skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We instinctively feel safest when we hear the chatter and hub-bub of relaxed tribemates puttering around nearby. We know we're not alone, that there are others will also be alerted if something happens, and that they also feel safe.

I can confirm that is false.

If it were an actual instinct, I would possess it as would essentially all people. I do not possess that instinct what-so-ever.

I do not gain an increased feeling of safety from the chatter and hub-bub of relaxed tribemates puttering nearby.

That context annoys me, rather than increasing my sense of comfort.

There are multiple types of primary human personalities, not one. I'm a non-tribalist personality type. That means tribes don't tend to like me and I don't tend to like tribes. The tribe and I are not friends, we're closer to suspicious enemies. I disagree with tribal order. By default my personality rebels against tribal structures and most systems like that. I don't do well following others that attempt to command me (tribal systems always have some manner of hierarchy). I operate at a vastly higher degree of effectiveness without lots of other people around. I'm happier and more productive on my own or in small teams.

This isn't a personality I developed over time through great effort. It has been that way at least as far back as 4-6 years of age. I've also spent my life from 15-40 years of age as an entrepreneur. I can be a decent employee, however I dislike it.

I'm a disagreeable personality (to others), as such I'm poorly suited to government, consensus structures, tribal systems, politics and the like. I also don't enjoy asking permission first and I never seek approval from others, I very rarely get a personal sense of reward from the approval of others. That said, the people I do like, I like immensely; and I'm kind toward others who are kind toward me, I believe manners are important, politeness/kindness are important. I used to refer to myself as a lone wolf personality type, as opposed to a tribalist personality type; however that phrase has a particularly negative connotation these days.

I seek to pile up a lot of money to get away from most aspects of society (in a comfortable manner), rather than to sit on top of society or eg receive prestige from a prominent place in society.
I suppose it is a safe assumption that the counter will never overlow if memory space is not large enough to possibly hold the maximum positive integer number of data structs. Though if say was using a smaller int for size than what the hypothetical size that virtual memory could handle, such as a short int in a 32-bit memory system, then that assumption may not be true. But on a 64-bit linux system which only allows up to 128 TiB of virtual address space for individual processes, a 64-bit signed int could be as large as 2^63, which would be larger than the hypothetical maximum size that a 128 TiB virtual memory could reference, so the assumption that the size counter could never overflow would be safe.
In this case, worse. Definitely worse.
Seems like "metaverse" means walled internet.

"You've got mail!" LOL
Chain Rule: Overview and Proof
Or maybe they have nothing else in the portfolio to bet on?
Metabook? Instameta? WhatsMeta?
Bill Murray said try being rich before being rich and famous. I'm rethinking the rich part.
For us software developers, it seems like the shipping industry has the container equivalent of a memory leak (a "container leak" if you will). Then the stacking rule change is the equivalent of simply adding more memory to the system, it doesn't fix the problem, but it buys you some more time of normal system operation before the next out-of-memory crash. Hopefully they use this time they bought to work on an actual solution to the original leak.
it's really FAAMG in the US too, the people who coined the phrase were confused.
Dystopian Ready Player One.
Try 2F-DCK. Many benefits but no K-hole.
Meth causes your mouth to produce to less saliva which removes the bacteria moderating ability of your mouth.

Combine that with also constricting the blood vessels of your gums, and you get a great mix of infection of dying tissue.
Lots of PR Bullsh*t here:

> Connection is evolving and so are we.
> The metaverse is the next evolution of social connection. Our company’s vision is to help bring the metaverse to life, so we are changing our name to reflect our commitment to this future.

In other words, nothing will change, just the name.
European Investment Bank to end all loans to oil and gas firms
> We have corpoeations/Private Equity Firms buying up property to squeeze out as much money possible from these places.

This isn't some groundbreaking revelation they had. Corporations and firms are always trying to squeeze as much money as possible. After a few purchases, the stimulus checks go into the hands of the corporations, who are are now flush with newly printed cash. Given that there are few real growth opportunities to invest in, everyone just throws their money at property.
Just like that one time Netflix split into Qwikster... good times
Slide 12 onwards illustrates my regarding hypothesis testing in the sciences: https://indico.cern.ch/event/995950/attachments/2171998/3676...

Say you have a dataset with several variables and you’re looking for correlations between them. If 20 different groups separately download the dataset and test hypotheses, should their p-values be adjusted for multiple hypothesis testing?
> Such a change would be a hard fork and, as you know, we don't do that in Bitcoin.

True, it'd be a hard fork. However, I don't believe hard forks are impossible if managed properly.

The taproot upgrade (not a hard fork, I know) was rather uncontroversial and accepted rather easily.

I suspect a hard fork allowing for - say - bitcoin amounts encoded in 64 bits would not necessarily generate the kind of upheaval the blocksize wars did.

And, hopefully, even for controversial upgrades, the lessons of said wars will have been learnt and the process of upgrading Bitcoin can be done in a slightly more reasonable / orderly fashion.
Indeed. Given the "balance" of trade, surely most of the empty containers need to go back on a ship so China can fill them up again? The problem is not the size of the buffer but the fact that we aren't emptying the buffer.
There are lots of lower middle class people who rely on rental income for their retirement. They work their whole life and pay off the mortgage on their house that they raised their family in, and then rent it out while they move to a small 1 bedroom place and spend their days puttering around the rental house doing gardening and maintenance.

I don't really see a problem with that.
I guess at least partially because part of the rebrand was supposed to be that you won't need a facebook account anymore to do meta things so gating the video is a little off-brand now.
> Basically name squatting off the popular use of "meta" to describe a self referential event/action.

Ironically, this cannibalizing of the word "meta" makes me feel even more strongly in favor of breaking up the company.
> You need not imagine an alternate version of C, such a version of C is provided by any decent C compiler.

Classic misunderstanding of undefined behaviour. In this case it's still undefined behaviour, but the vendor has said "this is what my compiler will do with this particular undefined behaviour under these circumstances". Vendors are allowed to do anything they want when code containing undefined behaviour is submitted to their compiler, including doing something you might consider sane.
Worked fine for me when I tried it yesterday. Revisiting the thread it looks like they were making changes to it based on feedback and that unknowingly to them they broke it before going to bed.

Personally I appreciate the fact that they made an effort to implement some of the suggested changes. And I think that in such situations, when making changes and even maybe being tired when doing it, it can easily happen that something breaks, regardless of whether you are developing with code or low-code or no-code.

For example, when I tried the tool/game, I did not yet see a way of hiding the font names and I was thinking about exactly the fact that I may be biased towards preferring the JetBrains font because I use it in CLion where I write most of my code, and that as a result I may be ranking it higher than I would if the name of it was not displayed to me.
So is this a Google -> Alphabet thing?

Or is "Facebook" being rebranded everywhere?
People should start making complaints to trading standards and simply return these as not fit for purpose.
Do humanity a favor and do not buy Oculus headsets.

Force them to remove Facebook login from headsets, and force them to open their VR platform to people using any headset.

If you don't, you may find yourself requiring an Oculus headset to work, do errands, etc. Just like Internet Explorer became the unavoidable plague of the 90s.
They started the process of shuttering it ~6 months ago. My partner worked there for ~3 years. Despite meeting all their metrics for user growth and activity it was a decision that came out of the blue. Guess we know why though? Can't have it conflicting with the brand.

I remember that two weeks before the decision came down, and she and her team got blindsided, she told me how a bioeng researcher emailed her telling her that without their tool they never would've found the connections and research needed to solve the problem they were working on. Not sure why they didn't just rebrand the tool and team, but it's probably just a blip to the facebook execs.
There are really two flavours of SFF PC: those with a full-power GPU (typically for gaming or professional use) and those that don't. For the latter, it shouldn't be too hard to build something even passively cooled. You can go even smaller. I know less about this space because it hasn't been my focus however.

Gaming SFF PCs are my jam and here the Louqe Ghost S1 holds up extremely well:

1. It takes almost all double-slot cards. Getting something a little shorter can help in terms of getting the card in and out and for cable management but there's really no need to shop for a specific shorter model. The more than two slot cards (eg RTX 3090, RX6900XT) won't fit but say a 3080 (assuming you can even get one) will be just fine;

2. My personal preference for PSU is something like the Corsair SF750. It's a 750W highly-rated SFX form factor PSU. It works well, can power a 3080 system and seems to be relatively quiet;

3. The Ghost with a top hat can then mount something like an NZXT Kraken X530 AIO to cool your PC. This is going to cut down a lot of your noise; and

4. With a separate top hat on the bottom of the case you mount two quality Noctua 120mm fans in exhaust (meaning it pulls air from the case).

The net effect of all this is that air is drawn in from the sides and expelled out from the top and bottom. It is also a negative pressure set up, meaning there is more force for exhaust than intake.

Positive pressure would be nice for keeping dust out of your case but negative pressure here is better for airflow and thus noise (by operating at lower RPM).

The above will have almost full case power and airflow and be relatively quiet. It won't be as good as you can get with a full or mid tower case but it's pretty darn close.
Apple Fitness+ to Launch in UAE on November 3
I don't understand what Facebook is even doing in terms of a metaverse. Like they have the VR goggles, but what are they actually doing with it?

Coincidentally, MMO developer Raph Koster (Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies) has recently been detailing in a series of articles what his new company is doing in terms of building a metaverse, and it's pretty exciting in gaming terms.

https://www.playableworlds.com/news/riffs-by-raph:-online-wo...
If a metaverse is hosted by FB, it'll come with all the drama, nonsense and toxicity we see on there today. The product (ie, today's users of FB) is what stinks to high heavens.
> While I can understand having this attitude, a whole lot of package build scripts, not just in Debian, but in the upstreams, rely upon which existing and printing out the path of an executable without a deprecation warning.

Probably not. The programs should (and likely actually do) parse only stdout. The warning is on stderr.

I find the whole thing pointless, I disagree with Adams that only incompetent people would depend on which, and I expect actually removing /usr/bin/which to be problematic, but I don't expect the warning itself to break much of anything, except maybe blood pressure cuffs...
I believe the original Facebook name in Chinese (Mandarin) sounded something like "have to die" as well haha
Meta has been live for a while as a Chan-Zuckerberg foundation project in open publishing. It is crazy they hijacked it for the corporation!
I'd say it's intentional, it highlights the transitional journey from one brand to another.
I'm hoping for some other rebrand and it can become MEGAMAN
There's a whole lot of fakers and takers in these communities. Lots of people who want to ride on coattails and take what they can but have very little to give.

As they say "it's lonely at the top" so people like to be part of those inner circles and take advantage of those who can.
Netflix got shoved into this for no reason. It does not fit as "Big Tech".
We could rename metaverse. Maybe derive prefixes from chemistry?

Meta, ortho, para.

Paraverse. Orthoverse.

We can't keep using metaverse now.
I agree! It's nowadays even a more special occasion to receive a postcard than it used to be. I make sure to send one from all my holidays for my grandparents and godchildren (which itself is a nice tradition, no need to be part of a church or make it religious -- kids love having their own uncle/aunt).
Ridiculous
Pointless
Sad
This article/study is all and only about "pain modulation".

Is it to say that there is only one placebo effect, which is always reducing pain?
Aren't there placebo effects going "beyond" pain relieving?
(Or is it the title that is generalizing the scope of the analysis too much?)
That's what I wonder. Early VR adopters/technologists hate what happened to Oculus and there aren't a lot of newcomers to that market. I don't think cheaper headsets are going to fix that in the near future so I don't know whom they're targeting. Seems risky to lean into something where the experts already think you screwed up.
Not to be rude but... I think you may have misread my statement.

edit: Unless I'm misattributing an unintended tone of disagreement to > "I don't really see a problem with that."
I don't think this strategy really worked for Ron Artest, but maybe it'll work for Facebook.
Fairly certain that's just Ready Player One
Renaming but the domain stays the same? Clicking the logo on the top just takes you to about.facebook.com.

Ah, going to meta.com does take you to about.facebook.com.

They just aren't not-redirecting you yet.
Still a gigantic waste of everyone time.

They could just have kept which has it has been for more than a decade and nothing would have happened. That's the decision that prevailed in the end but the fact that it had to go all the way to the Technical Committee before sanity prevailed says a lot about the utter madness of the Debian development process.
I've wanted to build a PC in the Cryorig Taku for a few years now. http://www.cryorig.com/taku.php

But the Node 202 would be the much cheaper option.
It does sounds like a nice tradition, but as a mid 30s American living on the coasts, I have never sent or received a postcard, nor seen one of my friends do it when we go on trips.
The simplest (easiest) OO model I would argue is Smalltalk.
Here's an interesting article on it: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-do-poor-people-waste-...

In short, it talks about how in US poor people are being judged as moral failures. Buying "display items" like expensive handbags makes them look less poor. So it is an investment because when they look less poor, others treat them better. Others being predominantly people with power over them - bureaucrats, managers and so on.

(the article also discusses racism)

EDIT: and you see this at all levels of wealth too - there's certain expectation of a lawyer arriving in Mercedes or BMW, otherwise some people will think them incompetent, for example.
> Just like normal commerical software.

Yeah, but that means that it is "just like normal commercial software", which is not the point of Free/Libre/Open Source Software.

You are basically saying "I wish that people writing FOSS stopped doing that."

> they would be generating revenue from for-profit companies using the software.

That makes the very naive assumption that a FOSS project that has grown to be successful would have reached the same status if it were "source available".
I know a lot of people who would be forced out of their homes if this was the case. (In the US) I wonder how it could be implemented without having to massively expand government housing.
All I can think of is Comcast -> Xfinity and how well that's gone...
My dream device for clustering is dual core 1Ghz+, 1GB ddr4 (ddr3 in a pinch) and wired Gb ethernet. In bulk (where bulk ~ 100) price $5-10. Some of the allwinner and rockchip based pi clones get close but price is a lot more.
quasi-serious:

This spells the end of the expression "that's so meta" or any related quip about self-referential humor.
The actual interesting interactive site that has the teardown and breakups - https://vdata.nikkei.com/en/newsgraphics/iphone-teardown/

(The headline could have been better - it sounds like PR fluff trying hard to somehow justify why a trillion dollar company needs to charge $1000+ for one of their devices. Wouldn't a teardown of any other flagship model of other companies reveal the same - that the components used are now costlier than 10+ years back?)
If they are actually rebranding wouldn't that be reflected on Facebook? I don't see it.
This HN comment from last week nailed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28931821
Heh, I got uMatrix cranked up so high, all I get is the menu bar with "FACEBOOK", 3 screenfuls of complete blank, then "A future made by all of us". I feel strangely good about not seeing anything.
AbstractEmu: New rooting malware distributed on Google Play
Very nice goalpost moving, but still wrong.

Specs wise, LPDDR4X would be indeed, able to beat out an average DDR4-2800 under certain circumstances. Those circumstances are quad channel (that the M1 does not have) and 3733 MHz (which the M1 does have). That of course goes out the window if you spec some DDR4-3200 and quad channel it too, which will blow LPDDR4X out of the water.

And of course, once again, you make this a laptop thing when the original post is about people believing the M1/M2 would scale linearly with power usage and be a strong contender to desktop CPUs. So, no, there's no DDR5 in the M1, its LPDDR4X is not faster than DDR4, and please stop trying to force feed me the Apple kool aid, this has never been about battery life.
Part of copyright is the right to exclude. Adding a compulsory buyout provision would make copyright so unrecognizable as to not be a copyright anymore.

Imagine the Hobson's Choice you just offered small-time artists. If you don't want to work with a large publisher, you either have to overvalue your copyright to the point of being buried by ruinsome, confiscatory taxes... or, if you don't want the taxes, then a large publisher can buy you out for pennies on the dollar. What that would mean is that you would lose the legal right to write your own work anymore.

Large publishers would benefit handsomely, as they'd be able to buy into a new market of hilariously undervalued work. You would turn every independent creative endeavor into the highly exploitative contracts that the average record label M&A lawyer writes on a day-to-day basis. Meanwhile, because these companies are already rich and powerful, they can just afford to pay the tax to overvalue their copyrights. So the end result would be a transfer of wealth from artists to publishers.

Furthermore, what happens to any existing licensing agreements? What happens if Microsoft buys out Linus Torvalds or the FSF with the intent of making Linux or GNU proprietary software? Does the GPL still hold, or does the buyout override the licensing agreement? The latter is bad for obvious reasons. The former would allow the use of improper transfers and creative accounting to partially evade the taxation regime. Hold your copyright personally, exclusively license it to an LLC on very generous terms, and then undervalue the copyright on your taxes. If someone does buy you out, they can't terminate the license for at least 35 years - upon which most of the copyright's value will have already been exploited.

What you seem to be asking for is a way to attack large companies for being large. The answer to your question is not to break copyright and patent law (more than it already has); but to actually enforce antitrust law, and reduce the scope and scale of copyright back to something reasonable.
"merged reality" as the digital world merges onto IRL?
We just need Microsoft and Netflix to rebrand AAAAA
Sounds like a Yudkowskyists wet dream to me.

Anyone know if people there are heavily influenced by his work?
I wonder how much they paid for meta.com
Ask HN: Advice dealing with Insurance denying Oncologist's recommendations?
My apologies for this not being directly tech related, but I know there are many people here on HN with domain expertise in a broad array of industries.

A family member is experiencing new symptoms that were the precursor to discovering their cancer originally. Unfortunately at diagnosis, they were already stage 4.

The oncologist ordered a specific scan, the insurance company denied it, and then required a "peer to peer" meeting with the doctor. They forced the doctor's hand to accept a different type of scan, which at an earlier point of treatment had returned a false negative for us. And the process is also causing, and has caused in the past, delays to treatment in an extremely time sensitive situation.

What can I possibly do about this peer to peer theater? There is absolutely no way the insurance companies' "peer" knows the latest details about the ever evolving treatment the oncologist is using. And this "peer" certainly knows nothing about my family member's specifics when it comes to their treatment history.

How is this stuff even legal? I googled around and found this disturbingly similar situation blogged by a Dr. Rick Boulay in 2017:
https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2017/09/dear-insurance-doctor-not-peer.html

Then I stumbled upon an old New York Times article that quoted him, about how doctors are sometimes lying to insurance agencies in order to get the treatment their patients desperately need:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/well/the-strategic-lies-of-oncologists.html
(archive: https://archive.md/5lfkU#selection-505.42-505.45)

What the hell is going on? This is absolute madness.
It’s a good thing if it clashes with existing words?
Other interesting things said during the keynote: "and frankly, as we've heard your feedback more broadly, we're working on making it so you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account. We're starting to test support for work accounts soon, and we're working on making a broader shift here within the next year. I know this is a big deal for a lot of people. Not everyone wants their social media profile linked to all these other experiences and I get that, especially as the metaverse expands."

Also:

"As big of a company as we are, we've also learned what it is like to build for other platforms. And living under their rules has profoundly shaped my views on the tech industry. Most of all, I've come to believe that the lack of choice and high fees are stifling innovation, stopping people from building new things, and holding back the entire internet economy. [...] We'll continue supporting sideloading and linking to PCs so consumers and developers have choice rather than forcing them to use the Quest store to find apps or reach customers."