearly the math shows the more likely they are to get hit with false positives.

The flip side of this, is where YouTube/Google is finding excuses to conduct "purges" of data and older accounts. They know what they're doing is wrong, but it has plausible deniability to it.

So easy to pull, "Don't blame us, blame the algorithm." As if it isn't people programming and supervising it, and there isn't loads of user complaints as to what's going on.
Very few people like being reminded of their mortality.

As an older millenial who already lost a loved one and got out of the job treadmill I say I get it because awarness of mortality became my middle name. I think this tech is crap because it's to limited, but I get it.
Yep, it's a win win for those teachers and school districts. Teachers get an enjoyable teaching experience with students that actually care about success AND they get (much, much) higher pay. Students get great teachers.

Unfortunately you can't really fix students not caring about their education. America doesn't have the type of shaming culture Asian countries have where class rankings are publicly posted and low scorers are socially stigmatized.
I'm imagining vouchers.
In 1909 E.M. Forster published “The Machine Stops” a dystopian vision of a world where nobody ever leaves their individual rooms, and instead interacts solely through “the machine.” 1909!

Neuromancer, The Matrix, the list goes on… Plenty of prior art, and somebody still thinks this is a good idea!?
I have read "Life is Short" countless times.
I won't be moving to 11. I don't want any of this.

I've already got my Slackware system set up for doing 99% of what I do.

Solidworks, I'm gonna miss you, but that's about all.
Last two sentences: <<Thule is the only Air Force base with no aircraft and A tug boat. The library offers two videos, ―Operation Blue Jay" and ―Camp Century," that better explain how the base was built and the events that have taken place in this region.>>

Are these publicly available? YouTube?
I enjoyed reading your comment.
Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
What's the definition of "metaverse?"
Imagine if the funding went with the student rather than the district - all manner of schools would pop up, market themselves to parents, and pay equivalent salaries. It would decouple school quality from region.
RIP Sven!
It's been a decade since I've read it, but my recollection is that the book tightly conjoins the success of VR to the crumbling of the world's institutions and societies: there's a positive feedback loop between VR escapism and not tackling the world's problems.

I'm not sure that "fully immersive VR" is intrinsically bad, at least not any worse than our current less immersive digital world. But it's not hard to see how VR can make a bad situation worse.
My feeling on analog pen and paper is that it is easy to lose and hard to organize; so I prefer digital pen and paper.

For digital handwriting, I use MS OneNote with my Boox tablet but almost any modern tablet will do. MS OneNote also has the best handwriting to text feature I've found; which is useful to make reading past notes easier.

Another thing I've been using is Google sheets. Google Sheets makes it convenient to write short bullet point type notes under certain categories such as it is structured like this:

First column (area) - Second Column (sub-area) - Third Column (details)

Example:

Shopping - Groceries - Items to Order
You thought this through too well. Probably should be traced back, put in a list and investigated just for this comment.
Oculus quest 2 no doubt about it.

Unless you are super rich and don't care about money or just hate Facebook - I don't think anything beats the hardware quality of q2.
> (OP) Linux applications, possibly MacOS

Indeed, why not Java, then.
Cool story, that does indeed sound like a plot out of a movie!

How were you able to extract a password from just listening to scp (ssh really) traffic though? Also, how did you know that someone's entire network was SSL MITM'd, only by looking at the data they dumped? Did the hackers store a readme file along with every dump?
In 5.2, environments were changed in a fundamental and non-backwards compatible way. CFunctions used to have environments, but now they don't. This also affected equality when comparing between function values.

In 5.4, they changed _the way that numbers behave_:

> Literal decimal integer constants that overflow are read as floats, instead of wrapping around.

Which, by the definition used for 5.3 being a fork, would also be a fork. It's a fundamental change of the entire numeric tower.
So "not reading the comments" caused you to post the same comment twice, using different usernames?
This is what I was hoping to hear, commoditizing all of the tools would be a huge benefit, I guess on the flip side is could make bioengineering of deadly things easier?
It also resulted in teaching to the tests and not for understanding or usefulness.

So, more power to the bean counters led to less flexibility for the teachers, misallocating money, measuring the wrong things and providing much worse education.

Sounds like another tale about a Chinese Communist Party top-down initiative executed to perfection with disastrous results.
If you are planning on using your phone, I suggest getting an official Google Cardboard unit.

https://arvr.google.com/cardboard/get-cardboard/

There are plenty of other phone holder style units but they may not work with the cardboard app(Which has a large amount demos/apps)

If you are looking for something more advanced and can wait a bit, I would do that. I would expect the console gamming systems will be pushing out some new offerings soon.

Occulus is an option but from my understanding it is married to FaceBook/Meta and that is a risky proposition IMHO.
> I get twitter feeds by RSS.

I didn't realise it was capable of serving RSS! It still puts you at the mercy of Twitter's API support and a random host to not interfere with the original message...

> For Youtube, reddit is also possible, might be for spotify too.

I don't use Reddit (HackerNews is as far down the internet rabbit hole as I want to go), but I know Youtube still allows RSS (just about). They have been slowly but surely removing the feature though. You used to be able to export all of your subscribers as OPML, now you can't. There used to be an easy way to find RSS feeds, now there isn't. I suspect before long they will move to remove them entirely.
The strikes are pretty accurate, the use of them and the planning behind it is where the unintended deaths come from, the weapons go where they're pointed they're just wielded by people who don't care about the people directly nearby or getting it wrong. The analogy holds for the various types of anti-satellite weapons, among them this is a very precise tool.

> It's probably not a good idea for non space agency leaders, military or otherwise, to have tools that physically interact with stuff in space. There's not an institution on the planet competent and responsible enough to avoid unintended catastrophe once military conflict escalates to orbit.

I think the technological cat is out of the proverbial bag on this one.
Thanks for the cosign mention! Maintainer here. The link is github.com/sigstore/cosign for anyone reading along!
I'd argue that people would have more incentive to fix their real world if they hadn't had a fake one to escape to.
The yellowing leaves suggest you might be watering the plants too much. This seems to be among the more common issues with houseplants.
That. Last week I had 2 interviews. One was after a recruiter from a well-known consultancy wrote me the 2nd time and I answered, writing that I have only tiny experience (let alone skill) in what they were looking for. She convinced me to proceed, saying that I'm a perfect fit. 2 weeks later I get a rejection exactly because of the skills stated were missing in the CV that I sent before the interview...

Another interview was at a company where both the external recruiter and the CTO lied about their closest competitor, claiming they got a 100M funding while in reality they had a 5M funding. (And the company in question 1.5M) Relevant because they wanted to make options part of the salary. Also the CTO claimed the competitor lacked a key feature. I looked it up and they had it...

I'm getting really tired of this market and look forward for Meetups to happen again. That's where one can really meet the people and their companies.
This is the highest ever price for per a TFLOP!
First hit on search - https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/personal-injury/ladder-injury-l...

Apparently it is under “premises liability” and I don’t know how the so-called “warn the contractor” system gets to be anything beyond but he said she said in a real hearing…
Why post a link to an Ottawa Police tweet about looking for people actively involved in the civil unrest there? If there was an organized conspiracy by right-wing US crisis actors to create chaos and bring downtown Ottawa to a stop, is it overzealous for the police to look into it and any possible crimes committed?
> The first turn can be defined as always "right" or "left,"

No it can’t, not in 3D... it is just a turn.

You can however choose to rotate about the first segment until the turn is Right, then use this orientation for the rest.

In terms of normal form and restarts, who cares? Just generate the string both ways, it’s 2n computations, choose the lowest in lexicographic order, and life is good. If you get to billions of turns are humans really going to be doing the comparison? Surely we’d just stream the string into a hash function or something...
'kajal7052 looks like it was a bot that was posting comments it copied from existing ones.

The id of kajal7052's comment is 30407693, which is after Waterluvian's (30407636).
Cannot read the entire article, but from the title, teaser and comments I think I get the idea. Sure, penalize the mayor and the school (district?) board officials, not the actual school or teachers. Make the leaders responsible, not the workers, for the high level results.
I had the same kind of feeling when Garry's Mod was new. Every day you could browse servers and find new interesting experiences. A roleplaying map like an elaborate small town, populated with other players. A competitive bridge-making minigame. A minimalist flat plane to build in. It crashed constantly. Structures would glitch out at random. Most servers were crawling with trolls and misanthropes. Still, from time to time you'd luck upon a few moments of nirvana. Easy to forget and forgive all the jank, and remember those feelings of endless possibilities.
Hasn't Whonix always been provided as a pair of VMs? https://www.whonix.org/#download

Qubes is a hypervisor itself, it's not designed to be virtualised.
So then is one of these propositions true?

Every North American faerie weighs more than 10kg.

Every North American faerie weighs 10kg or less.
I think a student in America is more likely to be stigmatized for doing well academically rather than for doing poorly.
The move to AI assisted coding will destroy programming.
An older article about earlier research that has a little more detail about the hardware, a solar-powered led device to deter sea turtle bycatch: https://www.seaturtlestatus.org/articles/2020/2/25/do-sea-tu...
Your comment echoes today's Credit Suisse news:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/20/credit-suisse-s...

“The pretext of protecting financial privacy is merely a fig leaf covering the shameful role of Swiss banks as collaborators of tax evaders.”

And it's more than tax evasion, "include a human trafficker in the Philippines, a Hong Kong stock exchange boss jailed for bribery, a billionaire who ordered the murder of his Lebanese pop star girlfriend and executives who looted Venezuela’s state oil company, as well as corrupt politicians from Egypt to Ukraine".
I couldn't find a source that says when YouTube started showing videos in 720p by default, but I did find this circumstantial evidence that shows it was after October 2012, so at most 9 years 8 months ago: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/68318/view-youtube...
OP has a combined router and modem, presumably without the ability to put it in bridge mode to run their own router.
Just seeing Jasvir's face at the end while he was burning his field. The man looked totally defeated.
> reconnect with old friends

When I’m shown an anthropomorphized dog puppet thrown away, dropped haphazardly from a truck, put into a trash compactor, and then treated like a mannequin I’m not being primed to think “reconnect” with anyone. This is a weird depiction of despair to which Meta is the drug to pretend to escape.
back before legalized grow operations:

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/marijuana-bust-shines-li...
I agree there is a delicate balance here but the thing is, if you let global climate change run wild, the salmon, and a lot of other critters, including us, don't stand a chance, with a dam generating electricity and a fish ladder, they stand a chance and so do we.

Hydo, Wind, Solar, and yes, Nuke, probably all are needed to overcome this challenge. Until some perfect thing comes along, fusion or whatever, we will ned to make decisions between the various imperfect options.
Interesting - why aren't they signing them?
FWIW, the next tweet: "Es war kein Covid-Tod" is saying that it WAS NOT a Covid death. In case you see the keyword but don't understand German.
I believe those with schizophrenia (and/or schizotypal personality disorder) have greater difficulty with these types of visual and spatial reasoning.
I just finished up a talk using a ZK like system, and I ended up revisiting my notes a few times. From my perspective, note taking has been useful for very specific applications like writing a blog post or preso, but I have piles of random notes just gathering digital dust.

I know the orthodoxy of ZK states you shouldn’t write something until you have sufficient notes to do so, and some will even go so far as to say you shouldn’t research a specific topic, but having a purpose for my note taking actually makes me stick to it.
https://github.com/nteract/nteract has a somewhat Jupyter-like Node.js Kernel
I have unfortunately had the biggest displeasure of dealing with Dutch police after someone stole my backpack.

They were useless and downright offensive. The crime happened is full view of a security camera and they refused to do anything at all about it and instead performing what I call the “European fuck you”: handing me a form to fill.

Adding insult to injury I was told that “it happened all the time” when I asked them what the fuck are they doing to stop it happening then, I was threaten for my language.
The time it takes to unlock and open the app is a major issue. It's still much faster than I can write a complete sentence by hand, but slow enough to discourage me from writing more.

I've always thought that a new class of ultra rugged, old Nokia but with apps type device is needed. Maybe some kind of special purpose smaller than a phone digital notebook could solve this.

It wouldn't need much computing power at all, since it could do everything via Bluetooth link to a real phone. With a memory LCD the battery would last weeks.

For me, I'm so out of practice with pen and paper that I could probably learn a new input method as just easily as I could learn to write without stopping to think about every letter, so maybe even a keychain sized device would be possible.
The traffic containing the clear text password was not scp, it was the reverse shell they sent themselves. Reverse shells are unencrypted on the wire, and when scp prompted for the password, they typed it in over their reverse shell. A significant oversight on their part. If it was a team, it must have been a less experienced member who made that mistake.

As far as the SSL MITM goes, they indeed documented their attack with various files containing notes in English. They had a separate directory (within the target's folder) containing the certificates they were using in the attack.
I could see that. For a nominal fee they'd put retirement age Millenials and Zoomers into states as close to "brains in a jar" as they can manage. Then they'd cultivate their consciousnesses in a rage-cycle hell for profit. It gives me the same vibes as "Argent Energy" from Doom.