skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.curbed.com/2022/10/winter-house-jessica-stocker-...

I used to watch this reality TV show with my girlfriend. Metaverse was such a big deal in 2022 that one of the main characters of the season was a Metaverse real estate agent.

https://www.bravotv.com/people/jessica-stocker

> Jess is a beautiful Metaverse real estate agent, investor and entrepreneur from Los Angeles. After Jason slid into her DM’s, she was excited to join the house and show off her wild side to a completely new group of friends. While her party girl behavior gets her into hot water with some of her housemates, she’ll also explore a romance that has the potential to last beyond the winter vacation.

I wonder if that's still her job now that it isn't as relevant anymore.

Just checked Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/blondesbuildingequity/?hl=en

Blondes Building Equity

"Best friends building a Real Estate empire"

They have a podcast. Titles of recent episodes:

"Financially free by age 25 through real estate investing"

"70 rental units in under 4 years"

"The rule breaker who broke the real-estate industry"
"then there wouldn't have been the motivation for more complex forms of society" <-- not sure I agree with this one. I think the problem is less that physical survival is difficult to do leisurely and more that some people will keep trying to make it easier on themselves, even if that means making it harder on you. In a way that's the same things as what you're saying, but just a slightly different shade. It's not inherently difficult, but just inevitably becomes difficult.

Anyway, your mention of the motivation for more complex forms of society reminds me of this book which it seems like you might like. If you're vaguely interested but probably not going to read it I can summarize, but I don't want to spoil it if you think you'd read it: https://www.google.co.id/books/edition/The_Collapse_of_Compl...
> The greatest trick that has been pulled on us this century is somehow billing gas as a 'green' source of energy.

It kind of is, in that before it was being used all over the place, natural gas would just be vented or flared when it was extracted as bycatch for oil. Burning it instead of venting it is climate positive, and burning it in a power plant instead of onsite is energy with no impact to the climate.

Of course, when you extract it specifically, that's no longer the case.

Natural gas also makes for decent peaker plants which can complement solar and wind until/unless storage fills that need better.
Strongly recommend that you read the book I linked to above.

'Artist', as a thing that an adult can be and do, has only been around for a hundred or so years (said William Deresiewicz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53935644-the-death-of-th...) and there is no reason to think it will be around for a hundred more.

Yes, art has been around for thousands of years, but most of that time, it was beholden to: the church, the power structures of the day, etc.

The idea of 'art for art's sake', the idea of artists empowered to do and make things that their commission did not specifically tell them to do, is not an immortal category of human.

I'm not doing this argument justice, please read William Deresiewicz. <3 What a great book.
When I lived in the south there were black widows everywhere, some browns. Now in CA, it's mostly browns.

They both have extremely predictable hiding spots, so I've never really feared them. It's not like they jump out at you, they retreat first into their hidey holes.
People generally do not respond to insults. It only takes a little imagination to see how you react when someone swears at you. Invert the situation. It is a basic empathy test that they fail.
Imagine you're repeatedly flipping fair coin. Is it surprising when it comes up heads? How about a tails? Can you predict the next flip?
This is true for more places than many realize. Japan, Italy, and Germany are all 19th century (in some cases very LATE 19th) inventions.
I'm not looking, I plan to smile and do my own two things that I've been dreaming of doing for awhile (but it's somewhat hard to justify walking away from good steady pay) and now can due to financial independence as soon as either this layoff smokes me or RTO isn't rolled back.
Please do not jynx the state of things. The last thing we all need right now is another economic downturn event.
The problem with Google is no one is going to build their house on Google's land because any product that doesn't make Google a super-mega-ultra-decacorn gets shut down after 18 months.

Why would someone rely on Google when everything else is either better or good enough.
I learned a few things about all of that in university, nearly 30 years ago. I then forgot most of it. And then learned it properly on the job. A lot of computer science education is a bit academic until you actually need it. You won't need all of it. And when you do, you'll find you will need to read up on it properly to learn the basics.

For example, my concurrency course involved a lot of formal methods and temporal logic. Because the teachers were doing research in that area. In retrospect, this was all a bit academic and not very practical. This stuff does not map very well to the real world when you are actually trying to solve some concurrency issues. But enough of it stuck that I was able to read up on this when I needed to.

And of course, some of that academic stuff actually works out in the real world once in a while. E.g. the java.concurrent package is a straight integration of a framework that came out of the academic world and very nicely done. Great stuff and I still remember pulling that in as a separate maven dependency before that was integrated.

I think of university more as a place where you learn to learn new things rather than as a place where you actually learn a lot of things. Mostly becoming a good software engineer is basically an apprenticeship. I was lucky with my early gigs and I learned a lot on the job from more senior people. I've worked with lots of people with either no degree or a non computer science degree as well. It's fine as long as they can learn new things.
The term "inner city" is very American loaded, so I apologise for this slight.
Care to elaborate? I'd like to see some evidence on that.
What a coincidence that crime in London became an issue the day a non-christian Mayor got elected, and the issue is of utmost concern on US-centric social media.
What the company is not doing willingly is raising wages, which is the actual intent of the law.
Cool thanks for letting me know. Time to down a 40 and start doing wheelies through high traffic crosswalks.
> No contrary views were there at all. Perhaps this is what you mean: it's your bubble, so it's cozy and non-toxic.

I'm not sure what your definition of 'town square' is: are you sure you're not looking for a town Coliseum?

Most people are not online to debate controversial topics with anonymous strangers.
My CS undergrad in the UK circa 2001 covered the items you mentioned in the first course. The second course was similar to http://www.inf.unibz.it/~artale/DB2/db2-course.htm. With UK degrees there is limited ability for students to pick their own adventure and miss these when they choose a CS degree at a reasonable university.

I personally don't agree with the purist approach that CS degrees should just be maths. There needs to be some minimal application at the very least and different universities will have different maths-CS-engineering boundaries based on how they've evolved.
In case anyone misses it, click the titles and you'll see alternatives.

For example the second most popular one is to serve a directory and the alternatives show the Python3 way of doing it.

https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/71/serve-current...
Currently the fork is simple rebranding with a few small changes here and there.

Both of them will give you nearly the same experience, and they are a soft fork so all Gitea changes will be available.

I'm biased as a community member of the Gitea TOC, so I'd of course recommend Gitea.
I could probably count the number of times I've changed or showered after cycling on one hand, and cycling has been my main mode of transit for 10 years.

When your trip is like 3km you don't even have time to work up a sweat, especially if you're limited to just going at the speed of traffic. (Yes, on my own I could probably ride faster, but I'm limited by car/infrastructure speed)
Got VC funding and now they realize their “we just want cool little scripts to do things” isn’t what the community wants, now Deno is gonna be Node but with TypeScript as a first class citizen and way less friendly.
I wrote a response to this argument here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/21/in-defense-of-prompt-e...

Short version: I think prompt engineering will be an important skill for a very long time. Using these systems to the maximum of their (currently unknown) potential will always involve expert knowledge!
Facebook's metaverse project? No.

VRChat, I think everyone with a VR headset has at least tried it, plus plenty of people using the desktop client.

Rec Room was also a popular early "metaverse" type setup in VR, though VRChat has mostly supplanted it.

And of course, if VR is not a requirement for your metaverse, basically every mmorpg is also a metaverse.
In the US it is available as part of the NFL+ service. A short summary can be seen at https://support.nfl.com/hc/en-us/articles/5403911854236-What...

As an avid American Football fan, I agree; condensed replays are great, especially when you are interested in, but not deeply invested in a particular game (for those, I prefer to watch long-form).
I run https://pixeldrain.com. I have been seeing my ad revenue dry up over the last few years as well. Even though the site only grew more popular the ad revenue stayed low. At the start of this year I decided to try running the site without any ads at all. Pixeldrain is now funded by patrons on Patreon. It's working quite well so far.

Zippyshare could probably have been made profitable. Maybe it went against their ideology, or they just couldn't be bothered.
In a World Where AI Art Is Cheap to Generate, Do We Still Need Copyright?
I see private key within Yubikey the same as TOTP secret. Ok, for TOTP it is stored on host, but as you said: "you don’t need to know the secret"

When I press button on yubikey, it pastes some jibberish - way more than 6 chars, but can't THAT token be re-used?

Okay, browsers have some integrations with this stuff so it is not always some kind of a web form where that goes into, so could be a bit more secure.

I'm no security expert, I'm just thinking out loud and hoping someone educate me :)

Yeah, the end result (whatever header value or cookie in browser) is still readable by malware.
You are correct, but for those shortcuts it was allowed.

There is however a grey zone when going on bicycle lanes next to the rivers, because you can go max 30km/h there. But when nobody is there, I'm sure most e-bikes just go max speed.
Also Chinese author != CCP. You can read the source code and build binaries from the provided source.
Most Dutch parents don't bother with harnesses in cargo bikes. Or with helmets on normal bikes.
How does this

> Seems like companies are focusing on cutting folks that don't contribute (code, reports, something tangible) directly to revenue streams.

Follow from this?

> more on the senior/higher paid side of things

Are you implying that every single senior+ person you know who got cut was worthless? Because generally, the more senior the more you contribute to a company’s bottom line.
I'm super excited Gitea is becoming better and better. Gotta be honest though; the really exciting feature I'm waiting for is ActivityPub[1] support. That will really make my single gitea instance much more interesting, when I can accept PRs from other instances and make them to theirs.

A lot of comments about "Forgejo". In short: meh. Not a big deal[2]. I'll be sticking with Gitea.

1: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/14186

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35233168
But with legacy support IBM can probably outlive many modern companies, sadly.
Three decades of programming in various languages and at various companies and today's discussion is the first time (after all those years writing SQL used by those applications) that I've seen the term "relational algebra". My queries run great in production at various companies right now, including many I guarantee are widely recognizable.
Maybe, the communication is unclear and it seems your manager doesn't get to decide. They can help you apply for an exception, but even people with medical reasons are having trouble getting approval from what I've heard. The announcement stated they expected very few exceptions to the mandate.
I’d like that to be true but the argument that people who champion AI always make is that those who embrace the technology will out compete those who don’t. This technology isn’t free, certainly not globally. Sounds like power will concentrate in the hands of early adopters. If AI makes everyone productive then labor value goes down. I’m just having a hard time seeing this as a massive benefit to ordinary people.
How is looking at reality and making choices that based on that analysis are best for the safety of you and your family self-defeating? You're putting activism into the mix and if you're willing to put more risk on yourself and/or your family to prove a point then it is your choice to do so.
But why json? json is only marginally human-editable as its pure version doesn't even support comments. toml is way nicer for this purpose I think.
Unfortunately the big front-loaded cargo bikes are, well, big. Almost as long as a car, if not as wide. You need to park them somewhere and they're definitely too big and heavy to carry up any stairs. They're also expensive, like mid 4 figures USD. This starts to look like a similar problem to car ownership and parking. (I say this all as an avid cyclist -- my household has four bikes and one car.) Rentals seem like a good fit for some users so I'm happy to see someone trying it as a business model.
i find it amazing how many books the guy has written - and almost all of very high quality. seriously, if you are an sf fan, read them.
But the models aren’t wrong. They’re surprisingly accurate. Some media reporting has been alarmist, choosing absolute worst cases and stating them as fact.

But in general, the changes we’ve seen so far are in line with predictions and there’s no reason to be more skeptical than normal of this science.

(As a side note, the resource extraction required to run a petrol engine is also not very green and often connected to human rights abuses. Not to downplay the issues in lithium sourcing, there are horrible conditions that need to be fixed, but the solution is not “oil”.)
And, to finish your calculations, 30CP/900h are basically a full time job.

In practice, students start to complain once a course tries to enforce their full "hour contingent".
It really does look like the Acer interpretation of an electric bike.
Different meaning. More like "this sucks but you'll live".
All the tech layoffs in the last few months make up only a small fraction of the net new additions to the industry post 2020. These companies still have way more employees today than they did in late 2019. We have a long way to go before we will start to see significant hiring (and paycheck) impacts.
Its still super easy to find jobs. I know several people laid off at Twitter and they are swamped with recruiter calls.
My understanding [0] from speaking with locals throughout SE Asia is a general resentment towards mainland Chinese tourists which boils down to - what else - money.

It turns out most Chinese tour operators throughout SE Asia run a completely vertical business, wherein they own all touchpoints their guests interact with (e.g. the restaurants, the bus company, the gift shops, etc.). Further, these are all staffed by immigrant Chinese. This results in all tourism profits being captured by Chinese nationals and businesses (and being exported back home as remittances) while burdening local infrastructure. Locals hate this.

For what its worth, I never heard / witnessed any hostility towards local ethnic Chinese (Peranakans), whose status, as the parent comment notes, is locally prominent. (Though there have been some bloody clashes in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_Chinese...

[0] Living in SE Asia, lots of extended chats with locals throughout the region.
Running – and playing – DOOM on a milliwatt chip
Man you would be surprised if you saw the amount of errors I have already found using ChatGPT regarding grammar
Looks like a "reflection coefficient for sets."

Reflection coefficient in electrical or acoustic (or elastic) transmission across two media is the difference of their impedances over the sum of them.

Difference over sum is a pattern you see a lot.
Data center uses its waste heat to warm public pool, saving $24,000 per year
Pretty easy call I think. If you've already been protesting / walking out / going on strike - I think you look for a position at another company, avoid the RTO and avoid the stress of the firing question. I think there were up to 500 employees who were protesting Amazon continuing to carry some of the books they carry.

Otherwise if you have a family and are settled somewhere, I'd wait to find out before moving, then either commute during the week or get a temp spot once you know if you are RTO until kids are out of school where you are and you can plan a move more fully.
Man stuck in snow, deep in woods, uses drone to lift cell phone to call for help
Invest on renewable energy, until it is several times larger than our consumption; invest on energy storage and renewable chemical inputs; invest on carbon capture.

There's no hidden trick, all of that is completely obvious. Yet, government action could increase the rate of change several times.

Nobody is in full speed, everywhere things are mostly left to the market, and the market created a huge lot of completely artificial bottlenecks. It also is unable to do research and any kind of long-term investments, even when it's clear those are profitable; and it's always completely unwilling to do infrastructure investment.
I think the concern was of corporate exploitation in the name of profits, in which case I don't think forking and having a non-profit at the helm hypocritical. It's actually a very defensive position to prevent corporate interests from snatching up the project once more.
I used a FOSS android app called Tusky and for the most part I can't tell the difference between that and Twitter.
Right... that's why I am providing OP with the advice that many rural communities are religious communities, a fact of which he may not be aware. Or, if he is aware, may not have thought through the implications. We're all posting here to help OP make a good decision for OP, not bicker about urban vs rural, right?
Yes, of course we should ban TikTok
Prompt “engineering” currently reeks of the A in STEAM
Even the Settings app is OK with me... speaking as a Mac user (almost) continuously since the original Mac Plus (although I use Linux for servers):

I really just couldn't care less about the change in the settings app. I usually typed something into the Spotlight search area to find what I wanted in the old version, and I do the same thing now. I just didn't have to change settings enough to have remembered their old locations.
It's called "narrow banking" and apparently it doesn't make things as safe as you might think. Here's some reading:

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regu...

https://www.johnkay.com/2011/06/02/should-we-have-narrow-ban...
It is fairly bad. The scripts section, which can't call other scripts sections neatly, is the worst.
Twitch being impacted is interesting. YouTube is foaming at the mouth to eat Twitch's lunch, and Twitch seems to be doing everything imaginable to make that easier for them.
I agree it shouldn't be normal, but it unfortunately already is to various degrees, though often in slightly more "subtle" ways, eg. nation building, defense contracts, insider trading, the revolving door of Washington leading to cushy lobbying gigs, speaking tours, etc.

Obama, Cheney and Bush are war criminals under international law and Trump isn't, but boy when Trump is rude to someone, there's no end to the condemnations that he's the worst person ever, despite being the only president of the past 30 or so years who didn't start a war. Even crazier, those war criminals are now all darlings of the Democrats because they trash talked Trump.

Trump and the way the media played on his craziness for ratings really broke people's brains. I wouldn't want that buffoon as president either, but really, get some perspective. He wouldn't be nearly as appealing if politicians weren't almost universally awful and self-serving, but because that's normal and they're "polite" about screwing you over, well that's just fine and dandy.
AI is the new measuring stick
> can you name any other metaverses? [...] don't say things like RecRoom, because those exist independent of the billions Facebook spent on meta

You seem to believe that only things financed by Facebook qualify as "metaverse", a concept which existed long before Facebook:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
It's not the same experience (although it might be close on a virtual pinball cabinet), but: https://zenstudios.com/games/indiana-jones-the-pinball-adven...
I do both.

I estimate how long I am willing to go without a job. for the first half of that time, I'm a sniper, applying for dream jobs. If I haven't landed one by the time the second half begins, I start going shotgun.
Haha :D well.. sorry for that :D
No, but "the next version will surely have that". And versions are comng up to 5.4 now.
It does affect indexing.

When Gerard Salton was inventing full text indexing he was working with a set of 80 documents encoded on Hollerith cards. In that case the problem that you miss a few documents in a query is the main problem because you don't have many documents to start with.

Google indexes "billions and billions" of documents and they don't feel the need to index 100% of it. It costs money after all. They need some indication that your site is worth indexing, not just one or two pages at the top, but the whole thing.

One part of "look like a blog" is that sites that are updated frequently are treated differently than sites since it is (1) an indication that the site is of value and (2) takes extra effort to index a frequently updated site. So if you can get in the "frequently updated" class that is helpful.
In my experience, the more senior you are, the less obvious your contributions are to bean counters. Thus my observation that companies could be using metrics similar to tickets closed or lines of code weighed against someone's salary to determine if they should be laid off.

Happy to be wrong here.
> e.g. whether it’s okay to harm a dog, harm an animal, eat a dog, and eat an animal.

Many years ago, our child briefly panicked my wife and me. He was about 5 years old and we were driving around on a Sunday. After a lengthy period of not saying much, he suddenly blurted out that "It's ok to kill bunnies, sometimes." Needless to say, my wife and I were taken aback. As it turns out, a few days before he'd learned about native cultures in school, and the topic of hunting/trapping rabbits for food and fur must have come up, and he'd clearly spent a little time cogitating about that.
Energy is proportionate to the square of velocity. So it's:

Walking: 5 km/h * 70kg => 875 (although this is a very slow estimate for a walker) (please ignore the non-canonical units)

e-bike: 20 km/h * 90 kg => 18,000 (I think your estimate for ebike mass might be on the low side at 20kg, but whatever)

car: 50 km/h * 2000kg => 2,500,000 (and that's a fairly low speed for cars! Drunk drivers often drive faster than is wise.)

Everything else is a rounding error compared to the energy of a car.