skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can call them whatever we want to. Fuck them for trying to take over both "meta" and "metaverse." This is them trying to become _the_ VR world just by having _the right name_.

I don't know anyone that calls "xfinity" anything but "comcast." I'm pretty sure "xfinity" was them trying to get away from their nickname "comcrap."

Imagine if the world collectively said "no" and kept right on calling them Facebook?

They're going to run around slapping anyone who uses "meta" or "metaverse" with C&D letters figuring nobody will have the money to fight them in court.

I'd chip in to the legal fund for whoever says "see you in court" to Facebook. I bet a lot of people would. Maybe someone like the EFF should set up a "meta defense" warchest.
The only way to solve it is to cut out the middlemen, that is unlikely to happen though. I tried it in a couple of places that I contracted at, but was quickly shot down. From an employer's perspective, it is very convenient for them to outsource everything except the actual interviewing, even if costs them more. They just don't want the hassle of looking through resumes, arranging interviews etc. It is understandable.
So, regular people have troubles trademarking very complex names and they give Zuckerberg trademarks for any commonly used word. What a great equality of treatment!
I'm thinking if, for these "one-off" tasks doable only with very special SW, we could utilize that APFS snapshoting feature of macOS filesystem.

1. Create snapshot
2. Install obtrusive SW, finish task
3. Restore snapshot.

Any sources for this kinds of workflow?
Every FAANG (or MAAAN) company has invested into the Metaverse. Let's all remember they didn't invent it though, so I hope they don't gain complete control.

I'm all for it if it advances VR technology and they don't have full control. If the Oculus situation is any indication, Meta will be making a play for VR ad dominance, as will Google.
The new logo almost looks like the Space:1999 Meta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFf5uavxYGQ
Hilarious to see this as I'm loudly listening to music many people would probably classify as "noise" ([0]) ... I've always found that highly dynamic music really helps me focus and somehow really "get into the zone", particularly when programming. I've noticed over the years that the mental stimulation that occurs is pretty substantial. Even music with lyrics/vocals, I don't find it distracting. I'd say it allows the ability to tune out "outside world" stuff and, like someone said above, feel comfortable that interruptions and distractions are not going to occur. I can simply be present and not thinking ahead/back about unrelated things.

[0] https://accesstoarasaka.bandcamp.com/album/port
It doesn't sound any more open than then Facebookverse, so it'll just get bought out eventually.
Curious to see what cool and interesting things come out when the BeagleV finally comes out. Hopefully it will make Risc-V more accessible to the masses
Simplify Everything (2001)
"Oh my God, it's full of ads!"
same, hope they double-down on the demand and shoot some more out soon
Looking forward to the discussion and future blog posts. We have been recently demonstrating 6+Gb/s transfer speeds with supportive compute/network. Gratifying and exciting work!
Some

std::list::splice(const_iterator pos, list& other, const_iterator first, const_iterator last)

implementations used to be constant-time, since they could just change some pointers in the spliced nodes. Nowadays they take linear time, since they need to count how many nodes are transferred so they can update the sizes correctly.
I guess no more project will dare to use meta in their name. They will fear either a copyright lawsuit or a fall in SEO.
The systemd thing was extremely transparent. It didn't reach a solution that satisfied everybody, but there wasn't any secrecy on it.
For real. This is the least "incredibly scary" thing I can think of.
Also another comment on this post indicates that macOS does come with an executable in `/usr/bin/command`. I assume it does basically nothing.

Maybe it's there from when the default login shell was `tcsh`, since tcsh doesn't include a `command` builtin. In that case, it would provide the same functionality as long as no one defines a tcsh function or alias called `command`.
> Poor people including "perpetually poor" aka most poor people are poor because they are lacking not in financial literacy but rather the necessary skills to make sufficient money to graduate from being poor.

Ok, but why is it that lottery winners tend to end up broke pretty quickly [1]? The use of the word "perpetual" wasn't meant to imply the duration of poverty, but more of propensity towards it. I think there is a subset of poorer people who do not know how to manage money terribly well.

I agree that a very large percentage of poor people might be perfectly fiscally responsible but socioeconomic reasons prevent them from breaking out.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2016/01/08/...
The fact that a story is written in a way that is easy for humans to understand and share is not "manipulative", it's just good communication.
Can you site a source? The current employment participation rates would seem to indicate that the unemployment subsidies have a big effect. The participation rate of males 25-54 is near all time lows back to 1960.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LREM25MAUSA156S
If your goal is as close to noiseless as possible, a big case with a lot of sound dampening material is the way to go.

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.

But if your goal is a no-compromise quietest build possible, obviously you don't want to get a small case.

> plus it's rather expensive (more than 10x the cost of air cooling).

I'm not sure where you're getting these numbers, but modern AIO water cooling isn't that expensive.

You can get a good 240mm AIO cooler for about 1.5X the price of a good air cooler: https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Radiator-Software-Control-Liq...
> If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story.

One step closer to real life Shadowrun.
In other words they didn't roll their own.
Columbo was solving crimes. FB is committing them.
This is as dumb as it would be to name your internet company Net in the early 90s.

Metaverse is supposed to be a generic term for an interoperable virtual 3D world. And now the term is linked to a specific company. I guess if there will ever be a metaverse, it won't be called that.
MAGMA

Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon

( Netflix doesn't belong to Big Tech )
> In other words, the larger the comet, the better.

I don’t think so? If you’re bringing in a big one you need more engines to push it into the right orbit to start with, so I think the risk is always things that scale up directly with the comet’s mass, e.g. “the engines are misaligned by $foo degrees”.

Also, a pebble in space terms is still a potential city-killer, and no nation in their right mind is going to want to let a private company — not one of their own, let alone a private company in another nation if they have even the slightest say in the matter — wield that kind of potential: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater
interesting the instagram page for facebook is gone, changed to https://www.instagram.com/wearemeta/
> The days of needing a tower are over for most people. I'm all about space-saving while still having a full-power PC.

Have you seen the air-cooler on a threadripper ?! :-)

I don't really disagree with you but I like my old tower box because it has lots of room and easy to work on, and I realize that was why I liked my old car because engine compartment had lots of room to work.
All you need is a little conversion function which takes a domain struct and converts it to a DB struct with tags (for example)? Unless it's a very complex entity multiple levels deep, I usually don't find it all that painful. What is it about DTO conversions that makes it painful for you? Being boilerplate, it's probably not very aesthetically looking, but it usually doesn't take more than a minute to write the conversion function.
> But you rarely start by choosing a specific architecture. Unless you already know a lot about your solution.

That's how it probably should be, but in my experience it rarely is.
Generally, businesses decide that they need to re-/implement x, then the enterprise architect shows up and decides on the pattern and then the developers are required to somehow make it work, even if it objectively doesn't.
This looks like an attempt to obfuscate the negative sentiments that we’ve come to associate with the conglomerate Facebook. I think there will be some short term success, but Meta and Facebook will become synonymous as Alphabet and Google are.

I’m also reminded that our mass media will play a major role in how public sentiment plays out. Like him or not, you have to admit the great lengths our media has covered Dave Chappelle over the past few weeks. You’d think things like this Facebook rebrand or the stalled infrastructure bill would have more meaningful coverage. Outrage, like sex, sells. I wonder if this rebrand will breach the outrage threshold?
Fun fact, in Matrix (if that's what you're referring to) people were originally enslaved by the machines to provide compute capacity of their brains. The battery part came later, when someone (studio executives?) jumped in, and said that's too smart and people wouldn't get it so it was changed to batteries.
haha yes
Meth is just a very harmful drug, which can cause psychosis. I don't know if I buy this theory that it's a different drug.
Unless he's really invested in the apple ecosystem, I can't help but feel the author might have been better off with a Surface Pro. Similar form factor but with a desktop OS. Granted it's not as powerful as an ipad pro but I would argue that it might provide a better overall development experience.

I don't understand why Apple doesn't give Ipad pro users an option similar to Samsung Dex. There seems to be an aversion to enabling MacOS on touch devices.

Anyway enough with my rambling, the author seems pleased with his setup so it is what it is.
> the market has repeatedly shown there isn't much demand for persistent virtual worlds

I don't know if you have a more narrow view of this idea or specifically mean VR/AR, but that just sounds like what massively multiplayer online (MMO) games such as Ultima Online, Everquest, and World of Warcraft are. I think Roblox is even a broader use case, though I am fairly unfamiliar with that.

MMOs have been very viable from both a business and user stand point and have been a fairly big thing for going on a quarter century or so at this point. Whether these branch into more of the Second Life non-game social space or into being largely AR/VR driven is pretty up in the air, but it's not some sci-fi concept really.
This is again an argument based on income, not assets.

You could scrutinize loans based on assets to close the gap.
Drop the 'ta'.

It's cleaner.
> With the exact same comments?

Yep: https://github.com/search?p=1&q=evil+floating+point+bit+leve...

> Quite sure the FSF would be perfectly fine with that.

I believe the person republishing GCC code under MIT would be liable.

Also, I'm not recommending that you use code you know has been incorrectly licensed. Just that in cases where certain "folk code" is seemingly widely available under permissive terms, Copilot isn't doing much that an honest human wouldn't.

A better example against Copilot would be trying to get it to regurgitate some code that has a simple known origin and is always under a non-permissive license.
> If "Meta" is the new ARPANET, I wonder what the new CERN and web will be.

Lets not get ahead of ourselves. This so called "Metaverse" will be another proprietary project that may or may not gain traction unless they open it up for federation. And facebook is all about walled gardens so they won't.

And if they do, how do we know that 10 years later they wont shutter up their instance, cut off the federated parts to monopolize their own (presumably biggest) instance.
At least at that place everyone is in on the scam. Facebook execs have to smile and say good idea to Mark, when all they want to do is tell him that is stupid
Wait what. They bought Meta VR like a couple of years ago. Some of my friends were there.
> NOT prone to abuse

Citation needed.
Yes, if you use copilot irresponsibly, you will end up with irresponsible code.
Hydrogen seems like a really interesting potential solution to the renewable storage problem. I've done a bit of research in the past and seen that there are some early stage projects investigating this, but I'd be curious to hear from anyone who might know more.
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Maybe I'm too old, but I don't know a single person with Oculus, not even among my younger coworkers.

I don't discount that it could be the next big thing, because wtf do I know, but it feels very niche to me, and certainly not something that can get the engagement like a phone can. And in terms of money, Facebook itself is a printing press, I wonder what the business model is for this? Selling games or experiences? Billboards in an AR world?
Ah ok. That makes more sense. However I still disagree. I can definitely see a case where someone does that same thing multiple times in their life. My grandparents did that.

They came to this country with nothing while fleeing the holocaust, and managed to own three houses before they retired by renting out their old house each time they moved to a new one.
I think we can summarize that the solution is to remove things that prevent the free market from functioning properly. Here are some additional ideas:

-Unions are good for representing workers in negotiations with private companies. Taxpayers do not have anyone to represent them in negotiations with public unions. Disallow unions in government jobs. Government already has enough corruption and inefficiency.

-Dismantle the patent system. Ideas are worthless, execution is everything.

-Abolish the limited liability company. We saw in the mortgage crisis that allowing private companies to profit by putting risk on the public shoulders leads to disaster.

-Publish all tax records and make a constitutional amendment that all prices paid must be public. The free market makes the basic assumption that all prices paid and offered are public information.
They’re getting investor money. So far that seems to be it.
Exactly, most STL algorithms, for example, can be applied using iterators as well. But anyway if GP has specific requirements iterator invalidation might be a problem too, they wouldn't probably want to constrain their interface to that of STL containers.
Metaverse in a sense of VR, AR? Just like Google wasn't the first search engine or Iphone the first smartphone someone else will dominate VR and AR someone else will make that big innovation and killer apps not Facebook. Facebook is big and old. Big Blue just like IBM.
I hope the pi-hole block list maintainers block the new domains soon.
I'm strongly reminded of Howard Hughes, as mentally ill, drug-addicted prisoner of his "staff".
Before now, https://meta.com redirected to https://www.meta.org/ which is owned by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; now, there's a banner saying it will be sunset next March.
NFT's let you own digital assets. That means people can make a real living building them.
I think you remember wrong. iPhone was not one more thing announcement. In 2007 One more thing was Safari for Windows.

Here is list: https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/one-more-thing-3793072/
He’s certainly determined whatever his true self is, it’s not good for business.
opinions here seem to vary based on where on the west coast the speaker lives
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I don't think this downplays Oculus, but they also announced today that they are going to start scaling back Facebook integration with Oculus and start allowing other login methods besides Facebook.

Unfortunately outside of Tweets, this is the best story I found on it at the moment: https://www.ign.com/articles/oculus-facebook-requirement-end...
Facebook can’t even beat TikTok. They’r not going to win at building an alternate reality.
Without Netflix we've got MAGA. Can't say I like it.
I agree that leaving such important behavior as undefined is a failure for a programming language standard, because the standard fails to guarantee that a program will do the right things independently of what compiler has been used and with what compiler options.

Nevertheless, in such cases it is the responsibility of the programmer to either write programs in which it is guaranteed that events for which the program behavior is undefined will never happen or to choose compiler options to handle such events.

If the programmers do their job right, then the compiler is free to optimize like when the undefined cases do not exist.

Unlike the case with integer overflow, there are cases where the programming language standards correctly leave some behavior as undefined, e.g. the order of evaluation for function arguments. For that kind of undefined behavior the programmer must take care to write only programs whose effects do not depend on it.

Data dependent events like integer overflow cannot always be avoided, so compilers must have options to generate exceptions when they happen.
What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
Because I think you are trying to answer the question of whether giving a specific person more money would cause them to have more or fewer children. You want the marginal fertility associated with a given marginal change in wealth. If you don't control for other factors then you are just taking cultural influences (e.g. that possibly some national origins or races prefer larger families) and multiplying them by the association between that race and wealth (e.g. that some race within a given country is systematically impoverished). So, that would be an invalid analysis without the control.
Thank you for your response. I appreciate it.

The problem I have concerning diseases and prostitutes is that, although many get tested often, almost all testing excludes hsv and hpv unless specifically requested. And since ~12% of the population carry hsv-2, which can shed asymptomatically and be contracted from skin-to-skin groinal contact, it seems that it's an eventuality if I pick up prostitution long term, and then it's for life.

Condoms help, but they're not perfect. I asked on a forums once if prostitutes would be okay if I wore condom shorts such as the following link, and I was told that (1) the hobby was not for me, (2) the probability of contraction given the use of condoms is low enough not to be a consideration, and (3) the item probably wasn't tested under the same standards as condoms so probably isn't as safe (I figure latex material such as this would be a find physical barrier).

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005001595057592.html?spm=a2g0...

I'm still contemplating it but am having trouble digesting the sti risk. The legal risk doesn't bother me.

Edit: auto-correct
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I’m excited about it, and I thjnk it just means reality got a lot larger.

I don’t think Facebook will be able to control the metaverse as a closed platform, even if they wanted to.
>Our Actions: Promoting Safety and Expression, Protecting Privacy and Security, Preparing for Elections, Responding to COVID-19

What a joke. Is there a more bluntly obvious PR than inverting everything you're being criticized for?
It seems like the hiring market is simply exhausted in a lot of metros, e.g. SFO, SEA, NYC. Of course they can try to dramatically outbid competitors, but for a 70k-employee company, that's not really a sustainable strategy.
FAANG sounds better than MAANG though
"I would never do a medication that you have to constantly take."

Tell that to your heart doctor when you're 70.
For export? The idea of using clean energy to produce hydrogen to then ship it off with a crude oil powered tanker is just .. beyond me.
Who do you want to own it?
It isn't the users, it's the platform and underlying philosophy of the business. They are factory-farming humans' attention; it's no wonder the result is dystopian.
Whatever happened to Transmeta, anyway?
Clean your DNS cache. It now redirects to https://about.facebook.com/meta.
They are property and people will own them.

I don't think I understand the point of these questions unless you misread my original statement. I have edited it to add some clarification.
> I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it.

I know I don't. It's a dystopian nightmare for an advertising company to be building "the metaverse".

I hope all the other players in this space band together and form an open, federated metaverse.

It's one use-case I can kind of see benefiting from blockchain protocols: enforcing digital scarcity in a federated metaverse, by recording transfers of avatars and assets between the "metaworlds" making up the metaverse ("digital identity scarcity" is still an unsolved problem though, I think)
I am fond of holoverse. Holonic not holographic.
I was always curious about this: Is there any reason why you need LLC in America to work with larger and established companies? Is there any law or limitation why they wouldn't like to work with e.g. European Self-Employed or LTD companies? Many of recruiters I talked to and they offered perm roles they won't consider changing to contractors.

Always thought that generally contractors are a better deal for companies (less tax burden, no paid holidays, easier to hire/fire, etc). Unless maybe when people here word 'contractor' they assume they will have to pay 2x more and that's why they prefer perm-employees? Or is there are any law in US that make it harder for companies to work this way?
> Still a gigantic waste of everyone time.

It's a voluntary organization, I guess people enjoy this, and the decision was taken in the open. There are worse things in the world right now :-)
Add Peter Thiel to this couple and we have a good game of "fuck, marry, kill".
I run rpis in my house with an RTOS I wrote. It'll be nice to dump support of armv6 for space constrained use cases that I used a W.
note that he didn't say all prices would increase, just rent/housing. This makes sense, because unlike TVs and milk, the supply for housing isn't very elastic (due to NIMBY reasons), so pumping more money isn't going to get us more supply, only higher prices.
I don't know about this "boutique" vibe. For me the entire idea of a desktop PC is saying "no" to any trade-offs. There's so little actual difference in footprint between those and classic middle-tower that it actually does not make any sense to me. Instead I prefer to have an ability to infinite expansion and upgrade. What if I want a super wide bandwidth storage for some data processing? I will buy an expansion PCI card for like 40 bucks and put 4 M.2 NVMes there as RAID0 stripe. Having an ability to expand RAM instead of trading in is quite good too. And last, but not least, a question of price. $200 for a case without PSU?!
i wonder, if one declines to participate in the "metaverse", will their shadow profile be randomly inserted, and vandalized/ridiculed by other versians?

sidenote - if i am understanding correctly, its conceptually similar to modus operandi from back in the 90s? just in VR?
He pushed away people who tried to give him the honest truth
While I’m not interested in VR at all, and only feel like should be used in limited areas, I agree on the issue of Facebook owning “the metaverse”. Many of the early adopters are already of Facebook and/or dislike the company, meaning that there are few people to help push the products.
Right on cue: "Meta.org will sunset March 31, 2022: Meta will be supported through March 31, 2022. In the lead up, we will work with you in transitioning to alternative open services. Read more."