skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they're at 0% done in terms of what happens after you connect to a digital world via immersive conduits, $10B a year can put a dent in that burndown.
> It's a light human interest story

It's NPR. There's no excuse for poor sensationalist journalism even from them.
LOL trying to watch the keynote but keep getting asked to login to Facebook and then since I don't have an account, I get the boot. I think that about sums it up.
It's not. In the story (the book), the company that runs the metaverse (Gregarious Systems) is portrayed as a "benevolent" company that somewhat respects its users and acts in the best interest of people (you may be thinking of the intentions of IOI and Nolan Sorrento, the adverserial company that sound like our Facebook).

Uh, there's also an unfounded claim in the story that the metaverse software (the OASIS) is open-source, but the author only mentions it once and this claim isn't exactly supported by the rest of the story (at least to me).
Meta already has enough compute capacity. They have enslaved humans to mine their wallets.
It often is used as a proxy for moral failing.

I've been homeless and hung out with (separate occasions) homeless folks while occasionally interacting with passerbys.

There was always a curtness and subtle discomfort in others' speech and body language.

I can't imagine the social/mental effects of their presumption over time.

Of course when people find out you have financial security, you are either pandered to or treated as a "normal" person, depending on relative strata.
In the "whoops" scenario (i.e. non-malicious), an engine misalignment would be apparent with enough time to correct. You're a year out.

We watch asteroids zing by regularly. The ones we know about have their chances of hitting calculated years or decades out.
> They often say that there's no one more hopeless than a rich junky. If they have a very large amount of money, they never hit rock bottom until they're dead.

She’s fortunately still alive, but when I divorced my ex-wife over her substance abuse, she walked away with ~$1M in cash.

It took three years of partying, but she finally ran out of money, hit rock bottom, went to AA, and is actually looking for a job.

It was sad to watch, and infuriating to be forced to be her enabler by the state after she’d already cost me so much. No-fault divorce is a broken system.
Ketamine can be pretty rough on the bladder and kidneys. Please read up on the risks. It is definitely dangerous to take recreational doses several times per week - it seems that low/moderate doses every week or two avoids most of the problems while still providing therapeutic effects, but definitely keep an eye on the health of those systems, ideally with letting your doctor know so they can help.

Many of users on /r/researchchemicals using either ket or novel analogs at recreational doses regularly for both fun and depression relief end up with bladder issues after over-consuming for a period - so while it's a promising depression treatment, I'd recommend caution around dosage and frequency and titrating to find your minimum effective dose.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next gen Switch has a VR headset accessory and blows the entire market away the same way the iPod and NES did to their predecessors.

The required parts to make a 60Hz 1080p headset are entering the $100 cell phone market and that segment of components are more or less what Nintendo traditionally uses in its handhelds.

Nintendo also has a long history of "blue ocean" products that tweak existing technologies to make them more mainstream.
I know very little about VR so maybe this will be very off.

My guess is they want to address that isolation aspect by making it feel better to interact with others, bringing more people together in the VR space.

But this is me interpreting your "the isolation it brings with it" as people just exploring VR by themselves.

Did you mean something else?
This discounts a lot of failures and products without real success:

- Facebook Apps

- Facebook Home

- Facebook Workplace

- Facebook Portal

- Facebook Essentials

What he's done well: found promising competition and subsumed them.

I think AR is going to be a huge part of the future. I don't think Facebook is going to lead that effort, not because I don't want them to (though I don't), but because they don't have a track record of building anything worthwhile outside of their core offering (ie, the Facebook product).
The world wide web used to have a host of proprietary servers for it, but those for the most part got eaten by Apache (which latter renamed to Apache Http Server). And then a host of new open-source http servers and libraries.

Sometimes what's good for markets & the world doesn't have to be owned & commercial. Sometimes the availability of resources such as info-resources like httpd can beget enormous commercial success while themselves not having much commercial success.

A Tim O'Reilly saying comes to mind: create more value than you capture. In some cases, without setting free the core idea & letting people run wild, you'll never stand a chance of capturing any value what-so-ever.
I think there is at least a chance that they handle Meta differently - at 1:28:24 in the keynote[1] Zuck says "...that means that, over time, you won't need to use Facebook to use our other services".

[1] https://www.facebook.com/facebookrealitylabs/videos/56153569...
Or hundreds of incompatible little ones. If VR really takes off "We need to add chat to our app" will become "We need to add our own metaverse to our app."
the old comcast maneuver. if everyone hates you, change your name!
yes, that's why I put "in theory".
But you're right, I should have written something like "with a simplistic perspective" instead.
Adobe gets lots of stick for its subscription and malware like Creative Cloud. But they do spend huge amount of resources on CJK fonts, layout and encoding.

And part of the reason why I like PDF.

( Behind a Paywall )
https://ken-lunde.medium.com/my-28-years-of-adobelife-e97e70...
This article says several times:

"...the Standard Model of particle physics, the well-tested set of equations describing the known elementary particles and forces, unequivocally deems neutrinos massless.

"Even scientists who backed the idea that neutrinos oscillate and have mass distrusted LSND’s numbers, because the inferred oscillation rate overshot the rate implied by solar and atmospheric neutrinos.

"Ever since the discovery in the 1990s that neutrinos have mass, theorists have wondered if neutrinos could account for the enormous amount of dark matter that seems to engulf galaxies. They soon concluded that the three known neutrinos don’t have anywhere near the mass needed to do so. But if a larger family of neutrinos exists — including some heavy ones — they might.

"The Standard Model predicts that electron, muon and tau neutrinos are massless — except they aren’t."

Is it not reasonable to express interest and hope for new discoveries when fundamental axioms are proven incorrect?
If only. Arguably, part of their secret sauce is their restrictiveness of new users. You have to spend quite a bit of time in-game to gain the ability to even be seen by a lot of other users, and more still to be able to upload avatars and worlds. I'd planned on opening an art gallery space on the platform this summer, only to find that I didn't have enough friends to reach the "trust" level necessary to upload worlds. It's probably a good thing for the quality of the community itself, but anathema to growth or casual use.

(And as for me, I'm stuck trying to figure out how to hack up a WebXR experience with, ah, limited programming skills. Until then, it should be at https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_559152a2-44d3-44... , but it's inaccessible without adding me as a friend and accepting an invitation to an instance I spin up. So, practically useless. And support is no help in terms of what, exactly, I'd need to do to raise my trust level.)
Does this remind anyone else of that time that Comcast renamed themselves Xfiniti to distract from their terrible customer service, rather than fixing their horrible customer service?
> I'm a descriptivist when it comes to standards

You can't quite be. Standards are norms, so there's no escaping normativity there. And simply describing existing conventions can't solve the problems that standards are introduced to solve, which is when you are faced with multiple, sometimes incompatible ways of doing things.

There's room for a kind of descriptivist reconciliation with updates to standards, though. You can say ‘Future versions of the standard should, as far as possible, directly incorporate contemporaneous usage. Where contemporaneous usage is divergent, they should reflect the virtues of contemporaneous usage in a new standard capable of replacing divergent uses.’
Except former Wukesong Arena in Bejing has been named "MasterCard Center", "LeSports Center" and is now "Cadillac Center". Then there's "Mercedes-Benz Arena" in Shanghai. Shaanxi Province Stadium was for a few years named "Coca-Cola Stadium".
Some of you guys seriously need to get out of your bubble. Facebook is an extremely popular service. Many, many people use it every single day, and love it.

This is not a rebrand to avoid regulations, or make people like it again or whatever. Facebook has been signaling this as the direction they wanted to go for quite a long time now.
Meh. Many better companies have tried and failed. Good luck to them but all I have for them is a shrug
> announcement of a company rebrand to avoid government regulation

how does FB changing their name affect their chances at regulation?
I know the feeling. I dropped React because of the learning curve is too steep for me, eventually adopted vue.js because it is friendlier (from my perspective and learning path, I am stronger in HTML/CSS coming from my design background).

Knowing vue.js, it took me about one or two days to get my first app running and I felt learned after the first app. After that, getting project off the ground is not a hurtle anymore and i can develop new ideas and learn along the way.

I think knowing vue.js (probably React too since I know they are similar) will contribute to flattening the learning curve for Retool. Mostly it is learning
1) set up the data source
2) find places to plug in the data using {{}} syntax

knowing these two things can get one very far.
It's a myth. I have met hundreds, maybe thousands of long term addicts of meth, crack, and heroin... Lifestyle addicts suffer from massive tooth decay & dental problems, in similar proportions, regardless of which drug they were using.

Whatever the pharmacological impact of meth usage on oral health, it's pretty clear to me that it's a much smaller factor than the general gone-to-hell life of a full time addict.
The common word "metaverse" is now under attack and will be relentlessly copyrighted and protected :) maybe this was the strategy all along!
This is actually pretty big for me. I got a Rift a while back but it's been in a drawer ever since I needed to connect my FB account.
New to hackernews
Very related: Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies by R. Buckminster Fuller

We had the technology even in the 1950s to do mass education that would arguably be better than status quo in many subjects.

https://www.amazon.com/Education-Automation-Freeing-scholar-...
Upon rereading, I think you're right; I think I got in defensive mode way too quickly due to some sister threads.
Its people that are the problem, they are just using Facebook as a scapegoat. No matter what they do, they(FB) will get attacked by 50% of the country ... Remove GOP voices spreading crazy shit .. They are suddenly suppressing political voices(censorship). Leave the content up and suddenly Facebook is responsible for domestic terrorist attacks. Honestly Facebook has literally been begging congress to regulate them. The problem isn't Facebook its that congress refuses to do it job and now Americans expect a private company to regulate speech for nearly every country FB operates in.
Sure, aircraft work with this a lot (some can't even safely land with full fuel load) but I wonder how important this is for boats ?

Also for boats you need to account for shifting center of mass as the fuel gets used up, which is not an issue with batteries.
You're absolutely right. This is an unpopular opinion, but I don't think anxiety or depression are mental illness. They are just feelings. Your feelings do not make you ill... People attribute it to a 'chemical' imbalance, but your brain being run by chemical fluctuations, everything is a 'chemical' balance, including this comment I'm typing right now. What we've done is taken these brain fluctuations, and labeled them bad, without addressing why one's brain is thinking this.

I am an anxious person. I have had several terrible things happen to me that have led to prolonged periods of depression. Ultimately, these things are a choice, and people need to be taught good skills for coping with the sad realities of life. Life is ultimately a long series of sufferings, ending in death, which one can either choose to embrace or to worry about. Unfortunately, as a society we have stopped teaching all the traditional tools one would use to get oneself out of such funks.
> `command` is correctly informing you of the whole story.

You are assuming a bit too much here.

Which tells you the preferred executable with that name, while command tells you what will run if you execute it on the current shell.

From what I can tell, one does not replace the other. But yes, for your example of usage, command is more correct.
> You can see this happen when Nelson uses the iStat Menus app.

Ha! I just knew without reading that iStat was going to be affected by this.
Wait is this like Google inc rebranding as Alphabet and owning Google as its main product, or is the social media platform being renamed to Meta along with the company?
I'll bite. If wayland is so great why do we need X11 ?
Last i heard wayland had no window manager.
There's been a lot of misguided moderation that happens to be in favor of China. Earlier in the pandemic, the left bought into the propaganda that the lab leak theory etc were racist. I attribute the pro-China moderation to good intentions and ignorance.
What you mean to tell me folks didn't love Playstation Home?
I hope they have no exclusive rights to the name. So many metaverse things already exist it would be a shame to see them being sued by FB

As for the rest, he's advertising a new Second Life / High Fidelity as if he invented it himself. Shameful not to mention that all this has been done before, the main difference being the VR glasses. And i m glad that this is going to fail because virtual worlds are the 100% opposite of facebook (pseudonymous, not real life, NOT real friends, create instead of consume etc)
There was an actual AR glasses company named Meta before this. They failed a few years ago. I guess Facebook must have bought the trademark from them. But they never owned meta.com I guess. Their current site is https://www.metavision.com/
Having never done weed, if I smoke one will I preform worse at cognitive tasks than I would if I had a beer?

I know, comparing uppers and downers, not the same effects, etc.
Show HN: Telespace – Volumetric Streaming
Green tea catechins promote oxidative stress
Ironic how uncharitable you're being while accusing others of the same.

It's pretty easy to understand why someone who perceives themselves as working hard and paying taxes would be upset when someone else seems to be using their government benefits to buy more than the "bare necessities" without the hard work.

Whether that perspective is helpful, good, or correct is a different matter but it's certainly not an affront to "freedom" as you mentioned. Money from the government might not be less worthy but it does come at the cost of someone else.
Meta-worse
Corticosteroids are not prophylactics. They also aren't something you take to prevent hospitalizations.

I'm specifically talking about treatments that, if taken on early onset of symptoms, help prevent hospitalizations in the first place. Such treatments would have rendered the Emergency Use Authorization for novel expensive treatments, null and void.

And I'm not alleging a conspiracy. I'm concerned that Trump's project warp speed created incentives to suppress cheap alternative treatments to expensive EAU treatments.

I generally don't believe large conspiracies are that common. I do believe that poorly implemented incentives create conspiratorial appearing behavior with negative externalities.

I personally know people that directly suffered from the costs of these poor incentives, one vaccine injured friend that doctors refused to acknowledge her injury was related to the vaccine, and thus forced to pay out of pocket for several cardiologist visits and depend on her own sleuthing to finally start recovering months later. She had sudden heart issues with POTs symptoms right after her second shot. Healthy late 20s.

Side note: it's amazing to me that we are all of a sudden trusting big pharma...when two years ago, everyone knew the incentives were broken, that these same companies regularly compromised the integrity of doctors, regulatory committees, and media, all while creating health crises in the name of profit.
I see this sentiment posted often on HN but I've seen no social media that didn't eventually become toxic or that didn't feed on human attention, this website included. What good is a platform if nobody pays attention to it? And if people are paying attention to it, how do you plan to prevent them from fighting, competing with each other over every little thing, and spreading misinformation?
We created contains.dev to allow quick exploring of Docker images, their contents, layers, etc.

To get any sort of info about an image we found ourselves pulling them locally and spending lots of time with CLI tools and manual layer exploration.

Much like GitHub is a great way to explore different repositories quickly, we're hoping contains.dev is a step in that direction.
The screens are blank at first, but finally the same image snaps into existence
on all four of them at once. It is an image consisting of words; it says

IF THIS WERE A VIRUS YOU WOULD BE DEAD NOW

FORTUNATELY IT'S NOT

THE METAVERSE IS A DANGEROUS PLACE; HOW'S YOUR SECURITY?

CALL HIRO PROTAGONIST SECURITY ASSOCIATES FOR A FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION.
"The concept [Meta] originates from Snow Crash, a dystopian novel from the 1990s in which people flee the crumbling real world to be fully immersed in a virtual one"

Facebook is creating a virtual world to allow us to escape the deteriorating state of this one.
I guess theoretically if the enterprise architect knew about the project and its requirements, the pattern should probably have matched the intended outcome...
Or congress could do its job and not expect a private company to regulate "truth".
> ...the benevolence of those 50 miners...

What mechanisms do those 50 miners have to coordinate amongst each other, starting with how do they identify each other, communicate with each other, then overcome Prisoner's Dilemma in negotiating with each other?
Dont worry. Unless they acquire it, they aint building it.
It's becoming like USB version names. If you're familiar with them from working with them all regularly, you can just remember what name means what. But for newcomers, it's a massive struggle. I feel that naming things in general imposes a lot of cognitive burden on people. Chrome version numbers are beautiful. Just incrementing integers, the way we numbered things as kids.

I wonder if the naming mess is intentional for marketing or an accident of not predicting the future well enough? They certainly seem to be trying to keep it simple and it's nowhere near the impossible muddle of, say, Intel and AMD CPUs or Nvidia GPUs yet.
I've been tempted to pay someone to pour a concrete pad and buy a few to try and build a cabin on. With prices that low it's worth looking at.
Or maybe SpaceX is more successful because improvements in that industry are easier to achieve and the technology of the competition is relatively primitive. I mean, it's not exactly brain surgery.
> I'm confused by the laser focus on FB all of a sudden.

You have to look at in the context of the 2016 election. Once it was discovered that the winning team utilized Facebook in a way the losing team had no concept of (or more likely they simply didn’t use said concept as effectively), Facebook has been singled out and targeted by most media outlets for being evil and in need of strict government regulations, to protect the children and democracy and society, among other things.

Yes, FB had negative press prior. But this was the clear turning point in press coverage and governmental oversight and it was like a light switch.

I can’t say I’m disappointed in the slightest about that, or that they’re wrong. I despise Facebook. But I do find the reasoning behind this all a very disturbing extension of the “cancel culture” we’re in today. The establishment doesn’t like not having a monopoly on the spread of information, and it is fighting back.
it’s “crapshoot” as in the game of craps, meaning “it’s a gamble” but crap-chute is pretty good too. just not for this sentence
This is why I built noisify.xyz
Grim. Much nicer to go outside and enjoy creation. Facebook and Meta are no doubt austere in comparison. To quote Vonnegut, it is you who should be doing the becoming, not the damn fool computer.
> I'm not sure where you're getting these numbers, but modern AIO water cooling isn't that expensive.

I could have been more clear here, I meant a custom-loop, not an AIO since they're a sidegrade to a top-end air-cooler at best.

> However, the modern SFF experience is much better than you give it credit for. An AMD 5950X with a 240mm AIO in a mini-ITX case is easy these days and it keeps the CPU temperature in a reasonable range.

I don't see the contradiction - you can have a quiet SSF build, and you can have pretty powerful SFF builds (enthusiast GPUs might be a problem), but you can't really have both at the same time... at least not under load.
https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/health/how-to-...

^ has information on why 'normal' isn't a good range for everyone.
Wait you have to bend it yourself?
I somehow feel culturally appropriated.
Websites once required "specialized hardware". And if you've got today's top end VR rigs, it's sorta obvious that the world is going to go this way - it's too good, and productivity is enhanced on the level of "bicycle for the mind". Plus it'll get way cheaper in the future. Note that I'm not talking about entertainment usecases, which are also good - I'm saying metaverse is clearly the future of work, with massive ramifications if Meta is able to invest enough to make it appealing to regular people. And I think Facebook has way more than enough resources to make this a reality.

Right now, work in the metaverse still looks like 8+ emulated screens floating in a sphere around you. And this is probably not the long term best way to work. The real question is what are the new primitives, is there a new underlying platform, can everyone get equal access to that platform, and who owns that platform.

Just like Apple is making intel chips obsolete with the M1 on Mac, Meta probably is aiming to make laptops obsolete/niche in the long run.
> You absolutely do not need async IO for that. You can do that with a synchronous programming model just fine, using threads and letting the OS do its thing.

"just fine" is highly relative here and is doing most of the work in your statement. Do you have any conditions under which this is "just fine"? Any more detail? Or else it's just a personal preference.
> The decision to make a standalone headset and build their own app platform was absolutely the right one

Not sure whether the appeal of Quest 2 is in the standalone-ness and the app platform - or whether it's about being around half the price of comparable headsets before it, perhaps even being sold at a loss