skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That image of metaverse has become iconic and is used as a very powerful tool of telling the story of how metaverse is failing and I wonder if Zuckerberg will ever be able to fix the damage. What He was thinking?

TBH, I never tried VR and when I intended to try VR as I hear good things about Half Life: Alyx I was not able to find a VR centre close to me that has not failed yet. The few I found, all gone.

I also have been reading from VR advocates about how it can actually be nice for working because you can have very large view field, as if using multiple large monitors in a distraction-free environment.

However for me VR has become this picture of Zuk and I bet I'm not alone because it is so iconic and icons assume the functions of the actual thing in the absence of it. Maybe they shouldn't have been promoting Metaverse to people who don't have the equipment and can't give it a fair go.
I think it would make for a good investigation for the Innocence Project

But I’m not even sure how a new suspect would be caught

Even the most obvious cases seem to rely on someone else confessing, often times after that someone else is in prison for something else
> I think an assumption underlying this comment is that people are grading the accuracy of futurist gurus in order to give those gurus helpful feedback.

No, my assumption is that the author is interested in understanding what contributes to good vs bad predictions, and how credible long range predictions are.

The author points out factors such as whether the predictor appears to learn from past prediction errors, whether they have a deep expertise in the area they're making a prediction about, whether they depend on extrapolating exponential trends etc. I am guessing that "Do they sell a lot of popular press books?" and "Do they receive performance based compensation from an organization invested in the domain under discussion?" are at least as important explanatory factors as the ones the author explicitly discusses.
I clicked through to your website and I didn't sign up, but I did watch the video on the front page.

What's the intended usecase for creating AI content other than blogspam-style bait and switch? Shouldn't these businesses already have content of their own?

It would make more sense to me if your product was aimed at helping websites SEO-optimize the content they already have, as I can't see how a human would ever find your AI-written content useful.
‘Clairvoyant’ 2012 climate report warned of extreme weather
Have you looked at the xbox accessibility buttons/hardware? It might be useful for working on fitting various needs to go with the phone.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap...
I made my own version of this my my dice company a while back on Facebook messenger (linked to our company site). It was great to see the inserts we did with the product getting used and people going on adventures linked to the different sets. I don't know that it actually drove any sales, but it was a labor of love that I still remember fondly.
They seem well aware that most people don't want to play the multiplayer of most of these games, as they've previously discussed most people buying Starcraft games for the campaigns.

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter what people want to play, but what they think will make the most money. People have gotten really good at extracting money from online games. Although, Blizzard has had its failures there (see Diablo 3 auction house).
Ah got it, that seems wise
Millenial Farmer on youtube illustrates this pretty great. I watched an entire year of videos from planting to harvest time and all that was involved tech-wise was pretty interesting...along with his frustrations with John Deere.

https://www.youtube.com/c/MNMillennialFarmer
That might be a good way of putting it. I think also that the question to me implied a cynicism about how people can be curious and creative while also being scientific, but the original commenter has already clarified they did not intend this interpretation at all
The problem is if you don't consider a rewrite at some point, you're just as likely to have some other product come along developed elsewhere that isn't held back by the constraints of your own and steal your market share.

I don't doubt a lot of rewrites end up being disasters, because insufficient attention is paid to the actual problems being solved by the warts and bits of chewing gum and baling wire in an existing codebase. And potentially because they're simply not done in a way that confers sufficient advantages over sticking with the existing codebase. But I can think of many cases where I ended up spending longer dealing with the consequences of the poor design of existing code than it would have taken me to rewrite it properly from scratch. Hindsight being 20/20 of course.
Also check out Grim Dawn. Feels a bit less cartoony than Torchlight which I appreciated, and has a lot of nice solutions for quality of life problems from D2.
Will Australian declare a war to kangaroos?
The 90s was a really weird time. One school that was ”richer” would have bought early Macs and still be using them, whereas a poorer school wouldn’t have been able to buy until the time of the iMac and handily defeat the older machines.
Mostly yes, but my two most successful dating relationships (both met on OKC!) while on said island were long-distance. So not exclusively.

Mostly I'd like the ability to signal to the algorithm "I'm willing to consider relocating to these particular places if I meet someone who lives there."
It is though their recent direction is concerning. I quit this league within a week or two. Don't really want to unpack all the drama here and the game is still very good, I just need to wait and see what they do next time around.
I wish I could delete my FB account. I only keep it around to manage app social logins and keep in touch with a few family members who haven't gone to Telegram yet.
There are many different types of income. While wages, salary, and general compensation for services (called "earnings") are often the main sources of income for individuals, they aren't the only sources. There's also interest, regular dividends, rental income, distributions from pensions or retirement accounts, and Social Security benefits. Equifax collets this data with the cooperation of employers.

Equifax also relies on employers to report data to them, so if your employer doesn't, then the existence of the Work Number is irrelevant. In the era of ubiquitous side gigs where people get paid as contingency workers rather than wages or salaries by the company, you run into issues relying on the Work Number, even before factoring in all the other types of income.
Fiduciary responsibility is not an alternate universe. Neither are ethics rules. Publicly traded companies have many rules they need to follow, and executives & board members can face suits & fines for breaking them
old.reddit is the only usable version of reddit. Without that, I'd just stop using reddit entirely.
Kinda tangential, but I still can't believe there are "Modern" CMake books hundreds of pages long. I still end up using it sometimes, but I have no confidence in the rules I write, specially when compared to good old Visual Studio solutions or my favorite tool which is Premake.
I also think it’s really funny to have Sol LeWitt on there because he sort of pioneered the idea of translating text instructions to art. He’s probably the first person to explore the idea of diffusion through a neural network (art history experts feel free to correct me here).
Okay that solves the First Amendment part, in your view (Citizens United is an example of ruling that transactions are speech, alongside its view that Corporations are afforded these protections)

It doesn't solve Congress’ mandate to the Treasury where OFAC is used against entities that can appeal their own listing on the sanctions list. The smart contracts cannot currently do that.
The D2 community is small but very vocal. Truth is, if the community got to design a game it would be absolutely horrible. They basically want to design a slot machine that you have to pull 5,000, so that you can then compare against other people who have also pulled the same slot machine 5,000 times. You get cred for both having pulled the slot machine the most times, as well as the least times, before getting a jackpot. But the jackpot isn't that impressive. It's like playing free slots for days on end to win $5 in virtual currency.

That's the Diablo 2 experience that the fanbase wants.
Promote some of the best engineers in the group to staff engineers (or try to recruit them but that could be very costly) and let them work on overarching issues in coop with your existing devops and engineering teams.

To grasp staff engineering as a manager (or a potential staff engineer) this is probably the best (and only?) resource around => https://staffeng.com/
No, I was talking in the context of the discussion thread. Everyone being an artist isn't a problem.

But when communities are flooded with cheap-to-make art - even if the art is pretty good - the community becomes a worse place to be.
I don't think there's anything normal about someone who has 25Gbit at home.
Arent all the best/popular apps free these days? I have no data to back this up, but in my experience people have gotten less willing to pay money for an app than when the app stores launched (presumably because everyone is used to "free" apps that you pay with your data to use).
No, Teller is more of a competitor to Plaid (https://plaid.com/). Plaid offers an API to perform a variety of actions with existing banks, and charges through the wazoo for it as a middleware.

Column is an actual bank, and offers exhaustive developer-first APIs. I suspect you can do a lot of things with them you cannot do with Plaid, and at highly reduced cost comparatively. Increase doesn't seem to be a bank but is a much lower-level API than Plaid and allows things like opening accounts, FWICT.

BTW, bunq (https://www.bunq.com/) is a cool nl-based bank which offers an incredibly in-depth API. But I would not call it dev-centric, the DX is awful.
Found the most useful question to ask people about the future is not what will change, but the things they don’t believe will change that currently impact the most people both today and in the future.

For example: all people will eventually die, both today and 50 years from; Earth’s climate will increasingly get warmer; etc.

By collecting enough of these types of predictions, future becomes much more clear than attempting to predict what will change.
> If speaking magic spells aloud caused flesh-eating demons to be summoned into our prime material plane, you wouldn't be allowed to speak magic spells, either.

Yes? This is entirely reasonable if we analogize it to how fiction often approaches it. There might be some evil book, a necronomicon, or killing spells like in Harry Potter. In many fictional media, people are allowed to learn such spells, they're just not allowed to say the spells out loud. Reading and writing a spell is not the same as saying it and thereby executing it.
A lot of people are driving on it, too. I'm seeing a record number of red lights being run in Manhattan of all places. General disorder or correlation?
Except "neobanks" legally not allowed to call themselves banks because they aren't banks. They are white-label service on top of someone who provides a banking API, and those usually sit on top of someone who provides them with some other API. There are like 3.5 real banks with "public" API that have bank chapter, if not less.

Like this Increase, "build your own bank", but themselves it isn't a bank. It's just an API to their partner banks.
I think you may be on to something however - but we do still say “I’m going to drive the El Camino down to the El Camino Real.”
I don't eat goat meat, but love brisket. Doesn't that make me an antimeat vegan?
I've always found that going heavy with bike lanes in design removes a large share of the issue around traffic management in Skylines. If I don't feel like getting overly complex in designing for the traffic management, the bike lanes tend to relieve enough of the pressure that it isn't much of an issue.
Okay so the registrar and github and others should all come back up

Everyone was being paranoid about assisting a sanctioned somebody
They extended the option exercise period to 5 years
Grim Dawn is also great, though you'll only be able to squeeze a few hundred hours of greatness compared to the thousands of hours of greatness you can get out of PoE.
The difference of course is that TikTok's suggested content is generally relevant.

My entire suggested feed relates to US politics. I keep getting suggestions for Second Amendment groups, "Stand your Ground" groups, pro life groups, "Isn't she beautiful" (a gun lobby group), "Texans for God" and so on. I'm Australian. I guess this is what I get for doing an occasional checkin at a place named Texas BBQ.
The original is very old and out of print. But he produced an updated version, The Incredible Secret Money Machine II.

The original is only dated in the specific mechanisms he talks about in terms of getting licenses and such. And he wrote it before the internet existed. The principles are timeless, though. You can ignore the dated stuff.

The one caveat to the book is that he's talking about making a sole proprietorship, not a SV style startup. But the basic principles he talks about hold true for most forms of business.
The market (S&P 500 futures) dropped 2.5% in one minute this morning. That minute was 8:30 eastern time, which is the exact time that the CPI numbers were released. In this case, the selling is directly attributable to the CPI data released this morning.

I agree that the news headline narrative for market gains/sell offs aren’t always necessarily related, but today it definitely was.
> estimate how much disk was needed to store Google's search index

1 googol!
watching my son learn to program by watching youtube videos and replicating what he sees... honestly you want todays kids to be big fans of godot.. do more LOTS more youtube videos on how to do various different "things" in godot.

if you build them they will come (and watch them).
Lots of people agree Torchlight 3 is a no-go. 1 and 2 are relatively good if slow (save for certain builds)
Nobody is saying that, they’re saying the correct authority has to enforce the illegal action. The treasury and its OFAC list is not.
This is a bunch of disingenuous, guilt-by-association, kafka-esque nonsense.

For instance, defending someone against the charge of white supremacy is clearly not the same thing as defending white supremacists.

That neither you nor the article you linked bothered to acknowledge that distinction is quite damning of your ability to think critically.
With wget you can also download the files into a directory.[1]. Then you can just point your web-browser at the file path.

1. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/downloading-entire-web-...
They're technically not forced multiplayer (though they're intended to be played as such), but games like Journey and Death Stranding seem to show that limiting actual interaction between players can really foster positive qualities in people.
Yeah, awesome way to sum it up. I think I'm suffering from the nearsightedness of someone who now lives many decades after the 1970s.
Unpredictable Reward, Predictable Happiness
> it would make monitoring American activity on these blockchains outside of the scope of domestic agencies and spy agencies would not be legally able to spy on American activities on these blockchains.

I am genuinely not sure, is it still "spying" if the information is public for anyone and everyone to see? If I publish an attested list of my daily foreign transactions on my blog, I don't see why the government can't use that to prosecute me just because the website may be hosted offshore without it being considered "spying".
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I don't find that insulting. It's wonderful for you.

What I find insulting is saying that calling GEB trippy is an insult. It's genuinely trippy and there's nothing wrong with that.
That’s not right: you can even run the code as long as you don’t transact with the sanctioned parties. Matt Green could run a copy for his students to study as long as they don’t allow transactions which violate the sanctions laws, similar to how I can teach you to pick locks and practice but still expect legal consequences if I pick the locks at some stranger’s house.
I just said its a waste of thier time. I didnt say they were stupid. You know how many devs have been deprecated in the past year? Millions. Tommorow there will be more, its just how the tools chain swings.
What? The point is to make a t-shirt that triggers CDS in Photoshop. Without Photoshop the whole point is lost. This is not about protecting anyone, privacy or anything useful at all. It's a gimmick and a fun hack.
D3 got a lot better after the auction house was removed.
> None of these are applicable: In any megapolis that people flock to, property prices skyrocket

In New York City the price-to-income-ratio is still under 10. Chinese cities are severely overpriced.
>all people will eventually die, both today and 50 years from

I wouldn't be so sure--would you also be confident about 100 years from now? 500?
The "local exponential increase will continue forever" is the normal bad forecasting bit. It's everything else about the Singularity belief system that looks like religious millennialism and fits the same niche:
projections based on the appeal of culturally significant stories rather than actual developments, the certainty the dramatic change will happen in the near future to people like them as a result of powerful forces called by people like them, the near future technology being sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from magic, the insistence this is a path to immortality or terrible destruction but nothing more modest, even sometimes the insistence there's something profoundly immoral about not believing in it.
I wonder what this means for Gatling (the load testing tool)?

Gatling achieves it's relative low-overhead characteristics (compared to a naive approach like JMeter's) by leveraging Akka. Does this mean Akka lawyers will be coming for Gatling customers, or will they go after a slice of Gatling's pie?

Either way, hopefully someone will reproduce the Gatling functionality on the JVM using the Loom programming model. Then we can wait a few years and start the whole dance again.

I don't have a workable solution to propose. I guess I'll just quietly polish my dancing shoes and get ready for the next song.
> Twitter's crappy security is not remotely exceptional

Uh, no. If Mudge's accusations are true, that would speak to exceptionally bad security. Not compared to Joe's Diner around the corner, but certainly for a major player in the tech market.
> The legal teams of the Crypto world basically have to convince the Supreme Court that the Executive does not have the right to engage in economic foreign policy.

One easy argument is that there is no way to prove that Tornado Cash contracts are foreign assets at all. Ethereum nodes do not know which node - or its geographical placement - saw the deployment transaction first. So it is just as easily deployed from the United States and operates from the United States most of the time, or simultaneously all the time, as all nodes execute the updates states (or Tornado Cash and every contract) and many/most are in the US.

The US has other enforcement tools. OFAC here wasn't it.
> People are dying at rates well outside historical norms. Things have causes. What is the cause of people dying more?

I suspect it's your preexisting bias that makes you assume it's vaccines vs any vast number of other possible explanations. The point is, that we don't know what is driving these deaths. Research should be done, and if evidence turns up which suggests it's more likely vaccines than most other possibilities then sure it'd make sense to say vaccines may be the cause. Do you really think we have enough evidence pointing to vaccines being the cause right now? If so, where is it?

Until we have more answers it's impossible to say what the cause is, but what we do know and have evidence for is that Covid has become extremely (and unnecessarily) politicized, that data on the number of cases and deaths have been being interfered with by government officials, that there is a very strong economic incentive to get people to act in ways that could cause them to get infected, and that people who have been careful are growing tired of the restrictions being safe puts on them as well. We absolutely should expect uncertainty in the number of cases and deaths we see reported, and that could result in some amount of increase in excess deaths. So could complications not directly attributed to the virus, but caused by it still.

We've also got a whole lot of people these days drinking poisoned water and people who don't even have drinkable water. I can't even keep track of the all the cities that are under boil water orders. We've got people without power. We've got areas of the country flooding, other areas that on fire, people living in extreme poverty (including those who lost their job due to lockdowns or their ability to work because of long covid or their household income due to illness or deaths).

It seems like if there's one thing we're going to have to start getting used to it's increasing amounts of death. With so many causes throwing their contributions into the mix it's going to take time to sort it all out and we'll have to do it in an environment where at least some of the data is being manipulated and many people have their egos wrapped up in "taking sides".

Personally, I accepted the possibility that the vaccines could have terrible effects down the road (it was clear enough that there were no major issues in the short term) and I came to terms with that ages ago. If it does start to look like the vaccines have done some great harm then at least I can say that the choice to get vaccinated was easily the best that could be made with the information I had at the time. Sometimes you can make the right choice and still end up screwed when new information is discovered. I'm still hoping that doesn't turn out to be the case here, but if it is there's no point in denying it. Pretending it isn't true if it is would only make it harder to try to fix it (if that's even possible).