skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my (admittedly uneducated) view, VR can be useful for some professional tasks in the immediate future. Things like 3D modeling, architecture, explorative data analysis. But Facebook is a social media company. Aside from a small proportion of enthusiastic users, people won't want to socialize with VR. They'd rather check an app on their phone every so often while doing something else. If they want a more personal and engaged conversation, a video chat is better than VR. The Metaverse makes no sense beyond games. And the heyday of socializing in MMOs has long passed (much to my dismay).
Lots of variation.

Typically used diameters in buildings (Italy, Europe) are from 10 to 24 mm, but 6 and 8 smaller diameters (mostly used in electrowelded nets or in smaller pre-cast manufacts) and larger diameters 26 28 30 32 mm (only used in large structures like bridges) do exist.

https://www.oppo.it/tabelle/tondi_sezionexnumero.htm

So, a range from 0.2 to 6.3. kg per meter.

Cost is (aproximation) between 1.5 and 2 €/kg, it depends on a number of factors and is a fluctuating one, though it is usually the same in a same country, without much difference on the specific area.

Typically a foundation will have between 60 and 90 kg of steel per cubic meter, pillars and walls between 80 and 120, and slabs/beams between 100 and 150.

Cost of concrete is even more varied and it is heavily (even in the same country) affected by the cost of the local aggregates (sand, gravel, etc.) so it is hard to make a ratio valid everywhere, but surely it is much higher than what you hypothized.

If we assume that price of concrete (not reinforced) is 100-120 €/m3, this ratio to rebar cost is at least 1:1, but could go up to as much as 1:3.
I am quite a fan of Andrew Ng's courses on machine learning. Well made, improved over time as he got more experienced, and he is just a likable guy frankly.
How Edison is helping us build a faster, more powerful Dropbox on the web
Aren't we on a multiplayer chat board with strangers here?

I think you hit the nail on the head as far as how the metaverse is not new, but I think your pessimistic take is not so obvious to me and presumably many people bullish on metaverse ideas.
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/energy-conservation-us/applicati...

3M sells film that does this. Advantage for film over paint is that it doesn’t build up, as it can be removed, recycled, and replaced. This is especially important for things that move so as not to gain additional weight.

Very cool material to experience in person. It’s black body emission is also tuned to exit the atmospheric IR window.
Jeremy Siskind's jazz piano courses taught out of Fullerton College.

https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzclass/

This is a bit of a cheat because these courses are not free ($50USD for California residents and around $400 for non-CA residents) but they are so good that I had to mention them.

I am nearing the end of the Level II course and have learned so much stuff. They
force you to do so many things that you otherwise would not do. Basically, ever week you have to post a video demonstrating what you learned from the previous week. And the video is in a public discussion forum with the other students so there is this incentive to do an extra good job. And he gives great feedback on your assignments.
Sure it would remain a cash cow if Meta decided never to take another risk again, but Zuck was trying to avoid Facebook becoming the next Oracle or IBM -- companies with consistent revenue but thay have lost their ability to innovate.

I also don't think the metaverse was doomed to fail from the start -- still not sure if it's doomed now. Based on John Carmack's resignation & letter about how hard it was to get anything done, it sounds like there are some serious cultural or bureaucratic issues getting in the way of progress though
Yeah. Lots of red flags in that EULA, including bits that don't seem to make any sense:

"You agree any legal dispute involving ManyCam services and software must take place in the state or federal courts in Montreal, Quebec."

and

"You consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in Montreal, Quebec and waive the defense of forum non convenience."

and yet

"If a U.S. court finds any part of this license agreement unenforceable then the remainder of the agreement will continue intact and in full force and effect."

Basically, it's your typical "We have rights, you have no rights" kind of contract. If the OP had even briefly scanned that "agreement" (and let's face it, most of us don't) I'm sure they would have realised that their "lifetime" license had no legs.
I read the title as "Libertarian AI" and thought "Oh great, it probably just recommends Atlas Shrugged"
Banks pay a premium to fund deposit insurance and when those funds are drawn down they are replenished via special assessments. Business as usual, that's how the system works.
White collar criminals do serve prison time. Like the Enron guys or Madoff. What example do you have in mind of people who were sentenced but didn't? What they typically don't do is be jailed ahead of their conviction, as violent criminal are (often), which I think is rather logical.
I doubt there's much link with Catholicism. Here in Lithuania bureaucracy is pretty simple as I described above. From what I hear Poland is even easier.
I think it's a lot less nasty than the Python version. At least the JS version only gives you a weird answer if you're comparing a number to a string, while Python will automatically do a weird type conversion even if you're just comparing two "number looking strings" to begin with.

Edit: I'm an idiot, thanks for the responses for correcting me, was thinking PHP but had Python on the brain I guess. Original bad edit: I was downvoted pretty hard, but I think I was just unclear. In Python, doing md5("foo") == md5("bar") returns true because Python converts both strings to numbers first because they have an e in them. That is, in my opinion, Python is doing an unnecessary conversion there that JS doesn't do in that case. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12598407/why-does-php-co...
I guess there is some utility then. I find that to be very narrow and outside my personal preferences but recognize that you find it useful.

In theory you don’t need a computer/internet to start it later, but that would require you knowing when you want to start it upfront. Meaning there is still a unique capability for the smart washer.
The Lure of Singapore: Chinese Flock to ‘Asia’s Switzerland’
At least on AC Level 1/2 charging (using just a J1772 port) the signalling is pretty rudimentary if I remember correctly. Something along the lines of the car puts out a square wave on one of the signalling pins and based on the resistance it sees it knows whether it's plugged in and how much power it can charge, so there isn't much room (dare I say any) way to interact much with the car through that port. I don't know how DC charging works but I assume there's a little bit more smarts to it. Tesla on the other hand is a completely different story.
Hasn't Bitcoin largely failed in these goals though? Not only is it volatile making it a poor choice of currency, but most people transact via trusted third parties for a variety of reasons. The concentration of mining in a few large entities also points to effective centralization of the protocol.
https://archive.md/EA0CL
In an online environment, having your system go down during those rare times will eventually cost you your business.
Yes if htmx is the right tool for you, all power to you. I was not meaning to provide more than a tangential thought on their outward presentation.
Agreed with all of the above, but crypto !== bitcoin, and bitcoin is basically one of the few last holdouts using Proof of Work consensus at this point.

I don't know if it will ever be displaced because there are so many irrational people in the space, but whatever happens with crypto, I hope consensus mechanisms that aren't energy-hungry displace proof of work.
No, Visicom is the old owner, as per the quote in the original post:

“ManyCam is now under new ownership. […] Visicom Media stands by the Lifetime customers and will continue to support them by arranging with the new owner for a total of two years of free subscription."
Gaining features without bounds is not a positive in case of a language. C# is a very good language, but they really do copy C++ in adding everything under the Sun to it, and the complexity of managing it all can easily crumble under even good developers.

Java may be the other side of it, but I think it is a safer bet.
Still nursing her stay-out-of-jail baby.
You can’t use anything reflection-based I think.
It doesn't help that this is not a standard position across the industry. Show me 5 different staff and principal engs and I'll show you 5 different sets of expectations and responsibilities. It's better now than a few years ago at least.
If you’re the first ‘principal’ engineer in your company of course you don’t know what you have to do to succeed.

It can also go another way: during growth from 1 or 2 people to a small team, at some point a company might start assigning titles to people whoe already know what they're doing. Just because, well, the board or newcomers feel like it's needed or just for clarity or desire to structure things. Which leads to funny situations like me going to look for definitions of what my job might be, finding out that is non-trivial because there are apparently no strict definitions of 'principal engineer' and 'architect' and 'senior developer' and 'developer vs engnineer' and so on. So I ended up 'principal software architect' or something like that, a title which hasn't come up in any conversation ever since nor changed what I do.
It might, but only because Plex is changing their profit model. Instead of trying to make money from the software directly, they're now injecting a bunch of ad-supported content into search results/default landing experience.

If that is successful you might just see them scrap charging entirely.
Either that, or we wouldn't be living in the ethical and morally absent world we live in today.
A program called Camfrog did the exact same thing. Lifetime codes got flipped into a new subscription system.

Realistically, this is fraud.
Please don’t denigrate others’ faith here.
"Big brain" is definitely a compliment, I can support this use of terminology.
Unfortunately, most influencers get paid to endorse products and are nothing more than human ad bots. There was a sting in the UK where unwitting influencers agreed to promote a poisonous cyanide drink.
Swearing an oath makes no sense for non-religious people, it's just an empty gesture. You have to believe your God will hold you responsible for keeping the oath in order for it to be useful.
I understand that you mastered producing a single binary with your favorite build tool. In my experience if a language does not have an official way to build projects it does end well. Go, Rust and Zig are the prime example that a language should not be separated from its build system.

How to produce a single binary:

go build

cargo build

zig build

<project>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.4.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifactSet>
<excludes>
<exclude>classworlds:classworlds</exclude>
<exclude>junit:junit</exclude>
<exclude>jmock:*</exclude>
<exclude>*:xml-apis</exclude>
<exclude>org.apache.maven:lib:tests</exclude>
<exclude>log4j:log4j:jar:</exclude>
</excludes>
</artifactSet>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
...
</project>

Can you spot the difference?
Seems to have been merged to master in the last two months

https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1628052936302510080?s=20
Bitcoin's power consumption isn't a "tradeoff". It's just as centralized as proof of stake systems.

Bitcoin's power consumption is just appealing to the religious aspect of the network : if we changed it, it would go against the original design. Even though it burns 1% of world energy consumption for that stupidity.
Please consider support for emacs chording with Ctrl and meta/alt.

Perhaps DDR-esque foot placement?
I’m sure it’s just an example but being european I am surprised at the 10kg load. Most people I know hover around ~5-7 kg max capacity for their washing machines. They’re usually placed in bathrooms or kitchens since not a lot of people have space for a separate washing machine room since also not a lot of people have dryers in the EU (at least they’re not standard, they’re considered extra).

Not your point but just adding my two eurocents
Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress
Your post clarified my thinking on this. If I think of Notes as a Twitter clone then I'm upset because, like the parent poster, I want a much narrower subscription-base for long form content than I do short form content. However, if I think of this as merely a short form update from accounts I follow then it's fine.

That said, Substack showing writers adjacent to your subscriptions in Notes makes if feel more Twitter-like in a way that I'm not sure I like.
A lot, maybe all. Still, if the rich get better legal outcomes than the poor, that's not justice, whether or not "better lawyers" is the mechanism.
"influencers" might have fixed it apart from the constant prodding from algorithms and other market forces that pushes them all to cater to the broadest possible market segment themselves. Can't emphasise enough how much youtube shoves in your face when one of your videos is doing worse than your average - when your low effort easy to digest drivel gets the biggest numbers, (more than the passion project you put your heart into) your spirit is crushed and you make more of it.
How do I know you are conscious? I know I am, by definition, but you? The only thing I know about you comes from what you are saying, and if I see you in person, that you are made of organic matter, and going deeper, that you have some sort of biological computer in your head.

The reason I think you are as conscious as I am is because you act and look a lot like the only conscious being I am aware of: me. I am made of the same stuff as you are and we grew up in roughly the same way, I have the same kind of biological computer in my head, you express emotions a bit like I do, etc... In other words, I think you are self conscious because you quack like self consciousness.

Quacking is all we have to determine what is conscious and what is not.
That is an interesting idea. I guess you could probably set that up somehow. Although I’m not sure if you can necessarily access that data live from your electricity company. I imagine you could probably just accomplish the same thing by running at 3am every night.
That's the thing, it does not lump Keir Starmer's political philosophy and Stalin's. To be defined as socialism it needs to encompass the social ownership of the means of production, Keir Starmer's economic-political philosophy does not encompass that and hence it's not socialism...

It's the one of the most defining characteristics of socialism, if Keir Starmer is not defending that the ownership of the means of production should be socialised it is not socialism.
Standard question for new home electronics: which things don't work if it doesn't have an internet connection? Local sensor processing is a great start, but I've been burned by carefully worded, technically accurate denials before.
"186% wrong U+1F4A9" is kind of wrong use of percents, why not to use a Bayes theorem instead?
> It's actually more robust than constant time C, because the Go compiler is less creative in "optimizing" things into branches.

Today's Go compiler. This feels like a belief with a lot of potential for generating near misses of its own.
I can imagine banks using this as 2FA for the next generation.
Have fun downloading from Instagram or Facebook in the future. Besides VLC, what software can play this format? What does the licensing look like? Will it take 20 years until I can actually use it (at least patents weren't disneyfied)?
I thought it was a wild clickbait and didn't even go to read the article.
I read it as "EVs are dangerous according to the FBI, use V12 engines to avoid hackers"

but yeah, public charging stations *for phones* are terrible.

I used one of them once at a conference, with ADB enabled on my phone.
I thought it would just feed me power, as not data collection was specified on the station.

but it enabled a data connection.

So I used a public station once, and I'll never do it again.
Cool! I’m delighted to see more exploration of this product space.

Was the large profile an engineering constraint or a design choice? What’s on my mind when I buy a vacuum is if it’ll fit under things.

FWIW, I’d love a “go look for a mess” button rather than having to talk to it. I hate talking to appliances. It’s always janky and my world is rarely noise free. I don’t even need an over complicated “where do I look?” system. Just a button in my kitchen that sends it into dirt patrol mode.

P.S. I love how the kid spills a ballpark worth of peanuts and then a jump cut to like 12 nuts hitting the floor.
While the contract would mean they have the right to terminate the "lifetime license", it would also mean that the phrasing "lifetime license" is false advertising isn't it?
Your input was kinda basic too though, TBH.
Ah! So multimodality will convince you of consciousness? After all, human neurons are electrical charges, just as bits are.
There is a lovely piece of text in the third version of PNG specification: "PNG four-byte unsigned integers are limited to the range 0 to 2^31-1 to accommodate languages that have difficulty with unsigned four-byte values" [0]. Gee, I wonder what languages those may be?

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/2022/WD-png-3-20221025/#7Integers-and-...
I'm not a crypto advocate, but I don't understand on what basis people think crypto has been empirically disproven, at least separate from any disproof that wasn't ~equally true at its peak. It's not like Bitcoin has failed; it's down 2x from its recent spike, but it's up almost 10x from its Jan 2019 dip. Ethereum is more wounded but still expensive. Look on a log plot as is apt for these things, and it's hard to argue ruin here, especially given they've dipped before.

I wouldn't be too shocked if crypto did peter out or flatline over the coming years, just it doesn't seem a priori obvious, given my broad criticisms of it have not stopped its success to date.
With how people here worship Steve Jobs and the iPhone, yes we're screwed. People will talk about that damn phone as if it was the savior of humanity.
I couldn't figure out why he was wearing all the French gear, the author isn't french...! I presume it's a nod to the Frenchman, Claude Chappe, who invented Flag semaphore, the system he build it with. @fheisler, if you happened to see this, please let me know if I'm right! :)
I never understood why Facebook didn't just wait it out for VR and bought a company once it seemed successful. Seems so much cheaper and less risky.
How is it supposed to know what you've read?
I think it could be an easyish case for small claims. Bought software at X date, used it for Y years, expected to use it for a further Z years in professional career, and now you can only use it for 2 further years, instead of Z. Get atleast a refund for the years that you won't be able to use.
Psss. Please don't ruin Librarything by getting more people on there. Its recommendation algorithm is pure perfection—basically magic—and I fear it's mostly because it's only used by a very particular group of people.
Virtually no one has trouble with this in practice. You use OpenJDK unless you have “special needs”.
To a non-believer swearing on Sagan's book has exactly the same "accountability" as swearing on a Bible (i.e. none of these books will hold you accountable in any way whatsoever), so the non-religious oath is exactly as meaningful as swearing on a Bible; it's not an emptier gesture, it's the same.
I see. personally when I tried I found it annoying that I couldn't see my friends' faces so we switched back to video
I wrote Java code for 20+ years and I can tell you exactly why I prefer Go: it produces native binaries.

I mean, it’s also less verbose, easier to start a new project, faster to startup, has far fewer configuration knobs, has native dependency management, is far easier to build CI/CD for, compiles more quickly, has very few NPEs gotchas, has value types, and avoids idiomatic boilerplate.

Go is far from perfect, but it has clear advantages over Java and I would not go back.

But the thing I love the most is the lack of a JRE. If I build for a target, it runs there.
Gotta try this out. I used to have the WS commands burned into my brain, but it’s been decades now …
I wonder if the author knows about `watch`. It seems like it might’ve saved some effort with a better outcome.
>I’m not sure anyone’s investing in building that though.

LLaMA already exists.
As others are saying, I don't think "==" vs "===" are a bad thing, what is bad is allowing 2 objects of different types to be compared, which is really why this md5 bug occurs. The implicit coercion from one type into another automatically creates a rats nest of problems.
> much beyond an undergraduate physics class and an intro CS class in terms of directly related study

That's puts you in < 1% of the population right there.
This is great. I think the next step is to re-implement the Miele API and redirect the machine's requests to an internal server you control!
> Not really that useful at the moment (and maybe never will be)? Yes.

One of the only valid points of crypto is separating money from the government.

However, its proponents emphasize obscure benefits that make it look more obtuse than it should. As they stand, cryptocurrencies, in the eye of the general public, look either like a Ponzi scheme, free money, or too convoluted to bother, as they solve nothing other technologies don't solve already.
Your link seems to be discussing paints that reduce conductive losses (paint with insulating additives) between the paint and the ambient air, whereas I believe the person you were responding to was describing paint that optimized radiant losses between paint and the visible sky and reduce reduce gains from the sun, which are independent of ambient air temperature.

For example, there's a reason so many buildings in the Mediterranean are painted white going back to antiquity.
In my experience, the emphasis on cross organization “impact” just leads principal engineer hopefuls to try to force other teams to sign onto large projects that require multiple teams to put in effort.

This rarely is beneficial work the company should/must do, instead it is promotion driven development.
I don't know what you expect to be recommended given the inputs
I mean if there are a large enough group of users with that lifetime license a class-action might be worthwhile for an enterprising law firm.
Isn't pay per usage viable for value via web or does that fall under subscription? I tend to think of subscription as a monthly/annual payment for access.
There are USB "condom" cables available which do not have data wire. https://www.zdnet.com/article/protect-your-data-with-a-usb-c...

I don't have those; I just charge my portable battery first and then charge my devices from the battery.
Gene editing to prevent arrhythmias associated with cardiomyocyte cell therapy
No, that’s not what the word means. Religion and superstition are different concepts. This is a linguistic fact, regardless of your personal beliefs.
Chargeback Guarantee
I misread. But then I got all these upvotes for nothing.
Terence Tao on GPT-4
that's how the audible ripper I use works. I buy 1 version and get updates for a year and then i'm stuck at that specific version