skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one degree away from Mark. I dated someone who was an early employee at Facebook for a little while - all I can really say without revealing who they are. I just know they know Zuck, Cook, and a few others personally.

They told me that when Facebook's (or maybe it was Instagram's...) stories came out with video support, Zuck posted a super bizarre video introducing it, being the first one and all. And I guess it was just him awkwardly staring into the camera, not really saying anything. Almost like someone who thinks it's a photo but it's a video instead - though he was fully aware it was a video. His wife was in the background waving and stuff too.

The person I was seeing I guess texted him and said something to the effect of "hey this is super awkward, maybe you should re-post it with you talking about it", which I guess Zuck did.

So it's my impression that he's not exactly surrounded by yes-men, but instead that he's not really in touch with the social aspect of running one of the largest social networks on earth and how people really behave. I know a lot of people say it's autism but as far as I was told it's not - he's just strange.

This is hearsay of course, but I'm pretty confident that I was told the truth given who it was that I talked to about all this.
> Look at how much control and spying employers place on low wage workers compared to high wage workers.

Has it occurred to you that this is because low wage employees might actually commit more thefts and such?

I mean... I've been on a grand jury, and i've seen the lengths some companies go to prevent theft from what I presume are low wage employees. These systems costs lots of money. If low wage employees were actually not stealing, then why would they expend all this money on these systems? It would seem any actuary would be able to tell you you're throwing money away. And yet, they continue to have the systems.

I don't think low wage employees are 'bad'. I'm just pointing out that if the employer behavior is so irrational, then certainly some company would start that wouldn't do that. That every single one does I think indicates that this is a common enough problem.
Wow; that is a lot worse than I thought. I really wish IPv6 was better understood than it is now, it really is quite a good standard, but it is also quite a bit different than IPv4 which I think scares people away (it can also be hard to remember longer IPv6 addresses).
dietary cholesterol has a negligible effect on blood cholesterol levels. Almost all cholesterol in the body is endogenously created
I've always been a bit wary of higher-level languages to replace lower-level RTL (e.g. in Verilog or VHDL). From my experience whilst SystemVerilog isn't a nice language it doesn't really get in the way of the actual hard problems, just causes a nuisance for easier things.

In processor micro-architecture the hard problems come when you're trying to hit a frequency, power or area target. You may need to do some interesting things that can be quite circuit specific and have complex tradeoffs (e.g. perhaps you choose to handle some corner case that produces a large timing path with some kind of stall or replay when it occurs, is the corner case sufficiently infrequent that overall you get a performance increase?). Having some high level way to sweep through the design space here would be incredibly useful, but the problem is building each point of the design space can be its own complex task.

Having a high level description you can easily fiddle with in order to try different kinds of complex instructions, easily play around with structure sizing and the like sounds great. The problem is if it doesn't produce a design that's as optimal as the hand-coded RTL could be you might get the best design for your application that the tool can make but it gets outperformed by a more standard design that's normal hand-coded RTL.

It's tempting to compare to software, where high-level code is often preferred even if it's not the most efficient due to the other benefits it brings but chips have certain fixed manufacturing costs that just aren't present in software. Due to these costs it's often better to put more into the design, by more detailed low-level work, in order to get a more optimal design.

Though that said I really need to spend some more time with these higher-level tools. I'm sure there's some great stuff to be done with them.
No drive cage? How does everything mount? They've provided zero photos of the interior of an assembled machine.
meta.org was acquired by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2017. For some time, meta.com was forwarding to meta.org.
The Effects of an External Focus of Attention on Running Economy
There are several states without sales tax. Do they have better outcomes for poor people? (I have no idea... genuinely curious).

EDIT: s/income/sales
A lot of people alive and not dead
Sideways motion is harder to determine than motion towards us; the former needs angular resolution, the latter doppler radar.

And the sort of rock that could shift 67P from a safe to a dangerous path (LEO to 45 degrees one year ahead) would be about 13 metres radius. The Wikipedia citation is 5 years old, so I don’t know what we know today, but in 2016 the estimate was we only knew somewhere around 1.3% of asteroids between 40m and 3.5m diameter (and 0.003% of smaller than that, because things get harder to spot as you get smaller).

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object#Size_distrib...

ArXiv link because the citation in Wikipedia was giving me a server error: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06328.pdf
Anybody have a link to the court documents referenced in this news article, because I can't find it in the article itself? (As an aside I really would prefer news articles that are summarizations of other documents to please also provide the original document)
As to point B, they don’t even need to send one to all users - just the ones they think will be cash cows for advertisers. Everyone with a income and behavior pattern that makes them a super valuable ad demographic (say, 5% or even 1% of users) gets one for free while the rest of us pay our way on.
I disagree to a certain extent. The business model of adtech + social media creates an especially toxic product that brings out the worst in people, and puts vitriolic content in front of more eyeballs because that's what drives engagement.

If FB's business model were significantly different and didn't depend on maximizing eyeballs-on-screens time, and didn't depend on selling the ability to manipulate people's emotions at scale, the product might be less toxic.

In summary, I think it's a cop-out to just say "humans bad." Yes, but the systems we create and participate in can and do influence human behavior in different ways. Facebook wouldn't be quite so toxic if there wasn't money to be made from the toxicity.
One-way video interview platform, done right
AsyncHire enables you to interview candidates without the hassle of scheduling meetings or worrying about timezone differences when hiring remotely. Your potential hires can answer interview questions at their own pace, while you get to pick the best candidate through a sped-up screening process.
Is this Facebook trying to do a PR pivot away from “Facebook”?
Facebook is investing 10 billion dollars into the metaverse this year alone and will increase this amount in the future.

They can probably make the Metaverse an open standard like the web and still end up with one of the most popular hubs.

If people who value their privacy can setup their own hubs, i'm pretty much OK with Facebook speeding up the advancement of AR/VR technology for the next several years using their advertisement dollars.
A common argument for why humanity has never encountered extra-terrestrial life is that any hyper advanced civilization likely moved into a virtual world. Do you believe this is unlikely and humanity is not headed in this direction?
As a general rule I am somewhat of the camp of "part of what defines us as a society is how we treat the people who have it the worst."

I think even if you could somehow prove that there was a ridiculously huge amount of welfare fraud, I'd still be somewhat supportive of it; I think there's an inherent value of knowing that a safety net exists. If you lose your job, or get into a horrible accident, or have some condition that puts you at a disadvantage, we (as a society) should be looking out for you, particularly in the most wealthy economy on the planet.
I think he means that when you're tweaking on the "old meth," you'd be more likely to go outside and interact with people (many times, with hostility and aggression), while the "new meth" is more likely to make you want to stay inside, and withdraw from society.

In my opinion, this is a plausible hypothesis.
So it has to be one of the -isms and can't simply be a person having an opinion, even if incorrect or based on incorrect assumptions.

BTW, for the record, I'm not familiar with the concept of welfare queens.
> At what point, if ever, do Americans acknowledge the horrific fiscal situation the Baby Boomer generation bequeathed to us and accept that painful & deep spending cuts must be made, instead of piling more spending atop expenditures this country cannot afford?

Thank you. Exactly this.

I am very fiscally conservative, but I have no problem with welfare in general. However, this country cannot afford it. Many other countries can, and I think that's great. We cannot. There is really no question here.
>Keeping it tightly controlled like that also makes it harder to crack.

We both know that's BS. I never thought I'd say this but Google is doing good by not selling this "product" to anyone that just asks.
Ask HN: Audio Book Recommendations
I've run out of good audio books to listen to. Any recommendations from the HN community?
Krystal and Saagar: Is FB 'Whistleblower' a Billionaire Censorship Plant?
> And facebook is all about walled gardens so they won't.

They had tons of Open APIs and stuff until people abused it and the CEO had to go to congress, so idk if the blame is solely on the company.
Hm, seems like a monocausal 'explanation' of a complex problem - or let's say a mere opinion with little background information.

Given the 'hundred year crisis', I think we have fared relatively well from a purely economic point of view... So, yes, some problems may exist but I think we have witnessed a surprisingly resilient system, given how optimized everything is and how unprecedented the issue is.

I don't know if a slight price increase in graphics cards is the key issue to worry about at this point.

Keeping tons of spare capacity is neither economical nor environmentally friendly. Also, it would probably only shift the problem elsewhere.
The neat thing about using NFTs is that you can represent the ownership on a public blockchain and that gives you some nice possibilities:

1) storing virtual property rights on a public ledger means that it can be shared among different 'metaverses', which provides friction against vendor lock-in; it limits specific vendors (like Facebook) to only providing UIs to underlying property

2) a single vendor going out of business doesn't impact your virtual property; Blizzard could shutdown WOW and you would loose all of your loot, but if it's on a public ledger then your loot survives

I think something like this is the only really plausible approach to building an open and interoperable metaverse (it's also the most compelling application of NFTs IMHO).
I got back from the doctor last week due to some chest pains. He was more worried about my high blood pressure 130/90.

Every time i measure it at home its 110s/70.
I just lost a friend to Ketamine, and there is another thread on the front page about someone famous who destroyed their life with it.

Ketamine seems like a miracle but a ton of people cant control their usage of it at all. Even if you think you know how addiction works, Ketamine sneaks up on you in a way cocaine, heroin, and oxytocin do not.

Please be careful.
The entire Wikipedia article is already updated haha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta,_Inc.
MicroATX Threadripper boards are theoretically possible, if you go chipsetless like in X300 or EPYC.
Will it increase $10? I can't go out and buy a cost of living, so it seems like it would be hard to pin down. Who would increases prices under UBI? Housing? grocery? childcare? that aspect seems unclear to me.

If UBI is too hard to figure out, what's the alternative? more government housing? medicare for all? What's the least complicated way to ensure everyone gets housing, food, and healthcare?
There is still a huge massive gap in what peoples think a metaverse is like(think Ready Player One, or any move with VR involved) vs what it is in reality.

Facebook will still be Facebook for quite a while.
Is it? The HN front page absolutely does have some level of algorithmic manipulation going on. There was just a thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024032
NFTs let you own autographs of digital assets.

Which is cool. If it weren't for the energy use.
Give/take duality is significant in the study of proto-indo/european language. IIRC, some root words took opposite meanings in their descendent languages. Some have gone so far as to speculate that this suggests reciprocality was an important culture expectation around gift-giving in PIE society.
The point being made is that it’s hard to get by and be deep in more one of those situations if you’re poor.
I mean, you gotta make people excited about the future, and I think they were successful in doing that here. They want to be an innovative company, as opposed to just a social network company, that's the pitch.
Meta worse.
meta feta betta? i guess if google can be alphabet, facebook can be meta. i was always under the assumption from everything i have read about business and branding that from a marketing standpoint renaming your brand once established is a fairly bad idea but i guess that has changed?
A synth head looking for a SFF should get a Mac mini, much better value for music production than this tiny pc.

I think their just showcasing their proof of concept.
As well as rolling labor blackouts as factories had to shut down (repeatedly) because people got sick and they couldn't risk everyone getting sick. And distribution centers. And retail. Etc etc.
Have you seen the YouTube video where a waterwheel [1] demonstrates predictable behavior under one set of conditions, but with a small change, the system moves into chaotic behavior?

I figure the supply chain is like that. Under certain conditions, JIT is fine. Given sufficient disruptions, the system descends into chaos. Note that we have humans in the loop, too, so expect non-linearities.

I could be wrong. Corrections are welcome.

[1] https://youtu.be/Lx8gMBJBlP8
Some more than others (aka more than me).
Is Twitter the best place for such analyses? They're stream of consciousness sentences and paragraphs, not cohesive narrative essays.
The whole United States has income tax at the federal level. I assume most states that have income tax have that tax stratified like the US does, where less money demands less percentage tax
I mean obviously you need less energy to move things around. We spend an enormous amount of energy to move things around on earth.
> Housing? grocery? childcare? that aspect seems unclear to me.

All of them would, because with extra money, there would be more demand for these goods and services, but the supply of the good itself hasn't increased. Thus, companies will charge more. In sum, the total increase in charge will be $10.
60Hz 1080p isn't good enough for VR. Bulky hardware that can be built for $100 isn't good enough for mass adoption. There's a reason why Meta is investing so heavily.
> unambiguously good: tryptamines (e.g., psilocybin) and phenethylamines (e.g., mescaline).

My friends uncle died jumping off a building on acid. Not one of the psychedelics you named, but having done all three I certainly think such a drastic action is possible on mushrooms or mescaline. Whether this means they aren't unambiguously good is up for debate I guess.
> I honestly feel like 'if this is the future, I want no part in it.'

I feel like that about ever larger part of the whole tech world. I am torn - I can still muster a lot of techno-optimism when I think for example about possible benefits of advanced AIs for humanity. But than I imagine the world where the most advanced AIs are controlled by corporations like Google and Facebook... I have a bad feeling about this.

I am trying to find some reasonable middle ground between becoming a luddite and just continuing like I do not see all those unforeseen negative impacts produced by the genie that was once called the IT revolution.
“Important to us, but not profitable to serve.”
I think you're thinking of someone else. The Zappos CEO died in a house fire in New London, CT.
Let the global supply chain burn? By Jove, let’s have a great depression!
I really don't understand what you mean by this comment. The only swaths of the economy that I'm aware of that got shut down in the U.S. are things like bars, restaurants and movie theaters. These are not tightly connected to global supply chains, AFAIK, and if they were why would their shut down cause bottlenecks (it should lessen demand, not increase it)?
About 15-20%. But that’s just the antidepressants; sexual dysfunction can also be caused by blood pressure medication, epilepsy meds, etc. Anecdotally I would say regular sexual dysfunction among men over 35 is probably closer to 50%.

I don’t know how this compares to past eras though.
The short answer is that opiates kill by suppressing the breathing reflex. Anything that stimulates breathing can be used to counter act the effect of opiates. In the 70's people would force people to go on walks until their lips weren't blue from 02 deprivation, even if they had to support them while they walked.
There's a huge distinction that needs to be made between AR and VR. AR in public is a menace, for the same reason everyone not wearing one hated google glass.
> It gets ignored because it is a symptom of not being able to cheaply launch probes.

Is it, though? Let's do a quick and very superficial analysis of the costs here. Say we want to send a probe the outer solar system, like the moons of Jupiter or the Saturn system.

There are two unique challenges that such probes are faced with:

• on Jupiter, the magnetic field of the planet requires hardened electronics and shielding

• in the Saturn system and beyond, nuclear power is the only option for powering your instruments

Neither of these points are in any way shape or form correlated with launch costs. In fact, in order to get RTGs you need to build, maintain and operate an entire specialised nuclear facility. Alternatively you could use small nuclear reactors, but that may or may not interfere with certain instruments.

The cost of hardening electronics and shielding is also not going away even if launch costs were non-existent. It also doesn't matter much whether you produce 10 or 1000 of such specialised processors - the cost will still be orders of magnitude higher than comparable commodity options.

It's not getting any better if we turn inwards instead and consider Venus or Mercury. Both again pose incredible and unique engineering challenges as do most scientifically interesting targets in the solar system.

How exactly would a cheaper launch cost solve the problem of a Venus sample-return mission? Is it the expensive launch that prevents us from sending an orbiter out to Pluto?
How does more and cheaper payload help with getting a probe into the oceans of Europa, Ganymede, or Enceladus? I could go on, but I think you get what I mean.

edit: there's also the human factor that I conveniently left out - every mission requires a staff of people (both scientists and engineers) for the entire mission duration; that cost is also unrelated to launch costs
> With launch costs Starship offers even under pessimistic estimates, even non-space companies will be able to afford to just send stuff to space to see what breaks, and then iterate until it works. That "10% work" becomes orders of magnitude cheaper.

That is a ridiculous position to take. If you have a drill on Earth that burns out you might pop a circuit breaker and have to deal with some acrid smoke for a second or two. You wave it away and it will dissipate into the five and a half quadrillion metric tons of atmosphere. If some parts fly off they'll fall to the ground pretty quickly. If you drop the drill it will fall to the ground.

If you've got a drill on a spacecraft that burns out popping a circuit breaker or some acrid smoke is a thousand times more dangerous. Just spalling of some parts can send debris flying around the craft to cause short circuits or damage life support equipment. If you let the drill go because it hurt you it doesn't fall to the ground but instead float there being dangerous or bouncing off equipment that won't like a drill bouncing off of it.

Lot's of stuff works fine on Earth, even down in mines or other places, because we've got a relatively thick atmosphere with favorable temperature and gravity. Lubricants don't literally boil off equipment if they're left in the sun for a few minutes. We also don't have to deal with temperature variations of hundreds of degrees between shade and full sunlight.

Sending random crap to space without understanding the environment or failure modes would be extremely foolish.
Seems OK for me, but might be coming to your area soon:

https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/map/
I don't know if you're talking about HN, but what you're describing there is not the dynamic here.
I have never tried any drugs/alcohol, but I'm curious about Ayahuasca. Don't know anyone personally who has been through the ceremony, but I've listened to a bunch of interviews, read a bunch of articles about it.

It mostly seems legit, but I have no clue. Anyone here tried it? What was the experience like?
Hm... I don't like snake_case but #4 and #5 are frankly genius. Thank you.
Holy shit: https://about.facebook.com/meta/
Really? Forced shutdowns -> things not being made -> not enough things...

It's basic supply/demand. If demand stays the same but supply is interrupted, production needs to increase for the same amount of time just to satisfy the demand that went unfulfilled. If supply is interrupted and 'reopening' simply means going back to initial production, you'll always be playing catch up.
What if you create an article listing all of them, submit it to HN and post a link here in the comment? I routinely check dead links to see why a few people found it so controversial to censor it. I'd say 80% are true positives - spam, SEO junk, or some utter nonsense. The remaining 20% is content that is controversial to some people for some reasons. I learned quite a lot from it. There are days when this censored content is more interesting than top submissions.

I also happened to submit one such article somehow. I found an article on BBC saying things that are controversial today. It was flagged very quickly. It was interesting to me because BBC is a relatively reputable source and they don't publish junk.
> This isn't true.

I don't understand why you claim something is not true, then say the same thing with different words.
That’s just finger waving. The main cause is the madness of the situation where a deadly global pandemic causes the money supply to increase across all sectors. If you were a manufacturer in March 2020, the only responsible thing was to reduce operations to the bare minimum.

Add lockdowns and changing, unpredictable consumption patterns (e.g buying more cars against all predictions because who wants public transport now?) and you get the perfect storm.

You could hold a years worth of inventory and you’d still have a problem.
What Does a 'Buy' Button Mean in the Digital Age?