skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that "Metaverse Twitter" is a thing, implying that even the people most religiously devoted to the metaverse are still using Twitter rather than a 3D metaverse space tells me all I need to know. It smacks of the old skeumorphism craze: why bother "migrating" to a virtual rendition of an obsolete part of meatspace when you could just use the novel solution for interaction that already works great in meatspace, and would be unchanged in the metaverse?
VR is just a stepping stone. AR glasses can't be far behind, and they're even more convenient than phones. Really the end game here has to be star trek style holodeck or matrix style dream state, at which point the company effectively controls your entire life.
No, they bought FriendFeed for that.
> What consumer will pay over $10 daily to access content that is free with ads?

I have a similar question to "what customer will still load ads". And the answer is probably anyone still using Google Chrome after they upgrade the manifest version to v4 and finally kill adblocking.
Identity politics is used in lieu of class conflict. For various reasons, the US does not perceive itself as having classes… difficult to foment a Revolution if the ‘proletariat’ all think they can grow up to be President someday (or at least a gazillionaire.)

It was determined that race might be a sufficient proxy. Time will tell.
You're correct, but, when approaching this from the human perspective, it's less about the technology and the reality and more about "do I have a record of the last state I asked the cluster to be in before I fucked it up?". Ultimately that's what matters. Auditability is great, but in practice, when the shit hits the fan, can I get the application that brings in our company's money, and our customers rely on to breath, back to the state it was after 5 years and 73 updates?

Updating the manifests, pushing them to version control and having CD deploy them encourages humans to "do the right thing".

It would be quite easy though to just tweak that one environment variable though while I patch in the new image version to update that one service; until the entire cluster dies and I can't retrieve the last definition and need an equivalent cluster up within the hour.

This is really more about the practice of writing down the state you want the cluster to be in (the spec) and showing it to the cluster, than just ordering it to do one thing without context.

In this sense, Declarative Vs Imperative is just a proxy term for "do I have a record of the state I asked the cluster to keep?"
There's no way to anonymize location data. Where does your phone spend the night plus where does your phone spend the weekday equals a unique identifier when cross-referenced with an address database.
I've given you my arguments, but you don't like them. And all your arguments are 'things have been done this way for centuries, let's keep the status quo as it is' and 'you cannot measure what I do'. Governments don't subsidise sectors, tax payers do. And you are saying we should keep giving money to those producing nothing, or something so valuable that can't be measured, because that is how we've been doing things so far. You should tell me why we should keep giving people money, not the other way around. Specially in the current situation where lots of people are really struggling.
The asymmetry is not in information but in the potential gains and losses. Even if the overall EV is lower than 1, it's about risking £100 for a potential £10000 or other much larger figure, 10x/100x/10000x.
Supposedly Mr. Trump asked about weather control when in office and supposedly was disappointed there was supposedly none.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/10/donald-trump...

The guardian's commentary tries to ridicule Trump but he makes sense.

If you can make tsunamis with bombs and can stop hail by bombing the clouds when they are still forming maybe there could be a way to stop/create hurricanes. No harm in asking.
For a long time, I've wanted an interactive Imagemagick interface that allows you to add/tweak flags and shows an immediate preview. The Imagemagick site has something sorta like this[0] but it's not very good.

My current workflow is to open the image in a viewer that automatically reloads on change, like feh or sxiv, and then in my terminal use <M-a> to run the command without clearing the command line.

[0]: https://magickstudio.imagemagick.org/scripts/MagickStudio.cg...
You saying that hurts Clarence Thomas feelings, in fact the majority of sexual-harassing court justices agree that everyone should STFU and let the court plot on how to undermine our republic and install a theocracy in peace, dagnabbit!
So fame creates value?
I've been using a similar system, only that I additionally append a random 5 digit number, so that if e.g. hilton-68425@domain.org gets leaked, that doesn't automatically make hyatt-95813@domain.org easy to guess. Though it does sound like something that might be possible to brute force.

Also, they feed into different subfolders of the same main address.

It definitely has caused some issues, but nothing that would make me regret choosing this system. Obviously the email gets stored in the password manager. And even if not, I just look at the existing emails and check their destination address.

Honestly, the most annoying part is the setup of new addresses. I might look into a way to automate that.

Although it is true that I have not caught a single company giving the email away, but it still helps me keep the inbox organized.
Let me guess. It's the 91st second that really really hurts.
Ah, I completely understand you, too high of a noise:info ratio. It was a redwing.

There's many paragraphs like these that bring nothing. I couldn't care less of what brand of car he drove or how early he was used to get up in the morning.

> Three days later, Hitchcox woke up at 3AM. He picked up Louis Bevier in his Prius, and they drove up Route 1A toward the coast, admiring the ascending sun peeking over Acadia National Park. Bevier observed a thin crescent moon, rising as well, as they made their way to Steuben".

Chris greeted the duo at his house at 7AM, pleasant and slightly begrudging that it was the earliest he’d woken up during the pandemic. Despite his high spirits, he was nervous about bothering the locals. So they treaded lightly, so as to not upset Chris’ neighbors before he’d even met them. “We were three dudes walking around where there’s not usually three dudes walking around,” Chris says.
Another question over here:

Did you fallow a sociotechnical approach? What school if any?

What about the economics and political things I can found there? Did you think about how this game could work as capitalism? Socialism? Cooperative factory? Having an union among the workers? Having a legislation about protecting industries of something?

What about events like the current container crisis? Or the lack of labor?
Don’t all of those things come under the “location services” permission?
The concept of this would be incredibly useful...I use FFmpeg every few weeks, which is not often enough to remember all the commands I need.

But the execution here is a bit lacking. This only lets you input basically 10 parameters.

If this were to be expanded to include all FFmpeg params, it would be INCREDIBLY useful.
Maybe it is a cultural thing.

Zoom mediates almost all meetings at my company. We went full-remote in 2020, and are now heavily international.

Screen sharing is heavily used, but nobody uses cameras except for presentations.

Even aside from our work norms, I have a strong preference for voice-only realtime comms. Video just doesn't add value to me.
I have seen many bad abuses of the NFL theorem's name.

This is by far the worst.
I also only interviewed for 100% remote positions at startups, mostly doing fairly common React/Rails kinds of stuff so we might have been targeting different markets.

In any case if you're financially in a position that you can work on whatever you want it sounds like things might have worked out for the best despite the unpleasant interviewing experiences?
Reddit actually has typing indicators now. "2 people are typing" it says when you make a top level comment.

(They removed a bunch of features from "Old Reddit" that I liked, so I gave in and use "New Reddit" now. Sigh.)
> To pitch it, he submits a proposal for organizing scientific documents to his employers titled “Information Management, a Proposal.”

If this is going to be the opening item then it would be nice to at least have a blurb about predecessor ideas. Tim Berners-Lee's "Information Management: A Proposal" cites Ted Nelson for the concepts behind "Hypertext" and the "docuverse". Nelson was directly inspired by Vannevar Bush and the idea of the Memex as presented in "As We May Think".

Bush had his own influences, of course, like the Statistical Machine, but it's a huge miss to not go back at least this far considering the US Government's role in building the actual ARPANET/Internet. Bush was director of OSRD / S-1 Executive Committee at the time of "As We May Think", so there's a direct link of influence between the eventual World Wide Web concept and that of the network itself.

https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

https://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1_Executive_Committee
Don't really care about stupidly drafted privacy laws being violated. They do nothing for me.
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Julia is presented like this —

“Julia features optional typing, multiple dispatch, and good performance, achieved using type inference and just-in-time (JIT) compilation, implemented using LLVM.”

Julia 1.7 Documentation, Introduction

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/
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That works in America and the UK because there are already large immigrant communities for you to arrive into. If you arrive in Japan speaking Spanish or Hindi today, how's that going to go?

It's not impossible, but it would take a lot of time and Japanese culture isn't exactly known for xenophilia.
Look out people, the Propriety Police are raiding the party!
I also enjoyed the phrasing:

> To begin with, the ionosphere’s composition changes most drastically at night, primarily because, of course, the Sun goes missing for a bit.

I can imagine Bertie Wooster saying this.
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Yep. Something like a masters is different, which explicitly is about not continuing in academic research. In contrast, the number of folks going on to a phd with one of their potential outcomes being a professorship is probably closer to 97% end or say 30-50% when the numbers get revealed, than the current 3% end.
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Damn, the Republicans are really getting their bang for Trump's buck with this Supreme Court.
Countries are for the most part better without them. Any country that is willing to bend to the wills of a powerful minority (the obscenly wealthy) is just performing corruption or a kind of nobility with extra steps.
You can’t agree to something illegal. If the law makes it illegal for third parties to use location data then it doesn’t matter what the TOS are.
Been using on iOS for a few months now. I enjoy using Orion because it actually gives the user options and imo fixes the issues I had with the Safari redesign. Love that it’s fast and intuitive.

One thing I don’t like is that there’s no option to never save history (like the DDG app)

Any chance that could be added soon?
You said the tool is available _today_ though. It's not. Of course on some other day when inflation is not out of control it would be available, but not today.
Great, that's a nice option.
vs. Map vs. Generator vs. Scheduler vs. Unrolled-loop vs. ...
This is my response every time someone mentions metaverse as a new idea. Metaverses are awesome. I play one every time I play a video game, especially WoW back in the day. I don’t need some crap strapped to my face. A tv or monitor and the human sensory system works just fine. When I played Elden Ring recently for 300+ hours I was in that world, just as deeply as someone with annoying crap strapped to their head.

It’s just easier to get gullible investors to invest in your metaverse VR idea due to Gartner hype cycle rules, which are currently at Peak of Inflated Expectations.

> “the metaverse” can include virtual reality—characterized by persistent virtual worlds that continue to exist even when you're not playing—as well as augmented reality that combines aspects of the digital and physical worlds.
> asking [neural networks] to explain themselves using their own capabilities

Exactly. This could be profound. I'm looking forward to further work here. Sure, the examples here are daft, but developing this approach could be like understanding a talking lion [0] only this time it's a lion of our making.

[0] https://tzal.org/understanding-the-lion-the-in-joke-of-psych...
We build Taxi (https://taxilang.org), which is the type system for APIs, and then Vyne (https://vyne.co) which uses that types to automate all the plumbing.

It's pretty close to what's being described here, and removes the boilerplate in API orchestration.
Great literature, for the most part, is Great only because a selector group of taste-makers has said it’s Great.
our realization is that we don't really have laws to cover this. insider trading is exclusively a securities law violation, which requires securities to have been traded. the NFTs in question are not securities and the actions around them are not being prosecuted as such. the remaining laws the prosecutors came up with are such a stretch that it seems like a waste of public resources, although "wire fraud" is sufficiently broad enough it may still be either kind of weak, or, not the expansion we want.

Case in point, "wire fraud" is typically a tacked on charge, in addition to another charge. and "money laundering" is also a tacked on charge, that requires an illicit origin, not just the action of obfuscation or movement of money. So they have to tie a couple things together solely because "we don't like what happened", but it may be the wrong authority to deal consequence.

It has nothing to do with a public understanding or a legal understanding of insider trading, because that's not what he was charged with, despite his trades being the catalyst for this indictment. semantics, but relevant semantics. you can insider trade everything except securities. you can have a market advantage on spot commodities, real estate, trading cards, you name it. but yes its typically a form of fraud when you can be proven to have created more demand than was really there + trading on that + when your employer has entrusted you not to do that. there are many circumstances where this would all be a non-case.
The Supreme Court is only political when its decisions favor the left. When their decisions favor the right, they're obviously just interpreting the constitution as the founding fathers intended.
Try talk[1] some time -- it's a live connection to the other user's TTY, so they see everything you type, typos and all. You can't even type simultaneously, since the messages would intermingle; you need to wait for the other person to signal that they're finished.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)
Have to say, disagree with every single point. It also feels poorly argued. The example about not being able to log into grubhub stuck out to me within 20 seconds of reading. He says he uses a password manager, then says he has to navigate many accounts while trying to login. Any sane password manager is not simply a list of emails and passwords, but also the SITES they BELONG to. This can't have happened the way he describes it.

Also, in particular, I can't understand the social awkwardness. I don't see how the interactions he has described are awkward in any way. OK, once in a while you have to explain yourself. Sometimes you might have a laugh about it. 95% of the time you just repeat yourself and move on. There's nothing awkward here. Unless he's using a different definition of awkward, as well as social.
No worries, I was a light hearted rebuttal!

I always found the firstname@lastname.com to confuse people far more than the name itself. I often get questions like "is that at gmail.com or hotmail.com or...?"
Must be nice to retire a billionaire, making money off of other people's data, and getting out when the writing's on the wall.
this is the correct answer. Everything from FB so far has been a huge PR campaign to make it seem as if they aren't a data mining company that hoards as much data as possible to serve ads. Most people are being fooled and FB is going the extra mile to distance themselves from their old image to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
Enjoy your EDGE phone.
This info is anonymized and barring extreme measures you can’t be identified individually in a data set. It’s sold with very specific usage rights, and for advertising uses a cpm (cost per thousand) fee. You can’t ever buy the data set, but just the ability to target users who exist in it.

For example Visa has an exclusive deal with oracle. So only oracle can buy audiences with visa data, and visa has super strict requirements and only builds them in house. If you say “I want users who purchased x product” the size must be 5mm users minimum (I think) and visa models it up using lookalikes/etc to 20mm+ users (maybe slightly off on sizes). Then it’s like $4 cpm to use at a dsp. Brands/agencies etc have to go through oracle to get visa data.
> Boost-phase interceptors would be big expensive weapons systems

Not very big actually, not if the interceptors are placed in LEO. They're a hell of a lot smaller and cheaper than the missiles they're meant to intercept. The kill vehicles themselves are only a few kilograms, very small and light weight. For such light-weight interceptors positioned in LEO, you don't need much booster to get the job done. You can get away with a booster much smaller than an SM-3.

> Because they have only a few minutes to hit before the target deploys the payload, they would have to expend lots of delta-v to guarantee intercept

The more you have, the less delta-v they need. That's why Brilliant Pebbles proposed thousands if not tens of thousands of them. Launching such a huge number of interceptors would be possible with Falcon 9, but Starship would be much better at it.

> Maybe China decides to take Taiwan

Maybe they would, but they would have to be insane to start a symmetric war with America itself. And that's the whole point.

> Deploying such large-scale missile defense systems would be obvious to everyone.

If you've been paying attention, you'll have noticed that China and Russia haven't been very secret about their interest in countering Starlink. It's not because they're afraid the US might give uncensorable internet to Chinese and Russian people, as I've seen some on HN speculate. They obviously perceive the strategic threat already. Besides starting the war first, there's not a whole lot they can do about it. If they start the war first, start it now, they'll probably kill a lot more Americans than if they wait and do it later. But that doesn't matter because they'd still all die, so they aren't going to do it. Neither China nor Russia has a BMD system that could prevent America from killing them all.
In other words, it has syntactic sugar for lifting a projection into the list functor. Aka fmap.

Also, the "x of every y whose z is w" is a list comprehension :)
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> In most discussion apps that show your typing status, you feel pressure to wait for your peers to finish typing and sending a message before typing one yourself.

> wait for those above them to speak up first

Do others think of these as universal rules? Common? Situational? Non-existent?

Reading the OP, I fear I don't know the rules at all. I've participated in online forums in every medium and for a long time, and never thought about these. Maybe I've been disruptive or rude without realizing it. :(
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I've been doing this for 5 years and while I agree that leaks are rare, it has been only smooth sailing.

I use thunderbird with an addon that automatically sets the responding email address, and have a script called "email" that generates a random address (no prefix or anything) and puts it in my clipboard. If I want to k ow what I used an email for, I can find it in my password manager or by checking from where that address first got mail.

Signing things up in person, I just use human-randomly generated strings.

In short: I have none of the problems the author has...
Uber has a blog post about using a hybrid static column/array approach for log files that might be similar to your use case (they replaced Elasticsearch installations) https://eng.uber.com/logging/