skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a pretty naive take, given how successful the company has been under Mark..
It’s amazing how no one can be frank with him. “Look mark, the CEO doesn’t have to be the presenter. I’m sorry but you just can’t be the face of the company, it’s bad for business. Please, move aside, and get a normal person haircut”.
Twitter is 100 times more toxic than FB, but somehow everyone is focused on FB.

I guess someone powerful is annoyed.
Since the linked page didn't really tell me anything, I had to go their twitter for a summary:

> Announcing @Meta — the Facebook company’s new name. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we’ll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection.

> The names of the apps that we build—Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp—will remain the same.
Before a few weeks ago, it was all social media and big tech that was getting a bad rap for ruining society, but now it's almost exclusively FB.
This is what I don't understand about their plan. Who on earth is planning to adopt this? We've seen a push from all sides of the tech industry to open up the AR/VR space, and it never took off.

Remember the Snapchat Spectacles? They still sell them but I don't think they were ever popular. Google glass? Popular, but discontinued. Apple's ARKit? Definitely much less adoption than their commercials would have led you to expect.

It seems like this is an experiment bound to fail, so good luck to the execs at f̶a̶c̶e̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ meta who have to clean this up in the end.
What they really mean is that they need a new generation of Greater Fools to sell their collections to, otherwise the value of their collections will completely deflate.

I've seen this exact same discussion on comic book boards that I frequent, where some collectors worry that Golden Age and Silver Age comics may drop in value because they don't have as much meaning to newer collectors, who buy Modern comics for different entirely reasons. It's kind of a funny discussion to me, since they are literally trying to keep a Ponzi scheme going at the expense of younger people and new collectors.
the picture for "responsible innovation" is so funny... they're like "we're approved by this disapproving black woman!"
This is why I built https://noisify.xyz (for myself mainly)
All depends if they can deliver on AR before anyone else.

Gotta remember outside of Oculus, their entire product portfolio exists on top of the platforms of their competitors. This is their play to own the entire thing from the foundation up and the resources they'll be willing to use to accomplish that will be huge and really their only competition is Apple because Google gave up.
Very unlikely we will see it from Nintendo, Nintendo have lacked innovation for ages, they just sell cutesy games to kids. They cornered the 'disney' market, don't expect them to do anything great from a tech perspective
I should have given more context. In cases where incentives are deeply, structurally misaligned, and it will take heroic effort and significant luck to yield an order of magnitude improvement over the status quo, we should consider "letting it burn" as an option, and recognize the total cost of treating the symptoms. The global logistics quagmire may be a candidate for nuclear-ish options. Agree with you on the cancer patient scenario.
It's like we forgot the most fundamental goal of containers: to be fungible.. containers?
Any of the FAANG workers here please tell me why all the large companies are trying to create metaverse?

I’ve been playing MUDs, MMOs since their very beginnings and literally metaverse doesn’t interest me. So who is their target audience that they can spend billions on this metaverse?

And how metaverse will be different than Second Life?

Give us some insider knowledge please.
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> SpaceX is likely going to need to construct hundreds of Starships to maintain anywhere close to the promised cadence of launches.

That's always been the plan. Even in the original 2016 presentation featuring the considerably larger Interplanetary Transport System that got scaled down to become what's now known as Starship and Superheavy, the plan was to churn them out en masse to make it possible to make the most of each Earth-Mars transit window.

Starships and all the parts that comprise them are designed to be mass produced and treated as cattle rather than pets.
Welp, tried atleast 7 times to watch this without a Facebook account. Made it about 2 minutes each time before being redirected to a login page.
Oculus sold 2 of every 3 VR headsets last quarter. If there's a lesson here, it's that you can't extrapolate mass market appeal from what early adopters think.
Ok but that that's a complete fork for the conversation. You're talking in terms of a philosophical land usage/property right debate; I see your point. I might not completely agree with it, but I see it. However, I'm not trying to have a philosophical debate. I'm talking about real terms of the world we live in today where it's highly unlikely anyone is going to be able to scrap all the existing rules, laws, norms, etc and come up with some new construct.

I am unaware of any place where neighboring property owners are not considered when contemplating what a property owner is allowed to do. You're saying the property owner shouldn't be regulated at all, which is fine except you're not the decision maker and other people will disagree with you. The net effect is what we have now. It's not perfect, some people will always disagree but the idea is it works for most people most of the time.
This is of course ridiculous. UBI money is much more likely to be spent increasing the velocity of money in the economy than if it were spent bailing out companies. It's very hard to run a consumer economy whilst making the consumers too poor to afford to spend much.
I prefer the WH, unless you have serious space constraints, soldering your own is a little fiddly.
Holaverse
Speaking of nuance, catching and spreading the virus is not something you are either able or unable to do. If you (not you personally) are afraid of being vaccinated, you also have to accept the possibility that you might catch it more easily and also transmit more than the vaccinated version of yourself.

What does "the Delta variant won't be stopped" even mean? That deaths won't drop to zero? Well of course, this is not news.

This is an emergency situation and at least in my country, hospitals just cannot cope with the overwhelming number of patients and this severely affects people with other diseases as well.

So, being vaccinated is about you, but not only about you. You can't have it all.
I am a straight man, so have no experience with other men obviously, but this is fascinating. How can it be that so many of us are on antidepressants? Something is surely wrong as you've said right?

There may also be selection effects as men in their late 30s may not have 'paired up' so to speak due to depression. But still, I'm curious if anyone has stats on how many people are on these drugs.
Welcome to Metaverse where we have virtual sex! Enjoy your stay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGMa1Q-45ow
These patterns are so vague and high-level that you could just throw a dart in one of them and it'd work OK for whatever some company is doing. Almost no one is solving issues that can only be described in one pattern.

If anything people are too caught up in the idea that there decisions are make or break for a business.
Sorry Zuckerberg, but the metaverse will NOT be a walled garden, tied to a social media company. Is the the internet, and more specifically, THE WEB itself as an immersive, distributed spatial ecosystem of worlds.

The metaverse needs to be interoperable above all else, and this is unachievable with the equivalent of native, vendor locked apps controlled by an entity. The web already does this, as every site is governed by standards like HTML and HTTP which are consistent everywhere, on every device.

WebGPU, WebXR, WebAssembly, and WebTransport are the key foundational technologies to this future online space. Our startup Wonder is assembling tools to empower developers and non-technical creators alike to build and deploy immersive websites using native game engines like Unreal Engine, that allow for immersive virtual storefronts, hangout spaces for chatting with friends and family, collaboration with coworkers, or jump into a game or interactive experience like a concert.

Why the web, you might ask? Because no owns it. There's no 30% cut to give Apple or Facebook for accessing it.

If you're interested in learning more or registering your intent ahead of our general availability launch, you can join our Discord here:

https://discord.gg/zUSZ3T8
Filings show Sweetgreen isn't profitable, despite claims
It wasn't changed for Alphabet either. The future is MAAAN.
Babelfish for PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL with SQL Server Compatibility
Or Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which coined the term "metaverse."
Twitter hijacked the meta username for Facebook
>If you add a property which shouldn't be public you have to separate them. For example in the domain model you have a user with email but do not want to expose the email.

Another possible problem: having to support two versions of the API at the same time.
So this would only be a problem if more than 50% is fraudulent? Or what number? 11%, or $20B is still a massive amount of fraud.
I know most of us aren't looking forward to a future with Facebook in control, but ask yourself: How many times has Zuckerberg been wrong about tech trends?

I can't think of a single time. He's gotten every major investment correct.

This metaverse idea will either be the first major Facebook misstep, or it's a future we should embrace sooner than later. You stand to win big if you're an early adopter on any given platform, and perhaps it's time to start thinking about this as a new iOS.

That said, I hope I'm mistaken.
In the below podcast an author of a book about recent meth developments talks about the ban of Sudafed entirely in Mexico lead to a change in the market toward fentanyl.

Author and journalist Sam Quinones talks about his book, The Least of Us, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Quinones focuses on the devastation caused by methamphetamine and fentanyl, the latest evolution of innovation in the supply of mind-altering drugs in the United States. The latest versions of meth, he argues, are more emotionally damaging than before and have played a central role in the expansion of the homeless in tent encampments in American cities. The conversation includes an exploration of the rising number of overdose deaths in the United States and what role community and other institutions might play in reducing the death toll.

https://www.econtalk.org/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-t...
@teenage.engineering - the 2nd - 3rd line of hero text is hidden by the image on mobile.
It used to be that having graduated from a selective school was a proxy for SAT, which was a proxy for IQ, and large companies legal departments tend to refuse to sign off on IQ tests as they are possibly biased against protected classes, so recruiting from selective schools was a way to launder recruiting people with high IQ scores.
Internetverse

Neverse for short.
Magic Leap 2
I wouldn't rule out that he could even be liked, if he didn't obviously pretend to be someone he is not
Maybe not racism, just classism.
In that case you should be writing articles, I'd read! :)
All other literature have told me exactly the contrary in terms of attitudes concerning risk. So, do you have a non politicized source for your statements?
Aha, it was a video by Steve Mould:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEoc0YoALt0
Should also fix seeking if the server doesn't support it. If there is a downloadable video file it should just play. Seeking should provide visual feedback and jump to the selected point only when data is returned while continuing normal playback.

Youtube is not an option as it requires a popup for the General Data Protection Regulation.

The only working thing we have atm is OS specific forced downloads that require downloading the entire file.
Pharmacologically, amphetamines are no worse on your mouth than regular nicotine or caffeine usage. And while cigs & coffee aren't necessarily good for your oral health, they also don't generally cause major gum disease and tooth loss.

"Meth mouth" is mostly caused by neglect, not the biological effects of amphetamines. Long-term heroin & crack users suffer the same kind of severe tooth decay as meth addicts. If you smoke meth every day, but still somehow manage to brush & floss your teeth every day, your oral health won't be any worse than the average American.
yes.

and you are going to watch them do it on 'the metaverse'.
Not really a new application for bitcoin. Trusted timestamping has been considered a secondary use case for bitcoin for a ling time. There's even services lìke https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTimestamps
US websites which insult the Thai monarchy also send illegal files to Thailand.
> I really think this is overrated in how much of a technology risk this is. Specially if you have enough weight that you can invest in the solution.

Refueling is a schedule risk, maybe the first design will fail to account for something and it will take a couple iterations to get it right. There is zero risk that the problem is unsolvable.
5 liters of water a day per panel. This would be really good for water resupply points on long trails. A tank, a couple panels, and you have a permanent water supply. That is, if you can keep jerks from shooting it...
I tried to watch the keynote video 3 times and after a few seconds, it would show me a login popup. I haven't had a FB account for over 7 years. Why can't they just let me watch what they are without an account?
You're not far off but the sad thing is that Hughes died 30 years later. He died due to malnutrition and for years his various control centers had run operations separate enough from him that he had no clue what was going on sometimes, but he still was running much of his empire in that penthouse up to the early 70s.

Hughes was a direct part of Watergate.
Drift into machine learning and you'll soon find content-free meme titles like "Building Rome in a day" or "YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger".
> herbal observation

What does this mean?
Yep, just tried now and it fixed itself.
They can take the mass penalty of performing a large re-entry burn to reduce heat-load and land falcon9-style.
It would mean _much_ less mass to orbit, but the cost savings of reusing the vehicles would still be there.
Did it help? That's the question. We should have enough data to get preliminary results.

I search Google news just about every day and all I can find is people patting themselves on the back for getting the rule changed, but nothing about whether the rule change has made a difference.
Depression is relative. Today on social media, people come away with the false conclusion that they are meant to feel euphoric most of the time.

I don't believe in 'feeling happy', yet every magazine promises me i'll be happy if I just do X. Instagram says if I just follow <blah>, my life will become infinitely better. It's all a joke. I never feel happy, but I am not depressed. And more importantly, I have no interest in constant happiness... how boring. Most days I just feel meh. Sometimes I feel hungry.
> I'm personally keen on the AR/VR space (surrounded by headsets here), but the early adopters are so polarized about Facebook/Oculus's involvement.

There is no polarization at all. I don't know a single person who is happy about being forced to use FB in order to be able to use the equipment they have bought.
Something some may have missed in the past news flow:

> A recent (but not yet peer-reviewed) study of more than half a million U.S. veterans showed that the Johnson & Johnson shot’s protection against infection (whether or not that leads to disease or hospitalization) had plummeted from 88 percent to 3 percent by mid-August, while the other vaccines’ effectiveness had declined much less

Ex https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.13.21264966v...

...Though

> Paul Offit, who directs the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said that J&J may turn out to be “every bit as good as the mRNA vaccines” when compared two doses to two doses. He also suspects that a single dose of J&J would prevent more hospitalizations and deaths than a single dose of Pfizer or Moderna [should not we have data about this latter statement?] [...] thanks to the way it tickles [...] T cells, which help prevent infections from progressing into severe disease. [...] [B]ut some studies have shown that the mRNA vaccines produce T-cell responses with at least as much vigor as J&J’s. [John Moore, microbiology and immunology professor at Weill Cornell Medicine] says that antibodies are a better proxy for protection anyway, and the Moderna and Pfizer options consistently produce more of them in the vaccinated
Netflix has no place in this acronym.
These aren't all-or-nothing effects. Kids are resilient and adaptable, and it's never too late to start building a relationship.

But it is a relationship. If dad hasn't been there in the past, kid's got no reason to go to him for comfort or guidance in the future. That starts at birth, with holding & skin-to-skin contact, and continues through daily caregiving.
Meta? Does it matter?
Totally agree, 100% team Apple. In the immortal words of Apple PR: "what's a computer?" Like its 2021, do you really want to associate with people that call themselves the "PC m*ster r*ce"? Ummm gross, no, f*scist vibes, im out, haha. Also, I've heard these so called gaming "rigs" (do they burn diesel... like what) use a TON of electricity... so much so that California outlawed them (nice!). If you're looking for a superior fanless youtube cat video machine (so cute), I'd highly recommend the newest iPad over the Mac. Apple has put a lot of blood (ew), sweat, and tears into ensuring this is the thinnest (NON-computing hehe) experience that you can possibly have, so send your support in hard earned $$$. I mean even if you don't have those (America is an oppressive state after all), Apple offers an inclusive payment plan. A mortgage for your computer! They really thought of it all!
Does anyone know if newer Philips smart TVs have this type of ads? I have one that's around 4 years old and it doesn't have it, not sure with newer ones.
If you think the laser focus happened "all of a sudden" I believe you haven't been paying enough attention. ;) I think outside of the U.S. there has been more concern about FB's awful track record for years by now.

But to answer your quest: For me it's their wish to be the biggest dog on Earth, aiming to be "everyone's internet" (especially in poorer, non-western nations) while at the same time wilfully ignoring the responsibilities that come with it.

Most other players are also bad, I guess, but so far not many of them are able to do that. much. damage. to society while putting profits first no matter the cost, while trying to game the system no matter the cost, while scorching the Earth to stave off perceived competition, while assuming they're above the law.

I'm certain that if Twitter, Telegram, Baidu, VK et al are having their own skeletons in the closet but they're not in the spotlight as much (yet).

(Edited for grammar.)
I collect comic books, and I collect limited edition rock n roll photos.

I do have a vast collection of digital comics, probably 250GB worth, but I also want the joy of actually owning some of them, looking at them, and reading them.
This is amazing. Not just the construction of drones from leftover materials, but using them to overcome the problems of limited infrastructure.

I could spend all day reading stuff like this!
Yeah, he means you'll need a "Meta" account.
I agree. The modern internet is just a reflection of how people want to use the internet, with all the good and bad that comes with that. I guess it's too bad the utopian dreams of the 90s didn't pan out, but what did people really expect once society moved online?
There's a new ticker symbol for this one: FB->MVRS.

(There's already an ETF called "META"; 6% of its holdings are FB.)

I'm kind of curious about what will happen as either:

(1) confused investors buy into META instead of MVRS over the next few months

(2) confused investors can no longer find FB and instead buy FBK (FB Financial) or another one of the top Robinhood search results (FBHS, FBNC, FBC).
Non-interacting means non-interacting with detection equipment, but it also means non-interacting with production equipment. Quantum mechanics is time-reversible, so "can't detect (absorb) it" = "can't produce (emit, i.e. absorption in reverse) it." It's a very parsimonious thing.
Ron Artest literally changed his name to 'Meta World Peace' cause his popularity sunk to an all time low after the Pistons and Pacers brawl.
That can actually end up more healthy overall & lead to some competition.

Having just one metaverse everyone uses seamed like the worst thing in Ready Player One - because then one entity can control it and for their rules and morals on all participants.

Much harder to do that with multiple competing incompatible metaverses.
It's impressive how the logo on meta.com is not an SVG but a low resolution PNG
Meta: A Social Technology Company
No, conservatives think transfer payments are theft. It’s not that it’s simply taxation.
Sorry to hear that. Do you think it's a function of your philosophical beliefs?
It's just because FANG (don't think Apple was originally part of it) was a list of fast-growing stocks, coined by none another than Mad Moneyman Jim Cramer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FAANG

Quite honestly that term in both stock and big tech senses is outdated. It should really include a few post-unicorn giants like Uber nowadays.
The Ncase is no more, sadly. The company is still around, so everyone is expecting they'll have a new case eventually, but the M1 is EOL.
It’s a shame Apple won’t enter this market.
I’ve seen it said (somewhere, sorry) that humans simply aren’t designed to interact on these mass social scales. And (without evidence, I admit) that feels kind of right to me. The ideal social network is a small one. But the incentives of advertising and/or just growth in general mean that it would difficult to compete in the market against the likes of Facebook.
You're right, I knew it looked familiar.

However, Gfycat features many anti-patterns, such as heavy layout, inaccessible scrolling and cookie notification overlay, while RT omits these.
Yep, same. Speaks volumes!
>Apple will kill Rosetta 2 at some point, just like they did with Rosetta 1 and my bet is sooner rather than later.

The original version of Rosetta was based on QuickTransit and licensed from Transitive, so Apple paid for every version of MacOS that included it.

This version of Rosetta was created in-house instead of licensed from a third party, so there is no cost benefit to dropping it quickly.
Depends on a few factors like what task, innate ability, etc. Which is not a non-answer - it is THE answer: in my experience, some things are easier on one than the other and vice versa.

FWIW, here's my definition of a "hard" drug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29028924
But when you sell 1,000,000 TV units extra 180,000,000 profit is not insignificant.
Why can't they just say we want to change the company name to distance ourselves from the increasingly toxic brand that is Facebook. Yet another dishonest, cringe, and nauseating announcement from Facebook.
Global Chip Shortage ‘Is Far from over’ as Wait Times Get Longer
That JSON would be the text output of the command. There are utilities like grep, find, sed, awk, git porcelain, readlink, basedir, which, that write output suitable for machines on stdout and other utilities that write output suitable for humans.

If you want to be a good UNIX netizen then stdout is for machines while stderr is for humans.