skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Financially, I moved from the EU to South East Asia, decreasing cost of living by 70-80%. Additionally, just before I moved I was able to get a position with a 50% increase in pay. I'm saving a lot of money here, and locally am investing it into quite a few ventures which would continue to exist if the worlds economy would go south.

Mentally & physically, I am taking beatings, right and left, every day, doing martial arts, a lot of running and swimming. I think, when the hard times come around, I'll be conditioned enough by always being tired and sore, that its just going to be a walk in the park. Anxiety wise.... since I moved here, and started doing all these things, its the first period in my life where I feel almost completely anxiety free.
Dumb question: are wormholes real, or are they just a theoretical speculation that science fiction latches on to in order to explain/justify long distance space travel?
Hackers drain $100M off Solana-based DeFi platform Mango Markets
This time it's one of Solana's largest DeFi protocols. Are these guys asleep at the wheel? I wonder if these hacks can ever be fully prevented.
'The worst is yet to come' for the global economy, IMF warns
If it was reasonably priced I would buy this product.
Oops, luckily the Internet Archive managed to catch it: https://web.archive.org/web/20220402052406/https://www.youtu...
I am not aware of a common issue like that but D has bugs.

Not an error I suppose, but doesn't fill me with confidence nonetheless.

$ dub test
No source files found in configuration 'library'. Falling back to "dub -b unittest".
Performing "unittest" build using /home/lewis/dlang/dmd-2.100.2/linux/bin64/dmd for x86_64.
myproject ~master: building configuration "application"...
Linking...
Running myproject
Hello world!
(dmd-2.100.2)[lewis@lightgrey myproject]$ micro source/app.d
(dmd-2.100.2)[lewis@lightgrey myproject]$ dub test
No source files found in configuration 'library'. Falling back to "dub -b unittest".
Performing "unittest" build using /home/lewis/dlang/dmd-2.100.2/linux/bin64/dmd for x86_64.
myproject ~master: building configuration "application"...
Linking...
Running myproject
core.exception.AssertError@source/app.d(9): unittest failure
----------------
??:? _d_unittestp [0x555fe0e339b1]
source/app.d:9 void app.__unittest_L8_C1() [0x555fe0e328b8]
??:? void app.__modtest() [0x555fe0e33888]
??:? int core.runtime.runModuleUnitTests().__foreachbody6(object.ModuleInfo) [0x555fe0e3d9c2]
??:? int object.ModuleInfo.opApply(scope int delegate(object.ModuleInfo)).__lambda2(immutable(object.ModuleInfo)) [0x555fe0e3b88f]
??:? int rt.minfo.moduleinfos_apply(scope int delegate(immutable(object.ModuleInfo))).__foreachbody2(ref rt.sections_elf_shared.DSO) [0x555fe0e42a83]
??:? int rt.sections_elf_shared.DSO.opApply(scope int delegate(ref rt.sections_elf_shared.DSO)) [0x555fe0e42f5b]
??:? int rt.minfo.moduleinfos_apply(scope int delegate(immutable(object.ModuleInfo))) [0x555fe0e42a11]
??:? int object.ModuleInfo.opApply(scope int delegate(object.ModuleInfo)) [0x555fe0e3b861]
??:? runModuleUnitTests [0x555fe0e3d80e]
??:? void rt.dmain2._d_run_main2(char[][], ulong, extern (C) int function(char[][])).runAll() [0x555fe0e342d8]
??:? void rt.dmain2._d_run_main2(char[][], ulong, extern (C) int function(char[][])).tryExec(scope void delegate()) [0x555fe0e34265]
??:? _d_run_main2 [0x555fe0e341ce]
??:? _d_run_main [0x555fe0e33f97]
/home/lewis/dlang/dmd-2.100.2/linux/bin64/../../src/druntime/import/core/internal/entrypoint.d:29 main [0x555fe0e328dd]
??:? __libc_start_main [0x7f1a0be25e09]
../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:120 _start [0x555fe0e327c9]
1/1 modules FAILED unittests
Program exited with code 1
You're not the only one. It's just that there is a massive industry teaching people that effective communication and active listening involves staring into peoples eyes and giving constant affirmation with noise that they are being listened to. Something that in other cultures can be considered highly offensive and rude by the way.

So no, you're not the only one, but unfortunately, you, just like me, are a silent minority. Although in some of my previous engagements building efficient highly distributed teams have spent a lot of time teaching people to work asynchronously. Which made the few time limited calls extremely effective.
I don't doubt that your experience is valid, but it's not everyone's.

For instance, I use the old busted Quest 2 headset every single day, and I don't get any nausea, or neck soreness. (I do definitely get the sweaty head, though. Largely because I use a boxing exercise app with it, which gets really sweaty, but in non-exertion use cases, too. (I also tend to sweat in hats and over-ear headphones.)

The sweat problem will gradually get better over time, as headsets get lighter and more breathable.

Unlike a lot of VR enthusiasts, though, my own interest is almost exlcusively in replicated an expansive, multi-monitor setup for sofware engineering.

Why? I have an XXL desk from GeekDesk with 3 large high-res monitors. It's fantastically productive. So much so that it makes working on a laptop, or even a desktop with only 1 monitor, super annoying.

But I want to be able to take that workspace with me.

(Even to work; I work at home mainly and when I do go into the office and get stuck with a single busted-ass low-res 4K display, it sucks. But I want to take my workspace other places, too.)

I'll put up with some minor annoyances, like sweat, to be able to do that. In your case, it sounds like they will need to solve more problems to make it usable — or you might just decide to stick with a real desk and monitors, and that portability isn't worth the tradeoffs.
Nikon Small World microscopy contest 2022
Seems rather expensive for a browser add on.

As an arbitrary comparison, one could get Microsoft Office
for the same price.
How will this be resistant to scams where you "refer a friend" to get free Uber Eats or Doordash or whatever?
The article states that it’s spread over 20 states, which I think is an important caveat to note. Not that it isn’t still a large sum of money, but that it’s a far smaller sum in any given location.

Especially important to note because my original comment was in reply to someone claiming that cities had burned to the ground.

It’s an overstated claim that functions as a dog whistle.
VRChat has had a Quest app for a while. It has limits on avatar/world complexity because of the limited processing power, but is otherwise an identical experience, including plenty of cross-platform avatars and worlds.
It has not been established. It’s just interesting and popular to play with.

For one thing, our universe is not an anti-deSitter space, and the attempts to move the AdS models to flat space have not been successful, so far.

If you have a reference showing that the holographic “principle” conforms to objective reality, please post it.
I have built 3 spec-houses without a building background. I did it by managing sub-contracts. I learned a lot about such work by filling the gaps between one sub-contract and the next. By far the most important source of info was bookstores. Books like the HP or the Sunset lines were a tremendous help. Mostly I'm talking about 1/4 inch thick books in large format focusing on a single trade. I could not have done what I did without them. In my opinion there is too much information for a practical website.
We do LEAN and “agile” where I am now, and if you can’t explain how your work makes it saves money you’ll be gotten up to speed on that quickly. Our business folks are very sharp and focused, and tech tries to match that, in a good way.
The main sticking point for me is that my real desktop/workspace has much better privacy than these new virtual ones
Can you name a country where an actually observably valid election takes place?

And by this I mean an election where, somehow, an individual would be able to see their individual ballot make it from wherever they cast it, to the counter, and could see how their specific ballot impacted/didn't impact the broader vote, and where (again, somehow) there was proof that no artificial or false votes were cast in the name of citizens who either don't exist or didn't participate.

Even if there was a livestrem of the vote counting, that would mean nothing if we didn't see every step of transportation for every single vote from the ballot box to the counters office.

A truly observably fair election is practically impossible if you mean to have any significant number of voters.
I'm responding to your other claim further down that got downvoted into oblivion with no responses, and therefore no explanation. You are quite wrong, but you deserve to know why.

"It's basic school knowledge that any population will recover, as long as you have a couple organisms left who can reproduce and the environment itself hasn't fundamentally changed."

I just recently took a biology class, and that is fundamentally not the case. One of the major causes of population collapse leading to extinction is lack of genetic diversity once a population is small. Once diversity is too low, even if conditions are relatively favorable, a population is much more vulnerable to disease or seemingly small changes to the environment. One of the ways biologists try to "rescue" populations these days is by introducing genetic diversity where possible.
Not true. There are objective statistical tests regarding sample sizes.
Why not find one that's closer to their core competence?
I don’t know how to read this as saying it’s ok to prohibit choosing based on sex.

Doesn’t this forbid restrictions on same-sex marriage?
Not only that, but a number of Brazilian banks use Elixir.
I seems like a good sign if new investors think its a good deal to take this path
Well put. I too prefer the reasonability of lexical scoping. Although I must confess I am not well versed enough to quite grasp how what Python does _isn't_ conforming to lexical scope.

Since I was confused I did some internet searching and found this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51604346/does-python-sco...

Which I think suggests the thing you are finding confusing isn't lexical scoping in Python, but rather the environment mutability.

Ultimately, I think I better understand what you are highlighting and can't say I entirely disagree. I just personally find how it is today ergonomic, but that could also just be bias as I am fairly comfortable in Python (warts and all).
You raise some interesting points; I just want to point out that it's extremely difficult to maintain complete, continuous control over body language and facial expression--consider how significant the concept of a "tell" is even at the highest levels of poker play.
Seems like a stupid idea for a business-bro to get into the national policy game. Were I Zelenskyy, I would now be thinking "Hunh. Dude's more interested in getting us to change our policy / warfighting plan than making money. Maybe he's sending all the data we're sending over starlink terminals to Vlad's people. Maybe we shouldn't really be using his services."

I don't think Elon would do that, but Zelenskyy might not be able to take that chance.
Since they fired us, we found Relay which has been fantastic. I can't imagine ever switching away from Relay back to Brex lol
$1T company and cant even make a smooth website
Can you elaborate what you would do with machine learning techniques? In what capacity? I'd love to understand what problems you have.

Generally speaking, a great book to start with is this - https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-T...
I think they mean when Jesse Eisenberg told Andrew Garfield Facebook would never sell ads, which is what Justin Timberlake told him, setting up the essential personal conflict between Jesse and Andrew in the movie The Social Network.
This is a very popular criticism of SPAs, but every time I see it I really gotta ask how people are screwing this up and if it actually has anything to do with SPAs. With every even slightly popular way I know of to develop SPAs, you have to go out of your way to make links not work as normal links.
These pages only really look nice on continuous scrolling inputs. Trackpads, touchscreens, the apple mouse, etc. Anything with traditional mouse scrolling ends up sending scroll events too infrequently to enable smooth scrolling.

Considering this is a very consumer focused product, I imagine most users have smooth scrolling inputs.
Pinning can be problematic since it blocks security updates.
I'm not comparing the worthiness of the two wars, I'm comparing the public excitement around the wars. I definitely am far more supportive of a defensive war than a pre-emptive war on general principle.
Another interesting bias along those lines: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect

I imagine these biases swing in all sorts of directions depending on the context. Some are intuitive, many are not.
Or he would never publish something "garbage" because people are convinced by his reputation that it will not be garbage.

Emperor's new clothes, while the rest need to be whiter than white and all that. These things happen because people are blinded by titles in a complex world with complex people.
Seemed to me links jump somewhere on the same or on a different page and buttons do stuff though the line is blurry, for example on a form submit a new page could render..
Of course it does. Professors with high caliber research run tight ship and their labs publish consistently high quality work.

It does not mean that reviewers lower their bar when assigned a paper from a famous professor, they just know a priori that the work will not be completely scam.
Also, FB doesn't sell user data either, so I'm not sure what OP was talking about
Virtual meetings, but with people shouting at each other about whatever in the news has made them angry lately.
Putting ads on surfaces that people look at
Only in India. Apple iPhones are way too expensive there.
Much economic success rides on security.

Are companies really going to put the C-suite in one of these, given the parade of potential horribles?

I'd say "yes", once the idea is proven and the kinks are sorted.
"HN isn't a journal and so academic sources of evidence really are overkill"

I disagee, you should backup your accusations or statements (unless widly accepted) with some reputable source. This person claimed that science was bought and paid for. Did they mean all of it? Or most? That's an insane accusation that requires evidence.

"Go to your favorite major journal and start looking at the "conflicts of interest" and "grants" section.
Once you take money from someone (except for NIST, in my experience) you're basically beholden to try your hardest to get the results they're looking for"

This doesn't mean people falsely data. You're simply providing motive.

Everyone wants money, you are using greed to then claim mass fraud in science
> it seems like more and more the only news that we get from corporate.....

"Seems", "like" "more and more", "only"... I sometimes wonder if people are downplaying it so others may not be as offended in a social situation, or are those words really what they meant?

We are in late 2022, at this (late) stage of the cycle, Big tech has been throwing DEI, ESG at our face for 5+ years. Both Internally and Externally via PR and Consumer Trade Show / Conference. We have got to a point they are actually "dialling" back a bit already.

>It’s no longer about equality of opportunity, it’s about equality of outcome.

I do not have data to judge how many people are on the side wants "equality of opportunity". Which is a very sane thing to do. But I can assure you there will be plenty of evidence the media ( Mainstream or not, ) has been arguing for equality of outcome for a very VERY long time. This isn't, and shouldn't be news.

Reading the above comment being Top Voted on HN gives me hope, but on the other hand also felt sad the realisation came so late.
Amazon makes Walmart look like saintly. Amazon has no free perks like food for employees. Google is surprisingly generous while Meta/Facebook comes in a close 2nd. Meta has lactation rooms, prayer/meditation rooms, and quiet rooms.
Back on my day we ran BBSes...
in your backpack to where? Sit in a coffee shop with that humongous thing on your face?
to the backyard veranda enjoying the sun? Well you ain't seeing the sun, nor the backyard

So where to?
You can set up your domain to have very short TTL (like 2 minutes) and have a script polling your external IP every 2 minutes to watch for IP changes, then have the script change the records of your domain when the IP does change.

Most nameservers provide a REST API for updating records so this is very easily done.
Elixir is a functional language, which is definitely a less common paradigm than OO languages like Java, which Kotlin is very similar to. Plus you can hire Android devs.
Axioms don’t need a why
This is true even when grading school exams: teachers recognize the names of "bright" students and lean towards more positive grades.

That's why anonymous grading - and in scientific publishing, double-blind peer review is so important. It's part of the scientific progress just as much as replication, the attempt to re-produce results of a study post-publication by other groups (I wish papers' PDFs had a QR code to a Web page that said "double-blind review by x people, replicated by y groups" - the latter changes over time so it's better tracked externally).
Oh wow, I didn't know Internet Archive stored (at least some) YT videos. That must consume quite a lot of storage. Impressive.

Thanks for sharing!
Missed opportunity to use Lua with that logic.
Yes. In fact, people are so likely to make assumptions about future performance based on past performance that we invented a word for that social construct: "reputation."
They appear to have a peer review policy that adjusts salaries, but probably someone is making the final determination. This is definitely flatter then other companies and about as flat as I can imagine.
There was a fascinating article about how caste discrimination made its way into tech because many of the decision makers are blind to it.

Diversity metrics are simple. The society they work on is not.
In Facebook's metaverse you can't, but in VRChat (that is, the app people actually use), disabling others' avatars (which sets them to a generic default 'robot') is default functionality.
There’s a much longer and “prouder” tradition of Americans claiming elections were rigged stretching all the way back to when it was true. Bush v Gore is another recent example but older folks will probably remember claims about Kennedy’s election and Nixon’s in ‘60. Andrew Jackson is somewhat credibility accused. And that’s just presidential elections off the top of my head.
They're trying to get in on some of that sweet, sweet, B2B enterprise contract money.
I’m not arguing that edge computing (vs more tried and true approaches like regional replication) is the way to go per se, but if every action you’re taking on a site with a significant amount of interactivity takes a second, it will feel fairly sluggish; and if your internet connection sucks then it could feel even worse.

For some apps that matters, for others it doesn’t. There are other ways to achieve snappiness even with sluggish network conditions, like optimistic UI, but those come with significant complexity too. But yeah if your site doesn’t need it then don’t do it.
That's great, but pretty tangential to my point. The person I was responding to seemed baffled that hiring Kotlin devs would be perceived as easier than hiring elixir devs, which is itself pretty baffling given that Kotlin is one of the top 15 most popular/used programming languages and elixir rarely even makes the list.
This sounds like a sarcastic question, but it’s actually true. Japanese founders are more likely to use Ruby.
No, it isn't, visit https://www.dice.com and enter kotlin into the search field. There are a few hundred total listed.
It's funny that HN is pro-remote work but anti-innovations for making the remote more efficient.

While I agree virtual meeting may not be the answer, BUT it is important step in figuring out the balance. I think it's good that Meta is burning $$$ and advancing in figuring out the optimal solution on our behalf (consider it as RnD cost).

Irrespective of it, in case the headsets can become as easy as wearing glasses, I doubt why anyone wouldn't use it.
Wow, thank you so much! This leaves me no excuse to procrastinate on implementing my plans any longer.
> I'm not 'astonished' that non-blinded peer reviewers are influenced by social status.

I am astonished, in the same way I would be astonished to find out that papers that smell like fish are more likely to be accepted for publication at the majority of peer reviewed venues, and that the reason is that reviewers for those publications let their house cats stack rank the submissions.
Thank you for the shoutout. We’re working our butts off to make home hosting fun. I hope we don’t disappear - but we want to sell real tech and real skills. No black boxes, no moats, no lock-in. Investors hate it! :P
Honestly, Facebook is a good CRM with unlimited storage at no cost. There is no privacy on private forums with regards to the web administer so Facebook continues that tradition of a host knowing what their users are uploading and privately messaging.
Victorians in flood zones urged to stockpile three days of supplies
That's the funniest part too, they don't sell their hardware in New Zealand either.
You could turn if off for people who pay for the service with a credit card with a Moscow address.
Would you buy it as a subscription service that only works with glue sticks with embedded DRM? /s
The concept might be viable, but real KYC feels like an entirely different concept from compliance KYC.

I envision "real KYC" as the old timey nostalgic small town narrative, where (the agents of) the service provider you're dealing with actually do know you on a personal basis, and can therefore make sensible compliance judgements based on context. "Bob never comes in here asking for exactly $4999 in crisp twenties and sweating profusely, this smells wrong even if it technically threads the needle of standard compliance rules", but also "Bob has spent the last six months talking about renting a place in Montreal for the summer, so he's probably not money laundering when he tries to make an international transfer to a landlord."

The problem is that it's fundamentally a human-relationship thing, and nobody knows how to do that at scale, nor do they want to because that costs money.
Exactly, people show up 5-10 minutes late to meetings where they have to click a single button to join, and we expect them to hook in to a VR setup before joining?
I don't have personal experience with this, but https://getoutline.org/ is designed to be resistant to blocking and may be worth trying.
Okay, this legitimately made me giggle. Dark, sad, but hilarious. Thanks.
Medium Covid Could Be the Most Dangerous Covid
A Meta account is a facebook account by another name. It's hard to trust any sort of _required_ account system that originates from their ecosystem these days.
I have absolutely no connection with private prisons. I do believe prison or labor camps are the best place for most true bums (drug addicts, criminals, mentally ill, etc). Obviously not for temporary homeless without drug or criminal record problems. Homeless bums are dangerous and a drain on society.
Google is an org where the left hand has no idea what the right is doing. The people working on this laptop probably fully expected it to be for stadia and didn’t want to chuck it all in the bin right at the end.
You can find a McDonald's next to a high rise, the contrast is pretty wild.
Step 0. Ditch Luxottica and their chunky, plastic-y Ray Bans

Step 1. Buy MagicLeap

Step 2. Make it smaller

Step 3. Combine it with Quest and make it not look like it's from 1993

AR + VR + smartphone (camera, etc) + gaming console in 1 device
Carmack works one day a week and wants to quit, but keeps getting convinced to stay by Boz
Tried almost exactly this years ago, couldn't get users. Any ideas?