skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you buy stock you stop caring about what the company does. You only care about what the market thinks about what the company does. If the stock price goes up you sell for a profit.

For companies that don't pay dividends, the stock price is driven purely by the expectation that somebody will pay you more for the stock than what you paid for it.
> It should be noted that this is a pretty bad end state

I agree. The parent poster didn't ask what's the downside, and I think it's this: when no one knows what to believe and starts to distrust most things, society may start to fall apart, as society relies on us trusting each other.

So while I think disinformation is one of the best privacy strategies (not so different from differential privacy efforts by Google and others, suggested by the OP but without the term name), I think the more we lie to hide, the more we spin others and ourselves in circles.

I really like Sam Lessin's essay on this at The Information, where he talks about how, with the nature of the internet being so easy to share info, we have to start spreading disinfo to even close colleagues, so far as even lying to ourselves.

I think this paradox is one of the most challenging paradoxes of our time: the internet makes it so easy for us to open up and share and yet it makes it so hard for us to not open up and share.

[0]: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-future-of-privac...
> emergent patterns to create a form of ladder

While I think there are very strong whiffs of alchemy (i.e. belief) in a lot of forms of technical analysis, a number of these patterns have a psychosocial story to them, and the pattern itself is the fingerprint of how that story manifests. (Much like how an earthquake leaves a predictable pattern on a seismograph)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409440
There is no GIF faster than "no GIF".

So, of course it doesn't exist!
See e.g. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html for a detailed discussion.
You know what's worse than the world of ready player one? The world of ready player one where there is no VR.

I don't think creating fully immersive VR is inherently bad.
Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair (2021)
Honestly, I don't see an issue with this specifically.

Yes, I think the emulator _should_ be allowed on the store, but on Android it's pretty easy to manually install apps.

For a monetized app, I may take a different position, but for something like an emulator that's already on shaky ground as far as monetization goes, I don't see that much of an issue.
It kind of riffs with me. Music gives me Black Mirror vibes. In postive San Junipeiro way. There's sad descent and degradation but not of the world. Only personal. World around develops and changes leaving you behind. It changes to the point where you can have vr to feed your mind, stuck in old and damaged body, reconnecting you with your old pals with similarly aged bodies, like it's the old times. High note nostalgia towards the end.

This ad is targeted at boomers and older millenials.
Everything that can be owned is currently owned. We formed the basis for society on the idea that ownership is liberation and we shouldn't be surprised that this is where we ended up. Good for the people who bought into it 100% though. It must feel amazing to them.
That's a very different situation. It's not about consciousness, but qualia, and is more like the Mary's Room [0] argument (though not the same).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
How likely is it that phenomena will cause a net improvement with population and per-person consumption increases?

Jevons Paradox also comes into play.
That's basically what the database would do anyway, so generally, yes (e.g. even with a RDBMS it's internally got some sort of write log, in most cases). That's gonna help a lot!

It doesn't give you any guarantees about "at a given time" consistency, though. Maybe your queue or your event processor got backed up. So how real-time do you need both sides?

These are, of course, problems that people have solved to varying level of satisfaction for most use cases! But I've seen systems built by people who saw the blog post about "have both!" and then didn't think about all these cases and then... it gets messy.
Trying to expain the joy of children is like recommending to read a book about the joy of swimming. You simply have to make the experience to understand.
For long periods of my life I felt detached from the world and from myself. With our two children I feel a deep and satisfying attachment unlike any other feeling. Reading a lot about puppies in the comments. Would sacrifice our beloved cat without blinking for our children if it were neccessary. Sorry Merlin, you are not only not in the same league, you are not in the same universe.
The whole thing about loosing your freedom when having kids is taking it the wrong way. Your life is not about your ego any more, not about your comforts, your desires. Its about your child. You become the path and the foundation. There is something deeply satisfying being there for them.
YARP is yet a another example of how C# is becoming a dominant systems language.

The ease with which you can build a tailor-made reverse proxy is pretty amazing.
> The metaverse exists right now. It's called Fortnite

This is such a ridiculous take. Sure, it’s what the CEO of Epic want people to repeat. But to actually believe that? That’s another story.

Fortnite is a video game. Period. It isn’t what people mean when they talk about the metaverse. The only way you can claim otherwise is to completely ignore peoples intent when they say “metaverse” and instead substitute in your own definition. A definition that apparently means “fairly popular video game with in game currency”
> The ad is absolutely state of the art

it looked like a generic commercial from a generic company struggling to remain relevant. if a different company's logo had appeared at the end it would have made the same amount of sense... best buy, chuck e cheese, you name it. the soundtrack has the same 'hey i remember the 80s' desperation reminiscent of a wal mart commercial from 3 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxORRqYW-Y
Phishing doesn't necessarily mean "fake OpenSea email" specifically.
Remember when they treated the lab leak theory as misinformation and tried to suppress it? I want an article from them that talks about how they're going to make sure that kind of thing never happens again.
The people of the metaverse
> This includes things like cost basis for RSUs, state and local taxes (including property tax), and various kinds of investment income.

Assuming the political will to make tax prep easy (which I know does not exist), the fix for this would be pretty simple for Congress to legislate. Sure, it would likely take a few years for all municipalities to come into compliance, but it's not like this would be difficult.

> On top of that, there are a lot of deductions that are based on information the IRS does not have, such as business expenses, moving expenses, etc. [..] The IRS still largely relies on self-reporting by taxpayers.

Sure, but there's no reason why the IRS couldn't have a website where everything it does know is pre-filled, and then could ask you about things they don't know about (and even hint at the kind of things that they wouldn't know).

> Anyone with a moderately complex tax situation (e.g. a homeowner, or someone with investment income) knows more about their tax situation than the IRS does!

Not really? My tax situation is probably "moderately complex": for 2021 I have W-2 income, contractor (1099-NEC) income, interest income, dividend income, capital gains through sales of stock, mutual funds, and bonds, RSU vesting, ESPP purchases and sales, required distributions from an inherited IRA, mortgage interest payments, charitable donations, and state, property, and estimated tax payments. I even have AMT credits I've been carrying forward and using for several years now. There is no reason, in principle, why the IRS could not be unambiguously and correctly notified of all of these things and prepare a return for me.

I hear a lot of "the IRS doesn't know X because Y isn't required to report X"... well... fix that! And I totally agree that the IRS won't know everything sometimes, especially sometimes things that would help lower someone's tax bill (like, say, deductions for business expenses). But there's nothing wrong with that; taxpayers can simply report those extra things during tax season, after doing a quick check to verify that everything the IRS does know is correct. Most other developed nations in the world have no problem with all this; the only thing that's "unique" about the US is our dysfunction.
It is always weird to me how some people see the dystopian aspects of dystopian fiction as inspiration. They will see cautionary tales about certain technology and respond by trying to build that technology. It is even more bizarre when these people will openly admit it and name their product something like "Soylent".
You should consider the fact that the person who tweeted it works at a for-profit company, and this tweet is generating a lot of publicity for the company (case in point, us being here around the top of HN). It's naive to think it's just some innocuous random thought.
I used freetaxusa last year after using turbotax previously. I found that the experience of using turbotax was more like giving my information to an accountant and having them prepare the forms, while freetaxusa was more like sitting there with an accountant explaining what each box means, while you fill out the forms yourself.

I'd say the turbotax approach was easier to fill out, but freetaxusa was much easier to look up additional information when the guidance fell short; when I wasn't sure how to fill out turbotax's questions, figuring out which box it applied to so I could look up more information was supremely frustrating.

Specifically, I was freelancing the previous two years, and I was looking up information about itemized deductions.
1. Tay-Sachs is not limited to a single ethnicity. Carriers exist in the population in general.

2. Assuming you’re referring to the fact that being a carrier is more common in Ashkenazi Jews, you’re aware that there are a number of genetic screening programs run by Jewish organizations, right?
Problem #1: Never mind the Metaverse, I bought an Oculus Quest and all I can say is one of Steve Jobs signature terms: "It's brain dead." Imagine you excitedly get your glasses charged up and turned on and then you are confronted with connecting to the wireless network, when you don't know how to work the controllers and finding the wireless setup is disorienting, especially since it's not clear what the buttons do so you don't even know how to select anything. It's ridiculous that this is your first very frustrating experience with VR.

Solution: Put a small panel on the outside like most printers have for connecting to the wireless or allow controlling the headset from a PC so you can use your normal mouse and keyboard (a phone would work too) to setup the device

Problem #2: My unit won't update. I am way behind on OS versions. I can connect to the internet and watch YouTube videos. I can get to the screen with an update button, but it just spins for days without doing anything. A google search reveals I am not the only one. It almost feels malicious, like Meta is trying to force me to buy a Quest 2 to get updated.

Solution: Allow a backup update process by connecting thru USB to a PC at least. I'm sure there are other OS update methods Meta could provide.

Problem #3: YouTube has 180 and 360 videos but they stopped working and only look good on a movie screen type billboard that no longer fills the view

Solution: This may be fixed if I can get the glasses to update

I'll wait until Apple or anyone else comes out with something because I'm excited by VR but I refuse to buy another Quest. I don't trust Meta to get it even close to right.
We embedded a web browser and wrote our UI in React for a previous VR project :)
So, given the last parenthetical statement of OP, I think I'd like to counter and ask folks here: why should I host my own mail server?
How long until evolution makes these nets less effective against the desired fish populations? It seems like a good way for fish genes to "notice" the net over time.
(We order our food online at a conventional grocery store every week but no 10 minute delivery.)

You cannot touch or smell the food before you buy it. You cannot pick your own based on that, or date (it has to be OK for 1 day after delivery day according to their own rules). But anything they don't deliver, anything which was rotten or otherwise over date we just mark as such, and get our money back. And sometimes we get extra stuff we did not order, which we then just share with our neighbors at times (one of our neighbors are meat eaters not into veggie stuff and we are more or less the opposite).

I think this dark store 10 min delivery stuff makes sense if you got a very busy or limited life. Double parent full time job, new born, covid quarantine. That kind of stuff. I suppose its expensive though. That said, I believe its very valuable to respect your neighbors as much as reasonable (e.g. newborns cry, sorry! -- been there). That includes businesses in citizen zoning. Maybe it should only be legal if a real person lives there?

There's also good reasons I don't live in Amsterdam but near it. This noise stuff is one of 'em. Amsterdam is too crowdy and expensive. I am within 30 minutes in Amsterdam Central Station with public transport (not that I go given covid...)
Starlink really makes the difference from even not so remote locations--such as my dad's house on coastal Maine--from being basically somewhere I could not work from to somewhere I could.
Google, Airbnb
That is incorrect. Without the DMCA, the company running a site is liable for everything on the site if it does any moderation at all, and they wouldn't just be ordered to remove content, the financial penalties would be massive. Yes, the DMCA is deeply flawed, but it was passed to solve real problems.
Poor instruction comes in many forms. To give you an example, my brother was hated by a 3rd grade teacher. She would be just a bit harsher with him. Objectively she wasn't teaching him that 1+1 = 5 or something like that, but she was definitely destroying his motivation for school.
As an older millennial I think I speak for my entire $CONSUMER_DEMOGRAPHIC when I say this ad sucked ass.
That's what I was taught in the Boy Scouts, over 40 years ago.
My first thought is "wasn't that called ISA?"

I can't help but be wary of anything Microsoft announces that's open source. Without engaging in MS-bashing, I always wonder what their motivation is. Then again, part of me wants to believe there's good, avid coders working there.
Non-Jewish French Canadians living near the St. Lawrence River and in the Cajun community of Louisiana also have a higher incidence of Tay-Sachs.

Traced back to a single particularly fecund Jewish ancestor I believe.
Google tells me "July 5, 1992" about this article, though it doesn't say why, and Google Groups spat me out with a wave of unusability after a few seconds of trying to search there.

Is there currently any good public way to search usenet archives?
It is important that people don't take this thing seriously.

As an undergraduate in physics, I sort of prided myself on being able to "derive things from scratch" which is the culture in physics, given profs gave tests with the formulae and physical constants so you never really had to memorize, you just needed to show your work. At the time, honestly, I looked down humanities and history and even bio students as they were just memorizers who didn't have a deep understanding of things.

When I went to graduate school, one of my best professors said he heard people amongst my cohort saying things like this, that physicists are good a deriving and are not memorizers, he made the joke that he thought that people saying this were doing so to weaken the competition, so to speak. The idea that any set of skills is not necessary to be a scientist just makes you a worse scientist than others who have those skills. At this point in life, I've learned that holding on to things like your MBTI scores as if it's your identity honestly just limits you. Like imagine saying, "I'm a python person, I'm not able to do ruby. It's against my personality," instead of it really being what it should be seen as, just another skill to learn or one your just haven't learned yet (or might not even want to!) Instead, saying "I use python in my daily work, I'm less familiar with ruby" makes more sense because that's how it is. So, ditto that with everything else honestly, I feel like people can have preferences and that's fine, like you can enjoy reading a book more than playing a video game with spatial reasoning, but limiting yourself to being a "math person" or a "people person" or a "reading person" is just that, limiting yourself.
Jealous. What tools do you use to find land for $1? Obviously these kinds of properties are specialty and not going to be posted on Zillow or something.
I've wondered the same thing so I looked it up.

The giraffe gestational period is approx. 15-22months and their newborns are approximately 180cm tall and 68kg.

I wasn't able to figure out what the actual bottle neck in growth rate was, but best I could figure it had something to do with the normal surface-area/volume thing and how it affects nutrient diffusion across the placenta.

If you look at Ancencelphy[0] and the development in artificial wombs[1] you can see that most of this work is simple engineering problems with the nerve reattachment being the only R&D stumbling block that remains.

I honestly think that we could solve this problem in less than 10 years if we approached it as it were a moonshot or a mRNA covid vaccine.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly
[1]https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-have-successfully-g...
What's the point of being a life-sized plush in that context? Why is it that you're both a human giving concerts and a toy to indicate directions to people passing by? Why include a scene about getting yourself trash-compacted in a state of anhedonia?

I'm completely likely to be more cynical than your average person out there since due to personal mental health issues, however none of the questions I just asked seem to have any connection at all with the blindly optimistic take you seem to be having.

Not to mention that Facebook already exists for the purpose you indicated and is even owned by the same people. Presumably Mr Dog Plushie could have had the chance to reconnect with old friends already there, yet instead he was about to literally trash himself and die. How is that not alarming as hell?
The Game Boy Camera was ahead of its time!

- The smallest consumer digital camera at the time. [1] For many, the very first digital camera they owned.

- It was going to be used in Perfect Dark to put your photo onto enemies. Unfortunately Columbine happened and these plans were nixed. [2]

- It was used as a photo and video feed for the N64DD talent studio, where you could edit videos, put your character model onto characters, and more. [3]

Nintendo is both ahead of its time and perpetually behind the curve. They take a lot of swings and sometimes hit big home runs.

[1] https://petapixel.com/2016/03/17/game-boy-camera-worlds-smal...

[2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/perfect-dark-game-boy-camera_...

[3] https://luigiblood.tumblr.com/post/629366910593712128/mario-...
FB could buy Second Life. I'm sure the investors who acquired it in 2020 would be delighted with a big payday.
The technical aspects of getting this done are pretty interesting, but I don't know why you'd do it. I'm not even sure I know what it does.

I do all my routing on my router. The cable modem is just the box that turns the square cable into the round cable.
Sorry to hijack you but I can’t help my curiosity.

Index: 1) a pointer 2) a structured collection of pointers
Indices: two or more pointers
Indexes: two or more structured collections of pointers

(Where “pointer” is used in a slightly generalized sense, like “reference”)

Yay or nay, pedants of HN?
The tech backlog just has to be justified among the technical contributors. Product is not involved at all.

The only place where there may be some crossover is “architectural runway” which works to ensure that your future goals are possible on the system that you have. This could mean that if you know you’re going to have a need to scale a system based on a near-future feature request from product that you put the work into the tech backlog to get things ready in advance.
3SoPA and Ubik are his two best books, and also the least likely to be made into movies because they are just so weird!
The main problem IMO with lemon laws and other "starve the beast" tactics is that in a lot of cases you basically condemn the offender into a negative spiral. This is fine for private enterprise where it's easy enough for new market entrants to take the place of old ones but it's a lot harder and more time-consuming to set up a well functioning school, and in the meantime you'll be doing a lot of collateral damage to children who are stuck there.

At least where I grew up and they tried shutting down failing schools, part of the issue was that the new schools that were set up would take less of a percentage of Special Ed or ELL students that are harder to accommodate for and teach, and so they would be left to drag down the schools marked as failing.
I agree. 40+ years of programming experience as well. I have learned the hard way that programming is a huge area and you will only experience a very small part of it even after 40+ years of experience. I have also learned the hard way that we are all different and think/learn differently. So what works well for you is not automatically likely to work well for anybody else. So I recommend trying out different ideas/styles/methods/languages until you learn what works best for you.
The world is going to be a Black Mirror episode one way or another. Here at META, our mission is to steer towards one of the more heartwarming ones.